Mi Han

Chapter 527

Mi Yang's marching speed was not slow, even though he deliberately slowed down his marching speed along the way to prevent being ambushed by the Wei army.

But after the time entered the first ten days of November in the fourth year of Zhangwu, Mi Yang successfully led his army to the not far from Xiegukou.

Baoxie Road is the main road from Chang'an to Hanzhong through the Qinling Mountains. Its north entrance is at Xiegukou in Meixian County, and its south exit is at Hanzhong Baogu, so it is called Baoxie Road.

At present, Mi Yang led his army to approach Xiegukou.

But when Mi Yang led his army close to Xiegukou, he discovered that there was a large Wei army barracks lying outside the valleykou.

And in those Wei Jun barracks, there was a lot of cooking smoke floating up. Presumably, Wei Jun received the news in advance and led his troops into the barracks, thinking about preventing him from entering Guanzhong.

As the avenue connecting Hanzhong to Guanzhong, the Baoxie Road, Wei Jun has been building a camp outside the Xiegukou.

Even before this, in order to prevent the Han army from raiding Chang'an, heavy troops were deployed in the barracks outside Xiegu.

Of course, after the First World War in Liangzhou, there may not be many heavy soldiers left, but those strong barracks are still there.

Climbing with Mi Yang is Zhoutai.

Compared with Fa Miao's specialization in government affairs, Zhou Tai is currently one of the few talents under Mi Yang's command who can be called both civil and military.

Just because he knew that Zhoutai had this kind of talent, after Zhoutai joined Mi Yang at the beginning, Mi Yang made Zhoutai the magistrate of Nanzheng County.

This is to exercise Zhoutai's political ability.

Today, I took Zhou Tai by my side to climb up to observe the enemy's situation, the main purpose was to exercise Zhou Tai's sensitivity to the military.

Therefore, after observing the military situation outside Xiegu, Mi Yang was not in a hurry to express his own opinion. He looked at Zhoutai and asked:

"Mr. Zhou, what do you think?"

After hearing Mi Yang's question, Zhou Tai knew that Mi Yang was asking him his opinion on the enemy's entry into the barracks.

Since it was the first time for Mi Yang to ask him such a question, it made Zhou Tai's breathing unavoidably short.

Zhou Tai didn't think that Mi Yang really wanted to ask him. With Mi Yang's strategy, he must have had a sharp point of view in his heart.

The reason why Mi Yang would ask him specifically under the cover of the manuscript is that he is essentially trying to teach him.

Test and teach him whether it is necessary to be promoted.

At the beginning, Zhou Tai took the initiative to defect to Mi Yang, didn't he just fancy Mi Yang's bright future and think about the act of climbing the dragon and becoming the phoenix?

Now that the opportunity he dreamed of came before him, how could Zhou Tai not feel nervous?

Because of nervousness, Zhou Tai thought about it for a while before answering Mi Yang:

"In my opinion, since many bandit troops have already entered the barracks, it is not easy for our army to plot Guanzhong."

When he said this, Zhou Tai's face was solemn, and his tone also had the meaning of persuasion.

As Mi Yang's confidant, Zhou Tai knew Mi Yang's intentions from Yangping Pass.

Although his great general said that he wanted to be a suspicious army for His Majesty, in fact, this was not what Mi Yang really expected.

Otherwise, why did Mi Yang send Meng Da into Fufeng County in advance to stir up trouble?

Attracting a large number of enemy troops in Guanzhong to Chang'an can only be said to be the minimum standard in Mi Yang's heart for this expedition.

As for the highest standard, they are at different heights, and Zhou Tai can't guess what Mi Yang really wants in his heart.

But Zhou Tai knew that no matter what Mi Yang wanted to do, the prerequisite was to be able to lead his army into Guanzhong smoothly.

However, this is difficult to achieve when a large number of Wei troops are stationed in the barracks outside Xiegukou.

Because although the Wei Army barracks were not directly blocked at the entrance of Xiegu, the Han army could walk out of Xiegukou smoothly.

But if the Wei army near the mouth of the valley is not wiped out, once Mi Yang leads his army deep into Guanzhong, the Wei army suddenly cuts off the Han army's food road from behind, what should we do?

Coupled with climbing up and looking out, Zhou Tai had a clearer understanding of the overall structure of the Wei Army barracks.

Most of the Wei army's barracks were built according to the mountain situation. This way of distributing the camps greatly strengthened the sturdiness of the Wei army's barracks.

Mi Yang currently only has an army of [-] in his hands, and he did not bring a large number of siege equipment with him this time.

In the case of insufficient troops and siege equipment, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to destroy the Wei army entrenched in the Wei army barracks by means of a strong attack.

Not to mention that there are still a large number of Wei Jun in the Wei Jun barracks.

It can be said that the Wei army built a strong camp outside the entrance of Xiegu, and it did in fact achieve the purpose of blocking the Han army inside the entrance of Xiegu.

There is no big difference between being unable to lead the army away from Xiegukou and being blocked directly in Xiegukou.

The seriousness on Zhoutai's face and the persuasiveness in his words did not displease Mi Yang.

Even if Zhou Tai's deduction is not accurate.

In Mi Yang's view, there are not a large number of Wei troops in the current Wei army's camp.

After hearing Zhou Tai's deduction, Mi Yang let out a little surprise.

"Many thieves?"

After Zhou Tai heard Mi Yang's slight surprise, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

Is there anything wrong with these four words?

He and Mi Yang were attracted to the hillside by the smoke from the Wei Army barracks.

And judging from the smoke that spread throughout the entire barracks, it can be seen that the number of Wei troops in the barracks outside Xiegukou will not be small.

At least tens of thousands.

It is a fact that Liangzhou's defeat has seriously hurt the vitality of the entire Guanzhong.

But the same force is considered small in the entire pass, but if it is concentrated in one place, it is also a force that cannot be underestimated.

According to the range of the enemy's cooking smoke and the number of cooking utensils to roughly infer the number of enemies, this is what generals will do in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

And this technique was clearly written in the book of war.

Basically, anyone who has read military books will be familiar with this technique.

However, Zhoutai, who had never led a soldier, did not know that there were often generals who would be deceived by enemy generals because of this inertial thinking.

Seeing that Zhou Tai was still puzzled, Mi Yang pointed to the stretching mountains behind him, and said to Zhou Tai:

"If there are tens of thousands of bandits in the barracks, why don't the bandits divide their troops and gather in dangerous places on the mountain roads to ambush our army layer upon layer?"

The terrain of Baoxie Road is quite special. Although it passes through the Qinling Mountains, there is no need to climb over the mountains.

This makes Baoxie Road the valley road with a relatively flat route among the roads in the Qinling Mountains.

But the valley road is a valley road after all, so where can the terrain be flat?

Back then, before the plank road was built on the Baoxie Road, it was extremely dangerous to climb the most dangerous places.

Later, during the Warring States period, under the repair of the Qin State with a lot of manpower and material resources, the Baoxie Road gradually became a passage for the army to walk.

However, there are still many places in the Bao ramp where the terrain is deep, the water is fast, and the cliffs are high in the sky. Even if there are plank roads, they are still extremely dangerous.

Mi Yang was very cautious when he led the army through before, for fear of being ambushed by the Wei army.

But it didn't.

Along the way, Mi Yang didn't even see a shadow of Wei Jun.

This is very unusual.

Cao Zhen followed Cao Cao in his southern expedition to Hanzhong, so he should be very familiar with the terrain of Baoxie Road.

So as long as Cao Zhen is not a fool, if he really has tens of thousands of mobile troops in his hands, he should send a large army to Baoxie Road, seize all the dangerous places, and rely on the steep mountains to stop the Han army.

This is what Cao Zhen did in history. During Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, he defeated Zhao Yun's suspicious army in Baoxie Road.

This is enough to prove that Cao Zhen does not know how to do this.

But why didn't Cao Zhen do this?

Perhaps Zhou Tai would subconsciously think that it was Mi Yang's prestige that intimidated Cao Zhen, so that he did not dare to send Wei Jun out of the camp.

But this is not true.

Mi Yang admitted that his current reputation would bring considerable psychological pressure to Wei Jun.

But no matter how great his reputation is, it will not make Cao Zhen give up the good natural danger in vain.

Don't even want natural dangers, and send heavy troops to guard the camp dryly?

Ma Su couldn't do such a thing.

If his own prestige could achieve this effect, why would he use Mengda to Fufeng?

The most important thing is that Wei Jun will definitely send scouts to detect the movements of his army.

Therefore, Cao Zhen should be very clear about when his army will arrive at Xiegukou.

Knowing that his army is coming, it's fine if he doesn't organize defense, but he chooses this time to cook fire, isn't it funny?

Everything seemed too deliberate, not at all as natural as when he used tricks.

Under all kinds of abnormalities, Mi Yang quickly made an inference in his mind.

At present, Cao Zhen has no extra mobile forces in his hands.

The large amount of cooking smoke in the Wei Army barracks was the mist specially released by Cao Zhen or a certain Wei Army general.

The purpose is to make him think that there are a large number of Wei troops in the Wei camp, so that he dare not lead the army to attack the Wei camp.

Mi Yang quickly told Zhou Tai the inference in his heart.

After Zhou Tai listened to Mi Yang's deduction, he was immediately overwhelmed by Mi Yang's insights.

As expected of the general who is best at using tricks, he can see through the enemy's intentions at a glance.

Compared with the general, he is still not deceitful enough!

Mi Yang didn't know what Zhoutai was thinking, but he also made an evaluation of Zhoutai in his heart at this time.

Zhoutai is more than stable in the military, but not flexible enough.

But this does not mean that Zhoutai will not achieve military achievements in the future.

Because everyone has different personalities and talents, each general has his own unique combat style.

Generals such as Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are particularly good at the art of change, which will make it easier for them to achieve amazing achievements in the military.

But both Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are more than flexible, but not calm enough, which makes them unsuitable to sit on one side.

The calm and prudent Zhoutai has no such problems.

Although Zhoutai in history did not have a commendable record, it is not difficult to find that Sima Yi valued Zhoutai very much.

Throughout his life, Zhou Tai served successively as prefect of Xincheng, governor of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, all of whom held real power.

While Zhoutai was in office, he has always managed the local area very well. Not only can foreign enemies not invade, but there is almost no internal turmoil.

It can be said that Zhoutai is a typical representative of a good fighter without great achievements.

With the continuous recovery of the territory of the big Han, heroes like Zhou Tai are urgently needed.

After having a clear position in Zhou Tai's mind, a certain idea in Mi Yang's mind is gradually taking shape.

When Mi Yang was thinking, Zhou Tai suddenly asked Mi Yang:

"General, what should our army do next?"

doing what?

Thinking of this, Mi Yang said to Zhou Tai:

"You write a letter for Gu."

"The content of the letter is written: Gu Jin accepts the emperor's order, and accepts the resignation to punish crimes. When he first arrived in Guanzhong, he drew his sword and looked around. Everyone was young and invincible.

Today, there are [-] soldiers in the solitary command, and hundreds of generals. They want to meet with their subordinates in Chang'an, and then talk about the frontier.

Fortunately, don't wait for your boudoir, making the world laugh. "

After Mi Yang finished reading the contents of the letter, Zhou Tai was dumbfounded.

The general is going to open the big game, and the ridicule is all off!

YesterdayChapter 2.