Licheng, the seat of Wei Yan, the general of Zhendong.
Holding the flying pigeon biography just sent from Tongguan, Wei Yan looked irritable and angry, and reviewed it at least three times according to the translation code, and kept chanting: "Will this flying pigeon biography go wrong, my dignified Han Zhendong general, how can it be under the jurisdiction of Lian Po, this old pawn, it must be a mistake in the letter."
Tian Ji, the partial general next to him, also echoed: "The flying pigeon biography is composed of some strange numbers, it must be that the official who drafted it sloppily wrote the wrong number for a while, General Wen Chang is a dignified general of Zhendong, and his status should be in the top ten, how can Your Majesty let you obey the orders of Lian Po, a local military general who has not even commanded the court soldiers."
Yamen General Wang You was also dissatisfied: "It's definitely a mistake in the letter coding, he is Lian Po and the famous general of the Warring States Period, Lian Po is quite the same as the famous general, does he really regard himself as a generation of famous generals, a Qingzhou soldier who has only commanded the county soldiers, how can He De govern the dignified Zhendong general, it's really a joke" Compared with the indignant Wei Yan and several confidant generals under his command, Xu Sheng was much calmer, and said: "General Wenchang, this flying pigeon biography is stamped with His Majesty's jade seal, it should be right."
Wei Yan defended unwillingly: "This Lian Po is only because of Wang Meng's trust, so he has been commanding the Qingzhou County soldiers, Tang Wei is about to commit, at a critical juncture, how can Your Majesty use such an old man to take on the important task I think it must be the official who drafted the letter made a mistake, I immediately sent a messenger to Tongguan to confirm this matter, and the military affairs must not be child's play."
Xu Sheng's identity is Wei Yan's deputy general, so he enjoys the treatment of a partial seat, and immediately picked up the teapot and poured Wei Yan a full teacup, and comforted: "General Wenchang doesn't have to be irritable, and listen to the little brother for you."
"You say" Wei Yan ignored the hot tea, took it up and drank it all, as if he wanted to use this hot tea to iron out the grievances in his heart, "Back then, I, Wei Yan, didn't say that I was the first minister from the dragon, but I was also one of the best, except for the virtuous concubine Niangniang and Hua Rong who died in battle, I was only a few days later than Liao Hua, Gan Ning, and Li Yan.
The more Wei Yan spoke, the more aggrieved he became, put down the teacup and motioned for Xu Sheng to fill it for himself, drank it all again, and borrowed tea to eliminate his sorrows: "Of course, a court can't rank seniority, my talent is not as good as Yue Fei, Li Jing, Wu Qi and others, ranking behind them, accepting the jurisdiction of Pharmacist Li, I, Wei Yan, have nothing to say."
But what is this Lian Po, a Qingzhou Gongcao who has only commanded the county soldiers, and now he is riding on my head, which really makes me unwilling."
Wei Yan stretched out the tea bowl again to ask Xu Sheng to pour the tea, but Xu Sheng refused anymore and ordered: "Come on, change the wine for General Wenchang, the tea is not drunk like this, in case it burns the lungs, it will be troublesome." ” Soon, Wei Yan's cup was replaced with spirits from Jinling Distillery, and he simmered it to the bottom in one gulp, and said with emotion: "Alas, Wen Xiang, brother, if you say something disrespectful, I think Your Majesty has a prejudice against me."
Xu Sheng's face was stunned: "Well, General Wenchang's words, where did you start?"
Wei Yan turned the wine glass in his hand and said: "From Feng Shuyi, I saw that she was originally introduced to Your Majesty, and she was the first concubine to serve Your Majesty except for the Empress Tang, and she also gave birth to two princes for Your Majesty, the King of Beihai and the King of Hejian, but now she has been demoted to a beauty and is in the company of some concubines who have just entered the palace."
"Ahem" Xu Sheng coughed and interrupted Wei Yan's words, "The affairs in the palace don't have to be commented on by our foreign ministers, and the last general heard that Feng Meiren was jealous of Concubine Wei Shu and rudely collided with His Majesty, so she was sent to the cold palace and imprisoned for a year, and now she can be a beauty again, which is a good result, it is much better than being locked up in the cold palace." ” Wei Yan touched the wine glass and poured a glass for Xu Sheng personally: "Brother Wen Xiang, as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, right and wrong in the palace, we ministers can't tell right from wrong, foolish brother just thinks that since Feng Shuyi was beaten into the cold palace, His Majesty no longer values me." ” "General Wei thinks too much" Seeing Wei Yan's lonely face, Xu Sheng raised his glass and toasted, "General, don't think too much, before the small princes everywhere, our army needs to divide the troops and annihilate, such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, Sun Ce, Liu Biao and others."
Now Cao Cao integrated the north of the Yellow River and became a powerful vassal state; And Li Tang is rising day by day, occupying the land of Liaodong and Youzhou of our Han Dynasty, after the Tang and Wei alliances, there are many generals, and our army must be integrated into a large corps to unify the command in order to compete with it, so there will not be so many small corps. ” Wei Yan took a sip of the wine in the glass and sighed: "I also understand this truth, Li Yaoshi used his troops well, Qingzhou surrounded and annihilated Yuan Shao's 150,000 horses, attacked the Tang capital across the sea, and captured Li Yuan alive.
In the fierce battle in the north, one person withstood the 300,000 Tang army led by Li Ji and Li Mu, as well as the 100,000 Wei army led by Cao Bin, making it difficult for Tang Kou to enter.
After a while, he shook his head and complained: "Compared to others, Zhuge Liang is about twenty years old, and now he is in charge of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Sun Wu is attacking the city in Yongliang, Huo Quji is leading 80,000 soldiers and horses to attack Chang'an, and I, Wei Yan, have been nesting in Qingzhou to defend it, and now I actually want to listen to an old horseman's dispatch, how can I be convinced" Xu Sheng smiled and persuaded him: "General Wenchang don't complain, people should be content and happy, you are also a general of Zhendong, although you are temporarily under the jurisdiction of Lian Po, but your general rank is higher than him, besides, compared to Gan Ning, Li Yan, Liao Hua and others, isn't your situation much better than that of General Zhendong, when the dynasty is three products, he is in charge of an army alone, and he guards Qingzhou, His Majesty treats the general is actually not thin, don't think nonsense, give people a handle" After listening to Xu Sheng's persuasion, Wei Yan's mood improved a lot, shook his head and sighed: "I also know that Your Majesty treats me like a mountain, but watching so many people slowly climb on my Wei Yan's head, I am unwilling to borrow a poem from Your Majesty, a thousand sails on the side of the sinking boat, and ten thousand trees in front of the sick tree, isn't it written to me Wei Yan."
Xu Sheng said with relief: "General don't be depressed, this time Your Majesty said in the letter that the Tang Army was attacking Jinling under the guise of attacking Qingzhou.
As long as we unite with General Lian Po to repel Tang Kou this time, Your Majesty will definitely be happy and will not hesitate to reward you."
"No, I'm going to do a big one this time" Wei Yan drank all the wine in the cup, suddenly his eyes widened, and he said categorically: "No matter how good the defense is, there is no outstanding attack, Yue Pengju has been defending Wancheng for seven or eight years, and he has not been shocked by Chen Liu and Xu Changlai in the past six months, so this time I want to take the initiative to attack and make a vigorous performance."
Xu Sheng was stunned again: "How can General Wen Chang say that there is a Xiahou Yuan army in the plains, hundreds of thousands of Tang Kou are looking at each other across the Yellow Sea, our situation in Qingzhou is only worse than that of Xuzhou, how to attack" Wei Yan slapped the table and ordered: "Come on, bring me the special map" The soldier commanded, and spread a pair of scrolls on the table.
Wei Yan pointed to the map and said to Xu Sheng: "One hundred and thirty miles west along the Yellow River from Licheng, there are two roads that can cross the Yellow River and lead directly to Wei County to the east of Yecheng. ” Xu Sheng's spirit was inspired: "Which two roads, I would like to hear them in detail" Wei Yan said loudly: "One of them is the official post road that crosses the Yellow River from Dong'e to Yangping and Guantao, which is called Yanggu Road, and pedestrians and merchants travel to and from both sides of the Yellow River to take this road, and there are Cao soldiers with different forces stationed along the way. ” "Is there another way, which the last general has never heard of?"
Xu Sheng looked dazed, "Unless you go a hundred miles west to Puyang to cross the Yellow River, or then go west to Baimajin and Liyang, you can reach Ye County, but because Governor Yue took Chenliu, Cao Ren has already strengthened his defenses in these places, I'm afraid there is no chance."
Wei Yan stroked his beard and laughed, and glanced at the general Tian Ji: "Tian Ji, you tell General Wen Xiang about another way." ” Tian Ji gave up his hand and said proudly: "Back to General Xu's words, thirty miles west of Yanggu Road, there is a small road that has been opened because of the diversion of the Yellow River, and the yellow sand is silted all the year round, and the reeds are overgrown on both sides, so there are few pedestrians, and it is eerie and terrifying, and it is called Yin Valley by the locals. ” "Yin Valley, but it's unheard of" Xu Sheng frowned and groaned, gradually guessing Wei Yan's plan.
Tian Ji continued: "Although this Yin Valley Road is narrow and cramped, and the grass is overgrown, it is more than 200 miles longitudinal and horizontal from east to west, leading directly to Wei County, and Wei County is only 80 miles away from Yecheng, and if you take Wei County, you can land under Ye County."
After listening to Tian Ji's analysis, Wei Yan stroked his beard and laughed: "Haha Wenxiang brother, if you take Cao Cao's old nest Ye County and capture all Cao Cao's wives and concubines and children back, do you think it will impress the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces to see if it can be compared to the battle of Li Yaoshi crossing the sea to capture Li Yuan?"
Xu Sheng's face was solemn: "Cao Wei is also a fierce general, and a strategist is like a forest, I'm afraid that he won't be attacked in the capital so easily, I don't know how General Wei heard about this Yin Valley Path."
Tian Ji twisted his chin with a goatee, and said proudly: "Back to General Xu's words, the villain's ancestral home is Yanzhou Dong'e people, who hunted on both sides of the Yellow River when he was a child, so he has long known about this inaccessible Yin Valley Trail.
In addition, this year has been dry, the Yellow River has withered, and the Yin Valley Trail is dry like the Loess Plateau, which is just right to quickly march into the army.
Wei Yan drank all the wine in the cup again, patted Xu Sheng's shoulder, and asked impassionedly: "You and I have 40,000 soldiers and horses in our hands, and we will definitely be able to kill Cao Wei by surprise if we attack Ye County from Yin Valley, do you have the courage to fight with me backhanded?"
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