Farmer of Shu Han

Zhuge Liang led the army out of Qishan. In order to achieve suddenness, the army moved forward all the way quickly, and there was no time to clean up the two counties of Wudu and Yinping.

In addition, Cao Wei didn't release many people in the two counties. The defenders of Wudu saw the Northern Expedition army coming, and they all fled after hearing the news, and reluctantly retreated to various dangerous passes.

Therefore, apart from Liao Hua's inspection on Qishan Road to ensure the safety of the grain road in Wudu County, the rest of the county is either still under the control of Cao Jun or is in a state of no one.

From Sanguan to Wudu via Chencang Road, there are two most important places. The first place is Gudao County, and the second place is Hechi County.

Going out of Sanguan and taking Chencang Road to Gudao County, it means that the Qinling Mountains have been crossed, and the slope of the road begins to go down.

At the same time, Gudao County is also the dangerous place of Chencang Road. It is the defense of Qinlong and the throat of Bashu.

As long as he keeps here, Cao Wei can cross the Qinling Mountains from Sanguan and enter Wudu at any time.

When Cao Cao led the troops to Ping Zhanglu and passed by here, he saw that this place was dangerous, and he deliberately divided the Guan Shu of the Later Han Dynasty into a county, and strengthened the defense.

Gudao County continued to go south for about two hundred miles, and arrived at the second throat, Hechi County.

This is the intersection of Chencang Road and Qishan Road.

To the east is Yang'an Pass, the barrier of Hanzhong.

To the southwest is Xiabian County in Wudu. In the Battle of Hanzhong, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Wu Lan, and Lei Tong attacked Xiabian. Because of the lack of military support, they were defeated by Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, and Cao Zhen. After passing Xiabian County, it is Qishan.

To the southeast is the Jinniu Road, the main passage between Shuzhong and Hanzhong.

It can be said that Hechi County is the geographical hub of Wudu.

At the same time, it is extremely dangerous here.

When Cao Cao passed by here, there were more than ten thousand Di kings, Dou Mao, who refused to accept the danger, which angered Cao Cao. After breaking through the Di people's stronghold, they slaughtered them all.

After Cao Zhen forced Zhao Yun back to Hanzhong, Cao Wei Shangshu Youpushe and Shizhong Weizhen proposed to Wei Emperor Cao Rui to take Chencang Road to cut off the Shu army grain road, which was affirmed by Wei Emperor.

Cao Rui appointed Weizhen as the general who conquered Shu, and sent him to Chencang as the deputy general of Cao Zhen. He was going to learn from the Emperor Wu of that year.

Even if the Yang'an Pass in Hanzhong cannot be broken, it can still threaten the grain road of the Longyou Shu Army.

It has to be said that Cao Cao's practice of sending troops to guard the dangerous pass in Gudao County brought great convenience to Cao Wei's army who re-entered Wudu.

From Chencang to Gudao County, it was nearly 300 miles. Wei Zhen led the front army to rush forward and arrived at Gudao County smoothly. This not only strengthened the pass guards in Gudao County, but also made preparations in advance for the arrival of Cao Zhen's army.

Ma Dai, the general guard of Yang'an Pass who had been paying close attention to the direction of Chencang Road, learned of the appearance of Cao Wei's army in Gudao County, and hurriedly notified Zhendong General Zhao Yun.

Upon receiving Ma Dai's news, Zhao Yun rushed to Yang'an Pass to join Ma Dai, and then personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to Hechi to guard against danger, and at the same time notified Liao Hua to defend Xiabian.

As long as Hechi and Xiabian are guarded, the food route of the Northern Expeditionary Army can be guaranteed, and at the same time, the Northern Expeditionary Army can be guaranteed to return to Hanzhong at any time.

It has to be said that Cao Jun reacted very quickly when he heard that Longguan had fallen, and immediately left the pass.

Without Longguan in hand, he couldn't quickly enter Longyou, so he lost the opportunity.

But Gudao County is still in his hands, and he can easily enter Wudu from there, and attack Hechi and Xiabian separately. As long as one of these two places can be captured, it is equivalent to cutting off the food road of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

This move directly turned the passivity of losing Longguan into initiative.

What's more terrible is that Qiang Duan, who originally escaped from the Qiang Road, immediately raised his troops to respond when he heard that Cao Wei's army had entered Wudu from the north. Attack Xiabian from the south.

All of a sudden, Qishan Road, the grain road of the Northern Expeditionary Army, was suddenly threatened from the north and the south.

Qiangshui runs from east to west, with high mountains on both sides, and most areas are difficult to walk.

But there are also several river valleys, because of the relatively open geography, small river valley plains have been formed.

The valley plain closest to Xiabian is about 300 miles away. The Qiangshui River is in the south and a large flat land is in the north. At the same time, there are high mountains in the north of the valley and a river flows down to join the Qiangshui River.

The confluence of these two rivers forms a small triangular plain.

The vegetation here is lush, the climate is mild, and there are high mountains on both sides as barriers. It is usually the place where the Qiang Di live and graze, but now it has become a place where powerful troops gather.

All kinds of Qiang Di tents are built around a large tent in the middle, the neighing of cattle, sheep and horses, and various incomprehensible Qiang and Hu languages, this usually quiet valley looks extremely lively.

From time to time, you can also see the leaders of the Youdi leading the strong members of the clan, or dozens, or hundreds, driving cattle and sheep over the high mountains in the south, and then erecting tents on the outermost side.

Above the valley, there was the smell of all kinds of excrement, as well as the unique smell of mutton of the Hu people.

"My lord, why don't we wait for the Han people to play the results themselves before going out?"

In the big tent in the middle, the leaders of the Di people of various tribes sat on the ground without any rules, shouting non-stop.

"The weapons of the Han people are very powerful. Only a part of our tribe has iron weapons. Even if there are 20,000 people, they cannot defeat 5,000 of them."

"What are you afraid of? We are blessed by the mountain god. The high mountains here are our greatest guarantee. Even if we can't beat them, we can hide in the mountains. They can't catch us."

At the same time, some people are worried, "My clan has already stored wool for the winter, and I thought it would be sold to Hanzhong in the spring, but I didn't expect the Han people to start fighting again."

As he spoke, he looked at Qiang Duan sitting on top, "We don't help the Han people in Hanzhong, but make them enemies. Will they stop accepting our wool in the future?"

When these words came out, many people agreed, "King Mighty, we all know that you have a good relationship with the Han people in the north, but the Han people in Hanzhong are willing to let us exchange useless wool for woolen cloth to spend the winter these years." , everyone is much better."

"If the Han people in Hanzhong are offended, and they stop giving us wool, won't our people start to suffer from the cold again?"

"That's right, Mighty King, you still need to think twice about this matter."

Qiang Duan looked at the crowd below with a gloomy expression.

In the past few years, he has cooperated with the Han people in Tianshui to control the wool trade in Ju County, and has reaped huge benefits from it. At the same time, he has made his tribe the largest Di tribe in Wudu and Yinping.

Qiangduan doesn't know what economic warfare is, but he knows that as long as he controls the wool trade for one day, he will be the biggest king of Di in Wudu Yinping.

In fact, he wanted to see what kind of weight he was in the eyes of the chiefs of the tribes in Yinping, Wudu.

From the looks of it now, in the eyes of everyone, I have already been regarded as a universal response.

With one order, all the Di people came from afar.

But for the strong end, this is not enough, far from enough.

Because what I want to do is to be the king of these people, not just to be regarded as a tribal leader who is stronger than them.

Now they dare to question themselves and dare to oppose themselves. Such an attitude is not at all the attitude of facing a superior.

This time, as long as they lead them to defeat the powerful Han people in their eyes, they can further establish their authority.

Seeing Qiang Duan sitting on top and not speaking, the people below became bolder.

They didn't dare to talk about Qiang Duan, so they pointed their finger at the people standing beside Qiang Duan.

"Yang servant, you have already voted for Hanzhong eight years ago and took your clansmen to the north, why are you back now? Could it be because you deceived the mighty king, that's why the mighty king decided to send troops?"

"That's right, I remember that after he voted for the Han people eight years ago, his whole family moved to Ji County, Tianshui. Now that there is a lot of fighting there, the Han people there must have asked him to come back and persuade the mighty king to lead the soldiers to help."

Di Ren, who was called Yang Pu, looked embarrassed and turned his head away, as if he didn't hear other people's questions.

But Qiang Duan finally couldn't help standing up and shouting, "Enough."

He was tall, and when he stood up, he stared at everyone, with a sense of oppression.

Everyone in the handsome tent fell silent all of a sudden.

Qiang Duan looked around at the elders and sneered, "Did the years of stability make you forget what it was like to be bullied by the Han people?"

"Leaving aside, let's just say that ten years ago, when Cao Cao led an army into Wudu, how many Qiangdi were massacred? There are many bones in Hechi. Every time I go to Ju County to trade wool, I pass by there. Every time I see I will be afraid of the bones in the valley."

"I'm afraid that one day the Han people will regain their strength and send another large army. Don't you understand that it is because the Han people have been fighting all these years that they have no strength to manage us, and we have these few years days of peace."

"If they get together again one day, our good days will come to an end! Do you really think there is any difference between those Han people in Hanzhong and that Cao Cao?"

"Aside from other things, if the Han Chinese in Hanzhong control Longyou, do you think they will let Wudu Yinping, the place connecting Hanzhong and Longyou, go? When their army comes over, they will have the final say here."

"At that time, we will be driven out by the Han people again and oppressed by them. Do you really think you can be as comfortable as you are now? You are so stupid!"

He forcefully scolded in one breath, making everyone in the tent dumbfounded.

"But Mighty King, now the Han people in the north have sent a large army over. If we help the Han people in the north defeat the Han people in Hanzhong, what if they take the opportunity not to leave?"

Someone asked.

"If the Han people in the north are really capable of stationing troops here in Wudu, they would have done so ten years ago, so why wait until now? On the contrary, Wudu borders Hanzhong, and the Han people in Hanzhong are the biggest threat to Wudu."

This question was simply asking Qiang Duan's itching. He felt that he had learned a lot from his contact with the Han people over the years, so he immediately started to show off.

"There is a saying among the Han people, which is called far-distance friendship and close attack. More than 400 years ago, the Han people were divided into many countries, and they attacked each other. Some people used this sentence to unify the Han people in the world."

"What we have to do now is the same. The Han people in the north are far away from us and can't control Wudu. The Han people in Hanzhong are right next to us and can threaten us."

"So we have to help the Han people in the north defeat the Han people in Hanzhong and let them return to Hanzhong. The Han people in the north can't stay in Wudu for a long time, so we still have the final say here."

Most of the Hu people were simple and honest, and they didn't have much flirtatiousness. After hearing these words, the chiefs of the tribes lowered their heads and thought for a while, and their faces couldn't help showing shaken expressions.

Seeing this, Qiang Duan said while the iron was hot, "In the past few years we have traded wool with Hanzhong, and we have obtained woolen cloth and even grain. In fact, we got help from the Han people in the north."

Qiangduan wanted to be the king of all the kings of the Di people, so the benefits obtained from the exchanges with Hanzhong over the years were all distributed equally according to the contribution of each tribe, so he won the trust of the Di people.

At the same time, he pulled out the people around him and said, "Yang Pu was also the Di king of Wudu before, and later attached himself to the Han emperor in the north."

"The emperor of the Han Dynasty moved his people to Ji County in Tianshui, and now it is being attacked by the Han people in Hanzhong, so this time he was entrusted by the Han people in the north and came to ask us for help."

"The Han people in the north promised that as long as we help them defeat the Han people in Hanzhong, they will not only give us more food, but also some of them have connections with Hanzhong and will continue to help us sell wool to Hanzhong."

"So we don't have to worry about being enemies with Hanzhong, they won't accept our wool."

After hearing this, everyone felt that the relationship between the Han people was extremely strange. There were hundreds of thousands of people on both sides calling each other, and they could still buy and sell each other.

But with strong guarantees, and many of them did know about Yang Pu, they finally felt relieved when they heard that Yang Pu was entrusted by the northern Han people to come to them for help.

Unexpectedly, King Qiangduan could learn the tricks of the Han people to deal with the Han people, and he immediately felt admiration.

So they all expressed their admiration for the strong king.

"The Mighty King is really powerful!"

"The Mighty King is so powerful!"

"The Mighty King is really powerful!"

Di people don't even have their own words now, and the words of flattery are those words that are repeated over and over again.

But the strong end doesn't seem to care about this.

Although it was just a rude compliment, it was the unanimous high praise of all the princes.

For Qiangduan, it was already like hearing fairy music, and he felt a little light at the moment. At the same time, he thought to himself, no wonder the Han people like to rush to be the biggest king so much. There is a reason for this.

Qiang Duan saw that he had finally persuaded the princes, so he struck while the iron was hot, and discussed with them the date of dispatching troops.

"Thank you, Mighty King."

After the tent became quiet, Yang servant came forward and said in a low voice.

"You don't have to thank me. The Han people in the north asked you to bring them here. It sounds reasonable, so I decided to help." Qiang Duan returned to his seat and sat down, looked at Yang Pu, and asked, "Do you remember Yang Pu? foal?"

Yang Pu was startled, and said, "Of course I remember. I remember that he went to Hanzhong to join General Shenweitian."

"That's right." Qiang Duan's face was gloomy again, "But he took advantage of the opportunity of the Shu people to go north to Longyou a few days ago, and returned to Yinping, Wudu, and wanted to become King Baimadi again, and at the same time persuaded The tribes of Wudu Yinping supported the Shu people."

"I heard that his only son, Yang Wanwan, is still the entourage of Feng Langjun. Feng Langjun has always had prestige in Qiangdi in Yinping, Wudu, so Yang Ju relied on Yang Wanwan's status to persuade him. many people."

"Feng Langjun?" Upon hearing this name, Yang Pu's face was lost for a moment, "Is that Feng Langjun who led the divine soldiers to descend from the sky and summoned the divine fire to burn Guanshan?"

"Huh? You've heard that too?" Qiang Duan asked in surprise, "These days, all the tribes in Wudu Yinping are talking about it."

Speaking of this, the gloomy look on Qiang Duan's face became even thicker. It is obvious that this matter spread so fast, and someone behind it must be deliberately spreading it.

Feng Langjun made a blood alliance with the Hu people and vowed to trade with the Hu people on an equal footing forever, so that Qiang Di in the Yinping land of Wudu can exchange useless things like wool for winter cloth.

This incident was widely circulated among the Qiangdi tribes, and was highly praised by the Qiangdi in Yinping and Wudu.

Some people even deified him, saying that he had been taught by the mountain god in the deep mountains in the early years, and he had been instructed by the mountain god, so he selflessly helped the people of Qiangdi after he came out of the mountain.

But after all, it was just a legend, and Feng Langjun only appeared once in Wudu, so Qiangduan naturally felt that he was not a big threat.

Who would have thought that now he suddenly reappeared and summoned a divine fire to burn Guanshan...

Doesn't this confirm the legend that he was taught by the mountain god in his early years?

The Han people in the north were right. If the Shu people flattened Longyou, in order to strengthen the relationship between Hanzhong and Longyou, they would have to control it sooner or later.

If the blood alliance and Maobu happened before, Qiangduan himself could lead the people to use the high mountains in Yinping, Wudu to resist the Han army dangerously.

But that Feng Langjun is different. If he really wants to come back here again, the power he has built up over the years, I don't know how many people will fall to the Han people.

Therefore, Qiangduan decided to act first, and he must force the Shu people back to Hanzhong, so that Wudu and Yinping will continue to be the junction of the Han people on both sides.