Chapter 584 People’s Heart of Guandong
"Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!"
Ma Di stood at the top of Wubao, looking at the Wei army surrounding him outside, frowning.
"What's the situation? Isn't Jiang Ji worried that his logistics will be cut off? Why did he send so many people to surround the place and then leave?"
It had been ten days, and Ma Su found that except for Jiang Ji's appearance on the first day, he had never appeared again. The Wei army that surrounded him also stabilized from the initial panic, and now even became more relaxed.
This made Ma Su alert. There was only one possibility in this situation other than Jiang Ji's failure.
Jiang Ji already has a response strategy!
Although I don't know what Jiang Ji is paying attention to, I can be sure that he definitely has a way to deal with it. The nail position carefully selected by Ma Su may be ineffective.
"I really regret not bringing my old troops with me. With this group of warriors, the mobility is still too poor." Ma Su shook his head helplessly, feeling a little headache about this.
After the selection strategy was proposed, Ma Di conducted elite training in Chang'an. There are achievements. The two thousand people on hand are all veterans of hundreds of battles, and they are all excellent grassroots officers.
If they really spread out, many of them could even directly become music directors.
But such a team of hexagonal warriors has a fatal problem. Because they are pure infantry, their mobility is still much worse than Ma Su's Longwu Yicong.
This also resulted in Ma Su taking them to move slowly, and there was no longer the feeling of coming and going like the wind in the past.
This made Ma Su very unhappy. He had not felt this kind of powerlessness for a long time.
"No! You still have to go out and take a look. Otherwise, if you keep sitting here, you will be tricked by Jiang Ji sooner or later." Ma Su touched his chin, pondered for a while, and decided to move.
But once it takes action, it means fighting at the risk of annihilation of the entire army. Ma Su didn't want to lose all the two thousand elites he had trained for three years, so he simply made a plan to divide his troops.
He divided a thousand elite troops to stay in place and hold back the Wei army as much as possible. However, they only need to hold on for half a month. If Ma Su does not return as scheduled after half a month, then they can break out and return to the west on their own.
After arranging all this, Ma Su personally led the remaining Qianbu to launch a breakout on a sunless night.
There were about 20,000 Wei troops surrounding Ma Su, and the small Wubao was surrounded by water. It's just that the quality of the soldiers is so impressive that they can't stop the Han army from breaking through.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Ma Su led his troops to successfully break through the encirclement and penetrated the Wei army's camp in half an hour. When he was smoothly fighting his way out of the siege, Ma Su felt a little strange.
"Why did the combat power of the soldiers of the Puppet Wei Dynasty drop off a cliff? Are these still the soldiers and horses who fought fiercely with me in Guanzhong a few years ago?" Ma Di looked at the chaotic camp of the Wei army with some doubts, feeling a little incredible.
When he attacked the Central Army under Guan Qiujian's command before, he didn't feel it yet because he was leading a weak brigade. Now that he was dispatched with the forward selection camp, he quickly sensed that something was wrong.
This is not like a professional army at all, but rather like a group of field soldiers, and their combat power is slightly higher than that of Guan Qiujian's army in Nanyang.
"No wonder Shi Zai and Bo Yue are progressing so smoothly. It turns out that Wei Jun stretched his crotch on his own." Ma Di suddenly figured it out, shook his head and sneered.
"Cao Rui is afraid that he really has no soldiers left, so he will send those who can fight to the battlefield. With such a fighting force, what will happen even if there are millions more?"
After discovering this problem, Ma Su became more relaxed. Even after walking for more than 20 miles, Ma Su still felt unsatisfied, so he turned around and charged back and forth again.
After successfully breaking through, Ma Su simply stopped hiding. Directly leading a group of a thousand people to the east along Luoyang Chi Road, intending to see what kind of plane Jiang Ji was making.
Soon, he discovered a problem. After walking more than 20 miles, Ma Su saw a large number of strong civilians who were repairing something under the supervision of a group of Wei soldiers.
Looking at this, Ma Su guessed that this was probably the reason why Jiang Ji had always ignored him.
"Generals, listen to the order and follow me to find out what's going on!" Ma Di narrowed his eyes and quickly ordered.
A thousand elite Han troops quickly formed their formation and, under the leadership of Ma Di, attacked the Wei army.
This group of Wei soldiers were obviously not elite, and they dispersed like birds and beasts after seeing Ma Di's banner.
When the civilians who stayed behind found out that the Shu army was coming, they were terrified and threw down their tools and tried to escape. In the panic, many civilians were even pushed to the ground, and at one point they trampled on each other.
After Ma Di rushed in, the soldiers of the Wei army had already run away, and Ma Di had to come to save the injured civilian husband.
"Fellow fellows, what are you doing?"
Ma Su saw the frightened expressions of these people looking at him, and was a little confused about what was going on. However, he had an idea and quickly took out the Henan dialect he had learned in his previous life and tried to chat with them.
Several civilians were a little surprised when they saw that the Han general suddenly spoke a somewhat stiff Henan dialect. However, these familiar dialects comforted them. After calming down a little, someone began to explain to Ma Su.
"Master Jun, we are local army farmers, working for the big... for the puppet Wei army. A few days ago, someone came to recruit us to build roads, saying that the Shu army is coming and we will become refugees... "
After hearing Min Fu's explanation, Ma Di's face gradually became gloomy.
He was not angry because of Jiang Ji's new plan, but because he found that the Han's reputation in Guandong was so bad.
Because transportation was inconvenient in ancient times and information circulation was not good, the Han Dynasty had no idea about the good governance in Guanzhong. Under Cao Wei's propaganda for so many years, most of the farming households and people thought that the Han army would take away their land and turn them into refugees and drive them away.
"Fuck! No wonder I felt something was wrong since I defeated Guandong. It seems that the issue of public sentiment has to be put on the agenda." Ma Di shook his head helplessly and spoke again to comfort the group of farmers.
At the same time, Ma Di also learned from several campers that many of the camp soldiers in Luoyang military camps had been recruited, and the total number must be tens of thousands.
Logically speaking, they should not have corvee labor, and Jiang Ji should not conscript them. But because of Ma Su, they were all forcibly recruited to work and clear the way.
This kind of thing is actually very common in Cao Wei, especially the farming households, who were bullied miserably. Many of the villagers once had to pay 70% of their income, and they also had to bear heavy corvee burdens on the court.
After hearing the complaints from the farmers, Ma Su couldn't help but shudder.
If this system was placed in Ji Han, the person who proposed it would probably have been killed by Zhuge Liang.
Of course another problem arises.
Cao Wei's oppression on the head of Guizhou was so great, so how did they have to smear Ji Han to make the head of Guizhou feel that the current oppression was acceptable?