On the third day after Mi Yang captured Xicheng, a fleet of about 3,000 sergeants appeared on the Han River basin outside Xicheng.

This scene was quickly discovered by Mi Jun's spies and reported to Mi Yang in the West City.

After Mi Yang learned the news, he led hundreds of his own troops to take a boat to the fleet.

According to the spies' description, this fleet of more than 3,000 people should be personally led by Wei Yan, the prefect of Hanzhong.

It seems that after Wei Yan received the news from him, he was worried about the safety of Hanxing County, so he specially led his army to come here, firstly to inquire about the news, and secondly to help him defeat the enemy.

Previously, Shen Yi took advantage of the geographical advantage to send documents accusing herself to the surrounding counties and Chengdu. Mi Yang had already learned about it from a Guan sergeant named Zhao Qin after he captured Xicheng.

However, compared to the worries of Lu Yi and others, Mi Yang was very indifferent when hearing the news.

The evil person Shen Yi complained first, intending to disturb the audience. It looked good, but it was used in the wrong place.

Just talking about Mi Yang's own identity, Mi Zhu's nephew, Guan Yu's son-in-law, Fazheng disciple... any identity is Mi Yang's talisman.

In this case, how stupid a person must be to believe that he is rebellious.

Wei Yan just doesn't have high emotional intelligence, he's not stupid.

When Mi Yang led hundreds of personal guards to arrive not far from Wei Yan's fleet, Wei Yan discovered Mi Yang's arrival and sent his personal guards to lead Mi Yang to his ship.

After Mi Yang got on the building boat where Wei Yan was, he saw Wei Yan standing by the parapet on the building boat, looking at the hundreds of heads hanging high on the west city gate.

In the original impression, he had met this famous general when he was young.

Seeing that Wei Yan's face seemed to be contemplative, Mi Yang asked his bodyguard to wait beside him. He himself stepped forward and bowed to Wei Yan, calling out, "General Zhenyuan."

At Mi Yang's call, Wei Yan came back from his thoughts, and then he turned to look at Mi Yang.

Although Wei Yan had not had much contact with Mi Yang in the past, he, who was originally a subordinate of Liu Bei, had met Mi Yang when he was young.

However, as Mi Yang grew older, Wei Yan never saw Mi Yang as an adult.

Fortunately, Mi Yang's appearance as an adult still has the shadow of his youth, so when Wei Yan saw Mi Yang, he felt a little familiar.

Wei Yan looked at Mi Yang, saluted him, and then responded, "The Marquis of Guannei."

After Wei Yan responded to Mi Yang, he pointed directly at the hundreds of heads on the west city and asked: "How long did it take the Marquis of Guannei to capture the west city?"

On the second day after Wei Yan sent troops from Nanzheng, he received Mi Yang's document.

After reading Mi Yang's documents, Wei Yan became more aware of the current situation in Hanxing County. At the same time, Wei Yan completely defined Shen Yi as a traitor in his heart.

Under the influence of this mentality, Wei Yan had no intention of returning to Nanzheng, but instead accelerated his march.

The location of Xicheng was too critical. If Shen Yi occupied and defended himself and then introduced the Wei army, not only Hanxing County would be caught in the flames of war, but Hanzhong County would also be affected by the flames of war.

Thanks to his efforts, Hanzhong County was still in the process of recovering its strength and could not withstand a major war at this time.

Therefore, Wei Yan continued to lead his troops down, hoping to help Mi Yang put down the rebellion in Xicheng as soon as possible.

What he didn't expect was that his marching speed was already very fast.

But when he arrived, the walls of the West City were already covered with the heads of Shen's party members, and even the flags on the West City were replaced with the word "Mi".

The speed with which Mi Yang destroyed the city was beyond Wei Yan's expectations.

Facing Wei Yan's question, Mi Yang replied: "It's just one day."

When he heard that it only took one day for Mi Yang to conquer Xicheng, a look of surprise flashed across Wei Yan's face.

The city defense of Xicheng is not as good as that of the fortified city in the past, but breaking the city in one day is difficult to achieve according to common sense.

Seeing the look of surprise on Wei Yan's face, Mi Yang roughly reviewed in front of Wei Yan the process of how he captured the city a few days ago.

After listening to Mi Yang's review, Wei Yan had a smile on his face.

It is indeed a good tactic to first lure the enemy out of the city to fight in the field, defeat the enemy in the field, and then follow the defeated army to take advantage of the chaos to break through the city.

Seeing that this famous general with eyes higher than his head would also take the initiative to smile at him, Mi Yang's understanding of Wei Yan increased.

Also, maybe Wei Yan's emotional intelligence is not high, but that doesn't mean he has the kind of character Long Aotian has.

Compared with Wei Yan, except for the difference in military rank and qualifications, I am not worse than Wei Yan in other aspects.

In terms of military exploits and prestige, it is even better.

The most notable characteristics of Wei Yan's character are:

As long as you have the capital to look at me as an equal, then I will value you.

As long as you are stronger than me, I will obey you.

For example, in history, Wei Yan complained about Zhuge Liang because Zhuge Liang often did not adopt his strategies.

But during the Northern Expedition, Wei Yan could fight wherever he wanted.

Wei Yan looked at Mi Yang and continued: "In previous years, Yan had heard of the name "Four Friends of the Prince" in Chengdu.

Previously, Yan thought this was just a so-called fraudulent means to gain a reputation, and it couldn't be true.

Now that Zi Sheng defeated the Wu army first and then promoted the Han Dynasty, it is enough to show that Zi Sheng's talent is not fake.

However, the other three friends are just in vain."

According to Wei Yan's character, it is not easy for him to praise others.

It's just that after Mi Yang listened to Wei Yan's praise, he always felt that something was wrong.

Wei Yan's way of praising people is a bit strange.

But considering Wei Yan's character, Mi Yang no longer cares about this.

Historically, after Zhuge Liang's death, Wei Yan and Yang Yi had another dispute, accusing each other of treason. When the news came back to Chengdu, Liu Chan was hesitant to make a decision.

But compared to Liu Chan's hesitation, all the important officials in the court at that time supported Yang Yi.

Jiang Wan and Dong Yun, two important officials of the imperial court, used their own wealth and lives to protect Yang Yi.

The personal ethics of Jiang Wan and Dong Yun, two important ministers, were not bad, and Yang Yi was also very arrogant. Many people did not like his character.

But under such circumstances, Jiang Wan and Dong Yun preferred to recommend Yang Yi but doubted Wei Yan. This shows how bad Wei Yan's impression among his colleagues was.

If it were not for the support of most of the important officials in the imperial court, how could Yang Yi dare to kill the powerful Wei Yan and annihilate his three tribes without receiving the emperor's orders?

Regardless of whether Wei Yan really wanted to rebel in history, his character was indeed his biggest flaw.

Wei Yan is very talented, but his ability to become a famous general is inseparable from Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's protection of him.

After listening to Wei Yan's praise, Mi Yang smiled at Wei Yan and asked Wei Yan:

"After General Zhenyuan learned that Hanxing County was not in danger, he continued to lead his troops to the outside of Xicheng. I guess he came specifically to praise me."

When a large army travels, there must be scouts. Xicheng was captured three days ago, and Wei Yan would not be unaware of this news.

Wei Yan's character has flaws, but he will never act aimlessly.

Sure enough, after Mi Yang asked that question, Wei Yan asked Mi Yang: "Does the Marquis of Guannei know about the four routes of the Northern Expedition?"

Seeing Wei Yan asking about the Four Northern Expeditions, Mi Yang nodded.

The four routes of the Northern Expedition mentioned by Wei Yan were the four main routes from Hanzhong to Guanzhong that Liu Bei had been opening since he captured Hanzhong.

After Liu Bei became king, he ordered Wei Yan to establish a military base for the Northern Expedition in the Hanzhong area for the future Northern Expedition.

In order to open up the main routes for military defeat, Liu Bei, with the support of Zhuge Liang, opened four main roads between Hanzhong and Guanzhong.

These four roads are mainly Ziwu Road, Tangluo Road, Baoxie Road and Jinniu Road, among which Baoxie Road is also known as Xiegu Road.

These four are the four mountain roads leading from Hanzhong to Guanzhong.

It is said to be opened, but in fact it is more about repairs.

Because these four mountain roads existed in the mountains connecting Hanzhong to Guanzhong many years ago.

Last year, when Liu Bei became queen, he did not continue the Northern Expedition in one go. On the one hand, the national strength in Shu was severely depleted by the Battle of Hanzhong, and on the other hand, he wanted to repair these four important roads first.

From this point of view, Liu Bei had actually already decided on the main direction of the Northern Expedition in the future.

After seeing Mi Yang nodding, Wei Yan continued: "Among the four roads of the Northern Expedition, which road does the Marquis of Guannei think is the most suitable for the army to march?"

Facing Wei Yan's question, Mi Yang did not answer immediately.

Seeing that Mi Yang didn't answer his question, Wei Yan didn't take it seriously and said to himself:

"In the future, when the king's army goes on the northern expedition, I would like to recruit ten thousand troops to make a surprise attack on Guanzhong from Ziwu Road, and join forces with the king at Tongguan.

When the time comes, the king will definitely ask about the key point of Ziwu Road, and the Marquis of Guan Nei is the governor of Han Xing County. I hope that the Marquis of Guan Nei can answer the question truthfully."

After hearing what Wei Yan said, Mi Yang finally understood why Wei Yan came specially to see him.

It turned out that "Ziwu Valley Strange Conspiracy" had already been conceived in his mind.

As for why Wei Yan mentioned this to Mi Yang, it was because Ziwu Road was near Xicheng and was Mi Yang's jurisdiction.

When Liu Bei chose to choose the governor of Hanzhong last year, the reason why Liu Bei finally chose Wei Yan was not based on his feelings.

As the saying goes, observe his words and deeds and observe the nature of a person. After taking Hanzhong last year, Wei Yan secretly proposed this strategy to Liu Bei.

At that time, Wei Yan's strategy made Liu Bei's eyes bright. It was precisely because of Wei Yan's strategy and Liu Bei's understanding of him in the past that Liu Bei finally made up his mind to vigorously promote Wei Yan as the governor of Hanzhong.

However, Wei Yan's "Ziwu Valley Wonderful Strategy" was not adopted by Liu Bei at that time.
To be continued...