Chapter 515: Inner Torment, Trapped in a Net(1/2)
After learning that he was being left behind, Jiang Wei didn't notice anything unusual at first.
For the ambitious Jiang Wei, he is not afraid of taking risks, and he is even willing to take risks.
Stationing in Gushan seems to be a dangerous thing at the moment, but danger often also represents opportunity.
Therefore, at the beginning, Jiang Wei not only did not feel repulsed by being left behind, but also had some vague expectations.
But as time went by, Jiang Wei still discovered some abnormalities.
Guo Huai was very considerate, but he forgot one thing, that is, the wisdom of Jiang Wei and Chang Diao was not in the same dimension.
Maybe Guo Huai had thought of this, but there was nothing he could do about it.
It's impossible to lend your own wisdom to Chang Diao.
Since Jiang Wei and Chang Diao were not at the same level of intelligence, some of Chang Diao's arrangements that seemed harmless to him turned out to be problems for Jiang Wei.
When Ma Chao retreated from Gushan, he set a fire in the camp to hinder the Wei army's pursuit.
While the fire successfully hindered the Wei army, it also burned Gushan's camp clean.
Under this situation, Chang Diao organized his soldiers to rebuild the camp on the day Guo Huai led his army to leave.
This matter is usually left to the deputy general Jiang Wei.
But not only did Chang Diao not take the initiative to hand over this important task to Jiang Wei, he even declined Jiang Wei's request.
To be honest, Chang Diao's reasons were not very clever. The combination of the shabby reasons with the unusual arrangement successfully aroused Jiang Wei's suspicion.
With Jiang Wei's wisdom, it is not difficult to see that Chang Diao is on guard against him!
After realizing this, Jiang Wei carefully recalled whether he and the family behind him had ever offended Chang Diao.
After careful consideration, Jiang Wei quickly ruled out this possibility.
Chang Diao was Cao Ren's general and had been stationed in Wancheng. He was transferred to Guo Huai's army just last year.
Guo Huai's residence was not in Tianshui. How could Jiang Wei and his people offend Chang Diao, who was thousands of miles away?
Moreover, Chang Diao was not from a high family. In the political environment of Cao Wei where people were judged by family background, Chang Diao came from a poor family. What confidence did Chang Diao have to dare not deal with himself who was from a famous family?
After ruling out this possibility, another possibility quickly emerged in my mind.
That means it's not Chang Diao who has a problem with him, but Guo Huai!
After all, among the entire army, the only one who can influence Chang Diao's attitude toward him, and who can give Chang Diao the confidence not to deal with him, is Guo Huai!
Jiang Weineng instantly thought of Guo Huai. Apart from the above reasons, the bigger reason was the letter Mi Yang wrote to him.
Jiang Wei, who lost his father when he was young, has been able to observe people's emotions since he was a child.
Maybe Guo Huai felt that he was hiding it well that day, but Jiang Wei still noticed that day that Guo Huai was unhappy about Mi Yang writing to him.
Or it would be more appropriate to say that it is doubtful.
Jiang Wei originally thought that as long as he risked his own life in the battle to attack Yinping, Guo Huai's suspicion would be dispelled.
Jiang Wei originally thought that this was not a big deal, because as long as the Wei army won a complete victory in the future, Guo Huai's doubts would naturally be dispelled.
But Mi Yang exists in the world.
In other words, this seed of doubt was originally Mi Yang's deliberate move.
The seeds of doubt sown by Mi Yang that day did not only exist in Guo Huai's heart.
With the water of time and the catalysis of Cao Zhen's defeat, this seed was not only deeply planted in the hearts of Jiang Wei and Guo Huai, but it has even reached the moment of fruition today.
After inferring that the instigator behind Chang Diao was Guo Huai, what Guo Huai wanted to do could no longer be hidden from Jiang Wei.
Thinking of Guo Huai's purpose, Jiang Wei couldn't help laughing at himself.
Unexpectedly, he had gone through life and death for Guo Huai several times in the past year, but just because of a letter from Mi Yang, Guo Huai would treat him like this!
For a time, grievance, anger, unbearable, and all kinds of uncomfortable feelings filled Jiang Wei's heart.
Young people are always full of emotions.
But after calming down his thoughts, Jiang Wei realized that it was useless to feel uncomfortable at this time. The most important thing was to clear away the suspicion on himself as soon as possible.
Jiang Wei immediately wanted to write a letter to Yang Fu, but as soon as he raised his brush, Jiang Wei could not write a word.
After the news of Cao Zhen and Cao Hong's defeat spread one after another, the morale of Guo Huai's army continued to be severely shaken, and at the same time, a feeling of blame quietly spread among the army.
When people encounter humiliation or failure, they will naturally want to find someone to take the blame.
Who is this scapegoat?
Of course they are not Cao Zhen and Cao Hong, these two are the clan members of Cao Wei.
After subconsciously "forgiving" these two men, the army naturally poured out all their blaming emotions on Yang Fu, who was the first to propose the strategy of the southern expedition.
As bright and promising as Yang Fu's plan for the southern expedition was at the beginning, how great is the resentment now focused on Yang Fu alone.
This is just for Guo Huai's army. What if we focus on the entire Wei Dynasty?
With such a large concentration of resentment, Yang Fu may not be able to save himself this time. Perhaps his connections will save his life, but his demotion is certain.
In this case, if he writes to Yang Fu, even if he is willing to help him, how much can he help?
He may even be led into unnecessary trouble again because of his letter.
This layer of worry prevented Jiang Wei from writing for a long time.
Jiang Wei was a man who put faith first, and Yang Fu recommended and promoted him, so he was regarded as his old master.
With Jiang Wei's character, it is impossible for him to further put his deceased master in danger for the sake of his personal safety.
After sighing, Jiang Wei put down the brush in his hand.
Feeling depressed, he slowly stood up and walked outside the tent. Looking at the sky covered with dark clouds, Jiang Wei felt a little breathless.
It was as if there was a huge net in the dark, wrapping around him, and he wanted to struggle out of the net.
It's a pity that the person who compiled the network was too clever and blocked almost every outlet for him.
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Not to mention how many people in the world have such methods, but the people who have such methods are none of the top figures in the world, so why would they do this to themselves?
Thinking of this, Jiang Wei laughed to himself again.
He took a look at the surrounding tents, which seemed unusual to him. However, after deducing the intentions of Guo Huai and Chang Diao, Jiang Wei discovered the unusual way Chang Diao arranged the tents.
When setting up the camps for the generals, Chang Diao arranged Jiang Wei's camp behind Gu Mountain.
The most important thing is that in addition to Jiang Wei's troops and horses, there are also many camps of Chang Diao's tribe in this place.
At first glance, the tent of Chang Diao's tribe looks like stars looming over the moon, but in fact, it looks like it's just a form of enclosure.
Chang Diao's arrangement chilled Jiang Wei even more.
But at this moment, Jiang Wei still had no idea of betraying Cao Wei.
Because Jiang Wei asked himself, he had never taken any actual action to communicate with Mi Yang. Without action, there would be no evidence of crime.
In the absence of evidence of guilt, no matter how suspicious Guo Huai and Chang Diao were, they could not convict themselves because of the kindness left behind by their parents.
In this case, what does he have to fear?
The worst case scenario is that he will go back to his hometown to serve his mother, and then he will find an opportunity to make a comeback one day.
This self-reliance suddenly made Jiang Wei feel better.
Regardless of whether an expert had laid a net for him, the expert was still not skilled enough and actually missed this most important link.
Without the supplement of this link, his young lin would definitely be able to struggle out of this giant net.
Unfortunately, what Jiang Wei didn't know was that someone had indeed weaved a giant web specifically for him.
That person is Mi Yang.
Mi Yang was the best at snaring sentient beings. Even hundreds of thousands of Wei troops could not escape from his huge net, let alone a mere Youlin?
Just when Jiang Wei was thinking about staying calm and waiting for the situation to change, a rope seemed to be thrown from Yinping, thousands of miles away, filling the last loophole in this giant network.
This rope is Ding Feng sent by Mi Yang.
How could Mi Yang specially send the general to Wei Yan just to let Ding Feng pass the message?
Ding Feng came to Wudu this time without bringing a large army.
But there is something about Ding Feng, and that is Ding Feng's prestige.
Before Ding Feng left Yinping, it was the eve of the gathering of Qiang and Di leaders in Yinping.
And just when Wei Yan was setting up camp outside Gushan and actively building siege equipment, the latest news spread from Yinping to Wudu.
All the Qiang and Di leaders in the two counties of Yinping and Wudu were willing to accept Mi Yang's dispatch.
In addition, in order to fulfill Mi Yang's request, all the Qiang and Di leaders who could not leave Yinping sent envoys back to Wudu to gather their tribesmen.
After learning the news, Ding Feng, as Mi Yang's envoy, summoned the leading envoys who had just returned to Wudu and asked them to send troops to assist him.
Ding Feng can be said to be the most prestigious general under Mi Yang. In addition to Mi Yang's status as an envoy, all the leaders and envoys expressed their willingness to assist Ding Feng.
To be continued...