With the guidance of the guide, the Wei army's march became smoother. Although these guides were just ordinary civilians, it was very important to play a role at this time, and at least it could reduce the Wei army's detours.

This is very important. Time is money, and efficiency is life. The faster the Wei army's actions, the shorter the reaction time left to the Shu army in the South Central China, and the easier it will be to fight this battle.

On the contrary, if the Wei army cannot effectively increase the speed of the march, they will walk a lot every day, but most of them will go in a detour. It will not only consume physical and energy, but also miss a lot of opportunities for combat, and the losses will be huge.

With these guides leading the way, the Wei army's actions naturally became twice the result with half the effort.

Bengu was like Jincheng, both a small city with almost no soldiers guarding him. After Zhang Tong arrived at Bengu, he also made the same method and easily took Bengu.

After Zhang Tong took Bengu, the subsequent local affairs would be handed over to Wen Qin. He led his army to set off lightly and headed straight to the county town of Xinggu Wanwen.

In fact, Wanwen was not on the route of the Wei army's advance north. According to Yang Hu's plan, after the Wei army established a forward base in Bengu, the army would go north to seize the important town of Dianchi, the southern middle, and then continue to go north to attack Wei County, where the Jianning County is located.

Only after taking over Jianning County can we truly open up the road to Chengdu north, so the core battle of the Battle of South Central is still in Jianning.

However, Jiao Rang still has some troops in Xinggu County. If it is not cleared, it will still pose a certain threat to the Wei army's supply line.

That's why Yang Hu asked Zhang Tong to take Ben Gu, and did not march directly into Dianchi Lake, but turned to fight Wanwen and took Jiao Rang first.

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Wanwen City is a small county town located in the south of Nanzhong. It is remote and closed. If Zhuge Liang had not upgraded it to a county town after the southern expedition, I am afraid that Wanwen City would not have been better than other surrounding counties.

However, after the Wanwen City was upgraded to the county seat, the benefits were still obvious. It soon became the center of Xinggu County. After Jiaorang became the prefect of Xinggu, Wanwen became the base camp of the Jiao family, with great power.

Jiao Rang has been the prefect of Xinggu for many years. His father Jiao Tong was the first prefect of Xinggu. After Jiao Tong died, Jiao Rang took over as the prefect.

This kind of inheritance method of father and son is simply unimaginable in the Central Plains. Not to mention the succession of father and son, even a prefect works in a certain county for a certain period of time. When the time comes, no matter whether it is promotion or transfer, it has to be moved to another place.

But in the land of Nanzhong, this way of father-death and son-in-law succession has almost become a tradition. This was a result of Zhuge Liang's compromise with the great tribes in Nanzhong. This almost hereditary local officials' formulation is essentially different from the formulation of foreign officials pursued in other regions.

Of course, Zhuge Liang also wanted to include the Nanzhong region in the direct jurisdiction system of the court, but Zhuge Liang also knew that if he forcibly promoted the transformation of land into a current in Nanzhong, it would inevitably arouse greater conflicts. Zhuge Liang had already spent a lot of effort to quell the rebellion this time, and Zhuge Liang's task was not focused on Nanzhong. He was concerned about the great cause of restoration of the Han Dynasty. If he was dragged in the quagmire of Nanzhong, it would definitely not work.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang finally decided to withdraw his troops and not leave troops in Nanzhong, and continued to use the method of governing Nanzhong with the large clans of Nanzhong. Han officials and Yi Zheng were established together. As long as the counties in Nanzhong no longer rebelled, the Shu court could completely give up the power of governing and continue to hand over the management authority of the counties in Nanzhong to the major clans to control. The father died and the son succeeded, and the brothers died and the brothers died and the brothers came to the brothers. The court did not interfere.

Therefore, Jiao Rang was completely the existence of a local emperor in Xinggu. In addition to paying certain taxes and military personnel to the court according to regulations, he enjoyed the military and political power of Xinggu County.

It is not false to say that Jiao Rang is the local emperor of Xinggu. Jiao Rang has absolute power in Xinggu. He wants to get the wind, rain, money, land, and women. Jiao Rang lives a luxurious and lewd life every day, with wine, ponds, meat, singing and dancing, and life is very comfortable.

Jiao Rang was quite satisfied with his current life. Although Xinggu County was a remote and desolate place, Jiao Rang never lacked wine and meat or beauties. He might not be happy to change him to a senior official.

At this time, Jiao Rang was still ignorant of the loss of Jincheng and Bengu. Although the prefect of Jianning Huo Yi had issued an order to him a few months ago to pay close attention to the movements of the Wei army in Jiaozhou. Once any abnormal situation was found, he should do a good job of defense and report to Jianning in time.

Jiao Rang was very dissatisfied with Huo Yi's order. Why is Huo Yi qualified to order others as well as the prefect?

Huo Yi was the only official sent by the court among the prefects of the seven prefects of Nanzhong County. Although Huo Yi did not have the title of governor, he was the power to act as governor and was qualified to order the seven prefects of Nanzhong County. It was also normal for him to issue orders to the prefect of Xinggu Jiaorang.

When the news of the Wei army capturing Jiaozhou reached Jianning, Huo Yi naturally did not dare to take it lightly and immediately became alert.

After all, Jiaozhou and Nanzhong are connected. Since the Wei army can attack Jiaozhou, it can definitely attack from Jiaozhou to Nanzhong. This is not a worry, but there is such a possibility in the realm. Even if the terrain of Nanzhong is dangerous and complicated, the road is difficult to move forward, but the Wei army can cross thousands of miles to attack Jiaozhou, so why can't we continue to advance towards Nanzhong?

Huo Yi was responsible for the defense affairs of the entire Nanzhong, so he was very sensitive to the movements of the Wei army. Especially after the Wei army launched a large-scale attack in Hanzhong and Yong'an, the danger coefficient in Nanzhong was also increasing, and strengthening Nanzhong's defense was necessary.

But Jiao Rang was very dissatisfied with this. If his reputation was not correct, he would be dissatisfied. In the past, when Ma Zhong and Yan Yu and others served as the surrendered governor, they had official seals. Huo Yi did not have the title of the governor, but he still held a chicken feather as an arrow. Of course, Jiao Rang was unhappy.

So Jiao Rang only sent a small number of people to sneak into Jiaozhou to reconnaissance and grasped the situation of the Wei army stationed in various counties in Jiaozhou. Jiao Rang saw that the Wei army was not prepared to attack Nanzhong, and Huo Yi was a big deal.

At this point, Jiao Rang no longer sent anyone to Jiaozhou. He drank and had fun every day, and did not take Xinggu's defense seriously. Even though the Wei army had attacked Bengu, he was still ignorant.
Chapter completed!