Traveling through Chenghan Xiandi, fortunately I have a simulator

Chapter 168 Shocking Lu Bu
"The minister also thinks it's okay. Although the imperial court has seized Zhang Yang's Shangjun and formed a relationship with Zhang Yang, there is nothing Zhang Yang can do now. Even if he wants to deal with Shangjun, he can only rely on external forces. However, the external forces he can rely on are nothing more than It’s almost the Northern Huns and the Southern Huns.” Jia Xu said slowly.

"The relationship between Zhang Yang and the Southern Huns is very ordinary, especially in the competition for Taiyuan County, the relationship between the two sides is extremely rigid, so I feel that we can use their rigid relationship to unite Zhang Yang and launch a war against the Southern Huns. It is possible to consume the strength of the Southern Huns and Zhang Yang, and finally eat the Southern Huns." Li Ru added.

"I don't agree with Li Shizhong's idea. Li Shizhong's idea is good, but the risk is also great. Zhang Yang is not more friendly than the Southern Huns Royal Court. If possible, the opponent of the court should be the Southern Huns Royal Court, not Zhang Yang. In Bingzhou, Zhang Yang The strength of the government is obviously stronger than that of the Southern Xiongnu Royal Court, if the court continues to unite with Zhang Yang, once the Southern Xiongnu Royal Court is defeated, there will be no one to restrain Zhang Yang of Bingzhou." Jia Xu quickly retorted.

According to Li Ru, uniting with Zhang Yang can indeed defeat the Southern Huns royal court faster, but once the Southern Huns are defeated, the entire Bingzhou will be dominated by Zhang Yang, and when the court wants to annex Bingzhou, it will become even more difficult. difficulty.

In the final analysis, it was a dispute between immediate interests and long-term interests. The imperial court could not allow the royal court of the Southern Huns to plunder southward and affect the interests of the court, let alone allow Zhang Yang to annex the Southern Xiongnu and become a more powerful prince in Bingzhou.

Zhang Ming felt a little emotional in his heart. Fortunately, he discussed with Jia Xu and Li Ru, otherwise he would not have known that there were many problems in his previous strategy. For him, how to ensure short-term profits and not keep losses, while ensuring long-term The most critical element is not to lose interests.

"You two, what can we do now to ensure the demise of the Southern Huns royal family and make Zhang Yang return without success?" Zhang Yang sighed.

"Keep away wolves and tigers," Jia Xu said.

Zhang Ming, Li Ru, and Jia Xu discussed for a long time in the Gaomen Hall before they came up with a relatively complete plan. They just want to ensure that both ends eat at the same time. The risk is still very high, so more resources need to be mobilized this time. .

After Jia Xu and Li Ru left the Gaomen Hall, they bid farewell. It may take a long time for Li Ru to return to Chang'an.

For Li Ru, the task of going to Lu Bu's army this time undoubtedly fell on him. After all, in the imperial court, those who have a good relationship with Lu Bu can provide strategic assistance, and there are still some There is one and only Li Ru who has the right to speak.

Zhang Ming didn't doubt Lv Bu's military ability, but Lv Bu was too far away from the imperial court, and he was a bit out of reach, and the matter planned this time was too important, so he didn't dare to make a big deal out of it and sent Li Ru.It is also to reduce the occurrence of accidents as much as possible.

As for Jia Xu, he will stay in Chang'an for the time being. If there are still tasks on the front line, Jia Xu may need to be sent to come forward.

In Lu Mansion, Wen County, Hanoi County, Lu Bu was planning to attack Chenliu County.

Ever since Lu Bu received the edict from the imperial court, he started to head for Hanoi County. Along the way, no bandits dared to stop the advance of Lu Bu's army, so the speed of Lu Bu's army was not slow. Arrived in Wen County, Hanoi County.

As Lu Bu's fiefdom, Wen County is naturally also the place where Lu Bu's army is stationed, and now Lu Bu seems to like others to call him Wenhou more than the title of Chariot General.

However, when Lu Bu came to Hanoi County, he discovered that due to Dong Zhuo burning Luoyang and taking away a lot of resources, coupled with the many years of war here, the population loss of Hanoi County was very serious. The population of Hanoi County is only 50. , As for Henan Yin's situation, it is slightly better, but the population is only one million.

But this is the former capital after all. Even after all kinds of incidents, the prosperity is still far from that of Hedong County and Shangjun. Therefore, the refugees here, bandits, yellow turban bandits, black bandits, and various local forces There are endless.

In fact, the two areas of Hanoi County and Henan Yin, if managed well, are far more promising than the Sanfu area of ​​Chang'an, especially since the Eastern Han Dynasty has operated for more than 200 years, but such a good area has never been occupied by princes.

The same is true in history, perhaps because this place belongs to the place of the Fourth World War, and it is also the capital of the Han Dynasty, so the princes from all walks of life did not have the courage to occupy it. Even Cao Cao of Chenliu County, who is close at hand, did not get involved in this place. place.

Therefore, before the arrival of Lu Bu's army, this place was extremely chaotic. In this chaotic situation, local refugees continued to migrate to other places, and the two most visited places were Chenliu County in Yanzhou and Jingzhou County. Yingchuan County.

After Lu Bu's army arrived in Wen County, Hanoi County, they began to clear the local forces. Unlike Huang Fusong, Zhu Jun and others who hated the Yellow Turban Bandits, Lu Bu was willing to recruit the Yellow Turban Bandits and bandits, so in just one month, Lu Bu The army expanded from 1 to more than 3.

For Lu Bu, 3 people are enough, and if it continues to expand, it is not easy to feed so many soldiers with the current population of Hanoi County. Besides, there is no war in Hanoi County, and it is useless to raise more soldiers. significance.

At the end of April, Lu Bu received news that Zhu Jun's army had wiped out Yang Feng's Baibo bandits. At the beginning of May, Lu Bu heard about the imperial court's occupation of Shangjun. These two things greatly stimulated Lu Bu. After all, as the imperial court, he The chariot general, now in Hanoi County, can only bully the yellow turban bandits and bandits, without any sense of accomplishment.

Just when Lu Bu was eager to make meritorious service, Cao Cao's army from Chenliu County went to Taishan County, and Chenliu County was suddenly empty.

Of course, Cao Cao was also aware of his uneasiness, so when the army went to Taishan County, he sent envoys to Lu Bu's camp, sent a lot of gold, silver, treasures and beautiful women, and agreed with Lu Bu not to attack each other. Keep some defenses.

The reason why Cao Cao dared to do this was that on the one hand, he was sure that Lv Bu's army was not well established in Hanoi County. Although Lv Bu might steal his lair, if he wanted to take Chenliu County, he only needed [-] soldiers of Lv Bu's, and among them It is unlikely that [-] is still the newly collected Yellow Turban bandit.

On the other hand, it was Lu Bu's greedy and lustful character. After these preparations, Cao Cao dared to send an army to Taishan County.

Although Lu Bu blatantly agreed to Cao Cao's request and would not sneak attack on Chenliu County when Cao Cao's army went out, all of this was just a cover for Lu Bu. Cao Cao's agreement not to attack each other was just Cao Cao's wishful thinking.

So after Cao Cao's army left Chenliu County, Lu Bu began to prepare for the war in private. In this battle, he needed to take down Chenliu City as quickly as possible. After all, he understood the importance of food on the battlefield. Obviously, Lu Bu's army did not have much food.

Just after Lu Bu's army had collected enough food for [-] soldiers for about a month, the imperial envoys arrived.

"Report, Waiter Wen, the imperial envoy sent an expedited express message." A personal guard hurried into Lu Bu's tent.

"What are you shouting about? Let the court envoys come in." At this moment, Lu Bu was discussing with Gao Shun, Wei Xu, Cao Xing and others about attacking Chenliu County.

"General Cheqi, this is a letter from your majesty's minister, and your majesty's minister personally handed it to the general." The court envoy walked in respectfully.

"Excuse me, the emissary. Apart from this letter, do you have any instructions from Your Majesty?" Lu Bu asked casually after taking the letter.

"Let's read the letter first, general," the envoy replied.

Lu Bu quickly read the letter from beginning to end. The content of the letter was extremely simple, that is to ask him not to attack Chenliu County for the time being, and he will have more important matters to explain to him later.

Lu Bu's face suddenly became very strange, and Cao Xing quickly asked, "Wenhou, what's the matter?"

"Nothing." Lu Bu said silently, then looked at the messenger, and asked again, "Your Majesty, what else do you want to explain?"

"Your Majesty said that Cao Cao is not our enemy yet, and there is no need for the general to fight him for the time being. Now the imperial court has another big enemy that needs to be dealt with by the general, so I hope the general will be cautious." The envoy said slowly.

"I understand. Tell Your Majesty, I must obey the imperial court's orders." Lu Bu cupped his hands.

After the envoy left the military tent, Lu Bu asked the personal guards to read the contents of the letter in front of all the generals.

"Generals, how did Your Majesty know that our army was going to attack Chenliu County?" Lu Bu asked in confusion.

This is not only the confusion of Lu Bu, but also the confusion of all the generals present.

This time, in order to be able to take Chenliu County, Lu Bu made all the preparations in secret. Even Cao Ren, the guard general of Chenliu County who was close at hand, could not know the news of Lu Bu's attack in a short time.

In fact, what Zhang Mingxin said was so straightforward. The fundamental reason was to frighten Lu Bu. If it weren't for the reminder from the life simulator, Zhang Ming would never have imagined that Lu Bu would take the initiative to attack Cao Cao's stronghold by taking the initiative.

For Zhang Ming, although it is inevitable to fight Cao Cao when fighting for the world, he does not want to start fighting now. After all, the foundation of the court is not as solid as imagined. Once he fights Cao Cao, winning can also help the court grow. Prestige, but if it loses, the prestige of the court will be lost again.

What's more, Zhang Ming never thought that Lu Bu alone would be Cao Cao's opponent. Since he was not Cao Cao's opponent, why should he provoke him first.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another important reason, that is, Zhang Ming gave Lu Bu the task of defending the Kanto region, rather than letting him take the initiative to attack. However, Lu Bu did not obey the order, but chose to send troops on his own initiative. Knowing that the purpose of Lu Bu's initiative to attack is only to make meritorious service, but the general does not obey the order of the court, so can this general still be the general of the court?
Therefore, Zhang Ming needed to intimidate Lu Bu and make him fear the court, so in his letter to Lu Bu, he wrote down the fact that Lu Bu was about to attack Chenliu County, although these contents were life simulations. There are contents on the device, but Lu Bu does not know.

Therefore, when Lu Bu and his generals read this letter, their first impression was that there was someone from the imperial court in the army, and this person's status was not low. Otherwise, it would be impossible to know clearly that Lu Bu was about to attack Chenliu County.

"General, I did not pass this news to the imperial court." Cao Xing was the first to stand up and say.

Immediately afterwards, the other generals also said that even Gao Shun, who was Lv Bu's most trusted person and who also controlled one of Lv Bu's most elite troops, had to agree in the end.

"From Chang'an to Wen County, even the red rabbit horse under my seat will take about ten days to go back and forth. That is to say, the court knew that I was going to attack Chenliu County at the latest happened ten days ago. At that time, I just mentioned the attack on Chenliu County to everyone here." Lu Bu asked suspiciously.

"General, we really didn't disclose this matter." Gao Shun said after thinking for a while.

"How?" Lu Bu asked puzzled.

Gao Shun is the most loyal person under Lu Bu, and he has an excellent personality, so Lu Bu will least doubt Gao Shun's words.

"General, although there are thousands of cavalry in such a huge barracks, these war horses are nothing compared to the general's red rabbit horse. Just now the general said that even with the red rabbit horse, it would take ten days to go back and forth between Chang'an and Wen County. The itinerary, for ordinary war horses, may take more than fifteen days, but fifteen days ago, Cao Cao's envoys hadn't even come to our camp." Gao Shun said lightly.

"Although my subordinates don't know how the imperial court knew about the general's attack on Chenliu County, my subordinates feel that this matter will not be leaked by everyone here." Gao Shun continued.

"General, the horses under my seat are far inferior to the red rabbit horses. Even if we wanted to inform the imperial court, it would be impossible so quickly." Several other people quickly echoed.

Hearing what his subordinates said, Lu Bu fell into deep contemplation. Thirteen days ago, Cao Cao's envoy arrived at his barracks and signed an agreement with him not to attack each other. Ten days ago, he changed his mind. He made a decision to attack Chenliu County, and it was at this time that he told the news to his generals.

This means that in the entire military camp, there is only one person who can transmit the news to the court in such a short time, and that is Lu Bu who is riding a red rabbit horse.

Thinking of this answer, even Lu Bu was stunned. Now he is a little scared, because His Majesty can fully know his next move, but he doesn't know how His Majesty knows his next move. The only thing he can do is The answer that comes to mind is His Majesty's Prophet.

Regarding the stories about His Majesty, Lu Bu and his generals didn't believe it. They always thought that His Majesty had someone spread it on his own initiative. For example, Dong Zhuo's death. There is more news about His Majesty, but it is very difficult to explain.

(End of this chapter)