Three Kingdoms: copy Lu Bu's force at the beginning

Yizhou.

Mianzhu.

State Shepherd House.

After Liu Yan finished reading the letter from Liu Zhang, he trembled with anger and his face turned blue.

"Father, my son Liu Zhang bows three times."

"Gan Ning and Wu Cheng have already entered the Champion's Mansion, and Hua Ziyi also promised the boy to let him leave Chang'an."

"However, Hua Ziyi suddenly added another condition. The father must send five thousand soldiers to pick up the child. Otherwise, he will delay the child's return to Shu."

"I also ask the father to think of the child's filial piety, thinking day and night to return to Shu to honor his father, and send the general of Shu Zhong to lead five thousand old soldiers to Chang'an to pick up the child."

"Hua Ziyi said that when old soldiers enter the Sili area, there will be someone to meet them."

After reading Liu Zhang's letter, Liu Yan tore it into pieces and cursed angrily, "Hua Ziyi, you are bullying me too much."

"You wanted Gan Ning and Wu Cheng, and the old man sent them to Chang'an, yet you added conditions, it's really despicable and shameless."

However, after his anger dissipated, Liu Yan immediately realized that it was his negligence.

The previous deal was concluded on the condition that Liu Yan hand over Gan Ning and Wu Cheng, and Hua Yu let Liu Zhang return to Shu.

However, when will Hua Yu let Liu Zhang return to Shu?

Hua Yu didn't say anything, and Liu Yan didn't send anyone to negotiate with Hua Yu.

Therefore, to be precise, Hua Yu is not a breach of contract.

But in this way, Hua Yu can hold on to Liu Zhang all the time, not only Liu Zhang will feel uncomfortable, but Liu Yan will also feel uncomfortable.

After calming down, Liu Yan felt that since Liu Zhang's return to Shu was halfway through, he couldn't give up halfway.

Otherwise, it's nothing to lose a Gan Ning, but it's just a county magistrate of Shu County.

However, Wu Cheng was sent there in vain, how would Liu Yan explain to Wu Yi?

In the future, under the Nine Springs, what face will Liu Yan have when he goes to meet Wu Yi's father?
It's just that five thousand old soldiers is not a small number.

Besides, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of Yizhou's army, the old soldiers are the strongest, followed by the Dongzhou soldiers.

There are only 10 old men in Yizhou, and about [-] young and middle-aged men. Therefore, the five thousand old soldiers are already half of the old soldiers in Yizhou.

Hua Yu asked him to send these five thousand old soldiers by name, there must be some conspiracy, Liu Yan did not dare to take it lightly.

Based on Liu Yan's sophisticated calculations, it can basically be concluded that there are only two situations.

First, Hua Yu wanted to swallow this old soldier for his own use.

Second, Hua Yu wanted to use this old soldier to do some personal things for himself.

If it is the first case, it is easy to resolve.

There are 5000 old soldiers in Yizhou, and Liu Yan can choose old soldiers with families and families to make up [-] soldiers.

If Hua Yu wanted to take these old soldiers as his own, these old soldiers would definitely stay away from their homes and relatives, so naturally they wouldn't do it.

Just like Cao Cao went to Yangzhou to recruit soldiers, under force, soldiers will inevitably mutiny.

In the second case, the only thing Liu Yan can do is to choose a general in Shu who is both loyal and capable of leading the army, and lead the five thousand old soldiers to Chang'an.

There are still many talents in Shuzhong.

The generals who can do it include Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Li Yan, Leng Bao, Deng Xian and others.

But Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, and Li Yan were all from the gentry in Yizhou, with extremely deep backgrounds.

As for the old people, they are actually a minority in Yizhou, known for their fierce fighting power.

Since the ethnic minorities do not have the background of Yizhou gentry, Liu Yan can rely on him as a confidant.

Therefore, Liu Yan has a principle that he must not allow generals from the Yizhou gentry to control the military power of the old soldiers.

After removing Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and Li Yan, only Leng Bao and Deng Xian are left.

Of course, there are also some young generals, such as Liu Gui, Lei Tong, Wu Lan, etc., who are too young, so Liu Yan is naturally worried about handing over [-] old soldiers to them.

As for Leng Bao and Deng Xian, although they are not as famous as Zhao Wei, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and Li Yan, they have already demonstrated extraordinary martial arts and leadership skills, which Liu Yan still approves of.

Leng Bao led an army stationed in Fuling in the southeast of Berkshire to guard against Jingzhou.

After all, although Liu Yan and Liu Biao belong to the same clan, their relationship is extremely bad.

As explained above, Liu Biao once presented himself to the emperor and told Liu Yan that the scale of chariots and horses was at the same level as that of the emperor.

As for Deng Xian, he was stationed at Yinping Road, one of the northernmost Thirteen Di Roads in Guanghan County.

To the north of Yinping Road is Liangzhou, and Deng Xian's army is defending Ma Teng and Han Sui in Liangzhou.

In recent years, Ma Teng and Han Sui have no plans to go south to Yizhou, and there has been no war in Yiliang.

Let Deng Xian lead [-] old men to go north and escort Liu Zhang south to return to Shu. Liu Yan quickly made up his mind.

Therefore, Liu Yan immediately issued a state pastoral order, ordering Liu Gui and Zhang Sub to go north to temporarily take over Deng Xian's guarding of Yinping Road and replace Deng Xian.

Zhang Su was not very famous in the history of the Three Kingdoms. He was famous for exposing his younger brother, but it was enough to prove that Zhang Su was loyal to the Liu family.

As for Zhang Su's younger brother, he is already very famous, and he is Zhang Song, a strange man with a photographic memory.

Although Zhang Su was not as talented as his younger brother Zhang Song, he was well-known in Sichuan. Liu Yan was worried that Liu Gui would lead the army alone, so he sent Zhang Su to assist.

After sending the messenger away, Liu Yan wrote another letter to Liu Zhang, urging him to make an agreement with Hua Yu this time.

Once the five thousand old men arrived in Chang'an, Hua Yu had to release him from Chang'an immediately.

After the state pastoral decree and reply letter were sent out, Liu Yan also breathed a sigh of relief, muttering to himself: "The matter has been explained, I only hope that Ji Yu can discuss a safe plan with Bo Yu and Zhong Yu after receiving the letter. "

It turned out that Liu Yan's letter was not just for Liu Zhang to make an agreement with Hua Yu that when the old soldiers arrived in Chang'an, Hua Yu had to let Liu Zhang leave Chang'an immediately.

There is another content in the letter.

Liu Yan told Liu Zhang that after receiving this letter, he discussed with Liu Fan and Liu Dan how to get the three brothers to escape together and leave Chang'an.

In Liu Yan's view, if the three brothers Liu and Fan could leave Chang'an at the same time, even if Deng Xian and the five thousand old soldiers were all killed in battle, it would definitely be worth it.

Even so, among the three brothers, only Liu Fan came back safely.

It should be noted that among the four sons, Liu Yan's most valued and most hoped successor is not Liu Zhang, nor Liu Mao, but Liu Fan who is both civil and military.

It's a pity that Liu Yan knew that Dong Zhuo also knew that Liu Fan was an all-rounder in civil and military affairs, and he would definitely not let him go back to Shu, so Liu Yan would never mention this matter at all.

This time, five thousand old soldiers were about to go north to Chang'an, so Liu Yan had such a lucky idea.

It's a pity that Liu Yan didn't know that his youngest son, Liu Zhang, had a very bad mind.

From Liu Zhang's operation of returning to Shu to now, Liu Fan and Liu Dan have been kept in the dark.

This letter from Liu Yan will turn into a heap of ashes in Liu Zhang's hands.

And the contents of this letter can only be known by Liu Zhang himself, and Liu Fan and Liu Dan will never know.