Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 649 is a rare opportunity

Zhu Wei didn't expect Zhang Lu in Hanzhong to take the initiative to take refuge in him. This is really another unexpected joy.

It turns out that Zhang Lu's territory in Yizhou is mainly in Hanzhong County, Fuling County, Badong County, Ba County, and part of Brazil County, which can be regarded as separated between Zhu Wei in Jingzhou and Liu Zhang in Yizhou.

However, Berkshire is the place where Zhang Lu started his family. Many of his generals and the family members of his subordinates are also in Berkshire. Therefore, although Zhang Lu now takes Hanzhong as his core site, he still values ​​Berkshire. .

But Liu Zhang always wanted to get rid of Zhang Lu, a traitor, so he often sent troops to attack Zhang Lu.

Because the land of Yizhou and Shu is difficult to reach the blue sky, Liu Zhang can only take the two routes of Ba County and Zitong County if he wants to attack Zhang Lu. If you go the way of Berkshire, you will often send troops to attack Berkshire first.

After all, Berkshire is some distance away from Hanzhong County, Zhang Lu often has no choice but to be beyond his reach.

However, Liu Zhang could send troops to attack Berkshire at any time, so Liu Zhang simply appointed his relatively trustworthy in-law Pang Xi as the prefect of Berkshire, and asked Pang Xi to lead troops to attack Berkshire many times.

Not long ago, Pang Xi gathered [-] troops from Jiangyang County, suddenly attacked Jiangzhou City in Ba County (modern Chongqing area), and successfully captured Jiangzhou City.

Zhang Lu also suffered from drought at the end of last year, and some food and grass were in short supply, so although he wanted to send troops to recover Jiangzhou, he was obviously not sure of victory. Fuling County will also become an enclave out of Zhang Lu's control.

In this way, Zhang Lu is likely to lose the territory of Fuling County after losing Berkshire, and then Pang Xi can continue to use troops from Jiangzhou to Brazil County, eventually threatening Zhang Lu's Hanzhong land.

It can be said that Zhang Lu felt a great threat now, and it was difficult for him to recover Berkshire himself, but he was not willing to lose Berkshire and Fuling County to Liu Zhang like this, but Zhang Lu Sizhi was planning to vote for Zhu Wei repeatedly.

So he sent an envoy to express his willingness to become Zhu Wei's external vassal, and only asked Zhu Wei to send troops to help recover Bajun.

Apparently Zhang Lu also knew that Zhu Wei had Gan Ning's Jiangjiao camp stationed in Jiangling, so Zhang Lu was willing to let go of the peripheral areas of Yizhou under his control and let Gan Ning lead the Jiangjiao camp to enter Badong County by the Yangtze River waterway. Continue along the Yangtze River to Jiangzhou, or enter Fuling County through the Fujiang River, and then go to Jiangzhou through the Fujiang River.

Anyway, Zhang Lu gave up a channel for Zhu Wei's army to attack Jiangzhou directly. Zhang Lu would rather give Bajun and Fuling counties to Zhu Wei than be occupied by Liu Zhang.

Because after Zhu Wei occupied these sites, he could help Zhang Lu stop Liu Zhang's attack, which made Zhang Luneng live in Hanzhong with peace of mind.

To be honest, Zhang Lu's request this time is indeed an opportunity for Zhu Wei's army to enter Yizhou. The most important thing is that Zhang Lu took the initiative to let go of the roads in Fuling County or Badong County, which is equivalent to allowing Zhu Wei's army to avoid Yizhou. The mountainous area of ​​the Shu Road, which is difficult to march on the periphery of the state, can directly enter the core area of ​​Yizhou.

If Zhu Wei's army can capture Jiangzhou, it will occupy a gateway in Yizhou that can enter the Sichuan Basin at the core of Yizhou. The terrain further in is considered good compared to the continuous mountains of Shu in the periphery. The basin valley plain landform.

Therefore, once Zhu Wei's army occupies Jiangzhou, it will be of great benefit to Zhu Wei's attack on Yizhou in the future.

Wang Yuyan's suggestion to Zhu Wei is to accept Zhang Lu's request and let Ganning's Jiangjiao battalion send troops, and at the same time, Zulang's Yueshan battalion can also be transferred to assist.

Now Zulang's Yueshan camp has penetrated into the southern Yizhou and northern Jiaozhou areas through Jingnan's conquest of the barbarians. At the same time, under Pang Tong's plan, there is no need for Zulang's Yueshan camp to personally send troops. Basically, some attached barbarian warriors are like mercenaries to help conquer the wild barbarians in the mountains, and the barbarian tribes hidden in the mountains are forcibly moved out of the mountains like slaves.

It can be said that Pang Tong just used some benefits to lure the barbarians, who had already been fighting with each other, to slash at other barbarian tribes in the mountains without any scruples, and then exchanged the population of these barbarian tribes for benefits.

Although there seems to be a story in the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms about Meng Huo leading the southwest barbarian tribes to rebel, in fact Meng Huo still belongs to the familiar barbarians who have long been in contact with the outside Han people, and many of their living habits have been assimilated by the Han people, but more The barbarian tribes are still hidden in the mountains and are not known to outsiders.

In this way, under Pang Tong's plan, it is tantamount to letting many mature tribes deal with raw tribes. Even though this process will be cruel, it can indeed increase the labor force for Jingnan.

Of course, many barbarians originally located in the southern mountains of Jiaozhou and Yizhou also fought against each other under the instigation of Pang Tong's conspiracy, thus sending prisoners of war to Jingnan to exchange the salt, grain and other materials they needed.

It can be said that the main task of Zu Lang's Yueshan camp is to sit in the local town and receive the population sent by the barbarians. There is no need for them to go into the mountains to conquer in person.

It's just that there are [-] to [-] barbarian fighters under the control of the Yueshan Camp. To be honest, the existence of these barbarian fighters is already a bit of a hidden danger.

Therefore, Wang Yuyan felt that this time Zulang's Yueshan camp could bring these hired barbarian warriors from Wuling County to Fuling County, join Ganning's Jiangjiao Camp, and attack Jiangzhou City together.

Afterwards, Gan Ning, Zu Lang, and Pang Tong can also wait for an opportunity to attack Liu Zhang in Yizhou. In this process, some barbarian soldiers will be consumed, so as not to lose the tail in the future.

At the same time, it is also the autumn harvest season. The new grains in Jiangdong, Yuzhang, Jingnan, Jingzhou and other places are about to mature, which can fully support the needs of the Yizhou War.

And judging from the current situation, the battle of Shouchun has just ended, and Zhu Wei will not launch any war against Cao Cao immediately for the time being, but there is enough time for Zhu Wei to attack Yizhou.

It can be said that it is a rare opportunity for Zhang Lu to take the initiative to vote now.

Zhu Wei was also a little tempted when he heard the words. Originally, Zhu Wei had a plan to conquer Yizhou, but after listening to Zhuge Liang's suggestion, he felt that the land of Yizhou was only a small profit, and Zhu Wei should focus on the overall situation of the Central Plains.

At the same time, there are many practical difficulties in conquest of Yizhou. The land of Shu surrounded by continuous mountains is as difficult as the road to the sky. It is really a natural barrier for Liu Zhang in Yizhou. But now it is rare for Zhang Lu to take the initiative to get out of the mountainous areas around Yizhou. That would allow Zhu Wei's army to go directly to the hinterland of Yizhou, and it did reduce the difficulty of attacking Yizhou a lot.

In addition, Zhu Wei only needs to send a partial army to attack Yizhou, and the main troops used will also be barbarian troops. No matter whether the battle is defeated or not, as long as the situation can be opened in Yizhou, it will be beneficial.

So Zhu Wei's heart was already moved, and then he also found Jia Xu, Lu Su, Zhou Yu, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang and others to discuss it...

(End of this chapter)