The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, and Gao Pei et al.

These few people were close friends brought by Liu Zhang, and their opinions made Liu Zhang more agreeable than Zhang Lu's.

As the number one military general in Xichuan, Zhang Ren still has some prestige in Liu Zhang's heart, so Liu Zhang's eyes first fell on Zhang Ren.

"Zhang Ren, what do you think?"

Liu Zhang asked about Zhang Ren.

Zhang Ren hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Liu Zhang's gaze had not moved away from him, he still opened his mouth to answer Liu Zhang.

"Young master, in my opinion, it would be better to agree to Liu Bei on this matter."

"How to say?"

Liu Zhang wanted to know why Zhang Ren had such a view.

Now that Zhang Ren had already said it, he would not hesitate when Liu Zhang asked, and immediately answered why Liu Zhang himself said that.

"Young master, the last general is actually just looking at the deployment of our army and the enemy's troops. Now our army is in Nanzheng City, but there are only 6 to [-] soldiers left, and Liu Bei personally visited Nanzheng. , will inevitably bring more soldiers and horses. Guan Yu had an army of more than [-] before, which is much more powerful than our army. Once our army really fights with Liu Bei, it will definitely be at a disadvantage, and the chances of winning are slim."

"In addition, our army has already seen how powerful the generals under Guan Yu are. Presumably, you should also understand that once a battle is fought, our army will definitely suffer heavy casualties. If there is almost no chance of winning, then for the benefit of both parties, cooperation will become a success. the best choice."

As a general, Zhang Ren can rationally analyze the actual situation of the two armies. When he is at an absolute disadvantage, he is naturally unwilling to fight with Guan Yu's troops.

Liu Zhang nodded after listening to Zhang Ren's words, and seemed to agree with what Zhang Ren said.

Liu Zhang himself had thought of this before.

"What about you, do you all think the same as Zhang Ren?"

After Liu Zhang saw that Zhang Ren answered his question, he set his sights on several other cronies.

Everyone else nodded and basically didn't raise any other opinions.

After all, this is something that everyone has already thought about just now. In their opinion, it is more important for the peace talks to leave Nanzheng City safely than to defend Nanzheng and die heroically.

After asking the people in this circle, Liu Zhang finally fixed his eyes on Yan Pu.

The others are military generals, and perhaps they all spoke in a simple way, but as Yan Pu, the only counselor, his words still carry some weight.

"Mr. Yan Pu, what do you think of this matter?"

Liu Zhang looked at Yan Pu. For Yan Pu, a famous person, Liu Zhang still valued him more. Otherwise, as soon as Yan Pu appeared, Liu Zhang would really lead his troops to support Zhang Lu.

It was precisely because Liu Zhang wanted to win over Yan Pu that he agreed to Yan Pu.

In fact, Yan Pu wanted to speak a long time ago, but he never had the chance. After all, he was not Liu Zhang's counselor, but Zhang Lu's staff. If he took the initiative to persuade Liu Zhang, he would inevitably have exceeded his authority.

Only when Liu Zhang asked, Yan Pu dared to speak.

"Young master, in fact, I refused this matter at first."

"The identity of Liu Bei is unknown. It is very likely that this is a trap. Once we fall into the other party's trick, the consequences will be unimaginable. But after Liu Bei expressed his identity, I feel that this matter may We can talk."

Chapter 983 The battle is coming

"Not to mention that Liu Bei, as a general, dared to go to our Nanzheng City alone. It is extremely risky in itself. If he didn't come here sincerely to seek cooperation, he would definitely not do such a thing."

With Yan Pu's words, Liu Zhang and the others present all nodded their heads.

"Since Liu Bei himself has come to our Nanzheng City in person, it shows that he is sincerely looking for cooperation. After all, the Liu Zheng he mentioned has indeed been a serious problem for the court in recent years. If Liu Zheng If it is not eliminated, the imperial court will never have a peaceful day, and the world will never be completely in the hands of the imperial court, and the imperial court will never be reconciled to it anyway."

"And as people who live in a corner, we are a thorn in the side of both the imperial court and Liu Zheng. Either we are wooed or annexed. Rather than being annexed and provoking the anger of both parties, It’s better to follow the trend, cooperate with one of them and fight against the other, maybe you can get some benefits from it.”

Yan Pu has the ability to be a counselor, he knows very well that now Liu Yan can no longer be alone.

A few years ago, when the world was in chaos, Liu Yan was still able to live in a corner and be his own emperor in Yizhou. After all, no one could control him, and everyone had more important things to do.

Let Liu Yan fend for himself in Yizhou, as long as it doesn't hinder them.

But it's different now.

Both Liu Zheng and Liu Bei have finished handling their own affairs, and the world has changed from being torn apart to a two-power struggle for hegemony.

The outcome of the struggle between the two powerhouses is that the two powerhouses must try their best to control as many resources as possible to gain a greater chance of winning.

So Liu Yan, who was caught in the middle and could live in peace, became the target that both Liu Bei and Liu Zheng needed to fight for.

Even if Liu Zhang can avoid Liu Bei and Liu Zheng's attack this time, then next time, next time, they can't live in peace all the time, they will always be attacked by Liu Zheng and Liu Bei.

Therefore, instead of passively waiting to attack, it is better to actively choose one of them, and then participate in it to actively break the situation.

This is the suggestion that Yan Pu can bring to Liu Zhang.

"Mr. Yan Pu also means to cooperate with Liu Bei to deal with that Liu Zheng?"

After listening to Yan Pu's words, Liu Zhang already understood what Yan Pu was going to say.

"Actually, the best partner for cooperation should be Liu Zhengcai."

"Then Liu Zheng has been in the limelight recently, and has already occupied five states and counties. Counting Jizhou and the soon-to-be-acquired Youzhou, Liu Zheng's territory has already gained most of the world. It is a fertile land in the Central Plains and a place for raising horses in the north The land, the land of fish and rice in the south, is all in his hands, if we cooperate with Liu Zheng, it will be easier to deal with Liu Bei."

"Of course, Liu Zheng doesn't seem to have sent anyone to cooperate with us, so even if we want to cooperate, we can't contact him. In addition, he has already broken our face by attacking Shangyong before. In the end, we can only Choose to cooperate with Liu Bei."

Yan Pu is more optimistic about Liu Zheng, but Liu Zheng has no chance, so he can only settle for the next best thing and choose Liu Bei.

Anyway, with Liu Bei's joining, Liu Zhang's military strength and Liu Bei's military strength, not to mention being able to directly destroy Liu Zheng, at least, in the Hanzhong area, they have an absolute advantage.

"Based on everyone's opinions, it seems that we can only choose to cooperate with Liu Bei!"

Except for Zhang Lu who was against it, all the people present agreed with Liu Bei's cooperation.

After all, as long as they cooperate with Liu Bei, they can immediately solve the immediate crisis of the siege.At the same time, it can also use Liu Bei's military strength to deal with Liu Zheng, and take back the three cities of Shangyong occupied by Liu Zheng.

In any case, cooperation is much better than rejecting Liu Bei's proposal.

After summarizing everyone's opinions, Liu Zhang promised again, as if he was making a decision in his heart.

After a while, he finally made up his mind and walked out from the back hall.

Returned to the main hall again.

Liu Bei brought Jian Yong and others, still waiting in front of the banquet.

Seeing Liu Zhang and others returning to the banquet, Liu Bei knew that they should have reached a conclusion through discussion.

Before Liu Zhang opened his mouth to answer Liu Bei, Liu Bei took the initiative to ask Liu Zhang after seeing Liu Zhang.

"My dear brother, how is your discussion going?"

At this moment, Liu Bei was very calm, because from the moment he saw Liu Zhang, from the expressions of Liu Zhang and others, Liu Bei had already concluded that Liu Zhang should agree to his request.

After all, Liu Bei will definitely agree to this kind of thing that is beneficial but harmless to him.

Sure enough, Liu Zhang answered Liu Bei directly after Liu Bei asked.

"Brother Xuande's matter is beneficial to both of us. Naturally, I will not refuse. It's just that Liu Zheng's soldiers are strong and experienced in many battles. They are not so easy to deal with. Brother Xuande, do you have a plan?"

At this point, Liu Zhang is no longer limited to discussing cooperation with Liu Bei, he cares more about how to cooperate with Liu Bei to deal with Liu Zheng.

Regarding this point, Liu Bei does not need to speak to Liu Zhang to describe it.

Jian Yong, who stood beside Liu Bei, played the role he should have. When Liu Zhang asked, he immediately opened his mouth to answer Liu Zhang.

"Master Liu Zhang, regarding this matter, my lord and the general already have a countermeasure."

Jian Yong began to talk to Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu and others about how to deal with Liu Zheng's soldiers this time on the main hall.

After eloquently telling Liu Zhang and others about the plan they had discussed before.

This Liu Zhang also had a pensive look on his face.

In the end, he agreed to join forces with Liu Bei to deal with Huang Zhong's troops guarding Shangyong.

Liu Zhang and Liu Bei finally reached a cooperation, and the two sides put aside their previous suspicions and jointly fought against Liu Zheng.

At this time, Liu Zheng didn't know that Liu Bei had teamed up with Liu Zhang.

He was also in Xicheng County with Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses. He was complacent because he cut off Liu Bei's food road, and felt that he had the chance to win.

Because the grain road was robbed, Liu Zheng was afraid that Guan Yu would give up attacking Nanzheng City, and instead dispatched all his troops to the Ziwu Valley to regain the grain road.

Therefore, Liu Zheng dispatched a large number of troops to the front line of Ziwu Valley, intending to garrison Ziwu Valley and fight Guan Yu's soldiers and horses in Ziwu Valley.

Excluding Gan Ning's 3 troops stationed not far from Nanzheng City, Liu Zheng dispatched almost all of the remaining 3 troops along the Meridian Valley, and dispatched a large number of scouts to deploy defensive measures immediately if Guan Yu's army was in trouble. .

After instructing these matters, Liu Zheng still felt that the situation in Hanzhong would change, so he secretly sent soldiers and horses to pass an order to Sun Jian who was stationed near Jingzhou, asking Sun Jian to send troops and horses to Hanzhong for support.

Chapter 984 Enemy Attack

After all, when Sun Jian was stationed in Jingzhou, he also had [-] to [-] troops under his command.

It only needs to send half of the troops to Shangyong County to support it, which is enough to stabilize the situation in Hanzhong.

After ordering these things, Liu Zheng waited peacefully.

In less than 20 days, the Guan Yu army in the Hanzhong area must be running out of food and grass. At that time, without Liu Zheng's action, Guan Yu's troops in Hanzhong can be easily eliminated, so that Liu Zheng can take advantage of the situation. Hanzhong, and then the entire Yizhou Also in the pocket.

In this way, Liu Zheng, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang did not have any changes in the troops of the three parties.

This time lasted for more than ten days.

Half a month has passed.

The standstill between Liu Zhang and Liu Bei made Liu Zheng, who was waiting for them to get out of the civil strife, very curious.

"Strange, it's been half a month. It stands to reason that Guan Yu's food and grass should have been exhausted. Why is there nothing at all?"

For the past half month, Liu Zheng has been dispatching his servants to pay close attention to the changes of Guan Yu's soldiers and horses, but in the past half month, almost nothing has happened to Guan Yu's men and horses. When the horse arrived on the front line of Ziwu Valley, the situation of storming Ziwu Valley did not happen.

If it is impossible to attack Ziwu Valley by force, is it possible for Guan Yu to be able to do so? Is there any other way to transport grain?

After having this doubt, Liu Zheng arrested Fu Shiren and questioned him again. The result was that Guan Yu's subordinates only had this way to transport grain and grass, and Liu Zheng became even more confused after there was no other way to transport grain.

Although he couldn't figure it out, Liu Zheng didn't think too much about it. After all, the time hadn't come yet. Perhaps after learning that the food road was robbed, Guan Yu compressed and distributed the food, so his men's food could last for a while longer.

Liu Zheng thought about waiting for a while. If nothing happened to Guan Yu in half a month, then Liu Zheng might have to take the initiative to put some pressure on Guan Yu's troops.

In fact, in the past half month, there has been no action between Liu Zhang and Liu Bei.

They are also waiting.

Liu Zhang had apparently lifted the siege because of Liu Bei, but they did not withdraw their soldiers and horses in order to show Liu Zheng a show.

So Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses are still trapped in the city, but there is no shortage of water and food, and they haven't changed much in the past half month.

Anyway, Liu Zhang was waiting for Liu Bei to give him a signal.

As long as Liu Bei gave him a signal, they could immediately unite with Guan Yu's soldiers and horses in Nanzheng City to directly attack Gan Ning's position.

Taking advantage of Gan Ning's lack of soldiers and horses, under the siege from left and right, Gan Ning's soldiers and horses were bound to retreat.

And there is actually a reason why Liu Bei hasn't done anything for so long.

One is when his subordinates are indeed in short supply of food and grass.

If he launches an attack on Liu Zheng's troops now, once the victory cannot be won in a short time, and the news of his shortage of food and grass is exposed, it will cause serious consequences.

The cautious Liu Bei wanted to wait until Ma Chao's troops arrived at Chang'an from Xiegu, and then transport the first batch of grain and grass from Chang'an to relieve the urgent need.

Then start planning to attack Liu Zheng.

After more than ten days, Ma Chao's men and horses, using thousands of horses under his command, rushed to Chang'an through the inclined valley, and directly transported the first batch of grain and grass back from Chang'an.

Although the food and grass are not much, it is enough for Guan Yu's soldiers and horses in Hanzhong to last for a while.

After having food and grass, then Liu Bei will not panic.

That night, Liu Zhang was given a signal.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the two sides agreed.

The second day, as usual.

In Hanzhong in May, the weather has gradually turned hot, and the clothes on his body have begun to lose two pieces, in Gan Ning's camp.

As usual, Gan Ning practiced his troops.

Although he was stationed here with only [-] troops, looking at Nanzheng City from a distance, there was no movement for more than ten days, but Gan Ning did not relax his vigilance and trained his troops hard every day.

"General, it's time for exercises today."

According to the time, Su Fei arrived at Gan Ning's barracks, and was going to call Gan Ning to carry out the drill with the soldiers and horses stationed here.