[Three Kingdoms] After crossing, I opened the sick and weak main road line

Cao Ren looked at Hanzhong circled on the map, his expression could be described as panic.

Zhang Lu is not young, and his old lady is still there no matter how charming her age is, it is said that the guy first got on the line with Liu Yan because of his old lady going in and out of Liu Yan's mansion, how can my cousin not think about it? Such a ruthless person?

Cao Cao was a little baffled by Cao Ren's reaction. He was silent for a while, thinking that his reaction just now was too scary. He rubbed his face to make himself look gentler. He tapped on the map and continued, "My lord has an order to send troops from Guanzhong to attack Hanzhong."

As soon as these words came out, several people cheered up. Cao Hong breathed a sigh of relief and finally dared to speak, "Good thing, why is brother unhappy?"

Cao Cao sneered, "I ordered you to lead the troops to Guanzhong, and I will stay in Chang'an to manage the logistics."

Cao Hong: ...

Well, you should really be unhappy.

Fortunately, knowing the reason why the cousin is unhappy is better than not knowing anything. The lord speaks in person. No matter how unhappy the cousin is, he will not disobey the order. It doesn't matter to them if others throw fire.

Cao Hong is very knowledgeable, and Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan are also very knowledgeable. The only one remaining, Cao Ren, is wandering back and forth on the verge of death. Fortunately, Cao Hong is holding him, otherwise their stupid brother will be the first to be burned by anger.

Don't let Hanzhong Zhang Lu take it, this kid was sent to the fields first, the lord only said to let their cousin stay in Chang'an, but he didn't specify who to send out to fight, at this time, no one can offend the narrow-minded cousin bro.

Cao Cao was angry, staring at Hanzhong on the map, now called Hanning County, frowning and thinking about how to fight this battle.

Angry is angry, don't delay the business, think about the good, the elder brother is afraid that he will have an accident on the battlefield, so let him stay behind, the two armies have no eyes before the battle, the rear is the safest place, and he is not everything Don't do it, at least the order will pass from him.

The territory of Hanzhong is not very easy to fight. If they are only allowed to send troops by themselves, instead of going south directly after passing through Chencang, they should go west out of Dasan Pass first, clean up the Di people who caused chaos in the Hechi area, and solve their worries before going to Hanzhong to deal with Zhang Lu In order to minimize casualties.

Now my elder brother ordered Ma Chao, Ma Teng's son, to go south from Liangzhou, and they didn't need to come back around. I just hope that Ma Chao's son will obey his order, otherwise the two armies will fight each other instead of fighting by themselves.

"It will take time for Ma Chao to return to Liangzhou. Let's not move here for the time being. We will divide our troops into Hanzhong after news from Liangzhou arrives." Cao Cao clenched his fists and signaled Xiahoudun and Cao Hong to move closer. He pointed to the map to discuss Liangzhou. How should cooperate.

Ma Chao is young, a young and energetic young general who cares most about military exploits, and it is very likely that he will be greedy for merit and advance aggressively. Now that he knows that such a situation may occur, he has to make plans early.

"Although Ma Mengqi is young, he has fought a lot of battles. He should not make such a mistake." Xia Houyuan replied that he knew more about the situation in Liangzhou. Jin Machao was well-known in Xiliang. The Qiang and Di people were terrified when they were killed at a young age. Instead of worrying about Ma Chao, it is better to worry about Cao Zixiao.

Cao Ren:  …

He didn't speak again, why did you all look at him?

Cao Cao rubbed his forehead, and also realized that there was a guy with them who was older than Ma Chao but might not be as good-natured as Ma Chao, so he calmed down and continued to study how to send troops with a blank expression.

He didn't care if Ma Chao was obedient or not, but if Cao Ren dared to be disobedient, he would immediately send that boy to farm.

Guanzhong’s troops and horses dispatched a lot of movement. Zhang Lu was always paying attention to the surrounding situation in Hanzhong.

The last time he led troops to Chang'an according to Liu Yan's intention, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to take the Guanzhong area, so that his five buckets of rice would become more known. .

Seeing that others have already arrived in Chang'an, the civil and military officials in Chang'an city fled to death. Even the emperor abandoned Chang'an and went away. It was a good time for him to abolish all the government officials. That is, he can abolish the county magistrate and county magistrate in Hanzhong at will, but he cannot do so in Guanzhong.

The county magistrate and county magistrate in Guanzhong is nothing, there is Chang'an City there, and none of the civil and military officials in Chang'an City can be abolished by him, otherwise he would not be a small Hanning prefect, but should be a high-ranking emperor.

He didn't dare to move Chang'an in normal times, but Chang'an in chaos was fine. He could guarantee that the people in Chang'an City would be more accepting of his governance than those officials who oppressed the people to the point that they would rather rebel than listen to the government's orders.

As soon as he arrived in Chang'an, Liu Biao followed him to make trouble. In the end, no one took Guanzhong, and they were all driven out by the people sent by Jizhou. If Liu Biao didn't follow him to make trouble, he might still be able to win a battle. If Liu Biao's sanctimonious guy is holding him back, even a real god can't turn things around.

Having said that, the soldiers and horses in Jizhou are really powerful, why can't he have a few powerful people under his command?

Not to mention being compared with Lu Bu and Qu Yi, if someone is half capable of fighting, he doesn't have to worry about what to do in the future every day.

Zhang Lu originally thought that it would be no problem to be a vassal with his own strength. When the situation becomes more chaotic, it is not impossible to directly change the prefect of Hanning to be the King of Hanning. Not feasible.

Yan Gongcao is right, there are people out there, there are people outside the world, and after becoming king, they will completely turn against the court. Now that the court is in decline, there is no way to deal with them. Maybe there will be a fierce man like Emperor Guangwu in the future. If he becomes king early, he will be set on fire living target.

To take a step back, even if no one among the Han clan can carry the banner of rejuvenating the Han Dynasty, in the future there will be others who want to use the name of the imperial court to compete in the world, and he, the King of Hanzhong, who expressed his attitude early, is also a living target.

Claiming to be a king is risky, and you need to be cautious when you separate the regime. It is safer to continue to be his teacher.

In matters related to government affairs, the prefect of Hanning and the general of the townspeople regarded themselves as generals, and in matters within the Wu Dou Mi Dao, they regarded themselves as teachers. Even if he did not have the title of King of Hanzhong, he was the real uncrowned king in Hanzhong.

There is movement in Guanzhong this time. Could it be that they want to hit him?

Zhang Lu braced his face and thought about it, he couldn't make up his mind after much deliberation, so he simply stopped thinking about it by himself, and asked people to call all his cronies.

He is not as restless alone as a group of people. It is related to the survival of Hanzhong, so he can't worry about it alone.

In fact, Zhang Shijun was not that worried. Although he was a little cautious, he did not turn against the court after all, and he would not be afraid even if Cao Cao personally led the army.

The official of the prefect of Hanning was appointed by the imperial court, and the name of the townsman Zhonglang was recommended by the imperial court by Liu Yan. For his crimes, Yuan Situ always likes to recruit and accept traitors, maybe not only will he not be punished, but he will also be promoted and honored.

I just want to think about it. After all, he is the uncrowned king of Hanzhong, so he can't make the meaning of surrender too obvious. Even if his mind is full of how surrender is best for them, he can't show it when he summons his cronies.

If he was thinking about surrendering before he started fighting, how could he suppress the advisers and generals under him?

Gongcao Yanpu quickly came to the main hall, and sat down after saluting, "My lord, why are you in such a hurry?"

Zhang Lu sighed, with a sad face, he didn't know what to do, "A scout sent news today that Cao Mengde began to transfer troops to Chencang. After Chencang is Hanzhong, sir, what do you think Cao Mengde wants to do?"

The location of Hanzhong is dangerous. There are not many roads from Guanzhong to Hanzhong. One is to take Guanlong Avenue to Liangzhou, enter Guanzhong from Qishan, and take Sanguan from Chencang. These two roads are the easiest to march. main road.

People fleeing from Guanzhong to Hanzhong can take Xiegu Road, Ziwu Valley, and Luogu Road.

The north of Xiegu Road is in the area of ​​Mei County. The Baoshui flowing from Taibai Mountain in the Qinling Mountains flows into the Han River in the south, and the Xiegu River flows into the Weishui River in the north. The Xiegu Road is opened up in the two river valleys. Although the road is not easy to walk, it is not difficult to pass. .

Ziwu Valley, Luogu Road, and Xiegu Road are similar, and they are all rugged and difficult paths. People can go through these paths if they want to flee, but it is absolutely impossible to march.

If Cao Mengde wants to use troops against them, he must either use Liangzhou or Chen Cang and Dashan Pass.

Liangzhou is too far away, the ghost knows what's going on there, the original Situ sent a Liangzhou governor there not long ago in the name of the imperial court, Ma Teng and Han Sui are probably trying to find a way to kill the governor, Cao Mengde is from the original Situ, There is a high probability that Liangzhou will not allow him to borrow a road. In this way, there is only one road left for Cao Cao to fight Hanzhong.

Chen Cang has already started stationing troops, is it still far from them crossing the Da San Pass?

Zhang Lu sighed, thinking of the enemy soldiers and horses he saw in Chang'an City last time, he didn't even want to take precautions. He had never fought against Cao Mengde, but he had heard of what Cao Mengde had done. Hou Sunjian's fierce man.

When the Eighteenth Route princes attacked Dong Zhuo, he was busy cleaning up the disobedient guys in Hanzhong, cut off a few passages in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and started to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. He was really happy watching the show. Why did Cao Mengde scold Yuan Shao before the battle? , what Sun Wentai broke through and entered Luoyang, every time he came out, it was a big show.

If Cao Mengde is not the one who is going to fight this time, he can continue to watch the show for decades.

That guy has only more than 1000 horses and dares to fight the Black Bandit without hesitation. Now that the army is strong and there are supplies, it is not easy to beat them in Hanzhong?

It's terrible, he didn't do a good job in Guanzhong to appease the people and resume farming, why did he attack Hanzhong so violently, he couldn't just see that Jingzhou next door was about to fight, and fight Yizhou in order to grab the limelight with Lu Bu, right?

The position is too important and this is not good. Anyone who wants to fight Yizhou must win Hanzhong first, otherwise the surrounding mountains are high and the valleys are deep. It is impossible to enter Yizhou, let alone fight Yizhou.

Yan Pu was taken aback when he heard that Cao Cao was setting up troops in Chen Cang. After calming down, he found that their lord just looked worried, but in fact there was no sense of urgency at all.

There will be other people coming later, so he should not talk too much.

Yan Gongcao lowered his eyebrows and said nothing, but their lord couldn't help the desire to confide, "Zimao, you said that Jingzhou hasn't started fighting yet, why did Cao Mengde start mobilizing troops? Didn't it mean that the original Situ was an indecisive person? , how can you act so openly?"

If you don't fight, you don't fight. Once you start fighting, you can't figure it out. It's really hard to figure out what that person is thinking.

He thought that fighting the world should be done in a step-by-step manner, just like before, fighting slowly, county by county, taking down a city and governing a city, and remediating all the cities under his control to be obedient before thinking about opening new sites. .

But now, there is no war in Xuzhou on the surface, and it is almost the same as the war in fact. There is no war in Jingzhou, but it is estimated that the war will start in a few days. There is no movement in Yangzhou, but Sun Bofu and Everyone knew who Zhou Gongjin was, and the prefects of Danyang County and Jiujiang County in Yangzhou had a close relationship with them, so it was impossible that they had no connection with Yecheng in private.

Fighting on two fronts is a big taboo for military strategists. If you don’t pay attention, you will be attacked by the enemy. The guy in Yecheng is good. He not only fights on two fronts, but now he wants to fight on three fronts. Xuzhou and Jingzhou are not enough for him to fight, so he wants to add Hanzhong.

How many soldiers, generals, counselors, food and grass will it take to withstand such a pretense?

If he had so many reliable subordinates, would he still sigh and wonder what to do because of Cao Mengde?

Oh, it’s not that his subordinates are bad, it’s just that they don’t look good enough in comparison. In fact, his advisers and generals are not bad. Compared with the top and the bottom, it’s more than the bottom. It just depends on who you compare with. If it’s only in the border of Yizhou Looking for an opponent, he can fight ten Yizhou Mu.

Never should, never should, Liu Yan shouldn't have died so early, but if he died a few years later, Yuan Situ wouldn't fight Hanzhong at this time, to see what his heirs have made Yizhou look like, where else? A little bit of the weather of the Land of Abundance.

In the past, people from other places had fled to Yizhou, but now, the people in Yizhou left their homes and fled to other places. He had never seen such a bizarre scene in his life.

Liu Fan is really capable of bringing Yizhou into such a scourge in just a few months.

Yan Pu couldn't help laughing, straightened his sleeves and replied slowly, "If there is not enough food and soldiers, Yuan Situ would not choose to go to war at the same time."

After all, I still have confidence in my heart.

Yuan Situ has been operating in Yecheng for several years, and has collected all the surrounding states and counties under his command. Even if some of them are not under his control in name, in fact, he has been inserted into his people early on. The Han Dynasty is declining and the world is in chaos. Yuan Situ is another A genius in the sky, he turned the tide and stopped the chaos in just a few years. If he was an official in the Central Plains, he would also be willing to surrender without a fight.

War needs soldiers, horses, food and grass. Not all places have as many soldiers and food as Jizhou, and more people have to tighten their belts to survive. These years are either droughts or floods. From time to time, a group of locusts fly over and eat all the food in the field. , if it is a little more unlucky, and there are a few more earthquakes like Guanzhong, then it's over, let alone conscription and war, if the people under the rule don't run away, it's because of the parents and officials.

Either let the heavenly soldiers who can lead the people to live a stable life take over the county, or resist desperately and die tens of thousands of people and then be taken over by the other party, fools know how to choose.

Yan Pu's eyes were a little erratic, and he exchanged glances with their lord, making sure that their thoughts were not too different, and then slowly took a sip of water to moisten his throat.

In less than a cup of tea, the hall was full of people. Zhang Lu straightened his body and cleared his throat, and waited for his subordinates to quiet down and said loudly, "I just got the news that Cao Cao, the captain of Sili, started to station troops in Chencang. What do you guys do?" view?"

As soon as this remark came out, people quickly started whispering among themselves, and the most frequently asked question was, what kind of place is Chencang?What is the relationship between Cao Cao's garrison and Chencang?

Officials in Hanzhong were abolished, and there were no long histories in counties and counties. It is possible to be appointed as a "sacrificial wine".

Zhang Lu inherited his grandfather Zhang Tianshi's ability to first convert the people into the followers of the Five Dou Rice Sect, and then manage the people with the method of managing the followers, and at the same time use force to suppress them, easily making Hanzhong what he wanted.

Food is precious. Alcoholism is prohibited in Hanzhong, and the slaughter of livestock is prohibited in spring and summer. In times of disaster, a lot of shelters are built, and the government or rich people put some rice and meat in them for passers-by or poor people to take.

What if a greedy person takes away all the things in the dormitory?

There are so many charity homes in Hanzhong, it is impossible to send people to guard each charity home. Zhang Shijun has not thought about this problem. Since he set up charity homes to let the followers of the five buckets of rice accumulate blessings and virtues, the rice meat is also a supply in a sense. The gods in the sky, when people are about to starve to death, they will not blame the gods for eating something. They eat until their belly is round and miss the things in the charity house.

He just put the words here, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night if you dare to take more.

The Five Dou Rice Way is widely spread in Hanzhong, and almost every household believes in it. The government sends people to tell the people that they can’t do this and that can’t be done. If they disobey, they will be punished. Maybe some people don’t care. Otherwise, ghosts and gods will be offended, and there are very few people in Hanzhong who dare to raise objections.

They can see the government's punishment, but who can think of the retribution for offending ghosts and gods?

Maybe today I went to the mountain to collect herbs and broke my leg, which made the gods unhappy. Maybe the fire at home tomorrow made the gods unhappy. Maybe I got sick the day after tomorrow and made the gods unhappy.

Anyway, no matter what happened, the congregation could figure out the truth for themselves, which not only convinced Zhang Lu, the master, but also made his prefect position more stable.

There is only one life, and the master can communicate with the world, they don't want to spend their next life just for one bite.

The "sacrificial wine" of Wudou Rice Road is also very simple to manage the congregation. Those who violate the precepts will be forgiven three times, and they will be punished if they do not correct after repeated admonition. If it is a small mistake, they will build a hundred steps to make atonement. Go to the "Zhitou Dajiu", whether to kill, cut up or expel Hanzhong all depends on Zhitou Dajiu.

In other words, most of these "jiujiu" who replaced government officials were illiterate, and they didn't know what it was like outside Hanzhong. Tell them that Cao Cao stationed troops at Chen Cang, and they didn't even know where Chen Cang was, so how could they say He is ugly and Yinmao.

Yan Pu sighed silently, take a look, can this be beaten?