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

The news from Hanzhong became more bizarre every time. Cao Cao acted as a transfer station for his battle reports with a blank face, and then sent 7000 more soldiers to take over the cities of Hanzhong. This was the last [-] he could draw. There will be problems in Guanzhong.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it’s not too strange for Zhang Lu to abandon the city and escape. He, Cao Mengde, has earned a great reputation in these years of fighting in the South and North. Yanzhou was stabilized under the circumstances, and now that the soldiers are strong, the horses are strong, and the food is sufficient, it is no problem to win Hanzhong.

Zhang Lu is a smart man, it is definitely not a fool who can take Hanzhong out of Liu Yan's hands and use it as his own territory, and then develop the Five Dou of Rice Dao.

Not everyone can die like Cao Mengde, and he can win with less and more with the weak, but Zhang Lu can't. Even if that guy doesn't take the initiative to abandon the city and escape, Hanzhong will become his in a few months A record of Cao Mengde.

Even if he didn't fight in person, as long as he was in charge of the rear, his share of military merit would be indispensable.

Abandoning the city and fleeing now can still make a turnaround. Wait until the city is broken before coming out and surrendering. At that time, there will only be a dead end. With Zhang Lu's ability, he can't think of such a good countermeasure. There must be someone around him to help him out.

The mountain people in the mountains are nothing to be afraid of. If he is willing to stay in the mountains, there is nothing to worry about. The government will not easily enter the mountain to control the mountain people, and the mountain people will not take the initiative to offend the government with their heads caught in the door. Zhang Lu's entry into the mountain did not allow those mountain people to take risks and go in and out with him.

That guy was waiting for the government to take the initiative to surrender. With the temperament of their elder brother, after getting the news, he would give that guy a step up and send someone over to discuss the conditions of surrender according to his wishes.

Zhang Lu had already shown his goodwill to the extent that he packed and sealed the county's treasures and grains for them to receive. His elder brother was always kind to others, and he would not hit anyone with a smiling face.

Tsk, there are a lot of cleverness.

Cao Cao was only in charge of arranging the takeover of Hanzhong. How to deal with Zhang Lu still had to wait for the order of Yecheng. It seems that the effect is very good in a short period of time, but if things go on like this, chaos will inevitably arise. The existence of the government is indispensable, and the government offices in the county must be reset quickly.

There are many people in Hanzhong who believe in the five buckets of rice, but no matter how many people believe in it, it is impossible for everyone to believe it. It is not appropriate to use religious rules to govern the people. Additional punishment", a mistake is a mistake, there is no reason to repeat the same thing again and again.

There are also those criminals who have been arrested for crimes. They either build roads and get rid of their crimes, or use money to get rid of their crimes. He is sure that most of the money and jewelry in Zhang Lu's house were given by criminals when they redeemed their sins. What is the difference between prison and prison? If it is inappropriate or not, it must be completely corrected.

Captain Cao has become a habit of doing these things. No matter how much he yells that he wants to lead troops to fight in person, he can't control his writing after seeing the work. When he reacts, all the counties in Hanzhong The things that need to be done quickly have been arranged in an orderly manner.

Cao Cao: ...

Damn it, he obviously didn't want to do it, why did his hands react so quickly?

Cao Mengde was cursing and cursing in Chang'an City. Yuan Huan's face was full of smiles at the Yecheng government office, and he took down the entire Hanzhong in less than half a month. Together with the elk that suddenly appeared to help them fight, it can only be said that they were lucky.

In these days, good luck can be equal to destiny, and if the words "destiny is returned" are used well, the effect is no worse than a "Han family clan" name falling from the sky.

The Han family surnamed Liu was on behalf of Tian Xunhun, the son of heaven, the son of heaven, the most important thing in the final analysis is the "heaven" in the front rather than the "son" in the back. The past news is more reliable.

In the prosperous times, no one would think too much, but in the troubled times, there are more brains to use.

Not far away, Jia Xu took over the battle report and read it. The corners of his mouth twitched and he was unable to react. Ever since he came to Yecheng, he felt that his first half of his life was a waste of time, and any weird things were possible. occur.

After the deer descended from the sky, another prefect came to take the initiative to give up the city. If he hadn't confirmed that the two groups of troops from Guanzhong and Liangzhou were actually going to fight in Hanzhong, he even wondered whether Zhang Lu had surrendered to the leader long ago. This person, who is doing so much fanfare now, is just acting for the world to see.

It’s not that he thinks too much, but that this situation can’t allow him to stop thinking too much. If he asks anyone on the street, eleven out of ten people will think that this is a random fabrication, and even a sour scholar would not dare to make up a story like this.

The bizarre situation that he didn't even dare to make up a story happened in reality. The word outrageous is not enough to describe his feelings. The person above is not a mortal, he is a fairy who came down from the sky, right?

Yuan Huan faced Jia Xu's indescribable gaze with a smile on his face, "I will go to the Taiping Palace to ask for orders later, and please ask your majesty to worship Zhang Lu as Zhennan General and seal him as Marquis of Langzhong. When the edict comes down, he will send people to Hanzhong to recruit Zhang Lu."

An imperial edict in exchange for a Hanzhong County is a very good deal.

The news of Hanzhong's change of ownership quickly spread all over the world. The Hanning County set up by Liu Yan was changed back to Hanzhong County with great fanfare. Zhang Lu took the post of General Zhennan. Zhang Wei also turned over from the ditch. Although he was seriously injured, he had more breath and less breath, but at least he survived. Compared with these, losing the post of prefect of Hanning didn't seem to be a big deal.

He doesn't know how to be a prefect, he can only manage the people in the same way as the congregation. The original Situ's attitude is very obvious. If Hanzhong is to be restored to government control, all the sacrificial wines he appointed will be cancelled, and he can't speak personally. Do not listen.

Fortunately, this time the crisis was narrowly avoided. Hanzhong was owned by the original Situ, and he no longer had to worry about whether other people would not want to attack Hanzhong. The current Hanzhong is no longer the old Hanzhong. Zhang Lu couldn't make it through. If he were to fight Hanzhong now, he would be able to see countless soldiers and horses surrounding Hanzhong to support him.

He has a backer now, and Yuan Situ has the thickest thighs in the world today, and there are people on top who are easy to handle. As long as Yuan Situ doesn't dislike him, it doesn't matter if he walks sideways in the future.

After Zhang Lu came out of the mountains, he couldn't float, so he pointed at the sky in broad daylight and said, "From now on, Zhang Lu, the eldest son of Han Zhongtian, the second son of Yuan Situ, will be the third son."

Yan Pu originally wanted to persuade their lord not to be so arrogant. Being arrogant is easy to be targeted by others, and he might be cornered and beaten at any time.

It's just that before he could persuade them, their lord had already been beaten, not in a corner, but in a fair and honest way, because it was Xiliang Jin Ma Chao, even if their lord was beaten, no one dared to say What.

Even if it wasn't Xiliang Jin Ma Chao who beat him, others wouldn't say anything when they heard that their lord was beaten. There was no other reason, it was simply that the guy really needed to be beaten after returning to Nanzheng City.

Yuan Huan left Xiahouyuan as the prefect in Hanzhong, and Cao Ren stayed with Xiahouyuan as a Zhonglang general to help. Cao Hong and Xiahoudun led the army back to Guanzhong after finishing their affairs. If it is too long, I am afraid that there will be changes in Guanzhong, so I need to go back as soon as possible.

Ma Chao did not leave directly, he set his sights on another piece of land in Liangzhou next to Hanzhong, and led troops from a long distance to take Hanzhong before fighting a decent battle. It's really hard to justify going back.

On the surface, Liangzhou is controlled by his father and the others. In fact, they do not control all of Liangzhou. Not to mention the places occupied by Hu tribes such as Qiang and Di. "Song Jian dominates one side.

Song Jian and his father Ma Teng rebelled at about the same time, but his father later cooperated with Han Sui to take Liangzhou, Song Jian didn't get involved so much, he encircled the area of ​​Fanghan as his own territory and started to be his local emperor .

Zhang Lu wanted to be king but he didn't dare to be king. There are not a few princes in one side of the world. The north was basically taken by Yuan Huanyuan Situ. All of them became kings directly, except for Song Jian who occupied Liangzhou on the border.

Even Zhang Lu knew that being king at this time would definitely be the target of public criticism. If others do not claim the king, he will become the king. Everyone has a legitimate reason to beat him, and he does not have the strength to single out a group of people. At this time, being the king is courting death.

The same principle also applies to Song Jian, but the location of Guanzhong is dangerous. Once Zhang Lu becomes the king, people all over the world will notice. But for the people of the Central Plains, Fanghan belongs to a corner. Nine out of ten people who say this name He didn't even know where it was. The relationship between Liangzhou and the Central Plains was not very close, which made him comfortably the King of Heshou Ping Han for so many years.

Others don't care about the corners of Yanhan in Liangzhou, but Ma Mengqi cares a lot. He was born in Xiliang himself. When his father and several others discussed how to surrender to the current lord, they said that they would lead the entire Liangzhou, not The entire Liangzhou after the exception of Yuhan.

Hurry up and get rid of Song Jian while he has soldiers, food and spare time, otherwise he will be accused of being cunning and slippery in the future, and he will be wronged.

He is not needed in other places for the time being, and he happened to pass by Fanghan when he returned to Liangzhou, and he could also get Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren from Hanzhong to help him by the way. I don't want to lead soldiers back to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion when I am too old.

As a military general, you will always have some small problems of one kind or another on your body during years of battle. When you are young, the pain is not obvious, but when you are old, the pain will come to you. His father is a good example, so when you are old, you should Find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to comfortably retire in comfort. It is absolutely unacceptable to go to battle after a lot of age.

Ma Chao approached Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren and said that they understand the reason with love, from the necessity of eradicating the forces of Song Jian in Liangzhou to the provocation of the king of Han in Song Jianhe's first flattening of the court, from the morning to the day when the heart is pure and the night is sick, the tongue is shining like a lotus flower After talking for more than an hour, Cao Ren finally named him when he was about to fall asleep.

It's not a big deal, it's just that if Song Jian is to be beaten, he alone doesn't have enough food and grass, and General Xiahou and General Cao need to generously donate money to support him.

Xia Houyuan: ...

Cao Ren yawned, stood up and patted Ma Chao on the shoulder, "If you want food and grass, you just say yes, and you say that you have nothing to do. You just say that you want to fight Song Jian's army. It's not that I won't give you food."

Ma Chao's eyes lit up, "General Xiahou is willing to provide food and grass?"

Xia Houyuan twitched the corners of his mouth, "We are all one family, and one family does not speak two different languages. Meng Qi needs food and grass, so naturally we cannot stand by and watch."

They took Hanzhong too fast. Originally, they took two months to prepare food and pay, but they took Hanzhong in less than half a month. Except when they fought Yangping Pass, it was considered a serious war. At other times, they never disturbed the people and destroyed the city. The treasury of Hanzhong The grain, grass, gold and silver stored in it have never been destroyed, and the amount of grain and grass they can mobilize now is beyond imagination.

Ma Chao started leading troops to fight when he was a teenager. What worried him most was never how strong the enemy was, but that they had to retreat when they ran out of food. There was no way, Liangzhou was too poor, and his soldiers could not be ranked first. First of all, his father and Uncle Han's soldiers had to be paid first, and then it was his turn.

As mentioned earlier, Liangzhou is poor, and they can't rob the people like bandits when they have no food, because even if they rob the people, they won't get much food, and instead they will ruin their reputation, so it's not worth it.

Leading troops to fight in [-], except that Cao Mengde assured that food and grass would not be a problem when he led troops from Liangzhou to cooperate with Cao Mengde to attack Hanzhong this time, this was the first time he fought without worry.

It feels good to have someone on top, thanks to the old man and Mr. Wen He for finding a rich lord with discerning eyes, he really likes their lord so much.

Ma Chao was so excited as if he had returned to the first time he led the army. After confirming that Xia Houyuan would provide him with food and grass, he immediately started to draw the map that he carried with him. It is not too far from Hanzhong to Fanghan. Hanzhong is approaching, and General Cao Ren will go with him. The two soldiers will divide into two groups, and they will surely kill Song Jian without leaving a single one.

Speaking of bringing a Liangzhou to the lord, it must be a whole Liangzhou, and their old Ma family will never talk nonsense.

Ma Chao and Cao Ren moved to Liangzhou in a hurry, leaving Xia Houyuan to appease the people and reset the government office. His hair became thinner day by day. Fortunately, Yizhou became more and more chaotic under Liu Fan's governance. Many people came to defect after hearing that Hanzhong had changed hands. It turned out that the vacancy in the Hanzhong government was filled without transferring people from other places.

Hanzhong is in full swing, the rain is coming in Nanyang, there is no wind and waves, and the atmosphere is so oppressive that you dare not even speak out loudly, for fear of accidentally attracting others' attention and being thrown.

The officials of the Nanyang government office can work under the command of Yuan Shu and Yuan Gonglu, who have a volatile temper, and their resistance is far beyond ordinary people. This time, Lu Fengxian, who is thousands of times more terrifying than Yuan Gonglu, came and was swept away by those eyes full of anger. In the past, they were really worried about whether they would be dragged out and chopped down in the next moment.

It's scary, it's really scary.

Ever since the news of Cao Cao sending troops to attack Hanzhong reached Nanyang, the one who went to the official office to report all day long became General Lu. Yuan Taishou couldn't bear General Lu's angry gaze, so he hid back in the mansion as early as the first day. go out.

He wants to fight, and he also wants to take Jingzhou before Cao Cao takes Hanzhong, but he can't disobey his brother's orders. It doesn't matter if he disobeys orders. What if something goes wrong?

It's useless for Lu Fengxian to stare at him again. He will never let go until the time of the battle. There are not many coaches like him who are steady and down-to-earth. Compared with Lu Fengxian who is hot-tempered and quick-tempered, the eldest brother will definitely see his strength. Where it shines.

The small calculations in Yuan Shu's heart were crackling, and Xi Zhicai was both moved and thankful for the rare cleverness. It was much easier to stop Lu Bu alone than to stop Lu Bu and Yuan Shu. Yuan Gonglu had reflected on it for so many years in Nanyang Finally made progress, the lord must be very pleased to know.

Lu Bu was suffocating anger, he could not vent his anger on his own people, he could only stare at Liu Biao, Cao Cao took Hanzhong and sent people to manage it in an orderly manner, the heat dissipated and the weather became cooler, when Lu Bu was about to erupt in silence , their long-awaited opportunity finally came.

Liu Bei led his soldiers and horse brothers to brave the wind and waves to overcome all difficulties and finally came to Jingzhou. Liu Biao welcomed the brother surnamed Liu, who was also a Han family clan, and immediately asked him and his brothers to station troops in the southernmost part of Nanjun, and formed horns with Huang Zu The trend is to guard against Nanyang.

To say how much Liu Biao attaches importance to Liu Bei is not so much. Before Liu Bei came to Jingzhou, he was already a Xuzhou shepherd. Even though this Xuzhou shepherd has a lot of water, he has never really controlled Xuzhou, but he has indeed been a Xuzhou shepherd. Xuzhou Mu and Jingzhou Mu are the same officials, no matter how generous Liu Biao is, it is impossible to give up the position of Zhou Mu, let alone he is not very generous.

Cao Cao took Hanzhong with lightning speed and sounded a wake-up call for him. Lu Bu has already led troops to settle in Nanyang. If he is not careful, he will end up in the same end as Zhang Lu. But I can't afford to lose that person.

No matter how few mosquito legs there are, they are meat. Send Liu Bei to the south to watch Lu Bu. At that time, Liu Xuande will bear the brunt of it. He will have time to dispatch troops in the rear.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Xuande was regarded as a very important person.