Chapter 196: Suspicion and Betrayal

To tell the truth, in fact, Chen Deng's evaluation of the development prospects of Zhang Xiu Group is quite pertinent, if you look at the past five thousand years of China, it is not difficult to find that there are very few from the south to the north to achieve the cause of hegemony, except for the Zhu Ming Dynasty created the feat of the Northern Expedition to drive the Yuan, the vast majority of dynasties were completed from the north to the south.

This is not to say that there is a difference between the strength and weakness of the north and the south, but because of the geographical environment and the human environment, it is easier to complete the expedition from the north to the south.

In terms of geographical factors, the north has more war resources, and the flat and accessible terrain is more conducive to organizing troops and ensuring logistics. In the south, there are many hilly terrains, and there are many barriers between communities. Although there is a lot of terrain in the plains, the dense river network also makes transportation links inconvenient.

From the perspective of human factors, the character of the northerners is characterized by boldness and directness, and there is never a shortage of aggressive and brave people. Although there are many brave people among the southerners, their personalities are inevitably a little more timid than those of the northerners. You don't see the northern and southern expeditions of the past dynasties, no matter whether they win or lose, they always dare to fight. However, during the Southern and Northern Expeditions, a considerable part of them were stillborn because of their own problems, and many loyal martyrs Yue Wumu were annihilated.

Therefore, based on the facts and reasoning, Chen Deng's evaluation and summary are still quite insightful. Although Zhang Xiu now has the comprehensive strength of the third prince in the world, and even after the decisive battle of Yuan Cao, he can become the "best in the world" power group at present, but his future development prospects are absolutely extremely bleak.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the composition of the soldiers, the Xiliang Army under Zhang Xiu's command has been less than 40,000 after several battles, and the absolute ace Xiliang Iron Cavalry has been reduced to a thousand people because of the loss of cavalry and the lack of good horses, but its scale has been reduced to a thousand people, and it is not even fully manned! In a word, although Zhang Xiujun's current military strength has improved a lot, its deterrent power has decreased significantly. Zhang Xiu's army, which was mainly composed of Huainan soldiers and Jiangdong soldiers who were still completely subjugated, would find it difficult to compete with the northerners army for the Central Plains in the future.

In fact, one of the reasons why Zhang Xiu was reluctant to attack the Central Plains in Yuan Cao Zhengxiong's position was this one analyzed by Chen Deng. Although the number of soldiers and horses available under Huainan is as high as 150,000, Zhang Xiu did not have the same confidence as he did when he used tens of thousands of Xiliang soldiers to conquer Yuan Shu this time, so he needed to further accumulate money and food to recruit soldiers and horses to train soldiers.

Similarly, it was also for this reason that Liu Bei and Chen Deng dared to let go of Xiaopei and Qian Jun and let Zhang Xiu fight, that is, they pinched the fact that Zhang Xiu's current cavalry strength was not enough to attack Xuchang and win the Son of Heaven.

Lack of progress, Chen Deng is not optimistic that Zhang Xiu can "keep more than enough". After all, Zhang Xiu was born in the Xiliang Army, and he is a good hiker on horseback, but he will never pass the way of the lake boat and river boat, so that although you Zhang Xiu can obtain the vast land south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to defend himself according to the river, and in the end it is still empty.

In the end, I have to say that if it is based on the general situation, what Chen Deng expected and said is absolutely true. But since there is a general existence, it is the existence of special circumstances. And Zhang Xiu herself is that special existence.

As a contemporary, Chen Deng analyzed the fact that the north and the south are not as good as the east and the west only based on the historical facts of China for 3,000 years, and Zhang Xiu, who is a modern person, has looked at China for 5,000 years, so he naturally knows better than Chen Deng the difficulties of conquering the north from the south. But since he dared to know that this road was bumpy and difficult, he still resolutely chose this road, naturally there was Zhang Xiu's own reason.

And another self-changing factor that has to be mentioned is that Chen Yuanlong, who has always had a high eyesight, also underestimated Jia Xu's resourcefulness this time. But that's right, a character like Jia Xu who everyone seems to understand but can't figure it out, Chen Deng underestimated it is the most normal, and if it is seen, it will be boring.

"In this way, Zhang Xiu doesn't seem to be a problem for me to prosper!" After pondering for a long time, Liu Bei muttered.

Chen Deng laughed twice: "According to the current situation, it will still become a worry in the end, but it is not a big worry." The general doesn't have to be careful, he still comes according to all the plans, first self-sufficient in the blessed land of Shandong, and the great cause can be expected! ”

Since ancient times, the so-called Shandong refers to the east of the Kushan Mountains, but with the changes of the times, the regional concept of Shandong has evolved. For example, now, Liu Bei knows that what Chen Deng is talking about is not east of Kunshan Mountain, but east of Taihang Mountain and Mount Tai.

"That's natural, our army was outnumbered before, and it was not enough to fight with Cao Thief. But this time Cao Cao went to fight Yuan Shao, and I had Zilong to help, so I will definitely win! Liu Bei raised his head slightly and said loudly.

"Uncle Huang has General Zhao as a sharp weapon for charging into battle, so it is naturally not much of a problem to fight the Taishan thief Zangba. However, I hope that Uncle Huang will remember the overall situation of the Central Plains where Yuan Cao is fighting, and it will be appropriate! Chen Deng glanced at Zhao Yun, who was standing far away next to him, and said, "The three generals and Zhang Xiu are here, just hand it over to Yuanlong for dispatch!" ”

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At the same time, Zhang Xiu naturally didn't know Liu Bei and Chen Deng's evaluation and prediction of himself, but Zhang Xiu was busy writing a letter at the moment.

According to the general situation, there is no need for Zhang Xiu to write a letter by himself, and he has a group of people in the secretary's office to do it for him. This time, Zhang Xiu has the Confucian Zhuge Jin by his side, and his cheap nephew Lu Xun, all of whom are completely trustworthy people, and there is no need to personally pick up the pen to write those troublesome traditional official books. But since Zhang Xiu, who doesn't like trivial affairs on weekdays, lifts the pen, it shows the importance of the person who wants to communicate this time.

Speaking of which, Zhang Xiu's small seal and Lishu were still taught by Yuan Lan. At that time, Zhang Xiu was initially settled in Huainan, and all kinds of military and political affairs needed to be handled, although Jia Xu and Yuan Lian, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong and others shared most of the complicated affairs, but there were many things that needed to be taken care of by Zhang Xiu. It was also at this time that Zhang Xiu found that he needed to work the ancient culture and language of China.

Lishu is better, in fact, it is quite close to the traditional version of the regular script of later generations, Zhang Xiu can still understand most of them, but it must not be able to be written, and someone needs to teach it. Although the small seal is no longer common in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it is used in some special places. Zhang Xiu thought left and right, neither did he want Yuan Jian Jia Xu to teach himself writing in his spare time, nor could he let his aunt, who was born in a beautiful family but is now widowed, teach him. So in the end, Yuan Lan, the "maidservant" who likes poetry and songs, is the most suitable.

That time may be the most relaxed and no sense of oppression after Zhang Xiu came to the Three Kingdoms, remembering the sunset that day, that was my lost youth, not in front of me but the feelings in my heart, my career has no regrets!

Thinking of Yuan Lan, Zhang Xiu's memory gate suddenly couldn't be stopped.

Seeing that Zhang Xiu had just written the beginning and was distracted, Lu Xun, a young man who was grinding ink on the side, was also speechless, so he had to raise his hand and shake it in front of Zhang Xiu's eyes, and shouted tentatively, "Uncle? Uncle? ”

Zhang Xiu, who was awakened, wiped his forehead, re-concentrated on the pen, and wrote another word, but it was difficult to write, so he could only put down the brush and said to Lu Xun: "This matter is very important, and it is too hasty to only leave the form in the pen and ink, so you can take your uncle's message to explain the matter to him." Don't worry about safety on the road, uncle will give you a good horse and send the commander Tong to go with you. How, dare to go through this experience? ”

The Tong commander in Zhang Xiu's mouth naturally refers to Tong Fei, the relationship between Tong Fei and Zhang Xiu and his own ability Lu Xun is very clear, this matter needs to send Tong Fei out, which naturally shows that the danger and difficulty of this action are by no means ordinary.

But Lu Xun and Lu Boyan didn't dare to do anything, so our young man Lu Xun did not hesitate at all, and immediately agreed: "Uncle has a life, and Uncle Yan will naturally obey his life!" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, the seven or eight horsemen drove out of the south gate of the Zhangxiu military camp and went directly to the south. Liu Beijun's sentry cavalry around Pengcheng didn't care when they saw it, they just regarded it as an ordinary Zhang Xiujun's daily letter rider who contacted Shouchun.

These seven or eight horses galloped south for more than ten miles, and suddenly divided into two teams, one team still went south, and this team was a genuine Zhang Xiujun letter horse. The other team of four people turned to the east, and two of them were Lu Xun and Tong Fei.

Jingzhou is in the west, and Lu Xun and Tong Fei naturally did not go to pick up a pair of cheap children of Yuan Lan and Zhang Xiu. Although Zhang Xiu's thoughts about Yuan Lan and Zhang Quan and Zhang Ruo have become more and more profound recently, Zhang Xiu knows that it is not the right time to take Yuan Lan and his son and daughter back to Huainan. Although he already has the strength to protect them at the moment, after all, Jingzhou is Liu Jingsheng's territory, and once his identity is exposed, the consequences are absolutely unpredictable. In fact, after sending Yuan Lan and others out of Huainan, Zhang Xiu never even contacted Yuan Lan by letter, just for fear that if there was an accident, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

Speaking of which, Zhang Xiu doesn't have many private affairs now, and Yuan Lan and a pair of cheap children are almost all of Zhang Xiu's private affairs. As for the aunt Zou, after the Shouchun Mutiny, she was closed-minded, and she no longer asked about Zhang Xiu's affairs, and even recently there was a tendency to leave home. Zhang Xiu is still the same as before, but it is obvious that the original feelings are becoming more and more diluted.

Since it was not for Zhang Xiu's private affairs, Lu Xun and Tong Fei naturally did it for the public. The destination of their trip was Langya County, where the left general Liu Bei was going to send troops to conquer in a few days.

Langya County belongs to Xuzhou, but now it does not belong to Liu Bei. At present, it is Cao Jun Zang Babu who controls Langya County. And the task of Lu Xun and Tong Fei's trip is to save Zang Ba, who is in the world, between life and death.

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