In the face of Liu Bei's chaotic life, Fa Zheng and Lu Su were very helpless, but they had no choice but to take the order first.

Fa Zheng knew that Liu Bei was just angry, and after receiving the order, he didn't forget to tell Li Su quietly: "Don't worry, General Right, I will persuade the king not to rush." And this time the king should indeed come to the rescue in person, so as to show his loyalty to the world. ”

Fa Zheng is worthy of being a utilitarian known in history books, and at the age of only eighteen, he thought of Liu Bei's sincerity and loyalty as "ulterior motives", and even thought that "Liu Bei insisted on putting on such a show in order to show the people of the world and make the people of the world completely convinced of his crowned king".

Li Su smiled bitterly when he heard this, this misunderstanding was not important, he was too lazy to correct the Fa. However, he believes that Fa Zheng is also knowledgeable, and although he is young, he will not make big mistakes. If some of the Tuntian soldiers are sacrificed a little, they will be able to retreat in the face of difficulties, establish the name of loyalty that touches the heavens and the earth, and thoroughly unite and unite the hearts of the people inside, which is acceptable.

After all, Liu Bei in this life is too smooth. Only fought some small bumpy battles with hundreds of people when he was begging for the yellow scarf, and after partnering with Li Su, he even bought officials and made meritorious contributions, and he rose too quickly in half a year and every year. It's easy to float, and there's no way to knock and knock. After all, in his previous life, he was quite bumpy until he was fifty years old.

Li Su finally just forced himself to calm down, thought about the surrounding environment, and realized that the geographical situation of the Northern Expedition was similar to Zhuge Liang's last Northern Expedition in history - of course, it was only a purely geographical similarity, and the time and time were completely different from people (the seasons were almost the same, and they were all sent out in July, August and autumn)

So Li Su took advantage of this rare opportunity and confessed to Fa Zheng: "Xiaozhi, I am still relieved to have you as a counselor of the military aircraft, but after all, you are young and new to such a big war." After this time out of the martial arts water, it is necessary to set up a base in Wuzhangyuan to ensure that the Baochuan crossing will not be outflanked by the enemy, so that our army will have a way to retreat even if it is unfavorable, in addition, we must cut down trees as soon as possible, and set up a raft on the Wugong water so that we can cross the river at any time.

In addition, the king's men and horses are not mainly going to war, the key is to bluff to scare Li Dao Guo Yan, and there is no way to scare him. Therefore, the troops who went east to rescue the driver must not cross the Weishui north until they have to, so as not to be exposed to the impact of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and must slowly advance along the narrow river valley of Weinan and with their backs to the Qinling Mountains, so that even if it is unfavorable, it is better to retreat back to Wuzhang Plain. ”

Fa Zheng thought for a while: "Don't worry, I have lived in Yixian County for more than ten years, and I know the geography of Wugong Water, Wuzhang Plain, and even Wugong and Meiyang. That's what I meant to be. ”

Li Su breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

After Liu Bei took Xu Huangfa Zheng and others away, Li Su immediately confessed to Lu Su, who was in charge of placing him under house arrest:

"Zijing, you don't really want to put me under house arrest, do you? For today's plan, I think you should replace filial piety and go to the defense of the pass. Nanzheng's side, leave it to me - there are only 5,000 Tuntian soldiers in Hanzhong now. Although there are still weapons in the arsenal, they can only temporarily recruit farmers, and the field battle is about to collapse.

In case of defeat on this side of the slope, I will wait for the queen to withdraw and burn the plank road. At that time, if the rebels feel that our Yizhou army is weak and can be bullied because of a small victory, they will inevitably take the Chencang Road to attack Sanguan. If no one is careful to guard the pass, I am afraid that the operation outside Yangping Pass will be destroyed for several years. ”

Lu Su was very embarrassed, thought about it for a long time, and sighed: "Brother Yan is yes, if the lord asks after coming back, I will say that I am indeed worried that there is an emergency military situation over there." If the king is to blame, let's bear it together, I know that the king is not a person who is overly human. ”

As soon as Liu Bei left, Lu Su's title was changed back to "lord", after all, Liu Bei had not officially ascended the altar to worship and claim the king, and some titles could only be shouted when he was in a hurry.

And Lu Su dared to relax his monitoring of Li Su, because he also knew the temper of Corporal Liu Bei Lixian.

Although Liu Bei can't do the time after Cao Cao's expedition to Wuhuan in history, "Although I won by luck, the person who persuaded me not to go was indeed Lao Cheng's words to seek the country, and I will reward those who stop me". But Liu Bei is definitely not Yuan Shao's self-serving kind of person who is stubborn to Tian Feng, so Lu Su dared to relax his control over Li Su a little.

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The words were divided into two ends, while Li Su and Lu Su were planning the aftermath in advance in the rear, Liu Bei spent only three and a half days to march out of the ramp, and the speed was almost as fast as the army that went to attack Yiwu two months ago when he "heard that the emperor wanted to give Dong Zhuo the throne". Among these tuntian soldiers, there are more than 1,000 people who walked this road two months ago.

In terms of generals, Liu Bei civilianly brought Fa Zheng as a counselor for military affairs, and also brought Qin Mi as a secretary and a sacrificial wine to engage in Cheng Ji to be responsible for escorting grain and grass to the rear army. The military general brought Xu Huang to command the troops, as well as Dian Wei, the bodyguard that Li Susai gave him.

In addition, considering that this battle mainly relied on attacking the heart, Liu Bei felt that bringing Wu Kuang, who was originally in the Beijing Northern Army as a Zuo Zhonglang general, might be able to persuade some of the old soldiers of the Beijing Northern Army who were coerced into thieves to go anyway. But it's a pity that Wu Kuang was not under residential surveillance in Nanzheng at that time, and Liu Bei could only bring Wu Kuang's sons Wu Ban and Wu Lan with the army at best.

These two people are not strong in martial arts, and they know a little about the art of war, but when they left Beijing, they were considered to be old and crowned, and there were still many generals and colonels who knew each other in the Northern Army, maybe they would be useful, so they were all placed according to Sima of other departments under Xu Huang.

These two dispatches, the initial tragic mentality was almost the same, and they all knew that they couldn't beat it, but not long after the previous one came out of the valley, they suddenly heard that Dong Zhuo was dead from the sky, and the joy and sorrow were reversed by 180 degrees, which made the people angry.

It was clear that no miracle would happen the second time, but many soldiers were so excited about the results of the first time that they walked briskly, and they couldn't help but fantasize that something good would happen, and that if they appeared, they would be able to scare the swinging enemy again.

Who let these ordinary Tuntian soldiers never read a book, they can't distinguish between small probability events in military and political affairs.

Liu Bei looked at the high morale of the soldiers, and he couldn't bear to break it, he just needed this sharp spirit.

After the front army arrived at Wuzhangyuan, they rested for an hour, and Liu Bei ordered to continue to march east along Weinan. Fa Zheng persuaded Liu Bei to establish a strong camp in Wuzhangyuan according to the Qinling, Weihe, and Wugong Rivers.

But in the end, Liu Bei only agreed to leave a few hundred people to enclose the land, and leave the construction of the camp to the rear army that had not yet left the valley, and Cheng Ji was in charge. Then he hurried eastward with three thousand men.

But Liu Zhibing is still a soldier after all, he won't do anything given for nothing, and the reason why he came this time is also because he overestimated the combat power that Wang Yun and Lu Bu could still control, and felt that "the two sides are basically five or five, at most four or six, so after adding me, Wang Shi has hope to win."

Therefore, when Liu Bei sent out his troops, he brought several times the number of military flags, and along the way, he let his 3,000 people show off their banners to strengthen the army, and the horses also dragged branches on their tails to raise the dust, bluffing and pretending to have tens of thousands of people.

In addition, he also knew that it was impossible for the enemy army to know where Zhang Fei was, so he played the banner of the third brother Zhang Fei and even Zhao Yun.

Because the main force of the rebels was still besieging Chang'an, they only sent scouts to harass the surrounding counties, or requisitioned grain on the spot, so Liu Bei was still ruthless when he first sent out his troops.

When he was in Yixian, he only encountered a few hundred rebel grain conscription guards, Liu Bei took advantage of the enemy's lack of a sneak attack, and actually opened the city gate under the response of the old officials and people in the city, and killed and injured more than 200 Xiliang soldiers in the county, and only more than 100 people escaped from the east gate.

Of course, these Xiliang soldiers were also very brave in their stubborn resistance, obviously a ten-to-one ratio of troops, but they also caused nearly 100 casualties to the Tuntian soldiers in Hanzhong, and it can only be said that there is a huge gap in the quality of the two sides. These Tuntian soldiers had almost no military training, and the original plan was that they could only defend the city and throw rolling logs and stones, and their hand-to-hand combat martial arts were too poor.

After recovering Yixian, Liu Bei made a little resupply and opened the granary to let all the soldiers have a full meal and rest for the night. The next day he continued cautiously to cross Weishui to the south and march eastward along the valley between Weinan and Qinling, and then in the afternoon of the same day he regained Wugong County as usual, again in a complete victory against several hundred enemies. In addition, five or six groups of enemy scouts were repelled along the way, and dozens of scout cavalry were shot with bows and crossbows.

When encountering the enemy's escape along the way, Liu Bei tried his best to wave his flag and shout, trying to convince the fleeing enemy that there were tens of thousands of Qinwang's army to reinforce him.

On the morning of the third day after leaving the valley, Liu Bei had already advanced more than 100 miles east from Wuzhangyuan, and there were only 150 miles left from Chang'an. However, his advance had to be slowed down, because he encountered another tributary on the south bank of Weishui, Luogushui.

Fa Zheng finally couldn't help but come out at this time and strongly advised: "The lord must not enter again!" It is better to divide a small number of cavalry scouts and probe the enemy in the direction of Chang'an. Even if you want to enter the army, you must first send warriors to enter the city, get in touch with Wang Yun and Lu Bu, and cooperate with the flanking attack.

When we crossed the martial arts water, there was also Cheng Saijiu to set up camp and set up a raft to respond. If you cross the Luogu River again now, you won't be able to come back in case of setbacks. If we stay here, it is enough to form a corner with Chang'an, and we can divide the rebel forces, which is also a reinforcement to Chang'an! ”

After all, Liu Bei knew that he was two catties, and he would not deliberately send him to death, so he accepted Fazheng's suggestion: "Then set up another camp here, plant all the flags in the baggage, the scale of the camp should be large, the soldiers should go to the slopes of the Qinling Mountains to cut more wood, and the stove in the camp should be burned day and night, and it should be burned when not cooking!" Then let Dian Wei take a few dead horsemen and break through into Chang'an to report to Wang Yun and Lu Bu! ”

These suggestions are correct, it is nothing more than a waste of labor, but the soldiers ate two full meals in Yixian and Wugong, and also replenished food, they were originally working in the Tuntian soldiers, and construction is the job, so there are no complaints.

Liu Bei's appearance really thinned the siege army on the Chang'an side, and Li Wei divided his troops all the way to Luogushui to meet the enemy. Liu Bei defended the east bank of Luogushui, so that the rebels could not advance at all.

It's a pity that in the middle of the night in the second half of the day, or the next day, Dian Wei, who was sent by Liu Bei to break through in the direction of Chang'an and report the news, came back breathlessly, and it seemed that he rode a horse back and forth for 150 miles, and traveled 300 miles in one day and one night. also brought Liu Bei a shocking news: