Relying on a large amount of seized money to open the way, two days later, the process of the resistance to the Xianbei Suli Department is not worth repeating.

The purpose of Su Li's visit is to receive Zhang Ju and share the property that Zhang Ju has grabbed.

And because Zhang Ju was restrained and delayed by Zhao Yun, he had to take a long detour to Yanshan to escape, so the news that "Zhang Ju has given up the camp of the rebels in Bashui" could not be learned by Su Li in time because of this time difference.

From this point of view, Zhao Yun's delay in following Zhang Ju also played a considerable strategic effect, allowing the Han army to play an advantage of information asymmetry as a whole.

Lu Yi and Pan Feng, without knowing that Su Li was about to attack, first received 500 cattle from Liu Yu to pacify them, and as a result, they fell into an embarrassing state of "short hands for people".

As soon as you finished collecting your belongings and were still eating other people's wine and meat to be entertained by others, you heard that an enemy army was coming, and you were embarrassed not to help?

Lu Yi is such an arrogant person, Liu Yu carried people in a sedan chair and killed him to such a high height, of course he could only help fight a battle.

Besides, just a defensive battle against the Rangers, Koji Yi is also confident that he will play an important combat role.

The final operational deployment was as follows: Pan Feng himself brought more than 1,000 people, stationed as suspicious soldiers in the rebel camp that had been abandoned by Zhang Ju on the south bank of the river, and put on rebel clothes, patrolling around the south bank of the river, pretending that Zhang Ju had not yet broken through.

This play, of course, was played for the Sully scouts who accidentally touched the river to explore the way.

In the long-abandoned camp, countless boxes, haystacks, and curtains were also rebuilt, the purpose of which was to make the people who looked at the camp from a distance vaguely feel that there were still many supplies in the camp, so that the greedy Xianbei people drooled and strengthened their determination to rush to the rescue.

Then, the Koji tribe stayed on the north bank of the river, pretending to be the original Zhang Feibu people, and it seemed that the defense on the north-facing side was empty. And Guan Yu's navy still stayed in the river, pretending to confront Zhang Jubu played by Pan Feng, and also exposed his back to the Xianbei rescuers from the north bank.

As for the cavalry of Zhang He's division under Pan Feng, and even the cavalry of the headquarters of Lu Yi, put them on the two wings of the camp first, and find the terrain with relatively woods and green gauze tents to hide, so as not to let Su Li find out too far.

Such an arrangement, coupled with the lack of intelligence of the Xianbei people and the fact that they did not know that Zhang Ju had left, of course, stepped into the pit solidly, and turned the battle that could have given full play to the mobility advantages of the Xianbei people into a positional battle with the Han army.

There were more than 3,000 people from Liu Bei's department, 7,000 people from the Luyi department, and 5,000 people from Pan Feng's department who participated in the battle, with a total strength of 15,000.

Moreover, in addition to the frontal battlefield, Jiao Touch, the former commander of Guangyang, and Zhang Nan, the commander of Yuyang, also had more than 3,000 weak brigades deployed along the way from Suli. Although these troops could not participate in the bloody battle head-on, they were able to fight and chase down along the way after the defeat and retreat of Suli.

Such a layout finally made the Xianbei Suli Department also lose a big loss, and fled in a hurry after losing half of the rangers, completely giving up the delusion of responding to Zhang Ju.

After another three days, Zhang Ju and Su Li finally returned to the main camp of the rebels in Guanzicheng, Liaoxi, and the rebels learned that their losses were so huge, and the morale of the rebels suffered a heavy blow for a while.

And I heard that Zhang Ju looted for so long in vain, and most of the materials were not brought back, but were abandoned and burned, from Qiu Liju to Suli, the dissatisfaction with Zhang Ju skyrocketed to a level, and everyone began to worry about the problem of grain and grass, and they didn't dare to talk about coercing the displaced people to expand the army.

Because no matter how many people there are, I don't know if there will be enough military rations to feed them.

After this battle, the Han and rebel armies did not engage in any further military adventures for several months, but entered a complete siege, with each expecting to consume each other's food to bring each other down.

Zhang Ju's prestige among the Hu people temporarily declined, and he could only hope to regain his prestige after reaping the merits of "besieging and starving Gongsun Zhan". Otherwise, he hoped that Liu Yu would rush in to rescue Gongsun Zhan, go to the home field of the rebels in Guanzi City, Liaoxi, and use Gongsun Zhan as a bait to besiege the city and destroy Liu Yu's reinforcements.

On the other side, Lu Yi and Pan Feng also took a post-war pension according to the principle of more work and more reward, and each went back to Jizhou - strictly speaking, in the last battle of Suli, the Jizhou army was originally not obliged to participate in the war, because it happened completely in Youzhou.

This support army is 100% regarded as the sponsorship of the cattle that Liu Bei supplied to Liu Yu.

Liu Bei gave out so many materials, and Liu Yu wanted to help Liu Bei write a little more in the recital to report the victory to the imperial court.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, Liu Yu's recital sheet was handed over, and it would arrive in Luoyang in about five or six days. The recital also mentions some of his suggestions, expressing the hope that he can adhere to the strategic line of Lao Cheng's seriousness, give Emperor Ling of Han a preventive vaccination, and hope that the emperor will not listen to any slander that forces him to "advance and win quickly".

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The words are divided into two ends.

As the bloody battles and looting on the frontal battlefield gradually subsided, the space for diplomatic strategists to play gradually became prominent.

Since ancient times, the stage of holding each other is convenient for separation, and it is convenient for differentiation and cohesion -

What is there to talk about when the situation on the frontal battlefield is one-sided? In the face of absolute power, all divisive schemes are not needed and cannot be implemented.

Holding each other means that the two sides are basically evenly balanced, and each has its own scruples.

Li Su, who has been helping Liu Yu with financial and clerical work recently, finally has the opportunity to return to his old business of diplomatic fraud.

The performances of Liu Guan, Zhang Zhao and Lu Yi have been temporarily intermissioned! Later, let's see Li Yin who came on as a substitute!

On the tenth day of the seventh month, that is, the day when Liu Yu sent the recital to Luoyang, Liu Yu specially summoned Li Su in the afternoon.

"What do you command?"

At that time, Li Su had just figured out the account of the money and grain for a reward and bereavement, and he was quite appreciated by the leaders: Liu Yu said that he was more profitable than Cao Cao. If it weren't for his higher talent in diplomatic fraud and more important work, he would have wanted Li Su to work part-time for a long time.

Liu Yu put the account book aside, changed the topic and asked, "Do you know why I only sent the recital to Luoyang today?" ”

Li Su thought about it, and then realized that there was indeed a delay in time: Zhang Ju was completely repulsed, it was already six days ago, and the reinforcements of the Xianbei Suli Department were defeated by the Youji army, which was also four days ago.

If you want to send good news, you should send it three days in advance.

Li Su replied truthfully: "The subordinates don't know, but when the envoy talks about it, the subordinates remember that it seems to be a little late to report the victory." ”

Liu Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's because the scouts of our army on the front line of Yuyang and Youbeiping came to report, after Zhang Ju fled back to meet Qiu Liju, there were changes in Youbeiping for several days, I was afraid that the rebels would still have adventures, and I wanted to wait."

Who knows, he didn't wait for Zhang Ju to move troops to fight back, but waited for an unprecedented rebellion - Zhang Ju actually officially announced that he was the emperor yesterday, and he also issued documents all over the world, and spoke wildly! ”

When Li Su heard this, he was also slightly surprised.

Of course, he knew that Zhang Ju was now calling himself "I" internally, which could be tortured from the confessions of the rebel officers and generals who were wounded and captured on the Youzhou front. And Li Su already knew that Zhang Ju was the emperor in history.

However, Li Su still didn't expect that Zhang Ju would actually be the emperor at such a time when he lost the battle!

It's too unreasonable, too deadly.

Since ancient times, not all those who have made great achievements in military adventures have taken the opportunity to become emperors, so that there is a chance, how can anyone take advantage of the defeat to become emperors!

Li Su: "Envoy ...... There are many strange things about this matter, how can there be a thief who took advantage of the defeat to become the emperor since ancient times? ”

Liu Yu: "This is Zhang Ju's proclamation to be the emperor intercepted by Yuyang and the Youbeiping border army yesterday, you can take a look first - now do you understand what Zhang Ju is thinking?" ”

When Li Su heard this, he cautiously and respectfully accepted the hand-copied reverse text, carefully

Not to mention, Zhang Ju, although the timing of the emperor seems to have been poorly chosen, the crimes of the Han family written in the text are basically true and to the point.

Maybe it's because of the relationship between Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun who were officials, and they won't engage in Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang's propaganda of "the sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand" to win over the poor and homeless people at the bottom.

Zhang Ju's propaganda was mainly aimed at winning over the powerful clans, those classes who had the opportunity to become officials, and the reason for the rebellion was mainly to attack "the Han family sells officials and lords, and meritorious service is not rewarded".

There is no way, who let Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun be both military meritorious factions before, and they were promoted to the Yellow Turban, and they were not reused by Taiwei Zhang Wen, but because they didn't give money when their term of office arrived, they had to be dismissed.

The whole article does not talk about the tyranny or abuse of the people, but only talks about "let the Han family continue to exist, and those who have the ability and merit will not be officials, but as long as they follow me, I promise to return Li Min to a world with a fair opportunity to be an official."

Reading further, there are many examples in the text, mainly which officials were sealed after Zhang Jutian, as propaganda to lure others to be thieves.

For example, Zhang Chun was named the general of Mitian, and there were a bunch of false titles such as Wuhuan and Lord Xianbei, Guduhou, various three dukes, generals, and assassins......

When Li Su looked at it at first glance, he felt very incredible: "Is this kind of thing necessary to write so carefully like the name of the dish in cross talk?" A lot of territory is not yours yet, and it's useless for you to seal a bunch of thorn histories and go out? ”

For example, it is written that Wu Yan, who has died in battle, is the history of the Qingzhou Thorn, and his younger brother Wu Su is the history of the Yanzhou Thorn, it should be that Zhang Ju does not know that Wu Yan is dead.

But after watching it for a while, Li Su suddenly reacted.

He immediately raised his head and looked at Liu Yu, the old fox who was also well versed in soothing strategies, and then, he saw the same affirmative look in Liu Yu's eyes.

"Zhang Ju is advancing as retreating, he would rather risk the disapproval of the world and take advantage of defeat to become the emperor, but also put those Hu chieftains who supported him before to determine their official positions and titles, and their status as thieves, so as to create trouble for the imperial court to recruit them again?"

Liu Yu finally showed a relieved look: "Boya, I still underestimate you, in the entire Youzhou, there are so many civil and military staff under my command, you are the first one to look the same as me at this point." ”

Indeed, Zhang Ju was still the emperor even after losing the battle, which would be subject to greater military pressure from the imperial court, and the soldiers and commoners at the bottom were more likely to rebel and leave their relatives because of fear.

However, being crowned emperor is good for one thing, that is, it is the difficulty and psychological pressure of cutting off those princes who accepted his canonization as soon as he became emperor.

If you don't claim the emperor, there will be a lot of chaos, and those Hu chiefs can take money at any time and make peace with the Han family.

But once you support the anti-thief who clearly claims to be the emperor, the future reckoning is difficult to say.

Perhaps most of the coercion can "surrender without asking", but the Hu chieftains who clearly wrote the title of prince and marquis in the original anti-Han text will have much greater concerns anyway.

Zhang Ju wanted to drag Qiu Liju's people into the water more thoroughly! Let those princes who were canonized by him accept a vote, and from then on the possibility of making peace with the Han Dynasty will be eliminated.

Liu Yu sighed: "In this way, I want to take advantage of the two armies to win over some tribes anyway, it is much more difficult, at least for a while, I can't start - Your Majesty also wants to save face." If a Hu chieftain had just accepted Zhang Ju's canonization, the Han would have allowed him to surrender and forgive him for his previous crimes of treason, and the prestige of the Han would have been seriously damaged.

So even if you want to win over, you have to wait for this period of limelight to pass. Zhang Ju's hand will make them have to fight to the death for at least half a year, and they dare not have different intentions internally. ”

When Li Su heard this, he couldn't help but be in awe: I didn't expect that in the late Han Dynasty 1,800 years ago, there was actually a diplomatic genius in a natural state, and his ability to ponder this kind of problem was not under him, a professional top student!

Liu Yu's diplomatic skills and sense of smell are really talented.

"Envoy! There is a way for subordinates! ”

Lewen