From Li Su's standpoint, he didn't really want to immediately pass on the news that "Chang'an was besieged and the emperor and Wang Yun were in danger under the blows of the rebels" to Liu Bei.

After all, Li Su knows history, and he is calm enough: Wang Yun and the old school Beijing officials who are dying and decrepit and occupy positions are washed, which is more beneficial to the Han Dynasty that has accumulated a lot of difficulties and "clean the house before inviting guests", and it is easier to realize Zhongxing.

Dahan needs a group of fresh blood in their thirties and forties to directly grasp the highest decision-making power. All the old guys in their fifties and sixties have a rigid brain, and they can't turn to the thinking mode of "logic for hegemony" and "meritocracy", and will only stick to the path dependence they developed when they were young, and play the struggle of court officialdom.

Liu Bei was thirty-three years old, Sun Jian and Cao Cao were thirty-nine years old, and Yuan Shao was only in his forties.

However, in any case, Li Su knew that there were some things that could not be concealed, and that the embassy and the accompanying escorts of hundreds of people had heard about the enemy's situation, and it would be a great rebellion to conceal the report.

So Li Su can only make a fuss about appeasement. He first persuaded Zhong Xuan, who was an angel of the Chincha:

"Yuan Chang, what the soldiers and civilians of Yixian County said should be true, going to Chang'an now is tantamount to sending a tiger to death, it is better to go back to Nanzheng, and plan the soldiers and horses from the long term. The city of Chang'an is strong, and if it is defended, it should not be a problem for several months.

I'm not afraid to tell you that although General Zhengxi has made great efforts to govern and rectify Shudi, and claims to have trained 50,000 elite soldiers, General Guan is still fighting with Ailaoyi in Yongchang, and General Zhang is in Qianwei, chasing and killing the remnants of the barbarian king in the Yuewang Mountains.

Counting the time notified by the envoy, it would take General Zhang a month at the earliest to bring the troops back to Hanzhong, which was already a rapid march. And General Guan's troops, I'm afraid they won't be able to count on it until the heavy snow closes the mountain in winter. General Zhao even guarded the gorge in Yidu.

Now Hanzhong is empty, and there are only 5,000 Tuntian soldiers in the full battle, and they can't defeat the remnants of the Dong thief rebels anyway. If you want to help in the battle, you have to wait at least a month for General Zhang's troops to arrive. ”

Li Su said very sincerely, he hoped that Zhong Xuan, as an angel, would realize the practical difficulties of the Yizhou Army.

And if he really waited for more than a month before sending troops, Wang Yun estimated that it would already be cold.

When Zhong Miao first heard this, he was really surprised, he didn't expect Liu Bei's troops in Hanzhong to be so empty. Li Su inevitably explained to Zhong Xuan what Liu Bei said a few years ago, "because of the difficulty in transporting military grain in Shu Dao, I want to put all the food consumption of the garrison training in the Chengdu Plain in peacetime, so that all the tax and grain in Hanzhong can be saved up and used in wartime", and explained to Zhong Xuan in exchange for the understanding of Zhong Xuan and the imperial court.

also said that it was because Wang Yun designed to kill Dong Zhuo that it was an emergency, and who would have thought that "after Wang Yun succeeded, he would actually stab Lou Zi and couldn't hold on" This kind of second small probability event would happen, so as soon as he heard that Dong Zhuo was dead, Liu Bei stopped the transfer order to transfer Zhang Fei to the north, otherwise he would not be so passive now.

Zhong Xuan finally expressed his understanding: "There are so many difficulties, no matter what, this Chen Yu rescued Zhao Xie's momentum, the thief army is strong, and the rash advance is also in vain, since Chang'an is stronger than Handan, he should wait for the courage of the overlord to backup." ”

Zhong Xuan read a lot at first glance, and quoted scriptures when talking about the situation.

The allusion he mentioned about Chen Yu saving Zhao Xie is that before the battle of Julu at the end of Qin, Zhang Han and Wang Li besieged Zhao Wang Xie, when Zhao Xiang Zhang Er was originally a brother in life and death with Chen Yu, the general of Zhao State, Zhang Er sent two brave generals to break through and contact and force Chen Yu outside the city to save the king without regard for his life.

But Chen Yu knew that he had only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and it was in vain to rush up to face hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, so he insisted on waiting for Song Yi and Xiang Yu's Chu army to come to reinforce before they could attack together. In the end, Chen Yu was forced by the two brave generals sent by Zhang Er to have no choice, so he had to give the two brave generals 5,000 soldiers a symbolic rescue, and as a result, all the 5,000 people died in Zhang Han's army, and they were given in vain. In the end, it was all up to Xiang Yu to rush to the shipwreck, and only then did he kill Zhang Han Wangli.

Zhong Xuan is now comparing Xu Huang's 5,000 Hanzhong Tuntian soldiers to Chen Yu's fish belly, and Zhang Fei's reinforcements to Xiang Yu, and the choice is obvious.

Li Su finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Zhong Xuan was dealt with, in the face of all the officials sent by the imperial court in the future, there would be a credible enough explanation, and no one would talk about Liu Bei's rescue in time.

"That being the case, let's not stay in danger, let's go back to Nanzheng to report the news first."

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On the way back, they were in a hurry, and they returned to Nanzheng in two and a half days. Even the escort team of hundreds of people was not all brought back, but only Li Su, Zhong Xuan and a few guards with fast horses left first, and the brigade stayed in the Taibai Valley in the north valley mouth of the Baochuan Road and stationed there.

Hurry up so quickly, it is enough to show the loyalty of Li Su and Zhong Xuan.

It's a pity that after arriving in Nanzheng, the development of the situation still exceeded Li Su's expectations.

He counted everything, but he couldn't directly control the decisions of the lord.

After Liu Bei heard that the emperor was in danger and besieged by the rebel generals, he was shocked: "It was Li Dao and Guo Yan who made the trouble? ”

Zhong Xuan: "It is Li Dao Guo Yan, I heard that General You said that there are not enough soldiers and horses in Hanzhong, it is better to wait for more than a month, wait for General Zhang to lead the main force back to help, and then slowly figure it out." ”

But Liu Bei actually reprimanded Zhong Xuan in turn: "Zhong Yuanchang, you have been a Hanlu eater for more than ten years, and you have not taken Your Majesty's safety and interests as the priority, you are too disappointing to me!" Although our army has few soldiers and is not proficient, the anti-thieves are only Li Dao and Guo Yan, which shows that there are still many loyal and righteous people. Now they are rampant, and it is because there are too few loyal people who dare to stand up that they have fueled the arrogance of thieves!

Maybe now Wang Situ and Lu Bu, and Li Dao Guo Yan's combat power is only between the two of them, we send troops to support, even if the combat strength is not much, as long as the bluff inspires the hearts of the people in the land of Sanqin, and shows that the rebellion is obedient, we will naturally get more help. If you become a turtle with a shrunken head, it will lead more and more people to become thieves! Fighting a war is not about the number of people, but about morale! ”

Li Su saw that he was about to suffer, but he didn't expect that he would finally deal with foreign enemies, and he would have to deal with the loyalty of his lord.

"Not good! I have calculated a lot and calculated the psychology of other people, but I don't know the question of 'Liu Bei, who has been deeply favored by the country since he was in his thirties, will be loyal and righteous to the emperor'!

The point is that this can't be deduced at all! Liu Bei in history, in his early years, was in a state of 'sighing and hating Huan Ling', he was depressed and depressed, and he just wanted to save the Han Dynasty, but he may not have feelings for the emperor. Could it be that now it is because he has received too much imperial favor? ”

However, this question cannot be deduced, the amount of data is not enough, and Li Su usually can't ask it - because as long as you ask this kind of question, the answer you get must be "I swear allegiance to Your Majesty and work hard" This answer.

Even the unfaithful would answer like this, even Sima Yi would answer like this. In the absence of a lie detector, you don't know how sincere you are, and you are familiar with asking in vain.

And what does Liu Bei think, only when he really has to withstand the test of life and death, can he know the wind and the grass, and the board can know the Chengchen.

Li Su was afraid that Liu Bei would be impulsive, so he hurriedly popularized the enemy situation to him: "The lord must not underestimate the enemy, it seems that only Li Dao Guo Yan rebelled, but I estimate that the Xiliang army will respond to Li Dao Guo Yan a lot - when I made a pilgrimage to the capital a few days ago, I observed his details, Wang Yun was extremely contemptuous of the generals and soldiers of Xiliang, and maybe it would be coerced into a collapse!"

Our army must wait for Yide to return before sending troops! And I expect that Li Dao and Guo Yan are only anti-Wang Yun in order to protect themselves, and they will never dare to kill the king. Even if you wait a few months, Your Majesty will definitely not be in danger! ”

Who knew that this hasty plugging of the leak was like a spark, igniting another point of Liu Bei's attention: "What? Boya, you said that when you saw Wang Yun, you could see that he couldn't hold the Xiliang army steadily? Then why didn't you say it earlier! We had more than a month to prepare!

Why didn't you tell me this when you came back from Beijing for the first time, so that I would have been able to adjust Yide back from Qianwei at that time, and wouldn't there be enough elite soldiers to rescue the Northern Expedition now! ”

Li Su was stunned and couldn't deal with it, because he found that the dissuasion of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall would gradually expose the other calculations that had been originally calculated. But now, he had to insist: "I just felt that there was a hidden danger of instability, who would have expected that the hidden danger would definitely explode?"

Moreover, in the early summer, when Yun Chang and I were separated in Yongchang, we discussed that in early July, Yide would pretend to be in Qianwei to feign an attack on Yue Net, and create conditions for Yun Chang to surprise Gao Yi's lair. If I had come back from my first visit to Beijing in June, I would have persuaded you to transfer back to Yide because of the hidden danger of chasing after the wind and shadows, it would have been too late to inform Yun Chang.

At that time, without Yide's cooperation, Yun Chang launched an offensive from Yongchang as planned, so he had to face Gao Yi's heavy troops alone in the poor and barren mountainous area to defend Qiongdu. In the dangerous place of Liangshan, the lord bears the heart of Yun Chang, in case there is any setback? I admit that I was lucky, but I didn't mean to, I felt that the little risk on the northern route was not as important as the real profit on the southern route. ”

Li Su persuaded him repeatedly, and Liu Bei gradually became angry: "Okay, you have no malicious intentions, it's just a fluke, I don't ask you about your negligence and concealment." But at this point, our own mistakes cannot be at the cost of the dust of the Son of Heaven.

Your Majesty's new title of King of Hanzhong is the time when the world is looking sideways. Lonely has the spare strength to save the driver, no matter how many troops he has, he must do his duty as a minister, how can he not move forward! Order, let Gongming point up all the Tuntian soldiers in Nanzheng, Chuyang, and Baozhong, and go north to rescue the driver in person! ”

After Li Su heard Liu Bei talk about the grace of the king, he suddenly claimed that he had turned into a "lonely", emphasizing that he should be saved if he was loyal to righteousness.

Li Su could only quickly change his words: "The king can't!" If you have to save the driver, let Xu Huang lead the division to go out of the martial arts, wait and see in Wuzhangyuan and Yixian, wave the flag and shout for the momentum, and divide the thief to support Chang'an. The king must not put his body in danger! The minister does not obey the order! ”

Liu Bei is also on fire, and it is rare that since he partnered with Li Su, he scolded Li Su for the first time: "Presumptuous! Whether to save the driver or not is the righteousness, can't you go alone if you don't obey the order? Could it be that you don't know the soldiers?

Filial piety, you know that you are well versed in the geography around Yixian County, and you have been defending the pass for several years. Zijing, you entertain Boya Haosheng in the mansion, and when the orphan comes back, ask him again for his fault for neglecting to report the crisis of the Son of Heaven. ”

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Today's three watches, leaving no suspense, lest you be sprayed with a turn. For fear that everyone will not be patient with the glass heart, it is better to spoil a few hours in advance, and no famous general will hang up.