Chapter 245 Strategy

Hearing that it was written by Yan Zhong's old man, Yan Xing couldn't help but be a little surprised, and couldn't help but glance at the letter on the table, but then took his gaze back. When Yan Zhong saw it, he smiled and said, "You're curious about who wrote it?" ”

Yan Xing was a little ashamed, and said, "I didn't hold back for a while, and I ask my uncle to forgive me." ”

Yan Zhong said disapprenously: "All my things will be left to you in the future, what is a letter?" ”

He picked up the letter, handed it to Yan Xing, and said, "Huangfu Song wrote it, you can take a look." ”

Yan Xing wiped his hands, then took the letter, unfolded it and looked at it for a while, then raised his head and said in surprise: "What does Huangfu Song mean by this?" ”

"Hey, what else can you mean? Knowing that we were going to use troops to the east again in a year or two, he warned us. ”

Yan Xing was still a little puzzled and asked, "But the Eastern Crusade is a strategy that has been set a long time ago, the army is expanding, and the factory has been producing armor and weapons. Could it be that if he writes a letter, we will abandon the established strategy? ”

Yan Zhong laughed out loud and said, "Huangfu Song wants to tell us that he is already preparing for Fufeng, if we are smart enough, we won't go to Chen Cang again." Huangfu Yizhen, Huangfu Yizhen, if you listened to me that day, why did you get so embarrassed? ”

"Uncle is saying that Huangfu Song no longer has the confidence to continue to hold Fufeng?"

"If he still has that ability, why bother?" Yan Zhong sneered: "I don't know who gave him the idea, and actually let us attack Dong Zhuo." Although the state is vast, how can it be compared to the fertile fields in Shangguan? Captured the three auxiliaries, than the last few and merge states! ”

He said to Yan Xing: "Come, polish the ink for me, I want to write a reply letter to Huangfu Song." ”

Yan Xing quickly set up the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, first adding a little water to the inkstone, and then dissolving the ink. Yan Zhong pondered for a while, picked up the brush and wrote on the laid paper. An envelope is sprinkled with hundreds of words, and there is almost no pause in writing it down.

Chen Cheng destroyed Song Jian in just ten days, which not only shook the entire Liangzhou and Guanzhong. Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Bingzhou, was also shocked, he had led troops to fight in Xiliang for many years, and he knew the recklessness of the Xiliang people the most, and he never imagined that Song Jian, who had tens of thousands of soldiers, would be destroyed so easily.

Now that Liangzhou has been unified under the feet of a strong man, it will definitely expand to the surrounding areas next. And he was still competing with Ding Yuan and Zhang Yang, and his strength was not only not enhanced, but was greatly weakened in the continuous war. For this reason, Dong Zhuo also felt very worried.

He invited Li Ru to his house and asked, "Although He Jin is in decline now, our army has been entangled with the enemy in Hedong. Now Chen Cheng in the west has all Liangzhou, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao in the east, and Yuan Shu in the south, etc., all of them have occupied more territory and have more soldiers and horses. If it continues like this, I'm afraid that even if He Jin is destroyed, there will be nothing to do with you and me in the future! ”

Li Ru pondered for a long time, and then said, "I have also thought about what the lord said. Now Ding Yuan has his back against Guanzhong, and his manpower and material resources are several times that of ours, and he has Lu Bu and Zhang Liao as generals, so it is our army that has suffered repeated setbacks. If the lord wants to break the current predicament, he must first make a truce with Ding Yuan. ”

Dong Zhuo's previous arrow wound in the Battle of Jianhe had healed, and the whole person had regained his shrewd and capable appearance, and he asked in a deep voice: "Ding Yuan is indeed a great enemy, of course it is good to be able to stop fighting with him first." But he is bent on returning to the state, but he is afraid that he will not give up with me. ”

Li Ru said: "If we go to lobby, Ding Yuan is now gaining the upper hand, so he naturally refuses to make a truce, but how can he go in and tell him?" ”

Dong Zhuo shook his head and said, "According to what you said before, Yang Feng accepted the canonization of the imperial court, but Ding Yuan still refused to give up. The authority of the imperial court, He Jin's orders, no longer worked with him. ”

Li Ru said: "Now that Ding Yuan has a rift with the imperial court, we might as well add another fire to it." ”

"Oh, the plan will be released?"

"The lord is not as good as the court, saying that he is willing to return to the general's command. He Jin is now in embarrassment and will not disagree. In this way, Ding Yuan will be in a dilemma. If we retreat, we can rest assured that we can accumulate strength and wait for the world to change. If he refuses to withdraw his troops, the authority of the imperial court will be lost. With Ding Yuan as an example, who else in the world will obey the orders of the imperial court? I'm afraid that Zhang Yang, Zhang Miao, Zang Hong and others, together with those generals on the Central Plains front, will also do their own thing. ”

Dong Zhuo's face changed color slightly, "Wen You, is this asking me to ask He Jin to surrender?" I was the first righteous in the world before, and now I am the first to submit to the imperial court? How can I, Dong Zhongying, be such a capricious villain? What do you make the world think of me? ”

Seeing Dong Zhuo angry, Li Rubai fell to the ground and said: "With the ability of Huaiyin, there is still the humiliation of the crotch, the situation is critical today, why don't the lord endure the anger for a while, and wait for him?" If the lord can establish the merits of Han Gaozu, why should he care about other people's opinions? On the contrary, if it falls into the fate of Wujiang who kills himself like Xiang Ji, what can he do even if he is praised by the world? ”

Dong Zhuo's face turned a little pale, he stepped forward and stretched out his hand to help Li Ru, sighed, and said, "This matter still needs to be carefully considered by me." ”

Li Ru and Dong Zhuo have known each other for more than ten years and are extremely familiar with his temperament. I know that although my father-in-law said that he wanted to consider it, he would definitely agree in the end. Sure enough, only a few days later, Dong Zhuo called Li Ru again and asked him to write a letter asking the court to surrender.

But it was said that it was a request for surrender, in fact, he did not hand over the territory of the troops and horses, and second, he did not go to the capital to report on his work, which was more appropriate than a truce. Now Dong Zhuo has a strong rebellion in the state, and Ding Yuan is chasing and beating hard, it is the time of anxiety, He Jin is not much better, there are princes from all over the country peeping outside, and the Yellow Turban Army is resurgence inside, so you need to take a breath first.

So the two sides hit it off, and soon staged a jaw-dropping show.

In the eyes of the people of the world now, Chen Cheng fell to Liangzhou, and he led himself to Liangzhou Mu, of course, he is a thief. The White Polish Army and the Black Mountain Army were also anti-thieves, and they were both surrendered by the imperial court. This makes the hearts of the people in the world more turbulent, since as long as there are soldiers and horses, even thieves can be state pastors and lieutenant generals, so why can't others?

The local heroes have already raised a large number of tribes, and have been suffering from being monopolized by the family to move forward, even if they can be powerful in the local area, but once they encounter something, dozens of hundreds of years of savings will immediately come to naught. Now that I see this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how can I not take the opportunity to work hard?

As soon as Liu Biao arrived in Jingzhou, he united with the local clans, ambushed the knife and axe hands, and staged a version of the Hongmen banquet in the late Han Dynasty during the banquet. But this time, the local heroes who came to the banquet were not as lucky as Liu Bang. Liu Biao was not as indecisive as Xiang Yu, he killed all the more than 70 powerful people who went to the banquet in one go, and then stabilized the situation in Jingzhou.

But this is also the kind of behavior that makes the heroes of the four counties of Lingling, Guiyang, Wuling, and Changsha dare not go to Jingzhou. Even when Jingzhou was at war with foreign enemies, the four southern counties were only united to protect themselves.

In Jingzhou, the scholars purged the powerful forces. In Bingzhou, Dong Zhuo cleaned up all the scholars and heroes, but in fact, the difference between scholars and heroes is not so obvious and strict. Those who occupy large fields and have many slaves and guests can be called Haoqiang.

If the children of Haoqiang can worship under the great Confucianism of the time, and can make a little reputation among the scholars, then they can be hooked with the scholars. If there are a few high-ranking officials of a thousand stone or more in the family, and they can continue for several generations, then they can be called famous families and truly become a member of the scholar class.

Dong Zhuo cleaned up Haoqiang, and the scholars and doctors could barely accept it, but his methods were too ruthless, and even many scholars in the state were killed, which aroused strong opposition from the world's corporals. After the imperial court issued an order to reprimand, Dong Zhuo brazenly raised the flag of rebellion, and played the name of "Qing Jun's side", and the votes led by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu actually responded in groups.

It's magical enough, but there's more to come. Dong Zhuo, the first rebel pastor of Bingzhou, after two years of fighting, saw that he couldn't go on, changed his body, and expressed his intention to surrender to the imperial court, and the imperial court really agreed, and sent someone to Bingzhou to add the name of "Che Cavalry General" to Dong Zhuo.

This kind of operation simply stunned everyone in the world, and in comparison, the methods that Chen Cheng played in Liangzhou were just small tricks. Chen Cheng sighed with emotion: "If people are forced to be in a hurry, they can really do anything!" ”

Yan Zhong took the opportunity to say; "So can we advance the eastward march by a year? Now that the imperial court is weak, maybe we don't need to wait until the year after tomorrow, and we can use troops after next autumn. If we act late, I'm afraid that Dong Zhuo will occupy Guanzhong, and then things will be difficult. Dong Zhuo is not as good as Ding Yuan, he has a lot of relatives and friends in Guanzhong and Xiliang. ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Dong Zhuo is too busy to take care of himself now, where can he have the ability to capture Guanzhong?" ”

Yan Zhong said: "The imperial court has issued an order to Ding Yuan, asking him to withdraw his soldiers and horses from Hedong and continue to deliver grain and grass to Luoyang. Ding Yuan resisted and disobeyed, and sent troops to block Tongguan, and now the rebellion is no longer Dong Zhuo, but Ding Yuan! ”

Chen Cheng raised his eyebrows and said leisurely; "Ding Yuan is doing this, I'm afraid it's not far from death."

Yan Zhong looked at Chen Cheng in surprise, and after a while, he said, "The prince also knows that Ding Jianyang's death is coming?" ”

Chen Cheng said: "I once stayed in Jizhou for a long time, at that time Huangfu Song was the pastor of Jizhou, I really know Huang Fuyi, not under Bodao!" ”

Yan Zhong said with a smile: "The letter that Huangfu Song wrote to me before, the prince has also read it. Probably he didn't expect that in a few days, this rebellion and the officers and soldiers would switch identities. Why don't we march into Guanzhong in the name of crusading against Ding Yuan? ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "We must have the strength to seize the entire Guanzhong before we can attack Fufeng." Only when we have the capital to be the enemy of the world can we occupy Luoyang. The matter of war affects the whole body, and you can't just look at Fufeng, but also see the entire Guanzhong. Our march into Guanzhong is not only a military issue, but also an economic and political issue. Hundreds of thousands of households in Guanzhong, more than one million people, we want it, Dong Zhuo also wants it, but now it is still in Ding Yuan's hands. ”

"What if Ding Yuan dies?"

"Even if Ding Yuan is really dead, Huang Fuyi is still there." Chen Cheng said: "Wait until the year after tomorrow to expand the number of tooth soldiers to 20,000, so that I can be sure that while defeating Huangfu Song, I can also resist Dong Zhuo and He Jin." ”

Yan Zhong said hesitantly: "I'm afraid that I don't have to wait until the year after tomorrow, He Jin has already been defeated." ”

"Then wait until He Jin is defeated."