Chapter 235: The Situation

Xiliang refused to accept Wang Hua for a long time, and told Xiliang people that righteousness would not work, and only real benefits would be useful.

Jia Xu said: "From Yinchuan to Chang'an, you can take the right to help the wind, but can't you take the left Feng Yi?" ”

As soon as these words came out, many people in the lobby burst into laughter. To go from Yinchuan to Guanzhong, of course, you don't have to go through Chencang. Guanzhong is known as "the fertile field for thousands of miles, the land of four stops", that is, in the northwest direction, you can also walk the Xiaoguan in the Liupan Mountain, but it is more dangerous over there. As long as there are a few thousand elites to defend the pass, even a hundred thousand troops will not help. After being held back for a few days, reinforcements from Guanzhong should have arrived.

After the spring of last year, the General Staff Department was merged into Menxia Province, and Zhao Yun selected more than 10 people from the army and the military academy and returned to the General Staff Department. After spending a long time, they finally came up with the third-generation wargame for deduction, and also made the sand table in Liangzhou and Guanzhong. As long as you stand in front of the sand table, you can know that it is most convenient to enter the pass in the direction of Chencang.

Yang Qiu is the secretary of the military department, and he has also seen the war games made by those people in the general staff, and he said loudly: "Do you want us to cross the Gobi Desert and make a detour to attack Guanzhong from Zuo Feng Yi?" The terrain over there is even more dangerous, if we can't fight it, we will have to re-cross the desert occupied by the Huns, if one is not good, we will be wiped out! ”

Jia Xu said: "Chen Yuanjun has already broken the Xiongnu in the past, and now he has all Liangzhou, don't you want to completely eliminate the Xiongnu to prevent future troubles?" After capturing Shangjun, you will be able to flank Guanzhong from both the north and the west, so that the enemy will lose sight of one and the other! ”

It is not that everyone here has not thought about completely exterminating the Huns, but first, the place occupied by the Huns is very barren, and secondly, the Huns cannot fight tough battles, but the guerrilla attacks are really powerful. Attacking Shangjun and Yunzhong are both things with a big investment and a small benefit, so after this suggestion was mentioned a few times, no one said it again.

Xu Wendao, the squire of the military department: "Shangjun is the territory of Bingzhou, close to Jinyang and far away from Yinchuan, why doesn't Dong Bingzhou take it himself, but wants our army to take it, what is the reason?" ”

That's right, Shangjun is the territory of the state, although it is still occupied by the Huns, but there is no reason to say that Dong Zhuo himself does not want it, but gives it to Liangzhou.

Jia Xu said with a smile: "My lord Dong and Zhou are determined to help the world, why not spare a county?" Before leaving, Dong Bingzhou had issued an edict to move the Xiongnu to Taiyuan and live in Hedong. The land of Shangjun is already ownerless, and Chen Zhijun has no intention? ”

Dong Zhuo moved all the Huns in Shangjun to Taiyuan and Hedong? Jia Xu hadn't revealed this news before, but now it's thrown out like this, and the effect is extraordinary.

Chen Cheng turned his head and whispered a few words to Yan Zhong, and then said to Zhao Yun on the side: "Send someone to ask Xu Rong in Manbo to see if there is such a thing." If there is, let that day go south one by one and occupy the upper county. ”

Zhao Yun said in a deep voice: "No." ”

Chen Cheng turned around and asked, "Dong Yuanjun gave us such a big gift, what do we need in return?" ”

Jia Xu said: "I don't want anything. ”

Chen Cheng smiled: "Really? ”

Jia Xu also laughed, and said: "I just hope that the two families will be good and help each other, if the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong attack and merge the state, Chen Yuanjun can give some pressure to the Guanzhong army in the west." ”

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Since Dong Bingzhou is so sincere, it is naturally possible." ”

Jia Xu: "In this case, there is nothing else to ask for." ”

At this point, the whole summons is over. After the meeting was dismissed, Yan Zhong took Jia Xu to the governor's mansion to meet Chen Cheng. Some things are meant to be said in the open, but some things can only be said in private. The office and the state office were very close to each other, and after a while, several people sat together again. Jia Xu sat on the Hu chair and said with a smile: "Chen Yuanjun is quite good at Hu Feng." ”

Chen Cheng said: "If Wen He likes it, he will go back and let someone send you some." ”

Jia Xu waved his hand and said, "That's not necessary, in a few days, I should go back to Merge State." ”

Yan Zhong suddenly said on the side: "Wenhe Dacai, instead of going back to Bingzhou to be a lieutenant, why don't you stay in Liangzhou?" Shang Shuling's position is none other than Wen He! ”

Jia Xu shook his head with a smile and refused; "And the state pastor has the grace of knowing me, and now I am in trouble, how can I go otherwise? Besides, his wife and children are all in Jinyang, and he has been away for a long time, and he misses it very much. ”

Just kidding, even if Yan Zhong offered a high price, Jia Xu would not jump ship so easily. The people of this era are loyal and change kings at will, but they are disgusted by most people. Can he betray once for Shang Shuling's position today, but do you know that he will not betray again for other reasons in the future?

Besides, how does Yinchuan look like a big fire pit now, Jia Xu is a smart person, how can he jump into the fire pit with his eyes open? So he firmly refused.

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Since Wenhe is unwilling to come back to Liangzhou now, then we are not reluctant, everyone has their own ambitions." But I want to ask privately, is the situation in the state already so bad? So much so that Dong Bingzhou wanted to move the Huns inward, and also gave us all the upper counties. ”

Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, and his evaluation of Chen Cheng in his heart was a little higher, and then he replied: "Chen Yuanjun's eyes are like torches, and the situation in Bingzhou is indeed not good. The foundation of Dong Bingzhou is in Xiliang, and there are many old departments of Ding Yuan in Bingzhou, so many heroes in the state are not convinced. ”

Yan Zhong sneered: "The imperial court's strategy is not bad to transfer Ding Yuan, who was born in Bingzhou, to Guanzhong, and to send Dong Zhuo, who is rooted in Xiliang, to Bingzhou. ”

Chen Cheng smiled and asked again: "The Kwantung group rose together, and once hit the front line of Xingyang Chenggao, and the Bingzhou army also entered Hongnong, but they were successively repelled by the soldiers and horses of the great general He Jin. Yiwen and look, next, will the general be able to flatten the Kanto heroes? ”

The current situation is very different from Chen Cheng's memory, in his memory, in another world, after He Jin was killed, Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to control the court, but his name is not right, and he has no foundation in the court, so the world is opposed.

But He Jin is different from Dong Zhuo, He Jin is a general, the uncle of the Son of Heaven, although he is not dealing with Yuan An, Yuan Kui, Yang Biao and other family magnates, but he has also won the support of many middle-level scholars. For example, Zhang Yang, Zhang Miao, Zang Hong and others once raised troops to fight against Dong Zhuo in another world, but in this world, they were all important ministers under He Jin.

Zhang Yang was appointed as the Taishou of Hanoi, and he ruled more than 150,000 households and 50,000 soldiers and horses, and restrained a large part of the troops of Hebei and Bingzhou. Among the scholars who were recruited by He Jin before, some of them fled from Luoyang with Yuan Shao's person of Yuan Shu, but some of them stayed behind and were reused like Zhang Yang.

These people made a great contribution to the fight against the Kwantung coalition forces and against Dong Zhuo. Hongnong, Mianchi and other places were surrounded by Dong Zhuo's army, but they held on to it, which led to Dong Zhuo's inability to retreat later, and he was forced to fight with the imperial court soldiers and horses on the edge of the Jianhe River, and almost lost his life.

Chen Cheng thinks that his intelligence is the same as his ability to command troops, and he can only be regarded as above average, and his advantage over the natives of this world is only a little more insight and knowledge. Now that the situation in the world has become like this, he can't see exactly how it will change next.

Although He Jin looted in Luoyang and Guanzhong, he won a military victory after all. Military superiority can be converted into political strength. Since he won the battle, even if the people and heroes under his rule are dissatisfied, they can only endure it.

If he were He Jin, he would now take advantage of the military superiority to continue to use troops, choose one of the enemies in the north and south as the main target of attack, and strive to completely defeat the next road. The mountains and rivers on the surface of the state are not a place to use force, and it is only right to defeat one of the two groups of Yuan Shu or Yuan Shao first.

As long as they can continue to win, there will be a chain reaction, such as Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Pet in Chen Guo, Liu Yu in Youzhou, Liu Miao in Yangzhou, Liu Dai in Yanzhou, etc., are still neutral, but as long as He Jin can win a few more games, they may fall to the general.

After all, the Han family has a tradition of leading troops with relatives, and He Jin now represents the orthodoxy of the Han family, which is not comparable to Dong Zhuo.

Chen Cheng himself couldn't see the current situation clearly, so he naturally needed to ask others for advice. Although Yan Zhong was also a famous wise man, he was now in Liangzhou, and he could not grasp the situation in Kanto in time, so he could only make some suggestions, but he could not make a clear judgment.

Otherwise, Yan Zhong would not have felt anxious because Chen Cheng said that it would take another two years before he could use troops. Now that the situation in the world is chaotic, what if He Jin eliminated the Yuan brothers in the past two years? Or maybe one of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu entered Luoyang, and with the prestige of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the world might have settled down again.

At that time, the imperial court will use a large army to conquer, and even if the Xiliang army is brave and good at fighting, it will be impossible to fight against the elite soldiers and horses of the whole country. Of course, Chen Cheng was not worried about Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu entering Luoyang. If Yuan Shao controlled the imperial court, he would join forces with Zhang Yan and Gongsun Zhan, so that he would have a fight with Yuan Shao.

As for Yuan Shu, "Yuan Changshui, a ghost in the road", is even less worth worrying about. Yuan Highway is talented, rebellious, arrogant, and in another world, almost all the princes have been put on his opposite side, which can be regarded as a miracle.

Faced with Chen Cheng's question, Jia Xu pondered for a while and replied: "Whether the general can flatten the heroes of the Kwantung region depends on whether Yanzhou and Yuzhou can be all this year." If you can seize Runan County occupied by Yuan Shu, and drive Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses back to Hebei, then the prestige of the imperial court is bound to rise, and the heroes and heroes of the world will also be submissive, and the heroes of the Kanto region will be powerless. ”

Chen Cheng asked, "What if the general can't capture the Central Plains this year?" ”

In a narrow sense, the Central Plains is only Henan, and now it refers to Yanzhou and Yuzhou. These two states, with their large populations and vast plains, are the essence of China, and if they can seize these two territories, the financial pressure on the imperial court can be eased. When the grain in the fields is harvested, it can be eaten by an army of 200,000.

Therefore, the ancients once said: Those who win the Central Plains win the world because the Central Plains has a large population and abundant products.