Li Xiang and Li Shi, who are all old "surrender factions", have persuaded Li Xiong to go to the emperor and follow Jinshuo in the past, so as not to be greedy for fame and get into real trouble.

Do you think anyone can be the Son of Heaven? If you practice your position and give your name, you will naturally be hostile to the heroes of the Quartet, and it is better to be the king behind closed doors, and it is more safe. Whether it is the previous Emperor Jin, or the later Emperor Han, King Zhao, or even Emperor Hua, they must first pick the forces that are also called the emperor to fight, and then it is the turn of the person who is said to be the king, so why should we go out of our way to find someone to beat it? Isn't it good to sit behind and watch the tiger fight first?

However, Li Shou, the son of Li Xiang, objected to his father's view, saying: "Brother Ruo didn't listen to Fan Lao before...... Mr. said that the emperor, or in the Jin Dynasty that went to the emperor's name, and was named the king by the Jin, and then it was just that, and now it has been practiced for a long time, how can there be a reason to change the number because of an edict? This will make the hearts of the people in Shu turbulent, and the ministers will think that the brother is cowardly, then I am afraid that even the king will not be able to be called for long.

"And as Grandpa and eldest brother said, go to the emperor, but in order to temporarily protect the northern front, so that our army can smoothly take Ningzhou in the south. It's just that now that Hua and Zhao are fighting fiercely, they will have no time to look west, and those who threaten me face to face will only visit Hanzhong Zhou. Zhou Shida is a young man, and he will want to take down my country to make meritorious contributions, whether he goes to the emperor or not, he will always be soldiered. Unless the Chinese lord Yi Hanzhong guards and comforts me with kind words, plus a brother and a prince, why rush to the emperor's name? ”

Li Xiong was difficult to decide, and always thought that Ren Hui was wise, but unfortunately he was not around, so he asked Situ Wangda and Taiwei Li Yun: "The people of my family are undecided, and the foreign surnames of Qing and others must be more fair-what do Qing and others think?" ”

Wang Dadao: "The former Jin Zuo has been repeated several times, thanks to the support of Lord Hua, it is rekindled by the embers, and the power of Hua is undoubtedly stronger than that of Jin." Previously, Majesty Xiang had the intention of going to the emperor and serving Jinshuo, not to mention today? From what Taifu and Taibao said. ”

Li Yun said: "Otherwise, the minister thinks that what General Zhengdong (Li Shou) said is the right reason." And although Jinhua is subject to Zen, Jiankang Sima Rui and Wuchang Wang Dun may not be willing to obey their orders; If Jing Yang and others also follow Huashuo, we may only retreat and forbear; If he does not obey, why should Your Majesty lower his name? It is better to send Jiankang, Wuchang, and Wang Dun to resist the Zhou visit together, so as to wait for the change of the situation in the world. ”

Li Xiong bowed his head and said: "This is reasonable, I am from the Jin Dynasty, inherit the foundation of Grandpa, and the emperor is in the west, even if I go to the emperor's name, I should still be from Jinshuo, how can I change from Huashuo?" If the king of Danyang, Wang Chuzhong and others want to succeed the Jin industry, they should help each other with reason, and they can also watch over the situation. So he still asked Li Xiang to come forward and sent a letter to Emperor Pei Gai, saying that he had no intention of fighting and hoped to coexist peacefully, and then warmly entertained the Chinese envoy and asked him to bring the letter back to Luoyang. At the same time, he sent an envoy to contact Sima Rui and Wang Dun.

Sima Rui and Wang Dun naturally refused. The most critical question, the Jin Dynasty now has no emperor, but only one Jin king, if the letter is written to the king of Chengdu, even if we don't serve Jin Shuo, we can temporarily unite, this Li Xiong, you are still called the emperor, how can we talk to you, wouldn't it be humiliating? !

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Let's not mention it for the time being, and say that Hanzhong is sixty-one years old this year, and I know that there is not much time to go - Chen Xun said that I will be a birthday, is this more than 60 still considered a birthday? It must be Lao Tianjia's ambition, and I have already made a fortune in terms of longevity - considering that I am still meritorious in Yu Jin, but Yu Hua has no meritorious work, so I resolutely want to send troops to attack Shu despite the opposition of the masses.

- I have to make a name for Lingyan Pavilion while I am still alive, so that my descendants will succeed Juelu forever in the future, and the mountains and rivers will not replace it!

The plan is to raise the voice to the east to Zitong to force Chengdu, in fact, in the south chin.

Son-in-law Tao Zhan advised: "The Shu road is difficult, and it is better to return Jingzhou to the east than to the west to Shu." Otherwise, if Fang attacks Shu, and Wang Dun attacks me, what will I do? ”

Zhou Shida sighed: "Wouldn't I want to kill Wang Dun? However, when I go out of the east, I will be on the water, and Wang Dun will have thousands of ships after all, and I may not have a chance to win by competing for power by water...... It's better to cut Shu, Wang Dun is in Wuchang, and he wants to attack Hanzhong, the distance is far away, if he sends Wang Xuan and others, he has nothing to fear. That is, Daozhen will stay in Nanzheng and protect me. ”

Then he asked the generals, who is willing to join the expedition, and who is willing to take the lead?

The generals asked for their lives, and one person stood out, seven feet tall, with a strong belly, and arched his hand upwards: "A certain national general, why didn't General Zhou order me to be the first?" When Zhou Wan looked at this person, he couldn't help frowning secretly - what kind of mess did you jump out of!

This person is not him, he is the old general Gao Le of Guanzhong, who was ordered by Pei Gai the year before last to go to Hanzhong to assist Zhou to visit and train troops. said that when he first saw Gao Le, Zhou Yu also paid him a lot of respect, and hoped that he would be able to teach him the secret method of Guanzhong Army's refinement; However, after getting along for a while, I found that this General Gao was basically useless.

Why is the Guanzhong Army good at fighting? First, because Pei should pay attention to production and be able to eat enough, the training intensity is relatively high, and the weapons and equipment are also excellent; Second, Pei should attach importance to ideological education, and a series of epoch-making organizational innovations such as the restoration of Sima Zhizhi. In this regard, although Gao Le has been with Pei Gai for a long time, he only knows the skin, or knows it but does not know why, and cannot use it according to the specific situation. As for the specific training and marching formation, it is basically the same as Zu Ti and Tao Kan, there are not too many new things, and Zhou Yu is also a famous general, so where can Gao Le be taught?

Therefore, Gao Le is almost useless in Hanzhong, and every day he is only a mellow wine woman, and he is only worshiped by Zhou Visit, but he eats a big belly.

And Zhou Wan gradually didn't look down on Gao Le's character. The point is that the Chinese envoy arrived the day before yesterday, and Zhou visited Wang Dun's back first, and refused to make a decision for a while, but Gao Le packed his luggage and interrupted and ran quietly...... Fortunately, Tao Zhan took precautions in advance, for fear that Gao Le would flee back to Chang'an and Luoyang to sue Zhou for his troubles, which would lead to the final collapse of his claim from China, so he sent someone to block him back.

Zhou Wanxin said that even if I don't follow China, we still have a friendship on the surface, I may not kill you, what are you running? Loyal and warriors should not be afraid of death. And you have to at least come to me to persuade me first, and if I don't listen and then run away, it will be reasonable. Pei Wenyue has a waste that can't be placed, so he specially bombarded me here for an idle meal, right?

However, today Gao Le took the initiative to ask for an order, which also impressed Zhou Wan, and said that although this person has no brains, he seems not afraid of death, and he still has the ambition to make contributions to the battle......

Gao Le was originally timid, and when he was still in Xuzhou, Zhen Sui scolded him many times in front of him for being a coward, and when he arrived in Guanzhong after a battle, the big guys also saw it clearly, this person was really unusable, Pei should take care of the old feelings, and he couldn't bear to give up, so he was excluded from the core of the army and rushed to Hanzhong. Gao Le was quite happy at first, anyway, I am already a Wupin general, I have been awarded the title of Marquis again, and I have no regrets in my life, so I will stay away from the battlefield and save my life, wouldn't it be good?

However, this time, the Chinese envoy came to Hanzhong and worshiped him as a colonel of the fourth grade and a marquis of Wuqiang Pavilion, but he was somewhat unbalanced. Because of inquiring with the envoy, the four battalion governors of the "Fenglin Volcano" at the beginning, Zhen and Liu were named lieutenant generals, and Lu Yan was named major general, all of whom were higher than themselves; Not only that, most of the deputies of each battalion are now major generals, and Lu He, who is subordinate to his own subordinates, is even more tied to Zhen and Liu, and has to be named lieutenant general...... I was left behind, how will I see each other in the future!

No, I have to make some more contributions, at least to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and major general. Fortunately, I've also bumped into Hu Lu, are you still afraid that those Kou will not succeed? Bashu thief, what is there to be afraid of? That's why he took the initiative to come out and ask to be a pioneer.

Naturally, Zhou Lai is not allowed, but he is only comforted by kind words - the important task of the vanguard, how can he be lightly awarded to a foreign general who does not look down on him? So he finally appointed Yang Hu to lead the army first, and led the main force to follow, and only handed over half a battalion to Gao Le, and ordered him to go west, thinking that he was a suspicious soldier.

Hua Ting gave the establishment of two brigades of the Hanzhong Army, but in fact, he was not satisfied with the establishment - Zhou Yu was not like Su Jun, any cat and dog were willing to recruit as pawns, he absorbed the experience of the Guanzhong Army, and only selected the elite, while Sha Tai was old and weak to go to the reclamation or auxiliary army - the two brigade commanders served as Zhou Fu, the eldest son of Zhou Wan, and the other as a general, Yang Hu.

Yang Hu was originally a general of Wancheng thief Wang Ru, and after Wang Ru failed, he returned to his hometown from Li Yun and Wang Jian, and became Wang Jian's son-in-law. Zhang Guang, the assassin of Liangzhou, was instigated by Jin Miao, who joined the army, and first recruited Li Yun and Wang Jian to kill him and seize his property. Yang Nandi stole Hanzhong, Yang Hu was forced to surrender to the south, and Fubei also expelled Yang Nandi, so he was appointed by Li Xiong as the Taishou of Hanzhong.

Yang Hu has been operating in Hanzhong for several years, which is quite popular, and except for one time he obeyed the orders of Chengdu and went north to Hechi to rescue Yang Nan's enemy, he basically did not have any conflicts with the Jin army in Guanzhong, but often sold grain and grass to Guanzhong through Yu Ling and other merchants in exchange for weapons and equipment, which was quite urgent. Later, Zhou visited and entered Hanzhong, and planned to capture Yang Hu, Yang Hu and Li Xiong were not very harmonious, so they knelt on the ground and asked for surrender, and designed to open the gate of Nanzheng City, resulting in the rout of the Cheng army. Therefore, Zhou Yu played the Chang'an stage, saying that Yang Hu was meritorious anyway and could atone for his previous sins, and asked for a reward.

As for the current appointment of Yang Hu as the brigade commander by Huating, in fact, it also has the meaning of guardianship and resistance to weekly visits. Zhou Shida is old and sophisticated, so naturally he will not be ignorant, so without much effort, he put this Yang Brigade Marshal in the air, and what can be directly mobilized is only a dissatisfied battalion, more than 2,000 people. Considering that Yang Hu was familiar with the terrain of Bazhong, he immediately took the 2,000 army as the vanguard, went south along the ditch water, and went to capture Hanchang County in Bazhong County.

From the Hanzhong Basin to the southwest direction, into Zitong County five hundred miles, you can enter the Chengdu Plain, but the problem is that this road is too difficult to walk, and there is a dangerous sword pavilion in the middle, it is really "a husband is a pass, ten thousand people are not open". On the contrary, in the south chin, although it does not threaten the heart of Ba Yi, and the road is equally difficult, after all, there is no sword pavilion on the way, and there is a ditch water that can share part of the grain and straw transportation capacity, so it will be easier to enter the army.

Moreover, if you enter Hanchang, the mountains in the south and west are relatively gentle, which is also convenient for the Chinese army to do a wider range of maneuvers.

Yang Hu was ordered to go first, and ten days later, he encountered the Cheng army in the north of Hanchang County, which was the leader of Dacheng Zhong, Li Wan, that is, the eldest son of Li Xiong's second brother Li Dang, and the eldest brother of Li Ban. Yang Hu and Li Wan fought fiercely for two days, unable to break through, and when the main force of Zhou Wan arrived, he reported to him: "Li Wan is a mediocre general, but his troops are quite brave, and the people are twice as many as me, it is difficult to overcome the ......."

Zhou ordered Yang Hu to meet Li Wan again tomorrow, and he climbed to a nearby mountain to watch the battle situation in order to make a good plan. As a result, on the third day, there was still no winner or loser, and each side left more than 100 corpses behind and retreated. After Yang Hu returned to the camp, Zhou Yu said: "When I fought with the thief in Hanzhong before, I knew that he had few orders and no array, and he relied on his personal courage in vain, like a thief. Only here is the road is dangerous and narrow, and it is difficult for our army to be arranged, and he can rely on his strengths, thinking that it is difficult to overcome - it is not General Yang's fault. ”

The main body of the Hanzhong army is the Jingzhou soldiers brought by the Zhou visit, especially the soldiers from the north of Jingzhou, and their personal quality is actually not very good, if you talk about the ability to fight in the mountains, the locals in Hanzhong are ten points, the Ba Yi people are nine points, the Shu people are six points, and the Jingbei people are only four points...... If the battle is fought after the battle, under the organization and dispatch of Zhou Shida, the 1,000 Han Chinese army can completely defeat more than three times the Cheng army; However, if the battlefield is narrow and the individual is brave, the strength ratio of the two sides will be leveled.

So Zhou Wan ordered his second son Zhou Guang to select 300 veterans who were good at climbing mountains, and after 20 miles of the mountain in the west, they copied to the side of Hanchang County, and pretended to attack the city. Li Wan was shocked when he heard the news, and was forced to return to the division in a hurry, and Yang Hu chased and killed from behind, and was defeated into an army. Immediately surrounded the city of Hanchang, Li Zhi, the younger brother of Li Wan, rushed to the rescue from Langzhong, but was also blocked by Zhou Guang and could not approach the city.

Zhou Wan's second son, who was a fierce general in the original history, is said to be only eleven years old, went to see Wang Dun, Wang Dun asked him: "Guijun (Xunyang) has no generals, who can be used?" Zhou Guang immediately patted his chest and said, "Since Ming Gong is not ashamed to ask, there is no more stealing than me!" "Wang Dun really appointed Zhou Guang as the general of Ningyuan and Xunyang Taishou.

- This thing is actually not old and reliable, no matter how many families and talents are different, how can an eleven-year-old child be able to serve as the guardian of a county?

Although Zhou Wan did not deal with Wang Dun, after his death, Zhou Fu's brothers had nothing to rely on, so they had to attach themselves to Wang Dun and plot rebellion from him. Zhou Guangshi led thousands of Xunyang soldiers to ask to see Wang Dun, Wang Dun is dead, his nephew Wang should not be allowed to see, Zhou Guang saw the clue, but said to his brother Zhou Fu: "The prince is dead, why is the brother a thief with Qian Feng?" So he arrested Qian Feng Yique and was able to atone for his crimes. Later, he followed Wen Qiao to quell Su Jun's rebellion and made meritorious contributions.

In this timeline, Zhou Guang is now half an old child, seventeen years old, and he can put hundreds of soldiers at risk, so he can stop Li Zhi and prevent him from entering. So after more than ten days of siege, the city of Hanchang fell, and Li Wan broke through the siege and left, which was intercepted by Zhou Guang halfway. Zhou Fufu pursued Li Zhi, broke it north of Anhan, and captured him alive.

When the news of the defeat reached Chengdu, Li Xiong was shocked - he did misjudge the situation and thought that the Chinese army would be killed from the northeast, so he sent Li Shou to guard the Sword Pavilion, but he didn't expect Bazhong to encounter the police in advance - fortunately, Li Ban and Ren Hui had also rushed back from the south, so he urgently ordered the second general to guard Langzhong to block the Chinese army......