"Your Excellency, these people who are following me are originally outcasts. The boy was unlucky, and when he was about to catch up with him, he didn't want to, and he ran into them in the middle of the road and wanted to rob the boy, no, they were all subdued by the boy. Wei Yan explained helplessly, and then, he pointed to a young man beside him and introduced: "By the way, this is my good brother, named Fu Tong, a fellow villager of the boy, and he also wants to come to the lord of the envoy." ”

Liu Shan asked again: "Oh! Since you are all from Nanyang, why don't you go to Liu Jingzhou or Zhang Xiu? In terms of reputation, my son-in-law is far worse than Liu Jingzhou. ”

Jingzhou people don't defect to Liu Biao, if it is a scribe, Liu Shan has heard of it, but these two people are martial artists at a glance, and their hometown is in Jingzhou, why should they go to Jin Jue from near and far?

"Envoy Liu, originally, after the kid and my brother got the news, they just came to see it. But I don't want to, as soon as these homeless people hear that it is your lord's army, they will come with them. When the kid asked, he learned that they all escaped from Sanfu, and in order to avoid Zhang Xiu's forced conscription, they hid in the mountains. Not only that, but there are many of them who were rescued from a gang of thieves by Jin Jue Gongzi and Ranger Bao Chu. Wei Yan explained.

As soon as Wei Yan finished speaking, the group of ragged and thin-skinned homeless people below began to quarrel: "Yes, Lord Envoy, I have no eyes, and I actually missed Jin Gongzi's original invitation. Please take it and wait for me, Your Excellency! ”

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When Liu Shan heard this, he let down his guard and ordered: "Open the pass and let them in!" ”

Liu Shan really knew about it, and it wasn't Jin Jue or Bao Chu who told him. I think that at the beginning, when Liu Shan joined the Jin Jue army with the tun chief Bai Jiahei, there was a Xuzhou soldier who told the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army and their Hanzhong soldiers who took the initiative to surrender about the deeds of Jin Jue and Bao Chu.

At that time, not only the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, but also the soldiers of Hanzhong did not believe in this matter too much. However, when Liu Shan really saw Bao Zhu himself, he believed it, because he himself was a ranger at the beginning, and later became a military general in the army, and his skills were good, so Zi'an could naturally see the level of the other party's martial arts.

Since Liu Shan opened his mouth, those people below did not pose much of a threat, so Shen Mi's subordinates immediately ordered someone to open the gate of Guancheng and let Wei Yan and them in.

It can be seen that these people can get here all the way, and life is quite difficult, Liu Shan is very understanding and invites the two of them to eat together, as for those homeless people, they are not treated so well, Shen Mi's subordinates distributed a little ration to each of them, and immediately sent a small team of soldiers to escort them all to Xixian.

Yunguan Guancheng is very small, and the grain stock is insufficient, on the contrary, even if Xixian County is small, some of the original people have also fled in the war, and now they continue to supplement the people.

After the meal, Liu Shan arched his hand and asked, "Two strong men, I am ready to return to Luoyang County immediately, and my son-in-law's army is now there." What are you two going to do in the future, and are you going to stay here? Or, come with me? ”

When Wei Yan heard this, he asked suspiciously: "Envoy Liu, didn't Gongzi send you here, didn't he let you stay here and wait until next year to lead the army to attack Hanzhong County from behind?" ”

"What, how do you kid know, did you think about it yourself, or did Mr. Jia Xu tell you?" When Liu Shan heard this, he immediately pressed his right hand on the saber on his waist, stared at Wei Yan, and asked in a low voice.

It's no wonder that he is so nervous, Jin Jue has set this strategy, so far, Jin Jue has only told him alone, and he has only told Jia Xu. Even Shen Mi and Lou Fa didn't know the whole plan.

"Hehehe, Envoy Liu, you don't need to be so nervous, this is all guessed by the kid himself. Although the boy has not been to Hanzhong County in person, he has also heard that Hanzhong County is like a small number of Guanzhong, the land of four stops, surrounded by Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain in the southeast and northwest, easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially the three plank roads leading to Guanzhong and Yangping Pass, which are even more dangerous and abnormal.

Since Gongzi sent you to recruit Shen Mi and Lou Fa, the two generals of Yizhou, they must have wanted to take advantage of the fact that the two of them knew some about Hanzhong County, and then use the soldiers and horses in their hands to attack Hanzhong County from the flank and rear, so that Zhang Lujun would lose the other. Envoy Liu, the kid is right, in fact, this is not difficult to guess. Wei Yan smiled and replied with a smug face.

After listening to the explanation, Liu Shan lowered his guard a little, and he said, "Wei Yan, what you think is not wrong. However, do you really think that with the skills of the two of them, coupled with the little soldiers and horses in their hands, they can really contain Zhang Lujun? If my son-in-law is in person, or he is willing to take refuge in my son-in-law, there is a bit of a possibility, they can't. To go or not to go, give me an accurate word, the time left for me by Childe is very tight. ”

Based on his vision alone, Liu Shan really appreciates this Wei Yan a little now.

"Envoy Liu, do you still need to ask? Naturally, our brother is going to follow you to meet Childe? Let's go now! Wei Yan replied excitedly.

So, Liu Shan took Wei Yan and Fu Tong, and originally wanted to follow the established route - out of Yunguan and return to Luoyang County along the northern foot of Nanyang-Wuguan-Qinling.

Liu Shan was afraid of causing a misunderstanding, so he transferred from Hongnong, and then returned to Luoyang County through Tongguan-Sanfu-Liangzhou.

Let's not talk about these three people, let's talk about Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu in Nanyang.

Today's Zhang Xiu forces in Nanyang can be said to be surviving in the cracks.

At the same time, he offended Cao Cao and Liu Biao, and was at the junction of the five forces, with Ma Teng in the northwest, Lu Bu in the north, Liu Bei in the east, Liu Biao in Jingzhou in the south, and half of Yuzhou controlled by Cao Cao in the northeast. The strength along the way was stronger than him.

The reason why Cao Cao only controlled half of Yuzhou is because Runan County, the largest county in Yuzhou's Assassination Department, is now divided by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Yuan Shu.

At this time, among these three forces, although Yuan Shu's strength is the weakest, Runan is the hometown of Yuan Shu's family, and the Yuan family has many protégés here, and its strength should not be underestimated.

Cao Cao's spokesperson in Runan County was Li Tong, and Yuan Shu's spokesperson in Runan County was his younger brother Yuan Yin.

Perhaps under the influence of Jin Jue, Liu Bei actually let Zhao Yun lead a partial army alone and garrison it on the eastern boundary of Runan County to resist Cao Cao and Yuan Shu.