After listening to Huang Quan's words, Liu Zhang also knew that his request was a bit difficult for a strong man, so he nodded and agreed to him.

It's just that what Liu Zhang didn't expect was that Huang Quan asked a question that made him a little embarrassed next, and said: "Lord, at this time, shouldn't you ask Zhang Songzhang first?" ”

Liu Zhang was choked up and didn't know how to answer him for a while, but fortunately, Zhang Su on the side was more understanding, he relieved Liu Zhang, and replied: "Gongheng, my brother has always been in poor health, and he was infected with typhoid fever just before this, and he can't be cured in the short term, and he can't see others." The lord cared about Zi Qiao's body, so he didn't ask him for advice. After Ziqiao's body is well, he will come to see the lord. ”

Zhang Su explained that if he was a different person, he would naturally be able to prevaricate in the past, but he was facing Huang Quan.

Huang Quan's eyes flickered from the time he answered him, coupled with the embarrassment on Liu Zhang's face on the side, and guessed the reason.

Fa Zheng and Meng Da turned their heads to Jin Juejun, and Huang Quan naturally knew about it. Because, this news was originally discovered by Huang Quan's subordinates.

However, Huang Quan really didn't expect that Liu Zhang would be so suspicious that he would doubt the extent of his henchmen for the sake of one or two traitors. Fa Zheng and Meng Da were recommended to Liu Zhang by Zhang Song, which is true, but no one is a sage or a sage, and no matter how smart Zhang Song is, he can't see through people's hearts.

What's more, Fa Zheng and Meng Da were originally the three assistants of Guanzhong, and it was not Zhang Song's fault that they would switch to Jin Jue. It is necessary to bear risks and responsibilities in recommending talents to one's own monarch, but for this reason, under the current situation of the great enemy, Liu Zhang actually left Zhang Songtou idle and discarded, which will definitely make some officials in Yizhou disappointed in him.

Not to mention others, even Huang Quan himself was very disappointed.

However, although Huang Quan is a well-informed person, he is not a person who is easy to go. He will do his best to prepare for Liu Zhang, and as for whether he can finally drive Jin Jue's army out of Shu County, he is not too sure.

As for Guanghan County and Sanba, Huang Quan knows very well that Liu Zhang has completely lost the ability to control these four counties.

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Not to mention that Huang Quan was ordered to go out of the city to investigate the movements of Jin Jue's army in Guanghan County and Shu County, let alone Jin Jue's army.

During this time, the advantages and disadvantages of Jin Jue and Wei Yan's guards were finally revealed.

In the end, the dynasty was still unable to recruit enough soldiers first, but Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, who were in the back, seized the opportunity to recruit enough Shu soldiers in advance, and then successfully captured Shifang County and Fan County respectively.

And Wei Yan's guard named Wei Ming, who was only seventeen years old this year, unexpectedly captured a county seat - Linqiong County, Shu County, before all the other guards under Jin Jue and Wei Yan.

Linqiong County is located in the southwest of Chengdu City, and in the north of it, there is another county seat, which is Jiangyuan County in the west of Chengdu City.

Wei Ming knew his disadvantage, he was young, his face was tender, and his soldiers were a hundred fewer than Jin Jue's guards. If he had gone to the township to recruit soldiers first as Jin Jue had instructed, it would have been more difficult for him to complete the task than others.

Why? is young and tender, and for those Shu people who want to join the army even because of the land, there is no convincing force at all. Even if he is an abnormal person, he will not choose to follow him.

Therefore, Wei Ming thought of an extremely bold strategy - not to go to the township and directly attack the county seat. After taking the county seat, the Shu people in the city will be afraid of him, and at that time, he arranged for his subordinates to take the Shu soldiers in the city to the townships of the county to recruit soldiers. can also complete the 'sprinkling beans into soldiers' plan handed over by Jin Jue.

It's called doing the opposite.

On the surface, Wei Ming's move was indeed against the plan formulated by Jin Jue. If he is not successful, not only will his own soldiers suffer heavy losses, but also cause him to be alarmed, so that the county town will be attacked, so that the officers who have recruited enough soldiers will no longer have a way to take the city in the short term.

However, judging from the results, Wei Ming's own strategy was correct, because he really only relied on the two hundred Hanzhong soldiers in his hands to easily take Linqiong County.

In order to successfully achieve the strategy he formulated, Wei Ming deliberately chose Linqiong County for two reasons.

First, it is not far or close to Xindu County, and there is also Chengdu City and Jiangyuan County in between, so even if the news of the loss of Xindu County reaches Chengdu and Jiangyuan County, it is still difficult to reach Linqiong County in the short term.

Second, Linqiong County is a very special county in Shu County.

There are iron mines in the county, and in the past, the imperial court would send iron officials to supervise the iron smelting in the county. After Liu Zhang took over the Yizhou Assassin History, because Ba County was often attacked and harassed by Zhang Lujun, he also attached more importance to armaments. Therefore, the defenders in Linqiong County will divide a part and defend near the iron mines. to stop the coveting of this place by foreign races.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu canceled the capital test, and somewhat despised the local armament, coupled with the continuous rise of the power of the local gentry, its strength gradually increased, so the strength of a county was fixed. Linqiong County has set aside a part of its troops to garrison the iron mine, so the number of troops responsible for defending the city in the county will naturally be reduced by a large part.

This gave Wei Ming the opportunity to capture this place with a very small number of troops.

Therefore, Wei Ming also adopted the method of rapid marching, and after capturing a Yizhou businessman on the middle of the road, he quickly interspersed to evade the Shu soldiers, entered Linqiong County, and easily took the county seat.

After that, as Wei Ming expected, he didn't have to come forward at all, he only needed to assign some of his subordinates who looked more vicious, and took the defenders in the city to the villages to recruit soldiers, and by the way, attacked the local gentry who refused to surrender to Jin Jue's army and tried to resist stubbornly.

The Shu soldiers are fragile, that is relatively speaking, everyone is a Shu soldier, and these Shu soldiers who defend the city are all old fritters, among the fierce Hanzhong soldiers and local Shu soldiers, they naturally choose to work for Wei Ming, not to mention, the conditions given by Jin Jue are indeed very attractive.

Therefore, Wei Ming's recruitment of soldiers and the work of clearing the township in Linqiong County were the best.

Later, after Jin Jue learned of this situation, he made an exception and promoted Wei Ming to be a general.

Wei Ming's title of general, in the Han Dynasty, was second only to Cheng Lian, Wei Yan and Yang Ren, who were now partial generals, and was one of the official general titles of the imperial court, and of course, it was also the lowest-ranking miscellaneous general.