In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many talents, but Luo Guanzhong's pen was never very polite to Cao Wei's talents. In his previous life, Xu Chuxi read the vernacular version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and vaguely remembered that Li Tong only appeared so many times in the book, and later in the space of Cao Cao's expedition to Xiliang, he was killed by Jin Ma Chao, which became a footnote to the famous Shu Han general Ma Mengqi, who was favored by Mr. Luo.

Of course, Xu Chu knew that Li Tong was not so unbearable, and it took a long time to fight against Dong, during which Xu Chu and all the strategists were carefully observing the generals under his command.

To be precise, attacking the city and pulling out the village, first ascending the battle, Li Tong is not as good as Dian Wei, Gan Ning, and Lejin. But he treats the trilogy wisely than Gan Ning, Le Jin, Dian Wei and others. Gan Ning and others, with their own martial arts and courage to obey the public, with heroic righteousness to win the hearts of the people, Li Tong is not only that, he also knows how to use grace to win the hearts of the people.

There is a detail in it that Xu Chu still remembers.

After the first time he asked for Dong, he rewarded the three armies in Yangzhai and scattered countless money and grain, and after Li Tong got the money and grain, he did not take it into his own pocket, but immediately ordered someone to distribute his reward to the brave soldiers in battle, after this incident, he commanded two thousand, and he was even more respectful.

It is not difficult to judge from this that this is a person with some tricks and schemes, and it is for this reason that Guo Jia suggested that Xu Chu should not transfer Gan Ning back and let Li Tong lead the defense of the front line.

Because of this, Xu Chu didn't think about it for too long, so he asked Li Tong and Chen Gong who were worshiping in the hall to get up, and said with relief: "You have two warriors who take the initiative to ask for help, and I don't have to worry about it." ”

Ordered someone to put out a map in the hall, and it was obvious that Danyang County wanted to invade Lujiang County, and there was only one place that could be used as a place to send troops - Chungu County. The civilization of the two Han Dynasty is far from being developed enough, and the vast majority of the counties under the jurisdiction of the Yangzhou Thorn History Department are densely populated in the north of the county, that is, closer to the Central Plains, and the south of the counties, most of them are not located in the county, such as Huiji County, a large area of land in the south of the county, and only two counties of Zhang'an and Yongning are set up. The only two exceptions are the two counties of Lujiang and Yuzhang. But these two counties also have a large area occupied by mountains and large lakes, and they are sparsely populated, and there is no cooking smoke for hundreds of miles. Danyang County is adjacent to Lujiang County, and the boundary between the two counties is the Yangtze River, and the former is a county near the river, and there is only one Chungu County, so Zhou Xin has no choice but to deploy his troops in Chungu, unless he has the means to take advantage of Jiujiang County.

Guo Jia pointed to Xiang'an County on the map and said: "This county has just been rectified, and now it is necessary to garrison soldiers and horses here, and there must be no vacancies in the county's officials, otherwise the supply will be delayed." ”

Xu Chu nodded and said: "This is easy to do, the scholars in the county school study hard, and what they are waiting for is this opportunity, and they can select suitable people from them to fill the vacant official positions in Xiang'an County." ”

Xi Zhonghu said worriedly: "Tsk, I'm afraid that these students have no experience in governance. ”

It's one thing to learn from talent, and it's another thing to be able to apply what you've learned in your chest. Most of the people Xu Chu uses are doers, and he understands this truth very well.

Suddenly, someone said in a loud voice: "I am not talented, I am willing to rush to Xiang'an to help the two generals Li and Chen." ”

Everyone looked at it, but it turned out to be Hua Xin, a famous scholar from the Qingzhou Plain.

Xi Zhong touched his chin and thought: Huaziyu is famous in the Central Plains, and Guan You'an and Bing Genju are called 'Yilong'...... I just don't know what his talents are?

It's no wonder that Xi Zhong will doubt Hua Xin's ability, he himself is from a poor family, and he is used to seeing the so-called celebrities who are noble but have a vegetarian meal, and Hua Xin came to Xu Chu's side not long ago, and now he is still a white body, raised as a guest, and has never made a plan or done a thing.

There are also a few people in the church who are also skeptical.

But as long as Xu Chu believes in Hua Xin, it's fine.

Xu Chu considered that one was his understanding of Hua Xin in his previous life, so he was willing to let Hua Xin take on the heavy responsibility; Another is the current situation of Hua Xin, after all, it came late, and it is not good to raise it too high all at once. Therefore, Xu Chu finally asked Hua Xin to participate in the military and political affairs of Xiang'an County in the name of joining the military.

After the dismissal of troops, Xu Chu still had more than 10,000 remaining combat forces, except for Xun Yu, Gan Ning, and Liu Bei, who took about 2,500 people, and the rest of the main forces remained in Shu County.

After discussing with everyone, it was decided that Li Tong and Chen Gong would lead 2,000 Xi water fighters to stick to the ferry port in Xiang'an County. Front-line logistics matters are overseen by Hua Xin.

After receiving the order, Li Tong, Chen Gong, and Hua Xin immediately went to prepare for the expedition.

When the big guy was discussing the military deployment, Xie Zhen never spoke - he was the county master, and in terms of status, he did not have the right to speak as Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, Yao Sheng and others, and in military affairs, he did not have too unique opinions. After the deployment was completed, he said to Xu Chu: "Since Zhou Danyang insists on facing each other with the sword soldiers of the Fujun, some things have to be done immediately. ”

Xu Chu looked sideways and asked, "What does the master book mean?" ”

Xie Zhen replied: "When the prince left the county to discuss Dong before, he ordered the officials and Zhou Peng to go to various places in Yangzhou to test the tone of the scholars, and now the war will be burning, and the prince needs to send people to various places, if he can attract some scholars, it is best to win them over, if he can't win them over, at least he has to do his best to keep them on the sidelines." ”

Xu Chuxin said: The war together, the whole Yangzhou will fall into the flames of war, in order to survive in the upcoming war, the soldiers are either neutral, or support a certain side, standing in line is imminent, only by choosing the right front, when the war is over, they can continue to hit the bell Ding food, gorgeous clothes.

Xie Zhen's words were subtle, but the well-educated people present didn't know that in fact, in terms of the scholars, Zhou Xin had an advantage.

Not to mention that Zhou Xin himself is a celebrity, and there is a difference between Xu Chu's background, and not to mention how many Yangzhou families have secretly voted for him at present, just saying that Xu Chu is from other places, this gap is very big. Not only is Xu Chu himself an outsider, but the scholars he reuses, Cai Yong, Xun Yu, Xin Bi, Hua Xin, and even the less famous Zhao and Shi Lu, are all scholars from other states.

For example, Wu Jun, Huiji and other scholars will inevitably think: If Xu Chu wins, will this Yangzhou still be the Yangzhou of their Yangzhou scholars?

Xu Chu smiled helplessly.

This is very important, as can be seen from Liu Biao's experience. When Liu Biao first came to Jingzhou, he was single-handed, and he had no long things, and the only thing he could rely on was his status as a state assassin canonized by the imperial court, as well as the qualifications of famous people in the world, but with the support of Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others, he could have the capital to gain a foothold in Jingzhou.

The power of the nobles can be seen.

The candidates for the envoy to the Shizu clan in Benzhou are none other than Zhou Yi, Yao Sheng and Xie Zhen.

Xu Chu said to Xie Zhen: "Xie Jun, Huiji has been constantly harassed by Shanyue, fortunately, there is a large number of soldiers in the south of the county, I want to invite you to visit He Qi again at the same time as the Hui Ji visitor." ”

Xie Zhen promised.

Xu Chu said to Yao Sheng again: "Yao Cheng, you are from Wucheng, and you will be familiar with the scholars of Wu County, so I will ask you to go to Wu County, how about it?" ”

Yao Sheng is indispensable.