Although this made the already devastated Chang'an even worse, how could he be born in troubled times. Therefore, Yang Shuo agreed to Liu Ji's suggestion without the slightest hesitation, but considering that the soldiers were fighting continuously and hard, it was postponed to this day.

"The princes of the Central Plains are fighting, how can the Xiliang heroes stand by and watch?" Yang Shuo smiled and said, his gaze swept over the people in the hall and finally fixed on Yang Yanzhao, and said, "How about Yang Yanzhao as the vanguard in this battle?" ”

Everyone had already admired Yang Shuo's ability to recognize people, so they did not have the slightest contempt for Yang Yanzhao, a young man who did not have the slightest combat exploits but fought side by side with them, but now he was still a little surprised to lead the army directly to Chang'an, and Yang Yanzhao, who was also the protagonist of this matter, was also unbelievable, and only after being stunned did he hold his fists and receive the order, "The last general obeys the order!" ”

"Good! Since General Yang Yanzhao had no objections, he took you as the vanguard and commanded 5,000 troops to go to Chang'an first, and Zhang Xutuo commanded 10,000 troops to be temporarily stationed in Tongguan in case of emergency! Yang Shuo ordered.

"The last general obeys!" Hearing his name, Zhang Xutuo also got up and stood up, clasped his fists and took his life.

After this year's harvest, Chang'an will definitely be captured, let the surrounding princes mess up as soon as possible, the greater the consumption of strength, for Yang Shuo to seize Chang'an in the future, after explaining the precautions to the two, and simply dealing with a few things, Yang Shuo is ready to let everyone disperse. After all, it is human nature to taste the forbidden fruit for the first time, and it is normal for people to know some of the marrow, and everyone is interested in sorting things out and starting to leave.

At this time, the hurried footsteps outside the hall attracted everyone's attention, and they all stopped and turned their heads to look out of the door, and a person rushed over, kneeling down in front of Yang Shuo, "My lord, Hedong is urgent!" ”

Since last year, Hedong has successively exterminated the remnants of the White Wave Thief and the Yellow Turban Thief, and has been safe and sound, how can there be an emergency report suddenly, but it can be known that Hedong has Xu Huang leading an army of 10,000 troops stationed, and Xu Huang can cope with ordinary trivial things, and now it is the Zhang Yang of the Shangdang and Liu Bao of Hanoi who has moved?

I wanted to think about it, but after all, it was still a guess, so Yang Shuo hurriedly ordered Shi Jin to take the information and quickly browse it.

The senior cadres of Bingzhou are gathering troops and horses in Jinyang, and the strength and purpose are not very clear, this is what Xu Huang said in the letter, but this is enough to make Xu Huang highly nervous, after all, Xu Huang only has 10,000 horses in his hands, and he can still resist one or two in the face of Zhang Yang and Liu Bao, but in the face of Gao Gan, it is really not enough to see the giant Yuan Shao behind him.

Retreated everyone, and Yang Shuo left Liu Ji and Du Ji alone. Passing on the information in turn, and after both of them read it, Yang Shuo opened his mouth and asked, "Gao Gan has gathered heavy troops in Jinyang, what do you think?" ”

Du Yi spoke first: "Didn't the military advisor and the lord say before, if Cao Cao faced Yuan Shu and Lu Bu's army, would Yuan Shao send troops to help, I think it should be a preparation for this!" ”

In addition to Yuan Shao's occupation of Bingzhou, there are also Jizhou and Qingzhou, these places are close to Cao Cao, Yuan Shao should not be reluctant to go far, not to mention his two sons, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang will watch their military merits and not earn? Yang Shuo shook his head noncommittally.

Seeing Yang Shuo shaking his head, Du Ji said again: "Could it be that the senior cadres want to do something to Zhang Yang of the party or Zhang Yan who is entrenched in Taihang Mountain?" In Du Ji's view, Yang Shuo had just defeated Cao Cao's army under the Tiger Prison, and the senior cadres should not choose to fight with Yang Shuo at this time, but the most likely thing is to take advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to destroy the party's Zhang Yang, and completely merge the state into his arms.

This is possible, Yang Shuo nodded lightly and looked at Liu Ji again, "What insight does Berwyn have?" ”

Liu Ji groaned: "No matter whether the target of the senior cadres is Shangdang or Hedong, we must be prepared to respond to all changes, once the senior cadres attack Hedong, we can deal with it calmly, and if we attack Shangdang, we can also rescue in time!" ”

"We can respond to the attack on Hedong in time, why do we have to rescue the high-ranking cadres who attacked the party, can we know that Zhang Yang has always been with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and he sent people to invade Hedong last year?" Du Ji said suspiciously.

Liu Ji explained: "Zhang Yang's eyebrows between the two are also for survival, with him in the middle of mediation, constraints, Yuan Shao will not go all out to deal with us, otherwise the party in the middle will become a nail nailed by Cao Cao in Yuan Shao's heart, making Yuan Shao feel extremely uncomfortable." ”

"Since Yuan Shao won't make a big deal out of us before he settles the party, why does the military advisor say that this time the senior cadres gathered troops and horses in Jinyang may be aimed at us?" Du Ji asked again.

"The defeat of Cao Cao in the main tiger prison has attracted the attention of the world, and the speed of rise has stunned the eyes of all the princes, Yuan Shao must have been alert to us, and sending troops to Hedong is a warning and more suppression, slowing down our growth rate so as not to become a threat to them!" Liu Jidao.

In the end, Liu Ji looked at Yang Shuo and said, "No matter what the purpose of the senior cadres is, we must be fully prepared to prevent accidents!" ”

As soon as he thought of sending troops again, Yang Shuo was extremely distressed, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, sending troops is secondary, raising soldiers and food is a big deal, Yang Shuo only occupies the land of Hedong and Hongnong counties, there are few poor people, the time is short and has also experienced a big battle in Luoyang, basically the accumulated money and grain are exhausted, if you fight with Gao Gan, you must first prepare a lot of money and food, and then you can talk about the victory, otherwise everything is in vain.

"Berwyn is thoughtful, but our army's food and grass are really unsustainable!" Yang Shuo said helplessly with a bitter face.

Liu Ji also understands the current predicament faced by Yang Shuo, which is also an important factor restricting Yang Shuo's development, but although he has superior intelligence, his political ability is not outstanding, and it is difficult to make so much money and food out of thin air for a while.

Money and grain can't be conjured out of thin air, but the war doesn't seem to be far from him, so Yang Shuo has no choice but to look at Du Ji, "Can you raise some grain and grass?" ”

Du Ji also knows that what Yang Shuo lacks most at present is grain and grass, because since Hongnong was occupied by Yang Shuo, there have been a large number of people from Luoyang, Chang'an and other places to Hongnong, and the money and grain obtained by Hongnong are basically all used to resettle these people who fled the famine, so Yang Shuo has never transferred a grain from Hongnong, and today he really has no choice but to open his mouth to him, and silently calculated in his heart, Du Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Throw away the necessary grain and grass used to settle the people, and only provide 70,000 stone of grain and grass for the lord!" ”

70,000 stone grain and grass is only enough for the ration of 30,000 troops for 20 days, which is only the ration of the foot soldiers and not counting the war horses, otherwise it is more, which is obviously not enough to support a battle, because the march from Hongnong to Hedong is nearly 20 days.

Liu Ji stroked his short beard, "Since Hongnong can squeeze out 70,000 stone grain and grass, if you want to come to Hedong, you can also get together more than 70,000, if you can have more than 70,000 stone grain and grass, a total of 200,000 stone grain and grass, it is barely enough to fight with Gao Gan!" ”

"Hedong may be able to make up 70,000 stones, but where will the remaining 70,000 stones come from?" Yang Shuo also nodded, but he couldn't think of any way to solve the remaining 70,000 or so.

Suddenly, Liu Ji had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and a gleam in his eyes appeared, and he slapped his thigh and said, "There is!" ”