In a round of the national examination, Zhuge Liang first surpassed Yang Xiu, who was famous all over the world because of "Encyclopedia of Nature", and earned a talented girl like Huang Yueying as his fiancée, which can be described as fame and fortune.

Subsequently, the article "Revitalizing the Country with Gong" written by him also played a huge role. When reading the papers, Cai Yan read them and then took them home and presented them to Luan Yi for reference. The sharp writing and bitter advice made Luan Yi speechless and embarrassed. Knowing that he would no longer connive at Luan's relics to continue to plague the common people, he was determined to send it to the bitter cold land.

As the saying goes, out of sight and out of mind, Bingzhou is sparsely populated, the people are fierce, without Luan Yi's protection, presumably Luan will not be able to make any waves there.

The people of Jinan were all overjoyed when they learned that Luan Yi was about to leave Jinan forever. There are even cannons fired in celebration that night. While they are grateful to the sect leader, Luan Yi's kindness, they are also very grateful to Zhuge Liang, the author of "Revitalizing the Country with Gong".

Zhuge Liang has been famous since then, and Luan Yi has long valued him. Therefore, after enrolling in the department, as soon as he came to the church to perform his duties, Luan Yi set it as a key object to be cultivated, and transferred to the Anmin Sect under Mao Jue to familiarize himself with the things in the church from scratch.

Those familiar with the power structure of the Church of Our Lady immediately saw that Zhuge Liang would have a brilliant future. Because the last person who enjoyed Zhuge Liang's treatment, Pang Tong, has now become the bishop of revenue, one of the twelve cardinals of the Notre Dame Church. In the near future, maybe three or five years, Zhuge Liang will also usher in the day when the red robe will be added.

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At the same time as the national examination ended, the news that Luan Yi was building docks in Donglai and Xiaoyaojin and training sailors in Dongting Lake reached Sun Ce's ears.

For a long time, the Yangtze River moat was Sun Ce's biggest barrier to the southward movement of the church army. is not good at water warfare, as long as Sun Ce guards the Yangtze River, he can keep Jiangdong safe.

Today, Luan Yi is preparing to build a powerful naval army, and more than 100 huge buildings and ships have been built by the river, and Jiangdong has been greatly shaken.

In addition to being frightened, Sun Ce knew better than anyone else that his strength was far inferior to Luan Yi. In terms of soldiers, horses, and Jiangdong, there are only 80,000 soldiers, but the Jiangbei Diocese has more than 300,000 men in armor, and if the diocese is allowed to train a strong naval army, it will be easy to capture Jiangdong.

Therefore, we must not sit idly by, and we must deal a heavy blow to Luan Yi before the Church of Our Lady is trained.

In this regard, most of the courtiers in Jiangdong were supportive. It's just a different way to deal with it.

The hawks, led by Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, suggested that Sun Ce mobilize all the forces of Jiangdong to inflict heavy damage on the port of Xiaoyaojin, so as to burn down the church dockyard and burn the large buildings before they were launched.

In this regard, Zhou Yu and Lu Su resolutely opposed. They said that Luan Yi was not a fool, since he dared to build the dock in Xiaoyaojin, it was because Xiaoyaojin was impregnable under the guard of Guan Yu, Zhang Liao, and Jia Xu who were seriously ill. In terms of water warfare, the Jiangdong Army boasted that it was not afraid of the church guards, but if it attacked Xiaoyaojin, land battles were inevitable, and they gave up their advantages to those northerners in vain.

On the other hand, even if Xiaoyaojin can be captured, the ship will be burned. After the Jiangdong Army paid a huge price in casualties, Luan Yi could have changed the port, re-established a new dock, and quickly built a river-crossing boat branch in it.

In this regard, Luan Yi has sufficient financial resources. At that time, if the Jiangdong Army crosses to Jiangbei again and sets fire, it will be tantamount to falling into a dead circle of self-consumption.

Koto can't afford it.

Therefore, burning the dock is the next resort.

"Then Gong Jin has a clever plan?" Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu replied: "If Jiangdong is guaranteed to be peaceful for a long time, Luan Yi must be hit hard." ”

"But with the strength of our army, we can't beat Luan Yi!" Sun Ce's face was full of confusion.

"As the so-called three people become tiger......s," Lu Su muttered: "My Jiangdong Luan Yi must be alone in a single battle, and the only way to do this is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf." ”

"Where's the tiger?"

"Xiliang!" Zhou Yu immediately explained, "Ma Teng and Han Sui have quite a lot of soldiers and horses in Xiliang, and the lord can join forces with him and let them attack Sizhou." Hearing that Luan Yi was building a new Luoyang City in Sizhou, Han Sui Ma Teng went to attack, and he would send a large army to rescue him. If Han Sui and Ma Teng win consecutive battles in Sizhou, the lord can take the opportunity to cross the river to attack Xiaoyaojin and capture a large area of territory in Jiangbei. If Han Sui and Ma Teng were defeated in successive battles, they would transfer their troops and attack Jiaozhou. It can also expand its territory and expand its strength. What is the Lord's will? ”

Sun Ce was overjoyed, "This is also a plan!" Who is willing to go to Xiliang and discuss the alliance with Ma Teng and Han Sui. ”

Lu Su replied: "I am willing to go." ”

"The son respects his relatives, and great things will be done!"

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As Sun Ce said, Lu Su really succeeded. On April 13 of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, Ma Teng and Han Sui gathered 120,000 troops, plus 40,000 Qiang servants, starting from Wuwei and coming to Chang'an through Jincheng, Tianshui, Chencang and Fufeng.

After Zhao Yun, who was stationed in Chang'an, found out the enemy's situation, he immediately sent people for 800 miles to rush to Jinan for help.

Chang'an is the former western capital of the Han Dynasty and the gateway to Sizhou, which not only has a vital military status, but also contains full political significance. In addition, its gains and losses are directly related to the progress of Luoyang City under construction.

As we all know, Luoyang City was built by Luan Yi according to the "off-plan" model, and once the construction period is delayed, it is a breach of contract, and the church needs to pay a large amount of liquidated damages. Therefore, Chang'an's gains and losses are also directly related to Luan Yi's purse.

Therefore, it is imperative to guard Chang'an, and Ma Teng and Han Sui must not be allowed to take a step beyond Chang'an. And not only to keep it, but also to make Chang'an truly long-term peace and stability. And the basis of all this is to completely eliminate Ma Teng and Han Sui, and pacify Xiliang in one fell swoop.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, Luan Yi ordered Huang Zhong to be the vanguard, with more than a dozen generals such as Xu Chu, Yu Ban, Xu Huang, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou as the vanguard, and 40,000 commanders to support Zhao Yun first.

Immediately, within one month, a total of 140,000 people were assembled in the Central Army of the Qi State Church and the Jizhou Army of Hebei, and he led the commander of the three armies, worshiped Guo Jia as the governor of the three armies, Xu Shu, Pang Tong, and Zhuge Liang as the military advisors, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng as the counselors of the army, Zhang He as the governor of the Chinese army, Cao Ren commanded the left wing army, and Zhang Fei commanded the right army. Mao Jue was the governor of the rear army, and the handsome generals Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong were the governors of grain and grass. Hua Tuo's eldest disciple Luo Huan served as the chief medical officer of the army. The elites of the three-way army gathered and went straight to Chang'an.

At the same time, Luan Yi also appointed Cao Cao and Guan Yu to stand by the river. Guan Yu and Jia Xu guarded Shouchun, Zhang Liao was stationed in Xiaoyaojin, Tai Shici was stationed in Hefei, Li Dianle was stationed in Pingchun, and Cao Cao, Kuailiang, Kuai Yue, and Ju Yi guarded Jiangxia...... The entire north bank of the river is surrounded like an iron wall, in order to deal with the Jiangdong Sun Ce.

The fighting, which had ceased for more than a year, spread over the diocese again.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, the army of Huang Zhong, the pioneer of the Church of Our Lady, was the first to arrive at the border of Chang'an.

At this time, Chang'an had been surrounded by Han Sui and Ma Teng for three days and three nights.

In the past three days, Han Sui Ma Teng's army launched two frantic attacks on Chang'an, both of which were repelled by Zhao Yun's 20,000 guards with strong bows, rolling wood stones, and Molotov cocktails.

Both sides suffered casualties, with the Xiliang army suffering more than 17,000 casualties and the church also sacrificing 6,740 guards. In terms of numbers, the Xiliang army had more than twice as many casualties as the guards of the Chang'an Church, and it seems that the casualties were even more heavy than those of the church. But don't forget, there were only 20,000 church guards stationed in Chang'an, and more than 6,000 dead accounted for two-thirds of the total force. However, the total strength of the Xiliang army is as much as 160,000, the proportion of casualties of 17,000 is not large, and there is enough fresh force to continue to storm the city.

However, reinforcements from the church arrived at this time. This undoubtedly rekindled the morale of the defenders in the city, and at the same time, after Huang Zhong led the army to come, he did not choose to forcibly break through into the city, but chose to set up a camp thirty miles away from Chang'an, and Chang'an City was at a whirlwind, attacking and defending each other, as if it had become the biggest stumbling block nailed to the Xiliang army to break through Chang'an Road.

Han Sui and Ma Teng also saw that without defeating Huang Zhong, it was impossible to get one step closer to Chang'an. It was decided that the two families would divide their troops, one of them would continue to besiege Chang'an, and the other would lead the crowd to attack Huang Zhong.

But as for who besieges Chang'an and who fights Huang Zhong, the two do not agree on the same opinion. After all, the two of them were put together on an improvised basis...... Han Sui was born in a family of broken scholars, the young man was famous for his wisdom and bravery, and was later kidnapped by the Qianghu rebels and elected as the leader, and raised troops to rebel in the name of the eunuchs, and successively defeated the emperor Fu Song, Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and other famous generals, and then was recruited by the imperial court, so he had the qualification to divide in Xiliang.

Therefore, Han Sui is a criminal minister who was recruited by the imperial court, and his background is not glorious.

On the other hand, Ma Teng's grandfather was the famous Han Fubo general Ma Yuan. Born in a general, the glory of generations, in terms of identity, is not on the same order of magnitude as Han Sui at all.

If it were in the past, Ma Teng would not have bothered to deal with Han Sui's rebellion. The reason why he is uniting with him now is purely because Luan Yi is powerful, he can't fight alone, so he has no choice but to work with Han Sui, but he still sneers at him in his heart.

Therefore, when discussing the next strategic deployment, due to different backgrounds, different ideologies, and at the same time, for the sake of their own interests, they immediately quarreled.

They all knew that Huang Zhong had brought 40,000 soldiers and horses this time—40,000 fresh troops, and in terms of the elite of the Church army, attacking him would definitely return a large number of casualties. Instead of seeking casualties, it is better to continue to attack Chang'an City. Zhao Yun in Chang'an City only has more than 13,000 people left, and if he continues to attack the city for many days, Chang'an City will become his territory......

Both of them wanted to attack Chang'an by themselves, and they didn't want to fight hard with Huang Zhong, and the more they argued, the more fierce they became.

In the end, out of the overall situation, Ma Teng chose to back down in order not to let the coalition army fall apart at the beginning of its establishment. agreed with Han Sui that Han Sui would attack Chang'an for three days, and Ma Teng would go to stop Huang Zhong from rescuing. Three days later, if Han Sui could not capture Chang'an, he would exchange positions - Ma Teng attacked Chang'an, and Han Sui stopped Huang Zhong.

A cycle of three days, and so on, until the city of Chang'an is broken.

Han Sui also knew that Ma Teng had made a huge concession by letting him attack Chang'an first. If he was still not interested at this time, Ma Teng would definitely not hesitate to lead the army back to Xiliang. At that point, the gains will outweigh the losses. So, he immediately nodded in agreement.