Chapter Fifty-Seven: Eastward Expansion?

In fact, putting aside the factors affecting risks and benefits, from another point of view, there is not much difference between whether Lu Bu is going east or west first.

You must know that he has just settled down in Bingzhou, not to mention the people's livelihood, but in terms of military and politics, among the four counties that he can only control at present, there are too many things that need to be dealt with, and there is actually no direction around him that can be completely ignored, Dong Zhuo in the south, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan and Han Fu in the east, the Qiang and Huns in the west, and the Xianbei people in the north These are his potential enemies, it is difficult to say whether he will choose the west or the east to advance. was suddenly caught off guard by forces from other quarters.

It's just that this time, whether it comes from the east - the impact of Liu He's death on Hebei, especially the pattern of Youzhou, is likely to promote the flames of war between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao that have been raging for a long time, and Han Fu will inevitably not be able to watch from the wall, he will always be involved, when the three heroes of Hebei are entangled, this is the best time for Lu Bu to advance, if he is cautious, it is not a problem to occupy all the three counties that Yanmen and other counties that were seized by Yuan Shao before taking the opportunity to occupy them and then expand the territory to the east; Or it came from the west - Shuofang County is of no use to Lü Bu at present, but if he can take this opportunity to completely drive the Huns out of the territory of the state, or even take advantage of the defeat with the local Huns in Shuofang to completely exterminate them in one fell swoop, and eliminate the "species" of the Huns, both of which are tantamount to a huge temptation for Lü Bu, but on the one hand, they are short-term interests and long-term interests on the other. But in the end, there are benefits, and if you miss this time, not only will there be no next time, but it may also lead to some bad consequences, so Lu Bu has to carefully consider choosing one, and then find a way to stop the other at the same time.

Lu Bu invited everyone here, regardless of civil and military, first of all, they are all smart people, and they are all Lu Bu's henchmen, otherwise they are also important advisers like Liangle, who are on guard but also need to be on their side, so when they determined that Lu Bu's mind was not whether to do it at all, but which one to choose, their minds also began to be active, and they first evaluated the pros and cons of both sides of the enterprising side in their hearts.

Chen Gong said first: "Speaking of which, this Shuofang County is just on the west side of our Wuyuan County. It was occupied earlier by the Southern Huns. At that time, Qiangqu Shan Yu, that is, the father of the Yufu Luo brothers, was still in power, and it could be said that he was the real ruler of all parties, and the Huns in Shuofang County also submitted to him, but then Meiji Shan Yu had an internal change. Qiang Qu Shan Yu was killed by his subordinates. The Marquis of Xubu Gudu was elected as the new Shan Yu by the Shan Yuting aristocratic forces led by the old king of the Xiongnu tribe. And directly skipped the hereditary replacement of the Luanti family, and the two Yufu brothers were excluded, and the local Huns in Shuofang County were naturally unconvinced. Later, when Yu Fu Luo was exiled here, they naturally elected him as Shan Yu, and the 50,000 troops led by Yu Fu Luo into Xihe County came from their support. Now because Yu Fuluo and Hu Chuquan brothers were both captured by Wen Hou, and Qubei, the third-in-command, the right Xian King, took his place, and now he basically controls the tens of thousands of military power, and even recruited most of the defeated Hun army in Meiji Nanshan Yuting, this series of things makes these Huns in Shuofang a little unable to react, let alone accept, and the contradiction between Qubei and them was buried at the beginning, although he has now returned to Shuofang County for more than a month, and it is incompatible with there, and the friction is constant... …”

Jia Xu added: "According to Wen Hou's instructions earlier, Xu took advantage of the fact that it was difficult to distinguish the remnants of the Hun army that went to Beibei to collect the Xiongnu army in Meiji Nandan Yuting, and sent those officers of the Huns in our army to mix in, and now they are equivalent to our secret agents distributed in Shuofang County in the Qubei army, and according to the news they came last time, Shuofang County is in a chaos and turmoil that may last for a long time, but it was difficult to suppress the local Huns there. ”

Everyone nodded, which is also very understandable: Originally, in Shuofang County, these Huns who were excluded by Meiji Shan Yuting, because of the relationship between Yu Fuluo and Hu Chuquan's father Qiangqu Shan Yu and the high prestige of the Luan Ti family among the Huns, may still listen to Yu Fuluo's words, but if this person is replaced by Qu Bei, it will be completely different, and Qu Bei is only the right sage king at the time of Yu Fuluo, but he has nothing to do with them, and his current status is not right, who will obey him?

And if Chen Gong and the others only talked about the situation in Shuofang, then Liangle's words immediately afterwards were tantamount to a kind of caution on Cheng Dù: "In fact, in addition to the possible war in Shuofang County, what we still need to guard against is that this Qubei may re-turn his eyes to the east in this situation, that is, here in Wuyuan County, as well as Xihe County, especially Meiji Shan Yuting, I am afraid that he has long coveted it." In the past hundred years, the Huns have multiplied here, and they have long regarded this as their own nest, and they were helpless to leave at the beginning; But now that the world has changed in time, with nearly 100,000 troops as his backing, he is obviously more confident now, and his ambitions will naturally be greater. For the local Huns in Shuofang, one is that they are deeply rooted after all, and it is not easy to pull out lightly, and on the other hand, most of the troops under his command from Yuvro are local people in Shuofang, and they are inextricably linked with the Huns here. But we are different, we don't believe in the so-called non-aggression agreement at all, let alone the Huns with wolf ambitions. ”

Hearing this, everyone showed that they had been, and then they all raised their eyebrows and pondered, the three of Chen Gong can be regarded as the three most relied on real strategists that Lu Bu can use now, and their opinions are naturally very important, and this other possibility mentioned by Liangle at this time is even more unimportant, especially one point that Liangle did not mention, that is, if you want to start a war with the local Huns in Shuofang, will the Hun soldiers who were originally from the Shuofang region under Zhibei agree or not, in order to take care of their feelings, it is very likely that they will turn the spearhead outside, And the most suitable target is undoubtedly Lu Bu.

At this time, Cao Xing, who had been listening, suddenly spoke: "If Sex is not mistaken, there seem to be two Huns in our prisoner camp...... Person? ”

Cao Xing's words made everyone's eyes light up, to be honest, they really almost forgot about this just now, even Lu Bu himself didn't think about it for a while, although he would definitely think about it later, but it was timely to be reminded by Cao Xuan at this time.

He couldn't help but smile at Cao Xing and said, "Zijin can also be said to be a blockbuster, a blockbuster......

"It's all up to Wen Hou's preparedness at the beginning, sex is just a flash of inspiration, but Wen Hou has a long-term vision." As he spoke, Cao Xing scratched the back of his head and smirked, no one felt that this smiling man was no less than anyone else at this moment. (To be continued......)