vs 42 The Hope of the Land [II]

Wang Fen, the predecessor of Jizhou Assassin Shi, once secretly eliminated the branch forces left in Jizhou by Wang Yun when Wang Yun came forward to invite the Taixing army to enter Bingzhou to attack the Xiongnu rebels in the west. Zhao Feng, the arrogant brother-in-law of the leader of the Taixing Army, died in Wang Fen's operation.

As a result, Zhang Qiang, who was enraged by the tragedy of the death of his wife and brother, sent his right-hand man to investigate the matter, and finally set off a huge change in Jizhou.

The arrogant master not only tracked down the perpetrator of the tragedy, Lu Yi, but also found Wang Fen's head along the way. However, Wang Fen was plotting to abolish Emperor Ling of Han and set up a new emperor at this time. This matter was investigated by the master sent by the arrogant, and the news was immediately leaked to Luoyang City.

In the end, Wang Fen had to commit suicide to save the family because of the conspiracy leaked. And the murder of Zhao Feng has the best memorial.

In addition to Wang Fen, the commander of the Jizhou Prefecture Division, who attacked and killed Zhao Feng, failed to escape the retaliation of the Taixing army. Zang Ba, a famous and important general under Zhang Madness, tried to sneak attack the camp of Lu Yi a few years ago to avenge the Lord Gazette. Fortunately, the army was strictly organized, and the elite of the troops were able to fight, which repelled Zang Ba's surprise attack.

Although Zang Ba did not complete the battle in this battle, the combat effectiveness of the army revealed made the county magistrates of all parts of Jizhou in awe. In the months that followed, the rebels did not dare to make a big move. Now in the area of Changshan and Zhao in the west, there is no county official who dares to openly confront the Taixing army.

Han Fu was able to become one of the big states in the world, the governor of Jizhou, and it was said that he was blessed by the Taixing army. If there was no Tai Xingjun to get rid of Wang Fen, there would be no later incidents. Therefore, since he took office, he has naturally paid great attention to the actions of the Tai Xingjun.

In recent days, though. Zhang Qiang's attention was basically focused on the Xihe and Hedong areas, trying to get these rich and rich lands from the hands of the Liangzhou army, and entrusting the affairs and things related to Taihang Mountain and Jizhou to Zang Ba to deal with.

Due to the lack of troops in Zangba's headquarters, the combat effectiveness was not comparable to the main force of the Taixing army. also had to face the revenge of the Lu Yi Division, who had a great enmity with the Taixing Army, and his activities in Jizhou were not frequent. In this way, Han Fu handed over the defense task of the western part of Jizhou to Duwei Luyi, which was enough to resist Zang Ba, and he was able to get out and strengthen his control over all the prefectures and counties in Jizhou.

Han Fu is also considered lucky. Yuan Shao, the Bohai Taishou, did not work for a few days after taking office, and then rushed all the way to the area of Sili and Yanzhou to deal with the imperial court under the control of Dong Zhuo. Without the interference of Yuan Shao, the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, Han Fu's governance in Jizhou would have no difficulties at all. Han Fu, whose wrist is quite old. Less than a year after taking office, the situation in Jizhou was largely under control. In the entire Jizhou, except for the Bohai County led by Yuan Shaoyao, the rest of the county officials all agreed with Han Fu's authority.

Now Han Fu has really become a prince. He holds the power of life and death in a state, and controls the land of the Han Dynasty, compared to when he was the "Imperial History Zhongcheng" in the imperial court. But there is a lot of scenery.

However, after the news of the insolence becoming the assassin of the state came. Han Fu immediately became nervous, no longer as stable as before.

Since Han Fu was afraid of the power of arrogance, of course he had carefully investigated his insolent temperament. According to Han Fu's understanding of insolence, this wingman can be described as ambitious, good at taking advantage of the time, and most likes to take advantage of changes in the current situation to expand his territory. He is also very good at using soldiers. In just a few years, this official has changed from a Taihang Mountain grass coward to a powerful prince in the world, and he has been officially appointed by the imperial court, which shows his strength.

No guesswork. Han Fu can also know that after becoming the assassin of the state, Zhang Qi will definitely not be satisfied with the status quo, and will inevitably seek expansion around. The west and north sides of Bingzhou are all pastures of Zahu, Qiang, and Xianbei, which are useless; To the south is the arrogant current ally, the rebellious thief Dong Zhuo. If Zhang Qiang wants to use soldiers, the only suitable direction is Jizhou in the east!

Jizhou is fertile for thousands of miles, the people are rich and the country is rich, and the population is large, which can be called a piece of fresh meat that is fat and oily. Han Fu himself is not good at military affairs, and understands that if he leads the army head-on and is arrogant, he is afraid that he is more likely to lose. For this, there is no need to think too much, as long as he knows that even the rebellious Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou, who relied on force to manipulate the imperial court, was jealous of the Bingzhou army, and had to give up considerable benefits to appease and win over the arrogance, Han Fu would be able to make a correct judgment.

Although the commander of the Jizhou Prefecture Division, Lu Yi, is quite capable of fighting, in Han Fu's eyes, his strength is to resist a Zang Ba. If Zhang Qiang personally led the Bingzhou army eastward, Han Fu would not believe that Lu Yi would be able to resist it. And there is another point, Lu Yi, who participated in the rebellion of his predecessor Wang Fen, is very doubtful in terms of reliability. No matter how strong this person's art of war is, Han Fu can't completely entrust him with the safety of Jizhou.

Of course, Zhang Qi has not made any moves recently, showing that he has the intention of going east. However, after studying the previous achievements of the insolent man, Han Fu was surprised to find that almost every large-scale military action of the insolent had no obvious warning in advance. And when the arrogant army began to be launched, the means he had secretly arranged in advance would appear one after another, and finally his enemies would end up with hatred.

That is, perhaps the insolence did not launch an eastward invasion now. But one day in the future, once the arrogant army is launched, it means that the general trend of Jizhou has gone!

Faced with a potential threat from the West, Han Fu acted decisively.

Han Fu first sent his henchmen Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan to work on the grounds of courting Dong, each responsible for forming a Xinzhou division, with an establishment of 5,000 people. With these 10,000 troops directly under the central government in hand, Han Fu felt that his heart was much more stable.

Han Fu attached great importance to the 10,000-person state division formed by Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan, not only selected elite soldiers and good generals from the whole Jizhou, and eliminated the two fierce generals Zhang Jaw and Gao Ran, who were famous in Jizhou, as the military commanders of the state division, but also forcibly allocated 8,000 strong crossbows from the arsenals of various counties for the armament of the state division.

The crossbow, a militaristic weapon, represents the highest level of military equipment of the Han Dynasty. An army with a large number of powerful crossbows, even if the strength of the soldiers is not too strong, is still enough to stand up to a team of veterans of a hundred battles.

With such an elite lineage armed in hand, Han Fu's courage finally grew. After all, although Lu Yi is capable of fighting, he is the confidant of the former Jizhou Thorn Shi Wang Fen. For Han Fu, this person can be used but not trusted. It is still the army in the hands of Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan, two henchmen, who can make him feel at ease.

The formation of the Xinzhou Division, on the surface, Han Fu was to crusade against Dong Zhuo, but in fact, on the one hand, it was to resist the arrogant eastward advance, and on the other hand, it was also to guard against any changes in Lu Yi. Finally, the most hidden one is to deter Yuan Shao and avoid his infiltration into Jizhou.

As the son-in-law of the "Fourth World and Three Dukes" Yuan, even if Yuan Shao is now bent on courting Dong, Han Fu does not dare to think that his influence on Jizhou will be worse than his own. If that arrogant guy can help Han Fu quietly contain Yuan Shao who lives in Hanoi for a period of time, so that Han Fu's influence can slowly infiltrate all over Jizhou, surpassing Yuan Shao's influence, it would be great for Han Fu.

After finishing Wu's hand, Han Fu sent his confidant Geng Wu, the chief historian, to Bingzhou as an envoy to congratulate Zhang Mad on taking over the history of Bingzhou assassination, so as to mend the relationship between the two sides. As long as he can dispel the insolence of the remnants of the Yellow Turban who secretly wants to go east, Han Fu will never be stingy with the little money and food left in the treasury of Jizhou Mansion.

Although it is said that the treasury of Jizhou is actually quite empty.

The Jizhou treasury is empty, but it is not how much Han Fu himself spends. The bulk of the money and grain expenses is actually Yuan Shao, who is far away in Hanoi.

Yuan Shaotun's troops in Hanoi, who were on the front line of the war against Dong, had tens of thousands of troops under his command, and needed a lot of money and food every day. However, with the consumption caused by these soldiers and horses, Yuan Shaoke could not feed them. Not to mention that Bohai County, which he directly ruled, was thousands of miles away in the east, and just one county naturally couldn't provide much food.

Therefore, the military supply of more than 10,000 elite soldiers under Yuan Shao fell on the head of Jizhou Mu Hanfu. And Han Fu has the identity of his former official of the Yuan family, so he has to meet this request made by the benefactor's son-in-law.

If it is only the more than 10,000 elite soldiers under Yuan Shao, with the wealth of Jizhou, it is not too much pressure. But the problem is that Yuan Shao is the leader of the coalition against Dong, and if the rest of the allies against Dong are short of military food, they have to ask Yuan Shao for one or two. Since Yuan Shao had no food on hand, of course he would send the requests of these princes' allies to Han Fu.

And if Han Fu didn't want to offend all the princes in Yanzhou County, he would have to pay some blood money often to befriend those princes. In this way, the consumption rate of money and grain in Jizhou is not ordinarily fast.

Han Fu's jealousy of arrogance is actually not really afraid of him. It's just that if Zhang Qiang really fights, not to mention anything else, after a large amount of money and grain from Jizhou is supplied to Yuan Shaojun, who is far away in Hanoi, a considerable part of it has to be distributed to the sour jujube coalition army, and the remaining amount is already difficult to support such a big battle.

Besides, even if the Jizhou army wins the battle against the arrogance, as long as the arrogance shrinks into the Taihang Mountain, Han Fuke will not be able to help him. The difficulty of the etheric mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Will Han Fu really send troops on a large scale, go to the kind of poor ravine where birds don't, and encircle and suppress those extremely agile "mountain monkeys"?

If the battle is lost, not to mention the loss of troops and land in Jizhou, if Yuan Shao is provoked to use this as an excuse to turn around and go north to "support" the Jizhou army, can Jizhou still be surnamed Han?

Therefore, the long history Geng Wu who went to Jinyang, the responsibility on his shoulders is not light. Geng Wu must try to make a non-aggression contract with Zhang Qi at the lowest cost. As long as he survives the current difficult time, when he succeeds in courting Dong and frees up his hands, Han Fu will naturally get back the little money and food he has lost so far ten times or a hundred times from Zhang Qiang! (To be continued......)