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"Da Sima, the soldiers and horses are all gathered, if there is no command, I will get on the ship and set off. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It was Guan Ping who stepped forward to speak, at this time, the former little general of the Guan family has grown into a mature general, he also has a wife and children, and is now the official general of Dangkou. This position was once held by his father, and it is clear that his father won it for him, expressing strong expectations for his eldest son.

"Dingguo, does General Shang really plan to transfer most of the soldiers and horses in Lukou?" Xu Shu knew that the facts had been decided, but he still couldn't help but ask more.

Guan Ping's face was solemn: "The Yu Ban resistance on the front line is very tenacious, my father said that if you want to defeat this person, you must increase troops to the front line and crush him with absolute superiority in troops." ”

Xu Shu sighed: "Having said that, but Lukou is now transferred to less than 5,000 soldiers and horses, if Dongwu comes to attack, how should he deal with it." ”

Guan Ping said disapprovingly: "Da Sima is too worried, my Great Han Kingdom is so strong, Eastern Wu Yan dares to attack." Furthermore, not long ago, the new Chaisang took office, what is the governor of Wu State, Lu Xun, is just a weak Confucian student, you see he wrote a letter to his father, that flattering words, hey, even I feel numb, such a person, what kind of climate can become, Emperor Wu is not a fool, if he wants to invade my Jingzhou, he will use this person. ”

Guan Pingyang sprinkled some arguments, expressing his contempt for Lu Xun, and Wu Guo's confidence in not daring to use troops in Jingzhou, obviously, what he meant was exactly what Guan Yu meant, which is why Guan Yu dared to almost dim the soldiers of Lukou.

Guan Ping talked about this, and Xu Shu had nothing to say. With his identity as the right great Sima, if he is in Chang'an, of course, he has the right to speak, but this is Jingzhou, the territory of the great general Guan Yu, and here Guan Yu has the final say, especially after the death of the first emperor.

'Alas, if the First Emperor was still here, he would never have made Yun Chang do this. ’

Xu Shu sighed in his heart, but he had to smile reluctantly: "Since this is the case, then you should set off as soon as possible, don't delay the trip." ”

"Then Dingguo is leaving, Da Sima take care."

Guan Ping bid farewell to Xu Shu, got on the huge fighting ship, sailed out of the port, headed downstream, turned into Hankou through Xiakou to Xiangyang, and then rushed to the front line through other waterways.

After seeing most of the soldiers leave Hong Kong, Xu Shu returned to his Chinese army tent with a sullen heart.

As soon as his front foot entered the account, a hurried back foot came and shouted excitedly: "Da Sima, Dongwu has sent troops." ”

Xu Shu's heart was shocked, and when he looked back, he saw that the person who came was Zhang Liao.

Since reaching an agreement with Fang Shao and Guan Yu, Zhang Liao has been under the command of the Han State and has been sitting in Lukou to assist Xu Shu in guarding against Eastern Wu.

For so many years, Eastern Wu has not moved troops to Jingzhou, so Zhang Liao has never had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but the first emperor Liu Bei is still not thin on this former friend, and before his death, Zhang Liao's official position has been promoted to the general of Zhendong. With the official position of the general of the four towns, he was awarded a Wei returnee, which is already very lovely.

However, this seems to be a glorious official position, but Zhang Liao doesn't care at all, for so many years, the only force that has supported him to survive is the revenge of Soochow.

Now, the opportunity has finally been waited for by him, which is why he is so excited.

Compared with Zhang Liao's excitement, Xu Shu seemed worried, he took the information brought by Zhang Liao and took it over to take a closer look, the intelligence said, a few days ago, Emperor Sun Quan of Wu issued an assembly order, and issued an edict of 150,000 Wu troops to assemble in Anhuikou, preparing to go north to attack Wei, as an ally, with practical actions to respond to the Han State's attack on Wei.

This piece of information, on the surface, should be beneficial to the Han State, because the banner of the Wu State is to destroy Wei. However, with Zhang Liao's strategy, listening to his talents, it shows that he sees that there must be flaws in this intelligence.

Xu Shu didn't express his opinion first, stared at the information again, and after a long time, his eyes suddenly lit up.

In this information, there is really something strange, and the key point is the assembly location of Wu State.

Theoretically, if the Wu army wants to attack Wei, the army must be transferred to Huaishui through the river, and the assembly place of soldiers and horses should be set up in the mouth of the river, but in fact, the assembly place set by Sun Quan is in the mouth of Anhui, which means that the Wu army is going to enter the Huai through the Anhui water, during which it has to turn several water systems, which invisibly slows down the speed of the march and destroys the way of the speed of the soldiers.

Xu Shu's expression changed immediately, he walked in a few steps to the high hanging map, raised his eyes and scanned the locations of the various points on the map, and after a while, a sneer appeared on his face.

"Wankou is less than a day away from Chaisang, Emperor Wu's move seems to be to repair the plank road and secretly cross Chencang, and the real intention is to invade my Jingzhou."

Zhang Liao also smiled, obviously Xu Shu's opinion coincided with his, so he said: "Sun Quan's guy thinks that he can hide from our ears and eyes with a false shot, hmph, he is really self-righteous. This time it is just right, if Wu Gou dares to come, we will give them a head-on blow. ”

Zhang Liao's tone was full of excitement and pleasure of imminent revenge, but Xu Shu was not as optimistic as him.

"Sun Quan is not stupid, the reason why he dares to play such an inferior trick is nothing more than to find out that the general has almost transferred the army of Lukou. Now our army is less than 5,000, and it will not be easy to resist the invasion of 150,000 Wu troops. ”

Zhang Liao said proudly: "Da Sima Mo wants to grow the ambition of others, destroy his own prestige, although the thief army is numerous, I Zhang Liaoyan will be afraid, if Sun Quan comes in person, I will capture him alive to avenge the revenge of Hefei that year." ”

Zhang Liao's self-confidence is justified, when he was in Hefei, he had many times with weak forces, repelled the Wu army's large-scale attacks, except for the last accidental miss, every time Sun Quan was disgraced and returned to Jiangdong.

But in Xu Shu's view, Zhang Liao is a little arrogant, you know, this is the Yangtze River, on the Yangtze River, the Wu people are invincible dragons, although Fang Shao had defeated the Wu people on the Yangtze River once, but this does not change the dominant position of the Wu army on the Yangtze River.

Xu Shu was also not good at sweeping Zhang Liao's prosperity, so he had to say: "With Wenyuan here, the Wu people have nothing to fear." However, this matter cannot be trusted, so we will prepare for the battle to meet the enemy, and on the other hand, send a letter to the general Shangda, asking him to quickly increase his troops at Lukou. ”

………… Yecheng, the camp of the Han army.

At this moment, Fang Shao was walking on the pontoon bridge, perhaps because he had been in Jingzhou for many years, and he liked this feeling of ups and downs, because it could relax his mind.

As he walked, he would take out the secret letter from time to time to take a look, which was Chen Qun's letter of surrender.

Unlike the last encrypted letter, this letter was written by Chen Qun himself, and he sent a family member of his cronies to sneak out of the city to offer it.

If the letter of surrender written by himself was discovered by the Wei army loyal to Cao Ying, Chen Qun's treason would be beyond doubt, and for Chen Qun, this time it would be a great risk.

Obviously, he was making up for the mistake of "missing the appointment" last time, and wanted to use this risky move to show his sincerity in surrendering this time, so as to relieve Fang Shao's vigilance and doubts about him.

Fang Shao believed that Chen Qun's surrender this time was true, because compared to the last battle of Yecheng, this time he had no choice.

"Chen Qun and Sima Yi are all old foxes, if these people stand firm in the court as heroes, with the powerful energy of these scholars, I am afraid that in the future, the Han Congress will repeat the tragedy of the Wei State in history, and the Jin State will pick peaches by the Jin State, which represents the Shi clan......

Fang Shao's thoughts flowed, and all kinds of worries came to his heart.

The five chaotic times in history made Fang Shao have a deep dislike for the Jin Dynasty of the Sima clan, which was established with the support of the Shi clan, and from beginning to end it was a fundamental national policy to safeguard the interests of the Shi clan, which also made Fang Shao also have a strong wariness of the Shi clan, although in the eyes of outsiders, he himself was also a member of the Shi clan.

However, as a traverser that no one knew, Fang Shao did not fully regard himself as a member of the scholar clan to some extent.

Because of this, Fang Shao spared no effort to transform papermaking and create the imperial examination system, all of which was to break the monopoly of power on the scholars and establish a balance and constraint between the scholars and the Hanmen.

Over the years, the imperial examination system has been running quite well, and more and more talented people from poor families have filled important positions in the imperial court and localities. However, the reason why this imperial examination system can continue to operate well is that on the one hand, Liu Bei's courage, and on the other hand, it is also in the area ruled by the Han State, and there is no wealthy family like the Central Plains that can truly "dominate one side", so there is no great resistance to the implementation of the imperial examination.

In the hinterland of the two rivers ruled by the Wei state, there were countless wealthy clans like the Sima clan who dominated one side, and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system had been widely implemented for many years, and the power of these clans had expanded even more during this period.

At this time, if you accept the submission of these great clansmen, in order to appease them, the imperial court will inevitably make great officials for such famous figures as Sima Yi and Chen Qun, and these people are extremely resourceful, and it should not be difficult to re-establish power in the new dynasty with their own and external support.

In this case, these wealthy families who have regained power will inevitably pose a threat to the imperial examination, and these people have great energy, and it is not impossible for the imperial court to revise the imperial examination system in order to gain their support.

All in all, the annexation of the Central Plains Shi clan is a good thing for the current Great Han Kingdom, but it is difficult to predict whether it will be good or bad in the future. This point, Fang Shao did not think carefully in the last battle of Yecheng, but now, he has a deep fear in his heart.

"The seeds of hidden dangers must be nihilated in the bud."

When he closed the secret letter, a sly smile with a faint murderous intent appeared on Fang Shao's face.

(To be continued)