Chapter 21: Three Divisions in Shu
This is an alliance that no one wants to talk about, but no one has to talk about. Saying that he is unwilling is because peace talks mean that Shuzhong cannot be reunified, that is, it cannot be all in his own hands. I have to talk about it because no one can help anyone at present, especially in the case of the three forces in Shu, no one dares to attack the other side desperately, so it is easy to be picked up by a third party, so no one will do this. The time for the meeting is tomorrow morning, and I don't know how many people will have trouble sleeping tonight. As far as the current situation is concerned, Liu Yan is the most powerful, Jia Long is second, and Chen Linhan is the weakest, but Chen Lin can protect Luo County without losing, which is an invincible position. Jia Xu: "Lord, Zhang Gongqi's corpse may be able to win a certain bargaining chip for our army, Xu's opinion is that the lord spread the news of Zhang Gongqi's corpse in our army overnight, and the three armies of the most state pastor know about it, and at that time, the state pastor will return Zhang Gongqi's corpse no matter what, otherwise the state pastor will not be able to explain to the three armies." Now that Zhang Gongqi's brother Zhang Shouyi has retreated to Brazil, if the state pastor is unwilling to make concessions, he will lose his heart to Zhang Shouyi, and it is not impossible for the lord to persuade Zhang Shouyi to surrender with Zhang Gongqi's corpse. ”
"Zhang Gongqi died at the hands of our army, how could Zhang Shouyi surrender to our army, Wen He is too wishful thinking." Huang Yan shot Zhang Lu to death, and wanted Zhang Wei to surrender, but Chen Lin always felt unlikely. But after listening to Chen Lin's question, Jia Xu smiled and said: "Lord, the world is chaotic, and you have to be your own master in it, and it is inevitable that you will die on the battlefield, General Zhang Shouyi will understand this." Besides, this is just one of the possibilities, it is always this meeting, the lord will take Guanghan and Brazil no matter what, completely control the two Shu roads from Hanzhong to Shu, and connect Shuzhong and Hanzhong together. Unless this is the case, the lord must not agree to a truce. My Hanzhong County has been governed for several years, the county is stable, the upper and lower hearts are solid, and there are strong soldiers and strong generals, although the state pastor and Jia Qiande are strong, but there is no unified and stable rear, and they cannot fight for a long time. Long-term war, followed by rebellion, this is the second chip in my Hanzhong, the lord must remember. ”
Yizhou now has a total population of about 5 million, Hanzhong and Mianzhu counties Chen Lin occupies only 800,000 people, and Shu County has a county with more than one million people, Ba County is the largest, there are more than one million people, these are the two largest counties in Yizhou, so Jia Xu must Chen Lin to grab Brazil and Guanghan, so that the population under Chen Lin can barely have the possibility of fighting with Liu Yan, Jia Long and others. Production needs population, military resources need population, and without population, everything is empty talk. If the outcome of the peace talks does not achieve the result of allowing Chen Lin to control Brazil and Guanghan, then there will be no talks, and Hanzhong will continue to send troops to fight. Now whether it is Liu Yan or Jia Long, they all urgently need time to consolidate and stabilize the rear, especially Jia Long, the central and southern parts of Shu are all barbarian lands, there are many foreign races, and the slightest carelessness is a place of chaos. Liu Yan is no better, Ren Qi's rebellion has just ended, and now Liu Yan has begun to suspect that Qianwei is too protective of Zhao Wei, and he is also internally unstable. There are no such problems in Hanzhong, and even the tens of thousands of Yi people in Bashan are united in Hanzhong, and with the governance of Hanzhong County for many years, it can be said that the people are rich and the country is strong. Chen Lin, a population of 500,000 in Hanzhong, can recruit 50,000 troops to fight, and I believe that anyone with a heart can see this. Originally, he shouted that the first rich and powerful county, Nanyang County, is now under Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu is a person who does not stop government affairs, does not understand people's reason, and gathers vigorously, more than two million people are crying and complaining, and sooner or later there will be problems. This is also the reason why although the three counties of Shangyong are close to Nanyang, Chen Lin is not very worried, and now Chen Lin wishes that Yuan Shu would attack Shangyong first, so that Chen Lin will have an excuse to enter Nanyang in a big way. However, at present, it is necessary to solve the affairs of Shuzhong first, Brazil and Hanzhong are imperative, and if the peace talks fail, they will attack.
At night, Chen Lin ordered people to quickly whip Hanzhong County, so that Chen Ze gathered troops in Yinping, and when the peace talks failed, he would attack the Sword Pavilion with strong troops, and the Sword Pavilion could not be taken, which was always a threat to Hanzhong.
At the same time, Liu Yan's military tent was also discussing tomorrow's affairs, Huang Quan: "The lord really wants to call the army and truce?" Liu Yan asked, "What do you mean by Gong Heng?" ”
"If the lord really wants to call off the army and make a truce, there should be a set of plans for the talks, so that the peace talks can have a bottom line. If the lord just wants to rest in the name of peace talks, then it must be a different situation. If the lord doesn't want to make a truce sincerely, why don't he take advantage of the night to retreat tonight, leave Mapo, and return to attack Guanghan, our army has 5,000 iron cavalry to help, Jia Qiande must not rush back here, and the southern part of Guanghan will be in the hands of our army. ”
"No, Gongheng, now a certain person has been in Shu for several years, but the people in Shu have always been unwilling to accept it. The escape of the Wu family in Chengdu is an example, our army can not be outside for a long time, there must be 10,000 troops in the city of Chengdu, a certain heart is at ease, and now the Chengdu army is almost finished, and it should be returned to Chengdu as soon as possible. A certain is to swallow his anger, temporarily truce with Jia Qiande and Chen Bozhi, and wait for a year or two to completely control Shu County and Qianwei County, and then send 100,000 troops to see who is still XX's opponent. Liu Yan said with his teeth ringing, which showed how much hatred he had in his heart, not only hating the ruthlessness of Jia Long and other Shu sergeants, but also hating Chen Lin for coming here to intervene.
Jia Long was completely angry now, and he couldn't understand why the good man wanted to let Guanghan out and let him retreat to a barren land like the south. Liu Yan sits on the Minjiang River and Tuojiang River basins, and is more beneficial to Shu County, the largest county in the state, if he retreats to the south, how can Liu Yan send troops down the river and Jiangyang and other places to defend in the future, Jiangyang and Jiangzhou rely on the Yangtze River natural risk, if Jiangyang Jiangzhou can't hold it, then Badong can't hold it, and the south is more likely to be exposed to Liu Yan's army. Jia Long thought about these things, all of which were Liu Yan, and he never took Chen Lin into account, in Jia Long's opinion, Chen Lin's ability to defend Luoxian County was the bottom line.
Ren An and Zhou Qun were a little disappointed, Jia Long was very visionary, but he was short-sighted. Ren An and Zhou Qun meant to use their own concessions to force Liu Yan to give Chen Lin more space. Ren An and Zhou Qun's plans are almost the same as Jia Xu's goals, Ren An and Zhou Qun feel that they are a little difficult to face Liu Yan alone, so it is better to support Chen Lin to share the burden for themselves, so Ren An and Zhou Qun mean to give Guanghan to Chen Lin, so that Liu Yan will be sandwiched between Chen Lin and the southern army. At this time, if Liu Yan still insists on Brazil, then in the future war, as long as Chen Lin or the southern army goes all out to capture Deyang, then Liu Yan's army will be divided into two sections, which is very unfavorable. Ren An wants to see if Liu Yan wants Brazil, and at the same time, Ren An and Zhou Qun both know that Chen Lin is eager to open up the passage from Hanzhong to Shu, so Brazil will become the top priority, no matter who Brazil is in the hands of, it will eventually arouse Chen Lin's attention. So in order to form a deeper friendship with Chen Lin, Ren An and Zhou Qun were even willing to give Brazil to Chen Lin. But all this Jia Long couldn't understand, alas, short-sighted.
The location of the meeting was set in the open space where Liu Yan and Jia Long fought yesterday, and some soldiers had already cleared out the surroundings early in the morning, and simply built a small pavilion and placed a wooden table for sitting. The three parties stipulate that the army is a mile away, and it is not allowed to move around, let alone evacuate for no reason, who knows if you are secretly going behind people's backs. Each of the three parties brought a hundred guards to stay a hundred paces away, and the three party lords only allowed five people to enter the pavilion. and so on, as long as any of these provisions are broken, the other two will jointly attack the party that destroys.
At dawn, Chen Lin was decided, just take Jia Xu, Zhou Cang, Huang Yan, and a total of four people to go, Chen Zhi and Cai Yang unified the army seriously, and Chen Lin also took a look at Gao Shun who was hiding in the shadows, lest Gao Shun's chaos be discovered and regarded as a person who broke the rules of the alliance, it would be miserable.
Four people, four fast horses, Zhou Cang carried the banner of Hanzhong Chen, Chen Lin was the first, the four of them traveled slowly like this, and a hundred guards behind them stopped at a distance of 100 steps from the pavilion. Liu Yan and others are the same, Chen Lin looked at it with big eyes, Liu Yan's subordinates were Huang Quan Huang Gongheng, the general Zhang Ren, the third son Liu Fan Liu Touchguo, and there was also a burly man, but he was dressed in a pair of general's armor, not Yang Huai Yang Nianxian. Ren An, Zhou Qun, Jia Long, and two generals that Chen Lin didn't know attended together, and Chen Lin was the first to say to Ren An with a lot of feelings in his heart. Chen Lin didn't hate Ren An, he didn't hate, he just had a feeling of being betrayed: "Teacher, how are you doing lately?" ”
Ren An saw Chen Lin like this, his eyes were a little relieved, this is his disciple, although the two don't seem to be in harmony now, but it is still undeniable that Chen Lin is one of Ren An's relatively outstanding disciples. Ren An: "Guofu, he doesn't know the truth, you treat him well." After Ren An finished speaking, he went straight into the pavilion, Chen Lin heard Ren An say this, his heart was greatly relieved, Du Wei did not betray himself.
The three parties sat down, and when Chen Lin saw Zhang Ren for the first time, he saw this person stepping over and standing behind Liu Yan, like an angry King Kong. This is General Zhang Ren, who has recently become famous in Shuzhong, Chen Lin felt a burst of appreciation in his heart. This kind of talk, it seems inevitable to play tricks, Chen Lin didn't speak, Jia Xu didn't dare to speak, and the entire pavilion was mixed with the voices of Liu Yan and Jia Long. One is louder than the other, and the other is more reasonable, only Chen Lin and the others drank tea silently and did not make a sound.
Suddenly, Ren An and the others all discovered this, and couldn't help shouting to Chen Lin: "Bozhi, what is your opinion?" Only then did everyone realize that their feelings had ignored Chen Lin.
I saw Chen Lin silently put down the tea set, raised his head and said, "If you don't want to quarrel, just one sentence, just do it, if it doesn't work, just disperse." A certain county of Guanghan and a place in Brazil, including Deyang, returned the body of General Zhang, a subordinate of the state pastor, to the state pastor. There is nothing else, my Hanzhong army can fight here for three years without worrying about food and clothing, Ben Hou has nothing else to say, I don't know what the two adults think? ”
The most effective diplomacy is to speak few words, which gives people a sense of unfathomability. Chen Lin did it, 100,000 stones of grain and grass to Jia Long, and replaced Guanghan. Zhang Lu's corpse plus Zhang Wei and others returned to Shu County, and Chen Lin got Brazil.
Hanzhong, Chen Lin, this time entered Shu, won a big victory, and the population skyrocketed by nearly one million.