The original Liu Xiu decided to set off and return to the south, the wind and snow were a little reluctant, and the wind cracked and was reluctant to leave A Niu, Liu Xiusuo left their mother in Beihai, and then accompanied the wind crack for a while, and it was not too late to go back when Kaichun was warm, and I wanted Jingcai to start the snow to be happy, and the wind crack was also very happy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The weather was cold and frozen, and the Liangzhou horses brought by Liu Xiu were obviously not very suitable for this kind of cold weather, and they were not used to walking on ice and snow, so the wind cracked so that Liu Xiu left those war horses and replaced them with cold-resistant war horses on the grassland. These horses should be the later Mongolian horses, although not as tall and good as the Liangzhou war horses, but the fur is fine, not afraid of the cold, and the body is stout, both strength and endurance, can be used as a war horse, and can be used as a pack horse, dragging a sleigh walking is also very free.

Liu Xiu left Beihai with more than 1,000 guards who had been training on the grassland for more than half a year. Halfway through, he turned to the Niutou tribe ranch and went to look near Junji Mountain, one was to see the split wind and rest there, and the other was to look at Murong Feng to see if he was obedient and whether he had any demon moths.

Murong Feng didn't have much strength now, so he didn't dare to be disobedient, he honestly stayed at the place designated by the Split Wind. Now there are only more than 30,000 people under Murong Feng, of which only 5,000 can fight, there is a powerful Niutou tribe in the north, and there are Han people in the south, he does not dare to make any moves that may cause hostility. Fortunately, after all, Cracking Wind also grew up watching him, as long as he didn't mess around, Cracking Wind couldn't watch him starve to death, according to Wind Crack's instructions, he sent tens of thousands of sheep and some grain to Murong Feng to ensure that he could survive the winter safely.

For Liu Xiu's arrival, Split Wind and Murong Feng both welcomed it. Murong Feng also proposed to go to Wuyuan Hu Market to trade and buy some goods, and Liu Xiu also agreed, so he let his caravan go with him, so that they could take care of each other along the way. Although the Xianbei people on the grassland have been defeated, sporadic horse thieves can still be seen often. Liu Xiu actually knew in his heart that some horse thieves were real horse thieves. Some horse thieves are actually border soldiers, especially Lu Bu's idle guy, who is known as hunting. In fact, most of the time it is robbery, so as to nostalgic for the old days. Fortunately, he also knew the importance and never robbed the caravans of the Han Chinese. Liu Xiu also turned a blind eye.

At the beginning of the month, Liu Xiu returned to the Han realm, in Guanglu City, he saw Lu Bu who was hunting, Lu Bu saw Liu Xiu very affectionate, but when he saw those Xianbei people, his eyes suddenly became a little green, like a hungry wolf seeing a fat sheep. When the leading Xianbei man saw Lu Bu, he was startled, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "General Lu, don't come unharmed?" ”

Lu Bu was surprised: "You know me?" ”

"Shame, shame. I met once at Shaling Lake in the clouds, and I was Murong Feng, a defeated general under General Lu. ”

Lu Bu rolled his eyes for a long time and didn't remember who Murong Feng was, but he had an impression of the battle on the shore of Shaling Lake, it was the first time he and Xu Huang worked together, and they fought very beautifully. Now that he sees his subordinates defeated, he will curry favor with him. He was happy in his heart, and happily accepted Murong Feng's gift, and asked a few words casually. Murong Feng said, thanks to General Wei's gift, let us go to the place that originally belonged to Xianbei in the west, and now we are temporarily living in the area of Junji Mountain. In the future, General Lu will take care of it and so on. In fact, Junji Mountain is nearly two thousand miles northwest of Wuyuan, and Lu Bu can't take care of them at all unless he wants to go out of his way to rob them. It's just that Murong Feng was scared by Lu Bu's beating that time, and subconsciously sold himself first.

Lu Bu was a little unhappy, gave him a few perfunctory words, and pulled Liu Xiu aside: "General, how can such a good thing be given to Murong Feng?" ”

"What's good?" Liu Xiu was puzzled: "Just let them stay temporarily, and let them get out of the way when the chun opens tomorrow." ”

"It's not this, I'm talking about going to the west to fight Guishan." Lu Bu was a little anxious: "Let Jun Yi go to the Western Regions, and I will forget it, who let Jun Yi enter the shogunate of the general before me." But this Guishuang can't give it to Murong Feng, so you have to give it to me. ”

Liu Xiu suddenly realized, it turned out that Lu Bu was asking for war, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "You still know about Guishuang?" ”

"Of course I know, I'm a reader now." Lu Bu patted his chest and said proudly: "I not only know Guishuang, I also know that I am afraid of him, and I also know what kind of mule and horse country it is." ”

"You mean Parthia and Rome, right?" Liu Xiu thought about it for a long time, and then couldn't help laughing, how did the dignified Roman Empire become a country of mules and horses in the mouth of this scholar.

"Yes, yes, yes." Lu Bu didn't mean to be shy at all, and said seriously: "General, I can tell you, if you don't let me go to fight Guishuang, I can be anxious." ”

"Okay, okay, I remember. If there is a day when Guishan is beaten, I will be the first to send you. But now, we don't have the strength, let's solve the Yuan Shao brothers first. ”

"What's the use of those two unfinished things, as long as the general prepares me with half a year's worth of grain and grass, I'll kill him now."

"The problem is that I don't have half a year's worth of food and grass." Liu Xiu patted Lu Bu on the shoulder, "You are Shuo Fang Taishou, come and tell me, how much grain is in Shuo Fang's granary?" ”

Lu Bu was stunned and muttered: "Tuntian has some achievements, but in the past two years, there have been more and more displaced people, and the expenses of the merchants passing by have also been large. ”

"What can you do in three months?" Liu Xiu said with a smile: "It will take half a month to run from here to Jizhou, and half a month to come back, two months, can you guarantee to defeat Yuan Shao?" ”

Lu Bu pursed his lips, although he was belligerent, but when it came to these very serious issues, he didn't dare to joke. Yuan Shao now has an army of 100,000, and with the strength of Jizhou, Yuan Shao can also raise 200,000 troops in a short period of time when necessary. Although he is mainly a foot soldier, he can't chase the foot soldiers, but he is good at defending the city. It is impossible to attack the city with cavalry, the siege of the city is a matter of hard consumption, without three or five months, if you want to capture a big city, it is simply impossible, if you are not careful, you may not be able to break the city for half a year.

The strength of the state has grown very much now, but food has always been a shortcoming, and this kind of war of attrition is a taboo war for the state army.

"And what is the general going to do?"

"I have to grab a grain field and get the food ready. And then get your hands dirty. Either you don't do it, or you will kill him, and I'm not interested in this pulling. ”

"yes, that's what I mean." Lu Bu clapped his hands and shouted excitedly: "If you want to fight, you will beat him all over the ground." It's boring. ”

Xu Huang had been listening to the side, and suddenly said at this time: "Is the general going to take Hanzhong first?" ”

Liu Xiu looked at him, and the two smiled understandingly. However, Xu Huang shook his head again. "Liu Yan made the history of Yizhou Thorn, and as soon as he entered Hanzhong, he cut off the plank road in Hanzhong. It is not easy for the general to fight Hanzhong. ”

"When did this happen?" Liu Xiu was taken aback, he didn't receive the news on the road.

"I just arrived a few days ago." Xu Huang turned around and took out a copy of the newspaper from the desk and put it in Liu Xiu's hand: "Liu Yan cut off the plank road, I heard Jia Changshi say it in Luoli City yesterday, and they also just received the news from Guanzhong. ”

Liu Xiu's face was a little ugly. He knew that Liu Yan later occupied Yizhou and became independent, if it weren't for him Liu Zhang was too weak, he would not have been taken away by Liu Bei pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. Later, Liu Bei's father was able to hold on to the land of Yizhou for forty or fifty years, because the terrain of Yizhou was easy to defend and difficult, and once it was preempted, it would be difficult for the latecomers. Take Cao Cāo's ability. Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He and other brave generals failed to take Yizhou, but folded Xiahou Yuan in Dingjun Mountain. Since then, the war between Shu and Wei for more than 40 years has always been Shu Zhan's initiative, and Wei can only passively respond to the war, even if it is the latter battle. If it weren't for Deng Ai taking a handful of old bones to play with his life, it would be really impossible to say when Shu would be destroyed.

However, no matter how anxious he was, he knew that at the moment when the Yuan family rebelled, most of the scholars in the world responded, and the only thing that the imperial court could use was the clan. As a clan, although Liu Yan's ability is average, so far, there is no problem with his loyalty, and no one would have thought that he would divide Yizhou and stand on his own. In fact, even if it was him, who would have thought that he would have a heart of disobedience.

Liu Xiu's eyes changed for a moment, and he didn't say anything more. He stayed overnight in Guanglu City, and the next day he rushed to Luori City. Jia Xu is falling into the city, and after Cao Hong was transferred to Liangzhou to preside over Qiang City, Jia Xu was arrested here. Jia Xu was so busy that he was thin, but Jing Shen was very good, some black skin was glowing, and a pair of eyes were Jing Guang Sishè, so he had to squint his eyes often and pretend to be a smiling tiger.

Liu Xiu had nothing to be polite to him, so the two entered the back room, and as soon as they sat down, Liu Xiu asked about some of Liu Yan's actions in Yizhou. In the face of Liu Xiu's anger, Jia Xu was a little unimpressed: "Liu Yan did this, for the general, the overall benefits outweigh the disadvantages." ”

"The pros outweigh the cons?" Liu Xiu's heart to cry is gone.

"yes." Jia Xu said very calmly: "Doesn't this give the general a reason to attack Yizhou?" ”

Liu Xiu was stunned, and then laughed loudly with Jia Xu. Jia Xu is right, according to the Liangzhou pair proposed by Yan Zhong at the beginning, Liu Xiu is not in a hurry to fight Jizhou at the moment - Jizhou seems to have enemies on all sides, and it is easy to take it, but because Jizhou is strong, all the people surrounding him together are not as strong as him, just like a few leopards surrounding an elephant, it looks like a very large piece of meat, but you can't swallow it. Liu Xiu's current important thing is to seize Yizhou, firstly, Yizhou has grain, and secondly, Yizhou has a special terrain, once it is occupied by a guy like Yuan Shu, it will be a stubborn disease. But if Liu Xiu wants to enter Yizhou, he must have an excuse to get it. He is not Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu can fight wherever he wants, anyway, he no longer recognizes the imperial court, and he has no scruples. But he can't, he is still nominally obedient to the imperial court, and if he wants to enter Yizhou, there must be a reason, fortunately, the imperial court issued an edict to let him attack Yizhou.

If Liu Yan didn't cut off the plank road, what reason did he have to hit Yizhou? He only thought of the geographical difficulties brought to him by Liu Yan's entry into Shu, but forgot that he had a nominal difficulty before that.

Liu Xiu sighed secretly, it seemed that he was a little careless, and he took it for granted, and he actually ignored such an important matter. Just like a person who walks on a mountain road, he is careful when he is in the mountains, and he has crossed countless dangerous mountains and rivers, and when he gets out of the mountain, he almost capsized in the yin ditch.

"Thank you for the reminder."

The general was serious. It is not an easy task to finish from the beginning to the end. We can't go into battle to kill the enemy, so we can only help in these small places. "To be continued