Chapter 8: The Strategist Uses Strength to Leverage Strength

When Jia Xu's more than 100 cavalry appeared in front of the elder, the elder looked embarrassed and said to Chen Lin: "General, it's not that this village intends to rebel against the general, it's just that there are so many soldiers and horses, and a small village, I'm afraid that the general's army can't be fed, general." Chen Lin smiled, looking at the elder's embarrassed and deeply afraid that he would be angry, he turned around and took Huang Yan's bag, and grabbed a handful of golden beans from it. Send it to the elder and say, "Don't worry, my father-in-law, this official will not ask for food from the villagers in vain, give all the money, give it all, it is feasible to buy it, one golden bean and one stone of grain." "The elder was shocked, even if a stone of grain was sold at a sky-high price, it wouldn't be worth half a golden bean, let alone one.

Chen Lin looked at the piles of grain in front of him with a smile and a smile, didn't he say that there was no food, how could every household have at least one stone of grain after the exchange of golden beans. Chen Lin sighed, it's okay, anyway, the days are still long, and they will be useful in the future, fortunately, there are so many horses. That night, Chen Lin set up a barracks in the middle of the village, and after chatting with the elders about countless topics, Chen Lin and Jia Xufa were discussing. The situation is not optimistic, Guo Yan, Li Dao and others were decisively instigated by their subordinate soldiers to attack Chang'an when the food was about to run out. With the help of Zhang Liao, Lu Bu and others, Wang Yun was only a garrison of 20,000, but there was an army of 200,000 people outside the city, and there were tens of thousands of cavalry alone. The Chang'an area began to get out of control, and soldiers of various races, such as the Qiang, Hu, Han, and all kinds of different races, burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil. In addition to Chang'an City, Jing Zhaoyin and even the entire land of Sanfu are no longer owned by the Han Dynasty. Wang Yun stood on the city wall at this time, looking at the ant-like army under the city, the wall of Chang'an was high, but it would be defeated over time. Wang Yun was sad, did I do something wrong. Li Dao and others played the banner of revenge for Dong Zhuo, but anyone, including Wang Yun himself, knew that it was Wang Yun's order to kill them all* against Li Dao and others.

Chen Lin: "Alas, I didn't expect it to happen, and now Chang'an is afraid that he won't be able to enter." Fa Zheng: "The lord is now the shepherd of Yizhou, and he originally had to show his identity after coming to Chang'an, so as not to be tongued, but now he has to change and temporarily do not disclose the news of the lord here, so as not to fall into a crisis." ”

Jia Xu nodded and agreed with Fa Zheng's opinion, the current Chen Lin can't disclose his identity, and it's useless, on the contrary, it may lead to death, after all, Chen Lin has no soldiers and horses here now. Soldiers and horses, slowly, Jia Xu seems to have thought of something, to soldiers and horses is soldiers and horses. If Chen Lin led a large army to Chang'an at this time, wouldn't he be a great loyal minister. So where do the soldiers and horses come from, where do the soldiers have to be recruited, but this is not Yizhou, there is no money and no food. The soldiers and horses can also be someone else's, surrendered, who will surrender here, who, Liu Zhao, Lantian pig. Jia Xu smiled, calculating Liu Zhaolai, Liu Zhao, who was dozens of miles away in Lantian County, couldn't help but shudder, hell, he was still shivering this summer.

I saw Jia Xu looking at Chen Lin excitedly: "Lord, if there is a large army to kill Chang'an at this time, whether or not you can take the siege of Chang'an, will the lord say yes?" Chen Lin looked puzzled, but Fa Zheng frowned and desperately wondered what Jia Xu's plan was. Jia Xu: "Lord, isn't the elder Liu Xiongming during this period trying his best to recruit troops in Lantian County, isn't this a ready-made army." ”

Chen Lin: "Don't laugh, why do Liu Xiongming's soldiers and horses have to listen to a certain command, Wen and Mo have to laugh." Fa Zheng had an idea, seemed to understand what Jia Xu meant, and shouted after Jia Xu's words: "Oh, Wen He is thinking-" looked at Jia Xu excitedly, only to see Jia Xu nodding and smiling slightly. Chen Lin looked at the small movements of the two of them, and pretended to be angry: "What are the ideas of the two of you, you want to hide it from me?" ”

Jia Xu laughed: "How dare you hide it from the lord, Xu just remembered that the lord used Ganxing to dominate Jiangzhou in Shuzhong at that time, and Xu also came up with a plan because of the lord's plan, maybe he could conjure up a large army for the lord." He bowed his head and talked to Chen Lin about the plan, Chen Lin listened, hahaha laughed, wonderful, wonderful, ten will succeed. So he hurriedly ordered Huang Yan to arrange it like this, and the crowd began to laugh again.

The next day, Chen Lin told the village elders that they were leaving, and Chen Lin packed up more than 100 iron horsemen and really left Gongwang Village, but it was as if he was looking at Lantian County. At this time, in Lantian City, Liu Zhao had 3,000 troops, although 1,000 were the original county soldiers, and 2,000 were just recruited, so it was okay to say that they were forcibly recruited. The strength here is that the Central Plains must be good, as long as they are armed with equipment, they can go to the battlefield, and their quality is much better than that of the Central Plains. Among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the soldiers who are the most unable to fight are estimated to be the soldiers and horses of Yizhou and Jiaozhou, and the people in these two places have to practice for at least three months to adapt to the cruelty of the army.

Liu Zhao sat on the front seat with a golden knife, and suddenly a cronie rushed in, bumped into each other, and shouted to Liu Zhao: "General, general, horse, good horse, there are hundreds of good horses." Liu Zhao jumped up: "Horse? Where is it? "Now that the Xiliang army is in rebellion in Chang'an, as long as it is four-legged, I am afraid that they are all in the army of Li Dao and others, at this time Liu Zhao's army is formed, but there are no decent horses, and there are not even a few scouts.

The cronies swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "General, this morning I have to report that a group of horse dealers from the south came to Gongwangling, it seems that they were selling horses in Chang'an before, because Duan Shuai set up a roadblock in Huayin, these people wanted to pass through Qinling, walked more than a person, didn't pass, and came back, last night spent the night in a small village under Gongwangling, and now they are still in Gongwang Village." When Liu Zhao heard this, he was overjoyed, God really favored him, and hurriedly called: "Then what are you waiting for, gather people and horses, I am going to go in person, hahaha, hundreds of horses, hahaha." Liu Zhao barely had any other words than laughing.

Liu Zhao rushed out of the hall, and after a while, his cronies ran over and said happily: "General, okay, the three thousand troops are all ready, just wait for the general." When Liu Zhao heard this, his lungs exploded, and the army of three thousand scolded: "Is it to rob horses, a horse sold by a small pony, can you use three thousand people to go, ah?" Yes? Yes? Do you need it? Yes? Every time, I whipped the cronie with a horsewhip, I really hated that iron could not become steel, and the cronie was scared, so he asked weakly: "General, then, how much should you take with you?" Liu Zhao was about to roll his eyes, how could such a stupid subordinate have it, and almost roared angrily: "Five hundred, five hundred, five hundred, one more will treat you as superfluous and chop it up." The cronies were so frightened that they fled.

It is still near Gongwangling, less than ten miles from the village, and it is the only way to come to Gongwang Village in Lantian County. I saw that the dense forest here is heavy, a two-horse-wide path stretches for several miles, on both sides are dense shrubs, birds singing and flowers, and at this time it is the time when spring goes to summer, all life seems so spiritual, standing in the wind. The wild cats that occasionally came out of the grass saw the scene, meowed in fright, and hurriedly fled. I saw a mile away on both sides of the path, a dense group of cats and people, all with round eyes and angry eyes, looking straight at the way they came. The big hands holding the weapons didn't know whether they were nervous or excited, and they were all sweating. Everyone is looking at the road and turning back to caress the horse behind them, just like facing their own wives and children, of course, some of these people are not qualified to marry wives and have children, this war horse is their wives and children.

At this time, more than 100 people from Chen Lin were distributed on both sides, Zhou Cang bit the grass that he didn't know where to fold, snorted, spit out the mud on the grass, and stabbed Fa Zheng beside him: "Alas, I said can this Liu Xiongming come, I won't come to this kind of place if I want it, at most I will send a small school to take a look." Fa Zheng didn't tease Zhou Cang kindly: "Yes, send a small school like you." Zhou Cang was furious, and hurriedly remembered that it was an ambush now, so he couldn't speak loudly, so he lowered his voice and pointed at Fazheng: "You, you, a certain is the first commander of Yizhou, except for the lord, a certain is the largest, which is the small school, which is the small school, you are." The guards around him couldn't help but be handsome, and tried their best not to laugh, which made Zhou Cang even more angry. Fidgeting and looking around, I was afraid that Chen Lin would find out, what a wreck, Zhou Cang thought, damn scholar.

At this time, Chen Lin and Jia Xu were on the other side of the trail, and it had been an hour since they were ambushed, adding the time they came out, calculating the distance from Lantian, Chen Lin knew that in another half an hour, if Liu Zhao didn't show up, he wouldn't show up. At this moment, a person rushed back from the trail: "Lord, here, here, as Mr. expected, there are only four or five hundred people, and there is a guy on horseback, who looks like an official." ”

When Chen Lin heard this, his spirit trembled, and he said to this person: "Go and tell Zhou Cang that if he doesn't move here, if he dares to move, he will be punished to raise horses in the future." The man rushed out again.

Liu Zhao rode on the horse all the way was elated, a small group of traders, seeing that they didn't know how to tremble with their legs, alas, to be kind, you can't ask for other people's horses in vain, then give each horse a hundred dollars, we are not robbers, we are the righteous army of King Qin, at most a few days to fight with those guys who dare to besiege the imperial city, in the future, you will have to pay homage to the marquis, heheha. Liu Zhao thought that his saliva was flowing when he was happy, and he scolded with a touch of saliva: "Where is it, how long is it?" ”

Or the cronie: "General, it's almost there, and there are still ten miles to go." Liu Zhao scolded secretly and fell into a daze again, thinking that his feudal lord would go to the prime minister. Suddenly, a shocking thunder sounded on the right side of the trail: "Lantian pig, in the middle of the plan, quickly dismount and surrender." "Out of nowhere, a group of knights on tall horses rushed out of both sides, and their majestic long knives shone brightly, which was terrifying.

Liu Zhao was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, and shouted intermittently: "You—what are you—people, dare to hijack—this county order." Chen Lin burst out laughing, turned around and shouted: "Huang Yan, capture the thief and capture the king first, and you want to live." With a whoosh, I saw a person rushing out from behind Chen Lin, and went straight to the motionless Liu Zhao, and a big man came from the other side: "Huang Yan, this is so-and-so, don't rob it." A tiger-headed man rushed out on foot, with a huge steel knife in his hand, larger than the average short person.

Liu Zhao shouted: "My life is resting." ”