"My lord, my lord's guard has set off from Nanzheng and will arrive in six or seven days."

"My lord, General Zhang has been ordered to lead his troops from Nanzheng, and the army will arrive within ten days."

"My lord, there is no sign of the mob in Danshui counties leaving the city, and only a few people have wandered to my Hanzhong."

"My lord, General Zhang will arrive in five days."

"My lord, there are traces of military gathering in Deng County, Nanyang, and the scouts are not close, and the ten miles of Deng County are controlled by the Nanyang scouts."

"My lord, the nearest champion county to Xicheng now has a mob of 50,000 people, and if the mob goes out of the city, it will reach Xicheng in one day."

"My lord, there is no movement in Fancheng."

"My lord, General Zhang will arrive in two days."

"My lord, the Jingzhou naval army is deployed in the Xiangjiang River, there are two thousand people, and hundreds of large and small warships."

For five or six days in a row, Yuan Shu did not move, and the mob in the Danshui Valley really hid in the city because they had food to eat and were unwilling to go out of the city. Chen Lin was also reluctant to take the initiative to cause trouble, especially after knowing that Yuan Shu had gathered troops in Deng County, he hurriedly transferred Zhang Ba from Hanzhong. On this day, Chen Lin was waiting for the scout's daily return, and now there were almost 100,000 mobs in the four counties west of the Danshui River, except for Nanxiang County, which was still in the hands of officers and soldiers, and the other three counties were all captured by the mob. Cha Cha Nan Xiang is the most remote county, far in the upper reaches of Danshui, almost close to the mountains, and there are endless mountains on the left and right sides for hundreds of miles. I'm afraid that now the officials of Nanxiang are scared to death, they can only close the city gate and wait for help, want to escape back to Nanyang, want to pass Danshui County, want to come to Hanzhong, want to pass Champion County, but these two counties are now in the hands of the mob, poor Nanxiang.

Chen Lin looked at the map on the case and was distracted, his eyes kept staring at the four counties in the west of Danshui. Jia Xu happened to walk in, saw Chen Lin's appearance, and saw the look in Chen Lin's eyes, and knew it in his heart. Zhang Song and Huang Yan were chatting over there, Jia Xu walked straight over and said to Zhang Song: "Ziqiao, did you say that this lord is the master?" Jia Xu deliberately didn't finish speaking, Zhang Song grinned: "Just say it, there is something to hide, look, the lord's expression is clearly thinking about the four counties of Danshui." ”

Chen Lin raised his head in vain: "Don't talk about something behind your back." After that, he also stood up and came over to Jia Xu and the others, Zhang Song and the others hurriedly stood up, Chen Lin waved his hand, signaled to sit down, and he also picked a place to sit down. Chen Lin said again: "Originally, it was just a matter of floods and the affairs of the displaced people, and I didn't want to and didn't dare to offend Yuan Highway, but now if Yuan Highway really competes with Liu Jingzhou, these four counties of Danshui are the meat in my Hanzhong mouth." If you can get these four counties, you don't need to build a city west of Shangyong that was discussed before, and you can directly become a county in Shangyong and other counties, together with the four counties of Danshui. As long as our army holds the Fangling Port in the south of Fangling County and the ferry port east of Danshui County, it can be defended unharmed. ”

Chen Lin took a sip of tea and continued: "Wenhe and Ziqiao both know that Jingzhou is the most important thing about the water army, so I think that if our army forms an alliance with Jingzhou, as long as it is not the water army of Jingzhou to attack my Fangling and Danshui, it will be safe in the short term." And our army formed an alliance with Liu Jingzhou, and leaked the matter of Yuan Highway to Jingzhou to Jingzhou, Jingzhou is grateful to me Hanzhong, and the two families can work together to deal with Yuan Highway in the future, but I am afraid that Yuan Highway will not be able to defeat our army easily. So even if he robbed him of four counties, Yuan Highway had to endure it. ”

After speaking, Chen Lin looked at Jia Xu and the others expectantly, only to see Jia Xu and Zhang Song bowing their heads and thinking deeply, after a while, Zhang Song raised his head and said: "Lord, it is feasible, so loose I think that if this time the general asks for the destruction of the Jingzhou army or the loss of the elite, wouldn't it be better." Jia Xu looked at Zhang Song's smiling face, thinking that he was more ruthless than so, but he was very right. So Jia Xu hurriedly said: "Yes, lord, Ziqiao is reasonable, why don't we secretly unite with Liu Jingzhou and defeat Yuan Highway and greatly damage his vitality, so that I Hanzhong has time to govern the four counties of Danshui." ”

Zhou Cang shouted: "Isn't that cheap Jingzhou?" "Zhou Cang is still greedy, and it is too cheap to take Jingzhou after taking the four counties of others.

Zhang Song smiled: "Not necessarily, lord, our army just secretly told Jingzhou about General Hou's plan to ask for Jingzhou, and the others didn't take action, just wait for Jingzhou's soldiers and horses to fight with General Hou for a while." Song thought that even if our army secretly told Jingzhou, Jingzhou would still not be as well prepared as the general, so in the short term, Jingzhou's soldiers and horses would inevitably lose. At that time, I am afraid that Jingzhou will take the initiative to find the lord and ask the lord to send troops to help, how can the lord agree in vain at that time, but he must not ask for some food or anything for these hundreds of thousands of victims. And that is our army to take the four counties of Danshui again, which can not only achieve the purpose of the lord, but also extort a large amount of grain and grass from Jingzhou, killing two birds with one stone. ”

After Chen Lin listened, he laughed out loud, the scholar pits the dead. Suddenly, a newspaper shouted: "My lord, there is a person outside the door who claims to be Mr. Han Yin, a guest from Nanyang, and wants to see the lord." ”

Han Yin came to see him, Chen Lin had to see it, only to see two people coming steadily at the door, the first one was an elegant scribe, but behind him was a military general, tiger and tiger entered. Chen Lin exclaimed, "Mr. Han is here and I don't know what's going on? Ah, this is General Zhang Jiangong. Han Yin smiled and said: "The road is unstable, the mob is surging, the lord loves it, and General Zhang is specially ordered to personally escort Yin here." Then he said: "This time I came in the name of the lord to come for the rebellious mob in this Danshui county, and the lord hopes to join forces with Chen Taishou to eradicate these mobs and make the people stable." ”

Not to mention that these people are okay, as soon as he said it, Chen Lin remembered Yuan Shu's attitude of ignoring the Dan flood victims, which made these people have to rebel and bear the infamy. Chen Lin sneered: "Oh, eradicate the mob and restore the people to stability? The official wanted to ask Mr. Han how many people there are in this Danshui Basin, and how many of them are mobs to be eradicated in the eyes of General Hou. Chen Lin's sneer was very clear, didn't he want to eradicate the mob, hundreds of thousands of mobs, eradicated, there are still a few people in the Nadanshui Basin.

Han Yin was stunned for a moment, and he was also panicked in his heart, he didn't expect Chen Lin to say this, although Han Yin also knew the situation of the mob of the Dan flood victims now, but Yuan Shu was his lord, Han Yin wanted to protect his lord at this time no matter what, so he said: "Alas, Chen Taishou also knows what he said, but the matter has come to this point, I hope that Chen Taishou can help a certain lord to quell the riots in the Danshui Valley as soon as possible." ”

Chen Lin was also quite curious, didn't Yuan Shu want to take Jingzhou, Chen Lin wanted to see what Yuan Shu's idea was, so he said: "Oh, this official has lost his temper, I don't know what the plan of the general Hou is?" When Han Yin heard this, he hurriedly said: "Now there are mobs on both sides of Danshui, there are hundreds of thousands of people, if they are allowed to wander elsewhere, it will be very harmful, so a certain lord wants to fight and complete the work, and set up an ambush on the east bank of Danshui to annihilate the rebel mob." However, there were not enough soldiers and horses in Nanyang, and the fearful mob crossed the river from the county to the west bank of Danshui, endangering Hanzhong. Therefore, can Chen Taishou send troops to stop the mob in Danshui County, so that the mob on the east bank cannot cross the river, and the lord of a certain family on the east bank can win. "Now there are only 60,000 or 70,000 mobs in the west of Danshui, most of them are gathered in Champion County, and they are about to invade Hanzhong, but there are more than 150,000 or 60,000 on the east bank. Danshui only Suixian and Danshui County this section of the river is suitable for crossing the river, as long as this place is guarded, the two sides of the river are not connected.

After listening to Han Yinyi, Chen Lin said that Yuan Shu didn't want to take Jingzhou, why did he suddenly care so much about these mobs, so Chen Lin pretended not to know and asked: "I don't know how the highway is now, where is it, since Luoyang, I haven't seen the highway for many days." Han Yin's heart tightened, and said: "Thanks to my lord's concern, now the lord can eat and sleep, and he is in Wancheng, thank you for your concern." ”

Chen Lin suddenly had a bottom in his heart, looked at Jia Xu and Zhang Song, and saw that both of them shook their heads, Jia Xu came out and said: "Mr. Han, this matter is very important, please take a break, let me and others discuss it." Han Yin was about to be anxious, and Chen Lin also waved his hand and said, "Huang Yan, send Mr. Han to the post house to rest." Han Yin was not allowed to speak out again, and Han Yin had no choice but to retreat.

As soon as Han Yin left, Zhang Song smiled: "Lord, the general is so strategic, with the homeless people as the limit, drive the homeless people to Fancheng, as long as the Jingzhou soldiers and horses in Fancheng move, Fancheng is afraid that Jingzhou will not be owned again." Chen Lin also said: "Yes, Yuan Highway can still think of uniting with me Hanzhong with great fanfare, but he wants to paralyze Jingzhou, or even paralyze me, so that I and others think that Yuan Highway really wants to deal with the mob." Hmph, Yuan Highway is in Wancheng, and Han Yixian is also deceiving people. ”

These mobs are even more unorganized than the yellow turbans in the early days, so let Zhang Xun come in person, to be honest, Chen Lin felt that he could deal with these mobs with only two thousand soldiers and horses, who could he deceive, Yuan Shu was in Wancheng.

Jia Xu saw that everyone, including Chen Lin, sneered at Han Yin's arrival at this time, but Jia Xu felt that this was also an opportunity, an opportunity to occupy the four counties of Danshui openly. So Jia Xu stood up calmly and said, "Lord, I think this is a good opportunity. ”

Chen Lin and the others were stunned, and Chen Lin said, "Oh, Wenhe said to listen to it." ”

"Lord, now that Yuan Highway is pretending to ask for help, our army can take the opportunity to occupy the four counties of Danshui." After Jia Xu finished speaking, he saw Zhang Song's eyes light up, and then they were full of fine light. Chen Lin was also pleasantly surprised, yes, wouldn't there be no need to offend Yuan Shu publicly, if it was used well, there would be no need to carry out it with Yuan Shu. Chen Lin hurriedly motioned to Jia Xu to continue.

"Lord, in the eyes of Yuan Highway, the Danshui Valley is already abandoned, not only can it not bring him wealth, on the contrary, countless victims will consume a lot of financial and material resources of Yuan Highway, with Yuan Highway's temperament, don't do it, at this time, if our army takes the opportunity to propose to take over the four counties of Danshui for it, I am afraid that it will be too late for Yuan Highway to be happy."

After some discussion, the next day, Han Yin: "Chen Taishou doesn't know how to think about it?" ”

Chen Lin said embarrassedly: "This catastrophe, my Hanzhong suffered seriously, but the proposal of the highway can not be helped, but I also asked Mr. Han to go back to the same highway and say, the soldiers and horses of this official Hanzhong are all in Nanzheng, seven or eight days, as long as the Nanzheng army comes after seven or eight days, you can send troops to block Danshui County." ”

Han Yin was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked: "Lord Chen is righteous, Yin admires, and people in the world will definitely be moved by the loyalty of adults." ”

Chen Lin sneered in his heart and said: "But Mr. Han, now there are more than 100,000 victims in the four counties west of Danshui, and the official can't bear to let these people suffer from hunger and cold, so he intends to distribute food and disaster relief to the victims in the four counties. ”

Han Yin was shocked.