In January of the third year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, Chen Lin secretly entered Shu, and ordered Chen Ze to guard Shangyong County, Chen to guard Hanzhong County, Chen Lin only took Jia Xu, Fa Zheng and Zhang Song and a hundred guards out of Nanzheng overnight and rushed to Guanghan County. Only because of the rumors of internal discord in Jia Long's department in central and southern Shu a month ago, Ren An and Zhou Qun and other Shu sergeants were dissatisfied with Jia Long's increasingly skyrocketing ** arbitrariness, and after the quarrel with Jia Long, Jia Long's department was divided into two, Jia Long led 10,000 troops to defend Jiangzhou, occupied Badong County, and Ren An and others officially parted ways with them according to Jiangyang. The forces in Shuzhong were instantly split into four divisions, and Liu Yan saw that Jia Long was infighting, and he was ready to move, gathering heavy troops in Tuojiang, and he could go down the river at any time.

Since Chen Lin won the two counties in Brazil a year ago and occupied two plank roads into Shu, Chen Lin began to slowly recruit people to renovate the plank road, and a few months ago he was joined by 3,000 Bashan Yi people. Now the plank road has been renovated nearly 100 miles of distance, strengthen and widen, must not know how much to go before, according to estimates, basically can be completed within five years, in order to repair these two plank roads almost every year there is a percent of the tax is used here, Hanzhong can be regarded as a blood capital.

For more than 20 days, Chen Lin rushed to Guanghan, Gao Shun, Wu Yi and Fa Yan went out to greet them, except for these three people, basically no one else knew that Chen Lin had entered Shu. On the Wu Mansion in Guanghan County, Chen Lin only said that he was a relative of the Wu family, and outsiders didn't know that this was Chen Lin. Gao Shun and others were there, Chen Lin: "Ziyuan, you tell me about the situation in Shu." ”

"My lord, now Guanghan County is guarded by General Gao's 3,000 soldiers and horses, mainly deployed in the upper reaches of the Tuojiang River, north of Chengdu and Guanghan County, plus the county soldiers in the city, there can be about 6,000 troops on the defense line, but only 3,000 soldiers and horses can fight; Over the past year or so, under the leadership of the lord, Guanghan County has gradually adopted the development route of concurrent agriculture and commerce in Hanzhong County, and has rhythmically restricted large households from continuing to annex land. When Wu Yi said this, he looked down and peeked at Chen Lin, because the Wu family itself was a so-called big family, but seeing Chen Lin looking at him directly, Wu Yi was shocked and continued: "Because of the lord's special support for business, most people still have little resistance; Brazil County has two divisions of General Cai and General Yang with 4,000 soldiers and horses, mainly in Deyang and Dianjiang. ”

Chen Lin hurriedly asked, "Oh, Yiren question, tell me." ”

"That's the case, my lord, Liu Zixia and Lord Liu entered Shu a year ago to arrange mutual market transactions, and Deyang also has one, because the Yi people themselves have their own internal connections, and the Yi people in Deyang have been favored and passed to Jiangzhou, and there is a team of Yi people in Jiangzhou who will also come to Deyang to trade with us, but Jiangzhou accused our army of robbing the people of Jiangzhou, and wanted to lead troops to rush over to arrest this group of Yi people. General Cai, who was stationed there, naturally didn't let it, and the Yi people would have to receive the protection of my Deyang when they entered the border of my Deyang, so General Cai would also send troops, if it weren't for the fact that Lord Du happened to accompany Lord Liu in Deyang and came forward in time, I don't know if there would be a big war on the border of Deyang. ”

Chen Lin: "Cai Zilan did a good job. Chen Lin praised Cai Yanglai, and at this time Zhang Song said: "Lord, after this incident, I am afraid that the Hanzhong mutual market will spread all over Shuzhong, and the Yi people of Yizhou will know that there is such a mutual market under the rule of the lord that is beneficial to the Yi people, which will be beneficial to the lord and his subjugation of Shuzhong Yi people." "For the sake of a team of Yi people, Chen Lin's army did not hesitate to fight with other Han people, if this news is worn out, it will definitely be recognized by Yi people, Zhang Song is right, so Chen Lin praised Cai Yang as soon as possible.

Chen Lin nodded, and then said, "Ziyuan, let's talk about Jia Qiande." "This time the secret entry into Shu is aimed at the split between Jia Long and Ren An, Liu Yan is only afraid that he is also plotting in the central and southern parts of Shu at this time.

Wu Yi: "My lord, now it is reported that there are about 40,000 soldiers and horses under the command of the two counties of Liuzhou, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the Minjiang River valley to defend Jiangyang, and most of the rest are in Chengdu. Now Jia Qiande is said to have 20,000 soldiers, and he doesn't know what agreement this person has reached with Jingzhou, so he completely ignores Jingzhou and puts all 20,000 troops in Jiangzhou; A large number of scholars in Shuzhong led by Mr. Ren Dingzu gathered more than 40,000 soldiers, but there were no less than 30,000 in Jiangyang alone. ”

Chen Lin lowered his head slightly, and Jia Xu and the others were silent after listening to Wu Yi's report, thinking of countermeasures. Chen Lin knew that the number of soldiers and horses in Ren An's head was not what he was worried about, Chen Lin was worried about the appeal of Ren An and others, and for more than a year, many big scholars in Guanghan and Brazil have defected one after another and rushed to serve Ren An. Chen Lin, who defected, was not worried, Chen Lin was worried about those who obeyed Chen Lin in name but secretly helped Ren An, which was terrifying. But Chen Lin knew that Ren An had many veteran scholars, great influence, and great internal contradictions, and this time Jia Long's matter was Liezi.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Wu Yi lowered his head and asked softly: "Lord, do you want to recruit soldiers?" "Now the forces of all parties are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at every turn, but Chen Lin is now in the land of the two counties of Shuzhong, but there are only 7,000 soldiers and horses who can go out to fight abroad, so Wu Yi has this question.

Jia Xu: "My lord, what Lord Wu said is reasonable, and ordering the two counties to recruit troops is the best strategy to hide that the lord has entered Shu." When Fa Zheng and Zhang Song heard this, they tilted their heads and glanced at Jia Xu, and then understood, but Chen Lin didn't understand, and said, "Oh, how can you say this?" ”

Jia Xu: "Lord, imagine that now Jia Qiande is in civil strife, and all parties are looking at the lord with all their might, they will definitely think that if the lord is interested in this split in Shuzhong, he will definitely transfer a large army from Hanzhong, after all, our army still has six soldiers and horses in the two counties of Hanzhong and Shangyong, occupying most of the lord's troops." And now that the lord is recruiting troops on the spot, others must think that the lord does not want to join the chaos, and the recruitment is just to protect the two counties, after all, recruiting troops on the spot, how can the soldiers and horses obtained experience a big war in the short term, so they think that Lord Wu's plan is feasible. As soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, Wu Yi was depressed in his heart, Wu Yi's proposal to recruit soldiers was indeed just for self-preservation, as for what could cover up the news of Chen Lin's entry into Shu, it was just what Jia Xu said.

Chen Lin turned his head and asked Zhang Song and Fa Zheng: "What do Ziqiao and Xiaozhi think?" The two responded in unison: "Lord, Lord Wu's plan is feasible." Chen Lin turned around and said, "Okay, just follow Ziyuan, Gao Shun." ”

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"Ling Ru immediately began to recruit 3,000 soldiers on the spot, and the funds and armor used were allocated by the Guanghan County Government, and the 3,000 soldiers and horses were temporarily led by the commander, and the training day and night should not be slack."

"No, the last general will not be dishonored."

Chen Lin nodded, knowing that Gao Shun was a person, and when the matter was in Gao Shun's hands, he would definitely be able to do it very well, and then turned to Jia Xu and said: "Wenhe, write a letter in the name of a certain person and send it to Brazil, and also order Ji Wei and Zilan to recruit two thousand troops each, and the fees and armor will be allocated by the county of Brazil." For the time being, I won't let the two of them know that we have entered Shu, lest many people leak the rumors. Jia Xu also hurriedly responded, in this way, Shuzhong will immediately have twice as many soldiers and horses, of course, it is impossible to go to the battlefield in the short term, otherwise it can only be as vulnerable as the Yellow Turban Army, and win by numbers, but it is still possible to defend the city. The key is what Jia Xu said, hoping to deceive Liu Yan, Jia Long and others, so that they think that Chen Lin is still in Hanzhong.

Then Chen Lin gave several orders one after another, some returned to Hanzhong, and ordered Hanzhong to try his best to cover up the news that Chen Lin had entered Shu, but fortunately, it was Hanzhong, and few people knew that Chen Lin was already in Shu.

After saying these basic things in Shu, Chen Lin had to care about the next thing, so after issuing a few orders, he sat down again and asked, "How do you think our army can take advantage of it?" "I went to so much trouble just now, just to be able to gain something this time, and how to do it has become the key.

Fa Zheng is young, but his unique vision has been recognized by Chen Lin, and when he saw Chen Lin asking, he said without timidity: "Wait and see." There were only four words that came out. Jia Xu and Fa Zheng looked up, and nodded at Fa Zheng, this little offspring is really extraordinary. Jia Xu: "Lord, filial piety is reasonable, now Jia Qiande and Mr. Ren have broken up, if the state pastor sees that our army has no move, and does not transfer troops from Hanzhong into Shu, only recruit troops on the spot, he must think that our army has no intention of this, and the state pastor will definitely take action, and at that time, the two armies will fight, and our army will reap the benefits of the fisherman." ”

Zhang Song saw that both of them spoke one after another, and after he was unwilling, he also said: "The lord also needs to order General Gao and the two generals Cai and Yang to shrink their troops, and make it look like they can't hold out of the city, and they are nervous about temporary recruitment, wouldn't it be more decent." ”

When Chen Lin heard this, he also laughed, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, let the three generals be the ones who are afraid of death, and order the two cities of Deyang and Guanghan to open the city gates only for one hour at noon every day, and close the city gates at other times, and no one is allowed to violate the order." The defenders are not allowed to go out of the city for half a step, and those who violate the order are beheaded. After this order was given, there was a sound of laughter from everyone in the Wu Mansion, and it is conceivable that when Liu Yan, Jia Long Ren'an and others got the news, they would definitely relax their vigilance against these two counties when they saw these actions of Guanghan and Brazil.

At the same time, Liu Yan in Chengdu really discussed Chen Lin in the rest of the people, since Zhang Song was used by Chen Lin in Hanzhong, Liu Yan knew that Zhang Su was frightened every day during the beginning of that time, and he was afraid of what Liu Yan would do to himself. Unexpectedly, Liu Yan personally went to the house to comfort Zhang Su, saying that Zhang Song is Zhang Song, your Zhang Su's loyalty is still affirmed, don't worry, I won't do anything to you, Zhang Su was greatly moved. In fact, how does Zhang Su know Liu Yan's difficulties, the influence of Ren An and Zhou Qun is not covered, Liu Yan has run away from many scholars within a year, Zhang Su is the most outstanding one, Liu Yan does not need Zhang Su at this time, wouldn't it be even more lacking. Chen Lin also ran away, and Liu Yan also ran away, but Chen Lin wantonly used people, as long as he was talented, he used them, but Liu Yan didn't, so Liu Yan's lack of people was much more serious than Chen Lin's.

Liu Yan and the others were discussing Chen Lin's possible reaction, and finally Liu Yan made a decision: "Don't act rashly within a month, pay close attention to the movements of the Hanzhong army, and Chen Bozhi's whereabouts." ”