Chapter 41: The Upper Valley

Chen Lin's actions in Hanzhong did not hide from the world's well-intentioned people, of course, Chen Lin himself did not plan to hide anything, after all, it is impossible for such a big thing not to be discovered. Every day, there are countless soldiers and horses, as well as carts of supplies, and they go to Yangping County, even if they are fools, they know Chen Lin's intentions.

Yuan Benchu, who is becoming more and more powerful in Hebei, is no exception to know about this matter, and discusses it with the ministers, but most of them are talking about this matter as an outsider, as if they are boring people talking about something interesting together after dinner, Yuan Benchu smiled: "Although Chen Bozhi Yizhou is big, but the defense is also wide, now the south must not only guard against the Yiren, but also beware of Jia Long, Shangyong and other places are also facing the highway and Jingzhou, so even if he Chen Bozhi can draw troops to fight in Guanzhong, how many can he have, It's ridiculous. ”

Among the many heroes in Hebei, there is only one Yecheng family named Juan Zhengnan and said to Yuan Shao: "My lord, although the Han family is weak now, the Han Dynasty is not exhausted, and there are still many people in the world who are interested in the Han Dynasty. Yizhou Mu Chen Bozhi is so to show the world his heart, the lord and the state is close to Chang'an is just a river away, you might as well send people to lead the troops to make a remote call to the corresponding appearance, but also to show the world the benevolence and righteousness of the lord. ”

As soon as the trial was finished, Guo Tu and others, who had always been at odds with the trial, hurriedly objected, Guo Tu could not let Yuan Shao reuse the strategy of the trial, whether it was right or wrong, in short, as long as it was trial, it could not be used. In the end, unexpectedly, not only Guo Tu, but even Yuan Shao himself was extremely unwilling to waste his troops in the name of a so-called loyalty. Now Yuan Shao is serious only Gongsun Zhan, only Youzhou, as long as he wins Youzhou, he is stronger than everything. Therefore, Yuan Shao did not hesitate to refuse the proposal of the trial, looking at Yuan Shao's eloquent talk, as well as the appearance of Guo Tu and the other villains, the trial was silent.

On the ground in Yanzhou, there is also a unique hero, that is, Cao *, at this time, Cao * is discussing Chen Lin with his brothers in his mansion. I saw Cao * said: "When I first saw Chen Bo this person twenty years ago, I knew that this person was not a thing in the pool, but I didn't expect Dahan to come to this situation. Chen Bozhi still remembers to get rid of the national thief, which reminds me of all kinds of things about the Dong Alliance back then, and the fact that this person went to Chang'an alone a year ago, alas, such a person is really a hero of the world. ”

Xiahou Dun is the brother who has been following Cao * since the beginning of the Yellow Turban, and has always admired his brother, at this time, seeing Cao * praising Chen Lin, he also said out loud: "Meng De, Chen Bozhi also knows, I have to say that this person is indeed a hero, but Meng De is also ah, now Meng De is already the master of Yanzhou, how can he easily admit defeat, to say something unpleasant, it is not certain whose family is in the end in this world." Cao * heard this, but his heart was quite happy, how boring he has his own brother to support, isn't it, but Cao * at least shouted: "Presumptuous" Now the world is still a big man, no one dares to talk nonsense publicly, if it is listened to by others, it will be a big blow to the reputation.

Over there, Cao Hong said: "It's a pity that we are a little far away from Chang'an." ”

Cao * smiled: "Hehe, is it far away?" Soon next to Luoyang. As soon as Cao * finished speaking, Xiahoudun opened his eyes and shouted: "Meng De wants to? Cao laughed and said, "I want to go to Chang'an, King Qin." Cao Hong didn't react: "Huh? So can Liu Xuande let us pass? As soon as Cao Hong finished speaking, he figured out what to say, and there was a loud shout, and several people from the Cao family laughed in the Cao Mansion.

If you want to say that Chen Lin went to Yangpingtun to transport troops and materials with great fanfare, everyone in the world talked about it, but few took it seriously, then Chen Lin's action really made one person happy, that is, Jia Long. Since Jia Long was attacked by Chen Zhi in Kuiguan, he was worried every day, and he was afraid that Chen Zhi would come to kill them all, so he even went down to 20 camps in front of Kuiguan. Now that he heard that Chen Lin was like this, he was so happy that he hurriedly set up a banquet to entertain guests, shouting that he was carefree and so on.

At the same time, Chang'an's Li Wei and Guo Yan didn't dare to make trouble anymore, so they hurriedly gave up their grievances and walked together to discuss how to deal with Chen Lin's attack. Li Dao said: "Lao Guo, this Chen boy is really annoying, he has been asking us for trouble again and again, this time he can't be easily let go, if it wasn't for Chang'an last time, how could it be so easy for him to run back to Tongguan." ”

Guo Yan was happy: "You are looking at Jia Wenhe's invitation, alas, why don't you invite Mr. Jia." Li Dao rolled his eyes: "You all know that Mr. Jia was Chen Xiaozi's adviser before, can you let Mr. Jia come now, you are stupid." Guo Yan didn't say anything, and the two of them looked at each other relatively speechlessly, each with a ghost. Li Dao and Guo Yan both understood that if Chen Lin went north from Yangping Pass now, although the number of soldiers and horses would not exceed 30,000, except for the two of them who went in person, none of the generals under them would be able to defeat Chen Lin. But there is another question, who is going to go for the two people? No one wants to go, because going means leaving Chang'an and leaving the emperor, and now the only treasure of the two is the emperor. The one who left the emperor must be afraid of being left in Chang'an, so no one is willing to speak now.

In the end, it was Li Dao who said: "Lao Guo, forget it, you and I both know that this time it's either you going or I'm going, but you and I don't want to go, what do you say?" Guo Yan grinned: "Let's go together?" Li Wei shouted: "Let's go together? Chang'an doesn't want it, this group of people in Chang'an can't wait to die immediately for you and me. ”

In the end, Guo Yan was a little annoyed: "Then take the emperor boy with you, even if it is a royal expedition, damn, he Chen Xiaozi is a complete thief." Guo Yan's angry words did get Li Wei's eyes lit up.

At this time, it was in Yizhou, but not in Yangpingguan. Instead, in the west of a big mountain in the northwest of Hanzhong, Qishan, an army of about 10,000 people has been slowly moving through this deserted mountain forest, all the way to the north. The banner of the army is resolutely the banner of the Chen character, and if Li Dao, Guo Yan or anyone else finds out about this army, they will definitely be surprised. Because the army went straight to the north, the direction it went was the valley above the barrier in the south of Longxi. And the leader of this army turned out to be Li Dao and others who were talking about Yizhou Mu Chen Lin who should be in Yangping Pass.

Chen Lin rode on the tall war horse at this time, and said to Chen Ze who was walking in the same row with a smile: "After more than half a year of training, the wolf rider has the old department of one thousand and nine deaths, and now the combat power should be above a year ago." Chen Ze proudly looked back at his wolf cavalry, the only cavalry in Yizhou, originally after Chen Ze returned from Xiliang half a year ago, Chen Lin had the intention to form a scale of five thousand cavalry, but Xu San had no way to provide so many war horses, so now the wolf cavalry is still three thousand, and one-third of them are veterans who survived with Chen Ze in Xiliang a year ago. Later, when recruiting new soldiers, he got Chen Lin's special order that he could draw people from any army, that is to say, the wolf cavalry did not recruit new soldiers, so that the combat effectiveness of the wolf cavalry did not even drop much, but he was just a little familiar with the cavalry tactics.

Chen Ze: "Big brother, this time following Gaozu's strategy of secretly crossing Chen Cang, our army hyped up and stationed a military camp in Yangping Pass to confuse the enemy, but most of the men and horses sneaked into Qishan, not far away to attack Longxi, I think it will not be discovered, as long as we take Jicheng, we can have a stronghold before the enemy reacts." ”

Chen Lin: "I'm not worried about Longxi, Xiaozhi wants to cross the enemy base camp and go to the north, because my brother is afraid that something will happen to Xiaozhi." Wen He is now in Chang'an, and if there is any problem with filial piety, this will undoubtedly be a huge blow to my Yizhou. ”

Chen Ze nodded, now that the strategists around Chen Lin in Yizhou have changed from Jia Xu to Zhang Song and Fazheng, everyone can see Chen Lin's pain. There is no way, no one can erase Jia Xu's credit, and at the same time, Jia Xu's strategy is also unquestionable, Fa Zheng is young, although Zhang Song has slowly been recognized by Chen Lin in strategy, but if there is one more person, who will dislike it.

Chen Ze suddenly turned to Nanzheng: "Brother, transfer Zhang Manzi's cow back to Nanzheng, then there are only two generals, General Wu and General Zhou, and General Zhou is still a navy, okay?" ”

It turned out that Chen Lin felt that after sending troops to Guanzhong, he would transfer Zhang Ba, a person who would never betray him, back to Shounan Zheng, and there were only Wu Kuang and Zhou Tai left. Chen Lin smiled and said, "Hehe, don't worry, Jingzhou Liu Jingsheng doesn't have that guts, Nanyang?" Hmph, as long as Yuan Highway is still in Lujiang and sighs, and I always feel that Yuan Highway has two hearts. ”

Chen Ze was taken aback, not long ago, he didn't know where the rumors came from such as "applying ointment on behalf of the Han people", Zhang Song and others analyzed that this may be Yuan Shu building momentum, plus Chen Lin recalled the Luoyang jade seal back then. Others don't know, but Chen Lin knows that the reason why Sun Jian was able to completely break away from Yuan Shu was that in addition to Sun Jian's courage, there was something else. Chen Ze exclaimed: "Big brother, does he dare?" ”

Chen Lin laughed, dare, others don't dare, but that's Yuan Shu.

Suddenly, a fast horse ran back in front of him, it turned out to be Lin An, only to see Lin An stop the horse and say: "I arrived, five miles ahead is the upper valley, I have checked it, and there are less than a thousand people." "The upper valley is a remote place, if it weren't for Wudu and other places, I'm afraid that no one would care about the upper valley. But this is exactly a very important place in Qishan, the army out of Qishan, Chen Lin's army walked for more than a month, and in order to hurry, in order not to let Yangping side have flaws for a long time, the army is desperately rushing, which took a month.

When Chen Lin heard this, a thousand people, smiled, and shouted, "Let General Yan take it quickly." Yan Yan, after belonging to Chen Lin, he was sent as a striker in the first battle, and he was so excited that he hurriedly knelt down and shouted to express his gratitude to Chen Lin.

When the wolf smoke was billowing in Yangpingguan, no one knew that the real sharp weapon appeared thousands of miles away.