PS: It's over, it's over, Kavinka killed me

As soon as everyone heard that Lu Bu was going to recall Gan Ning and Zhang Liao, as well as Yan Xing, who was in the Qiang Realm, they immediately knew that Lu Bu was going to use troops against Xichuan.

Chen Gong said: "Lord, is it too early to fight Xichuan now. ”

According to the previous agreement, they first waited for Liu Yan's death before leading their troops to attack Xichuan, and he did not understand why Lü Bu reversed his previous decision and temporarily changed the battle plan.

Lu Bu grinned: "Is it early?" I don't think it's too early, now we are strong and strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, coupled with this topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Yishan, Xichuan I am bound to win, now Liu Yan is seriously ill, and there is no time to look north, we can take the opportunity to enter Shu, we will be able to surprise, and they will be caught off guard! ”

Chen Gong looked at Jia Xu: "Wenhe, what do you think?" ”

Jia Xu didn't rush to answer Chen Gong's words, but looked at Lu Bu and asked, "Lord, do you really want to fight?" ”

Lu Bu nodded solemnly: "Fight, I can't wait, now Yuan Shao is sitting in four states, and his army is known as one million, which can be regarded as the first prince; Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes to occupy the righteousness, and he had the Yan, Yu and Jinggi areas, and his strength should not be underestimated; Yuan Shu occupies Huainan, Sun Ce occupies Jiangdong, and I only have four counties, if I don't do it, I'm afraid I will lose the opportunity! ”

Lu Bu saw that the former strong enemies had become extremely powerful one by one, and he was already restless in his heart, but now he saw the topographic map of the mountains and rivers sent by Yang Hu to Xishu, which made Lu Bu realize that he couldn't wait, so he decided to enter Sichuan immediately, and then vigorously fought against the princes in the Central Plains.

Jia Xu frowned: "If you want to fight, I suggest fighting Hanzhong first, Liu Yan and Zhang Lu are at odds, this is well known, plus Liu Yan is seriously ill." He won't care about Zhang Lu, a house slave, as long as Hanzhong is defeated, we can block the retreat of the Shu army and surround Liu Yan's troops in Sichuan to fight! ”

Chen Gong continued: "If the lord wants to fight, I have no opinion, but the army will not move. If you move, you will be as fast as thunder, and you will beat Hanzhong in one go, and you must not give Zhang Lu a chance to breathe! ”

"The situation in Bashu is really urgent, if we don't do it, I'm afraid there will be a good opportunity, Zhang Lu is even more anxious than me" Cheng Yu can always grasp the core.

As soon as Yang Fu heard that Jia Xu was going to fight Hanzhong, he immediately took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lu Budao: "Lord, this is a letter written by my brother in Hanzhong. told the current situation in Hanzhong and Bashu, let's take a look first! “

He had read this letter several times, and he knew that the relationship between Bashu and Hanzhong was very complicated, involving decades of struggle between the Bashu Benshi and Dongzhou scholars in Hanzhong, and most of the Dongzhou scholars were Jingzhou scholars and Sanfu scholars.

After Lu Bu read it, he handed the letter to Jia Xu and them. Then he sighed: "It seems that the capture of Bashu and Hanzhong is more complicated than we imagined!" “

After Jia Xu read the letter. nodded: "Although Liu Yan is not a mediocre and cowardly person, he is really a little incompetent, with the wealth of Bashu, he has not been able to take a Hanzhong for more than ten years, he wants to maintain his rule by manipulating the contradiction between the Bashu soldiers and the Dongzhou soldiers, and let Zhang Lu develop his power in Hanzhong." But in the end, it was still empty of people and money, not only did they not make the two really submit to him, but on the contrary, Zhang Lu's power grew, and finally became his biggest scourge, I dare to assert. As long as Liu Yan dies, the Dongzhou Shi clan and the Bashu Shi clan will definitely abandon Liu Yan's descendants together. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Xu sighed slightly: "Now the situation in the Central Plains has changed greatly, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Sun Ce and Liu Biao, sooner or later there will be a big war between the two sides, whether it is the Dongzhou Shi clan or the Bashu Shi clan, they will abandon them, but whether the Dongzhou Shi clan is biased towards us or Liu Biao, this is the biggest challenge we will face."

There was silence in the council hall, and after a moment Xu Shu said: "So we have to send people to inquire about the situation first, to see if they support us or Liu Biao, no matter who they support, we can first let the army Chen Shiwudu and the border of Hanzhong and Bashu!" ”

Jia Xu and they nodded, expressing their agreement with Xu Shu's opinion, if they did not get the support of the Sichuan Shu clan, even if they defeated Hanzhong and Sichuan Shu, it would be just an empty shell, and Sichuan Shu is not Xiliang, but the country of abundance, the territory is vast and boundless, and too many talents are needed to govern, as long as they can get the support of the Sichuan Shu clan, this problem will be solved.

After everyone's deliberation, Lu Bu decided to prepare for war from two aspects, on the one hand, recall Gan Ning, Zhang Liao, and Yan Xing, and let them lead the army to Longxian to turn, and then the army Chen Bing was on the front line of Wudu, ready to go out at any time. On the one hand, he asked Yang Fu and Jiang Xu's clansmen to contact the Dongzhou Shi clan in Bashu and Hanzhong to see if they supported Lu Bu's entry into Shu.

In Lu Bu's strategic plan for Hanzhong, Lüyang is undoubtedly the first fulcrum, but it is only a starting point, not the kind of strategic key point that leads to the overall situation, and this strategic key point is not far from Lüyang, it is Baocheng.

Baocheng is an extremely important strategic place in Hanzhong, and on it is the Chencang Road where the Marquis of Huaiyin entered the Sichuan.

Because of the topography, Baocheng is not wide, the circumference is about fifteen miles, although Baocheng is not big, but it is built by the mountain, it is built very tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is quite a kind of one man when the pass, ten thousand people do not open the trend.

At present, Baocheng is controlled by Zhang Lujun, led by the general Zhang Zhong 2,000 people stationed in Dingjun Mountain, because Baocheng is located in an important traffic artery, a large number of goods from Yongzhou and Sanfu pass through Dingjun Mountain, and then transported to Hanzhong. At the same time, the supplies transported from Hanzhong were also diverted in Baocheng, either westward to Wudu, or northward to Huaili and Hanxing, or even to the more distant land of Gyeonggi.

In addition, there are dozens of commercial banks in Baocheng, such as Yan's firm in Bajun, Chang's firm in Badong, Luo's firm in Chengdu, etc., the top ten firms in Bashu have branches in Baocheng, and at the same time, Li's firm in Lintao, Yang's firm in Jicheng, and Jiang's firm in Taoyang also have warehouses and stores in Baocheng.

For example, the largest warehouse in Baocheng is the coal warehouse established by Li's Commercial Bank, covering an area of nearly 20 acres, which transports a large number of high-quality coal produced in Ba County to Longxi, ensuring the iron casting in Longxi. The prosperity of commerce gave the low-level people in Baocheng the opportunity to support their families, either to be hired by various trading houses as men, or to sell their physical strength as porters in the business road.

At noon on this day, a caravan came from the east, and the animal power of the general caravan was mainly based on green mules, and this caravan was in addition to the green mules full of goods, and this caravan was actually driving hundreds of healthy cattle, and the cattle were also carrying goods on their backs, but the discerning people could see that the healthy cattle were actually the goods of this caravan.

The mule cart led by this caravan had a pennant with the word 'Jiang' written on it, which means that they came from the Jiang firm in Taoyang, which was the largest firm in Hanyang, but could only rank third in the entire Xiliang, second to the Yang firm in Jicheng and far inferior to the Li firm in Lintao.

However, in the Liangshu trade road, the Jiang family firm has the most extensive connections, they are not like the Li family business only engaged in coal and grain business, they involve hundreds of goods, tea, salt, pig iron, silk, tools, livestock, etc., and even slaves will participate in trafficking, almost any business to make money.

The number of people in this caravan in front of him is not much, there are only a dozen people in total, and the steward headed by him is named Li Zhen, everyone calls him Li Old Butler, an old businessman about sixty years old, and the deep wrinkles on his face are full of the vicissitudes of life.

He has been in Liangshu business for forty years, every grass and tree on the business road knows him, has a wealth of experience in and out of Shu Road, most of the dozen guys behind him have followed him for many years, but three of them are fresh faces, not smiling, solemn, seeing that he is about to arrive in Baocheng, the old housekeeper Li turned back from time to time to secretly look at these three guys, his heart was full of apprehension.

The real identity of these three guys is, of course, the Xiliang Army, but they are not ordinary soldiers, and the first man is Jiang Qi, the former military captain, who is the deputy general of Wei Yan in Wudu, and this time he was ordered by Wei Yan as the internal response to seize Zigui County, and he has a great responsibility on his shoulders.

Xiang Jiang Qi was only twenty-six years old, but after he made up, he had a long beard under his chin, his eyebrows became thicker, his complexion was burnt, and he looked more than ten years older, even if he was an acquaintance, it was difficult to recognize him.

Because Baocheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are 2,000 troops stationed in it, it takes at least 10,000 troops to storm Baocheng, but there is no battlefield of 10,000 people under Baocheng, so it can only be outwitted.

Maybe Zhang Lu was not ready, or maybe Zhang Lu didn't realize that the Xiliang army was attacking Hanzhong, or maybe Zhang Lu was worried that the ban on commerce would arouse Liu Yan's suspicions, but one of the consequences of not banning merchants was that there would be a hole in defense.

The Jiang caravan finally came to the city gate, and immediately dozens of soldiers came up to greet them, and a tun chief laughed from afar, "Old Butler Li, you are driving so many cattle, are you here to reward the army?" ”

The caravan leader, Old Butler Li, smiled, "General Ma is really joking, this year's spring ploughing is insufficient, the price has risen sharply, a cow can be sold for five taels of gold, how can my master let go of such a good deal, these twenty are only the first batch, and hundreds of cattle will come in two days." ”

"Since it is so profitable, then the brothers can't afford to pay less for tea and wine, right?" Tun Chang asked with a grin.

"That's natural, I'll ask the guy to send it to General Ma when I go back."

Because the past merchants are from the major families, the main general Zhang Zhong felt that the emperor was far away, so he led the sergeants under his account to carry out gray income, that is, tea and wine money, in fact, it is the money to buy the road, this is already an open secret, the soldiers are not taboo, according to the value of the goods to ask the merchants for money, but asking for money is one thing, strict inspection is another, Ma Tun Chang got the promise, his face was flat, and he waved his hand: "Search!" ”

Dozens of soldiers swarmed up and searched the caravan, which was not allowed to possess weapons other than self-defense swords.

Ma Tun Chang slowly walked in front of Xiang Pet, looked him up and down, felt that he was a little familiar, and saw that he was burly and had slender and powerful arms, so he said: "This brother should be a martial arts practitioner!" ”

Old Butler Li hurriedly stepped forward to play the round, "This is the escort I invited, please bear with me from the head of Matun!" (To be continued......)