When people are about to die, they will be desperate to live, Liu Zhang is like this now, I really want to continue to stay in this world and feel the warm sunshine.

A soldier at the gate saluted outside, Liu Zhang's gaze moved to the gate, and returned to his normal color, except for some sickly white on his face, his expression was calm.

Pang Tong's figure appeared outside the gate, Liu Zhang walked forward, just took a step, and suddenly another figure appeared at the gate, Liu Zhang stared straight at the slender figure, almost thinking that it was his own illusion, until he stepped into the air.

Xiao Furong was startled, and hurriedly helped Liu Zhang, who had not stepped on the steps, Liu Zhang's gaze did not retract, but just watched the figure walk in.

Huang Yueying had just set up with Pang to settle the captured Wusun soldiers, and when she heard Liu Zhang summon Pang Tong, Huang Yueying knew that Liu Zhang had woken up, and she also knew what Liu Zhang was going to do.

When he stepped into the door with a lot of thoughts, and saw Liu Zhang's almost falling, his nose was sour unconsciously, and he could barely take a step, but he was only stunned for half a second, and Huang Yueying entered the courtyard with normalcy.

"Pang Tong has seen His Highness."

"Yueying greets the lord."

Pang Tong and Huang Yueying saluted together, Liu Zhang's eyes kept falling on Huang Yueying, and there were many questions, but in the end they didn't ask.

"Rong'er, help me go, Shi Yuan, Yueying talk to me."

Liu Zhang, supported by Xiao Furong, walked on the garden path of the Exquisite Palace, Pang Tong and Huang Yueying followed, and they didn't speak, Liu Zhang wanted to explain some things, but he didn't know where to start, or Huang Yueying spoke first and took the initiative to say why he went to the Western Regions.

"Jiangdong didn't play any tricks in fulfilling the agreement, and now Chaisang County is already garrisoned by Wei Yan. The Jiangdong naval army has also been reduced by most of it. The money and grain for compensation were sent to Jingzhou.

After the incident in Jiangdong, his subordinates returned to Chang'an. But seeing that the young lord and Zhou Budo were well organized, I had nothing to do, so I came to the Western Regions.

I didn't go through the Yumen Pass, but went from outside the Saiwai to the newly built Tianshui Protectorate, and when I arrived at the Tianshui Protectorate, I happened to get the news that the border army of Wusun was withdrawn, and I heard that the Lord was fighting against the Wusun people in Jingju. I just paid attention to it.

It turned out that the Wusun Kingdom mobilized the army of the whole country to support the third prince Mitian, I thought it was an opportunity, so I took 10,000 people from the Tianshui Protectorate and raided Wusun, Wusun had no army to guard, I successfully took the Wusun Palace, captured the members of the Wusun royal family, and beheaded all the officials who suggested sending troops.

Now Huzi is guarding the country of Wusun with the troops of the Tianshui Protectorate, and I came to Jingjue alone, but I didn't expect to catch up with Wusun's large army in the north of Jingjue. ”

Huang Yueying said lightly. After speaking, he smiled faintly.

Liu Zhang understood that Wusun must have been scared because of the hole that Mi Tian had poked out. Mitian fought directly with the Han army, or the lord of the attacking Sichuan army, if Mitian was defeated, with Liu Zhang's reputation, how could Wusun still exist?

Therefore, even if Wusun resents Mitian and causes trouble, and does not want to fight, he has to make up for Mitian, rather than offending Liu Zhang and not defeating it, it is better to completely defeat Liu Zhang, so that the Sichuan army is turbulent, and Wusun may not face the front.

On the one hand, Mitian was defeated, Wusun was implicated in the destruction of the country, and on the other hand, it was a risky gamble, of course Wusun would gamble, for the sake of 100% victory and the fear of revenge from the Han army, Wusun had to come out.

Pang Tong also knew what Huang Yueying said about the words that made the Wusun army surrender, as long as it was said that the Wusun royal family had been captured and evidence was given, it would be strange that those Wusun soldiers would have the morale to fight.

What's more, when Pang Tong went to incorporate the Wusun army, he also found that those Wusun troops had no combat power and morale at all, and the vast majority of soldiers did not look like soldiers at all, but seemed to be enjoying happiness in the army, and many arrows and spears had long been rusted and could not be used.

Liu Zhang nodded, didn't delve too deeply into Huang Yueying's words, but asked, "Yueying, how is the situation in the Central Plains now?" ”

"The situation has changed, but it doesn't have much to do with us." Huang Yueying said.

Liu Zhang frowned, the three-legged tripod has been formed, what else is abrupt?

Huang Yueying said: "Sun Quan and Cao Cao didn't make much move, Cao Cao appointed Sima Yi to raise a large amount of money from the clan, and the military expanded rapidly, and now it has 500,000 soldiers. ”

"Half a million?" Liu Zhang was taken aback and took a breath of cool air, the strength of this clan is too terrifying, it can recruit so many soldiers and horses in just half a year.

"The northern and Central Plains clans are now helping Cao Cao, and many of the clans' money and people have been hollowed out, and now everyone knows that our Sichuan army is incompatible with the traditional clans, and if they don't transform, they will definitely be our enemies.

They were unwilling to accept the transformation of the land order into a commercial family, and they were unwilling to give up the monopoly of officialdom to recognize the four imperial examinations, if the Sichuan army dominated the world, their fate would be the same as that of the Xuchang family, so they did not reserve.

As far as I know, the Zhen family in Hebei alone has produced more than 1,000 family children to join the army, tens of thousands of family servants and workers, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass, tens of millions of money, and used these to recruit tens of thousands of troops from the people to form the so-called Zhen family army.

In addition, the Sima family, the Chen family, the Zhuge family, the Wu family, the Pang family, the Cui family, and other large and small families all contributed their own money and grain, forming what Zhuge Army, Sima Army, Chen Family, Pang Family, and now most of the industries of these families have almost come to a standstill because there is no one to manage them. ”

"They're really willing." Liu Zhang thought of Wusun, Wusun poured out of the nest, those families are also desperate, but it is no wonder that a massacre in Xuchang has forced them to have no way out.

In the past, the Sichuan army was not the strongest, of course, these families were unwilling to show their old roots, everyone's cover-up, and they also profited from the war, only hoping that the Cao army could defeat the Sichuan army, and this hope was indeed great at that time.

But since the battle of Guanzhong, the Sichuan army has become the strongest in the world, and a massacre in Xuchang has completely chilled the backbone of the Shi clan, and the Shi clan no longer dares to say like before, Liu Zhang went against the most terrifying force in the world and brought about his own destruction, and they already knew that the Sichuan army was very likely to take the world.

And the day the Sichuan army took the world was the day they perished.

and all are going to perish. As long as you don't want to go into the mass grave. Who does not exhaust Sdiri. Now Cao Cao has taken a big advantage, such a huge support from the folk family has never been seen in ancient times, is Cao Cao the most popular prince in ancient and modern history?

Liu Zhang had already jokingly thought that if the Cao army really defeated the Sichuan army and ruled the world, hundreds of years later, in the history books left by the sword and pen of those clans. It must be so.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Zhang of Xichuan rose, Liu Zhang was violent by nature, did not care for the people's livelihood, brutally killed, slaughtered 500,000 unarmed people eight times, human nature was annihilated, heaven and man were angry, and he was the first tyrant in ancient times, and Cao Cao, the first emperor of the ages. Lead the righteous and lead the king......

Liu Zhang couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

Pang Tong frowned and said, "Although Cao Cao has 500,000 people now. But why do I think the 500,000 is useless? 500,000 recruited people, family members, and those children of the world, can this fight a war? Soldiers are also divided into families, how much combat power can such an army have? ”

Huang Yueying said: "Shiyuan don't underestimate these people too much, there are many talents in the family, this talent is not only literary talent, but also a lot of martial talent, among which there are many good generals and brave generals, many of the family army, and their combat power is quite strong." ”

Liu Zhang nodded, poor and rich in martial arts, in fact, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to natural strength, most of the literati warriors came from families, and the poor couldn't afford kitchen knives, so did they buy bows and swords?

And there are a lot of powerful family armies in history, many people are fighting with the princes with the townspeople, and then establish countless feats, not to mention anything else, the predecessor of Xu Chu's Tiger Guard Army was brought out by Xu Chu from his hometown.

What's more, during the Three Kingdoms period, China's army was far from being as sophisticated as that of later generations, and it was vastly different from the Roman professional army.

If it was a professionalism like Rome, there would not be so many local troops, Danyang soldiers, Dongzhou soldiers or something.

So Liu Zhang believes what Huang Yueying said, there must be very powerful in the family army, but there is a law for everything, if you want to say that these 500,000 people are powerful, Liu Zhang didn't believe it when he was killed, and it would be up to the sky if he could account for 10%.

Huang Yueying said: "In addition to the elite of the family army, Cao Cao also trained cavalry in the northern horse farm, and the remnants of the previous army were specially formed and became elite soldiers, and Cao Cao's generals did not lose much, not only Cao Ren, Zhang Liao, Yu Ban, Xu Huang, Zhang He, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Yan, Zhang Xiu, etc., but also Tian Yu and other newly transferred cavalry generals to the Central Plains, whose strength should not be underestimated. ”

"What about Sun Quan?" Liu Zhang could see that Huang Yueying was estimating Cao Cao as high as possible, and he didn't care too much, and it was useless for him to care, Liu Zhang just wanted to talk about the rest after listening to the situation in the Central Plains.

"There is no movement on Sun Quan's side at all, the new metropolitan governor Lu Xun is not only commanding the naval army, but also stepping up the training of the infantry army, and testing the knife with the Shanyue army, it is estimated that in the long run, Jiangdong can train an elite infantry of 30,000 to 50,000 people.

As for Sun Quan, it seems that he has completely lost his fighting spirit by the last war, and now he has recruited the warlock of his uncle Xu's family, and he has started alchemy every day regardless of the world, saying that he wants to cultivate into an immortal. ”

"Cultivating immortals?" Liu Zhang remembered Sun Quan's later years in history, and he was also obsessed with cultivating immortals and immortals.

Originally, Sun Quan's ruling ability was not lower than Liu Bei and Cao Cao, and he was much younger than Liu Bei and Cao Cao, so he was the most advantageous, but he was the most advantageous, because of the constraints of the interests of the Jiangdong clan and the lack of progress, he became the least advantageous.

Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou and a few years later dominated Hebei.

Liu Bei lived in Xinye, and after a few years of Chibi, he crossed Jingyi and became the king of Hanzhong.

On the other hand, Sun Quan, sitting in Jiangdong, led Jiangdong when Liu Bei was still in Xinye, no more than a thousand soldiers, and when Liu Bei proclaimed himself the king of Hanzhong, Sun Quan was still a Jiangdong, except for the Chibi defensive battle, the main battle in the middle of the faction and faction did not reach an agreement, and finally let Sun Quan, the Emperor Wu, achieve nothing.

It was only when Liu Bei sealed the king of Hanzhong and threatened Jiangdong itself that the Jiangdong main battle faction reached a second agreement, but it was useless.

After Cao Cao and Liu Bei died one after another, Jiangdong was completely out of threat and became lifeless, the Lord and faction completely controlled Jiangdong, Sun Quan was also old, Sun Quan had lived longer than Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and he should have been proud to the end, but what was the use of Sun Quan living longer? No one in Jiangdong supports his hegemony, so he can only cultivate immortals.

But now Sun Quan is only in his twenties, has he accepted his fate?

Liu Zhang flashed a trace of doubt, but he was not too surprised, since Sun Quan's Long Feiwei was destroyed, the Jiangdong forces were completely in the hands of the Lord and the faction, what else could he do if he didn't cultivate immortals?

"That Yueying just said that the wind and clouds suddenly changed, where is the sudden change in the wind and clouds?" Liu Zhang asked.

Huang Yueying smiled faintly and said, "It's our mortal enemy who has risen, does the lord remember that Wu Jun who is against your alliance?" It's really amazing, I don't know where he found two immortal talents.

One is the world-famous swordsman Wang Yue, Wang Yue, who entered Helan Mountain with a horse, his swordsmanship cannot be underestimated, and his martial arts are estimated to be not under any of today's generals. ”

It's so powerful to pout, since the defeat of Xu Chu and the canonization of the Five Tiger Admirals as the first, who else in the world can compare to himself, not under any generals, don't you just say yourself?

But it's so powerful, there is no cynicism at this time, and if you encounter it in the future, you will know if you try it with a hammer.

And Qu Lingchen, who was following behind, looked moved, Wu Jun, although he is now determined to follow Liu Zhang, but after all, he was a member of the anti-Liu Zhang alliance before, and he still has his own memories in it, not to mention that in the alliance, Liu Zhang was assassinated three times.

But at this time, Qu Lingchen didn't care, what was the anti-Liu Zhang alliance, and he didn't care about anything now except for the back in front of him.

"In addition to Wang Yue, there is also an unknown scribe named Zhou Ce, no one knows where he came from, but he is excellent in strategy, and he is by no means under any of the strategists at that time.

It was these two people, one article and one martial arts, Wu Jun first led the army to attack the nest of the Southern Xiongnu Right Xian King, where because he was attacked by Zhuge Liang and the Di people, the strength was weak, Wu Jun succeeded in one fell swoop and established his own foundation.

After Wu Jun relied on this foundation, the main attack on the Xiongnu, because of the previous rebellion against Cao Cao, became the sworn enemy of the Cao army, Cao Cao fixed the capital of Yecheng, and sent his son Cao Zhang to suppress it.

The Xiongnu were attacked from both sides, and that Zhou Ce used to use Cao Zhang's strength to rob his own property and occupy territory, in just half a year, Wu Jun actually surrendered most of the Xiongnu forces, and now has 50,000 troops, becoming the fourth prince. ”

Liu Zhang listened silently, turned around and glanced at Qu Lingchen again, Qu Lingchen didn't listen carefully to what Huang Yueying said, Liu Zhang smiled in his heart, what is the anti-Liu Zhang alliance, it seems that the poor student in Jiangzhou is now ambitious, otherwise he would not give up assassinating himself and run to fight for hegemony. (To be continued......)