The matter of the Sun family was successfully resolved, Wang Xu no longer had any worries, and ushered in a relaxed and quiet day. Except for extremely heavy affairs, the rest were all handed over to the ministers of Jingzhou. With the help of history, he knows the abilities and conduct of each high-level person well, and even knows more than himself, so he naturally arranges it properly, and there are few differences.

He is also a person who can't be idle, and when he has this leisure, he naturally takes his wife and concubine out on patrol. Traveling around the mountains and rivers, the micro-service goes deep into the mountains and fields, visits the villagers, and enjoys a rare good time. However, during this period, Wang Xu went deep into the people with his cloth clothes, and really got a lot of things from the people that they ignored, or could not get from all kinds of messy numbers and statistics. For example, with the economic prosperity of Jingzhou, many tax evasion methods began to arise among the people. For example, some people use official connections to seize loopholes in government decrees to collect money and small-scale land enclosures, etc., and the list goes on!

Although these things cannot be eliminated forever, and Wang Xu cannot deal with everything, he can form a macro concept of control in his mind, and find a way to coordinate the overall situation from the source, and reduce or avoid it as much as possible.

On this day, Wang Xu and Xu Shu, who were dressed in rags, had just walked out of a hospitable mountain village, but a rider came from a distance. In a few moments, they had already rushed to the front, and the spy people who had been secretly following quickly gathered from all around.

The man looked slightly, and had already noticed Wang Xu, who was not surprised, immediately turned over and dismounted, and respectfully saluted from afar. "Spy Ling commands Luo An, the first commander under the account, to meet the Lord." As he spoke, he took out his identity token from his bosom in order to prove his identity.

"Huh! I know you. Wang Xu smiled and nodded. I remember that it was you who went all the way to Luoyang at the beginning. Pick up the cicadas for me. ”

So to speak. Diao Chan, who was accompanying him, also remembered this person. smiled softly: "The concubine also remembers, but thanks to Commander Luo's care along the way, the concubine was able to go south safely." ”

Praised and remembered by Wang Xu and Diao Chan, a trace of flush appeared on Luo An's ordinary face, his eyes revealed excitement, and he saluted deeply: "This is a matter within the subordinate's responsibility, and I dare not say it." ”

Wang Xu looked at him indifferently. Laughing: "Hehe! In my opinion, you have the potential to become a deputy commander, so work hard! ”

"Thank you Lord for your attention, thank you Lord for your promotion!" Luo An was overjoyed in an instant, and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed, for him, what are he waiting for if he doesn't seize the opportunity at this time.

"Alright, let's get up first! I still need you to continue to work hard, and I will talk to Ling Wanqing about this. Saying that, Wang Xu didn't want to say much here. Then he asked, "You are here, but you are looking for me?" ”

"Exactly!" Luo An stood up. Bow your head respectfully. "The subordinates came to look for the lord to go back on the order of Commander Ling!"

"What can I say?" Wang Xu frowned.

"Liu Yan has been ill for a long time, and recently he has been overwhelmed by the critical situation in Yizhou and died! His son Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, and Yizhou ......! ”

Before Luo An could finish speaking, Wang Xu had already interrupted in a hurry: "No matter what method you use, transfer the horse from the nearest place, I want to go back to the General's Mansion." ”

"No!"

The news of Liu Yan's death finally came, and Wang Xu waited for this moment for a long time, worrying about how it could be delayed longer than in history. Now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Tao Qian have made a miasma. Hebei Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan have been facing each other, and small-scale battles have continued, holding back their strength to find opportunities to break the enemy. The relationship between the Sili region and the two powerful men of Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui is intertwined and chaotic, and it is obviously the best for Liu Yan to return to the west during this time period.

Liu Yan is different from Liu Biao, when Liu Biao first entered Jingzhou, he chose to unite the wealthy family, and he first entered Shuzhong with his identity and strength, regardless of the feelings of the Shuzhong family and local tyrants, blindly seeking power, although several rebellions were quelled by him, but they were really not supported. It can be said that Liu Biao's way can be quickly integrated and powerful, but there are many troubles, and Liu Yan is difficult step by step, but he can do it once and for all. Logically speaking, Yizhou has an antenna barrier and no external threat, and there is nothing wrong with Liu Yan's way.

Unfortunately, he met Wang Xu. Over the years, when the local forces in Yizhou were finally wiped out and developed steadily, he did not expect that he would be seriously ill, let alone the variable of Wang Xu, who rose rapidly and became powerful, giving him a hard blow. And his son Liu Zhang is weak and incompetent, and the other two sons have long been killed by Dong Zhuo, which is really unlucky. Of course, these are also in Wang Xu's estimation, if you don't know this period of history, how can you finally decide to take Yizhou.

Historically, Liu Zhang was weak and incompetent, and as soon as he came to power, he made Hanzhong Zhang Lu unconvinced. Liu Zhang also hated Zhang Lu's mother for often saying bad things about herself in Liu Yan's ear, so the two quickly broke up until they met later......

Hurried back to the general's mansion, Wang Xu immediately summoned the military generals of Wenchen to discuss countermeasures.

When everyone rushed to the front house meeting hall one after another, Wang Xu was already silent, his eyes were half-closed and half-open, leaning on the high back of his gorgeous bed as if to recuperate. But all the civil ministers and generals knew that whenever Wang Xu was like this, something big would inevitably happen. At the moment, everyone is worried in their hearts, speculating whether Wang Xu has found any big problems in this micro-service tour.

It wasn't until the belated bookkeeper Cao entered the hall that Wang Xu's slightly closed eyes finally opened, swept over everyone in the hall, straightened up and said in a deep voice: "I urgently called everyone here today, just to inform you of something, you don't have to panic." ”

After a pause as he spoke, he glanced at the people who were looking at each other again, changed his tone, and said quickly: "I have a secret report, Liu Yan died of illness, and I decided to take Hanzhong in the first half of this year." ”

In an instant, the faces of the ministers changed. The generals were full of surprise, and some of the ministers frowned, and some were worried, all of which were different. Wang Xu's face softened slightly, and he smiled calmly: "This decision will not be changed, everyone can speak freely if they have any ideas, and anything that helps them can be helped." ”

Cao Peng Kuaiyue has been quite active since he joined Wang Xu's command, and first said: "Lord! There are currently more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 soldiers in Hanzhong Zhanglu, and the road is rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This matter must not be rushed. When the spy went to Shuzhong to collect geographic information. Plot again. ”

I didn't think of this. Wang Xu smiled and looked at Dian Wei and Xu Sheng, who were now sitting on the side of the generals. The two of them also instantly showed the color of memory, and then looked at each other and smiled, Xu Sheng said softly: "There is no need to worry about the different degrees, the terrain lord of Hanzhong is very familiar with us!" ”

Kuai Yue was puzzled, but it was not good to ask again, and he stopped talking at the moment. However, the other ministers in Jingzhou more or less knew about Wang Xu's escape from prison back then, and they all thought about it. But no one was stupid enough to say it. They were actually right, when they fled in those two years, because Wang Xu knew the importance of Hanzhong, he stayed in Hanzhong for more than a month. Through guò inquiring and inquiry, he made a clear understanding of the roads in Hanzhong from the ordinary villagers, and drew a map, knowing that drawing a complete map by hand was one of his original ideals.

Now that the biggest problem has been solved, the enthusiasm of the Wenchen has also increased slightly, and Chen Deng, who has been frowning and thinking about countermeasures from beginning to end, said: "My lord, but we are currently short of troops. Most of the sergeants in Xiangyang were new recruits. The establishment is not uniform, and the training is insufficient. There are also problems with weapons and equipment, and we must not rush into battle, this is the future of Jingzhou. But if you want to destroy Hanzhong, you are afraid that you will need 40,000 or 50,000 people, and Shangyong only has 10,000 elites, and there are so many soldiers, how to take it? ”

As soon as the words fell, one person suddenly stood up on the side of the general, majestic and mu, it was the famous general Zhang Liao. "Huh! Yuan Long's words are strict, although Hanzhong claims to be 40,000 people, but in fact, there are only more than 20,000 elite soldiers, and the rest are not to be feared. I have heard that Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu are at odds, and as soon as Liu Yan dies, we only need to appease Liu Zhang and attack Hanzhong with lightning speed, and we don't need much troops at all! ”

As he spoke, he took a deep breath, turned to Wang Xu and said, "Lord, I only need 20,000 horses to take Hanzhong, and I am willing to establish a military order!" ”

He took the lead, and he got it, and all the generals in Jingzhou were arrogant and arrogant, and they followed closely behind, all of them rushed to petition for orders to lead the army to attack, and they didn't take Zhang Lu in their eyes at all. Wang Xu was deeply satisfied that the generals could fight so bravely, but he still smiled and shook his head: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, I still personally led the troops in this capture of Hanzhong, but what Wen Yuan said has some truth." Although Zhang Lu recruited a wide range of sergeants, there were many soldiers who were lost in my hands last year, and his vitality has not recovered. My idea is that if 10,000 soldiers from Jiangxia are transferred, plus 10,000 Yong and 10,000 cavalry of my own guards, and there are many generals with their own troops, the strength of this battle will be enough. If it weren't for the fact that the terrain in Hanzhong was really dangerous, I would have dared to fight Zhang Luna with only 10,000 people. ”

"The lord said this very much, but his subordinates also have some doubts!" Fu Zhu finally spoke, Guo Jia and Tian Feng were not there, he was the head of Wenchen. frowned and said: "Yuan Shu will definitely not attack my Jingzhou for no reason, Liu Miao has Yuzhang Lai Gong to resist, don't worry too much, just transfer Jia Hua and Zhang Yun's two generals to lead 30,000 sailors to Jiangxia, then Jingzhou can sit back and relax, this is not wrong." But the only thing his subordinates are worried about is the problem of troops, the land of Hanzhong is too rugged and difficult to walk, all kinds of tricks are useless, if there is no absolute advantage, how to attack? ”

The frustration brought up this issue again, which also made Wang Xu think more. Although he was confident, he really hadn't thought of a way to break the enemy. Immediately, he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "The public and the public have no plan to break the enemy?" ”

He smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "The land of Hanzhong is not like other places, there is no reason to take tricks, if you can't crack it from the inside, the frontal battlefield can only be attacked." The lord knows the geography of Hanzhong better than me, and he also knows that there are Nanshan Mountains (Qinling Mountains were called Nanshan Mountains at that time) in the north, Micang Mountain and Daba Mountain in the south, and there is only one avenue in the middle, and the rest are all mountains and rugged paths. How to carry the armor stomach? How to transport grain and grass baggage? How do war horses pass? Besides, the wind and rain have been smooth in the past two years, and it has rained in spring and summer, and the roads are muddy, so it is difficult to take the big road! ”

Wang Xu only had a great grasp of the battlefield, and he thought that he was familiar with the terrain, but he didn't think about it so carefully, especially the problem of rain making the roads muddy. In his opinion, as long as the army sets off, there is a way to destroy the enemy after all, and he can adapt to the situation, but he really didn't notice that Hanzhong is the only place where it is difficult to make any moves.

"This ......"

Seeing that Wang Xu was speechless, Kuai Liang, who was silent, also opened his mouth to answer. "What he said in the frustration is reasonable, and his subordinates have also gone to Hanzhong in person, and its danger is really good. Moreover, with Zhang Lu's character, he will not fight with our army, and he will inevitably rely on the geographical advantage to hold on. We are also the attackers, and it is not impossible to take Hanzhong by force, but the lord should also be prepared for heavy losses. 40,000 people is absolutely not enough, according to the humble opinion of his subordinates, Jingzhou should do its best. (To be continued......)

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