Chapter Twenty-Six: Plotting in Hanzhong and befriending Cao Cao

On December 23, 194, a piece of news reached Shangyong and Lin Li was stunned. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The army sent by Liu Zhang was hit by the Yanpu fire plan in Hanzhong, the army suffered heavy casualties, the two main generals were killed and wounded, and the Zitong army was scattered in all directions, which caused Liu Zhang to be furious, and personally raised 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill from Chengdu, and the military advisor Zhang Song accompanied him as a precaution.

A tug-of-war that lasted for more than a month ended in the victory of the weak Hanzhong army.

Although Hanzhong won this battle, the main army was basically killed and wounded, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Chengdu were no longer able to resist, and at this time, Lin Li needed to care about how to get some benefits in this troubled water.

The Zitong team can be said to have lost to the enemy, but the key is still a fire in Yanpu, which made Lin Li even more determined to support Fa Zheng to keep him as the mastermind.

Fa Zheng was captured and surrendered to Shangyong, but as he knows, Liu Zhang looks down on Fa Zheng, so he has no feelings for the original master, and after Lin Li, he followed the civil officials to deal with various matters, first, to exercise his ability, and secondly, he was also familiar with Lin Lijun's intelligence.

Since his loyalty is guaranteed, Lin Li is also sincere to Fa Zheng, and he always feasts on weekdays, and this time he got the news of the defeat of the Zitong army and brought Fa Zheng to discuss it at the first moment.

In the study, Lin Li and Fa Zheng sat facing each other.

After Fa Zheng knew Lin Li's plan, he frowned and thought about countermeasures, and asked for a long time:

"Liu Zhang's personal expedition, Hanzhong will inevitably not be able to hold it, although Yan Pu has great talents, but because there are no available soldiers, it will only be sooner or later. But I don't know if the lord wants to annex Hanzhong or just want to share some benefits. ”

Lin Li smiled and asked rhetorically:

"I don't know what is the best strategy for this annexation, and what should be done to divide the benefits?"

Fa Zheng coughed lightly, and said:

"If you plot the entire Hanzhong, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it with the strength of our army, but if you mention the army of Shangyong and Wancheng, it is not impossible to try."

Lin Li shook his head, he knew his own affairs, and after a few months of cultivation, Shangyong and Wancheng had indeed gradually recovered from the previous war, but now they have no ability and no need to compete with Liu Zhang. smiled at the moment:

"I also asked the military advisor to teach me how to share the benefits."

Fa Zheng shook the feather fan, and said in a style of pointing out the country:

"Yan Pu in Hanzhong has no soldiers and no generals, but Yang Song of the other faction is friendly with our army. I can privately send troops under Yang Song's name, but the generals who actually command them need to be the generals of our army. ”

Lin Li frowned, "The military advisor also said that the strength of our army is not comparable to that Liu Zhang, and if we send troops rashly, we will not say whether we can take Hanzhong, even if we repel Liu Zhang's 20,000 people, the loss of our army will not be small, so won't the gains outweigh the losses?" ”

With a smile on the front of the Fa, he said confidently:

"Don't worry, my lord, our soldiers and horses quietly went to Hanzhong just to make a show to support Yang Song's forces. Of the two factions in Hanzhong, Yan Pu gained the absolute right to speak in the army because of his previous status as Zhang Lu's military division, but his strength had been lost together with the Nazitong army in a big battle. On the other hand, Yang Song, if the winner of the public soldiers and horses helped, it will be easy to obtain the right to speak in Hanzhong, and when Liu Zhang attacks, Yang Song can order as the master to move all the soldiers, horses, grains, grass and even the population of Hanzhong to my Shangyong, so it can be said that it is effortless to really get a county. ”

As mentioned earlier, wars are fought only about population and economy, and at this moment China is still in a stage of vast land and sparsely populated, and capturing the population is also a common thing for princes from all walks of life.

Lin Li pondered for a moment and felt that Fa Zheng's strategy was feasible, but who was entrusted with it was the key point.

Yang Song actually didn't have any friendship with Shangyong, who to send to negotiate with him, oh, it should be regarded as persuading Lin Li that there was no suitable candidate in his heart.

And Fa Zheng saw that the lord was a little moved, and he was not polite, so he stood up at the moment and said:

"It is under the account of the Lord, thanks to the care of the Lord on Fair Day, but so far it has not been accomplished. If the lord is interested, he is willing to go to Hanzhong in person to say that Yang Song and bring back the resources of Hanzhong! ”

Let Fa Zheng go? Lin Li suddenly became nervous, although this Fa Zheng always said that he was wholeheartedly going to stay and help him, but if he said that he completely trusted him in his heart, Lin Li himself didn't believe it. But this is a good time, and the algorithm is taking the opportunity to escape, and there is nothing to lose.

At that moment, Lin Li also stood up, gently patted Fa Zheng's shoulder, and said

"In this way, filial piety is bothered. After you negotiate, I will send Captain Liu Rui to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Hanzhong for assistance! ”

Li Yan guarded Wancheng and couldn't go away, Gan Ning was still training the navy, and only Liu Rui was able to use it. Moreover, through the last time in Chengdu and Hanzhong, and the subsequent wisdom of Fazheng, Liu Rui's attributes have indeed improved significantly, and it is also the two points of wisdom and politics as Lin Li expected, and eight points of political intelligence. Kirin's previous jokes have gradually taken shape.

In this plot against Hanzhong, Lin Li sent him out to make Liu Rui improve again, but Lin Li couldn't guess what attributes would be improved in this mission.

Fa Zheng got Lin Li's consent, and without saying much, he got up and said goodbye and went back to pack his luggage and prepare to leave.

Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people. I hope you will be honest and honest for me, and don't disappoint me.

……

Seeing off Fa Zheng, Lin Li summoned Zhu En.

Officials with a good memory should remember him, one of the eight ministers. Of the eight ministers that day, Liu Rui was already the top henchman of Lin Li's subordinates, and the rest of Ruoyang Shao, Bangui and others also had their own appointments and were reused. And only this Zhu En has no task, and he continues to serve as his minister in the army alone.

This Zhu En's qualifications are mediocre, and it is also the reason why Lin Li has not appointed him, but he has put it on hold for so long, and he is only called at this moment, Zhu En has not the slightest dissatisfaction and complaints, maybe his most outstanding ability is loyalty.

Looking at the respectful man in front of him, Lin Li clapped his hands and ordered his subordinates to hand over a thing.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary wooden box, but when you get closer, you can smell a bad smell.

Zhu En took the wooden box, looked at Lin Li with some puzzlement, and opened it gently after getting the signal, but he was stunned when he saw it, it was actually a bloody human head, covered with blood, but he could also see the long scar on his face.

If ordinary people saw this head, they were afraid that they would think that it was someone's prank or they would be directly frightened and thrown away, but this honest man was just taken aback, and looked at his own lord even more puzzled.

Lin Li explained with a smile:

"This is the head of the previous bandit leader, and it was found out afterwards that it was a thief who had been plagued for many years, named Zhang Yan."

Zhang Yan has no impression of who Zhu En, but looking at the lord's attention, it shouldn't be a small person, but what does it mean to rashly give his head to himself? Do you study blood types and horoscopes, and I won't either...

Lin Li didn't know that his subordinates' brains had turned into paste, and continued:

"I called you here this time to bring this head to Chen Liu to visit Chen Liu's Taishou Cao Cao, and said that this is Zhang Yan's head. Well, after he knew about it, he made it clear that after the year, I wanted to send a message to the world, and I wanted to raise an allied army to go to Chang'an to kill Li Guo and the two thieves, and rescue the son of today. ”

"Subordinates obey."

As a courtier, I am not a counselor who eats by my brain, so I just need to be obedient.