Here, in Guan Yu's camp, everyone's faces were heavy. Especially Li Dian and Le Jin, in today's battle, the biggest loss belongs to the two of them, and breaking Zhang Yan makes Guan Yu's face even more ugly.

Under the heavy atmosphere, Xu Shu was the first to break the silence and said in a loud voice: "Prince, the defeat of this battle is really not the responsibility of the generals, and the weapons of the enemy's armor and ordinary soldiers cannot be broken at all. 20,000 invulnerable enemy troops, defeat is also within common sense.??

Guan Yu heard it and didn't speak, but Li Dian and Le Jin glanced at Xu Shu with some gratitude. After Xu Shu paused, he continued: "Some soldiers just risked their lives to take some of the enemy's armor back, but it was Shu who discovered the enemy's weakness.

This time, Guan Yu finally reacted, the lying silkworm raised his eyebrows, and asked in a condensed voice: "What are the weaknesses of the enemy army???

Xu Shu said: "Fear of fire! After answering, Xu Shu further explained: "Shu found that these armors of the enemy army are all made of rattan, and these rattans are extremely tough. On the outside of these rattan armors, a special oil is soaked, which makes the rattan armor tough and strong. And looking at the oil stains on this rattan armor, it should be soaked more than once, and this kind of rattan armor cannot be achieved for several years. Therefore, Shu thought that these rattan armors were destroyed one piece and one was missing. And because the rattan armor is made of plant rattan, and it has been soaked in oil many times, it is extremely afraid of fire, I am afraid that with just a little spark, these rattan armor will be ignited.

Li Dian heard it and said with a smile: "Since the vine armor is afraid of fire, we have a way to deal with it??

Xu Shu nodded, then shook his head again. Seeing this, Le Jin asked puzzledly, "Why did the military advisor both nod and shake his head.??"

Xu Shu sighed and said, "The two generals should also know that the commander of the enemy army is Zhang Liao, and the military division of the army is Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu's talent was fully revealed in the Battle of Chibi. With Zhou Yu's ability, he should be able to guess that we have seen through the weakness of the rattan armor, and in this case, the enemy army will not stupidly push the vine armor soldiers out to death. The enemy only needs to put away the vine armor soldiers, and the influence of today's vine armor soldiers on our army alone is enough to overwhelm our army in momentum.??

Guan Yu, Li Dian, and Le Jin who were present were not stupid people, and they had led troops to fight for many years, and they also understood these truths. After Xu Shu broke it, the tent fell silent for a while.

In fact, it is no wonder that Guan Yu and a few people are depressed, and Cao Junkong has more than 100,000 horses, but they are blocked under Pingchun City. It was also Zhang Xiu's proper layout in the early days, when the princes were fighting, he took advantage of the chaos to take down all the dangers, forcing the Cao army to attack now, and he could only attack and break it city by city.

After being silent for a while, Guan Yu said: "It's not a way to go on like this, the enemy army has nearly 100,000 here, and if you want to storm the city, I'm afraid you will suffer heavy losses." In that case, we can only bypass Pingchun City.??

Li Dian and Le Jin heard Guan Yu's words, and their faces changed slightly. Bypassing Pingchun City, then don't think about it, you must go over the mountain. You must know that the east of Pingchun City is the Dabie Mountain Range, and the west is Tongbai Dafu Mountain.

When Xu Shu heard this, he frowned and said, "It's too risky to bypass the strategy of Pingchun. First of all, it is difficult to guarantee grain and grass, and secondly, if you bypass Pingchun City, you can break into Jiangxia County. Xu Rong, who was stationed between Lujiang County and Jiangxia County, could support at any time and counter-encircled our army that broke through into Jiangxia County. And over Tongbai Mountain, the same is true, but the other side of the anti-encirclement has been replaced by Xu Huang's department. In this way, for our army, the gains outweigh the losses.??

Li Dian and Le Jin listened and nodded at the same time. Li Dian even said: "And our army is coming to attack Jiangxia, Xu Huang has already led the army to attack Xuchang, although there is Boning (full favor) in command." It's just that Xu Huang is brave, and Zhang Xiu often has new weapons, so it is still possible for Xuchang to be captured.

Guan Yu's face sank, and he asked in a condensed voice: "In this way, I want Benhou to withdraw from the army???

Xu Shu met Guan Yu's gaze without fear and said, "The big war is already unfavorable, and a strong attack will only consume troops in vain. Our army is already underarmed, and if it is defeated, the Central Plains defense line will collapse. In order to take into account the overall situation, I thought that I should retire from the army.

Guan Yu looked at Xu Shu's determined expression and was silent for a long time. At this time, in my heart, I remembered the defeat of Xiangyang that day, and it was that defeat that made Liu Bei's power change in an instant, and that time it was precisely because he didn't listen to Xu Shu's words.

Xu Shu knew very well what Guan Yu was thinking, so he said: "Prince, rest assured, Uncle Huang's revenge will be avenged one day??

After Guan Yu heard this, his eyes opened in vain, and he said in a condensed voice: "Send the order down, the whole army will pack up, burn the camp and return to Xuchang??

Li Dian and Le Jin listened to it, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, and responded in unison: "Promise ......??"

After Xu Shu saw it, he arched his hand and said: "Junhou, in order to prevent the enemy from pursuing, Shu led people to arrange one or two." Guan Yu heard it and nodded??

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Early the next morning, as soon as Zhang Liao got up, Wen Ping rushed in and reported: "General, the Cao army camp is on fire. I'm afraid that Cao Jun is going to retreat??

When Zhang Liao heard this, his spirits perked up, and all his sleepiness immediately dissipated, and he immediately rushed to the city with Wen Ping. When Zhang Liao arrived in the city, Zhou Yu and Lü Meng were already here. Zhang Liao hurriedly grabbed Zhou Yu and asked, "Gongjin, what's the situation???

Zhou Yu replied with a smile: "The Cao army's camp is on fire, and it should be about to retreat."

Wen Ping heard this and said hurriedly: "Since this is the case, why don't we pursue it???

Zhou Yu immediately waved his hand and said, "No!" Xu Shu is wise, there must be an ambush after the break, and there are many Cao soldiers, and the pursuit may not have great results.

Wen Ping said: "So let them retreat???

Zhou Yu smiled lightly: "It doesn't matter, this battle is enough to defeat the Cao army's edge and repel the Cao army's attack." After speaking, Zhou Yu turned around and said to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, and send someone to inform Gongming and ask him to withdraw his troops there." Otherwise, if you are surrounded by Guan Yu's army, I am afraid that you will lose a lot. After Zhang Liao heard this, he nodded and sent someone away.

In the first year of Huajingchang, Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, organized a three-way army to attack Huaguo. Among them, the Central Plains led 200,000 troops led by Guan Yu to attack Jingzhou, and Zhang Liao, the general of Huaguo's expedition to the east, led an army of 90,000 to defeat Pingchun City, and Guan Yu had no choice but to retreat.

And the other army, led by the general Cao Ren from Huainan to attack the Lujiang River, was blocked by the Chinese army general under the fortified city of Hefei, the battle was fruitless for half a year, and Cao Ren also returned to Shouchun.

Finally, the 200,000 troops led by the general Xiahou Yuan attacked Hanoi and confronted the 100,000 troops led by Huang Zhong. Xiahou Yuan ordered the Han army to garrison in Hanoi and defend it at the same time. There was no large-scale confrontation between the two armies, and until the end of the year, Xiahou Yuan's army did not retreat.

The three-way attack on the Han army was frustrated on both sides, and the road was deadlocked, and the defensive battle of Huaguo was successful.

In the northern part of China, because the Cao army of Youzhou completely retreated within Lulongsai, the situation outside the Great Wall was completely dominated by China. In June of the first year of Huajingchang, the general Zhao Yunbing came to the capital of Goguryeo Guomaru. Jiang Wei, Deng Ai and other young people who were originally under house arrest in the city of Marudu responded internally, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Goguryeo people, opened the gate of Marudu City, and let Zhao Yun's army enter closely, and the Marudu was broken??

The king of Goguryeo retreated in shock after learning that the pills were broken, and Sun Ce, the general of the Huaguo expedition to the south who was in Liucheng at this time, led the army to bypass the flank of the Goguryeo army through Xuansu County, and attacked the Goguryeo army with Zhao Yun's troops who were attacking the Hui army, and broke it. The king of Goguryeo was beheaded by Sun Ce, the general of Zhengnan, before the battle, and the Goguryeo Kingdom was in chaos??

Later, Zhao Yun and Sun Ce led two large armies to attack Liaodong, and Gongsun Kang, the lord of Liaodong, saw that the general trend had gone and led his troops to surrender. So far, outside the Great Wall of Youzhou, the four counties of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Xuansu and Lelang are all determined.

After pacifying the four counties, Zhao Yun led half of his men to stop in Liucheng, and ordered Sun Ce to lead the rest of his troops and Liaodong troops to fight into the chaotic Goguryeo Kingdom. In March, the Goguryeo Kingdom was leveled, and at the cold winter solstice, the general Wei Yan was left to defend the newly acquired territory, and then returned to Liucheng to spend the cold winter.

On the other side, Guo Huai, the general of Huaguo, gathered people from all parts of the grassland to fight with the army of Fuyu in the grassland. The grassland united and won a great victory, Guo Huai beheaded the lord of Fuyu, and the Fuyu army surrendered. At the same time, Ma Chao, the general of the Chinese expedition to the west, led the army into the country of Buyeo, broke the capital of Fuyu, and then waved his army north to collect the land of Fuyeo. It was not until the winter that the army returned to Liucheng to spend the winter, and the territory of Buyeo was temporarily commanded by Wei Yan, who was stationed in the former Goguryeo State.

After the First World War, the strength of the grassland departments decreased again. Zhang Xiu, the Taizu of Huaguo, ordered that all the departments of the grassland should be relocated inward and forced to be sinicized, and those who did not obey were killed. The grassland tribes were shocked, united to resist, and were dragged by Guo Huai's infantry army and united with Zhang Quan, the prince of Huaguo, to personally lead the Huaguo Iron Cavalry, and defeated the grassland coalition army. In this way, all the departments of the grassland moved inward and carried out forced sinicization, and they did not dare to disobey??

In addition to the large-scale expansion of the Huaguo Iron Cavalry, in May of the same year, Gan Ning, the governor of the Huaguo Naval Army, led an army of 20,000 sailors across the sea and landed at the southern tip of Samhan. Immediately after the landing of the 20,000 naval army, they began to attack the city and plunder the land, and Mahan, Jinhan and Benhan organized a coalition to resist. The former military division Fa Zheng conspired, and Gan Ning was defeated fifteen times, leading the three-Korean coalition army into the trap, and then defeated it. All three Korean lords died in the battle. As soon as the three-Korean coalition army was defeated, there was no longer a force to resist, and the Chinese army went deep and took all the land of the three Koreas in September.

At this point, the Korean Peninsula was completely occupied by the Chinese State, along with the destruction of the Goguryeo Kingdom and the Buyeo Kingdom, and the entire Northeast was also occupied by the Chinese State. In addition, all the departments of the prairie respect Zhang Xiu, the ancestor of Huaguo, as the Khan of the sky, and the prairie is also exclusive to Huaguo.

At present, in addition to the six states of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou and Youzhou in the Great Wall, the land of China extends from the North Sea to the South to the Indochina Peninsula, from the Western Regions to the Northeast Sea. The breadth of the territory is unprecedented, and there are many times when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not have it.

However, people of insight know that the territory of China is more than that. After the navy conquered the Korean Peninsula, after the sea ships returned to Yangzhou, they divided one-third of the sea ships and went south along the coastline until they reached Jiaozhi before stopping. There is no need to think about it, Zhang Xiu, the Taizu of Huaguo, has set the goal of the south on Luzon Island in the south of the Indochina Peninsula.

And after a year of recuperation and grain and grass reserves, the final battle between China and Han is about to begin.

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However, at this time, Zhang Xiu, the ancestor of Huaguo, showed a distressed look on the Zhengde Palace. A group of civil servants and strategists from the Military Aircraft Department are all listed??

Prime Minister Shi Zhuge Liang was in the hall, holding a fold and reporting to Zhang Xiuyu: "Your Majesty, this year we have expanded our territory for more than a thousand miles, and the generals are happy, but the trouble is not small.

When Zhang Xiu heard this, his face froze, and he asked: "Why did Kong Ming say this, opening up the territory is a great joy, why is it a lot of trouble?"

After Zhuge Liang saw it, he shook the goose feather fan, and at the same time shook his head and said: "Your Majesty doesn't know that the places that the generals attacked this year are all border soils outside the Great Wall. There are very few cities there, and it is not easy to govern, it is really like chicken ribs, the food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it.

When Zhang Xiu heard this, he smiled and said, "This matter is easy to hear." There are many castles on the Samhan Peninsula outside the Great Wall, and a quarter of the land belongs to Rajanang-gun. There is nothing wrong with continuing to build counties and cities there. In addition, the climate there is moderate, especially in the south, which is more suitable for growing grain, and people can be relocated there.

Zhuge Liang smiled helplessly and said: "What Your Majesty said is not bad, it is not difficult to set up a county and build a city on the Sanhan Peninsula. However, Liang is talking about Buyeo, Goguryeo, and the steppes. These places are difficult to develop.

Zhang Xiu heard it and said with a smile: "It's okay, the place of Buyeo and Goguryeo is a smooth road." Although the winter is extremely cold due to its land in the north, and there are only two crops at most a year, the northeast is very large and can be remedied by the number of acres. In addition to the relocation, the forced sinicization of Buyeo and Goguryeo and a group of Hu people, within a hundred years, the northeast can become the granary of the north.

Zhang Xiu's words are not nonsense, before his crossing, the Northeast was a relatively important grain-producing area. Although Zhang Xiu knew that the grain production in the northeast was not as good as the current Jiangdong land, if it was developed, it would greatly alleviate the grain problem in the north. In particular, the land of Hebei, like Guanzhong, has undergone hundreds of years of development, and soil erosion is serious. With the addition of two new granaries, the Northeast and Samhan Peninsula, the pressure on Hebei will be greatly relieved in the future. On the Guanzhong side, the grain pressure can also be transferred to Jingnan and Jiangdong, and as for Jiaozhou and the Indochina Peninsula, they can be joined together after the water transportation is more developed. If these places are included in the territory of China, food and land will not become a constraint on China's development for hundreds or even thousands of years in the future.

At this time, Zhang Xiu said again: "As for the prairie, it is still necessary to build a city.

Zhang Xiu knew that it was unrealistic to turn the prairie into arable land. However, if a city is built on the prairie, even if the steppe rebels, it will not be as long as it has been in history. And Zhang Xiu also has the intention of leaving the Hu people of the prairie to act as the enemy of China, you must know that you are born in sorrow and die in peace. Although the prairie is in decline now, after three generations, I am afraid that the prairie will be strong again, and then it will be time to test Huaguo.

However, Zhang Xiu believes that with the foundation he has laid now, Huaguo should be able to persist in the invention of firearms. As long as firearms are invented, the advantage between the Chinese and the steppe Hu people will begin to reverse.

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty's idea is very good, but people are needed to build a city, where did we get so many people.??"

Zhang Xiu heard this, and smiled indifferently: "It's okay, the people who built the city are ready, as long as you send troops to catch them." ”

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