Chapter 521: Expansion
Zhang Lu couldn't help but be furious.
Liu Bei and Cao Cao both coveted his Hanzhong, but they both adopted the method of interest wooing, promising various conditions to let him join them.
I don't know where a junior who is said to be a colt of Eastern Wu came out of nowhere, so big a tone to make him submit or let him go out of Hanzhong?
King Wu and Sun Quan didn't dare to do this, right?
Although Lü Chao had captured Xiangcheng before, outsiders thought it was Zhou Yu's credit, thinking that Lü Chao was just picking up a bargain, and Zhang Lu did not think that Lü Chao had the ability to capture his Hanzhong.
A few hours later, Lu Chao's 100,000 wolf riders came to the vicinity of Hanzhong City, and walked along the city wall to show off their might, trying to form a psychological deterrent to the defenders in the city.
It turned out that the defenders in the city did not eat this at all, and under Zhang Lu's brainwashing, these soldiers and people were fearless and ready to sacrifice their lives to protect Hanzhong at any time.
Even after this obsession makes them die, their bodies can still be driven by Zhang Lu for a long time to continue to kill enemies on the battlefield.
Zhang Lu has also sent people to ask Liu Bei and Cao Cao for help respectively, promising certain benefits, and even promising to become a subordinate, wanting to exchange for some reinforcements.
However, Liu Bei and Cao Cao didn't want to meddle in this matter at this time.
Dongwu didn't want to annex Zhang Lu as much as he could, and the final result would definitely be a lose-lose situation, they went to pick up the cheap just after the end of the war, and at this time they helped Zhang Lu and let Lu Chao retreat in a difficult way, so they had no advantage to take advantage of.
However, they didn't know that Lu Chao knew all about their marching movements, and whether they reinforced Zhang Lu or not, Lu Chao would know about it and make preparations in advance.
At night, Hu Bicheng, Gong Chenglong, Zeng Shidao, Ruan Wenwu, Mo Bing, and Jia Shishi, the six fierce generals of Nanyue, led an army of 100,000 to join Lu Chao and Lu Bu.
The whole army rested on the spot.
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In addition to sending people to ask Liu Bei and Cao Cao for help, Zhang Lu also sent people to the city of King Wu to ask why Sun Quan wanted to attack him.
Sun Quan urgently convened his ministers at night to discuss the matter.
"This Lu Chao is simply bold and reckless! The capture of Xiangcheng caused Cao Cao to hate us and may invade Eastern Wu at any time, in this case, he actually went to attack Hanzhong again, and made enemies everywhere, this is to kill my Eastern Wu! Zhang Zhao couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the news.
"Making enemies everywhere like this is indeed a taboo for soldiers, did he consult the lord about this matter?" Lu Xun asked Sun Quan.
"Nope." Sun Quan shook his head.
"Zhang Lu's Hanzhong is not so easy to capture, Liu Zhang sat on the fertile soil of Yizhou, with a population of millions, and tried to encroach on Hanzhong several times, but was beaten by Zhang Lu extremely embarrassed, and finally had to turn to Liu Bei for help, but Liu Bei occupied the magpie's nest, and finally could only hide in a small city to survive." Lu Meng also opened his mouth.
"The key is that he did this, others don't think it's his personal behavior, they will think it's our Dongwu behavior, saying that we are killing everywhere, maybe Cao Cao will use this reason to attack us after beating Ma Teng, and we can't refute it yet." Lu Xun continued to analyze.
"If he does that, he's going to make things very dangerous for us. The lord must consider the matter of taking back his military power, otherwise, I don't know how much trouble it will make. ”
"The lord now has to arrange for someone to hurry over to stop Lu Chao from attacking Hanzhong."
"He has no chance of winning, such a stupid move just makes the world laugh and laugh at me."
Other ministers also put forward their own views.
"What if, he knocked Hanzhong down?" Sun Quan hesitated.
"Impossible." The generals shook their heads.
"At the beginning, most of the capital governors defeated South Vietnam, but in the end, it was up to him to attack the royal city of South Vietnam. Guangcheng was also taken back by him, and he took Cao Wei's Xiangcheng a few days ago, why do you think he can't take Hanzhong? Sun Quan asked everyone.
"He attacked the royal city of Nanyue because General Lu pinned down almost all the forces of Nanyue, leaving an empty city for him to take advantage of. The reason for the recovery of Guangcheng was that the generals of Nanyue had lost the royal city, and when they saw that General Zhou thought that the lord was driving the expedition in person, they were frightened and surrendered to him. ”
"As for Xiangcheng, it wasn't him who beat it down at all, the Metropolitan Governor and Cao Ren fought to the death, and he stole it to take advantage of it."
"From beginning to end, he didn't really fight a tough battle, and he won the war by opportunism. But Zhang Lu's Hanzhong is different, he has no chance to take advantage of it. ”
"I think he was successful in stealing the plane a few times before, and he became a little inflated, thinking that he was invincible in the world and could go around unscrupulously, but really, he was still too tender, he was just lucky before, and his luck couldn't be so good all the time."
Everyone carefully analyzed the pros and cons to Sun Quan.
None of them are very optimistic about Lu Chao.
When Sun Quan heard them say this, he felt that it made sense.
Lu Chao really didn't fight a tough battle! It's all just stealing planes, but what kind of chance is there to steal this time? Zhang Lu's Hanzhong is really not so easy to defeat.
If Lü Chao planted a big heel in Hanzhong and the loss of Eastern Wu's troops was too great, the national fortunes of Eastern Wu were likely to decline as a result, affecting not only himself, but the entire overall situation of Eastern Wu.
"Ladies and gentlemen, who wants to go to Shangyong? Persuade Lü Dudu not to attack Hanzhong? Sun Quan looked at the ministers.
The ministers were talking very lively just now, but no one was willing to come forward in the matter of who would stop Lu Chao.
If you go, you will definitely offend Lu Chao.
The consequences of Zhou Yu offending Lu Chao before, they all saw it.
Although they don't like Lu Chao, it's okay to scold Lu Chao together in the court, but if they do things that make Lu Chao unhappy alone, who knows if they will be targeted by Lu Chao?
In the end, he ended up like Zhou Yu and was angry to death.
No one went, so Sun Quan could only exit and instruct Lu Su to rush to Shangyong in the starry night to prevent Lu Chao from attacking Zhang Lu.
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At night, Lu Chao arranged for someone to guard against Zhang Lu's robbery of the camp, but unfortunately Zhang Lu didn't want to leave the city at all, but just retreated in the city and prepared to defend it.
Lu Chao summoned the portal of the monk's house, returned to the house, disassembled the missile car and moved it out, as well as a large number of C4 plastic bombs.
"Zijing came here late at night, why did you have to do it?" When Lu Chao saw Lu Su coming, he almost understood what was going on.
"Zhang Lu sent a messenger to Wangcheng, saying that you are going to attack Hanzhong, the result of the discussion between the courtiers and the lord, it is recommended that you do not easily provoke a war, Zhang Lu is very strong, it is a hard bone to gnaw, if you insist on attacking, I am afraid that the consequences will be difficult to manage." Lu Su told Lu Chao the results of the discussion between Sun Quan and the ministers in the court.
"Zijing also thinks that I can't capture Hanzhong City?" Lu Chao smiled.