Chapter 42 There Must Be a Conspiracy

Liu Hou didn't know that the Eastern Wu Junchen had already prepared the worst plan to escape to Yunmengze to be a water bandit. Yunmengze has a wide area and complex terrain, and there have always been countless water bandits hidden, and in peacetime, Yunmengze still has three hundred water bandits.

These water bandits have been suppressed by the imperial courts of all dynasties, and in this turbulent era of the world, only God knows how many water bandits are hidden in them.

However, even if Liu Hou knew the plans of the Eastern Wu monarchs, there was nothing he could do, and now he couldn't handle the affairs of the land, where could he take care of the affairs on the water.

Besides, the strength of his own navy is too weak, and he can't manage it if he wants to. It can even be expected that even if Liu Hou unifies the Central Plains, Yun Mengze's problem is not an easy problem to solve.

Liu Hou didn't know the worst plan of the Eastern Wu monarch, but he himself made the worst plan in his heart. Ever since he learned about the situation in Chengdu from Qin Cha, he had been planning the worst for Liu Bei to die and Liu Li to usurp the throne.

Once the situation collapses, there is only one battle. At that time, he will face the pressure of Wei, Shu, and Wu alone. With about 100,000 troops in his hands, facing millions of troops of the Three Kingdoms, then he really has to recite Amitabha.

If the 100,000 horses in his hands are all elite firearms troops, even if they encounter a million troops, they are not afraid of anything, but many of these 100,000 people are old, weak, sick and disabled baggage troops, and some are also traditional cold weapon troops, such as Guan Suo's Fifth Division and Zhao Yun's Sixth Division.

These are all garrison divisions, so it's okay to let them garrison one side, and it is estimated that they won't play much role in letting them fight head-on. There are only 10,000 musketeers and 30,000 rattan armor soldiers who can really fight in his hands, and there are only 40,000 people in total.

The worst thing is that its own industrial base is in Chengdu, and its firearms unit is a highly dependent army on industrial supply, and once the Ministry of Industry is controlled by the puppet imperial court in Chengdu, its firearms unit will exist in name only.

What's more, the other side can also use the output of the Ministry of Industry to form a firearms unit to confront itself, and when the time comes, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides will be reversed.

No wonder it has been a long time since he got supplies from Chengdu, Liu Hou originally thought that it was a long way and the supply was inconvenient, but he didn't expect that it was for this reason, fortunately, there was a lot of ammunition stored in the early stage, which could support the troops to finish the battle of Changsha, otherwise it would be unimaginable.

On the contrary, it is a rattan armor, and a batch of them will be transported from time to time, which at least proves that the Nanzhong region is still under his control, which makes Liu Hou feel a little more at ease.

At present, it owns the Nanzhong region, Lingnan and Guiyang, Lingling, Changsha and other counties, and the territory is not small, but unfortunately except for Changsha, the others are some wild places, sparsely populated, economically and culturally backward, which is not enough to become the cornerstone of the Central Plains. Therefore, the Bashu region must be snatched back, and it must be snatched back as much as possible.

After a long time, the firearms on hand will be exhausted, and the Chengdu puppet regime will become more and more powerful because of the control of the Ministry of Industry, and the time will be more and more unfavorable to itself. However, it is foreseeable that if he sends troops to fight with Liu Li's brothers, Soochow and Wei will definitely take the opportunity to intervene.

Even, Liu Hou doubted that this time the Eastern Wu and Wei States were crazy and tried their best to besiege Shu, whether it was the result of internal and external collusion between Xu Jing and others. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, which seemed very likely, although it was a bit of a conspiracy theory, but judging from the results, it was indeed in line with the purpose of their conspiracy.

Wei and Wu besieged Shu, so they could transfer Zhuge Liang, evacuate the troops in Chengdu, and at the same time contain the forces of Zhang Fei and Guan Gong, and in the end, only Liu Bei, a single emperor, was left in Chengdu. Due to the tight war on the front line, Liu Bei must have been worried all day long, lamenting all night, and trying his best to solve the crisis in front of him.

As mentioned earlier, Liu Bei has cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, and in such a situation, he is easy to be caused by blood vessels, stroke, stroke, etc., which just gives Xu Jing, Wu Yi and others the opportunity to usurp the throne.

Liu Hou was thinking about how to make Sun Quan and Cao Pi unable to send troops to intervene when they sent troops to attack Bashu. But after thinking about it, I can't think of a good way, if Xu Jing really colludes with Wei and Wu and has an agreement, then it is almost inevitable that he will send troops to Bashu and Wei and Wu to copy their own back roads.

Liu Hou also deduced from this conspiracy why Wei and Wu had not conquered Jingzhou for more than half a year.

Of course, this is a matter of great importance, but the reason for relying on the city defense facilities and firearms left behind by Liu Hou to kill and injure a large number of the allied forces of the two countries is that Wei and Wu deliberately released water. The two countries besieged the city but did not break it, and the intention was to lure Zhuge Liang over to rescue, so as to achieve the intention of separating Zhuge Liang from Liu Bei's side.

The more Liu Hou thought about it, the more frightened he became, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his opponent was terrible, who could set up such a big game? Who is so bothered to calculate himself? This trick is indeed ruthless enough, it is tantamount to taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle and getting rid of your old bottom at once.

Liu Hou wanted to go over one by one, first thinking of Lu Xun, then thinking of Sima Yi, and then Jia Xu. It seems that these are the only famous strategists he knows, and it is still unknown who they are. But no matter who it is, he must have been killed by him this time.

Of course, Liu Hou is still lucky, hoping that this qiē is not connected, and there is no black hand behind the scenes planning or promoting. All of them were just a farce made up by Xu Jing and Wu Yi, two idiots, who were motivated by their desire for profit, and Wei and Eastern Wu were just at the right time, and they just happened to jointly attack Shu at this point.

After thinking about these things clearly, Liu Hou immediately found two personal soldiers and asked them to quickly send a letter to Fei Yi who was far away in Lingnan. In the letter, he asked Fei Yi to build an arsenal in Lingnan.

Let him at least get the gunpowder production workshop up first, if there is no supply of gunpowder, his firearms unit will soon be dumbfounded.

As for the production of muskets and artillery, there are too many industrial bases involved, and there is no way to do it in the short term, so he can only figure it out slowly.

Fortunately, Liu Hou accompanied the army with many craftsmen and technicians, among whom there were some talents who produced gunpowder and even muskets. Liu Hou called a few musket and gunpowder experts and sent a battalion of soldiers to escort them back to Lingnan to cooperate with Fei Yi to form an arsenal.

Sun Quan's initiative to withdraw from the army made Liu Hou, who was holding his breath and wanted to find someone to vent his anger, as if he had punched the cotton, and he felt more and more uncomfortable in his heart. There was no battle to fight, so Liu Hou could only urge the troops and speed up his way to Jingzhou.

Along the way, nothing special happened to the large army Xiaoxing overnight, and finally arrived at Baling (Yueyang) on this day, and the vanguard had already collected countless boats for the army to cross the river. To Liu Hou's delight, it was here that he met his super battleship, the Jingzhou, and another larger warship.

The larger warship was the "Chang'an", the ship of the Eastern Wulou that Liu Hou sank with the "Jingzhou" when he was in Jingzhou. Later, Liu Hou ordered Pan Jun to lead tens of thousands of Dongwu prisoners, and it took a lot of effort to salvage and repair them, and at the same time, there was also a medium-sized ship of Dongwu about the same size as the "Jingzhou", which also came to pick up Liu Hou's army this time.

"Chang'an" is a super building ship, the ship can build 5 floors, up to 3,000 people, compared with it, Liu Hou took a lot of effort to build the "Jingzhou" is much smaller, the two ships are parked side by side by the pier, giving people the feeling that Yao Ming is standing next to Pan Changjiang.

After the "Chang'an" was refitted, many gun windows were also opened on both sides, but if anyone opened the gun windows to take a look, they would find that there was not a single cannon inside, and some of the gun windows were equipped with bed crossbows, but most of them were empty.

Now the Shu army has no extra cannons installed on the ship at all, and any firearms have been collected by Guan Gong into Jingzhou City for the purpose of defending the city. Therefore, it can be said that the "Chang'an" is now nothing more than an empty shell.

If you want to equip it with artillery, it is estimated that it will not be possible until Liu Hou recovers Xishu and takes back the Ministry of Industry. Even if it is recovered, it will not be able to match it with all the artillery in the short term, because this giant is too big, and it is as high as a five-story building, and it is not enough to have one or two hundred guns to be fully charged.

At the current level of production, it will take a long time for one or two hundred cannons to be produced.

Liu Hou met Li Qiu, the captain of the "Jingzhou", an old comrade-in-arms who had fought side by side with him in Jingzhou.

Since Liu Hou left Jingzhou, he handed over the "Jingzhou" to him to be responsible, over the years, he has done a pretty good job, at least in the case of such a powerful naval division of the Eastern Wu Army raging in Jingzhou, he can keep the "Jingzhou" safe and sound, which is not an easy thing in itself.

Liu Hou ordered the army to rest in Baling for two days, and then board a boat to cross the river on the third day. The reason for this was not only because the army was rushing for days and the soldiers were very tired, but also because he sent a lot of small boats to reconnoiter in the big lake and the nearby section of the Yangtze River, and he had to wait until he was sure that there was no ambush by the Soochow naval army before he dared to give the order to cross the river.

Baling is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north, and there is a big lake next to it, which is the Dongting Lake in later generations. Dongting Lake is not part of Yunmengze, but it can be connected to Yunmengze through the Yangtze River. It also belongs to the Yangtze River water system, and it is the world of the Soochow Navy.

Further east of Baling is the sphere of influence of Eastern Wu, and Eastern Wu is now stationing heavy troops in Chibi and Xiakou east of Baling, which is really impossible to guard.

Liu Hou was most afraid that Dongwu would take advantage of the naval army and ambush in a corner of the vast Dongting Lake, or in a certain section of the Yangtze River, when the Shu army crossed the river, he would suddenly kill him.

Therefore, he sent countless warships to carry out a carpet search in the nearby waters, so as to make sure that he dared to order the crossing of the river.

That night, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao came to invite Liu Hou to a banquet, Liu Hou didn't want to go, but today he was happy to see Li Qiu and the three big ships, so he decided to put his mind down for a while and go to relax with them.

After all, I have been worrying about things in Chengdu these days, and I have been depressed for a long time, and I feel like a taut string, and I will break if I don't relax.

The place of the banquet is called "Parade Tower", which is on the city wall of the west gate of the city. It is said that it was established by Lusu for military parades.