Ma Si really saw this letter, and then he really suspected that Zhou Wu and Hu Lan had something ulterior to do.

After Hu Lan wrote a letter to Zhou Wu, he was actually tampered with by Zhou Wu.

From then on, Ma Si no longer believed in Zhou Wu.

When the coalition forces fight, what they are most afraid of is the discord of the commander.

The combined army of Ma Si and Zhou Wu, known as the princes of the Ten Roads and 100,000 horses, is actually a ghost in their hearts, each with their own ideas, and everyone has their own abacus in their hearts.

The leading Ma Si and Zhou Wu were suspicious, and this battle naturally could not be fought.

Under the premise of this divisive plan, Hu Lan began to march, and in one battle, Ma Si and Zhou Wu were defeated and embarrassed.

Ma Si and Zhou Wu fell for Hu Lan's discordant plan. The two were suspicious of each other, and in this case, Hu Lan easily defeated the combined forces of Ma Si and Zhou Wu.

Although the two were defeated, Hu Lan did not chase them and let the two go.

After pacifying Ma Si and Zhou Wu, Hu Lan decided to fight Lu Jing.

Before beating Lu Jing, Hu Lan first asked people to write a long letter to Lu Jing, the writing was gorgeous, but the content was very simple.

It was a condition to Lu Jing, if Lu Jing promised Hu Lan to kill Hu Yue, a general under Lu Jing, and get rid of Ziyang, then the lower reaches of the Yunjiang River would always belong to Lu Jing, and the imperial court would also add officials to Lu Jing.

If Lu Jing is reluctant to kill Hu Yue, it is okay to kill Ziyang alone.

But Lu Jing didn't eat this set.

Lu Jing was ready for a decisive battle with Hu Lan, he moved his place of governance, and also built a military port to fight against Hu Lan.

Hu Lan saw Lu Jing like this, and knew that Lu Jing had to fight.

So, Hu Lan personally led 400,000 people to conquer Lu Jing.

The following year, Hu Lan advanced into Lu Jing's military port.

But this time, Hu Lan was not well prepared, did not anticipate the enemy, and returned in vain.

And Lu Jing has made sufficient preparations.

The war was in a stalemate, and it was very unfavorable to Hu Lan, and in the end Hu Lan had to hold out in the military village of his naval army.

Lu Jing challenged many times, but Hu Lan didn't go out.

After challenging Hu Lan many times and not coming out, Lu Jing went by himself, and Lu Jing drove a boat into the camp of Hu Lan's sailors.

After Lu Jing's ship drove in, Hu Lan knew that it was Lu Jing who came, and Hu Lan ordered the soldiers not to move, not to act rashly, and not to release arrows, to see what Lu Jing did when he went in.

As a result, Hu Lan's army was all on standby, but they did not release arrows into Lu Jing's ship, and Lu Jing took a turn in the military port.

After turning around, Lu Jing began to order the soldiers to play music and drummed away.

Hu Lan couldn't help but sigh: "Hey, Lu Jing is really a hero." ”

Lu Jing dared to sail into the camp of Hu Lan's naval army when the two armies were fighting, which required courage and boldness.

The two armies were in a stalemate, and they couldn't tell the winner, and Hu Lan also began to worry about the stability of his rear.

So, without distinguishing the winner or loser, Hu Lan withdrew.

In this war, Hu Lan conquered Lu Jing and returned in vain.

And Ziyang also captured Xuzhou from another prince, and the military strength of Song San near Xuzhou was weak, and if Hu Lan did not attack Song San, Song San's territory was bound to be annexed by Ziyang.

The expansion of Ziyang's power was a threat to Hu Lan's ideal of leveling the four seas and unifying Kyushu.

Therefore, Hu Lan turned back and went west to conquer Song San.

At this time, Hu Lan was already sixty-one years old, but he still personally led the army to fight.

As soon as Hu Lan's army arrived, Song San was ready to surrender, but Song San's younger brother Song Liu did not agree.

Song Liu felt that he surrendered without a fight, which was too spineless.

Song San followed his younger brother's idea and let his younger brother beat him.

Hu Lan went to attack Xuzhou, but found that Xuzhou was not easy to fight.

Hu Lan had an informant on Song San's side, and the informant reported that Xuzhou was very easy to fight, but Hu Lan found that it was not easy to fight, so he withdrew his troops.

After withdrawing from the army, he suddenly killed a horse pistol and defeated Song Liu.

Killing back the horse pistol is Li Ruwei's suggestion.

Song Liu surrendered, and after Song Liu surrendered, Song San ran away, but not long after running, he also surrendered.

Because, Song San originally planned to surrender, but some people below him disagreed, feeling that there was no resistance, and it was not good to negotiate with Hu Lan.

After surrendering, Hu Lan gave Song San a very high treatment, and this place in Hanzhong was officially pacified by Hu Lan.

Hu Lan not only expanded the sphere of influence, but also threatened the safety of Ziyang's forces, because Hanzhong was the throat and gateway of Ziyang's forces, and Hanzhong was taken by Hu Lan, and Ziyang's forces directly confronted Hu Lan's military forces.

If Hu Lan pursues the victory, he may directly threaten the safety of Ziyang's forces.

Many people advocate that at this time, we should go all out and take advantage of the victory to pursue.

And the main advocates of this suggestion are Li Ruwei and Yanhe.

Li Ruwei said: "Ziyang is indeed a hero, but Ziyang has a small shortcoming, that is, his reaction is always half a beat slower than ours, and now he has not reacted, and he relied on clever means to win Jianghuai, at this time the people's hearts are unstable, the heel is unstable, this time to fight him, the most time." Once he has a firm foothold, it will be difficult to deal with, he is literate and clear, good at governing the country, and there are other generals in the martial arts, and he will win all battles, at that time, we will not be able to deal with him. ”

Yan He also said: "A smart person can't wring up with time and opportunity." When the time is not ripe, it is not okay to insist on doing it, but when the time and opportunity come, you can't do nothing, and you can't let it go. ”

These words are very reasonable, and they are very true.

However, Hu Lan did not accept it.

Hu Lan said: "Why should people be so greedy and insufficient, if you have Long, don't look at Shu." ”

As a result, Hu Lan withdrew his troops and stopped advancing.

Hu Lan fought the war of Song San, it was a victory, Song San surrendered, and Hanzhong also came into the hands of Hu Lan, although it should be a very good time to fight Ziyang at this time, but Hu Lan did not want to attack Shu and defeated Hanzhong, so he didn't want to attack Jianghuai again, so Hu Lan withdrew.

Li Ruwei felt that it would be a great pity for Hu Lan to withdraw his troops if he did not go to fight Jianghuai.

From the point of view of this matter, it may be just a trivial matter.

But in the future, when Ziyang grows stronger, this will break the possibility of unifying the world.

As soon as Hu Lan left, Ziyang got up.

Ziyang is only afraid of one person in his life, and this person is Hu Lan, when Ziyang was in Songzhou, Hu Lan went to ask him, he thought that Hu Lan didn't go, but later found that Hu Lan really came.

As soon as he saw Hu Lan's flag, he turned around and ran.

At this time, Ziyang was originally on the front line of Haicheng, fighting with Lu Jing for Haicheng.

This is also why Li Ruwei and Yanhe agreed that this is the best time.

Because Ziyang is not here now.

As soon as Ziyang got the news that Hanzhong was pacified by Hu Lan, he immediately made peace with Lu Jing.