Three Kingdoms

Han Wen wanted to leave, but the guards in the hall were staring at him. It was obvious that if Han Wen didn't obey Lu Bu's order, he would have to take action. He had no choice but to turn around and come back. He laughed dryly and said, "General, why do you do this?" Not willing to listen to someone's advice, but also forcing someone to stay with someone, is this the way a general treats guests? 』

Lu Bu laughed, waved his hands and said, "Want to leave?" It's not difficult...but I'm a little strange..." Lu Bu walked forward, his tall body was very oppressive, making Han Wen shrink his neck subconsciously.

Lu Bu walked to Han Wen and stood in front of him. He looked Han Wen up and down, as if this was the first time he saw Han Wen. Then he raised an eyebrow and said, "Even if the Han family is in chaos, it is still the Han family... Sir, Haha, that's a bit interesting. It seems that the more chaotic the Han family is, the better? 』

Han Wenqiang smiled and said, "Have you ever said this before?" The general misunderstood..."

"Okay..." Lu Bu waved his hand impatiently and turned back, "Drag him down and kill him!" Since you don’t want to be a Han, don’t blame yourself for being in a different place! 』

The guards in the hall accepted the order in unison, and came up from left and right to attack Han Wen.

Han Wen was so shocked that his legs were weak. When he was dragged out, he shouted anxiously: "The general treats his soldiers like this, and he is not afraid of his reputation. The world... uh..." The second part of the sentence was obviously slapped in the face by the guard. , and suddenly all that was left was the pain.

Lu Bu sneered.

I originally thought that I really had some strategy to defeat the enemy, but it turned out to be a Kucha lobbyist.

Soon, a guard came up with a lacquer plate. On the lacquer plate was naturally a fresh head with bloody flesh.

Lu Bu glanced at it, then waved his hand, "The head was sent to Qiuci outside the pass, and the body was fed to the dogs." 』

Lu Bu returned to the hall and sat down again.

Over the years, although Lu Bu had fallen into a lot of pits during his repeated horizontal jumps, he had also gained some experience. What's more, Han Wen's pitfalls were too unskilled, and he was just doing it naked. in front of……

How much snacks do you need to dig a hole?

Just when Lu Bu was thinking about all this, he suddenly heard soldiers outside shouting, "Report!" General Shi Li Zhi! 』

『? Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, "Please!" ” After saying this, Lu Bu also stood up and went out to greet him.

When Lu Bu saw Li Ru, he couldn't help but froze for a moment. Li Ru is now getting thinner and thinner. His forehead bones are high under his thick fur and his eyes are sunken. He looks like a living skeleton. He looks intimidating. However, this kind of fear is no longer due to authority and prestige. It is not a fear, but an instinctive feeling of helplessness about birth, old age, illness and death.

No matter how strong a person is, he cannot escape death. No matter how beautiful the beauty is, there will be a day when his hair is gray and his skin is like chicken skin.

Li Ru's body seems to have the aura of death lingering that can be seen with the naked eye. Even a warrior like Lu Bu can't help but feel something in his heart when he sees it.

"I have met Chang Shi..." Lu Bu stepped forward and saluted.

Li Ru's eyes like a will-o'-the-wisp fell on Lu Bu, and he showed a rare smile, touching the skin on his face, "Jiuyuan Hou has indeed made some progress...I am very relieved..."

"Jiuyuanhou?" " Lu Bu heard a very familiar name, and couldn't help but feel a little thump in his heart, as if some kind of seal had been lifted. Memories from his childhood came flooding back, and he felt a little dazed for a while.

Lu Bu was from Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County.

That was Lu Bu's happiest and purest time.

Li Ru seemed to be able to move well, and walked slowly inward. As he walked, he said: "The title of Marquis Wen is slightly inappropriate, so General Hussar will replace him with Marquis Jiuyuan... I will also worship you as General Anxi." , the Protector of the Western Regions...the edict was slow, and a certain prophet came to convey it..."

As Lu Bu listened, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and couldn't help but look at Li Ru again.

Li Ru nodded, seeming to have guessed what Lu Bu was thinking, and continued: "I came here three days ago..."

Lu Bu suddenly felt a chill on his back.

He had just chopped off Han Wen's head with his front foot, and Li Ru arrived with his back foot...

In this case, if I had believed what Han Wen said, Li Ru would probably not come to meet and talk to me now, but would immediately seize the military power and fight with swords as the commander of the Cavalry General's Palace!

"Children of Qiuci, how dare you compete with the light of a grain of rice?" Li Ru naturally sat down at the top, then wrapped himself in fur and said, "Now that Qiuci and others are gathering at Yumen, it is a great opportunity to make a decision!" The stability of the Western Region begins here! 』

Lu Bu cupped his hands and said, "Please give the order, Chief Shi!" 』

Li Ru waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, these guys probably want to wait until the swamp freezes in winter... Haha..."

People in Qiuci are waiting for the weather, and Li Ru is actually waiting too, but it’s not just the weather, but also the people...

Yunrong people.

Yun Rong originally lived in Dunhuang for generations, but later he had a dispute with the Dayue clan and fled to Congling.

And this "Congling"...

If future generations refer to the "roof of the world", many people will know that it refers to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In addition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is another place truly called the Roof of the World, which is Pamir - Pamir means "Roof of the World" in Tajik. The roof of the world belonged to China before, and it belonged completely to China. In ancient times, it had a very authentic Chinese name, "Congling".

But such a piece of land that had belonged to China for hundreds of thousands of years was sold by the Xiaobianzi Dynasty around 1890 AD...

So even though many TV, movie and online dramas in later generations have glorified the Pigtailed Dynasty, to be honest, the Pigtailed Dynasty from its founding to its peak to its decline really did nothing good. Take "Kang Qian", which the pigtails are most excited about, for example. During this so-called prosperous period, it was actually completely lax and corrupt.

During the San Francisco Rebellion, the Eight Banners' military discipline was broken, and they mainly relied on the Green Camp, but the Green Camp also quickly deteriorated. When Jiaqing was still the prince, he accompanied Qianlong on a military parade, but what he saw was "shooting arrows, the arrows are false; galloping horses, People fall to the ground. You must know that this is still a military parade in front of the emperor...

This is true militarily, and even worse in civil affairs.

In agriculture, the country is rich and the people are poor. According to records at that time, during the Qianlong period, the total income of the average farmer was only 32 taels a year, while the annual expenditure was 35 taels. In other words, after a year of hard work, he had to borrow 3 taels to survive. Once there was a famine, ordinary families would immediately go bankrupt. , selling sons and daughters was very common, so the prosperous age of Qianlong was called a "prosperous age of hunger", which was unprecedented in history...

Fortunately, Qianlong still tried to put gold in his face.

Commercially, in the early years of Kangxi's reign, the sea ban was lifted for a time, allowing coastal residents to go to sea for trade. However, it was decided not to allow foreigners to trade in China. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the navigation industry in various countries around the world developed rapidly, and ships became larger and larger. However, the Qing Dynasty stipulated that "anyone who builds an illegal ship with two masts of more than 500 stones and goes to sea will be sent to the border guards, regardless of officers and soldiers." 』

Culturally, in the name of "Sikuquanshu", a large number of books were wantonly divided, tampered with, and burned, and a "literary prison" was established...

Therefore, whether it is the Yuan Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, they are actually a regression of Chinese history. This is not to say that nomads are necessarily bad, but the innate characteristics of nomads have led to deviations in their overall thinking and concepts, and they are simply not suitable for being the leader of a country.

Because nomadic people rarely have the concept of "keeping their land". Just like the Pigtail Dynasty, which has been in China for many years, when they encounter difficult problems, they still think about returning to the deep mountains and old forests of the three eastern provinces. There is no local farming people in China. , the belief that no inch of ground can be lost, and always runs away when it feels like it’s a big deal.

As a neighbor of the Yellow Emperor, Yunrong, who eventually fled to Congling, was considered an old runaway among the nomadic people.

Yun, in the oracle bone inscriptions, looks like a person squatting on the ground sucking milk from cows and goats, while Yunrong is a tribe from about the same time as the Huangdi period, earlier than the Dayue clan and the Wusun clan. Therefore, the Yunrong were basically the earliest ethnic group in the Western Regions, and they had a bloody feud with the Dayue clan.

Lu Bu was a little puzzled and said hesitantly: "Chang Shi's intention is to wait for Yun Rong's troops?" But this Yun Rong person...I'm afraid..." If Yun Rong had this strength, he would have come out for revenge long ago. However, there has been no movement now. Even if someone does come, they may be useless.

Li Ru nodded and said: "You can't use many of the soldiers and horses of Yun Rong... but use their names..."

Nomads also have some rules, and revenge is one of them.

Many people in the Western Regions currently do not welcome the Han people, and even resist the arrival of Lu Bu and others. One is because the Western Regions have been deserted for too long, and the people in the Western Regions have intentionally or unintentionally forgotten those things that belonged to the Han Dynasty before them. Another aspect is that The reason is that most people in the Western Regions believe that the Han people are ready to rule and oppress the people in the Western Regions, and it cannot be said to be worse than the Kushans...

Yun Rong is the entry point between Li Ru and Jia Xu.

The big man came here to help Yun Rong take revenge, and he did not come to cause trouble for the people of the Western Regions for no reason...

What's going on?

Do not believe?

If you don’t believe it, that’s your business, but we believe it anyway.

At least this reason is tenable, so it can naturally be used to divide the countries in the Western Regions. The countries in the Western Regions are now attached to the Yuezhi, that is, the Kushans. Naturally, to a large extent, it is because the Kushans claimed that the Han Dynasty had no good intentions. The countries in the Western Regions also felt that the Han Dynasty was an outsider and an intruder.

But now Li Ru said that we big men are the masters of justice, and we come with Yun Rong to seek revenge on Dayue clan. If you guys don't understand, don't join in blindly!

Since Qiuci is willing to act as Da Yuezhi's thug, he will beat him up first, and then as long as the other countries in the Western Regions hesitate a little, force the Da Yuezhi behind them to show up, and then defeat them, the countries in the Western Regions will naturally Now that you know what to do, you don’t have to go through it one by one, which is long-winded, cumbersome, and can easily cause unnecessary reactions. Doesn’t things become much simpler?

After all, some of the countries in the Western Regions fight each other to death, and some marry each other. It is like a mess, and the bottom line that Li Ru and Jia Xu found was that they were forced to flee south by the Dayue clan. Yun Rong.

"Now the people who returned from Yun Rong are near Hexi..." Li Ru seemed to smile and said in a faint voice, "Winter is coming... it's the time to decide the Western Region!" 』

……(｀?′)Ψ……

The war horn in the Western Region is about to sound, while the war drum in Jiangdong has been beating for a long time.

After experiencing Fei Qian's invasion of Xu County, Cao Cao quickly adjusted his state, and according to the analysis of the counselors, Liu Biao of Jingzhou was not that unbearable. In other words, the war with Jiangdong would continue to be stalemate for a while, and this period of time is Cao Cao's opportunity.

Therefore, Cao Cao decided to send a certain number of troops to Jingzhou on the one hand to ensure that Xiangyang was not lost, but he would not take the initiative to provoke and fight Sun Quan, and then on the other hand, he would go to Lujiang and Jiujiang to prepare for Sun Quan's retreat.

And what is very interesting is that Cao Cao also made almost the same move as Li Ru, that is, under the banner of avenging the Yue people, maintaining stability in Jiangdong, and expelling the brutal Sun family rule...

The relatively large-scale development of Jiangdong occurred after the Jin Dynasty crossed eastward and brought a large number of people, craftsmen, and technology. Now, Jiangdong under the rule of Sun Quan still has a large area of ​​Yue people.

During the Han Dynasty, the South Vietnam region was mostly densely forested and not densely populated. Although the Yue people nominally obey the governance of the Han Dynasty, because the Yue people are all in the mountains, and the Han Dynasty sympathizes with these Yue people, they will only hand over some symbolic things every year, such as bird feathers, etc., and do not bear the same responsibility as the Han people. taxes, at least that’s what’s clearly stated in the text.

However, in fact, the Yue people suffered not from taxes, but from slaves.

Just like Sun Quan, in order to ensure his own income, he hunted down the Yue people and distributed them like tools and utensils. These arrested Vietnamese had to do the most arduous and dangerous work, but could not get any benefits. In the end, they died of exhaustion or were beaten to death...

Sun Quan's behavior naturally aroused resistance from the Yue people, but the Yue people were unable to compete with the regular soldiers under Sun Quan's rule, regardless of their training or weapons. Therefore, many times the Yue people returned to quarrel, and when the soldiers came to suppress them, they faced the enemy head-on. Unable to defeat him, he could only hide in the mountains and forests.

Of course, Sun Quan's soldiers did not dare to enter the mountains easily, because once they really went deep into the mountains and forests, the situation would often turn around, and they became prey to the Yue people...

However, the Yue people in the mountains always needed some living materials that they could not produce, such as salt and iron, so they could not completely get rid of the Han people. They still had to come into contact with the Han people to some extent. Therefore, the relationship with the Han people was also repetitive. Again, good times and bad times.

Although the territorial contact between Sun Quan and Cao Cao is not small, there are not many attack routes between them. There are only about three. One is the Jingzhou line, which is the route where Sun Quan and Liu Biao currently fight. The other is Sun Quan's ascension line. The last route of the experience package, later known as the Hefei line, was the route down to Xuzhou in the east.

Xuzhou goes all the way south, and although it can reach Jiangdong, it is too far away from Jingzhou, which is not conducive to reinforcements from both sides. Moreover, in the Han Dynasty, although the Xuzhou area was flat, many places were swamps and tidal flats, land formed by the accumulation of rivers. and the delta are much smaller than in later generations, so the Xuzhou line has no choice whether Cao Cao goes south or Sun Quan goes north. Historically, Cao Cao took the Jingzhou line south and fought in Chibi, while Sun Quan went to Hefei, where he was given a gift package of 100,000 experience points each time in the five battles...

If Sun Quan was a time traveler, he would have rushed to Hefei to plant the flag first, because when Cao Cao came to Hefei, Hefei was surrounded by desolation, and Hefei was an empty and dilapidated city, let alone any defense.

Because the Jianghuai area was severely damaged by Yuan Shu, and after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu, he moved a lot of Jianghuai's population to Yuzhou. Liu Biao later sent Gan Ning to raid twice, so the Jianghuai area can be said to be a thousand miles away. There are no people, and there are deserted villages and mountains everywhere.

After the forward arrived in Hefei, Cao Cao did not immediately start the attack. While he mobilized troops and horses and made careful plans, he sent scouts to go deep south and even penetrated into the Jiangdong area to provoke conflicts between Sun Quan and the Jiangdong gentry. He said that even if Sun Quan captured There will be no benefit from the Jiangdong gentry in Jingzhou or other places. All the efforts made by the Jiangdong gentry will not be rewarded at all...

Among the Jiangdong nobles, some people dismissed such rumors, but some people thought it was reasonable. Some even began to feel that they had to make an agreement with Sun Quan in advance, otherwise they might not get anything at all. arrive!

As a result, some changes occurred within Sun Quan unknowingly, but Sun Quan, who was supervising the battle in Jiangxia, did not immediately notice this change.

If we compare the capabilities of the soldiers, Sun Quan's Jiangdong soldiers are naturally first-class in water battles, but if they go ashore, they can only be regarded as third-rate, and they are only slightly better than the Yellow Turban bandits.

This only refers to the overall level of Sun Quan's men. It does not mean that there are no strong soldiers under Sun Quan. At least the veterans who follow Sun Jian and Sun Ce are still quite powerful in combat. However, the source of the troops under Sun Quan is too confusing, and there are even some like They are slave soldiers like those in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so even if they are averaged, they won't be much better.

The successful capture of Jiangxia gave Sun Quan an illusion. Just like when playing Texas Hold'em with two aces as the hole cards, you instantly feel like you have the world in hand and victory is in sight, but you forget that in the end, the competition is not just the two hole cards in your hand, but also the other five cards on the table. …

"Zijing, how is the progress of the Jiangling strategy?" ” Sun Quan stood by the pool in the Yamen Courtyard of Jiangxia Mansion, with his hands behind his back watching the fish swimming around in the pool, and he said in a tone that seemed to be just a casual question.

Lu Su stood aside respectfully and said after hearing this: "Jiangling is an important town in South County of Jingzhou. Now the governor is dispatching troops and horses, and they will definitely conquer it soon..."

"To conquer without the sun?" Sun Quan murmured in a low voice. Although on the surface he still seemed to be looking at the water with a calm expression, in his heart he was already like those fish jumping around, feeling somewhat impatient. How many days did it take to capture Jiangxia, and now how many days does it take to capture Jiangling?

An important town, isn’t Jiangxia an important town?

Even though the city of Jiangxia did suffer some damage during the fight between Cai Mao and Huang Zu, and the overall defense was damaged. Sun Quan also admitted this, but now, Zhou Yu has been attacking Jiangling for a long time. Not to mention the city of Jiangling, there is no surrounding area. No matter how many times the beating is taken, it will be somewhat unjustifiable, isn't it?

Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, are you playing some tricks?