The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

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Earlier, in order to help Pengchengguo defend against Tao Qian's attack, Xunzhen had sent Wenpin to lead troops to the Fuli area of ​​Peiguo, and Wenpin is still in Fuli. Hire the army to come and meet.

From Qiao County to the southeast, you can reach Fuli, and then to the southeast, it is the State of Xiapi.

Xiapi State, Xiapi County, prefecture.

Zhe Rong heard the news and learned that Xun Zhen's army was coming.

His commander, named Hu Lan, stood up from the seat and said, "Xun's thief wants to go to Xiapi, which is irritating and hateful! If he wants to return to Guangling, he must pass through our territory first. See, why don't Chen Bing Huaishui keep him out!"

Huai River passes through the southern part of Xiapi, crosses the country, goes northeast, passes through the northwest of Guangling County, and finally flows into the sea. In other words, if Xun Zhen wanted to go back to Guangling, he had to cross this Huai River first.

Zhe Rong was too lazy to pay attention to Hu Lan's nonsense, raised his eyelids and glanced at him, his eyelids drooping down again.

Seeing that Zhe Rong was silent, Hu Lan didn't know what he meant, because he said again: "Mingfu! If you don't stop him and watch Xun thief return to Guangling, that would be turning a tiger back into a mountain. The following generals are stupid, and they should take advantage of it. Before he returned to Guangling, he blocked him from the outside. In this way, he was a rootless girl, and it was difficult to protect himself, let alone plotting Xiapi! I will be safe in Xiapi from now on! "

Seeing Hu Lan keep talking, it is impossible for Zhe Rong not to speak.

He said, "Okay, I'll give you three thousand elite soldiers. Go and keep the thief Xun out."

Hu Lan was stunned, and said, "There are 20,000 to 30,000 thieves, but only 3,000 people. How can the final commander keep him out of the county?"

"Didn't you say Chen Bing Huai Shui? There is a danger of Huai Shui, and three thousand soldiers and horses are not enough?"

"If my Wenpin has occupied my Huaishui Ferry, and if there is no Chen Bao arrayed in Dongyang to peek at my Xutai, three thousand soldiers and horses will be enough, but now there are Wenpin occupying the ferry in the northwest, and Chen Bao in the southeast. How can only three thousand soldiers and horses be able to do it?”

Huaishui originates from Nanyang, Jingzhou, and goes all the way to the east from Nanyang. Before entering Xiapi, it passes through the southern and southeastern boundaries of Peiguo. At the junction of Pei State, Wen Pin received Xunzhen's secret order, sent troops together, and went to the junction of Pei State and Xiapi, and occupied a ferry.

Dongyang is a county in Guangling, adjacent to Xiapi. From Dongyang to the northwest, sixty or seventy miles is Xutai. Xutai is a county in Xiapi. . From the time when Xun Zhen sent troops, Chen Bao stationed troops in Dongyang.

Wouldn't Xun Zhen know about the dangers of the Huai River?

Since he had plans for Xiapi and Xuzhou, when he left the county, of course, he would first consider the question of how he should return to the county after the fight against Dong Zhuo, and whether the road back to the county would be safe. He had already made arrangements for this. His arrangement has been very effective, and now it is because of his arrangement that Wen Pin and Chen Bao echo each other across the river, ensuring the smoothness and stability of his road back to the county.

Zhe Rong said: "How many soldiers and horses are there in my county, don't you know? There are only a few thousand who can fight. Since you are afraid of Xun's thieves and you feel that you can't stop them, what else do you say?"

Hu Lan said: "Although there are not many troops and horses in my county, Fang Bo has a lot of troops and horses. Why don't the Ming government send an envoy to the prefecture to ask Fang Bo to borrow troops?"

Zhe Rong said in his heart, "If Fang Bo is willing to lend me soldiers and horses, should I wait until now?"

But it was: "Keep Xunzhen out of the county, so that he can't return to Guangling", Zeng Rong had thought of it long ago. Due to the lack of soldiers and horses in his own county, he had already sent people to the prefecture secretly to ask Tao Qian if he had borrowed soldiers. However, Tao Qian was afraid of the strength of the combined forces of Xun Zhen and Sun Jian, and worried that if the war started now, it would attract Sun Jian's help to Xun Zhen. Therefore, he did not agree to Zhe Rong's request, but instead instructed Zhe Rong, telling him not to cause trouble for no reason and to be patient first.

In his letter to Zhe Rong, Tao Qian described his countermeasures.

On the one hand, what he said to Taoshang and Tao Ying: Don't rush to fight against Xun Zhen now, but wait patiently for the situation to change. First of all, when Sun Jian first won Yuzhou, there will be some dissatisfaction in the state, wait a while. , Yuzhou may be in chaos, and once Yuzhou is in chaos, Sun Jian is too busy to take care of himself, and it will be difficult to help Xun Zhen; secondly, at the same time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu probably will not help Xunzhen because Xunzhen is against Sun Jian; and at the same time, Guangling could not raise too many soldiers and horses, and over time, Xun Zhen would disband the tribes, thus reducing the number of soldiers and horses.

On the other hand, Tao Qian told Zhe Rong that he had sent envoys to Luyang and Danyang to meet with Yuan Shu and some of the local clans in Danyang, and intended to form an alliance with Yuan Shu and the Danyang clan.

Combining these two aspects, Yuzhou may be in chaos, and Xunzhen has to disband some of his works. If Tao Qian expects these two things, and if the alliance with Yuan Shu and Danyang scholars can be achieved, Tao Qian will be greatly affected. In other words, that is "the other side of the game": Xun Zhen's side has no help, and there are fewer troops and horses, but he has more help. When that time comes, he will fight against Xun Zhen again, and it will be impossible to win. difficult.

Tao Qian summed up his countermeasures in eight words, that is: "Don't rush to fight, wait for time to change."

To be honest, although Zhe Rong knew that Xun Zhen was good at fighting, when he first contacted Xun Zhen, he had no fear of Xun Zhen, because the two of them had no conflict of interest at that time, but he heard that Xun Zhen and Sun Jian were begging Dong twice. , and in the end actually defeated Dong Zhuo, and soon after hearing that Sun Jian expressed Yue Jin as the prime minister of Xiapi, Cheng Rong suddenly became jealous and fearful of Xun Zhen.

According to Zhe Rong's original intention, like Hu Lan, he really wanted to keep Xunzhen out of the county, and didn't want to watch him return to Guangling, but Tao Qian's words made sense, and if Tao Qian's strategy was followed , the possibility of success is indeed much greater than that of fighting with Xun Zhen now, so although Zeng Rong was jealous, he still decided to follow Tao Qian's instructions and act accordingly.

It was also because he was afraid of Xun Zhen, but he had to follow Tao Qian's instructions to let Xun Zhen go through the border and return to the county, so he was very depressed now, and naturally he would not be nice to Hu Lan. Seeing that Hu Lan mentioned the matter of borrowing troops from Tao Qian, Zhe Rong was too lazy to talk to him any more, so he simply got up and left the table and walked away.

Seeing Zhe Rong leave, everyone in the room was left with big eyes and small eyes. After sitting for a while, they all felt bored and dispersed.

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Pointing to the front, Cheng Jia said to Xun Zhen, "Your Majesty, the front is the border of Xiapi, but I don't know if this Zherong will let our troops cross the border, or he will send troops to line up in Huai to prevent me from returning to the prefecture. ?"

Xun Zhen glanced forward, and the Huai River could be seen in the distance. He smiled and said: "It was reported in the county that they did not see Tao Gongzu's move to transfer troops into Xiapi. Since there is no support from the state troops, only relying on Zhe Rong's troops, I don't think he dared to stop me from returning to the county."

Wen Ping's Ma Cong was around Xun Zhen. He didn't participate much in this fight against Dong, and he didn't even have the chance to win the final victory. Although his character was calm, it was inevitable that Liu Deng, who had made some contributions, would be eager to win. people.

At this time, when Xun Zhen heard about Zhe Rong, he replied: "A few days ago, I only sent five hundred troops to take the ferry at the Huai River, but Zhe Rong didn't dare to come and fight with me. How dare you come to prevent Junhou from entering the county?"

Xun Zhen laughed, turned to Gu Wenpin, and said to him: "Nanyang Wen Zhongye is here, how dare Zhe Rong fight?"

This is a joke, but also the truth.

If you say it is a joke, it is heard by others. Because Wenpin is still young at the moment, under thirty years old, and although he has been credited in the past, there is no special merit. It will inevitably feel like a joke.

To tell the truth, it was because Xun Zhen knew Wenpin's later achievements. In the original history, after Wenpin surrendered to Cao, he was reused by Cao Cao and guarded Jiangxia for decades. He was a famous general at the time.

Wen Ping heard this and replied: "I heard 'the fear of the north is Zhao Xi Tie also ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ actually fears the king's armor'. Peng can't fight the tiger's potential, so Zhe Rong did not dare to compete with me. "

"The fear of Zhao Xi in the north is actually the armor of fear of the king" comes from "Warring States Policy", and "fighting the tiger's potential" is also adapted from "Warring States Policy", which is the source of the so-called "fox fake tiger power" in later generations.

He sent troops twice, defeated Dong Zhuo in the end, recovered Luoyang, spread his fame to the frontiers of the empire, and successfully made Sun Jian as the prefect of Yuzhou, and gained a reliable ally, and in the foreseeable future, perhaps Xuzhou is The thing in the bag is now, Xun Zhen can be described as ambitious at this time, he only feels that time is urging people, and the desire to build more achievements cannot wait in his chest.

He turned his head and looked at the Huai River from afar, although the Huai River was also turbulent, but at this time, he only regretted that the water was not the Yellow River or the Yangtze River, and it was still inferior to the grandeur, so that he seemed to be unable to fully express his pride.

Xun Zhen looked up at the sky.

The blue sky was boundless, and the white clouds were dotted. He pointed his whip to the air and said, "Even though Dong Zhuo is defeated, he is still alive. The emperor has moved westward, and now the Central Plains are chaotic and the people are hanging upside down. One day, I will rectify the chaos in the four directions and welcome it back. The emperor's chariot will once again restore the glory of Luoyang, so that the people of this world can live and work in peace and contentment, and there will be no more wars and disasters!"