Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1162 In the face of difficult problems

  Gong Jun was in the dew-stained grass, holding a straw stick in his mouth, and had been staring at the military camp on the mountain for a long time. Everything around is quiet and quiet, except for the occasional Sichuan voice on the wall of the military village, the only sound that can be heard is the rushing water in the mountain stream on the other side of the military village.

   After a long time, I saw Gong Jun standing up his palm and waving it backwards. The subordinates who followed Gong Jun followed Gong Jun, bent down, and slowly retreated among the grass.

  Mountain haze gently caressed, and the vegetation in the forest swayed. In the blink of an eye, Gong Jun disappeared among the trees with the people without a trace.

   "Tsk..." Gong Jun shook his head when he was far away from the visible range of the military camp on the mountain.

   "Boss, why don't you dress up as a gentry and sneak in like the previous two times?"

"You know what a fart!" Gong Jun glanced sideways, looked at the Heizhu who was asking the question, and said, "The first army village, forty-four, is alive and well, and there is no shortage of them. Naturally, we can continue to dress up." Infiltrate the second army camp, and then? How many people are missing? Tell me yourself?"

  Heiyu chuckled twice, and said: "Isn't there more people in the second army village, and the brothers can't take care of it for a while... Besides, the army village behind may not know it..."

"Bullshit!" Gong Jun slapped Heizhu on the back of the head, and said, "How dare you talk about it! There is only one road up and down the mountain. If you don't go here, you can still go to the sky! This way! It’s not that I haven’t seen the foot prints, you think everyone in this military village is as stupid as you! Go away, you will be annoyed if you see it!”

  Hei Zhu touched the back of his head after being slapped, but he was not annoyed, he just shrank back with a smile.

  Gong Jun's anger was actually not aimed at Heizhu, but because he couldn't do all the work this time, he was somewhat irritable. Of course, Gong Jun also knew that more than 40 people and more than 100 people were two completely different concepts. Just running four or five times was considered very good, but on the battlefield, there was no room for any difference.

   It was the four or five people who ran away in the second army village, which made Li Guan and Gong Jun unable to follow the previous strategy again...

On the military camp at the watershed, there were many people and their expressions were tense, which was obviously different from the relaxed and defenseless state of the previous two military camps. It is strange to become a sieve.

  Gong Jun was squatting under the tree beside the mountain road, trying his best to dig the soil under the root of the tree with a shovel, but heard a sound on the way. Looking back, he saw Fei Qian came up with some people.

  Gong Jun was stunned for a moment, then immediately stuck the shovel into the ground, rushed to Fei Qian in a few steps, and bowed his hands in salute. The team of scouts following Gong Jun also saluted Fei Qian one after another.

   "How, how is the front?" Fei Qian glanced at the ground dug by Gong Jun. It was a little wet, but not enough. It didn't look like water could come out, so he pointed to the mountain and said.

   "Report to Your Majesty," Gong Jun replied, "Already prepared..."

   This is very troublesome.

  Fei Qian was naturally troubled by the fact that Gong Jun's subordinates had leaked personnel, but it was understandable.

Of course, Fei Qian has nothing to criticize for Gong Jun's actions in the second army village. After all, it is the first time for Gong Jun and others to walk this mountain road. There are more than the first way, so it is reasonable to leak a few people under the black light.

Perhaps it should be said that under the current conditions of the Han Dynasty, it is quite good to be able to be a semi-special forces soldier like Gong Jun. To be like later generations, a few people can wipe out dozens of times the opponent's special operations forces Hehe, it is still not possible for the time being, or there are no fast and powerful long-range weapons. The existing cold weapons alone are not enough to ensure that the few can win the many every time, and form a minority to suppress the majority. advantageous situation.

After all, manpower is limited, and killing people takes energy. Although the crossbow can supplement part of the long-range needs, if the crossbow without an infrared sight wants to shoot someone in the dark, it can only use the plug-in to aim and shoot. up.

   It is not a problem for a few people to escape, but it becomes a big problem if the third army is on guard.

  The army is dispatched, and the consumption is extremely astonishing.

   On the one hand, food and grass, and more importantly, the consumption of drinking water.

  Water is very heavy and cannot be lacked. Whenever there is a mountain stream along the way, Fei Qian will make people replenish it.

  Anyway, in the Han Dynasty, water sources like mountain springs were more or less clear and clean, and less dangerous. This can be seen from the animal footprints on the edge of the mountain stream.

  But when they were in the third army village, they encountered trouble.

  Tangluo Road, Sandaojunzhai, Shenling, Yaling, and Watershed are not called casually.

Shenling has a high cliff on one side and a deep ravine on the other. It is extremely dangerous. If one fails, people will sink into the deep ravine; and Yaling, as the name suggests, is like a road between the two mountains. walk slowly;

   As for the watershed...

   is to divide water.

  It's very simple. If there is no water here, there is water there.

  If they are stuck here, the troops will have nowhere to draw water, and within three days, there will be chaos!

Although I sent someone back to fetch water, but the manpower is limited, and there is a lot to carry. For the army, a drop in the bucket cannot completely solve the problem. Only the military stronghold that breaks through this watershed can be regarded as ensuring sufficient water. As for the situation of low morale and the collapse of the whole army.

   "Go, go to the front and have a look..." Fei Qian continued to move forward while talking to Xu Huang.

  Gong Jun hurriedly stepped forward to lead the way.

   This is the first time Feiqian has come here. He is basically ignorant of the terrain here and knows nothing. Of course, he needs to do some on-site investigation.

   It can be said that we have reached the watershed of the Tangluo Road. Although from a certain point of view, we are about to leave the Qinling Mountains, the mountains in front of us are still rugged.

   As the last line of defense on the Tangluo Road in Hanzhong, the Fenshuiling Military Village cannot be underestimated.

  The east and west sides of Junzhai are cliffs and rocks. On the cliffs, there are thick trees and thick shade, and the cliffs are covered with green moss, which cuts up and down. Although the width of the north-south frontage is more than ten meters, it is relatively wide, but according to the mountain situation, it is all built with stone blocks, and there are two floors of the wall, which is a huge trouble.

  The door of the wall, although far away, does not look like wooden, but more like a huge stone slab...

  On the crenels of the double-layered wall, many soldiers can be seen faintly on duty. The big banner on the top floor is waving in the wind in the air.

   Fei Qian watched, frowning.

   It is definitely necessary to fight, but how to attack is indeed a huge problem...

  ………………

   "Damn! Damn!"

   Fei Qian was far from the only one facing the problem. Even Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, after receiving the news, couldn't help being confused and feeling a little at a loss.

   Zhang Lu angrily swept all the utensils on the table to the ground in one breath, and the hall was in a mess!

   It’s only been a few days of comfort!

  How can these grandchildren make people feel more comfortable!

  Zhang Lu’s anger is actually half due to the attack from the West, and the other half is due to his worries about his own status...

  Although everyone doesn’t say it on the surface, everyone knows that the reason why Zhang Lu can now become the prefect of Hanzhong is that Liu Yan is behind him to support him?

Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu are not the treasured places of geomantic omen in the legend, but a pure land without war. However, Hanzhong has indeed been relatively peaceful in the past few years, but it is also for the noisy areas like Guanzhong and Heluo. , Hanzhong and Shuzhong are like water flowing under a deep pool, invisible on the surface, but in fact they are inevitably turbulent and abnormal.

   It was none other than Liu Yan standing behind Zhang Lu who set off this wave.

In the fifth year of Zhongping, Ma and Zhao suddenly started an incident under the guise of the Yellow Turban, and it spread far and wide. At the peak, they even claimed that there were tens of thousands of people. It was for this reason that Liu Yan could not enter Sichuan to take up his post. Later, with the help of Jia Long, who worked in Yizhou, the Mazhao Rebellion was quelled, and Fang entered Yizhou.

However, after Liu Yan came to Yizhou, he immediately turned his face and refused to recognize anyone. All kinds of behaviors made Jia Long, who had made great efforts to Liu Yan, extremely dissatisfied. Attacking Liu Yan once attacked the city of Chengdu, but with the assistance of "Dongzhou Scholars", Liu Yan finally quelled the rebellion and executed Jia Long and Ren Qi.

  However, the death of Jia Long and Ren Qi does not mean that the waves of Hanzhong and Shu have calmed down...

  The most important contradiction, in fact, is the same as that of the entire Han Dynasty court at this stage, which lies in the "registered households", that is, the struggle between the local nobles and the state power.

The so-called "registered households" are people who are registered by the government and need to pay various taxes according to the population. However, in fact, in Hanzhong and Shuzhong, the vast majority of the population is hidden by the local nobles. People are called "hidden households", also known as "shady households".

Without a formal household, there will be no sufficient taxation. Without taxation, Liu Yan, the nominal ruler of Yizhou, is naturally tied up. If he wants to do anything, he needs to discuss with the local gentry. How could he be willing to bear the burden of humiliation when he was pinched by the throats of these big nobles all the time?

As a foreign "Dongzhou scholar", he left the original land and migrated. Although he brought some people and property with him, he couldn't bring the original land with him. Do everything possible to acquire new land and population...

Liu Yan, who was in urgent need of fighting, and the "Dongzhou Scholars" who were in urgent need of land and population, naturally flirted with each other. They rolled together and launched a series of left-right serial combinations targeting the local nobles in Sichuan and Shu. assaults.

Because when Jia Long and Ren Qi rebelled, they even contacted Dong Zhuo who was still in Guanzhong, hoping that Dong Zhuo could represent the moon, um, represent the Han Dynasty court to eliminate Liu Yan and gain the upper hand in name, but Dong Zhuo at that time seemed to have fallen into a trap During the chaotic period, the promise was the promise, but it was forgotten in a blink of an eye, and Jia Long and Ren Qi naturally went to receive the lunch box tragically...

Liu Yansheng was afraid that when Dong Zhuo would think of this trouble again, after all, the main reason he could stand with the "Dongzhou Scholars" was that he was the Yizhou Shepherd appointed by the imperial court. As a Yizhou shepherd, why isn't Liu finished playing?

  Therefore, without doing anything, Liu Yan let Zhang Lu enter Hanzhong under the guise of the bandits in Hanzhong, and burned the plank road, completely severed the direct connection with Guanzhong, and became the local emperor of Sichuan and Shu.

However, the good times don't last long. Liu Yan may be aging too fast during this period, or the posture of practicing Taoism is not in place. Anyway, his body is getting worse day by day. Although Liu Yan is trying his best to control the situation, Let outsiders know, but Zhang Lu still learned about it from some unique channels.

Of course, from one aspect, this matter is an opportunity for Zhang Lu, a great opportunity to get rid of Liu Yan and become completely independent, but at such a juncture, what kind of general Zhengxi wants to lead him? The soldiers attacked Hanzhong!

  This General Zhengxi is not playing mud in Guanzhong, what is he doing in Hanzhong!

   Damn it!

"Master," Yan Pu cupped his hands when he saw that Zhang Lu was worried, and said, "We have come from Guanzhong to conquer a long way to the west. Although we are a little short of soldiers, we can ask Liu Yizhou to send troops to help, and we will be at ease..." The other prefects all It is called "Shijun", but Zhang Lu calls himself "Shijun", the meaning of which is, hehe, remarkable.

  Zhang Lu still frowned, glanced at Yan Pu, and did not speak. Can I tell you that Liu Yan, an old guy, is already seriously ill now? This old guy can't protect himself now, and he doesn't know how many days he can breathe, so how can he care about me?

  Liu Yan is seriously ill. Once something goes wrong, Zhang Lu knows even with his feet that Chengdu must be in chaos. If there are more people like Jia Long and Ren Qi coming out at this time, it might be a big mess!

  So at such a moment, Liu Yan must hold tightly to all the troops he can grasp to ensure the passing of the power of his Liu family. Where does he have extra thoughts to pay attention to himself in Hanzhong?

  Anyway, even if Hanzhong falls, the old guy can defend the Jiange or something. Anyway, Jinniu Dao and Mi Cang Dao are blocked. Even if Zhengxi wants to march into Shuzhong in one go, it is probably impossible.

  However, these cannot be discussed in detail with Yan Pu.

  Although there is nothing wrong with Yan Pu being his subordinate, and he is also loyal on weekdays, but after all, he is a native of Sichuan and Sichuan. At such a critical moment, it is better to have one thing more than one thing less...

Seeing that Zhang Lu didn't say anything, Yan Pu thought that Zhang Lu didn't want to get too involved with Liu Yan, and didn't care too much, so he said: "If Shijun doesn't use this strategy, we will have to send a general to lead the troops to garrison the watershed. General Zhengxi blocked the Tangluo Road, and strictly investigated Baoxie and other mountain roads... Ten months passed, and there was no food and water in the west, so they retreated naturally..."

Fighting against General Zhengxi head-on, relying on the existing soldiers, most likely won't win, but stuck on the mountain road, no matter how much strength General Ren Zhengxi has, he can't use it, right? After a while, you can win up.

  Zhang Lu pondered for a while, and he could only do so, and said, "I don't know who will command the troops based on Ziwu's opinion?"

   "Sima Yang in the army is good enough for this job." Yan Pu said.

   "Sima Yang?" Zhang Lu raised his head, thought for a moment, finally nodded, and said, "Yes, let him lead the army to conquer the west!"

  (end of this chapter)