Mixed in the Three Kingdoms as a strategist

Chapter 191 Cow chewing peony

Yan Qing looked at Lu Bu's eyes full of anticipation, hesitated for a moment, but still didn't want to start.

It's not that he's so condescending that he doesn't even like to call his lover's watch, but that once he calls a lot in private, it's easy to bring out this habit on weekdays, and he often makes slips of the tongue in similar things.

If only Guo Jia and Jia Xu made mistakes in front of the insiders, that would be fine, but if they did it in front of the public, the consequences would be big or small.

Just like this, Xu You, relying on his great achievements and friendship with Cao Cao in the past, called him a lie, which not only angered Cao Cao, but also angered Cao Cao's courtiers.

Especially when Lu Bu is about to ascend to the throne, these avoidable troubles, it is better to have one less trouble.

But to say it bluntly or in a perfunctory manner would definitely make Lu Bu feel unhappy.

Yan Qing couldn't help but feel that it was tricky, so she thought about it for a while, and she really came up with an idea, so she smiled and said, "It's just a title, so how can it be worth the Lord's care? If the Lord is free, Qing has a rare treasure that I want to see." My lord, please come and take a look."

Lu Bu took a look at Yan Qing, and pretended to be interested: "Oh? Since it's Chongguang's intention, Bu must take a good look."

Yan Qing said: "Qing also wants to invite the lord to wait for a while, so that they can make some preparations."

Lu Bu stood with his arms folded, and said casually, "All right."

Yan Qing then summoned one of his personal guards and whispered some instructions. Lu Bu subconsciously pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, but before he could compose the vague words, the latter had already led the order out.

Yan Qing walked a few steps towards the window sill, beckoned, and motioned for Lu Bu to come over.

After Lu Bu did as he said, Yan Qing coughed lightly, brought him a chair, sat down facing him, pointed at the endless night sky, and said with a smile, "It will be soon."

Lu Bu glanced at it with little interest, except for a few stars in the darkness, he didn't see anything interesting, and was about to start teasing Yan Qing, Yan Qing took a step ahead and broke the silence with a serious matter.

"What does my lord think about the capture of Liaodong County?"

Liaodong, where Gongsun Du is located, is like Jiaozhou, where Shikui is located. Its geographical location is extremely remote, far away from the Guanzhong area. The foreign barbarians who are in the heat can temporarily enjoy peace of mind and develop themselves with peace of mind.

Unlike the Central Plains, which is a battleground for military strategists, it often faces attacks and wars from princes.

After Xu Cheng's incident, Lu Bu now has enough strength to wipe out the remaining enemies. He can divide his troops into three groups, let Sun Ce go south to attack the soldiers, and then let Lu Bu lead the main force to conquer Yizhou and Liangzhou. It only needs to be contained in a small number of troops, and the reinforcements can be intercepted.

No matter how brave the Xiliang iron cavalry was, not to mention the elites under Lu Bu's command who were worth one to a hundred, even if they were compared with Zhao Yun's veteran warriors who had led the expeditions from south to north and fought everywhere over the years, they were probably not as good.

The biggest problem in overcoming Xiliang is that the distance is too long, and there are quite a few "old acquaintances" (Qianghu) who are willing to be driven by Ma Teng for a little favor.

Since Zhang Yang was killed by Zhang Yan, the Sili area has completely fallen into a state of no owner. Obviously, it will not cause obstacles to Lu Bu's journey, but the deserted barren land with ten rooms and nine empty houses is also unable to provide half of the army rations. Replenishment.

The longer the transportation road for military rations, the higher the risk of being intercepted, killed and destroyed, and this kind of large-scale battle that has lasted for a dozen years cannot be naively provided by Yanqing's abundant grains—even if he is exhausted Miserable, it's just a drop in the bucket.

After discussion between Yan Qing and Jia Xu and Guo Jia, Ju Du believed that there was no need to send heavy troops to travel long distances to deal with Xiliang, as long as the situation in Yizhou, which supplied them with supplies, was disturbed, it was not even necessary to quell it all at once, just call If they have no chance to maintain normal production, they will be self-defeating.

To overcome Yizhou's steep terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the most ideal state is to take Hanzhong, which is a key place.

If Yizhou lost the hinterland of Hanzhong, it would be fish on the cutting board. The Shuhan under Liu Chan's rule collapsed so easily because the important line of defense in Hanzhong collapsed under the impact of Zhonghui's army.

Lu Bushi's men and horses could use this as a springboard to avoid dangerous passes and narrow passages, and drive straight in all the way, directly leaving Liu Yan with nowhere to defend and directly facing the enemy.

However, Zhang Lu, the prefect of Hanzhong, has a harmonious relationship with Liu Yan at present, and Liu Bei, who knows that Hanzhong can temporarily reject foreign enemies, will intend to maintain this goodwill.

If Yan Qing wants to make a divorce, not only is the risk not small, but if the other party is prepared, it may not succeed.

Only on the one hand, the disturbance is the main focus, and the fractional disturbances are carried out, and a war of attrition is waged-the mountains and rivers are dangerous, which prevents not only the enemy, but also hinders the reinforcements from coming and going;

Make the Yizhou army run back and forth, exhausted, even if they don't relax their vigilance against Hanzhong, they will face the dilemma of having no food available sooner or later.

Of course, as far as Jingzhou Sili is concerned, it is not impossible for Lv Bu, who is surrounded by him, to break through by force. It was riddled with holes.

This kind of tiring work of dismantling the stalls by oneself and having to clean them up afterward, of course, can be avoided if possible.

To let Liu Yan know that Yan Qing, a shameless person, had already cherished Yizhou, which he had painstakingly managed for many years, as his own long before Lu Bu's ass was even in that position, so he specially formulated the "consumption of its "Reserve, attack key points" instead of "head-on attack" slow count, I'm afraid I will be so angry that I will spit out blood.

Lu Bu said: "Let's fight as soon as possible. Since those people rely on the height of the sky and the emperor's distance, they have the virtue of doing evil and doing evil, and they have developed the habit of sitting in the sky. They will definitely not surrender sincerely and are willing to be ruled by others. Then wait for Bu Sending troops to attack Yi, what if he wants to take this opportunity to cross the sea to steal Qing and Xu counties? At that time, Bo Fu Gongjin has been transferred to attack Jiaozhou, and he has no time to defend. Cao Cao's cunning thing is pervasive, so be careful , Tell them to collude, not to mention Xuzhou's change of owner, I'm afraid there will be hidden dangers."

Yan Qing nodded.

History can also prove that Lu Bu's blurted judgment is actually unbelievably accurate.

When Cao Cao was in the middle of the sky in the Central Plains, Gongsun Du sneered at him, and threw aside Cao Cao's seal and ribbon that enshrined him as General Wuwei and Marquis of Yongning Township, and joked, "My king, Liaodong, is He Yongning?"

He did have some confidence in saying this.After all, at that time the Central Plains were fighting among heroes, and no one cared about the one-acre-three-point dilapidated land far away in Liaodong. He also had a lot of experience in fighting, and he might not be very powerful if he wanted to face it head-on. up.For a while, they attacked Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan in the west, and southern Liaonan in the south.

Later, Gongsun Kang, the son who succeeded him, was smarter and more low-key. He knew that even if they were far away in Liaodong, they could not really offend Cao Cao, who was gradually calming down the situation. The head of his second son, Yuan Shao, was presented to Cao Cao as a gift, in exchange for a friendly promise not to fight for the time being.

However, like his father, his life is not long, and his son Gongsun Yuan's IQ and EQ are not enough to match his ambition.Not only pretending to be smart, he first showed Sun Quan good, and chopped off the Soochow envoy who believed that he really wanted to make an alliance with him and send gold and silver. Mission.

In the end, this pretentious separatist force still revealed its true intentions: Gongsun Yuan simply established his own country, proclaimed himself king, and wanted to go out completely independently.

That country name is interesting to say, it is "Swallow" that Lu Bu racked his brains to obtain.

In all fairness, among the princes, Gongsun Dushi's strength is only below the middle level, but he can persist until Sima Yi's Northern Expedition is wiped out, and he has to rely on the bitter cold and remoteness of Liaodong, which is a piece of chicken ribs. blessing.

Yan Qing said: "Fighting may not be the most strenuous part, even just running back and forth will take much longer than actually fighting."

When Sima Yi accepted Cao Rui, he said, "Go for a hundred days, return a hundred days, attack a hundred days, and take [-] days as a rest, one year is enough."

The power Lu Bu currently has is far stronger than that of Cao Wei in history, but no matter how he kills chickens with a sledgehammer, he has to move the sledgehammer to the chicken coop to do it. The loss of life on the road cannot be discounted.

Lu Bu snorted softly, "After Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan surrendered, haven't they done anything practical yet? Let them join forces and go out to fight. If they can't beat them, don't be generals."

Yan Qing couldn't help but smile when he said this outrageously: "This is—"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang from outside the window, causing Lu Bu, who was originally in a lazy posture, to jump up to a height of almost a foot, and looked out in surprise.

However, the pitch-black night was torn apart by a snow rainbow, all the way up, followed by a pop, a huge and gorgeous spark burst out, which was colorful and beautiful.

Such a strange beauty also attracted bursts of amazement from the people in the city.

"Why is God breathing fire?!" Lu Bu was shocked and said: "Such a strange situation, could it be an enemy attack?!"

Yan Qing just wanted to be romantic with him a little bit, and didn't want Lu Bu to think about fighting immediately, so he said quickly, "No, it's just a kind of fireworks, I want to show you specially, I hope you like it."

Yan Qing said it nicely at this time, but in fact it was just that he didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and fantasized about using the gunpowder formula that came out hundreds of years later-"Honey can be turned into charcoal when heated, and sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal are mixed to form gunpowder." Come to make that enemy-killing weapon.

As a result, it was developed secretly for several years, hurt many craftsmen, and cost an unknown amount of money, but only tossed out this flashy thing, which made him extremely disappointed.

It's depressing to think about it, as a dignified time traveler, but he can't even make a bar of soap, and he wants to go to the sky in one step, tossing explosives?

After Yan Qing realized that he only had a few catties and a few taels, his mind became clearer, and he also became discouraged. He stopped asking questions frequently, and only continued to study freely with those craftsmen who were really interested.

That is, I suddenly remembered it just now, and wanted to use this failed product to make Lu Bu happy.

Anyway, when the real "fireworks" come out, they will have to go to the Song Dynasty. No matter how you say it, it can be called fresh and interesting.

Lu Bu didn't know that Yan Qing coaxed him to be his girlfriend for a while, and he was really attracted. He stared intently at the balls of fireworks rising and blooming, then scattered into stardust, and disappeared quickly.

It wasn't until the actual release that he praised Yan Qing: "It's really good to take it to the army for the purpose of transmitting signals, and I'll ask Chongguang to bother."

Yan Qing's expression was delicate, and it took a while before he replied: "Okay."

Although the original intention was not this, but judging from the final result, as long as Lu Bu can find a good use for it, he will be happy, regardless of whether it is interesting or not.

Even if there is suspicion of a cow chewing peonies, it is still his favorite cow.