Three Kingdoms: The blind box draws Da Qiao at the beginning

Chapter 314 Meng Da and Fazheng

When the generals and generals Lu Yi said this, they all had no choice but to follow Lu Yi to the palace.

When Lu Yi and others rushed to the palace, Jia Xu, Chen Deng, Chen Gong, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Liu Ye, Lu Su, Xu Shu, Gu Yong and others had already arrived.

Seeing Lu Yi followed by a large group of generals, everyone burst into laughter.

They were still discussing just now, but King Wu actually decided on a second plan in advance, and they might not even have time to sleep at night.

Who is willing to miss this rare opportunity to make a contribution?
  as predicted.

Lu Yi looked at everyone laughing and his face fell.

Especially when he saw the little old man Jia Xu smiling, Lu Yi wanted to go up and punch each of them.

Lu Yi walked into the palace hall with a sullen face and said: "It's a meeting!"

The content of the meeting was quite simple.

Just follow the second plan: let Zhao go temporarily and watch Yuan Shao's three sons fight among themselves for the throne. The Xuzhou Army will monitor them just in case.

Therefore, in Xuzhou, Zhang Zhao, who is Xuzhou's herdsman, and Zhao Yun, who is the cavalry captain, cannot leave their posts.

Then came the Fourth Army Corps, led by General Cheng Pu. They reorganized their troops and maintained their preparation for the expedition.

This will, firstly, make Yizhou see the danger and have to cheer up.

Secondly, it was to send envoys to Wu State to persuade Yizhou to surrender.

Yizhou must understand that surrender is the only reliable course of action.

Otherwise, if Wu's troops press the border, you will be responsible for the consequences.

Thirdly, we are preparing to deal with Jiaozhou.

Over the years, Wu State has not sent troops to Jiaozhou, not because it cannot defeat Jiaozhou, but because it wants to recuperate and is unwilling to ruin the plan.

However, now the state of Wu has finished its rest and recuperation, and its troops and horses are strong.

It’s time to win Jiaozhou!
  Once Yizhou determines the outcome: surrender or attack the city, then the Fourth Army will immediately dispatch to Jiaozhou to capture the enemy in the back garden of Wu State.

Finally, there is Cao Cao, who must be captured.

First, Cao Cao had been fighting continuously for the past two years, and his soldiers were exhausted.

While they are continuing their southern expedition to Yizhou this time, we will strike hard at them and not give them any chance to recuperate.

Secondly, Cao Cao had been short of food and grass in the past two years, so he almost without exception massacred cities that refused to surrender.

Even, human flesh is used as military rations.

If they are allowed to continue their evil deeds, the population of Yizhou may plummet.

Yizhou's population is already lacking.

If this continues, even if the world is pacified in the future, it will not make much sense to capture the land of Yizhou.

In this era, population is the most beneficial guarantee for prosperity in the world.

In order to prevent Cao Cao from continuing to harm Yizhou, the Jingzhou Army this time will attack Yong'an directly from Xiangyang, and then take the land route from Hanfeng and Langzhong directly north to kill Zitong.

Zitong, where Cao Cao's army is currently located.

According to the latest intelligence, after Yuan Shao's death, Cao Cao immediately ordered his army to stop at Zitong to prepare for the siege from Jiangdong.

In this battle, Wu State prepared for a head-on confrontation with Cao Cao in Zitong.

In addition, the Lujiang Army was renamed as the Xudu Army, and was still commanded by Chen Gong and Tai Shici.

The main task of the Lujiang Army is to prevent the Zhao army from going south.

Although, everyone agreed that with the current situation in Zhao State, they should be busy with internal fighting and have no time to care about Wu State.

After once again confirming the second strategy, Lu Yi discussed with everyone the members of Cao Cao's army who would go out to attack.

During Cao Cao's expedition this time, the Jingzhou Army was responsible for the attack.

Chariot and Cavalry General Zhu Zhi resigned from command of the Jingzhou Army this time.

The reason is simple, Zhu Zhi has always been better at water fighting.

This battle involves mountain operations and even city sieges, which are not Zhu Zhi's strengths.

After everyone's constant discussion, it was finally decided to replace the commander of the Jingzhou Army with Xu Shu.

First, Xu Shu led troops to fight in the Battle of Xuzhou before, defeated Yuan Shao's first march south, and killed Zhou Yu, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other generals.

Secondly, Xu Shu has been working in Jingzhou these years.

Xu Shu had studied the terrain of Yizhou before.

After all, if you want to attack Yizhou, sending troops from Jingzhou is the most likely option.

As for the counselors, Wu State sent an extremely luxurious lineup this time:
  Jia Xu is the mastermind.

Sima Hui, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, and Lu Xun served as military advisors.

As for the generals, everyone unanimously chose Wenpin.

Wenpin has been guarding Jingbei and knows something about the north and Yizhou.

The vanguard, decided by drawing lots, ended up with six people: Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Zhu Ran, Zhou Fang, and Wei Yan.

Each man brought a thousand dead men.

There are five thousand cavalry on the left, with Zhang He as commander and Gao Lan and Liu Bei as lieutenants.

There are five thousand cavalry on the right, with Lu Bu as the commander, and Ma Chao and Pang De as lieutenants.

There are [-] troops in the middle. Zhang Liao is the commander-in-chief, and Zhang Xiu, Huang Zhong, and Huang Gai are deputy generals, each commanding an army of [-].

The [-] people in the middle route army are divided into [-] men of the Thunder Chariot Army, [-] men of the Three-Gong Crossbow Army, [-] Zhuge Company Crossbowmen, [-] archers, [-] shield soldiers, and spearmen and halberdier soldiers. , the total number of horse-killing swordsmen is ten thousand.

The rear army consisted of eight thousand men, with Tian Yu as commander-in-chief and Hu Che'er and Lu Meng as deputy generals.

In addition, Gao Shun led a thousand trapped troops to escort Xu Shu, Jia Xu and others.

The grain transport officer is still Wei Jing.

Grain and grass are supplied from Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

In addition, Lu Yi and the civil and military officials also determined the candidate for lobbying Yizhou this time: Deng Zhi! In addition, one hundred people who are clever, know how to read people's words, and are good at disguise were recruited from the two convoys of Lu Da and Fang Hao to sneak into Yizhou as a detailed operation.

These detailed works enter Yizhou for two main purposes:
  First, he used heavy sums of money and other means to lure Yizhou officials to seek refuge with Wu.

Second, publicize to the people that Cao Cao massacred the city and if they did not surrender to Wu, if Cao Cao came, other cities in Yizhou would also be in danger of being massacred.

Arrange everyone's hands, some will be happy and some will be sad.

Fortunately, Lu Bu, Ma Chao and others all have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds this time.

The ones who are worried are those Jiangdong veterans.

They cannot participate in the Jingzhou Legion.

However, Lu Yi also gave them the opportunity to make meritorious deeds and incorporated them into Cheng Pu's Fourth Army Corps to prepare for the expedition to Jiaozhou.

Starting from the next day of the conference, all civil and military officials left Wuxian and returned to their respective posts.

Lu Yi led everyone to Ou'a Port to see off the Jingzhou Legion, Deng Zhi and others for this expedition.

After worshiping the immortal monument at Qu'a Port, everyone drank Zhuangxing wine and took the Nangong family's ship to Shandu Port in Xiangyang.

Arriving at Xiangyang, Xu Shu immediately mobilized troops.

After resting for just two days in Xiangyang, on the third day, the army marched towards Yong'an City in a mighty manner.

The general responsible for guarding Yong'an City is called Meng Da, and the counselor is Fazheng.

At this time, Yong'an City.

Government office hall.

A man in his early thirties held a piece of paper in his hand and stepped anxiously.

This person is none other than the guard of Yong'an City, Meng Da.

Mengda, courtesy name Zidu, was from Fufeng County.

A few years ago, he thought there was famine everywhere. In order not to starve to death, he and his friend Fa Zheng took their tribesmen to leave Fufeng County and entered Shu. They took refuge with Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou.

Liu Zhang felt that the two were very talented, so he made Meng Da the governor of Yong'an City, and Fa Zheng was the meritorious official.

In the past few years, Meng Da and Fazheng have also been working diligently in Yong'an City.

On the one hand, water conservancy projects were built to encourage people to reclaim wasteland.

On the other hand, train soldiers to prevent attacks from Jingzhou.

However, even after making adequate preparations, Meng Da was still anxious at this moment.

At this moment, a middle-aged scribe who was also in his thirties and dressed in brocade clothes walked in.

When Meng Da saw the middle-aged scribe, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Xiaozhi, you are here! If you don't come, you will kill me!"

Filial piety and uprightness are the words of Yong'an Gongcao Fazheng.

Fazheng was also a native of Fufeng County and the grandson of the famous scholar Fazhen.

Seeing Meng Da being so anxious, Fazheng smiled and said, "Why are you anxious?"

Meng Da handed the paper to Fa Zheng and said, "Look at this!"

Fazheng took the paper, glanced at it, smiled and shook his head.

The content in the paper is extremely simple: Jingzhou has dispatched more than [-] soldiers and horses, and they are heading towards Yong'an City!

Seeing that Fazheng was not anxious, Meng Da smiled and said with a speechless expression: "Are you smiling? How can we defend the city in this situation? I'm afraid it will be too late to bring reinforcements from Chengdu!"

Fazheng took a long breath and said angrily: "Defend this damn city!"

Meng Da: "."

Fazheng shook the paper in his hand and said, "Let me ask you, how did you get this paper?"

Meng Da said blankly: "I bought it!"

Fa Zheng said: "Where did you buy it from?"

Meng Da shook his head and said, "How would I know? This matter is not your responsibility?"

Fazheng then said: "This paper was bought from our local papermaker!"

"These papermakers have only produced this kind of paper in the past two years."

"This paper has a wider range of materials, better quality, and cheaper price——"

Meng Da said anxiously: "Why are you telling me this now? The Jingzhou Army is about to attack, and they will approach the city every few days. Who cares where this paper came from!"

Fazheng said angrily: "Can you just listen to what I have to say?"

Meng Da suppressed his anger.

Fa Zhengdao: "The most fundamental reason why this paper appeared is that King Wu founded Wujun University in Wujun, which recruited a large number of talents from all walks of life. Papermakers are also one of them."

"The King of Wu offered a large reward to these papermakers to study paper and make it cheaper and better."

"However, he did not use this to make money, but made this technology public so that everyone in the world can use more paper and better paper."

"Such a righteous person, compared to our state pastor, is a superior judge."

"Now, people of righteousness are raising troops. Why should we resist?"

"Instead, we will open the city gates and welcome them in."

"If we hold on to the city, it would be unjust for us to resist the righteous soldiers when they come."

"Secondly, isn't it countless times better for us to serve such a righteous man than to serve a butcher like Cao Cao?"

"Cao Cao's army is at Zitong."

"Wherever he passed, if there was any resistance, the whole city would be massacred."

"They even used human flesh to satisfy their hunger."

"Let me ask you, even if the Jingzhou Army does not come to attack the city, will Cao Cao come? At that time, will you let us people in Yong'an City surrender to Cao Cao, the butcher, or will you wait to be attacked and the whole city will be massacred? "

(End of this chapter)