After Li Jue let the war machine of the Chang'an court run with all his strength according to his vision, he could no longer look back.

Mobilization and transfer orders cannot be repentant in the middle, otherwise it will only cause huge waste and loss of prestige.

So even after several days of preparation, more unfavorable detailed information was sent back on the front line. Even the rumors that "Liu Bei had a dream of Emperor Gaozu of Han, saying that he would return to the north and restore the geography of the early Han Dynasty, which led to Liu Bei's surprise attack on Zhang Ji so smoothly" were circulated among the three dukes and eight ministers in Chang'an City, and Li Jue had no way out.

"Have you heard that Liu Bei was so lucky to have the heavenly teachings this time, and his luck was added. Could it be that he was really a fate that could not be violated? Li Jue said last time that Liu Bei relied on Han Rong's internal support to win Chen Cang. I guess even without Han Rong, he would not be able to stop him."

"Who said no? If you don't say anything else, don't think about it. Although Li Su was young and had very little qualifications in the court, he was used by Emperor Ling at that time, like a flash of spirit, a meteor broke through the sky, leaving behind the theology of "The Palace of Blessings". He was praised by Emperor Ling as a great achievement of the Antai Han Dynasty for thousands of years, and was comparable to Confucius and Mencius.

Such a person who is known for his destiny must assist Liu Bei in serving the king. Maybe he really saw the will of Emperor Gao. Li Su wanted to be greedy for his achievements in heaven and to make some fame and fortune. I didn't want to believe it at first, but now I am really convinced. We people who claim to be promoted quickly in this court, how can we compare to those who can really see the situation clearly? Alas..."

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On February 15th, when Duan Wei arrived in Chang'an with the vanguard of Hongnong's troops, the version circulating in the city had been upgraded to this level.

Duan Wei was a bearded old man in his fifties. He was solemn and majestic. He was also from Guzang County, Wuwei County. During the reign of Emperor Huan, Duan Bing, the famous general of Pingliang, was his cousin.

When Duan Wei entered the city, he also saw that several heads were hung in each gate of Chang'an, all of which were killed by Li Jue these days.

These people were middle and low-level officials of the court, as well as their aides and servants. The charge was to spread and promote Liu Bei's rumors and serve as an insider for Liu Bei. They killed dozens of them in total, and then gradually stopped the further evolution of rumors.

There is no way, "The earthquake caused the Han River to divert the route" has shocked the morale and people's hearts too much. In the superstitious Han Dynasty, an earthquake could allow three officials to draw lots to be dismissed, and they were responsible for this disaster.

Not to mention the distant future, just talk about the major earthquake in Guanzhong in history this May, and finally the three-monarch draws the lottery. The result of the lottery was that the Taiwei Yang Biao took the blame. Then Yang Biao was removed from the Taiwei and became Taichang after a few months.

This shows that Emperor Xian of Han actually knew that Yang Biao was innocent and that the earthquake had nothing to do with him, but who made the Han Dynasty believe in Dong Zhongshu's "resonance of heaven and man"? A major earthquake must be avoided by one three-month man to transfer disaster.

However, the earthquake in Guanzhong will not happen yet for two and a half months. The forgery in Wudu is too small, so no one needs to be responsible.

Duan Wei saw the terrifying purge and the fluctuation of people's hearts. Even he, a veteran of Xiliang, was a little shaken and began to reflect on his life. Should he follow Li Jue and Guo Si to the dark side, and he would really be punished by God.

Duan Wei was still hesitating, but Li Jue had already come to greet him. Duan Wei quickly put away his random thoughts and dismounted and saluted: "Gourmet to General Carriage."

Li Jue still pretended to be humble: "Hey, General Duan is a senior. How can you and me be considered as the high and low official ranks? When Guo Aduo and I were under the rank of Niu Zhonglang, General Duan had already been with Niu Zhonglang. By chance, he made more contributions when saving the lord. Now he is above Brother Duan, he is really ashamed."

Duan Wei said he was afraid, and said that he was old and had no achievements and his energy was weak. The future court was entirely up to young and strong people such as Li and Guo. Those who are capable work harder and contribute more to the country.

Li Jue grabbed Duan Wei's forearm and pretended to smile and said, "Brother Duan should not be too humble, nor should he refuse! On this autumn of national crisis, everyone should work together and fight together. I have thought about it these days. Last year, there were many complicated things and I was in a short while. Even Zhang Ji was promoted to generals of the four towns. Brother Duan has such a deep experience, but he is still General Siping, which is too insignificant.

So I will correct my mistakes when I hear this. At the court meeting today, I have already reported to the emperor that the emperor issued an edict to promote Brother Duan to General Anton. This is the holy intention. Do you still have to refuse? By the way, I wonder when my brother’s rear army can arrive in Chang'an? It’s also as soon as possible.”

Duan Wei was not happy about his promotion at all. He knew that no matter whether he was promoted or not, his territory was just a defense zone of Hongnong County, Hangu Pass in the east and Tongguan in the west. It was not his after passing the two passes. What's the use of a high title?

Li Jue transferred him away but promoted him to the position of a cannon fodder, so he would do his best to be promoted.

Unfortunately, the situation was stronger than that of the people, so Duan Wei could only bow in harmony on the surface: "It was really a delay in spring plowing, and the soldiers were scattered everywhere. It took a few more days to gather. I would give me another three days. In three days, the entire army would definitely arrive in Chang'an!"

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Li Jue's troops were stationed in Mei County, and Zhao Yun did not dare to fight, and always held high-level battle-free cards and insisted on the turtle tactic.

This situation was quite worry-free in the first few days, and he didn't take it seriously. He didn't care about Zhao Yun's failure in the challenge and scolding.

Because Li Su was indeed focused on repairing the former path of the Chencang Western Han River as soon as possible, dredging, draining and storing water. It was just right for the enemy to step up the construction if they didn't come.

It was around February 15 that the river construction work was basically over, and the people turned to sow spring plowing, so Li Su was freeing up his energy and manpower to consider other things.

It happened that at this time, the snow on the Baoxie Plank Road had almost melted, so Zhang Fei of the Eastern Route Army also sent his general Wang Ping to the Wuzhangyuan area with 10,000 Banyan barbarian soldiers, and expanded the scale of the Yizhou army on the Wuzhangyuan-Mazhongshan front to about 15,000 people.

With so many people defending, Fa Zheng and Ma Chao and Xu Huang's confidence in defense also soared. With 15,000 people, plus the geographical advantage, fortifications and crossbows, even if 30,000 or 40,000 people from Ji County came out in full swing, they would not be able to attack Wuzhangyuan regardless of the losses.

Fa Zheng gradually became proactive and tried to take the initiative to investigate. He used a hanging basket to pull the Banhuan barbarian soldiers down from the edge of Wuzhangyuan cliff, half a journey by hanging and half a journey by climbing the mountain, then went down to the bridgehead of Beiyuan Weiqiao to set a few fires, and attacked and harassed Lei Xuwang Fang at night.

Such harassment cannot use a large number of troops and is all done in the dark to damage, causing little casualties to the enemy, and a total of 100 casualties were caused. However, the materials and fortifications were indeed burned down several places, and a lot of military information was also inquired about.

In conjunction with the observation deck built by Wuzhangyuan Cliff in the previous winter, you can easily observe the enemy situation on Beiyuan Village, Beiyuan Wei Bridge and Wei River. Fa Zheng indeed discovered Li Bie's "increase of troops".

Because he was looking out from afar, he could not penetrate deep into the camp to verify, so Fa Zheng certainly could not see the flaws. As Li Ru expected, he gave the news that "the Xiliang army was constantly gathering in Mei County and Beiyuan Village to increase reinforcements" to Liu Bei and others who crossed the mountain.

After Liu Bei received the report, he of course invited Li Su and Xun You to discuss it together.

When Li Su entered the tent, he saw a Banyan barbarian officer kneeling on one knee and reporting the situation to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei pointed to the man and said to Li Su: "This is Sima He Feng, another subordinate under Wang Ping's tent. Gu Yuan had seen it before, so there would be no mistake. Xiaozhi made Wang Ping find more and more troops in Ji County recently. If he goes on, he may not have gathered 50,000 people.

Li Beg, Wang Ping has so many soldiers and horses. The day before yesterday, Long only brought 5,000 cavalry to challenge, but why did he just dare not fight?"

Zhao Yun sent 5,000 cavalry to lure the enemy. Of course, it was not that there were only so many, but that there was only so much power exposed on the front line. As long as Li Bie dared to come out, Zhao Yun would dare to be defeated. At that time, he ran back thirty or forty miles. Naturally, Guan Yu's troops would take the battle. Liu Bei felt that Li Bie shouldn't have seen through Guan Yu's support.

Li Su thought about it and didn't feel any problem: "Although it's suspicious, our army has captured Chen Cang so quickly. Li Bie must know that even if he has 50,000 people, he is not a match for our army."

Xun You was more meticulous in pure military thinking than Li Su, so he discussed in a supplementary manner: "Is it a trick to doubt the military? In fact, Guo Si was isolated in Longxi, with 70,000 soldiers. According to Yan Yan's investigation the day before yesterday, Guo Si still had no intention of returning to support, and did not take Li Jue's experience seriously. I was afraid that it was because of the fierce battle with Han Sue, and just when he was taking a desperate bet. But Guo Si did not want to return to support, and Li Jue was not in a hurry to force Guo Si to return to support, that would be abnormal."

Li Su has been dealing with farming and water conservancy in the past few days, and his mind has not switched back to the channel. Regardless of whether Xun You said it is right, he suggested to Liu Bei: "King, this kind of suspicion of reality and reality has no end. I think no matter how Li Jue responds, it is impossible to make any moves within ten days with the response speed of the Western Liang army's mobilization forces.

In this case, if our army wants to figure out the situation, it is better to retreat and further force Li Bie to react. Maybe he will reveal more flaws."

Liu Bei: "You think the plan is about to come out?"

Li Su: "It is better to let those prisoners of Xiliang under Zhang Ji and the local landless farmers in Chen Cang continue to go to Dongtunkeng and sow spring on the narrow and fertile fields in Weinan between Chen Cang and Mei County.

At first, Wang Ping had already arrived at Wuzhangyuan, and Yide was about to arrive every day. We divided the military camps in advance and contacted ninety miles, from Chen Cang to Wuzhangyuan. We acted so frankly, Li Bei and Wang Fang dared not come out to intercept our military camps and did not dare to fight, which means that there was definitely no so-called 50,000 army in his city.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to watch our army expand production, gain a foothold in Guanzhong, and achieve self-sufficiency in military rations. We have now allowed the Western Han River to flow northward, and the food from Hanzhong was transported to Chencang, and the loss of the road was greatly reduced. Originally, four stones of grain could only be transported to one stone, and three stones were eaten on the road, but now at least two stones could be transported to 50% and 50% of the loss.

Although the enemy troops in Mei County were not sure of winning the battle with Zilong, it would be impossible if they didn't even dare to attack our garrison. If that happens, they could only falsely report their troops and set up extra flags and stoves. In that case, after the spring plowing ends, Yide's troops arrived, and then concentrate the main force of the entire army to attack Mei County, and respond to changes in the same way."

Li Su wanted to surrender to the tenth meeting with one force. The enemy was unwilling to divide his troops to rescue him, so he forced the enemy to divide his troops to rescue him. This was also because he was very confident in the attack strength of Liu Bei's camp. The city wall fortifications in Ji County were not as good as Chen Cang, and even if he did not destroy it in advance, it would not be impossible to take it down.

Xun You never saw the Yizhou army's unopportunistic and practical combat effectiveness of the siege battle. Although he saw a counterweight throwing cart that threw 150 kilograms of single-headed bullets in Chen Cang a few days ago, he thought it was all due to the tofu walls of Chen Cang and were soaked soaked so well that it had such a good effect.

Xun You couldn't help but dissuade him with concern: "Station of troops is a taboo in military strategists. From Chencang to Wuzhangyuan, a farming camp in Weinan was set up ninety miles away. It was too risky. He was burned, killed, looted and left after being left by the enemy. The losses must be heavy."

Li Su pointed to the map with a folding fan: "Just cut off the naval route upstream of the Beiyuan Wei Bridge. Our army only stationed in Weinan and backed by Qinling Mountains, not Weibei. The enemy relied on cavalry alone, even if it came and went like the wind, it was hasty and could not cross the river.

Even if we cross the river and cause damage, as long as Zilong reacts quickly enough, they will be unable to return and return. On the other hand, our army originally planned to take food to the enemy after the autumn harvest, but because of the stalemate here, the people of Mei County have abandoned the land west of the county this year and dared not come out to farm.

Even if the people dared, Li Biewang Fang refused to let the people out, for fear that they would surrender to the king. If the 50-mile Weinan fields belonging to Ji County were allowed to be abandoned for a year, I don’t know how many famines would be there during the autumn harvest. Since Li Jue’s people did not plant them, let us replant them. When the time comes, it will appear that the king is benevolent and loves the people. It is also easy to supplement military rations to ensure long-term self-sufficiency."

As long as he farmed in Guanzhong for more than one season, Li Su believed that it would be possible to support a 100,000 army and no longer rely too much on Hanzhong to transport grain. Historically, Zhuge Liang's farming in Wuzhangyuan could have a similar effect as long as his lifespan was enough.

And the key is that you can do this by the way, not only plant the field, but also investigate the facts of the enemy. Anyway, your side will not lose money, and the risks can be controlled, so just do it.

After hearing this, Xun You also had a more understanding of Li Su's ideas: Li Su has fewer strange plans in pure military strategy, and it is more about strategic planning to solve problems. If the enemy makes small moves and cannot see clearly for the time being, then continue to implement his own strategic plan and force the enemy to deal with the moves, thus revealing flaws.

Seeing that Xun You did not object, Liu Bei thought about it again and felt that even if this matter was not profitable, it would at least benefit the people, so he would do it.

The next day, on February 16th, half a month after the Spring Plowing Solar Period, Liu Bei's army organized tens of thousands of landless farmers and ten thousand prisoners of war, and some of the not-so-eliminated soldiers, and began to rotate farm in Weinan.

Fortunately, most of the land has been injected by the Western Han Dynasty waters, and the Wei River has risen slightly silted, so spring plowing in Weinan this year is less difficult and the land is soft. There is no need to water and fertilize additionally when sowing, which is enough to regain the delayed time.

Li Bie in the town of Mei County and Wang Fang from Beiyuan Village were a little confused after finding out the latest situation. At the same time, they admired Liu Bei's courage, but couldn't help but want to fight a harassment battle.

This is too arrogant. I directly farmed and planted not far from the west suburbs of Mei County.

Li Bie decided to ask his uncle for the latest situation, while adapting to the situation and harassed and disrupting Liu Bei's deployment.
Chapter completed!