Zhang Xi's small calculations are crackling, and each party also has its own small calculations.
Liu Zhang was very dissatisfied with Liu Bei's behavior of stationing troops at Jiameng Pass. In addition, Yang Huai and Gaopei repeatedly wrote letters saying that Liu Bei was buying people's hearts at Jiameng Pass and corresponding with aristocratic families from all over Sichuan. The fight was very fierce.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Liu Zhang decided to use food and grass as a threat to urge Liu Bei to march into Hanzhong.
But before Liu Zhang could give the order, he received a letter from Liu Bei, saying that Liu Bei had notified Sun Quan in Jiangdong and was preparing to attack Zhang Lu from both sides. He would wait for Sun Quan's navy to be in place before setting off to attack Hanzhong.
Liu Zhang hesitated, thinking about the authenticity of this matter.
If Liu Bei really persuaded Sun Quan from Jiangdong to send troops to attack Zhang Lu, then Zhang Lu would definitely not be able to defend his land and water offensive.
But if this is an excuse for Liu Zhang's decision, let's take a look first to see if Jiangdong will really come, and if Liu Bei will really send troops.
Liu Zhang hesitated, but Sun Quan really wanted to curse at this moment.
The kind that pointed at Liu Bei's nose and scolded him.
I'm just being polite, but you still take it seriously and really want me to send troops? !
Did you know that going up the Han River, you not only have to pass through Xiangyang, but also pass through the three eastern counties controlled by Cao Cao and Zhang Lu. The supply lines along the way are completely under Cao Cao's supervision.
Even if Cao Cao doesn't have a reliable naval force now, he always does have a few small boats. It's still okay to threaten the ability to supply food supplies. Let me send troops to die.
But it was he who let out the words, and it was Lu Su who negotiated the negotiations. Although he did not explicitly write it down, Sun Quan still felt ashamed at this time.
Therefore, Sun Quan quickly came to Zhou Yu to discuss how to resolve the matter.
Zhou Yu's opinion was very simple. Send troops. Anyway, he didn't say how many people there were.
Let Lu Dai lead 2,000 men and cross the Han River. If Cao Cao's army blocks him, he will retreat. Then he will tell Liu Bei that I have sent troops but Cao Cao won't let me cross. There is nothing I can do. This can't be considered a breach of contract.
It doesn't matter if Cao Cao really lets his fleet pass. Tell Lu Dai, do you still need someone to teach you how to just goof around without working hard? !
Sun Quan suddenly understood and immediately agreed to let Lu Dai lead 2,000 people to go up the Han River to support Liu Bei.
Then he wrote to Liu Bei, saying that he had completed half of the covenant. In the future, if Liu Bei takes Yizhou, don't forget that he still has half of the covenant to fulfill.
It was already early April when Liu Bei received the letter.
Although Lu Dai hasn't arrived yet, Liu Bei has already begun to feel unhappy and sent two thousand men to help me fight Hanzhong. Are you serious? !
No matter how depressed I, Liu Bei, am, can I still survive without these two thousand men? !
And fulfill the covenant. That's how you fulfill the covenant, right? !
Well, forget it, I didn’t expect it at the beginning anyway.
Keep waiting. By the beginning of May, Lu Dai finally led a "big army" of two thousand, "broke through" Cao Jun's "layers of encirclement" along the way, and successfully joined forces with Liu Bei.
Liu Bei didn't even bother to see Lu Dai and left the matter to Zhang Xi who volunteered to handle it.
When Zhang Xi arrived in Lu Dai's army, he didn't say anything at all. He didn't mention anything about support or not. He directly told Lu Dai that when he retreated, he should remember to take Sun Shangxiang back to Jiangling.
You have to be careful along the way. Did you know that Sun Shangxiang is pregnant?
When Lu Dai heard this, his eyes widened.
My lord asked me to come here to support Liu Shijun in his campaign against Hanzhong, not to be a nanny for me.
Then Zhang Xi asked him, would you like to take it with you?
Lu Dai immediately shut up.
What can be done? If the lord knows that he has not taken good care of his sister, what future will he have in Jiangdong?
No one, from the lord to Zhou Yu, could spare him.
Lu Dai could only agree, and then asked Zhang Xi when he could send troops to attack Hanzhong.
After all, they are here to help. It seems unreasonable to go back without even giving him a fight.
He, Lu Dai, is a general, not a domestic servant or nanny.
Zhang Xi really didn't expect that Lu Dai would be so sincere and really wanted to fight Hanzhong.
Zhang Xi vaguely remembered that it was this Lu Dai who clearly agreed to the lives of the Rao Shi family when he attacked Jiaozhou Shihui, but turned his back and chopped off the entire Shi family from top to bottom, right? !
Are you so honest now? !
Since you are so sincere, it would be really embarrassing if you were not allowed to send troops.
Therefore, after Zhang Xi returned to Jiameng Pass, he went to see Liu Bei and conveyed Lu Dai's intention.
And Liu Bei was also thinking that now that Sun Quan's reinforcements had arrived, if he didn't fight such a battle, it would be really difficult to explain to Liu Zhang.
Therefore, Liu Bei decided to personally lead the army out of Baishui Pass in the east and march into Hanzhong.
Of course, two guys, Yang Huai and Gao Pei, had to be brought along. These two were unfamiliar with each other and they were so kind to them. They even reported to Liu Zhang.
We cannot trust our future in the hands of these two people.
Yang Huai and Gao Pei did not insist. After all, their mission was to assist Liu Bei in capturing Hanzhong, so Liu Bei transferred them out of the border, and they actually followed.
Liu Bei led an army of 10,000 people and merged with Yang Huai and Gaopei's garrison at Baishui Pass. A total of 20,000 people marched north to Hanzhong.
As for Zhang Lu, he naturally heard the news that Liu Bei was going to capture Hanzhong, but Zhang Lu didn't care.
First, Hanzhong has obvious terrain advantages, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
On the other hand, Zhang Lu implemented a system of integrating politics and religion in Hanzhong, which greatly enhanced the support of Hanzhong people for him, with people's support and sufficient military strength.
Liu Bei wanted to attack Hanzhong with only 20,000 troops. That was a fool's errand.
Therefore, Zhang Lu sent his younger brother Zhang Wei to defend the enemy, but he could not hold on to his only one goal.
Liu Bei's reputation as a hero has long been spread throughout the world, but few people in the world dare to laugh at Liu Bei as someone who "doesn't know how to fight". Zhang Lu has no ambitions either, as long as he protects his own territory.
Therefore, Zhang Wei's strategy for leading the army was to defend the city and not fight.
Liu Bei was not in a hurry. Anyway, he sent troops to give Liu Zhang an explanation. Moreover, the wars in these years were also siege battles. How could the winner be determined so quickly?
Liu Bei also settled in the camp unhurriedly and began to slowly build siege equipment and prepare for the siege.
As for the siege war, it was normal to fight for a year or two. Since Liu Zhang provided food and grass anyway, he could still go on an expedition while maintaining good relations with the aristocratic families at the rear and win over people's hearts.
Liu Bei could afford to wait, Zhang Lu could afford to wait, but Liu Zhang couldn't afford to wait.
He provided the food and wages for the army's expedition. If it was fine for a month or two, how could Liu Zhang bear it if the battle lasted for one or two years.
So, Liu Zhang repeatedly urged Liu Bei to attack the city, but Liu Bei excused himself every time by citing lack of preparation, which made Liu Zhang very angry.
At this time, Zhang Song started to bubble.
I have to say that Zhang Song's disguise is really good. Up to now, Liu Zhang still thinks that Zhang Song is his trustworthy boss and his important deputy.
Therefore, Zhang Song suggested to Liu Zhang that if he really did not want to waste the existing military rations, he could replace the military rations with old grains aged in rice warehouses.
Anyway, it is used to prepare for famine. Bashu and other places have had good harvests in recent years, so it is time to replace these old grains.
Liu Zhang thought for a while and felt that Zhang Song was right. Moreover, Chen Liang was also food and could be eaten. It should be okay to send it to the front line as military rations.
But Liu Zhang forgot one thing, and that was the greed of the wealthy families in central Shu, and Zhang Song. Zhang Song was a traitor, could he kindly give Liu Zhang such a practical idea? !
There is a lot of old rice in the Sichuan granary, but if these old rice can be eaten in the old rice granary, it can be regarded as the conscience of the Shuzhong family.
The political situation in Shu was so chaotic that even Liu Zhang couldn't control it.
This pot must start from when Liu Yan entered Sichuan.
After Liu Yan proposed the idea of abolishing Shi Li Mu, he heard people say that there was an emperor spirit in Shu, so he recommended himself as Yizhou Mu. Like Liu Biao, he took office alone.
But when Liu Yan entered the middle of Shu, he found that the wealthy families in the middle of Shu were too arrogant, and they didn't even take the court in their eyes, and they didn't even take him in their eyes.
At this time, there was great chaos in Sanfu, and many people from Yongliang and Liangzhou fled into Shuzhong. These people were called Dongzhou people by the Shuzhong people, and they were excluded, which caused deep conflicts between Dongzhou people and Yizhou people.
Liu Yan immediately seized the opportunity to win over the people of Dongzhou, and used the people of Dongzhou to form an army under his direct control, called the Dongzhou Army. He used the Dongzhou Army to suppress the local tyrants and killed many aristocratic families in central Shu, which is called a Heads rolling in.
Therefore, the Yizhou family had very strong opinions on Liu Yan, but because they could not defeat him, they had to temporarily surrender and recognized Liu Yan's rule.
Later, when Liu Yan died and Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, the local powerful people in Yizhou, led by Gan Ning, immediately rebelled and wanted to take advantage of Liu Zhang's lack of prestige after taking the throne and drive Liu Zhang and the Dongzhou people out of Yizhou.
Then Liu Zhang learned from his father's methods and used the power of Dongzhou native Zhao Shi to pacify him.
At this time, the Dongzhou people were becoming more and more powerful, which aroused Liu Zhang's vigilance. In addition, Zhao Shi, who had put down Gan Ning's rebellion, felt that Liu Zhang was not a soft persimmon. For his own benefit, Zhao Shi led the Dongzhou army to rebel again, and This rebellion directly affected all three counties in central Shu.
In the end, Liu Zhang had no choice but to rely on the power of the local Yizhou family to put down the rebellion of the Dongzhou people. As a result, the Yizhou family returned to the political center of Yizhou.
In the following ten years, Liu Zhang allowed the Yizhou people to suppress the Dongzhou people, causing the Dongzhou people to lose trust in Liu Zhang. Chengdu, the center of Shu County, naturally became the territory of the Yizhou family.
Because Liu Zhang relied on Yizhou's native people to establish his position, he was very indulgent towards Yizhou's powerful people. The powerful people from aristocratic families were doing lawlessness and oppressing the people, but Liu Zhang pretended not to see it at all.
Under such circumstances, it would be really strange if the old rice in Liu Zhang's warehouse could still be saved.
After all, old rice is rice grain and can be sold for money.
The powerful Yizhou people, especially the Yizhou powerful people in Shu County, were really unscrupulous. They didn't care at all whether Liu Zhang checked the granaries. Even if he did check the granaries, Liu Zhang still wouldn't do anything to them.
As one of the powerful men in Yizhou, Zhang Song certainly knew the actual situation of the granary in Sichuan, so he gave Liu Zhang such an idea.
So, Liu Zhang thought that the rice he sent to Jiameng Pass was old rice. In fact, at least half of the rice sent to Jiameng Pass was moldy chaff, and the remaining half of the old rice was considered Shu County. The result of a powerful man showing mercy.
Liu Bei was naturally very angry about this.
(End of chapter)
