"Liu Bang, this old man! How shameless!" Sima Cuo said with a headache. After receiving the news, Fan Ju was no less troubled than Sima Cuolai.
A Yan Jun suddenly appeared in Yan Jun's territory to kill people. After hearing the news, most people in the world would not think that Yan Jun had done it himself. And since if it wasn't the Yan Army, the final result could only be the Qin Army.
Liu Bang, this old thief, is really ruthless! Absolutely enough! On the surface, he looked friendly to his men, and after they were captured, he immediately expressed his intention to send their families there, but secretly his methods were indeed ruthless.
This alone is enough to show that the other party is an excellent leader of power!
"Don't worry! Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Yan can't escape from my grasp!" Although Fan Ju still frowned, he waved to Sima Cuo.
If this plan fails, he has other ways to make Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Jian surrender to them. It's just that it's just surrender. It's a bit difficult to convince the other party. Moreover, even if you surrender, it may not be possible without spending at least a year and a half.
Although it ends up taking a little longer, it's actually not a big problem. After all, although Ju Xin, Lang Ling, Wei Yan and others are talents, they are definitely not talents that cannot function without them.
Fan Ju's headache was not with Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Jian, but with the impact of Liu Bang's pouring of dirty water on them.
"By the way, there is news that Li Tang is going to raise troops again!" Sima Cuo said with a headache.
It is estimated that few people would be willing to go to war on two fronts. Compared with other princes in the world, the Jin army has a great family and a great cause, so they are qualified to do this.
But the current Qin Army cannot compare with the Jin Army in all aspects. If it is possible not to fight on two fronts, I believe that few generals of the Qin Army would be willing.
However, among the remaining princes today, they are basically more shrewd than the last. Because the current Jin army is too powerful, all the princes will unite to fight against the Jin army. Some princes even put aside their grievances for the time being in order to fight against the Jin army together.
But now Li Tang really doesn't want to see the Qin army become stronger, so he must use weapons again to prevent the Qin army from becoming stronger as much as possible.
Li Shimin has his own ambitions. He doesn't want to live in such a small land. He has never been willing to do so. What he really wants is the splendid mountains and rivers of the Han Dynasty.
However, if Li Shimin really wanted the splendid rivers and mountains of the Han Dynasty, the first thing he had to solve was the Qin Army. The current Qin Army was firmly blocking any way for Li Tang to expand towards the Han Dynasty except the sea route.
If he did not take the lead in dealing with the Qin army, it would have been impossible for Li Shimin to advance into the Central Plains. Any ambition he has will eventually turn into a dream and nothing more.
Moreover, after resolving the internal strife within Li Tang, if Li Shimin wanted to further expand his vision, he also needed to be allowed to take action against the Qin army.
It is true that the Li and Tang forces, in addition to being close to the Qin army in Youzhou, also bordered on the grassland forces. However, with Li Shimin's current strength, he was not qualified to intervene in the grassland situation.
Although Li Shimin belonged to the grassland camp during the Grassland War, don't think that Li Tang was really a nomadic civilization. In essence, Li Tang, like the Han Dynasty, still belonged to a farming civilization.
With Li Tang's current cavalry strength, it was not easy to intervene in the situation on the grassland.
Moreover, if he wants to take action on the grassland, Li Tang will also face the same problem as Li Xiang, Qin Zheng, and Liu Bang, that is, whether the benefits they will get from the grassland are worth their efforts!
If we attack the grassland rashly, even if we can secure a certain territory, as a farming civilization, we will inevitably need to build cities by then. Is it worth spending so much manpower and material resources at this time? Is it good for them?
It is precisely because Li Xiang feels that it is not worth it now, and there is no need to slow down his pace of unifying the world. Therefore, the policy of always defending the grasslands in the north and intensifying the internal struggles among the grassland forces can at most only take action against the Qiang people!
After he completely unifies the Central Plains, he can naturally mobilize manpower and material resources to the greatest extent to solve the grassland problem!
Therefore, although it seems that Li Tang is also close to the grassland, in fact, his expansion direction is only the Qin army.
Nowadays, the Qin army is like a roadblock, blocking Li Tang's expansion path, which makes Li Tang quite troubled. If the power of the Qin army further expands, it will be even more difficult for Li Tang to move away from this obstacle.
Therefore, Li Tang could only try every means to prevent the Qin army from becoming stronger at this time.
"This is what was expected!" Fan Ju didn't look surprised at all after hearing the news. However, Sima Cuo said this news and temporarily diverted Fan Ju's attention.
After all, when he decided to go to war against Liu Bang, the top brass on the front had already guessed that Li Tang would definitely be unwilling to be left alone and cause trouble.
"Don't worry, the civil strife in Li Tang has just ended, and its strength has not yet been restored, so it cannot pose a real threat to our army!" Fan Ju continued.
Although the Qin army did not want Li Tang to cause trouble at this time, even if the other party did come, it was only a near miss.
A series of internal turmoil in Li Tang caused by the Xuanwu Gate Incident, coupled with the subsequent rebellion between Li Mi and Li Bi, Li Tang had just stabilized at this time, and its strength had not yet been restored. Therefore, this time is indeed a rare opportunity for the Qin army.
The Qin Army must seize this opportunity and make every effort to deal with Liu Bang. No matter how difficult the Qin Army will be internally, it must do this. If you can't seize this opportunity, then there may not be such a good opportunity in the future.
And, no matter what, after all, the senior officials of the Qin Army had already expected that Li Tang would send troops to interfere with their military operations this time. Therefore, a lot of preparations must have been made in advance.
This time, most of the remaining famous generals and fierce generals of the Qin Army were basically concentrated on the eastern front. Moreover, even if Li Tang did send troops, Qin Zheng asked these generals not to push Li Tang back, but to defend with all their strength, and to persist until the end of the battlefield in the west.
Therefore, if the defense is all-out, the pressure on those generals will be reduced a lot.
