Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2000 Chi You's Heart
Chapter 1998: Chi You's Heart
Wuguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if there are only [-] defenders left, it cannot be captured in a short period of time.

Therefore, in order to succeed in this surprise attack on Wuguan, Li Jing had to gather all the best soldiers in the army so that he could capture Wuguan before the Tang army's reinforcements arrived.

Although Li Jing took Gao Chong, Zhang Kui and other generals away, he also left Arthur, Xu Huang and other generals to Zhang Liao. After all, if all the fierce generals were taken away, the troops attacking Tongguan would be greatly reduced. Li Shiming It must be obvious at a glance, but it will be easy to reveal the truth at that time.

The next day, under the banner of Li Jing, Zhang Liao led an army of [-] troops to leave the Yaohan camp, and headed for Tongguan in a big way.

After arriving under Tongguan, Zhang Liao neither called for formation nor sent generals to fight. Instead, he set up a formation outside the pass, deploying a large number of catapults and siege crossbows, as if he was about to attack by force.

Zhang Liao didn't just put on airs, he ordered the catapult to carry out several rounds of tentative attacks on the same day.

Nearly a hundred catapults threw several rounds at the gate of the city. As a result, only one-third of the stone bombs smashed into Tongguan, but they failed to cause any damage to Tongguan, only killing a dozen soldiers.

Li Shimin was very satisfied with the defense of Tongguan, and he was full of confidence in the next offensive and defensive battle, but what he didn't know was that the Qin army's attack on Tongguan was just to attract his attention, and the Li Jing he saw was not himself at all, but Zhang Liao. People pretended to be the real Li Jing, who had already led the army to detour to Wuguan.

In order not to expose his whereabouts, Li Jing had to detour to Nanyang, and then took Nanxiang County to attack Wuguan. The march was nearly a thousand miles away. Even if he marched at full speed, it would take at least ten days.

Before Li Jing's army reached Wuguan, the battle in Jingzhou changed first.

Nanzhong.

As the envoy of the Qin army, Lu Qinghou was sent by Jia Xu to Nanzhong as early as the beginning of the Jingbei War, lobbying the Nanman king Chi You to send troops to attack the rear of the Shu Kingdom.

After a month of trekking, Lv Qinghou finally arrived in Nanzhong smoothly after going through many twists and turns, but the Nanman King Chi You was in retreat.

Lu Qinghou, who had been turned away, didn't complete his mission, so he could only stay in Nanzhong and wait for Chi You to leave the customs, but he didn't want to wait for a month.

"Brother Wang, in order to invite our army to send troops, Qin Jun not only promised a lot of money and food as reward, but also promised to cede the four counties in southern Shu to us afterwards, and named you the king of Nanzhong, brother Wang, which is full of sincerity."

Mrs. Zhu Rong, no, she is still Princess Zhu Rong, and she asked her elder brother Chi You with a puzzled look on her face, "We have a personal enmity with Liu Jiben, why don't we take advantage of the situation and agree to take this opportunity to avenge our previous shame."

Chi You lightly shook the glass full of wine in his hand, and said calmly: "Little sister, remember, hatred can be turned into the driving force for your growth, but don't be dazzled by hatred."

Princess Zhu Rong fell silent when she heard this. At the beginning, she concealed her identity and left home to travel among big men. Because she killed several scum, she accidentally revealed her identity as a barbarian. As a result, she was chased and killed by many Central Plains masters, and almost died several times. on the way back.

Princess Zhu Rong's escape was extremely difficult, especially after she fled to Yizhou, Liu Ji, king of Shu, sent troops to pursue her, and wanted to use her to blackmail her elder brother Chi You.

If it weren't for Chi You and Chen Bing's stance of going to war at the frontier, bluffing Liu Ji, Zhu Rong would have been captured alive.

After this incident, Zhu Rong completely hated Liu Ji, but he also knew that with the poor Nanman, it would be difficult to threaten Liu Ji who already occupied most of Sichuan and Shu, so he could only hide this hatred in his heart.

The initiative of the Qin State to send envoys to seek alliances made Princess Zhu Rong see the hope of revenge, so she kept urging Chi You and Qin Jun to join forces.

But Chi You was not interested in the matter of joining Qin, and directly refused the Qin envoy's request to see him on the grounds of retreat. It has been more than half a month, and he still has no intention of seeing the Qin envoy.

After being silent for a while, Princess Zhu Rong said, "Brother Wang, my little sister was not dazzled by hatred, but after rational analysis.

We, the Nanman, live in a corner, and join forces with the Qin State to attack Shu. One can avenge our hatred, and the other can expand our territory. It can be said that we can kill two birds with one stone. "

Chi You shook his head and said, "Don't look at Qin's situation in Hebei is not good, but the situation in Jiangnan is not good, and now the Southern Han Dynasty is the overlord of the South.

After Jiangxia was occupied by Liu Xiu, Chu and Shu joined forces to attack Jingbei. It would be good if Qin could hold Jingbei.

Little sister, my brother naturally wants to take revenge on Liu Ji, but now is not the time to take revenge.

The princes of Shu, Chu and Tang formed the court of the Southern Han Dynasty. If they sent troops to attack Liu Ji at this time, it would be tantamount to making the entire Southern Han Alliance an enemy.

The loss from the last defeat has not yet been fully recovered. It is really inappropriate to start a war with Shu. If you send troops now, you will only be used as spearmen by the Qin army. "

Zhu Rong didn't expect these two points. She knew that the Nanman suffered a lot last time, but she didn't expect that they hadn't fully recovered yet.

Nanban Nanzhong is far away from the Central Plains, and Liu Ji can block the flow of things from the Central Plains to Nanzhong, so he has little knowledge of the situation in the Central Plains.

If Zhu Rong hadn't brought back new grains from the Central Plains, which doubled Nanman's production, I'm afraid Nanman still didn't know about the new grains, and the problem of food shortage would definitely continue to this day.

Now there is no shortage of food in Nanban, the people no longer worry about being hungry, and the productivity has increased greatly. How come the wounds of the war have not recovered yet?
What Zhu Rong didn't know was that Chi You appeared to be calm on the surface, but he was under great pressure in his heart.

The national power of the Shu Kingdom has far surpassed the Nanman, and has been blocking the Nanman, wanting to keep the Nanman behind, which shows that Liu Ji's heart is not dead.

It is precisely because of this that Chi You acquiesced in Zhu Rong's going to the Central Plains to bring back the advanced things of the Central Plains.

Chi You was very afraid that Liu Ji would not fight for the hegemony of the Central Plains, but would instead compete with him for the backwaters of South China. After all, although the Nanman were poor, mosquitoes were still meat no matter how small they were. If they were defeated, they would increase the country's strength a lot.

Now that Liu Ji took the initiative to invade Jingbei, this meant that Shu's strategic policy was in the north and not in the south, and he had no desire to covet the south for the time being, so Chi You would naturally not take the initiative to provoke Liu Ji.

The most important thing for Chi You now is to seize all the time and strive to recover and grow as soon as possible. When he is sure or the time comes, he will send troops to Yizhou again.

After hearing what her brother said, Zhu Rong knew that she couldn't convince him.

Chi You is a very assertive monarch, and it is difficult for him to be swayed by outside remarks when he makes up his mind.

At this moment, Gonggong ran in excitedly and said loudly: "My lord, good news, the Qin army's [-] reinforcements have arrived in Jingbei, and the war in Jingzhou may enter a stalemate again. Nei will definitely not come back."

Hearing this, a bright light flashed in Chi You's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Let the envoy of Qin come to see me, forget it, I've neglected him for so long, I'd better go see him in person."

(End of this chapter)