I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 238 Two Fronts Battle
The first imperial examination still brought a huge shock to the world, especially for those scholars who won the examination, no matter whether they were born in a poor family or a wealthy family, they were assigned official positions uniformly, and they were immediately available on the list.Even starting from an official position such as the chief bookkeeper, these scholars have always seen hope for the future.

Moreover, Li Shimin's Lishan Academy also broke the monopoly of aristocratic families on knowledge and excellent professors to a certain extent, and gave Confucian students from poor families a fair opportunity to learn, which had a huge impact on the pattern of the world.

If things go on like this, the family's monopoly on knowledge, public opinion and moral high ground will be greatly reduced, and the influence of the family on the world will also be greatly reduced. In the future, as the education system continues to be popularized and improved, the influence of the family will gradually decrease .

All of this is what Li Shimin likes to see, and he also tried his best to promote it.

However, this also made the emperor Liu Xie and others feel more grudges against Li Shimin, and were very angry at Li Shimin's blatantly absorbing talents for his own use and nakedly showing his ambition.

After the imperial examinations were successfully concluded, Li Shimin's war machine continued to be activated, Zhang Liao and Cheng Lian's army had also moved into action, and Li Shimin's latest appointment to Zhuge Liang was to be the general of the army that captured Hanzhong. Let him be the commander-in-chief of the army, and it is impossible for Li Shimin not to consider the feelings of Zhang Liao and others. After all, as his team grows, he also needs to be calm, otherwise it will be easy for people to fluctuate and chill the hearts of those who have made meritorious service.

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang didn't care, and he was willing to go.A talented person will radiate dazzling light at any time, and it is only a matter of time before he makes great achievements, so he is not worried at all.

At the same time, another large army has also started to mobilize. The marching commander is Lu Bu, and the general is Jia Xu. The two have cooperated many times, and they are very familiar with each other, and have a certain tacit understanding. Besides, Li Shimin also warned Lu Bu , Don't go your own way, and listen to Jia Xu's advice in everything.

Regarding Li Shimin's warning, Lu Buke did not dare to be careless. Although he is very conceited, he also knows that his martial arts are superb, and he is the best in the world. Since he was a senior, he obeyed Li Shimin's order, and he admired Jia Xu very much, so he was fairly well-behaved.

The army was also moving towards the established position, and the partial division led by Gao Shun had also arrived at Wuguan, and began to act after Lu Bu was in position.

In order to cooperate with the military operations to capture Hanzhong and Nanyang, Li Shimin Feige sent a letter to mobilize Guan Yu's Long Xiang Army, Zhang Xi's Baotao Army, and Zhao Yun's Shenwu Army to begin to attack Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

The 30 army was pressing down on the border, which made Cao Cao feel unprecedented pressure. Cao Cao, who had not recovered from the last war, immediately dispatched troops and commanded 20 troops to stand ready to actively strengthen Yanzhou Dingtao, Chenliu and Qingzhou. Licheng's first-line defensive force.

All of a sudden, there was panic in the three states, and the war was imminent.

It's just that Cao Cao couldn't figure out Li Shimin's key attack direction for a short time. After all, the initiative was in Li Shimin's hands, and the more Li Shimin was seduced, the more pressure Cao Cao felt. Li Shimin gave himself a slap in the face, after all, Li Shimin liked to play this game, and he was familiar with it.

Under the advice of Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others, Cao Cao chose to stand still and use the strategy of remaining unchanged to respond to all changes, so as to prevent being led away by Li Shimin.

Naturally, there was no other way to do this, and a rash attack would give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Seeing that Li Shimin and Cao Cao were about to start a war, Liu Bei, who was far away in Xuzhou, also began to move around. He secretly mobilized troops to retake Pengcheng State occupied by Cao Cao.

Liu Bei did go to Xiangyang Wolong many times, but he didn't even see Mr. Wolong, which made him extremely disappointed. What he didn't know was that the Wolong he was thinking of had already fallen into Li Shimin's arms.

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In order to make the feint attack more realistic, Guan Yu sent [-] elite soldiers to attack Jiyang by surprise in the dark. The defenders were caught off guard and Guan Yu captured them, which touched Cao Cao's nerves for a while.

At the same time, Li Shimin is also the leader of the Tuqun dagger, and all preparations are ready, and he can start to attack when he gives an order.

Zhang Liao's army marched mightily from Chencang Ancient Road to Yangping Pass along the way, and Wudu County had already been captured by Li Shimin, so there was no threat here, so the road went smoothly and basically unimpeded.

But after all, it is an army of [-], and it is absolutely impossible to cover up their whereabouts. Therefore, when Zhang Liao's army was fifty miles away from Yangping Pass, Yang Ren, the guard of Yangping Pass, discovered the abnormality and hurriedly asked Zhang Lu of Nanzheng for help. Report for help.

Although there were [-] defenders at Yangping Pass, most of them were mobs from the Wu Dou Mi Sect, and only [-] soldiers could really fight.

After the news reached Nanzheng, Zhang Lu was so frightened that he was at a loss and didn't know what to do for a while. All the civil and military soldiers under Zhang Lu's command were also trembling, fearing the Bingzhou army like a tiger.

Zhang Lu squirmed his bloated body, and asked in horror: "Everyone, do you have a good strategy to defeat the enemy now? Hurry up and offer it..."

Everyone in the hall looked at each other and remained silent. To put it bluntly, everyone knew that with Hanzhong's pitifully small number of soldiers and horses, it would be impossible to defeat Zhang Liao's tiger and wolf army.

"Are you going to stand by with nothing?" Zhang Lu asked unwillingly.

In fact, in his heart, he had already prepared the worst plan. If he can't beat him, he should surrender. There seems to be no other way but to surrender. Return to Yizhou?Liu Zhang didn't kill himself, how could he accept him.

At this time Zhang Wei stood up and said proudly: "Brother, let me lead the troops to support Yangping Pass, meet Zhang Liao for a while, and see if it is worthy of the name."

Zhang Wei is Zhang Lu's younger brother, and he is used to being arrogant and pampered on weekdays, so he doesn't take the Bingzhou Army seriously.

Zhang Lu thought for a while, it's okay, let his younger brother test the reality of Zhang Liao's army, if it is really as powerful as the rumors, then don't hesitate, just surrender, if there is a chance to hold it, then he will still be happy The king of Hanzhong, why should he live under the fence?

"Okay, my brother is brave, I am very relieved, I still have [-] elite soldiers, all under your command, and go to Yangping Pass to fight against the enemy." Zhang Lu finally made up his mind to fight first.The [-] light soldiers led by Cheng Lian traveled through the vast mountains of the Qinling Mountains, looking for the Baoxie Valley Road. Thanks to Baiqisi's detection, they did not get lost, and quietly marched along the ancient road along the way.

At this time, Zhang Lu's attention was all on Yangping Pass on the western front, and he didn't expect that there would be a surprise soldier coming from Qinling.

(End of this chapter)