Ji Han Liu Zhang

Chapter 325 Prepare
Huayin.

Because Li Jue and Guo Si fought in Guanzhong last year, which led to great chaos in Guanzhong. Later, the emperor moved eastward to Luoyang. A series of chaos broke out in Guanzhong. In order to avoid the chaos, Jia Xu returned the seal and ribbon to the emperor. It has been some time since I took my family with me to rely on General Duan Xuan of Ningji.

Jia Xu was born in Wuwei Guzang, located in the hinterland of the Qiang chaos in Liangzhou. Chaos and disputes have always been with him. Later, Dong Zhuo brought trouble to Luoyang, and he was caught up in it. He had no choice but to mix with the generals of Liangzhou, and his fate was uncertain. Ping, I don’t know when I was beaten away by the wind and rain.

Now, after some manipulation by Jia Xu, he was able to stay away from the chaos in Guanzhong and get away from the emperor. He saved his family and himself, stayed safely in Huayin, and had a peaceful life that was rare in his life.

Therefore, Jia Xu enjoys the peaceful time now, but during this comfortable and leisurely period, he did not relax and relax. On the contrary, he still maintained the caution in his bones.

Just like that moment, he realized that although Ningji General Duan Xuan was very polite to him on the surface and showed no disrespect at all, he could see the fear of him hidden in the depths of Duan Xuan's eyebrows, and Because of this fearful look, the killing intent is occasionally revealed.

Jia Xu knew that this was because he had a good reputation among Liangzhou people and was respected by the Liangzhou soldiers under Duan You. Duan Xu was afraid that he would incite the soldiers and take advantage of the opportunity to seize Huayin's military power, so that Duan Xu would Lost the authority of the separatist party.

Although Jia Xu didn't have this idea in his heart, he speculated that Duan Xuan's fear and murderous intention would only get deeper and deeper, and sooner or later he would burst out. By then, the life and death of his little family would be unpredictable, and it would not only be him. , his family can hardly have any chance of survival.

"Don't stay in Huayin for long!"

Jia Xu stroked his beard and sighed softly. Tigers are not harmful to people, but tigers are harmful to people's hearts. If he wants Duan Xuan not to harm him, he must leave Huayin, so that Duan Xuan can feel at ease.

Shaanxi County.

Although Duan Yu was stroking his beard and half-squinting his eyes after Daoming's invitation, Jia Xu was very keenly aware that Duan Yu was staring at him without blinking, probing the expression on his face. There was a slight worry on Yu's face, as if he was worried that he would accept it.

"General Duan is entertaining Cheng Yu, the envoy from Yizhou, so it is naturally more lively. Husband, don't you know about this?" Jia Xu's wife asked back, and at the same time expressed doubts: "Husband, General Duan is waiting for you this morning. I invited you to a banquet to accompany the envoy from Yizhou, why don’t you go?”

"It's nothing." Jia Xu shook his head and said casually: "It's so lively over there at the official temple. The sound of silk and bamboo has even reached us."

Jia Xu shook his head and said nothing. He didn't intend to say any more: "This is not something you women should know. Just leave it to me."

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Jia Xu smiled and said as simply and understandably as possible: "General Duan sent someone to invite me to a banquet to accompany the Yizhou envoy. It was just out of politeness. I guess General Duan didn't want me to see Yizhou. What contact did the envoy from Yizhou have with the envoy from Yizhou?”

After saying that, Jia Xu's wife said nothing. She continued to sew clothes and did what a wife should do.

Jia Xu no longer sat down, he stood up and faced the direction of Huayin Temple. While listening to the music of silk and bamboo coming from the temple, he thought about the situation in the morning when Duan Xuan sent someone to invite him to the banquet.

The person Duan Xuan sent was Duan Yu, the chief clerk. Duan Yu held the position of chief clerk and was an official who could participate in secrets. Duan Yu's surname was Duan, and he was a relative of Duan Xuan, so Duan Yu could say The one above is Duan Xuan's cronies, the cronies among cronies.

After getting a glimpse of Duan Xuan's thoughts from Duan Yu's face, Jia Xu naturally rejected the invitation. He probably guessed what Duan Xuan was thinking. Duan Xuan was probably worried that he would go to the banquet and hook up with the envoy from Yizhou. , and obtained foreign aid, which was detrimental to Duan Xuan's control of Huayin's military and political affairs.

If he encountered this situation on weekdays, he would lead his troops to capture Wubao near Shaanxi County and slaughter a powerful family to fill the famine in the army and meet temporary needs.

It seems that he is not good at management and has no long-term plan. When the food and grass are abundant, he will be extravagant and waste too much food and grass, so that he is now in a situation of no food.

"Huh?" Jia Xu's wife tilted her head slightly, showing an expected look of confusion.

It was not until midnight that the music of silk and bamboo in Huayin Temple stopped and no longer reached Jia Xu's ears.

"Husband, what did you just say?" Jia Xu's wife was sewing clothes. She didn't realize what Jia Xu was talking to herself for a while, so she asked.

"Yes." Jia Xu's wife did not get angry because of Jia Xu's words. She only lowered her eyebrows and affirmed Jia Xu's authority: "It is up to the husband to decide on external matters."

"Huh? Why doesn't General Duan want your husband to have contact with the Yizhou envoy... My husband has no official position and is just an idler. It shouldn't matter whether he meets the Yizhou envoy or not." Jia Xu's wife was still confused. , continued to ask.

"Huayin is not a place to stay for a long time." Jia Xu murmured to himself. The longer he stayed in Huayin, the deeper Duan Xuan's fear of him became. His life would probably fall into Duan Yan's hands, and he would have to find a way out.

"General Duan's invitation to me to attend the banquet does not mean that he wants me to attend the banquet." Jia Xu said an inequality, an inequality that puzzled his wife.

General Zhang Ji has recently encountered a difficulty, that is, his army is short of food and will soon run out of food.

But what is difficult to comment on is that after his plundering in the past two years, Wubao near Shaanxi County was either captured by him and completely eaten, or the owner of Wubao saw that the situation was not good and had to wait for a long time. The whole family moved away, and now there is no Wuwu Fort near Shaanxian County for him to plunder.

Food is the most courageous thing in the army. Without food and grass, the Liangzhou cavalry under his command would be invincible and scattered in all directions.

However, Zhang Ji did have a solution to the problem of lack of food in the army. In order to counter the Shu army that was about to go north, Li Jue and Guo Si from Guanzhong sent him documents one after another, asking him to go to Guanzhong to help out, and patted their chests and promised , will provide him with the food, grass and baggage he needs.

"Guanzhong." Zhang Ji murmured these two words, and the hesitation on his face was obvious.

Indeed, going to Guanzhong can solve the problem of food shortage, but going to Guanzhong will cause a new problem, that is, the need to assist Li Jue and Guo Si in fighting Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou. As for Liu Yizhou, he had conquered Bajun in the east, Nanzhong in the south, Hanzhong in the north, and dispatched other troops to capture Wudu. His military power and military prowess made him seem to be unrivaled for a while, and his current prestige is extremely high.

"It's difficult!" Zhang Ji sighed. He was worried that if Liu Yizhou won the dispute with Li Jue and Guo Si, he, the hussar general who went to Guanzhong to help out, might not get any good results.

However, if he does not go to Guanzhong and the problem of food and grass cannot be solved, the Liangzhou cavalry under his command will probably disperse in a few days and abandon him. It is a light thing to abandon him, but it may be serious. Because the famine is resenting him, it may be difficult for his family, old and young, to survive.

Just when Zhang Ji was hesitating, a young man with a tall figure and a square face stepped into the room.

"Xiu'er, how many days can the army's food and grass supplies last?" When Zhang Ji saw Zhang Xiu, he immediately asked the question he was most concerned about, that is, how many days can the army's food and grass supplies last? This is related to his Net worth and life.

Zhang Xiu, who went to count the amount of food and grass, immediately reported back and gave the details: "Uncle, if you eat more, you will run out of food in more than ten days. If you eat less together, you can still last for twenty days."

Less than a month! Zhang Ji suddenly felt a headache. The situation in the army was very bad. He needed to make a decision early - whether to go to Guanzhong. Otherwise, if he delayed for a few more days, even if he made a decision, the food and grass would be exhausted, and he would have no chance to rush to Guanzhong.

"Xiu'er, do you think we should go to Guanzhong?" As the general, Zhang Ji could not make a decision. He asked Zhang Xiu, hoping that Zhang Xiu would give him an idea or some inspiration.

Zhang Xiu frowned when he heard this, and he considered: "Uncle, considering the current situation, we should leave for Guanzhong immediately, otherwise if we delay for a few more days, even if we want to leave, we will not have enough food and grass for the march. "

"Yes!" Zhang Ji nodded in agreement, and he sighed straightly: "But Uncle Wei felt that if he went to Guanzhong to help Li Jue and Guo Bang fight against Liu Zhang, the shepherd of Yizhou, if he was not careful, Liu Yizhou If we win, then the lives of you, my uncle and my nephew will be in danger.”

"Uncle, why don't we lead troops to Nanyang County? Although Nanyang County was devastated by Yuan Shu, it is still a large county. The household registration and field records are much better than those of Hongnong, and even better than those of Guanzhong." Zhang Xiu threw out a Options, they are now in Hongnong. Bingzhou in the north and Luoyang in the east have suffered from military disasters and are desolate. They will starve to death there. There are only two choices: go to Guanzhong in the west and go to Nanyang in the south.

"Nanyang?" After Zhang Ji heard the word Nanyang, his eyes suddenly lit up, but soon, the brilliance in his eyes gradually dimmed.

Zhang Ji shook his head and rejected the Nanyang option. If Li Jue and Guo Si had not invited him to go west to Guanzhong, he might have chosen to go to Nanyang. But now that there is an option to go west to Guanzhong, he would rather go west to Guanzhong.

"The land of Nanyang is now in the hands of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao. We are just a lone army with no more than 3,000 soldiers. Although the combat power of our soldiers is more brave than that of the Chu soldiers, there are too many ants to kill the elephants. We are not the rivals of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao."

Zhang Ji gave a reason for rejection and rejected Zhang Xiu's suggestion on the grounds that Jingzhou was full of troops. However, in fact, he preferred to go west to Guanzhong. Guanzhong is close to Liangzhou and closer to his hometown of Wuwei. Some, he was worried about going to Nanyang, in case something bad happened, he would be buried in a foreign land and become a ghost in a foreign land.

"What my uncle said is that Nanyang is not easy to get to." Zhang Xiu nodded.

"Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou, is not easy to compete with, and Liu Biao, the herdsman of Jingzhou, is not a good person. Going to Guanzhong and Nanyang are both difficult..." Zhang Ji raised his head and thought about it. After a while, he finally made a decision.

If there was enough time to allow Zhang Ji to think carefully for a while, he would carefully compare the advantages and disadvantages of going to Guanzhong and Nanyang. But now there is not much time to allow him to think carefully, so Zhang Ji made a decision. .

"Let's go to Guanzhong, but we don't have to rush to Chencang to join the war. We will go to Chang'an first to get food and grass, and wait and see in Chang'an for a while."

Zhang Ji made a decision, and the elite soldiers from Liangzhou who followed him naturally followed his lead. Within a day, the elite soldiers from Liangzhou in Shaanxi County were mobilized, carrying only grain, grass and ordnance, and sent troops to Chang'an. .

From Shaanxi County to Guanzhong, you need to pass through Tongguan and Huayin before arriving at Chang'an.

Traveling through mountains and rivers along the way, Zhang Ji stopped his army when he arrived near Huayin. He set up camp and sent an envoy to Huayin to meet Ningji General Duan Xuan. He intended to defeat Duan Xuan's autumn wind.

Duan Xuan was an outlier among their group of Liangzhou generals. Like him, Li Jue and Guo Si, they relied on plundering civilians and powerful men for military supplies and had no intention of farming. However, Duan Xuan was peaceful and diligent. Build agriculture and collect taxes normally for military needs.

In the past, Zhang Ji had laughed at Duan Wei, thinking that Duan Wei did not have the spirit of Liangzhou people and actually went to do the work of an old farmer. But now, he admired Duan Wei. People like him were almost out of food, but Duan Wei had no worries about food and clothing and did not have to worry about the future.

Zhang Ji hoped that Duan Xuan would give his envoy some grain and grass to take back for the sake of everyone being from Liangzhou. As for sending troops to attack Huayin and plunder the grain and grass stored in Huayin, Zhang Ji had no such idea. The army was short of food, but Duan Yan's soldiers were well fed. They couldn't defeat him, so they could only ask Duan Yan to take pity on him.

With Zhang Ji's expectations, the envoy brought back grain and grass, which made Zhang Ji look happy. However, the envoy brought back not only grain and grass, but also brought back a famous Liangzhou scholar-Jia Xu, which surprised Zhang Ji. Very.

Upon hearing the news of Jia Xu's arrival, Zhang Ji trotted all the way to the camp gate and said in a joyful tone: "Mr. Jia, why are you here?"

"Xiu'er, go tell the cook to prepare a banquet. I want to entertain Mr. Jia well." Zhang Ji held Jia Xu's hand and hurriedly gave instructions to Zhang Xiu.

"Sir, please stay with me tonight so that I can express my respect. Tomorrow, I will personally send you back to Huayin." Zhang Ji spoke politely and said he wanted to stay with Jia Xu for the night.

Jia Xu smiled slightly when he heard this, and responded: "Jun Yi, don't say tonight, but tomorrow night and the night after tomorrow. I will stay here for the night. I hope I won't disturb you."

'Tomorrow night, the night after tomorrow. Zhang Ji didn't react for a while, but soon his eyes lit up: "Sir, could it be that... you want to..."

Zhang Ji's mouth and tongue trembled, but his meaning had been conveyed. In his expectant eyes, Jia Xu nodded in affirmation. Zhang Ji immediately showed a happy smile. He held Jia Xu's hand and said : "No worries, no worries... I just hope that my husband can live comfortably."

(End of this chapter)