Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Liu Bei's words made Li Ji stunned.

In Li Ji's impression, Liu Bei's attitude towards the people was quite gentle, so much so that Li Ji sometimes worried that it might be difficult if Liu Bei's attitude towards foreigners was too friendly.

But what Li Ji didn't expect was that Liu Bei's word was actually... slaughter!

This is a word that is often used just now when people are thinking of genocide. It can be said that it is completely inconsistent with Li Ji's past impression of Liu Bei.

Immediately, Li Ji realized that he might have misunderstood something in his preconceived notions.

Zhuge Liang showed his benevolence by capturing Meng Huo seven times, but it had nothing to do with Liu Bei. Liu Bei was already buried underground at that time.

As a ruthless best friend of Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei has lived in the land of Youyan, which has been suffering from foreign invasions for a long time. How could his attitude towards foreigners be so conciliatory as that of a rotten Confucian?

On the contrary, Liu Bei is undoubtedly the kind of character who is gentle internally and tough externally.

In other words, this should also be the vassal culture of the entire late Han Dynasty. Few princes have tolerant thoughts towards foreigners.

Even Ma Chao, who was half Qiang, showed no mercy when attacking the Qiang.

Li Ji, who was deep in thought, remained silent for a long time. This actually made Liu Bei think that Li Ji was worried, so he immediately stood up and cupped his hands towards Li Ji.

"Zikun, please lend me a helping hand. Don't let Shanyue hurt any of my people again."

Seeing this, Li Ji quickly replied.

"Ji, this is what I thought, and in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control, last night I ordered Zilong to lead a thousand and fifteen light cavalry to Qiantang County for support without my lord's permission."

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"Thanks to Zikun's sudden decision for this matter, I can't thank you enough. How can I blame Zikun?"

"Otherwise, if I were to mobilize my troops now that I have sobered up, I'm afraid I would have missed the opportunity to fight. What's more, by handing the military talisman to Zikun, I was allowing Zikun to mobilize the troops in the county at will, without having to worry too much."

Immediately, Li Ji did not waste time with too many polite words, but analyzed the current situation to Liu Bei based on the intelligence reported by the Jinyi Division.

The sudden appearance of such a mountain peak in Qiantang County is too weird. It can be called a divine weapon descending from the sky.

After a night of thinking, Li Ji became more and more certain that the mountain was definitely coming from the direction of Kuaiji County, and the possibility of collusion between Kuaiji County and the mountain was extremely high!
If this happens, then it is very likely that the situation will not only be resolved by a confrontation between thousands of troops, but there is even a possibility that a large area of ​​county towns centered on Qiantang County will fall and Guan Yu's troops will be cut off from food routes.

Hearing that Guan Yu's troops might be besieged in Fuchun Mountain, Liu Bei couldn't help but have a flash of anxiety in his eyes.

Although this was only based on the worst possible consideration, it made Liu Bei completely vigilant.

"Shan Yue! Shan Yue!!"

Liu Bei frowned and kept mumbling this word.

Unlike the few large ethnic groups on the northern grasslands, the situation south of the Yangtze River is undoubtedly much more complicated.

Although the Han Dynasty officially referred to all the foreign races south of the Yangtze River as Nanman Shanyue, in fact Nanman and Shanyue were separate.

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It was recorded as early as the time of Emperor Shun, and the name was: "Barbarians cunning Xia", which means barbarians disrupting China.

Of course, it was actually a tribal war during that period. The winner was officially called "Xia", while the loser was driven out of the Central Plains, so it was called "Barbarian".

In addition, the "barbarians" gradually survived and settled in the dangerous areas south of the Yangtze River that were not radiated by the Central Plains culture, and gradually they were collectively referred to as "southern barbarians".

Therefore, within the Nanman people, different ethnic groups settled in different areas south of the Yangtze River, and some even had their own cultures and inheritances.

As for "Shan Yue", Liu Bei understood that it was more complicated from Li Ji's words or other local documents.

"Shanyue" is mainly divided into two parts. One part is the descendant of the ancient Baiyue tribe, but it did not really form a unique nation. Instead, it continued to survive in the gathering of small tribes scattered in the mountains and forests.

The other part is the remnant mob that has secluded itself in the mountains and forests south of the Yangtze River from the Warring States and Pre-Qin period to the present, either due to wars, crimes, or exile.

Over time, mountain tribes have naturally formed in the mountains and forests, and they make a living by gathering, hunting, or plundering.

It's just that because the situation in Shanyue is extremely complicated, a further understanding is that there are no records in Wujun's internal documents, so Liu Bei naturally has no idea.

Liu Bei quickly understood Li Ji's thoughts and worries and said.

"Could it be that Zikun suspected that someone was connecting the Shanyue tribes behind the scenes, and that the 3,000-strong Shanyue tribe was just a test?"

"Of course."

Li Ji nodded and said. "This matter cannot be ignored."

"What Zikun said is absolutely true. In my opinion, it may be time to gather troops and prepare for the possibility of fighting against Shanyue in the south, but we don't know about the food and grass..." At the end of the sentence, Liu Bei's voice became smaller involuntarily. Revealing a sense of guilt.

After all, the last time Liu Bei suddenly decided to provide disaster relief and rescue the people, Wu Jun was busy for so long before the situation in Wu Jun was barely on track.

As a result, the wine from this celebration meal was not yet sober, and Liu Bei opened his mouth to mobilize the army again and use weapons rashly.

This made Liu Bei feel inexplicably regretful as soon as he opened his mouth. No matter how talented Zikun was, he shouldn't have acted like this. At least let Zikun rest for a while before talking.

However, as soon as Liu Bei finished speaking, Li Ji took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve and held it in front of Liu Bei.

Liu Bei subconsciously took the bamboo slip and asked.

"What is this?"

"The money, food, ordnance, etc. required for the allocation and supply of the army's logistics have been clearly accounted for and recorded on the bamboo slips."

When he said this, Li Ji couldn't help but chuckle, then waved his hand and made a cutting motion and said.

"As long as the lord is interested, he only needs to give an order, and there is no need to worry about logistical issues. Soldiers from various cities and counties can be mobilized to gather forces and go south."

When Liu Bei heard this, he opened the bamboo slips in shock and saw that the records were clearly recorded one by one. Even the troops that Wu Commandery could mobilize now were clearly listed.

Excluding Guan Yu's troops, the cavalry led by Zhao Yun, Xu Sheng and Jiang Qin's small navy, and considering that each county should at least leave the most basic county soldiers to maintain public order, plus some of Liu Bei's direct descendants brought from the north .

Now Liu Bei's command can mobilize about 12,000 troops, and including Guan Yu's troops and Zhao Yun's cavalry, Wu County can now mobilize about 20,000 troops.

Of course, this was because Li Ji had previously considered that Wu County’s focus was on developing people’s livelihood and did not deliberately send out troops, and the young men who “relief through work” had not been converted into soldiers. Therefore, Li Ji was used to complete Wu County’s original plan. After the county soldiers were vacant, the overall strength was only maintained at 20,000.

However, although Wujun's military strength tends to be streamlined, its combat power is far beyond that of ordinary county soldiers.

In particular, Liu Bei's direct lineage soldiers brought from the north had already experienced high-intensity wars, and after receiving nearly a year of training, they were truly elite soldiers.

Liu Bei looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, his face couldn't help but be filled with joy, and he said "Okay".

It can be said that Li Ji has almost completed the preparation work.

If Liu Bei wanted to use troops, he only needed to make arrangements directly based on the contents on the bamboo slips.

"Zikun knows what I mean!"

Liu Bei couldn't help but praise, and then reacted suddenly and said.

"When did Zikun calculate this bamboo slip? Could it be that Zikun stayed up all night last night?"

Li Ji smiled and cupped his hands. "This was calculated by Ji and Wenhe last night. I think it will be useful for the Lord to convene a military council this morning."

When Liu Bei heard this, he couldn't help but feel deeply moved and relieved.

Last night I had a drunken banquet, and then fell into a deep sleep and had a good dream.

However, in order not to spoil his own interest, and to avoid the interruption of a rare banquet that allowed everyone to vent their stress, Li Ji worked all night long, just so that he could wake up quickly and without any worries. decision.

"Zikun, I have you behind my back, so I have no worries!"

Liu Bei did not make any promise to share wealth and wealth, knowing that such things were of no importance to the two of them, but expressed his thoughts with emotion.

Upon seeing this, Li Ji responded with a smile on his originally heavy face. "Thanks to my lord's trust, how dare you disobey me?"

"Let's go, Zikun. Bei will convene a military meeting right now. Let us see who dares to stroke the tiger's beard in Wu County under Zikun's rule. We can also teach those people in the mountains and rivers what thunder means."

Liu Bei said, and then he didn't clean up his messy robes after being hungover. He just pulled Li Ji out of the room, and then ordered his bodyguards to notify the ministers and generals one by one to quickly go to the conference hall for a military meeting.

Everyone at the banquet last night was drunk except Li Ji, Jia Xu and Zhao Yun.

Therefore, after getting drunk, most people simply slept on the spot in the government office for the whole night. When the guards woke everyone up one by one to attend the emergency military meeting, almost everyone who reacted was broken into a cold sweat and hurriedly It was heading towards the meeting hall.

However, when Xiahou Bo, Xu Sheng, Jiang Qin, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Gu Yong and others stepped into the meeting hall one after another, seeing Liu Bei, Li Ji and Jia Xu sitting calmly in it, the anxiety in their hearts disappeared. A few points.

These bosses are not in a hurry. It seems that the matter is not too big.

However, Jia Xu's appearance of yawning continuously just sitting where Li Ji was sitting made many people couldn't help but pay attention to him.

Especially Jia Xu's face, which usually always looks red, now seems to have stayed up for several days and nights without sleeping, so that it looks a bit haggard, which makes people think. (End of chapter)