Crush the Three Kingdoms with Cards

Chapter 78: Each has his own mind (1)

After Dong Zhuo died, all forces in Liangzhou fell apart.With the Qiang people's full support for Ma Teng, Ma Teng, who was already in the upper hand, took three days to break through Xu Rong's defense line in Sanshui in front of Anding City, and officially directed his troops directly at Anding City!However, Xu Rong only relied on [-] soldiers and a land of Sanshui with a relatively weak defense to deal with Ma Teng's [-] army for such a long time.Now, even though he lost to Ma Teng and withdrew his troops back to Anding City, he was still welcomed by Li Ru and Li Jue.At this time, Li Jue's prestige in Dong Zhuo's forces was higher than that of Li Ru and Xu Rong, so he naturally sat at the highest position.Li Ru and Xu Rong sat opposite each other a little below.

"General Xu has made great contributions in guarding Sanshui, and this officer admires him very much."

According to Li Jue's original words, in order to stabilize the morale of Liangzhou's army, he temporarily took over the post of Liangzhou Mu.He is really a minister who takes care of the overall situation.

"Ah! The last general is ashamed. After all, he lost to Ma Teng, lost Sanshui, and fell into Anding City under the vanguard of horse bandits. I hope your lord will punish him."

Xu Rong sighed and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

"Hahaha! What is the crime of the general? You have fought against Ma Teng for many days, and you have won precious time for our army to prepare for the war. Now there are not only three thousand soldiers in Anding City, but more than six thousand, and there are two more soldiers. Thousands of reserve troops can join the battle at any time, totaling more than [-] people." Li Jue said proudly, "Even if Ma Teng and Pifu are leading the army, it is still unknown whether they will win or lose!"

With [-] regular troops and [-] reserve troops, even if Ma Teng had Qiang support, it would be difficult for him to capture Anding City in a short time.Even during Ma Teng's long-distance attack, he might be consumed and died outside the city by Li Jue and others because of the difficulty in getting food and grass.Although Sanshui was breached, Ma Teng's grain transportation route also became longer.As long as Ma Teng's army has no food and grass, it will naturally collapse without attack.Therefore, when Sanshui was broken, Li Jue and Li Ru didn't panic at all.Moreover, the Qiang people supported Ma Teng for profit. If Ma Teng was unable to attack for a long time, these people would most likely change their faces and leave, and even under Li Ru's instigation, they would give Ma Teng a counterattack.At that time, the morale of Ma Teng's army will definitely be severely hit.In this way, if Li Jue sent troops to pursue him again, he would most likely defeat Ma Teng's army and make Anding City famous.In the land of Sanshui, it is easy to regain the lost.

"Lord Zhou Mu is justified." At this time, Li Ru, who was dressed as a scribe, smiled slightly, and his gentle scholarly face showed a cunning expression that was obviously inconsistent with his temperament, and said with a smile: "Once Ma Teng is defeated, I will The army can join forces to attack Han Sui, and there is no problem in capturing Jincheng."

"Hahahaha!" Hearing the bright future of expanding the territory, Li Jue, who had just temporarily taken charge of Liangzhou Mu, couldn't help feeling extremely happy, and laughed loudly: "Wen You is really a person who can talk. Hahaha!"

Hearing this, Li Ru also took up the topic and started talking and laughing with Li Jue.Seeing the two people's extremely optimistic conversation, Xu Rong couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. He glanced casually at Li Ru, who had a treacherous expression, and secretly wiped a gleam of light from the depths of his eyes, secretly said: " Good job, Li Ru! All you said was flattering words, but you didn’t mention the tiger in Yizhou at all. You must have wanted to go to Mulinyi in Yizhou.”

Thinking of this, Xu Rong weighed the pros and cons, and immediately raised his wine glass and smiled at Li Jue: "The last general will offer a glass of thin wine to Mr. Zhou Mu, and wish him to rebuild Liangzhou and be famous all over the world!"

Seeing Xu Rong's sudden behavior, Li Ru's eyes showed suspicion, and he secretly said: "You really have a good eye!" Immediately, he also raised his wine glass and congratulated Li Jue: "I also offer you a glass of thin wine, I wish you famous in the world!"

"Hahahaha!" Seeing that the two people around him praised him so much, Li Jue's inner vanity was greatly satisfied, and he couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha! If the Japanese officials are famous all over the world, they will definitely not forget you What I said today!" He immediately raised a glass of wine and said, "Come on! Finish this glass of wine!"

"Guru~"

The three of them toasted and drank it all, but Li Jue didn't realize what Li Ru and Xu Rong were thinking at all, which made them all sneer in their hearts.

After the banquet, everyone went back to their respective homes.Li Ru and Xu Rong looked at each other, nodded slightly tacitly, and then separated.

Li Ru hurried back to his mansion, and as soon as he entered the hospital, he said: "Wenhe, Wenhe! Your guess is true. Xu Rong really saw through me, but he didn't reveal my intention. Haha! "

A middle-aged man with a height of eight feet, small eyes, a thin face, a mustache, a hair crown, and cloth clothes slowly walked over.The middle-aged man smiled and said to Li Ru: "Why is Wenyou so surprised? Don't you know Xu Rongzhi's talent?"

Li Ru showed a sly smile and said, "It's hard to know his talent, but it's hard to know his heart. In this world, who can see people's hearts, except Jia Wenhe?"

Jia Wenhe?Jia Xu! Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", commented: "Xun You, Jia Xu, they are almost exhaustive strategies, and they are good and fair." Zhang Liang and Chen Ping are both the top advisors of the Han emperor Liu Bang. His resourcefulness is comparable to these people.Such a high evaluation shows Jia Xu's talent.Li Ru, who is also from Liangzhou, met Jia Xu's talent by chance and wanted to recommend him to Dong Zhuo, but was delayed by Fang Dujiang's sudden cooperation, and he was bullied at the time. The exclusion of Fu made Dong Zhuo change his eyes, so he didn't recommend Jia Xu, so as not to be targeted by Niu Fu and delay his career.Of course, this is the case on the surface, but only Li Ru knows in his heart what it is like in reality.

"Hehe." Jia Xu chuckled, avoided the topic, and said slowly: "Since Xu Rong does not intend to expose Wen You, he must have the same thoughts as Wen You—wanting to go to Mulin Yi in Yizhou However, he did not leave An Ding City in a hurry, presumably he wanted to defend Anding City, and then use it as a bargaining chip to surrender, and make his way to the top."

Li Ru smiled, with the same cunning expression as before, and said, "Hey! Then, I have to share part of this chip with me now."

Jia Xu nodded, thought for a while, raised his finger in the direction of Yizhou, and muttered: "Yizhou Mulin Yi went straight to Huanglong and broke through the water of heaven, but he didn't attack Anding immediately. Jincheng. Then, there is not much time left for Wenyou to defeat Ma Teng and then surrender to Lin Yi." Jia Xu's implication is that Lin Yi will quickly capture Jincheng, and then send troops to settle down.If Anding City was still under Ma Teng's siege at that time, even if Li Ru surrendered, he would lose the bargaining chip to improve his status.

"It makes sense. Wen He makes sense."

This time, Li Ru didn't show the slightest cunning on his face, he only sighed.

Jia Xu chuckled, and bowed to leave under Li Ru's gaze.However, Jia Xu did not go back to her room to rest, but changed direction directly at the fork in the road, opened the back door of Li Ru's mansion, picked up the baggage that had been hidden in the back door, patted it a few times, and left briskly.

Not long after Jia Xu left, the door of the wing room where he used to live was suddenly kicked open violently, and then a group of soldiers with sharp weapons poured in, completely surrounding the entire room.

"Report my lord, Jia Xu has escaped!"

Hearing the report from his subordinates, Li Ru rushed into the room, looked at everything in the room, and found that everything was in order.Up to now, he didn't know that Jia Xu was ready to leave long ago, anger could not help but burst out in his eyes, and he laughed anxiously: "Hmph! Okay, what a Jia Xu! What a Jia Wen who has the most insightful insight into people's hearts." And! I really still lose to you."

(End of this chapter)