Liu Zhang really felt that it was so difficult.

The Wei army pressed the border with two large armies, and carried out large-scale military exercises in Wuxian and Hanzhong respectively, with a full posture.

This caused Liu Zhang to be frightened three times a night sometimes, and he felt that he couldn't sleep well at all, and he was often woken up in the middle of the night, and the big dark circles were scary, and he didn't know that he thought Liu Zhang was a panda.

But there was no way, he just couldn't be at ease, the Wei army's powerful 80,000 army was ready to go, eyeing the tiger, sharpening his knife and heading to Yizhou.

His forces were stretched thin, and after sending out three armies to three defensive points, there were only 5,000 men left in Chengdu.

This worries him even more.

After more than two months of emergency army expansion, in fact, it was to capture strong men, and more than 3,000 people were caught from the surrounding areas of Chengdu to fill the army.

But this was far from what he needed, so several other counties were also called upon to urgently expand their troops.

Because he was worried that there would be people from the main battle faction to hinder him, before that, Liu Zhang had replaced all the county guards of the main battle faction with those of the main battle faction, so as to facilitate the county guards of these main battle factions to expand their troops and increase their troops.

Despite this, the main local officials were still local people from Yizhou.

Although the chief administrative officer was replaced by the main battle faction, there were still a large number of local officials who were difficult to replace, so many officials delayed their work, were unwilling to do things, and deliberately delayed government decrees.

In order to curb this situation, the county guards of the main battle faction also used their own tricks, fines, demotions, imprisonment, and even killing, in an attempt to deter the main faction and make them take action.

In this way, it was true that the phenomenon of some main surrender factions not being able to do their work was suppressed, but the contradictions between the main battle faction and the main surrender faction were more acute, the conflict was more intense, and even in some places because the interests of the powerful people in Shuzhong were touched, violent resistance to conscription occurred.

Liu Zhang's side was at a loss for this, so he could only suppress it severely, but suppression alone was not a big deal, what he needed was soldiers, food and armaments, but it was meaningless to suppress it.

So at the suggestion of Zhang Su, who was urgently transferred to the county guard of Shu County, Liu Zhang decided to open his inner treasury and use his private money to bribe the foreign leaders in the subject states of each county in exchange for them sending troops to help.

These foreign tribes in China are generally very fierce and good at fighting, especially the people in the land of Sanba, who are Liu Zhang's key bribery targets.

Back then, Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong and once lobbied to buy the leaders of the people, Pu Hu, Yuan Yue and others, to contribute to him.

In order to fight against these fierce and warlike people, Liu Zhang also bought another tribe of people to fight against them.

The history of the people is long, and it is said that when King Wu of Zhou invaded the Zhou, there were people who fought as his tiger army, so that King Wu of Zhou, who was relatively weak in military strength, defeated King Wu of Zhou and established the Zhou Dynasty.

Later, Liu Bang was named the king of Han, in order to attack Guanzhong, he also recruited people to send troops, and Liu Bang defeated the three Qins and occupied Guanzhong and made immortal contributions.

When the Han Dynasty was established, the leader of the people was also made a marquis, and Liu Bang, in order to reward the merits of the people, even issued an edict to exempt the seven surnames of the people, and the rest of the people only paid a rent of 40 yuan a year, which was one-third less than that of ordinary people.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of their reputation for being brave and good at fighting, they were also repeatedly recruited to fight.

During the Liangzhou Qiang Rebellion, there were also records of the people being requisitioned and sent out to fight, but because of the too frequent requisition, the people also carried out armed resistance.

Today, the people have become an important force that Liu Zhang must win.

So Liu Zhang sent Zhang Su's younger brother Zhang Song to carry a large number of gifts to lobby the once hostile leaders of the people, Pu Hu and Yuan Yue.

Although Zhang Song is short in stature and his appearance is not good, Zhang Song is talented and has a three-inch tongue.

He spoke with a fragrant tongue and a lotus flower, unable to say a single repetitive sentence for half an hour, and was particularly good at debating and sophistry, so that when the main battle faction and the main surrender faction were debating, Zhang Song was the indispensable main combat power of the main battle faction, and an important mouth cannon output.

If it weren't for Zhang Song, Liu Zhang wouldn't have dared to imagine himself being surrounded by a group of scholars from the main surrender faction all day long to engage in spiritual pollution.

Maybe you've lost faith and surrendered by now.

Thanks to Zhang Song.

He was as fierce as a tiger, quoted scriptures and turned his mouth into cannons, and stumbled and hid his face from the local officials and Dongzhou officials who were mainly sent down, and he almost went insane and his mouth and eyes were crooked.

Then the most exciting scene came, Zhang Song picked off many officials from the main surrender faction, and then fought with Xu Jing, a grandmaster-level mouth cannon, to fight at the top of the Forbidden City.

They turned what they had learned in their lives into ammunition, turned a sharp mouth into a Makqin, and started a war of words.

Sometimes, the debate battle between the mouth cannons is comparable to the horse fight between the generals, and even the intensity is even more than that, but the battle between the generals is a physical life-and-death duel, and the mouth cannon is a spiritual life-and-death duel.

If anyone loses, he will not be able to raise his head in front of people in the future, and for the mouth cannons, it will be death in the social sense.

Because this battle was too fierce and legendary, the verbal cannon battle between the two people is still widely circulated in Chengdu so far, and it is a strange talk.

Of course, it was Zhang Song who won, and Xu Jing's old face was lost.

Because of his previous superior performance, this time, Zhang Song still took on an important role and went to persuade the people to help Liu Zhang.

In order to win the support of the donors, Liu Zhang endured the heartache and gave the amount of money that the leader of the people could hardly refuse.

In Zhang Song's opinion, such a number should be something that the leaders of the people who are not only greedy but also poor cannot refuse no matter what, and he is very confident.

After arriving at the settlement of the Eren people, Zhang Song was indeed warmly welcomed by the leader of the Eren people.

When he said what he meant, and gave Liu Zhang's promised reward, the leaders of those people were all shining, and the corners of their mouths were about to flow out.

Most of the people lived in a relatively primitive way, and their standard of living was not as high as that of the Han in all aspects, so the behavior they engaged in was not so much fighting for ideals as mercenaries.

Whoever pays more money fights for whomever he wants, and he also follows the rules and reasons, so he has a good reputation, so there are always people who are willing to hire people to fight.

In the eyes of the people, this time it was no different from usual, they were all collecting money to fight.

So many of the leaders of the people agreed to Zhang Song, willing to send troops to help Liu Zhang fight, to guard against the attack of the Wei army in Hanzhong, and promised to mobilize the clansmen, from the age of sixteen to sixty.

However, just when Zhang Song felt that he was about to finish, some minor variables appeared.

Pu Hu had a small guard by his side, named Wang Ping.

He is very young, only fifteen years old, but because of his bravery, he can fight, and he can speak Chinese, and he was taken by Pu Hu, so he took him with him as a little soldier, and he usually liked it.

When he was a child, he grew up in his maternal grandfather's house, his maternal grandfather's family was a Han farmer, Wang Ping learned to speak Chinese in his maternal grandfather's house, he didn't know any words, but he could speak Chinese, no different from ordinary Han Li Shu.

However, in the group of people, Wang Ping is also an intellectual, so he was able to follow Pu Hu.

When Zhang Song attacked Pu Hu with a mouth cannon, Wang Ping stood aside, and when he heard what Zhang Song said, he felt very unreliable, so after Pu Hu accepted Zhang Song's gift, he privately admonished Pu Hu.

"Chief, I don't think we can believe what Zhang Song said."

Pu Hu always glanced at Wang Pinggao, and it was a little strange to hear Wang Ping say this.

"Why do you say that?"

"His words are so nice, and the etiquette is too heavy."

Wang Ping frowned: "In the past, the Han court asked us to go to war, just to give some rent reductions and exemptions, and then give rewards among the spoils of war, even if it was that Zhang Lu, he also gave a small amount of money and goods, but this time, Emperor Liu gave too much." ”