Chapter 8 Arrow on the String In the second section, Li Hong, Zhang Yan, Zhong Xuan and others personally sent Gongsun Xu out of the line.

Recently, for Gongsun Xu, it has been like living in a nightmare, and he has suffered physically and mentally.

First of all, Tian Kai and Guan Jing, who have been familiar with them since childhood, died under their iron horses, and then their father Gongsun Zhan, as well as Gongsun Fan, Zou Dan, and Shan Jing, the life and death brothers of these fathers, died in the White Wolf Mountain in western Liaoning.

Gongsun Xu could only use crying to vent the pain and hatred in his heart. Under Li Hong's arrangement, Gongsun continued to return to Youzhou for funeral.

The left general Lu Yi and the Zhenbei general Yan Rou were ordered to go to Youzhou to offer condolences. The general Li Hong asked Chen Qun, who was engaged in Zhonglang, to represent himself and go to Youzhou with Koi Yi and others to mourn.

After sending off Gongsun Xu, the general summoned the generals of Northern Xinjiang to discuss the army. In order to prevent the scene from getting out of control, Li Hong deliberately asked Tian Chou to discuss the stabilization of the desert with Liu Ming, the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, Lou Lu, the king of Karasuma Heiling, and Lu Huanyang, the little king of Karasuma, in the partial tent.

Mustafa and Sai Feng also asked Li Hong to temporarily send out his troops. Gongsun Zhan's death angered the generals in Northern Xinjiang, especially the Youzhou generals such as Wei Jun, Li Su, and Guo Hua, who shouted and shouted to ask for war, and Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others were even more afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so they fanned the flames in the military meeting, and asked Li Hong to let them lead the army north to Youzhou immediately to kill the Hu rebellion.

Changshi Jia Xu was ordered to explain the gains and losses of the Jizhou War, but he was repeatedly interrupted by the generals of Northern Xinjiang, and even Xu Huang, who has always been steady and silent, couldn't help but stand up and accuse loudly.

Guanting's halfway blockade made him angry, and the spearhead was faintly pointed at Koji Yi. Fortunately, Ko Yi was temporarily sent to Youzhou by Li Hong.

Otherwise, the controversy in this military conference will become more and more intense. Jia Xu's face was very ugly, and he didn't know what to say the rest of the words.

Most of the dozens of officials in the northern Xinjiang tent are fierce generals who have followed Li Hong for more than ten years, and some of them are the leaders of the former Yellow Turban Army.

Jia Xu doubted that if he continued to speak, someone would probably rush up and beat him. Li Hong stood up and patted Jia Xu, motioned for him to sit down, and spoke for himself.

There was a sudden silence in the tent. Li Hong no longer talked about the gains and losses of the Jizhou War, but gave a detailed explanation of the changes in the situation before and after the Jizhou War, as well as the countermeasures made by the General's Office in response to these changes.

Successes and failures on the battlefield are closely related to changes in the situation outside the battlefield. Regardless of the outcome, whether it was right or wrong, as long as the pre-war objectives were finally accomplished, the price to be paid was acceptable, including some mistakes in command.

"The court's reward and reward for the soldiers will be delivered to Jizhou in the near future." Li Hong finally said,

"The soldiers and horses of the seven battalions of Jizhou returned to their base camp, and the soldiers were disbanded as soon as possible to reunite them with their families. The iron cavalry armies from all walks of life quickly returned to the border camps to rest and recuperate. After the Northern Army replenished its forces in Jizhou, it was brought back to Jinyang by Zhang Yan and Lü Bu. The Southern Army remained in Jizhou to attack Hanoi. As soon as Li Hong finished speaking, Wang Dang jumped up,

"General, why don't you fight Qingzhou?"

"General, why don't you requisition iron cavalry to rush to Youzhou to attack Liaodong?" Li Su also stood up and asked urgently.

Other generals scrambled to fight.

"Am I done?" Li Hong glanced at the generals with a cold expression, and asked sharply,

"Did I say it, or did you say it?" The generals looked at each other awkwardly and hurriedly sat down again.

"Master Jia......" Li Hong looked at Jia Xu and said,

"Please explain the situation after the Jizhou War to your lords." Jia Xu smiled bitterly and stood up.

Li Hong pointed to the generals in the tent and said in a cold voice: "Before Master Jia finishes speaking, who dares to speak against the order and be punished with resistance." Jia Xu made a detailed analysis of the trend of the situation in the world after the Jizhou War.

The situation in the Central Plains will change significantly with the defeat of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the death of Tian Kai, and the betrayal of Yuan Shu.

After the Battle of Jizhou, the strength of Cao Cao and Liu Bei was seriously reduced, but after Cao and Liu's army defeated Yuan, Liu Bei still had to count on Cao Cao's help to recapture Xuzhou, so he could only give up Qingzhou and give Qingzhou to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao got Qingzhou, recaptured Yanzhou, and then united with Liu Bei to attack Xuzhou and Yangzhou. Cao Cao's purpose in attacking Yangzhou was to need a stable rear with sufficient money and food.

Liu Bei's purpose in attacking Xuzhou was to eradicate Yuan Shu's intrusion on Xuzhou, so as to rapidly develop his own strength.

Yangzhou is imperative for Cao Cao and Liu Bei. With such a good opportunity today, even if Yuan Shu takes the initiative to sue for peace, the two will not let him go.

Although Yuan Shu hit Yanzhou, his foothold was not stable, his strength was limited, and after a long time, he would definitely be defeated by Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Yuan Shao had already occupied the Central Plains, and in order to restrain and attack Cao Cao and Liu Bei, so as to profit from them, he would definitely secretly help Yuan Shu.

In this way, the war in the Central Plains will continue for a long time. At this time, if we attack Qingzhou and step on the gate of the Central Plains with one foot, it will inevitably destroy the pattern of the Central Plains.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei's armies will soon gather in Qingzhou, while Yuan Shu's foothold in Yanzhou and Xuzhou is not stable, once Cao Cao and Liu Bei are defeated, he will bear the brunt of the attack, and he will lose the Central Plains in a blink of an eye.

Under the circumstance that the Central Plains may become Hebei's bag at any time, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao will definitely come forward to mediate.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao had to join forces again against Hebei in order to survive. If the five people join forces, compromise with each other and help each other, their strength will grow rapidly, which is very unfavorable to Hebei's pacification of the world.

On the contrary, if we choose to attack Hanoi, threaten Luoyang, and make a three-way posture of attacking Guanzhong and Guandong with Xu Rong's army in Hedong and Han Sui's army in Western Xinjiang, and firmly contain Yuan Shao, we can not only force Yuan Shao to not take care of the Central Plains to help Yuan Shu, but also make Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others relax their vigilance against Hebei and concentrate all their forces to attack Yuan Shu.

If Cao Cao and Liu Bei want to completely defeat Yuan Shu with their current strength, it will take time, and they will need to spend a lot of financial and material resources, especially Yuan Shao's help to Yuan Shu.

We attacked Hanoi and could help them. At the same time, Cao Cao and Liu Bei completely defeated Yuan Shu, which was equivalent to interrupting half of Yuan Shu's strength.

Yuan Shao's strength will be severely damaged as a result, which also helps us, allowing us to weaken Yuan Shao's strength without much effort, so as to gain great benefits in the future capture of Guanzhong, Kanto, and the Central Plains.

Your Excellency may think that in this way, although Yuan Shao's strength has been reduced, Cao Cao and Liu Bei have developed, which is still very unfavorable for us to capture the Central Plains.

Actually, you misunderstood. Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shu and occupied Yangzhou, and their own losses were also very large, and they delayed the development time.

There is no doubt that the contradictions will intensify after the strength of the two sides decreases. Once we go south to the Central Plains, even if Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and the others join forces again, we can take advantage of the hatred between them and easily defeat them.

In short, fighting Qingzhou now will only make the rebels give up the dispute and join forces to resist Hebei, and the strength of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others will recover in a short time.

Attacking Hanoi now will not cause such an extremely unfavorable situation for Hebei. The situation in northern Xinjiang became more and more critical with the death of Gongsun Zhan.

Jia Xu explained the speculation of the General's Mansion on the future situation in Northern Xinjiang, and finally said,

"To deal with the crisis in northern Xinjiang, the first task is not to go to Liaodong to quell the rebellion, but to stabilize the Hu tribes in the desert and cut off Kirby Xiong's delusion of unifying the Xianbei tribes to dominate the desert." Liaodong is more than 3,000 miles away, and the Liaodong rebellion has little impact on the central and western parts of Youzhou or Hebei.

If it weren't for the death of Gongsun Zhan, we would have been able to put down the rebellion even if it was a delay. In the absence of stabilizing the Hu tribes in the desert, we hurriedly sent troops to crusade against the rebellion in Liaodong, and we happened to fall into the tricks of the Xianbei people, so now the imperial court and all the lords must temporarily put aside the enmity of Lord Gongsun, first stabilize the desert, and then fight Liaodong.

Jia Xu talked endlessly for a long time, and the generals in the northern Xinjiang were impressed by Jia Xu's wonderful exposition, and their frantic emotions gradually calmed down.

"To fight Hanoi, it is enough to use the 20,000 infantry cavalry of the Southern Army." After Li Hong finished speaking, he pointed at Yan Liang and said,

"Lord Yan Liang, the general of Hulie, led the southern army to attack Hanoi." Yan Liang was overjoyed and bowed down to answer the order. Li Hong stared at Yan Liang meaningfully,

"Don't let me say any more, right?" Yan Liangpi grinned without smiling, and nodded again and again with a very strange expression.

He knew that Li Hong was warning him not to deliberately kill and surrender.

"Yang Wei Zhonglang will take Lord Zhang Liao as his deputy and lead the iron cavalry of the Southern Army." Li Hong looked at Zhang Liao and said,

"The Xindu camp is temporarily handed over to Zhang Xiu and Peng Lie. After conquering Hanoi, the Xindu camp was withdrawn, and the Shanyang camp was prepared in Hanoi to directly threaten Luoyang. Zhang Liao was overjoyed and shouted his orders.

"The two of you discuss it and see how many months you can take Hanoi." Li Hong said with a smile,

"I'll go back to Jinyang immediately to raise money and food for you, you'd better give me an approximate time."

"A month." Yan Liang did not hesitate, opened his mouth and said,

"One month is enough." Li Hong turned his gaze to Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao hesitated for a moment and didn't speak, his expression obviously disagreed with what Yan Liang said, but in front of so many people, he couldn't show weakness, so he could only nod reluctantly.

Li Hong smiled, waved his hand and said, "A month is too little." Well, before it snows, how about you take Hanoi for me? "At this point, there are still about three months until winter, and if everything goes well, it should be enough.

Zhang Liao nodded vigorously this time, with a look of gratitude in his eyes,

"General, I wonder if you can ask the army in the east of the river to cooperate and launch a feint attack on Guanzhong and Guanxi?" Yan Liang looked at Zhang Liao with disdain, and just as he wanted to speak, Li Hong's hand pointed at him,

"A month later, if you don't take Hanoi, you hand over the army to Wenyuan, and you come to Jinyang to ask for guilt." Yan Liang's expression was slightly flustered.

"Zishan, you have won more battles, and your mentality has completely changed." Li Hong shook his head and sighed,

"Proud soldiers will be defeated, have you forgotten this truth? If you want to take Hanoi before the snowfall, it is impossible for you to rely on your army alone, and you must have the close cooperation of the army from the east side of the river. Do you think Yuan Shao will give up Hanoi easily? Will Luoyang be placed under our attack? In front of the generals, Yan Liang's face couldn't be hung up, and his eyes were murderous.

The muscles on his face twitched violently a few times, looking extremely annoyed. Of course, he wouldn't be angry with Li Hong, he poured a belly of fire on Zhang Liao.

Li Hong looked at him and sighed softly. There are many victories, the officials have become bigger, their hearts are high, their tempers are bigger, and their heads are confused.

Li Hong really wanted to replace him, but at this time he couldn't open his mouth, worried that he would hurt Yan Liang.

"General. Xiaguan was willing to attack Hanoi with Lord Yan Liang. Tian Chou immediately stood up. After discussing with Liu Ming and others to stabilize the desert, he returned to the big tent.

Li Hong's heart suddenly settled.

"Zhongda, you stay with Zitai (Tian Chou)." Li Hong looked at Sima Yi with a smile,

"Hanoi is your hometown. You should be able to help. Sima Yi stood up in surprise,

"The lower officials obey orders, but they ......"

"If you have something to say, say it." Li Hong said with a smile.

"The lower officer wants to lead the troops to the battlefield." Sima Yi bowed down and pleaded,

"Please do it, General." Li Hong looked at the long sword on Sima Yi's waist in surprise,

"Good, not bad. Zishan. Look at ......" Yan Liang tightened his face and said in a cold voice: "Please arrange it for Lord Zhang Liao." "He has always had a prejudice against the children of the gatekeepers.

No matter how you look at it, you don't want to put it around at all. The next day, Li Hong, Zhang Yan, Lu Bu and others sent away all the generals.

Zhao Yun, Jiang Wu, Liu Ming, Li Su and others each led the iron cavalry back to Saiwai. Wen Chou, Gao Lan, Gao Shun and others returned to the camp.

Yan Liang, Tian Chou, Zhang Liao, and Sima Yi rushed to the camp of the Southern Army, met with officers at all levels of the Southern Army, and prepared to lead their troops to the battlefield in Hanoi.

Li Hong summoned Zhang Yang, Dong Zhao, Xiao En, and Zhao Hu in Xingyuan. As early as when Zhang Yang had just defected to Hebei, Li Hong met with them, placed them in Handan, and reported to the imperial court at the same time.

The imperial court once wrote back and invited the four of them to go to Jinyang to meet the Son of Heaven, but the attitude of the imperial court at that time was very vague, as if there was still the intention of punishing crimes according to the law.

Li Hong immediately used the tense situation in Jizhou as an excuse to keep the four of them. This time, Li Hong was going to take them back to Jinyang together, and before leaving, Li Hong wanted to ask the four of them about their respective plans.

Zhang Yang was once a subordinate of Dong Zhuo, but was later trapped by Yuan Shao in Hanoi and surrendered to Yuan Shao, and was considered a close confidant of Yuan Shao.

In this attack on Jizhou, he was the commander of one of the rebel armies. Although he fled to Jizhou because of infighting, he had no success.

The court can pardon his sins, but it will not keep him in the court. Zhang Yang was disheartened at the moment, and he didn't say anything other than repeatedly thanking the general for his kindness.

"Uncle Zhi, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about Gongren (Dong Zhao) and them." Lu Bu was very angry when he saw Zhang Yang's depressed appearance,

"The general came to you today just to help you, if you have anything to say, just say it." Zhang Yang sighed,

"Brother Gongren's younger brother is now in the imperial court, and he still has many friends in Jinyang, so he shouldn't be affected by me." Zhang Yang pointed at Xiao En and Zhao Hu,

"I just hope that the general can treat my two brothers well, as for myself, I will kill if I should be killed, and I will be imprisoned if I should be imprisoned." Li Hong smiled,

"Uncle Zhi, you also participated in the Battle of Yanmen Pass back then, and with this merit, the court will not kill you. In addition, the information you provided this time gave us a lot of specific things about the rebels, including their attack lines, which helped us a lot, and it was not a small credit. Zhang Yang looked at Li Hong with surprise and joy when he heard this, and his expression was very excited.

Dong Zhao, Xiao En, and Zhao Hu thanked Li Hong repeatedly.

"In fact, if Your Majesty and the imperial court no longer hold Lord Zhang accountable and reuse it, it will also be a shock to the rebellion in other places." Dong Zhao said happily,

"If Your Majesty can revise the criminal law and reduce the punishment by the law, it will definitely help the imperial court to calm the world as soon as possible." Li Hong looked at Dong Zhao thoughtfully, with a wry smile on his face,

"If you want to revise the criminal law of the Han Dynasty, it is not something that Your Majesty can solve with a word."

"Isn't the imperial court implementing a new policy?" Dong Zhao said,

"The official system, the military system, and the field system can all be revised, so why can't the criminal law be amended? When Gaozu entered the customs and abolished torture, there were only three chapters of the law, didn't he also lay down the world? There are many harsh criminal laws in this dynasty, and if we can adhere to the way of punishing punishment and reduce the punishment, it will definitely help the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. ”

"To revise the criminal law, we must first touch the Spring and Autumn Prison Sentence." Li Hong shook his head.

"Last year, Jinyang had an argument about revising the criminal law, which involved too much and needed to be considered in the long run, and a holy decree could not solve it." There are many schools of Confucianism in this dynasty.

However, there is a big gap between the legal ideas of the great Confucians of various schools, and the difficulty of cultivating the criminal law by these great Confucian scholars can be imagined.

Now the eldest princess and many ministers have great disagreements on how to sentence them, let alone revise the criminal law.

Li Hong didn't want to talk too much about this matter, so he immediately changed the subject. Ask Zhang Yang if he is willing to go to the border county to take up the post of Taishou.

At present, Zhang Yang is indeed not suitable to stay in Jinyang. But as Dong Zhao said, Zhang Yang's handling involved other rebellious attitudes towards Hebei, so he had to persuade the eldest princess and the ministers of the court to settle Zhang Yang as properly as possible.

When Wei Yan saw Li Hong for the first time, he felt that this world-shattering general was more powerful than he imagined, and the momentum of the rushing column made him suffocate.

Before Wei Yan's visit, his mind was blank, and there was only one sentence in his heart, this is the leopard. Li Hong had no impression of him, but when he had dinner with Yan Liang last night, Yan Liang mentioned the young Jingzhou general several times, praised his courage, and hoped that Li Hong would pardon him for his crimes and transfer him to his own command as a leading general.

Li Hong refused in one bite. Wei Yan surrendered, and whether he could be pardoned for his crimes was a matter for the Tingwei Mansion. In the past, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court did not go to Hebei, and they had the final say on big and small matters, but now it is different, and they have no right to dispose of it without authorization.

Yan Liang regretted it and had no choice but to give up. Before leaving today, he found Li Hong in private. Please Li Hong After arriving in Jinyang, be sure to get Wei Yan out of the Tingwei Mansion,

"This kid is brave and resourceful, and he is a fodder for war, you must give him to me." Yan Liang rarely eats deflated in war, and Yan Liang rarely appreciates a person, but the person who can make Yan Liang appreciate must be the person who makes Yan Liang deflated, Li Hong is very interested because of this, he asked his subordinate superintendent Cao Cao to go to the Xingyuan prison tent to bring Wei Yan, he wants to meet this person.

After Wei Yan followed Gao Shun to Panhe, he was escorted by Yan Liang to the general Xingyuan and imprisoned.

He knew what fate awaited him, so he was calm and ready to cut off his head at any moment. However, before he died, he was still very excited to see this great general whom he once admired so much.

The reason why he once worshipped it was because when he learned that the general had killed the Son of Heaven, he decided that the general was a damn rebel.

Li Hong was writing a chapter for the imperial court, and when he saw Wei Yan, he nodded, motioned for him to sit opposite his desk, and then handed him a volume of documents.

"This is a summary of the Jizhou War, you see." After saying that, he continued to immerse himself in writing his own recital.

Wei Yan couldn't wait to open it and take a closer look. He dreamed of wanting to know the outcome of the Jizhou War. After reading it in a hurry, he sighed in disappointment.

Li Hong put down his pen and asked with a smile: "This mentions the situation that can be produced in the Central Plains after the end of the Jizhou War, do you think our estimate is correct?" Wei Yan hesitated for a long time, shook his head, and did not speak.

"Do you know why I invited you here?"

"I don't know."

"Because Lord Yan Liang said that he wants to get you out of the prison of the Tingwei Mansion, and then let you be his subordinate." Li Hong said with a smile,

"Would you like to?" Wei Yan looked at Li Hong in surprise, he felt a little unbelievable that the general who roared like a tiger actually wanted to save himself.

Wei Yan's eyes were a little moist, and the hatred in his heart suddenly lessened a lot.

"What do you have to tell me?" Li Hong still asked with a smile on his face,

"In two days, I will take you back to Jinyang. After you arrive in Jinyang, it will be difficult for you to see me again. Wei Yan lowered his head and thought for a long time.

Li Hong looked at him patiently and waited quietly for his reply.

"General, after the Battle of Jizhou, the situation in the Central Plains may be a little different from your prediction." Wei Yan suddenly raised his head and said.

"Really?" Li Hong said with great interest,

"Tell me."

"Does the general know about Zang Ba?" Li Hong frowned, suddenly thought of something, and immediately said to the arbitrary person standing behind him: "Quick, go and invite Lord Zhang Yan." He said yes and ran away.

"The general hasn't heard from Qingzhou yet?" Wei Yan asked again. Li Hong nodded,

"If Zang Ba unites with Guan Cheng and Guan Hai of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army and takes the opportunity to occupy Qingzhou, the situation in the Central Plains will be very beneficial to Hebei."

"However, Zang Ba's strength is not enough." Wei Yan said,

"Once Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Yuan Shu, Zang Ba's good fortune will come to an end." Li Hong thought for a while, waved his hand and called the guards who were staying outside the tent,

"Quick, please come to Lord Jia Xu, and then send a fast horse, and immediately go to the Northern Army camp to invite Lord Yu Poison." Jump to