"Why did Su Bao come?" Liu Bei frowned and asked the thinkers.

Fa Zhengdao: "I'm afraid that I want to follow the example of Su and Qin and unite the six countries to fight against Qiang Qin, so I came to be a lobbyist for the Western Han Dynasty and lobby the king to form an alliance against Liu Wei." ”

"How do I get it right?" Liu Bei asked again.

Pang Tong preemptively said: "Let's see this Su Bao, listen to his words and then make a decision." ”

Liu Bei nodded in agreement and ordered: "Please Zhang Ziqiao to welcome Lonely!" ”

Zhang Song promised, and immediately went out of the mansion to greet Liu Bei, greeted Su Luo, admired each other, and entered the mansion side by side.

Everyone looked at Su Bao together, and saw that he was seven feet eight inches tall, dressed as a chivalrous man, with a magnificent instrument and extraordinary demeanor, with wisdom and cunning between his eyebrows and eyebrows.

Su Bao is not nonsense, Shi Li visited the king of Hanzhong and then went straight to the point: "Su Bao is not here for other things, not long ago Liu Wei captured the important town of Xiangyang, and now he has half of the country, and the general trend of the world has tilted towards Liu Wei." If we and other Western princes can't work together, sooner or later we will become prisoners of their subordinates, following in the footsteps of Sun Ce and Liu Biao. ”

After a pause, he continued: "In the past, Su and Qin joined forces with the six countries to resist Qin. Now that the Soviet Union is not talented, he is willing to follow the example of the sages and run among the princes of all parties, create an alliance, and resist Liu Bian, so as not to let this rebellion that usurps the emperor win the world. After the emperor's uncle was King Jing of Zhongshan, a descendant of the Han family, he raised the banner of rebellion against Liu Wei's tyranny, and the people of the world admired him. However, Liu argues that the power is great, and the emperor's uncle is difficult to support alone, so why not form an alliance with the Western princes, elect a person with outstanding ability as the commander, and unify the dispatch of the three armies. Defend against Liu? ”

"Ding-dong...... Su Qin's combined vertical attribute triggers, and the intelligence is +8. Reduced Liu Bei's intelligence by 5 points, and is currently lobbying Liu Bei. "I just left Xiangyang and went south to Gangneung. Liu Bian, who was about to take a boat down the river from Jiangling to return to Jinling from work, suddenly received a prompt from the system.

"Well, Su Qin, this hateful guy, is wandering around, planning to unite the princes to fight against my army, if only he could resurrect a Zhang Yi!" Liu Wei thought secretly in his heart.

Then he instructed Wen Yang to say: "Put up more flags, bluff, and let out the wind to say that the purpose of my trip to Jiangling this time is not to return to Jinling, but to prepare to conquer Bashu in person." ”

After Liu Wei's order, the civil and military forces led by Sun Bin, Fu Zhu, Wen Yang and others unanimously changed their caliber. It was announced to the outside world that the Son of Heaven was ready to take the imperial drive to conquer Bashu in person, and strive to make a forced landing on Liu Bei as soon as possible, so as to avoid the situation of Liu Bei's alliance with the Western Han Dynasty.

It is still the chamber of the Hanzhong Palace.

After listening to Su Bao's words, Liu Bei hesitated, and said: "Mr. is in a hurry, please come to the post house for a while, and Rong Gu will think about it and give a reply." ”

"What the king said is very true, capture this and wait for good news in the post house." Su Bao gave up his hand and promised, looking like a guest and a host.

Liu Wei immediately sent Jian Yong, Qin Mi, Dong He, Liu Ba and others to set up a banquet to entertain Su Bao. Arrange for him to stay in the post house temporarily, and wait for himself to discuss with other civil and military personnel before giving a reply.

After Su was captured, Liu Bei immediately asked Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Fang Qiao and others: "Now that Liu Xie sent a messenger to lobby, how should Lone choose?" ”

Pang Tong analyzed: "Su Yu is afraid that he has already contacted Liu Yu in advance. If our army fully agrees to Su Yu's proposal, it will not be able to attack Liu Yu again, otherwise it will be a breach of contract and betrayal of the alliance. But he did not attack Liu Yu to recapture Hanzhong and Yunnan. The north side loses the portal, and the south side loses the backyard. Even though the Western Han Dynasty was able to defeat Liu Wei, the king was still poor and destitute. Therefore, it is a unified view. The strategy of non-enemy and non-friend should be adopted for the Western Han Dynasty, and the east should be temporarily declared a vassal to Liu Wei, first pacifying Yunnan, and then recovering Hanzhong, and restoring the previous foundation of the king, so that you can compete for hegemony in the world, and you can cut the land and become the king when you retreat! ”

"What Pang Shiyuan said is extremely true, this is the best strategy at present!" Fa Zheng, Fang Qiao, Zhang Song and other think tanks unanimously agreed with Pang Tong's proposal.

The next day, Liu Bei summoned Su Bao and said euphemistically: "Gu is naturally happy to advance and retreat with Emperor Liu Huang, but now Liu Bei is on fire in the north and south, and he is too busy to take care of himself, and he is really unable to allocate troops and horses to fight Liu Wei together." Please go back and tell the Emperor of Luoyang and Emperor Liu Huang, as well as Zhu Jun, Yang Jian and other lords in the ranks, that after Liu Bei quells the civil strife, he will definitely take Luoyang as the leader. ”

Su Bao also understood that Liu Bei's current interest was to calm Yunnan first, and then it would be futile to continue to persuade him, so he gave up; "Uncle Huang's current situation is also known. But even if the imperial uncle can't advance and retreat together for the time being, he still hopes that he will not fall to Liu Wei and go to Qin and Chu, which will inevitably lead to being embattled in the future and having no allies. ”

"What the envoy said is very true, and I should keep it in mind!" Liu Bei laughed and promised.

After sending Su Zhu away, Liu Bei immediately sent Sun Qian and Liu Feng to set off, rushed to Jingzhou to see Liu Bian, presented a letter of surrender and a heavy gift, bowed to Liu Bei, confessed his guilt, and asked for forgiveness for his previous offense.

After Sun Gan left, Liu Bei once again summoned his subordinates to discuss the strategy of conquest of Yunnan, regardless of whether Liu Wei accepted his surrender or not, but Yunnan must be fought.

After some discussion, Liu Bei decided that Zhang Fei would be in command and Pang Tong would be the military advisor; Zhang Qing served as the vanguard, led Chen Zhi, Huang Quan, Li Hui, Wu Ban and others to raise 50,000 troops, and went south to join the rest of Shi Dakai, who was stationed in Qianwei County, and went south together to crusade against Yang Huai, Gao Pei, Yonghong, Gao Ding and other rebels.

"Brother, don't worry, if I go to Yunnan, I will definitely cut off the heads of Gao, Yang, Yonghong, Zhu Bao and others under my command, with the hatred of Brother Xue!" Zhang Fei patted his chest and packed the ticket to Liu Bei.

At this moment, suddenly a young man with clear eyebrows, slender and slender body, somewhat feminine, with a white jade crown on his head, and wearing a navy blue robe, unexpectedly flashed into the hall and said: "King, the boy is not talented, I am willing to send troops with the three generals to fight against the Southern Barbarians!" ”

"Oh...... Who are you? Liu Bei frowned and asked.

Pang Tong was taken aback: "Sister Juan, what are you doing?" Military aircraft events, how can you make a fuss? ”

After listening to Pang Tong's words, there was an uproar in the hall, and the second monk was confused, and Liu Bei asked Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, where did you start talking about this?" This is obviously a young hero, why is he called a sister? ”

Pang Tong could only smile bitterly and explain: "Back to the king's words, this is Pang Juan, the sister of Weichen, is a daughter, not a man!" Because he admired Pang Juan, a famous general of Wei, he read military books since he was a child, practiced bows and arrows, and often went out as a man, determined to be a general. It's just that there is no daughter in this world who is a general, it's really nonsense! ”

"Humph!" Pang Juan crossed her waist and snorted coldly, "Brother Hugh wants to look down on people, what's wrong with his daughter?" The woman was once in charge of state affairs and opened up territory for the Great Shang Dynasty; Zhaojun once went out of the Western Regions in exchange for the tranquility of the border. I have read more military books than my brother, I am more skilled in horseback riding than you, I am more skilled in bows and arrows than you, you can go out with the army, why can't I? Why don't we have a try? ”

All the civil and military officers in the hall talked and laughed: "Otherwise, Pang Shiyuan will have a competition with Ling Mei, and the dignified seven-foot man An Neng will be destroyed by a weak woman!" ”

"Huh...... Don't make fun of Pang Tong, let me give advice, I'm really not as good as a dog girl in horseback archery! Pang Tong grinned, and his face became even uglier.

Seeing Pang Tong's lewd/trivial expression, Zhang Fei teased: "Pang Shiyuansheng is so ugly, why is Ling Mei so peugeot?" ”

"When my brother was born, Wen Po didn't hold it, and fell to the ground!" Pang Juan smiled and gave a funny answer.

Liu Bei thought for a while, stroked his beard and said: "Marching and fighting is not child's play, there is a group of thieves on Mengshan Mountain, a hundred miles west of Chengdu, who often block the road and cut the path, and want to send someone to kill it early." Since Miss Pang Juan boasted of Haikou, Gu will allocate 500 people to you to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits, and if you can return triumphantly, Gu will allow you to go out with the army! ”

Pang Juan promised with great ambition: "The little girl doesn't need five hundred, give me two hundred, and promise to catch the bandits and sacrifice them to the king before dawn tomorrow!" ”

Pang Juan said that he would do it, and with the assistance of Zhang Qing, he ordered 200 elites, and all of them left Chengdu on horseback to go to Mengshan, more than 100 miles to the west, to suppress bandits. In the middle of the night, he led his troops to return triumphantly, and arrested and killed all 316 Mengshan thieves, and never missed a single person.

Liu Bei was overjoyed: "Haha...... Unexpectedly, Miss Pang really didn't let her eyebrows, Liu Wei has Mulan, Mu Guiying, Liang Hongyu, and now there is Pang Juan alone, which is enough to offset it! ”

Pang Juan was immediately appointed as the deputy vanguard, and together with Zhang Qing, he led 10,000 vanguard troops, and set off south to attack Yang Huai and Gao Pei. Zhang Fei took Pang Tong, Chen Dao, Huang Quan and others to raise troops, and then, a total of 50,000 horses, left Chengdu and went south to quell the rebellion.

Sun Qian and Liu Feng carried Liu Bei's letters and heavy gifts, and they rushed to Jingzhou in six or seven days along the way, and heard that Liu Wei was still in Jiangling, so they immediately hurried to Jiangling.

In order to force Liu Bei to land, Liu Wei slowed down his march along the way, and after arriving in Jiangling, in the name of appeasing the people, he spent three or five days in Jiangling, in order to wait for Liu Bei's envoy to arrive.

When he heard that Liu Bei's envoy was asking to see him outside the city gate, Liu Wei looked at each other with Sun Bin, Fu Zhu and other civil and military officers and smiled: "Haha...... Liu Da'er has taken the bait in the end, and I have to blackmail Liu Bei this time. ”

Liu Wei immediately ordered to summon Sun Gan, personally sat in the Taishou Mansion Chamber, and sent someone to bring Sun Qian and Liu Feng to see him.

"The criminal ministers Sun Qian and Liu Feng pay a visit to Your Majesty!" After seeing the Son of Heaven, Sun Qian and Liu Feng knelt on the ground together, bowed their heads, and proclaimed themselves guilty ministers.

"You two get up, I want to personally raise the army to the west to conquer Bashu and bring the traitor Liu Xuande to justice, but why did you two come?" Liu Wei sat precariously, glared at the two of them, and asked sharply.

Sun Gan and Liu Feng knelt on the ground and didn't dare to get up, took out the letter from their arms and held it high above their heads, and said: "The king was bewitched by Sun Ce, Du Ruhui, Liu Yu and others, so that he made a big crime against His Majesty, and now he can't regret it, and he specially sent Sun Gan to present letters and gifts, asking His Majesty to be magnanimous and forgive the sins of the King of Hanzhong!" (To be continued......)