Zhuge Liang is not so easy to deceive, but he is not a real monster, as long as he can't guess the complicated relationship between himself and Cao Xian, then he will definitely not be able to guess the relationship between the Di army and the Sichuan army.

But for the sake of insurance, Liu Zhang still said to Cao Xian: "Zhelan, you use Zhuge Liang, you can only use it as a strategist, you yourself have the talent to command the battle, you don't need him to lead the army, as long as he comes up with ideas, never give him military power, and at the same time you must pay attention to strengthening the guards around you." ”

Compared with Liu Zhang, Cao Xian was not in such a good mood when she heard Liu Zhang's words, Liu Zhang's words completely made her break the idea of going to the Western Regions, and she could only stay in Hetao.

However, Cao Xian remembered what Huang Yue said, Liu Zhang will always put the great cause first, and now it is the same, the Diren army is in the grassland, then it will definitely be used, as his wife, of course he has to support his husband, even if he feels uncomfortable, Cao Xian still nodded.

"Then how do you send your husband's army to the Tianshan Mountains?"

"You use the previous Dada Department of Ake to send it, we just need to be secret and fast, north of the Tianshan Mountains, there are Pu Qian Guo and Pu Hou Guo, you can use the excuse to conquer the Pu Country, let Ake send troops, we will use your horses to enter the Tian Shan Mountains, and then you will return."

Cao Xian nodded, feeling lost, Liu Zhang also saw it, gently took Cao Xian's hand, wanted to say something, but didn't say it, he knew that Cao Xian could understand, but he didn't want to be separated from himself in his heart.

In fact, Liu Zhang likes to toss, but Liu Zhang knows that the northern grassland peoples are a big problem in the Central Plains, and the strength was not enough to attack the grassland in the north before, but now there is a ready-made force that is not needed, Liu Zhang really can't convince himself.

If Zhelan Ying can fuse the Han people while fighting against Xianbei. The prairie of the future must be a different story. As for how to truly incorporate the grassland into the territory of the Han Dynasty. Those complicated and difficult problems were handed over to Zhou Budo and Liu Xun, and they couldn't predict what would happen in ten or twenty years, and they wouldn't worry about it.

In order to eliminate the border troubles of the Han nation, and Cao Xian happened to stand in this position, Liu Zhang could only do this.

The news that the Sichuan army was about to conquer the Western Regions shocked the world, and no one would have thought that at this time, before the country was unified, the Sichuan army would have to conquer foreign races. You must know that although the Sichuan army is now the strongest prince, after more than a year of large-scale wars, everything has been consumed, and at this time, the expedition is no different from looking for death.

Everyone expected that the Sichuan army would not last long in the Western Regions and would collapse due to lack of supplies, unless they were willing to raise taxes on a large scale, but in that case, the people's morale would inevitably be destroyed.

But although almost everyone felt that it was unwise for the Sichuan army to conquer the Western Regions at this time. But I admire the behavior of the Sichuan army, no matter who it is. As long as it is a person from the Great Han, of course I hope that the Great Han Tianwei will cover Unai, not to mention that this time Shache Country is really slapping the Great Han in the face.

Even Cao Cao didn't rejoice too much when he heard the news, but admired Liu Zhang's courage and dared to conquer the Western Regions at this time.

Although Cao Cao wanted to deceive himself and say yes, in order to resist the Sichuan army, Cao Cao ordered an alliance with the Wuhuan and Xianbei people, and then withdrew the border troops from the north to the south, and he had already compromised with the alien race once.

So if he is in Liu Zhang's position, he will definitely not conquer the Western Regions, Cao Cao thought of this, and couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart, it turned out that the real overlord was like this.

Those who commit strong men, although they are far away, will be punished, this sentence is easy to say, but it is difficult to do.

Only those clans in Jiangdong are happy, and they only hope that the Sichuan army will be dragged to death in the Western Regions, and then levy additional taxes to make all the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Sichuan army in turmoil.

But even if they have such a good hope, they still have to compensate the Sichuan army according to the content of the contract, the 200,000 troops of the Sichuan army are placed in Jingzhou, Fazheng and Huang Yueying are in charge, and the popularity of Jiangdong can't breathe, I believe that even if the Sichuan army is dragged to death, they will be exploited to death by the Sichuan army first.

No matter what others think, the Sichuan army is already preparing to go on the expedition, Lei Tong divided 6,000 cavalry, and Zhang Ren selected the most elite Dongzhou soldiers 4,000, these infantry are not much different from the combat power of Liu Zhang's own soldiers, and they are all handed over to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun led the army to Liangzhou first, while Wang Yi requisitioned troops in Liangzhou at the same time.

Liangzhou was originally barren, and it used to make a living by fighting, all of them were strong, although the population was small, but there were many troops, and then I heard that this time it was a mercenary level, with a lot of money and money, and more people signed up.

The Sichuan army is now less food, but the money is relatively richer, so it is not stingy with the extra salary, which is better than consuming the regular army of the Sichuan army, and the Xiliang army should be more adapted to the harsh environment of the Western Regions.

At the same time that Mingli recruited 30,000 troops, Liu Zhang led 6,000 rattan armor soldiers, 1,000 archers and cavalry, 2,000 Dongzhou personal soldiers, and 1,000 white pole soldiers to secretly come to the north.

And at this time, the Di people's battalion, under the command of Zhuge Liang, skillfully fought a battle with overstretched troops, which was more powerful than when Zhi Lanying left, and Zhi Lanying was not amazed by Zhuge Liang's talent.

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Jiangdong's compensation was being carried out in an orderly manner, and when he heard that the Jiangdong Navy had really divided half of the ships and handed them over to the Sichuan army, Lü Meng, who was forced to go into the wilderness, vomited blood and couldn't afford to fall ill.

And the compensation for grain and gold and silver also entered Jingzhou one after another, of course, even if the clan raised funds, and then spread the poll tax on the heads of the people of Jiangdong, it was still not enough, and in the end Lu Su Gu Yong could only accept Liu Zhang's suggestion to use the population of Jiangdong to compensate for the gold, silver and grain.

The Shi clan suddenly found that it was really easy to use the population to compensate, and it did not weaken the power of the Shi clan, and began to force a large number of young men and women from Jiangdong to enter Jingzhou with their families, and many people were reluctant to leave their hometowns, and they were also forced to leave, and the price offered by the Sichuan army was higher than that of human traffickers.

The clan didn't want to take out all the money and food in the family, so they started the population idea, and a large number of Jiangdong people moved to Jingzhou.

The Jiangdong Army withdrew from Chaisang, Lu Xun served as the governor of the navy, led the navy to garrison Poyang Lake, and Zhu Huan led the army to garrison the rear of Poyang Lake.

The Sichuan army has moved most of the population to Xuchang and other places, and Wei Yan was sent to Chaisang, leading 100,000 troops to garrison Chaisang, which is the real Jiangdong territory, and the Jiangdong army can attack Jiangdong at any time when the water army is shrinking sharply.

Because the Jiangdong Navy was limited in size by Liu Zhang, the Jiangdong clan organized a large number of land forces while compensating, and had the ability to stop Wei Yanhe before the Sichuan army could accumulate enough food.

And Wei Wen began to withdraw from Jianye one after another, and the Jiangdong clan was afraid of the Sichuan army attacking, and heard that Cao Cao would marry his daughter who had been married twice before, and marry the Sichuan army for the third time, in order to rest the army, and also marry Sun Shangxiang to Liu Zhang again, so he went to Jingzhou with Wei Wen's army, and then entered Chang'an from Jingzhou.

For the clan, whether it is useful to be close to each other or not, it is an extra layer of insurance, which is beneficial and harmless, and sacrificing a woman is completely fair, and even feels that it is a wise thing to do.

On the Yangtze River, Wei Wen's fleet marched, Sun Shangxiang and Qiao Wushuang and six-year-old Sun Shao sat in a separate cabin, Qiao Wushuang and Sun Shao were the people Liu Zhang clearly would not let go, but entered Chang'an as hostages.

Lu Su vaguely guessed the intentions of the Sichuan army, but there was no way at all.

"Sister-in-law, how can they be like this, they can't win the battle as a man, why do they force me to get married."

Ever since she entered the cabin, Sun Shangxiang had been crying, while Qiao Wushuang sat on the side without saying a word, her expression was very light, and she was expressionless at all, as if she was not going to be a hostage, but just moving.

Sun Shangxiang cried for a long time, Qiao Wushuang didn't comfort her, and finally couldn't help but scold, Sun Shangxiang really looks down on those Jiangdong ministers now, she has no ability, why did she marry so reasonably.

"Sister-in-law, you don't know, although Liu Zhang didn't give birth to a demon statue, but he is really a demon, killing people without blinking, when I was in Xuchang, I saw with my own eyes that more than 100,000 people were pushed into mass graves and buried alive.

That's all life, how can he do it, even I see those people still struggling in the pit, the Sichuan army has already filled in the soil, and there are hundreds of thousands of women and girls, who were actually put into the camp prostitutes, what a miserable end for a woman/

Liu Zhang has done such things, what is he not a demon? Those civil officials even want me to marry such a person, how can my brother allow it. ”

Sun Shangxiang said and cried again, in fact, Sun Shangxiang is a very strong girl, she hasn't cried much since she was a child, but now the blow is really too big, and the most desperate thing is a dark future.

Thinking of the scene of the Xuchang massacre, thinking of the scene of Liu Zhang leaning on the back of the chair with his eyes closed expressionlessly, Sun Shangxiang shuddered, being the wife of such a person, Sun Shangxiang would rather die.

"Sister-in-law, I really don't want to go to Chang'an."

"Sister-in-law, you are also going to Chang'an, aren't you afraid?"

"Sister-in-law, why don't you speak?"

Sun Shangxiang found out that she had been talking for a long time, Qiao Wushuang didn't say a word, and her expression didn't even change, Sun Shangxiang couldn't help but wonder.

Sun Shangxiang suddenly remembered that when her sister-in-law married her eldest brother in the past, she was a very gentle and graceful wife, not only taking care of Sun Ce, but also taking good care of their younger brothers and sisters.

That's why Sun Shangxiang has a good relationship with her sister-in-law.

But since the eldest brother left, it seems that the sister-in-law has become depressed, and Sun Shangxiang only thinks that the death of the eldest brother has hit the sister-in-law too hard.

But now that the two of them, including Sun Shao, are going to be sent to Chang'an, Qiao Wushuang is still indifferent, Sun Shangxiang faintly feels that something is wrong, it seems that he thought wrong before.

It wasn't until he shouted a few times that Qiao Wushuang looked at Sun Shangxiang, it wasn't that Qiao Wushuang didn't hear it, it was that he didn't want to answer, Qiao Wushuang really couldn't think of any difference between going to Chang'an and being in Jianye. (To be continued......)