readx;?ps: Corrected later, about two o'clock.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Wang Mai said: "But now the situation is pressing, if you don't agree to the Wu people's request, they will refuse to send troops, but with the current strength of Xiangyang, there is no way to stop Yanghu's attack, once the city is broken, our fate will be worse than taking refuge in the Wu people." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xiahou Xian said: "What the Wu people are best at is treachery, we have offended them before, with the character of the Wu people, General Wang thinks they will treat us well after taking Xiangyang?" Since it is going to be surrendered, it is not necessary to surrender to Wu, and it is not a better choice to surrender to Shu. ”

"Descend to Shu?" Wang Mai shook his head and said, "Shu is far away, and it is difficult to solve the water and fire. ”

Xiahou Xian said: "Otherwise, now Jiang Weitun, the general of Shu State, has already had the intention of going east, if the king sends someone to ask for surrender, Jiang Wei will be happy, and the last general thinks that the conditions for surrendering to Shu are definitely much more generous than surrendering to Wu." What's more, now that the power of Shu is expanding so rapidly, it is the land of Yongliang and Ji, and the future Jin will swallow Wu and annex the world, it is none other than Shu, and the king now chooses to descend to Shu, which is the wisest. ”

Zhong Hui frowned and said: "Jiang Wei has been fighting with this king for many years, and he has a deep grudge, this time I ask for surrender, I don't know if Jiang Wei will allow it, even if Jiang Wei can nod now, but who can guarantee that he will not turn his face in the future?" ”

Xiahou Xian said: "The king is too worried, in the previous battle of Yizhou, the king was just acting on the orders of Sima Zhao, each for his own master, and now he is surrendering the four counties of Jingzhou, how can Jiang Wei not like it?" At that time, my uncle Xiahou Ba descended to Shu, and even the lord of Shu greeted him personally, and the treatment was far better than when he was in Wei, and he has always achieved the high position of the general of the chariot and cavalry, and when he entered Shu, he was only a single horse, without a soldier or a pawn, and without a city or a place. Now the king with 100,000 armor soldiers, with the land of the four counties to descend to Shu, its merits are far above Xiahou Ba, why don't the Lord of Shu like it, I am afraid that the status in the future will not be inferior to the original Xiahou Ba. ”

Zhong Hui also nodded secretly, Xiahou Ba's matter Zhong Hui was naturally very clear, when Xiahou Ba was persecuted by the Sima clan and was forced to surrender to Shu, the specifications and treatment enjoyed in Shu were extremely high, and he was not suspicious because he was a general, in the later Shu State Attack Wei Operations, Xiahou Ba was also repeatedly in charge of military power, and once became the second person in the Shu army second only to Jiang Wei.

Of course, Zhong Hui did not dare to expect to be able to reach the status of Xiahou Ba after the surrender of Shu, after all, the current Shu State is no longer the original Shu State, Zhong Hui only wants to return to the Shu Kingdom, he can ensure that his military power will not be lost, as for the status, it is obviously unrealistic to want to be a King of Wei Xing, but it is enough to ensure that high-ranking officials are Houlu.

But no matter whether Wu or Shu, what will happen in the future, in the final analysis, is still an unknown number, this is equivalent to a gamble, the future is infinite if you win, and the life is worrying if you lose a bet.

The conditions offered by Wu made it difficult for Zhong Hui to accept, but the specific situation was not clear on the Shu side, so Zhong Hui was not in a hurry to make a decision, so he sent Xiahou Xian to Hanzhong to see Jiang Wei, and wait to see what conditions Jiang Wei could offer, and then make a decision.

Without further ado, Xiahou Xian immediately set off, changed his route to Shangyong, and went straight to Hanzhong.

Jiang Wei has just arrived in Hanzhong, the situation in Shu has generally remained stable, except for Yong'an, the Shu army has recovered all the land, and the Shu court has also moved back to Shuzhong from Nanzhong, but Chengdu is still a scorched earth, with the weak national strength of Shu now, if you want to rebuild Chengdu City, there is no financial and material resources at all, Jiang Wei suggested to Liu Chan that the capital should be temporarily moved to Luocheng to facilitate the management of the entire Yizhou.

Although the city is small, and the temporarily built palace is not even as good as the palace when the emperor went out on patrol in the past, Liu Chan can return to Shuzhong, and he feels that it is countless times stronger than staying in Nanzhong, so Liu Chan did not complain too much, but was more satisfied with Jiang Wei's arrangement.

Liu Chan was born the year before the Battle of Chibi, to this year is already sixty six, years of wine color air hollowed out his body, the past ten years of displacement has made Liu Chan's body day by day, when he left Chengdu, Liu Chan was still in good spirits, this time he moved back to Shu, but it was already in his twilight years.

Jiang Wei, who is five years older than Liu Chan, has passed the ancient rare, but the perennial military career has made this ancient elder look energetic, after the death of the left and right car cavalry generals Zhang Yi and Liao Hua successively, Jiang Wei has become the oldest veteran among the generals of the Shu Kingdom, but this "evergreen" in the Shu ** world is the spiritual symbol of the Shu army, although Liu Yin has continuously achieved brilliant victories in the front line of the Northern Expedition, which makes people question the status of the general Jiang Wei, but in the minds of many people, Jiang Wei is still the immortal god of war in their hearts, It has an irreplaceable position.

Different from Liu Yin's battle on the outside line, in the past ten years, almost Jiang Wei has supported a piece of the sky in Shu, in the Three Kingdoms dispute, the enemy is strong and I am weak, Jiang Wei can successfully complete the counterattack, recover most of the territory in Shu, it is indeed indispensable, in all fairness, Jiang Wei's record in Shu, compared with Liu Yin's record, is not much better, Jiang Wei and Liu Yin, one south and one north, echo each other from afar, becoming the two most brilliant twin stars in the Shu Han starry sky.

It stands to reason that Jiang Wei is also considered to be famous, and now that he is over the age of ancient times, it should be time to take a back seat and retire for the rest of his life, but Jiang Wei is old, but his heart is not old, this time he heard that Yanghu conquest of Zhonghui, the news that the two sides exchanged troops in Jingzhou, Jiang Wei thought that the time for the Shu army to advance eastward had come, and he immediately wrote to Liu Chan, requesting to lead troops to set off from Hanzhong, take the three counties of Shangyong in the east, and then march into the Central Plains, and Liu Yin on the North Road, declare war on the reverse Jin Dynasty, realize the unfinished wish of Prime Minister Zhuge in his life, restore the Han family, and return to the old capital.

At first, Liu Chan did not agree, thinking that Jiang Wei was too old to go on an expedition, but Jiang Wei insisted on his own opinion, made a generous statement, and persuaded the later lord Liu Chan with the allusion of being honest and old-fashioned, and still able to eat, commanding 80,000 troops, leaving Luocheng, and embarking on the journey of eastward into the Central Plains. (To be continued.) )