.    , The Three Kingdoms began with fooling Liu Bei

Liu Bei was always the "Great Emperor" attitude towards reading when he was young.

I like dogs and horses, love music, and beautify clothes, and I am not very happy to read.

After becoming a prince, in the past ten years, I have become increasingly aware that it is not possible to read books, but it is limited to reading the superficial and general military tactics and history that can be used as a reference.

Other useless people are memorized by rote, but he still doesn't read it.

When it comes to selecting talents, if you want to value scholars, he also values ​​his strategy and neglects his culture. Those famous literary scholars can only support them with some money and do a good job of treating wise men and women!

This mentality is similar to when Zhao Kuangyin, who had just won the world in the later generations, said, "That's what kind of thing to help?"

Now, as a warlord of vassals and warlords, he has been the third year of his imperial capital. Finally, because of his in-depth study with Cai Yong and Li Su, his in-depth understanding of the role of history and cultural education, he realized that he still had superficial aspects.

After this incident, Liu Bei finally had enough awareness and said, "The prime minister must use scholars."

To use the Glorious series "The Three Kingdoms" game, it means that you have only 90 intelligence, and if the political value is very low, it is still not suitable for the preface.

Of course, Liu Bei is lucky. Li Su is at least 90+ in his physical body. He can break a hundred in intelligence if he has no bonus. His political nude data is close to 100, and his nuclear halo can break a hundred.

So as long as you communicate with Li Su and communicate more areas that you didn’t notice before, Liu Bei was enough to discover the treasure. To draw the above conclusion, he underestimated the strength of Brother Boya. He really knows all kinds of fields of culture and governance.

It was also through this incident that Liu Bei completely firmly decided to make Li Su the prime minister.

Although Liu Bei had already agreed to promote it, it was more of a "summoning" mentality, and he felt that Li Sugonglao should be the prime minister.

Now I feel that Li Sucai is worthy of being the prime minister in all aspects, and he can't find a shortcoming that cannot meet the prime minister's requirements.

The Prime Minister wants to command the nine ministers.

Li Su can rectify the military and know the military dispatch, and the work of the Ministry of War is absolutely professional. Others can reform and clarify the punishment, immigration rectification, fiscal and tax reform, and criminal and civil and financial affairs.

We also know engineering planning, scientific and technological farming, imperial examination reform, diplomatic fraud, expansion and nuclear creation... All engineering personnel, culture, education and diplomacy are fine, so the responsibilities of eight departments will be the total.

Except for those hypocritical sacrificial rituals and scattered formalism, it seems that the other eight Li Su is almighty at present.

The "expanding core building" talent that has only been revealed recently is to make up for the last shortcoming, from a talent of seven departments to a talent of eight departments.

Liu Bei felt that in the second half of the year, the canal project will be further promoted before the end of the year, and the people of Luoyang New City also carried out the first round of autumn harvest, so they can live and work in peace. The tax revenue was also successful in the first real income after the new commercial tax reform, and the military expansion was slightly expanded...

Finally, wait for Brother Boya to celebrate his 30th birthday in the second half of the year.

At that time, there will be sufficient reasons to officially promote Brother Boya to prime minister. All the civil and military officials in the court will definitely be convinced, which is obvious to all.

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More than ten days after that, Liu Bei inspected Luoyang. He changed his previous dislike of studying and sincerely asked the Taifu or a group of Taixue PhD officers for advice every day to improve his due quality as an emperor. At the same time, he supervised the preliminary plan for cultural nuclear creation.

After more than ten days, although Cai Yong and Li Su had not written a book on nuclear creation, Li Su had no time to do such a book writing in person, so Cai and Li just sorted out the order, expected difficulty, and context of nuclear creation.

This division of labor has always been in line with the tacit understanding between Li Su and his father-in-law. After all, Li Su's writing is not as good as Cai Yong. When he was working on "The Palace of the Palace is Blessed", he provided the main ideas, and Cai Yong and Cai Yan completed the specific writing work.

The same is true now. Cai Yong wrote history, Cai Yan wrote annotations and criticisms. It is like adding "Pei Notes" to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and adding "Mao Notes" to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is a truth.

According to Cai Yong's recapitation, the Yellow races south of Baiyue, and even the Xianbei, Qiang and Di people on the grasslands are easier to deal with. The Five Hus and the Southern Barbarians can be completely conquered and merged as the first echelon to create a new nuclear force.

The nuclear creation of other forces must be slowly concealed and fabricated.

On June 17th, Liu Bei saw the latest nuclear manufacturing outline. After reading the draft, he read it a little. He was very satisfied and decided to secretly approve the implementation according to this.

At the same time, he was also keenly aware of a problem. Because of the success of nuclear creation, he could also make some adjustments to the military operations in the northern Bingzhou area.

Perhaps, we can completely encircle and annihilate Lu Bu from the beginning to force Lu Bu away at a smaller price, forcing Lu Bu to the outside of Yanmen Pass, and continue to fight with the Xianbei people to death, just like Zhou Yu was driven away and helped open up the barbarian land.

In this way, it will not only facilitate the future expansion outside the grassland pass in the name of pursuing Lu Bu, but also facilitate the consumption of Lu Bu's direct iron armed forces and the strength of the grassland Xianbei.

Moreover, after Lu Bu went over and washed it, the Han Dynasty court killed it and made the cores easier. It was like Wanglaoji and Jiaduobao repeatedly washed away the market share and washed away Hezhizheng.

So in late June, Liu Bei discussed this matter with Li Su, and Li Su also thought it was feasible.

Liu Bei then added a decree to Guan Yu, asking him to "severely minimize casualties, peacefully liberate, promise Lü Bu can be withdrawn safely, and allow him to lose his merits in the future" and other conditions, plus some attached conditions, hoping that when Lü Bu can feel hopeless to defend Taiyuan City, he will not be trapped in the beasts and fight to the end.

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Guan Yu's military strike against Lu Bu has been almost two months old. Zhuge Liang rushed to the front line to counsel the military plane for one and a half months.

When Guan Yu sent troops, considering that it was difficult for the army to push the food route in large groups, the Fen River transport volume was insufficient.

In addition, Shangdang County has been liberated for more than half a year. Danshui can communicate with Qinshui and Yellow River Basins, so Shangdang can also support a smaller force to go north.

Therefore, Guan Yu finally chose to divide his troops into two groups. The west route from Linfen County, Hedong County, went north along the Fen River to march into Taiyuan. This route was the main force, led by him himself, and the troops he used were 60,000, including Xu Huang and others.

As for the staff of the army, Guan Yu arranged Zhuge Liang on the other side, but brought the surrendered general Tuo Yi from Yuan Shao, as well as the surrendered civil officials Ju Su and Chen Gong, hoping to use their identities to break up the Lu Bu army to a certain extent and force arriving in a certain way without fighting.

Another side division commander located on the East Road went north from Shangdang along Qing, Zhuozhangshui and others. He needed to cross some mountain passes slightly to collect Leping (now Yangquan, Shanxi) which is more located in the upper reaches of the Fen River than Taiyuan, and eventually form a crossing force on Taiyuan.

However, because the supply of the Eastern Route Army is not as convenient as that of the Western Route Army directly along the Fen River, the scale of the troops that can be supported is relatively small.

The detachment of the side divisions on this road was also relatively late, twenty days later than the Western Route Army before attacking, in order to allow Guan Yu's main force to break through some cities along the Fen River first, and then attract Lu Bu's main defensive force to defend the West Route. In this way, the outer cities on the eastern front were generally empty, and the Eastern Route Army went up to encircle the land.

The Eastern Army had only 30,000 people in total, led by Zhuge Liang, and the subordinates included Wang Ping, Zhang Ren and others. Among these 30,000 people, there were only 10,000 ordinary infantry and cavalrymen, plus 20,000 mountain soldiers, the "Wu Dang Flying Army".

If mountain soldiers were not used, the grain supply route on Shangdang would definitely not support such a large scale, with a maximum support of 20,000.

The mountain soldiers have better supply capacity than ordinary soldiers, and are also good at collecting and solving some food and grass problems on the spot in the mountainous areas in summer and autumn, so it is possible to achieve "the logistics capacity consumption of 20,000 mountain soldiers is only equal to 10,000 ordinary soldiers."

After Wang Ping's troops entered the mountainous areas of Leping, they took advantage of the early ripe summer grains to harvest the first local people in Bingzhou to eat.

In addition, I pick some fruit, nuts and fungi in the mountainous areas. Even lichens, who are more inferior to fungi, can eat them. Most of the food in ordinary soldiers' daily food is dry food, while Wudang Feijun only eats 60% of the dry food, and 40% of them are wild vegetables and fruits on-site supplies.

Of course, this kind of locust-transit eating method can only be used to ten or half a month at most. After all, there are tens of thousands of people. After more than ten days, the mountain fruits that were passed by the marching road were basically picked and cannot last long.

In addition, before attacking, Guan Yu also discussed with Zhuge Liang about the specific adaptability of the two troops.

Considering that after Lu Bu was defeated last year and retracted to Taiyuan, his total strength in Bingzhou could still be restored to 40,000 to 50,000, this is not yet a matter of whether Lu Bu will exhaust the lake and forcefully conquer the people of Taiyuan to defend the city during this year's war.

Therefore, according to conservative estimates, Guan Yu's side has a double advantage in its strength against 40,000 to 50,000.

Of course, Guan Yu also has the quality crushing of equipment, the steel armor rate is dozens of times higher than that of Lu Bu, and the divine arm crossbow that Lu Bu does not have can be suppressed at a long-range firepower.

However, if Lu Bu makes a desperate attempt to fight a time difference and defeat the weaker side of Guan Yu's two teams first, it is still possible.

So once Zhuge Liang observed that Lu Bu was attacking Yangquan at all costs to cause trouble for him, he would decisively take Wang Ping back to the mountainous area and not fight against Lu Bu in a decisive battle. Anyway, Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army had a stronger mobility in complex terrain than Lu Bu's troops, and he would still be able to escape if he wanted to avoid the battle.

As long as Lu Bu dared to leave the capital of Taiyuan County, Jinyang City, Guan Yu was sure to immediately surround Jinyang City to death to ensure that Lu Bu could not return to the city.

At that time, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang will choose the opportunity to join forces and form an absolute superior force to fight against Lu Bu in a field, and it will definitely be destroyed.

However, Lu Bu's side obviously knew this situation, so he did not consider splitting his troops from beginning to end to defeat this option. Lu Bu was completely timid and focused on resisting Guan Yu's main force step by step.

On the second day of the fifth month, Guan Yu's troops entered Lu Bu's jurisdiction, and within half a month they captured the entire Xihe County between Hedong and Taiyuan County (now the area of ​​Jiexiu, Shanxi, between Linfen and Taiyuan), especially on May 15, they captured Jiexiu County, the capital of Xihe County.

After breaking the boundary and resting, we went up the Fen River and entered Taiyuan County. On May 17th, Guan Yu defeated Wu County, and on the 20th, Zhongdu and Jingling. These small places basically failed to form battle-level resistance.

Zhuge Liang's journey set off on May 18th and entered the Leping area on May 24th. At that time, Guan Yu on the West Road was only two counties away from Jinyang.

Lu Bu tentatively left the city to Daling, and fought with Guan Yu in Pingtao area, trying to repel Guan Yu. He felt that if Guan Yu could force him to retreat, he would still have a chance to turn around and deal with Zhuge Liang.

Although Lu Bu was brave, he could only use 30,000 people to fight Guan Yu in field, with 30,000 people fighting 60,000, without terrain advantage and his equipment was crushed. Lu Bu was eventually defeated and fled back, and from then on he defended the city to death.

Guan Yu advanced to Daling on May 25, and as usual, he relied on Ju Su, Chen Gong and others to force the landing in the county. On the 28th, he began to besiege the southeastern sides of Jinyang City, that is, along the downstream of the Fen River, and established a dock for camps and grain transport ships. It was a long time to do so.

On May 28, Zhuge Liang forced arriving in Yangquan County and opened the road to meet from the source of the Fen River to Jinyang in early June.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, Zhuge Liang met with Guan Yu, and the entire Taiyuan County land located south, east and west of Jinyang City was all lost. Only a way for Lu Bu to escape north through Yanmen Pass and escape to Shengle (Datong) outside the Pass was left.

The reason why I left a way was that I was afraid that Lu Bu would jump over the wall and be completely surrounded and fight to the end.

After all, Lu Bu is not fighting for Yuan Shao. Since Yuan Shao suffered a stroke at the end of last year, he has no choice but to take care of him. Yuan Shao even handed over the defense of the Yuzhou counties such as Yingchuan and Runan to Cao Cao. If Cao Cao actually controls it, how could he still care about the actual control of Bingzhou?

So Lu Bu is now the actual governor of Bingzhou. He is fighting for his territory and his hometown, fantasizing about continuing to be his prince.

This led to his resistance to surrendering to Liu Bei. Everything he handed over now was not owned by Yuan Shao's twenty-year-old Lu Bu himself. This was so uncomfortable for a wealthy slave, especially a person who wanted to return home in glory.

No one wants to hand over his power as a warlord who successfully took power in his hometown. Lu Bu's mentality of defending Taiyuan at this moment is basically the same as a self-reliant Jinsui warlord. And relying on the strong city of Taiyuan County, he really thought about defending for a year or two before checking the situation.

On June 20th, when Liu Bei sent a supplementary decree to Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, the siege of Jinyang had lasted for half a month.

Guan Yu had built the outer camps and Fenshui Wharf, and even the first batch of siege weapons. Two or three days ago, he had already started using lever weighted catapults and divine arm crossbows to cover and suppress the firepower at the head of Jinyang City.

For the troops to destroy the moats and trenches outside the city, sheep and horse walls were conveniently made. After a few days, some of the traps, trenches and obstacles on the outer part were indeed swept away by Guan Yu at a slight cost.
Chapter completed!