Chapter 679
Ailang stopped in Guiyang County. Soon after, Lu Meng led his army back to Guiyang. When he saw Ailang, he immediately reported the situation on Longchuan to Ailang. Ailang heard that Zhou Yu had suffered a small loss and that the food and grass problem had been resolved, so he couldn't help but let go of his original concerns.
Ailang wanted to take advantage of this time to attack Cangwu in one fell swoop? So he asked Lu Meng: "Lu Meng, do you think we can attack Cangwu now?" Lu Meng immediately said: "Report to the lord, the last general believes that it is not the time. First, Sun Ce's main force is still there, and the reserves in Cangwu City are sufficient. In addition, the policies adopted by Sun Jian and his son during this period are quite popular. If our army's current forces attack Cangwu, they will be futile. If there is a slight mistake, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Ailang nodded, with a look of thought on his face.
Lu Meng continued: "I will discuss this matter with Gongjin. Both of us believe that besides the difficulty in capturing Cangwu at present, the most important problem is that although the situation in South Central is beneficial to us, South Central is still full of crises, and Meng Huo has not yet been awarded the title! Our army can currently mobilize the power and resources to the south. Instead of seeking great success, it is better to specialize in one place and completely solve the South Central problem first!"
Ailang smiled and said, "You are right! I couldn't help but get impulsive when I saw the situation was favorable!" He stood up, walked to Lu Meng, patted Lu Meng on the shoulder, and praised, "This time you and Gongjin performed very well! Especially you, you made a trick to plot against Sun Jian and defeated him in one fell swoop! If it weren't for this, maybe Longchuan would lose!" Lu Meng smiled bitterly and said, "The General of the Last is just a dangerous move at that time, and fortunately it was successful!" Ailang laughed and joked, "The General of the Last of the Last of the Days is not a good quality!" Lu Meng was stunned, and then bowed and said, "The General of the Last of the Days is just a dangerous move at that time, and fortunately it was successful!" Ailang laughed and joked, "The General of the Days is not a good quality!" Lu Meng was stunned, and then bowed and said, "The General of the Days is remembered!"
Ailang thought of the current situation and couldn't help asking: "Zi Ming, if I bring these 20,000 troops back to Nanzhong, can you and Gongjin defend this place?" Lu Meng clasped his fists and said: "Mong General and Gongjin have absolute confidence! They didn't dare to make such a promise before, but the situation is different now! If Mo General and Gongjin don't have the confidence to stabilize the southern defense line, it would be a waste of general!" Ailang nodded and said: "Okay! I'll leave this to you!" Lu Meng clasped his fists and said: "Love it, lord!"
His eyes turned to Dianchi Lake. Zhurong and Huang Yueying were standing in front of the map discussing the current situation in Nanzhong. After hearing Zhurong's introduction, Huang Yueying felt that defeating Meng Huo had only won a good start. It would be too early to say that Nanzhong was pacified!
Huang Yueying thought for a moment and asked, "Queen, according to your judgment, may the Eighteen Kings of Shannan be persuaded by Meng Huo?" Zhu Rong frowned and shook his head slowly, "It's hard to say! None of these people really surrendered to the Han Dynasty! The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in the Han Dynasty before, and the tribes took the opportunity to expel and kill Han officials and become independent. At this moment, the eldest brother entered Nanzhong strongly, and these people were afraid that they would not be willing to lose the independent status they had already obtained!" After pausing, he frowned and said, "Actually, what I worry most about is not Yongchang County and Shannan Eighteen Ministry! What I worry most is Shan State!" Huang Yueying heard the name of this country for the first time and couldn't help but ask, "What is Shan State?"
Zhu Rong said: "The Shan Kingdom is located south of Yongchang County, and its land area is quite large." After a pause, he continued: "When it comes to Shan Kingdom, we have to mention Ailao. Ailao was very strong back then. Later, the Liu family joined the Han Dynasty, and Ailao was divided into two parts. One part was Yongchang County, which joined the Han Dynasty. The other part was unwilling to join the Han Dynasty, so he went south to establish the current Shan Kingdom. This generation of Shan Kingdom kings was wise and wise, and countless small tribes around surrendered to his command. Now the Shan Kingdom's power is probably as strong as the time when Ailao was the most prosperous in the past!"
Huang Yueying frowned and thought for a moment, and asked, "Why are the queen most worried about Shan State? Do they dare to be enemies with our Qin?" Zhu Rong said, "This generation of Shan State kings is ambitious. In fact, the rebellious Han Dynasty and other rebels of the Shan State had the reason why Shan State supported and incited the people behind the scenes. The Shan State king was supposed to take the opportunity to take over Nanzhong, and Meng Huo and others had already accepted the title of Shan State king. However, because the Piao Kingdom suddenly provoked a war in the south of Shan State, Shan State had no time to look north. The Shan State king had already regarded Nanzhong as its territory and would never tolerate his elder brother to occupy Nanzhong! In addition, Meng Huo had always had friendship with the Shan State king, so I think Meng Huo was likely to invite Shan State army to help!"
Huang Yueying frowned and looked a little solemn. She originally thought that the battle of Dianchi Lake defeated Meng Huo and the overall situation in Nanzhong could be established, but she did not expect that the situation was far from simple as she imagined! The various ministries of Nanzhong still wanted to resist and said that there was a Shan country staring at each other!
"What is the military strength of Shan Country?" Huang Yueying asked. Zhu Rong thought for a while and said, "I don't know very well about the specificity. But if Meng Huo was willing to surrender, I think Shan Country's military strength is not simple. I believe it is no problem to mobilize a hundred thousand troops!"
Huang Yueying couldn't help but feel his heart sank, muttering to himself: "There are more than 100,000 in Shan State and 60,000 to 70,000 in Yongchang County. If it is the worst case, it will be really not easy to deal with!" After pausing, he asked Zhu Rong, "Can the Queen send envoys to Yongchang, Shan State and other ministries?" Zhu Rong said: "Our division has always been in contact with them, and there is no problem sending people to envoys to various ministries, I'm afraid it's difficult to be useful!"
Huang Yueying smiled and said, "The core issue of any matter is actually nothing more than interests. As long as we promise enough benefits, we will not worry about not accepting them! Let's take a step back and say, even if we can't reach an agreement, we can still touch the trump card of all parties!" Zhu Rong nodded and said, "I understand. I will do it immediately." As he said that, he was about to leave. Huang Yueying suddenly called her and suggested, "Queen, I think you should rush back to Yuyu as soon as possible to prevent Yongchang County from suddenly attacking!" Zhu Rong nodded and said, "I think so too!" Then he went down.
Meng Huo was anxiously waiting for the rewards of the envoys from all parties in Ailao Mountain. Soon after, the situation of all parties was transmitted back to Meng Huo one after another, but the situation was not as what Meng Huo hoped. Meng Huo paced back and forth, looking a little annoyed. Meng You, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what did the envoys from all parties say?"
Meng Huo stopped and roared: "Zhurong, that slut, is really determined to help Lu Bu do the right thing with me! I really want to, I want to..." Meng You heard it for no reason and had no idea what Meng Huo was saying.
Meng Huo calmed down for a moment, then said angrily: "Zhu Rong actually sent a number of envoys to various ministries to lobby them to submit to Lu Bu! It's really outrageous!" Meng You was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Then, what is the attitude of the various ministries? Then Liu Jue wouldn't be convinced by Zhu Rong, right?"
Meng Huo shouted angrily: "This is another annoying thing! Including that Liu Jue, they were all ambiguous and did not express their opinions! These guys were just waiting for a price!" Meng You frowned and said, "This is not good! This is not good! If we want to make promises, we are not as good as Lu Bu!" Meng Huo snorted and said angrily: "I can't do this?" He paused, "I didn't want to do that! Now it seems that I have no choice!" Then he shouted to Meng You: "Meng Meng
You, you rushed to Shanguo immediately, and said that I, Meng Huo, would like to regard him as the emperor, and asked him to send troops to destroy the Han people immediately!" Meng You was startled and said anxiously: "Brother, in this way, our territory will be occupied by Shanguo!" Meng Huo said angrily: "What territory do we have now? I would rather have land occupied by Shanguo than give it to Lu Bu! Lu Bu, I am irreconcilable with you!" Then he shouted from Meng You: "What are you still standing there? Go quickly!" Meng You quickly responded and ran down.
After solving the problem of Jingnan, Ailang rested for two days, and then led his army to leave Jingnan and return to Nanzhong. Concentrating his strength and energy to solve the problem of Nanzhong is Ailang's current major policy. The army returned to Dianchi Lake, which was already scarcely trapped, and the officers and soldiers were very tired after the trip.
The army was resting in the barracks, while Ailang leaned on the soft-mounted climb and drank the fragrant tea that Huang Yueying made for him with his own hands. He felt that his fatigue seemed to disappear half of it in a moment. He couldn't help but sigh: "The tea made by Sister Yueying is so sweet!"
Huang Yueying was happy, but she gave Ailang a look in anger and said angrily: "Brother is saying so exaggerated!" Ailang smiled and reached out to hug Huang Yueying into his arms. Huang Yueying suddenly felt emotional, looked at the door, and whispered: "Brother, it's still daytime now!" Ailang asked in surprise: "I just want to hug my Yueying. Where does Yueying Li Que want to go?"
Huang Yueying was stunned, then she was embarrassed and embarrassed. She raised her right hand and gently hit Ailang, and said angrily: "I'm not serious! Come and tease me again!" Ailang laughed loudly. She let go of Huang Yueying, picked up the teacup and continued to drink the tea, and asked curiously: "Yueying, why didn't I see Zhurong when I came back?"
Huang Yueying said, "Zhu Rong had returned to Yu Yu to set up defense not long ago." After a pause, he carefully explained the situation in Nanzhong that he had heard from Zhu Rong. Ailang nodded and said, "I have heard Zhu Rong say these things long ago." Huang Yueying frowned and said, "The situation in Nanzhong is much more complicated than we had imagined before! I think it will take some tricks to completely solve the problem of Nanzhong!" Then he thought of something, "By the way, I have asked Zhu Rong to send envoys to various ministries. However, from all aspects of response, it seems that they are hesitating!" Ailang laughed sarcastically and said, "Hesitation? It's just waiting for a price! I hope they don't overestimate themselves!"
Chapter completed!