Kushan coalition?
Three hundred thousand?
Most of the people present knew that these 300,000 were basically an imaginary number, but even the imaginary number was enough to shock everyone at the moment. Even Lu Bu's face changed slightly and he put down the Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand.
Wei Xu was on the side, almost frightened, his eyes a little dull.
Once the number of soldiers exceeds ten thousand, it will reach a level of magnitude that a general rarely encounters. Then the difficulty will increase geometrically, which means that the 50,000 soldiers are not ten times that of the 5,000 soldiers, but may be twenty times, or even fifty times...
Just like when Liu Huangshu ruled thousands of people in history, Liu Paopao left his reputation everywhere in the Central Plains. Well, no matter whether this reputation is good or bad, anyway, as long as he wanted to run, no one could catch him. But when Liu Paopao ruled troops far exceeding his command limit, he was staggering like a child who had just learned to leave, slow and helpless.
Because the more soldiers, the more middle and lower-level generals were needed. At that time, Liu Paopao had no generals under his command. In the Han Dynasty, when there was no timely communication, the role of generals was irreplaceable, and it was not possible for a few soldiers to help.
So, Lu Bu looked at Zhang Liao, speechless for a while, then exhaled and said, "Whether you and me are fighting, whether it is a misunderstanding or right or wrong, let's not talk about it for now. Now the enemy is coming. Wen Yuan, if you want to help me, stay. If you don't want to help me, go quickly."
『Lord!』 Wei Xu jumped out and pointed at Zhang Liao and said, "Can't let him go! What if...
Lu Bu waved his hand, "Nothing is true, Wen Yuan is not such a person."
Then Lu Bu looked at Zhang Liao, "How about it? Stay or leave?"
Zhang Liao also looked at Lu Bu, thought for a moment, and nodded, "The enemy is in front of you, you should fight together!"
Lu Bu laughed, then stepped forward and patted Zhang Liao on the shoulder, "Okay! I knew you would do this! After so many years, you and I can finally fight side by side! Happy, happy! Hahaha!"
Lu Bu smiled and said to Zhang Liao, "Wenyuan, you can take your people to rest first... Even if there are really 300,000, what can you do? Back then... Hahaha, forget it, let's not mention it. Kushan is coming, so I won't have to go find them! After this battle, you can defeat the Western Regions in one fell swoop! Hahahaha!"
Lu Bu smiled happily, as if the scene before was tense, the sky was clear after the rain.
But if it is really just like this, everyone knows what it means to turn the article.
The Kushan army is huge and its speed is uneven. The fastest one needs to take care of the slowest ones, so even if you know that Lu Bu's scout had discovered his whereabouts, you could not immediately run to Qiu Ci, so you could only surround him slowly. Of course, perhaps under the leadership of Kushan general Taxa, you think that their number is the best, and even if you suppress it, you can crush Lu Bu to death...
Perhaps it was necessary to borrow Zhang Liao's abilities, and Lu Bu did not deliberately make things difficult for Zhang Liao or deprive Zhang Liao's troops of any kind. Instead, he brought Zhang Liao a lot of food, supplies, and arrangement of tents.
Outside the tent, the bonfire bakes the ground.
The night sky in the Western Regions is charming, and the dazzling stars almost cover the entire sky, allowing every human being who looks up and watches to feel its own insignificance.
"The Lord, there are really 300,000?" Sun Laosan muttered, "Is it fake?"
Zhang Liao lowered his head and looked at the bonfire. "If you even count the old and weak, there should be 100,000 to 150,000... There is insufficient information and it is difficult to infer exactly..."
"Then... the general, the protector..." Quan Er looked at Zhang Liao, "I won't do anything to us?"
The bonfire was jumping, emitting its own enthusiasm unscrupulously.
Zhang Liao grabbed a piece of wood, then felt the touch on his hand was a little weird, so he lowered his head and took a look.
This piece of wood seems to be part of a sculpture with patterns on it. It seems to be polished on the surface. It feels a little smooth to the touch, and the smooth lines seem to be part of the clothes...
Zhang Liao raised his hand without comment and threw it into the bonfire.
"Don't worry, these people are gathered together by temporary draws. As long as their leader is defeated, they will collapse like an avalanche..." Zhang Liao said, "So the Kushans also marched very carefully and very slowly."
Zhang Liao did not say that he was at ease with the arrival of Kushan, or the protection of the Great Protector, or both.
Zhang Liao stretched out his hands, looked at his fingers, and said, "It is a sin to destroy Buddha. This argument is a bit like a yellow turban... So the first ones must be those who are brainless..."
Zhang Liao put down his hand and then held it in the air with a vain. "The Yellow Turban Thieves... were once arrogant... until Changshe's fire..."
That fire burned the Yellow Turban soul.
Perhaps at the beginning of the Zhang Jiao-Three Brothers, they did roar for the sake of ordinary people, but they did not go to the end, especially after the Yellow Turban Army began to expand, the situation of quality and quality became more and more serious. The Zhang Jiao-Three Brothers obviously could not keep the army and government orders in such conditions.
Zhang Jiao may have wanted to be God for a time, but in the end he was just a fallen person.
Just like Lu Bu.
Zhang Liao admitted that he had made a mistake. He used his impression of Lu Bu to deduce the plan and formulate the steps. It was naturally like hitting a head-on into a reef under the sea, almost to pieces.
Fortunately, the Kushans came and brought a large army. Of course, in some ways, this was not a blessing. But it was precisely because of this that Lu Bu changed his attitude...
"You all go and rest, make some adjustments," Zhang Liao said to the guard beside him, "In two days, there will be a tough battle to fight."
Han Zheng hesitated for a moment, "General..."
Zhang Liao nodded, "It's okay, go and rest first."
So several guards stood up and retreated.
Zhang Liao sat alone by the bonfire. The current situation is even more difficult than he had originally imagined. People will change. If Zhang Liao changes, Lu Bu will naturally change.
During this meeting, Zhang Liao realized the current situation in Kucha. The massacre around Qiu Ci, or the action of destroying Buddha, was not all Lu Bu was venting, or his anger was brainlessly venting, and perhaps there was some element of luring the enemy.
perhaps……
This is Zhang Liaoxin's speculation.
If this speculation is true, it means that Lu Bu has begun to use his originally extremely unwanted brain. This is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing. Because it means that Lu Bu actually knows what Wei Xu did.
Lu Bu knew what Wei Xu did, which would lead to Zhang Liao's anger when exposing Wei Xu's crimes. Instead, it would make Lu Bu feel that Zhang Liao was not leaving for Wei Xu, but meant Lu Bu himself.
What ultimately led to this change in Lu Bu?
Zhang Liao was thinking.
Perhaps it was the setbacks encountered by Yuan Shao, perhaps it was the depression that he had nowhere to perform his martial arts in the Central Plains, or perhaps it was the success of the Western Expedition to the Western Regions? Or perhaps Lu Bu started a higher starting point and had stronger martial arts skills, but he could only lose consecutive battles and escape everywhere. However, the "little brother" who had been before had achieved great success, with military strength and people looking for it...
Lu Bu is not a tolerant person.
The reason why Lu Bu has come to this point may be that others do have responsibility, but it is more caused by Lu Bu himself.
Impulsive, irritable, and not thinking. Even if I think it is now, I may not be able to consider how long it is, or he himself thinks it is long enough. After all, Lu Bu was surprised when he heard the Kushan army's arrival and the murderous intent of not knowing how many Kushan soldiers wanted to fight Zhang Liao, which was impossible to deceive people.
That's Lu Bu.
There have been some changes, but it still cannot be considered very good.
Lu Bu is selfish and self-interested in his heart, but he pretends to be generous and generous on the surface.
Lu Bu had dinner, drank, and even sang and wrestled together by the bonfire. It was not that Lu Bu was really good with these ordinary soldiers, but that Lu Bu knew that he needed these ordinary soldiers to charge for him.
Or to put it simply, the core of Lu Bu is still a wolf.
The wolf king will lead it, protect the wolf in his tribe, and will play with the little wolf cubs on weekdays, but will never allow his status to be challenged. If he encounters unmatched risks, the wolf king will leave the wolf in his tribe without hesitation and run away first.
Lu Bu grew up in the north, and his mind of the strong prey on the weak in the desert was deeply rooted in Lu Bu's heart, so he didn't care about anyone, he just cared about himself. Therefore, when Zhang Liao took out the signed paper, he first thought of not the friendship of the past, but the suspicion that the paper did not represent friendship, but the trap set by the cavalry.
After all, I made a mistake.
Zhang Liao originally thought that he wanted to rely on emotions to impress Lu Bu, but now he found that Lu Bu didn't care about this friendship at all. Zhang Liao made a mistake. Zhang Liao had to make a new plan.
Of course, Zhang Liao could also find an opportunity to escape, but this means that it will completely detonate Lu Bu and push everything in the Western Regions into an irreversible abyss. If you save your life, then Zhang Liao would go back immediately. I believe that even Lu Bu might not be able to stop him. But what if he escaped?
Even if the people in the Western Regions are not considered, the consequences caused by this, the changes in various places that have been implicated, the power of generals, etc., will inevitably set off an immeasurable storm!
Lu Bu Lu Fengxian...
Zhang Liao closed his eyes in pain.
Those who blindly believe in their own force will eventually be harmed by themselves.
This world is not just about swords and guns.
Using violence to end the other party's body and destroy the other party's life is certainly a way to solve the problem, but this method will never have the greatest deterrent effect only after taking action. Just like now, after Lu Bu started the destruction of Buddha, those who believe in Buddhism and Kushan in the Western Regions will not be too scared of Lu Bu, or are still afraid of it. However, after knowing that the left and right are dead, they become seeking life in death and strive for it.
Killing is undoubtedly the easiest and most rude method.
But it is also the most incompetent manifestation of being a commander.
The use of violence by the people at the bottom may only involve one or two families, but the higher the progress, the more they are, the more they are related to each other, simple killing will not only reduce the evaluation of their ability as decision makers, but also make allies distrust themselves more and make their opponents happier. Even because of simple, rough and irresponsible handling, in every blank period of alternating authority, it may cause greater harm to the entire political system under a chain reaction.
So, what should I do now?
How can Lu Bu understand this?
Seizing power is not advisable.
This is one of the fundamental motivations of Zhang Liaoning to run thousands of miles and face Lu Bu.
Zhang Liao himself also has desires, there is no doubt about this.
If you had no desire and just lie down, Zhang Liao would not have come here at all.
Civil officials and military generals, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, perhaps earlier, were divided into different professions.
From just carrying a bone stick, to the stone spear and axe behind, to bronze ware, from the beginning to line up to greet each other, to the three straight lines...
With the development of civilization and the demand for war forms requires more professional military generals. Human life is limited and energy is also limited. It is obviously unrealistic to let Zhang Liao learn scriptures and cultivate both civil and military. Once the war stops and changes from pioneering to construction, military generals who focus on war will naturally be replaced by civil officials who focus on production and governance. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to the mutual struggle between civil officials and military generals, the personal desires that overwhelm the interests of the country led to the fall of the country and the death of tens of thousands of people.
So this time, the most critical issue is not anything else, but the transfer of authority.
Smooth handover.
Let the turmoil in the Western Regions calm down again and let chaos turn into order.
Let the alternation of authority in the Western Regions become a model for the future.
Let experience be continued and civilization develop.
This is the foundation of everything.
This is the inheritance of China.
Zhang Liao understood this problem, but the problem was that Lu Bu didn't understand.
Looking at the bonfire in front of him, Zhang Liao stood up, then waved his hand to refuse the guard's follower, and directly found Lu Bu.
Lu Bu was a little surprised that Zhang Liao came, but soon Lu Bu greeted him with a smile, just like he was another person holding the murderous aura of Fang Tian Huaji in Japan.
That's right, this is very Lu Bu.
"Brother Fengxian, I have some ideas about the Kushan Army..." Zhang Liao said straight to the point, "But Brother Fengxian is more familiar with the Western Regions, so please give me some advice..."
Lu Bu's eyes moved slightly and he laughed, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say! Come, sit down and talk."
Zhang Liao's heart sank, but he didn't look moved and was not polite. He sat down straight, "The Western Regions are divided into two parts, north and south. We are probably in the middle of the North Road. If the Kushan Army wants to come, it seems that there is only one way..."
The Western Regions are like an oval plate, but there is a large desert in the middle of the plate. Even in the later era of satellite positioning, accidentally fell into an unmanned land, which is basically a life-and-death situation, so it goes without saying that it is the present. Therefore, for the march route, it is basically certain that Kushan will definitely pass by Qiu Ci.
Lu Bu nodded. Zhang Liao was right about this, but he also noticed the word "seemingly" in what Zhang Liao said, and frowned and said, "Wen Yuan, do you mean that Kushan has divided his troops?"
In terms of war, Lu Bu had intuition and keenness like a wild beast.
『Youdao means speed of soldiers...』 Zhang Liao nodded and said, 『Although this Kushan army may not be able to have 300,000, even if there are only 30,000 people and horses gather together, they will eat and drink a lot every day... If there is no special reason, why not rush straight to fight with Brother Fengxian in Qiuci City... Anyway, it will consume our strength, right?"
Lu Bu pondered, "Well, so, this Kushan...if it was divided into the south road, it was probably for the West Sea...the north and south roads of the Western Regions can basically be considered flat rivers. As long as there is a team of elite cavalry, they can directly bypass Shache, enter the south road, and then run to the West Sea... Well, there is indeed such a possibility... So the Kushan army in front of us is deliberately slow, actually to wait for their division..."
Compared with several major countries in the northern Western Regions, the southern Western Regions are basically small countries. When facing the Kushan soldiers, they are mostly the same as before. When one side is strong, they will turn to that side. The speed of changing sides is often determined by the power comparison between the two sides. The so-called eternal neutrality is just a joke.
『So…』 Lu Bu’s eyes turned to Zhang Liao, 『So Wen Yuan, what is your suggestion? We are going back to the West Sea now?"
Zhang Liao shook his head and did not agree with Lu Bu's plan with the flow, because this plan was obviously a trap and a test by Lu Bu. "We must first face the army that is still the North... and retreat to the West Sea now, and we still cannot get rid of being bitten behind by these guys... So, if it is here..."
Zhang Liao raised his head and looked around, "Where is a fire? It must be able to illuminate many places..."
Lu Bu looked back at Qiu Cicheng, then laughed, "A fire? Well, interesting. I think you can give it a try... Then it's settled, clean it up tomorrow, set the fire tomorrow night! Light it up and let it attract those Kushan cubs to come!"
A very simple strategy to lure the enemy.
But it's OK to be effective.
Because it's very simple, Kushan is a coalition force.
Zhang Liao and Lu Bu talked about some details again, and then said goodbye and left.
Lu Bu smiled and even gave it to Zhang Liao.
When Lu Bu turned back, Wei Xu didn't know which dark corner came out...
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Chapter completed!