He knew that the Han army was preparing to recover the war in Hanzhong, and he deliberately added troops to the Han army in Wu County. From the perspective of the Han army, Lu Kang was of course guilty of being unethical and smoking. However, from the perspective of the strategic interests of the Eastern Wu, Lu Kang did nothing wrong in doing this.

The reason is very simple. Whether the Han army can successfully restore Hanzhong does not do anything about Dongwu. Success or failure has nothing to do with Dongwu. However, the Han army and Jin army fought fiercely for Hanzhong. The larger the scale of the war, the more people they killed, but the more beneficial it was to Dongwu. The Han and Jin sides weakened each other, and the profit was of course the Eastern Wu, which was watching the fire from the other side of the river.

It is precisely because of this that without Sun Hao's consent, Lu Kang raked the Han army within his power, deliberately increased troops to Wuxian and intimidated the Han army, and took a defensive position in Jiangling, clearly told the Jin army that he would not take the opportunity to go north, and indirectly encouraged the Jin army to draw troops from the Jingzhou War Zone to advance westward to reinforce Hanzhong, and was determined to let the Han army and the Jin army fight to defeat both sides.

This is not all. In order to reassure the Jin army, Lu Kang deliberately made a statement that he firmly opposed the Han-Wu alliance, and directly asked the Jin army to find out his anti-Han stance. At the same time, he secretly ordered Lei Tan, the prefect of Yidu in Wu County, to indulge his soldiers in provoking trouble, deliberately provoking border disputes, and put more pressure on the Han army.

Wu County is close to Yong'an, and the control ground is intertwined, and the people of the two places often have contact. It is of course very easy to provoke trouble. Lu Kang's secret order was not issued for long, and the Eastern Wu soldiers under Lei Tan's command provoked trouble on the pretext that the Han soldiers in Yong'an crossed the border. Not only did they bully the fewer people to beat the Han soldiers who accidentally fell into the trap, but they also stole the armor and weapons of the Han army. When the situation was reported to Luo Xian, Luo Xian immediately sent someone to contact Lei Tan and asked Lei Tan to apologize and compensate for the losses.

According to Lu Kang's secret guidance, Lei Tan deliberately arrogantly rejected the reasonable request of the Han army, insisting that the Han army crossed the border first, and threatened that if they discovered similar situations, they would only take more severe measures. Luo Xian was furious and immediately ordered the Han army soldiers to retaliate. A few days later, he ambushed a clutch of the Eastern Wu scout who crossed the border, and also expelled the Eastern Wu scout. When the situation was reported to Lu Kang, Lu Kang was not only not angry, but also applauded and smiled: "It is best not to be calm. As long as you can't calm down, we will make excuses as much as you want."

"Father, isn't this a bit too much?" Lu Yan asked with some concern: "Your Majesty has signed the alliance with the pseudo-Han thief army, but we deliberately instigated the soldiers to provoke border disputes. If the matter is serious, your Majesty will pursue it. I'm afraid that you will find it difficult to explain to Your Majesty, my father."

"What are you afraid of? Just insist that the pseudo-Han thief army is provoking us first." Lu Kang snorted coldly, and said with regret: "It's a pity that the people in the court are short-sighted and cannot understand that the threat to us by the pseudo-Han thief army is much greater than that of the Jin people. Otherwise, we might have already taken full control of the Yangtze River."

After saying that, Lu Kang ordered again: "Release the news that the pseudo-Han thief army bullies our patrol soldiers, arouse our Eastern Wu soldiers' hatred for the pseudo-Han thief army, and tell Lei Tan that if you have any grudges, you must avenge them. Don't let the pseudo-Han thief army think that our Eastern Wu is easy to bully."

In this way, under the secret instruction of Lu Kang, the small-scale conflict between the Eastern Wu and the Han army on the border continued, and bloodshed occurred. During this period, Luo Xian also took the initiative to send people to contact Lu Kang, asking Lu Kang to restrain his subordinates to avoid the conflict continuing to expand. Lu Kang did not listen at all, and was determined to continue to put pressure on the Han army and let the Jin army see their attitude and position clearly.

Of course, Lu Kang's move quickly worked. After carefully investigating the news that the Eastern Wu and the Han army had frequent conflicts on the border, Yang Zhao, the governor of Jin's Jingzhou who was responsible for confronting Lu Kang, was of course secretly happy, but because the matter had not yet made a big deal, he did not rush to report these situations to Luoyang.

The facts proved that Yang Zhao should not be in a hurry to report this situation, because after a while, a Han army envoy who was flowing downstream from Chengdu suddenly took a boat to gongs and drums, crossed Yong'an with red and colorful colors, and entered the Eastern Wu defense zone under the charge of the Lu Anti-Japanese War. Then the Eastern Wu patrol soldiers stopped the Han army envoy and learned about the purpose of the Han army envoy. The Han army envoy led by the Han army envoy said with a smile:

"Please report to Prefect Lei, and say that the envoy came from Chengdu thousands of miles from Chengdu to Jiangling to pay homage to the governor of Xiling, the general of the army, Lu Anti-Lu, and asked the governor of the army to betroth his beloved daughter to our second brother Zhang Duan as his wife, and the two families will always be in the Qin and Jin love!"

Zhang Zhi sent an envoy to propose marriage to Lu Kang's daughter for his second brother. Of course, this news was like a thunderbolt. It immediately made Lu Kang's confidant Lei Tan's thunder sour inside. He suspected that his ears were wrong. In addition to allowing the Han army to cross the border according to the rules, Lei Tan quickly sent a clutch to take the lead in sending the news to Jiangling for Lu Kang to know.

Of course, it was Lu Kang's turn to be stunned. Lu Yan was also furious and shouted: "The toad wants to eat swan meat! What is Zhang Zhi's child? His younger brother is worthy of marrying our Wujun Lu family?"

"Send someone to stop the team immediately." Lu Kang said with a dark face after a while: "Tell them clearly, just say that this governor has no intention of marrying his beloved daughter far away, and he told them to die!"

The interception was useless. Although Lu Kang had already threatened in advance that he would not agree, the Han army envoy insisted on boarding a colorful boat to Jiangling. In front of everyone, everyone wore red color, led the sheep and begged wine, and came to Lu Kang's governor's office with a thick face to ask for a visit. He repeatedly emphasized that the purpose of coming was to propose marriage to Lu Kang's daughter for Zhang Zhi's second brother. Lu Yan was furious and rushed out of the mansion to smash gifts, drew his sword and forced the Han army envoy to get out. The Han army envoy had no choice but to say goodbye and leave in shame.

After driving away the Han army's bride-proposal envoy, Lu Kang calmed down and calculated the true intention of the Han army and thought to himself: "No, what does the pseudo-Han thief army mean? Logically speaking, Zhang Zhi'er could not have known that his official looked down on him and would never agree to propose to him. Why did he insist on sending an envoy to propose to him? He also deliberately made a fuss to the whole city. It seems that he had another purpose to do so? What would it be?"

Lu Kang himself was confused, of course, let alone Yang Zhao, the governor of Jingzhou, Jinting, who was watching the fire from the other side, received the news that the Han army was rejected for a marriage proposal, Yang Zhao was also full of suspicion and thought: "How could this happen? Although Zhang Zhi's rebels might choose to marry Lu Kang in order to join Wu and Jin, why do you need to use such a big fanfare method to propose marriage? Also, if Lu Kang doesn't agree, why is he still so unpretentious and let his son smash the bride gifts sent by the pseudo-Han thief army? What's the point of this?"

Yang Zhao's suspicion was answered soon. After a while, the Jiangxia defender of Jingzhou, who was responsible for confronting Shi Ji, suddenly sent a quick horse to send an urgent message to Yang Zhao, reporting an astonishing insider news to Yang Zhao - Lu Kang secretly asked Sun Hao for an order to respond on the Han army's large-scale northward troops, taking advantage of the situation to attack important Jin army's Jingzhou towns such as Yicheng and Xiangyang. At the same time, Lu Kang also requested to set up a suspicious formation, making the Jin army mistakenly believe that he was in conflict with the Han army and cover his sneak attack.

After quickly reading the urgent report transferred from Jiangxia County, Yang Zhao of course asked quickly: "Where did these situations come from, how did you find out?"

"Reporting to the Lord of the Mansion, it was the news we heard from Shi Ji, the left Sima Shi Ji, the messenger of the Eastern Wu." Jiangxia replied truthfully: "Before this, we bribed a Shu Zuo from Shi Ji's account and got a lot of military information from him. A few days ago, Shi Ji was drunk and said these things in front of the Shu Zuo. The Shu Zuo quickly leaked the news to us."

Yang Zhao nodded slowly, Yang Tan, the eldest son of Yang Zhao next to him, suddenly realized and shouted: "Father, the child understands why Zhang Zhi's traitor sent envoys to propose marriage with great fanfare, and also understands why Lu Kang's son smashed the bride price of Zhang Zhi's traitor. This is clearly a play they jointly performed. We want us to think that Lu Kang and Zhang Zhi's traitor are incompatible and will not send troops to respond to Zhang Zhi's traitor heading north. Then, taking advantage of our negligent defense, we suddenly sent troops to kill us off guard!"

Yang Zhao continued to nod and said with a smile: "It's Lu Youjie. I'm so happy to have a knife hidden in my smile. If we hadn't been lucky enough to open the gap between Shi Ji and find out the truth about the matter, I would almost be ready to report the good news to the court."

"Father, don't be careless." Yang Tan said hurriedly: "The situation must be reported to the court immediately and requested the court to send additional reinforcements to our Jingzhou to prevent any incidents."

"Yes, I have to ask the court for help immediately." Yang Zhao made up his mind and said, "Our Jingzhou garrison was already very difficult to deal with the two troops of Lu Kang and Shi Ji at the same time. Lu Kang is now holding on to the bad guys and preparing to attack us. If we don't take precautions early, we will definitely suffer a great loss."

After confirming that Lu Kang was preparing to come for the Jin army, Yang Zhao wrote a seal on the same day to report to Sima Yan that Lu Kang was deliberately acting and preparing to attack Jingzhou. Sima Yan did not dare to neglect after hearing the news. He quickly summoned a few close friends to study countermeasures and prepared to increase troops in the Jingzhou War Zone to strengthen defense.

During this period, Lu Kang also paid the price for Sun Quan and Lu Meng's glorious tradition of being shameless. Although Yang Hu was very suspicious of the authenticity of the information, given the glorious tradition of Eastern Wu's liking to attack, Sima Yan decided to appoint a general general of Jingzhou and the military in the middle road for full-time responsibility for the battlefield. At the same time, he decided to transfer the 20,000 mobile troops originally used in the battlefield of the west road to Jingzhou to strengthen defense. Then, although Yang Hu himself was more willing to go to the west road to fight against the Han army, Sima Yan insisted on sending him to Jingzhou and let him confront his good friend Lu Kang. Yang Hu had no choice but to take the order.

Next, Lu Kang was of course crying but no tears. He had no intention of going north, but the Jin army went to the middle to increase troops and defend him. Correspondingly, after the Jin army increased its troops in Jingzhou, the pressure on the battlefield in Jingzhou increased greatly, Sun Hao had to send more troops to Wuchang, which formed a cycle of evil deeds under the distrust of each other.

This is not counting. Given the increased pressure from the Jin army, Sun Hao also personally issued an order to order Lu Kang to withdraw the troops stationed in Wu County and reduce his troops to strengthen Jiangling's defense. Lu Kang had no choice but to lament:

"Sima Yan, Sima Yan, are you getting a watery head or have a high fever and a confused fever? This official clearly asked you to let go of your hands and feet to fight the pseudo-Han thief army. Why do you want to increase troops to attack me in Jingzhou? The more intense the confrontation we confront in Jingzhou, the easier it will be for the pseudo-Han thief army to understand?"

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The words were short and long. When Lu Kang made these lamentations, time had already entered the autumn of the fifth year of Yanxing without realizing it. In the autumn of this year, although the years in Shuzhong were ordinary and there was no big harvest, the price of grain was always in a steady state due to the extremely small burden of military rations. The people were full and lived and worked in peace, and the people's livelihood situation improved greatly, and almost returned to the heyday of Zhuge Village's man in charge.

At the same time, relying on the hidden population found, the Han army exceeded the established military expansion plan and expanded its total force to more than six figures and hundreds of thousands of people. Not only did it have enough troops to recover Hanzhong, but it also had the spare force to leave mobile troops to prevent it. Of course, the Jin army and the Eastern Wu army naturally had to be amazed at Zhang Zhi's military militia again. Without Hanzhong, they dared to expand their troops to more than 100,000.

In this autumn, the Shu family urged almost every three days, and they all hoped that the Han army would go north to recover Hanzhong as soon as possible. The reason why the Shu family was so anxious was very simple. The Jin army in Hanzhong not only blocked the trade route between junk food and the Western Regions, but also completely cut off the trade between Shu brocade and Hanzhong. With serious damage to the commercial interests, the Shu family of Shu certainly hoped that the Han army would recover Hanzhong as soon as possible so that junk food and Shu brocade could be sold to the Central Plains and the Western Regions through Shangyong, Longxi and other places.

On the contrary, Zhang Zhi himself was not in a hurry. After personally presided over the autumn harvest plan and confirmed that the grain from all over the place was harvested and put into storage, Zhang Zhicai held a meeting in Chengdu and decided to send troops on the tenth day of September to personally lead a 40,000 army to Hanzhong in the north and restore the most important advance base of Shu Han. - Don't think that the 40,000 offensive force was too small. During the Battle of Yiling, the total strength of the Shu army was only more than 50,000.

The important task of staying in Chengdu was handed over by Zhang Zhi to the elderly Huo Yi and Chen Can. Zhu Xiang was responsible for leading the mobile forces to prevent them. When Zhang Zhi led his army to set off, Huo Yi, who was already covered in white hair, also made a small request to Zhang Zhi, saying:

"After General, when he arrived at Dingjun Mountain, please be sure to put an incense stick for me in front of the Wuhou Mausoleum. When I am old, I may not have the chance to go to Dingjun Mountain to pay homage to the Wuhou Mausoleum in person. This wish can only be done by asking you to fulfill it for me."

After solemnly agreeing to Huo Yi's request, Zhang Zhi also reminded: "Elder General, Chengdu will ask you. This time I go north, I will probably lose contact with you within a certain period of time. At that time, I will ask you to preside over all the affairs of Yizhou. Remember, whether the Jin thieves go south or the Eastern Wu go west, they can only focus on defending. Never take risks to attack. If you persist until you resume contact with me, you don't have to worry about anything."

After Huo Yi nodded, Zhang Zhicai loudly ordered his departure, leading 25,000 troops to join the army in Fu County first, and then join forces to go north. During this period, Zhao Quan, Yang Ji and others also asked about Zhang Zhi's combat plan. Zhang Zhi smiled and said, "Do you want to hear the truth or listen to lies? Lies are to attack one by one, first take Jiameng Pass and then attack Baishui Pass, and then take the pass and Yang'an Pass, and go on the main road to attack Nanzheng."

"If you want to hear the truth," Zhang Zhi smiled slightly, and then said: "That's to take advantage of the situation and adapt to the situation. How to fight depends on how the war develops. There are mountains and ridges everywhere in the southwest of Hanzhong and roads everywhere. On such a battlefield, if we don't play the tricks of interspersed and detours, wouldn't we be too sorry for our advantage of not using the food road?"
Chapter completed!