Chapter 64: The Proposal of Wen Sun
Sun Jian and Wen Chou fell in love with each other, and as soon as they met, they experienced the "anti-Confucian" action together, which made their relationship more intimate. That night, they slept after drinking and eating. Compared to Wen Chou's caution, Sun Jian drank a little too much last night, so Wen Chou got up early, and he snored like thunder when he got up.
After Wen Chou re-exited the military order, he sat in front of the case, took out Zhang Miao's letter, frowned and thought, "Since Kong Yichang was convinced, Sun Jian has arrived, and successfully entered Yingchuan County Government. Next, I should discuss with him the matter of Meng Zhuo's invitation to us to attack Dong together... But before that, there are two things to do." While thinking, Dian Weiti's halberd outside the guard's tent walked in.
"Awei, why haven't you gone to rest yet?" Wen Chou asked cordially. As a member of Wen Chou's guards, Dian Wei was still very loyal and sincere since he surrendered to Wen Chou, and he had unparalleled combat power, so he quickly won the position of captain of Wen Chou's guards! This also shows Wen Chou's importance to Dian Wei.
Last night it was Dian Wei's turn. He stood outside the tent all night. When Wen Chou went out to pass the order, he saw that other guards had come to take over, so he asked him to go back to the tent to rest, but he didn't expect that he was still outside the tent.
Dian Wei looked at Sun Jian, who was sleeping soundly and silently.
Wen Chou said intimately: "Fruit"⌒ran is a good bodyguard, so honest and interesting! But he was worried that Sun Jian would harm me?" Knowing that this was Dian Wei's loyalty, Sun Jian was still on the bed, so he didn't say much, so he had to shake his head and smile, "It's already dawn, and there are other guards out there, so you can go back and rest quickly."
Dian Wei said in a voice: "Wenjun is the most important thing in the three armies! Wei dare not neglect!"
Wen Jian was helpless when he heard about it. Since Dian Wei was worried about his safety, he had no reason to scold him! He waved his hand and let him go. Soon Sun Jian woke up slowly. At this time, there was no one in the tent, only Wen Zhao Sun Jian's ears.
Wen Chou showed Sun Jian the letter of Zhang Miao's invitation to advance to the army. After reading it, he said, "Brother Wentai, General Zhang invites you and me to advance to attack Dong. What do you think?"
"I came to Yingchuan to meet with Ru. I came to attack Dong, and this is exactly what I should do." Sun Jian replied directly.
Wen Chou knew that he would answer this before he asked, and said happily: "In this way, are you willing to fight Dong Zhuo with me, Meng Zhuo and others?"
"That's right." Zhang Miao wrote in his letter that the army of the sour jujube was unwilling to advance. Sun Jian saw it. After responding to Wen Chou's words, he sneered and said disdainfully: "These all the two men of the Sour jujube have launched their troops with righteousness, and now the coalition forces are stationed. There are more than 200,000 infantry and cavalry camps, and a hundred miles are not enough to stop. With such momentum, they have set up an altar and oath, and they are extremely generous, but in the end, no one dares to advance to attack and attack them. Fortunately, Zhang, Cao, Bao and others are there and bravely speak up for war, otherwise their so-called "sour jujube" would definitely become a laughing stock for the people of the world."
"The Lords of Sourzao may have other thoughts. They are willing to advance and consolidate their troops, but they don't want to have you, me, Meng Zhuo, Cao Mengde and Bao Yuncheng, and can fight Dong Zhuo. However, Brother Wentai. I thought about it again and again, thinking that there are two things that need to be done before advancing to attack Dong."
"If the two things that are ahead are nothing more than food and soldiers!" Sun Jian said without hesitation, showing his advantage of more than ten years of military service. In terms of sensitivity to war, Sun Jian still has to beat the ugly ones above.
"That's right, Brother Wentai is very wise, and it's not something that a kid can compare!" Wen Chou praised Sun Jian while complimenting him slightly.
"As the saying goes, before the troops move, food and grass will go first. I went north and the supplies I received along the way were very insufficient. Moreover, there was not much left in the little grain brought from Changsha. I guess your army is the same. The war is about to begin, and this food and fodder is indeed the primary matter!" Sun Jian said with a key point.
"The heroes think the same thing, but where should the food and fodder be prepared?"
"I am the prefect of Yingchuan now, and this grain should come from Yingchuan. However, the army of you and I have joined forces, totaling more than 30,000 people, and people eat horses and chew them. The daily consumption is huge. It only depends on Yingchuan county, or it is difficult to provide all the food. What is the shortage? I am afraid that we can only come from other places."
When Sun Jian said this, he smiled at Wen Chou.
"There are only a shortage of numbers, I'm afraid that there will be only one coming from elsewhere." Where can I come from? Only Kong Qichang is there.
Although Kong Yiqiong's rebellion did not respond much, such as Chen State, he barely gave him two thousand troops because he went to his country to ask for troops. Another example is Pei State. Yuan Zhong, the prime minister of Pei State, did not support Yuan Shao and others to "raise troops to court" at all. No soldier was given to Kong Yiqiong, but whether it was sent troops or not, all the six counties and states in the state were distributed. Yuzhou was prosperous, and the six counties and states distributed food, raising the strength of the whole state. In addition to the food stored in the treasury earlier, Kong Yiqiong now has a lot of food in his hands.
Wen Chou continued, "Well, the food and fodder matter can be solved, but you and I have more than 30,000 troops, which seems to be quite a lot, but it is difficult to restrain Dong Zhuo's subordinates. Although our soldiers are brave, Dong Zhuo's subordinates are either old soldiers in Liangzhou or elite soldiers in Luoyang, and they are also extremely powerful. Niu Fu, Lu Bu, Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji, and Xu Rong are all brave. They attacked them with more than 30,000 troops, but this is not a big deal. This is another important thing, but Kong Yuzhou borrows troops."
Dong Zhuo was strong and the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry was famous all over the world. Many of the Luoyang troops that he had annexed were brave enough to fight elite soldiers. They had very strong combat power, and all the generals under his tent were fierce, especially Lu Bu, who was a first-class general. Dong Zhuo had enough powerful generals and could be called "a fierce general like clouds". However, in order to win over Lu Bu, he would use the means of "swearing to be father and son" with him, and was promoted to the General of the Central Army and the Marquis of Duting. With great rewards, this shows that his strength is enough. Others such as Li Jue, Guo Si, and Xu Rong are also outstanding tiger ministers.
Faced with such a great enemy, Wen Chou would not think about making his family stand up! Even though Wen Chou was eager to win reputation and prestige in the battle to fight Dong, simply put, Wen Chou needed some other army to be "cannon fodder", and the best candidate for this "cannon fodder" is naturally Kong Yichang's Yuzhou soldiers.
On this point, Sun Jian, a man who has been through the battlefield, saw it more clearly than Wen Chou. He agreed with Wen Chou's remarks and said immediately: "That's right, you borrow soldiers and I will borrow food!"
"Okay, I will follow Brother Wentai's words." Wen Chou had no irresponsible reason and said happily.
After this, the two agreed on these two important matters in a few words, and also determined Kong Yichang's status and contribution in the future battle against Dong. Sun Jian returned to his camp and prepared to go. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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Chapter completed!