Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

In the dream, the person Lu Bu hated the most was not Cao Cao who hanged him, nor Liu Bei who instigated Cao Cao to hang him, nor Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng who opened the city of Xia Pi and surrendered, but Chen Gui and his son Chen Deng.

On the surface, these two officials offered him advice and seemed loyal, but in fact, they had already colluded with Cao Cao. He hated himself for not listening to Chen Gong's advice at the time and actually regarded these two treacherous villains as his confidants. He was fooled by them and was defeated so quickly in the end!

At this moment, Lu Bu wanted to strangle Chen Deng to death immediately. Zhang Mo sensed his mood change and held his hand on the table to comfort him.

The familiar touch and temperature slowly calmed Lu Bu's anger. He changed his mind and realized that his life had been completely changed, and history had also changed because of Amo. Everything in the dream was just a dream and had never actually happened. Why should he be angry about a dream?

Although he was no longer angry, Lu Bu had no good feelings towards Chen Deng. Chen Deng felt the hostility from Lu Bu, but he was puzzled. He just mentioned something that Liu Bei could currently use for exchange. If he didn't agree, then he didn't agree. Why did he react like this?

In the end, he concluded that this person was too narrow-minded!

After calming Lü Bu's murderous urge, Zhang Mo explained to Liu Bei, "Brother, it's not that Fengxian is unwilling to send troops to help you. Hanzhong's terrain is difficult to defend and difficult to attack. I don't know how many soldiers will be sacrificed to take it down. You also know the situation here. Gongsun Zan is eyeing us covetously and may send troops to Jizhou at any time. Cao Cao in the south also regards Bingzhou as a mortal enemy. It is really difficult to lend you too many troops. If I lend you too few, you won't be able to take it down, and you will just be sending lives in vain!"

Hearing Zhang Mo's considerations, Liu Bei finally felt better. He said a little embarrassedly, "Junior sister, you're right. I'll think of another way!"

Zhang Fei, however, was a bit unconvinced and said, "Amo, how do you know that we can't conquer a city with fewer men? There have been battles in ancient times where the minority defeated the majority. Take the battles you fought against Zhang Yan, Qu Yi, and Ma Teng. In which of them was it not the minority that defeated the majority? Just lend me a few thousand men, and I'll conquer that damned country of the United States and show you."

Zhang Mo looked at Zhang Fei helplessly. She was on the defensive in all three battles. With the city defense equipment more advanced than that of the time and the enemy's contemptuous attitude towards women, she was able to take the enemy by surprise and defeat the enemy with a smaller force. The situation was completely different from the attack on Hanzhong.

Not wanting to waste any more time arguing with this rude man, she said, "Let me show you a map of Hanzhong, and you'll see it's not as simple as you think."

Soon, an attendant brought a map of Yongzhou and the Shu region and hung it on the wall. Zhang Mo walked over to it and explained, "To advance into Hanzhong, unless we pass through Jingzhou and Yizhou, we can only go through Guanzhong and across the Qinling Mountains. There are three possible routes. One starts from Chencang, passes through Sanguan, and then crosses Huangniu Ridge. Then, we go south along the Gudao River valley, pass Juxian (Lueyang), and follow the Shanyang Valley towards Yangpingguan."

"This Chencang Road is relatively easy to travel, but you may encounter two resistance groups along the way. One is the Di people defending Hechi City, and the other is Ju County. Even if you can successfully capture these two places, there is still the last one to fight, Yangping Pass, which controls the Hanzhong Basin."

After hearing this, several people looked at each other in confusion. This was the easiest route she mentioned. They had to climb mountains, cross rivers, and attack two cities and a checkpoint. It was indeed a bit difficult.

Zhang Fei asked, "What about the other two?"

"The second route, the Baoxia Road, starts from Mei County, follows the Xieshui and Baohe River valleys, and crosses Laoyeling Mountain, leading directly to the Hanzhong Basin. This route appears to have no cities or passes, but the road is extremely difficult to travel. I haven't personally traveled it, but I can imagine that it passes through many mountains, making it difficult for people to travel, but difficult to transport food and fodder."

"The third route is the Ziwu Road. Its entrance is in the south of Chang'an. It also crosses several mountains, and most of them are plank roads."

She looked at Liu Bei and the others and said, "We have a clear understanding of the terrain, but we know nothing about Zhang Lu's character or the strength of his army. Let's not even consider the enemy's strength. Just based on the terrain, how many troops do you think we would need to attack such a place?"

Everyone looked at each other, but couldn't say anything. According to the terrain she had just described, it was not a matter of how many troops there were. They had to climb over mountains and cross rivers, so food and fodder were the biggest problems. Moreover, the number of civilians escorting food and fodder would be more than on a normal route, which meant that more food would be consumed along the way.

Liu Bei cupped his hands in shame, "Brother, you're not thoughtful enough. You don't even understand the terrain here clearly. You only know the Ziwu Road and yet you dream of taking Hanzhong. Shame on you! Shame on you!"

Zhang Fei was speechless now, Chen Deng just sighed, and Guan Yu, who had been silent all the time, raised his eyes and looked at her in surprise.

Mi Zhu asked meaningfully, "How does the princess know the topography of Hanzhong so well?"

Zhang Mo understood the underlying meaning of his words and said with a smile, "Not only am I familiar with Hanzhong, but the entire world, from Youzhou in the north to Jiaozhou in the south, and even to the countries in the Western Regions and the islands in the east, there is no place I am not familiar with."

This answer can be said to be extremely arrogant. One must know that in that era, transportation was inconvenient and the level of map making was low. It was rare for a place to have a local mountain and river geography map. Educated people only knew the approximate locations of some states and counties, or more famous cities. How could they know as much as Zhang Mo did?

When marching to fight, an excellent general will send scouts in advance to find out the detailed terrain of the road ahead and the surrounding area, while a foolish general will only send troops after knowing the general idea.

Liu Bei and his group were just confused people. They had no idea about the geography of Hanzhong. The few place names they knew were from books. They didn't even know the specific locations, yet they dared to swear that they would attack Hanzhong.

Zhang Mo was an archaeology student in her previous life, so she had some understanding of ancient maps. Coupled with her interest in ancient battles, she was naturally very familiar with the terrain of various places.

She had drawn a topographic map of the Eurasian continent many years ago, which included the main mountains, rivers, plains, plateaus, basins, and even the locations of many ancient countries.

After she drew the overall topographical framework, she asked the Flying Eagle Team to conduct surveys and supplement the detailed maps of many places in the country, which resulted in the current detailed map.

However, Liu Bei and others did not know her ability. Mi Zhu's words just now were obviously hinting that Bingzhou himself planned to attack Hanzhong, so he went to carefully investigate the terrain here. Zhang Mo directly told him that she knew the whole world very well.

This answer left Mi Zhu speechless. He really wanted to say, "Stop bragging," but he didn't dare to.

Liu Bei completely understood the situation and said, "Since Hanzhong cannot be taken, I will not disturb you any further and will leave tomorrow. I have nowhere to stay, so I can only entrust the people from Xuzhou to you, Junior Sister. If Liu Jingsheng can send food, I will use it to settle the people. Senior Sister, I will be very grateful."

"Where are you going, brother?"

Liu Bei was a little discouraged at this time. He shook his head and said, "I don't know either!"

"Since you have nowhere to go, why not stay here for a while longer!" Zhang Mo tried to persuade him to stay. She could feel his frustration at the moment, and she could understand his ideal ambition to restore the Han Dynasty. She even sympathized with his current situation, but their political stances were different. If she was soft-hearted and helped him today, it might cause her big trouble in the future.

Liu Bei wanted to refuse, but Zhang Fei spoke first, "Brother, we have nowhere else to go anyway, and Amo has already taken care of the people, so why not stay a few more days?"

Liu Bei looked up at her and saw the sincere desire to keep him in her eyes, but he still didn't say no.