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Just as Xiao Wen was fighting with his own team, Dong Zhuo who was in the west cool down was drinking tea in his own house.

"How long has it been since I've been so carefree? Qin Kingdom did not attack us this year. " Narrowing his eyes, Li Ru said in satisfaction.

"Ha!" Hearing that, Dong Zhuo revealed a look of disdain. He said, "Although Ying Zheng is crazy, he is not stupid. He had gone to the Huns last winter, and now he must rest at home. If he wants to attack us, I'm afraid his people won't be the first to rebel. At that time, we don't need to resist any Qin armies anymore. As long as we are prepared to support the anti-Qin forces, maybe we can establish a few small nations between us and the Qin Kingdom as a buffer. "

The establishment of a small country as a buffer, has always been the Western aristocracy research topic.

Although in terms of strategy, they were indeed going to fight to the death with the Qin Kingdom. After all, fighting the Qin Kingdom was their interest. However, there were different opinions on how to fight.

Some people felt that even though many people could be promoted during the war … However, those who advanced may not all be able to fight.

Sometimes, inferior items would appear.

Sooner or later, a situation like this would cause problems in the West.

The creation of a few small countries as a buffer against this, therefore, would increase their tolerance and allow them to focus more on offense than defense.

However, there was a problem with this matter — which part of the country would be thrown out as a buffer state.

After all, although Liu Bang knew how to use people, he and Lv Zhi were still taboo to power matters.

If you use strategic buffer today, make a buffer state. Tomorrow, you will continue to use this as a reason to create a King from the earth. What should I do?

Even though after these countries split up, they would still have to have kings. And with such a reason to divide up a king that should not have been split up, this political influence was something that Liu Bang and Lv Zhi could not afford.

Therefore, they also had not agreed to this seemingly militarily feasible, yet politically outrageous proposal.

On the other hand, if they were to establish a buffer state based on the territory of the Qin Kingdom, although politically feasible, it would be very troublesome on the military side.

One must know that the original emperor in the west had always been wary of the question of land … In other words, as long as one had brains, it was impossible for any of the Chinese monarchs in this era to not pay attention to the issue of land.

After all, the Huaxia people still focused on farming, they could not use land as a commodity and bargaining chip like the commercial and marine civilizations. It was also impossible for them to be like the nomads, playing a strategic roundabout in their own country.

Fighting for an inch of land was a characteristic of the Chinese nation. In times of great power, because of its existence, the Chinese people had explored and advanced, expanding their territory all the way to the limits of their dominion.

And when they were weak, this characteristic would cause them to be grabbed by their enemies, rendering them unable to move.

For example, in the Song Dynasty.

From a tactical point of view, the reason for the decline of the Song Dynasty was indeed due to lack of horses. Because of lack of horses, the Song Dynasty's powerful Heavy Infantry Regiment was unable to chase after and kill the enemy's cavalry after defeating them.

Even after losing the battle, they could not retreat quickly and preserve their strength.

As a result, victory was lost, and defeat was guaranteed!

But from a strategic point of view, there was another reason for Song Dynasty's defeat — — the Sixteenth Swallow Region.

Because the historical Song Dynasty cared too much about the existence of the Sixteen Swallow Cloud Regions, every time someone used it as a bargaining chip, the Song Dynasty would compromise constantly as if he had lost all reason.

It was also because they were being led strategically by the nose that caused them to decline step by step.

Although this factor could be good or bad, but generally speaking, the western aristocrats of the burly man's side didn't want to excessively provoke the original emperor.

"However, if a person does not plan for too long, there will definitely be a problem at hand!" Although the general no longer has the worries of the original emperor, but this time, when he went to the Chang'an, he seemed to have made enemies with someone else? " Li Ru smiled as he sipped the tea in the lacquer pot. He enjoyed the good tea leaves imported from Song Kingdom. Every time he tasted it, he could feel a refreshing fragrance that refreshed his mind and cleared his mind.

However, Dong Zhuo shook his head and said, "He's just a little kid with yellow hair. Although his methods were very powerful, his accumulation was still lacking. As long as I use some of my connections, there will be a lot of people who can help me kill him. "

Hearing this, Li Ru frowned.

He retorted, "Has General thought of the consequences of killing Xiao Wen?"

"Consequences? "What are the consequences?" Dong Zhuo also frowned. His tone was a little unconcerned, as though he did not need to bear any responsibility in killing Xiao Wen.

However, Li Ru sighed, he shook his head and said: "General, you must understand, Xiao Wen is now the envoy sent by the big size man to Tang Kingdom.

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo coldly snorted, and asked in reply: "Do you think your majesty will punish a living Che Marquis for a good deed that has died? Your Majesty isn't that stupid. "

At the same time, Xiao Wen, who was far away at the border of Han Tang, was already trapped in the Thief's encirclement.

He frowned as he looked at the crossbow arrow s on Anthony's shield. He felt that something was wrong.

"Normal Thieves don't have crossbows!" Why are there crossbows here? " Not far away, Sun Shangxiang who was hiding amongst the in the carriage stuck out her small head. Through the window, she also saw the crossbow arrow on Anthony's shield, and could not help but say.

Guan Yu, who was at the side, did not have this kind of worry. To his knowledge, there seemed to be no strong enemy in this world that could defeat him.

He said, "We find the crossbow and we kill him. If someone picks up the crossbow again, we'll kill him again. Kill until no one dares to shoot a crossbow at us! "

Hearing this, Sun Shangxiang complained, "How do I kill him? Those guys are all hiding in the dense forest on the mountain. I don't think we have the ability to find them. "

"How do you know without trying!" Guan Yu was not convinced, and he endured it.

Looking at Guan Yu, Sun Shangxiang felt a headache. It was the first time she detected something wrong with Guan Yu's self-confidence that was arrogant to the point of bursting.

Helpless, she could only look at Xiao Wen and say: "Sir, please manage Guan Yu! I don't want him to die before I defeat him! "

Hearing this, Guan Yu was speechless. However, because he didn't want to end up like Sun Shangxiang, and lose his composure, he didn't retort at all.

The distant Xiao Wen was also speechless towards this pair of enemies. He could only order, "You are not allowed to come out without me. There will be battles, but the chances have to be decided by me. "

Hearing this, Guan Yu was helpless, he could only hide within the in the carriage.

The attacks outside the defensive circle continued. Although many of the arrows had been blocked by the horse carriage, some of the arrows still shot into the defensive circle.

Those people who were hiding from the in the carriage were still alright. If the in the carriage was still outside, other than Anthony, who was skilled in using his shield, who was able to block all attacks with it, and Xiao Wen, who was protected by the shield, the rest of the people were in a very sorry state.

Although they hadn't suffered any casualties up until now, it was hard to say if they continued like this.

However, if they didn't keep some people outside, ready to counterattack, they would definitely fall to an even more dangerous situation.

"Don't worry, sir. Didn't you hire so many guards for this very moment? " Anthony's expression was relaxed, as if he didn't feel that this situation was dangerous at all.

After all, he was a professional soldier. To him, this was not something to fear.

He had encountered more enemies than this and more concentrated fire attacks before.

Xiao Wen looked at him for a moment before gradually returning to normal.

He said, "Anthony, maintain order for me right now. I don't want even one person to die in the hands of an attack from a Flowing Arrow! "

"As you wish!" Anthony raised his shield and flung it forcefully, knocking away the three arrows that were flying towards him from different directions, and said.

Very quickly, under Anthony's command, the workers outside gradually restored order.

They all held their shields and wooden boards, gathered around Anthony, and covered each other, blocking the enemy's attacks.

Gradually, the workers and guards who had been in a sorry state formed a square formation.

"Do you know? Sir. "As long as the Eastern Roman Empire Heavy Infantry soldiers selected by Nemesis are formed into a phalanx, they will be able to last until the end of time in front of any archery horde!" Anthony laughed.