Chapter 1445: The Battle of Xuzhou (42)
The frustration is not unreasonable, after all, there is a lesson from the past, Tian Feng was not trusted by Yuan Shao back then, what was the final result, needless to say, and now he said bluntly that it is the second Tian Feng, although you see that Yuan Shao trusts him very much, but you don't know which day you will fall into the footsteps of Tian Feng.
Companion Jun is like a tiger, such a thing happens, it is not strange at all, so he will have a feeling of walking on thin ice every day, he doesn't know how long he can last this kind of trembling days, if there is really such a day, he doesn't know if he will learn Tian Feng, but he thinks he will definitely have an outbreak.
Burst out everything that has been accumulated over the years.
Although it seems that he is the most beautiful person in Jizhou over the years, Yuan Shao is almost obedient to him, but he has not lived well, on the contrary, he is very depressed, sometimes he is even very envious of Xu You, this person may have such and such problems, maybe he is greedy, but he is very comfortable, what he does, only think about himself, do not care about anyone's opinion, let alone care who is loyal and who is traitorous.
Because he has nothing to care about, so he will be more loyal to his heart than flattery and pandering to anything, unlike him, to put it a little selfishly, that is, he is wary of others all the time, after all, he wants to keep his current seat, and judge Guo Tu and the like, because hope is in front of him, he will inevitably stumble in various ways, and do everything possible to pull him down, so that he can sit in his position, on the other hand, Xu You, can't go up and down, no desire, no desire, the most comfortable, this is a bit like his situation back then, Tian Feng was in power, The scenery is infinite, he has no desires, no desires, and is at ease.
I have to say that sometimes, people lose so much momentum, suffer from gains and losses, but achieve nothing.
While he was thinking about everything, Yuan Shao smiled slightly and said, "Just now, Xu Yu came to me."
"For Xuzhou?" Yuan Shao smiled and let Fu Zhi dispel all his concerns, this is not a reaction to ask Xingshi to ask for guilt, if Yuan Shao really wants to ask Xingshi to ask for guilt, then what is waiting for him now is two rows of guards.
"Exactly" Yuan Shao sighed and said, "He is even probing my tone and asking if he wants to attack Xuzhou." ”
Fu Zhu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Did the lord tell him to attack Xuzhou?" ”
Yuan Shao shook his head and said, "No, I directly repelled them." ”
"This matter is top secret, but Liu Lan and even Cao Cao are not unable to see our intentions, but since they want to 'ask knowingly', then we can only take care of Zuoyan him, and our agreement with Xuzhou only says that we will not take the initiative to attack Liu Lan, but it is completely flexible in this matter, for example, we are attacking Cao Cao, then the Langya we occupy is from Cao Cao, which does not violate our agreement with Liu Lan."
Yuan Shao smiled meaningfully, he likes to play word games and calculate the two number one enemies, to be honest, these two people are hateful enough, and they are relieved to destroy anyone, there is no sequence, as for Liu Lan to give up Qingzhou, although there are reasons, but to be honest, it does make Yuan Shao give up his old grudges, regardless of the previous suspicions, after all, this is the most realistic benefits and interests, and Cao Cao, except for paying, there is no return, and even Yanzhou, which he originally controlled, became Cao Cao.
This kind of behavior, coupled with Cao Cao's series of actions to welcome the emperor, made it impossible for him to continue to let Cao Cao grow stronger, how many people are against him fighting Cao Cao now, he doesn't want to say it directly, everyone's face is not good-looking, so he chose such a choice that can take care of everyone.
Fighting Cao Cao and Xuzhou, hasn't everyone been arguing about Liu Lan and Cao Cao, and now that he is fighting together, no one will complain.
At this time, he laughed and said: "Lord, in fact, there is no need to worry too much about it now, after all, Liu Lan must have sent people to return empty-handed, but we can know from it that Liu Lan cares about our attitude very much, otherwise he would not be so eager to send people over, in this way, it is self-defeating for Liu Lan, because we can know from it that Liu Lan is very afraid of us sending troops, and even unwilling to fight with us, then we should stick to our plan and reap the benefits."
"Haha, in fact, the reason why I called you here is for this matter, in fact, I have been thinking about this matter, after all, Cao Cao and Liu Lan had a good relationship in the past, and even I met Liu Lan under Cao Cao's recommendation, so I have always been worried about whether to beat Liu Lan or Cao Cao is this reason."
"The lord is afraid of the two ......"
"Yes." Yuan Shao nodded and said: "You must know that if I fight Cao Cao now, then Cao Cao, who is forced to be in a hurry, will inevitably unite with Liu Lan in every possible way, and when the time comes, we have little chance of winning, so when the lord insisted on attacking Cao Cao, he would suggest that he try to do it slowly." But attacking Liu Lan is different, Cao Cao will not unite with Liu Lan, and even we can pull Cao Cao to attack together, in such a situation, it should actually be a good choice. ”
"That's true, but it's a pity that Liu Lan really knows how to make trade-offs, if he hadn't taken the initiative to give up Qingzhou, I'm afraid that we would have attacked Liu Lan with Cao Cao by now."
"Actually, I don't really understand, why would you attack Cao Cao so strongly instead of Liu Lan?"
Frustrated, this question was a bit sudden, which made him stunned for a moment, if it was difficult to answer, but he didn't know how to make Yuan Shao understand that he didn't have any selfishness in this matter, he organized the language for a while, and said: "In Jizhou, no matter how much they hate Liu Lan to the core, they also understand and completely agree with their propositions, and they have not made any objections. ”
"That's what you said against your will, right?" Yuan Shao looked at him with a different kind of eye, if someone else said this, it would be over, but if he said it, he would have to carefully break with him.
He smiled and said: "I don't dare to agree with this humble position, for the attack on Qingzhou, the humble position has always been the main one, as for whether to continue to attack Xuzhou Liu Lan or Yanzhou Cao Cao after winning Qingzhou, the humble position is a little different from Guo Tu and others, so the words of the humble position are not half a word against their will." ”
Yuan Shao also laughed and said: "Then according to your meaning, it is I who have drilled the horns, but what you said is also right, from the beginning you mean this, I know this, and you have to have a clearer understanding of Cao Cao than more people, but the generals and Guo Tu, the former is a deep enmity with Liu Lan's blood, and the latter is for various purposes, and even some people are people who will be revenged, so of course they will try their best to attack Xuzhou, but you are different, you can consider the overall situation, That's why I've always trusted you, and it's safe to say that your advice is key to getting to where we are today. ”
"I don't dare." Frustrated and startled, if someone else said this, then he would naturally take it as a compliment, but if it came out of Yuan Shao's mouth, his first reaction was that this was a heart-wrenching word, if you suffered, it means that Jizhou can have today It is your own credit, which is the same as Yuan Shao's deal with Koji back then, but Koji Yi was indeed a little arrogant at that time, thinking that Yuan Shao could not do without him, but the reality is true, the more you make the superior feel that you can't do without you, you are extremely important, Then you are not far from the end of Kojiyi.
There are naturally his reasons for being able to get to this day, just like he said, whether he walks on thin ice every day, or summarizes the experience of Tian Feng and Ko Yi, he knows how to think from Yuan Shao's point of view, but in fact, even so, there will still be some differences, he is compromising, exactly the same as Tian Feng, if one day, he can no longer stand Yuan Shao's stubbornness, he will learn from Tian Feng.
Just like now, it seems that he and Yuan Shao have no differences, and maintain a high degree of tacit understanding in attacking Cao Cao, but don't forget, this is just a tacit understanding of attacking Cao Cao, but how to attack the differences is too big, Yuan Shao is now the strongest in his own strength, and he can't wait to wipe out Cao Cao at once and seize Yanzhou, but he understands that it is not so simple, and now Cao Cao is already full-fledged, and it is difficult to easily exterminate it.
Many people may not believe this, but this is a frustrated judgment, many people only consider it from a military point of view, but he is different, he made a judgment after comparing the two sides in all aspects.
Under the premise that the gap between the two armies is extremely large, a quick victory is the result that Cao Cao hopes for the most, and it is not their best choice, their best choice is to drag and fight.
This is like attacking a city, ten are besieged, five are attacked, the reason is exactly the same as attacking Cao Cao, whether to surround them to the end of food to be effective, or to attack the enemy with a huge difference in strength regardless of the cost of casualties, the reason is obvious, but unfortunately Yuan Shao is too anxious, so what he is doing now is to change Yuan Shao as imperceptibly as possible before fighting Cao Cao.
"Haha." Yuan Shao laughed, and he was very satisfied with his explanation, and even so, from the beginning, his advice to himself was to use two to three years to recapture Hejian, and then three to five years to capture Youzhou, and then he has been emphasizing Liaodong and Qingzhou, and these two places are in Liu Lan's hands, so it is true that Frustrated Professor said that he has been focusing on attacking Liu Lan, but after capturing Qingzhou, there was a disagreement in continuing Liu Lan or Cao Cao, or he changed from attacking Liu Lan to attacking Yanzhou.
And what he has been emphasizing is that regions are different from people, as if when he was planning, he was focusing on regions and imagining characters, but when many people see these regions, the first thing they think of is the ruler, but they ignore that the region is far more important than the opponent.
The so-called there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies, and it is in their interests to make long-distance friends and close attacks, rather than close friends and long-distance attacks, and even if they win in the end, it is others who eat meat and take advantage of them, and they spend money and food and do not get any benefits.
If this is the case, only valuing allies, not interests, then in the end will definitely suffer the bitter fruits, and now Cao Cao is the best example, do you want him to use their things to strengthen himself?
Many people strongly support the attack on Liu Lan, a big reason is because of their grudge with Liu Lan, followed by the alliance for many years, they have some dealings with Cao Cao, they eat sweetness on weekdays, and they naturally have to speak for Cao Cao at critical moments, and the most important point is because he is attacking Cao Cao, it can be said that they have reached an extremely crazy point in order to fight against him now, as long as he supports it, they don't care about anything else, they are strongly opposed.
It is really in this context, Frustration has almost no way out, whether he insists on it or not, he has to always attack Cao Cao, which makes many people attack him with such a mouth, but in fact, Frustration has never said that he wants to give up attacking Qingzhou and attack Yanzhou directly, these words are just those people deliberately distorting the facts.
After all, it's the best excuse to attack frustration.
However, what really made Fu Zhu a little unexpected was Liu Lan's sudden surrender of Qingzhou, it can be said that this completely disrupted his deployment, in his established plan of battle, Liu Lan will definitely be defeated across the Yangtze River in this battle, so what they will fight next is Cao Cao after occupying Xuzhou.
In fact, at this time, there is another option, that is, to completely make the rear safe, that is, to attack Liaodong, but the attack on Liaodong and the attack on Cao Cao can actually be carried out at the same time.
But now, Liu Lan let his previous plan be ruined, and he was somewhat caught off guard, but the better situation is that they can capture Qingzhou without a single soldier, but the trouble is that his plan to attack Yanzhou must start to unfold next, but don't forget that he has not subtly changed Yuan Shao.
So for a while, there was a sound of a large-scale attack on Xuzhou in Jizhou, but fortunately, he still had the opportunity to speak by Yuan Shao's side, and he relied on his own strength to reverse Yuan Shao's initial attitude of staying out of the matter, after all, it was not cost-effective to help Cao Cao attack Liu Lan, and it was even more impossible to help Liu Lan fight Cao Cao, as for staying out of the matter, it was the stupidest choice.
So what to do, this is a test of the wisdom of the frustrated, so after much deliberation, he made the decision that the fisherman is now profitable, let them fight to the death, and then I will take advantage of it.
And this plan can be said to make Yuan Shao very satisfied, and even said that in his heart, if he takes Yanzhou and Xuzhou in one fell swoop, then it will lay the foundation for him to seize the whole world, it can be said that today, only these two people and Yuan Shu can pose a threat to him, eliminate these two people, then he will have no opponent, just ask, of course he will agree directly, there will not be too much consideration, even if it is against the agreement to attack Xuzhou, he will not hesitate.