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Looking at Li Yi, who had nothing to say, Cai Yong said: "Today, Yuan Shao sees the unfavorable situation in the Central Plains, and he will take Guanzhong at all costs, so as to completely reverse the situation in the world." So, when the general sees the favorable situation in the Central Plains, what countermeasures will he take? Did the general want to make full use of the favorable advantage of the Central Plains, and instead send Hebei and the Han Sheji into a desperate situation? ”

Sweat broke out on Li Yi's forehead. A good situation of pacifying the world, in Cai Yong's mouth, turned out to be a road to self-defeat.

However, Li Yi also had to admit that the situation Cai Yong said could occur, which was also the worst possibility that Li Yi came up with when he discussed with several military advisors. Although this possibility is not too big, after all, those princes have their own ghosts, and it is difficult to twist into a rope and deal with Northern Xinjiang together, but this possibility has to be considered.

Li Yi felt that his previous thoughts with the military advisors might be a little too idealistic.

Li Yi quietly wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said to Dian Wei next to him: "By the way, move the brazier a little farther away, I'm a little hot." ”

Dian Wei, who was standing behind him, gave him a strange look, leaned over and picked up the brazier on the side of the case, and put it in the distance.

Cai Yong was silent for a moment and continued: "General, the top priority is not to seize the Central Plains, but to advance westward to occupy Guanzhong, rebuild the prestige of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, and push Yuan Shao and the rebellions in various places into a desperate situation. The general holds high the banner of counterinsurgency and Zhongxing, who is your opponent in the world? Liu Biao, Liu Yan, Liu Bei and others will immediately swear allegiance, Liu Yu and Han Sui will soon switch to the Son of Heaven, and the remaining rebellions of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and Cao Cao will last for a long time? ”

"As long as the general occupies Guanzhong, the advantage of the Central Plains can be maintained, and then he can lead the army to sweep the world, and the period of social stability will be just around the corner."

Cai Yong looked at Li Yi and said softly: "Since the general lost the best opportunity to seize the Central Plains last year, why should he rush in this short period of time? The general's important task this year should be to concentrate the main force in northern Xinjiang and advance westward to seize Guanzhong. In this way, it not only avoided the dilemma of two-front warfare and extremely tight financial resources in Hebei, but also won Guanzhong, saved the Son of Heaven, won the hearts of the people, and occupied the absolute advantage of pacifying Sheji. ”

"The situation in the world is changing, and Hebei's strategy must also be constantly changing, so that the general can rejuvenate Sheji at the lowest cost."

Li Yi asked, "Taifu, then how do I reply to Liu Bei?" ”

"We had a strategy for the Central Plains at the beginning, and that was to make it chaotic." Cai Yong said with a smile, "The more battles in the Central Plains, the better, and the more tragic the battles, the better, so the general can reply to Liu Xuande and immediately send him money, food, and ordnance, so that he can continue to persevere." ”

"In addition, considering the current situation in the Central Plains, the general can play the Son of Heaven and recommend Gongsun Zan to serve as the pastor of Yanzhou, so that he can send troops to attack Cao Cao, so as to force Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to send troops to help Cao Cao and maintain the melee situation in the Central Plains, so as to effectively contain Yuan Shao's forces."

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February of the second year of Xingping of the Han Kingdom (195 AD).

Luoyang.

Yuan Shao heard that Guo Tu had returned from Yizhou, and hurried out of the city to greet him. Yuan Shao took his hand and said quite emotionally: "The journey to Yizhou is difficult, and it will be half a year for the public to go, which is too hard." ”

"At the end of last year, I went down the river from Jiangzhou in Ba County." Guo Tu said, "When I arrived in Jingzhou Nanjun, I was in Xiangyang for more than a month, so I didn't come back until now. ”

"What happened in Yizhou? Is Liu Yan willing to send troops again? Yuan Shao couldn't wait to ask.

Guo Tu's face darkened, and he said in a low voice: "Lord, Liu Yan is dead." ”

Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "Liu Yan is dead? How could he die? ”

Guo Tu explained the situation.

It turned out that last year's Chang'an Mutiny, Liu Yan's two Liu Fan and Liu Dan were killed. Liu Yan was very sad and depressed. Later, in order to win over Liu Yan, Li Wei asked Liu Yan's friend, Yilang Pang Xi, to send Liu Fan and Liu Dan's wives and children to Yizhou. When Liu Yan saw his grandchildren, he blamed himself even more, his condition worsened sharply, and he was bedridden.

In the autumn, Mianzhu, the administrative office of the Yizhou Thorn History Department, was struck by lightning and caught fire, and the whole city was burned down. In desperation, Liu Yan ordered the administrative office to be moved to Chengdu in Shu County.

Liu Yan died in September because of overwork and poisonous sores on his back after lying on his back for a long time.

Liu Yan still has two sons left at this time, one is Liu Zhang and the other is Liu Mao. Liu Zhang is older, mild-tempered, benevolent, and deeply loved and supported by Yizhou's subordinates. Yizhou Governor Shi Zhaowei immediately united with the counties of Yizhou to support Liu Zhang as the pastor of Yizhou.

Of course, Li Dao would not take this good opportunity to occupy Yizhou, so he asked the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to appoint Hu Mao, a native of Yingchuan, as the assassin of Yizhou, and hurried to Chengdu to take office.

In November, Hu Mao held the festival and arrived in Chengdu with a decree. Liu Zhang, with the support of Zhao Wei and some Yizhou forces, refused to recognize Hu Mao's identity as a assassin on the grounds that the Son of Heaven and the imperial court were held hostage by traitors.

At this time, Guo Tu was in Chengdu, he and Hu Mao were both from Yingchuan and had been friends for many years, considering that if Hu Mao was in charge of Yizhou, Yuan Shao's power would directly extend to Yizhou, so Guo Tu spared no effort to help Hu Mao seize the military and political power in Yizhou.

Hu Mao arrived in Yizhou, although he was not familiar with the place, but his biggest advantage was to carry the decree of the festival, and he came on the order of the Son of Heaven, and his name was justified.

Under Guo Tu's persuasion, Hu Mao was supported by some foreign forces (the so-called Dongzhou scholars) who had fled to Shu from Nanyang and Guanzhong in a short period of time, as well as some local forces such as Jia Long and Ren Qi.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Liu Zhang and Zhao Wei immediately got in touch with Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu sent troops to help.

After Hu Mao and Guo Tu heard the news, they immediately attacked first and commanded Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and other Yizhou generals to attack Liu Zhang.

In December, Zhang Lu's reinforcements arrived in Chengdu, and the two sides fought under the city of Chengdu. Hu Mao was defeated and died in the city on the spot. Guo Tu, Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and others fled all the way to Jiangzhou with the remnants of the defeated army, and went down the river to Jingzhou by boat.

Liu Biao of Jingzhou listened to Guo Tu's narration, shook his head and sighed: "Junlang died well, if he doesn't die, sooner or later he will be divided and usurped, and his descendants will be harmed." He built more than 1,000 rides in Mianzhu, and the honor guards imitated the trip of the Son of Heaven, and his ambition was far more than one Yizhou! ”

Guo Tu said: "Now that his son Liu Zhang has openly killed the court officials, I am afraid that the disaster in Yizhou is even worse than before. It is better to march west and seize Guanzhong sooner rather than later. ”

Liu Biao agreed, expressed his willingness to obey Yuan Shao's command, and immediately ordered the Jingzhou army to go north to Nanyang after the beginning of the spring, and join Yuan Tan's army to attack Guanzhong again.

After Liu Zhang killed Hu Mao, he played the Son of Heaven again, saying that Hu Mao had rebelled in Yizhou and had been killed. In desperation, the imperial court had no choice but to issue an order to appoint Liu Zhang as the pastor of Yizhou.

Liu Zhang wrote a letter to Liu Biao again, asking Liu Biao to send the heads of the Yizhou rebel generals to Chengdu. Liu Biao was furious and scolded Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang immediately appointed Zhao Wei as the general of the Eastern Zhonglang Expedition, and stationed troops in the city of Yan Rencheng in Ba County, preparing to attack Liu Biao.

The situation in Jingzhou suddenly became tense.

Liu Yan is dead, Liu Zhang is going to fight Liu Biao again, the Yizhou army is completely out of hope, and the Jingzhou army may also be pinned down on both sides of the Yangtze River. The sudden change in the situation caught Yuan Shao off guard, and he hurriedly summoned his subordinates to renegotiate the strategy of seizing Guanzhong.

"The lesson of last year's defeat in the capture of Guanzhong is too profound for us." He sighed, "The strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army is strong, if we can't effectively disperse the forces of the Northern Xinjiang Army, we won't be able to defeat Li Dao and Guo Yan, we won't be able to occupy Guanzhong, and we won't be able to gain the absolute advantage of pacifying the world." ”

"The top priority is to help Cao Cao attack Xuzhou, so as to induce the Northern Xinjiang Army to immediately cross the river to the south to fight." Xu You pointed to the map and said, "Once the Northern Xinjiang Army is caught in the two battlefields of Yanzhou and Guanxi, we can quickly enter Guanzhong." This time, no matter how powerful the Northern Xinjiang Army is and how abundant Hebei's financial endowments are, it will not be able to deal with the three battlefields at the same time. ”

"Cao Cao has sent people to ask for help several times." The judge said, "I think the lord can promise him." His subordinate is now in Luoyang, and we can have a good talk with him. ”

"Last year, we secretly supported Gongsun Zan to capture Yanzhou, and Cao Cao was very unhappy." Feng Ji said, "Later, he asked the lord for help at the moment of life and death, and the lord proposed at that time that he should send his family to Luoyang and then send troops to help, but Cao Cao refused, and he was struggling alone in Yanzhou, which shows that he has a very deep prejudice against the lord and no longer trusts the lord." ”

Now that Cao Cao has lost Xuzhou, surrounded by Li Hong, Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei, and is in a desperate situation on all sides, he asked for help again in order to survive. However, this person is unruly and ruthless, and he doesn't recognize people when he turns his face, so it's better to guard against him. Once this man-eating wolf becomes a man-eating tiger, we may suffer from it, so in my opinion. We can help him, but he must send his family to Luoyang, although this person can be used, but he must also be firmly controlled. ”

Yuan Shao thought for a moment and said to everyone: "The current situation in the Central Plains is very favorable to use, and the possibility of him taking the opportunity to send troops is very high. In order to ensure that he can send troops to Yanzhou and drag his main army in Yanzhou, we must not only help Cao Cao attack Xuzhou, but also personally send troops to help. So now it's better to re-establish trust with Cao Cao at this time. Cao Cao and Li Yi had several interactions when they were in Luoyang, and they admired each other very much, and Cao Cao resolutely respected today's son, and there was no contradiction between him and Li Yi. If we make Cao **** anxious, he simply surrenders to Li Yi and fights us with Li Hong and Liu Bei, and the situation in the Central Plains will immediately be one-sided. At that time, even if we occupied Guanzhong, we would lose the advantage of sweeping the world. ”

Fu Zhu and the others all agreed with Yuan Shao's opinion. (To be continued.) )