In his own way, Liu Xu's next strategy was to let Zhong Xiang play Liu Xing, and then lead his troops straight to Shenglong Mansion, the capital of Jiaozhi State.

If this plan is implemented, Liu Xu also made the final destination for Zhong Xiang, that is, to sweep away the current dynasty of Jiaozhi, and then replace it. Let Zhong Xiang be the emperor of the Jiaozhi country, so I believe that even Liu Xing will not be entangled too much.

"Replacing Jiaozhi Li Chao, this is a very good strategy." Only then did Liu Xu stop talking, Zhong Xiang showed a sly smile on his face, stared at Liu Xu, and said, "Did the general say these three strategies in the wrong order and in the wrong position?" How do I feel that your next strategy is the best choice? ”

Hearing this, Liu Xu smiled helplessly and shook his head: "I understand that you are afraid of the strength of Liu Xing's elite soldiers, but I said that this plan is the reason for the next choice, but you have no understanding at all to have this illusion." ”

"Oh? What is the reason, General, please explain. Hearing this, Zhong Xiang asked with interest and expectation.

Liu Xu still said the reason directly and unequivocally.

Liu Shu defined this plan as a next policy, mainly for three reasons: the first reason, although the Li Dynasty of Jiaozhi was after the Shennong clan, the people were rooted in Jiaozhi thousands of years ago, and now they can be regarded as aborigines.

Just like the Great Song Dynasty, all the Han and Central Plains people will immediately huddle together to fight against the Golden Dog.

The aborigines can fight among themselves, but if there is an invasion from outside, the same is true for the cochins. will also choose to abandon prejudices when a foreign enemy like Zhong Xiang invades, and temporarily put aside the disputes between his various tribes and castes to turn around and resist the invasion of Zhong Xiang's army.

This is a deep-rooted characteristic of the human community, the master of the human way. The reason for the formation of this characteristic is that when one's own safety is threatened, it will inevitably unite with the clan and help each other.

And what about Zhong Xiang's army? Although it looks very powerful, Zhong Xiang himself knows how many problems he has, and Liu Xu is also very clear.

Expeditionary armies are often an army that is absolutely united and absolutely subordinate to a single leader, so that it can be invincible and invincible. And inside Zhong Xiangjun, this is not the case now.

Within it, there are now three major forces. One of them is absolutely loyal to Zhong Xiang, headed by Liu Xu and Liu Heng brothers. The second is the dual loyalty faction that is ordered by Liu Xing and is loyal to both Liu Xing and Zhong Xiang, with Xia Cheng and Jin Cong as the time.

There is also a faction, led by Huang Zuo and Zhong Xiang's son Zhong Ziang, who are not loyal to anyone, and only want to conquer the city and become a rogue.

Among the three factions, the brothers Liu Heng and Liu Xu are resourceful. However, talented people think that they are arrogant, and the actual military power of their subordinates can only account for about 20% of the entire army.

Xia Cheng and Jin Cong, in fact, are more willing to obey Yang Mi, who has already led troops into Jiangxi, and often deal with Zhong Xiang's orders and are not dedicated.

However, the actual military power in the hands of those two people is about half of Zhong Xiangjun's, and most of the firearms are in the hands of those soldiers controlled by the two, which is the strongest faction.

And Zhong Ziang and Huang Zuo, because of their approach, could not let more soldiers who participated in the uprising get the benefits they wanted to get as soon as possible.

The two men were supported by young men led by the Young Zhuang faction who were bent on making a fortune in the war, which gave them the actual control of the other thirty percent of the forces that were also the most powerful.

With such a seemingly strong and huge army to fight Jiaozhi, in order to let Zhong Xiang be the emperor in a foreign land. When encountering the Cochin people, the various tribes united and should be very numerous. After they are all stubborn and stubborn armies, they will inevitably have unpredictable and endless contradictions due to different ideas internally.

Once those contradictions broke out, Zhong Xiang understood, and Liu Xu knew even more, that the southern expedition had not succeeded, and he was afraid that he would have caused chaos first......

The second reason why Liu Xu defined this as the next choice was because in Zhong Xiang's army, most of the soldiers were from Jinghu, especially Hunan.

The people in Jingchu's hometown value the most hometown feelings. At the beginning, they followed Zhongxiang to rise up because they saw the scene of rapid prosperity and rejuvenation of the Northern Dynasties. Those soldiers also wanted to live the same life as the people of the Northern Dynasties.

For the same purpose, most of the soldiers joined Zhong Xiang's army. But what about now? Zhong Xiang wants to be the king and stand on his own, if it is in the land of Guangxi, those soldiers still dare to have illusions about returning to Hunan in the future.

At the beginning, the same purpose was just to let everyone live a good life together, but now you have given an order, but you want those soldiers to go to a land that has always been considered a wild land by the Central Plains to expand the territory, and establish a new dynasty for you to satisfy your personal desire for power first.

So even if those soldiers don't dare to ask in person, they will definitely complain in private and think about when you, General Zhong, or Wang Ye, can be said to be able to take them back to Hunan?

Returning to their hometowns and returning to their roots, the soldiers will not be willing to stay in a foreign land for the rest of their lives to give you the bell quite a thug. They are middle-aged. Then you will start to think about returning home. When people are not confused, the vast majority of people will begin to want to return to their roots.

Comparing people's hearts with their own hearts, Liu Xu believes that what he can think of, there are many officers and soldiers at the grassroots level who will think of them. As long as someone thinks about it, then once Zhong Xiangnan's war in Jiaozhi starts. The morale of its army itself will be at its lowest first.

A team with firearms that is not really sharp and whose morale is low to the freezing point, Liu Xu does not think that there is still the strength to quickly destroy the Li Dynasty of Jiaozhi to replace it, so this is the second reason why he defines this plan as the next choice.

The third and most important reason. That is, if you want to go south to conquer Jiaozhi, you must first have sufficient preparations for war, especially the preparation of money and food.

However, since Zhong Xiang's army entered the Guangnan West Road, it has not been replenished by a grain of rice from Hunan, and it is completely dependent on the looting of the landlord Haoqiang and the grain stored by the local government after the capture of the city.

Guangnan West Road is not the Central Plains, nor is it Jinghu South Road, which is abundant in fish and rice. Liu Xu believed that if this practice of feeding the war by war continued, it would not be long before all the grain originally stored on Guangnan West Road would be snatched into the barracks.

And even if they were all grabbed, it would not be enough to support the 200,000-strong army to launch a large-scale war against Jiaozhi that would take at least half a year to end.

Under such circumstances, it was unrealistic to expect Liu Xing to transfer grain and grass from the north to support Zhong Xiang. Because the amount of grain and grass needed in the north is already huge, and Wu Jue is using troops against Huainan West Road, Yang Mi is resisting Liu Xing's order, and Jiangxi is using troops, Liu Xing will definitely not allocate more money and grain to Zhong Xiang, who can rob grain on Guangnan West Road.

It is also unrealistic to expect to continue to fight after attacking Cochin.

Unfamiliarity is the primary reason, and most of the time grabbing food is a waste of strength, and what you get is a dime. The second is the people's sentiment and folk customs, which are also destined to make Zhong Xiang unable to support the army to finish and win the invasion battle. (To be continued.) )