Chapter 400 Report back to Liu Bei

Chapter 400 Report back to Liu Bei

"Strategy!?"

Liu Bei was surprised. He was indeed weak in this aspect, and the only one who could fall into his trap was the general. The only highlight moment in my life was when I escaped from Xuchang, fished into the sea, and birds flew into the sky.

Liu Feng nodded heavily, and under Liu Bei's eager eyes, he slowly said: "This plan is to push the boat along with the current. Uncle Gongsun has no ambitions after his defeat in the battle of Longzuo, and he governs the place with cruelty. He was unkind and exploitative, and he was harsh to both the scholars and the people. As a result, Uncle Gongsun's men were disappointed and their hearts were divided, just like the river was sinking."

During the Three Kingdoms period, you could be cruel, cunning, and vicious, but you couldn't be without ambition.

Once you lose your ambition, your subordinates will most likely become disloyal.

Not only did Gongsun Zan lose his ambition to conquer the world in action, but he also said that he would wait for the Ming Lord to appear. By doing this, he wasted all the last bits of popularity under his command.

Yuan Shao was also a wise and ruthless man. When he saw Gongsun Zan diving into the water, he immediately threw stones.

"Under these circumstances, Uncle Gongsun softened his posture a little and agreed to Yuan Shao's request for peace."

Liu Feng said categorically: "In my humble opinion, the day the peace negotiation is successful will be the day Uncle Gongsun dies!"

Gongsun Zan was already weak and was out of breath under the pressure of Yuan Shao. He only relied on his courage to fight and defeated Yuan Shao many times. Although he could not overturn the game, he was able to hold on to his last breath.

Once the peace negotiation is successful, this breath will be completely gone. At that time, if Yuan Shao turns against him again, Gongsun Zan will not be qualified even if he wants to fight.

To use a later saying, it means that if the people's hearts are scattered, the team will no longer be able to lead.

In the original time and space, Gongsun Zan vowed not to negotiate peace with Yuan Shao. Although he most likely had a bad temper and deliberately disgusted Yuan Shao, he coincidentally avoided Yuan Shao's plan. It can only be said that God did not help Yuan Shao.

If Yuan Shao had been allowed to defeat Gongsun Zan a year earlier, or even half a year later, Cao Cao's Guandu battle would have been dozens of percent more difficult.

Seeing the big brother's impassioned speech, although Liu Bei didn't understand it, he felt that what the big boy said made sense.

He couldn't help but ask: "In your opinion, will Brother Bogui agree to negotiate peace?"

"Absolutely not!"

Liu Feng shook his head directly like a rattle. This was the result in the original time and space. Moreover, although the south of the Yellow River was turbulent and unpredictable, the north of the Yellow River was not affected too much.

The biggest change is probably that Yuan Shao has changed from a general in the original time and space to a higher-level Sima.

Liu Feng can almost conclude that this matter will not change.

Liu Bei was puzzled and asked: "Why are you so confident?"

Liu Feng laughed and said: "Uncle Gongsun is strong and fierce, rough and irritable, narrow-minded, suspicious and jealous. In the past, he swallowed up Hebei and swept through You, Ji and Qingzhou. In the Battle of Dongguang, 20,000 cavalrymen were killed. Three hundred thousand Yellow Turbans were defeated in two battles Two victories, the formation killed 50,000 people, captured 100,000 people, and almost wiped them out. However, they were deceived by Yuan Shao and lost Jizhou. Then they were defeated in the battles of Jieqiao and Longzuo, and they lost their former prestige. ”

"With Uncle Gongsun's temperament, I'm afraid he already hates Yuan Shao to the core. He just wishes he could drag Yuan Shao to die together. How can he negotiate peace with him?"

Liu Feng sighed: "This can be regarded as a mistake. It happened to avoid Yuan Shao's plan."

"If Uncle Gongsun had not been such a character, once the peace negotiation was successful, Da Sima's strategy would have been much more flexible. He could take advantage of the situation to destroy Uncle Gongsun, or he could turn the lie into the truth, temporarily let Uncle Gongsun go, and raise his troops to go south."
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Liu Feng considered it and said: "However, with the current separatist regime, it is impossible for Yuan Shao to go south. He will only deal with Uncle Gongsun first."

If it were in the original time and space, then Yuan Shao would most likely go south to kill Cao Cao first, because at that time Gongsun Zan was just a trapped beast. Although he was disgusting, he could not be revived. On the other hand, Cao Cao was very powerful, and his farming campaign was initially effective.

If Cao Cao is allowed to rest and recuperate like this, Yuan Shao, who has only one state capital, can't compare to Cao Cao, who has Yan, Yu, Xu, and Si in the Central Plains. Even Cao Cao did not win all of these four Henan prefectures and counties.

For example, Xuzhou was the private territory of Zang Ba.

For example, Yanzhou was in ruins, with a population only one-third of its peak, and a large area of ​​Hebei land was occupied by Yuan Shao.

For example, Sili was even more dilapidated than Yanzhou, and more than half of the counties did not obey Cao Cao's orders.

But just the two big states of Yan and Henan were far ahead in farming. After all, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Henan was far superior to Hebei in terms of total economic volume, total population, and cultural talents.

But now the situation is different. Unless Liu Bei is dealt with, Yuan Shao may not dare to cross the river. However, Hanoi is quite dangerous. The land is rich, the population is large, and there is no danger to defend. It is really a piece of fat that cannot be taken for nothing.

Following the topic of Gongsun Zan, Liu Feng will talk about the subsequent cooperation with Cao Cao and their alliance against Yuan Shao one by one.

Liu Bei's face was uncertain, but he never said a word, quietly listening to Liu Feng's account.

After Liu Feng finished speaking, he asked: "Feng'er, are you so optimistic about Mengde?"

It is also a matter of alliance, but with different objects, the narrative is naturally different.

When talking to his father Liu Bei, Liu Feng did not hide most of his thoughts.

For example, with Cao Cao on the front line, Liu Bei's army only provided support to help Cao Cao share part of the pressure, allowing the main force of Cao Cao's army to confront Yuan's army head-on.

Historically, Cao Cao's army was far stronger than Yuan's army, and his territory was larger than Yuan Shao's. Although it had experienced wars for a long time, there were also wars in the north.

The reason why Cao Cao seems to have a huge gap in military strength with Yuan Shao is that apart from the fact that Henan is too depleted and its products have dropped sharply, which limits the size of Cao's army, the biggest reason is that Cao Cao is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and needs to send troops in all directions.

At the height of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao still deployed nearly 20,000 troops in Yuzhou.

Moreover, these 20,000 people are not weaklings. They are all elites from hundreds of battles. Half of them are members of the Li family of Yanzhou. They are commanded by Li Tong to guard Yang'an and stabilize the situation in Langling, Runan.

Thousands of other elites, including the elites of Cao Ren, were sent to Runan to attack Liu Bei as Cao Cao's strategic reserve.

In addition to the troops defending Liu Biao in Yingchuan, there are at least 20,000 Cao troops in the direction of Runan.

This is also the fundamental reason why Cao's army had more than 100,000 troops before the Battle of Guandu, but when Yuan Shao's 100,000 elite flying dragons rode in the face, there were only 20, 30,000 Cao's troops on the opposite side.

It can be seen that Cao Cao did not have no troops, but he had no choice but to assemble them.

Cao Cao's strength in this plane is actually not weaker than that in the original time and space. Even though Liu Bei and his son took away a lot of Cao Cao's territory, Cao Cao still maintained most of his core territory in the original time and space.

Most of Yanzhou, Henan Yin, Hongnong, Hanoi, and Yingchuan are all areas where Cao Cao is producing. Although Yuzhou was led by Liu Bei, this invisibly helped Cao Cao share the danger from Liu Biao and saved 20,000 troops stationed in Runan.

Coupled with the alliance between Cao and Liu, Cao Cao did not have to divide his troops to the east to defend Xuzhou.

If another Battle of Guandu breaks out now, Cao's army's strength will definitely not be as disparity as it was in the original time and space, let alone Liu Bei's reinforcements as agreed upon.

"Father, the child is optimistic about the general, and the child thinks that we can only be optimistic about the general."

Nowadays, Yuan Shao is still the only one who can raise hundreds of thousands of troops. This is really not comparable to the princes on the ground in Henan.

That was hundreds of thousands, and Cao Cao in front of Red Cliff had no more than this number. Most of them were the family wealth left by Yuan Shao, which shows how heroic Yuan Shao was at this time.

Of course, Liu Feng is not afraid of Yuan Shao. Not to mention that he still has a chance to invade Jingzhou. Even with the existing three southeastern counties, by the next year and the next year, when the army expansion is completed, the southeastern Liu army will not be inferior to Jingzhou in terms of size and ordnance. Yuan Shaojun, and the combat power is far superior to Yuan Shaojun.

Otherwise, wouldn't Liu Feng's efforts over the past few years have been in vain?

Although Xuzhou today cannot be said to have returned to its heyday, it has at least returned to the state before Cao Cao massacred Xuzhou. Nowadays, the three counties of Donghai, Langya and Xiapi in the north of Xuzhou have recovered a wave of blood by relying on farming, while Guangling has suffered less losses from Yuan Shu's rebellion, and overall it is even worse.

Yuzhou also did not have the fierce tug-of-war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu for more than two years, and retained six or seven points of vitality.

Don't underestimate these sixty-seven points. Yuzhou is the second largest state in the world and has a solid foundation. With just these sixty-seven points of vitality, Yuzhou's economy, population and many other statistics have firmly ranked first under Liu Bei's rule, and also in Xu and Yang. Above two states.

Although Yangzhou was newly settled, Liu Feng worked hard to drive away wolves and tigers. Although he wasted some time and took some risks, it greatly strengthened his dominance, mobilization and influence in Yangzhou.

Nowadays, including the four major surnames in Wu County, they have bowed their heads and knelt down, the heads of the powerful surnames in Kuaiji have fallen to the ground, and the water conservancy disaster relief in the two counties in Jiangbei has won the hearts of the people.

Liu Feng has already won four of the six counties in Yangzhou, and the remaining Danyang County can't waste much effort. Only Yuzhang is a little more difficult, but Yuzhang's team Liu Feng already has a candidate in mind.

There are many reasons why Liu Feng was able to accumulate such a huge advantage in just three years. But one of the main reasons is that Liu Feng knew how to be a qualified warlord.

During the Three Kingdoms period, everyone became warlords for the first time since the unification of the Han Dynasty four hundred years ago.

In the late Han Dynasty, Guangwu and Liu Xiu established the cauldron so quickly that powerful men from all over the country did not have a chance to experience it.

Liu Feng knew the value of people from the beginning, and he also knew that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it would only take a little more than ten years to go from a place without people to a place without roosters.

Now the population of Liu Feng's family is the sum of Cao and Yuan's families. These are the foundation of arms, money, food, and soldiers.

Liu Feng is keeping a low profile at the moment, but he deliberately wants to take advantage of the inertial thinking of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others, and their contempt and misjudgment of himself and Liu Bei, to find opportunities to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

Even if you have the strength to fight one against two, wouldn't it be nice to provoke Cao and Yuan to fight?

Liu Bei frowned and was silent for a moment. Regarding Cao Cao, Liu Bei had an idol mentality. Even though Liu Bei shouted against Cao Cao every time, it actually proved the high status of Cao Cao in his heart.

Liu Bei's every rebellion against Cao Cao is not so much a sign of looking down on Cao Cao, but rather a new path of differentiation.

Of course, this is also related to Liu Bei's origin, reputation and character.

Liu Bei's background and reputation were so low that he had almost no competitiveness among the nobles and powerful people. He might as well win the support of humble families and common people. At least this would be real food.

"Okay."

Liu Bei finally nodded in agreement. After all, if he didn't agree, wouldn't he be letting his grown-up son sit on a candle? Moreover, Liu Feng had notified him in advance of his trip to Luozhong this time. He did not object in any words at the time, and he could no longer object now.

"In your opinion, how should Peiguo arrange it?"

Liu Bei turned to ask about military issues.

In Liu Feng's arrangement, Pei's troops were almost the top priority and could be regarded as strategic mobile troops.

Although Liu Bei's military talent and ability were inferior to those of Cao Cao, he was not weak. Especially during the Battle of Hanzhong, he received the help of Fazheng and Huang Quan, which really caused Cao Cao to suffer a big loss at the end of his career.

Later, they fought fiercely with Lu Xun for more than a year with equal forces. Although he was ultimately defeated and defeated, Lu Xun took advantage of the terrain at the junction of Yi and Jing.

It can be seen that Liu Bei's military ability is at least by no means mediocre, and he naturally quickly saw through the key points of the overall situation.

"Father, in my opinion, this important task must be done by my second uncle."

Liu Feng made a bold recommendation, and he dared to use his head to guarantee that the candidate in Liu Bei's mind was also one of Guan and Zhang, and judging from Liu Bei's habits, Guan Yu might be the bigger choice.

At this time, the loss of Xuzhou was gone, and Zhang Fei was still Liu Bei's number one confidant and brother. But Liu Bei also liked to use Zhang Fei to guard the base and take Guan Yu out to fight.

Originally, Liu Feng recommended either Guan Yu or Zhang Fei.

But Uncle Zhang is indeed not as prudent as Uncle Guan. Although both of them have character flaws, Guan Yu is still more steady than Zhang Fei.

Judging from historical results, Guan Yu's upper and lower limits are much higher than Zhang Fei's.

Pei's strategic mobile troops are extremely important and even have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of frontline decision-making when necessary. Although Taishi Ci, Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu, and even Sun Ce also have such talents and abilities. But there was no way Liu Bei would abandon Guan Yu and go with them.

If Taishi Ci and Zhao Yun might still have a chance, then Zhou Yu and Sun Ce have absolutely no chance.

Sure enough, after hearing Liu Feng recommend Guan Yu, Liu Bei's brows suddenly opened, and he no longer hesitated about the choice between the second master and the third master.

"Okay, let Yunchang take on this important task."

Liu Bei considered: "In addition to Yunchang's troops, we can also recruit He Yi, Huang Shao, Liu Pi, Gong Du and other troops to enrich the army."

Nowadays, these are the major ones with 4,000 men. At the same time, He Yi's nephew He Luan has 2,000 men, and Liu Pi's generals Zhou Cang and Pei Yi both lead one with 2,000 men. Including the expansion of the army, Guan Yu's headquarters has 8,000 people and Guan Ping has 2,000 people, totaling up to 32,000 people.

Liu Feng looked up and saw a proud look on Liu Bei's face, obviously very satisfied with this arrangement.

(End of chapter)