Chapter 219 Jia Xu sighed silently
“Who are you going to send to garrison the White Horse Ferry?” Jia Xu asked Yang Ji.
Since Jizhou sent 20,000 troops to Liyangjin, they must also have someone stationed at the White Horse Ferry.
Needless to say the importance of Baima Ferry. If Jizhou really takes over, their arrangement in Yanzhou will be a bit passive.
Yang Ji lowered his head and thought for a moment, "Let Changwen and Tanzhi go. It's time for them to go out and exercise."
"Wei Changwen and Tanzhi?" Jia Xu frowned, then relaxed again, "Alright, a general with inner energy separated from the body, coupled with a peak Qi practitioner, I think he can win Li Yangjin on the north bank. "
Jia Xu thought about the strengths of Wei Yan and Guan Ping, and finally agreed to Yang Ji's proposal.
After all, Wei Yan and Guan Ping are both strong, so blocking the enemies in the north is not a problem.
Unless the opponent sends a general who can unify the army, it will still be very difficult to stop a warrior who has separated his inner energy from his body and reached the peak of his strength.
But given the current situation in Jizhou, is it really possible to spare a general to seize the ferries on both sides of Liyangjin?
The enemy that Jizhou needs to face now is the White Horse General Gongsun Zan, and Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei are brothers, and their teacher Lu Zhi is still alive.
If Liu Bei is really offended, do you think Liu Bei will endure the chaos for a period of time and directly send troops northward.
What’s more, there won’t necessarily be chaos!
So when Taishan needs to recuperate, what Jizhou has to do is seize the time to capture Youzhou, so as to avoid directly launching a north-south pincer attack with Gongsun Zan after Liu Bei has repaired it.
What Taishan, which has just annexed Yanzhou, needs most now is to recuperate rather than use weapons again. This is the opportunity that Jizhou needs to seize now.
Taishan's pressure on Jizhou was really too great. In just a few months, Yanzhou was directly annexed, and all the civil servants and generals including Cao Cao were captured.
It is impossible to say that Jizhou Wenwu was not shocked in his heart.
Now Jushou Tianfeng and others are probably regretting why they did not send troops in the first place.
But they also know that even if they send troops, they probably won't be able to stop Taishan from annexing Yanzhou. At most, they will just take Cao Cao away.
After all, Gongsun Zan from Youzhou in the north put more pressure on them, so who told them to break their promise.
It was originally agreed to divide Jizhou equally, but now it has become Yuan Shao's monopoly on Jizhou. This is a real contradiction on the surface.
There is no apparent conflict between Jizhou and Taishan. Counting Chen Xi's previous raid on Nanpi, they only lost some supplies and population, and at most gained a little face. something.
So, after facing the pressure from Gongsun Zan, Jizhou decided to abandon Yanzhou first.
Throwing Yanzhou out will make Taishan fall into the security war in Yanzhou, and Liu Bei will not be able to spare many troops to interfere with the decisive battle between Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Gongsun Zan of Youzhou.
After all, Yanzhou also has a large number of aristocratic families, and the Yuan family is one of the leaders of the aristocratic families in the world.
It is a relatively simple matter to cause some trouble for Guan Yu and Guo Jia who are stationed in Yanzhou.
As for the Yanzhou family’s unwillingness, the Yuan family is still a bit favored among these families.
Isn’t this what the so-called Four Generations and Three Dukes are like?
"What about Wancheng?" Jia Xu asked Yang Ji again.
After all, the enemy Wancheng needs to face is not Yuan Shao, who is under tremendous pressure from General White Horse, but Yuan Shu, who is doing nothing.
Maybe Yuan Shu would get out of his mind and want to take Nanyang back.
Although Yuan Shu was also under pressure from Liu Biao in Jingzhou, compared to the pressure on Yuan Shao, the pressure on Yuan Shu was much smaller, and it could even be said that there was basically no pressure.
Moreover, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are currently guarding Jiangxia and Xiangyang. Liu Biao wants to cross these two places and put some pressure on Yuzhou, so that he will not be able to solve the problem of the constraints of the aristocratic families under his command until now. .
Although Liu Biao and Kuai Yue took advantage of the Jingzhou aristocratic family's eagerness to grab credit, they deceived a wave of Jingzhou aristocratic families, played a trick of killing people with borrowed knives, and purified the interior of Jingzhou.
However, this does not mean that Liu Biao is not constrained by the Jingzhou family, or that he is more constrained.
After all, now that Huang Zhong has gone to Mount Tai, Liu Biao, who does not have a strong general under his command, has no way of taking back the land of Jingbei.
Even the four messy Jingnan counties are difficult to take back. Only a small half of Nanjun is left in the hands, which is the half of Nanjun in the south of the Yangtze River.
Moreover, Sun Ce often harassed Jiangling where Liu Biao was located. If not for the navy controlled by Cai Mao, which was quite good, he could barely block the attack of the Jiangxia navy.
Otherwise, even the remaining half of Nanjun would have to be captured by Sun Ce.
If Nanjun was really captured by Sun Ce, Liu Biao would really have no choice but to run to the four counties of Jingnan to avoid disaster.
Of course, if Zhou Yu hadn't been busy with matters in Yangzhou, Liu Biao would have gone to Jingnan long ago.
Except for Kuai Yue, who hopes Liu Biao can revive, and the Cai family, where Liu Biao's wife Cai lives, there are basically few aristocratic families in Jingzhou that Liu Biao can mobilize.
It is even said that even the Cai family, who controlled the Jingzhou Navy, began to waver and had different thoughts.
Now Liu Biao can control basically no other power except all the 100,000 elites in Jingzhou who were originally integrated.
However, because Liu Bian only has half of Nanjun left, he can only harvest so much money and food, and he cannot afford to support so many soldiers.
Even the naval force originally subordinate to Jingzhou has been partially separated from Liu Biao's account, so Liu Biao has no way to supply it.
When Zhou Yu makes his move from Yangzhou, Liu Biao will probably count down.
"Nanyang?" Yang Ji thought carefully about who was more suitable to garrison Wancheng in Nanyang.
"How about Wen Ze and Guan Hai?" Yang Ji thought of Yu Jin who followed them out. If he remembers correctly, Yu Jin's ability is very strong, and he has the potential to command a large army, that is, personal force. A little worse.
"It just so happens that we can give him the soldiers captured in this battle and let him re-formulate a training plan in Wancheng." Yang Ji looked at Jia Xu and said.
"Uh..." Jia Xu looked at Yang Ji, really surprised that Yang Ji was still such a person.
"There is no problem in letting Yu Wenze and Guan Hai garrison Wancheng, but with those hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers, do you really plan to incorporate them into our battle order?"
Jia Xu There is no objection to Yang Ji's arrangement of Yu Jin and Guan Hai to Wancheng. After all, Yu Jin has no problem commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, except for his lack of force.
However, Jia Xu had some objections to the handling of the hundreds of thousands of reduced soldiers.
Although it is a good thing to separate Cao Cao from these armies, so as to prevent Cao Cao and his men from having any bad ideas.
Judging from Yang Ji's tone, it seemed that he wanted to throw these soldiers into the battle order of Taishan's army after the circuit was rebuilt under Yu Jin.
In troubled times, military strength is very important, and Jia Xu still agrees with this.
However, the number of troops does not completely represent the level of combat effectiveness.
The existing army of 250,000 in battle order is enough for them to deal with all the princes of the Han Dynasty. With their current military strength, there is no need to recruit some new and chaotic soldiers into the battle order.
The original idea of Jia Xu, Chen Xi and others was to throw these surrendered soldiers into the field soldiers under Zhao Yun.
After all, the battle order does not need to include so many soldiers, so only the garrison order requires so many soldiers.
After Yanzhou was captured, it was time for Zhao Yun and his field soldiers to shine.
Originally, the field soldiers under Zhao Yun were only enough for Qingzhou, but now there happened to be a group of surrendered soldiers, and there were hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers.
Wouldn’t this just meet most of the conditions for Zhao Yun to carry out farming affairs in Yanzhou?
"What are you thinking about? I didn't say that I would put them all into a battle order. I just wanted Wen Ze to use the Danyang soldiers' synergy talents on all these soldiers." Yang Ji said with a smile.
"..." Jia Xu looked at Yang Ji speechlessly. He really didn't expect that Yang Ji was already here, and he was still thinking about popularizing elite talents among the field soldiers.
"What's more, there are not no elite soldiers among the surrendered soldiers. It would be good to let Wen Ze choose and add them to the Nanyang defenders."
Yang Ji told Jia Xu The reason why he wanted to surrender hundreds of thousands of Cao's troops and stay in Nanyang.
In addition to separating these soldiers from Cao Cao and the others, it also means stationing troops in Nanyang.
Although most of these soldiers have to spend a long time in the field sequence under Zhao Yun.
After all, if you want to complete the farming work in Yanzhou, you still cannot do without the help of these soldiers.
The reason for stationing troops in Nanyang is to prepare for the future recovery of Jingzhou.
Similarly, they are also mutual horns with Guan Yu who is stationed in Chenliu, so as to prevent Yuan Shu from not respecting martial ethics and sending out surprise troops to recapture Yingchuan and cut off the connection between Yanzhou and Nanyang.
Listening to Yang Ji's statement, the corners of Jia Xu's mouth moved. Who did Yang Ji learn this from? He actually laid the groundwork for the invasion of Jingzhou at this time.
Not only Jingzhou, but also Yuzhou is also in Yang Ji's layout. Besieging them on three sides is also a good plan.
"Did you come up with these ideas by yourself?" Jia Xu seemed to have asked this sentence inadvertently.
Yang Ji paused and looked at Jia Xu with a half-smile, "What do you think?"
Jia Xu looked at Yang Ji with a slight smile on his face. Know how to answer Yang Ji's question.
Little by little traces piece together Jia Xu’s understanding of Yang Ji. This long-term layout is basically impossible to come from Yang Ji.
Yang Ji is not the kind of person who would plan now for the long-term future.
It’s not that Yang Ji doesn’t know how to do it, it’s that Yang Ji doesn’t want to do it.
Yang Ji’s temperament, at best, is to just go with the flow, and at worst, go with the flow.
Despite the contrast with Fan Qin, Yang Ji's easy-going personality is already considered a very good character.
But such a capable person would actually want to stay at home!
Jia Xu really couldn't understand.
Chen Xi is already a salty fish, but I didn’t expect Yang Ji to be even more salty than Chen Xi.
Chen Xi still has a dream so grand that it exceeds their imagination.
But as for Yang Ji, he can easily get the answer at a glance.
I guess if Chen Xi hadn't brought him under Liu Bei's command, he would have lived in that small village and unified the Han Dynasty again.
However, it is also very likely that after learning about the recruitment order issued by Liu Bei, he ran to Mount Tai to find a safe place and continued to stay at home.
For such a person, if you want to say that he can come up with this kind of layout, there is a high probability that he can do it. After all, his ability is there.
But, a bad mentality lingers in his heart. If he wants him to do it himself, it is better to expect other people's actions.
Jia Xu no longer wants to ask, the answer is already obvious.
【Start hiding your traces now. Are you so confident in your abilities? 】
"Nuo, let's take a look. If there's nothing left behind, I'll send it to Zichuan." Yang Ji handed a letter to Jia Xu.
Jia Xu silently took the letter from Yang Ji, scanned it quickly, and said in a low voice: "No problem, just send it over like this."
Yang Jijia After passing the letter, he put it directly in an envelope without looking at Jia Xu and ordered someone to send it to Chen Xi on the spot.
Although they can also send the letter directly to Liu Bei, after all, Li Ru is beside Liu Bei.
Although without the help of this letter, Li Ru probably could have discovered Jizhou's actions from clues.
But there is strength in numbers, and it would be terrible if there was something they didn't discover.
So it is better to read it to others before sending the final conclusion to Liu Bei.
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After seeing Guo Jia put down the letter sent by Yang Ji, Chen Xi asked Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, what do you think of Ziyu and Wenhe's speculations?"
"What do you think? With our current situation, is it possible that we can really send out a large number of troops?" Guo Jia said angrily.
If they didn't capture Yanzhou, they could have a hand in Jizhou.
But, isn’t this the defeat of Yanzhou?
Just as Jizhou had guessed, after defeating Yanzhou, the most important thing for Taishan was not to get involved in the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan.
But seize the time to stabilize Taishan's rule in Yanzhou, otherwise it may be overthrown by Yuan Shao.
Yanzhou is a place that is not conducive to defense.
"Indeed, given our current situation, it would be better to send some new soldiers to Pingyuan County for a round of fighting." Chen Xi nodded and agreed with Guo Jia's view.
"If you have no objection to Ziyu's arrangement, then I will send a copy to Mr. Xuande?" Chen Xi shook the letter in his hand.
"General Guan is the general stationed in Yanzhou. Let him decide on this kind of military mobilization. It is not easy for me to interfere." Guo Jia said calmly.
(End of this chapter)