Hearing Yuan Chang ask Guo Jia, Yuan Chang's subordinates all looked upright and listened to each other, every time they heard Guo Jia's analysis, they could have a lot of gains, which was beneficial to their thinking development.

In today's era, there are only a few people who can be compared with Guo Jia, but now Yuan Chang's subordinates can listen to Guo Jia's analysis and explanation, but few people have such an opportunity.

There are countless talented people in the world, whether it is a strategist or a general, there are extremely outstanding people.

In terms of generals, outstanding people are called top generals, followed by first-class generals, second-rate generals, and third-rate generals. The top generals are those people, but among the top generals, there are also rankings. Lu Bu deserves to be the first, followed by Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Guan Yu and so on. Just like a leadership circle in the previous life, the municipal party committee is the largest, followed by the mayor and deputy mayor, and Lu Bu belongs to the level of the municipal party committee.

Of course, the ranking of these top generals is in the known range of figures, and those who are hidden from the world are naturally not counted in it. Moreover, they are all hidden, and these rankings have nothing to do with them.

In the same way, generals have rankings, and strategists also have rankings. The classification is the same, top strategists, first-rate strategists, second-rate strategists, and third-rate strategists. Generals can be ranked by force, and it is easier to distinguish. However, counselors are different. They are all strategists, but they are all different. Some strategists are good at military affairs, some are good at internal affairs, and some are good at strategy, in short, the division of strategists is more complicated. However, those who can be called top strategists are those who have reached the ultimate in one of these aspects to be called top strategists.

And among the top strategists, there are naturally rankings. Although there is no ranking in this era, just like the ranking of military generals, fans of the Three Kingdoms in later generations also summarized and ranked strategists. In the ranks of the top strategists, four of the most powerful characters were discharged.

These four strategists all have their own titles, namely "Divine Machine", "Ghost Talent", "Poisoner", and "Desperate", referred to as God and Ghost Poison.

The magic machine is naturally Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang's intelligence is clever, and he is wise and close to the demon. And Zhuge Liang's talent in a certain aspect is not the most prominent, but Zhuge Liang is the most comprehensive. In terms of internal affairs, Zhuge Liang is worse than Xun Yu; in military affairs, Guo Jia, Sima Yi and others can be said to be stronger than Zhuge Liang, otherwise, Zhuge Liang would not have been dragged to death by Sima Yi, which can be proved; and in terms of strategy, Jia Xu and Guo Jia are also stronger than Zhuge Liang; in terms of power and skill, Sima Yi deserves to be the first person. Therefore, Zhuge Liang is one line worse than others in all aspects, and he is not the strongest. However, Zhuge Liang is better than all-rounder, and when combined, Zhuge Liang's ability is no worse than others.

Some people may say that Zhuge Liang's ability was mythologized by Luo Dada, but in fact, Zhuge Liang is average. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Shu to finally become the first person to be destroyed.

No matter what era it is, some people think it is good, and some people think it is bad, and it is impossible for everyone to agree on it. There is no doubt about the abilities of Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia, but because of their different personal preferences, some people naturally feel that their abilities are different. Just like Zhuge Liang, many people think that he is suppressing dissidents and not letting others take the lead, so it makes Shu seem to have no talent. This kind of person's remarks can only make people laugh, if Zhuge Liang really thinks like this, he will not insist on attacking Wei, and finally end up with "die before leaving the school". Others think that Guo Jia's ability is also average, Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu and others in Cao Wei's camp are stronger than Guo Jia, there are many such people, they just can't see others good, so they have to use their dark minds to evaluate.

Not to mention other people's evaluations of these strategists, let's just say that before Liu Daer met Zhuge Liang, he was beaten and ran around, just like a water dog. Until he met Zhuge Liang, he had an alliance with Eastern Wu, defeated Cao Cao in Chibi, and finally captured Jingzhou, and then used this as the foundation to march into Yizhou and capture Hanzhong, and finally achieved Liu Daer's Shu Han foundation. Zhuge Liang was able to do this, which is naturally a proof of his ability, and no one needs to mythologize.

Let's just say that Pang Tong, who is lined up with Zhuge Liang, has a strong ability in internal affairs, and he has dealt with a year's worth of cases in one day. However, Pang Tong's mentality is not good, seeing that Zhuge Liang has made such a big contribution, he wanted to take Yizhou to prove himself, but he accidentally died. Compared with Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang is willing to give up his position to Pang Tong as a deputy, and this alone is enough to prove that Zhuge Liang is much stronger than Pang Tong.

The second is the "ghost talent", Guo Jia is also well-deserved, jealous people will doubt, and no one will argue with them, because it is meaningless.

The name of "ghost talent" means that it is full of wisdom and unpredictable.

In history, Sun Ce was assassinated, which faintly pointed to Guo Jia's doing. However, Guo Jia did not admit it, and there is no solid evidence. Moreover, how dare Guo Jia admit this kind of thing, even if it is Cao Cao, he is not sure that Guo Jia did it, if Guo Jia really dares to admit it, it is a very dangerous thing.

Sun Ce, the dignified founder of Eastern Wu, was killed by Guo Jia with a stratagem, wouldn't it make the other princes and tycoons hesitate in their hearts? If you can kill Sun Ce with a stratagem today, you may be able to kill yourself tomorrow. In that case, Guo Jia will definitely die without a place to be buried, and even Cao Cao will be afraid. Therefore, Guo Jia will definitely not admit this kind of thing, so there is a mystery left, but the vast majority of people think that Guo Jia did it.

Getting rid of a powerful boss just by means of stratagem, how can this ability be called except for being a "ghost talent"? As for the other calculations Yuan Shao and the sons of Yuan Shao, it is not a big deal.

The third "poisoner" Jia Xu's performance in the Three Kingdoms is actually not outstanding. However, no one would deny his ability, and some people faintly felt that Jia Xu's ability was the strongest among the Three Kingdoms.

The so-called "poisoner" is a husband who is not poisonous, and is extremely vicious to others except for himself. However, in addition to himself, Jia Xu will not be cruel to his relatives.

Jia Xu didn't have an outstanding performance, so how could he be tied with the other three?

Let's look at the evidence: Jia Xu followed Dong Zhuo at the earliest, and after Dong Zhuo was removed, Jia Xu, as a high-level figure on Dong Zhuo's side, was naturally also wanted. Therefore, in order to protect himself, Jia Xu encouraged Li Dao, Guo Yan and others to rebel in one sentence, and finally killed Wang Yun and controlled Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. From here, it can be seen that Jia Xu is a character, and for his own life, the Son of Heaven is not in his eyes at all. Later, Jia Xu also wanted to protect himself, help Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and conspire to let Li Wei and Guo Yan fight, so that Jia Xu was not only not guilty, but had merit. Then, Jia Xu retreated, followed Zhang Ji away, and then became the advisor of Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu, and let Zhang Xiuyan obey. Just kidding, Zhang Xiu killed Cao Cao's son, nephew, and fierce general, and Zhang Xiu listened to Jia Xu's words and surrendered to Cao Cao. Of course, Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao, and in the end it was rumored that Cao Pi was killed, but no one knows whether this was the case. As for Jia Xu, this person who gave advice didn't do anything, but was relied on by Cao Pi, and finally ranked as the third duke. It is precisely because Jia Xu is ranked as the third prince and his biography has been passed down that his deeds have been dug up, otherwise, not many people will know about Jia Xu until he dies.

The above deeds are enough to show that Jia Xu's ability is undoubtedly on a par with Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia.

Sima Yi, the last person of the "Divine Ghost Poison", relied on his ability to let Zhuge Liang, who was cautious in his life, take the risk of using the empty city plan, and dragged Zhuge Liang to death, such an ability is on a par with Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu, and there is nothing to doubt about it.

Of course, if this is just the case, Sima Yi will not be able to match his title of "no household". But don't worry, listen to me one by one.

Sima Yi and the general Cao Shuang were assisted by Emperor Wei Ming's Gu Cao Fang, Cao Shuang controlled the power, Sima Yi pretended to be crazy and stupid, and even drank fecal water. You must know that in the 5,000-year history of China, the only celebrity who can do this kind of thing is Goujian, the king of Yue, and the other is Sima Yi. This kind of humiliation is a hundred times worse than the humiliation of Han Xin's crotch, but Sima Yi's harvest is also huge, successfully eradicating Cao Shuang, destroying Cao Shuang and the three clans under his command, controlling power, and finally laying the foundation for his descendants to destroy Cao Wei and establish the Jin Dynasty. Destroying a country, Sima Yi's title of "Absolute Household" is well deserved. Of course, Cao Shuang is not the first, nor will he be the last, the opponents who died under Sima Yi were basically exterminated by the three clans.

In fact, Sima Yi's love of exterminating other people's three clans has a lot to do with his upbringing.

The Sima family has existed for an extremely long time, according to historical records, as early as the Xia Dynasty, the Sima family has existed. As for whether the surname was Sima at that time, there is no way to know. The earliest record of the Sima family in history is the famous swordsman Sima Kuai Shen of Zhao during the Warring States Period, and then to Sima Kuai's great-grandson Sima Wei, who was named King Yin by Xiang Yu, since then the Sima family began to develop, until Sima Yi's father Sima Fang, either a general or a guard, in short, the Sima family has never weakened since Sima Wei, and can be called an enduring family.

And Sima Fang has served as Luoyang Ling and Jing Zhaoyin, this official is equivalent to the secretary of the municipal party committee of the capital, which is definitely awesome enough. Sima Fang is not only like this, he gave birth to eight sons, known as "Sima Bada", which is as famous as Yingchuan's "Xun's Eight Dragons". Sima Yi is Sima Fang's second son.

When Sima Yi was young, he was arrogant, arrogant, and regarded the world as nothing, and such a character was naturally disliked by people. Therefore, at that time, the Sima family arranged Sima Yi to be the manager of the Sima family, and such an arrangement obviously made Sima Yi unbearable. However, Sima Yi was not so awesome at that time, and he still had to rely on the family to survive. Therefore, over time, Sima Yi's heart is a little distorted. And the result of the distortion is that he likes to destroy the character of the three clans later.

The introduction of the four "Gods and Ghosts Poison" here is to show that these four people are powerful figures among the top strategists. Well, back to the text, and listen to how Guo Jia answered Yuan Chang's question.

"Lord, according to his subordinates, Cao Cao's expedition to Xuzhou this time will definitely be in vain!"

"Strategist, why is that?"

Of course, it was not Yuan Chang who asked, Yuan Chang knew the development of history, how could he ask this sentence. And those who are so anxious are naturally Dian Wei's house. Although Dian Wei's head is full of muscles, there are times when he has a flash of inspiration. At such an instant, he was a little puzzled, how could Cao Cao return in vain? Of course, Dian Wei was only puzzled, but he would not doubt Guo Jia's statement.

Not only Dian Wei, but everyone in the room was puzzled, how could Cao Cao return in vain?

You must know that the previous time Yuan Shu and Tao Qian attacked Yanzhou, their troops exceeded 200,000, but they were finally defeated by Cao Cao's newly collected 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers. The newly recruited 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers could defeat Yuan Shu and Tao Qian's 200,000 soldiers, and wouldn't it be easier for the trained 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers to attack Tao Qian alone? It stands to reason that Cao Cao would definitely be able to capture Xuzhou. However, everyone is convinced of Guo Jia's intelligence, and at the moment, they all pricked up their ears to listen to Guo Jia's explanation.

"Yanzhou has a shortage of grain, which is a well-known thing. The grain in Yanzhou is only enough for the people of Yanzhou, and sometimes there is not enough food, so they have to buy grain from Jizhou or Xuzhou and other grain-producing areas. Now that the war has begun, the amount of grain used is even greater than usual, and the grain in Yanzhou is definitely not enough. If it is at the time of the autumn harvest, this problem can be solved. However, it was only the beginning of summer, and there were still three or four months before the autumn harvest, and Cao Cao's grain and grass were enough for him for a month at most. After waiting for a month, Cao Cao ran out of food and naturally retreated, so Cao Cao would return in vain. ”

Everyone suddenly realized that they just saw that Cao Cao was powerful, but they didn't consider the issue of grain and grass. And Guo Jia thinks more comprehensively than them, maybe some of them can figure this out in some time, but they are not as quick as Guo Jia.

Zhao Yun thought for a while, and then asked: "Military advisor, since Cao Cao is short of grain and grass, and Cao Cao also knows that this time will be in vain, in this case, why don't you continue to train the soldiers, and wait for the grain and grass to be hoarded enough to send troops again, why waste your energy to attack Xuzhou?"

Indeed, Cao Cao is a smart man, Guo Jia has calculated that he is short of food and grass, and Cao Cao will definitely know.

"Cao Cao's move is intended to be powerful!"

"Liwei?"

Hearing this, many people in the room raised their eyebrows, and some people showed thoughtful expressions.

"That's right, it's Liwei!"

Guo Jia stood straight, his confident gaze swept over everyone, and then Lang Lang said: "Tao Qian and Yuan Shu attacked Yanzhou for no reason before, how could Cao Cao not react to such a figure? Now that he has sent troops to Xuzhou, Cao Cao has enough reasons. As long as Tao Qian is scared, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu or others will know Cao Cao's strength, and they will be afraid in their hearts, so they will not dare to make any more moves against Cao Cao. Since then, only Cao Cao has beaten others, and no one else will provoke Cao Cao. Jizhou Yuan Shao and Youzhou Gongsun Zan will have a battle sooner or later, so neither of them has time to take care of Cao Cao. Li Dao and Guo Yan in Guanzhong wished that the princes of the Central Plains would go to war, and they could sit firmly in Chang'an and enjoy the benefits of fishermen. Yuan Shu and Tao Qian did not dare to attack Cao Cao, and Liu Biao, who was stuck in one place, naturally would not send troops. Liu Yan of Yizhou, it is rumored that waiting for the opportunity to ascend the throne as the emperor will not justify the war in the Central Plains. Therefore, Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou can rest and recuperate with peace of mind, and when his strength is enough, he can sweep the world, I am afraid that few people can take advantage of his edge. Cao Cao, as expected, is a great talent, and he has to be admired. ”

Yu Ban was also among them, as a general who defected to Yuan Chang relatively late, Yu Ban did not have much credit except for the five thousand cavalry he brought at the beginning. It can be said that Yu Ban is not very conspicuous. In fact, after following Yuan Chang, Yu Ban also liked this atmosphere after getting along with Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and others for a long time, and hoped to be able to integrate into everyone's circle. Therefore, at this moment, Yu Ban also stood up to ask, wanting everyone to know about his existence.

"Military advisor, Tao Qian and Yuan Shu have both attacked Yanzhou, why did Cao Cao use Tao Qian to establish his authority, instead of using Yuan Shu? Moreover, it is rumored that Yangzhou where Yuan Shu is located is richer than Xuzhou, if he attacks Yangzhou, wouldn't he be able to replenish grain and grass while fighting, and finally be able to take Yangzhou?"

"Wen Ze is a very good question, maybe many of you have such doubts. ”

Guo Jia has entered the state at this moment, just like some leaders in his previous life, if he is not allowed to speak at this moment, it is estimated that he will be uncomfortable. Seeing Yu Ban coming out to ask, he nodded very satisfied with Ban, obviously very happy for Yu Ban's cooperation. Actually, Yu Ban didn't think too much, he just wanted to prove his sense of existence, so he thought of a question, but he didn't know how to make Guo Jia happy. Yu Ban himself is also very satisfied, Guo Jia's status in Yuan Chang's side is obviously very high, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and others all respect Guo Jia very much, and it is obviously a good thing to be able to make Guo Jia happy.

"Tao Qian has 30,000 Danyang soldiers under his command, as we all know, the people of Danyang are brave, and any one of them can become a brave and good soldier. In this way, it is actually more difficult to attack Tao Qian's Xuzhou. However, Yuan Shu, as the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, is arrogant and self-centered. Such a person is very crazy, he only cares about himself, and does not think of others. Therefore, if Cao Cao attacks Yuan Shu, it will definitely lead to Yuan Shu's crazy counterattack, and Yuan Shu can fight with Cao Cao recklessly. Therefore, even if Cao Cao can take Yuan Shu, he will suffer heavy losses, and his Yanzhou will be in danger at that time. On the other hand, Tao Qian couldn't do this kind of thing, even if he surrendered to Cao Cao, he would do it. Therefore, a person like Yuan Shu, unless you have the absolute strength to destroy it at the speed of the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, he will also make you break your muscles and bones. Of course, people like Yuan Shu don't want to provoke, and in the end, he will perish in his own hands. ”

Yuan Chang nodded secretly, Guo Jia said it was good, Yuan Shu occupied Yangzhou, and later became the emperor, and finally was absurd and unscrupulous, and was attacked by Lu Bu and Cao Cao, and finally vomited blood and died.

Guo Jia glanced at everyone, and then continued: "Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou this time is in vain, which will inevitably have a huge impact on the future situation, perhaps, this is the result Cao Cao wants." ”

As soon as Guo Jia's words came out, everyone was curious, what impact would it have on the future situation?