In Luoyang City, Li Hugo is arranging the defense of Luoyang, and now there are less than 10,000 people in 5,000 fine armor plus the remnants of Luoyang's remaining defeated generals, which is a drop in the bucket for the huge Luoyang City defense.

There are a total of eighteen princes in the world, nine of which went to the Chang'an court, and the other nine were loyal to the Luoyang court.

However, there are too few defenders, and it is not a good thing after all, so Cao Mengde discussed in the hall, and he said: "Cheng Yu, what do you think? Now that the imperial court is short of soldiers and horses, although Li Hugo is brave and brave in the world, it is a false position, what a general, there are no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, it is really ridiculous and generous." ”

"Ming Gong, I thought that this was an opportunity to make friends!" Cheng Yu stepped forward and said.

Cao Ren, who was in the hall, laughed: "I said military advisor, you are too cautious, what kind of bird is he Li Hugo, they all say that Lu Bu is simple-minded and has developed limbs, I think Li Hugo is also such a person, how can he be compared with our prime minister? Besides, Li Hugo has so few troops, isn't it good news for us?"

"Although this Li Hugo is also our opponent, but in the final analysis, now that we have taken refuge in the Luoyang Imperial Court, our current identity is issued by the Luoyang Imperial Court, and if the Luoyang Imperial Court declines, what do you think we will fall into?"

Cheng Yu walked to the middle of the soldiers, looked around, and said.

Xiahoudun glanced at his brother Xiahou Yuan, and he said, "It's okay to say it's okay!"

"You said yours, I drank my wine, I can't understand it anyway!" Dian Wei gulped into his mouth and drank the wine.

Xu Chu next to him snorted: "Wine bag rice bag!"

"What are you talking about, are you fucking underwhelmed!" Dian Wei immediately went to get his weapon.

Xu Zhu shouted angrily: "Last time you robbed me of a chicken leg, you forgot? I haven't settled accounts with you yet!"

Syllable!

Cao Mengde slapped the table: "Shut up, listen to the military advisor!"

Suddenly, the two reckless men shut up, they were all afraid of Cao Mengde.

Cheng Yu said slowly: "Everyone, in fact, we might as well take the lead in leaving Li Hugo some soldiers and horses, we must know that Li Hugo has some soldiers and horses to protect the peace of the court, and we will fight for the world in the future, and we will definitely use the name of this court at the beginning, and we will send soldiers and horses first, and then we can take the lead, and we will be rewarded in the future, and in this way, we can also get more benefits." ”

"What kind of interests, isn't this nonsense? What real power does the Son of Heaven have now?" Cao Ren said.

Cheng Yu laughed: "The general's words are wrong, for example, if we have made meritorious contributions, we can follow the military orders required by the imperial court, such as subduing Chang'an, and then we can use the banner of recovering the Han dynasty and then recruiting troops...... Won't we double the soldiers and horses we gave to the imperial court?"

As soon as these words came out, Cao Mengde immediately stood up: "Okay, military advisor, then you say, how many soldiers and horses do you need to give him?"

"We use 30,000 elite soldiers, take the weak, and we will send 3,000 archers to the imperial court!" Cheng Yu said.

Xiahoudun took a sip of wine: "Why archers?"

"It's very simple, the archers are positional warfare, they are the weapons of the defense of the city, but they cannot be used in siege warfare, the bow and arrow of the siege war shoot from the low to the high, there is no place for it at all, and the foot soldier is the help of the battle, every soldier of our iron cavalry is experienced in a hundred battles, and the war horse under the seat is a good horse bought by Dawan, so it is so sour, the archers are the most cost-effective, even if he Li Hugo can use the soldiers again, it will not cause us too much hidden danger!" Cheng Yu said.

Xiahoudun stood up, he hugged his fists and said: "The wonderful talent of the military advisor, let me admire it very much!"

"Just do what the military advisor says. Cao Mengde was overjoyed.

At this time, Cao Mengde opened his mouth, and immediately asked the other princes to divide their troops and send them to the imperial court, including Cao Mengde 3,000, Sun Jian 2,000, Tao Qian 2,000, Kong Rong 1,000, Gongsun Ce 500, so Er'er, except for Liu Bei himself, there were only 500 people, and they didn't send it, and the others basically sent soldiers and horses to Li Huguo.

But Li Hugo couldn't be happy, and Guan Er, who was next to him, was stunned and smiled: "Big brother, since the princes sent troops, why is the eldest brother so preoccupied?"

Zhang Xiu scolded: "You are really a stunned person, can't you see that the princes give to the eldest brother are all bloody, old, weak, sick and disabled, or some useless wounded soldiers, these soldiers and horses can only be used to defend the city, but they can't defend the city for a long time, they can only hold it for a while, these princes have their own ghosts, they are afraid of the rise of the imperial court, so they are nominally sending troops, but in fact they are restraining our eldest brother!"

"So that's the kind of thought, wow, I'm angry!" said the second stunned man and went out with his weapon.

"Stop!" Li Hugo shouted, "What are you going out to do now?, if the princes know, after they send their troops, we will go to trouble them, do you think we can have good fruit to eat?!"

"But these grandsons are too deceitful!" Guan Hai said.

Li Hugo got up and said, "Can you find out, is this a ploy to sleep?"

"It was Cheng Yu, the chief strategist under Cao Mengde. Zhang Xiu clenched his fists and said.

Li Hugo frowned: "Cheng Yu, that's no wonder." ”

Cheng Yu is a person that others don't know, but Li Hugo understands that in this period, all the princes want to dominate, so they will try all kinds of ways to make other countries their subjects or directly annexed.

However, the strength of each force is different, and there will be a phenomenon that the winner is king and the loser is the villain. There is a person, his name is Cheng Yu, he helped Cao Mengde unify the Central Plains and became an absolutely powerful lord at that time, of course, it is inseparable from Cao Mengde's own strength, but Cao Mengde encountered a lot of obstacles in the later period, so that he had no way to become the overlord of the world. This Cheng Yu is delicate, resolute, and does things without leakage.

At that time, Cao Mengde's subordinates had a lot of talents, why Cheng Yu could be particularly appreciated by Cao Mengde, which is naturally self-evident. Cheng Yu was born in a poor peasant family in Shandong, but this did not become an obstacle to his hard work.

I think that when the Yellow Turban Uprising was made, it all hit his house, he was not afraid, but used his own strategy to protect everyone, just like that, Cheng Yu was well-known to everyone, and then many people came to ask him to be his strategist, but he didn't accept it, he was very patient, it can be said that he was waiting for Cao Mengde to appear.

Li Hugo was actually not far from Cheng Yu at the beginning, and he arrived fifty miles away, but at that time, Li Hugo met Zou Xiangyu's mother, so he didn't go to Cheng Yu's village, so he missed out on such a talent, which made Li Hugo regret.