Jia Xu listened to Ma Qiang's words, shook his head with a smile and said, "No, the teacher is not loyal to Liu Yu, the teacher defected to Liu Yu back then, just hoping that Liu Yu can replace the first emperor and become the new emperor, and then he can persuade Liu Yu to change the previous imbalance between Kansai and Kanto, so as to save the people and scholars of Kansai."

But now it seems that Liu Yu's self-protection is not enough, not to mention the unification of the world, after learning about Ming Gong's many policies through various channels, he felt that Ming Gong could complete his ideas, so he specially wrote to ask about the humble position.

The humble position has already helped Ming Gong agree to him. ”

"What? Wenhe, you! ”

"Could it be that Ming Gong will continue to let the three rebellions in Liangzhou happen in ten years in the future?" Jia Xu looked at Ma Qiang.

Ma Qiang sighed, his subordinates are really not worrying about each other.

However, Ma Qiang also understands that Jia Xu is worried that he will not agree with Yan Zhong's betrayal, so he took matters into his own hands, not to mention that all the plans have not started now, and if he really doesn't want to, he can stop.

But do you really not want to?

Ma Qiang smiled bitterly, he thought about Youzhou and was about to go crazy.

"Then between you, do you have any plans?"

"Upper, middle and lower three strategies.

The best policy, by the Ming Duke invited Liu Yu to Yi County to meet, it was said that it was for the second allied matter, after all, now that Yanxu is at war, the plan of the five states to jointly send troops at the beginning is no longer possible, not to mention that there has been such a drastic change in Chang'an, Liu Yu will inevitably come, and then he can be directly taken under house arrest.

In the policy, I Jizhou food control, there will inevitably be people who want to go to more relaxed Youzhou, especially Zhongshan, many people fled to Youzhou in this war, we can ask Youzhou to return, but also can excuse Zhongshan This time is so difficult, it is because of the Yuan army through Youzhou came to Zhongshan, this is indeed a fact, our army can use this excuse to start a war, of course, to create public opinion through the newspaper in advance, but in this way, Liu Yu must be prepared,

The next step... That is, directly on the grounds of discovering Liu Yu's letter to Yuan Shao, with cavalry as the pioneer, avoiding the city when encountering the city, hiding in the village, killing Jixian County as quickly as possible, and at the same time letting the Red Star Battalion, Quanzhou, Wuhuan and other departments send troops at the same time, depending on the battle, but in this way, it is the most unfavorable for the reputation of Ming Gong. ”

Ma Qiang listened to Jia Xu's upper, middle and lower three strategies, and there is no doubt that these three strategies are ranked based on the impact on his reputation and the scale of the war.

If Liu Bei took Liu Zhang on the spot, maybe Pang Tong would not have died, and there might be one more Pang Tong or Zhuge Liang in the direction of Jingzhou to preside over the overall situation, and Guan Yu's earth-shattering battle would not have ended tragically.

On that day, these were just maybes.

But no matter which strategy it is, in the final analysis, it will affect Ma Qiang's reputation, after all, no matter what era, undeclared war is an extremely inferior approach.

Ma Qiang didn't make a decision on the spot, but asked Jia Xu to go back first, he still needed to think about it.

Jia Xu said that he was leaving, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and Ma Qiang did not refuse on the spot, indicating that he had decided to attack Youzhou.

No matter what strategy you have, the core is one point.

Raid Youzhou!

——Pengcheng, Xuzhou

Speaking of Pengcheng, we have to mention a peerless military god during the Qin and Han dynasties - Xiang Yu.

When Xiang Yu was the overlord of Western Chu, he built his capital in Pengcheng, and fought his second classic battle of winning more with less here - the Battle of Pengcheng, that battle, relying on Xiang Yu's resolute and courageous command, made the Chu army defeat the 560,000 people of the Han army with 30,000 divisions in half a day, and almost killed Liu Bang, so that Xiao He had no choice but to fill all the old, weak, young and young men in the pass, which barely stabilized the situation.

Standing at the head of Pengcheng, Lu Zhi couldn't help but think of the scene recorded in the history books.

Outside of Pengcheng, there is the flowing Surabaya, a river that can go directly to Xiaopei, where Liu Bei is located.

To the north of Surabaya, there is the military camp of the Xuzhou army, and further north, there is the camp of the Cao army.

As early as after the defeat of Mount Tai, Lu Zhi sent light cavalry to Pengcheng to order Liu Bei to prepare for battle in Pengcheng, Liu Bei left Guan Yu in Xiaopei, and he took Zhang Fei back to Pengcheng, and built a strong trench camp in the north of Surabaya, and irrigated water to act as a moat for the camp, so that Pengcheng formed a solid defense system of large and small city defenses.

Cao Cao also tried to attack once, but when he saw that the city defense had been completed, he withdrew his army for twenty miles to build a camp and prepare to attack the city slowly.

"Teacher, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have been in battle for a long time, and there are many good generals under his command, which is really extraordinary." Liu Bei came to the city and said to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi smiled and stroked his beard and said, "Cao Mengde raised troops because of his own selfishness, I was about to teach him a lesson, how are you preparing for the things you are preparing in Pei County?" ”

"Yun Chang has been preparing, and he will definitely not disappoint his teacher... It's just, in this way..."

Lu Zhi sighed and said to Liu Bei, "Xuande, don't have the kindness of a woman in a war, if you can't solve the enemy quickly, then there will only be more people who die, and give up small benevolence for the sake of great benevolence, this is the wind of benevolence!" ”

Liu Bei bowed his hand and said, "Xuande understands." ”

"It's only a day or two to break the enemy, let Yide challenge Cao Cao."

Liu Bei brought the general order back to the army, and Zhang Fei was immediately happy when he heard that he let him go out to challenge.

"Big brother, I just said it, this matter of beating Cao Cao has to rely on me, I have long seen that those guys are not pleasing to the eye, you see how I scold them!"

Liu Bei saw Zhang Fei so excited, and his head felt a little big.

"Third brother, the Son of Heaven is still hunting in the West, we and Cao Cao may have to join forces to save the Son of Heaven when we will be, don't offend people too ruthlessly!"

"Big brother, don't worry, just leave some affection in my mouth!"

As he spoke, Zhang Feiyou roared and ran out, and Liu Bei, who was watching, shook his head.

I saw Zhang Fei wearing his whole body, holding a steel spear, with a thousand soldiers and horses, out of the village and before coming to Cao Jun's village.

"Phew! Zhang Fei is here, let Cao Cao come out and speak! ”

Cao Cao in the account was talking to Xi Zhong about grain and grass.

Lu Zhi lured Cao Cao to the south, not only to form a flanking attack with Liu Bei, but also to drag Cao Cao's grain and grass, Cao Cao's current military grain must cross several rivers to reach, which invisibly increased a lot of attrition, Cao Cao's current grain and grass can no longer be supported.

"Ming Gong, hold on for half a month at most, if we can't take Pengcheng yet, we can only withdraw our troops first, sure enough, as I guessed before, Lu Zhi's southern retreat is a conspiracy."

Cao Cao sighed, although he was familiar with history books and proficient in the art of war, he had to admit that after defeating Lu Zhi, he was still a little superior.

"Then strive to defeat Pengcheng within half a month."

"Or..."Xi Zhong said in a low voice, "The rangers have come to report, the people of Pengcheng are doing well under Liu Bei's governance, and every household has surplus grain, if you can borrow grain from the people, it can support it for a longer time." ”

Cao Cao closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then shook his head, what kind of borrowing food, to put it bluntly, isn't it robbery.

Not to mention Ma Qiang's letter before, until the last moment, he didn't want to take the step of robbing the people.