"Don't be angry, lord!" Cheng Yu hurriedly said after reacting.

"Anger? Liu Bei, a weaver and peddler, even began to threaten me! Is he really a muddy guy for Cao Mengde? Let him take the territory under his command? I don't believe it, if you don't give him these three counties, he will really dare to start a war with me! If you have the ability, let this Liu Da'er and Lu Bu's villain come together, and I, Cao Mengdening, will be broken jade, not a complete tile! ”

Cao Cao is really angry now. After all kinds of calculations and hard work, he finally got the best opportunity to take Xuzhou, and Liu Bei actually wanted to empty the white wolf at this time.

With just a few words, I want to let myself give up the land of the three counties to others! It's so deceitful!

Cao Cao now really has the urge to wipe out Liu Bei after taking Xuzhou.

"Lord!"

Cheng Yu let out a low snort and looked at Cao Cao excitedly: "Those who are masters should focus on the overall situation!" ”

And Xi Zhi saw Cao Cao's appearance, hurriedly walked out, picked up the letters that were grouped together by Cao Cao, and began to watch. Then, Xi Zhicai's complexion also changed greatly.

"Does Yuan Highway really have a way to take Guanzhong?" Xi Zhicai couldn't help but exclaim.

Different from Cao Cao and Cheng Yu's concerns, Xi Zhicai has long understood that it is impossible for him to completely eat Tao Qian's cake, although Liu Bei's proposal of the three counties is a bit much, but it is still expected by Xi Zhicai. He focused on what Xun Yue said about Guanzhong.

If Yuan Shu controls the south, Xi Zhicai does not feel terrible. Because although the south is rich, there are too few cavalry, and the soldiers are not as good as the elite in the north. Coupled with problems such as climate and habits, it is not easy for Yuan Shu to dominate the world with the south and the north.

In ancient Chinese history, there were not many cases of the south and the north, because of the geographical advantages, folk customs and logistics and other issues, most of them were beaten by the north to the south, of course, there were exceptions, such as Zhu Yuanzhang. But on the whole, the north still has to occupy a lot of advantages in the struggle for domination of the world, especially in this era when the south has not undergone much development.

One of the most crucial factors in the conquest of the north was the war horse. The power of cavalry in the war of this era is far from being comparable to that of foot soldiers, and the strong soldiers and horses are used to describe the strength of the army, which shows the importance of war horses, and the south is just short of horses.

Of course, Xi Zhicai didn't know about the deal between Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zhan. If he knew that Yuan Shu had a lot of good horses in Yangzhou, it was estimated that he would not be able to sit still.

Yuan Shu secretly made a lot of transactions with Gongsun Zhan from the sea, and used money and grain to buy war horses. not only helped Gongsun Chan breathe a sigh of relief, but also obtained a lot of war horses.

Gongsun Zhan's current life is really good.

Although the battle of Jieqiao was drawn, and even Gongsun Zan was defeated in the eyes of the princes of the world on the surface, in fact, it seemed that Yuan Shao had eliminated the White Horse Yicong, but Gan Ning left a foundation.

Relying on the remaining more than 300 white horse followers, Gongsun Zan secretly formed a group of 3,000 "black horse followers", and let them fight against foreign races in the northern grasslands, hoping that one day he could make his once glorious white horse followers reappear.

All this Gongsun Chan is very well hidden, and few people under his command know about it, and even if others know that there is such a force, they mostly think that it is a team of "new soldiers" reorganized by Gongsun Chan in his heart, and they do not connect them with the white horse Yicong who has been wiped out at all.

Gongsun Zhan is now bent on hiding his clumsiness, and he is full of strength to give Yuan Shao a ruthless attack in the future.

The "Black Horse Yicong" was killing wildly outside, and the captured war horses and population were all bought by Yuan Shu, and there was no worry about logistics at all. Gongsun Zhan is now without Liu Yu, who has explosive internal affairs ability, can still hold on, and he is so nourishing, relying on Yuan Shu's support.

And Yuan Shu is also happy to see all this, and a little money and food is not taken into account by the current Yuan Shu at all. Transporting people and war horses by sea seemed difficult and dangerous to others, but in Yuan Shu's case, it was very simple.

Jiang Qin's legion talent can detect natural disasters at sea in advance, Cai Mao's legion talent can stabilize the water potential, and then cooperate with the iron cable to stabilize the ship, and it is not easy to transport some war horses?

After taking Jingzhou, these world-famous naval generals are now useless heroes for the time being, and they have been sent by Yuan Shu to be the captain of the transport.

Xi Zhicai didn't know all this. The current Jiangdong has been built by Yuan Shu as airtight as an iron bucket, and the information that can be transmitted is extremely rare. Not to mention such a confidential thing.

In this era of extremely inconvenient transportation, it is very difficult to imagine the blockage of communication. is a top strategist like Xi Zhicai, who knows little about Jiangdong.

Except for the people under Yuan Shu, the other princes only knew that Jiangdong was extremely rich and comparable to Jizhou, but they didn't know how. They didn't have an in-depth understanding of Yuan Shu's current war potential at all, and they could only see some superficial surfaces. But even these skins are frightening enough.

Hearing Xi Zhicai's exclamation, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu reacted to the most critical information in this letter.

Thinking of Yuan Shu's terribleness, Cao Cao's anger disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Zhicai, what do you think?" Gritting his back molars, Cao Cao said with a solemn face.

Is his little hair really so terrifying? Before half of the Central Plains was settled, the other party was about to take the south, and even Guanzhong was involved.

Looking at this posture, even if he won the Central Plains, it is estimated that he will still have to be sandwiched between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu in the end, and it seems that he is still the weakest one among them.

"My lord, everything is about the overall situation! We can't let Yuan Shu sit big anymore no matter what! Xi Zhicai said solemnly.

Yuan Shu occupies the south and is nothing, but if he takes Xiliang again, it will be even more terrifying than Yuan Shao, who unified Hebei.

"Then the conditions proposed by Liu Bei?"

Although shocked by the information provided by Xun Yu, Cao Cao's heart was still full of unwillingness. Xuzhou, which he worked so hard to build, had to be given to Liu Bei for no reason, and Cao Cao felt that his heart was dripping blood.

"Promise him!" Xi Zhicai said decisively.

"Wen Ruo did nothing wrong. Xun Yue is not a man of his own words, and the situation in Liangzhou and Chang'an is indeed a bit delicate. If Yuan Shu wins Guanzhong, then we will really have a general trend. For the sake of today's plan, we must unite with Liu Bei to suppress Yuan Shu, and we can't let him expand his power! ”

"Suppress Yuan Shu?" Cao Cao's heart was full of irritability: "There is a danger of the Yangtze River in Jiangdong, and we have no water army, how can we suppress Yuan Shu?" ”

"My lord, Yangzhou is indeed not something we can watch, but Jingbei is not protected by the Yangtze River." Xi Zhicai said.

Jingbei is connected to Sili, compared to Yizhou, which has many checkpoints and steep terrain, Xi Zhicai believes that if Yuan Shu can take Guanzhong, he will definitely send troops from Jingbei. As long as Jingbei is captured, Yuan Shu will not want to take Guanzhong easily.

"What do you mean?"

"After the incident in Xuzhou, unite with Liu Bei to attack Nanyang!"

Xi Zhicai can be regarded as out of the way, Nanyang is an enclave for Cao Cao, even if he fights down, he can't be stationed, so he can only cheap Liu Bei in vain. However, the situation forced it, even if it was cheap, Liu Bei couldn't let Yuan Shu grow, and Cao Cao had no other choice now.

"But wouldn't this be a cheap price for nothing, Liu Xuande and Lu Fengxian?" Cao Cao was unwilling.

If he sends troops, he will also make a wedding dress for Liu Bei when he takes Nanyang, and it will also weaken his strength and give Lu Bu a little respite. Cao Cao really didn't want to do this kind of big loss.

"My lord, the overall situation is important! Liu Xuande and Lu Fengxian are just temporary troubles, and Yuan Highway is our great enemy! When Xi Zhicai heard this, he knew that Cao Cao had accepted his plan, and finally comforted.