"Shi'an, since you have learned about the four Taishan Kou, do you know how many soldiers and horses the four of them have?" Yuan Yao looked at Li Ye and asked.

Li Ye thought for a while, and said, "There are almost a few thousand people under each person, but I am afraid that less than thirty percent of them are really combative. ”

"Thousands?" Yuan Yao smiled at this moment: "In this way, the number of people with combat effectiveness under the four men of Taishan is almost 10,000." ”

Li Yedao: "No, but it's estimated that it's about the same." ”

"Childe, do you have any ideas here?" Li Ye looked at Yuan Yao, and always felt that Yuan Yao's face was a little wrong now, not that Yuan Yao had a physical problem, and Li Ye felt that Yuan Yao seemed to be doing something big this time, which brought Li Ye a feeling of shock.

Yuan Yao looked into the distance at this moment, and that direction happened to be the direction in which Zang Ba fled, and said softly: "Shi'an, what do you say is the situation in Xuzhou now?" ”

"Xuzhou?" Li Ye seemed to be a little uncomfortable with Yuan Yao's thinking, and he was still talking about Taishan Sikou just now, why did he jump to the situation in Xuzhou.

However, if you don't adapt to it, you can't adapt to it, since Li Ye regards himself as Yuan Yao's mastermind, he naturally wants to work for the main public.

"Xuzhou has five counties, and now the three counties of Guangling, Xiapi and Pengcheng are in the hands of General Hou, while the land of Donghai and Pengcheng is now controlled by Liu Bei. After the end of the year, the situation between the two sides tended to ease, and although there were constant small-scale frictions, large-scale fighting did not break out. ”

As if he had thought of something at this time, Li Ye suddenly looked at Yuan Yao and asked with a look of disbelief, "Childe, do you want to break the situation in Xuzhou?" ”

Yuan Yao nodded and said: "If the land of the five counties of Xuzhou all fall into the hands of my father, then the territory can be expanded a little more, and if Liu Bei has been rooted in Xuzhou, I am afraid that it will not be good for my Yuan family to govern Xuzhou, many people in Xuzhou have thrown themselves into Liu Bei under the leadership of Mi Zhu, and even the three counties of Guangling, Xiapi, and Pengcheng have two hearts in their lives." ”

Li Ye said at this time: "Childe, with all due respect, this is probably not the best time to occupy Xuzhou. ”

"Why?" Yuan Yao looked at Li Ye with a puzzled look on his face, as if he didn't understand the meaning of Li Ye's words.

Li Yedao: "Childe, I think the most important target of the general at this moment should not be Xuzhou, but Yangzhou." Although Yangzhou has the Yangtze River, as long as the general can take Yangzhou, he can connect the territory under his command into a large area. After taking Yangzhou, Jiaozhou in the south is unable to go north, and then the general will have no worries and can concentrate on dealing with foreign enemies. Otherwise, at this time, many states and counties under the command of the general were bordered by Cao Cao, Lü Bu, Liu Bei, Sun Jian, Zhang Lu and other princes. ”

Yuan Yao also had a look of approval on his face when he heard this, and when Li Ye said this, Yuan Yao woke up at this time, at this time, Yuan Shu's forces were indeed not suitable to go north to seize Xuzhou, and it was a more correct choice to attack Yangzhou in the south.

Li Ye continued at this moment: "And Liu Bei's occupation of the northern part of Xuzhou is not a bad thing, today, the major princes in the north are fighting chaotically, Jizhou has Gongsun Zan and Guan Yu two people fighting against Yuan Shao, Yanzhou is Lu Bu, Cao Cao two battles several times. If the general completely takes Xuzhou, it will inevitably be against these major princes, even if they do not send troops to fight, they will inevitably send troops to defend, and then they will be held back by a part of the troops, which is not conducive to development. And once the northern part of Xuzhou is handed over to Liu Bei, there is only one Liu Bei that the general needs to deal with, and the pressure will inevitably be much less, and he can also buy time for Yuzhou, Jingzhou and other places to develop, and turn potential into strength. ”

Yuan Yao nodded fiercely at this moment, and said to Li Ye: "Shi'an, what you said is very reasonable, but I still want to give Liu Beijun in the north of Xuzhou a heavy blow, so that they can only defend the land and have no ability to fight with us, and then our pressure will be a little less." ”

"But Childe, now you only have five of us under your command, with the strength of the five of us, how can you face the tens of thousands of troops that Liu Bei arranged in the north of Xuzhou?"

Yuan Yao chuckled lightly and said, "Although there are only five of you now, it may not be necessary to enter Xuzhou by the time you enter Xuzhou." ”

"Childe, what do you mean" Li Ye followed Yuan Yao's gaze and seemed to have guessed something, but he still couldn't believe it, because if the guess was true, he didn't know where Yuan Yao's confidence came from?

Yuan Yao looked at Li Ye's face and said with a smile: "Shi'an, you should have guessed it, right?" ”

Li Ye smiled bitterly at this moment and said, "Son, do you want to subdue this Taishan Sikou?" With all due respect, Taishan Sikou is not a good stubble, and it is not so easy to accept, otherwise it would not have been a headache for Taishan for many years, so that Taishan is too guarded and should be a headache. ”

Yuan Yao said: "I also have an understanding of this person Ying Shao, this person has the ability to learn, and he can also govern one side, but he can't do this kind of thing to pacify the bandits, and if I can help him solve the bandits in Taishan County, then he has to be grateful to me." ”

Li Ye saw that Yuan Yao seemed to have made up his mind at this moment, and he also knew that his persuasion would no longer be useful, so he asked, "I don't know what the son is going to do?" ”

Yuan Yao said: "I am quite interested in Zang Ba, Shi'an, do you think that if a few of us go all the way up, can we deter Zang Ba, as long as Zang Ba is obedient, with his men as the pioneers, solve the four Kou of Mount Tai one by one, kill some, and keep some, it is enough for the soldiers and horses under these people to be used by us, and then only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and then expel the rest of the grass Kou into the north of Xuzhou, it is enough." ”

Li Ye still frowned at the moment, and said: "Childe, but don't say that the four Kou of Mount Tai are difficult to deal with, let's just say that this Zang Ba is not so easy to surrender, this person has been hiding himself, even if he has the cultivation of the Condensation Realm now, he is not famous, and the plan is quite big, I am afraid it is not so easy to be surrendered." ”

What Li Ye didn't know was that Zang Ba didn't mean to hide, but he was powerless to fight against Taishan Sikou before he broke through the Ning Gang Realm, and breaking through the Ning Gang Realm was also a recent thing, and he met Yuan Yao and a few people before he could publicize it. However, this did not affect Li Ye to speculate on Zang Ba's mind with the greatest malice.

Yuan Yao was on top of the demon horse at the moment, with a wooden whip hanging from his waist, his expression was bright, and he said, "Shi'an, there are some things that you can only know the result of." You can only succeed if you do it, and if you don't do it, you have no chance at all. Now is a great opportunity, and I have made up my mind, so you don't need to say more. ”