If it were the original Three Kingdoms, Cheng Yu would definitely not be able to make such a suggestion, no, it should be said that he would never have thought of such a strategy.

However, in this time and space, because of Jin Jue's own style of acting and his past examples, many people have been inspired a lot, and Cheng Yu is one of them.

What worries Jin Jue is that it finally happened.

Now Cao Cao's military divisions have been inspired by the example of Lu Bu's army raiding Hedong County for thousands of miles, and then winning the entire annexed state, and Cao Cao's situation in Yanzhou and Yuzhou has deteriorated sharply, coupled with the strength of Yuan Shao and Jin Jue is getting stronger day by day, they are no longer as obsessed with letting Cao Cao continue to stay in the Central Plains and wait for death.

In Cheng Yu's view, at this stage, the only local princes that Cao Jun can easily deal with are Liu Biao and Ma Teng, and the reason why he suggested that Cao Cao go south to compete with Liu Biao for Jingzhou is that in addition to the secret chess move of Changsha Taishou Zhang Xian, there is another very important reason - food.

At this stage, Cao Cao has formed alliances with many local forces, such as Yuan Shao, Sun Ce, and Ma Teng, but will Sun Ce and Yuan Shao take the alliance to heart?

Apparently impossible.

The southern expedition to Jingzhou can not only free the Cao army from the dilemma that it is about to face in all four borders, but also immediately solve the big problem of Cao Jun's extreme lack of military food.

Obviously, Cheng Yu's suggestion was approved by most of the generals under Cao Cao. As soon as he finished speaking, Xiahou Yuan was the first to stand up and said approvingly: "Lord, Zhongde's suggestion is very subtle, although Liu Biao's soldiers are always much higher than Ma Teng, but Guanzhong has experienced the disaster of Dong Zhuo, Li Yu and Guo Yan, and the people among them have either died because of this, or have fled to Yizhou or Jingzhou, and they have already become dilapidated.

Even if you can quickly capture Guanzhong, if there is no food, our army will still be strongly blocked by Lu Bu's army. ”

The problem mentioned by Xiahou Yuan is naturally another reason why Cheng Yu suggested the southern expedition.

If Cao Jun wants to capture Guanzhong, the first hurdle to pass is not Ma Teng's army, but Lu Bu's army.

Because Sima Yi has already evacuated the people of Yinzhong, Henan, therefore, now, as the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang City, which was once prosperous and unrivaled in the world, is still an ownerless empty city. Even the Tiger Prison Pass, since Yang Feng led the crowd to leave, it was also abandoned by Lu Bujun and Ma Tengjun.

Without the people, it would only be a waste of food to continue to garrison the troops there.

Ma Tengjun has Hongnong County in hand, while Lu Bujun has the Yellow River Tianwei, Zhongtiao Mountain and Taihang Mountain Range, so naturally there is no need for a tiger prison.

After Xiahou Yuan finished speaking, Xiahou Xuan, Cao Chun, Yu Ban and other generals also expressed their approval one after another, while Le Jin and Li Tong did not speak, although they were not guilty, but they were the generals of the defeated army, and they did not dare to speak in front of Cao Cao easily before they made great achievements.

For Cheng Yu's suggestion, to be honest, Cao Cao was moved,

It's really exciting.

However, when Cheng Yu and several generals finished speaking, Cao Cao was surprised to find that there were two major groups in the council hall, and they still did not express their position.

Xun Yu, Guo Jia and Xun You were still pondering, while Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Li Dian also lowered their heads, wondering what the three of them were thinking?

"Wen Ruo, what do you think of Zhongde's strategy?" Cao Cao asked uneasily.

"Huh? Well! Xun Yu was stunned for a moment, and then, he hurriedly came to his senses, stood up and replied: "Lord, Zhongde's plan is in the right direction. For the sake of today's plan, only by taking the initiative to jump out of the Central Plains can our army have a glimmer of life. However, the lord and Zhong De seem to have chosen the wrong direction. This point, my lord, if you ask Zixiao and the three of them the three generals who participated in the previous battle of Nanyang County, you will know the difference. ”

"Oh?" As soon as Cao Cao heard this, he immediately turned his head to look at Cao Ren and the other three generals.

In the end, it was Li Dian who stood up and explained for Cao Ren and Cao Hong: "My lord, Xun Junshi is not wrong. In the past, even if Zhang Xiu had Xiliang's iron cavalry in his hand, even if Liu Biaojun and Zhang Xiujun joined forces and met our army, they would lose more and lose less.

This time, however, the situation is completely different.

The very young Nanyang County Taishou Fu Tong, who Liu Biao has recently promoted, will alone become the biggest obstacle for you to send troops to seize Jingzhou. After the dismissal, his subordinates sent people to Nanyang County to investigate, and Fu Tong, who intercepted us in Luyang County and Li County, and made it impossible for our army to advance an inch, although his troops were on a par with our army at that time, the vast majority of them were either recruits or bandits and rebels recruited from Luyang Mountain.

It can be seen that this Fu Tong, at least from the current point of view, is a general who is extremely good at fighting defensive battles. In addition, also, before, he was able to quietly take all the seven northern counties of Nanyang County without alarming our army.

Therefore, his subordinates were very worried that if Liu Biao trusted him and handed over 20,000 or 30,000 elite soldiers from Jingzhou, our army might not be able to break through the Nanyang County he guarded in a short time.

Moreover, the lord may have forgotten that Jin Yan and Liu Bei, who have now taken the entire Runan County, will be enemies of you, the lord, once you shoot a large army to attack Nanyang County, these two forces may not send troops to rescue Jingzhou. Therefore, his subordinates believe that our army should advance westward, even if it may encounter obstruction by Lu Bu's army, but as long as our army acts carefully and keeps it strictly secret in advance, it will definitely be able to take the entire Guanzhong and Liangzhou in one fell swoop before Lu Bu's army reacts. ”

"Hmm!" After Cao Cao listened, he nodded, and then asked Cao Ren and Cao Hong for evidence: "Zilian, Zixiao, do you both think the same way?" ”

"Yes, my lord, the last general is all of this opinion." Cao Ren and Cao Hong replied truthfully helplessly.

As a general, it is of course a very humiliating thing to admit in public that they themselves cannot break through the defense line set up by a young general in a place.

However, Cao Ren and Cao Hong also understand that Cao Jun's current situation is very poor, and they can't afford not to tell the truth for the sake of face.

At this moment, Guo Jia, who had not spoken before, suddenly spoke: "Lord, everyone, I'm afraid you haven't noticed a small detail until now. Whether it is Jin Yan, who has just taken over the entire Runan County before, or Fu Tong, who has just been promoted by Liu Biao. They were both young, and they had been around almost identically. What a coincidence, isn't it? ”

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