Just when Tai Shici and Yuan Ba were waiting for news in Longshu County, Liu Bei's fellow townsman and the most loyal civil official under him, Jian Yong, the former Pengcheng Guocheng - Jian Yong, at this moment, with nearly a hundred servants and a man in his thirties, all rode horses, left Pengcheng, where he had lived for nearly three years, and headed north.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains region was ten rooms and nine empty, and the population either fled or died, according to records, compared with before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, nearly two-thirds of the population was reduced, so in the quiet moonlight at night, in addition to the Qingzhou controlled by Yuan Tan, you can see starving dry bones on the road from time to time, which is particularly eerie and terrifying.

In order to relieve the pressure in his heart, he asked the man beside him: "Brother Wang Xian, I heard that you have not only followed your son-in-law for the longest time, but also stayed by his side for the longest time, and you are also the leader of the guards, how can Jin Gongzi be willing to let you travel thousands of miles to carry out the whole very dangerous mission?" ”

That's right, this man is the leader of the guards around Jin Jue.

All along, whether it is to use stratagems or to find ways to increase the strength of the princes who have a grudge against Cao Cao, Jin Jue can be said to have tried everything he can, even when he is going all out to attack Chengdu City, in order to achieve this, he even did not hesitate to send his two generals and two military divisions to Xuzhou at the same time to assist Liu Bei against Cao Cao and Sun Ce.

Undoubtedly, Jin Jue's efforts have been very remarkable.

In this time and space, although Jin Jue could not prevent many scholars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty from still choosing to serve him because of the personal ability of Emperor Han Xian, Xun Yu or Cao Cao, Cao Cao's current strength has been weakened by more than two-thirds at least because of Jin Jue.

Turf and don't talk about this problem, just talk about food, because of the successive influences and attacks, although there are a lot of political masters under Cao Cao's rule, but Tuntian still has not been able to receive very significant results, even if there are a few places Tuntian harvest is very good, but on the whole, now Cao Cao's rule has begun to show the phenomenon of making ends meet.

The reasons for this,

First, it is naturally Jin Jue.

Lu Bu sent troops to destroy the tuntian in Yanzhou and Yingchuan three times in a row, last year's locust plague, and just this year, a little person who no one expected, Jin Hou, also wreaked havoc on the tuntian in several counties in Yuzhou around Pengchengguo, relying on only the five hundred cavalry that he had just gotten in his hands for a short time.

Second, it was Cao Cao himself.

Not to mention, Cao Cao was just lustful, just because of a woman, he lost his eldest son, nephew and general Dian Wei at the same time, and lost a good opportunity to get Zhang Xiujun and Jia Xu at the same time.

It is said that Cao Cao is like a dead eye, and he has been committed to putting all his energy and offensive goals on the two forces of Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu.

Cao Cao in this time and space is a little stupid, this is Jin Jue's personal opinion.

In Jin Jue's view, in the second year of Jian'an, after Cao Cao launched the second Battle of Xuzhou and had to take the initiative to retreat, it was actually the best time for him to shift the target of the attack. Since Xuzhou under Liu Bei is so tenacious in this time and space, if it is replaced by Jin Jue, he will take the initiative to target Ma Teng in Guanzhong.

At this time, Lu Bujun was busy stabilizing the situation of the Hezhou Assassination History Department, while Jin Jue was busy attacking the Yizhou Engagement Department, Yuan Shao was busy eliminating Gongsun Zhan, and Liu Bei was busy licking his wounds and comforting the Xuzhou army and civilians who had just gone through a major battle.

At that time, if Cao Cao won the trust of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty at the same time, he immediately raised troops to attack Ma Teng, and took all the three auxiliary and Hanyang counties in Guanzhong in one fell swoop, and lined up with heavy troops to block the four passes of Guanzhong, and practiced penance behind closed doors.

After all, Yanzhou is the land of four wars, on the surface, except for Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang, all sides of it are Cao Cao's enemies, but Cao Cao can no longer be like in history, these hostile forces, before Yuan Shao unified the whole of Hebei, cut them off one by one, staying in Yanzhou is equivalent to being a cocoon and self-defeating, that is, to seek his own death.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of personal vision and historical limitations.

In the second year of Jian'an, attacking Guanzhong was the only way out for the Cao army, and now, attacking Jingzhou is the only way out for the Cao army, but if Fu Tong built the county seat of Xinye County into an iron wall, Cao Cao wanted to jump out of the encirclement, and it would be more difficult than climbing to the sky.

Unless, Cao Cao can break the cauldron and attack Fu Tong at the whole time, or wait until Fu Tong has just built the new county seat of Xinye County, and then cross Xinye County and directly attack Fancheng and Xiangyang, if there is the cooperation of Sun Cejun and Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha County, there is a ninety percent chance that Cao Cao will succeed in capturing Jingzhou in the last one or two years.

Therefore, this time, in addition to recommending the 'Let Xuzhou' plan to Liu Bei, Jin Jue actually has another plan - the 'Helping Friends Plan'.

The specific composition of the personnel, Liu Bei's side is his old subordinate Jian Yong, who has been following him for thousands of miles since Youzhou, and a hundred soldiers from Jian Yong personally brought from Pingyuan County are served, while there is only one person on Jin Jue's side - that is, the dynasty.

However, the purpose of the two people going to Youzhou is not the same.

Since it is a 'Helping Friends Program', the person Jian Yong wants to meet and help is naturally Gongsun Zhan.

Since Gongsun Zhan failed to fight with Yuan Shao for Jizhou, and then, after killing Liu Yu, the assassin of Youzhou, and was defeated by Liu Yu's son Liu He and Liu Yu's old army, he built a Yijing City by the Yishui River, and since then, he has not led troops to the battle.

And the goal of the dynasty to go to Youzhou is another one that has been extremely degraded by history and is always ignored, but it is one of the few forces and leaders who can stir up the situation in the world - Black Mountain Thief and Zhang Yan.

In terms of scale, in addition to the Yellow Turban Army set up by the three brothers of the Zhang family, what white wave thieves, Taishan thieves, Xiliang thieves, compared with the Black Mountain thieves, it is really like the bright moon and stars.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army eliminated by Cao Cao claimed to be 300,000, and there were not many of them who were really strong. Otherwise, during the Battle of Guandu, in the face of Yuan Shao's 100,000 army, Cao Cao only had about 20,000 in his hands at that time, and this was when he had successfully eliminated Lu Bu, subdued Zhang Xiu, and drove Liu Bei away.

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