In the lobby of Youzhou, the lights were lit up all night, and the military meeting of sending troops to the state had been held for a day and a night, but none of the civil and military forces in Youzhou looked tired, but they were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Now that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have been in Guandu for a year and a half, they are about to decide the winner, and from the perspective of the whole situation, no one is optimistic about Yuan Shao. My wife even knew that in the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao suffered 300,000 casualties, the generals in his hands died in battle, and the surrender of surrender was almost swept away, and the strategists were also betrayed and separated, and the originally powerful Yuan Shao group was wiped out in this battle, and finally Yuan Shao only fled back to Yizhou with 800 personal soldiers.

Cao Cao's inability to go on the Northern Expedition does not mean that Lu Peng, who has been recuperating for two or three years, does not have this ability, and the time has come to pick peaches.

Since Yuan Shao is about to fail, the time is ripe to go down the mountain to pick peaches, Yizhou and Bingzhou must not be obtained by Cao Cao, who already has four states, once Cao Cao occupies Yizhou again, he will obtain the largest grain production area in the north. Occupy and merge the state, obtain the origin of war horses, and between the power of one and the other, then Youzhou is completely passive.

As a result, Lü Peng and the cabinet agreed that even if Yuan Shaoxing could not take the entire two states while he was going all out to deal with Cao Cao, he should at least take the annexed states, remove the threat from his west, and cut off the most important channel for the Central Plains to obtain war horses. Take Yizhou, or at least divide Yizhou with Cao Cao, seize the main grain producing areas in the north of the Han Dynasty, solve their own food security problems, so as to strengthen their own strength and weaken Cao Cao's strength.

Sooner or later to fight with Cao Cao, this is already the consensus of all of you. If you can weaken him a little, you will never give up.

At the same time, the results of the original trial and matching requirements for Yuan Shao to open up the merger of the state trade route have now been revealed.

Those merchants didn't really cross the border and finish their jobs, they carried out economic infiltration and looting with a mission such as reconnaissance and so on. There are also those brocade guards who flocked here, and they took advantage of the time to do business, but they investigated the situation of the mountains and rivers in Bingzhou and Yizhou, the situation of the garrisons in various cities and towns, and the level of detail, Lu Peng knew better than the actual Bingzhou assassin Shi Gaogan.

At the same time, Jinyiwei secretly took root in various places, infiltrated almost all fields of Yizhou and Prefecture in various capacities, and the means of spying on buying and winning over emerged one after another, and he had long been fully prepared for today's decisive battle.

At that time, everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, so I waited for the current Gao Gan to be transferred to Guandu by Yuan Shao, and then made a thunderous blow.

However, at this meeting, the opinions were divided into two factions, and the simplest method was proposed with the cabinet as the standard, that is, to gather the entire army of 120,000 people, directly seize Yizhou, cut off the connection between Yizhou and Merge Prefecture, and make Merge Prefecture an enclave of Yuan Shao, and then take Merge Prefecture lightly.

At this time, Lu Peng's mind and others have a different kind of thinking, that is, to take the state first. Completely cut off the connection between Xianbei and the mainland.

The first reason for this is the plot of the nation in the future, Lu Peng has no complete despair of those warlords, and they must not appear again, in his heart, how the Central Plains fights, it is all a matter of their own family, it is a fight between brothers, everyone has the idea of changing the status quo of this family, but once a foreign invasion, it is the terrible consequence of cutting off the bloodline, which Lu Peng absolutely cannot tolerate. Therefore, resolutely isolate the peeps of foreigners on the Central Plains, and resolutely let the greedy and extravagant hopes of foreigners in the Central Plains, this is Lu Peng's requirement to chase himself back, and there is nothing else.

To give the Central Plains a barrier, use his thinnest body, and do things that are not understood, Lu Peng thinks it is his duty.

"If we take the state, we will have the unfavorable situation of having Yuan Shao in the south and Xianbei in the north, but I have decided that we must do this, there is no second choice."

"But the cabinet's idea is different from yours, it is our greatest interest to take Yizhou directly, even if we can't take the annex state for a while, then we will cut off Yuan Shao's territory, so the cabinet will reject your decision." Tian Chou stood up and resolutely opposed Lu Peng's decision. Lu Peng's decision is not in line with Youzhou's interests.

At this time, Lu Peng took out his high decision-making power: "According to the rules I set at the beginning, the decision of the cabinet must be submitted three times, and my proposal must be reviewed by the cabinet three times, and then all officials will be reminded to make a decision." Now I formally declare that I reject the decision of the Cabinet, and I insist on my decision, and now that the situation is urgent, we will at once gather all the officials to comment on this matter, and listen to the Cabinet and listen to me, there needs to be an explanation. ”

This problem arose after the decentralization, but for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of his children and grandchildren, although he was a little ridiculous in handling things, Lu Peng must also persevere.

Lu Peng's prestige is still there, up and down 2000 years, the inherited respectful nature is still there, and finally passed Lu Peng's decision.

After a warm and careful discussion, everyone finally made a decision: the lord sits in Youzhou, holds the Flying Tiger army in control of the overall situation, and there can no longer be an empty thing in the rear like the last war.

Lu Peng is already a prince of one side, and it is indeed not a good thing to be present in person for every battle.

This time, Lu Peng did not insist, the reason was that Wan'er was in labor, and he was really reluctant to leave, or he would definitely be the coach of the expedition.

The general Zhang Jaw Tai Shi Ci, with Zhang Jaw as the mainstay, led 20,000 horses, sent troops to Zhuo County, attacked Zhongshan State, crossed Taihang Mountain and went straight to Merge Zhou.

Zhang Yan and Pan Feng had 20,000 horses, headed by Zhang Yan, and crossed the Great Wall from the county and went straight to the heart of the state.

With Zhao Yun in the center, 50,000 iron horsemen take care of the left and right. With the military advisor Tian Feng as the commander-in-chief, he watched Zhao Yun.

Yang Feng Xizhen was stationed in Renqiu, and once there was a change in Yizhou, he would immediately attack on the southern front.

The treasury allocated money and mobilized merchants to supply military supplies.

Roads began to be cleared along the way, and military management was implemented at key road passes to ensure the smooth march of the army.

Urgently appoint the students of the third batch of colleges as officials, recruit junior officials, follow behind the army, and be ready to receive the obtained territory at any time, and must occupy one place, stabilize one place, and build one place.

All the Jinyi guards were dispatched, entering the state first, carrying out espionage, assassination, bribery, rebellion and other actions to prepare for the army in advance.

This is a huge but sophisticated plan, and once realized, Youzhou's power will grow exponentially.

As a result, Youzhou mobilized again and vigorously launched a big war for the future.

(End of chapter)