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Jia Xu is talented, Cao Cao knows, and Jia Xu took refuge in himself soon, and he needs to be respected. And the plan he gave himself to fight for food for the two dogs was actually absolutely clever, but he met two people who did not play cards according to the rules of the cards, Lu Peng and Yuan Shao, which did not achieve the purpose of this strategy, but this is indeed not to blame Jia Xu.

Seeing that Jia Xu, who has been depressed, can stand up again today, Cao Cao of course has to sit upright to show that he values Jia Xu.

For the lord's treatment, of course, Jia Xu is grateful in his heart, but Jia Xu is a gloomy person, and his joy and anger are invisible, but he just keeps the lord's attention in his heart.

"Lord, this time, the battle between us and Yuan Shao in Guandu, although we achieved a decisive victory, completely wiped out Yuan Shao's northern group, but the losses we suffered were also unprecedented, the Qingzhou soldiers we relied on were almost wiped out in this battle, although there were no losses of generals at all levels, but everything was in vain with generals and without soldiers."

Cao Cao sighed, and all the ministers couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

Yes, there are generals but no soldiers, how can they face Lu Peng, who is fierce and has more than 100,000 horses? Restoring the number of troops is a systematic project, and it is first necessary to raise enough money and food.

At this point, it's a very difficult thing to do. At the same time, because of the war, the people from all over the country were conscripted and the troops were mobilized, which was already boiling with resentment, seriously delaying the spring planting and autumn harvest of this year, plus the two years of drought in the north, the output of the land was even less pitiful.

When he first joined forces with Lu Peng, he specially purchased ten of his unique windmills from Lu Peng, hoping to transport them back to his own territory, hire workers to imitate them, and then popularize them in his own territory, like Lu Peng's Youzhou, for drought resistance, seedling protection and yield increase.

As a result, things were not as easy as he imagined, and the windmill he bought from Lu Peng, and the result of hiring many carpenters to imitate it, was simply making people cry without tears.

It's obviously that thing, but he can't imitate it by himself, but he can't reach the performance of Lu Peng's windmill, let alone the life span of his use.

Often, a windmill made by oneself has just been erected on the field, and when a strong wind comes, it immediately becomes a pile of rotten wood, and from the perspective of labor costs, its cost is much higher than that of buying it from Lu Peng.

But there is a very key thing here, Cao Cao is financially constrained, and almost all his income is thrown on the construction of the army, where is the money to buy Lu Peng's windmill?

And the people are even more poor, let alone buy that huge and expensive windmill, and they can't even pay the rent.

So in this way, the scene of the windmill full of grain harvest that he envisioned at the beginning could not be realized at all, so Cao Cao is still struggling now.

After this big war, the finances were even more difficult, and it would be a fool's dream to recruit an army that could compete with Lu Peng.

"Since we can't recruit enough soldiers, and we can't recruit soldiers who are absolutely superior to Lu Peng, then we can't start this war against Lu Peng."

For Jia Xu's statement, the generals were indignant.

Jia Xu explained with a smile: "Lu Peng's Lu family army, the strongest army in the world is unsurpassed, we do not have absolute superiority and absolute certainty, we will never be able to defeat him." ”

Jia Xu's successive absolutes made those generals even more indignant, and Cao Ren, who has always been known for his calmness, Cao Ren, the boss of the Cao family's military generals, couldn't help but interject: "No matter how many soldiers there are, we can outwit them." This time, our battle of Guandu is to win more with less, as long as we have a complete plan to defeat Lu Peng, there will be no problem. ”

In the first battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's army won more with less, becoming the most classic battle, and it was precisely because of this battle that the morale of the Cao army was completely improved, but it also unconsciously cultivated the pride and empty mind of the generals of the Cao family's army.

When Cao Cao saw it, he couldn't help frowning, he immediately discovered this bad sign, so without waiting for Jia Xu to answer, he knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "The war between the two armies, strength is the supreme, no matter how good the strategy is, it must be based on strength, winning more with less, it is just opportunistic, not the fundamental principle of war at all, please remember that in the face of absolute strength, conspiracy and trickery cannot fundamentally achieve a decisive victory in a war." ”

was counted by Cao Cao, and the generals were shocked one by one, and they knelt down to make amends to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao saw that his goal of beating the generals was achieved, so he couldn't blame him too much, otherwise it would hurt morale again, and it would be counterproductive.

So Cao Cao appeased his subordinates and asked Jia Xu to continue to express his opinion.

Jia Xu continued: "If we use our current strength to force a war with Lü Peng, I think there can only be one situation, that is, we and Lü Peng will fight each other along the Yellow River, so that the war between our two sides will drag on infinitely. ”

In fact, Cao Cao knew that this was Jia Xu saying that he would save face for himself, if he really started a war with Lu Peng now, it would be impossible for the two sides to stalemate, and he would definitely be beaten to the saddle and vomit blood, and he would not be able to find the southeast, northwest, south, south, west, and north.

"Even if we can hold on, can we hold on? War needs money and food, and it is precisely money and food that we lack the most. And what about Lu Peng? He just has more money and food, and if it continues to be consumed like this, we will be the first to collapse. ”

After such a reasonable analysis, the generals who were eager to try it had to admit this reality.

"And once we are in a stalemate with Lu Peng like this, all our strength will be restrained by Lu Peng, and at this time, it will be cheaper than one person, Cao Cao's eyes lit up.

Jia Xu said gloomily: "Liu Bei." ”

That's where we get to the point.

For Liu Bei, everyone here understands it anymore, that is, a guy who gives a little sunshine and a little wind and rain, think about when he is confronting Lu Peng, Liu Bei, who has no time to take care of Liu Bei who can thrive with a little wind and rain, how terrible the consequences are.

At this time, Jia Xu said with a sneer: "At this time, we can't afford to fight Lu Peng, but we definitely have the ability and strength to defeat Liu Bei." And we can use the excuse of crusading against Liu Bei to directly send troops to Jingzhou and take the key to Jingzhou, so that our rear is worry-free, the foundation is solid, and then attack Lu Peng in the north, and the final battle to which the country belongs, is fundamental. ”

Xun Yu stood up again and opposed Jia Xu's argument: "In this way, let Lu Peng feel at ease and stabilize the state and Yizhou, so that with Lu Peng's ability, within three or five years, Yizhou and Yizhou will become Youzhou, and it will be difficult to separate, and with these two states, plus the huge grassland behind Lu Peng, Lu Peng will be unstoppable." Then he gave Cao Cao a deep salute and pleaded bitterly: "At this time, while Lu Peng is still fledgling, there is still the possibility of destroying him, once he becomes the climate, the day of our demise will come." ”

This is indeed not Xun Yu's alarmism, this is indeed the most realistic fact in front of him.

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