592. The future is unknown
Although the current situation has just forced Yuan Shu to the brink, and Lu Bu has not really done anything yet, several military advisors and strategists on Zhu Wei's side have already taken into account the rest of the matter.
If only Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao are left in the Central Plains in the future, then Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao are divided into the south and north respectively, and have a solid rear base, and Cao Cao is sandwiched in the middle, which is indeed a relatively weak situation.
If Cao Cao fights hard, then Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao can naturally easily destroy Cao Cao, but if Cao Cao takes a step back and throws himself directly to Yuan Shao's side, or attaches himself to Yuan Shao's side, and even gives the puppet son of heaven in his hand to Yuan Shao, then Yuan Shao will naturally be unable to join forces with Zhu Wei's side to destroy Cao Cao.
At that time, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are likely to join forces to deal with Zhu Wei first, and Zhu Wei is afraid that he will be a little difficult to take care of.
Not to mention the military strength on Cao Cao's side, it still has a certain combat effectiveness, as for Yuan Shao to occupy the north and eliminate Gongsun Zhan, he has hundreds of thousands of elite troops, plus ordinary troops, it is not a problem to make hundreds of thousands of troops.
If Cao Cao and Yuan Shao jointly launched an attack on Zhu Wei in Jiangbei, it would be difficult for Zhu Wei's troops left in Xuzhou and Huainan to resist.
In this way, the best situation is that Zhu Wei will retreat the military forces north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River, and use the Yangtze River to protect it, but in this way, he will basically lose the threat to the Central Plains, and then he will only have to go out of Nanyang from Jingzhou to find an opportunity to enter the Central Plains.
In addition, there is the worst situation, that is, even Jingzhou will be in danger, if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao still do not give up, then Zhu Wei can only retreat to Jiangdong.
The problem now is not that Zhu Wei's military strength is insufficient and he can't fight hard with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's armies, but that Zhu Wei's territory is too open to expand and it is impossible to garrison troops everywhere for defense, and if the army is scattered, it will be swallowed up step by step, and if the army is concentrated, there is no way to defend the territory.
Therefore, if this future situation is really said by Zhuge Liang, it will become very tricky.
"Hahaha, if that's the case, but in a battle, you may be able to defend Yuan Shao in the north and Cao Cao in the south, as long as Cao Cao is destroyed, you can have a decisive battle with Yuan Shao to determine the world!"
Perhaps sensing that the atmosphere of everyone was a little low, Zhou Yu suddenly laughed, although he has not completely returned to Zhu Wei now, but for the sake of the great cause of the world, he can be regarded as doing his best to make suggestions.
In fact, how can everything go well in the world, they are planning in every way here, others are also planning, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have military advisors and strategists, if they talk about the situation in the world, how can they not see it clearly.
So in the end, it depends on the strength of each family, as long as Zhu Wei is prepared in advance, and he is heavily defended on the side of Xuzhou, he can resist a wave when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's combined forces attack, then Zhu Wei can naturally dig out Cao Cao's nest first, and then have a decisive battle with Yuan Shao.
Of course, no one can predict what the future will bring, so everything is just a prediction, considering the worst-case scenario.
Just like in the original history, Liu Bei escaped from Xudu, killed Che Zhou in Xuzhou, and regained control of Xuzhou, which attracted Cao Cao's army to conquest, Liu Bei had rescued Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao because his youngest son was sick, he didn't care about any other foreign affairs, Liu Bei's two wives and brother Guan Yu were arrested by Cao Cao, and the third brother Zhang Fei also ran to Runan to occupy a small county as a bandit, and Liu Bei himself could only flee to Yuan Shao's side alone.
At this time, it was also the best opportunity for Yuan Shao to attack Cao Cao, and he could take advantage of Cao Cao's crusade against Xuzhou to enter Gunzhou, but unfortunately Yuan Shao easily missed it.
So how can Zhu Wei know if Yuan Shao will have any stupid tricks in the future.
Just pinning hopes on other people's stupid tricks, just like the national football team often pins its own chances of qualifying on the wins and losses of other teams' games, and in the end will only hand over their fate to others to control, Zhu Wei will not do such an idiotic thing, so Zhu Wei will still plan for the best and worst in advance and make full preparations for the possible.
"Well, let's do this pre-judgment! After today, if Lu Bu has a reversal, we can unite with Cao Cao to fight against Lu Bu, and then destroy Yuan Shu! However, although Lu Bu has a bad character, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun under Lu Bu's account can also be described as generals, Mr. Yuanlong, I don't know what to do to make the two of them attach! ”
Zhu Wei also felt that the matter in the future could be slowly decided, and now he decided the matter on Lu Bu's side first, but he didn't know if Lu Bu would send troops to that side if he counterattacked.
However, in the current situation, it would be good if Lu Bu could be destroyed in one battle at this time, otherwise it would be troublesome for Lu Bu to flee back to Xuzhou.
Zhu Wei felt that he might be able to communicate with Cao Cao first, so as not to let Lu Bu mess up the current situation, or discuss making a trap for Lu Bu and quickly solve Lu Bu, at least not because of the problem on Lu Bu's side, which would affect the war against Shouchun Yuan Shu.
Although after Lu Bu was destroyed, Xuzhou also became a piece of fat, and it needed to be snatched after the Battle of Shouchun, and it was also a question of what more changes would affect it at that time.
It can only be said that this is all done by Lu Bu himself, if Lu Bu does not move, then everything will naturally be safe, and the status quo can be maintained, so that Zhu Wei can swallow the land of Huainan first, and then slowly move on Cao Cao's side, so that Lu Bu can stay in Xuzhou as a buffer between him and Yuan Shao.
But now it looks like Lu Bu is going to jump a little wildly, this is something that can't be pulled, and Zhu Wei can't stop it.
It's just that I think of attacking Lu Bu, then the most important talents on Lu Bu's side are Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, Zhang Liao's ability is naturally needless to say, as mentioned above, he can be regarded as one of the sixty-four generals in ancient and modern times, and Gao Shun's trap camp makes Zhu Wei have a thunderous familiarity when he reads the Three Kingdoms, even if Gao Shun's own ability may not be outstanding, but he can indeed train a strong assault special infantry.
As for Chen Gong, Lu Bu's strategist, Zhu Wei didn't care a little, now that he has a lot of wise and resourceful people, even if Chen Gong is on Zhu Wei's side, it doesn't make much sense.
But Zhu Wei thought of the original historical situation, Zhang Liao might still be able to catch surrendering, but Gao Shun was not so easy to surrender, so Zhu Wei couldn't help but want to ask Chen Deng, he naturally knew better about the personnel situation on Lu Bu's side.
"This..., most of the generals under Lu Bu's account are old from the state, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others have followed Lu Bu since Dong Zhuo's time, and then they have followed Lu Bu to fight in the world, and the relationship can be described as very good. Among them, Wei Xu is Lu Bu's in-law and has a close relationship, and the rest of the people can be regarded as loyal to Lu Bu! However, as the lord said, although Gao Shun is upright and does not make Lu Bu happy, but in Lu Bu's army, he is second only to Lu Bu's overseer in power, and he has 800 soldiers in the camp, which is the elite of Lu Bu's army, and he is actually Lu Bu's henchman, as for Zhang Liao, he is the cavalry captain under Lu Bu's account, commanding 1,500 cavalry and state cavalry, and his riding skills are quite good, and he is also very reused by Lu Bu, the heart of these two people is difficult to say! ”
Although Chen Deng heard that Zhu Wei only mentioned Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, he still told some of the existing generals under Lu Bu's account......