"My lord! Jiangdong messenger Zhuge Jin asks to see! Shuchuan, Liu Bei's mansion, Zhuge Jin ran up the river and killed three horses and finally arrived in Yizhou in the shortest possible time, he was not inferior to anyone in the past, his eye sockets were deep at this time, his face was blue, and he had lost a lot of weight at first glance; Standing outside Liu Bei's mansion, he paced back and forth, his heart was very anxious, the situation in Jiangdong was very urgent! Although Zhou Yu did not describe the situation at this time in detail to him, he also showed anxiety in just a few words, which is not common in Zhou Yu, so Zhuge Jin also had his own judgment; Zhuge Jin is Zhuge Liang's brother, Liu Bei admires Zhuge Liang very much, and Aiwu and Wuxia showed the intention of soliciting when they met for the first time, but they were stopped by Zhuge Liang, and they dispelled this idea.

"Lord Zhuge , my lord, please come in!" , Not long after, someone came to lead the way, Zhuge Jin got the news but calmed down, tidied up his clothes and sleeves fluttered in, as an envoy, he represents not only himself but a force, shouldering the honor and disgrace of this force and the country, he can't act rashly, so that the forces represented behind him will be harmed!

"Jiangdong envoy Zhuge Jin! Meet Lord Mu Liu of Yizhou! Zhuge Jin gave gifts; Liu Bei sat on the main seat and smiled: "Someone! Look! Lord Zhuge is here for the second time, right? Dare to ask, but what's the matter? ”

Zhuge Jin arched his hand and did not sit down, but just repeated the words handed over to him by Zhou Yu: "Liu Yizhou! When I came, our governor Zhou Gongjin only asked me to say one thing, and that was - cold lips and teeth! Now that the word has arrived, I will rush back to Jiangdong next! ”

"Wait! Wait a minute! Lord Zhuge ! What you say is a bit unclear! Can you be more elaborate? Before Liu Bei sat down, the envoy finished speaking, so that he didn't even react; Zhuge Jin paused as he walked outward, turned around, and saluted again: "I asked the name of the virtuous pastor of Yizhou, so I disobeyed the order of the governor and told you one more thing: The situation in Jiangdong is now complicated, and if we are destroyed, you will have to face the powerful Cao Cao alone!" ”

Zhuge Jin came and went quickly, leaving Liu Bei and others to stare at it for a long time; What do you think? Mr. Dumb? Kong Ming? Filial piety? Liu Bei inquired, this is his think tank, in addition to Mr. Dumb, Zhuge Liang, and Fa Zheng, there are also Xu Shu and Zhang Song, who assisted Guan Yu in Hanzhong; Fa Zheng pondered for a moment: "Lord! Jiangdong is a comrade-in-arms on the same front as us, his presence will help us absorb Cao Cao's attention, troops, etc., if he perishes, we are Cao Cao's next target, in the next suggestion, immediately out of Hanzhong Sword to Tongguan! As long as Tongguan is captured and the Central Plains is shaken, Cao Cao will definitely stop the strategic footsteps in the south! ”

Liu Bei thought for a while and looked at Zhuge Liang and Mr. Dumb, Mr. Dumb couldn't speak and could only write, he was still writing at this time, compared to previous years, Mr. Dumb was even more haggard, and the old ones were about to disappear!

He is Liu Bei's first strategist, and he is also the strategist who has followed him for the longest time to help him lay the foundation of his current great cause, Liu Bei in order to appease the heart of this old minister, recognized a godson named Liu Feng! And this Liu Feng is not the son of the Kou family, but the child of Mr. Dumb!

But Mr. Dumb's child is not his own, but his little concubine Lai Ying'er brought it! Then the father of this child is self-evident, the guard Wang Tu, Cao Cao's former guard!

After Ying'er, a woman who wanted to avenge her lover, was driven out of Yanzhou by Cao Cao, she went to Xuzhou, which was relatively stable at the time, and then met Liu Bei, who originally liked her beauty very much, but after all, she brought a child, which was not good for his reputation, so he rewarded Mr. Dumb; This relationship is very chaotic, and the more chaotic is still to come, Liu Bei has no children because he is middle-aged (maybe Li is as sad as him, right?). So he decided to pass on this child of unknown origin to him and give him the name Liu Feng, which can be regarded as a wooing and binding of Mr. Dumb; Originally, Liu Bei planned to let Liu Feng inherit the great cause and cultivate it from an early age; But what I didn't expect was that Liu Bei had an occasional wind and flow, and finally had his own flesh and blood, what should I do now? This matter has dragged on until now, and Liu Feng, under the indoctrination of his mother Lai Ying'er, does not like literature but is good at arching horses, and now he is also a fierce general!

It's far away, because of Liu Bei's hasty decision, in recent years, Mr. Dumb has gradually begun to consciously teach the power in his hands little by little, and began to withdraw from Liu Bei's collective, although Liu Bei is aware of it, but he is also helpless!

Mr. Dumb wrote a paragraph in the shortest words and handed it to Liu Bei: "Sun Quan can still support it for a while, ignore it for a while, first clean up Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui, and completely stabilize Xichuan, Hanzhong, and Yongliang into a line of defense, and then plot against the south of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou!" ”

This is what Mr. Dumb wrote, Liu Bei glanced at Mr. Dumb deeply, Mr. Dumb sat expressionlessly, looking like he was about to die, he didn't have much energy and time to waste his tongue to explain to Liu Bei, it depended on Liu Bei's own decision; As early as in Xuzhou, Mr. Dumb noticed that Liu Bei was an arbitrary person in his bones, suspicious, stubborn, and did not listen to others, if he was not kind to himself, he would not follow him so desperately, and now with Yizhou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Mr. Dumb really doesn't want to take care of it!

He's tired, so tired! After so many years of running around, he has assisted two generations of male masters, especially the flawed male masters, so that he has already exhausted his efforts, and at this time he is almost out of oil!

"Kong Ming! What do you think? Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang, who had not spoken, Zhuge Liang looked at the map at this time, heard Liu Bei's inquiry, came back to his senses, and shook the feather fan: "I thought that the lord had two ways to go at this time!" ”

"Oh? Tell me about it! Liu Bei was slightly surprised and asked with interest; Zhuge Liang Zhizhu looked like he was holding it: "The lord has already played the banner: the Han and the thief do not stand together, and the royal industry is not partial, if we are conservative and stick to Hanzhong and Xichuan now, then at least Cao Cao will not be able to help us in forty or fifty years!"

But the lord will definitely not think like this, hehe! So one of these two ways is: first completely master Xiliang, and then attack Tongguan dangerously, as Brother Xiaozhi said, there is Xiongguan in the Central Plains, and we can directly threaten Cao Cao's base camp, Xuchang!

Another way is to enter Jingzhou, Jingzhou is rich in products, the transportation is developed enough to raise 500,000 soldiers, and he can say that the lord has the strength to fight with Cao Cao! Of course, we all have to send troops to rescue Sun Quan now, and it will be very difficult for us to fish in troubled waters without him! ”

"Tongguan is guarded by Cao Cao's 120,000 elite soldiers, and the main general Gao Shun and deputy general Duan Xuan are all battlefield generals, especially Gao Shun, how difficult is it to fight Tongguan? Besides, on the road of our troops out of the east road, Jingzhou Mu Li Yu had already sent the generals Cao Ren and Lu Bu to handle them, Cao Ren was calm, and Lu Bu's name was even more powerful in China, and it was not easy! ”； Liu Bei sighed a little, they all said it well, but the real point was not said! Whether you go east or north, you have to face a powerful and terrible enemy, and how to defeat these two terrible enemies is the most important!

Otherwise, one handle Tongguan and the other handle Bajun, they are like two gates blocking the route forward!

"Hahaha", Zhuge Liang chuckled, Liu Bei frowned slightly: "Why is Kong Ming laughing?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan: "I'm laughing at the lord!" It may not be easy to break Gao Shun in Tongguan, but Cao Ren and Lu Bu of Ba County thought that there should be no problem! The first is how we break the deadlock! It can not only rescue Sun Quan to a certain extent, but also make profits for us! ”

Not only Liu Bei, but even Mr. Fa Zheng and Mr. Dumb also looked at Zhuge Liang, Mr. Dumb's eyes turned a little clear, but he didn't squeak, Fa Zheng thought for a while, and asked with some hesitation: "Is it a surprise attack on Xuchang?" ”

"Smack!" , Zhuge Liang high-fived: "Not bad!" Great minds think alike! Don't forget that we still have one more path to break the deadlock, and that is to directly attack Xuchang, because Hanzhong is now under our control!

Sending a light cavalry and light body assault, coupled with Cao Cao's perverse behavior over the years, uniting some righteous soldiers, and combining inside and outside, even if he can't succeed in killing Cao Cao, it can also make him frightened, then he will send the nearest soldiers and horses to defend himself! In order to protect yourself! Whether it is Cao Ren and Lu Bu of Ba County, or Gao Shun and Duan Xuan of Tongguan, as long as he mobilizes soldiers and horses, we have a chance! ”

"Kong Ming, although your idea is good, but if you want to attack Xuchang, you have to cross the two defensive lines of Wancheng and Fengqiu, which is not a flat river! It's too hard to raid there! One bad thing is that the whole army is wiped out! Fa Zheng looked at the map and shook his head again and again; Wancheng has 30,000 horses of Zhang Yan, Cao Xing, and Wu Anguo, and Fengqiu has 50,000 horses of Cao Hong and Zang Ba, no matter which of these people are good generals, the remaining capable people who have been honed in the Central Plains for so many years have fought hard battles and vicious battles, and they need at least about 150,000 troops to break through these two lines of defense, right?

But a large army of 150,000 people is used for a sneak attack with no return? And if you go here, you must go to the meridian road in Hanzhong, how to supply grain, grass and baggage? That's a big problem that makes it even harder! Fa Zheng had some whimsical thoughts about Zhuge Liang, and he didn't know how to express them; Zhuge Liang smiled: "Why don't I know this?" That's why we need a second way of surprise team! From the Fenglingdu on Tongguan North Road down the river, the two people feint and move, and it is completely possible to approach Xuchang! In addition, this plan also requires General Guan of Hanzhong to send troops to confront Tongguan Gaoshun to attract his attention, so that it is possible to let the surprise attack troops cross from Fengling! ”

Mr. Dumb nodded, dipped the ink with a brush, wrote a sentence, turned around and left, Liu Bei took it and took a look: "The candidates for the surprise attack on the North Road, Ma Teng and Han Sui, if they don't obey, they will kill them!" East Road Surprise Attack Candidate, Zhang Xiu"

If Ma Teng and Han Sui were abandoned, it would just fulfill Liu Bei's wish, but this embroidered Liu Bei was a little reluctant!

Closing his eyes and chewing carefully on the meaning of Mr. Dumb, Liu Bei suddenly became enlightened, I see! On the one hand, Zhang Xiu has been stationed in Wancheng for many years, and he is very familiar with the terrain there for hundreds of miles, so it is best for him to lead the troops!

Of the two, Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao have the deepest grudge, even if he is unwilling, he will fight with Cao Cao to the end, and will not surrender Cao Cao, the battle will have life in the end, and surrender will die even worse! Is the revenge of killing a son so easy to forget?

The three, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Ren, and Zhao Yun, the three senior brothers, and the three spears were united to form an independent small collective under Liu Bei's guild, maybe they haven't noticed it yet, but Mr. Dumb has already noticed it, especially when Zhang Ren, the senior brother, is currently the highest military operation commander under Liu Bei, these things should be considered more carefully!

(To be continued)