"What...... Liu Bei did not attack Xuzhou, but went south to occupy Huainan and Lujiang? ”

When he heard the news, Yuan Mai was taken aback, the tea bowl in his hand was not held steady, and he was splashed with tea stains. The shock in my heart was beyond words, it seemed that the butterfly effect brought about by my own crossing was expanding, and more and more things were not developing according to the natural trajectory.

"How did Liu Bei come up with the idea of going south to attack Huainan and Lujiang instead of taking Xuzhou?" Yuan Mai calmed down for a moment, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe the tea stains on his shirt, and asked the scout.

The scout asked: "I heard that there is a mysterious military advisor under Liu Bei's command, as for the name outsiders don't know, I think it is likely to be a strategy given to Liu Bei by this person!" ”

When Xiapi was conquered, Zhang Feisheng captured Chen Gong, and Liu Bei was inspired by Yuan Mai's action to surrender Zhang Liao, so he quietly hid Chen Gong, neither executing nor offering it to Cao Cao.

At first, Chen Gong was bent on dying, and ignored Liu Bei's wooing. Liu Bei was not discouraged, he gave full play to his flickering Dafa, and when he had free time, he came to accompany Chen Gong to talk about the world's major affairs, toasted and drank together, a handful of snot and tears, and told his ambitions, worries about the country and the people, and finally succeeded in taking Chen Gong under his command.

At this time, Liu Bei, Guan and Zhang were taken to Xuchang by Cao Cao to be sealed, and there were only 500 personal soldiers around them, and Chen Gong was Cao Cao's old acquaintance. shaved off his beard and hid in the barracks, successfully hiding from Cao Cao's eyes and ears.

Later, although Liu Bei successfully abducted people and horses to leave Xuchang, he also defeated Yuan Shu, took Huainan, and captured Lujiang; However, in order to maintain his sense of mystery, Chen Gong did not allow the generals under Liu Bei's command to mention their names outside and call themselves anonymous to the outside world, so the princes from all walks of life did not know the news that Chen Gong was not dead.

Yuan Mai closed his eyes and rested his mind. Waving his hand to signal the scout to step back: "Continue to monitor Liu Bei's movements." If there is news, report it early! ”

"No!"

The scout took the order and turned to retreat.

After the scout left, Yuan Mai leaned back on the bamboo chair. Lost in thought. Others don't know what kind of ending Liu Bei will usher in after he captures Xuzhou. But Yuan Mai knows better than anyone.

Now. The smoke and clouds of history are like pictures, and scenes emerge in his mind one by one......

Liu Bei opened the gate of Picheng and attacked and killed the car a few days later. Before the buttocks were hot, Cao Cao, who was furious, led a large army to kill. After breaking the city in the first battle, Liu Bei lost his family, abandoned his two righteous brothers, escaped from Xiapi alone, and went to Yecheng to join Yuan Shao, which can be described as panicked like a lost dog.

After the city was broken, Zhang Fei's whereabouts were unknown. Guan Yu was trapped on the mound, made a three-chapter agreement with Cao Cao, and took Liu Bei's two wives into Xuchang to live temporarily. Cao Cao, who admired Guan Yu, tried his best to win over Guan Yu, a small banquet in three days, a big banquet in five days, a bounty and a marquis, and tried his best to win over Guan Yu, but Guan Yunchang was unmoved.

Later, the war between Yuan and Cao broke out, and Guan Yu stabbed Yan Liang, the general of the Yuan army, under the horse in the chaos of the army, and won a great reputation, which moved the world. In the pen of the Ming man Luo Guanzhong, "Guan Wusheng" is even more rebellious, not only seconding Yan Liang, but also punishing Wen Chou, and later hanging the seal and sealing gold, passing five levels and killing six generals, becoming the number one beheading madman in the romance.

Of course, that is Mr. Luo's fictional story after all, although Guan is brave, he cannot be as unstoppable as the god of war. Zhu Wen is ugly, and the things that have passed five levels and killed six generals are all fictional by him, but it is a fact recorded in the history books that Yan Liang is under the horse. Being able to assassinate such a heavyweight general in front of the battle, Hedong Guan Yunchang is also worthy of the word "Martial Saint"!

And now, Liu Bei did not attack Xuzhou, but instead waved his troops south, occupied the borderless land of Huainan, attacked Liu Xun, and took Lujiang. In this way, he has a foothold, but will not anger Cao Cao, as if he has made a shocking move from the dead game, and the situation has been revitalized all of a sudden......

"Good chess, good chess, what a good move!"

Yuan Mai applauded and admired, and couldn't help but be amazed by Liu Bei's wonderful move.

Picked up a few iced sour plums from the bowl in front of him, filled them into his mouth, and muttered to himself as he chewed, "Who is this mysterious military master?" Chen Gong is dead, Chen Deng's father and son descended to Cao, and Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Sun Qian and the like will never have such a high IQ, who gave Liu Bei such a trick? ”

"Chen Gong is dead, Liu Ye, who is from Huainan, has taken refuge under Cao Cao, it can't be these two people, who are they? Zhuge Liang is still in Longzhong, it is impossible for Wolong to go out of the mountain in advance. In addition to Zhuge Liang, among those who are not famous, how many people can have such a high IQ in the world? It was nothing more than Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Lu Su, Fa Zheng, Lu Xun and a few other people...... "Yuan Mai ate sour plums and continued to meditate."

"Fa Zheng is far away in Bashu, thousands of miles away, it can't be him. Lu Xun is estimated to be fourteen or fifteen years old at this time, and as a child of the scholar clan in Jiangdong, it is impossible for him to take refuge in Liu Bei, and at his age, it is impossible to have such a high strategy. Pang Tong is ugly, and when he took refuge in Liu Bei, he was given a small official position in a county order, if he took refuge in Liu Bei at this moment, I am afraid he would not be reused. In this way, Liu Bei's mysterious military advisor is very likely to be one of Xu Shu or Lu Su! ”

When he thought of this, Yuan Mai couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart.

After such scrutiny, it is very likely that Xu Shu surrendered to Liu Bei, no wonder Zhuge Jin didn't visit Xu Shu last time he went to Xiangyang, could it be that he went to Liu Bei?

"It's so damnable, so all my plans are in vain?"

Thinking of the end, Yuan Mai couldn't control his disappointment, and blurted out a foul word. Thinking that Zhuge Kongming couldn't collect it, Xu Shu might have surrendered to Liu Bei, and Yuan Mai was no longer in the mood to eat.

"Lord Qi Qi Assassin Shi, Lord Zhuge Jin is asking to see you outside the mansion!" Just when Yuan Mai was upset, the guards guarding the door came to report.

Yuan Mai hurriedly stood up and couldn't wait to ask, "Zhuge Jin is back?" That's great! I ask you. Besides Zhuge Jin and his entourage, did anyone else come back with him? ”

The guard pondered for a moment, and said affirmatively: "If you stab Lord Shi back, in addition to Lord Zhuge , there are also two people dressed in the south behind him, who don't look like locals. ”

"Haha...... Great, I'm going to go out of the house to greet you personally! ”

Yuan Mai was excited after hearing this, and the depression in his chest was swept away, and he immediately overturned his conclusion just now. It seems that Zhuge Jin successfully brought Xu Shu, so it is likely that the one who will give advice to Liu Bei is one of Lu Su or Pang Tong. Whatever. Whoever you love, anyway, Xu Shu has already been received by himself......

immediately went out of the house to greet him, and looked from afar, only to see Zhuge Jin outside the mansion. There were two more: one of them was about seven feet five inches tall. Clear-faced. He has a goatee under his chin, his eyes are bright, and he is dressed in a white robe. He looked to be about twenty-five or sixteen years old; The other was slightly chubby, looked like a businessman, and was about thirty years old in appearance.

"That blue-robed knight with a goatee should be Xu Shu!" Yuan Mai walked towards the door, and secretly made a judgment in his heart. Because in the eyes of this person, Yuan Mai saw a chivalrous spirit, which was in line with Xu Shu's identity.

Seeing Yuan Mai come out, Zhuge Jin hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Jin to meet Gongzi, this time I went to Xiangyang, and it was extremely smooth to go back and forth for half a month, not only recruited Xu Yuanzhi, but also brought back his friend Shi Tao!" ”

The blue-robed knight was Xu Shu, and when Yuan Mai looked at him, he also quickly glanced at Yuan Mai, only to see that this young man walked with a dragon and a tiger step, rich and handsome, his eyes were shining, and there was a domineering spirit that was not angry and self-righteous, and he looked like a person who could achieve great things.

"Grass people Xu Shu meet Childe!"

Although he thinks very highly of himself, in the face of the famous descendants of the fourth and third dukes, and in the face of the son who became the son of the assassin of Yizhou at the age of eighteen, Xu Shu did not dare to slack off, and bowed to the ground with a long bow.

"Grass people Shi Tao meet Childe!" Shi Guangyuan followed Xu Shu to give a salute and pay homage to Yuan Mai.

"Good, good, it's really good, to be able to get Yuan Zhi's help, it's better than 100,000 horses!" Yuan Mai smiled heartily, warmly shook Xu Shu's hand, and gave him a high hat.

Xu Shu hurriedly and modestly: "Childe praises falsely, although Shu knows a little about the art of war, but he only knows a little about it, how can he be worthy of such praise from Childe!" Thanks to the love of the son, he sent Brother Ziyu twice to travel thousands of miles to Jingxiang to recruit me, Xu Shu was flattered, so he followed the come, and he should do his best to assist the son, in order to repay the kindness of the son! ”

At that moment, Yuan Mai took Xu Shu's hand and entered the mansion side by side, followed by Zhuge Jin and Shi Tao. came to the banquet hall and sat down, Yuan Mai instructed his subordinates to buy a banquet to entertain Xu Shu, and sent someone to invite Gao Shun and Tian Chou to drink together.

Between the wine feasts, Yuan Mai added Xu Shu as the subordinate governor, a subordinate official directly under the dispatch of the assassin Shi, who could manage both political and military affairs. As for how much Shi Tao had ability, Yuan Mai didn't know much about it, so he casually gave him the post of county magistrate and asked him to go to Shanyang County, Hanoi, to be the county magistrate.

After receiving Xu Shu, Yuan Mai was happy, so he drank happily and got drunk. The next day, he received an order from Yuan Shao to transfer troops, ordering him to send a general, leading 10,000 troops, to Yecheng to listen to the order, preparing to go south to Baima and launch a large-scale campaign against Cao Cao.

In order to defeat his rival Cao Cao in one fell swoop, Yuan Shao issued a conscription order to the prefectures and counties, in addition to asking for the transfer of 10,000 horses to the prefecture, but also to Youzhou and Qingzhou respectively to recruit 10,000 horses, and gathered in Dunqiu County, south of Wei County, a total of 120,000 southern expeditionary troops, ready to defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop and seize the Central Plains.

After more than two months of large-scale recruitment of troops in the whole territory of Bingzhou, Yuan Mai recruited 20,000 new troops, and the number of troops directly under him reached 70,000, plus the local soldiers in various counties and counties, the number of people and horses that could be mobilized reached 80,000, which can be regarded as a large number of generals.

The newly recruited 20,000 horses are concentrated in Jinyang, which has been trained by Zhao Yun and Wang Shuang, plus the original garrison, there are 29,000 infantry and 2,500 cavalry under the city of Jinyang.

The Battle of Guandu was about to break out, and Hanoi would become the forward position, which made Yuan Mai unable to return to Jinyang for the time being, and could only continue to sit on the front line. Let Changshi Tianfeng continue to stay in Jinyang and take charge of the political affairs of the state instead of himself.

After the previous military arrangement, there were nearly 10,000 horses of Zhang Liao in the south of Taiyuan County to block the Xiongnu, the Yanmen in the north was guarded by Hao Zhao, and the black mountain thief Youtian Yu in the west blocked it, and Taiyuan County was temporarily safe.

ordered Zhao Yun to leave 5,000 men and horses to be handed over to Tian Feng and Wang Ling to command, and defend Jinyang; Then he and Wang Shuang led the remaining 24,000 infantry and 2,500 cavalry south to Hanoi and came to Huai County to listen to the dispatch. Five or six days later, Zhao Yun and Wang Shuang led the men and horses through Shangdang, passed through Huguan, came to the city of Huaixian, and entered the city to meet Yuan Mai.

After weighing, Yuan Mai decided to send Gao Shun to lead a mixed team of 10,000 horses and insteps, Keri to the east, to Dunqiu, and wait for Yuan Shao's dispatch. Before leaving, Yuan Mai repeatedly told Gao Shun to report to him at any time on the changes on the battlefield, and Gao Shun promised to lead the troops to the east.

The war was imminent, and there was a shortage of people in Hanoi, so Yuan Mai changed Liang Xi's civilian position to a military position, added a feudal military captain, and ordered him to lead 5,000 troops and go to Chenggao on the front line with his brother Liang Bin to guard them, so as not to prevent Cao's army from entering the country and sneaking attack.

After some dispatch, Yuan Mai himself led Zhao Yun, Wang Shuang, Xu Shu, Tian Chou, Zhou Cang, Zhuge Jin and others to garrison 28,000 troops under the city of Huai County to wait and watch the changes in the battle situation.

On both sides of the river, people shouted and neighed for a while, and the smoke of war was very loud. (To be continued......)