With Pang Tong's words, Wang Xu frowned slightly, this was the first time he had heard someone comprehensively question the strategy of entering the Central Plains, although this strategy was a reference to Zhuge Liang's proposal to Liu Bei in history, and it would definitely not be implemented at the moment, but no one in the General's Mansion had ever completely denied this proposal.

"Then I don't know what Brother Shiyuan has to say, I hope to teach you!"

Pang Tong smiled, his eyes were bright, and he replied after a while: "General Wang, dare to ask the troops to go out of Jingxiang, what if the attack on the Central Plains fails?" ”

"Conservative and dangerous, accumulate strength, and fight again the next year!" Wang Xu is very sure.

"If there is such a delay, Jiangdong's strength will become stronger, and he will not join forces to attack Cao, but will have the intention to seize Jingzhou, what should he do?" Pang Tong asked again.

"Hit it with force, say it with reason, and subdue it with force!"

"Easier said than done!"

Pang Tong unceremoniously took over the words, and said disapprerovingly: "Jiangdong is not unmanned, quite talented, if the joint Northern Expedition can not be quickly victorious, it will inevitably give up, and instead seek the land of Jingzhou, in this way, the general, Cao, and Sun will become a counterbalance to each other, and the world is difficult to determine!" Therefore, if the general is not absolutely sure that he will defeat Cao, it is the next policy to send troops to the Central Plains! ”

"Furthermore, dare to ask the general, even if the army enters the Central Plains successfully, the general takes Yanzhou and the western part of Yuzhou, and Jiangdong takes Xuzhou and the eastern part of Yuzhou, what will happen after such a division? Can we continue to move north? Divide Hebei again? Even if the general is willing, Sun Jian will not, how narrow and long his battle line will be, how to defend it? In addition, if the general has more advantages in the process of cutting down Cao and pacifies most of the Central Plains, it will be caught between Cao Cao and Sun Jian. Enemy on the belly and back. Dare to ask the general how to respond. ”

"This ......," Wang Xu said. I don't know how to argue with it.

Pang Tong smiled, and then said: "The strategy that the general said is extremely variable, and only when there is no choice can you do this. ”

"For example......" Wang Xu asked with an eyebrow.

"For example, the general has not obtained Yizhou and Yongzhou at this time, but Cao Cao has monopolized the north, so if the general wants to survive. You can only seek to benefit the state, guard its dangers, join the Sun family in the east, wait for the world to change, divide the army into two ways, all the way into Qinchuan and Yongzhou, all the way out of Jingzhou Nanyang Wan, Luo, and then respond at any time to seek hegemony in the chaos! Pang Tong took over and said.

After speaking, when Wang Xu was still thinking. He had already said again: "General Wang, the contemptible people really don't understand. This kind of strategy can only be used in a difficult situation, and now that the general is sitting on the three states of Jing, Yi, and Yongzhou, and the army is strong, why do he still have such thoughts? Could it be that you are deliberately tempting me? ”

The situation deduced by Pang Tong is exactly the situation that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are in in history, and all kinds of analyses are almost not bad, which is enough to verify his talent.

"Hahaha...... Your Excellency is really the talent of Wang Zuozhi! Wang Xu laughed heartily, very happy in his heart.

"Not bad! That strategy was just an idea, not appropriate. ”

His voice was resolute, and he continued in one breath: "The real intention now is to take and annex the state first, but according to the Black Mountain Range, we can send elite soldiers to curb Huguan and other dangerous passes, and hold Hebei hostage." Then the middle road will advance eastward at any cost, take Luoyang, Henan and other places, and advance the defense line to the east of the Tiger Prison Pass, and defend the danger. In the south, it sticks to Nanyang, Jingnan and other places to rush, dangerous roads. In this way, I monopolized half of the western part of the Han Dynasty, relying on the dangerous Guansai Mountain Range, and completely blocked the Cao and Sun families in the east. ”

"After that, there is no need for ten years of recuperation, there must be one or two million lions, and the money and food of the soldiers are inexhaustible. After that, troops can be sent from Huguan and other places in Bingzhou to attack Jizhou, Youzhou and other places in Hebei, step by step, from north to south, and pacify the world is just around the corner! ”

Pang Tong listened quietly, and didn't rush to express his opinion, until Wang Xu finished speaking, he pondered for a moment, and then praised out loud: "It's not a secret, I didn't expect the general to be so unexpected, I thought that the general would go out of Nanyang and seize the Central Plains." Just now, I thought that the general would take Xiliang next, in order to stabilize the rear, and then map the Central Plains, but I didn't expect to take and merge the state! ”

"And what do you think of this?" Wang Xu asked with a smile.

"Good strategy!" Pang Tong nodded quickly, and then said: "I don't know who this policy came from, this strategy is different from ordinary people, and it is the first of the past dynasties, and I actually thought of relying on the mountains and dangerous passes in the middle of the Han region to divide the east and west of the world, so as to gradually realize the pacification of the world, which has never been seen since ancient times." ”

"This is the result of the joint discussion between Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and other ministers and me!" Wang Xu said.

"I see!" Pang Tong was relieved, but then he fell silent, his brows furrowed, and he didn't speak for a long time.

For a quarter of an hour, for a quarter of an hour, he not only did not say a word, but got up and walked around the study, burying his head in thought, as if he had encountered great trouble.

Wang Xu looked at his expression and didn't rush to ask, just sat quietly and waited.

More than an hour passed.

"No, no!" Pang Tong suddenly spoke.

"Huh?" The corners of Wang Xu's eyes were slightly raised: "What's wrong?" ”

"Although this strategy is feasible and has a great chance of success, it is not as good as I thought!" Pang Tong said solemnly.

Wang Xu was surprised and asked urgently, "What does Shiyuan mean by this?" ”

"Look, General!" Pang Tong did not hesitate, rolled up his wide sleeves, pulled out the saber at his waist, drew it on the ground in the study, and kept talking. "This side is the western part of the Han Dynasty, and this side is the east, after the general takes the state and the western Liang, he will achieve the general trend, so that the Sun and Cao families are gradually not as good as the two, will they unite to deal with it?"

"We will unite!" Wang Xu nodded.

"In this way, the general will have two great threats that will be difficult to take care of!"

"Where?" Wang Xu looked at the sketch that Pang Tong had drawn on the ground seriously, and his brows furrowed.

"Dare to ask the general, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, what threat will the state be?"

"The Southern Huns and other foreign tribes!" Wang Xu said with certainty.

"Not bad." Pang Tong's eyes lit up and explained: "Bingzhou is very threatened by the outside of the fortress, and after the general captures Bingzhou, he will not only face Cao Cao, who occupies Hebei. It will also be disturbed by the major ethnic groups outside the Cyprus. The most feared thing is. Cao Cao made a detour from Youzhou, further north, to attack outside the fortress. ”

"What if I stick to the Great Wall and give up further north?"

Although this move is feasible, it is not a good strategy, and the annexation of the state will drag down the general's huge number of troops, and the general will not even dare to go north to the outside of the Sai tribes, because the distance between the north and the south is too far. If Jiangdong in the south invades on a large scale at this time, I am afraid it will be difficult to take care of it. ”

"This ......," Wang Xu could hear the spirit. There is some truth, but where is the other crisis? ”

"South!" Pang Tong was categorical.

"South?" Wang Xu was a little confused for a while. "Your Excellency means Jing Nan?"

"Jingnan has natural mountains and dangers as a barrier, it is not difficult to defend, it is more south!" Pang Tong said with a smile.

"You mean...... Jiaozhou? Wang Xu's eyes lit up.

"Not bad!" Pang Tong smiled, and then said: "Dare to ask the general, how will this Jiaozhou be handled?" To occupy or not to occupy? ”

"If you occupy it, what if you don't occupy it!"

Pang Tong pointed his long sword at the Jiaozhou part on the ground sketch, and said with a smile: "If the general occupies it, then Jiangdong Ruo soldiers will be divided into two roads." All the way out of Yuzhang from the north, all the way from the south to Jiaozhou. How did the general respond? Divide the troops and garrison? It must be known that the general already needs to consume a large number of troops in the north, and if there are so many troops scattered in the south, they will not be able to echo and support each other, how can they resist? When the general looked at it again at this time, he could find that the battle line at this time was extremely long, and the soldiers and horses of the various units were even separated by several months, and if there was an accident along the way, it would not even be too late to rescue. ”

"If the general does not occupy Jiaozhou, the Sun family will definitely attack in the future, and it will also threaten Jingnan from the south, at that time, the general will be difficult to take care of, and the soldiers and horses in his hands will be tired of coping, and he will not be able to finish fighting for decades, so if this strategy wants to succeed, the premise is to ensure that the army will not be defeated anywhere, but the matter of the soldiers, how can there be a reason for eternal victory? As long as there is a way to break, the general's scattered forces can't even go to the rescue. ”

Wang Xu was really stunned, and he suddenly found that everyone had ignored what Pang Tong said.

"General Wang!" Pang Tong spoke again, sighed and said: "In fact, if you heard the general's policy before the contemptible people traveled the world, they would have strongly agreed, but now they are not like this, according to the contemptible people, the general and the virtuous ministers under his command will make this strategy, but they are deeply trapped in the situation, and they only think about how to win, but they don't think about what to do if someone is defeated and killed?" Everyone doesn't think that they will be defeated and die, and of course they won't think about the consequences, but does the general think that the battle for the world is child's play? Think that if you can win, you will definitely win? The contemptible people are also standing on the outside, so they can see this, and what they say is from the bottom of their hearts, and I hope the general will think twice! ”

In an instant, Wang Xu was hit hard, as if he had been beaten with a stick.

yes, what if there is a defeat in the army? In the land of the north and the south, how long the battle line is, there is no way at all!

Besides, Jiangdong talents, Cao Jun is a minority, and the local victory or defeat is simply unknown, how to guarantee it? The other party is not a clay man, at the mercy of it!

Alas! People always learn from successful experiences, but few people can say, what to do if they fail?

After being silent for a long time, Wang Xu took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Pang Tong, bowed respectfully, and bowed to make a big salute.

"I hope Shiyuan will give you some advice!"

"The general's words are serious!" Pang Tong hurriedly threw away the sword in his hand, helped him up and said, "I can't talk about pointing, I just have some immature ideas!" ”

"I hope to teach you!" Wang Xu said with a smile.

Pang Tong looked at Wang Xu's sincere appearance, and after pondering for a moment, he finally spoke: "General, I can't hide it, the contemptible people have gone out to study in the past few years, one is to visit teachers and friends, the second is to increase knowledge, the third is to observe the master, and the fourth is to understand the world. The contemptible people firmly believe that only by really walking through those lands can they understand more clearly how to obtain them. ”

These words made Wang Xu's eyes widen, he didn't expect Pang Tong to think the same as him, he had traveled for two years, but Pang Tong had already traveled for four or five years.

Pang Tong ignored his astonishment, and then smiled: "Contemptible people have seen Cao Cao, visited Sun Jian, met Sun Quan, visited many celebrities, and have a rough understanding of them. (To be continued......)