Unexpected, reasonable.

Before the war, no one was optimistic about Liu Yu, let alone defeat the opponent in a head-on battle.

Who is Gongsun Chan? The famous white horse general, experienced in a hundred battles, started from a small soldier, and cut out the general with a knife and a gun. Even if Wang Yu and Cao Cao were hostile to them, they did not dare to say that they would win.

And what about Liu Yu? There are a lot of positive and negative evaluations, the Han clan relatives, benevolent elders, capable ministers, virtuous and respectful, etc., the reputation is indeed much greater than Gongsun Zhan, but the reputation of this thing does not have much impact on the outcome of the war, if you want to win, you still have to fight with real knives and guns after all.

On the contrary, his negative comments, such as his cunning and calculation, may have had some influence on the outcome of the war, but it was not in a head-on situation.

It is reasonable that an old politician who has never been on the battlefield at all, with a group of patchwork rabble, will not be able to win a battle with a veteran who has been through a hundred battles and has made great achievements. But Liu Yu chose a frontal battle, how can he be undefeated?

Judging from the process of the battle, Liu Yu once gained the upper hand with the advantage of troops, but he was never able to turn the advantage into victory.

couldn't attack for a long time, Liu Yu was anxious, but he was helpless.

However, Gongsun Zhan, who was inferior regardless of the situation and troops, was in danger, resisting the siege of Liu Yu's army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he divided hundreds of elite cavalry, detoured back to the flank of Liu Yu's army, and took advantage of the strong northeast wind to set fire to the camp.

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the fire, Gongsun Chan concentrated the main force of cavalry, launched a thunderous blow, broke into the enemy formation, and defeated Liu Yu's Chinese army with a single charge.

Rats leave a sinking ship. The leaders of the Hao clans only cared about self-protection and retreated, and no one approached Liu Yu to rescue him, nor did anyone retreat to Jicheng to hold on, and Liu Yu's 100,000-strong army fell apart and was defeated.

The whole process is completely in line with the identities and strength of both sides, as well as the predictions of other military experts, and those who have never fought in a war will take most of their troops to fight against the generals of a hundred battles. That's how it ended.

In the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping that year, the routine was similar to the battle of Jixian. After Zhao Kuo led his troops to attack, he once had the upper hand, but he was not happy for a few days, and found that the back road was cut off by the white light cavalry. Then he panicked, and until the whole army was destroyed, he did not come up with any effective countermeasures.

Scholars and politicians lead the army, and this is the level on the basis.

In fact, not to mention Liu Yu, even the well-known Guo Jia rarely contributed to the decision-making in battle, and his talent was mainly reflected in strategy and intelligence.

Zhou Yu may be considered special. But he didn't become a commander at the beginning, but after Sun Ce's side participated in many battles in the early stage, he gradually gained experience, and finally became a blockbuster. And. His army of leveling Jiangdong and defeating Huang Zu was not trained by himself, but by Sun Ce.

Liu Yu also has a master of military training, but he has too few soldiers and horses, and ninety out of four or five of the 100,000 troops are temporarily recruited. There were only four or five thousand men under Koji. Aside from the 3,000 soldiers who guarded Zhuo County with Lu Yi, there were only 2,000 descendants around Liu Yu. The chances of winning the battle are too slim.

It was precisely because he was in the process of cleaning up that Chen Zhi was very puzzled, and after receiving the good news from the allies, why was the atmosphere in the Qingzhou General's Mansion so solemn?

Could it be that they are already thinking about the post-war situation, afraid that Gongsun Chan's power will become a new threat after the explosion? That's too early, right? If there is only one enemy, Liu Yu, why should Qingzhou be so vigorous? It is enough to send one or two generals to the north to contain or defeat the Wangmen army.

Chen Dao, who had just been shocked by the far-reaching strategies implemented by Wang Yu, couldn't believe that before the battle was over, he was ready to draw back his allies, and even calculated that the short-sighted decision of the allies would come from Wang Yu's hands.

He was so engrossed that he didn't notice at all, the record in his hand was taken away by Lu Xun, and he didn't pay attention, the latter quickly returned to his place and sat down, and the meeting began again. It wasn't until the sound of Wang Yu and his staff discussing reached his ears that he suddenly woke up.

"Could it be that the lord is too worried? No matter how scheming Liu Yu was, it was impossible for him to think that Zilong could destroy his flank in such a short period of time, so that Fan Yang and Daijun were completely exposed to the front of our army, making him in a dilemma, and some of his backhands were too late to perform? It was Huang Zhong who spoke.

The veteran is now in his fifties, but his spirit is better than a few years ago, and his voice is very loud. However, Wang Yu also knew that this veteran was very dissatisfied with the arrangement that the Five Armies went north one after another, and only he stayed behind, so he thought that the battle of Youzhou would be finished early, and then he would attack the Central Plains as a vanguard.

Of course, his words were not unreasonable, and someone soon echoed him: "Yes, General Gongming's Eastern Route Army is also advancing at a very fast speed, maybe it just cut off the march route of Wuhuan and Eastern Xianbei, causing this reinforcement to fail to arrive at the battlefield in time and miss the fighter." ”

Wang Yu raised his eyes and found that it was the trial that echoed the words. This time the discussion was a pure military situation, Tian Feng went to Zhongshan, most of the internal affairs officials were not good at military issues, and they were in charge of their own affairs, and they had a lot of affairs in their hands, but in the end they only came to a trial.

"Not really." Someone finally raised an objection, and Xu Shu, who had been stranded in Gaotang and had not returned, muttered: "A famous man like Liu Yu usually has a slight military strategy, but he is very good at planning, and he will not completely pin his hopes on reinforcements from afar." During the Hebei War, Wuhuan was copied by Liaodong Taishou after the road, and Hu Lu will not have a long memory. ”

Hearing this, Chen Zhi realized that the general's mansion thought that the battle of Jixian had doubts, and was worried that Liu Yu would be defeated or have other schemes.

There are fewer people who hold this view, but they are all heavyweights, including Wang Yuren, and Xu Shu, who was faintly cultivated as a commander-level general. Of course, the opinions of the opponents cannot be ignored, whether it is Huang Zhong, the judge, or Lu Su, who immediately refuted Xu Shu, is not an insignificant figure.

Needless to say, when Wang Yu led the army to leave Gaotang and replace Xu Huang, it was Lu Su who guarded Yanzhou.

"Yuan Zhi didn't know that the fleet of the sea trade returned, and the Liaodong Taishou politely refused the invitation of the lord to order him to contain Wuhuan on the grounds that the heavy snow closed the road and Goguryeo invaded."

"Is that so?" Xu Shu was taken aback.

Although he didn't pin much hope on Gongsun Du, it was still very reassuring to have such an ally behind the enemy, and now that Gongsun Du suddenly striked, the original favorable situation no longer existed.

"Maybe Ziyi fought too fiercely in Sanhan, and Gongsun Taishou felt that his status in Liaodong might be threatened, right?" Wang Yu explained: "Shipping may also have an impact, in short, the allies in Liaodong can't be counted on, and if they are not handled properly, it is not known whether they will turn against each other." ”

Everyone frowned.

At present, Liaodong is the most powerful prince of the sea except Qingzhou. The princes of Koto also attached great importance to sailors, but their sailors were all inland type, and their ships were not suitable for sailing at sea.

If Gongsun Du turns his face, the biggest threat is not to merge with Xianbei and Wuhuan, but to threaten Qingzhou's sea transportation lines.

"It's just possible, don't worry too much." Wang Yu waved his hand, signaling everyone not to think too much: "Ziyi is back now, the palace captain who took over is not as sharp as him, Sanhan will try to keep a low profile, mainly to plunder the population and establish ports, and the overseas development in the next few years should still focus on Treasure Island......"

Wang Yu didn't plan to further stimulate Gongsun Du, the other party's ideal was probably to be a soil emperor, and let him go.

Historically, Gongsun Du and his successors have never taken any military action against the Central Plains, but they have a lot of fun fighting with Goguryeo and Wuhuan. Later, Sima Yi's army destroyed Gongsun Kang, but did not send heavy troops to garrison it, and within a few years, Goguryeo, which was beaten to ashes by Gongsun's family, rose up.

Even if Youzhou won a complete victory in this battle, as long as Gongsun Du didn't mess around, Wang Yu would not be interested in moving him. Rather than solving Gongsun Du and sending a general to garrison him, it is better to keep him to deal with foreign races first, and wait until the Central Plains is unified, and then comprehensively solve the problem of northern Xinjiang, including Liaodong.

What the other party is wearing is still the Han family's clothes.

In fact, Gongsun Du's refusal shows that he doesn't really want to turn his face. Otherwise, he could have agreed on the surface and secretly let the Wuhuan people come and go, then it would be a plot against Wang Yu, and maybe he could really cause some trouble.

Therefore, if Gongsun Du does not cooperate, it is a little less help, and it will not cause too many problems.

Skipping this topic, Wang Yu turned to Jia Xu and asked with a smile: "And, everyone expresses their opinions, can't you, the military advisor, say nothing?" ”

"What everyone said makes sense, the lord's concerns are not groundless, be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, military affairs, how cautious is not to be exaggerated."

Jia Xulai was thoughtful, and after being named by Wang Yu, he immediately changed to a signature smile, said a two-sided flattering analysis of the signature style, and then changed the conversation and said: "However, the so-called sky is a disaster when it is reversed, and the earth is a demon when it is reversed, and it is strange if something is abnormal. With this person's previous level of activity, it is indeed a bit abnormal. ”

Jia Xu's speech did not look like a discussion of the military situation, but rather like a debate that sounded unfathomable but did not have much actual content during the discussion of celebrities and scholars, and the ministers looked at each other.

Huang Zhong was anxious, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, and asked: "The military advisor said so, do you have a certificate?" Or did you deduce the mystery in it? ”

"There is no credential, it's just some speculation, as for what is the specific mystery......" Jia Xu shook his head, then pointed to Zhuge Liang, and said with a smile: "You see, Kong Ming has been pondering so far, and suddenly smiled, obviously he already knows what to do." Why do you ask me? Just ask him. ”