There is a saying that there is only a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, the dialectical relationship between attack and defense is not immutable, and an excellent strategy master should be able to take the initiative to change this dialectical relationship, so that the situation that is not conducive to oneself becomes unfavorable to the other party. chapter

Of course, don't get me wrong, it's not for everyone to be thieves.

Now, Fang Zhiwen is meddling in the affairs of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Xiangyang and other places, from a military point of view, Fang Zhiwen's battle line is too long, too long a front is like guarding against thieves every day, in addition, Fang Zhiwen's interventionism and its glorious war history make many people feel uneasy, these uneasiness will finally slowly accumulate, and converge to form an undercurrent.

Fang Zhiwen had already noticed this concern earlier, and carefully informed Shi Ah and Tian Feng and others of his worries, and then, through the synthesis of intelligence from all sides, a looming encirclement, or military-political alliance, seemed to be slowly forming, and their target was Miyun Fang Zhiwen. chapter

Among them are the forces of the princes, such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and even Liu Yu and Zhang Jiao. There are also merchants of the world, and of course, there are strangers, some of these people are outside Miyun. Some are on the boundary of Miyun, some use military means, some use economic means, some come openly, and some secretly attack.

Their goals and demands may be different, but they also have something in common, which is to cut off the tentacles of the octopus-like dense clouds. Stop the strong development momentum of Miyun, because they are all afraid of Miyun and Fang Zhiwen.

Faced with this situation. Fang Zhiwen didn't think about how to destroy them all, first of all, it was difficult to do this, and secondly, after doing it, he was afraid that he would be half-disabled, and finally. If they really destroy them. He also has one-third of the big men, which is enough to be the emperor!

This is not what Fang Zhiwen wants, at least not now.

What Fang Zhiwen wants now is a peaceful development environment, Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, there is no land trouble, the policy is newly built, there is sufficient vitality, and the education system has been gradually improved. There is great potential for development in terms of talent, population, economy, military, and so on. As long as it develops so smoothly, Youzhou will become an invincible and powerful entity, and then slowly move south to west, and it will eventually be self-explanatory.

Therefore, when Fang Zhiwen faced the encirclement of this invisible alliance, it was the primary condition that he did not want to increase troops to affect the development of Miyun, preventing these forces from having a negative impact on the development of Miyun was the policy, smashing and dividing these forces was the goal, and as for the specific strategy, it was planned by the General Staff.

To be honest, Fang Zhiwen is not afraid of this alliance, Fang Zhiwen has a clear understanding of Miyun, even if all the player territories on Miyun's territory rebel together, Fang Zhiwen is sure to annihilate them all, not to mention, most of the interests of the aliens are now tied to Fang Zhiwen, therefore, there will be no big chaos in Miyun, and Fang Zhiwen will not care about the local chaos.

As for Liu Yu, at most, he took advantage of the situation to secretly get some advantages, and these advantages could not be actual benefits, but only invisible benefits, otherwise he would also be worried about Fang Zhiwen's revenge. In addition, it was even more impossible for him to borrow from Yuan Shao, and he was even more worried that Yuan Shao would take the opportunity to kill him directly.

With these two reasons, this group of invisible anti-Miyun alliances can't make any waves, at best, they will fight Miyun by attacking Kong Rong, Tao Qian, and Cai Mao, so Fang Zhiwen and the others are not in a hurry at all.

If several allies in these places are overwhelmed and come to Youzhou, Fang Zhiwen is also infinitely welcome, and the large territory of the Northeast region and Lelang is waiting for the population to be enriched!

On the contrary, if Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Zhang Baozhen divide and occupy Qingzhou and Xuzhou, then the entire coastline will be under the blow of the Zhou Tai Navy, so whoever is a thief and who prevents thieves will fall one by one, and Fang Zhiwen still has all kinds of revenge in the name, he can fight as much as he wants, and when the time comes, it will be Cao Cao and others who will bleed for a long time

No matter what wishful thinking is in the hearts of all parties, anyway, the war has finally begun under the overt or covert advancement of all parties.

On November 30 of the third year of Guangxi, a new round of the Central Plains War slowly kicked off, first Cao Cao announced a crusade against Sun Ce, who had usurped the king, claiming to be a 300,000-strong army, starting from Lu'an and Hefei respectively, and attacking Shu County and Anhui County in the south. On the same day, Liu Miao also swore to declare war against Sun Ce, and took the initiative to attack Pengze and Changjiang.

Cao Cao and Liu Miao were well prepared for this battle, and mobilized a large number of player troops, and the world that paid special attention to the movement of players would be a little surprised, and it was impossible to imagine that Cao Cao could still mobilize so many player troops.

Sun Ce immediately announced an alliance with Jingxiang and Jingnan, Sun Ce himself sat in Shu County to resist Cao Cao, Cheng Pu went south to Changjiang, Huang Gai sat in Pengze, and Cao's army in the direction of Lu'an was handed over to Zhao Yunbu who attacked from Xunyang, Qichun County.

Zhao Yun's department has never been fully staffed, mainly because he is worried about the thoughts of the Jingxiang clan, but these 12,000 heavy crossbow cavalry are the elite of the elite, plus the player troops who have always supported Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun's fast mobile force, there are more than 20,000 people.

The legion that set off from Lu'an and went south was 20,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry led by Xun You and Xu Chu, as well as hundreds of thousands of players' troops. If Xu Chu relied on cavalry alone, it would be impossible to defeat Zhao Yun, that is to say. Xun You either took the risk of cutting off the logistics, stormed Anhui County, and took Wan County before it was eaten up, otherwise, it was best not to rush in lightly.

Xun You's choice was very conservative, and he stopped when he advanced to Huoshan Town, more than a hundred miles south of Lu'an, and Zhao Yun's troops had already arrived. Xun You immediately relied on Huoshan to build a fortress, and seemed to have made up his mind to deal with Zhao Yun first before continuing south.

Cao Cao, on the other hand, easily took Shu Town in the north of Shu County. The terrain here is not good and is not suitable for defense, so Sun Ce has withdrawn his troops here, and the north of Shu County has also carried out a fortified clearing. Just waiting for Cao Cao to come to Shu County to see a high and low.

However, Cao Cao didn't seem to be in a hurry. Instead, the fortress began to be built in Shucheng Town, which happened to echo each other in the east and west of the Huoshan fortress, and Xiahou Yuan's 20,000 cavalry troops and Cao Hong's 20,000 cavalry troops also began to move between the two places, compressing Zhao Yun's activity space.

"Is Cao Cao planning to use the fortress method of warfare?" Sun Ce looked at the map and asked curiously, although his eyebrows were very immature, the power of the superior had gradually emerged.

Zhang Hong smiled and said, "Lord, do you really want to fight with Cao Cao?" ”

"Yes! I don't want to be looked down upon by Cao Cao. Could it be that he really thought that a certain young man could not be bullied1 Sun Ce held the ancient ingot knife tightly in his hand, and his body was also vigorous.

"My lord. Let's put the knife down, Cao Cao just hopes that we can't hold our breath, and the bullying is that the lord is young and vigorous. He attacks and defends, it is to wait for work, there is a strong city to resist a strong enemy, the advantage is in me, if it is the other way around, isn't it a short blow to a long one! He was in Huoshan and Shucheng forts, hoping that we would attack, and they would wait for work. ”

Sun Ce thought about it, his face was slightly hot, he put away his passionate and angry expression, really put away the ancient ingot knife, sat upright and said solemnly: "What Mr. Zigang said is very true, a certain has been taught1

"Don't dare, don't worry, the lord is not worried, Cao Cao is in a posture of encroachment, in fact, his real thoughts are definitely not so, if you want to encroach on the territory, the territory of Huainan is easier to obtain than that of my Lujiang, and after our army gradually adapts, plus Zhao Yun's cavalry, if it forms a battle with it, Cao Cao may not be able to please 1

"So what is Cao Cao's real intention in doing this?"

"It's hard to say, maybe he is waiting for us to make mistakes, the essence of war is often not more courageous than anyone, but less mistakes than anyone, Cao Cao is fighting steadily and steadily, not rash and rash, is reducing the chance of making mistakes, on the contrary, if our army can't bear to take the initiative, it just falls into his arms."

Sun Ce pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Mr. Zigang is right, now Cao Cao is step by step, well-prepared, with Zhao Yun's ability, he can't achieve any decent results, if our army comes out lightly, it is likely to be besieged by the Cao army, and the cavalry that Cao Cao put outside is not only to contain General Zhao Yun, but also to wait for us to throw ourselves into the net." ”

"The lord clearly sees that it is appropriate for our army to strengthen its vigilance at present, actively build defensive facilities, and at the same time step up the training of the militia, and in addition, the direction of Xiang'an should not be taken lightly. We need to be steady on the northern front, in order to be more active on the southern front, if Liu Xuan's heavy damage is repulsed, the Cao and Liu alliance will collapse, and Cao Cao will go without a fight1

"Got it! Let's arrange it according to Mr. Zizuna's intentions1

"Three generals, drinking again?" Zhuge Jin's voice startled Zhang Fei, who was drinking happily, when he was stationed in Yuyang City, he made a military order in front of Liu Bei, and he must not drink and make mistakes!

"Hehe, Mr. Zhuge ah! Isn't it okay for me to be idle! Drink a little to quench your thirst, haha"

"Why do I hear that the three generals seem to have made some kind of military order, saying that they are not allowed to drink.1

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes and said: "Mr. Zhuge must have misremembered, what I said at the time was that you can't drink and make mistakes, not that you can't drink 1."

Zhuge Jin smiled, walked to the pavilion by himself, took a piece of barbecue from the edge of the fire, sat opposite Zhang Fei and ate it in small bites, and stopped talking.

Zhang Fei blinked, suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened, and he asked excitedly, "Is there something wrong with Mr. Zhuge here?" Is there going to be a war? Great, I've been stuffy for the past few years! Hit whom!? ”

Zhuge Jin raised his hand and fanned the pungent smell of wine, Zhang Fei stepped back awkwardly, looked at Zhuge Jin with a smile, Zhuge Jin nodded and said: "It's very boring, it's not a matter for soldiers to farm all day without fighting!" However, the lord means Taoguang and obscurity1

"Huh!?" Zhang Fei collapsed back on the stone bench in disappointment, muttering that he didn't know what he was talking about.

"Speaking of which, why do the three generals think that they are here to give the order to go to war?"

"Hey! Now Cao Cao is attacking Lujiang, Jingxiang's troops are moving to the southeast, and the naval army has also gone to Xunyang, isn't this a good opportunity to attack Xiangyang? 1 To be continued...