No matter what strategy is adopted, no matter what price to pay, Hongnong Yang is always an object worth wooing.

The accumulation of hundreds of years, the heritage of the fourth and third princes, is of great significance to the Han Dynasty. The symbolic meaning alone is worth fighting for, not to mention the influence of the Hongnong Yang clan on the world's great families.

In fact, Zhuge Liang is not doing this.

Unlike Zhang Xi, a person who has no political sensitivity, after Zhuge Liang guarded Chang'an, in addition to developing the economy and restoring the livelihood of the people in Yongzhou, the most important thing was to send fine work to Hedong, Hongnong, and even Hanoi to win over and divide the Heluo family and obtain the support of these people.

The route is ready-made, that is, the smuggling grain team from Guanzhong.

During Zhang Xi's reign in Yongzhou, the main responsibility of these grain teams was to bring much-needed grain and grass to Yongzhou to stabilize the situation in Yongzhou and improve the lives of the people, but Zhuge Liang paid more attention to infiltrating and rebelling against the enemy on the basis of this, and sometimes even instructed the Yongzhou families to suffer some losses in monetary interests, and the Yongzhou Assassin Mansion would compensate them afterwards.

Therefore, in fact, Zhuge Liang has the conditions to complete the task of contacting and plotting against Hongnong Yang.

Since there are such conditions, the main direction of this Northern Expedition is most likely to attack Hongnong County in accordance with the plan of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng.

In fact, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang don't agree with this approach.

Both of them were more cautious, still thinking that the risk of attacking Hongnong was too great, and if there was a problem with the logistical supply of grain and grass, or if Sima Yi had already taken precautions, the 10,000 soldiers sent were likely to fall into a desperate situation and eventually be wiped out.

The two were still more inclined to fight a decisive battle with the Wei army in Yingchuan County.

There is also an advantage to this, which is to get the job done.

As long as the Wei army is completely defeated at Yingchuan, the Wei army in the next Heluo area will no longer have any hope of holding on, and the only difficulty may be that Sima Yi will choose to defend Luoyang and wait for the Wei army in Hebei to come to the aid in time.

However, once Yingchuan was captured and the main force of the Heluo Wei army was defeated, the Han army could completely enter Yanzhou along Yingchuan County.

On the one hand, it can seize Yanzhou and not give Cao Wei and Eastern Wu a chance to react, and on the other hand, it can also cut off the shortest passage for the Hebei Wei army to reinforce Heluo, forcing the Wei army to go to the more difficult Hanoi area and cross the dangerous section of the Yellow River to reinforce Luoyang.

In this way, at least half a month to a month more can be used to besiege Luoyang.

Such an attack, although it will be quite difficult to fight in the early stage, and you need to fight hard with Cao Wei's army, but once you get a breakthrough, you will be able to break through next.

It's safer.

Therefore, the two men have been emphasizing the legitimacy, integrity, and effectiveness of such a battle. With Hongnong County as the main direction of attack, some are too risky, and there are too many uncertainties, once there is an accident in the middle, it is very likely to lead to more than 10,000 soldiers being in a desperate situation.

But. This is a matter of deliberation, no matter how important Zhuge Liang's opinion is, he will count two votes if he dies.

But the problem is that with Zhang Xi's one vote, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi only have a total of three votes here, and on the other side, those who support it include Fa Zheng, Pang Tong, Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Wu Yi and so on.

Zhao Yun was a little hesitant, he felt that both sides made sense, but when he saw that everyone's opinions were so one-sided, Zhao Yun chose to give up the choice and obey the order.

Yes, Zhao Yun directly abstained.

Needless to say, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng put forward the strategy, and they naturally had to maintain it, and Wei Yan, an old horseman, naturally liked this kind of risky strategy, and what was even worse was that the last time this old horseman took a risk, he almost really succeeded, and it was not his problem to fail in the end, it was Zhao Yun who misjudged in decision-making.

The most important candidate for this, and the last person who can play an overwhelming role, is Zhang Fei, who insists on using such a risky strategy.

In fact, the reason is very simple, he can't afford to wait.

The eldest brother and the second brother passed away one after another, and the blow to Zhang Fei was too great.

You can tell from his appearance.

When he was in Nanyang half a year ago, Zhang Fei had half-white hair and was in good spirits, but now it has only been half a year, Zhang Fei has gray hair, and he looks a few years older than Zhao Yun.

And Zhang Fei's spirit is always not right, and it always gives people a feeling of irritability and impulsiveness, which is indeed the case.

This time, Zhuge Liang was able to persuade the imperial court to send troops to the Northern Expedition, without Zhang Fei's full support, even with Zhuge Liang's rights, it was not so easy to push this matter through quickly.

At least within the Jingzhou faction, there will inevitably be some quarrels.

But after Zhang Fei intervened, no one wanted to directly connect with this high-status, but short-tempered puppeteer, saving Zhuge Liang a lot of trouble.

As for Zhang Fei's purpose, there is actually only one - to capture Heluo, so that the eldest nephew can return to the two capitals.

This is Guan Yu's last letter to Zhang Fei, who took special care of Zhang Fei.

Guan Yu actually knows his third brother very well, just like the eldest brother knows himself and his third brother very well.

Before the eldest brother died, he used the same means to give Guan Yu and Zhang Fei a responsibility respectively, and they couldn't think about it, so they had to practice the oath of Taoyuan.

What was given to Zhang Fei was the responsibility of the orphan, so that he could guard Chengdu after Liu Bei's death and help his eldest nephew take over the power smoothly.

What was sent to Guan Yu was a letter, in which Liu Bei hoped that Guan Yu could continue to command the Xiangyang Army, at least to lay down the entire territory of Jingzhou, go north to Heluo, and lay the foundation for the Sanxing of the Han Dynasty.

In the end, Guan Yu did defeat Nanyang, but lost Jingnan. Although he was unwilling, Guan Yu really couldn't hold on.

Before he died, Guan Yu also wrote such a suicide letter to Zhang Fei, that is, to tell Zhang Fei, you still have things to do, don't forget, your official position as a lieutenant is still remotely received.

When you lay down the division and let our eldest nephew return to the land of the Han and Han capitals, then our brothers will meet underground, and there will be no regrets.

This is just Guan Yu looking for a motivation and excuse for Zhang Fei to continue to live well.

But Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's thoughts are actually the same, back then Guan Yu held his last breath and took Nanyang, and now, Zhang Fei is also holding on to his breath and must capture Heluo.

With the advice of Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi, it is indeed possible to march into Heluo more safely, but the problem is that Cao Wei's combat power is not low, once the sword and the sword are clearly robbed and the battle is set up and attacked each other, it is really difficult to say whether the winner will be defeated.

And with the southward movement of the Hebei Army on the Cao Wei side, it is very likely to fall into a protracted tug-of-war.

On the contrary, if the strategy of attacking Hongnong can be successful, it can directly attack Luoyang in the hinterland of Heluo, and there is a possibility of a battle.

In this way, with the strong support of Zhang Fei, the strategy of the final four expeditions adopted a more risky strategy of attacking Hongnong.

Zhang Xi finally wanted to fight again. Yes, even if you want to attack Hongnong, you have to have a prerequisite, that is, to occupy the Pubanjin ferry and deal with Cao Wei's army.

Although let's say it, the Yellow River Navy on Cao Wei's side is a joke, but the problem is that the Chang'an Navy is not much better.

Again, the terrain of the Yellow River is dangerous, especially after entering the Heluo area, as the width narrows, the water flow will become very turbulent, and the difference between the height and the height is also very large.

It was not so easy to transport troops from Pubanjin to Hongnong County, let alone defeat Cao Wei's Yellow River naval army first.

If these problems are not solved, how can we use troops against Hongnong County.

Zhang Xi had been in Yongzhou for six years, and he thought that he still knew a lot about the internal situation in Yongzhou, so he thought that the questions he raised were very practical problems.

Can. In an instant, Zhang Xi was slapped in the face.

The person who slapped him in the face is still his comrade-in-arms who is now in the trench with him, Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang whispered to Zhang Xi that since he was in Chang'an, he had specially allocated money and food to Huang Quan, so that Huang Quan could vigorously develop the water army Today's Yongzhou Navy has more than 7,000 people and more than 130 warships.

This speed made Zhang Xi directly dumbfounded. Zhang Xi vaguely remembered that when he left Yongzhou, Huang Quan should only have 3,000 sailors, fifty or sixty sailors, and could only move back and forth in the relatively gentle Luoshui, right? !

It's only been a year and a half now, not only the troops, but even the warships have directly doubled?!

Besides, your shipbuilding speed is not right, there is a ready-made dock in Jingzhou, and now it is only forty or fifty Xingke and two half-finished Mengchong warships, why did you Yongzhou build seventy or eighty warships at once.

Even if it's all out of the woods, it's a bit outrageous, right? !

Zhang Xi was puzzled, but what Zhuge Liang said could not be false, and judging from what Zhang Xi had seen and heard in Chang'an in the past few days, the people did not seem to have been disturbed too much, and they couldn't see that they were affected by the people's livelihood.

Now Zhang Xi really seriously doubts that the gap between himself and Zhuge Liang in terms of governance level is really so big? !

Why can you Zhuge Liang develop the people's livelihood while vigorously launching conscription and recruiting the people to expand the military war, but Zhang Xi can't do it?!

Anyway, Zhang Xi didn't understand, but Zhang Xi knew that 7,000 naval troops and more than 130 warships might not be a decisive force on the Yangtze River, but on the Yellow River, it was only used to deal with Cao Wei's naval army and transport troops across the river, which was not a difficult matter.

Then the only remaining problem is how to capture Kasakatsu and open the passage to Hongnong-gun.

And this is really not a problem that can be solved by sitting in this Yongzhou Thorn History Mansion.

This is a problem that can only be solved by the generals commanding in battle and the soldiers fighting bravely.

Next, it is time to discuss the deployment of military forces.

(End of chapter)