The meaning of Liu Fang's words is understood by those who know a little bit about the cause and effect.

It was to let Cao Rong abandon Yanzhou and retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River, and strive to protect the control area north of the Yellow River, including Hedong County and Hanoi County.

The purpose is to preserve strength and not make unnecessary sacrifices.

That's how Jia Xu persuaded Cao Pi to give up Guanzhong.

But. Really, if it weren't for Liu Fang being Cao Rong's own confidant, Cao Rong would have doubted what Liu Fang's purpose was in making such a suggestion.

Guanzhong and Yanzhou cannot be compared.

At the beginning, it was abandoned to defend Guanzhong, on the one hand, to preserve the existing combat strength of Great Wei, and on the other hand, because the core control areas of Great Wei were the Central Plains and Hebei, and Guanzhong could not be lost, which had no impact on the overall strength of Great Wei.

But it is not so simple to abandon Yanzhou.

Once Yanzhou was abandoned, it meant that in the Central Plains south of the Yellow River, Cao Wei had completely given up.

What do you make the Central Plains family think?!

Especially the families of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, with the withdrawal of Great Wei, they can still have a fart mind to be loyal to Great Wei.

What do you make the Hebei families think?!

Especially the families of Jizhou, Dawei can give up Yanzhou today, is it that when the Shu thieves cross the Yellow River, Dawei will give up Jizhou and retreat to Qingzhou and Youzhou? !

Moreover, the political impact of abandoning Yanzhou is not small. Without the Great Wei in the Central Plains, what qualifications do you have to claim to be the best in the world?!

It's just a separatist regime.

At that time, not only the Hedong family, but even the Hebei family, may not be willing to continue to stand firmly on the side of the Great Wei.

Liu Fang, as the Zhongshu Order, is in charge of national government affairs, can't he see such a simple truth? !

But Liu Fang still has his own reasons for explanation.

And since half of his words have been spoken, and the person who should be offended has already been offended, it is better to say his own reasons, and even Cao Rong will have any doubts about himself in the future of the province, then he is really hopeless.

Therefore, Liu Fang still insisted on saying his reasons.

First, the strength of the Great Wei Army is now tight.

It is indeed not feasible to transfer Bi Rail to the south in a short period of time, and letting the Great Wei Forbidden Army go south may not necessarily be able to turn the tide of the war immediately.

The current Great Wei Forbidden Army is not the forbidden army during the period of Emperor Wen, and those elites have been lost in these years of conquest.

Today's Great Wei Forbidden Army has only 30,000 troops, and most of them are newly recruited, and their combat effectiveness can only be said to be slightly stronger than ordinary county soldiers.

But if according to Sima Yi's idea, reinforcements should be sent to reinforce Jia Kui and guard Dongjun, their opponent, according to intelligence, should be the Shu thief forbidden army led by Wei Yan, a famous general.

The combat power of the two sides is not on the same level.

It's good that you can hold Dongjun, but if you still can't stop it, then Jizhou won't have any reserve troops.

Therefore, Liu Fang did not think that it was a good idea to send the forbidden army to fight.

Second, Yanzhou has now lost half of it, and although the remaining half of Sima Yi is still defending, even Sima Yi himself does not dare to pack a ticket whether he can hold it or not.

In this case, it is better to abandon Yanzhou, shrink the troops, and rely on the Yellow River to concentrate on defending Hanoi County and Jizhou.

It is better to take the initiative to withdraw troops and preserve the vital forces than to be suffocated to death in Yanzhou after the Shu thieves occupied Sujuo and Yanjin.

Third, he took the initiative to withdraw from Yanzhou and give up the Central Plains, creating a military vacuum, Liu Fang believed that Lu Xun in Huainan and Zhuge Jin in Xuzhou would not watch the Shu thieves occupy most of the Central Plains and ignore it.

Not to mention anything else, Zhuge Jin of Langya and Zhuge Dan of Xiapi will definitely send troops to seize Taishan County and Shanyang County in Yanzhou, and Lu Xun in Shouchun will not let go of this good opportunity, and will definitely take the opportunity to go north and occupy Chen State, Qian County, and may even send troops to Yingchuan At that time, Shu thieves and Eastern Wu will inevitably fall into disputes.

And Great Wei can take this opportunity to regather his forces and arrange the defense line while sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

After the Eastern Wu and Shu thieves fought over the land of the Central Plains because of the land grab, it was not impossible for the Great Wei to choose the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

This so-called, the strong man broke his wrist and put him to death and then reborn.

Don't say it, after Liu Fang finished talking about these reasons, Cao Rong was really a little tempted.

Because, at least it sounds, it makes a lot of sense.

But. Man Pet stood up and resolutely opposed this practice.

When others play the strategy of competing for food with two tigers, they are all using the interests of other forces as bait, and they have never said that they are using their own territory as bait.

You know, there are some things, once lost, you can never get them back.

For example, the human heart.

At that time, Jia Xu suggested that the first emperor abandon Guanzhong to preserve his strength, because at that time, the Great Wei had not been in operation in Guanzhong for a few years, and there were no powerful families in Guanzhong.

But once the Central Plains region was lost, it was still the Great Wei who took the initiative to give up, so it is difficult to say that the people's hearts are back.

Moreover, from a practical point of view, it is difficult to say what the Central Plains family will think about this.

Yes, the biggest force in the Central Plains family is the Heluo family, and holding the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi can also appease the emotions of the Hedong family, but the question is, how long can it be appeased?!

If you can give up the Yanzhou family today, how can you guarantee that you won't be able to give up the Hedong family next time?!

And the distance between Hedong and Luoyang is much closer than the distance from Yecheng.

Think about Yingchuan County, in the past few years, it has always been firmly on the side of the Great Wei, and has blocked the invasion of the Shu thieves several times, but since the Great Wei counterattacked Luoyang three years ago and was not victorious, Yingchuan County began to change people's minds.

The influence of abandoning Yanzhou this time is even greater than the failure of the counterattack on Luoyang, how can we guarantee that Hedong will not become the next Yingchuan County?!

And once Hedong is lost, especially Hanoi County, in case it surrenders directly like Yingchuan County. Yecheng can be directly exposed to the Shu thief's military peak.

Therefore, Man Zhong had to stand up and speak out against Liu Fang's strategy.

This strategy looks very good, but it is a poison coated with honey, if you really want to eat it, I am afraid that the day when the Great Wei counterattack returns to the Central Plains, the Shu thieves will be able to launch the sixth Northern Expedition.

And Liu Fang. He didn't have any arguments with Manchu.

On the one hand, it is because of the opposition of Man Pet, which is actually the biggest weakness of Liu Fang's strategy, and Liu Anxin also knows that what Man Pet said is not wrong.

On the other hand, the final decision on this strategy is not in Liu Fang's hands, no matter how much he says, it is actually useless.

The right to make this decision is in the hands of Cao Rong.

And Cao Ei, Cao Ei is really a shrewd person.

Liu Fang gave Cao Rong another solution to his current predicament, although he was not perfect, and even as Man Zhong said, it was a poison coated with honey, but it was also a solution after all.

At least it can be used to stall for time and buy time for Dawei to regain his strength.

It's just that the current Great Wei has not fallen so far as to need to use this strategy of putting people to death and resurrecting them.

Again, Cao Rong also has another worry - the balance of the imperial court.

The two thighs that the Great Wei can stand on behalf of the Han Dynasty are the two legs of the Central Plains family and the Hebei family, and without any of them, the Great Wei will not be able to go far.

If Yanzhou is abandoned so easily, resulting in the Central Plains officials becoming rootless, then in the future Great Wei court, it will definitely be the Hebei family that is the only one. It's like limping a leg and bouncing forward, and sooner or later it will fall down.

This is also what Cao Ei does not want to see.

Therefore, Cao Rong finally decided to unify the opinions of these people and made a decision.

First of all, he ordered someone to go to Bingzhou to spread the edict, so that Bi Liang could assemble the soldiers and horses of Bingzhou as soon as possible, and after pacifying the Southern Xiongnu aliens in the territory, he went south into Hedong County to sweep away the Shu thief rangers who were raging there, and replaced Sima Shi to lead the troops eastward to support Yanzhou.

Secondly, he ordered Cao Yu, the king of Yan, to be the commander, led 30,000 forbidden troops south, crossed the river and arrived in Dongjun, and obeyed the command of Sima Yi.

Third, order Xiahou Ba to defend Wen County to the death, and not to let the Shu thieves advance any step in the direction of Yecheng.

At last. Ordered Sima Yi to hold on to Yanzhou, and, at the right time, to defeat the Shu thieves and recover the lost territory.

Cao Rong wants all of these four strategies, and none of them can be missing.

(End of chapter)