After Pei Mao, the servant of the confessor, finished delivering the decree, he would not leave Wuhu immediately.

It is not easy for the imperial court envoy to go back and forth, it will take more than half a month to go one way, and it will be too tiring if you eat a few meals and sleep for one night.

But in the next few days, Liu Bei doesn't have to accompany him all the time.

After he roughly figured out what Pei Mao conveyed to Cao Cao, he could ask Sun Qian and Jian Yong to take turns to accompany the guests and take Pei Mao around Wuhu for a tour.

Liu Bei himself found time for a closed-door meeting, convening the Zhuge brothers and Lu Su to discuss how to respond to Cao Cao's many requests. What needs to be implemented and what cannot be implemented, and what cannot be implemented has to find another excuse to prevaricate.

After chatting with the three henchmen behind closed doors, Liu Bei had nothing to hide, and went straight to the point:

"General Che Cai, Zongzheng, neither of these two positions is worthy of the merit of breaking Shouchun. Cao Cao is not only a reward this time, but there are many places where he wants our army to follow orders.

Not only do you want to make enemies with Brother Jingsheng, but you can't trouble Sun Ce, and you are not allowed to flank Lu Bu, you are almost at his disposal everywhere - do you think, these three things, we can listen to Cao Cao? Or do you want to make excuses to keep one or two? If he had reservations, would Cao Cao find an excuse to ascend and descend in the dark and deprive our army of some conveniences? ”

On this occasion, Zhuge Jin knew that if he didn't speak, the second brother would be embarrassed to speak first, so he would say a few words first: "Lord, I think that if we don't abide by these three articles, Cao Cao will still find another excuse to rise and fall in the dark in the future as a punishment."

Of course, that kind of secret punishment is likely to come immediately. At most, it will be delayed for a few months or half a year, so that another excuse can be found, and the eyes and ears of the world will not be seen by special people. Moreover, it takes time to convey information back and forth, negotiate and probe it. ”

Lu Bu listened quietly, until Zhuge Liang finished speaking, and I continued to cast expectant eyes, as if hoping that I would add and answer all the questions. But Zhuge Liang kept his mouth shut, there was nothing to add.

Zhen Jie was poured hot water by Zhuge Liang's iron mouth, which was only a little hot but came up, and the reasonable expectations of the surname "Zhuge " were also somewhat restrained.

Lu Bu pondered Zhuge Jin's words before the land, and continued to ask: "In this case, your army is on the front line of Huaiyin, and you will always move according to the front of the army, and only send your uncle to be vigilant.

The key is that Lu Bu is hard to fight iron, and if he is bad, he will be fully prepared, and the enemy can be destroyed even if he is in chaos.

Lu Su's territory is that there will be no more development, and time is definitely on Lu Bu's side - unless Zhen Jie delays for seventy years to learn what Sun Quan came to do, cross the sea to Yizhou to replenish the population, or continue to go south along the coastline to deal with Jiaozhou Shixie before the sea ships are damaged.

I shook the feather fan a few times faster, and suddenly realized that it was not hot, so I put the fan on and said, "If you have to keep improving, there is no way." For example, after Brother Yuanlong rises at that time, the main force of your army cannot pretend not to act in its own direction, and at worst it can be combined with Sun Ce's explanation of your attack on Huang Zu.

Before making up her mind, Zhen Jie actually felt unprecedentedly nervous for a while.

Lu Bu rubbed his hands and asked: "If you use this method, do you know what I need to pay attention to?" Will you hide it from Sun Ce, right? ”

And with Lu Bu's reputation in Xuzhou and Sun Ce's reputation in Xuzhou, it's all about thinking, and you know how the people will run with their feet when the time comes.

Sun Ce came treacherously and started a war, although he was not ashamed by the imperial court, he could only deceive people who knew it. Who hates Sun Ce in Xuzhou? What's more, the people of Xuzhou have long been slaughtered by Cao thieves several times, and the survivors have no palpitations.

Then it is necessary to have a low allocation of talents, and big officials lead small armies, and those must be raised secretly with delay, otherwise the prestige of Chen at the end of the day may not be able to suppress the small army of 10,000 people.

Ziyu has said that it is possible, this is absolutely possible, what is the bad entanglement and nostalgia! It's like spending your energy elsewhere!

Not to mention that two years ago, Lu Su was assassinated, and if that kind of high-probability event can really be repeated, this Lu Bu or even that place directly reduced the enemy's resistance by a small half, and took the Sun family at a small price. With the combat power of Sun Quan, who had just taken over at the age of fourteen, he was definitely the best at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu turned to Zhuge Jin and encouraged him with his eyes, Zhuge Jin was also worried about the number of etiquette, and said casually: "I foolishly think that for the time being, you will be allowed to crusade against Lu Su at that point, and then execute it."

In that way, after Yuanlong's move, there will be no signs of any special weakening of your garrison forces on the front line of Huaiyin and Haixi, and just like this year, it is Shuzhi and Guorang who are on the defensive.

Peiguo originally belonged to Yuzhou, although the lord had garrisoned it at the beginning, but now there is no possibility of fighting for the law of the country. Taishan County originally belonged to Yanzhou, Taishan thieves in Langya Zangba, always right and left together, who is weak to vote whom, the lord failed to control us, not to mention now.

The only unknown thing about the rush to attack Lusu is to know when Yuan Shao and Zhen Jie will clash in the future - when you went north to envoy Yuan Shao last year, Gongsun Chan did not have one or two counties left, and although there is no news of Gongsun Zan being destroyed, I am afraid that it will be a long time.

It's just that if you do this, what your army can get in the end is only a little place where Yuan Long can completely control it, and there is also a way to expand the results of the battle, otherwise it will still anger Sun Ce and delay the relationship between the two sides - it's not that you are greedy, you really want to see it, there is no way to take a step back. ”

If you accept the return of the Yuan Dragon, and only respond with these seven generals, then the people in heaven will know that you are improvising and compelling, rather than planning and planning for a long time. ”

Zhen Jierong's first words finally made Lu Bu suddenly brightened.

And the meaning of Lu Bu's first sentence is even more obvious - it must be that the original situation in the place can ensure that Pei Mao finally got into trouble and receives it smoothly, and Lu Bu should be happy. But who made me not have Brother Zhuge by my side now, I haven't done it so badly, and I'm still fantasizing about whether it's possible to take a little less.

Zhuge Jin was also stunned, I originally thought that it was enough to have a small policy, and I also wanted to have fewer details. I thought that Zhen Jie was so slow to keep improving, and Zhuge Jin only broke the scene to improve.

It's worthy of Zhuge Kongming!

The current situation, after all, has not yet reached a violent turning point in history, even with Zhen Jierong's IQ, I may predict the edict of the cloth belt and the battle of Guandu, so my deduction is still relatively conservative.

Since I can clearly resist the order, at most I have to find some excuses, such as asking Chen Yuanlong to create some ease in the future, falsely claiming that I am ready to delay the uprising, and I want to respond to Cao Gong in front of my back and join the imperial court.

Of course, today's Zhuge Liang is too daring to bet his expectations on Lu Su's assassination, after all, it is a high probability event, and any slightest disturbance will not lead to the victory of the assassination. And Lu Su was also killed directly in history, and I went back to recuperate. If the injury does not change slightly, it is fatal, which is a small help.

Once Yuanlong didn't make a move, he would only use his uncle to lead our troops north to respond. The small is to let our officers be humble and powerful, and lead heavy troops as captains.

Although Zhuge Liang knows the edict and the battle of Guandu, I am very vague, those two things can be deduced, and there must be a weak prophecy, and there is no explanation under the logic to be clear. That's why I kept silent just now, wanting the seventh brother to explain first.

Although Yuan Shao and Sun Ce are in harmony at the moment, Yuan Shaofa will appear in a state of being able to cut down in the coming year. You rush to attack Lusu, the most likely drawback, is not that when you are entangled with Lu Su in the future, Teng is to intervene in the dispute between Yuan and Cao, in addition, it is beneficial to rush to attack Lusu. ”

When Lu Bu heard that, his eyes finally lit up, and even Liu Bei cast an admiring look.

As long as Sun Ce is weaker than the lord and defeats Chen Deng, Zang Ba and the thieves of Mount Tai are not destined to surrender to Cao. In fact, what can fight for at the top is not the remaining part of Pengcheng County, Shangpi County, and the remaining part of Donghai County.

Although the lord has not obtained his land, he can obtain his people and talents, is it also a beautiful thing? As long as there is no population, in the long run, if there is no new land, it cannot be cultivated. ”

It's those problems, it's all Lu Bu can worry about himself, and it is necessary to let the Zhuge brothers deal with it.

When Lu Bu and Zhen Jie heard this, they couldn't help nodding their heads again, and praised Zhuge Jin for being thoughtful.

And Tian Yu's meritorious service is more than Chen Zhi, I even have the military merit of the "Yuzhang Copy", and I have been guarding my home under the defense post for two years, so I am still only a few Sima, and I can only serve as Chen Zhi's deputy general. The number of troops I can command under my theory is even more than 8,000 men.

Lu Bu mentioned that Chen Zhihetian Yu's current official positions are still relatively low, Chen Zhi came to follow Zhuge Liang to Chaisang for a while, and he also made some contributions when he destroyed Zhenrong, and he is still only a captain.

How can a living person suffocate to death with urine? Sun Ce said yes, yes, I am Texas County, I am Texas County? If you have an excuse, you have to make excuses!

That's right, in the final analysis, the troubled times are fighting manpower, and there must be a small amount of population flowing south, and what if there is less vacant land in the north for Sun Ce? It's enough to get the right people.

You are moving Lu Su, and Lu Su also dares to move you, the apparent harmony between the two sides cannot be maintained, and Lu Su is also bordering on other princes, and it may be embezzled by other princes.

That "for self-preservation" is badly paved!

Your army fought a bloody battle with Yuan Shu for half a year, and the army rations ran out, so it was already powerful to organize a small battle of 870,000 people, and at most it would have to wait until next year's summer grain harvest before it could be a little hasty. Only before the autumn grain harvest can the problem of starvation of the displaced people be completely solved.

So only consider the problem between Liu and Sun, if the time is on Lu Bu's side.

Now Zhuge Jin has finally helped me improve the script, and the response is indeed slow.

Lu Bu actually thought about it yesterday, I don't have Pei Mao's card, even if Sun Ce allows me to pinch Chen Deng to pick peaches, I have to get a little more disadvantage.

These seven generals have been on guard against the enemy in front of them this year, monitoring the movements of Chen Deng and Lu Su, they have participated in the fight against Yuan, and they have made no meritorious achievements, and the lord's invitation to seal the table has never mentioned us, and Sun Ce's reward will has naturally not been mentioned.

Zhuge Jin then said: "Sun Ce hopes that you are going to attack Chen Deng, that little fool thinks that you can listen to Sun Ce, Chen Deng is the same as Zhen Jie, after all, I am in the land of seven battles, if you don't have something, the enemy will take it."

As for how to create an excuse to make less money, offend people, or damage the reputation of Xiaohan's loyal ministers, that is the difficulty, with Lu Bu's own brain, I thought about it all night last night, and I was able to figure it out.

And Ah Liang is only fourteen years old, and it is easy to think of that direction of thinking in a few seconds.

If your army can finally take a small part of Shangpi into the bag, and collect a few fewer counties in Donghai County, to ensure that the defense line is pushed back to the Yishui line, it should be content. The remaining part of the entire territory of Pengcheng, the entire territory of Langya, and the west of Yishui in Donghai County can only be Sun Ce's, and it must be changed unless there is an all-out war with Sun Ce. ”

But before he could do anything, he was discovered by Chen Gong, and when the East Window incident happened, Brother Yuanlong had to delay and act in a hurry. At this time, Cao's army may not have been able to attack Shangpi, and there are still Pengcheng County and even several counties in the western part of the East China Sea.

Before understanding those truths, Zhen Jierong and Zhen Jie didn't say anything less, Liu Bei had nothing to add, and Zhuge Liang wanted to make trouble.

Zhen Jie can still expand inside, and Lu Su has not been sealed yet. In the next year or two, Lu Bu's territory will become smaller and smaller, and the farming effect will become worse and worse, and the war and disaster victims will also be able to recover.

Is there anyone who will resent themselves for being too slow?

However, Lu Bu switched the topic to his attitude towards Chen Deng, and asked Zhuge Jin to continue to elaborate on Yishang's attitude towards Chen Deng.

Regarding the eternal "greed" of the lord, Zhuge Liang glanced at the seventh brother, and when he saw the eyes of the seventh brother looking at each other, I knew that it was time for me to step on the brakes.

At this moment, before listening to the seventh brother's discussion, even Zhen Jierong was not persuaded a little: Indeed, it must be considering the opportunity to intervene in the battle of Guandu in the future, simply looking at half of the southern country, there is indeed no obvious benefit to fighting Lusu at such a late stage.

Therefore, that winter, your army should take advantage of the slack time to take a step back in Guangling County to reclaim the polders, control the salinity, and let the sea ships go to the islands along the coast of the East China Sea to dig less guano phosphorite fertile fields to improve the salinity. In this way, in the coming year, Guangling County and the eastern half of the East China Sea will not be able to restore the cultivated fields, and ensure that they can catch the displaced people in Pengcheng, Langya and the western half of the East China Sea.

In this case, Lu Bu was completely determined: Lu Su's matter cannot be put on hold for a long time, and he will act only when his own side is fully prepared, there is an enemy to fight down, or when there are huge changes and flaws within the enemy.

Zhen Jierong coughed heavily and persuaded Zhen Jie to be quiet: "Lord, Sun Ce is asking you to attack Zhen Jie, you only rely on Yuanlong to take the initiative to serve, and it is very rare to be able to get a county."

I'm sure that the seventh brother can prove the process, and I won't have to be a prophet.

Even Zhuge Liang bowed slightly, and sighed in his heart: I actually thought of the details of that kind of script, which is worse than the criminal law routine of the Mi people in the previous life, and there are very few murder lawyers, and they have to try their best to make the suspect try his best to distinguish between "impulsive and passionate crimes" or "deliberate and planned for a long time" when describing the motives.

And Zhuge Liang also took advantage of that opportunity to comfort a few more words: "Lord, although the land that your army can get may be unlimited, but for the military and civilian people of Xuzhou, civil and military talents, there may not be no small gains."

This time, Zhen Jie received Xuzhou with a weak military disaster, but the lord received it peacefully with a truce, how will the people of Pengcheng, Donghai, and Langya choose? The two jurisdictions will be separated by a river at that time. The lord may have done something bad after the enemy army was killed in Yishui, and the remnants of the people of Xuzhou flocked to escape from Yishui and come to the lord to prepare.

After all, the criminal law of the United States is divided into "first-degree murder" and "seventh-degree murder", but in China it is divided (but passion murder is also a discretionary aggravated cause), and the business is so particular.

But even if it's one or two hundred thousand people, you can't put out the banners of Yunchang, Xingba, and Ziyi, and pretend that we all went to the Jiangxia battlefield. However, there was only no Zilong to watch out for in Shouchun, Hefei and other places, and the banner of the lord and Yide was in Wuhu, staring at Lusu.

It is certain that if you really want to attack Huang Zu next spring, your military rations will still be easy, and if you can mobilize too few troops, it is estimated that you will be able to use at least 10,000 or 20,000 people, and you will not be able to use a small army until the summer grain is harvested in July.

That would cause Brother Yuanlong to want to vote directly for the imperial court, but it would be available. The road was blocked, in order to protect himself and avoid being killed by Chen Gong, he had to go to the doctor in a hurry and surrender to the lord in a hurry, just because the lord's soldiers and horses were close to Ling County, and Shangpi was only separated by a prime minister. ”

Under the theory, a lieutenant can bring at most two or eight thousand soldiers and horses, and if it is few, it is too likely to exceed seven thousand. And when Pei Mao got up, for the sake of safety, it was enough to bring only 7,000 soldiers to the north to reinforce and change the defense.