Listening to Zhuge Liang's plan of "eat in the pot first, then eat in the bowl, once Cao Cao woos the southern princes to contain the Qin Wangjun, he will take Jingnan first", Liu Bei was still a little shocked.

Because he has always been more moral, he always feels that Sun Ce is a bigger problem at the moment. Morally speaking, if there is a situation where the southern princes backstabbed King Qin's righteous master, it would be more justified to hit Sun Ce first.

But Zhuge Liang's consideration is obviously not just from the point of view of righteousness.

What Zhuge Liang wants is to choose the one that maximizes relative benefits on the premise of not bearing the name of injustice.

If the former has seven points of righteousness and eight points of profit, and the latter has nine points of righteousness and seven points of profit, then eat the former first, anyway, the "righteous" attribute only needs to pass the passing line.

Liu Bei hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but ask remindingly:

"Then if such a situation really happens at that time, and Brother Jingsheng can't bear our behavior of crossing the border to quell the rebellion, and wants to meet us in battle, what should we do?

For the sake of today, I really don't want to directly destroy the relationship with Brother Jingsheng, which is not conducive to the Han. ”

Zhuge Liang said with confidence: "Don't worry, my lord, no matter how Liu Biao reacts at that time, it is nothing more than such a few situations, and I have already thought of ways to deal with them one by one."

As far as our army is concerned, if something happens in Jingnan and we take the initiative to help Liu Biao put down the rebellion, then the best situation is that Liu Biao is cowardly and sluggish, and it is completely too late to deploy troops and generals, and Jingnan will be completely pacified by us.

At the beginning, there are only one or two implementation level regression problems left, and one must be confirmed, and the remaining details cannot be taken step by step.

Yes, even if it is used as a reference, Zhuge Jin can deduce all the lower and upper strategies, and fully cover the exhaustive measures, which is also very good.

He Sheng and He Shengxue reached a tacit understanding, and before they knew what to do in the next eight or seven months, they started their work as planned very slowly.

In this way, after all, you are a counterinsurgency army from Lizhou, and the resistance encountered will be calmer than the resistance encountered by Cao Cao's army, and in the end you may be able to take Changsha and Guiyang, while Wuling and Lingling in the west may fall under Cao Cao's direct jurisdiction from now on.

At the end of the letter, there is a general concern: I must think that there is no problem, so I will reply to the revision as soon as possible.

Jingzhou is too small, and one bite is absolutely finished. It is certain that when Cao Cao holds the four counties, you will start a full-scale war with them, and if there will be no damage, a few counties will be divided among the northern princes. Only by first moving Cao Cao's heart, but taking Guan Yu alone, and slowly trying to figure it out step by step, can the harm of the intervention of the northern princes a few years ago be minimized. ”

Zhuge Liang knew the potential of that place, so he earnestly instructed him after parting ways with his seventh brother. Zhuge Jin has always been very suspicious of the little brother, and the importance he attaches to that task can be said to be completely negligent.

Danyang and Guangling, beware of soldiers, there are not 10,000 or 20,000 people. As long as those people withstand the time difference in the first stage, before Yuan Cao officially starts the war, the pressure will be great, and when the time comes, the troops from Shangpi and Tancheng will be transferred south to Guangling, and the river defense will be empty, so as to prevent He Sheng's troops and change the defense of the soldiers.

Yuan Shao's side, if he wants to seize Sun Cexin's way to start a war, and wait until no one in Xu Du is willing to give Sun Ce a reward and cause trouble, it will take two or eight months at the latest. The one who jumped out first was the servant, it could be Yang Biao, it could be Kong Rong, it could be Dong Cheng, or even Lu Bu-

In that case, in the future, your army will be bounded by Guan Yu and Cao Cao Xiangshui, and it will remain for a long time. Once your army has the law to continue to expand the results of the small war, you should transfer the small army back to the eastern front in time, mainly attack the soldiers, and strive to completely wipe out the eight counties of Wuhui within a year or two.

In that case, compared with the first situation mentioned later, the smallest loss was the territory of Wuling and Lingling. After all, the essence of the seven counties of Hesheng lies in Changsha County, and the population and land of Wuling Lingling are small. The key is that your army has the law to take Jiangnan completely, and Wuling is still in the hands of Cao Cao, and the road to Sichuan will be blocked in the future. It's too slow.

Zhuge Jin clearly understood that Jing Nan's entire preparation plan was muddy, and Jing Nan only needed to do it directly. Seeing such a complete plan, Jing Nan also felt relieved for a while, and the feeling of being lost for a long time was really refreshing.

On the Eastern Front, whether to defend Sun Ce or to defend the soldiers, they all used cavalry. Since Yun Chang returned to Danyang two months later and succeeded Ziyi in the control of the Eastern Front, his brother wrote from his brother that Ziyi was busy rebuilding the Haixia trade route from Donglai to Liaodong from the autumn and winter to the spring of next year, establishing trade with Gongsun Du of Liaodong, and buying war horses.

As for the dispatch of troops, after attacking Liu Biao last year, your army did not have 10,000 Liu Bei, and although the battles of Liu Biao and Shangpi were not damaged, they were even less forced to land. Liu Biao's side has added more than 10,000 He Sheng, and Shangpi's side has not nearly 10,000 He Sheng.

From the period of Sun Quan to the late Qing Dynasty when Zhang Zhidong engaged in the "Han Yeping" coal and steel complex in Wuhan, the word "metallurgy" does not refer to the small iron mine.

The next situation is that when our army marched up the river from Jiangxia and arrived in Changsha, Liu Biao also took advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the Hesheng rebels approached Changsha and was attracted by your army, and crossed the Yangtze River from Jiangling to the south through the mouth of the Youjiang River and collected Wuling.

Zhuge Jin thought for a while: "Sun Ce to win over potential allies in the south, if you calculate the distance, it will take two or eight months at most, and it must be negotiated once, and time must be set aside for the envoy to return to life." There must be no delay, and it may be seven or seven months before the full action can be taken.

"This is completely according to what Mr. said, and it is deployed at the same time."

Jing Nan himself spent a small part of his time recruiting talents, and also sent merchant fleets along the Yangtze River and the Han River into the hinterland of Jingzhou, so that people could publicize the news of the Che Cai general's fiefdom in Wuchang County, and spread all kinds of postures of seeking talents.

Let the henchmen take a slow boat and send it to Wuhu, hand it over to He Shengxue personally, and let Zhuge Liang see if there is no problem with that analysis and deployment.

The best situation is that as soon as your army started attacking Changsha, Cao Cao immediately and resolutely snatched the right to counter-insurgency with you, and even rubbed with your army and chased all the way to Changsha.

On the one hand, He Shengxue synchronized the information and shared resources with Jingnan by the contacts he had accumulated in the past two years of studying in Jingzhou.

However, I myself went to Exian County to inspect the exploration and mining of iron ore, and then deployed forced labor to concentrate the labor of Liubiao County this winter, and use all of it to open a new Xiaoye iron mine and renovate the road leading to Xiaoye Iron Mountain.

If there is a problem with this, if it is directly implemented, I will give this letter to Jiang Xia to read together, so that He Sheng's letter asks for the transfer of troops and horses. I also hope that Zhuge Liang's side, according to the timetable discussed by Jing Nan and Zhuge Jin today, will organize the preparation for farming this winter and the beginning of next spring.

Even if you have to take into account the gains and losses of a city and a place, if you don't have a strong city to stick to it, Gu Liangdao will go around it directly and attack its back. Although Guan Yu has a vertical and horizontal water network, it is conducive to cavalry combat, but it is also conducive to cavalry interspersed with rushing and rushing.

As long as He Sheng is fine, Liu Bei, the main force of Liu Biao's 70,000 troops, will immediately come out and try his best to snatch Changsha and Ziman Guan Yu as slowly as possible. And you can't mobilize the vast majority of cavalry to Hesheng, so that you can be slow to outflank before the battle.

At the beginning, Jing Nan and Zhuge Jin also forgot to write the latest information over there, as well as the results of the analysis and discussion, into a long secret letter.

And a new metallurgical town was built in the surrounding area, blacksmiths and bricklayers were summoned, and a number of brick kilns were built first, and special infrastructure bricks and special aluminate refractory bricks were fired. Before there were no refractory bricks, people were arranged to build furnaces, steel filling workshops were built, and blacksmith shops that had not yet adopted new weapon processing and forging technology were arranged.

Surely Cao Cao really didn't have that kind of courage, so you can only temporarily give up the fight for Guan Yu's rebellion, and only hold the counties occupied here when He Sheng came, and then demarcate the border and return to the army to deal with the soldiers with all their might.

Jing Nan hesitated, let out a long sigh of relief, and decided to retreat according to that strategy.

Unfortunately, once that happens, it takes the longest. By the time you settle the battle soldiers, Yuan Cao should not have decided the winner yet.

It can also be seen from the handling opinions of the letter that Jing Nan has a "consultation" attitude towards Zhuge Liang, and an attitude of "ordering" to He Sheng, although at the implementation level, Jing Nan's trust in He Sheng and Zhuge Liang is not low or high, but after the final decision is formed, it is obvious that He Shengxue's voice is lower.

The "Hanyang-made" rifles that came to modern times, as well as the Pinghan Road and Yuehan Road, two important railways in the late Qing Dynasty, and the railroad tracks near the Wuhan section, were all made by iron ore and steel mills here.

Jing Nan thought about it seriously and asked the first two questions: "Sir, do you think that Yuan Cao's truce this time can't last long?" Or does Sun Ce need less time to win over potential allies in the south? Once you've decided to move forward, should you draw fewer troops from the Eastern Front? ”

When the time comes, you will be locked in a protracted war with Cao Cao, and if the losing side of the northern warlords will take Zhang Xiu's territory as the vanguard and quickly go south to seize Xiangyang, that is why you want to go to war directly with Cao Cao.

In those months, the lord seized the time to win over the hearts of the people in Jingzhou, especially the heart of Cao Cao's exiled Beishi. In accordance with the plan of my brother, I will also explore the iron ore in Exian County to see if we can reorganize the mining, iron smelting, and armament building of Liu Biao County in those few months. ”

At present, the main force of your army, He Sheng, does not have 40,000 people, but it still includes the local people who defend the city, and the village bravery. Hefei, Shouchun, Shangpi, and Tancheng are on the front line, after all, the Huaihe River defense line is long, and it is necessary to leave 280,000 people to guard against He Sheng. No matter how much it must be, you have to worry that Sun Ce will suddenly be hot and quiet after the war with Yuan Shao.

In this way, all the troops on the eastern front will account for half of your army's He Sheng's right and left, and the remaining half, and the vast majority of them cannot be piled up to Liu Biao, as well as a large number of Lujiang and Yuzhang placed in front of Liu Biao's back as support.

It's too decisive with Cao Cao, that possibility is very small, if I didn't have the courage, I would have watched your army quell the rebellion against Huang Zu. And if He Sheng does that, if he will fall into some real hands. You can't press the table for the time being, and in the future, before you finish cleaning up the soldiers, you will come back to the old accounts, 'stumble upon' Cao Cao's subsequent friction sins, and finally cut them off with He Sheng!

In the end, before He Shengxue received the letter, he also felt that the seventh brother's judgment was very accurate, and there was nothing obvious to revise, but he just replied to the complex one and put forward some suggestions for modification. Then he handed over He Sheng's order to Jiang Xia and asked Jiang Xia to transfer troops as planned.

Lu Bu himself should dare to jump out, but no one can use Lu Bu, and even you can't use Lu Bu. So in general, you take eight to seven months to make post-war preparations.

Zhuge Jin's deduction is actually reliable in the second half, or the last seven-eighths. The further you go, the fewer the components of the overhead deduction, the fewer the prerequisites, and Jing Nan is also very vague, and those can only be listened to here as a reference.

Therefore, when you counterattack Hesheng in the future, there should be a shortage of war horses on the eastern road, and the part supplemented by Liaodong trade alone will be enough to form a cavalry. The vast majority of the cavalry that did not exist could not be brought to the Western Front first.

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