In the seventh year of Jian'an, it was also a day in late May.

Jiangxia County, Wuchang County, Cheqi General's Mansion.

Yuan Tan convened a group of officials in Linzi City to discuss the battle strategy against the third brother.

On the Wuchang side, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang and other major staff members were also planning how to deal with Cao Cao and Yuan Shang's peace. Deduce what kind of impact Yuan Shang will have on the overall situation of the world after he nominally submits to the imperial court.

Of course, Liu Bei was farther away from the north than Yuan Tan, so his news was also less well-informed than Yuan Tan.

When Yuan Tan got the third brother's Fu Debate Table, Liu Bei hadn't gotten it yet, he just knew in general terms that Yuan Shang had softened.

Fortunately, this is harmless, Liu Bei didn't care about whether Yuan Shang's defense document insulted Yuan Shao's posthumous name.

Only Yuan Tan cares about this issue, and only Yuan Tan has the position to care, and everyone else's concern belongs to the dog meddling with a mouse.

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Yuan Shang finally relented to Cao Cao, and the peace talks were so thorough. I don't know what the original prince will think of his son! Is...... Dolphin dog ears! ”

After the initial small shock, Liu Bei couldn't help but insult two sentences in private.

He couldn't say anything like "giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou", so he could only comment on Yuan Shang's sentence of "guinea dog".

After sighing, Liu Bei cautiously asked Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong to see if the strategy for Cao that was set last year was necessary to fine-tune it according to the new situation:

"Our army originally counted on relying on Ziyi, Zijing, and Zhongda to support Yuan Tan in Langya and Donglai, compete with Cao thieves, and control the scale and intensity of the war. Now that Cao Cao's northern front has ceased war, although Yuan Shang's population and land cannot be used by Cao Cao, it has also temporarily relieved Cao Cao's worries about the north, will he increase the intensity of southern invasion? ”

Faced with Liu Bei's question, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong naturally spoke in unison, and they didn't have to think about it: "Although the lord can rest assured that Cao Cao may invade the south because of the truce on the northern front, he will definitely control the scale and intensity, and find an excuse not to let the two sides fight to the death."

Because Cao Cao knew very well that if he was really protracted and unending with our army, causing his military strength to be similar to Yuan Tan's, Yuan Shang would definitely betray him again. When the time comes, whoever can establish great achievements in the war against Cao will be able to pull back some of the civil and military allegiances left by his father from his brothers who have turned against him, and whoever will be able to prove that he is the most qualified successor of Yuan Shao.

In this case, even if Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan want to fight inwardly, they will be opposed by internal resistance, because after all, they are both surnamed Yuan, in the eyes of the Yuan family, who can realize the last wish of the original prince is the most important, if any of the two Yuan not only does not contribute to this issue, but also pulls back, they will lose hope and be spurned by their subordinates. ”

Liu Bei listened to Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong's unanimous opinions, and his hanging heart finally stopped.

In other words, Cao Cao may invade the south because of the armistice on the northern front, but the intensity of the southern invasion will definitely be controlled at "ensuring that the troops he stays in the north are at least stronger than Yuan Tan", and this critical line cannot be broken, otherwise there may be an accident and a complete collapse due to small losses.

After all, Cao Cao is still located in the Central Plains, surrounded by princes on all sides, and the people he subdues seem to be submissive, but in fact, any of them may jump out and bite him when he is not right, Cao Cao will definitely not dare to bet heavily.

Zhuge Liang saw that the lord accepted this presumption, so he followed the train of thought and continued to deduce: "In my opinion, even if Cao Thief goes south to use troops, it is most likely to kill two birds with one stone.

First, it is to test our strength, after all, our army has not directly fought with Cao's army in the past five or six years, and the last time the lord fought Cao Cao head-on, it was when Duke Tao led Xuzhou. Cao Cao would also want to test whether the south was easy to level and whether there were weak enemies to take advantage of.

Second, Cao Cao must also want to eliminate Yuan Shang's worries and let Yuan Shang dare to beat Yuan Tan. In Cao Cao's view, after he started a war with our army, Yuan Shang would not worry about Cao's army going back on its word, and Cao's army would not have this remaining force to re-attack Hebei in an all-round way.

And our army was dragged by the Cao army, and it was definitely impossible to rescue Yuan Tan, which was simply a godsend opportunity for Yuan Shang to attack Yuan Tan with all his might. I'm afraid that this year's situation will evolve into a limited number of catches and killings between us and Cao Jun, and Eryuan will also catch and kill. ”

Zhuge Liang didn't know that in just a few words, he deduced Guo Jia's idea of planning for Cao Cao.

This kind of thing can only be said that the wise man sees the same thing, and when he sees the other party's actions, he can basically guess his intentions.

After Liu Bei heard about it, he sighed: "Although our army has developed rapidly in recent years, its foundation is not as good as Cao Cao after all.

On Xiansi's (Yuan Tan) side, after the four counties of Hejian were returned to Yuan Shang, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist its offensive, should we persuade Xiansi to hold on to the northern front and delay and wait for changes? ”

Regarding this question, Pang Tong nodded, feeling that what Liu Bei said was very reasonable, and he should strive for such a situation. lest when Cao and Liu were fighting, Yuan Tan would be weakened too much.

But Zhuge Liang sighed sadly and shook his head: "It is best to be able to do this. But I don't think Xiansi will listen to us right away. I have been in contact with him for several months, and when I was an envoy to Yuan Shao, I observed him very carefully.

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Xiansi has always been conceited that he is the eldest son of Yuan Gong, and he should inherit the family business, and he has an inexplicable confidence in the appeal of Yuan's family. This time, Yuan Shangzi said that his father had passed, and Xiansi would definitely hold on to this point, and consciously with his filial piety to Yuan Gong, he would definitely be able to inspire the old officials of the Yuan family to abandon the secret and turn to the light. If he is not allowed to gamble on this, he will not be reconciled.

Please think about it, last year we tested the extent to which Xiansi would be attached to us, and at that time we persuaded Xiansi to be the Taishou of Donglai. But in the end, he only gradually handed over more than half of the counties of Donglai County to our army for governance and garrison. It can be seen that he has not completely made up his mind to rely on us, and he feels that Yuan Gong was still alive at that time, and he casually ceded Yuan's county and county, and passing it on would make him lose the opportunity to inherit Yuan Gong's inheritance.

Now that Yuan Gong has passed away, everything has been decided, and the Yecheng group still supports Yuan Shang. But for Xiansi, if he doesn't take a chance to see how much appeal the Yuan family's prestige still has, he will not be reconciled.

Only when he tried, and finally found that 'there are few people in the world who care about the filial piety and who are not filial to the sons of Yuan Gong', he will be completely dead and disheartened, and then he can only rely on us completely. We can only help him avoid a big defeat and avoid losing his henchmen's land, but we can't stop him from taking risks. ”

Zhuge Liang didn't want this, but his eyes were keen, and he had already seen Yuan Tan's unwillingness.

Yuan Tan is still short of the last defeat to recognize that "the signboard of the Yuan family is no longer valuable, and no one cares which son of Yuan Shao is more filial", and then he will completely obediently treat Uncle Liu as a nephew.

Even if Liu Bei had the heart to help others, he could only let Yuan Tan lose a little. At the same time, he played a majestic and momentum on the battlefield of Cao Liu. Let Yuan Tan see a significant contrast, and see that "relying on yourself is a dead end, and the only way to survive is to give up autonomy from now on and hold on to Uncle Liu's thighs."

After listening to these comprehensive analyses, Liu Bei also completely gave up the illusion of directly helping others from being taught a lesson, and temporarily respected the fate of others.

As long as Yuan Tan doesn't get beaten too badly, don't obviously lose his ground. A little lesson, in exchange for Yuan Tan to completely break his thoughts, and become well-behaved from now on, is also worth it.

Liu Bei is also a character who can afford to let go, and after he was no longer entangled, he immediately turned to the next question.

He walked to the front of Yutu and asked to himself, "So once the Cao thief invades the south, which directions are most likely to attack us?" ”

Zhuge Liang: "I foolishly think that Langya is the most likely." First, Langya is still Yuan Tan in name, but it is actually occupied by our army, and there is no need to start a full-scale war with us to attack Langya, and it is more free. However, it is not ruled out that Cao Cao will take advantage of the weakness once he sees that our army is lax in defense elsewhere. ”

Pang Tong hurriedly added: "The Cao army does not have the advantage of the navy, nor does it have the strength to cross Tongbai Mountain, if you don't start in Xuzhou, the only breakthrough point is Shouchun and Hefei."

Although this place is located in Huainan, the Huai River is not as good as the Yangtze River, and it does not need the advantage of the naval army to enter the army. And Runan is in the hands of Cao thieves, and the Cao army can attack from the upper reaches of the Huai River, and the benefits of the Huai River are shared with our army. ”

Liu Bei groped along the Huaisi Yi rivers on the map, and finally knocked a few times with his knuckles at a few points in Langya, Xiapi and Shouchun.

"Let Ziyu assign the main force of the Yangzhou Army that is resting to the front line in Xuzhou for Yun Chang's deployment. We will also allocate a part of the main force on the Jingzhou side to the front line of Jiujiang County to reinforce Zilong.

Even if Zilong's side can't fight, we can hoard heavy troops to deter Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao doesn't dare to put too many troops on Yun Chang's side, otherwise he will be in Huaibei and have no danger to defend.

However, to Zilong's troops, to send more cavalry, once the Cao army attacked Xuzhou, as long as the Cao army did not garrison heavy troops in Huaibei opposite the Shouchun-Yicheng line, then let Zilong use cavalry to harass Huai, but there was no need to fanfare the banner, even if it was pretending to be a Huainan thief, or even pretending to be the remnants of Gongdu.

He didn't ask Zilong to occupy or stand firm in any Huaibei city, as long as the Cao army was not at peace, he had to station heavy troops in Huaibei on the other side of Jiujiang County, so as to achieve the purpose of helping Yunchang share the pressure. ”

Between Shouchun, Hefei and Chen Chen, it can be a war of stalemate, a sit-in war, just drag the strength of the Cao army, so that the Cao army can't invest too many people to go to Xuzhou, which is enough.

The main battlefield that is really easy to win or lose is still in Xuzhou.

After Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong listened, they also felt that the overall deployment of the lord was really stable, there was no problem, and there was no need to modify it.

Liu Bei is still a soldier.

After Liu Bei's order was issued, the Jingzhou Army and Yangzhou Army under his command also began to assemble and move.

Half of the troops under Zhang Fei's command that were originally stationed in the Jingnan area were withdrawn, and anyway, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang would not pose a threat at present, and these troops soon went to Wancheng to assemble, and then diverted to Hefei.

Zhang Fei and Gan Ning themselves also wanted to fight, but Liu Bei stopped Zhang Fei and let Zhang Fei sit in Jingnan well. As for Gan Ning, because he is more experienced in playing thieves, Zhao Yun can play the horse thief to harass Huaibei at the same time, Gan Ning can also play the Huaihe water thief to harass, so he was temporarily transferred.

In the final analysis, Zhang Fei is not good at acting and is easy to be impulsive. On this occasion, once the hostile and dragging the enemy into a full-scale decisive battle, Liu Bei's side was too weak in Jiujiang County and it was easy to suffer. Anyway, there must be a general who will remain in Jingnan, so it's still Zhang Fei.

On the other hand, the Jiangdong generals and troops under Zhuge Jin's subordinates who had been reformed in batches were also allocated to the direction of Xuzhou in batches, depending on their loyalty and reliability, as the second echelon for Guan Yu.

Liu Beijun made all preparations and only waited for Cao's army to attack.

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