May of the third year of Jian'an (198 AD).

It has been five years since Cai Daru introduced the imperial examination, and it has been every three years. The second imperial examination has not had much trouble in the world, but the imperial examination has not been too shabby.

The mediocrity may be able to continue the imperial examination almost completely. Drops of water wear out the stone and accumulate thinness, and boil frogs in warm water. After decades, when the world looks back in a daze, it is shocked to find that the former recommendation system has no space and the imperial examination has occupied the world.

Chang'an, Prime Minister's Mansion.

"What a cunning Cao Mengde, he actually takes advance as a retreat."

He was so provocative, but Cao Cao temporarily stopped urging his troops on the grounds that there was not enough food and grass. Lu Bu sighed helplessly and handed over the information in his hand to everyone.

"Send a message to Zhang Ren, Hulaoguan, telling them that they can harass and provoke Cao Cao, but Hulaoguan must hold on tight."

promise!

Lu Bu was rubbing his eyebrows and felt a headache. Cao Cao was just going to waste. After waiting for him and Yuan Shao to recuperate, maybe Jingzhou would even be decided, and they happened to join forces together.

Even if you don’t do anything in Jingzhou, just wait for you, Lu Bu, to show your slightest defeat. Needless to say, if you are not stupid, you will dare to go up and take a bite.

Jingzhou.

"Military advisor, do you see what Sun Bofu said?"

Liu Bei looked at the letter sent by Sun Ce from Jiangdong and frowned. After hesitating, he still asked his military advisor.

I saw Chen Gong receive a letter from Jiangdong, and after a long time of looking at it, he sighed slowly, "Jiangdong Zhou Lang is a great talent."

He himself did not expect to join the Jiangdong Newspaper Group to keep warm, and Chen Gong couldn't help but sigh deeply.

For example, the weakest of the princes in the lower lords today are Liu Bei, Liu Zhang and Sun Ce from Jiangdong. As for the dry bones in Liu Biao's tomb.

The strongest ones are Lu Bu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. It is obvious that Liu Bei is eager to compete with Liu Biao for Jingzhou. Even if he wins, he is exhausted and cannot control the situation in the world.

On the contrary, the three princes of Lu Bu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were always ruled by at least two states, and they were weaker in terms of their heritage.

It was obvious that the three princes in the Central Plains were fighting for hegemony. Liu Bei was exhausted and could not participate in the harmony. At most, he had a good fight and had some meat soup. Sun Ce, who was holding his energy, was helpless and helpless.

He is currently only bordering Cao Cao's territory, and more importantly, the cavalry! The defeat in the last battle in Hefei was actually a congenital defect.

Therefore, Liu Bei and Jiangdong Sun Ce formed an alliance, and then the two of them supported each other, Jiangdong helped Liu Bei to make a name for himself and helped them stand firm in Jingzhou. No matter what, Sun Ce in Jiangdong was also a prince. As long as he spoke to recognize Liu Bei in Jingzhou, it would be useful.

By then, Jiangdong and Jingzhou will form an alliance, at least there will be no need to fight, so how can we not be happy?

Jiangdong needed Liu Bei from Jingzhou to help them in the next Central Plains battlefield. Sun Ce clearly wanted to avenge his last revenge, and he was able to take advantage of the battle between the three princes of the Central Plains to go to Hefei again.

The request is also very simple. If necessary, help and threaten Cao Cao. At the same time, he also secretly had the intention of purchasing war horses in the army.

"Lord, the nine counties of Jingzhou, can only be given to Jiangdong, Jiangxia and Changsha at most."

Chen Gong directly agreed to the alliance and even expressed his own conditions. Looking at Liu Bei's reluctant expression, he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Lord, after joining Jiangdong, Cao Cao dared not advance rashly, and Lu Bu was dragged down by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at this time, so he had no time to take care of Jingzhou."

After hearing this, Liu Bei nodded secretly. Yes, what the military advisor said was reasonable. Now Cao Cao is the only one who can threaten him. Once he joins forces with Jiangdong, it will be different.

At that time, Cao Cao was afraid that Liu Bei and Jiangdong Sun Ce would join forces to attack him. Lao Cao was not afraid that Liu Bei and Sun Ce would be bad, but the problematic teammate Yuan Shao was so bad that he could not stop Lu Bu at the peak, let alone now.

"What does military advisor mean?"

Liu Bei seemed to have guessed something, but he was still a little unsure. Chen Gong showed a deep smile.

"Lord, Cao Cao uses the emperor to command the princes, and we join forces with Jiangdong to make the emperor recognize the lord's reputation as a legitimate person in Jingzhou. At that time, Cao Cao, Sun Ce and the emperor's reputation will be the dry bones in the tomb of Liu Biao in Jingzhou."

"Second? After the lord unified Jingzhou, he prepared his troops and horses. The war in the Central Plains will be ignited sooner or later. At that time, lord, do you think that Sun Ce of Jiangdong is greedy for Jingzhou and fights us for both defeats and losers? You should still attack Yangzhou."

Chen Gong's words suddenly made Liu Bei happy and stroked his short beard and laughed: "The military advisor is really Zhang Liang, Xiao He."

Listening to Liu Bei's praise, Chen Gong, who was kneeling opposite him, couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "Once the war between the princes of the Central Plains begins, Cao Cao's most worried about will be his lord and Sun Ce."

"Now there is little need to say more. Sun Ce will not go to war with Jingzhou, but what about the lord? This is the opportunity."

Chen Gong, who was narrowing his eyes and shining, said in a deep voice: "Yizhou! At that time, Cao Cao would definitely stand up and support the lord to attack Yizhou. The lord asked him for an imperial edict to attack Liu Zhang, Yizhou. In this way, the lord will become famous and the lord will occupy the great power, and the lord will be in a dark and weak position in Yizhou."

"The lord's army in Jingzhou was ordered by the emperor to attack Liu Zhang, the rebel minister of Yizhou. Cao Cao was happy and heard it. Lu Bu was out of reach. In Jiangdong, we only need to trade some war horses. Sun Ce was happy. In this way, he would even support the lord's attack on Yizhou."

In a word! Following this trend, the forces around Liu Bei were too busy to take care of, Cao Cao was also too worried but not enough, and Sun Ce from Jiangdong was busy digging out Lao Cao's ass.

At this time, Liu Bei, Jingzhou, suddenly discovered that the princes who were bordering the territory were busy fighting. Who would he fight? Join forces to fight Lu Bu? How could it be possible to fight Lu Bu for the princes of the Central Plains to make wedding dresses for Yizhou? It would be better to fight Yizhou than to fight famous troops.

Once Liu Bei attacks Lu Bu, not to mention anything else, when Liu Bei threatens Lu Bu's retreat, the army will definitely dare to set out from Wancheng and beat you Liu Bei directly.

As for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Lu Bu can defend for the time being. Anyway, you, Jingzhou has not recovered yet, and the war horses in the north will be beaten up without any discussion.

"It's like a fish in water to prepare a military advisor."

Listening to Chen Gong's analysis, and the situation in the future was even more difficult. Liu Bei was excitedly holding the other party's hand and trembling.

He just lacks such a think tank, otherwise why would he have accomplished nothing in so many years? Jingzhou has not yet been defeated, and he has planned the next plan for him. What do you think is not Zhang Liang, but Xiao He?

"Lord, how dare Gong compare with Zhang Liang and Xiao He."

Chen Gong felt ashamed, but Liu Bei was so excited that he recognized you anyway. Now he wanted to sleep with the military teacher every day to cultivate his relationship and completely tie the military teacher to death in the car.

Chang'an.

"Spy secretly came to report that Liu Bei secretly formed an alliance with Sun Ce, many places in Jingzhou have fallen, and Liu Biao is trapped in Xiangyang."

"In the Jiangxia battlefield in Jingzhou, Jiangdong suddenly increased 30,000 troops. Huang Zu caught him off guard and fell into Zhou Yu's ambush. Now the Jiangdong army has occupied half of Jiangxia."

In the study, Lu Bu summoned his confidant advisers and told the information that the Jinyiwei had found to have been investigated.

Everyone was shocked and frowned and pondered. How to break the deadlock has become the key.

Tian Feng, who frowned, bowed and stepped out and said, "Lord, time is not waiting for me. Once Jingzhou is pacified, after we go to war with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, what will Jingzhou do regardless of success or failure? No one can say it."

"I suggest sending troops!"

In a word, Tian Feng directly and hardened to start the war first, while Jia Xu remained silent. After Guo Jia pondered for a while, he slowly stepped out and said: "Lord, you really can't give Yuan Shao a chance to breathe, let alone give Cao Cao a chance to recuperate."

Cheng Yu nodded directly and said, "Lord, during the war in Jizhou last year, Luoyang, Bingzhou and Wei County, etc., he had already prepared for the next war."

Cheng Yu almost made it clear that he would not worry about harvesting food and grass. Finally, after seeing everyone speaking, Jia Xu squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Be the first to start the war, then the lord will have the initiative to choose where to open the battlefield."

Jia Xu, who hit the vital point, directly made Lu Bu and everyone smile. Now everyone agreed to start the war. What’s more important is that it is no longer as important as before. Lu Bu’s number one lord in the world. Although it is exaggerated to have millions of troops, it is really no problem to send hundreds of thousands of troops.

"Everyone, how is this battlefield determined in Jizhou?"

Lu Bu looked at everyone directly, and his hand pointed to the Jizhou area on the map behind him.

"The lord, wise, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao joined forces. As the saying goes, pick persimmons and pick up soft pinches. There are many people who once followed the white horse Gongsun on the border of Youzhou who were dissatisfied with Yuan Shao. In this battle, they should attack Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao focused on defense all the way."

Guo Jia pointed directly at the map and said slowly, while Tian Feng also squinted his eyes and added: "Lord, Cao Cao and the emperor ordered the princes. If we only defend, I am afraid that this person will divide his troops and threaten Jizhou, while the other one will threaten Hulao and then threaten Luoyang."

"Weichen suggested that we send troops to ferry. As long as Cao Cao dares to divide his troops to threaten Hulao, we will push forward and directly put forward a force to threaten Xuchang."

"Otherwise, although Yuan Shao is too arrogant, I think the lord should first attack Yuan Shao from Jizhou with thunder. Once the Bohai Sea is lost, Yuan Shao will be divided into two parts, and Youzhou will be divided into two parts."

"However, the lord turned attacking Yuan Shao into defense, gathered troops to directly defeat Cao Cao's army, and just slowly encroached on the world."

Everyone has their own reasons. Lu Bu now felt Yuan Shao's embarrassment, but as a general on the battlefield, he slowly smiled at the corner of his mouth when he looked at the terrain of Jizhou.

If it is said that the strategy may be worse, but if it is said that Lu Bu can definitely be above 90 on the battlefield.

"Our Italian army attacked Hejian County and directly threatened Yuan Shao's old nest Bohai. Once he attacked Bohai, Yuan Shao Youzhou and Qingzhou were broken into two pieces, hum!"

When Lu Bu said this, his white teeth showed his sneering, "I will see what Yuan Benchu ​​has to do to find out my palm."

"The lord is wise."

Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Tian Feng and Cheng Yu bowed and shouted together. In fact, they agreed with Lu Bu's decision. To put it bluntly, this is the safest plan.

Lu Bu, who has been the best prince in the world, has not only not lost, but has become more steady. His adventures and gambling have disappeared, and they are even more happy.

A lord who likes to take risks is their most worried existence. If you are not careful, you will lose everything.

A steady Lu Bu chose the most stable strategic policy and divided Yuan Shao's power into two. In this way, they could think of it when they confronted Cao Cao again.

What would Yuan Shao choose when he was divided into two? Needless to say, they could almost guess that Yuan Shao would definitely choose Qingzhou instead of Youzhou.

After Gongsun Zan died in the battle in Youzhou, many generals in the border areas complained a lot about the Yuan family. Moreover, Youzhou was bitter and cold, and there were restraints from the barbarians outside the frontier. It was better to go to Qingzhou than to go.

Qingzhou has been without a boss for so many years, and it is easier for him to stand firm and keep his feet firm, and he can completely join forces with Cao Cao.

Lu Bu would slowly erode Youzhou at this time. Since Yuan Shao knew that the territory would be divided into two halves, he would definitely choose to leave a Yuan family in Youzhou. After all, this is Yuan Shao's last hope.

If Lu Bu is undefeated! Then the only thing waiting for Youzhou is slowly eroded. If Lu Bu is defeated, Yuan Shao will start to have the opportunity to return to Jizhou by joining forces with Qingzhou and Youzhou, and even directly take over Hebei. Although Cao Cao is still there, it will depend on how the two of them negotiate to divide the interests.
Chapter completed!