What Chen Shubao is concerned about is the focus of debate among civil and military officials in the past few days. Now, civil strife suddenly broke out in Zhou State. For Chen State, who is on the verge of destruction, it is really a heavy rain after a long drought. How to seize this precious opportunity is related to the life and death of Chen State.

Since the transit of the south, the Jiankang court has never been as embarrassing as it is now. The areas north of the Yangtze River, whether in Shannan, Jingxiang or Huainan, were all lost. Even Ba, Xiang and Jiangzhou in Jiangnan, were lost, and even Lingbiao.

The only place in Chen State is the Three Wus in Jiangbiao and Fengzhou in Fengzhou in which there are many mountains and few fields. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is as dangerous as it is. If you don’t find a way, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, in response to the current situation, civil and military officials of Chen State wrote letters to express their opinions on the current situation. The opinions of all parties can generally be combined into three strategies: attacking the west and defending the north, attacking the west and defending the west, and attacking the wholesale.

The "Western attack" means that the official army should take advantage of the internal strife of Zhou and advance westward to recover Jiangzhou, which was captured by the Zhou Kingdom (Yuwen family), and then recover all the Ba, Hunan, and Guizhou, Lingnan, and Guangzhou.

The "Northern Defense" means confronting the Zhou army (Yuchi family) across the river and facing the north and Huainan. The official army did not take the initiative to cross the river and head north, and devoted its main force to the "Western attack".

This strategy is to allow Chen State to regain its foothold and first recover the territory south of the Yangtze River to ensure that Jiankang will not be threatened by the enemy in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Because in history, when the northern court (Jin State) conquered Jiankang (Sunwu), it sent troops from Shu to the upper reaches and took a boat down the river and advanced eastward to Jiankang.

In the Jiangbei (Huainan) area across the river from Jiankang, as long as the Chen army defends the two important areas of Caishi and Jingkou on the south bank, they can effectively defend against the attacks of the enemy on the other side.

The second strategy is to attack the north and defend the west, which is to go against the first strategy. Taking advantage of the difficult-to-resolve battle between the Yuchi and the Yuwen clan, we will lead our troops to the north. Not only will we recover the lost territory in Huainan, but we will also expand our territory to Huainan as much as possible.

This strategy seems to be a deviant strategy, but its core idea is to "alliate the west and attack the east", that is, to unite the Yuwen family and attack the Yuchi family. Because the Yuchen family is the strongest, the Yuwen family and the Chen country are relatively weak, and the weak join forces to fight against the strong is the way to survive.

The third strategy is to attack at the same time, but the strength of the government army and food cannot support such a grand strategic goal, so after a few days of controversy, everyone's focus on the first two strategies.

Chen Shubao was in a dilemma between these two strategies and did not know how to choose. Attacking the west and defending the north was a strategy to seek stability, because only by regaining Jiangzhou and Lingbiao Guangzhou can the safety of Jiankang be effectively ensured.

Jiangzhou is in hand, which is the bottom line for ensuring the river defense. With Jiangzhou naval forces guarding the river surface, Jiankang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will not be frightened; while Guangzhou is in hand, Sun En and Lu Xun passed through Jiangzhou during the Jin Dynasty, and the attack on Jiankang and the land of the Three Wus will not happen again.

If this problem is not solved, Chen Shubao can't sleep well himself.

But if this strategy is adopted, it means that the situation in the Central Plains is stable, and the situation is on the wall, waiting for the Yuwen family and the Yuchi family to decide the outcome, and then the winner will cultivate and rest for several years before he can invade the south again. At that time, the situation facing Chen State may not be optimistic.

To attack the west of the north and defend the west meant giving up Jiangzhou and Guangzhou, and attacking northwards all the way to break the situation. Taking advantage of the battle between the Yuchi family and the Yuwen family, and the troops were tight, they first recovered Huainan and then continued to advance northward.

Push the defense line through the Huai River, arrive at the Pengcheng area of ​​Xuzhou at the east end, and the Si River system near Pengcheng will flow northward into the Yellow River. If Pengcheng can really be taken down, Chen State can get a real opportunity to fight against cranes and clams and fishermen to benefit.

The expedition from Pengcheng to the north, recover the Qingyan land, and then marched westward, taking the area south of the Yellow River and east of Hulao Pass. In this way, the Henan land with a large land and a large population is the strong capital for Chen State to unify the world.

However, once the Northern Expedition is rude, it will neither expand its territory to the north nor recover the upper reaches of Jiangzhou and Guangzhou in the south. The official army will suffer heavy casualties, and then it will be impossible to make the situation come true.

Chen Shubao wanted to ensure the safety of the three Wus in Jiangbiao, but he didn't want to miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; he wanted to be the hero of unifying the world, but he was afraid that the Northern Expedition would fail and the situation would take a sharp turn, so he was really in a dilemma.

At the beginning of the year, the Zhou army attacked the entire line. Chen Shubao was worried and tossed and turned at night. Now he was still tossed and turned at night, but his mentality was completely different. The former was to break a few holes for the wall and worry about which hole should be repaired first, and the latter was to worry about the house to expand outside and which direction should be expanded first.

Kong Fan could understand this kind of trouble. He always said what the officials like to listen to and do what the officials like to do. Now it is time for him to memorize lines with Shi Wenqing.

Yu Zhongwen, the surrendered general of the Sui State, did have real talent and knowledge. He wrote tens of thousands of words of strategy to address the current situation. After careful study, Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing discussed it all night with Yu Zhongwen, and finally drafted the lines and showed their skills in front of Chen Guanjia.

At this moment, Kong Fan began to express his "substantiated opinions". He first pointed out that the current primary task is to resolve the security problems faced by Jiankang.

There are Zhou Army (Yuchi Family), Jiangzhou, and Guangzhou, and Zhou Army (Yuwen Family) in the north. We weigh the pros and cons, of course, we must recover Jiangzhou and Guangzhou so that Jiankang can be truly guaranteed.

Secondly, to recover Jiangzhou, the food from the Pengli Lake area can be mobilized to help the Sanwu. This is related to whether the soldiers can eat enough. The grain output of the Sanwu area alone cannot maintain the current military strength of the official army for a long time.

If Jiangzhou and Guangzhou are recovered, the next problem that Chen State will face is that once the Yuchi family and Yuwen family decide the outcome, the winner will sooner or later invade the south again. What should we do then?

The Sanwu area was threatened by the enemy in Jiangzhou and Guangzhou, which was a close worry. When it comes to long-term considerations, it was that if the winner in the north made a comeback again, it would be more difficult to defend the enemy by then than now.

How should we solve the problem of long-term concerns?

It is easy to solve and ensure that the Yuwen family and the Yuchi family have a long confrontation, so that these two families have no idea of ​​fighting against Chen State.

Kong Fan "thinks" that the Yuchi family's strength now has a great advantage, and the Yuwen family's strength is obviously at a disadvantage. It is precisely because of this that the Prime Minister of Zhou State Yuchi Dun suddenly attacked and tried to attack Qi Wang Yuwen Liang off guard.

However, the result of the development of the situation was that Yuwen's family initially resisted the opponent's active attack, and even a surprise soldier entered Yuzhou to occupy Xuanhu, like a dagger pressing on the abdomen of Yuchi.

This shows that Yuwen's family has the opportunity to compete with the Yuchi family, just like a crane and a clam. When the fisherman gains profit, Chen State is of course the fisherman who can get along well with all the things.

"Everyone is good at everything? I'm going to say it carefully." Chen Shubao vaguely thought of something, but he had no idea at all. Kong Fan smiled but didn't say anything, and Shi Wenqing then began to memorize the lines:
Chapter completed!