Every time at this time, Wang Yu wished he could invent the telephone right away, even if it was just a radio. It was really maddening when people couldn't get together in one place and had to brainstorm ideas.
This situation would not be improved even if he returned to Gaotang instead of Youzhou. With the expansion of territory and battlefields, the level he could take into account became more and more strategic, down to each branch.
In the war zone, we can only rely on the judgment of the generals.
Theoretically, Xu Shu will be in charge of the northern battlefield in the future. Wang Yu will of course want to listen to what the other party has to say before making a decision.
Fortunately, Jia Xu was thoughtful and had already exchanged opinions with Xu Shu before sending the message to Youzhou, so Wang Yu didn't have to worry about it anymore. Not only Xu Shu, but also Jia Xu and his disciple Pang Tong, as well as Xuzhou's general Zhang Jiaye
We communicated and finally summarized our opinions.
Although the fat man always talks about laziness, when it comes to serious matters, his diligence is no less than that of others.
Xu Shu's opinion is in line with his usual style. He believes that in response to the Qiang army's pressure on the border, Qingzhou should launch a full-scale attack on Bingzhou in advance to keep the enemy out of the country and prevent the Xiliang army from breaking into the hinterland of Jizhou or even threatening it.
Opportunity to go to Youzhou.
Between Hebei and the two states, there is the continuous Taihang Mountains blocking them. However, although the Taihang Mountains are natural dangers, the heaven and earth did not intend to completely separate the two sides, so the Taihang Bajing was established.
Yuan and Gao's battle against Bingzhou was not comprehensive. The main spheres of influence were concentrated in Shangdang and Taiyuan. The other counties were basically in a vacuum. Under Xu Shu's harassment, it was too late to take care of themselves. How could they bother to invade Jizhou?
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Moreover, the Qingzhou Army did not occupy all of Jizhou at that time. Yuan Gao wanted to invade Qingzhou, but there was only one road, Fukouxing, which was far from difficult to defend against. Now the Xiliang Army is aggressively invading eastward, and Qingzhou is also undergoing the final unification of Jizhou.
Once they gain a foothold in Bingzhou, Jizhou's defense will suddenly become tight.
Xu Shu's opinion is very clear. There are many soldiers in Xiliang and if they deploy defenses in many places, it will only allow them to give full play to their strength advantage, which is not the way to win. Therefore, they must take action first and seize the opportunity on the Bingzhou battlefield.
It can be said that Xu Shu was very courageous. Before he sent the letter to Wang Yu, he had already sent people to Huguan to persuade him to surrender. Even though Xu Shu was very motivated, he sent envoys to collaborate with the enemy.
However, he did not dare to engage in such taboos. The envoys he sent there were in the name of trade ambassadors, not as lobbyists, but simply to inform.
To put it bluntly, he just copied Wang Yu's method of dealing with Gongsun Du. Of course, there was no need to be so polite to Yuan Gao and Gongsun Du. Xu Shu's main purpose was to let Yuan Gao know that there was a Pingbei policy in Qingzhou, which could
Let them have another choice besides surrendering and resisting to the end, or even joining the Xiliang army or Cao Cao.
In line with the principle of forming an alliance to jointly fight Qingzhou, Cao Cao tried his best to win over Yuan and Gao Ye in the past few years. Unfortunately, he was Yuan Shao's follower. Later, he also withdrew first from the Hebei War. He was somewhat suspected of deserting.
Tan was a little shaken and wanted to use Cao Cao's power to take revenge first, but the senior officials were a bit proud and determined not to move closer to Cao Cao.
Although Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's eldest son, in Bingzhou, the remaining forces of the Yuan Clan all follow the leadership of Gao Gan. Gao Gan is unwilling to get closer to Cao Cao, and even though Yuan Tan has some thoughts, it is of no avail.
Therefore, Cao Cao formed an alliance with the Xiliang rebels this time and drove them to conquer Bingzhou. This may not be a sign of losing patience.
Qingzhou is strong but Sili is weak. Opening up a new battlefield is the only way to disperse the enemy's strength. Yuan and Gao are in Bingzhou, and they are completely unable to contain Qingzhou. They typically occupy the manhole and do nothing. The situation in the Central Plains is becoming increasingly clear, and the war
At this critical juncture, with Cao Cao's strategic vision, he would certainly not tolerate Yuan and Gao continuing to play soy sauce in Bingzhou.
With the arrogance of the senior official, he is unlikely to surrender to Qingzhou. After all, he is the enemy who killed his father. But if Qingzhou is pressed, he is likely to reach some kind of agreement with the Xiliang army and directly lead the wolf into the house.
Take two shots.
This is also where Jia Xu finds it tricky.
Xu Shu didn't think too much. He planned a blitzkrieg. The plan was to fight quickly, divide his troops into three groups, pass through Fukou, Feihu, Jingxing, Baixing and other passages at the same time, and launch a full-scale attack on Bingzhou.
Before making an effective response, occupy the major military passes including Yanmen Pass, Jinyang, and Hu Pass.
If the plan can be accomplished smoothly, even if Gao Gan defected to the Xiliang army, it would not cause too much trouble. However, this plan is also quite risky. Gao Gan is not a fool. Not long after he entered Bingzhou, his father-in-law Yuan Shao died.
No matter how much help he received, he was hindered by the latter and lost troops and generals in Jizhou.
Even so, he still firmly occupied Shangdang and Taiyuan, and managed it like a steel pipe. Whether it was the harassment of Xu Shu, the invasion of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, or the challenge of local forces, he might be able to make him disgraced.
But it has never been able to shake his rule over the Party and Taiyuan.
Once the raid failed and Gao Gan felt desperate, it would be easy to push him to the side of the Xiliang Army.
With the help of such a local snake, the Xiliang army is not familiar with the place, and the disadvantages of the expedition will be greatly alleviated, which will obviously be very detrimental to the future Bingzhou war situation.
After learning about Wang Yu's actions in Youzhou, Xu Shu was extremely happy. He felt that this strategy was tailor-made for high-ranking officials.
Aren't you arrogant and don't want to bow to anyone? Sure, you can fight for your own world. The world is a big place. As long as you have the ability, are you afraid that you won't have a foothold?
Anyway, the senior cadre should be very clear in his heart that the two major forces will eventually collide. Before that, he can still find ways to take advantage of the concerns of both sides and struggle to survive. But that is just hanging on.
As long as he stays in the middle, he will eventually be crushed to pieces.
Therefore, Xu Shu came to kill first and then to show off.
Wang Yu was not dissatisfied with Xu Shu's decision. The communication efficiency in this era was too low. As the commander-in-chief, Xu Shu had the power to make emergency decisions. He just didn't expect that Xu Shu would include high-ranking officials.
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This was a candidate that Wang Yu had never considered, but Xu Shu's self-assertion reminded him that Gao Gan seemed to be quite capable.
Historically, after Yuan Shao was overthrown, Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang and others either fought or surrendered, but could not hold out for a few days. On the contrary, the senior officials struggled in Bingzhou for a while. Cao Cao sent Li Dian to attack, but he could not attack, and finally
As a last resort, he could only lead the main force to the westward expedition in person. Only then could he be considered solved and he could be regarded as a human being.
If we can solve the high-level cadres in this way and capture Shangdang and Taiyuan without any bloodshed, it will be very beneficial to the situation of the Bingzhou War. The Xiliang Army has many soldiers and horses, so its movement speed will be slow. If the Bingzhou issue is handled well, it can be ahead of the Xiliang Army.
Before consolidating the Shangdang, Taiyuan was used as a logistics base to move the front to places such as Xihe, Yunzhong, and Wuyuan.
As a horse herding land once assigned by the imperial court to the surrendered Southern Huns, Bingzhou has been barren for a long time, and the only highlights are Taiyuan and Shangdang. The Xiliang army cannot raise enough food and grass if they cannot get to Taiyuan and Shangdang.
, can only rely on transportation from Guanzhong and Hedong, which will undoubtedly increase the burden on the coalition forces.
Of course, the Xiliang army is similar to the bastards in Youzhou. Their 300,000-strong army is actually made up of all the people. Attacking Bingzhou is not just about grabbing territory for their own use. As long as they are not in a hurry to invade Jizhou, the cost of advancing slowly is also small.
Not too big.
But in this way, it will undoubtedly buy time for the Qingzhou Army to fully prepare for war, and it will also be able to seize the initiative to start the war. It will be in a quite advantageous position as soon as the war begins.
Coincidentally, geniuses always have the same ideas. In Xuzhou, Pang Tong also mentioned the same thing. He believed that the Chen family in Guangling could also try to use such countermeasures to solve the problem.
The Chen family was different from Gongsun Zan and others. What supported them against Wang Yu was not their arrogance, but their persistence in power. After reading Pang Tong's letter, Wang Yu realized that the Chen family was not the pure local tycoon he had thought.
His family background is only one or two points worse than that of Yuan Shao.
If someone uses the most formal method of this era to introduce Chen Gui, there will be a long list of notes in front of his name: grandson of Chen Qi, the prefect of Guanghan, nephew of Chen Qiu, the prefect of Wu County, Chen Yu, the prefect of Ruyin, and Chen Cong, the prefect of Ruyin.
From brother…
Wang Yu once heard Liu Yi mention Taiwei Chen Qiu, saying that he also used a bed crossbow to kill enemies, but he didn't know whether it was passed down from his family or taught by someone. In short, he was a very distinguished person.
Wanting such a family to completely give up local power and downgrade to an ordinary family is almost the same as exterminating the whole family, right? Therefore, the Chen family will definitely not give in until the end of the road.
Are they now at the end of their rope?
On this point, Wang Yu and Pang Tong can reach an agreement, far from it. The Chen family used to be enemies of Qingzhou, and they used the method of taking advantage of the situation. They did not take action themselves, but only used their brains and mouth to provoke others to take action.
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But if you underestimate the strength of the Chen family because of this and think that they, like Xu You, can only play conspiracies, you would be completely wrong. The Chen family's true capabilities have not been revealed yet.
If nothing else, let’s just say that the bed crossbow that Chen Qiu once used had never appeared in previous wars. The aristocratic families of this era were all about keeping a low profile and hiding whatever good things they had.
It was known to outsiders that when Leng Ding showed up, he was immediately frightened.
If these good things have been hidden for a long time, they are likely to be lost. However, since Chen Qiu and Chen Gui are only one generation apart, there is no way that the method of making bed crossbows will be lost.
In history, Chen Deng, as the governor of Guangling, once repelled Sun Ce's attack. Now that Wang Yu thinks about it, he might have relied on the bed crossbow to achieve his feats. This thing is a powerful defensive weapon. It can be found at several important passes along the river.
With a few deployed, Jiangdong's ships might not be able to get close to the ferry, let alone land on the beach.
Pang Tong didn't know whether the Chen family had hidden such a sharp weapon, but he also told Wang Yu in a very definite tone that the Chen family must have some trump cards that they couldn't use. If they attack Guangling now, they must mobilize 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers. As well as corresponding auxiliary troops, preparations for the war must be at least one year old.
If Guangling is left alone, after the war in the Central Plains begins, corresponding precautions must be taken to avoid being caught off guard by the surprise attack of Chen Gui and his son.
In comparison, if we could use the Ping Bei Ce concept to demarcate an area for the Chen family and let them become local emperors, this trouble might be solved.
"This can be regarded as deliberately planting flowers but not blooming, but unintentionally planting willows to create shade, right? Of course, we must complete this matter first." Wang Yu muttered happily, feeling that he was really too wise, and he thought of any tricks. , the scope of application is so wide. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)