Ju Su chose Xin Ping as a tool person and carefully weighed it.

On the one hand, he had a friendship with Xin Ping. Both of them served the former two governors and prefecture governors long before Yuan Shao came to Jizhou. The colleagues lasted for eleven years and had changed hands several times.

On the other hand, the Xin Ping family is actually not a native of Hebei, but a staff member brought by the former Jizhou governor from another place. This can keep a certain distance from Ju Su, who is from Jizhou.

Over the years, Yuan Shao rarely felt that "Xin Ping is from Ju Su's sect", but he did not think that Xin Ping was from Yingchuan/Nanyang sect, but was a neutral person between the Hebei sect and the Yingchuan sect.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, after Guan Yu ran away, Ju Su went to Xin Ping that night and discussed his strategic considerations of being impartial to the country and the people.

Although Xin Ping is not very careful about the sub-sections, he is poor in private derby Ju Su and can collect money to do things, he is still clear about major matters.

He knew that Ju Su was a talented person, and he could also hear that the other party's plan was much better than Yuan Shao's current implementation of the current plan, and in principle he was willing to help him make suggestions.

However, Xin Ping was engaged in his background and did the kind of leadership and secretary work in his early career. He was more good at observing his expression and comprehension.

In recent years, because Yuan Shao has paid more attention to Chen Lin in his secretary-type aides, Xin Ping's positioning has gradually turned to a scattered job, and there is hard work without credit.

He knew that at this critical moment, his neutrality in Yuan Shao's heart was still a bit insufficient, and a secretary's role as a miscellaneous person is not suitable for talking nonsense about military strategies. He was afraid that as soon as he spoke, Yuan Shao would think of the relationship "Ju Su and Xin Ping were already colleagues before I came to Jizhou."

After thinking about it again and again, in the process of finally landing, Xin Ping entrusted his younger brother to give Xin Pi a chance to show off.

Xin Ping is 35 years old this year, and Xin Pi is only twenty-eight years old. Xin Ping was recommended to Yuan Shao by Xin Ping after his elder brother had already obtained some official positions.

Therefore, Xinpi's career resume only lasted for seven or eight years. He was only after Yuan Shao stole the governor of Jizhou from Han Fu in 191.

From this perspective, Xin Pi and Ju Su did not have the friendship of "changing ownership several times and still working together", and as soon as they entered the official career, they were clearly in the Yingchuan/Nanyang faction, so they could not be a factional confrontation with Xu You in Nanyang.

In terms of personal talents, Xinpi's small details and personal morality are better than brothers, and are also better at diplomatic and military planning, but his loyalty is not as good as his brother Xinping in Shanghai.

Otherwise, after the Battle of Guandu in history, Xinpi would not have turned his back so quickly, but Xinping did not surrender.

After weighing the request from his elder brother, Xinpi found that this plan was indeed reasonable and a good opportunity to make contributions, so he agreed with a win-win mentality.

...

The next day, the seventh day of the seventh month.

Yuan Shao is still worried about the loss of troops and generals in the previous stage. In fact, this summer offensive started to attack in full swing from June 22, and it has only been half a month since then.

But 20,000 people died in half a month, with a total of 40,000 casualties and injuries. At present, only 240,000 available soldiers are left. It is difficult to quickly replenish the power of deterioration if you are slashing three feet behind.

All kinds of torture made Yuan Shao subconsciously feel that this battle seemed to have been going on for a month or two.

At noon that day, he got another bad news, which was reported by his staff in charge of the military's logistics work, saying that there was a small-scale epidemic in the army in Yewang and Wen County.

Military medical officers have been sent to deal with it in the military, but the effect is still unknown. At present, at least hundreds of soldiers with obvious symptoms have vomited and diarrhea. As for how many potential infected people whose symptoms have not been revealed, it is unknown.

Moreover, most people in counties around Hanoi County are infected with epidemic diseases. People do not have any medical officials to deal with it, and the victims are probably more serious than soldiers. Based on the previous environment, the military Chinese medicine officials speculated that the epidemic was caused by flooding and excessive corpses and that they could not be disposed of. Yuan Shao has asked to arrange some emergency measures.

In fact, this plague caused by the large-scale flooding of sewage and the unburned corpses, and the patient is also symptomatic of vomiting and diarrhea. Anyone with some modern medical knowledge can judge that it is cholera.

But Yuan Shao is not as good as Zhang Ji, who understands "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" at the same time, and he doesn't know what cholera is.

Fortunately, although this disease causes vomiting and diarrhea, as long as you insist on giving the patients a sufficient amount of light saline water at a suitable concentration, and the added saline water will never be contaminated, then more than 80% of the patients can survive and not die.

Compared with other plagues in the same period in the late Han Dynasty, such as plague or typhoid fever, the mortality rate of this plague is more than 10% better if it is handled well. However, even if the patient survives it, he will have a period of weakness for a long time and will definitely not be able to work or go to the battlefield.

But because no one cares about it, people do not drink cooked and clean light salt water, so they don’t know how much they can live.

Yuan Shao was overwhelmed by this new situation. Some strategists said to him tactfully: Although Hanoi was restored, in order to force Guan Yu to leave, he dug a river and broke the water, destroying the local infrastructure into this bad situation.

If nearly 200,000 troops were stacked in Hanoi County, swamps and rotten corpses everywhere, it would probably create a breeding ground for the plague. Yuan Shao was asked to consider withdrawing his troops and use a small number of elite troops to defend the exits of Zhuguanxing, Jiguanxing and Shimenxing to prevent Guan Yu from counterattacking.

When the weather gets cooler and the plague is not so strong, the water accumulation in Hanoi has completely faded, and it will not be too late to launch a full-scale attack.

Yuan Shao was still hesitating, and Xin Pi seized this opportunity and jumped out to solve his lord's worries.

Originally, he was only twenty-eight years old. Among the various counselors in Yuanying, he really didn't have much qualifications to make his big strategy.

On this day, Xinpi also went to learn about the situation of the plague, and then used the excuse of offering advice to help Yuan Shao to cure the aftermath and found an opportunity to make an offer. He first explained the current situation and gave some suggestions to deal with the plague.

After hearing this, Yuan Shao said impatiently: "Did George also come to persuade me to escape the heat and relieve the plague?"

Xin Pi bowed and replied respectfully, giving Yuan Shao a step: "The lord is soaring and shaking like a dragon and tiger step. He has just defeated Guan Yu, and his army is in full swing. How dare you persuade the lord to abolish his troops due to the epidemic?

However, now there are occasional difficulties in replenishing supplies in Hanoi, and it is difficult to get typhoid fever in a crowded group. The lord's original method of using troops was well achievable with Sun Wu's righteous path, and gathered heavy troops to annihilate the stubborn enemy. However, when encountering the current situation, it may be necessary to make a little adjustment."

Xin Pi flattered first and emphasized that "Yuan Shao's strategy was correct in the past. If there was no plague, it should continue to be implemented according to Yuan Shao's original plan. Now it is because of a new emergencies."

Yuan Shao was very happy: Look, Gu was right at the beginning, and now he needs to change it according to the actual situation, and adapt to the situation, not to admit his mistakes!

After being slandered by Xin Pi's flattery, Yuan Shao's attitude of accepting advice improved a lot in an instant. Regardless of Xin Pi's relatively low status, he was not worthy of talking about military and political strategies, he asked with a smile:

"Georg said it's okay. He has always been humbly accepting advice, but he is happy when he hears it. The follow-up strategy is adjusted as much as he should."

Xin Pi smiled and carefully described Ju Shu's plan that he had digested again in tactful words:

"The lord's military use is no less than that of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Han Xin once said that Emperor Gaozu's military command was only 100,000, and Han Xin's military command was better. Therefore, if the troops exceed 100,000 and piled up in one place, they would not be able to exert their combat power, and they would only increase losses.

However, it is not a bad thing to have only one hundred thousand soldiers on a single route. The lord is good at employing people and has many good generals under his command. It is precisely the burden of Emperor Gaozu. When a soldier exceeds 100,000, it can be completely solved by splitting and attacking together and appointing talented and famous futures.

If Lu Bu and Zhang Liao led Taiyuan, Shangdang's army could attack sideways and detours, they would form a whole way. From the other way, it was Han Xin's retreat to Wuqi and Peng Yue who hindered Chu. In this way, the lord would gain the benefits of Emperor Gaozu and avoid the disadvantages of Emperor Gaozu.

The lord still remembers: When Xu Ziyuan suggested that the lord go to war, an important reason, or information, was that Wang Ping, who was a powerful mountain army under Guan Yu, broke through the Dabie Mountains and threatened Huainan and Runan flanks, and restrained Cao Cao's large number of troops.

Therefore, Xu Ziyuan calculated that Guan Yu was in Hedong and the total strength of Hanoi was weak. The previous stalemate was a bluff, which led to our subsequent active attack.

But since this is the case, why didn't Xu Ziyuan explore and utilize the characteristic of "Wang Ping was transferred away and Guan Yu's troops were empty"? Guan Yu was stationed in Henoi, and the original logistics and grain route mainly relied on the Fen River water transportation, and transferred from Linfen and Houma to the Qinshui water transportation.

The key to ensuring the Qinshui Grain Road is the Duanshi and the Huize counties west of Shangdang Kongcangling. Zhang Liao tried to seize these two places last winter, but he was indeed defeated and suffered a defeat.

But at this time, there was also a moment, and it was a crushing defeat at that time. It was precisely because Wang Ping and Zhang Ren joined forces. Wang Ping was good at taking the dangerous road of Taihang and Zhang Ren was good at defending the city. Although Zhang Liao had many soldiers, he crossed the remaining Taihang veins and attacked the empty walls, and was depressed.

But now our army has revived most of the Hanoi, and the three passes of Zhuguan, Jiguan and Shimen are under heavy troops. I am afraid that Zhang Ren's defensive focus will have to move from Duan to Shimen, help Guan Yu to defend himself step by step.

If our army uses the plan, we will only leave 100,000 people in Hanoi, and the rest will be moved from Danshui to the north, and take the route of the Party attacking Hedong North Road, and attack in a row.

In terms of selecting specific routes, he deliberately followed the offensive route that Zhang Liao failed once last winter, used the strategy and took advantage of the enemy's carelessness to be wary of it.

As long as Wang Ping was not obstructed, Zhang Liao and other generals would definitely succeed and cut off several dangerous valleys in the Taihang Mountains. Even if Guan Yu retreated from Ye Wang and Qinshui to Shimen, his entire army would still be wiped out.

There were 20,000 elite troops from Guan Yu who broke through Yewang County, and 10,000 before Qinshui County. In addition, there were 5,000 troops in Shimenxing, and thousands of troops in Duanshi, Fuze and other places.

If Zhang Liao can succeed this time, we can still siege at least 40,000 Guan Yu's most direct lineage until death. Moreover, the siege position is more beneficial than siege in the Yewang City.

Because the Wild King still has a lot of grain reserves to stalemate, we have to fight a tough battle to consume life if we want to destroy Guan Yu. However, there are very few places where we can store grain in the Taihang Valley, and Guan Yu would not have deliberately stored more food in these dangerous wild places.

Zhang Liao attacked from Shangdang, Zhang He, Gao Lan, and generals such as Tuo Yi still attacked from Hanoi, blocking Guan Yu in the dangerous valley of Taihang without any need to fight. They just guard the head and tail, and wait for Guan Yu to starve to death on his own, or force Guan Yu to try to break through.

At that time, the narrow profits of Taihangxing Valley will be controlled by our army, which is on the defensive position. Even if Guan Yu's elite soldiers want to kill all of his 40,000 people, the price we have to pay will be much smaller, and his morale will not be able to sustain the entire army's death. Maybe after several consecutive defeats, the soldiers will flee and the morale of the army will collapse and collapse.

Finally, once Zhang Liao crossed Kongcangling to cut off the Qinshui grain channel and defended the dangerous situation, he could deliberately release the news to lure the troops in Hedong North Road, which had been unable to defend in Linfen and Jiangyi. He left the city because of his eagerness to save his master, and took the initiative to try to open up the grain channel, attack Zhang Liao and rescue Guan Yu.

At that time, Taiyuan Lu Bu will go down the Fen River and rush down quickly to Linfen, and cut off the retreat of Liu Bei's troops attacking from Linfen, and use the iron cavalry to patrol and prevent the enemy from returning to the Fen River. In this way, a great thing will be accomplished."

Xin Pi's words had been meditating on the lines for a long time, and he specially reorganized Ju Su's meaning, which seemed to be orderly and step by step. Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment.

I have to say that Xinpi has the talent of a large company in later generations. He is not good at making plans, but is good at reporting to leaders with PPT.

The strategy is obviously Jushu, and the creativity is also Jushu, but Jushu doesn’t like to flatter, and does not organize the rhythm of language to consider the acceptance of leaders.

Xinpi flattered and painted a big cake and mixed it with Yuan Shao's Ai Ting's mission, vision and values, and it felt different immediately.

Yuan Shao slapped his thigh and was overjoyed: "What George said is so! I didn't know that George also had such a talent as a king! I have been commanding the army for many years, but no one taught me how to prosper the benefits of the great ancestor and eliminate the disadvantages of the great ancestor.

Hurry up, immediately summon all the generals and I want to divide the troops! Add troops to Zhang Liao, divide Wen Chou to the northern route, and follow Zhang Liao to cross Kongcangling to cut off Guan Yu's return journey! Leave 100,000 troops in Henei, and the extra ones will go to the party! We will attack together and capture Guan Yu!"

Yuan Shao was happy and even forgot to question the question "Even if Zhang Liao succeeded, if he wanted to stick to the Qinshui Valley in the Taihang Mountains for a long time, how should Zhang Liao's grain road be secured?"

Fortunately, since Xin Ping's idea was given for free by Ju Su, when it was really time to implement the execution stage, Ju Su would still help him make up for it as much as possible.

That night, Ju Su was relieved when he heard that Yuan Shao agreed to divide his troops to improve the efficiency of the battle.

He felt that his IQ would have done this for Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shao didn't listen, or if any new evil plan appeared on the other side, he would have no way to turn things around and could only leave it to fate.

"If you take the initiative, you don't have much confidence in winning, but you just want to win in defeat. Xin Zhuozhi is good at speaking cleverly and making the lord willing to accept advice. This is a good thing.

I am afraid that after being flattered, I will become more and more arrogant, underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, and do not take Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang as a minister. Alas, there are only so many people who can do. If things are still not harmonious, they will be unable to do anything. I am afraid that the destiny will not be in Guandong for the first time."
Chapter completed!