Zhuge Liang arrived in Chang'an three or five days earlier than the messenger sent by Li Su.

So this time is only enough for Liu Bei to have a rough understanding of the latest battle situation in the north and south lines, and to initially estimate the strategic direction of the next stage. In addition, he will consider the optimization of the title system.

After sorting out the above matters, it was almost the end of September that the messenger sent by Li Su also arrived in Chang'an.

Liu Bei happened to free up his hands and carefully reviewed Li Su's memorials as soon as possible. At the same time, he compared Li Su, Lu Su and others' strategic suggestions for the next stage with Zhuge Liang and Xun You's suggestions, and then found Fa Zheng. Each of them took advantage of their strengths, and the fewer they could do.

After Li Su's plan and plan in reply was arranged, the lost land was almost restored, and Li Su himself should go to Beijing, so he could directly accept so many promotions and rewards given to him by Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took it seriously and said that Li Su's suggestion that "the rest of the time this year is not enough to take Taiyuan, because of the logistics difficulties and the hardships of the people in the war zone, Shangdang could not break through Huguan and Yecheng. Therefore, it was recommended to feintly attack Yecheng to attract Yuan Shao's defensive power, but in fact he focused on Luoyang" that Liu Bei fully agreed with the general strategy.

It was mainly Zhuge Liang and Xun You had no differences on this issue. All three parties advised him so, and the heroes had similar opinions, so that would definitely be right.

However, the suggestions of the three people are not exactly the same in some details.

For example, Zhuge Liang also mentioned that the specific operation should be "taking a feint attack posture that continues to threaten Yecheng, attracting enemy troops", and then actually attack Luoyang.

But Li Su, the master, went further than Zhuge Liang, and mentioned some supporting measures after the war.

For example, after trying every means to seize Luoyang, they continued to increase their public opinion offensive, spread rumors to the enemy grassroots officers and soldiers through private channels and widely publicize various views such as "Yuan's army's defense in Luoyang is empty, and its troops were transferred to Yecheng and Huguan, resulting in Luoyang's loss, which was completely Yuan Shao's mentally and incompetent."

In other words, from a purely military perspective, whether to continue to attack in the direction of Huguan will attract enemy troops will not affect the conclusion that Guan Yu can get back Luoyang.

Given the current situation where Yuan Shao has been wiped out a total of 190,000 troops, he is also defending the heavy troops of Yecheng and Luoyang Duhua at the same time, and Luoyang will definitely not be able to defend Luoyang.

Using some tricks to differentiate the enemy, giving the enemies in the Yin War Zone in Henan to retreat and escape, it is nothing more than making the attack smoother, and even directly forcing the enemy to subvert the damage to the surrounding areas of Luoyang.

Therefore, whether Yuan Shao is mentally retarded or not, Luoyang is sure to lose.

The key to Li Su's strategy is to continue to put pressure on Yuan Shao's psychology and fame, making Yuan Shao so angry that he pursued Yuan Shao's health.

But Zhuge Liang and Xun You could not see this. It was obvious that Zhuge Liang and others did not have enough IQ, but Li Su directly used his familiar historical character design to copy the answers on this subdivided question point.

After all, others were as imaginary as gods, and they didn't know the conclusion that "more than a year after the Battle of Guandu in history, Yuan Shao died of anger because he was defeated twice in a row." Even if they knew that Yuan Shao was sarcastic and timid, they could not understand the extent of "firmly believe that Yuan Shao could be angry to death."

After all, a petty person who has not been really angry to death cannot prove from medical perspective that he has a constitution that is easily angry to death.

It is impossible for anyone in the world to predict whether a person can be pissed to death like Li Su.

After Liu Bei pondered about this detail, he didn't understand it at first, so he gave Li Suxin this point to Zhuge Liang and Xun You in private. He did not pass the formal dynasty meeting, but privately summoned several top advisers to discuss in Shiqu Pavilion, the study in Weiyang Palace.

After Zhuge Liang and Xun Youfazheng discussed, they felt that what Li Su said was indeed very reasonable, so they suggested that Liu Bei add this point to the source plan.

Liu Bei also shook his head with a self-deprecating : "Forget it, although it is indeed incredible to see that Yuan Shao can be pissed to death from the pathological analysis of Yuan Shao's behavior. But seeing that Boya always predicts things like God, I trust him once more.

Anyway, the other parts of the policy are similar to what the two loved ones said, so there is no need to make major changes, and there is no loss to look forward to it."

After finalizing this detail, the route of "the military attack on the territory directly under Yuan Shao next year will be suspended, and everything will be based on the principle of attacking Yuan Shao's prestige, attacking Yuan Shao to death, and military fighting as a supplement" can basically be adopted directly.

Then we should induce Yuan Shao to spoil his young son. After his death, his brothers and brothers will inevitably squabble and further evolve into internal strife in Yuan and Cao... These are acceptable, and they do not delay the rhythm.

After all, without this move, it would be difficult for Liu Bei to launch a large-scale military attack next year.

The three border counties were completely destroyed, and Henan Yin did not have much military savings after he took them back. He really had to slow down and transfer a large amount of materials from the rear to the front before continuing to attack.

A real war is not about playing games without considering logistics. No matter how strong the military is, other factors must be considered comprehensively.

Therefore, Li Su's suggestion only slightly extends the buffer period to wait for a larger range of "slow down, you will be able to harm yourself" within the enemy camp, which is also affordable.

After discussing Li Su's above comments, Xun You, Fa Zheng and others realized a problem, and they couldn't help but remind Liu Bei.

Xun You first pointed out: "Your Majesty, Sikong's advice is indeed a valuable way. With my understanding of Yuan Shao, what Sikong said can also be realized.

However, if Yuan Shao really dies and does lay hidden dangers, it does not mean that these hidden dangers can explode immediately.

We can indeed show that "because the Shangdang War in Hanoi has also lost a lot of vitality, we are unable to make progress." But because Yuan Shao's side has repeatedly fallen into strategic plans, we cannot rule out that they are thinking too much at that time."

Fa Zheng also agreed: "What Xun Lingjun said was indeed a prudent statement. This time we were truly standing by and watching, waiting for Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan to kill each other, and Cao Cao helped one of them.

But they thought we were pretending, so they did not dare to act rashly because they were afraid of His Majesty, and they were also holding back their hidden dangers and dissatisfaction. In the end, wouldn’t we wait for nothing?

Li Sikong's plan should be added with some more 'sincere' evidence to make the enemy believe that His Majesty has another direction in the strategic direction arrangement next year. This matter must be clearly stated that it cannot be hidden."

It has to be said that the problem pointed out by Xun You and Fa Zheng is the sequelae of Liu Bei's camp using too many tricks.

Even if you have no idea of ​​your plan, the enemy will not sleep well every night. Occasionally, you will wake up from nightmares and wonder if you are holding up other bad waters.

Just like when I went home late at night, I took off my leather shoes and threw one on the floor, waking me up to sleep downstairs. If the second shoe doesn't fall downstairs, I can't fall asleep downstairs.

Among the strategists present, Zhuge Liang did not speak for the time being, but this is not to say that he is afraid of the identity of teachers and students and is difficult to point out Li Su's problems, but based on his understanding of Master Li, he always feels that there must be other arrangements in other aspects.

After hearing these suggestions, Liu Bei was a little surprised at first, but then seemed to be reminded to integrate some of the problems, and smiled:

"The argument that both Gongda and filial piety and righteousness are my problem. Boya's remarks have two parts, and the other part is about people's livelihood construction. I think it has nothing to do with the military strategy, so I didn't come up with it to discuss it.

Now it seems that what Boya said is all for one purpose. Perhaps it is to make a speech on the short and discuss the strengths. The book is endless, or the ministers have answered my doubts. Let’s take a look at Boya’s request for the people’s livelihood arrangements first.”

Xun You and others were stunned. It turned out that Li Su's stamp was very long and had various contents. Just now, time was in a hurry, so Liu Bei only took a part of it to discuss.

Since these are all related, Liu Bei was not in a hurry to take the truth out of context, so he asked the palace attendants to get some refreshments and asked the three of them to slowly figure out all the parts of Li Su's Seyan.

Zhuge Liang knew Master Li’s ideas better, so he was the first to read it and explained it to others.

Zhuge Liang: "It turns out that after Master Li pointed out that 'Hanoi Shangdang and Henan are all broken, and it is not advisable to attack Yuan quickly next year', he also suggested that 'the logistics should be improved on the southern line, and the road should be rectified, and the main attack should be changed to deter Cao Cao because he could not attack Yuan'.

If this can be done, it will indeed relieve the worries of "Yuan Shang's concern that we will attack Yecheng at any time, so he will not dare to fight within the country." Once Yuan Shao is really dead, it will encourage Yuan Shang to let go of his courage and be rebellious."

Fa Zheng: "If you can really do this, you can really instigate Yuan Shang, but how can you ensure that you can do it? Brother Kong Ming, you read it quickly, so you can help us interpret it."

Zhuge Liang had absorbed all Master Li's thoughts and glanced at Liu Bei. Seeing Liu Bei's eyes encouraging, he talked in front of you:

"As we all know, Guanzhong was restored by the imperial court, so we could not imagine a living and building. In just four years, Liangzhou and Hetao were restored, and on average, it was only two years. There were Qinling Mountains in the north and south, so our army and Yuan Shao on the northern front were almost all the savings of Guanzhong before.

The army of the Taiwei's more than 100,000 troops remained in a state of fighting and fought bloody battles for more than a year. In addition to the final assistance of General Zhang and General Ma, most of the military reserves that Guanzhong had accumulated since the previous year had been consumed. We use this reason to express our inability to attack hundreds of thousands of troops in Jizhou in the next year, which is easy to gain trust.

However, the enemy also knew that from the overall perspective, His Majesty's court was abundant and was never as capable of starting a war.

Yizhou was properly governed by His Majesty for eight years, with abundant resources and prosperous military industry. Moreover, the gap between Yizhou and Guanzhong is far from being as simple as four years of peace and governance. Because Guanzhong had been wars for years before, Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si slaughtered and looted for three years.

With one positive and one reverse, the gap between the people and national strength of the Qinling Mountains and the northern and southern territories can provide is more than five times? Although Jingzhou has a short time to restore the liberation, the advantage of "not having experienced wars before" is slightly better than Yizhou. After all, when His Majesty suppressed Liu Yan, he had war in Yizhou for more than two years, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou took office peacefully and surrendered peacefully.

Later, the only consumption was that Sun Ce entered the country and ate grain stored in Jiangling, Nanjun for more than half a year. When Sikong turned against Jiangdong, he used Jingzhou to supply military supplies.

After this calculation, the loss of storage in Nanjun caused by Sun Ce's invasion was about 600,000 700,000 s of military rations. After that, the Li army counterattacked Pingjiangdong, and more than 100,000 troops ate for nine months. In addition to the labor service, the civilians and construction were used, and a total of more than 2 million s of grain were consumed.

When Liu Biao surrendered, the total amount of grain reserves in Nanjun was only 2 million stones, which was equivalent to repelling Sun Ce and rebelling against Jiangdong. Together, Liu Biao's savings in Nanjun for eight years were completely empty, and he also spent the surplus of Jingzhou's new grain tax this year.

However, Jingzhou still has a little savings in Xiangyang, and the court's Yizhou granary is still abundant. In general, if the court launches an offensive from the southern line, the supply of military rations will be much more abundant than that of the northern line.

We can calculate this principle, and Yuan Shang and Cao Cao can naturally calculate it. Therefore, the key to Sikong's deception plan is to use some explicit methods to let Yuan Cao see clearly that we are working hard to transport the storage of the southern line to Jing-Yu and Yang-Yu frontlines.
Chapter completed!