Li Su has obviously been considering this issue recently, so when facing Liu Bei's question, he can give some suggestions immediately:

"Your Majesty... Speaking of this, I have some experience recently. I found that the plan I set in the past few years is also not perfect. It is the strategy of "Three Roads to Pair Guandong" that I told Your Majesty at the beginning. It is best to fine-tune it."

Liu Bei: "Oh? It's okay, although it's not a problem. Anyway, it's better to adjust it early than to adjust it late. It's better to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in time than to cover it."

Li Su suggested: "Before I took office as Governor of Jingyi the previous year, I suggested that Your Majesty put Yun Chang in Hebei, the Lord destroyed Yuan Shao, Yide in Henan, the Lord destroyed Cao Cao, Zilong and I were in Jiangdong, and the Lord destroyed Sun family.

Now that the Yuan family has been destroyed, the Sun family has been destroyed. Yun Chang and Yuan have fought for three years, and the new generation has just recovered Bingzhou. The situation has changed a lot from what they expected the year before.

Considering that what we are pursuing now is to show the Yuan family to slow down and give them space to harm each other. Therefore, letting Chang Yun stay in Hebei again will put pressure on the Yuan family, and perhaps it will cause more concerns when the Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan brothers are in conflict.

In the middle of the battle against Cao Cao, we have now adjusted our tactics. Since our army has planned to lure Cao Cao to the Kunyang Battle in winter and reassure the Yuan brothers, it would be better to do it all the time and simply transfer Yun Chang to Nanyang County and change defense with Yide.

Chang Yun has made enough contributions in recent years, and the Taiwei has been promoted to a general. He asked him to fight a defensive counterattack and consume the enemy's vitality to defend and fight. Even if there is no new task of recovering lost ground next year, he will not be a loss to him.

In contrast, Yide has been defending the enemy in recent years. Because of the previous strategic key reasons of our army, he has never achieved the merit of expanding the land. His title is still less than 10,000 households, and his fiefdom is slightly less than Zilong. He has only one general of the chariot and cavalry, but he is more than Zilong's guard general.

Yide is also one of the few lords who trust the most, and it is time for him to show his strength. Once Yun Chang is transferred to Bowang and Kunyang, after going to war with Cao Cao, Yun Chang can be exposed on his own initiative, intimidate Cao Cao, and make Cao Cao think he has fallen into our trap of seducing the enemy.

When the news that "Yun Chang is in Nanyang" reached Hebei, the Yuan brothers would let go of their courage and felt that the threat from our army was not worth worrying. Our main force was really going south to fight Cao Cao.

At that time, let Yide take advantage of the internal strife of the Yuan brothers to attack in chaos and cut off the enemy's wings. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

Liu Bei nodded: "It's nothing to let Yide lead the troops. I'm afraid that Yide will suddenly be alone. With his personality, he will inevitably omit it... Don't get me wrong, I'm not a person who doesn't believe in Yide's talent in leading troops.

He followed me over the years to fight in the north and north. Even when he was young, he was reckless and easily retreated, he has changed a lot now. But he needs to give him enough time to understand the situation before the war, so that he can adapt to the situation. In recent years, he has been leading troops in Henan for a long time, and suddenly transferred to Hebei. I am afraid that he can't adapt."

Liu Bei's considerations were also considered to be a strong opinion. He knew that Zhang Fei was a general who had the talent for combat but lacked systematic strategies. Many of Zhang Fei's military strategies were instinctive reactions with a flash of inspiration. It was good to seize tactical opportunities, but it was not a system.

This style of military use most requires long-term observation and accumulation of combat environment and enemy-to-eight conditions.

To put it bluntly, it means that professionals need to do professional things. A person who has been in the Henan Defense Zone for two or three years will definitely be the most stable to let him continue to preside over the Henan battlefield. Similarly, those who have been in Hebei for many years have also continued to stay in Hebei to avoid generals not knowing their soldiers and generals not knowing their generals.

Because it is easy for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to change defenses, but the hundreds of thousands of troops below do not change defenses. At most, their thousands of their direct descendants will be mobilized.

Zhang Fei's military law is also strict. After taking over the new army, whether he will attack people and establish authority and accumulate conflicts when rectifying military disciplines is also a problem. Liu Bei knows him very well in this regard.

When Liu Bei mentioned these concerns, Li Su had already thought of some of them, but some of them didn't care about them at first.

But Li Su temporarily evaluated it and thought it could still be solved, so he analyzed:

"Your Majesty knows people and responsibilities, and knows Yun Changyide well. I admire him. However, these problems are not irreparable. Let's talk about the generals who don't know the soldiers first. If our army immediately asks Yun Changyide to change the defense zone, then they will have several months to familiarize themselves with the new defense zone and the new troops.

Because Henan is not as cold as Hebei in winter, in Hebei, it is impossible to expedition troops in severe winter, and at most it is stalemate. However, in Yingchuan and Nanyang areas, it can attack and fight. Yide transferred to Hebei and will not have the opportunity to go to war at least next February. If you survive the busy spring farming, you can delay until April, and you will have five months to get familiar with the troops and defense areas. This is one of them.

As for the second benefit of Yide leading the troops in Hebei, it is related to the goal we are going to choose - Your Majesty thinks that once Yuan Shao and his sons have internal conflicts, who should compete for the throne with whom, and our army should take the opportunity to attack and who will help whom?"

Liu Bei obviously did enough intelligence work on Yuan Shao's family affairs, and replied without thinking: "Yuan Shao spoiled his young child. If the sons fought for the throne, it would naturally be Yuan Tan's fight for the eldest son and Yuan Shang's love, and the eldest son and the eldest son and the first son and the first son were in love.

Our army is closest to Yuan Shang, and the army's logistics is the most convenient. At that time, we will attack Yuan Shang together with Yuan Tan and Cao Cao."

Li Su shook his head and analyzed tactfully: "Your Majesty, if this is the case, then the plan that our army had previously planned to "relieve it and wait for the sons of the Yuan family to harm each other" could only be considered as giving up halfway and not implementing it to the end.

After all, although Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang had a dispute over interests, they did not even think of a blood feud when they first started fighting. After all, they were still brothers. If Yuan Shang was so critical that he had no way out, he would definitely die if he was attacked from three sides. Wouldn't he beg for peace again and recognize his brother as the leader?

He surrendered to his brother and wanted to save his life and wealth. If Yuan Tan did not tolerate him, he insisted on killing him. Cao Cao would take the opportunity to interfere in the affairs of the Yuan family more deeply. After all, Yuan Shao's general could not pass the throne. Under the framework of the pseudo-dynasty of Guandong, both Yuan could not fight Cao Cao."

Li Su's words were indeed thought out and did not copy history.

Because in history, Yuan Shang was still holding on to the end even under the attack of Yuan Tan and Cao Cao, but Li Su believes that this kind of hard-working has its own special environment, and it is obviously impossible to reproduce now-

In history, Yuan Shang felt that he had a chance to fight one by one. But now, he had no chance to fight one by one, even if he had a chance to fight Liu Bei, he would have no chance to fight one by one.

In this case, directly attacking Yuan Shang would at most take over Ye City and even the entire Wei County. Then Yuan Shao's other territory would immediately re-align the masters and be under Yuan Tan's subordinates. Liu Bei's benefits gained by this internal strife would not be maximized.

Liu Bei also thought about it slowly for a while, understood this ideal, nodded slightly, and followed the advice: "That Iberya's meaning..."

Li Su: "We should attack Youzhou and deal with Yuan Xi. Because only when we do not directly threaten either of Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, these two masters who seized the throne will be reluctant to give up the hope of winning in front of us, hesitate, and refuse to return to unity.

At the same time, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were both bordering Cao Cao. When our army defeated the main force of either side, Cao Cao could take the opportunity to take over their remaining territory with allies. But only Yuan Xi was in Youzhou, the northernmost part of Youzhou, and there was no bordering with Cao Cao and Yuan Tan, and there was a Yuan Shang in the middle.

Any of them wanted to take over the territory as an allies when our army defeated Yuan Xi's main force. Although Youzhou was poorer than Jizhou, it was better because the terrain was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Yanshan was in a high position.

Our army flows down the Sanggan River from Yunzhong, Bingzhou, and around Yanmen, where we have just recovered, and flows into the Hangshui River (Haihe River), and can reach Jixian, the capital of Youzhou. Once there is also the land of Yanyun, and look down on Jizhou from a high place, you can ask for it at any time.

Even if Yuan Shang had been destroyed by Cao Cao and Yuan Tan, Yuan Tan had become Cao Cao's puppet. But as long as our army occupied Yanshan in the north, blocked Taihang in the west, guarded Hulao, Tongbai, Dajie, and even to Jianghuai, we can attack everywhere in the last five states of Ji, Qing, Yan, Yu, and Xu.

No matter which side you fight, it will be a plain. Cao Cao was exhausted. The only disadvantage of our army is that it is not easy to transport large quantities of food and supplies from the rear to the North China Plain. However, after the Nanyang Canal is repaired next year or at the beginning of the year after, Jingyi supplies will be transported to the front line without any loss, and Cao Cao's doomsday is not far away!

According to the plan, we will take Youzhou next year and fight again in the summer of the slack season, so we will not delay any trouble."

When Liu Bei heard this discussion, his eyes changed a lot. In the end, he had to admit that the latest detailed and fine-tuned new version strategy discussed by Li Su and Zhuge Liang is indeed more operational.

If you conquer Youzhou, you will not be afraid of the enemy's repeated tug-of-war. Taking down the territory of the plains is easy to be dragged into the war of attrition, and it may also interrupt the progress of the enemy's internal killing.

If it were the princes like Cao Cao who didn't care much about the people, it would be fine if they had been fighting for a long time in Pingyuan Prefectures and counties, because Cao Cao didn't care too much about how many people died in the years of attrition.

But Liu Bei still cares a lot about the lives of the people. He hopes to fight the war cleanly and neatly. If it is not necessary, don’t have another war of attrition that lasted for two years like the Hanoi-Shangdang War.

After a battle of that kind, the population of the people in the country could plummet by three million. Liu Bei already regarded the Han Dynasty as his own. He still hoped that the war would be as clean and neat as a scalpel. He cut it off and put it into a bag. It would be better for the enemy not to struggle and admit it directly, and then the two sides continued to move to a low-consumption stalemate.

However, no matter how reasonable the theory is, Liu Bei still felt that it was difficult to deal with it. He couldn't help but ask: "From Yanmen County along the Sanggan River to attack Dai County-Shanggu-Guangyang. Although it is easy to advance, the army and food can flow down the Yanshan River Valley.

But Bingzhou has just recovered this year. In order to support the Yunchang battle, 600,000 700,000 stones of grain and grass were transported from Guanzhong to the north this year, and it was more than this amount when it was transported. Later, the money and grain were placed for Lu Bu. Guanzhong had only been restored for three or four years, and it was really impossible to bear it.

Now we have to first use a large amount of food and grass to block the mountain while it has not yet snowed, or to transport it to Yanmen County in a hurry after the spring next year. How much damage will be? How long can our army support you when it attacks Youzhou? If Yuan Xi sees that our army is unsustainable and sticks to delay time, what can we do?

Especially Yide is still impatient. If he knows that he has to fight quickly, but is dragged by the enemy, he will whip the soldiers and force the troops to attack at any cost. It will be done."

Li Su: "This is one of the reasons why I asked Your Majesty to ask Yide to lead the troops - Your Majesty, don't forget that you and Yide are both from Zhuo County and are natives from Youzhou. You also served as a general under Liu Yu's tent for two years, and pacified Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in Youzhou. Among the local officials, there were many old officials and friends.

Yide is afraid of shortage of food, so he can bring less troops to ensure that the food is enough to eat until late summer and early autumn, and the food is the enemy because of the food. The wild grain is the capital.

On the other hand, we raise Lu Bu in vain. We can take advantage of Lu Bu's attack on the Xianbei to move south in winter to plunder more cattle and sheep. When our army trades with Lu Bu this winter, we can sell more salt with high value density and low transportation capacity.

Give him enough salt to eat for ten years, and let Lu Bu slaughter and marinate cattle and sheep that are not enough to raise in winter. Next year, he will use the remaining cattle and horses to carry the cured meat to accompany the army along the valley or grassland. If the army has livestock and meat to feed, the food and grass will not be so nervous.

As long as Yide opens up the situation, the old friends of Youzhou will inevitably not take the opportunity to surrender. Liu Ye, who was rescued when he conquers Danyang troops, is still relied on by Yuan Xi to negotiate with the princes.

In Liaodong, Mi Zizhong was always in separatist territory, but he only gave Yuan Shao 50 million yuan of military supplies every year to show his detention. As long as our army can reach Youbeiping, and even as long as Yide's army can surround the seaside and seize a Hekou Haigang County, Mi Zhu's aid materials can be transported from the Liaodong Bay Sea. Are you still afraid that Yide's military rations will be insufficient?

Although Cao Cao had a naval army of sea boats and naval forces, he could threaten Mi Zhu's rear when Mi Zhu was unstable. However, Xu Rong under Mi Zhu's tent was also considered a talented general, and he was very familiar with the terrain. It was not easy for Cao Cao to cross the sea to land and defeat Xu Rong.

The rest of Tian Yu and Tian Chou were loyal to Mi Zhu, and were diligent and careful, and could be expected to defend their territory.

More importantly, Zilong reported two months ago that he had returned to Wujun in May, and the navy of the sea boat was stationed at the estuary of the Yangtze River. Although the lucky ship used in the East China Sea and the South China Sea are different from the sand ship used in the North China Sea (Yellow Sea) and are very sailable.

But our army is not short of large enough sand ships. As long as we change a batch of ships, these naval forces in a hundred battles can go north to support them. At that time, Zilong and Ziyi sea ships will rush to help. With Ziyi's ability to fight water, they have lived in Donglai and Liaodong for a long time. They are familiar with the local situation, and are still afraid of Cao Cao's navy?"

Liu Bei's blood was so excited that he heard the sentence, and the more he listened, the more he felt it was feasible. In the end, he almost had an illusion that he had completely surrounded the remnants of Yuan Cao from all directions.

After all, if even Youzhou is taken down and the territory of Yuan Cao is Liu Bei in the north and southwest, wouldn’t it be made of dumplings? Even the east is the sea, but Liu Bei’s naval technology crushed and blocked from the Yangtze River Estuary to the Liaodong Peninsula is not a problem at all.

In this pattern, if it were the game "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14", it would be a direct contact with the "encirclement and occupation" incident, and all the enemy's maps where there are no cities will be painted.
Chapter completed!