Anyway, the prefect Jiao Rang of Xinggu was killed by the Wei army, and the prefect of Xinggu was vacant. The court has not appointed a new prefect of Xinggu for the time being. Huo Yi could do a favor and give Xinggu County to Meng Li in exchange for Meng Li's support.

There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies in this world. All they have is eternal interests. Although the Meng family in Nanzhong surrendered to Shu, if there is no exchange of interests, the Meng family would not be able to send troops lightly.

Even if he was forced to send troops under pressure, he would not be able to do his best. Therefore, Huo Yi still wanted to give Meng Li some sweetness.

Anyway, Xinggu County has now fallen into the hands of the Wei army, and the Shu army has no hope of regaining it for the time being. It would be better to be a favor and give it to Meng Li.

As for the other two counties that Huo Yi promised, he had to wait until he could repel the Wei army. In fact, this was not a blank check. Huo Yi had already submitted this matter to the court. I believe the court would agree after weighing the interests.

Sending out three counties, but being able to protect most of the Nanzhong is a relatively cost-effective deal. If Huo Yi alone has such a little troops, it would really not be able to stop the Wei army.

When Meng Li heard this, Huo Yi offered a good condition. In the past, the Meng family unified the Southern Central and only occupied the places of the barbarians. As for the places occupied by the Han people, they had no chance to get involved.

Among the seven counties in Nanzhong, except for Jianning County, the prefects of the other six counties were all taken over by the Han and Han nationalities. The Han and Yi were not affiliated with each other and were in charge of each other, which created a situation where various forces in Nanzhong interweave.

Of course, the Meng family also hoped to expand their control territory and include the places occupied by the Han people into their sphere of influence. However, before, it was just a matter of thinking. After all, the Shu court would not easily make concessions when it involved territory and population.

The situation in Nanzhong is tight now, and the Shu court must make some concessions.

Due to the unreasonable and unreasonable Wei army, the possibility of cooperation between the Meng family and them was almost zero, but it did not mean that Meng Li would take the initiative to join the Shu army to fight against the Wei army. Meng Li still used the method of playing hard to get. Anyway, as far as the current situation is concerned, Meng Li was not too anxious, but Huo Yi was anxious.

After Huo Yi took the initiative to make concessions, Meng Li also gained something. Although it seemed that Xinggu County was a bit useless, Xinggu County was currently controlled by the Wei army. If the Meng family wanted to truly take over Xinggu County, they had to defeat the Wei army to achieve it.

Isn't this a bit difficult?

However, Meng Li didn't seem to care about this issue. After all, the Yi tribe and the Wei state have become equally powerful. No matter what, the two sides will have a battle in the future. If the Meng family and the Wei army are allowed to fight alone, the chance of victory will be extremely small. But if Huo Yi's help is a different matter.

At the same time, the price offered by Shu Kingdom really made Meng Li a little moved. If they could really defeat the Wei army in their joint efforts, then the three counties in the southern middle school would all become the territory of the Meng family, not just limited to the places occupied by the barbarians, but would instead all the territory of the three counties would be placed under the rule of the Meng family, including those Han people.

Although Huo Yi did not clearly mention those three counties, it didn't matter to Meng Li. Xinggu County was already one. In addition, the Wei army would definitely not give Jianning County, the heart of Nanzhong, to the Meng family, and would not give Zhu Zhi County, which connects Chengdu to the north of Jianning County. So one thing is certain that it is the issue of choosing two of four counties, picking two out of the four counties.

In fact, it doesn’t matter which two are chosen. If the seven counties in Nanzhong can be controlled by the Meng family, then it means that the Meng family can control half of the country in Nanzhong.

Moreover, the Nanzhong area itself is divided into Hanyi. No matter which county it is in, including Jianning County, as long as the territory of the Yi tribe is in, it will not be under the control of the Han people. Therefore, in fact, the Yi people in Nanzhong themselves occupy most of the territory of Nanzhong. If three county towns are taken down, the Yi people will occupy more than three-quarters of the share in Nanzhong. At that time, their Meng family will truly become the master of Nanzhong.

Meng Li was not afraid that Huo Yi would go back on his word. In fact, compared with the little troops in Huo Yi's hands, the Meng family had much greater power than him. The reason why Meng Li could live in peace with Huo Yi was to adhere to his father's will, and the other was that Huo Yi had the existence of the Shu Han court behind him. Even if Meng Li destroyed Huo Yi, he still had to bear the anger of the Shu court.

So over the years, the officials sent by the Meng family and the imperial court have been in peace, but if Huo Yi dared to cross the river and burned the bridge and kept his promise, Meng Li would not have told them any more about the relationship. If they dared to fool themselves, they must be prepared to bear the anger of Meng.

Of course, all prerequisites are based on defeating the Wei army. If they join forces, they cannot defeat the Wei army, then all the conditions discussed are empty talk and have no meaning.

When Huo Yi heard Meng Li agree to his conditions, he felt relieved and an undetectable smile flashed across the corner of his mouth. Then Huo Yi and Meng Li seriously discussed the strategy to deal with the enemy.

Meng Li proposed a plan to attack him unexpectedly, which was to let Huo Yi fight the Wei army head-on, voluntarily give up Dianchi and other places, retreat to Wei County, and lure the enemy into deeper. Then Meng Li would lead the Yi troops to plagiarize the Wei army's retreat, attack the Shu army forward and backward, and completely eliminate the invading Wei army.

When Huo Yi heard this, his eyes suddenly became lit. This method was good. Originally, Huo Yi was planning to intercept the Wei army in the Dianchi area to prevent the Wei army from heading north. But now it seems that Meng Li's method seems to be better. The main force of the Shu army retreated to Wei County, and Wei will inevitably pursue it. In this way, the front line of the Wei army will be lengthened. The Yi army launched an attack from the rear wing of the flank, which will definitely damage the Wei army severely.

When the Wei army went deep into Nanzhong, the most lacking thing was probably food and grass. Even if he plundered many barbarians on the way, the supply he obtained was a drop in the bucket and could not solve any problem at all.

When the snake hit seven inches, Meng Li knew that the Wei army had difficulties in food and grass, he would naturally choose to attack its weaknesses. As long as the Wei army could cut off the supply of food and grass, no matter how many troops there were in the Wei army, it would become a waterless tree without roots and a defeated army as soon as possible.

Huo Yi was very impressed by Meng Li's plan, so the two sides discussed the detailed department around the plan, and then Huo Yi left here and returned to Dianchi Lake.
Chapter completed!