The Power of the Three Kingdoms at the End of the Han Dynasty and the Imperial Power of the Han Dyna

If you don't know, you can do nothing.

To capture Qingzhou, no matter how good the preliminary preparations are, even if the news is blocked in time, it is impossible for the news to be leaked.

Even if it can be completely blocked, will Yanzhou Taishan County and Xuzhou Langya County on the Qingzhou border not notice the abnormality?

There is also Liu Bei. There is a sudden loss of news in Qingzhou. Can Liu Bei not be suspicious and send people back to Qingzhou to investigate?

impossible.

Therefore, blocking information for two months is already the limit.

To be precise, in less than two months, Liu Bei had already received Qingzhou and was stolen by Liu Han while he was empty.

"Return to support Qingzhou immediately!"

The two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had been confronting each other for more than a month in Peiguo. Liu Bei had not taken action yet. He had just found Yuan Shu's weakness and was about to take action when he was told by his subordinates that his family was gone!

Even if he could defeat Yuan Shu, Liu Bei was not in the mood to take over Pei.

Otherwise, how happy would it be?

"Pei Guo, I'd better let you two fight. I'll take my leave now."

Liu Bei immediately broke camp and headed north. He wanted to recapture his Qingzhou.

One step at a time, one step at a time, nearly two months had passed since Qingzhou was captured by Liu Han and Liu Bei went north.

Two months is enough to change a lot.

For example, the powerful Qingzhou nobles and local snakes obediently handed over their land, tenants, private soldiers, and even transactions that only the government could handle; for example, all the families with deep ties to Liu Bei suffered a bloodbath.

Therefore, when Liu Bei went north with the borrowed Xuzhou soldiers and saw Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei waiting for him at the Qingxu border with 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry, Liu Bei's originally heated mind calmed down.

The two sides faced off in Langya County. Zhao Yun's side used the four counties of Anqiu, Pingchang, Chang'an, and Gaomi to form a defensive base. The remaining Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Taishi Ci, and Wang Ling all cooperated with Duan Xuan to stabilize the area.

Although Liu Bei also assembled an army of 30,000 people, 20,000 of them were Tao Qian's men in Xuzhou. The army was improvised and the people were not unified. In addition, there were not enough cavalry. The infantry accounted for 28,000 of the 30,000 people. Once there was a decisive battle on the plains, , could not be Zhao Yun's opponent, so he was stationed in various counties and Gaowu area.

"Xianhe (characterized by Jian Yong), what do you think we should do? Qingzhou is lost, Brother Bogui was killed in battle, and we don't know where to settle!"

Liu Bei was really in pain. He thought that with Gongsun Zan in Pingyuan County, it would not be easy to hold on for a month or two, not to mention a year and a half?

However, Qingzhou was lost in half a month.

"My lord, when it comes to cavalry combat, we are far from the King of Hejian."

In terms of combat, Jian Yong doesn't have much ability, but when it comes to analyzing problems, Jian Yong is definitely much better than Wei Yan and Xu Chu.

"I also know what you said, but the cavalry..."

The cavalry cannot be built just by thinking about it. First of all, you need a horse, a strong enough war horse, but this has already blocked the Shandong princes. The King of Hejian controls the north, and war horses have become an important strategic resource. They are not allowed to be sold. If anyone is caught doing private transactions, he will be beheaded. ! At his peak, Gongsun Zan had 10,000 cavalry, but these were the cavalry that Gongsun Zan spent several years scraping together, his treasure.

Secondly, the resources given to a cavalry are enough to reassemble an infantry with five times the number of people. In other words, the cavalry is a huge money attractor with no visible investment. Although Liu Bei obtained Qingzhou, he could not raise a cavalry with the resources at hand, let alone an elite enough cavalry.

Liu Han's resources were all stolen from foreign tribes and wealthy families. Liu Bei did not have the courage and strength to challenge the local nobles. Therefore, after one year, although Liu Bei was the co-leader of Qingzhou, he could not mobilize many people.

Now, facing the pressure brought by Liu Han's 20,000 cavalry, Liu Bei could not take the initiative on such a large plain.

Wei Yan thought for a while and said to Liu Bei: "Brother, can we try to organize the cavalry in our hands and sneak in from the weak defense areas of the opponent? Just like they captured Qingzhou, we also go to the plains to conduct a beheading operation?"

"General Wei Yan, don't do it!" "Second brother, don't be reckless! What we are facing now is 20,000 cavalry, but this is not what he has in Qingzhou, let alone what he has! He has 50,000 cavalry in Qingzhou! And in his hands, including Xi Liang Bing has 300,000 cavalry! Although he has always controlled the number of cavalry at 200,000."

When Liu Bei said this, he could only smile bitterly. Others were still thinking about how to expand the cavalry on a larger scale, but he already had 200,000 cavalry, and he was even more thinking about how to control the scale of the cavalry.

People are more mad than people.

"If we go deep alone, once we are discovered, we will not be able to escape due to the number and mobility of the opponent's cavalry."

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he took a deep look at Wei Yan and warned him not to mess around.

After listening to Liu Bei's analysis, Wei Yan also gave up this risky plan. He takes risks, but he's not stupid.

"Beware of enemy sneak attacks tonight."

"Here!"

the other side.

Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were also discussing.

"Zilong, my lord said that as long as we hold on to Qingzhou, it will be fine. But now Liu Bei's army is coming menacingly. What should we do?"

Guan Yu spoke first, obviously not wanting to give up easily.

"In my opinion, Lao Zhang, if we use war to promote peace, Liu Bei will not stare at us until we hurt him."

Zhao Yun looked at Zhang Fei and was also thinking about the feasibility, "We only raised one month's consumption for the army before the war, and it took half a month to capture Qingzhou. Although a lot of supplies from local snakes were seized, these were all used to provide supplies to the army. If we really need to give blood transfusions to the people of Qingzhou and restore their livelihood, we only have half a month."

"Yes! Defeat Liu Bei within half a month!"

At this moment, the flying pigeon letter sent by Liu Han from Jizhou also arrived at the three of them!

"Although flying pigeons have been used in the military for several years and have successfully formed a system, I still have to admire the wisdom of my lord. This thing is both concealed and fast. I just sent a request for instructions during the day and received a reply at night. If it were changed, Is it like this before, so exhausted that there are so few people?"

"Second brother, please stop feeling emotional and take a look at what the lord said?!"

Guan Yu opened the letter and the three of them read it carefully.

Zhang Fei was the first to let out a hearty laugh: "Hahaha! That's what I said! My lord is wise!"

Zhao Yun and Guan Yu looked at each other, then looked at Zhang Fei, and also laughed.

"It seems that my lord has the same intention as us. Taking Qingzhou this time is the limit of what we can do at present. We just need to repel Liu Bei."

"but…"

"Zilong, tell me quickly!"

"Yun Chang, Yide, my lord hates Liu Bei very much. What I mean is that we must not only repel him this time, but also severely injure Liu Bei! Let him completely give up the idea of ​​​​Qingzhou."

"Ah."

Guan Yu nodded: "Zilong, you have the highest position among the three of us, and a certain family is under your command."

Zhang Fei followed suit and said, "Me too." (End of chapter)