Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

“Isn’t this a bit too much?”

Yu Guo asked carefully, more worried about whether Gan Ning was joking and teasing him.

After all, even though Linyi was a small country, rashly using military force against another country would definitely not be a trivial matter.

Especially after just listening to my request, Gan Ning and others expressed their intention to destroy the country...

Even though he was facing his adoptive father, Yu Guo did not dare to imagine that the other party would be so good to him.

"Pass?"

At this moment, Gan Ning had a very good impression of the State of Yu. He did not expect that in this remote state, there really was a virtuous official who loved the people like his own children.

Therefore, Gan Ning walked straight to Yu Guo's side and patted Yu Guo's shoulder.

"Lord Yu should have made his position clear earlier, otherwise he would have known that we were coming for the Linyi Kingdom."

Upon hearing this, Yu Guo was unable to react for a moment.

Without waiting for Gan Ning to say anything else, Xu Sheng stood up and walked over, pulled Gan Ning away and scolded him.

"Xingba must not be rude to Lord Yu!"

Immediately, Xu Sheng bowed solemnly to Yu Guo and said, "Xingba is a bit casual, please don't blame me, Lord Yu."

The State of Yu kept saying that they dared not, and naturally would not pursue such a trivial matter.

More importantly, Rinnan County was extremely poor, and Yu Guoben was a person who did not pay much attention to complicated etiquette. He would often go deep into the countryside and sit on the ground with the old farmers. Naturally, he would not mind Gan Ning's behavior just now.

With Yu Guo's statement, Xu Sheng also had great trust in Yu Guo and immediately spoke solemnly.

"We have come here because our lord knew that a bandit had divided the land of the Han Dynasty and established himself as a king. He was furious and sent us to lead the army south to conquer the Linyi Kingdom and make it return to the land of the Han Dynasty."

As for the matter of "Linyi Rice", Xu Sheng still chose to keep it secret.

Upon hearing this, Yu Guo was stunned for a long time, then he murmured belatedly.

"Uncle Liu is such a righteous man? This is a blessing for the country! This is a blessing for the country!"

Immediately, the excited Yu Guo could not help but ask Xu Sheng about Liu Bei's location, and bowed directly in the direction of Liu Bei to show his respect.

This time, Xu Sheng and others felt deeply honored, but did not stop the State of Yu.

Yu Guo was the governor of a county. Even if Liu Bei was not the governor of Jiaozhou, it would not be considered against etiquette for Yu Guo to pay him respects from afar as he was a lower-ranking official.

After both parties were so frank with each other, they undoubtedly became much closer and more trusting of each other.

As for the questions asked by Xu Sheng and others about the intelligence of Linyi Kingdom, he answered them all.

Rinan County was adjacent to Linyi State. Even though the relationship between the two sides was extremely bad, and Linyi State was cautiously on guard against the Han Dynasty while constantly encroaching on Han territory, the Yu State was not so shut out that it knew nothing about Linyi State.

In fact, in order to prevent Linyi from encroaching on its land, Yu State tried every possible method it could think of, and even secretly sent people to contact some powerful people in Linyi who might be close to Rinan County, trying to use those powerful people to change the status quo.

Unfortunately, facts have once again proved that weakness is the original sin.

Even though the Linyi Kingdom knew that the Han Dynasty was a much larger country than them, for many years the Rinan County had tolerated the Linyi Kingdom's acts of aggression and was unable to fight back.

This made the powerful ministers in Linyi, from top to bottom, look down on Rinan County. The powerful ministers that Yu State had contact with were all despicable and greedy people, so naturally they would not speak for Rinan County.

However, Yu's efforts may not have stopped Linyi's continued encroachment, but they did allow Yu to have a good understanding of Linyi, and even knew exactly how many factions there were in the Linyi court.

"A small country like Linyi dares to talk about the word court? Ridiculous." Gan Ning commented with disdain.

However, apart from Gan Ning's relatively unique focus, the rest of the people present were undoubtedly more concerned about the important intelligence of the Linyi Kingdom.

Linyi was originally a county under Rinan County, but later the state split off from Linyi and established itself as a kingdom. Over the years, it has been conquering the east and the west with Linyi as its center, causing the area of ​​Linyi to continue to expand over the past fifty-four years. According to the information provided by Yu State, the area of ​​Linyi is now close to half of Wu County, with a population of over 400,000.

In the area south of Jiaozhou where there are many small countries, Linyi Kingdom has begun to show its hegemonic position, suppressing small countries such as Daqijie, Xiaoqijie, Shipu, and Xulang.

In other words, Qu Lian has become too old in the past decade and no longer has the energy for external expansion, otherwise it is possible that Linyi Kingdom would have become the overlord.

As for the available soldiers, since the military system of the Linyi Kingdom was completely different from that of the Han Dynasty, in addition to retaining the private soldiers of the royal family and the nobles, it would also directly recruit peasant soldiers in times of war.

Therefore, according to the estimation of the State of Yu, once the State of Linyi truly entered the state of mobilization, the number of troops that could be mobilized would likely exceed 50,000.

"It seems that Qu Lian is indeed a heroic figure. He should not be underestimated."

Xu Sheng commented with a hint of seriousness in his tone.

Being despicable is one thing, but the fact that Qu Lian was able to rebel as a county official and then lead the Linyi Kingdom to expand to this extent is enough to show that Qu Lian was not an incompetent person.

The only good news was that Qu Lian was already in his early eighties and was no longer able to rule the Linyi Kingdom. In recent years, he had been assisted by Prince Qu Ba.

In addition, the fact that Linyi State had 50,000 available soldiers also made Xu Sheng more cautious.

Even according to Yu's judgment, the number of truly elite private soldiers controlled by the royal family and nobles of Linyi would not exceed 10,000, and the rest were just peasant soldiers.

However, considering that Linyi's terrain is mostly jungle, it is difficult to deploy troops on a large scale for a head-on confrontation. Once the Linyi troops are dispersed, even a mob may cause extremely troublesome harassment.

The Han army's advantage over the enemy, apart from its expertise in military formations, was that it possessed armor and weapons far superior to those of foreign races.

Jungle warfare is not the area in which the Han army excels.

Especially since Wu County had experienced a war with the Shanyue, Xu Sheng was well aware of how difficult it was to deal with enemies like the Shanyue who scattered in the jungle and constantly harassed people.

Xu Sheng sat back in the main seat and rubbed his fingers and said.

"It seems that we need to follow the example of the Marquis and try to lure the main force of Linyi to an open area and annihilate it in one fell swoop. Otherwise, it will be really difficult to destroy Linyi."

"Need not!"

Almost as soon as Xu Sheng finished speaking, Zhou Yu, who was slightly stimulated, almost blurted out his objection.

Xu Sheng was not annoyed when he saw this. He just thought that Zhou Yu was very young and did not know about the battle of Fuchun Mountain in Wujun that year, which besieged a large number of Shanyue people. In the end, he used both kindness and force to make Shanyue people gradually integrate into Wujun.

Xu Sheng, who loved Zhou Yu and cared for him, explained it specifically.

"Gongjin, you probably don't know how difficult it would be for those who are good at running in the jungle to be so difficult to catch up with. They will constantly attack you, making it impossible to defend against them and making you miserable."

"I am well aware of this, and Xingba once led the Shanyue to fight against the Wu Alliance... The bandit army invaded along the way."

Zhou Yu responded, then changed his tone and said.

"Of course, this is a different time. We should make plans according to local conditions instead of blindly repeating the same old tricks. Even if the Marquis were here, he would definitely not make such a plan again."

"Why?" Xu Sheng asked with a frown.

"First, the reason why the Marquis took so much trouble to besiege Shanyue was not because of a temporary victory or defeat, but because he wanted to use this opportunity to gradually integrate Shanyue into Wujun. This point... Yu also admires him very much;"

"Second, Qu Lian is an official of the Han Dynasty. He must have some knowledge of Rinan County and the Han Dynasty. No matter what the situation is, as long as Qu Lian realizes that the Han Dynasty has sent troops here, he must be extremely cautious and terrified, and move every step carefully..."

"Back then, the Marquis was able to spend several months to paralyze Shanyue, but we don't have that kind of time."

"Third: I have a plan that can quickly defeat the Linyi Kingdom!"

When Zhou Yu said the last sentence, he showed his youthful spirit and vigor. (End of this chapter)