Lu Bu has always been magnanimous towards the generals he has favored.
What's more, that arrow only grazed his arm and hurt a layer of greasy skin only, and what could make him remember was only the exquisite accuracy and strong force, not the displeasure of being shot.
See whether preferences or temperament are very similar to the two really fit, Yan Qing smoothly digresses from the topic, but also very satisfied, followed by stepping into the hall, see the original not a proper crooked in the seat of Guo Jia a sitting upright, winked at him.
What's Guo Jia up to again?
Yan Qing blinked back an unmoving one, sitting in his regular position between him and Lu Bu as usual, waiting quietly.
Gan Ning, who came from Yangzhou, really brought a news that made him feel uneasy: the two most powerful forces in Hebei, Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, which are difficult to reconcile, have reached a reconciliation that has never been seen in history.
Not only was a truce declared, but a temporary alliance was formed to advance and retreat together.
Compared to the onlookers who were stony-faced and nodding slightly, Yan Qing was undoubtedly the most shocked one.
No one knows better than him, Gongsun Zan's arrogance is purely from the bone, whether it is the persistence to avenge the regicide of his brother, and the stubbornness of refusing to show weakness, it is unlikely that he will be able to come to terms with Yuan Shao.
In the history of the two sides can not help each other for a while, and they are in the most exhausted troops and food, but also called Yuan Shao pinched a decisive advantage in the face of Yuan Shao took the initiative to send to show weakness and make peace with the emissary, Gongsun Zan also bit the bullet and did not want to compromise, but also repair the moat, fortify the defense, and follow the example of Dong Zhuo to come to a food, the lone troops do not rescue his subordinates, and make himself alive and die.
Who was so capable of persuading him to come around?
This doubt of Yan Qing's had just popped up, and was immediately answered by himself: who else could there be, it was not the cascade effect that he had caused to pit him!
Tao Qian's letter was indeed sent to Tian Kai in Qingzhou and Kong Rong in Beihai, but without such a key figure as Taishi Ci, Kong Rong had to work hard just to drive away the Yellow Turban bandits Guanhai who came to the scene preparedly, so how could he still have the strength to send his troops to save his brothers and sisters who were being beaten back and defeated, and had no power to fight back?
Waiting for his rescuers, Tao Qian, under the anxiety, only had to listen to the words of Mi Zhu, who was a special officer engaged, and turned to Lu Bu, a close neighbor who was a hungry tiger, to ask for help.
Xu Huang and Sun Ce, who had been waiting for this day to come, immediately sent their troops to kill them without saying a word.
Purely from the point of view of military strength, to 50,000 battle 80,000 absolutely called the strain, and Tao Qian those soldiers and horses look at the number of quite a lot, in fact, is a bluffing frame, and Lu Bu Cao Cao raised the elite soldiers can not be compared.
Cao Cao's army is indeed better in repeated encounters. However, Cao Cao has □□Qingzhou soldiers, and Tao Qian is familiar with the advantages of geography, avoiding a frontal confrontation, only to play a roundabout, but very good at delaying the time.
However, Cao Cao is smart, naturally aware of their long journey, even if there are looted along the way to harvest rice and grain to feed the hungry, but also can not withstand the consumption of a long war, so never go after the harassment of the army, and only focus on attacking the city, but as the back of the most important base of Yanzhou by Lu Bu surprise attack, all lost, loved most of the family captured the bad news, leading to military disruption, he was also confused and painfully, do not have the heart to the front line! He was so distraught and pained that he didn't want to fight on the front line, and chose to decisively withdraw his troops, otherwise it would not have been realistic to rely solely on Xu Huang and Sun Ce to lead the troops and help Tao Qian stop Cao Qian's invasion.
Listening to the plan of Cao Cao, Cao Cao is determined to give it a go before he hangs on to Yuan Shao again, so he lets out the smoke that he's going to cross north to the Liaodong area, but in reality he hovers around the area bordering Qing and Xu, only waiting for the news of Yuan Shao's battle with Lu Bu to come through, then he'll take advantage of the opportunity to take over Qingzhou.
I do not want to Yuan Shao indecisive, three or four times do not see the determination, always worried about the back of the Gongsun Zan coveted, Cao Cao even if he has a passionate ambition, a subtle art of war, the initiative is not pinched in him here.
Seeing this, there was only one thing to do but let out a big sigh, give up waiting for a pickup, press on with the anxiety, and go for another sleeper.
Meanwhile, the other lost man, who has been victimized by Yan Qing, has a perfect understanding with Cao Cao, who has lost his place in the world and has to wait for the next day to start a new business.
That is not getting the petition of Taishi Ci, and Liu Bei, who logically went to support Xuzhou in order to rescue Tao Qian's difficulties, naturally missed a good opportunity to detach himself from the command of Gongsun Zan, his former classmate.
No wonder.
Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan are, after all, the object of their temporary dependence, there to allow them to have Lu Bu, the newly risen enemy in front of them, still do not know to take into account the overall situation, for some insignificant personal grudges to kill each other, is not the same as asking for their own death?
Yuan Shao has Cao Cao's good voice to help persuade him, and Gongsun Zan has Liu Bei's skillful words to mediate, so it's twice the result with half the effort.
Lu Bu grunted and laughed, "What a great momentum, it's obvious that he's coming at Bu."
After Yan Qing figured it out, he was also much more calm, anyway, when he agreed to Guo Jia's plan of doing a big job and disliking Cao Cao directly, he was mentally prepared that he would not be able to cut off the roots of the tree and leave behind a lot of trouble, and he sniffed, "As the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind, and with a strong lord, it's unavoidable that he will stand at the tip of the storm."
But in this way, it is indeed quite effective, at least temporarily holding them back, it is not good to make a rash move against Qingzhou.
Even with Lu Bu's outstanding strength, it would be a struggle to deal with the combined forces of Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan at the same time, not to mention the fact that Cao Cao and Liu Bei are both contributing to them.
Guo Jia pondered for a moment, slowly said: "In Jia's opinion, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan's alliance seems to be unbeatable, but it is not. The power of one party alone is no match for the Lord, but the other party feels threatened and will definitely join forces to resist, so it is very tricky and difficult to deal with. What's more, the Lord is now based on the three states, the prestige of the troops is important, several vassals of the most, once the light war, there is the harm of pulling one hair to move the whole body, really become a target of the public, and let Cao Cao is just what he wants to do, and in turn, he did the wedding clothes."
"This is a reasonable statement." Lu Bu nodded modestly, "Then according to Feng Xiao's opinion, what should be done?"
Guo Jia shook his fan, "It would not be better to first join forces with the merging states, then further alienate the Yuan brothers, then slow down the breaking of the Shaozan alliance, and finally wait for an opportunity to catalyze the conflict between the two factions of Ma Han and Wang Yun."
"Forcing the two factions to fight each other, the son of heaven failed to persuade, must have fear, when he wants to escape from Chang'an, my lord can welcome him into the city of Januarium, then the western place is not in danger, at that time to meet the war also, preemptive attack also, with his majesty in hand, is to be obedient to fight against adversity."
"I share Fengxiao's opinion." Yan Qing also nodded, while talking, while quickly thinking about the candidate: "Zhang Xiu in the beginning rhetoric, coaxed the Ma Han two people to send the hostage, into the capital to the small son of God bowed down to the subject, in addition to some not much more or less grain and grass, and on the look of the bright false power, not very practical benefits, but also have to endure day and night to Wang Yun as the head of the faction of the old ministers of the bad language. They emphasize power and profit, belittling the king's power, and in Xiliang, the king is used to dominating, how can they endure these humiliations for a long time? It is by no means difficult to tell them to intensify their dislike and draw their swords against each other."
Although Ma Teng and Han Sui didn't have the guts to rebel against Liu Xie and crush him in their hands or simply kill him, they were absolutely profit-oriented. History when they proposed the request did not get his control of the dynasty power Li catalyst to meet, that is to say turn the other cheek on the turn of the other cheek, where willing to listen to Liu Xie persuasion, and immediately started the attack on the Sili, to give them a bit of color to see (but unfortunately the ability is too not home, leading was known as the end of the Han Dynasty's most powerful soldiers of the Western Liang iron cavalry, but also still be driven back to his home in the dust).
In the face of absolute power, not really born a three-inch tongue of Zhang Xiu and then want to put this stirring stick when the next, also not enough to qualify.
The plan is there, and it looks very good, but it's not easy to find the person who can take on this task.
Yan Qing and Guo Jia silently glanced at each other, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.
Weekdays look at the talent, let a person old and happy, really use it, just hate too little too little.
Speaking of Hanoi County, Yan Qing's first thought is not Zhang Yang, the governor who is a former friend of Lu Bu, but rather the second son of Sima Defense's heirs, one of the "Sima Bada", who has been praised as "a young man with a strange temperament, smart and strategic, learned and learned from the Confucians". Sima Yi was one of the "Sima Bada", who was known as "young and skillful, intelligent and strategic, knowledgeable and well-informed, and a Confucian scholar".
...... If I remember correctly, I will be fifteen years old after the New Year.
"The matter of combining vertical and horizontal forces can be handed over to Zi Jing." Yan Qing restrained himself from thinking about Sima Yi, who was still early in his adult life, and only thought that Lu Su, a master of diplomacy with strong means, would not have to be used in a big way this time around, and without hesitation, he placed this errand on his head, "What does Feng Xiao think?"
Guo Jia knows that Lu Su is elegant and funny, eight-sided, in the countryside is extremely reputable, but also fine strategy, after a pause, but did not raise objections, only took Yan Qing words: "can. Yuan Tan Yuan Shang, a few letters can be, may be by Jia to do."
Yan Qing rejoiced, "With Feng Xiao saying this, it couldn't be better."
Guo Jia smiled faintly and asked again, "Does Shiguang know how powerful that locust drought was that year?"
Have been over the bright road, Yan Qing will no longer be incoherent, a slight beat, directly quoted in the play on the catastrophe of the description of the few words: "Locust damage dramatically, a few exhaustion of grain and rice. Guandong a territory, each grain a dendro, straight money fifty kan, so that the people eat each other."
Guo Jia nodded his head and solemnly said, "How many percent of Shiguang is certain?"
Yan Qing knew that he was asking himself how sure he was that this disaster would happen, and couldn't help but hesitate for a moment before finally giving a figure that was on the conservative side: "There should be an 80% chance."
Unlike an avoidable **, a natural disaster is almost impossible to be affected by the power of one person, not to mention a catastrophe that made the hundreds of thousands of households in Chang'an almost dead and went down in history, which is why Yan Qing dared to be so sure.
Guo Jia gave a hmmm, his confidence in the skills Yan Qing possessed proved to be far greater than Yan Qing's self-confidence, and straight away he said, "Once the locust plague appears, that will be the day to raise an army."
Their discussion was so heated that they forgot about the people around them for a while. If it were Jia Daoyan or Xu Shu, they would have interjected themselves, but Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, who were accustomed to the two military advisors' great display of skill, only glanced lightly at the newcomer Gan Ning, who had gone from dumbfounded to full of awe, and listened attentively without saying a word.
When it comes to the temporary alliance between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, Yan Qing and Guo Jia's views coincide again: since they can shake hands and make peace, the old grudges are not to be discussed, but only in terms of the advantages of the two sides, they are also doomed to not last long.
If one side has food and the other side has soldiers, and reach a complementary relationship, and can provide each other with support, then it would be just fine, but on the contrary, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan are both harboring ambitions of winning the world, and both of them have soldiers and lack of food, and they still think it's too little for themselves, so how would they be willing to send to each other, which would strengthen the strength of their cheaper allies, not knowing when it would be reversed again?
If there is an imminent crisis, it will strengthen the alliance of the two powers that have to defend themselves together against foreign enemies, and vice versa: Lu Bu pressed on with his troops, and in time only, the covenant, which is full of holes and permeable on all sides, will not be broken.
It was just that the night was long and dreamy, and neither Yan Qing nor Guo Jia were happy to wait that long when there were variables at all times.
Besides, if they can see that, can't Cao Cao and Liu Bei see that? Most likely, they have other plans and are just trying to delay things for now.
Blame it on the fact that he and Lu Bu now have this extra layer of intimacy, even for the sake of the other side, but also have to pay attention to take care of themselves: if really half a point of error, Lu Bu where it seems to be able to abandon personal desires, take care of the situation of the people, for fear of a minute to leave everything to go berserk rage, so that the hard work of the people to go down the drain, the whole thing is collapsed.
Otherwise, Yan Qing thought that he had already used his ability to know history well and anticipate the enemy's opportunities to a great extent, and then history completely went off on a tangent, and he could do not much, but also had the cards as a weapon to protect his life, and really did not mind risking his life.
After all, Chang'an that, at least can be handed over to the origin of the Western Liang Wuwei, in this area of business skilful people JiaYan, but the most important thing to break the alliance, he this moment, but really can not think of a suitable candidate to.
Lu Bu was unaware of these thoughts of Yan Qing, and always remained vigilant and watched silently, even if he saw Yan Qing discussing with Guo Jia in a very engrossing manner, and the two heads inadvertently sticking extremely close to each other, he also kept his face tolerated without changing his color.
It wasn't until they were getting closer and closer, all but glued together, that they leapt up.
His movement was not small, directly driving the table and chairs in front of him, making a rather loud noise, which immediately caused the other four people to look at him in unison.
I only saw Lu Bu's pleasant face, and he said thoughtfully, "Since we need to discuss this in the long run, why should we be in a hurry for a while? It's getting late, Bu is going to ask someone to pass the meal."
Author's Note: I was already super stuck writing the plot, plus I had a demon named Victor from Yuri on Ice in my head, which only made it more inefficient.
It's really too hateful. He must take the blame for this! He's got a daughter-in-law and he's still giving out hormones, mesmerizing me, ah ah ah, this sinful man!