When everyone heard Yuan Shao ask this question, they immediately started talking.
After a while, Feng Ji stood up and said: "Ming Gong, I thought we could fight again, but we can't place our hopes on Cao Cao."
"Cao Cao has now given up on the Central Plains and has too much time to take care of himself. How can he have the energy to fight against Wu?"
"And our strength is indeed enough to go south again."
"The previous defeats caused some damage, but it did not shake the foundation."
"Moreover, the more than 200,000 soldiers in Youzhou whom we captured have not been deployed yet."
"They should put their training in the past two years to good use."
Many people nodded.
Yecheng Ling Shen Pei also stood up and said: "I think what Yuan Tu said is extremely reasonable."
"Ming Gong has been decadent recently, and there is indeed something wrong with him."
"Victory or defeat is standard issue."
"We still have more than 200,000 Youzhou prisoners who have not been sent to the battlefield."
"As for the cavalry, soldiers from Zhuojun, Yanmen and other places have fought against the barbarians since childhood and are proficient in riding and shooting. We can definitely bring them together."
"War horses can be purchased from Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan."
"They have a good relationship with us, so they should be willing."
"With these combat capabilities, we are enough to go south again and capture the Kingdom of Wu!"
Yuan Shao nodded silently.
At this moment, Guo Tu also stood up and said: "Mr. Yuan, I object!"
Yuan Shao looked at Guo Tu and said, "Say."
Guo Tu glanced at Fengji and Shenpei and said, "Now, we have just been defeated in Hebei, and the morale of our soldiers has been greatly affected."
"The general suffered a lot of losses."
"Especially Gao Lan and Zhang He are important leaders of our army."
"They know our soldiers inside and out."
"If we rashly go south again this time, Wu will definitely deploy against our soldiers."
"This is equivalent to my openness versus darkness."
"We suffered a big loss."
After a pause, Guo Tu continued: "Moreover, it was the eldest son and the second son who led the army to suppress the rebel forces in the country."
"If we march south again."
"What will the people think?"
"What will the soldiers think?"
"They will say that Mr. Yuan, you are being militaristic!"
"In these years, we in Jizhou have been living and working in peace and contentment, so the people have always looked up to Mr. Yuan."
"Once we go south again, the prestige that Mr. Yuan has managed so hard to build may be gone."
"Another one, although the Wuhuan and the Southern Xiongnu have been friendly with us over the years, they have always been ambitious and will not be able to do anything early without benefit."
"Once we really go south again, we will definitely have no troops in our country."
"Who can guarantee that Wuhuan and the Southern Xiongnu will not take the opportunity to invade?"
"Who can guarantee that we can stop them at that time?"
"besides--"
Guo Tu looked at Yuan Shao and said in a deep voice: "Jiangdong has established a new emperor, and shamelessly asked the new emperor to confer Lu Yi as King of Wu and establish the Kingdom of Wu. Even if the nobles in the world cannot accept this result now, as time goes by, They will all forget and then acquiesce."
"If we don't establish our new emperor in time, we will be controlled by Jiangdong."
"Even if we don't have to pay attention to their new emperor's so-called edicts, it's enough that they disgust us."
"At that time, we in Hebei will have to bear the reputation of being a rebel, disobedient, and even a traitor."
"From a general point of view, this is not good for us."
Guo Tu took a long breath and said, "I hope Mr. Yuan will think again!"
"After the civil strife is quelled and the new emperor is installed, it won't be too late for us to consider going south."
Xin Ping said loudly: "Second the proposal!"
Suddenly, fierce quarrels broke out throughout the hall.
Officials from the Jizhou faction and the Yuzhou faction competed with each other.
Some even rolled up their sleeves and looked ready to fight.
Yuan Shao only felt one head, two big.
Moreover, he had just experienced defeat.
Thinking that he was the one who easily defeated Gongsun Zan.
In the end, he was defeated at the hands of a young man like Lu Yi, and he was defeated so completely that he couldn't muster the courage to fight again.
Especially Guo Tu's last suggestion made him even more reluctant.
That is, he doesn't want to be restrained by the new emperor elected by Lu Yi, and he doesn't want to be overpowered by Lu Yi in terms of justice.
Thinking of this, Yuan Shao said loudly: "Everyone be quiet!"
The civil and military officials slowly became quiet.
Yuan Shao rubbed his brows and said, "We will put aside the Southern Expedition for the time being and discuss the new emperor's enthronement first."
"I, Hebei, are the orthodox people of the Han Dynasty today."
"Little Lu Yi, who gave him the power to elect a new emperor?"
"Now, everyone continues to discuss the new emperor's enthronement."
The judge will continue to speak.
Feng Ji pulled his sleeve and shook his head.
As one of the first batch of people who followed Yuan Shao in his southern and northern campaigns, he understood Yuan Shao's temper better than anyone else.
At this time, Yuan Shao obviously did not want to mention the Southern Expedition.
He was a little frightened.
All along, as the fourth generation and the third prince, he has always had smooth sailing.
Now, in the hands of a young junior, I have suffered such a huge challenge. If I don’t give him time to adjust, I don’t know what he will do in a hurry.
Especially the examples of Tian Feng and Jushu are mentioned above.
If you disobey him, he will really drive people to death!
Shen Pei and Feng Ji looked at each other.
Although Shen Pei was extremely anxious, he could only suppress it forcibly.
He could only sigh secretly.
That’s all.
If that doesn't work, then we can only give up the unification temporarily and draw the Yellow River to rule.
Liangzhou.
Ayang City.
Ma Chao, along with Ma Yunlu, Ma Dai, Pang De, Deng Zhi and other soldiers, had just retreated here.
At this moment, Ma Chao stood on the city wall, looking towards the direction of Wuzhi City, his eyes bloodshot.
Wuzhi City was again captured by Cao Cao's army.
Cao Cao even sent someone to send him two pictures.
One picture shows Cao Cao strangling his three-year-old son to death.
Another picture shows his wife naked and shivering.
Thinking of the scene where his son died tragically and his wife was ruined, Ma Chao punched the city wall and gritted his teeth and said: "Thief Cao, I, Ma Chao, and you are incompatible with each other!"
"Whenever he gets a chance, I will definitely cramp my muscles and sleep on your skin!"
Ma Yunlu stood behind Ma Chao, his eyes filled with complex colors when he heard what Ma Chao said.
There is disgust.
There is also sympathy.
What's disgusting is that he killed his father!
Killed two brothers!
However, no matter how inferior he is to a beast, he is still his brother after all.
His wife and son are his relatives after all.
At this time, she is still here, with only one purpose.
That is to find an opportunity to take back his father's soldiers and horses, give him a sword, and avenge his father and two brothers.
However, she also knew that her abilities were absolutely inadequate.
Moreover, even if he is a prostitute, the soldiers will not listen to him.
Therefore, she has been looking for Deng Zhi during this time.
Although Deng Zhi is still very young, he is from China and his talent is outstanding.
As long as you can convince him to help you, it's possible!
However, this Deng Zhi didn't get enough of it and never agreed. He just told himself to abide by the rules.
However, it seems that he did not tell his brother what he was planning.
Next to Ma Yunlu, Ma Dai stepped forward, gently patted Ma Chao on the shoulder and said: "Brother, it is more important to cheer up now and not to be decadent."
Pang De also echoed: "General, cheer up!"
Ma Chao turned around, looked at Deng Zhi and said, "Bo Miao, what should we do now?"
"We were defeated again and again."
"After the thief Cao obtained the troops of the old thief Han Sui, his strength increased greatly. Now he has won consecutive victories and his morale is very high."
"If this continues, how long will we be defeated?"
Ma Dai and Pang De also looked at Deng Zhi.
Deng Zhi pondered for a moment, then looked at Ma Chao and said: "I have a plan. Even if it cannot stop Cao Cao's attack, it can still delay it. Even if we cooperate properly, we may turn defeat into victory."
The current situation is far away from the mission Deng Zhi received.
The order Deng Zhi received was to lurk next to Ma Chao, and when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were in a stalemate, or even if Cao Cao gained the upper hand, he would encourage Ma Chao to attack Cao Cao from Guanzhong, so that Ma Chao and Cao Cao would consume each other, thus providing the opportunity to destroy two families in the northeast of the Yangtze River. opportunity.
Therefore, after Tongguan was forced to give Ma Chao a trick to defeat Cao Cao, he did not dare to speak again.
He was afraid that Ma Chao and the princes in Guanzhong would take advantage of the situation and completely destroy Cao Cao.
But what he never expected was that Cao Cao actually abandoned the Central Plains and attacked Guanzhong with all his strength, as if he wanted to capture Liangzhou and Guanzhong at any time.
Moreover, he is also waiting for the mission from Wu Jun.
It was not until yesterday that he received new orders.
It was sent over by Wenpin from Shangluo: the emperor died, Yuan Shao went south, Wu Hou personally conquered Yuan Shao's army, now a new emperor was elected, the reign name was Tai'an, Wu Hou was canonized as King of Wu, and the Wu Kingdom was founded.
In addition to these messages, there are three documents.
One letter was from the new emperor conferring the title of General of Zhenxi, Liangzhou Mu Wei Kang.
One letter was from the new emperor canonizing Ma Chao as General Fubo.
One letter was written to him by Jia Xu, asking him to lobby Ma Chao to join forces with Mu Wei Kang of Liangzhou and Zhang Lu of Hanzhong.
Now, seeing Ma Chao asking the question, Deng Zhi did not hesitate and directly proposed a strategy: "That is to unite Liang and Hanzhong to fight against Cao."
Seeing that everyone didn't seem to understand, Deng Zhi explained: "We are uniting with Liangzhou Mu Wei Kang and Hanzhong Zhang Lu to fight against Cao Cao."
Ma Dai questioned: "Liangzhou Mu Weikang and Hanzhong Zhang Lu? They won't cooperate with us, right? Moreover, we don't have any friendship with them."
Deng Zhi smiled and said: "We didn't have any friendship before, but now we have a common enemy."
"That's Cao Cao."
"Cao Cao's attack this time is undoubtedly intended to capture Guanzhong, Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Hanzhong, and finally move south to Yizhou."
"He wants to secede this west side."
"If Liangzhou and Hanzhong don't unite with us, once we are destroyed, Cao Cao's next opponent will be them."
Looking at Ma Chao, Deng Zhi said seriously: "If the general trusts me, I am willing to go to Liangzhou first and ask the Liangzhou Mu to send troops to help us defend the city. After that, I will go to Hanzhong to lobby Hanzhong Zhang Lu."
Ma Chao said calmly: "How confident are you?"
Deng Zhi raised eight fingers and said, "Eighty percent, maybe?"
Ma Chao let out a long breath, put his hand on Deng Zhi's shoulder and said, "Bo Miao, I'll leave everything to you."
"You are still following me at this time. I believe in your loyalty."
"Besides, in Tongguan before, if it weren't for your advice, I wouldn't have been able to kill Cao Cao and throw away my armor."
Deng Zhi clasped his fists and called several of Ma Chao's guards to leave with him.
(End of chapter)
