On the battlefield in Jinan, the forces of Liu Bei and Dou Jiande suffered many defeats.
On the battlefield of Qi State, although the intensity of the battle was not as intense as that of Jinan State, many generals from both Guo Wei and Dou Jiande's forces were buried here.
For example, Gou Huan, Kang Jie, Chen Xizhen, Chen Liqing, Xu Yuanlang, Fan Chenglong and others from Dou Jiande's force, as well as Chai Gui, Luan Tingyu, Zu Shiyuan and other generals from Guo Wei's force, either died in the hands of the opponent's generals, or were killed. Because he was trapped in a tight siege, he was killed by the rebel army.
Even Dou Jiande's top general Yun Tianbiao was seriously injured in the battle with Qu'a.
Although Qu'a is far better at group battles than one-on-one combat, he is already a peerless general after all, and his basic force level has reached 103 points. It is still very easy to deal with a top-notch warrior.
However, when Dou Jiande's remaining forces were all trapped in Le'an County, and Liu Bei and Guo Wei's forces each occupied a county and prepared to join forces to completely annihilate Dou Jiande, the situation changed subtly.
It is true that Liu Bei and Guo Wei really want to completely eliminate Dou Jiande this time, but their fundamental purpose is to expand their own strength. Moreover, both of them are thinking about the next step of unifying Qingzhou.
Under this situation, Liu Bei and Guo Wei still maintained superficial harmony and jointly fought against the remaining forces of Dou Jiande.
But in fact, the two men had already secretly plotted against each other, hoping that the other would use Dou Jiande's power to weaken the other in this battle.
Moreover, Liu Bei and Guo Wei also refused to give in to each other regarding the ownership of Le'an County after the complete defeat of Dou Jiande.
If Guo Wei captures Le'an County, then Guo Wei's power will be far away from Liu Bei's power. And if Le'an County is controlled by Liu Bei, then Liu Bei can catch up with Guo Wei in the shortest time.
Therefore, although the two men had joined forces and were not far away from completely eliminating Dou Jiande, due to various factors, the two men had somewhat stopped and did not attack Dou Jiande easily again.
And secretly, the situation here between Liu Bei and Guo Wei was even weirder. The two men actually sent lobbyists at this last moment to secretly lobby Dou Jiande, hoping to cooperate with Dou Jiande, whom they had been dealing with before.
After all, Dou Jiande is no longer a threat to Liu Bei and Guo Wei. It is not too late to use Dou Jiande to deal with the other party first and then deal with Dou Jiande.
From this, Guo Wei and Gan Mao, two strategist-born figures, began to act independently.
However, Dou Jiande was not a fool after all, and did not easily agree to the requests of either party. Instead, he began to take advantage of this hard-won opportunity to take a breather.
Dou Jiande even designed Gan Mao to discover Guo Wei's existence, and began to deliberately become close to Guo Wei, causing people in Liu Bei's influence to secretly become wary of Guo Wei.
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Guanzhong.
Li Xiang put down the information in his hand and began to slowly think about how to make use of this incident.
Regarding Dou Jiande, Li Xiang initially just wanted to use his power to contain Liu Bei and Guo Wei. However, in terms of ability alone, Dou Jiande is obviously still far behind Liu Bei and Guo Weilai, so much so that he is now beaten to the point where he is barely alive.
When it comes to ability, I have to say that among the existing princes in the world, Dou Jiande is indeed one of the last.
However, poor ability also has its advantages. At least Dou Jiande is much easier to control than Liu Bei, Guo Wei, or even Qin Zheng, Liu Bang, and Zhu Yuanzhang.
Li Xiang had the idea of controlling Dou Jiande, but compared to the subsequent group of people, he extremely lacked such confidence.
Just like Yuan Shu, this is the time for Li Xiang to add sand to Dou Jiande's forces. After all, at this time, Dou Jiande's subordinates had suffered heavy losses and were in urgent need of fresh blood. The forces trying to infiltrate Dou Jiande were much stronger than Yuan Shu's forces.
At this critical moment, if someone can help Dou Jiande turn the tide, he will be able to ascend to a high position in the shortest possible time and prepare to step aside Dou Jiande step by step.
If Dou Jiande can really be controlled through this method, then it will be of great benefit to Li Xiang whether he goes south to Bashu or into Hebei.
After all, when Li Xiang takes Yongliang, Li Xiang, who holds the land of the five states, will definitely not be comparable to other princes. At that time, no matter which prince faces Li Xiang alone, he will probably be easily wiped out.
In order to survive, it may have become inevitable for other princes to join forces to resist Li Xiang. By then, Li Xiang may really have to fight the world alone.
Therefore, before this, Li Xiang must make sufficient preparations in advance. Yuan Shu, who had begun to gradually penetrate before, was the first-hand preparation. Now, Li Xiang is ready to develop Dou Jiande into the second-hand preparation.
With Dou Jiande and Yuan Shu around, Li Xiang can help contain a considerable part of Li Xiang's forces during his next march, even if it is resisted by all the other princes in the world. Even if these two people are used well, they may be able to turn the tide of the battle at critical moments.
Moreover, Dou Jiande's place is much easier to control than Yuan Shu's place. After all, Dou Jiande doesn't have many talents that he pays enough attention to.
But Yuan Shu was different. Not only were there two careerists, Jiang Xiaobai and Wang Mang, lurking there, but the talent lineup under Yuan Shu was even more exaggerated.
In Yuan Shu's case, even Li Mi could only continue to strengthen his influence in Yuan Shu's eyes, so that he could influence Yuan Shu's decisions at critical moments, but he did not dare to say that he had a way to sideline Yuan Shu or master Yuan Shu.
Therefore, in a sense, it is extremely important to take advantage of this opportunity to hold Dou Jiande in the palm of his hand.
However, to achieve this, talent is still the key. If someone with insufficient ability goes there, on the one hand, they may not be able to solve the crisis here in Dou Jiande. On the other hand, he does not have enough ability to climb to a high position in the shortest time and evade Dou Jiande's power.
Moreover, the person who can carry out this task must be like Li Mi at the beginning, unknown to the world, and must be sufficiently concealed in terms of identity.
There are many unknown people among Li Xiang's forces, represented by the generals of the Yue Family Army who were summoned not long ago. However, these people are obviously not qualified to lead this task. It would be okay if they can play second fiddle.
Li Xiang quietly thought about everyone in his forces. Finally, the name of a familiar name but someone he had never seen before appeared in Li Xiang's mind.
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