Han Xiang

Chapter 160 Tian Ji's horse racing, on the emperor's uncle's competition
"I would like to add one more point. Last year, the envoy conquered Lu Bu from the Cao thief and returned to Xudu to meet the emperor. The emperor checked the genealogy of the clan and recognized him as the emperor's uncle."

"Uncle?"

Lu Su stroked his beard and seemed to realize something, then looked at Long Xiang and asked meaningfully:
"No wonder Yunqi asked me Xuzhou Zhice, so you are from Xuande, but after Yuan Shu's defeat, why didn't you vote for it?"

The reason why Lu Su didn't continue was because he found that the time was wrong. Long Xiang arrived in Hefei before Yuan Shu's defeat, and Liu Bei was still trapped in Xudu at that time.

Long Xiang answered calmly: "Zijing doesn't need to guess, I admire Shijun as a man, and I wanted to lead my troops to join him, but I had many ties at that time, and later Shijun was chased by Lu Bu, so I had to come to Hefei to live."

"Now that the emperor is occupying Xuzhou, and he is using the emperor's edict to hunt for thieves, Yun Qi plans to abandon Hefei?" Lu Su asked with blank eyes.

Long Xiang shook his head lightly: "Hefei was a deserted city in the beginning, and we only have two to three thousand people here, but now there are sixty to seventy thousand people. Everyone has put a lot of effort into it, how can we abandon it so easily."

"That's right."

After Lu Su agreed, he murmured to himself: "It's not easy for the emperor to get Xuzhou, so he won't abandon the prefecture and go to a small county. What is Yunqi's plan?"

Long Xiang replied solemnly: "If the Shijun can gain a foothold in Xuzhou, when the Yuan and Cao families are fighting, he will take the opportunity to go south to capture Huainan. In this way, Huainan and Xuzhou will be connected together, and then he will raise troops to compete in the Central Plains."

After hearing Long Xiang's plan, Lu Su thought it fit his cautious character.

Picking up the imperial edict and looking at it again, Lu Su frowned and reminded: "Unless the emperor accepted the emperor's blood edict, unless Dong Cheng and others keep it secret, otherwise this matter will be revealed sooner or later. It seems that it will not work to show weakness to Cao Cao. If you want to defend Xuzhou, you have to look at Hebei. If Yuan Shao does not send troops for a long time, Cao Cao will get rid of the emperor and then hurry up."

Long Xiang said to him: "Although the strategy of showing weakness will not work, contact the generals in Hebei and Mount Tai so that you have already followed Zijing's plan. Maybe there is still room for maneuver?"

"Yun Qi came to look for me today, he must have no idea, right?" Lu Su's expression was serious.

Long Xiang nodded affirmatively: "In the past few years, Xuzhou has been in constant war and natural disasters. The people have been displaced and the city has been dilapidated. Although the emperor barely recruited [-] soldiers and horses, the war is not only determined by the number of troops. My people have seen it with their own eyes. , Said that Xiapi and Xiaopei are not as good as Hefei, so I am a little worried."

Lu Su had to say to him: "It's normal if it's not as good as Hefei. Yunqi has been here for two years, and the emperor has only been here for a few months. It's not bad that he can support [-] soldiers, not to mention strengthening the city defense and farming grain. "

"The Chen family in Xuzhou seems to support the envoy."

"Hehe, superficial support cannot be trusted. When Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Che Zhou were around, they were not the same. They only supported themselves at critical moments. Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou twice, why didn't it hurt the Chen family? You will understand if you think about it carefully." .”

"In this way, isn't Xuzhou in danger?"

"I have already said that the key to solving the siege of Xuzhou lies in Yuan Shao, not Uncle Liu himself. No matter how hard he works, it is useless. He cannot be Cao Cao's opponent at this time."

Lu Su shook his head and sighed, suddenly excited, and asked Long Xiang: "Could it be that Yun Qi wants to use the people from Hefei to go to Xuzhou to help the emperor's uncle out of the siege?"

"Well, Shijun has the ambition to help the world. It's just that he hasn't been favored by God these years, but he can become more and more courageous and tenacious. If he can occupy Xuzhou and capture Huainan, he will have the foundation to compete in the Central Plains. I think Do your best."

"No, it is impossible to save Xuzhou's salary with a glass of water from Hefei. Yunqi has the fetters of the people in the trilogy, and I believe he will not act impulsively."

Seeing Lu Su's strong objection, Long Xiang tentatively asked: "I also know that Hefei's troops are insufficient, but I just hold back the gang from the side, not necessarily fighting Cao's army head-on, and helping to delay Yuan Shao's dispatch of troops, can't it?"

Lu Su shook his head: "Warning in the field is no better than defending a city. Hefei has seven or eight thousand soldiers on the surface, but in fact, a small half of them are craftsmen camps. The remaining ones who can match Cao Jun's combat power are more than a thousand villages brought by the Xu family brothers from Qiao County. Yong, how many people does Yun Qi plan to bring to help? If it is less, it will not work at all, and if there is more, Hefei will be empty and hard to defend. Don’t forget that Sun Ce has just left, and it is very likely that he will come back again."

"Ah this."

Hearing Lu Su's analysis, Long Xiang suddenly felt cold, and lamented that he still had too few cards in his hand.

"Even if Sun Ce doesn't come to make a sneak attack, it's naturally the most convenient and quick way for you to lead your troops from Hefei to Xuzhou by water, but you need to dig through the water and Feishui, but even if the artificial canals are dug through, the boats in Hefei are not enough, so at present Insufficient waterway conditions;
By land, you have to bypass Shouchun and other big cities in Huainan. It is estimated that it will take nearly a month to reach Xuzhou. The rations that each soldier can carry are very limited, so they have to conscript corvee to transport food for the army. Hefei Qingzhuang is already stretched. Pumping and transporting grain will inevitably delay the farming season, and the good situation at that time may no longer exist."

Long Xiang's forehead went black when he heard it, and he pinched his chin and said to himself: "It's because I thought too simply."

"The fact that we were able to defeat Zheng Bao and Sun Ce before was not only due to the geographical advantage of waiting for work, but also related to Yunqi's prestige in Hefei. If you are indeed a military genius, you can also choose the best soldiers in the city to go out and try. As long as you can help the emperor defeat Cao Cao , My worries just now are not worth mentioning."

Lu Su still spoke unhurriedly.

"If I used military prodigies, why would I wait until now? I originally planned to send a group of generals to go there"

Before Long Xiang could finish his sentence, Lu Su interrupted him: "Hefei has strong generals but no handsome talents. If Yun Qi doesn't lead the troops himself, he is afraid that he will not be able to pay back."

"I originally belonged to Zijing."

"I am in command?"

Lu Su was startled for a moment, and then said seriously: "Thank you Yun Qi for trusting me, Su is flattered, although I have the confidence to lead the army, but after all, I am not as prestigious as you, the generals in Hefei may not be convinced, let's talk about it later."

"That Xuzhou..." Long Xiang hesitated to speak.

Lu Su thought for a while, then looked at Long Xiang and asked, "Does Yun Qi know about Tian Ji's horse racing?"

"Well, I've heard of it"

Long Xiang nodded blankly and cooperated, thinking that I only heard about it, but I learned it in textbooks, okay?But what does this have to do with saving Xuzhou?
Lu Su stroked his beard and said: "Xuande can stop Cao Cao, and it is needless to say that he dragged Yuan Shao to send troops. If he can't stop it, it will be like Tian Ji's horse racing. Xuzhou is a land of hundreds of battles, and the people are exhausted. Uncle can't get out of it;

If he can jump out of the Central Plains arena, come to Hefei to recruit soldiers and horses in the name of the emperor's uncle and the edict of the emperor, and take the four horses below Huainan to become the middle horses, then if Sun Ce dies, he will take advantage of the chaos and go south to take Jiangdong. At that time, he went north to the Central Plains. "

"What about Jiangdong?"

Long Xiang said in his heart that if Jiang Dong didn't care, both Sun Ce and Sun Quan would come to backstab him.

Lu Su smiled slightly: "Isn't there you? Yunqi defends Hefei and defeats Sun Ce, and you are the best candidate to defend Jiangdong.

Hefei has the magical cement, which can be used to build a strong fortification at Ruxushuikou on the south side of Chaohu Lake. If Sun Ce is blocked from going north, he can only go to Guangling, where Chen Deng will stop him. "

(End of this chapter)