"Aiya, Zimou, can you and Second Brother stop being so literal? Just tell us what we should do next!”
As Xia Cheng's words fell, Liu Bei and Guan Yu were still pondering over the matter. Zhang Fei, on the other hand, widened his eyes and started to make a fuss.
"I wonder if my lord and everyone else know Cao Mengde?”
Xia Cheng smiled and did not reply to Zhang Fei's question directly. Instead, he changed the topic and mentioned Cao Cao.
"Cao Cao?" Liu Bei pondered for a moment.
"In the past, I once fought with him on the battlefield…I heard that he is now the governor of Yanzhou?”
"Yes, but do you know that when Cao Cao first started, he did not have much power. Compared to his good friend Yuan Shao, he was probably just a vassal.”
As Xia Cheng spoke, he took out a map from his pocket and pointed in the direction of East County.""However, Cao Cao defeated Yu Du, Bai Rao, Sui Gu, Yu Fuluo, and the others in the East County area, taking in nearly ten thousand surrendered soldiers.”
" Of course, if that's the case, it's still impossible for him to dominate the Central Plains. After all, he only has nearly ten thousand soldiers. As long as he has food, he can mobilize them at any time, even though they're all surrendered soldiers with little combat strength…"
"In the third year of Chuping, more than a million Yellow Turban soldiers from Qingzhou attacked Yanzhou, captured Ren City, and killed Ren City's Prime Minister, Zheng Sui.
Following that, he defeated the government troops near Dong Ping and killed the governor of Yanzhou, Liu Dai.”
" Following that, the Yellow Turban Army moved toward Shouzhang. The smooth development of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban army in Yanzhou caused the officials and scholars of Yanzhou to panic. In addition, the governor Liu Dai was killed, and there was no one in charge in the state.”
"At that time, Chen Gong, a subordinate of Cao Cao, the Governor of Dongjun, persuaded Yanzhou Zhizhong, Biejia, and others to welcome Cao Cao into Yanzhou. Bao Xin, the Minister of Jibei, who had always been friendly with Cao Cao, also strongly recommended Cao Cao.”
"Thus, Wan Qian and Bao Xin personally went to Dongjun to welcome Cao Cao as the governor of Yanzhou.”
"This time, Cao Mengde seized this opportunity to defeat the Yellow Turban soldiers of Qingzhou in the northern region of Jishui. He recruited more than 300,000 soldiers, including more than a million men and women. He chose the elite soldiers to be known as the Qingzhou soldiers and ordered the rest to return to agriculture. He took over Yanzhou and rose to power.”
Liu Bei nodded and listened attentively.
To be honest, he had never heard of such an analysis. Someone could list out all the information so clearly for him to analyze.
Of course, in many areas, Liu Bei was just an outsider.
After all, he had been running around for so many years, so he naturally understood some logic without a teacher.
However, as he looked at Xia Cheng, who was speaking with confidence, a sentence that he had heard before suddenly rose in Liu Bei's heart.
Deciding a victory thousands of miles away in a strategic plan…was nothing more than that, right?
" The situation at that time was that there were 300,000 Yellow Turban soldiers in Qingzhou. Their fighting spirit was high, and they took advantage of the number of victories.”
"Cao Cao only had a few thousand soldiers, and the old soldiers were few, the new soldiers were not trained, and the entire army was afraid."”Xia Cheng continued.
This was indeed the truth.
In addition to the so-called 300,000 soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou also had more than a million men and women accompanying them. Therefore, it was very difficult to supply them.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army that Cao Cao had incorporated amounted to more than 300,000 soldiers, plus more than one million men, women, children, and family members.
Cao Cao selected elite soldiers and reorganized them, known as the " Qingzhou Soldiers ".
From then on, Cao Cao's military strength was further strengthened, and the Qingzhou soldiers became his main force in the future.
"Using Cao Cao's experience as a reference, I truly believe that to solve the siege of the North Sea, destroying Guanhai tribe is not the only way.”
"As the saying goes, the best is to use troops to attack strategy, the second is to attack diplomatic relations, the second is to attack troops, and the third is to attack cities. The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered. We should defeat them with strategy!”
It had to be admitted that the remaining Yellow Turban generals were also a great help to the later development of the Three Kingdoms. To a certain extent, they also promoted the situation of the warlords cutting off the enemy.
This was also one of the reasons why Xia Cheng had such a plan.
"I have the intention to tell my lord that Guan Hai has come to surrender!”
Xia Cheng's young face shone with brilliance and vigor, like the sun that had just risen in the morning.
He was already delicate and handsome, and his eyes seemed to be naturally bright, adding a strange charm to his originally handsome face.
He was confident and arrogant.
The most bug-like thing about transmigrators was actually their confidence in foresight.
Even though he was at the table, he knew his own cards and also his opponent's cards. Therefore, he did not need to look at the cards to blindly bet on the stud. How could he lose so easily?
The current Liu Bei was simply too weak.
This was extremely disadvantageous to Liu Bei's development.
A clever housewife can't cook without rice.
No matter how godly a person was, it was impossible for them to start from scratch.
In a chaotic world, one always had to rely on.
Especially the training of the army.
Therefore, he had to increase Liu Bei's strength greatly in a short period of time.
Otherwise, Liu Bei would not be able to contend with Cao Cao in the upcoming battle of Xu Prefecture.
In a chaotic world, what could be more reassuring than having a sufficient number of elite troops?
There was nothing more reliable than an army.
"Don't worry, my lord. Cheng is not someone who acts rashly.”Xia Cheng consoled Liu Bei firmly.
"With your help, my ambition to help the Han Dynasty won't be in vain!”
Liu Bei opened his mouth and finally seemed to have thought it through. His face was solemn as he said,"Since Zi Mou has already said so, I think he already has confidence in his heart. I won't ask any more questions.”
"However, I feel uneasy letting you go alone. Please bring one of Yunchang Yide with you. I will ask them to protect you.”
"There's no need, my lord. Generals Yun Chang and Yi De want to help my lord command the troops. Why don't…let Ziyi go with me?”Xia Cheng thought for a moment and suggested.
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