Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2485 Abandoning the Five Counties, Qinghan Aid

Today's Jizhou is actually not much stronger than Zhao Kuangyin was during the Central Plains War, and both lack the ability to fight a sustained battle.

Moreover, due to the epidemic, Jizhou was forced to withdraw a large number of troops, and now there are only about 100,000 soldiers and horses left. Facing attacks from all directions of the Dajin Dynasty, it is easy to be defeated one by one.

Although, up to now, they have only received news of the large-scale mobilization of the Jin army in various places, as for the specific scale of the Jin army's deployment, they still know nothing about it.

However, even if one uses one's toes to imagine, this number is absolutely terrifying and cannot be compared to that of just one family!
Everyone understands the idea of ​​clearing the countryside and concentrating limited forces together and focusing the power of the fist to strike one place.

However, according to Cui Hao's idea, he had to directly give up Julu, Anping, Zhao, Weijun and Qinghe, a total of five counties.

What does this mean?
This means that once they give up these five places, they will only have Hejian and Bohai left.

This means that they will have to give up two-thirds of their sphere of influence.

This means that before the battle even started, they had already admitted that they could not win!

Even the battle hasn't even started yet, but he has already lost all his territory. After the soldiers know this, do they still have the desire to win?

"My lord, I agree with what Lord Cui said!"

Yuan Xi from the clan felt his heart bleeding when he said this.

After all, Jizhou was the world of their Yuan family, and what they were going to give up was their own kingdom.

Among all the people present, the Yuan family members were definitely the most heartbroken when thinking about this matter.

But, to be fair, this is indeed their only choice now.

Zhao State, Wei County and Anping County faced threats from Lian Po's tribe in the north and from Sizhou in the west, while Julu and Qinghe faced threats from south of the Yellow River.

If we don’t give up these places, once the Jin army arrives, we will be under siege in three directions.

The comparison between their current military strength and the possible attacking Jin army's military strength. Once they are under siege from multiple sides, they will inevitably be in a state of being leaky from all sides.

Once they give up these five counties and only retain Hejian and Bohai, they will then rely on Qingzhou, and the north and south parts will be surrounded by Youzhou and Yanzhou Qinghan.

In this way, they only need to face the enemy in the west and concentrate all their strength in one place.

Only in this way will there be a glimmer of hope.

Moreover, what does it mean to clear the countryside?

That would require all the material resources of the five counties of Julu, Anping, Zhao, Weijun and Qinghe to be transferred to the remaining three areas of Hejian and Bohai.

Only in this way can Jizhou be able to fight now.

Otherwise, they would probably end up like Zhao Kuangyin. They ran out of food and grass within a few months of fighting. It wasn't that their soldiers couldn't defeat the Jin army, but that they didn't have the chance to show their skills!

Everyone was fighting on an empty stomach, and those soldiers rebelled one by one.

When everyone heard this, they wanted to refute these two people very much, but for a moment, they didn't know how to refute.

However, giving up two-thirds of the territory in one go was obviously not an easy decision. Fortunately, Yuan Tan was not a wise leader who would come out of nowhere. He was even worse than his father Yuan Shao.

However, he has one advantage, that is, compared to his father, he is relatively more obedient. If he is given someone to rely on in major matters, he will be more likely to lack his own ideas.

In other words, in fact, in most cases, Yuan Shao was a fairly obedient monarch.

However, there are too many people giving him advice, and everyone's opinions are basically different and sound quite reasonable, so it is not a good thing.

However, the situation in Jizhou is different now.

Today's Jizhou strategists are no longer in a state of competition among many parties, but Yuan Xi is the only one in power.

It can be said that along the way, Yuan Tan was able to finally ascend to the top and become the lord of Jizhou, and was able to defeat Gao Huan and Yuan Xi successively. Yuan Xi can be said to be the main contributor.

It is precisely because Yuan Tan was almost single-handedly supported by Yuan Xi, therefore, Yuan Tan is now quite dependent on Yuan Xi.

After Yuan Xi stood up to support Cui Hao's opinion, Yuan Tan still struggled tremendously even when he really came to the point of surrender, but he still gave the order to agree.

"My lord, at this moment, you should ask His Majesty for help immediately!"

In the hall, Sima Ziru immediately spoke up and made a suggestion.

"Yes, the large-scale mobilization of the Jin army is definitely not Jizhou's own business!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

The Jin army was so powerful that the three northern families combined were far inferior. At this time, the three families had to unite again and must not give the Jin army a chance to defeat them one by one.

"Your Majesty, the trouble over there is much greater than ours!" Yuan Xi shook his head and sighed at this time.

In the past few years, Jizhou had a hard time and asked Qinghan to help them in many ways. Therefore, when addressing Liu Bei, at least on the surface, they were much more respectful, which was very different from before.

"Qing, Han, Yan and Qing are all bordering Jin. Moreover, once the Jin army moves, they will definitely march into the Yellow River and cut off the connection between the north and south of the Yangtze River!"

"If this happens, Qinghan will be in danger!" Cui Hao also added.

As long as they are ruthless enough and give up these four counties, then their battle line will only be that small.

However, the situation is different for Qinghan. Their battle line is extremely long and the area they may be hit is also very wide.

Moreover, in the previous war in the south, the combined naval strength of their several forces had surpassed the naval strength of the Jin Army by a considerable margin. Therefore, at least on the Yangtze River, the original joint navy had the upper hand for a time.

It was not until changes occurred on the Jianghuai battlefield and the strength of the Zhihe Navy was forced to disperse that Qi Jiguang found an opportunity.

But things are different now. Only the Qingzhou Navy is left of the once powerful United Navy. This time, on the Yellow River, they are destined to be defeated.

Once the Qingzhou navy fails to control the Yellow River, Qingzhou will probably be split in two.

By that time, Qingzhou would be in real danger.

Therefore, many of them knew that at this time, Liu Bei’s pressure was definitely no less than theirs.