Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2497: Xuanye attacks Wei, conflicts shift

In fact, it was not only Jizhou that had been eyeing Xu Xiao, but Youzhou as well.

Xu Xiao's limited military experience was in Youzhou, and he was from Liaodong, a true Youzhou native.

Although this name has not been circulated in other places, if you are in Youzhou, you can occasionally hear these phrases of this name.

In addition, one of his adopted sons is serving in the army in present-day Youzhou.

However, people in Youzhou only regarded him as a good talent. They had never met him in person, so they were not as concerned about Xu Xiao as Yuan Xi was.

Besides, no matter how old Xu Xiao is, he may not live for many years.

Therefore, after hearing about this person, Youzhou had some thoughts in his mind, but he did not take it too seriously.

Although they had sent people to contact him, they did not insist after Xu Xiao showed a firm rejection attitude.

At this time in Youzhou, as the Jin army approached step by step, they were in a dilemma.

Although Youzhou had been preparing for war during this period, they had started preparing for war after seeing some signs from the Jin army. However, the complicated situation on their side determined their current predicament.

Now, nearly half of Youzhou's sphere of influence has fallen into Li Tang's hands. Although the essence of Youzhou is still within their control, it is still far from their peak period.

Youzhou can now only muster a force of 100,000, even if it is barely possible.

Compared with Youzhou’s peak period, it is quite a bit worse.

Moreover, Youzhou has not yet escaped the situation of being surrounded by enemies, with the Qing Dynasty in the north and Li Tang in the east.

Compared to the past, not only is there no environment for their external crisis, but there is a tendency for it to get worse.

Although Li Tang was also affected by the previous epidemic, all the damage was concentrated in the sphere of influence of Youzhou occupied by Li Tang. The impact on Li Tang’s original homeland on the peninsula was not great.

The damage suffered by Youzhou during this epidemic was much more serious than that of Li Tang. Similarly, the difference in the impact on the strength of the two sides over the past few years was also huge.

Therefore, today's Youzhou is relatively weaker than his two former enemies.

If they continue to be in crisis with these two companies at this time, their situation will only become worse than before.

But now, Youzhou is at its weakest, and the powerful enemy, the Jin Army, is about to arrive. If they go all out to fight against the Jin Army, what will happen to the Qing Dynasty and Li Tang?
So, this is the difficult situation they are in now.

Logically speaking, the stronger the Jin army becomes, the more uneasy the Qing Dynasty and Li Tang will become.

After they finished with Youzhou, the next to bear the brunt would be the Li Tang and the Qing Dynasty, and the two families would also have to formally face the Jin army.

As long as Li Xiang has the slightest idea about the grassland, as long as Li Tang and Manchuria do not give up the southward march to the Central Plains, this contradiction is an unavoidable contradiction. If this contradiction is not resolved, they will have a war sooner or later.

Especially without the barrier of Youzhou, the situation would be even more tense and could be attacked at any time.

Therefore, according to reason, if they went south to resist Jin at this time, the Qing Dynasty or Li Tang should not interfere with them at this time. However, this kind of thing cannot be gambled!
If they lose the bet, they don’t know whether other families will lose, but they, Youzhou, are destined to lose everything, without leaving any capital.

Therefore, at this time, it is very important to reach a basic consensus with these two companies.

However, after the wave of mutual harm many years ago, how could they reach such a consensus given the hatred between them?
Intellectually, this consensus is very important to them.

However, it was impossible for them to send envoys to these two countries to reach such a consensus.

After all, if this happens, their people's hearts will probably collapse. When the war is about to start, if the people are not united and the people are against it, there will be no possibility of winning this war.

No matter which way they go, it seems to be a dead end for them. The only difference seems to be whether they die sooner or later.

Therefore, in Youzhou, although Han Xin had led a part of the troops to the border of Youzhou to consolidate the border defense, there were still some troops who did not dare to move rashly and did not dare to go south to fight against the Jin Dynasty easily.

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Qing Dynasty.

With Xuanye's wisdom, he knew what an embarrassing situation Youzhou was in today.

However, he was still waiting, waiting for the people from Youzhou to come to them and gain some benefits from this matter.

After all, with destruction now imminent and hidden dangers about to be laid, he believed that the people in Youzhou knew what to choose in this matter.

However, the calmness of Youzhou still exceeded his imagination.

Xuanye had no choice but to worry about them.

Xuanye needs a force like Youzhou to fight against the Jin army, which is also in their interests.

But the current situation is that in order to guard against them, Youzhou is simply unable to concentrate its forces to resist Jin at this time.

Therefore, Xuanye could only let Youzhou see that the Qing Dynasty at this time was not able to threaten them. In this way, Youzhou could use the part of the military force that was originally used to guard against them in the process of resisting the Jin Dynasty.

Xuanye's solution was naturally to attack Wei.

As long as the Qing Dynasty is also mired in the quagmire of war, it will naturally not pose a threat to Youzhou.

Of course, he did this not just to be a good person.

This matter is also beneficial to the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Qing Dynasty needs external conflicts to suppress internal conflicts and give it time to sort out internal affairs.

As for the so-called attack on Wei, that is of course impossible to be true. It is just a pretense, and at most it is just a lot of noise but little action.

What benefits would it bring to the Qing Dynasty to fight such a war at this time?
As for the fact that they are just putting on an appearance, what does it matter if Youzhou can see it?
Xuanye asked himself, his action had already shown his attitude and given the other party an opportunity to back down. If he did not take this step, then their Youzhou deserved to be destroyed.