Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2572 Xiaobai also surrenders to Jin and advances on Yuyang County

However, Qi Jiguang's capture of Youbeiping, to some extent, relieved the pressure on Qin Zheng.

The counties of Liaoxi and other areas further east of Youbeiping were no longer in Qin Zheng's hands at this time, but had fallen into the hands of Li Shimin.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang, who occupied Youbeiping, effectively separated Qin Zheng and Li Tang forces.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang will definitely station a large number of troops in Youbeiping, which will reduce the number of troops available to attack Qin Zheng by 60%.

Therefore, it naturally greatly relieved the pressure on Qin Zheng.

However, even knowing that after taking Youbeiping, he would be forced to tie down a large number of his troops because of Li Tang.

However, Qi Jiguang's primary target remained Youbeiping, not the neighboring Yuyang.

Li Tang is a wolf. If he goes to Yuyang first and leaves Youbeiping behind, will Li Tang let go of this piece of fat meat that is right in front of them?
The Li Tang dynasty has been eyeing Youzhou for a long time!
During the last Central Plains War and the Southern War, if Youzhou hadn't learned from Li Mi and used unconventional methods, Youzhou would already be in the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

As long as the Great Jin Dynasty doesn't take Youbeiping, Qi Jiguang is absolutely certain that the Li Tang Dynasty will not let go of this piece of fat meat that's already in their mouths.

The reason they didn't take it before was to allow Qin Zheng to concentrate his forces to deal with the Jin army, but that doesn't mean that after Qi Jiguang took Yuyang and Youbeiping became an exclave of Youzhou, the Li Tang would still leave it unclaimed.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang's primary target could only be Youbeiping, not Yuyang.

After the incident with Peng Yue, Qi Jiguang's thinking was opened up. Although after taking Youbeiping, he had far fewer troops available to attack Qin in order to guard against the neighboring Li Tang.

However, if hard methods don't work, then we'll try softer ones.

Back when the Manchus and the Tang Dynasty joined forces to attack Youzhou, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, Lao Ai and others made a huge fool of themselves. Now, another one, Peng Yue, has emerged.

It is clear that Youzhou is not as monolithic as rumored.

Therefore, we should learn from what Lian Po did in Ji Province and win over a group of people first.

Anyway, there's no cost involved, so if it really brings any benefits, then it's pure profit.

Originally, Qi Jiguang was prepared to cast his line a couple of times, but unexpectedly, he actually managed to catch a big fish and bring out Jiang Xiaobai.

Jiang Xiaobai brought a large group of people to Youzhou. After arriving in Youzhou, a small group was formed. Moreover, when he was under Yuan Shu, he was a powerful minister with a lot of ambition.

Qin Zheng would not give such a person real power.

However, Qin Zheng could not give up on Jiang Xiaobai's small group.

Jiang Xiaobai's small group has a different set of values ​​than Peng Yue's group. Jiang Chen, Wang Zhi, and Kuang Zhang are top talents not only in Youzhou, but also in the whole country.

Therefore, although he was reluctant to give him real power, he gave him a high enough position to keep him in check. After that, he began to gradually divide and win over the talents under his command. Over the years, Jiang Chen, who was relatively simple-minded, was the first to be won over by Qin Zheng.

Although Jiang Chen was a relative of Jiang Xiaobai, compared to Bao Shuya and others, he was the easiest to fool.

After that, there were people like Wang Zhihe and Kuang Zhang who died during the pandemic. These people all had the ambition to make great achievements, but because of Jiang Xiaobai, they were always sidelined and had no opportunity to lead troops into battle.

They could tolerate it for a short time, but they naturally couldn't stand it if it continued like this.

In particular, these people were scattered in all directions by Qin Zheng, making it extremely difficult for Jiang Xiaobai to contact them. He didn't even dare to make contact easily, as the Black Ice Platform's power was considerable.

If you don't contact each other for a long time, the feelings will naturally fade away.

Therefore, one by one, they abandoned Jiang Xiaobai and left.

Today, Jiang Xiaobai is left with only Bao Shuya by his side.

After Qin Zheng dismantled this small group and gradually divided and won them over, he naturally stopped paying attention to Jiang Xiaobai.

Without that clique, Jiang Xiaobai is just a toothless tiger, and Qin Zheng is unlikely to give him any real power. Why should he continue to waste so much energy on Jiang Xiaobai? After all, Qin Zheng isn't idle all day long!
Therefore, although Jiang Xiaobai held a high position in Youzhou on the surface, he actually lived a very stifled life over the past ten years.

Furthermore, ambition needs fertile ground to grow.

Back when he served under Yuan Shu, Jiang Xiaobai, as a powerful minister, naturally had fertile ground to cultivate his ambitions. However, after so many years in Youzhou, these ambitions have been gradually suppressed. Especially since this suppression has lasted for over a decade!
Furthermore, Jiang Xiaobai is no longer young; he is over forty and no longer possesses the same youthful vigor he had when he was young.

Most importantly, Jiang Xiaobai had no loyalty to Qin Zheng to begin with, so why should he stay on this soon-to-be-broken warship, and why should he be buried alive for Qin Zheng? He's not Qin Zheng's father!

Therefore, for various reasons, when Qi Jiguang took the initiative to extend an olive branch to the people of Youzhou, Jiang Xiaobai accepted it without hesitation and secretly sent his trusted confidant to contact Qi Jiguang.

However, given Jiang Xiaobai's position, he was not on the front lines but in the rear, so he was temporarily unable to provide Qi Jiguang with the same direct assistance as Peng Yue.

However, with Jiang Xiaobai around, Qi Jiguang essentially had a high-level informant in Youzhou.

As for the rest of the small fry, although there were quite a few, they were of no use to Qi Jiguang, and he easily had them taken over.

However, although this wave did not bring the same significant gains as Lian Po had in Jizhou, Qi Jiguang had nothing to be discouraged about, as it was just something he did casually.

While leaving 50,000 troops to garrison Youbeiping, he led the remaining 30,000 troops to continue marching towards Yuyang in one fell swoop.

Although he only had 30,000 troops left, Qi Jiguang had nothing to worry about, because of the situation in Youbeiping, he had far fewer troops available.

However, Qin Zheng's military strength was in an even more awkward position than his.

As long as Li Mu's side doesn't have any problems, he can do whatever he wants here.