I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

The conversation was divided into two parts. After Yuan Ji and Zhao Yun separated, they came to the Hanzhong barracks to find Liu Bei, and then persuaded them earnestly: "General, now that Lei Gong has won the trust of the people in the world, do you think you can compete with Lei Gong for the hearts of ordinary people? "

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Although Bei claims to protect the environment and the people, he treats the people far worse than Lei Gong. The land of Hebei has been transformed by Lei Gong, and the people are rich and happy. The big man has done too badly in this respect. Even if I was in the south of the Yangtze River, I know that the life of Dagan people is better than that of Dahan."

Yuan Ji continued: "If you can't win the hearts of the people, the general can only win the hearts of the people of the world's nobles. This is something we all know well. The big man can still occupy the land in the south of the Yangtze River to compete with the big army, because there are All the elites in the world support the general."

Little bit Liu Bei, he also knows that without the support of the entire Han family, he would not be able to easily stabilize the land in the south of the Yangtze River, let alone resisting with the big army until now!

"Why did the army ask Zhao Yun to do things that would damage your relationship with the nobles and nobles in the world? How did Dong Zhuo fall? Wasn't it because his relationship with the nobles and nobles was bad and it was difficult to stabilize the internal affairs, which led to the downfall of Dong Zhuo's forces? The general is clear about this."

"Now you want Zhao Yun to do the thing of snatching the food and grass of the nobles in central Sichuan, which will definitely affect the relationship between you and the nobles. If they turn against the general, I'm afraid Dong Zhuo will end up as the general. Especially Now the general is dealing with the big army, if he is not careful, the whole big man may be defeated."

But Liu Bei smiled wryly: "Everything Brother Shiji said is reasonable and far-sighted. But if we can't defend Hanzhong now, the big man will have no future to speak of. Then I, a general, have a good relationship with the nobles What is the difference between bad and bad?" "Brother Shiji said that there is a prerequisite that Bei can hold Hanzhong, and all that Bei is doing now is to hold Hanzhong, the hope of the big man in his hand, as long as he can hold Hanzhong , any means can be used. But now Yizhou only has food in the hands of the powerful and nobles. If you don’t get food from them, where will you get the food from? So even if Bei knows that doing so will make the powerful and nobles dissatisfied, but now you can This is the only way to solve the crisis in Hanzhong.”

Yuan Ji was left speechless by Liu Bei's words.The war has reached the current level of Chengdu, and all strategies are useless. The two sides are nakedly competing for logistics and food.Although Yizhou is a place of natural danger, it is because of the natural danger that determines the degree of closure in central Sichuan.

Even though Liu Bei has a large amount of grain in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, the grain cannot be transported to the middle of Shu, let alone to the front line of Hanzhong. The only thing that can really solve the problem at hand is the grain in the hands of the elites in Yizhou. Irreconcilable contradictions.Liu Bei has already used the grain from Jingzhou and Yangzhou to ease this conflict, otherwise, I am afraid that the entire clan in Central Shu will really rebel now!
Yuan Ji understood that if he did not win the battle of Hanzhong, the conflict between Liu Bei and the Yizhou aristocrats would not be eased!But at this time, Liu Bei in Hanzhong has tried his best to resist Lei Gong, and he has even begun to ignore the relationship with the nobles. Obviously, Liu Bei now has no energy to think about the future, just like Liu Bei said that Hanzhong cannot be kept, and the big man has no future. up.

He thought for a while and said: "Even if the general holds all the food of the clans in central Shu in his hands, he still cannot decide the outcome of this war. If we really want to defend Hanzhong, we can only defeat the big army."

Liu Bei Nai said: "The Dagan army has solid armor, powerful artillery, and elite soldiers. If we fight head-on, I, a big man, can't be their opponent. Now we can only rely on the mountains to maintain the Hanzhong front. If we can really defeat Lei Gong, Bei will not It will be two years on Micang Mountain!"

Yuan Ji said: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to find a way to repel the generals. Even if the nobles in central Shu give their food to the general, the food can at most help the general to maintain the battle for one year. The general should not forget , Compared with food and grass, there are far more big soldiers than us big men. Even if a Sili has hundreds of millions of grains, we can't compare with them. If this batch of grain is used up, the whole of Sichuan will be destroyed There is no more food, and if these things happen, not only Hanzhong will be lost, but Shuzhong will also be lost!"

Liu Bei looked dejected. If there was a way, he would have used it long ago, but the problem is that he just doesn't have this way. Now he can only wait for a year to see if a miracle can happen!

Yuan Ji thought for a while and said, "General now relying on the strength of Hanzhong alone, it is impossible for us to defeat the Dagan Army. We can only find a way to mobilize the strength of the Dagan Army from other places and let Lei Gong support the soldiers of Hanzhong to other places." Go somewhere, so that we have a chance to drive the big army out of Hanzhong."

Yuan Ji looked at the map and said: "The only way for Lei Gong to mobilize the main army in Hanzhong is to let General Zhang Fei lead the Jingzhou Army to attack Yuzhou, and let General Guan Yu lead the Yangzhou Army to attack Xuzhou. As long as the two battlefields are fiercely fought , Putting the Central Plains in a dangerous state, Lei Gong had to mobilize Hanzhong’s soldiers and horses to support these two battlefields in order to keep the Central Plains. It may even give up Hanzhong, after all, Hanzhong is far less important than the Central Plains to Lei Gong!”

Hearing Yuan Ji's words, Liu Bei looked hesitant. Of course, he thought of using this method to re-create two battlefields in the Central Plains, and to use Lei Gong's energy to mobilize a large army to enter the Central Plains battlefield!
But Liu Bei has never done this, the main reason is that his strength is not as good as Lei Gong, although Liu Bei and some people continue to incorporate the tribes of the southern barbarians, making the Jiangnan land with a population of only five or six million people exceed ten million.There is also a large number of Nanman who can be recruited into his army.

But it cannot be denied that the wealth of Jiangnan cannot be compared with that of Central Plains at all. The population of the big Han is three times worse than that of Daqian, and the gap in finance is even ten times.Therefore, he is far inferior to Dagan in the army, whether it is equipment or artillery.

Now Hanzhong is fighting fiercely, and the combined strength of the two sides is close to 40.But the investment of the two sides is completely different. Liu Bei has invested 3 troops in Hanzhong, 5 Yizhou troops, and 8 troops in Jingzhou, adding up to 16 people to resist the big army. In the past two years, the big man has invested more than 20 troops on the battlefield in Hanzhong. This is already Liu Bei's elite force. Seventy percent of the big man's power is concentrated in the direction of Hanzhong. The big man has tried his best in this battle of Hanzhong up.