Even if you scold me, Jing Yi knew that condemnation could not solve the problem.

The key at the moment is to guard the pass of the Aoyao Mountain and clarify the enemy situation as soon as possible. After all, he was attacked by a sneak attack, so there are too many things to figure out.

Jing Yi was not completely mentally prepared for the possibility of Liu Bei's expropriation of the four counties in Nanzhong. Guoyuan had been engaged in farming and rectifying the land between Wudao and Zhuti for more than half a year. Even if the road was dangerous and far, Jing Yi would not have no news.

However, Jing Yi could not see the strategic layout of Liu Bei and Li Su, and Jing Yi did not know that "after opening up the road to Yongchang County through Jianning County, there would be huge local trade interests in the future, as well as the possibility of developing trade with the Shidu Kingdom from Yongchang that flowed from Yongchang to the Indian Ocean."

In Jing Yi's opinion, he was not in the position of an international trade hub, but in a "bad border area", and he didn't have this string in his mind. So even if Liu Bei wanted to use force, he should first fight Yueli County or Liuli County - then consider the location of Guoyuan's military farms. Yueli County in the west is more likely to be killed.

As for the siege... Unless one day the prefect of Yidu, Zhao Yun, went south to occupy Lingling County, Liu Bei might put the matter of conquering the siege on the agenda. Because there is a narrow and difficult southern trade route between Jianwei County and Lingling County, called the " siege Road". Only after opening the siege can the Yizhou regime be able to better and more comprehensively remotely control Jingnan.

(Note: In history, Liu Ba was in Lingling at the beginning. After the Battle of Chibi, he was ordered by Cao Cao to surrender the four counties in Jingnan. However, because the four counties in Jingnan were immediately recovered by Liu Bei, Liu Ba was unable to fulfill Cao Cao's mission and was afraid to escape from disaster. He just crossed the mountains and walked from Lingling to Shu and arrived at Jianwei.)

Because from the map, the boundary line between Yueli County and Jianwei County is very long, and it also borders the vassal state of Shu County (Liu Bei changed to Hanjia County during the Three Kingdoms, but has not yet been changed). The sphere of influence between Jianning County and Liu Bei is only bordered by the southernmost end of Zhuti, which was split out from Jianwei.

If international trade factors are not considered, Liu Bei should not give priority to a remote county that was isolated and deeply rooted.

Even ordinary people who don’t understand geography in the 21st century will think, “Is Yueli County not a mountainous area in southern Sichuan? Is Jianning County not a hinterland in Yunnan? A Sichuan separatist warlord should not first solve the areas that have not yet been merged in the province? Why do you travel thousands of miles to attack Kunming?”

What's more, Jing Yi was appointed as the prefect during the Xiping period of Emperor Ling of Han. The current Yueli County Commander was self-proclaimed by the Barbarian King Gao Yi. The prefect who was originally appointed by the court had been killed for many years. If Liu Bei killed the Barbarian King and seized territory, he would be more morally tenable. All signs made Jing Yi misunderstood the clues of the Northern Army that Yueli Barbarian King Gao Yi would suffer, and he could watch the fire from the other side of the river.

The god-killed Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Li Su! Playing cards without following the routine!

It has come to this point, after the initial rage, Jing Yi was considered to be able to execute. After spending a day or two, he found out the scale of Guan Yu's troops, the logistics route, and whether his mobilization was successful.

After stabilizing his position, Jing Yi recruited his staff, including Chief Su Yun, County Chief Li Mao, and Chief Cai Fei, to urgently discuss plans to retreat to the enemy.

After all, Jianning is a border county and has to be wary of barbarians, so the system of staff and officers is still well matched. If a mainland county is completely stable and peaceful, it may not have permanent positions such as chiefs and chief lieutenants.

Cai Fei was stationed in the local area for many years and fought with barbarians. He knew a lot about military affairs. He took the lead in persuading him from a purely military perspective: "Mr. The road is dangerous and far, so it is definitely not easy for Guan Yu to cross the mountains and transport grain. The most important method is to guard the Iwao Mountain Pass without fighting, and to set up defenses along the mountain roads.

Even if the enemy breaks through the pass, there are still 30 or 50 miles of dangerous mountain roads to Wei County, and it can be delayed everywhere. Within a few months, Guan Yu's food will be gone and he will retreat."

However, Jing Yi's view of things is more comprehensive and his eyes are deeper. After thinking for a while, he felt something was wrong: "If the food is gone, retreat? If Guan Yu comes slowly, our army will have time to strengthen the walls and clear the fields and wait for the time to clear the time, and he will be a little sure.

But now Guan Yu sent troops to Liang Tian to capture Cunju County. How can we wait for them to lose their food? Now that the autumn harvest has just ended at the end of August, will Guan Yu directly use the new grain of Cunju to supplement military rations? Should we keep guarding until Guan Yu eats up all the grain of Cunju County?"

Faced with this question, Li Mao, the county magistrate who is in charge of civil affairs, expressed his consolation: "If the lord of the government is worried about this, he should not worry too much. Liu Bei and Guan Yu chose to send troops at this time, which proves that they know that it is difficult to transport the mountains in the south. They must not fight because of the food from the enemy, so they definitely don't have much food.

But they didn't know that the people in our barbarians were fierce, and the government was slow to collect grain and taxes. Now the autumn harvest ended less than a few days ago. If it was a prosperous land in Shu County, it would be convenient for cars, horses, boats and boats to return on the Chengdu plain. Ten days would be enough for the government to collect taxes and grains for the people.

And what year did we do in Jianning for a month or two before we can complete the tax collection work? Even so, tax-resistant tyrants still emerge one after another. When Guan Yu came, he opened the official warehouse and saw that he would almost see the bottom. We might as well try to spread rumors on the one hand that Liu Bei was going to carry out tyrannical levies and encourage the people to flee to the mountains with their grain.

Secondly, even if the people do not escape, Liu Bei cherishes his reputation and dares not force his scruples. If he really dares to do anything, we can take the opportunity to slander Liu Bei and harm the people, so that the people in the south can become hostile to Liu Bei—the southern barbarians are the most accustomed to this."

Li Mao's words are well versed in the temperament of the Southern Barbarians, namely the Kunming Yi and Ailaoyi.

Because in history, thirty years later, Meng Huo incited these two major southwestern barbarians to rebel, and used the excuse to slander "I heard that Zhuge Liang wanted us to pay tribute to three thousand kilograms of mite brain, three thousand fragrant woods, and three thousand black dogs, and if we can't hand them out, we will be punished." Then the Southern Barbarians rebelled.

The Southern Barbarians are used to being casual and have low productivity. In addition, they are tough in the people, so they are very sensitive to excessive tax collection.

Liu Bei's courage to increase taxes is beneficial to obtaining military rations in the short term, but if he is slandered with fire, the long-term loss of people's hearts will be too great.

Jing Yi touched his beard and decided to prepare for both hands: "Then let's send more detailed tasks first, walk the small roads and climb the mountains and spread rumors, and collect information about whether Liu Bei really forced the people to feed the food. If Liu Bei was frightened by the rumors and could not bear to harm the people, we would stand by and wait for them to lose their food.

If Liu Bei really dares to harm the people to collect grain, we will go to Yueli. Yongchang spread Liu Bei's tyrannical actions, add fuel to the fire and make them share the same hatred with us, and their lips will be cold. At that time, we can really gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to go out of seclusion and fight to the decisive battle. It is still OK to have a mere 5,000 soldiers and horses that have surrounded and annihilated Guan Yu."

Li Mao accepted the mission, but reminded him with concern: "Mr., if the arrangement of borrowing troops from other counties to fight the enemy together, I am afraid that even if Guan Yu is annihilated and Liu Bei is defeated, the foreign soldiers who assist in the war will not leave. At that time... we will support them at the least, and at the worst, we will lead the wolf into the house. Gao Yi and Mengchang are both bloodthirsty barbarian kings and will not do anything for us."

Jing Yi: "You make arrangements and preparations first! I will pay attention to the right measure."

At this time, Su Yun, the chief minister who had not expressed his opinion, jumped out and added two suggestions: "Mr. Fu, I think that while sending detailed works, you can also send envoys to contact Guan Yu at the same time, one by one and one by one. In this way, whether the envoy makes contributions or not, you can cover it for the detailed works."

The chief is originally a staff officer and has no specific division of labor, so there are often not many suggestions, but they are all important.

Jing Yi always trusted Su Yun the most, so he asked in detail: "Emunited? What can I do?"

Su Yun: "Guan Yu attacked Jianning with the excuse that our army intercepted and killed the business travelers in the official camp of the Yizhou governor. A few days ago, the guards were in full swing, and both sides were not calm. But now the war has stopped, and we just happened to tell them the matter of intercepting and killing the business travelers. We were not aware of it. Judging from the later wealth, it should be Zheng Dou, the magistrate of Cunju County or Ma Yu, the magistrate of Cunju County, who was greedy for self-interest.

Now the Cunzhu has been captured. Judging from the current information, there is no news that Zheng Dou and Ma You were captured. It is probably a death to the country. Why don’t the Fu Jun send envoys to clarify the grievances and let Guan Yu have a head for injustice and have a debt. At worst, it’s just that the two dead people will whip the corpses and vent their anger.”

Jing Yi slapped his head: "Look at me doing this... Alas, I was too anxious to attack Guan Yu in the past two days, and I was confused. It's time to do this. Even if Guan Yu had the intention to plot against us, it would be impossible to withdraw his troops because of this. We appealed to Qu Zhi, which would make it easier to gain the sympathy of his colleagues from Yueli."

Jing Yi was still clear in his mind, and knew that even if he begged for mercy, he would not be able to withdraw his troops, but he could win "interstate sympathy".

Just like Tao Qian's attitude in history, he acted as "praying Cao Cao to let go of the people of Xuzhou", and Cao Cao would not leave, but Tao Qian could attract interstate assistance such as Tian Kai, Kong Rong and Liu Bei.

...

The suggestions of the three major staff members under Jing Yi were quickly implemented selectively. Within a few days, Jing Yi fully understood more of the enemy's dynamics.

However, the whole process was not smooth, because the messenger he sent was driven back by Guan Yu first. If he hadn't run fast, he would have been almost killed.

Guan Yu seemed to be very prepared. He took out the "bandit leader" that the caravan went back to pay, as well as some "tale chants" found from the thief's corpses. He kept saying and saying, proving that the caravan was definitely not sent by the county magistrate of Guanzi. He tried every means to bite Jing Yi and insisted that Jing Yi himself was responsible for the interception case of the caravan. This time, Jianning could not completely surrender Liu Bei, so he would never withdraw his troops.

After hearing the reward, Jing Yi thought about it and thought that this could not be an excuse for Guan Yu to think of such an excuse as Guan Yu who only knows the strategy of war but does not understand the law. After a brief investigation, Jing Yi concluded that behind this matter was not only Guan Yu's military plan, but also Li Su's terrible opponent-

The whole world knows that Li Su, the guy in Liu Bei's camp, has the most terrifying words. It is possible that right and wrong are all about life and death. This time, the frame-up is so meticulous, that Li Su must have written the lines for Guan Yu in advance!

As for the talismans found on the thieves' corpses, of course, they must have been forged by Li Su. Otherwise, there were no talismans that were carrying officers and soldiers when the bandits were robbed? The acting skills were too clumsy, just like the Tiandihui assassins who broke into the palace for assassination in "The Deer and the Cauldron" used Wu Sangui's weapons. Ghosts knew that they were framed by Wu Sangui!

After the messenger failed, Jing Yi could only count on the meticulous work, but the meticulous work was not completely smooth.

Although he found out a lot of news and spread rumors and ran Guan Yu's army, he did not dare to lose the people's hearts when he was experiencing heavy taxes, Guan Yu took the opportunity to seize several of the rumors and torture and confess, and executed them. In this way, Guan Yu also found out what Jing Yi wanted to do.

This is also impossible, because if you just go to secretly watch and listen to information and don’t do things, you can still ensure safety. If you have to take the initiative to do things and spread rumors, you will definitely suffer losses and be caught and killed. This means that while you are storing the enemy, your own plans will also be clear.
Chapter completed!