Li Shuyi truly felt the benefits of Bai Xiaowen's high charisma at this time. Combined with the identity of the second young master Yuan Xi, in the eyes of those figures in the spiritual world, high charisma is a kind of "clear master" aura.
Li Shuyi suddenly remembered something.
"Xiaowen, your leaf-covering peony painting seems to be effective for only two hours? Why don't you go find Tian Feng and Zhen Yi quickly? When time passes, the effect of the peony painting will be gone."
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said: "Zhen Yi, as the head of the Zhen family, should not be short-sighted, and Tian Feng is a talented person with great strategic vision. To convince these two people, it is impossible without some practical information, and the charm value is only a supporting role.
Even without the charm of Peony Tujia, relying on the charm bonus of Emperor Mianqi and the lingering lingering charm is enough. The most important thing now is to collect information on the world situation in the Three Kingdoms plane at this time to confirm whether my idea is feasible!"
If the history of the spiritual world is completely consistent with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Bai Xiaowen does not need to study the information about Yuan Shao's study. He can go to see Tian Feng directly and bluff this great talent. But the history of the spiritual world is different from the romance and the official history after all. Bai Xiaowen knows many details
I don’t understand that if I say something wrong, it would be second to making people laugh, but losing Tian Feng’s trust and preventing the entire plan from being carried out would be the most fatal.
Li Shuyi agreed and asked no more questions. Together with Cecilia, she helped Bai Xiaowen light the lamps and candles, and then brought in bundles of bamboo slips and silk books.
It is now the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Although Cai Lun has improved papermaking, it has not yet become popular. The mainstream writing carriers are still bamboo slips and silk. It will be a hundred or two hundred years before paper becomes popular.
Bai Xiaowen concentrated his attention, his eyes like a camera, scanning these precious and important intelligence materials.
First, he found a geographical map of thirteen states, which also noted the names of the powerful people who occupied each state and county. This map was very important, so Bai Xiaowen wrote it down first.
Then there is the map of the prefectures and counties of the four states in Hebei, covering the governors of each city, the names of generals, soldiers, population, etc.
The intelligence in Sizhou (Si Li Xiaowei Department), Yanzhou and Xuzhou under Cao Cao's current rule is false and true. Because the two sides are in confrontation, Yuan Shao is also very concerned about this information and records it in detail.
As for other places, such as Xiliang Ma Teng, Jingzhou Liu Biao, Jiangdong Sun Ce, Yizhou Liu Zhang, etc., it is relatively simple. There are only rough military scales of the leaders of these forces, such as "Ma Teng's elite cavalry of one hundred thousand", "Liu Biao's water foot"
Two hundred thousand troops" and so on, you can imagine how much water there is.
Farther away, Shi Xie from Jiaozhou in the south only has a name.
Bai Xiaowen focused on military intelligence.
It is a pity that Yuan Shao is in the frontline camp at this time, and all military information is passed to him instead of his hometown in Jizhou. The information in this study seems a bit outdated, most of it is two or three months old, or even
Information on troop mobilization half a year ago.
If not, I'm afraid the guard guarding the door wouldn't let Bai Xiaowen in so easily.
"That's almost it."
After Bai Xiaowen "swept" the thick stack of silk books and the mountain-like pile of bamboo slips, he rubbed his brows and said with a hint of fatigue, "Return all these slips to their original positions."
Li Shuyi and Cecilia followed their words.
Bai Xiaowen closed his eyes slightly and digested the information that was swept into his mind.
After Li Shuyi and the two had tidied up, Bai Xiaowen finally breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes: "Let's go to Jizhou Prison to see Tian Feng!"
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On the way, Bai Xiaowen shared some brief information with Li Shuyi and Cecilia.
"The general situation of the confrontation in Guandu is similar to that in the novel," Bai Xiaowen said, "Yuan Shao has a strong foundation, with a total of 700,000 soldiers and horses from the four states, and a company of 90 miles. Cao Cao only has 300,000 soldiers and horses, and he does not have much food and grass.
Even many of Cao Cao's subordinates secretly wrote letters to show their loyalty, which shows that most of the natives in the Three Kingdoms planes look down upon Cao Cao."
"Seven, seventy-seven...seven hundred thousand?" Cecilia's eyes widened. "Total of both sides, there are one million soldiers?"
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said: "In the Three Kingdoms era, there were no overly sophisticated detection methods. We could only roughly estimate the troops based on flags. Therefore, when princes from various places raised armies, they often flaunted their flags and exaggerated their military power, so that the enemy would be frightened and retreat without fighting.
Surrender. There is a saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War that "the army that subdues the enemy without fighting". Yuan Shao gathered soldiers from four states and said they were 700,000, but I'm afraid even half of them would not be enough. As for Cao Cao, he even used tiger skin to pretend to be a banner.
, it would be good to have 100,000 soldiers and horses from 300,000."
Li Shuyi also has experience in this and said: "The number of soldiers in ancient China included the weak auxiliary militia. An army of 100,000 people may only have 10,000 or 20,000 real elite soldiers."
Bai Xiaowen said: "If measured according to normal combat effectiveness, the militia is indeed weak and will not reach the normal standard template, such as the Ramesses plane. However, the planes of the Three Kingdoms are different. Due to the popularity, the overall strength of the characters in the spiritual world
Be promoted! Militiamen are also standard templates and should not be underestimated."
Cecilia breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little numb.
In Jizhou Prison, Bai Xiaowen didn't waste much effort. With his identity as Second Master Yuan, he easily met Tian Feng in prison.
Although Tian Feng was imprisoned, his treatment was not bad.
There is a separate cell with lights, candles and books. Although the bed is simple, it is not dirty.
There are two reasons. One is that Tian Feng's own identity is important and the jailers dare not do anything to the old counselor; the other is that Tian Feng is the leader of a large Jizhou clan and has the care of the Julutian family behind him.
Bai Xiaowen saw Tian Feng and glanced briefly.
Tian Feng has a gray beard and an old face, but he is still in good spirits.
"Second Young Master? Aren't you a pastor in Youzhou?" When Tian Feng saw Bai Xiaowen, there was a hint of surprise on his face.
"My dear, I want to pay my respects to Mr. Tian!" Bai Xiaowen's attitude was very low. He first greeted him as his younger nephew, and then replied: "This young man returned home from Youzhou to visit his relatives and has already paid his respects to his mother. I heard that Mr. Tian was imprisoned in prison by his father.
, I was so frightened that I came here to pay my respects."
Tian Feng was even more surprised. In his memory, Mr. Yuan and he did not have much friendship.
"That's all!" Tian Feng coughed a few times, "I don't dare to spare the Second Young Master's courtesy because of my guilt. Second Young Master, I dare to ask, what is the current situation of the war between my lord and Cao Cao?"
Based on the information found in Yuan Shao's study and combined with Yuan Xi's memory, Bai Xiaowen said slowly: "I have been in Youzhou for a long time, and my knowledge is not detailed. I only heard that my father and Cao Cao fought in two battles, and both sides won.
The current stalemate in Guandu is impossible to win."