Chapter 140

Why would other Guandong warlords labor and toil to march south to Huainan just to help Liu Bei regain his territory?

Furthermore,

the purpose of the Guandong coalition was not to deal with Sun Ce, but to weaken Dong Zhuo.

Marching south to attack Huainan has nothing to do with their main goal.

As long as they aren't brain-damaged, they would never do such a thankless task!

Therefore,

except for Liu Bei,

no other warlord would send troops to Huainan to deal with Sun Ce.

"Mr. Linzhi, thank you for your wonderful advice!"

"I, on behalf of my Lord, thank you."

Kan Ze respectfully bowed to Gu Yi.

Gu Yi laughed:

"Mr. Derun, no need for such formalities."

"This matter is of great importance, please return to Yuzhou quickly and inform your Lord."

Hearing this, Kan Ze nodded heavily.

Although the "land for land" tactic was unprecedented,

the feasibility was very high!

Trading half of a dilapidated Yuzhou for a Huainan that had basically not been affected by the flames of war was absolutely an extremely cost-effective deal.

Watching Kan Ze's departing back,

a cold sneer appeared on the corner of Gu Yi's mouth.

The strategy he proposed, although it seemed beneficial to Sun Ce, was in fact a strategy of killing several birds with one stone!

With Sun Ce's current reputation, all the noble families in the world would love to swallow him alive!

Naturally, there was no possibility of any cooperation with noble families.

And Yuzhou, after three years of war between the father-son duo of Sun Jian and Sun Ce and Yuan Shu, the original Yuzhou noble group and Nanyang noble group had already suffered heavy losses!

To put it bluntly, the father-son duo of Sun Jian and Sun Ce were the butcher knives Gu Yi had sent out.

These two knives used to slaughter the noble groups were quite effective.

And now,

Sun Ce was on the Yuzhou front line, about to face the joint strike of the Guandong coalition.

Resisting head-on, Sun Ce would find it hard to hold out.

It would be better to take this opportunity to let him abandon Yuzhou and turn to sneak attack Huainan, which had just been occupied by Liu Bei not long ago.

And it just so happened that after a long war,

the fighting power of the Yuzhou noble group and the Nanyang noble group was not as good as before.

In game terms, the blue bars of these two major noble groups were seriously insufficient.

Letting Sun Ce abandon Yuzhou and sneak attack Huainan, which had just been occupied by Liu Bei,

was equivalent to Gu Yi moving the butcher knife of Sun Ce from Yuzhou to Huainan!

Let the noble families of Huainan feel the power of Sun Ce's butcher knife!

And Sun Ce would never be able to get the support of the Huainan noble families.

In order not to be wiped out, he would only have to continue relying on the big brother Dong Zhuo force.

After all,

Sun Ce was already the "public enemy of the noble families."

No matter where he ran, he could only fight to the death with the local noble families.

There was no possibility of any peace talks.

If he wanted to reach cooperation with the noble families, the only way was for Sun Ce to pass away and the owner of the Sun family army to be replaced by someone else.

But... that Sun Ten-Thousand who was on good terms with the noble families in history was now a hostage in Chang'an City.

As for Sun Ce's third brother, Sun Yi, he had the same irritable temper as Sun Ce.

The fourth brother, Sun Kuang, was only five years old now.

Therefore, there was no possibility of the Sun family army cooperating with the noble families.

If they wanted to continue to exist in the world,

the only way was to be firmly bound to the big brother Dong Zhuo force.

Besides this, there was no other way.

After all, that land of Guandong was not the world of the common people at all, but the world of the noble families!

Since the Sun family army had no possibility of cooperating with the noble families, they could only rely tightly on the side of the big brother Dong Zhuo force.

After returning to Yuzhou,

Kan Ze passed on what Gu Yi said to Sun Ce without any changes.

After listening, Sun Ce immediately slapped the table and stood up!

"Gu Linzhi is truly the strongest strategist of the time!"

"This strategy can not only solve the current crisis,"

"but also help our army obtain a large area of fertile land in Huainan!"

The fact that the Guandong warlords were about to form an alliance made Sun Ce feel overwhelmed.

And now, if Gu Yi's strategy was adopted,

not only could they escape the quagmire of Yuzhou, but they could also make the fighting power of the Sun family army even better than before!

Thinking of this, Sun Ce quickly found several old generals in the army.

He informed them of the news that they were about to abandon Yuzhou and turn to attack Huainan.

Regarding this, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zhu Zhi, and others all held a supportive attitude.

For the Sun Ce army,

attacking Huainan actually had another benefit.

That was, Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing was currently occupying Danyang.

If Sun Ce occupied Huainan, he could form an offensive and defensive alliance with Wu Jing.

Although Wu Jing himself might not have very strong ability, he had a Danyang elite force under his command that could fight well.

At that time, even if Liu Bei returned to counterattack Huainan, he would only end up defeated.

Poor Liu Bei, before he had officially sent troops north to participate in the alliance, his territory had already been targeted by Gu Yi and Sun Ce.

But speaking of the early Liu Bei, his luck was really not good.

Whether in history or now,

in the early stage, besides Guan and Zhang, there were no other first-class talents under his command who could be brought to the table.

Now, even Mi Zhu and Sun Qian and others, because Liu Bei did not go to Xuzhou to help Tao Qian, were still under Tao Qian's command for the time being.

However, Liu Bei did not have this crisis awareness for the time being.

With the passage of time,

Liu Bei took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, as well as twenty-five thousand Huainan troops, north to the vicinity of Suanzao to participate in the alliance.

And the rear lair, Shouchun City, was handed over to Jian Yong to guard on his behalf.

Meanwhile,

the other seven warlords who agreed to Yuan Shao to participate in the alliance also started moving from their respective territories.

Among them, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, and Zhang Yang were the closest to Suanzao.

And Tao Qian, Gongsun Zan, and Kong Rong were a bit further away.

However,

before the eight warlords formally formed the alliance,

the troop movements of the Dong Zhuo side had already been transmitted.