Chapter 430: Zhuge Liang trying to win over Liu Biao to send troops

"Yidu, De Gui, what do you two think?"

Liu Biao narrowed his eyes, his gaze fixed tightly on the faces of Cai Mao and Kuai Yue.

As if wanting to see through the real thoughts in their hearts.

However.

Kuai Yue and Cai Mao had also known Liu Biao for many years.

How could they not see the concerns in Liu Biao's heart at this moment?

Only to see Kuai Yue smile slightly and answer with cupped hands:

"My lord, Gu Linzhi is powerful."

"In the north, all of us added together are not his match."

"If he doesn't go on a southern expedition, we must never be enemies with him."

"But this time, the most elite Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, these two trump card cavalry forces under Gu Linzhi's command, are all left in the north of Xuzhou."

"According to the report from the spies."

"The army Gu Linzhi intends to use for the expedition to Jiangdong only has ninety thousand infantry."

"And that scoundrel Liu Xuande, although his original strength was far inferior to Gu Linzhi's."

"But after obtaining the support of the Jiangdong aristocratic families, he has many more soldiers under his command who are good at water warfare."

"It is hard to predict who will win and who will lose."

"If we participate in it at this time."

"For Liu Xuande, it is undoubtedly like a miraculous army descending from heaven."

"And this time, it is also the only opportunity to get rid of Gu Linzhi!"

"Otherwise, once Gu Linzhi defeats Liu Xuande, the six commanderies of Jiangdong will definitely fall into his hands."

"My Jingzhou will be tightly wrapped by Gu Linzhi's sphere of influence without any dead angles."

"The best ending is probably to surrender to Gu Linzhi voluntarily and move the whole family and clan into Chang'an City."

"However, if the ending is like that."

"Is my lord really willing?"

Kuai Yue analyzed to Liu Biao with a bewitching expression.

Standing from the perspective of the Jingzhou aristocratic families, they did not hope for any faction to unify the world too early.

Especially factions with strong personalities like Dong Zhuo and Gu Yi.

It can be foreseen.

Once Liu Bei, who occupied the land of Jiangdong, is defeated, the only options left for Jingzhou are surrender and resistance.

Surrender?

It means the Jingzhou aristocratic families will completely lose their status as uncrowned kings.

Resistance?

The fate of the Nanyang and Yuzhou aristocratic families is likely the fate of the Jingzhou aristocratic families.

Therefore.

Gu Yi's southern expedition gave the Jingzhou aristocratic families a great opportunity.

Once Gu Yi dies, the situation in the world will change rapidly.

Although the Dong Zhuo faction is still the strongest warlord in the world.

But Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and others will also definitely quickly seize the gap of Gu Yi's death to send troops to recover lost territory.

Including Gongsun Zan and Sun Ce, these two little brothers under the name of the Dong Zhuo faction, are also very likely to backstab their big brother.

After all.

The path the big brother wants to walk is to eradicate all warlords and achieve true unification.

And as Sun Ce and Gongsun Zan, who nominally submit to the Dong Zhuo faction but actually possess not-so-small ambitions, they naturally do not hope that the big brother Dong Zhuo faction will really sweep across the world.

After all.

Once the big brother eliminates all hostile factions, the next turn will probably be the two little brothers.

However.

Before the big brother shows fatigue.

The two little brothers will definitely pretend to be "loyal" and will never go against the big brother.

And now.

The only way to make the Dong Zhuo faction fall into fatigue is to finish off Gu Yi, the actual person in power of the Dong Zhuo faction!

As long as Gu Yi dies.

The world will fall into great chaos again!

In terms of ability, old Dong definitely has it.

Under his leadership, the Xiliang Army became the strongest warlord in the world.

But when it comes to sweeping across the world and achieving unification.

Old Dong himself believes that he does not possess such ability.