Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

“I see, I see…”

“No wonder Mr. Zikun also wrote Yu Ji County on the bamboo slips. Perhaps the current overt intelligence doesn't mention Yu Ji at all, but in reality, every line points to Yu Ji County.”

Guo Jia said with some emotion, then suddenly realizing something, he looked at Li Ji beside him, who was wearing a faint smile.

He had been educated!

Educated in every sense of the word…

Guo Jia couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration and unwillingness to admit defeat at the same time.

However, Li Ji seemed to completely ignore Guo Jia's change in expression. While elegantly pouring tea for Guo Jia again, he said.

“What Fengxiao has deduced is also what I have been thinking. Perhaps we don't know how many Yue tribesmen are behind this, but their goal is undoubtedly to capture Fuchun Mountain.”

“And although the target on the battlefield is Fuchun Mountain, the implications of this… there are still several possibilities. The biggest possibility is that the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery intends to use the excuse of 'helping Wu Commandery resist the Yue tribesmen' to lead troops into Wu Commandery.”

“At that time, who can tell whether the damage caused by the soldiers of Kuaiji Commandery is the work of the Yue tribesmen or the soldiers of Kuaiji Commandery? Or, pretending to help Wu Commandery, but in reality, assisting the Yue tribesmen in secretly plotting against our army is also a possibility.”

Li Ji casually uttered two guesses, causing Guo Jia, a young man who had just come of age and was new to the world, to feel a chill in his heart, and he blurted out subconsciously.

“We are officials of the same dynasty, and Lord Liu also concurrently serves as the Inspector of Yang Province. How dare the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery have such courage? In the imperial court, there is a wise emperor and numerous officials. Even if a trace of the truth of this matter is leaked, it would be enough for his entire clan to be beheaded.”

Li Ji narrowed his eyes and said, “Perhaps the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery has received instructions from the court, so he is so bold and reckless.”

However, Li Ji was not surprised by this.

Since Liu Bei had to choose to side with the maternal relatives' group among the two major groups of eunuchs and maternal relatives, it was normal to suffer revenge from the eunuchs.

Not to mention that this time, the disaster relief and people-saving efforts had slightly surpassed the eunuch group in the court, which undoubtedly made the eunuch group regard Liu Bei as a thorn in their side, trying to suppress Liu Bei.

From a local perspective, the Yue tribesmen's looting south of the Yangtze River was a common occurrence.

But once the Yue tribesmen occupy Fuchun Mountain, and even肆意loot in the Qiantang County area, and Wu Commandery is unable to conquer them for a long time, even with the protection of the maternal relatives, the eunuch group will have plenty of reasons to remove Liu Bei from his position as the Administrator of Wu Commandery.

Even if the maternal relatives spend a lot of effort to keep Liu Bei's position as the Administrator, the Kuaiji Commandery soldiers in Guo Yi's hands actually occupy the southern part of Wu Commandery. If they want them to return it, they can also refuse to return it to Liu Bei on the pretext of needing to resist the Yue tribesmen.

Therefore…

Li Ji sipped his tea carefully, his gaze turned to the map hanging in the main tent, falling on Fuchun Mountain and Yu Ji County.

Fuchun Mountain is the southern barrier of Wu Commandery, and Yu Ji County is actually only separated from Qiantang County by a river that serves as the boundary between Wu Commandery and Kuaiji Commandery. The two county towns are less than fifty miles apart.

Close!

Too close!

If Li Ji's guess is correct, at this moment, Kuaiji Commandery has already begun to concentrate its forces in Yu Ji County, ready to take the opportunity to attack Wu Commandery under the pretext that Fuchun Mountain was captured by the Yue bandits, in the name of “entering the territory to suppress bandits”, and prepared to cross the river into Wu Commandery at any time.

Moreover, the intelligence framework that the Brocade-Clothed Guards had deployed in Kuaiji Commandery was gradually being built up, but Li Ji had not received any prior warning, which was enough to show that Guo Yi, the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery, might not be a pure weakling, or that he had a wise man offering advice by his side.

Therefore, while acting cautiously, he also managed to erase the excuse for the maternal relatives group in the court to attack and suspect the eunuch group.

Kuaiji Commandery only began to concentrate its forces in Yu Ji County after Qiantang County was looted by the Yue tribesmen. Even if Liu Bei and the maternal relatives group realize the truth in the future, they will not be able to find any grounds for attack in this regard.

‘This plan is not poisonous, but it is very dirty. I don't know who came up with this scheme…’

Li Ji thought silently.

Even without evidence, most of Li Ji's suspicions had already been confirmed.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are other possibilities. Perhaps Guo Yi was not instructed by the Ten Attendants, but simply knew that his close neighbor was wealthy, so he came up with this dirty plan to break into Wu Commandery and sweep it clean.

At present, based on the existing intelligence, combined with the movements of all parties and the current situation, Li Ji can determine many things, but there are still many places that are like a fog.

For example, how the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery colluded with the Yue tribesmen is something that Li Ji is quite curious about, and even wants to learn from.

The Yue people are also people and labor!

Although Wu Commandery is currently unable to digest a large number of people, Li Ji undoubtedly needs to prepare in advance for the future.

And the specific number of Yue tribesmen, the specific content of the alliance between Kuaiji Commandery and the Yue tribesmen, the more detailed commanders and military movements of both sides, and so on…

Each one is related to the direction of the war and the victory or defeat of the battlefield.

But this time is different from the campaign against the Yellow Turbans. That time, Li Ji was in the dark and the Yellow Turbans were in the open. After collecting a large amount of intelligence, using intention to defeat unintentional was what Li Ji was good at.

However, this time it was undoubtedly reversed.

Li Ji is in the open, Guo Yi and the Yue tribesmen are in the dark, and he knows very little about the intelligence, so he cannot even use the “strategy simulator” to deduce it. Li Ji can only make his own judgments.

This couldn't help but make Li Ji feel a little unaccustomed. He understood that he was not very good at this kind of defensive warfare. He was better at being a sly fox and playing sneak attacks, or facing the opponent head-on.

For Li Ji, playing tricks in the dark was fine, and playing tough in the open was also fine, but playing Yin-Yang defense was not so good.

Just as Li Ji was thinking about how to break the situation, Guo Jia had just gradually recovered from the dirty and dark politics that had been stuffed into his mind in a very short time.

Political struggles, from ancient times to the present, are not child's play, nor are they limited to the square inch of the imperial court.

Especially for the Han Dynasty, where eunuchs and maternal relatives have been fighting each other for generations, political struggles have long been updated and iterated many times, to the point that old foxes like Liu Yan are afraid of entering the court as officials and dying without a burial place.

The imperial court is a microcosm of political struggle, but the real battle is often outside the imperial court.

The Yuan family supports General He, and Dong Zhuo is backed by the Yuan family. It is conceivable that after the political struggle between the two sides in the original trajectory turned into a bloody knife fight, it eventually benefited Dong Zhuo, once again proving that sometimes the barrel of a gun is more useful than political power.

Of course, Guo Jia knew nothing about these more far-reaching matters, but Guo Jia also accepted the fact that the enemy was not only the Yue tribesmen, but also Guo Yi, the Prefect of Kuaiji Commandery, who was Liu Bei's colleague, in a very short time.

Previously, Guo Jia had never thought about that aspect, and never thought that Guo Yi, as the Prefect, would be so bold and reckless.

The emperor was still sitting high on the throne, but Guo Yi dared to attack his colleagues based on his own selfish desires.

For a time, Guo Jia, who originally had some youthful enthusiasm, inexplicably felt a bit of sadness in his heart. The Guo family was so dirty, but wouldn't the entire Han Dynasty outside the Guo family be the same?

He had left the Guo family, but wasn't he still in the Guo family?

A feeling that the Han Dynasty was about to end sprouted in Guo Jia's heart!

Even the prefectures and commanderies dared to have the idea of attacking each other, which shows how low the actual influence of the Han Dynasty has fallen. How far is it from the real chaos in the world?

At this moment, many thoughts that Guo Jia had never thought of in the past burst out in Guo Jia's mind, causing Guo Jia's face to change repeatedly.

Li Ji glanced at Guo Jia, who seemed to have been stuffed with too much information in a very short time, which led to a long period of disorientation, and said with a gentle expression.

“Could it be that for Fengxiao, this question is too difficult, and there is no solution?”

After a pause, without waiting for Guo Jia to answer, Li Ji continued.

“But it doesn't matter. Fengxiao doesn't need to mind. When I was your age, I was just a commoner sitting and reading in a thatched cottage day after day.”

Young people are undoubtedly most vulnerable to being provoked.

Especially Guo Jia, who is arrogant and sensitive, is even more vulnerable to stimulation in the name of care and comfort.

Immediately, Guo Jia opened his mouth and said.

“What's so difficult about this? Just watch me think for a moment, and I can easily solve it.”

After Guo Jia finished bragging, he fell into deep thought, and occasionally muttered a sentence to Li Ji.

“Soon, soon, just wait a moment…”

Seeing this, Li Ji naturally would not urge Guo Jia, but quietly began to deal with some miscellaneous official documents in the army.

Guo Jia also changed from a sitting posture to a squatting posture, and then from a squatting posture to a walking posture. Many times he instinctively wanted to pick up the wine gourd and take a sip to refresh himself, wanting to find some inspiration to formulate a perfect plan.

In fact, Li Ji had roughly analyzed all the current possibilities, but he could not use the “strategy simulator” to calculate it due to the lack of information.

Moreover, Li Ji was accustomed to directly formulating a plan that was enough to lock in the victory with sufficient intelligence. On the contrary, under the circumstances where there were too many unknowns, he would always inexplicably feel uneasy in his heart when formulating a plan himself.

Therefore, at this time, Li Ji never hesitated to temporarily use an external brain…

For example, Guo Jia's brain, which had just emerged and showed his talent, was actually quite useful to Li Ji.

It's a pity that Jia Xu is not here, otherwise wouldn't Li Ji have two external brains working together?

Dual-core is stronger than single-core!

If three cobblers can match Zhuge Liang, then if the luxury of the strategist group is comparable to three Zhuge Liang gathered together, how should you respond?

Just as Li Ji had properly handled all the military documents and, seeing that the day was late, was preparing to ask Guo Jia to retire for the night, to rest and recharge for the plans of tomorrow...

“I have a perfect plan.”

Guo Jia, with a hint of fatigue on his face, confidently spoke to Li Ji. “I wonder if Mister Zikun has also come up with any good ideas?”

A look of interest and composure appeared on Li Ji's face as he said,

“Oh? Then I shall listen attentively. Please, Fengxiao, enlighten me first, and let's see if this so-called perfect plan is truly flawless and if it aligns with the plan in my own mind.”

(End of Chapter)