It is precisely for this consideration that the prestigious Yingzhou family led by the Jiao family did not dare to lose sincerity to the Yuan family in Caizhou. Moreover, the Yuan family's reputation has always been poor, and its style of being fickle in the Qin and Chu makes people unable to believe its promises.

In this case, Jiao Xiangning would rather choose Huaiyou.

Even though Jiang Feng had a bad attitude towards the gentry and prominent clans, he did not take the violent means to directly deprive the gentry and prominent clans of their property and land. Even if he wanted to take away some things from the gentry and prominent clans, he would give some compensation from other aspects.

The three surnames of Shouzhou are the most obvious examples. Otherwise, not to mention the Zheng family, at least the two surnames of Umeda would not have been able to easily submit to Jiang Feng, and Huaiyou would not have been able to have settled down so easily.

Jiao Xiang also knew that the Yuan family had sent people to contact the big surnames in Yingzhou, but in the end the big surnames still did not believe the Yuan family. As long as there was a little hope, they did not want the Yuan family to take over Yingzhou.

What they most hope is to maintain the status quo, but when it is indeed impossible to maintain the status quo, they would rather choose Huaiyou.

Jiao Xiang's words made Liang Zan and others change their face slightly.

Jiao Xiang's attitude actually represents the attitude of the local big surnames in Yingzhou. They are willing to support themselves, but when Yingzhou is unable to protect itself, they are more inclined to let Huaiyou take over.

Although Liang Zan was a little angry, he also knew that the local surname in Yingzhou had no choice but to do so. To a certain extent, he could understand, who would prevent Xuzhou reinforcements from coming?

"Sir Changshi, I'm afraid Huaiyou will not go to the muddy waters of our Yingzhou, right? Everyone knows what Huaiyou Li is preparing for now. How could they fight with Caizhou because of our Yingzhou?" Gu Hua exuded a contemptuous sarcastic smile, "Wu is Jiang Feng's target, and Yingzhou is probably not yet looked down upon."

"That may not be." Lu Tong disagreed with Gu Hua's opinion and said in a deep voice: "Although Huaiyou's target is Wu, Caizhou and Huaiyou have always been mortal enemies. If Caizhou gets Yingbo and the two states of Yingnan, how can Huaiyou be stable? Even if Huaiyou doesn't want to take over our Yingzhou, Jiang Feng will definitely not want to see Yuan take over Yingzhou."

"Sir, so what I mean is not to let Huaiyou enter Yingzhou, but to let it help us defend Yingzhou." Jiao Xiang continued.

"Help us defend Yingzhou?" Before Liang Zan responded, Gu Hua sneered: "Do you think Jiang Feng will help us? If Caizhou takes all his strength to attack, even if Huaiyou tries his best to help us, he may not be able to defend it. Even if he can defend it, he will pay a considerable price. Do you think Jiang Feng is so stupid? We are separated from Huaiyou. Jiang Feng took Shouzhou and the Shouzhou naval army was all obtained by Jiang Feng. Even if Caizhou takes Yingzhou, it is a threat to Huaiyou, but Caizhou has no naval army. Huaiyou can rely on the advantage of the naval army, so that Caizhou dare not easily invade the south. In this case, Jiang Feng will not be able to pay such a great price for our Yingzhou!"

Gu Hua's words left Jiao Xiang and Lu Tong speechless for a moment. They also knew that Huaiyou's current strength was slightly weaker than Caizhou, and Yingzhou might be able to be on par with Caizhou.

Of course, Caizhou cannot do his best to attack Yingzhou. After all, no matter how they reach an agreement with Daliang, they dare not fully believe Daliang. If they really come to attack Yingzhou at all costs and are caught off guard by Daliang, they will really be exterminated.

The question is whether Huaiyou is willing to pay such a big price for Yingzhou?

Is this worth it?

The hall fell silent again for a while. They had never contacted Huaiyou before. Now, when they suddenly contacted Huaiyou, would it seem like a temporary cram?

Don't just humiliate it, it's really embarrassing.

Liang Zan rubbed his cheeks and could only bear the humiliation. In order to protect Yingzhou, there is nothing that cannot be done. The key is how likely it is?

Gu Hua's words make sense. Huaiyou may not want to see Yuan swallow Yingzhou, but if Huaiyou wants to pay a great price to support Yingzhou's self-protection, will Jiang Fenghui agree?

But no matter what, Liang Zan felt that he could try it, so he let Jiao Xiangqian connect, but there would be a reply in just three or five days, and it would be no big deal.

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Jiang Feng didn't expect that someone would send a pillow to sleep.

Yingzhou actually put down his face and asked for help.

This shows that Yingzhou has realized the danger and Caizhou's preparations have entered a tacit stage.

Before he could think too much, Jiang Feng immediately summoned the generals to discuss with Cui Shang, who had returned from Bianliang.

It is not necessary to say how harmful it is to Caizhou annex Yingzhou. The key now lies in how likely it is to win this battle if Huaiyou intervenes? This is one of them.

Will it affect Huaiyou's intervention in the situation in Wu, affect Huaiyou's primary target of attacking the two states of Luhao, and implementing the implementation of occupation? This is the second one.

Huaiyou is very familiar with Caizhou's strength. One Yuan Wuwei can make the entire Wuzhou army in a mess. Even if Yuan Wuwei returned in the end in that battle, he even left Zhao Lan, the eight pillars of Ruyang, behind, the Wuzhou army also paid the lives of the two masters Guo Tai and Lu Yingfeng. This was because the Caizhou army was distracted and unwilling to pay too much under Gushi City.

Yuan Wuwei made up his life to take Gushi, and he would not be as good as Huaiyou now.

Now Huaiyou cannot be compared with each other. He already has two small masters of heaven, Jiang Feng and Mei Kuang, as well as Yang Kan, Tian Chunlai, Zhang Ting, and Wang Miao, who have been strong from Guxi period to Taixi period, as well as Nanxing Heshuo Army. It can be said that the Huaiyou Army is full of talents and has strong strength.

The problem is that Caizhou is not weak either, especially after withstanding the attacks from Daliang and Nanyang, perhaps they suffered a lot of damage to the army, but for the high-end combat power, after experiencing this hard battle, the improvement may be even greater.

Of course, if Huaiyou really wanted to fight Caizhou in Yingzhou, Caizhou might not dare to attack Yingzhou with all his might because he was worried about Daliang, who would change his mind at any time, so he still had to fight in this battle.

In addition to these two factors, there is another factor that needs to be evaluated, is this battle worth fighting?

Is it worth paying such a great price for it?

This is very realistic.

As the leader of the army, Jiang Feng had to consider this issue. If he just took the Heshuo Army to go south, of course there was no problem. The Caizhou Army was going to attack, and the Huaiyou Army could fight for it. However, after the Heshuo Army and its family and relatives successfully crossed the Huai south, would this battle still need to continue? I am afraid that the Caizhou Army may not be willing to continue to fight after realizing the purpose of the Huaiyou Army, so it is normal for each to leave. However, if the Huaiyou Army wants to assist and influence the army to defend Yingzhou, that is two concepts.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Yuan took great pains to seize Yingzhou, so how could you let Huaiyou destroy it? By then, you might really have to fight with all your might.

"Let's talk about it. It's time, there's nothing to hide. Everyone expresses their opinions." Jiang Feng's attitude was very calm. There was a lot of trouble in this battle whether to fight or not.

"There has been preliminary feedback on the intelligence collection of Caizhou Army. As of now, the Caizhou Army has concentrated more than 25,000 troops on the front line of Xincai and Baoxin. It is expected that two more troops, 5,000 troops, will join in the future. At that time, more than 30,000 people may participate in the attack on Yingzhou. It is certain that without external reinforcements, the possibility of Yingzhou being swept is very high, and Liang Zan cannot defend Ruyin." Cui Shang cleared his throat, "And the Seventh Army of the Left Army stationed in Yingshang has always been untrustworthy to Liang Zan. It is very likely that some of the senior officers have been bribed by Caizhou."

"Are there any reinforcements from Bozhou and Xuzhou?" Zhang Yue said.

"It shouldn't be. Bozhou is too busy to take care of itself. There are only three armies stationed in Qiao County and Yongcheng, all in the prefecture. Mainly to prevent Daliang from going south. In addition, Xuzhou's military forces stationed in Fuli and Xiao County, there are 12 armies of the Right Xiang Army. This is a total of 30,000 elite troops of the military, including four cavalry troops and ten thousand, which can reinforce Bozhou at any time."

Cui Shang knew everything about his family. Although the intelligence collection in Huaibei was not the focus, Huaibei did a poor job in preventing espionage. In addition, from last year to this year, a large number of refugees in Huaibei flocked to Huaiyou, so it has become the main source and channel for Huaiyou to collect information in Huaibei.

The map unfolds, and the distribution of troops garrisons in various parts of Huaibei is depicted in an extremely vivid and realistic manner, which makes people see at a glance.

"In addition to Xiaoxian and Fuli, Xuzhou Prefecture has four troops stationed each in Pengcheng, and Sizhou Xiapi, each. This is equivalent to the general reserve team of Huaibei. It is mainly responsible for dealing with the ant thieves that have not yet stopped in the east. In addition, there are only two armies in Haizhou that are guarding Haizhou Prefecture to govern the East China Sea. However, basically Huaibei has been on a defensive position now, and is mainly worried about the threat from Daliang, so it is still a laissez-faire against the ant thieves."

When Cui Shang finished introducing the matter, the generals in the hall started to discuss it.

In terms of total force, Huaibei's troops are not small. Compared with Huaiyou, even if the Heshuo Army joins Huaiyou, the total force of Huaibei is at least four times that of Huaiyou. However, Huaibei's strategic situation is indeed too poor. Daliang in the north has put too much pressure on Huaibei. Even if the ant thief is rampant, Huaibei also needs to maintain at least ten armies of mobile forces to deal with the threat of Daliang in the north. Otherwise, once Daliang breaks through Xiaoxian, it can directly attack Pengcheng, which is also caused by the embarrassment of Xuzhou's location.

"Master, I have an idea." Zhang Ting's words attracted the attention of the generals.

In fact, the strategy of how to deal with Caizhou's annexation of Yingzhou has been discussed several times before. It should be said that there are not many new ideas. Today, it is just a final decision. However, Zhang Ting said this at this time, which is obviously different from his previous concept, which naturally aroused everyone's curiosity.
Chapter completed!