After the Chinese New Year, Lu Ning, Guo Jia, Tian Chou, Tian Feng, and Lu Su conducted a detailed study of the combat plan of Jizhou. After several days of discussion, Lu Ning decided to dispatch five armies to attack Yuan Shao's Jizhou at the same time. Zhao Yun and Lu Su led 30,000 troops from Chaoge and advanced all the way to Yecheng; Zhang He led 20,000 troops from Zhuo County to kill Bohai, and then advanced westward along the Yellow River; Zhang Liao led 20,000 troops to advance to the bridge boundary; Heizi led 8,000 troops to advance to Changshan; Lu Ning and Guo Jia, Xu Huang, Dian Wei, and Gao Shun led 30,000 troops out of Huguan and advanced directly to Yecheng. Taishici, Tian Chou, and Yan Rou led 50,000 troops to attack Gongsun Du in Liaodong.

In the official residence of Yuan Shao in Yecheng, Yuan Shao and his civil and military officials were also studying how to resist the attack of Lu Ning's army. Yuan Shao shouted in anger: "You all saw that Lu Ning made up a lot of lies in the Jincheng Book Garden and Jincheng Daily and maliciously attacked me. The most hateful thing is that Lu Ning's thief openly sent the Jincheng Daily to my Jizhou area for free. This is really too much. What good way do you have to fight back?"

Ju Su has read the propaganda in newspapers and magazines. Although he knew it was pre-war propaganda by Lu Ning and others, many things were just groundless, but they were exaggerated. How could he fight back? "Lord, now he is not trying to fight back against Lu Ning and others' propaganda content. I guess this is Lu Ning doing the pre-war preparations. He is likely to launch an attack on Jizhou soon. He wants to avenge our army's attack on Huguan last year. Now Lu Ning has set up nearly 100,000 troops in Zhuo County, Chaoge

With 40,000 troops, Huguan will probably increase troops immediately. In this way, Lu Ning is likely to attack our Jizhou by three armies. Although we currently have nearly 400,000 troops, most of them are new soldiers. The soldiers are not trained enough, equipped incompletely, and their combat power cannot be compared with Lu Ning's army. We should figure out how to resist the attack of Lu Ning's army. We should go to a war of verbal battle with Lu Ning. We have no propaganda means, so we can't post posters everywhere, and the influence will not play much role."

Shen Pei is one of Yuan Shao's best friends and is loyal to Yuan Shao. Although he knows that Lu Ning's propaganda content for Yuan Shao is five points real and five points empty, he also thinks that the most critical issue now is how to resist the attack of Lu Ning's army. "Lord, Zhengping is right. These propaganda are preparations for Lu Ning's attack before attacking us. Although our army has more troops than Lu Ning, Lu Ning's troops are all tigers and wolves. He fought a decisive battle with the 150,000 Xiongnu army.

However, only 50,000 troops were dispatched, and only 70,000 to the 250,000 cavalry of the Xianbei Tartar coalition forces were dispatched. Now Lu Ning suddenly deployed 150,000 troops and 60,000 troops at our border. This is the number of troops that Lu Ning had never used before. It can be imagined that Lu Ning made up his mind to defeat our Jizhou before he could stop. And if our 400,000 troops were in field battles with Lu Ning's army, it could be said that he had no chance of winning at all."

Yuan Shao glanced at everyone and said angrily: "According to your words, I can only swallow my anger and let that boy Lu Ning slander me and let him scatter and pee on my head. Why can't we fight back against that boy Lu Ning? He kidnapped the Scholars, robbed Ding Yuan's Bingzhou for no reason, disobeyed the imperial edict and killed the messengers of the Xianbei tribe, and sent troops to seize Youzhou and Hanoi County. He killed everywhere on the northern grasslands without any kindness and morality, and instigated soldiers to gang rape captured women. Isn't these real things?"

After hearing this, Dong Zhao shook his head and said, "My lord, what you said is indeed true, but we cannot say it. If you say it, it will be beneficial to Lu Ning. Now the Huns and Xianbei Tartars have been eliminated by Lu Ning's army. He is already a hero of my Han nationality. If the lord uses these things to talk about Lu Ning, then outsiders really think that the lord and the Xianbei people have any sex? The crimes that Lu Ning committed are basically against the Xiongnu and Xianbei people. If we preach, it will be counterproductive. Besides, we do not have newspapers and magazines like Lu Ning, so how effective is it to rely on manual copying? Once the lord counterattacks, Lu Ning's newspapers and magazines will promote the lord more in large quantities. Wouldn't it be more and more blacker than it is."

After hearing everyone's words, Xun Chen knew that there was no chance of winning in a verbal battle. Besides, we should mess with Big Bear first, wanting to take the opportunity to take advantage of Big Bear, and wanting to die. Now Big Bear has freed up his hands, of course he has to take revenge. Last year, Tian Feng said not to send troops to fight Big Bear easily. Not only did you not listen, you also sent Tian Feng to prison. Now the retribution is here. "Lord, we are not in a verbal battle with Big Bear, so we should think more about how to protect Jizhou. Even if the lord wins verbally and loses Jizhou in the end, what's the use? Having territory and strength is the most important thing."

Although Yuan Shao was stupid, he was a descendant of the Three Dukes of the Four Generations and Three Dukes. He also read a lot of books. He was also a prince. He was not an ordinary person. He should be said to be capable and courageous. After hearing all his subordinates, he understood that the current problem was that the key was to protect Jizhou. "Then how do you think we should defeat Lu Ning's army?"

Guo Tu said: "Lord, if you want to defeat Lu Ning, our army cannot fight with him in field battles. We can only use dangerous passes and cities to resist. In this way, the disadvantage of our soldiers' inadequate training can be reduced. Using dangerous passes and cities can consume the living power of Lu Ning's army. Our army has the advantage of military strength, and there is still hope to defend the city. But if you want to defeat Da Xiong, you must also use external forces. Without external forces, it is difficult to defeat Da Xiong. Now there are not many external forces available. Li Kui from Yongzhou, Guo Si and Zhang Ji from Hongnong, but these people will not easily attack Lu Ning, and they have little hope. Ma Teng from Xiliang,

Han Sui suffered losses when attacking Chang'an last year, and he would not attack Daxiong. If they had the ability to attack, they would only attack Chang'an and would not attack the northern part. In this case, there would be no opera in Xiliang. Cao Cao from Yanzhou is now very powerful, with more than 300,000 troops, but he and Lu Ning had a trade agreement, and he might not necessarily support his lord, so he could only send people to try it. The most useful thing is Gongsun Du from Liaodong, we can convince him to send troops to attack Youbeiping, so that Lu Ning's army in Youzhou would not dare to attack us easily, so our army would have sufficient troops to deal with Daxiong's attack."
Chapter completed!