Chapter 695 To Fight or Not?

It is obviously impossible for Zhang Yu to completely overtake Cai Mao. This is a huge project, and it cannot be done within three to five years.

However, Zhang Yu understood that Cai Mao was very short of talents at this time.

As long as Zhang Yu sends him a large number of talents without Cai Mao's knowledge, there will be a large number of people arranged by Zhang Yu in Cai Mao's group.

These people will always work at critical times, and even subvert him at critical times.

Although Zhang Yu and Cai Hao are now in a cooperative relationship and the relationship between the two parties is very good, they may become enemies at some point in the future.

For example, Sun Ce, Zhang Yu had a good relationship with the Sun family in the early years, but now they are also hostile, and they even fight to kill each other.

Therefore, Zhang Yu naturally had his purpose in helping Cai Mao.

In fact, what Zhang Yu said, Cai Mao didn't need Zhang Yu's help at all, and only needed Zhang Yu's help through fierce military means.

But Cai Mao's growing ambition has already made him cover his eyes, and he wants to seize power quickly.

"General Zhang, I'm too impatient, but I still need your help in many cases." Cai Mao said again.

"Of course, nothing else can help you, but we can deepen our cooperation so that Mr. Cai has enough capital to win over other aristocratic families and make these aristocratic families work for you."

Zhang Yu never said anything about helping Cai Mao solve the talent problem, even if Cai Mao asked, he would not help him.

Zhang Yu will only complete the layout quietly so that Cai Mao will not notice.

Only those who are buried in this way will be effective in the future.

Cai Mao didn't know that Zhang Yu helped him, but there was actually a terrifying conspiracy.

Then, Zhang Yu offered Cai Mao many proposals.

Among them, most of the proposals provided are how to replace Liu Biao's people, and how to use their own resources in exchange for the support of other aristocratic families.

In fact, Cai Hao understands many of these operations, but he needs Zhang Yu's support and someone to verify his ideas.

Cai Mao's plan gradually improved.

He stayed in Zhang Yu's barracks for a day and a night,

He and Zhang Yu completed the plan.

Although Zhang Yu denied Cai Mao's plan to seize power militarily, Zhang Yu did not need to help Cai Mao militarily.

To be precise, they planned that Zhang Yu would use military means to suppress Cai Mao, and then sing a double reed with Cai Mao.

Cai Mao left, Zhang Yu was still stationed there without doing anything.

The time agreed between Zhang Yu and Cai Mao is seven days later.

Why seven days?

Because Cai Mao had to prepare, and Zhang Yu had to prepare even more.

As soon as Cai Mao left, two intelligence officers from Xiangyang came to look for Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu met the two alone this time.

"Secretly let our people go to seek refuge with Cai Hao, create a separate file for personal information, and send it directly to me, no one is allowed to back it up."

Zhang Yu gave the same order to both of them.

The two intelligence systems did not cooperate with each other, and the people they mastered used various methods to insert their own people into Cai Mao's camp.

This requires considerable skill.

Zhang Yu did not let the people below know the identities of these undercover agents.

Moreover, the people inside must not know each other, and do not know their respective identities.

Otherwise, it is easy to show flaws.

Zhang Yu wants to plant a big net in Jingzhou, this big net may not be used, maybe it will be useful at critical times in the future.

The two intelligence networks acted quickly, and it took five days to prepare more than a hundred candidates.

These people will defect to Cai Mao through different channels and at different times, and become Cai Mao's people.

These people are relatively young and have little foundation, and it may take several years of operation to make a big difference.

But Zhang Yu was not in a hurry. If he wanted to have a conflict with Jingzhou, it would not be possible in a short time. Zhang Yu had plenty of time.

"Cai Mao, it's no wonder other people are fighting for hegemony, there is always only profit."

Zhang Yu holds the information of more than a hundred people in his hand, and these more than a hundred people are intellectuals and elites with potential.

It is already difficult to gather more than a hundred people in a short period of time.

There are so many people in Zhang Yu because they have been cultivated in large numbers in the past few years.

Now the population is skyrocketing. China has a population of more than 300 million, and Jingzhou has a population of tens of millions. However, there are more than 100 people in five days, which is not too much.

In the later period, Zhang Yu will naturally mobilize some people from Jiangdong, but these people still need to forge their identities, which cannot be done in a short time.

Zhang Yu was ready, and Cai Mao was also ready.

He also selected hundreds of people, who would quickly replace Liu Biao's people after the plan started, and let the entire Jingzhou slowly fall under his control.

Controlling Jingzhou is the first step, and the second step is to support Liu Biao's son to succeed him.

Let Liu Biao's son take over, then the resistance will naturally be small.

The plan went very well, and the two finished their preparations.

On the seventh day, the planning begins.

Zhang Yu attacked the formation with a large number of troops and headed towards Xiangyang.

"What is Zhang Yu going to do? Are you going to rebel?"

"Defend Xiangyang for me, and give Zhang Yu a head-on blow."

"Teach Zhang Yu a lesson at all costs."

Liu Biao was very anxious when he heard that Zhang Yu was going to "attack" Xiangyang.

Although after a few days, he had already made preparations and mobilized a lot of soldiers urgently.

The last time I fought Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, I suffered a big loss, and the tens of thousands of troops became Cai Mao's men.

Now that Liu Biao is smart, he doesn't let Cai Mao get involved, but sends him to Jiangxia County to defend the Yangtze River with his own navy.

The euphemistic name is to let Cai Mao guard the Yangtze River and prevent Jiangdong's soldiers and horses from raiding them from the Yangtze River waterway.

The reason was very good, and Cai Mao had nothing to say, so he left for Jiangxia that day, and he really didn't ask about the stall in Xiangyang.

Liu Biao didn't know, his reactions were all expected by Cai Mao and Zhang Yu.

Liu Biao mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses around Xiangyang to defend the city wall.

Zhang Yu went all the way to the city.

"My king passed by here to suppress the bandits. The food and grass are exhausted, and the supplies for the winter are in short supply. I also ask the Jingzhou state pastor to provide me with the necessary help for the righteous teacher of the bandits."

Zhang Yu and the others rushed to the bottom of the city, and he came out and shouted at the city wall.

The officers and soldiers in the city were in disarray.

"It needs logistics."

"I want to eat, don't I want to fight?"

"Shouldn't it be telling them to surrender?"

The big battle imagined by the people in the city did not come, but Zhang Yu's request was ushered in instead.

This is whether to fight or not to fight, or to give or not to give.

Of course, these officers and soldiers don't have to worry about it, it's Liu Biao who needs to worry about it.

Liu Biao had already made preparations for the big battle, and there was a line of messengers waiting outside the main hall of the State Shepherd's Mansion, ready to give orders quickly once the battle started.

At the same time, his aides also moved to the State Shepherd's Mansion, ready to provide him with support day and night.

Everything is done, waiting for Zhang Yu's arrival.

However, Zhang Yu made an attacking posture in the early stage, and they even received news that Zhang Yu was making siege equipment a few days ago.

All these actions were all about fighting a battle, but when Zhang Yu arrived, he turned out to be the first to extort supplies. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms