Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1687: Chapter 1618: All Forced by Circumstances

It must be said that Xuu You is not a fool. At most, he is greedy, but he has no issues with intelligence. Therefore, over these few days, he has also made a judgment: the sage of the Northern Huns is on the front line and has a very high level of control over the Northern Huns.

Moreover, the Northern Huns have launched several successive attacks, and the royal capitals have behaved quite appropriately, which means that the sage on the front line has a very high level of dominance over the royal capitals among the Huns. From this deduction, the identity of the individual becomes apparent.

Although there isn’t clear intelligence confirming the identity of the individual as the Chanyu, considering that the Han Dynasty is an empire with a complete system, even an excellent strategist may not be able to command those high-ranking and powerful generals effectively. Even if they could, it wouldn’t prevent those generals from making unexpected moves, but it’s clear that the Northern Huns have not encountered this situation.

Thus, the strategist controlling the Northern Huns must be of high rank and authority, and even those with inheritance rights, like the Sun-chasing King, are so convinced. The person can only be the Chanyu. Even if he was not the Chanyu before, achieving this makes him the Chanyu in practice.

Based on this, whether it is Jia Xu or Xuu You, a very high evaluation of the current Chanyu Huyan Chu was given. Firstly, as the Chanyu, Huyan Chu has absolute prestige to suppress everyone.

It is precisely because of this that, regardless of whether it is Xuu You or other strategists, it has been speculated that the matter of returning to the east and going south must be approved by Huyan Chu, the Chanyu.

Under such conditions, whether Xuu You or other strategists of first-class or above understand that if Huyan Chu does not have the intention to destroy the inheritance of the Northern Huns and betray the Hun clan, he wouldn’t move against the Han Dynasty. Any strategist of first-class or above can see the absolute strength gap between the Han and the Huns.

Even if Huyan Chu controls the Northern Huns and integrates the entire grassland, sparing no effort to use the method of Heavenly Demon Disintegration, overdrawing the entire grassland’s potential and drawing out a force of 500,000. In reality, with this many people, just even if Cao Cao goes all the way north and drags it out, the Northern Huns can be exhausted by relying on national power.

However, the current situation is, although almost all the capable feudal lords and families in the world have taken action, and Huyan Chu has also seen the situation, yet he not only did not retreat but also shows an intention to stalemate.

In this way, after a little longer time, many people have understood, Huyan Chu is already in a difficult position, but even Jia Xu, who has confronted him, can’t guarantee whether Huyan Chu anticipated the current situation or if the circumstances led to this.

However, although they can’t guarantee, whether it’s Jia Xu or Xuu You, relying on the caution that excellent strategists possess, they directly concluded that the opponent already anticipated it!

Xun Shen listened to Xuu You’s long words and silently nodded beside him, ”Yes, that’s right. I also feel that the opponent anticipated this. Of course, it doesn’t matter whether he did or not. As long as we respond as though he anticipated it, we won’t go wrong.”

”What else do you want to say?” Xuu You looked at Xun Shen and said.

”I’ve encountered Chen Zichuan before, so I have insight into his complete way of thinking,” Xun Shen looked at Xuu You and said.

”Uh, really? Although I know you have faced off with him for a long time, knowing his complete way of thinking so quickly is rather strange, right? Logically speaking, although your Spiritual Talent is good, it’s impossible to quickly steal someone’s complete way of thinking,” Xuu You slightly skeptical, looked at Xun Shen.

”You’re overthinking it. Chen Zichuan’s way of thinking is actually very simple, just two points: planning before action and impossible to crush by force!” Xun Shen helplessly said.

Xuu You speechlessly looked at Xun Shen, ”Putting all his talents into internal affairs, with only these two points in military strategy, it’s enough. No wonder you stand no chance against him.”

”So, regardless which point it is, it’s destined that the army we’re leading will inevitably not help Chen Zichuan. But combining with Jia Xu’s way of thinking, it’s actually simple; our mission is probably to destroy the tens of thousands of rear tribes of the Northern Huns.” Xun Shen sighed and said, and Xuu You suddenly quivered.

”So that’s what it means. I think once we finish, there’s no need to return to the Central Plains,” Xuu You sighed and said, ”This is great merit, but also a great disaster.”

”Chen Zichuan’s task is probably severely defeating the guards left by the Northern Huns, then killing a certain number of Hun clan people, and then provoking the anger of the Northern Huns to lure more young and strong of the Northern Huns to move south. Our task is probably to kill off all the tens of thousands of Northern Huns tribes lacking young and strong.” Xun Shen said gloomily.

To be honest, he doesn’t like this kind of slaughter work, but the blood feud between Han and Huns can only end with the annihilation of one side, and unfortunately, they are the executioners manipulated by Jia Xu to carry out the slaughter.

Jia Xu already allowed the old and young of the Yuan Family to go to Yuzhou as an exchange. Although not explicitly stated, Xun Shen already understood by now: that’s a deposit, and the subsequent should be after Yuan Tan completes the extermination of the Northern Huns, guaranteeing the Yuan Clan’s position remains.

”Yes, it’s great merit, but we can’t keep this great merit; the current Yuan Family probably can’t keep it either. Unrealized gain is only a great disaster. Instead, if we disappear from now, this great merit would be left incomplete for everyone, which would be beneficial for the Yuan Family.” Xun Shen said with bitterness.

At one time, the Yuan Family was the greatest feudal lord under heaven, even having a clear trend of vying for dominance. Never imagined the present situation after picking the fruits desired by the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven would turn out into untenable gains; it is truly the impermanence of things.

”So what should we do now?” Xuu You actually already had a clear plan but still opened his mouth to ask Xun Shen as a gesture of respect. Nowadays, the Yuan Family’s splendid group of strategists has dwindled to only the two of them.

”Follow Jia Xu’s requirements. Let’s take the merit meant for repaying past favors from the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven to Chen Zichuan and let the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven owe favors.” Xun Shen said casually.

Even though they reacted quickly and didn’t realize Jia Xu’s intentions only at the point of action, even now, they could actually renege and swiftly inform the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven, letting them join forces to march north and destroy the tens of thousands of Northern Hun tribes.

Let this merit, which the Yuan Family can’t bear, be divided among the heads of these families, and then let the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven use this merit and the land they own in the Central Plains to exchange for land in the Northeastern Plain, gathering all the Aristocratic Families Under Heaven together.

In this way, cash for goods, the families neither owe Liu Bei a favor nor Chen Xi a favor, after all, they exchanged actual merit and their own land for the survival soil of the families, unlike previous claims of fair exchange, but even if the families develop themselves, they can’t avoid owing Liu Bei and the Chen Family a giant favor.

Back then, the Tian Family Replacing Qi relied on favor, but the situation has developed to this step today. From any aspect, the families jointly occupying the Northeastern Plain benefits the families, so even if they owe favor, they need to first admit it.

This is also why after the Huns moved south, the major families moved north. Some train soldiers, some teach their descendants, but most importantly, they need merit because this merit can help them offset many favors.

Indeed, many times favors don’t need to be repaid, but sometimes favors require life to be repaid, and unfortunately, the current situation is just that. Liu Bei is at his peak, Chen Xi like Lone Moon Soaring, neither are rivals for any family.

This rhythm even a fool knows: if families don’t handle it well, decades later, repaying favors might truly require life as the payment. After all, because of permitting this matter, when Mann Chong was making new laws, Chen Xi conveniently put a rope around the families, and they acknowledged it because of favors. If not completely repaid, favors will only snowball; eventually, they might truly cost lives.