Liu Bei 17. Xia Pi Strategy by Mestre Will:
Ok , this is Liu Bei in 194 ad , he have Xia Pi and Xu Zhou, not so good cities but far better than the south ones, the problem is : you have 8000 soldiers in Xia Pi and 8200 in Xu Zhou, your luck is that Liu yong also have little forces , normally Lubu not attack so soon, and Kong Rong have better things to do than attack you.However beware Yuan shao will destroy Kong Rong soon and maybe attack south(aka YOU).The begining is always hard but no worry, first of all lets see our forces : 10 officers (with Liu bei 11) , 5 civil , 3 military and 2 Generals, so lets see of 5 civil 4 are in Xia Pi , so you will made Xia Pi better and not Xu Zhou, Basically my strategy to begin is : Xia Pi civil and Xu Zhou military.
Lets begin January, Chen Den will search for 2 months, the other 3 civil ones will increase flood for 3 months, Liu bei will reward his officers with 10 gold to each, Zhang fei and the other guy will train they troops, for Xu Zhou – Jian yong will search for 2 months and all others train they troops.Feb, almost all the same but this time Liu Bei will give food to people , just 1000.Mar, ok the search is done , in Xia Pi i find : Xu Shu and Wang Fu , Liu bei recruit Xu Shu and Chen Den recruit Wang Fu , nice now we have a Advisor and more one Civil officer , Zhang fei and the other guy (Zhang Kai) will still train, now in Xu Zhou we find nothing so Jian yong will give food and all the others train.April , Xia pi – the Civil trio will now increase cultivation , Zhang fei and Zhang Kai rally , Liu bei give food , and Wang Fu -Chen Den – Xu Shu will increase flood , In Xu zhou Jian yong will give food and the others rally.May , Xia Pi , Xu shu will spy the liu yong city , that one where normaly Taichi Ci is , Liu bei will train , Zhang fei and Zhang Kai rally , Cheng Den will search for 2 months and Wang Fu give food, in Xu Zhou is exacly the same as the last month.June , Xia Pi – lets recruit Taichi Ci with Xu shu , Wang Fu give food , Liu bei train , Zhang fei and Zhang Kai rally , for Xu Zhou again the same.July , Xia pi- the search is done again and we find : Shang Lang and Liao Hua , Cheng Den recruit Shang Lang and Xu Shu recruit Liao Hua , the civil trio will now increase Commerce for 6 months, Taichi Ci will train , Zhang fei and Zhang kai rally , Wang fu give food, in Xu Zhou Jian yong will draft all he can (2300) and put 500 on Mi fang and all the rest in Guan Yu , all the other officers will rally they troops.Aug , Yuan shao try 2 times and destroy Kong Rong , time to increase your defences in Xia Pi. So Xia Pi – Liu bei will reward Taichi Ci with Book,Wang Fu will give food, Cheng Den will search 2 months , Shang lang and Liao Hua will draft all they can (7800) give 1500 to liu bei 1300 to Taichi Ci and all the rest to Zhang Fei, so Zhang fei and Taichi Ci will Train , Xu Shu will assign soldiers – he will pass all Zhang kai soldiers to himself, and now Zhang kai will spy the Yuan shao new conquered city for 6 months, Xu Zhou – Train and Jian yong give food.Yuan shao attack Lubu , who ask me for help , i accept and send Cao Bao to view the battle , Lubu have 65600 troops but only ~49000 of food , the battle begin and finish , yuan army flee in they first move.Sep ,Xia Pi – Liu bei reward again Taichi Ci, Taichi Ci and Zhang fei train , Xu Shu rally , Wang Fu will made a alliance with Lubu , dont offer nothing Lubu will ask little like 4500 food, Liao Hua and Shang lang will give food, for Xu Zhou the same as last time.Oct , Xia Pi- Liu bei ,Taichi Ci, Zhang Fei, Xu Shu and Liao Hua will do exacly the same as before , Chen Den will search for 2 months , in Xu Zhou Jian yong give food and the others rally.Nov – all exacly the last month except Liao Hua.Dec , Xia Pi , Liu bei, Taichi Ci and Zhang fei the same , Xu Shu will search , Chen Den will spy Puyang for 1 month, Xu Zhou- Guan Yu and Mi fang rally and Jian yong search for 2 months.
Jan 195 , Xia Pi- we find Xu Shang , Wang Fu will recruit him , Xu Shu will search , the civil trio increase cultivation for 6 months, Liu bei reward Taichi Ci , Taichi ci and Zhang Fei rally, in Xu Zhou you will try recuit some Lu bu officers, in my one Lubu have some Yuan shao officers like Guo Tu and Zhang He , but i try and sucess in recruit Zhou Cang , Only Guan Yu will can recruit someone , Mi fang adn Cao Bao cant because they low Charm so Mi fan will rally.Feb , Taichi Ci and Zhang fei rally, Liu Bei train , Chen Den search for 2 months , Xu shu-Wang Fu and Shang lang will increase flood, Xu Zhou- Guan yu rally , Zhou cang and Mi Fang will send 2000 gold to Xia Pi , Jian yong will search for 2 months.Mar , Xia Pi – exacly as last time , Xu Zhou – Cao bao and Mi Fang draft the max they can (10000) so give 5000 to Zhou Cang and 5000 to Guan Yu, so Guan and Zhou will Train.April, Xia Pi – the same , but Cheng Den search again , and Liao Hua send to spy Pu yang for 6 months, Xu Zhou – the same for Guan Yu and Zhou Cang , Cao bao give food , Jian yong will search.May, Xia Pi- The same ,Xuzhou too.June , Liu Bei train, Taichi Ci and Zhang Fei rally Xu Shu search Wang Fu -Shang lang and Chen Den increase Flood , Xu Zhou- Guan Yu and Zhou Cang train , Jian yong search 1 month.July , Xia Pi-Liu bei train , Xu Shu search , the civil trio (Mi Zhu-Sun Qian-Chen Gui) will increase commerce for 6 months , Wang Fu – Chen Den- Shang lang will increase Land for 6 months, Xu Shang and Zhang Kai will draf the max they can (6600) give 3000 to Zhang fei and 3600 to Taichi Ci, Liu bei is already train so Taichi Ci and Zhang fei will rally, Xu Zhou- Zhou Cang train , Guan yu rally and Jian yong search.Aug , Xia Pi – Liu bei, Taichi Ci and Zhang fei train , Xu Shu search , Xu shang and Zhang Kai will send all the crossbows and strong crossbows to Xu Zhou , believe they will need it much more than Xia Pi , Xu Zhou- Guan Yu rally, Zhou Cang train , Jian yong recruit some lubu officer , in here i could recruit Guo Tu.
-Important : Even with this guide , the events will change every time you play so not every thing that happen to me will happen to you , also the reverse if something dont happen with me that dont mean it also will not happen with you.As far you follow my guide you need know some events may change the results , like per exemple , until now no one attack me , that not mean they dont will attack you, other , until now only Kong Rong have been destroy , sometimes Lubu or Liu yong get destroy in the begin , that will change the strategy , only the military one. I am give more details about what i do , so you can think if something happen ok.
Continue : Sep , Xia Pi – same , Xu Zhou – Guan yu rally , Zhou Cang train , Jian yong search.Oct , Xia Pi – Liu bei rally , Taichi Ci and Zhang fei train , Xu Zhou- same.Nov , Xia Pi – Liu bei and Zhang fei rally , Taichi ci train, Xu Zhou – Zhou cang train, Guan yu will spy Liu yong city , Guo tu search , ow yeah i forgot so say i found the sword of seven star .Dec, Xia Pi- Liu bei and Zhang fei rally , Taichi ci train , Xu Shu search, Xu Zhou – i recruit Xue Zhong from Liu yong with Jian yong , Guan Yu reward Xue Zhong , Guo Tu search , Zhou Cang train , before the year end Liu yong recruit back Xue zhong .
Jan 196, Xia pi – i found Zhang Zhao, Liu bei recruit him , Xu Shu search , Zhang fei and Taichi ci rally , the civil trio will increase cultivation for 6 months , the other 3 civil officers will increase commerce for 6 months, Xu zhou – Guo tu search , Zhou Cang train, Guan yu reward all non 100 loyalty officers with 10 gold.Feb , Xia Pi – i found Zhang Hong this time, Zhang Zhao recruit him , Xu Shu search , Liu bei and Taichi ci rally, Xu Zhou- same as before, why there no new officers in Xu Zhou ? i cant find any.March , Xia Pi – Liu bei and Taichi ci rally , Xu Shu and Zhang brothers (Zhao and Hong not Fei) will increase flood, Xu Zhou – Guan yu , Jiang yong and Guo tu will increase flood , Zhou Cang rally , Mi fang and Cao Bao will send 1000 gold to Xia Pi , Yuan shao destroy Gongsun Zan (finaly).April , Xia pi – basically the same but Zhang Kai will spy Pu yang , Liao Hua the north border (i think is Bei ping) and Xu Shang the city where you recruit Taichi Ci, Xu Zhou- same as last month except sending gold.May only liu bei rally , the advisors continue increase Flood , Xu Zhou – same again.June , Xia Pi- the same for the advisors , Liu bei will reward someone with less than 100 loyalty, Xu Zhou – same again.Yeah !!!good harvest happen in Xia Pi , nice.July, Xia Pi – Civil trio increase commerce for 6 months, Liu bei again reward , Wang Fu and Chen Den draft (8500) 4000 to Zhang fei and 4500 to Taichi ci , they will train the new gain troops, yuan shu in here have Xu chang so i rivalize him with Lubu, Xu Zhou – Zhou cang still rally , Guan yu – Guo Tu and Jian yong increase commerce.Aug , Xia Pi , i find The Way of Peace , and Liu bei give it to Xu Shu , yeah perfect advisor now, Taichi Ci and Zhang Fei train, Xu shu search , Xu Zhou- same as last month.Liu yong attack Sun ce , he win , Sun ce fleed south , so Liu Biao attack and finish him , now the question is : With who the seal is now ? Liu Biao or Liu Yong ? Anyway ,Sep , Xia Pi – Zhang Fei and Taichi Ci train , Liu bei reward someone, Xu shu search , Xu Zhou – Guan yu recruit Zhang liao from Lubu and Guo Tu search.Oct , Xia Pi – Basicaly the same as before but now Zhang Kai and Liao Hua will spy Liu yong cities and Xu Shang spy Chen liu, Xu Zhou- Guan yu reward Zhang Liao and Guo Tu search.Nov , Xia Pi- Liu bei reward someone, Taichi ci train, Zhang Fei rally , Xu Shu search, Xu Zhou- Guan yu reward Zhang Liao , Zhou cang – Guo Tu and Jian yong increase commerce.Dec , Xia Pi- Xu Shu search , Liu bei reward , Zhang Fei and Taichi ci rally, Xu Zhou – Guan yu reward Zhang liao and Guo tu search.
Jan 197, well Liu bei have some power , good officers and good amount of money and food, i will begin put less details from now on, the basic difficult of liu bei is : no safe side , his cities have 3 sides to go.Lest get start , Lubu is without advisor so begin the “idiot ruler” game, i get ~17000 soldeirs from him just in Jan.Feb more ~5000 and food, i draft some in Xu Zhou and train the new gain troops in Xia Pi. June , Lubu have 2 cities Pu yang and Chen liu , in Chen liu have a plage in June to July and in Pu yang civil revolt, things are not so well for him but that is what i want , if Lubu get weak i will can try annex him and made him serve me, Lubu is of great help and better he is Shu afiliated so he probably will come with good loyalty, anyway for now i attack Liu yong , we fight in battlefield of Zhuyin, victory easy they have low troops. In Nov i attack Jianye with Taichi Ci and Zhang fei, easy , finaly liu bei have his first conquest , now we have 3 cities.I grab some officers from Liu Biao , who conquer the old Sun ce city from Liu yong , and then i attack Hei fei, conquer it easy and capture liu yong , who dont have the seal.Some battles happen in china, Lubu lost Pu yang and now only have Chenliu , Wang land try but fail finish Yan baihu , Yuan shao are attacking Cao Cao , who conquer Xu chang from Yuan shu.June 198 , Yan Baihu surrender to me.Nov 198 Wang lang surrender, nice 5 cities.In Dec Lubu conquer back Pu yang but Cao Cao take Chen liu from him.Even so he is no so weak to surrender yet.Jan 199, i pacify the east so now i gather troops to finish Liu yong and also deal with Liu Biao.See the map :
We have 4 great forces with 6 cities , Liu bei with 5 and other minors with just one.Goin gather troops and train they well this year.In July ,when lord gain food , a lot of battles happen and Cao cao win over Yuan shu made him go to exile.Jan 200, Cao cao are attacking every city he can , but only could win one battle , and conquer Xin Ye, Lubu retake Chen Liu.Sep 200 , Cao Cao kill Liu Biao , Pang tong is the new ruler , also Yuan shao die and Yuan shang is the new ruler.In Nov i attack and conquer Lujiang from Liu Biao.In Sep 201 i conquer Shouchun from Liu yong, Liu bei himself lead the attack from Xia Pi.In the west i have rivalize the lords so a lot of wars happen but in a bad notice Cao Cao take advantage of it and conquer Chang An.Nov 202 after some battle between Cao Cao and Liu yong i could made him surrender to me.Jan 203 i advance some people to Qiao, so i have 8 cities now, look the map :
As you can see Cao Cao made some conquerst in northwest , i am the secound bigger force tie with Liu Zhang (8 cities).Maybe in some months i can made Lubu surrender.July 203 , Lubu finaly surrender to me.But i retreat him all his followers from Chen liu to Xu Zhou , because 1-they have ~60 loyalty and 2-low army and food, Xu Zhou have all not so loyal officers , i using the city now to increase loyalty of all thoes officers, except Lubu who has been send to Shouchun where liu bei is to receive back the Red Hare and the Sword of Seven Stars.In Feb 204 Liu bei attack Runan , conquer it super easy , only Cao Chun is in there and he flee in the first round.May 204 , Liu bei attack Xu Chang : Me 63000 troops vs 21000 , some reinforces come ~32000 for me and ~15000 for Cao Cao , i conquer Xu Chang , capturing a good number of officers.In July , Guan Yu attack Chen liu , 69000 vs 6100 , they flee when i break the gate, easy.Even if Cao Cao is big most of his cities have low soldiers, will not be difficult to corner him.Yuan shang also dont have so much , that city he take form Kong Rong , from the age he get it until now he always only have 12000 soldiers, i train people in Xia Pi to later get it.After take Chen Liu i take the nearby Battlefields , Guan Du and Hu lao, even in the great Luo yang Cao cao dont have many soldiers.In May 205 i conquer Pu Yang with Zhuge Jing , i have 15000 and they 10000 troops but i send reinforces from Chen liu , 28000 troops , so i reach victory.In June my spy show that some key Cao officers have only 83 of loyalty so i recruit Xun You and Man Chong , gain Ye and Luo yang.In Aug , Liu bei attack Wan from Xu Chang : Me 68000 vs 35000 , however i have Lubu and better troops so victory have been easy.So in Sep i take the Battlefields near Ye , some good Cao officers are in that north city , with low soldiers, i will attack it later, while it it almost done my south army to attack Pang tong , it will be 80000 soldiers.I want attack north but , and i dont know why but every time i play Historical mode Zhuge Liang appear in Xia Pi, i realy dont know why but he does in here , so i will wait to attack from Xia Pi later when i get the ZL.However i still can attack from Ye , just rebuild the army and begin the advance on Yuan shang.In Dec i recruit Jia Xue and Jiang Xu so gain control of Chang An and Xin Ye because of it, all that because some time ago Cao Cao break an alliance with Liu Zhang , i need thank you Cao Cao for this stupidy act.In Feb 206 , Gun Ye advance from Ye and conquer the lone Cao city in the north , i recruit good officers in there like Cao ren , Xun yu , Chen yu, also in Feb Zhang liao advance over Yuan shang city of Pingyuan with more than 5x more troops , they officers flee every time i got near.In March Zhang Fei attack Chaisang and Taichi Ci Jiangxia , both conquered easy , again officers flee at i come near, sometimes i think i lost time with my army but at see scenes like this i realy think i made it right.In May Zhang Fei attack Jiangling , Pang Tong himself fight but when you have 9700 and i have 67000 that not mean much, he fleed i cant capture him.In June Zhang he attack Bei Hai , one of the only more normal battle until now , almost the same numbers ~25000 , however i have more 30000 reinforces , but they put a good fight.In Sep Zhang liao attack Nanpi with ~68000 troops againt near 33000 of Yuan shang, they may have a good number but of defeat troops and draft ones so that have not been what it need be, yuan shang himself get captured but i free him.Yuan Shang gather some troops and in Oct he attack the city where Guan Yu are , a good battle indeed , Zhao Yun are in enemy ranks , he duel Xu Huang (who flee in the duel) and later Guan yu , Guan yu win and capture Zhao Yun.When the battle end i recruit Zhao yun who come with 99 of loyalty , when i made him general it comes to 100. Curious fact about Zhao Yun : he is older than Guan Yu and even older than Liu Bei, but 1 year younger than Lu Bu.Some months ago Cao Cao have a little war with Yuan Shao , some of his officers have been captured , until now Yuan shao/Yuan Shang are let then in the far cities to not been recruit , but now i am find them all , Liu Ye – Guo Jia -Xu Zhu-Xiahou Yuan , ofcourse i also get the chance to recruit another good officers aka Gao Lan.Remember what i say about Zhuge Liang ? Yeah , i have play alot of times and almost them all he , for some reason , appear in Xia Pi , however this time he didnt, so i begin send spy to every city possible and search in all my cities.In other news in May 207 Xu Huang attack Hongnong , in there is Xiahou Dun and Cao Ang only and with 23000 troops , i send near 49000 to finish this and later go to Chang An.I decide it is time to push Cao Cao to north so i divide the forces in Xin Ye , Liu Bei attack Shangyong and Gan nin attack Xiangyang , the 2 battle happen in June 207 , 2 easy battles.So here the news: In south Zhang Fei and Taichi Ci are gather forces to finish Pang Tong and later advance in Liu Zhang lands , in Central is all conquer and Liu Bei are now regain the troops to advance north, in the North east Zhang liao and Guan yu are almost ready to finish yuan shang , in the North west Jia Xue is traning troops to a mass attack in north cities, that is all for now , Ma teng like always is doing nothing , he dont even fight until now , not battles just like Swiss , the major diference is he have almost no money.
Ok 207 have passed , now is Jan 208 , as far i search still nothing of Zhuge Liang, very strange.Here the map:
I may dont have Zhuge Liang however i got Zhou Yu from Liu Zhang.Pang tong in total have 38000 troops with 53~61 of train , Yuan shang almost the same.In March Zhuge Jin attack Bei Ping , 47000 vs 7000 , needless say who win.In May Zhuge Jin continue and attack Xiangping 42660 vs 12300 , a good victory , with this victory i left Yuan shang with only one city so maybe he can surrender.So sorry he didnt want surrender , all thanks to a stupid advisor , so Zhang liao in June advance in Daixian to finish Yuan Shang forever , the battle in total have more than 63000 troops with me and just 26000 with him , i spare Yuan shang but kill the advisor.Well now i just will do some personal things aka loyalty in this new north cities then will all go to Luo Yang to later go or to where Liu bei is or to Chang An.Talk about Chang An , the army in there is already over more than 130000 well train troops and in south in Zhang Fei city i have 105000 troops , just a little longer and i will attack Pang Tong.Cao Cao try use his broken army to re-take Chang An but fail miserably , no officer get captured but his army is now very weak.In April 209 Taichi Ci begin the advance in south lands , beginning with Changsha , Pang tong may have a good number but that without proper train dont mean nothing , Taichi Ci conquer the city with minimal loses.In June 209 the north forces finaly join in Chang An , a great amount of good officers , like Zhang liao – Zhao yun – Xu Huang – Xiahou Dun and Yuan , the total of army pass 210000 and better part is full train, so i begin the final things to start the end of Cao Cao.In Aug 209 Gan ning attack Wu Ling , with more than 59000 troops vs 30200 of Pang tong and also we have some reinforces to come from Changsha.In Nov 209 , Gan ning continue his march in south so he attack Lingling who have the recently fleed army of Pang tong , in this 3 months pang tong could rise some more troops but it left him with only 500 of food, HUGE mistake that he learn in the hard way, super easy vicory , and better we coner Pang tong , why ? easy remember Sun ce ? yes he re-apper in the only vacancy city in the south so now he and pang tong dont have more places to run but also dont have the man or food to defend against me , i will try made them surrender now.Well i try but neither Sun ce or Pang tong want surrender so Taichi ci attack Guiyang in Dec 209 , Sun ce is alone but with 19000 troops i dont know if they are good train but in the end he fell.
Ok in Jan 210 after Pang tong see the fall of Sun ce i try again he this time he agree ti surrender to me, with this all the center, the east and the south is mine.Now i will gather the south forces to attack Liu Zhang and begin the attack from Chang An in Cao Cao cities.In June i begin the north blitz with Wuzhangyuan or Wuzhang plains, i send only 50000 troops Cao Cao send 15900 troops , after all the time i give to him in the north he dont have a good army , even with reinforces coming for him it dont have any impact in the battle, i would say ridicullous defence but because of who is i would say weak, with Wuzhang in my hands now i can attack any city of Cao cao.In July Zhang fei attack Yong’An , Liu zhang troops have low morale because loses against Pang tong and to me in Yi ling, also they almost all have 70~80 of loyalty and more Liu Zhang himself is the leader of they forces , all nice notices to me, not surprise that i win the battle easy, with this our march in the west begin.In Aug Liu bei continue the north conquest and attack Hanzhong, there minor Cao forces in there just 20000 to defend againt 65000 plus reinforces , with this Cao Cao lose one city so 1/3 of his “kingdom”.In Oct Guan yu attack Anding with some troops , just 107500 troops , just this little force , ok ok now serious the real small force is the Cao defence only 5100 troops, needless say victory.Still in Oct Zhang Fei continue the west conquest and attack Jiangzhou , like the Guan battle i have a massive advantage in numbers, with this victory we reach Cheng Du border and victory over Liu zhang is near and near.In Dec Li ju sucessor Zhang lu surrender , but he comes with low loyalty so i fire him and his friend and Guan Yu advance in Tianshui to replace Zhang Lu, with this Cao Cao is totaly surrounded by me, his chances to surrender increase so i will try again.
Jan 211 , for sure the last year , i try made Cao Cao surrender but he didnt want so in Zhao yun lead a massive army to attack Xiabian and finish Cao cao once and for all, a strange fact : when i kill Cao Cao i got his items , and the Hereditary Seal is with him , why ? maybe he get it from Pang tong long ago, he die battle 2 times with him.Still in Jan Zhang Fei attack Cheng Dou, another massive army vs minor one, with this victory Liu zhang small power become even smaller and his end is so close i am sure in i will can made him surrender in future.In Feb Cao ren attack Zi tong , Liu zhang has in there so in the end of the battle i have no other choice than kill him, just more 3 cities.I cant believe , in April Zhou Yu die, why ? we are so close to victory.In his honor i send all i have in Tianshui to attack Xi liang, Guan Yu is my CiC , a easy battle for 2 reasons : 1-Another massive numbers advantage and 2-they have more soldiers than food.So just left 2 cities.In May Wen Pin lead an attack in Jianning , most of they officers fleed when i break the gate so an easy victory, just one city now.In June i made Zhang Ren surrender, so we WIN , oh yeah in June 211 Liu bei united the china under his rule , the only strange thing is : where is Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang?
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