Sun Shiwan, I guess, is a bit of a loser in leading the war, but his strategic vision is really good.
Today's Soochow is actually somewhat in trouble.
Fighting to the north, there are not enough cavalry, and the infantry's combat effectiveness is not as good as others. Fighting with Cao Wei on the borders of the Central Plains plain is not an advantage at all.
Although the two states of Qingxu were captured, Pengcheng State did not capture it, so Soochow could not connect Qingxu and Huainan, and would face Cao Wei's counterattack at any time.
And with Cao Wei's field combat ability, Soochow's chances of winning are not great. In the end, they will inevitably have to defend the city and fight for consumption.
But Yuzhou is in the hands of Cao Wei. As long as Cao Wei sends troops from Runan in Yuzhou, it can block the Huainan army's northward route to support Qingxu at any time. Coupled with the geographical location of Pengcheng State, Qingxu may become an enclave at any time.
At that time, if we really have to fight hard, Soochow will not be able to defeat Cao Wei.
This is the importance of Pengcheng Kingdom.
If Soochow wants to keep Qingxu, it must first capture Pengcheng State, then march westward to attack Yuzhou, and then surround Yanzhou. But you have to collide with Cao Wei's main infantry and cavalry in the plains. With the combat power of Soochow's army, He is really no match for me.
The first way to capture Qingxu was through sneak attacks, and the other was because Cao Wei had to fight a defensive battle in Guanzhong and had no free hands, otherwise, it wouldn't be so easy to succeed.
Even so, the important Pengcheng Kingdom and Yuzhou Runan County were still not captured.
After this battle, Sun Quan realized that fighting to the north would be powerless in a short period of time. It was already very difficult to hold on to the existing territory.
The further north he fought, the less able the naval force, Soochow's main combat force, was to take advantage of it. Therefore, Sun Quan was also looking for opportunities to develop westward.
In the past, this opportunity was unlikely. Lu Meng's strategy has proved that if Nanjun cannot be captured quickly and the Jingzhou Army in Xiangyang reacts, Jiangdong may really lose everything.
With Guan Yu's commanding ability, Xu Shu's strategy, and Wang Ji's good defense, it is indeed very difficult to break through Nanjun in a short time.
But now, the situation is indeed different.
Guan Yu was seriously injured and was unable to govern, so Xu Shu and Wang Ji both moved to Xiangyang to preside over major military and political affairs in Jingzhou.
In recent years, Jingzhou's military has been focusing on the Northern Expedition. Therefore, nearly 80% of Jingzhou's civil servants and generals are in Xiangyang. Whether they are generals such as Deng Ai, Guan Ping, Guan Xing, etc., or civil servants such as Ma Liang, Fei Yi, and Xi Zhen, they are now all in Jiangling and Jingzhou. South's defense is relatively empty.
Although Wenpin is guarding Jiangxia, although Wenpin is very capable, the entire territory of Jiangxia runs through the Yangtze River, which is exactly where the Soochow Navy exerts its power.
If the attack on Jiangxia goes smoothly, the Soochow navy can follow the Yangtze River waterway in Jiangxia and attack Nanjun.
According to reports, Jiangling, the seat of Nanjun, was guarded by only more than 10,000 people, and the guard of Jiangling was a lecher named Shi Bao.
As for Wuling County in Jingnan, the prefect Xi Hong is not good at fighting, and the county captain Li Qiu is an unknown person. Although Pan Jun, the prefect of Lingling County, is a famous scholar in Jingzhou, he is also quite strategic, but he is very selfish and cannot be bribed. The most important thing is that the total number of soldiers in these two counties is less than 8,000.
Therefore, the strategy formulated by Zhou Yu was to pretend to attack Jiangxia, attract the attention of the main force of the Jingzhou Army, and attract the main force of the Jingzhou Army to the direction of Jiangxia.
In the entire Jingzhou, except for Guan Yu and Wenpin who have the ability to fight with water, everyone else is extremely lacking in water fighting experience.
Now that Guan Yu is seriously ill, Jiangxia relies on Wenpin to support him, and it is difficult to support him alone.
The battle of Jiangxia is based on the strength of Soochow and the weakness of attacking Jingzhou. If it goes well, it is possible that Jiangxia can be taken advantage of and threaten Nanjun.
Of course, it doesn't matter if they can't attack. Jiangxia is a suspicious enemy. The real killer move is to attack Wuling and Lingling from Changsha and Guiyang counties.
Once the four counties in Jingnan are occupied, they can confront the Jingzhou Army of the Shu Han across the river and cut off the Yangtze River with the advantage of the Jiangdong navy. It is still possible to defend themselves by the river.
If the Shu Han is not willing to lose two counties and the whole country's troops come, then the defense in the north of Jingzhou will inevitably be empty, and the support for the Guanzhong land will weaken. When that time comes, Zhou Yu believes that Cao Wei will not just watch nothing. made.
Once Cao Wei in the north takes action, another wave of the Xiangshui Alliance will inevitably be repeated. At that time, not only Soochow has taken over the four counties of Jingnan, maybe even Jiangxia can be negotiated back. At that time, it will be You can accept it as soon as you see fit.
According to Zhou Yu's strategic thinking, it is okay to fall out with the Shu Han, but hey, he can't fight with the Shu Han. The top priority for Cao Wei's wedding dress is to maintain the strategic balance and continue to let Cao Wei and the Shu Han fight to the death.
The most important thing for Soochow is to quickly train the soldiers' land combat capabilities, find ways to obtain war horse resources, and train Jiangdong's own cavalry, so that they can be qualified to go north to fight for hegemony and then dominate the world.
Zhou Yu's strategic conception has always been centered on me, and the strategies he has made are to maximize the advantages of the Soochow Navy in combat. He does not seek a quick victory, nor does he rely on Cao Wei's active help. Everything is centered on me.
The more Sun Quan listened, the more he felt that this was a good plan. Even Zhang Zhao, for the rare occasion, did not oppose Zhou Yu this time, and even expressed his maximum support for this operation.
Because Zhou Yu's strategic purpose this time is very consistent with Zhang Zhao's judgment of the current situation.
It is a strategy that has the best of both worlds.
Even Zhang Zhao sighed in his heart. This was probably the rare time in so many years that he and Zhou Yu had the same strategic thinking.
But soon, the second moment when Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu had the same idea came.
Sun Quan was very satisfied with Zhou Yu's strategic thinking, and then he started to follow this line of thinking. I don't know why, but he thought of the issue of the Qingxu War in the north.
At the beginning, when Zhou Yu withdrew from the siege of Pengcheng, he wrote a memo to Sun Quan. On the one hand, he admitted that the land combat capabilities of Soochow soldiers were worrying and that they needed to strengthen their training in land combat capabilities. He was not just asking Sun Quan to Strengthen the training in this area for your own troops, and also hope that Sun Quan will order the clan soldiers of various noble families to strengthen training in this area.
Well, Sun Quan agreed to this at that time, but the actual implementation effect was not good.
There is no way, Jiangdong implements a world-wide military system, and Sun Quan's own troops only have tens of thousands of soldiers. It is useless to strengthen land warfare training for Sun Quan's own troops.
Could it be that if a fight breaks out, Sun Quan's troops can only be used as the main force? !
Even the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Sun Quan's hands could not withstand a few beatings.
But you want the powerful families to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in training their own soldiers, just to go north to fight for the world for Sun Quan. Even if Sun Quan issued the imperial edict in the form of an imperial edict, the matter still could not move forward.
In the final analysis, it is still a sequelae of the world military system and there is no way to solve it.
Sun Quan does not yet have the courage and cost to initiate the world's military system. Therefore, Sun Quan can only find a solution based on the second article Zhou Yu gave him.
Find ways to form your own cavalry unit.
If you want to form a cavalry unit, you will definitely need war horses, but these days, one is Youzhou and the other is Liangzhou.
Liangzhou now belongs to the Shu Han. Two years ago, Sun Quan also sent Zheng Quan as an envoy to meet Zhuge Liang in Chengdu and wanted to buy Liangzhou war horses.
But the problem is that the Shu Han occupied Liangzhou for a short period of time at that time. Until now, Liangzhou is still in the stage of running the place with money, and the relationship with the wealthy families in Liangzhou and the surrounding foreign races has not been straightened out.
Furthermore, the Shu Han also wants to invade the Central Plains, and they also want to form cavalry. The Liangzhou Legion of the Shu Han has not yet been formally established, so how can there be any spare horses to sell to Soochow.
Therefore, although Sun Quan sent an envoy to Chengdu, Zhuge Liang could only refuse vaguely. This was because the two families were allies, otherwise Zhuge Liang would have refused directly.
The Shu Han side couldn't get horses to form cavalry, and Sun Quan couldn't hang himself on a tree. So Sun Quan set his sights on Gongsun's family in Liaodong.
Today, Gongsun Gong is in charge of the Gongsun family in Liaodong.
Although the Gongsun family in Liaodong apparently submitted to the Cao Wei regime, in fact, the Gongsun family could basically be regarded as its own family in Liaodong. Apart from nominally paying tribute to the Cao Wei regime, it was actually no different from the feudal lords in a separate state.
However, the current head of the Gongsun family is Gongsun Gong. Gongsun Gong was afraid of the threat from Cao Wei and had always been subservient to Cao Wei. Therefore, the envoy Sun Quan initially sent to contact Gongsun Gong and request to purchase Youzhou war horses was rejected by Gongsun Gong. Rushed back.
Originally, Sun Quan thought that he would not be able to get horses in a short period of time, but who knew that the envoys from Liaodong would also return to Soochow with the envoys from Soochow.
It was not an envoy sent by Gongsun Gong, but an envoy sent by Gongsun Gong's nephew, Gongsun Du.
Gongsun Du and Gongsun Gong had different attitudes towards Cao Wei. Gongsun Du was ambitious and more capable than Gongsun Gong. He did not want to surrender to others for the rest of his life. He also wanted to become one of the separatist princes.
Therefore, Gongsun Du sent someone to contact Sun Quan, saying that he could provide some horses to Soochow in exchange for Soochow's support. If necessary, the two families could form an alliance.
When Sun Quan heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and planned to contact Gongsun Du. Not only would he be granted an official title, but he would also formally form an alliance with Gongsun Du.
This matter was an idea that Sun Quan himself came up with, but fortunately, Sun Quan was not completely confused at this time. Today happened to be related to this, so Sun Quan told Zhou Yu and Zhang about his plan. Zhao's opinion.
When Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao heard Sun Quan's words, they didn't know what to think. It's not your way to make friends at a distance and attack at close range.
Zhang Zhao immediately jumped out to object.
Gongsun Du is just Gongsun Gong's nephew. He can't even represent the Gongsun family in Liaodong. Sun Quan's alliance with Gongsun Du is simply lowering his status and will be ridiculed by the world.
Another thing, even if Gongsun Du can replace Gongsun Gong and decide to form an alliance. Liaodong is too far away from Jiangdong, and the alliance between the two cannot support each other. If something happens to Liaodong, wait until Jiangdong's fleet arrives. The daylilies are cold.
It would be okay if this alliance was just a verbal agreement. Sun Quan was granted an official position and was given a reward. When he turned around and saw that something was wrong, he retreated and refused to admit it. Sun Quan spent his money in vain and the official did not tell anything about the matter. If it gets too big, it will become a complete joke.
Zhang Zhao definitely couldn't agree with Sun Quan's stupid behavior.
Of course, you have to say this carefully. After Sun Quan realizes his problem, he may correct it. But with Zhang Zhao's temper, age, and seniority, he really says whatever he wants without any scruples. nothing.
This directly made Sun Quan angry.
Historically, Sun Quan was so angry that he quarreled with Zhang Zhao and fell out. Sun Quan ridiculed Zhang Zhao for being a capitulator during the Battle of Chibi. If he had listened to Zhang Zhao, he would have been finished long ago.
As a result, Zhang Zhao was so angry that he went home and squatted down, building a wall in front of his house. This meant that the old man was useless and no one would be seen in the future.
Then when Sun Quan found out, he also sent people to build a wall outside Zhang Zhao's door, which meant that if you don't come out, you will never come out.
A middle-aged man and an old man, the two of them were quarreling like kindergarten children. It really made people feel childish.
But it's different now. Although Sun Quan is angry, Zhang Zhao is not the only one who can ask questions about national affairs. Isn't there Zhou Yu?
Well, now, Zhou Yu, who should have been lying in his grave watching the theater in history, had to experience it for himself this time.
But to be honest, after my lord became the emperor, did he lose all his brains in the harem? !
Why are you even thinking about this? !
(End of chapter)
