It's embarrassing to misjudge something like this.
This matter definitely cannot be the emperor's responsibility, and Cao Zhen has already written a letter to plead guilty. This kind of thing cannot be directly blamed on him, but you want to say that it is Liu Ye and Jiang Ji's responsibility. This is not okay, The roles of these two at that time were counselors, who were responsible for making suggestions. It was Cao Pi's decision to adopt them or not.
Therefore, Cao Pi's smartest approach in this matter was to ignore this strategic misjudgment.
Anyway, things have happened, and no matter who is held responsible, the three or four months wasted cannot be recovered. It is better to think about how to deal with it next.
Cao Pi was obviously not stupid, and he couldn't hold him accountable even if he knew this, so he just reprimanded Cao Zhen and Wang Chang, and then asked them to continue fighting and maintain the frequency of harassment. Even if there were some losses, the Shu thieves in Guanzhong could not be easily defeated. Harvest this season’s food.
The Tire-Shu plan is not a one-time strategy in the first place, but a long-lasting strategy. The purpose is to destroy the Yongzhou area and restore production.
With Cao Pi's clear edict, Cao Zhen felt relieved and allocated another 5,000 soldiers and horses from Hangu Pass to Wang Chang as reinforcements, allowing him to continue harassing the Zuofengyi area.
As for the Youfufeng area, Cao Zhen also sent a letter to Guo Huai, asking Guo Huai to choose the time to go to war. If there is a chance, he will try to gather superior forces and break one or two Wu forts, and then use these Wu forts as bases to gradually encroach on the military power. The Wubao Group at Guandaokou opened a channel to attack Youfufeng.
In short, we are at odds over this matter.
Once Cao Wei adopts this dog-skin plaster-like approach, Zhang Xi will really feel uncomfortable.
You don't know when or where the Wei thief will suddenly come out, bite you, and then shrink back.
In the Youfufeng area, even if Liu Yin took careful precautions, he would inevitably be attacked by Guo Huai in the east and west. He lost three Wu forts and provided Guo Huai with a gap through which he could lead his troops out of Wuguan Road.
Although the gap is not big, it can still serve as a bridgehead. Guo Huai no longer has to pass through the long and narrow Wuguan Road every time he sends troops, and the efficiency of harassment is greatly improved.
Liu Yin had no other choice but to hurry up the counterattack against the three lost Uburgs and strive to regain them as soon as possible.
But the problem is that Guo Huai is not easy to mess with. Now Liu Yin is still difficult to get an advantage from Guo Huai when faced with Guo Huai's tactics of breaking the surface. The war in the Youfufeng area has fallen into a confrontation. situation.
In the Zuo Fengyi area, when Wang Chang understood Zuo Fengyi's defense strategy and became familiar with the Han army's rescue location and rescue speed, with Wang Chang's strategy and troop commanding ability, he wanted to take advantage of the Han army's unpreparedness and burn a little eastward. , it’s really difficult to prevent it from burning a little bit in the west.
It may not be successful every time, but if Wang Chang succeeds once in ten times, the losses suffered in the pass are not small.
It is true that Yongzhou did not usher in a large-scale Wei army invasion, but as Zhuge Liang expected, Cao Wei adopted the tactics of harassing guerrillas and achieved certain results in the Yongzhou area, burning some grain that was about to mature or was already mature.
Although in terms of total quantity, the proportion is only about one-tenth, but in terms of quantity, it has really made Zhang Xi feel distressed for a long time.
But there was no way, there was only so much Zhang Xi could do to deal with Cao Wei's harassing fighting style. With insufficient troops, Zhang Xi did not even dare to counterattack Tongguan, for fear that Cao Wei would seize the opportunity and trade Tongguan for Chang'an, which would be more gain than loss.
As for Cao Wei, in fact, he was not too satisfied with such harassment.
After all, there was not much food burned, and the cannibalization plan was seriously hindered. As Sima Yi planned, he did not find an area in Guanzhong that was enough for Cao Wei's army to gain a foothold. Just a few Wubao and a twenty-mile buffer zone were not enough to support Cao Wei. Return to Guanzhong and establish a forward position.
If we continue like this, we will lose a lot of food and grass, and the loss of soldiers is not too light. If we don't do it, we can only watch Yongzhou gradually resume production and become the advancement base and grain production base of Shu thieves.
Cao Pi now somewhat feels the meaning of the late emperor's "useless" words during the Battle of Hanzhong.
At that time, Cao Cao felt that Hanzhong was "tasteless". Now Cao Pi does not feel that Yongzhou is tasteless, but he feels a bit tasteless about Sima Yi's strategy.
Don't use it, there is no better way, just use it, your loss is not small.
After much thought, Cao Pi still felt that he should continue to stick to this strategy of cutting flesh with a blunt knife, which was better than having no knife at all.
In this way, Cao Wei's harassment of Guanzhong continued from July to October. When winter gradually entered Guanzhong, it slowly stopped.
Winter has come, and all the crops that should be harvested have been harvested. Even if Cao Wei sends troops to harass again, there will be no target. After two months of hard work, it is time for the soldiers to rest.
But Cao Wei slowly stopped, and Sun Quan in the south of Jingzhou felt a little uncomfortable.
Ever since he launched his army to attack Jiangxia in April, Sun Quan had not been going smoothly.
First, he was hired by Wen to use an empty city strategy, which delayed him for five days in vain.
After the troops actually arrived at Xiling County, Sun Quan used ten times the force to attack Xiling County. As a result, Wenpin was forced to defend the county for ten days, waiting for reinforcements from Xiangyang.
What's even more terrible is that this time the reinforcements from Xiangyang were personally commanded by Guan Yu.
To be honest, when he heard that the reinforcements in Xiangyang were personally commanded by Guan Yu, Sun Quan had already given up. After all, it was Guan Yu. Although he was old and frail and still seriously injured, Guan Yu's name was placed in front of everyone. , are all a deterrent.
But, at this time, Sun Sheng had just led the sneak attack troops to Changsha and joined up with Quan Cong. If Sun Quan had retreated directly at this time, then this sneak attack would have gained nothing except completely falling out with Ji Han.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Sun Quan consulted Lu Fan and Zhu Ran for advice, and decided to temporarily retreat to E County, build a water stronghold at the mouth of Sanjiang River, and rely on the power of water warfare to confront the Jingzhou Army.
It is necessary to contain these Jingzhou legions in Jiangxia and provide Sun Sheng with an opportunity to attack the two counties of Jingnan.
Sun Quan retreated to Sanjiangkou, and the siege of Xiling was lifted. After Wenpin joined Guan Yu, who personally led the troops, he was not polite and directly led his army to Zhu County, established a water stronghold, and confronted the Soochow navy across the river.
This confrontation lasted for two months.
It's not that Guan Yu suddenly got better tempered, but that the reputation of Jiangdong's naval forces was really not just bragging. Although Sun Quan was weak in land battles, he still had some skills in water battles. The two sides had engaged in small-scale battles dozens of times, and both sides were Without taking advantage, it is even less possible to defeat the opponent in a short period of time. In this case, confrontation is the best choice.
Originally, so far, although Sun Quan said that it was unfavorable to advance the army, he still achieved the set strategic goal and attracted part of the main force of the Jingzhou Army to Jiangxia. The remaining main force of the Jingzhou Army was still in Xiangyang, which was just in time for Sun Sheng to lead the army to attack Wuling. County and Lingling County laid the foundation.
But two months later, Sun Sheng and Quan Cong's Changsha Army attacked smoothly at first, but they were immediately blocked outside Hanshou County, governed by Wuling County, led by Li Qiu of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Originally, the three thousand county soldiers in Li Qiu's hands would definitely not be able to stop the attack of Sun Sheng and Quan Cong's fifteen thousand Soochow troops. Being able to last ten days was considered a good command by Li Qiu. Don't even think about it for two months.
But the problem was that Li Qiu had only been in Hanshou County for less than five days. Chen, the Yong'an governor of the Shu Han Dynasty, had already led 10,000 Northern troops down the Yangtze River, landed directly at the Public Security Bureau, and then attacked 180 soldiers in three days. Ten miles away, Hanshou County was quickly rescued.
What's even more terrible is that Pan Jun, the prefect of Lingling County who was already a little shaken by Lu Dai's persuasion, immediately rejected Lu Dai's persuasion to surrender and defended Lingling County when he heard that Chen Dao's reinforcements had arrived in Hanshou.
After all, Pan Jun is capable. If it weren't for his selfishness, Lu Dai would really have no way to deal with Pan Jun.
The battle situation in Jingnan was at a stalemate for a while. When the news reached Sun Quan's water village at Sanjiangkou, Sun Quan was also paralyzed.
The current situation made Sun Quan very hesitant.
It's not that there is no hope of winning, but the price is really high.
Today, the comparison of Jiangxia's military strength is Soochow's 50,000 navy versus Jingzhou's 30,000 navy and 10,000 land forces. The 10,000 land force can be ignored. As long as Jingzhou's navy can be defeated in battles on the river, these land forces are not a concern. .
But the problem is to defeat the 30,000 navy troops led by Guan Yu. Although it is not impossible, what price will our own navy have to pay? !
Another thing, even if you win in Jiangxia, if you lose in Changsha, you will still feel like you are losing money if you let people counterattack into Changsha and exchange one Changsha County for one Jiangxia County.
Changsha has been developed for more than ten years now, and the grain production base in the Dongting Lake Plain is already quite large. Although the geographical location of Jiangxia is very important to Jiangdong, 70% of Jiangxia is mountainous. How can it be compared to a grain production base like Changsha? Compare? !
Sun Quan had been somewhat hesitant and continued the stalemate at Sanjiangkou. The stalemate lasted until September, when Sun Quan received two pieces of bad news in succession.
One is that although Cao Wei said it would attack Jingbei, until now, it has always stood still in Wancheng and Xuchang, and the originally agreed counterattack, so far, seems to be nothing more than thunder and rain.
The villain Cao Wei is indeed untrustworthy.
The other was bad news that changed Sun Quan's complexion drastically.
During this Jiangxia battle, Shi Bao, who had been standing still in Jiangling, suddenly sent troops at this critical moment of confrontation.
Shi Bao's dispatch of troops was not a big deal. Sun Quan could not have considered Jiangling's troop mobilization before launching the backstab.
But the problem is that Shi Bao neither chose to lead Jiangling soldiers to support Jiangxia, nor did he think of crossing the river to support Wuling. This lustful man actually chose to join the public security guard Zhang Ren at this critical moment of the stalemate, and the two sides joined forces. More than 10,000 soldiers secretly crossed the Yangtze River and rushed directly to Changsha, intending to cut off Sun Sheng and Quan Cong's grain and grass supply lines, and even capture Changsha.
As soon as the news reached Sanjiangkou, Sun Quan's expression suddenly changed.
It is not that there is no naval force in Jiangling, but with Jiangxia as a barrier, there are basically not many people in the Jiangling navy, and they are all stationed at the police just in case.
There were no more than a hundred ships and less than 5,000 naval troops. Sun Quan could not have imagined that Jiangling would dare to attack Changsha relying on this.
But who knew that Shi Bao would really dare to take the risk of a lack of logistics and use the navy ships as ferries to cross the river and penetrate directly into Changsha County. He would use war to support war and cut off the rear of Sun Sheng and Quan Cong.
If Shi Bao can really cut off the logistics line of Sun Sheng and others for ten days, then the soldiers of Soochow on the front line will inevitably be in risk of food shortage. By that time, Li Qiu of Wuling County, Chen Dao will not let go With such a good opportunity, Sun Sheng and others who attacked Changsha would inevitably suffer a big defeat.
When he thought of this, Sun Quan quickly sent someone to send a message to Sun Sheng and Quan Cong, asking them to shrink their defenses and ensure the safety of their retreat. They must not let Shi Bao cut off their retreat, which would lead to the fall of Changsha.
At the same time, Sun Quan asked He Qi, who was staying behind in Chaisang, to quickly organize reinforcements and quickly reinforce Changsha from the land route in an effort to encircle and destroy the Shibao army crossing the river.
It would be better not to capture Jiangxia than to lose Changsha.
Finally, Sun Quan began to consider whether he should withdraw his troops.
After all, the war has reached this point, and it seems that continuing to remain in a stalemate will do no good to me.
As for the bastards in Cao Wei in the north, they agreed to send troops to Jingbei to relieve themselves of the pressure, but in the end they didn't keep their word and expected themselves to continue to fulfill their covenant? !
They are all thousand-year-old foxes, and no one can say who is not keeping their promise.
Withdraw the troops and return to Chaisang.
In this way, in the second year of Jianxing, Wei and Wu marched into the army. In this almost child's play situation, it ended.
(End of chapter)
