Everyone in the world knows that Li Xiang will start his next step of progress sooner or later. This will come sooner or later.
Therefore, the princes sent countless spies to keep an eye on every move in the Prince Jin's palace to see what Li Xiang did every day. Was he indulging in the gentle countryside or sharpening his sword?
Living in peace while the world is at peace, and being angry and fearful by the princes, Li Xiang's daily life has almost become a bellwether for war, and one of the principles of war is to take the enemy by surprise and attack them unprepared. Only surprise soldiers can win a big victory!
Therefore, Li Xiang has been very active recently, frequently showing up in front of everyone, and talking shamelessly. He will invite people to have a wedding drink after a while, in order to convey the news that he will stay in Luoyang City honestly in the near future. In this way, the princes will be unprepared.
But who would have thought that the King of Jin had just held a banquet to entertain guests, but at this moment, the Jin army was in Nanyang, ready to start a bloody storm.
Every top commander has a different style of using troops. Bai Qi has one style, and Wang Jian has another style.
Since Wang Jian is in charge of the army, of course he will not follow Bai Qi's marching ideas. He also has his own ideas.
According to Wang Jian's idea, the first battle was to cross the Mianshui River from the direction of Zhuyang, march westward along the Zhushui River at the eastern foot of Mount Taihe, attack directly on the front lines of Fangling, Shangyong, and Xicheng, and open the defense line in the east of Han Dynasty. Attract Hanzhong troops.
However, Shangyong, Fangling, and Xicheng are all mountainous areas with overlapping mountains. They are neither rich nor important military areas. It is very difficult to attack Bashu or Hanzhong. As long as Hanzhong defends the valley paths between Shiquan and Yangxian, it can block the Jin army.
In this way, the significance of the first battle raid will be greatly reduced.
The Jin army fired smoke one after another just to create such an opportunity for a surprise attack. There is only one chance for a surprise attack, and the next step should be a bloody battle with real swords and guns.
Therefore, attacking such "meaningless" locations in the battle against Shu really caused an uproar and made many generals confused.
However, Wang Jian always insisted on his own idea. Shangyong had its own independent geographical advantages. This alone was enough for Wang Jian to make this decision.
Taking the Three Kingdoms era as an example, the time when Shangyong could play the greatest role was when Guan Yu launched his northern expedition to Xiangfan. At this time, if Liu Feng and Meng Da put aside their personal gains and losses, have an overall view, and send troops to reinforce Guan Yu, they may change history.
Liu Feng and Meng Da's reinforcements can sail eastward along the Han River and arrive at the Xiangfan front line within a few days. With the new force of Liu Feng and Meng Da, Guan Yu may expand his achievements.
At least Guan Yu didn't have to deploy troops from the rear, allowing Gong'an and Jiangling to easily fall into Soochow's hands. In this way, Jingzhou will probably not be lost, and Guan Yu will not be defeated.
However, since the loss of Jingzhou, Shangyong has lost its significance to Shu Han.
Zhuge Liang lured Meng Da back. Before his first Northern Expedition, in order to cooperate with his Northern Expedition, he did not hesitate to use counterintuitive tactics. He sent people to surrender to Cao Wei and deliberately leaked the news of Meng Da's return, causing Meng Da to die unexpectedly. From here, we can see that Zhuge Liang has no interest in Shangyong's belonging. He just uses Mengda to serve his Northern Expedition.
Shangyong fell into the hands of Cao Wei and did not play any role. It can be said that Shangyong does not pose any threat to Hanzhong at all. Only during Cao Zhen's three-pronged expedition against Shu, Sima Yi dispatched once from Shangyong. But that time it was abandoned halfway due to weather conditions. Since then, both sides have made no major military moves in the upward direction.
The geographical feature of Shangyong is that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and land transportation with the surrounding areas is very difficult.
However, in Shangyong territory, there is a Han River running through it, and waterway transportation is very convenient.
Down the Han River is Xiangfan, which can be reached within a few days. What Wang Jian did was to seek progress while maintaining stability, and to make progress step by step, so that he could truly advance to attack and retreat to defend.
By capturing Shangyong, the Jin army can have an escape route after entering Shu, and there will be less risk of being trapped and killed.
Moreover, Wang Jian also clearly understood the importance of Jingzhou Yue Fei in the subsequent battle against Shu. With Shangyong in hand, if Jingzhou really suffers a loss, the army can send a supporting force in a short time.
This time is a "national war" for the Jin army, and a "national war" cannot really afford to lose. Therefore, in a "national war", the most important thing is not to march through dangerous routes for the sake of victory. That is what the weak side has to do.
In the "national war", the advantageous side should adhere to the approach of fighting steadily and step by step.
And coincidentally, at this point, this is what Wang Jian is best at.
"Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, and those who are good doctors have no great reputation." These two sentences mean: "People who are good at fighting often have no outstanding achievements, while good doctors do not have a great reputation."
When playing chess, there is also a term called "There is no good move in the game". The original saying is "Those who are good at chess have no good move in the game" - that is to say, for people who are good at chess, you often cannot see the magic in the whole game. A move, or a hand that turns the tide.
Compared with many commanders, Wang Jian is like this. There are few "masters" as wonderful as other commanders.
However, these are exactly the strategies of masters. Although the so-called "masters" look cool and win beautifully, there is a problem - when they give the opponent a fatal blow, they often expose their own flaws. As the saying goes "After a great victory, there must be a great defeat; after a great Ming, there must be a great darkness."
Moreover, "good skills" are unstable and unsustainable, and skills cannot be accumulated through deliberate practice. Once the "inspiration" dries up, it is inevitable that you will be at a loss. Just like guarding a city, it is not enough to rely on "surprise soldiers" alone. After all, it must be protected by deep trenches and high fortresses.
In comparison, "no master" seems to be ordinary, but by accumulating every little bit of victory, turning crises into invisible, the final victory is sure, and embodies a different kind of "master". wisdom.
Real masters are unlikely to do these seemingly glorious things, because they understand that "no one who is good at playing has a good hand." Those things that seem very beautiful are actually very risky and have a high error rate. The consequences of one mistake can be very serious.
Those methods that seem to have no magic skills, but in fact, maybe those are the real skills, the skills that make you invulnerable, unable to start, and ultimately forced to face your own death step by step.
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