What's more, if Zhuge Liang fakes his death, if it succeeds, the benefits will not stop at this point!
As long as Zhuge Liang successfully faked his death, he truly deceived Zhu Yuanzhang's entire Yangzhou Group, Liu Xiu, and Xu Shiji.
Then, Zhuge Liang can turn from the bright side to the dark side in the days to come, and carry out the things he planned in the dark.
If Zhuge Liang wants to openly plot against Zhu Yuanzhang's entire Yangzhou Group, Liu Xiu, Xu Shiji and the others, you can imagine the difficulty! But if it is done secretly, how much will the difficulty drop?
After all, under normal circumstances, how much vigilance can one have towards a "dead person"?
In the outer hall, Shi Hongzhao is indeed a person Zhuge Liang relies on. Only a few people know about Zhuge Liang's fake death, and even Shi Hongzhao doesn't know about it. However, after Zhuge Liang faked his death, the heavy burden in the army temporarily fell on Shi Hongzhao's head. .
Zhuge Liang did not reveal any information to Shi Hongzhao in advance, obviously he had enough trust in him, and Shi Hongzhao did live up to Zhuge Liang's expectations. In the end, he calmed down the rioting people and calmed down their emotions without letting them go. They really went back to fight the Yangzhou Army.
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Hezhou!
Yinshan Fortress!
The Yinshan Mountains are Hezhou's natural defense line against the grassland. However, the Jin army did not build any checkpoints here, but only touched layers of fortresses to serve as the first line of defense to defend the grassland.
First of all, building checkpoints costs a lot of money and puts a lot of financial pressure on them.
Secondly, Li Xiang's goal is not satisfied with defense, but offense. Moreover, in Li Xiang's view, the best defense is offense. What Li Xiang hopes is that one day, after he has completely pacified the Han Dynasty's interior, his troops will go out outside the fortress and completely plow the land in all directions of the Han Dynasty.
Thirdly, the mountainous terrain is not suitable for cavalry operations. The terrain advantage alone has weakened the strongest place on the grassland to the greatest extent.
However, although there have never been levels built here, it does not mean that Li Xiang has relaxed his vigilance about the grassland, nor does it mean that Li Xiang has seen the grassland clearly.
In fact, Li Xiang has always attached great importance to grassland. Throughout any of their battles, they would leave enough soldiers and horses in the border areas to ensure the possibility of fire in their own backyard.
In the most critical place of Hezhou, Li Jing served as the governor and sat here all year round. Later, Meng Tian served as the governor and guarded this place all year round.
In addition, in the Yinshan frontline fortress camp, the guard is one of the most famous defensive generals in Chinese history, Meng Gong.
In terms of defense, Meng Gong does have his own uniqueness and specialization in his skills. On this point, even many god-level commanders cannot compare with him.
Since Meng Gong arrived at the Yinshan Frontline Fortress Camp, he once again improved the defense of the Yinshan Frontline based on Li Jing and Meng Tian.
Today, a total of 36 fortresses have been built in the entire Yinshan Mountain, and hundreds of bunkers have been built overtly and covertly. This defense system, even if it really builds a level, can't compare to his defense strength.
Just like this time, the famous Yuanmeng general Boyan led 30,000 cavalry to invade. However, under the command of Meng Gong, he did not even rush through the first fortress. He only broke through the seven or eight fortresses in front. Already forced to return without success.
Boyan made a simple calculation. If he really continued to fight, he would probably be able to break through three or four fortresses at most, and he would not have many of the 30,000 cavalry left.
But this time when Yuanmeng came to Seoul, he didn't even disturb Meng Tian, who was in charge of the three states of Bing, He, and Liang within Hezhou, and was directly solved by Meng Gong.
"Pu Yu, what the hell is this Yuan Meng doing? He fights but doesn't fight, retreats but doesn't retreat!"
When he heard that Boyan had led his troops to withdraw, and even withdrew from the Yinshan Mountains, he did not return to the grassland, but instead stationed himself in several nearby tribes, this made Jiang Song feel relieved.
If you want to fight, hurry up and intimidate; if you want to run, run quickly. This feeling of not being up and not being down is really disgusting.
"What exactly Yuan Meng wants to do is currently unknown! However, just be careful!"
"First of all, I ordered people to renovate several destroyed fortresses!" Meng Gong was not sure what Yuan Meng was planning in a short period of time, and he could only cope with the changes by staying the same.
"The enemy has already breached these fortresses once. Even if they are repaired, I'm afraid they won't be as effective next time!" Jiang Song said with some confusion, worried that their actions were in vain. If a place has been breached once, it will definitely be much easier to breach it a second time than it was the first time if you know the basics.
"It doesn't matter, just make a few modifications!" Meng Gong said nonchalantly.
In the Yinshan defense system, Meng Gong had done a lot of research on every fortress and every fortress before making a choice. He even visited each of these places personally.
As for the current situation, he had already considered it. Even if it was renovated after being breached, in fact, Meng Gong had already made other preparations when building these fortresses.
Perhaps the second repair of the fortress looks exactly the same as the first, but the situation inside is completely different. If the enemy army still wants to attack this fortress a second time based on its inherent experience in the future, then these fortresses will definitely cause them double casualties.
And as this battle began, the situation on the grassland began to become more and more strange.
In fact, the so-called troops sent by Yuanmeng this time were not the Jin army at all, but other forces from the same grassland.
Originally, if they wanted to start a war with the Jin army, this force alone would definitely not be enough. This force would not even be able to break through the Yinshan defense, let alone the entire Jin army later.
If the Yuanmeng and Jin armies were to go to war directly, it would probably be a confrontation involving the full strength of both sides. But once they really went south, they would end up fighting the Jin army and lose both sides, but the benefits would be cheaper for others, and it would most likely bring about a series of negative reactions.
Therefore, Yuanmeng did not target the Jin army from the beginning of this battle.
The reason why we have to fight this battle is that Tuoba Wei is too stable and wary of Yuan Meng. Murong Tian and Temujin successively sent two armies to the west. At this time, Yuan Meng was no longer able to launch a war to the east, but Tuoba Wei was still so stable.
(End of chapter)
