At the morning meeting.

General Guan Ping put forward the concept of the Northern Expedition of "three routes out at once" in public, dividing the battle line into the western front, the middle line, and the eastern front, and the western front and the eastern front as the main front, supplemented by the middle line.

Guan Ping was dressed in an official uniform, wearing shoes, and standing on top of the court with a sword hanging from his waist, and talked loudly: "The middle line is the land of Jingxiang, although Jingzhou is very close to Wan and Luo in the north, but Luoyang is the capital of the pseudo-Wei state, and then it will naturally be a place where the enemy arranges heavy defenses, and if our army goes all out to seize it, it is not a wise move!" ”

"And between Nanyang and Xiangyang is the Nanyang Basin, which is extremely flat, flat land, very suitable for the Wei army's iron cavalry and large corps, the capture of Wan, Luo is of little significance, but will fall into the quagmire of war, then the Wei army can use the rich Central Plains states as the foundation to form a protracted tug-of-war."

With a deafening voice, Guan Ping directly vetoed the idea of the main force out of Wan and Luo.

As soon as these words fell, a minister arched his hand and said: "Lead the main force out of Qinchuan to seize the Guanlong Prefectures, and send a general to lead Jingxiang's army to attack Wan, Luo Nai's Longzhong strategic plan proposed by the prime minister for the first emperor, isn't the general so directly overthrowing the prime minister's strategy?" ”

"Does the general think that your strategic planning is comparable to that of the prime minister?"

This person reveres Zhuge Liang a little, and now when he sees Guan Ping criticizing "Longzhong Pair", he stands up and ridicules Guan Ping bluntly.

For a while, there was an instant silence in the court, and all the ministers stared closely at Liu Chan, the son of heaven who was kneeling in front of the imperial case.

Because they found that the Son of Heaven had secretly accumulated anger at this time.

It's just that Guan Ping didn't want to make such a trivial matter out of the question, and said with a smile: "It is undeniable that Longzhong is indeed the most perfect strategic plan for our army that crossed the two states of Jing and Yi at the beginning, but everything in the world does have a law of change, and the situation is naturally the same." ”

"Now that our army is completely in the south of the Yangtze River, wouldn't it be unreasonable to continue the strategy of the three-legged hegemony from time to time?"

When the words fell, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, who was at the head of the hundred officials, also smiled slightly: "The general is reasonable, the plan is dead, but the people are alive, our army has now entered the land south of the Yangtze River, if we continue to implement the Longzhong strategy conceived by the prime minister, it will be too rigid, strategy and tactics need to be used flexibly, how can it be immutable?" ”

As soon as this statement fell, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang also affirmed Guan Ping's strategy.

Groaning for a while, Shang Shu Ling Fa Zheng also said in a deep voice: "I really agree with the strategy of the general's three-line Northern Expedition, mainly on the western and eastern fronts, where the Wei army will focus on it, our army will concentrate on attacking the other side, Guanzhong has been the country of abundance since ancient times, and it occupies a geographical advantage, and Huaisi is also rich in elite soldiers. ”

"No matter where these two places are attacked first, they will have extremely outstanding results for our army's Northern Expedition."

As soon as the words fell, all the ministers in the palace unanimously seconded the proposal.

Seeing that the ministers seconded the proposal, Liu Chan, the son of heaven, naturally also adopted the strategic plan of "three ways out together".

……

Han Jianxing four years, early July.

General Guan Ping worked tirelessly and returned to Jianye for days and nights to preside over the overall situation.

Due to the uniqueness of Jianye's geographical location, after recovering several counties in Jiangdong, Guan Ping set up the General's Mansion in Jianye, so as to take charge of the overall situation and swear to the Northern Expedition.

When passing through Jiangling, Guan Ping also summoned the governors of all parties in Jingxiang to gather together for a military meeting to discuss the strategy of the Northern Expedition and the deployment of troops.

In the end, after the discussion of the meeting, Guan Ping decided that Deng Ai, the governor in charge of the Jingbei defense line, would be the governor of the central line, and the northern expedition of the troops and horses of Jingxiang would be controlled, and the northern expedition of the army and horses of Jingxiang would be attacked, and the Xudu area in the hinterland of the Central Plains would be attacked respectively, so as to play a harassing role and contain the strength of the Wei army.

Arriving in Jianye, Guan Ping immediately summoned the generals to formulate the general strategy for the Northern Expedition.

After the meeting, Guan Ping specially summoned Lu Xun and asked, "Bo Yan." In the past two years, how has the Navy's training been? ”

Hearing this, Lu Xun replied truthfully: "General." At present, the combat power of the soldiers is still considerable, and the craftsmanship of sand ships is much stronger than that of ships such as building ships, but it is barely acceptable to sail along the coastline, and it is very easy to get lost if you want to enter the deep sea. ”

With a report, Guan Ping nodded again and again.

Lu Xun said this, he also expected that the mature technology of sea ships such as sand boats had been after the Tang and Song dynasties, and the shipbuilding industry at this time was not so developed, and the finished product technology was naturally greatly discounted.

After all, Guan Ping can only provide some craftsmanship from later generations, and the construction of sand boats is much stronger than the natural performance of ships such as building ships and fighting ships in this era, but it certainly cannot be compared with the Tang and Song dynasties.

After all, the level of craftsmanship also needs to be developed gradually.

It's just that the shipbuilding industry in Wudi during the Three Kingdoms period was also very prosperous, and Guan Ping thought that in the original history, Sun Quan was able to send a fleet of more than 10,000 troops across the sea to Liaodong safely, and then sent ships out to sea, and also reached Yizhou through the impassable Taiwan Strait.

This already illustrates the prosperity of the shipbuilding industry in Wudi.

Now, with the shipbuilding technology provided by Guan Ping, he believes that the navy formed by Lu Xun will definitely be extremely strong.

"Sailing along the coastline is not enough, if you can't go deep into the deep sea, then the establishment of a navy is of little significance."

"Bo Yan, you continue to organize the naval non-commissioned officers to hone in on combat strength and organizational strength, as for those who have lost their way, it is up to Ben to think about it."

"Whoa."

After that, Lu Xun surrendered his promise and immediately retreated.

When Lu Xun left, Guan Ping fell into contemplation, the reason why he formed the navy, of course, was to open up a second battlefield, if it was just a fierce confrontation with the Wei army in the river, then the Northern Expedition must be protracted, but what if there was a navy that went deep into the sea and landed in the hinterland of Cao Wei by surprise?

However, he is now also thinking about more serious problems.

Deep into the sea, there is no reference on the vast sea, it is extremely easy to get lost, if there is no compass and other things like pointing out the direction, then it may only be as Lu Xun said, sailing along the coastline.

After two months of unremitting efforts, and with Guan Ping's creativity, Huang Yueying, the wife of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, finally invented a compass that can be used to point out the direction.

So far.

The three armies of the Han army were ready, and they only waited for an order to swear to the Northern Expedition.

……

Han Jianxing four years, September.

Guan Ping gathered more than 50,000 main forces in Jianye, and claimed to be an army of more than 300,000 to the outside world, and marched along the Yangtze River with land and water troops to take important ports such as Mixuwu, Mixukou, and Anhuikou.

The general Guan Ping even went to the front line of Weixuwu in person, commanding the army to fight with the Wei army, in order to quickly seize the port, enter the city of Hefei, fight Hefei, take Chaohu, and march to Shouchun, an important town in southern Huainan.

On the other hand, Guan Ping also ordered Xu Sheng, Lu Dai and other generals to enter the Anhui Pass to threaten Lujiang and other places to contain the strength of the Wei army on the Jianghuai side.

Meanwhile.

On the one hand, Deng Ai, the governor of the central line, sent the main force to approach along the Nanyang Basin such as Wancheng, and on the other hand, he sent Pang De and Ma Dai to lead knights from Jiangxia to continue to invade the lands of Runan and Huainan, so as to cooperate with the offensive of the general Guan Ping.

Just when the battle between Jing and Yang was about to break out, Shuzhong naturally would not sit back and watch the success or failure.

Han Jianxing 4th year, October.

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang led the people into Hanzhong, began to actively train soldiers, hoarded grain and grass, and ordered Wei Yan to reorganize the army and prepare for a large-scale eastward march at any time.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

The prelude to the storm is already coming, and a battle that will engulf the Great War of the North and the South is coming.

And this war is destined to be protracted.

Because this will herald that the winner will gain control of the Central Plains states.

This is also the battle that determines the belonging of the world.

The victor will take the initiative in the war and control the country.

The defeated will henceforth be left in a corner of peace until they are completely destroyed.

A glorious war between Wei and Han is about to officially begin.

In the face of the Han army's three-way Northern Expedition offensive, how will the Wei State resist?