After all, people are not omnipotent, and it is impossible for them to be self-taught.

Li Xinchen can keenly perceive the general trend of the whole world, in the final analysis, it is because of his extra thousand years of experience and understanding of this period of history. And Xiao Maha has no experience, and he can't predict the prophet, so it is reasonable that his vision is limited.

As for Zhou Qu and the others, they were not on the battlefield, but just thinking about it as a matter of course in the rear, so it was naturally easier to idealize the problem.

In Li Xinchen's view, in addition to the dying Wu Mingche, the only person who can really be regarded as having a strategic level of vision is Chen Ji, the emperor of Nan Chen, but it is obviously unrealistic to let Chen Ji come here to command the battle.

Feeling the eyes of inquiry, doubt and even suspicion, Li Xinchen did not flinch, but took a few steps forward with a smile, walked straight to the side of the map, and stretched out his hand to draw a circle in the direction of the Central Plains:

"Before, we were able to take Jiangling because the barbarians transferred all the domestic armies north to prepare to attack the Turks, and now with the death of Yuwen Yong, these armies will inevitably return to various places, and a large part of them will return to Xiangyang, and as we break through Jiangling, the barbarians will definitely strengthen their defenses from Xiangyang to the Central Plains."

After a pause, Li Xinchen's fingers slid from the position of the Central Plains on the map to Xiangyang, and said in a deep voice: "This means that whether we attack Xiangyang or bypass Xiangyang to attack the Central Plains, it means that we will face the fiercest resistance and counterattack of the barbarians, and our subordinates think that we don't have this strength at all now, and it is very likely that it will be the same as the battle of Luliang.

Xiao Maha and Zhou Qu glanced at each other and bowed slightly, they had to admit that what Li Xinchen said was the truth, and if he launched an attack on Xiangyang at this time, it would really be the same as the battlefield changes in the Battle of Luliang at the beginning. And even if it is to bypass Xiangyang, not to mention how much trouble it will bring if the nail of Xiangyang is embedded behind you, more importantly, who can guarantee that there is no other "Xiangyang City" that is difficult to cross on the road ahead?

"But," Mao Xi, the general of the Right Guard, couldn't help frowning at this time and said, "If we don't take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid the barbarians will launch a counterattack, and we will definitely be more passive at that time." ”

Now after all, the Northern Zhou army is still in the north, and it will not appear in the south for a while, so Nan Chen still has a short time, and if he has been quietly waiting for the arrival of the Northern Zhou army, then Nan Chen will undoubtedly be at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, and the battle situation will become more difficult.

Li Xinchen smiled slightly: "If we don't attack to the north, it doesn't mean that we won't attack." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and tapped in the other direction: "Like here." ”

"Shinshu (now east of the mouth of the Xiling Gorge)?" Mao Xi blurted out.

Li Xinchen solemnly bowed: "The barbarians went north, and the army was divided into five routes, of which the troops of the western armies were all transferred from Sichuan and Shu, which means that compared with Jiangling, the number of barbarian defenders in Sichuan and Shu is smaller and the strength is thinner!" ”

"Chuanshu?" Xiao Maha squinted slightly, he knew what these two words meant.

It means Xiongguan Mandao, the country of abundance, and the upper reaches of the river!

Throughout the ages, the naval division fought a decisive battle, and the one who occupied the upstream had a greater advantage, and sometimes it could even have a decisive advantage when going downstream, and the upstream was even more important for the dynasty along the river.

Before the Huajiao rebellion, Nan Chen did not hesitate to attack with the strength of the whole country, because once the area from Baling to Xiangzhou occupied by Hua Jiao was connected to Jiangling in Xiliang, Nan Chen was undoubtedly cut off, and the middle reaches of the river were lost, and the ships flying the flag of the Northern Zhou Dynasty could rush down the river directly to Jiankang Mansion at any time.

However, on the river, the river is turbulent, and there are high requirements for ships, and not all ships can easily go back and forth between the upper and lower rivers, especially with the shipbuilding technology of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, even if they control Sichuan and Shu, there is still no way to build a usable ship to go down the river, so in the thinking of most Southern Chen officials, Sichuan and Shu are like a cage, and no matter how tough the fist of the Northern Zhou is, it will not be able to break this cage after all, so it is insignificant.

Historically, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not pay attention to Sichuan and Shu for a long time, a place where the Southern Chen could become a "high-rise" situation, and the main direction was still placed in Jiangling or even Huainan, after all, whether it was the distance of the road or the gap in the shipbuilding technology of the sailors, it was enough for the Northern Zhou to give up the idea of attacking from Sichuan and Shu.

It was not until the establishment of the Sui Dynasty and Yang Su was ordered to enter Sichuan and Shu that the situation changed. Yang Su recruited soldiers, mobilized craftsmen, and built a five-tooth ship that could restrain the Huanglong giant ship, so that the advantages of Sichuan and Shu could be fully brought into play, but at that time, Nan Chen's battle line in the middle reached had collapsed on all fronts, so Yang Su's preparations in the upper reaches were redundant.

At this time, Sichuan and Chongqing are far from so many threats to Nanchen, and even Sichuan and Shu have not been so rich for many years because of their remoteness and outside the main battlefields and trade channels of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and even many places have become semi-civilized again.

It's as if this place has been abandoned by an entire era.

Li Xinchen met the gaze of Xiao Maha and others, and said solemnly: "We will dispatch an elite and sailor to guard Xinzhou, and take the opportunity to trace the river upstream, break through the blockade set by the barbarians in the Badong area, and directly rush into the hinterland of Bashu!" At least now there is the Huanglong Ship to rely on, as long as we can cross the dangerous places of the Three Gorges, the entire Dajiang River and the Neijiang River will be under the protection and deterrence of our sailors! ”

"But even if this Bashu is taken down, what's the use?" Zhou Qu frowned and interrupted Li Xinchen, "Now that we are short of troops, if we divide our troops again, it means that Jiangling's side will bear a greater threat, what if Jiangling can't hold it at that time?" Even if you take Bashu, you can't reach a Jiangling. ”

Li Xinchen glanced at Zhou Qu and said lightly:

"Zhou Gong's words are wrong, Bashu is by no means useless, Zhou Gong and look, now I Dachen occupies Jiangnan, Huainan and Jingzhou, but these places are mostly located in the plains, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and once we occupy Bashu, then the battle line will extend from the current position as a whole to the northwest, becoming the Qinling Mountains to the Huaishui line, and then my Dachen territory will be like 'the snake of Changshan', advance can be attacked and retreated, and the plate has room for retreat, each other is a horn, stretching can find the enemy's weakness, a fatal blow. As long as we can hold the few southbound passages such as the north side of Bashu, the south side of Xiangyang and Huaikou, the barbarians will be helpless against us! ”

Under Li Xinchen's gesture, the original intertwined and unclear situation became clear, and the entire Dachen was like a long snake, sometimes circling and sometimes elongating, as if he was alive on this map.