Chapter 723: The First Voice
(Thanks to the valuable monthly ticket of "Zichen, you are so handsome" book friends, the update is late, Xiao Zhuge admits his mistake, everyone reads this chapter first, is coding the second chapter, and it will definitely not be less today, and everything must be completed, so "myt.")
ee1 "The words of the book friend made Xiao Zhuge quite embarrassed, it seems that the details should be grasped tightly, this chapter is written staring at the map, and the brothers are more correct! )
Liu Zhi's birth day is close to the New Year, but Liu Yi did not because of the arrival of the eldest grandson and the festive atmosphere and the attention to the situation in Shuzhong has been relaxed, the facts also prove the judgment of Pang Tong, Jia Xu and others, the second year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, the twenty-third day of the first month of the first month of 201 AD, on the eighth day after the Lantern Festival, Cao Cao personally led an army of 150,000 troops from Xiangyang County to enter Yizhou, the only thing that contradicts the judgment of Jia Xu and others and the wolf people is that he gave up the strategy of advancing by land and water.
Obviously, Cao Cao's move must have been carefully considered, what he wanted was to concentrate on taking Yizhou in one go, and then confront Liu Yi again, and once he had the opportunity to be sent out of Hanzhong, he would have a strategic place that could threaten the other party at any time, and then it would be impossible to say that Zhuge Liang's Longzhong for Liu Bei would be able to play a role in him, but from the current situation, Cao Cao is undoubtedly much stronger than Liu Bei back then, and there are also large territories north of the Yangtze River.
There is another reason why Cao Cao gave up his plan to march by water, that is, the Jingxiang Water Army is not completely stable now, and no matter how strong the combat power of such an army is, he will not use it in the direction of the main force, and his views on this point coincide with Liu Yi! But not the power of the main battle does not mean that there is no cooperation, Cao Cao's army from Xiangyang pointed directly at Shangyong, and Xiahoudun's 50,000 horses set out from Yiyang County to attack Badong, and the Jingzhou Navy became a supply source for two people, one through the Yangtze River to follow Xiahoudun, and the other through the Han River!
The general strategic policy is to send troops through two roads to make the enemy divide the troops to the enemy, if Cao Cao's army can take Shangyong, it can go to Brazil Guanghan to approach Chengdu, and Xiahoudun's flank will also cooperate with it after the attack on Badong, from the flank of Jiangyang County, Ba County, Jia Xu sees it well, Cao Cao's move is indeed a risky plan, this time into Sichuan he brought 200,000 elites and more than 20,000 sailors, and the rest of the people and horses are in Yanzhou to Qingzhou line to Jizhou Sizhou Liu Yijun to take comprehensive defense measures, naturally Yuzhou Jingxiang and other places are negligent in prevention, It's beyond our reach! However, since he dared to use troops like this, he must have discussed with Sun Ce and Liu Bei, especially the latter, because at this time, in terms of troop mobilization, Sun Bofu's goal is obviously Jiaozhou, although this place is remote and barren, but it has become a place where he must expand his power, and the war is also imminent!
Someone in the previous Heavenly Wolf had suggested that Cao Cao and Liu Bei might have joined forces with Beifan, and Liu Yi also made fine-tuning of the military deployment, and at the moment when Cao Cao sent troops, the possibility was already very small, in order to take Yizhou, he used almost half of all his troops, how could he have the spare strength to add Beifan? As for Liu Bei, now under the planning of Zhuge Liang Kuailiang and others, he intends to negotiate peace with Shanyue, move his people to the three counties of Jian'an, Yuzhang and Linchuan, and further enhance his own strength.
Shangyong County is the gateway of Shuzhong, by the Yizhou general Wu Lan sits in here, mentioning that the Wu family in Shu is also able to be compared with one of the six major merchants in the world, this Wu Lan is the leader of the younger generation of the family, and his brother Wu Yi is called the Wumen Double Tiger, and Wu Yi guarded the place is Xiahou Dan Bingfeng pointed to Badong, this time it is the brothers in the clan to fight together.
However, these two people were born in a family, but they were not in harmony with Zhang Ren Yanyan and others who were born in the army, Wu Yi was more stable, but Wu Lan has always been extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Jiyuan's title of the first general in Shu, and this battle is also the key to him to prove his strength. But the confidence of the battle is only one aspect, the most important thing is the strength, on the elite soldiers, Cao Jun is far above the Yizhou soldiers, when it comes to this battle, the Cao army is prepared for a long time, and the Shu army is in a hurry, plus Wu Lan's opponent is Cao Cao himself, the superiority of these two people is needless to say, just ten days, Cao Cao's leading army will beat Wu Lan completely cold, all his conceited soldiers to be ingenious in front of Cao Mengde seems to have hit the copper wall, except for the loss of the generals, there is no gain.
However, even so, it is not easy for Cao Jun to successfully take the danger of the terrain of Shangyong City, but Wu Lan's shortcomings of young and inexperienced are undoubtedly revealed after several battles, if it is the veteran Yan Yan or the general Zhang Ren who guards this city, even if the combat strength and morale are down, they can also rely on the strong city to fight to the death with the other party, and the experience of being in the army for a long time makes them have many ways to improve their morale. But Wu Lan first despised Cao Cao, and after several defeats, he had not broken his muscles and bones but had lost confidence, even Shangyong City could not give him a sense of safety, compared with Zhang Yan and the others, what he lacked was the courage and momentum to fight to the death, and this was necessary for the defense of the city.
As the saying goes, the soldiers will be brave, as long as the courage of the main general is not vented, it is the end of the road, and the soldiers will also burst out with strong potential, such as Liu Yizhi and the Youzhou Army, Zhang Hezhi and the Tiger Guard, as long as they are still alive, the soldiers will not be afraid of life and death! Obviously, Wu Lan's self-confident and fearful performance affected the morale of the defenders, and this point was quickly grasped by Cao Jun, a male lord like Cao Cao and Liu Yi is proficient in the art of war, you can't show a flaw in front of them, otherwise you will definitely be caught by the other party and chased and beaten!
The final outcome of the Battle of Shangyong was like this, Cao Jun began to attack the whole army without being fully prepared, and Cao Cao showed great determination at this time, regardless of the casualties caused by the fortified city to his soldiers! From the performance of the enemy general, he judged that as long as he maintained a high-intensity offensive, the first to collapse in morale must be the defenders, and this judgment was based on a hundred battles on the battlefield, which was extremely accurate!
Of course, Cao Jun's tactics are no different from suicide from the perspective of the art of war, if the opponent changes Liu Yi or Liu Bei Sun Ce, he will return in vain, and will even be used by the opponent. The battle of Shangyong is proof, Cao Jun's tidal tide of fearless attack lasted only one day, Wu Lan was no longer able to support, panicked he abandoned the city from the west gate of Shangyong late at night, but was surrounded by Cao Cao with the method of three que, Li Dian and Le Jin waited for work, and killed the withdrawn Shu army a corpse all over the place, Wu Lan also only got rid of his body! Afterwards, Liu Yi looked at this battle, but felt that if it was a change of place, his tactics would probably be the same as Cao Cao's, and it was easy to win by surprise, but when it really wanted to be used in practice, it required the main general in the army to have extraordinary vision and determination, once the order was given, there was no hesitation, Cao Cao deserved to be a master of the art of war!
It is Wu Lan's final breakthrough is also Cao Cao's prior arrangement, this person's ambition is useless, but he can return to Shu but can quickly spread that kind of panic, which is the biggest benefit for Cao Jun, who is determined to fight quickly, in the battle between the two sides, in addition to the confrontation of the frontal battlefield, the use of clever schemes, the rest must also do everything, and Cao Cao is a master of this!
Of course, the smooth victory of the battle of Shangyong in addition to the careful planning of the soldiers' lives, the topographic map of Western Shu also played a great role, its existence greatly reduced the geographical advantage of the Shu army, otherwise even if Cao Cao led the army, Xun Yu Cheng Yu and others could not occupy the entire territory of Shangyong County in just over half a month, in another time and space, this thing and Cao Cao missed, but in this world, God seems to have given him compensation, thinking is quite mysterious.
At that time, Cao Cao led the army to attack Xuzhou under the banner of avenging his father, but his killing all the way caused the unity of the people in Xiapi City, with the arrival of Liu Yi, his strategy of quick victory failed, and Lu Bu's sneak attack made him have to shake hands with him and return to the army to fight! The same mistake of a character like him will not be the second time, the military discipline of the Cao army is extremely strict, and even Meng De himself committed suicide after stepping on a piece of farmland in shock, with Xun Yu and others bitterly admonishing the head of the hair, the commander is still like this, the soldiers can be imagined, plus a series of strategies to buy people's hearts by the strategists under his command, the people of Shu have suffered very little.
This matter must have been deliberately done by Cao Mengde, I can't say that the startling horses were arranged in advance, in the use of troops, Cao Cao never lacked such whimsical ideas, and it also played a great role, but in Liu Yi's heart, he was quite emotional, history is so stubborn, although he has changed a lot by himself, but what should have happened is still inevitable, but there are differences in time and place.
Compared with the first courage and then cowardice of the brothers, the Badong guard general Wu Yi is far superior here, he is very calm to analyze the strategic contrast between the two sides, and formulate a military strategy to stabilize the city, Rao is Xiahou is a hundred battles of generals are not hindered, but there is no good way to take such a mouse out of the hole, no matter how he shows the enemy to be weak, sell all kinds of flaws to lure this Wu Yi is firmly seated in the Diaoyutai and has never been moved, in front of him there is only one way to attack, But Wu Yi relied on the advantage of the terrain to skillfully distribute the resistance forces, but he lost his troops and generals!
After three days of fierce attack, Xiahou Yuanrang stopped the attack, he only had 50,000 horses in his hands, unable to form an absolute advantage over the defenders, and he must not insist on it if he could not attack, but his brother's trust made him unable not to advance bravely, when he was thinking hard, Shangyong came to the news of a great victory, and at the same time immediately changed his tactics to make a posture to besiege Badong, and Shangyong also echoed with it, Wu Yi could receive the military information of Shangyong Cao's army going south every day! If it was just Xiahoudun all the way to the division, he had enough confidence to fight against it, but he never thought that the mediocre Wu Lan would be defeated so easily, with the current situation, he is likely to face Cao Cao and Xiahoudun attack, the terrain of Shu is not only for the enemy, the arrival of his own reinforcements is also to be restricted, and Cao's army is still suddenly difficult this time! After learning once again that Cao Cao's army was less than 100 miles away from Badong, he finally chose to retreat!
If Liu Yi and Guo Jia were here, they would definitely be able to see that the so-called Cao Cao's army must be bluffing, but Wu Yi is also a general, but he does not have the vision of the three of them, the key is that the lack of military intelligence makes him unable to analyze Cao Mengde's intention to fight quickly. Although he made careful arrangements at the time of the withdrawal of the army, he did not let Xiahoudun have a chance to take advantage of the two gates of Shuzhong in Yongbadong, which was taken by Cao Jun one after another in January, which brought a huge shock to Shuzhong, and for a time people were panicked, and Cao Cao and Xiahoudun continued to advance without too much repair, and the victory in the first battle made the morale of Cao's army extremely high, and this is the time to be full of energy!