Chapter 724: Hold your ground

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In this world, Liu Yi and Cao Cao can be called two heroes, both fierce rivals but also confidants, reflected in the two of them on the use of soldiers, if today's Cao Army's battle of Yizhou and the battle of the Youzhou Army that day, both sides are well planned, if not moving, it will be like the sky is falling apart, but that day Liu Yi is focused on destroying the enemy, now Cao Cao is taking the land, Lang Sheng is at all costs to take the Tiger Prison Pass to kill the enemy's westward road, and Meng De this time not only to fight quickly, but also to minimize casualties, The purpose is to compete with Liu Yi!

Frankly speaking, Cao Mengde's use of troops to Yizhou Liu Zhang's troops was quite unexpected by him, and Zhang Song's topographic map of Xishu was an accident, but the news that Cao Jun successfully won Shangyong and Badong was not unexpected by Liu Yi, the strength of the two sides was already very different, one side suddenly attacked, one side responded in a hurry, and the advantages of the terrain could not be fully exerted. The key depends on the follow-up development!

For his brother Liu Zhang, Liu Yi doesn't dare to have too much hope, if he talks about the sound of dogs and horses, he is afraid that he can fight against Cao Mengde and even hope to win, but this military matter and scheming methods, it is better to count on him Liu Yi to hurry up the pace of development of his territory, if you want to say hope, you can only hope that Liu Jiyu's character will explode and cause a little more loss to Cao Cao, so as to facilitate his own initiative in the future. Liu Jingsheng had already disappointed Liu Yi in the Battle of Jingxiang back then, not to mention Liu Zhang, who had always been weak and incompetent. However, this personnel still has to be done, Lang Sheng did not make more fuss elsewhere, but his own letter and clan brother asked him to pay attention to Zhang Song's actions, but don't easily move and confuse people's hearts, as for the military aspect, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan should be reused to resist by virtue of the Shuzhong Pass and the people's hearts! He also specifically mentioned one person in his letter, that is, Zheng Du.

When the law was helping Liu Bei to enter Shu, this person persuaded Liu Zhang to practice the method of clearing the wilderness, and moved all the people along the way to the rear, Rao is Liu Bei's generation of heroes, and after hearing this plan, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if Liu Zhang really used this method, although it was not a frontal battle with it, it would inevitably make his main force fall into a quagmire, and this ending was quite terrible for Liu Xuande.

However, Fa Zheng has a very in-depth understanding of Liu Zhang, although he is weak and incompetent, but he is not without sympathy for the people in his heart, and he will never use Zheng Du's desperate plan. Sure enough, Liu Jiyu couldn't bear to do it but asked for help from his old enemy Zhang Lu, and now it seems that in his heart, this may be a strategy for two tigers to eat, but it is not fake, Zhang Lu is not a tiger compared to Liu Bei, at best he is a stronger hunting dog, as a result, Fazheng Zhuge Liang and others used a little trick, and the Hanzhong general Ma Chao returned to Liu Bei! Liu Zhang's hard-working reinforcements became his own soul-surging messenger, and he had to open the city to surrender in frustration, when there were still 30,000 soldiers in Chengdu, and the grain and grass could be used for two years, all of which were cheap Liu Bei in the end!

But now in Liu Yi's heart, he would rather be cheap than cheap Liu Bei than cheap Cao Cao, what is Shuzhong? The country of abundance, the capital of the emperor, in the words of Kong Ming, "Gaozu became the emperor because of it." "Liu Bei didn't succeed because of a slight gap in strength and the enemy is too strong, but after Cao Cao gets here, he really has the strength to fight against himself, but in the current situation, all this seems to be unstoppable, mentioning Liu Zhang is just to save a little hope, or to cause more losses for Cao Cao in the future.

That's right, Liu Yi now has an army of 600,000 troops, but it doesn't mean that he has the ability to send troops in a big way, the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and the consumption of hundreds of thousands of horses on weekdays is an extremely huge number, and in wartime this number will be even more terrifying, the reason why there is a two-year strategy for the Beiping assembly Liu Yi's purpose is to prepare for the action of the army while developing the states, and now he is almost an autumn harvest, Cao Cao sees it very accurately at this point!

The battle of the large corps is by no means a fight, in the late Han Dynasty, even if Liu Yi's army has used carrier pigeons, but to prevent a large-scale battle will take at least a month, the key is that his troops are placed on a long front It is difficult to form an absolute advantage in the local area, if the war starts at this time, Cao Cao's only strategy is to defend to the death, he is not Yuan Shao, Yanzhou Qingzhou is not near the sea, and Liu Yi can occupy some counties and counties even if the troops and ordnance are not yet complete, but the gains outweigh the losses. He himself knows this!

But even so, when he heard that Cao Cao used troops against Yizhou, he still had the urge to send troops, of course, such an impulse was only temporary, the two-year strategy can now be said to be the cornerstone of Liu Yi's step to dominate the world, and Cao Cao even if he can take Shu This loss will not be small, at least when Liu Yi finishes recuperation, he will be on the defensive for a long time, which both of them can see clearly, Liu Yi naturally hopes that this period of time will be longer so that he has a lot of room to play, and Cao Cao is just the opposite, Although this time is unavoidable, he must minimize the damage!

There are many reasons why Liu Bei dared to entrust Jingzhou to Guan Yu and led most of the elite to attack Yizhou, first of all, Pang Tong's death made him lack an arm, so he had to transfer Zhuge Liang to transfer Jingxiang's elite support, and secondly, the defeat of the Red Cliff War made Cao Cao very bad, and it was by no means a few years that he could recover, and at that time, Zhou Yu, the governor of the animal capital, died, and he was replaced by Lu Su Lu Zijing, who was the most protective of the Sun-Liu Alliance, and this person would not do anything to Jingzhou when he used his troops in Shu, In the end, of course, it is also out of trust in Guan Yu's ability to command the army!

Why is Liu Yi afraid that he will repeat Cao Cao's mistakes and have the defeat of Chibi? It is in his heart that the performance of the first hero of the Three Kingdoms before and after this battle is simply like two people, it seems that all his ambitions have been burned by Zhou Gongjin's fire, Liu Bei seized Yizhou not long after, Jia Xu had persuaded Cao Cao to send troops to fight against it, and defeated it while his foothold was not stable, but Meng De unexpectedly did not take this suggestion, which was different from when he was still able to go out of Xuzhou under the pressure of Yuan Shao to expel Liu Bei from the abyss? Sure enough, after Liu Bei recuperated, he sent troops to Hanzhong, and defeated Cao Cao for the first time in a head-to-head battle, but it can be said that the fall of Hanzhong was the beginning of the real stability of the Three Kingdoms, and the opportunity to dominate the world once again slipped through the fingers of the traitors in troubled times!

From this point of view, although there is Cao Cao's "lonely burning ship retreating" in the history books, but the heavy blow of the Battle of Chibi can be imagined, I am afraid that at that time of the flames, the fifty-four-year-old Cao Cao has lost his biggest weapon to dominate the world, that is the indomitable confidence! There will never be more generosity and pride in his life! "Zhou Gong spit and feed, and the world returns to the heart." 's soaring ambition eventually became "the twilight of the martyrs, the heart is strong!" "It's just that when he reaches the twilight of his life, his strong heart is no longer as sharp and unstoppable as before!

Liu Yi's steady progress can be said to be the most prudent strategy, Cao Cao's victory in Yizhou does not mean that he will be able to compete with him in terms of strength immediately, he needs at least a period of time for cultivation and development, just like Liu Yi is now, when his opponent can also give him a full range of blows like he is attacking Yizhou without scruples at the moment, whether he can hold it will determine the trend of the world.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Yi did not have any intention of moving troops, showing enough calm, his battle with Cao Cao is not a year or two can completely solve the problem, let him take the lead for a while in order to grasp a greater opportunity in the future, now his heart to win the Han is extremely strong, as long as he takes here, he can still maintain huge pressure on Cao Cao, and the main battlefield in the future may not be in Qingyan but in Yizhou! And Zhang Lu's reservations in his statement will also give Liu Yi a famous name for dealing with him, but this is not a problem for Liu Yi, the so-called crime of wanting to add is no excuse, once he makes up his mind, does he need a reason?

He can only do so much to remind Liu Zhang, and in addition to sending troops, he still has a lot of means, for example, the public opinion war that was a little silent before will become fierce again, and now he has more sufficient reasons, and the embargo on materials has begun now, coal, iron, and grain These war materials have been completely isolated from Yanzhou Qingzhou, and there will be strict restrictions on Yangzhou, and he will use all means to weaken Cao Cao's strength, which may be difficult to achieve results for a while. But if you persist in this for a long time, you will definitely see results!

Of course, Liu Yi's concerns at this time are not only about Cao Jun's attack on Shuzhong, he also has to pay attention to Liu Bei's movements at any time, this person and Cao Cao generally grasp the timing is extremely accurate, he set up beacons along the river is to prepare Liu Yi's army in advance, the reinforcement and conscription of the counties and cities in Jiangbei are also obvious, the two at this time in addition to maintaining a cooperative posture on the surface, but secretly they are already hostile to each other, Liu Bei is by no means a person who succumbs to others, Although Liu Yi doesn't know what his next move will be, one thing is certain: this person still has the world in mind! Maybe it was because he had experienced too many failures in the early stage, Liu Bei was obviously better than Cao Cao in terms of acceptance ability, and even dared to make a shocking gamble at the age of sixty, even if his gamble ended in a fiasco, he couldn't hide the idea of unending the world in his heart.

The previous Pang Tong Xu Shu and the two analyzed well, in terms of attitude towards Liu Bei, at least before he defeated Cao Cao, Liu Yi would be mostly on guard, leaving half of Xuzhou not to occupy that day in order to flow out of a strategic buffer space, if Liu Xuande really waved his army north, the place he attacked must be Xiapi, and in this case Liu Yijun's iron cavalry will exert terrifying combat power, once the situation changes favorably, Liu Yi will deal with it as if he was dealing with the Han and Zhang coalition forces.

Cao Cao Liu Bei, this is a strong opponent that two Liu Yi will face for a long time in the future, and at this time, a letter from Wei You, Pingzhou, made him think, it turned out that Xianbei in the north sent a delegation to take the land of Pingzhou to Beiping, they and the Han Dynasty had little intersection in the past, and now what is the purpose of coming?