Chapter Ninety-Nine: Which is more important
There is a way to leave a way out for others, and sometimes it is also a way out for yourself. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As for why he didn't burn down the big ship of Soochow in the public security port, Mi Fang was also very puzzled when he received the order. At that time, Zhuge Song roughly analyzed the situation for Mi Fang: "After Lu Meng knew that Jiangling was lost, he would definitely rush back like General Guan at the beginning to try to recapture Jiangling." However, the city of Jiangling is tall and strong, and if the defenders exceed 10,000 people, they can calmly lay out, even if Lü Meng has 30,000 people, and it is difficult to take it without a month or two. When Lü Meng attacked Maicheng, he left most of the grain and grass in Jiangling, Maicheng was already short of grain, and Lü Meng's grain and grass with the army would not support the army for more than half a month, if he was left in the big ship of the public security, then I would persuade him with good words, it was very likely that Lü Meng would lead the army back to Lukou first, and then wait for a good opportunity. But if he burned his big ship in Gong'an, and the boat was moved into Jiangling by him early, he was very likely to attack the city in a hurry and difficult to retreat, although Jiangling was solid, Lu Meng had a lot of people after all, if he was desperate, our casualties would still be very large, and the weakening would be the strength to deal with Cao Cao in the future. ”
Mi Fang's words were very convincing, although in the past, because Zhuge Song helped Liu Bei quickly get the land of Shu, Mi Fang has been very polite to him since Zhuge Song returned to Jingzhou, but this personal experience still made Mi Fang's respect for Zhuge Song a little more.
Of course, the biggest factor that made Mi Fang like this was Zhuge Song's willingness to help him speak in front of Liu Bei in the future, so that he could go from a coward and sinner who surrendered without a fight when he saw the enemy's strength, to a meritorious man who was willing to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, and finally made outstanding contributions to turning things around. Based on this, Mi Fang had secretly decided in his heart that before Liu Bei's reinforcements arrived to relieve the threat of Eastern Wu, no matter what Zhuge Song asked him to do, he would strictly obey orders!
In addition, Lü Meng led his army from Maicheng to the south to recapture Jiangling, and when he arrived at the city, Zhuge Song's military strength in Jiangling City had reached 15,000 due to the addition of Dr. Ren's troops.
Lu Meng naturally did not wait for Lu Xun's 5,000 reinforcements to converge under the city. While being a little annoyed in his heart, he looked at Zhuge Song, who was sitting high in the city, and Mi Fang, who was standing on the side, and he was even more angry.
But Lu Meng also knew that a strong attack could not be attacked in one day, so he simply patiently replied to Zhuge and said: "General Zhuge is really clever, admire, admire!" As early as when General Guan captured Fan Chengsheng and won the ban Lian Lian, he had already predicted the action of Lu Meng leading the army to attack Jiangling clearly, could it be that he relied on divination? As he spoke, he raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed at Mi Fang in the city: "Let this guy pretend to surrender to me, everything will be smooth, loosen my guard, and wait for me to go to Maicheng to capture Guan Yu, and then recapture Jiangling and cut off my way back." ”
Zhuge Song stood up and bowed his hand slightly: "The general has a good reputation, although he is good at divination, but he uses this method to predict the future, which is taboo by heaven." The number of times, there will be damage to Yang Shou, so I only count once a year at most, the previous time because of the personal relationship with Lu Du is very good, and I am willing to practice 30,000 arrows, this is another time, to relax his heart, how can there be spare strength for Lu Du to calculate. This preparation, all because of Rudong Wu's repeated defeats in Hefei, in the next view, not defeated Zhang Liao, all because of the heart of the whole land of Jingzhou day and night, otherwise most of the troops of Lukou moved to the beard, my lord out of Hanzhong, General Guan attacked Fancheng, Wu Hou out of Hefei, at this time not to mention a small Hefei, that is, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, I am afraid that they have been taken by Dongwu! ”
In fact, the Eastern Wu army on the Yangtze River was much stronger than Guan Yu, and Liu Bei was determined to defeat Cao Cao, and the alliance maintained by the Sun and Liu families after the Xiangshui boundary did not require the Eastern Wu to establish an army of 50,000 equivalent to half of the mobile army in Lukou for a long time.
At the beginning, Sun Quan was defeated by Zhang Liao in Hefei, although it was because Zhang Liao was brave and dared to take the initiative to attack, regardless of the vanguard of Gan Ning and Ling Tong, the two generals directly raided Sun Quan, but because Sun Quan's troops were only 50,000, and the front and rear army was too long, he was cut off by Zhang Liao, and the whole army was chaotic, and the morale had declined after the reorganization. If he had been willing to transfer the generals and military strength under Lu Meng to the east at that time, with nearly 100,000 troops, the Battle of Hefei might have been a different result.
At this time, when Lü Meng heard Zhuge Song say this, the meaning not only implied that Sun Quan was not effective in resisting Cao, but also pointed to the Eastern Wu breaking the covenant and betraying the alliance. His face was even more unbearable, and he argued loudly: "At the beginning, your lord's army defeated Changsaka, Jiangxia only survived half of the county, it was my lord's father who sent troops to Chibi to break Cao, and then borrowed Jingzhou and Liu Bei to settle down, who knew that Liu Bei said that he would return it after taking Shu, and then said that he would return it after taking Liangzhou, and bullying my governor was soft-hearted, and he was dishonest again and again, so I took it myself!" ”
"Huh!" Zhuge Song sneered: "The battle of Chibi is all thanks to the east wind borrowed by my husband, there are not enough arrows, and my husband got another 100,000 yuan, which is all experienced in the next person, and he actually has the face to say that it is all your Dongwu credit." Let's not talk about this, my lord understands Wu Hou's feelings, Xiangshui is the boundary, and has been given to the two counties of Changsha and Guiyang in Eastern Wu first. I can't wait, the allies are fighting hard in front, and you are stabbing in the back! ”
The more Zhuge Song spoke, the more angry he became, and he simply said directly: "Since there are different views on the merits, then don't talk nonsense, the north is strong and the south is weak, if you are willing to unite to resist Cao in the future, the general will collect his troops and return to Lukou, although the public security has been broken by me, the big ship is not burned just to save the two families, if you are still obsessed, you will attack the city!" ”
When Lu Meng heard that the public security had been lost, he was shocked again, and when he heard that the big ship was not burned by Zhuge Song, although he was relieved, there was still a chance to retreat to Lukou, but Lu Meng, who could not give up Jiangling, still groaned and refused to retreat.
Zhuge Song saw that Lu Meng hesitated, and knew that he was still delusional that Lu Xun's 5,000 reinforcements would arrive and attack the city, so he ordered someone to bring Lu Xun to the city, and said to Lu Meng under the city: "You are hesitant, you must be waiting for him!" ”
Lu Meng was shocked when he saw Lu Xun who was tied up, and said speechlessly: "This, this is impossible!" He clearly remembered that Lu Xun had already captured Yidu, and there were 5,000 soldiers, so he felt that Zhuge Song had 10,000 people, and he should not capture Lu Xun so quietly. But the fact was in front of him, Lu Meng's face became more and more pale, and his heart was even more shaken, his eyes kept sweeping around the city wall, and he roughly judged the garrison situation in the city in his heart, and calculated whether the strong attack was still sure to succeed before Sun Quan arrived.
Lu Xun was in this situation at this time, and everyone wanted to chew his tongue and kill himself immediately, but thinking that in ancient times, Gou Jian endured the pain of lying on salary and tasting courage and finally became a big thing, so he could only lower his head and try his best not to look at Lu Meng.
Zhuge Song couldn't bear to hurt Lu Xun's face too much, fearing that his suicide would provoke the Wu soldiers under the city to fight hard to attack the city, so he said: "The governor doesn't have to worry too much, I expect that the governor has captured our generals in Maichengding." As long as the governor returns to the public security, he can exchange prisoners and rebuild the old good, if he feels that General Lu's weight is not enough, and the 5,000 Wu troops with General Lu have not suffered many casualties, and they are all captured by us, they can be released and exchanged for our personnel together. In the future, the two families will rebuild the old good, and the troops will resist Cao, isn't it beautiful! Although this is said to Lu Meng, it actually reassures Lu Xun.
Seeing this, Zhuge Song continued: "The governor doesn't need to look at it, there are more than 10,000 barbarian soldiers I brought in Jiangling City, and 3,000 people each of Mi Fang and Dr. Ren were newly recruited, plus the soldiers who fled in General Guan's army before and heard that Jiangling had been regained and gathered again, at this time the military strength in the city was more than 20,000, not to mention the grain and grass. In order to be safe, I will definitely hold it as firmly as Dudu did at the beginning, so that even if you wait for Wu Hou's reinforcements first, I will be able to hold out until my lord comes to help. Therefore, according to the next opinion, the governor should go back to Lukou! Maybe we will see each other in the future, and I don't know if I can also make a hexagram for Dudu.