Chapter 47: Ingenuity.

For Zhuge Song's question, not only Pang Tong was shocked, but Liu Bei also seemed to have no idea at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, Pang Tong is worthy of being called a genius with Kong Ming as Wolong and Phoenix, he just looked at the distant terrain and thought for a while, and then said to Zhuge Song: "The previous topographic map of Xishu, thanks to the trust of the lord, Tong also knew the general idea after reading it. According to the unified view, Yiling is extremely important for both Jingzhou and Yizhou. From Yiling to the east, it is the unobstructed Jianghan Plain, from Yiling to the west, it enters the mountains and mountains, there is nothing to rely on, it can be said to be an important supply place for attacking Shu. Of course, this time the lord entered Shu, it was Liu Jiyu who invited him to go, since it was unimpeded along the way, after taking Shu, Jingzhou and Yizhou were owned by the lord, and Yiling was just an inner city, and there was no need to guard it with heavy troops.

However, when Pang Tong said this, he went straight to the point that Zhuge Song just asked, "If you have to enter Jing from the middle of the river, this Yiling City can be said to be the first fortress in Jingxi!" Needless to say, the importance is overstated! According to the opinion of the unification, if the heavy troops are stationed here, if the Jing soldiers attack Shu, it will be easy, but on the contrary, the Shu soldiers will attack Jing, but it is difficult to reach the sky! ”

"Could it be that if the enemy army is based here, then the soldiers in Shu will not come out?" Seeing that Pang Tong also said this, Zhuge Song couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.

"Definitely! Definitely! Pang Tong pointed to the river in the distance and said: "Since ancient times, down the river, the momentum is like a broken bamboo, if the Shuzhong naval army is stronger than Jingzhou, it can go down the river and reach Jiangling, if Jiangling is broken, then the soldiers of Yiling will be surrendered!" ”

Such an assertion is undoubtedly admirable for Zhuge Song, who already knows how history evolves, but Liu Bei said with disbelief: "Shuzhong is full of mountains, how can the naval army be stronger than Jingzhou?" Zhuge Song thought that this was also one of the important reasons why Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Xun in Yiling later, the army was not allowed to advance quickly, and the navy was very different, how could it not be defeated? In this regard, Pang Tong just smiled and said: "Then only by sending troops from Xiangyang and Baidi to Nanjun at the same time, can it be broken!" ”

Of course, this discussion in Yiling may not be taken to heart by Liu Bei or Pang Tong, after all, their minds are now on how to benefit the state, although Jingzhou is watched by Sun Quan, but in their hearts, whether it is Cao Cao or Sun Quan, there is basically no chance for the current Jingzhou.

In the following process of entering Sichuan, Liu Zhang can be said to have shown the greatest sincerity he can give, and he strictly ordered all places along the way to provide support for Liu Bei, so that Liu Bei's entry into Yizhou was like going home, and millions of materials were given to Liu Bei before and after.

When Zhuge Song came to Ba County with Liu Bei, he heard that Ba County was too strict and Yan Yan said to his subordinates: "This is to sit alone on a poor mountain and let the tiger defend itself!" Thinking that Yan Yan would make great contributions to Liu Beijun in the future, it was a different taste.

Of course, no matter how dissatisfied Liu Zhang's military generals were, and no matter how dissatisfied they were, Liu Bei and Zhuge Song still arrived in Fu County smoothly, and Liu Zhang even personally led more than 30,000 infantry cavalry to greet them. Zhang Song secretly asked Fa Zheng to tell Liu Bei to let Liu Bei attack Liu Zhang when he met Liu Zhang, and even Mr. Feng Yan Pang Tong agreed with this suggestion.

However, Liu Bei said that when he first arrived in a different place, his kindness and reputation were not known to others, and the time was not yet ripe, so it was not possible to do so.

In this way, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang met for the first time, and they actually met very happily.

Soon, Liu Zhang recommended Liu Bei to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty as the acting Grand Sima and concurrently served as the lieutenant of the Sili School, and Liu Bei also recommended Liu Zhang to act as the general of Zhenxi and concurrently serve as the pastor of Yizhou. The subordinates of the two armies also mingled with each other and drank together for more than a hundred days. During this period, Liu Bei took the opportunity to make friends with Shu soldiers and buy the hearts of Shu soldiers.

After the feast, it's usually time to get down to business. The ridiculous Liu Zhang was afraid that Liu Bei had too few soldiers at this time, so he increased the source of troops and supplies to Liu Bei, and handed over the army stationed in Baishui to Liu Bei's command, and asked Liu Bei to crusade against Zhang Lu.

So Zhuge Song followed Liu Bei to the front line of the crusade against Zhang Lu, Jiameng Pass, but Liu Bei did not move, without the slightest intention of crusading against Zhang Lu, only in Jiameng Pass, he was kind and bought people's hearts.

Historically, Liu Bei had to spend more than a year at Jiamengguan to accept Pang Tong's strategy, and use the middle of the upper, middle, and lower strategies to seize Yizhou. Although Pang Tong's central strategy could successfully take Yizhou in history, the price paid was not only more than a year, so that Liu Bei occupied Shu not long after, and Cao Cao also took Hanzhong. And in history, although Liu Bei finally won the battle for Hanzhong, Cao Cao calmly moved away 80,000 civilians in Hanzhong, so that Liu Bei only got a strategic land, but did not have any output, but had to move the people of Sichuan and Shu to Hanzhong to farm.

And Zhuge Song wanted to change this, so not long after the army arrived at Jiameng Pass, he found Liu Bei and explained his point of view to Liu Bei, which is to take Hanzhong first, and then seize Shudi!

Hanzhong is also known as Nanzheng, has the name of Qinba Tianfu, has a long history, was the birthplace of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, once took this as the birthplace, built an altar to worship the general, took Han Xin as the general, repaired the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and darkened Chen Cang, chased the Central Plains, pacified the three Qins, unified the world, and achieved the Han family for more than 400 years to continue the world to this day.

Zhuge Song can be sure that the word Hanzhong must have a special attraction for Liu Bei. Otherwise, Liu Bei's eyes would not have lit up after hearing his proposal, but he was tempted, and after a while, Liu Bei still sighed and said to Zhuge Song: "Now that the whole army is alone, and Shu is undecided, how can you have the strength to attack Lu?" ”

Liu Bei's mouth is naturally Zhang Lu, Hanzhong and Shu are separated by the Bashu Mountains, due to its special geographical location and as a north-south transportation artery, for Liu Bei's future Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is tantamount to an extremely important base.

Of course, Zhuge Song knew that Liu Bei was now thinking about how to seize Yizhou and Xichuan, and he was not very interested in the affairs of Dongchuan. But Zhuge Song also knows that Xichuan may not be so easy to take, if according to Liu Bei's intentions, he wants to establish kindness in Jiameng Pass, so that the people of Shu are so moved that they are automatically willing to accept his rule, no matter how powerful Liu Bei is, it will take more than a year.

Since ancient times, the soldiers have been fast, if Zhuge Song had just let Liu Bei slowly incorporate Yizhou into his territory, Cao Cao would have defeated Ma Chao a long time ago and taken Hanzhong first!

If Liu Bei took Hanzhong first, Liu Zhang would be overjoyed, and he would definitely take off his whole body's defense. If Liu Bei took Hanzhong first, the 80,000 households in Hanzhong would not have been forcibly moved to Yongzhou by Cao Cao, so that Liu Bei could only passively immigrate from Shuzhong, and the important bridgehead of the Central Plains of the Northern Expedition would not be completely dependent on the transportation of grain and straw in Shuzhong, and even self-sufficient, relying only on Hanzhong alone, it could fully support all the logistics support of the Northern Expedition army!

Of course, Liu Bei didn't expect Zhuge Song's bold proposal at all, after all, he was only ******** Yizhou before, and Hanzhong was not considered by Liu Bei at all.