There will always be times in people's lives when they stand at a crossroads, and when faced with a choice, many people will hesitate, is it to the left? Or to the right? If you choose the right one, it is likely to have a bright future, and if you choose the wrong one, you will always be in a desperate situation.

In fact, I have been a little hesitant for a long time in the choice of how to fight the Wei and Wu armies in Jingzhou.

When I was still in modern times, as a loyal supporter of Liu Bei's side, in the face of the fiasco of Jingzhou and even Yiling, I made countless assumptions and war games. Yiling aside, for the battle of Jingzhou, I have formed a set of strategic plans that I think are feasible before I arrived in this era, which is why I attach so much importance to Wuling County.

Because I have long known that it is absolutely impossible to stop Guan Yu's Northern Expedition and let him stay in Nanjun honestly, not to mention that he must have made meritorious contributions when he watched the frequent good news in Hanzhong, even Liu Bei was also counting on being able to use Guan Yu's pressure on Xiangfan to force Cao Cao to give up Hanzhong. This move was originally very good, normally, as soon as Cao Cao retreated from Hanzhong, Guan Yu would retreat to Nanjun, so that when Cao Cao attacked Hanzhong next time, Liu Bei would already be completely prepared and have no fear. Unexpectedly, Guan Yu actually came to a flooded Seventh Army, and wiped out all the elite troops that Cao Cao assisted Fancheng, and under the high morale, he began to have no fear, not only did not retreat, but continued to surround Fancheng, which led to the later tragedy.

My first plan is the strategy deployment that I have been thinking about for a long time. Since Guan Yu was able to flood the Seventh Army and tightly encircle Cao Ren in Fancheng in history, the key to this battle was undoubtedly the battle with the Eastern Wu side. Because if it weren't for the rear being wiped out, even if Xu Huang defeated Guan Yu for a while, it would not make Guan Yu lose his ground, and retreat to Nanjun without any intention of fighting, and end up in a desperate end.

Eastern Wu can be said to be thinking day and night about occupying the entire territory of Jingzhou, and it is almost impossible to prevent them from sneaking up on Jingzhou in a situation favorable to them. This can be completely concluded from the performance of Lu Meng when I went to Lu Su before. When I told Lu Su that he would not use the sword within a year, Lu Meng's angry appearance was not fake at all, that is to say, before I went to see Lu Su, Eastern Wu was likely to plan or had secretly reached a joint alliance with Cao Cao, so I did not let Lu Su send troops to provoke such a big reaction from Lu Meng.

On the question of how to deal with the sneak attack of Eastern Wu, my previous thought was that if I had a soldier in my hand, not too many, even if there were only more than 10,000 men and horses, I could completely lead the army to hide on the route where Lu Meng planned to cross the river in white clothes, and once he took action, I would give him a blow to the head and kill his vanguard, he would inevitably panic and not act rashly. Then I will pass the news of the sneak attack of Dongwu to Guan Yu, and under the ironclad evidence, he can only return to the army, so that Jingzhou will be safe.

Of course, my planning and wargaming for so long will not be as simple as that. Because although the method of ambushing the Wu army is good, there are also many difficulties that are difficult to overcome. First of all, Dongwu has coveted Jingzhou for a long time, after taking away the three counties, he must have sent a lot of spies to Nanjun, tens of thousands of troops and horses are not a small number, if I lead so many people along the river to ambush by Dongwu know, it will lose the meaning of ambush and surprise, and with Guan Yu's character, if he does not attack Fancheng for a long time, he will definitely try his best to increase his troops, that is to say, even if I lead my troops to ambush along the river to temporarily suppress the ambition of Dongwu, but once Guan Yu attacks Fancheng, the troops are insufficient to lead me to lead troops to Fancheng to listen to the tune, Sooner or later, Soochow will still wait for the opportunity to let history repeat itself.

So in addition to going to the river to stop Dongwu Baiyi from crossing the river, in case Guan Yu has to lose the military power in my hands, my idea is to take control of Nanjun first!

You must know that Nanjun City is high and dangerous, and the materials in the city are sufficient, far from being comparable to a small wheat city, if it is me and not Mi Fang who is guarding in Nanjun City, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in hand, under early preparation, I firmly believe that even if Dongwu uses a large army to surround it, I can hold on for a long time, and wait for Guan Yu to come back to help. You must know that in history, after Guan Yu was defeated by Xu Huang for a while, in fact, he was not seriously injured, and the military strength in his hands was still very strong.

If Dongwu could not attack Nanjun for a long time, and Guan Yu led the army back to help, Dongwu would have only one way to withdraw his troops. In this way, although Guan Yu's early results are likely to come to naught, at least Cao Cao has given up Hanzhong, and our side has held Jingzhou, which is already a completely acceptable result for me.

As for the second plan, it is a very pessimistic way of fighting. If the core of the first plan is to defend Jingzhou, or even take advantage of Xiangyang County on the premise of defending Nanjun. Then the core of the second plan is to guard Guan Yu!

What is Shouguan Yu? The meaning is literally, it is to protect Guan Yu and ensure that he does not die in Maicheng. Originally, my initial idea of studying this plan was completely just in case, leaving a way out for Guan Yu and himself. The core of this plan is very simple, Guan Yu is not invincible, Wei and Wu's military strength can only retreat to Maicheng, and finally on the way to break through to Shangyong, he was only ambushed by Dongwu with 500 people and lost his life? Then I will ambush 3,000 people early on that road, kill the ambush of Eastern Wu, and escort Guan Yu to Shangyong and even Hanzhong. Although Liu Bei has not yet captured Shangyong, I guess that as soon as Cao Cao's army retreats, Liu Bei's pacification of Shangyong will definitely be just around the corner.

I have always felt that compared to losing Jingzhou, Guan Yu's death actually stimulated Liu Bei more. The reason is very simple, if the territory is lost, it can be fought back, but the righteous brother is dead, in Liu Bei's words, that is: "What is the use of having a country?" ”

If Guan Yu doesn't die, if all the civil and military officials die to persuade him, plus Pang Tong and Fa Zheng are not dead now, I guess I can still persuade Liu Bei to attack Wu, even if he can't persuade him, Liu Bei will not be burned by anger and lose the calmness that a commander should have on the battlefield. So even if there is another battle of Yiling, as long as one of the two of them, Kong Ming and Pang Tong, is with the army, even if Lu Xun really has peerless talent and occupies the geographical advantage first, it is still difficult to say who will win and who will lose.

Of course, it is better to have Jingzhou than to lose Jingzhou, after all, even if Guan Yu is saved, it means that the military strength of Jingzhou and Banzhou is lost. But why do you say that there are pros and cons to each of the two schemes? On the surface, it is clear that the first plan is better and can better protect our interests, but the second plan is too big to lose, and it should not be a direction to consider at all.

But in fact, when I was no longer the one who felt that I could control everything in the Three Kingdoms based on the history books alone, after seeing Cao Cao's use of 300,000 troops as bait to capture Hanzhong, I admit that I was really shocked by his majestic momentum.

Historically, Cao Cao stopped marching after recovering Xiangyang, and only let Eastern Wu deal with Guan Yu, because Guan Yu had fallen into a Jedi at that time, and he was sure that Eastern Wu alone could defeat Guan Yu's troops and die, and he could also transfer Liu Bei's anger to Sun Quan.

But if I really help Guan Yu hold Jingzhou, or when the defender of Nanjun is me, and Eastern Wu has surrounded me with heavy troops but is anxious, in order to greatly weaken our strength, will Cao Cao no longer stop and wait and see as in history, but drag or even surround Guan Yu in the Xiangfan area, and wait for Nanjun to break through before letting Guan Yu break through?

If this is the case, compared with the first set of plans, which are similar to the two major military groups fighting to the death and winning, it is better to make a way out early, and although the loss of Jingzhou can safely escort most of Jingzhou's generals and civilian officials to Shudi, it seems relatively better.

Of course, although I have all kinds of concerns about the first plan, after meeting Ma Liang, in the days of waiting for Lu Su's arrows to arrive, although I am willing, willing, and giving, I still resolutely chose the first plan as most people think.

Because this is Jingzhou after all! Although we are only half of them now, it is enough to support the supply of nearly 100,000 soldiers! It is an indispensable springboard for Kong Ming to point directly at Wanluo!

I decided to wait for Lu Su's arrows to arrive, I will first take 5,000 people to the riverside to garrison, if Guan Yu wants to transfer me to Fancheng, I can delay it, I can't delay it, so I will go to Nanjun to gain control, and drive Mi Fang and the original defenders in the city to the front line to reinforce Guan Yu.

But what I never expected was that Cao Cao's action to aid Fancheng was faster than I imagined, and I didn't wait for Lu Su's arrows, but I waited for Guan Yu's military order first, and ordered me to lead troops to Fancheng with the military order, and it was Guan Ping.