Chapter 313: Kong Ming's Decision
The reason why Zhuge Liang had thought about it for a long time before, but at this time, he so quickly summoned the generals to a place to discuss, was because the letter he received gave an answer to the most hesitant thing he was about.
The reason why Zhuge Liang struggled with these days was that he couldn't determine where he should attack to bring him the greatest benefits, which was like walking on the tip of a knife, and if he was not careful, he would lose everything, and attacking the right object could immediately bring him a considerable amount of personnel, wealth, and resources, while the difficult bones could only make him lose his troops and lose his generals, and he could not get half of the benefits.
After occupying Cao Cao's Runan and Nanyang this time, Zhuge Liang established a good image in the two counties with his own wrists, and many young people in Runan and Nanyang joined Zhuge Liang's army, and when Zhuge Liang was defeated and retreated to Xiangyang, there were many people in the two counties who voluntarily followed Zhuge Liang to move to Xiakou and other places, and in Runan and Nanyang County, Zhuge Liang also left Neiying everywhere.
With such a foundation, once Cao ** goes in the future, there is chaos within the Cao army, Zhuge Liang can take advantage of the chaos to easily capture these counties again, and because of this, Zhuge Liang can be regarded as leaving Runan with his head held high this time, and many plans to break the kettle and sink the boat, Zhuge Liang did not use it, otherwise even if Zhang Liao and Cao Pi won Runan and Nanyang, it would not be so easy.
With the sweetness of this time, Zhuge Liang is even more determined, can not be closed in this undangerous Xiangyang City, in the case of mobile forces still remaining, or take the initiative to attack, to nourish the war, as long as these living forces are preserved, Zhuge Liang believes that he will cast a winning division in this troubled war, in order to prepare for the decisive battle between the forces that stand out in the future, and Zhuge Liang is also very clear in his heart, the last force, Most likely it will be Liu Feng, who fought with him when he was under Liu Bei's command before.
In these days, Zhuge Liang's first thought was to take advantage of Liu Feng's inability to capture the mediocre land, gather heavy troops in the mediocre and attack Liu Feng's Yizhou edge, but this idea quickly disappeared in Zhuge Liang's mind, with his understanding of Liu Feng, he knew that if he didn't make a fuss in the mediocre land within this year, Liu Feng would definitely not violate the promise he made, but once he used Liu Feng's promise to make an article in the mediocre land, Liu Feng's personality would never keep his promise. Maybe under the rage, he will conquer Shangyong in one fell swoop, this risk, at least in Liu Feng's body, Zhuge Liang will not dare to take it.
Can't attack Liu Feng's territory, and just now Cao Cao has been angry, for Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang also thought that it would be as rumored by the outside world will soon be alive, according to Zhuge Liang's idea, he will defend the land of Runan, once Cao Cao suddenly falls seriously ill or dies, Cao Pi will inevitably go to fight for the storage position, and has no intention of paying attention to the war in Runan, Cao Cao's Wei State will most likely be in chaos for a while, and once it catches up with this golden period, Zhuge Liang believes that with his own intelligence, it is not a problem to seize Cao Cao's several counties.
But it turned out that although Zhuge Liang's plan was perfect, it was used at the wrong time, although Cao Cao's body was still predictable to collapse in a short period of time, but not now, and Zhang Liao was sent before his body collapsed, such a deployment, no matter what the future, was enough to prevent Zhuge Liang's crisis.
These two paths were all blocked in Zhuge Liang's heart at this time, and the only thing left was Sun Quan in Jiangdong, and it was indeed as Pang Tong said before, Zhuge Liang asked Sun Quan to send troops to help, one of the reasons was to see how the Jiangdong soldiers and horses without Zhou Yu were in battle, and Zhuge Liang didn't know much about the newly appointed left and right governors of Jiangdong, so through this battle, he could see with his own eyes the ability of this Lu Meng.
It turned out that Jiangdong, the new governor of the left capital, Lu Meng, although he was not a wine bag and rice bag, his ability was more than a step worse than Zhou Yu, which made Zhuge Liang have added hope to Jiangdong, who had always befriended him on the surface.
Zhuge Liang knew in his heart that although Sun Quan kept saying that he had formed an alliance with him and agreed to his request to send troops to help, he actually wanted to see if he could get a piece of the pie in the competition between Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao for Runan and Nanyang.
After the analysis of these three opponents was all presented in Zhuge Liang's mind, the balance in Zhuge Liang's heart was naturally tilted to the land of Jiangdong, but the biggest feature of Jiangdong is undoubtedly easy to defend and difficult to attack, although it covers a small area, but it is blocked by the Yangtze River.
And just when Zhuge Liang hesitated, the letter that he had already placed in Jiangdong made a dawn suddenly appear in the chaos ahead, and for Zhuge Liang, who has a strong ability to grasp opportunities, such a glimmer of light is enough.
The information in this letter shows that after Zhou Yu suddenly left Jiangdong, although Sun Quan filled the vacated position of Zhou Yu as soon as possible, Pang Tong took this opportunity to repeatedly send troops across Xiangshui to attack the Jiangdong Navy camp, which made many Jiangdong generals accuse Lu Meng and Lu Xun of doing things unfavorably, so the Jiangdong Navy changed its guard very slowly, and to this day, it is still not even half of the change, and the person also pointed out several positions in the letter, because Pang Tong sent the Navy to attack and revealed his original form.
The rivers in Jiangdong are abundant, and the deployment of the naval army is very particular, otherwise if there is a little bit of coverage, it will be taken advantage of by the silent warships.
Looking at the four forces in the Central Plains today, although Jiangdong has the most naval army, but the naval army under Zhuge Liang is also quite powerful, originally when Guan Yu was guarding Xiakou, he has been training the naval army and making warships, and now it is also quite large-scale, and these naval armies were originally Zhuge Liang's secret weapons, and what they did was when they intended to capture Jiangdong one day, and now, in Zhuge Liang's heart, this time has finally arrived.
After summoning the generals to discuss secretly, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei went straight to Xiakou, where Guan Yu was, overnight.
In an inconspicuous boat on the riverside outside Xiangyang City, a pair of eyes like bright lights stared closely at the movement outside Xiangyang City, and saw a warship sailing in the direction of Xiakou overnight, and the man also immediately turned the bow of the ship and headed all the way south.