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When Wei Zheng heard this statement, he smiled, and sighed: "The land of Jianghan and Yanying is the root of the Chu State, and it is the richest place in the Chu State and the most prosperous place in the south. According to the way of soldiers, defending a big city must be fought in the field, and only by defeating the enemy soldiers in the field battle outside the city can the city be truly protected. Otherwise, when the enemy soldiers come to the city and defend the city in a bloody battle, the city that is defended by eight or nine times out of ten will be almost finished. ”

Meng Ben said with a big grin: "No wonder the Chu army is so defended, the generals who can fight in the Chu State are all on the battlefield in Jiangdong, and it is no wonder that a weak man will not be able to defend it, and a civil servant will not be able to defend the country, which is insignificant." ”

At this time, Wei Yi really shook his head to express his disapproval, and Meng Ben was very dissatisfied when he saw this: "What are you doing shaking your head? Am I not right? He looked at Wei Zheng again, enjoying the game without saying a word.

Wei Yi immediately spoke: "General Meng despises this person very much. Although Zuotu Mi Yuan is a scribe, he has never really led troops to fight, but General Meng should not forget that since the succession of the current King of Chu, the Chu State has always launched large-scale wars, and Mi Yuan has always been responsible for the deployment of grain and grass for the army. Far away is the battle of Xiangling of Chu and Wei Liang more than 20 years ago, and the recent battle of Danyang and Lantian of Qin, Mi Yuan went in and out of it. ”

At this time, Wei Zheng also spoke: "Mi Yuan may not know the battle formation of the enemy, but he is really clear about the general situation, this time the deployment plan of the land of Yan Ying is the best strategy, and the Chu people who do not want to lose the land of Yan Ying among all the Chu countries, if he can fight with my Wang Shi in the field, Mi Yuan will definitely not hesitate, but he is so deployed, do you know why?" ”

Meng Ben saw Wang Shang's questioning gaze, he couldn't answer for a while, scratched his head and thought about it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and said: "The last general understands, it must be our army and the king division to take advantage of the general trend of victory, Mi Yuan didn't dare to fight with me, so he chose to avoid its edge, so he retreated into the city to survive?" ”

"Wei Yi, tell me your opinion." Wei Zheng said with a smile.

"No!" Wei Yi arched his hand slightly, and after a while, he looked sideways at Meng Ben: "General Meng is only half right. ”

"And the other half?" Meng Ben, who originally thought that he would be praised by Wei Zheng, was stunned. Wei Yi nodded lightly: "In addition to the general's words that our army's victorious division should avoid its edge, the reason why Mi Yuan is so defended is that the army guarding Yan Ying is not the elite of the Chu army, known as the 100,000 army, but a rabble composed of subordinate peasants, officials and slaves, how can I fight with my victorious army in the wilderness?" This is the first one, and the second is that Mi Yuan is familiar with the general trend, and he also knows the length and weakness of the situation under the Chu State. As long as you can't hold on, with the help of Yanying's deep ditch and high base, with Ji Nan, Yancheng, and Yingdu are each other's horns, it is a group of rabble, and it is not difficult to defend for a month or two in the face of our elite royal divisions, as long as you hold on, when the main force of the Chu army takes Jiangdong, you can draw troops to help. ”

Analyzing it like this, Meng Ben suddenly felt that Wei Zheng did not make any remarks, and he had already thought more deeply at this moment.

This move of the Chu State, especially the move of the king of Chu to Changsha, the soldiers of the coalition army were all demoralized, and they all thought that the Chu army was afraid of being beaten and did not dare to fight with the coalition army. In fact, Wei Zheng didn't think so, King Chu Huai's move to Changsha was not just as simple as being afraid.

This move told him that Chu Guo was unwilling and had to fight hard. Taking the initiative to raise an unknown division to fight Wei is to annex Jiangdong, and now stealing chickens is not a loss of rice, Jiangdong has not yet arrived, but Nanyang has been lost, how can Chu be willing? Not only is he unwilling, but he can't lose, because Chu can't afford to lose.

The move of the royal capital south to Changsha was the last hope of King Huai of Chu, and it was also the last struggle of the Chu State, and this decision directly led to Wei Zheng's siege of Wei to save Zhao, and the military strategy was broken by trying to force the main force of the Chu army to return to the aid by directly attacking the city of the king of Chu.

The current land of Yanying, even if it is really defeated, does not mean that this is the place to defend the country, Wei Zheng will not be naïve to think that he can capture the city once and for all, and from then on it will be incorporated into the territory of the country.

The ancestral land of the Chu State in the land of Yan Ying is the root of the Chu people, and the core territory of the Wei Guo stretches for thousands of miles, even if it is defeated, it will never be able to hold it, and sooner or later it will be recaptured by the Chu State, so it is meaningless to take its place.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng couldn't help but look at the people in the Chu court with admiration, and he was also curious about who would be the king of Chu to plot to move the capital to Changsha, could it be Qu Yuan?

Obviously, after moving south to Changsha, the dispute between Wei and Chu has not yet reached the time to determine the winner, and Wei Zheng failed to force King Huai of Chu to recall the main force in Jiangdong, which means that the Jiangdong battlefield, 300,000 Chu troops are still storming Jiangdong.

At this moment, on the battlefield of Jiangdong, thousands of miles away, the offensive and defensive situation between Bai Qi and the Chu army is probably extremely anxious, Wei Zheng can't help but feel a little worried, but he still believes that Bai Qi can withstand the offensive of the Chu army.

Not only Wei Zheng thought of this, but Wei Yi, who had originally analyzed and talked happily, also thought of it, and his face changed slightly in an instant, and he immediately faced the king: "Your Majesty, the king of Chu moved the capital south to Changsha, if the king of Chu really has the courage to give up the ancestral land of Yan Ying, his intention is ...... If it is not a plan to retreat? ”

Wei Yi thought about it carefully, secretly shocked in his heart, and when he looked at Wei Zheng again, he was about to speak, but he swallowed it back, and he looked anxious as if he wanted to speak and stopped. However, he saw that Wei Zheng's face was indeed indifferent, as if he didn't care, but Wei Yi was very sure that he could see through the situation, the king must be like watching the fire, the situation in Jiangdong was already dangerous, but what made him puzzled was that Wei Zheng was so calm.

Wei Zheng said calmly: "It is indeed a strategy to retreat, wonderful!" Hehe, the bone of Chu State is really not easy to gnaw, and ordinary people can't gnaw it. After a moment of silence, he continued: "The kings and divisions of our army are all infantry soldiers in the Central Plains, and they can gallop the world and be invincible in the Central Plains, but when they come to the south, they have become landlubbers, and their combat power has plummeted. The king of Chu retreated to Changsha, and our army really didn't help him. Parole Chu State strategy to abandon Yan Ying, our army did capture this place, what can be the result? If you want to force the main force of the Chu army to come back, you must further break through Changsha, and then breaking Changsha is tantamount to a fool's dream, our army is riding on foot, no water division in hand, and the water division of the country is in Jiangdong, it is that river water can protect Changsha without worry. ”

Wei Yi heard the meaning of Wei Zheng's argument, in short, the limit of the coalition army can only reach the land of Yan Ying, it is absolutely impossible to go south to the Yangtze River, the surging river is dangerous, but it is not comparable to the water, the two are simply trivial, it is to force the crossing of the water, Wei Zheng has carefully planned for nearly four months, and when the Tang army relaxed its vigilance, it was won with lightning speed, so as to win the battle of the sand.

It is conceivable that the Wei-Han coalition army without the water division troops, even if there are 500,000 troops, can only stare across the river (Yangtze River).

In this way, there is no threat to Changsha, King Chu Huai can wait for work, and the land of Yan Ying will be occupied, but it is just a temporary gain and loss, and the best laugh is the last laugh, winning or losing for a while is nothing, as long as you win the last time, all the losses in front can be recovered.

Don't look at Wei Zheng's momentum now, he can't afford to lose either, so he can only win all the way.

"If the main force of the Chu army does not withdraw, wouldn't Wu Anjun be dangerous? Wouldn't Jiangdong ......" Meng Ben of the rectum understood what he meant, and said with wide eyes, although he is a fierce general and a reckless general, he is not demented, and the conversation between the two is so obvious, if you still can't understand it, then following Wei Zheng in the past twenty years is equivalent to living like a dog.