The matter of marriage was thus determined. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 I don't know what kind of words Sun Quan used to tell his daughter, in short, in this matter, the princess Sun Wei, who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, has no objection. Perhaps, for her, it makes no difference whether she marries the emperor of Wei or the emperor of Tang. After all, they are all strangers. And she will leave this place she knows and live in another place that she says is unfamiliar.

“…… Everything is the same......! She sighed softly.

Because there was no such thing as a national funeral, the whole marriage was quickly and methodically unfolded after Sun Quan's promise. As a wedding held by the most powerful country in the world, this wedding naturally attracted countless eyes at the same time, and no one dared to disturb it. Of course, this disturbance only said that he was deliberately making trouble, and as for the other person involved in Zhuge Ke's original strategy, it was not among them - they did not send anyone to prevent this from happening, but only sent an envoy to Jiangdong in the name of congratulating the wedding, and asked Sun Quan with some annoyance what was going on?

“…… There's nothing we can do about it. That's the kind of daughter I have under my knees. At that time, Li Tang sent an envoy here, but the navy was directly stopped in the waters outside Jianye, if I didn't allow it, I was afraid that thousands of artillery pieces would come at me. Don't say anything about the reason why the Yangtze River defense line in Jiangdong is very solid. In fact, Li Tang found a good time. At that time, my fleet was sent out for training, and in addition to the Jianye Naval Division, there was only the Quanzhou Naval Division guarding Jianye, and with the strength of these two fleets, we could not stop Li Shengjun's attack at all. If violating your marriage contract is a long-term concern, then rejecting Li Sheng's proposal is a near-term worry. After all, the long-term worries are far away, and they can still be considered, but the near-term worries are waiting to be solved. I know that the monarchs and ministers of Wei are all reasonable, and I think they should be able to understand my distress. Sun Quan made a distressed look and wanted to confide in Cao Wei's envoy.

"I know that, too!" The envoy nodded slightly, as if he had heard of Sun Quan's words, but he "fully believed" such words, and he asked again at that time: "Then will the alliance between you and me end because of this wedding?" This is what Cao Wei is most concerned about. Not to mention that the transaction between Wu and Wei has not completely ended, even if this transaction is over, Wu Wei also attaches great importance to the alliance between the two, the strongest person in the world is in front of others, if the two parties who are weak do not hug each other tightly, then the result left to the two weak parties will only be destroyed in the end. The people on Cao Wei's side naturally saw through this, so they would understand Sun Wu's rhetoric.

"Then the alliance will continue. However, please understand the situation on our side. Because my beloved daughter is on the other side, it is impossible for us to give our full strength in the matter of sending troops...... Thank you for your understanding. Sun Quan nodded and said with a bitter face.

This is a rhetoric, and it sounds very reasonable, but for Cao Wei's envoy, it contains another thing: "Sun Quan wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!" ”

“…… That's a great idea! But can this really be the case? Cao Wei's envoy disdainfully held this idea in his heart, but he didn't say anything more, before going to Soochow, he had already been instructed by his own majesty and prime minister: "This trip to Jiangdong only needs to put on a show." Aside from a few questions, don't ask too much, don't say much, just bring your own eyes to see. As Sun Quan had imagined, Cao Wei's side did not do anything to Sun Quan for various reasons, as long as Sun Quan gave them a reasonable reason, they would not be too concerned about themselves.

Seeing that Cao Wei's envoy no longer spoke, Sun Quan naturally understood the contradictory thoughts in their hearts. Regarding such thoughts, Sun Quan, who has already become a human spirit, naturally has his own saying: "There are still three years left for your national funeral, and the matter of marriage is not so urgent. Although this 'repentance' is because of Li Tang's coercion, we also have our own responsibilities. In any case, we are willing to marry you, and I would like you to convey this to you. ”

"Ah...... I understand! Hearing Sun Quan say this, Cao Wei's envoy was stunned for a moment, and then nodded yes. He was clever and quickly understood what Sun Quan meant: Sun Quan might be worried that this matter on his side would affect the relationship between Wu and Wei, so he planned to use another daughter to accompany him. Three years is not a short time, but as far as Cao Wei's understanding is concerned, three years is enough time for Sun Quan to kneel several princesses and concubines.

"That's amazing...... Sell your daughter! The messenger sighed in his heart, but his face was tightly straightened, and his face did not show any strange color.

This is the end of the meeting, the seed has been planted, and the next thing is to wait for it to take root and sprout. Time flies by, and it has been nine years of China in the blink of an eye. After three years of development, both Li Sheng's strength and Cao Wei's and Sun Wu's strength have grown considerably. Of course, because Li Sheng paid more attention to details and paid attention to the so-called improvement of comprehensive combat strength in the entire development plan, on the surface, the gap between Li Tang and Cao Wei and Sun Wu was greatly narrowed, and the total combat power of Cao Wei and Sun Wu had surpassed that of Li Tang. Although Li Tang is still the largest country in the world on the surface, it is obvious that this status of a great power is constantly accepting the challenges that Wu Wei has practiced. With the end of Cao Wei's national funeral and the marriage between Cao Wei and Sun Wu, everyone knew that a big melee was about to start again.

On the sea, the Great Wei and Great Wu navies, which had been united, carried out regional patrols on the front line of Qingzhou, Xiaoliuqiu, and Quanzhou, and inspected the Li Tang merchant fleet that passed by on the sea. Naturally, this inspection was only superficial, but secretly it was the fact that Li Sheng's goods were seized in the name of inspection, so as to deal a blow to Li Sheng's maritime trade economy. At the same time, Sun Wu's pirate fleet was active again, and the fleet equipped with cannons had a stronger fighting power than before. Not to mention those merchant ships that are completely unarmed with any weapons, even those that are equipped with a certain amount of artillery are completely no longer in the eyes of these Wu pirates. Almost every day, Li Tang could get the news that his merchant ship had been robbed, and almost every moment Li Tang's navy was fighting against those pirates. As a result of the pirates' complete use of a new tactic, it was difficult for Li Shengjun to find their large forces to annihilate them, so they could only constantly patrol the route to deal with those unlucky ghosts who were not long-sighted.

On land, Cao Wei and Sun Wu, who seemed to have thought that they had great strength, also had their own actions: in the north, because Li Sheng did not order direct control of the grassland, Emperor Cao Rui of Wei ordered an army of 300,000 to go out to conquer the grassland, which was ostensibly to avenge the attack on the Central Plains in the past, but internally it was to find Li Sheng's power on the grassland to eliminate him; In Guanzhong, Cao Wei didn't know whose suggestion he adopted, and he placed dock forts all over the land of Guanzhong, guarded them with bed crossbows and iron cannons, and built the entire Guanzhong like an iron bucket; At the junction of Jingyang, Jiangdong's inland river divisions frequently entered the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to provoke Jingzhou, and often confronted Li Sheng's Yangtze River naval army, but for a time people couldn't figure out their thoughts.

"It seems...... They want to get ahead of us. Li Sheng, who got this series of news, once again held a cabinet meeting in the palace to discuss this series of news, for Cao Wei, Sun Wu their intentions, Li Sheng is very understanding, he feels that their ideas, is nothing more than "strike first to be strong, then to suffer" these ten words, that is to say, their war against themselves will break out quickly in a short period of time.

"That's right! Judging by the intelligence, the direction of their first move is to go outside the plug! A group of people gathered around the messy pile of paper on the table to discuss something, and each of them had seen the things on the table, and with their wisdom they naturally made such a judgment. After glancing at each other, this was said by the staff officer Ling Xu Shu.

"Outside the plug? Only possible here? And not somewhere else? Li Sheng was a little surprised by this: "The happiest thing they are making at the moment is in the north, so is it possible for them to continue to choose the north as the goal of their breakthrough?" You must know that the virtual is real, and the real is virtual! Wouldn't it be possible for them to make a false move in the north? ”

"It's unlikely, isn't it?" Zhuge Liang shook his head lightly when he heard this: "Although there are false and true statements, how many virtual and real hands can they have at the moment?" As far as the land is concerned, Cao Wei and Sun Wu can move in three directions, the most effective of which is the South Road, that is, the root of the Tang Dynasty with the army of light cavalry to directly attack Shu, if it can succeed, of course, it will be a battle, but if not, how many troops will be sent out will die. The key to this journey is to be surprised, once we see through it, there is not much chance of success. As for the east, it is necessary to fully integrate with Jiangdong, and it is possible to attack there only if it is really twisted into a force, but judging from the current situation of both sides, it seems that it will be difficult to do this. Therefore, if the other party wants to attack us, the only option that can be used as an offensive is that there is any other place than the north? ”

"So they'll only be able to attack us from the north?" Li Sheng listened to Zhuge Liang's explanation, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he confirmed in a deep voice.

"That's true. Attacking from the south is the quickest, but the most likely to fail; Attacking from the east, unless they are really connected with Sun Wu, it is possible; Only by attacking from the north in a down-to-earth manner can they regain the advantages they have lost little by little. Zhuge Liang analyzed and said: "As for Cao Wei's plans, I already have some experience at the moment. ”

"How?" Li Sheng asked eagerly, he seemed very interested in this.

"The next big battle was a big battle between us and Cao Wei for a long time. As for Sun Quan, because of the various reasons between Sun Wu and Cao Wei and Sun Wu's own lack of strength, he will not attack us for a long time. Of course, we can't let that let us go. Because I have always felt that Sun Wu is like an assassin, always striking the deadliest blow to you when you are negligent. So our strategy was to defend Sun Wu and attack Cao Wei, just as we did when we were in Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang cleared his throat and began his own explanation: "As for the Northern Wei side, as far as I guess, their thoughts are about like this. It is of course good if we can really sweep away our forces in the steppes with a general attack, but if it really can't, we can also cut off our land connection with Vladivostok for a certain period of time, so as to prepare for them to attack Vladivostok from the sea and destroy our naval base. …… If this is the case, then after they captured Vladivostok, they will march to the Ryukyus, and then to Guangzhou and Qinzhou, destroying our military ports one by one. Then we will be blocked on land by them, and they will be able to expand their own strength step by step - this is a vicious delay. As for the land, after they entered the grassland, their next step was likely to be to unite with Eastern Wu to attack us after achieving certain results, that is, Jiangdong to take Jingzhou, and Cao Wei to attack Liangzhou, because they could be surrounded by Guanzhong and the grassland at the same time, so that they had a great deal of confidence in conquering Liangzhou. And once they take Liangzhou, everyone understands that the third step they do is to attack Hanzhong, and Cao Wei will not come to Jingzhou to attack us, because we will definitely have a series of agreements with Sun Quan to completely cede Jingzhou to Sun Quan. Their demand is for Sun Quan to contain some of our orders, and then counter-encircle us against the path we used to encircle them. ”

"This ...... It's a pretty ruthless move. But...... We don't seem to be worried! Isn't it? Because we've guessed what they're doing, we're sure we'll be able to figure out how to deal with them, aren't we? I don't have to worry about you at all. Li Sheng said with a smile. Although the strategic plan formulated by Cao Wei is very clever, Li Sheng thinks that his side does not need to be afraid of the other party at all, first, his own strength is indeed very strong, and second, he believes in the strength of these handwritten heroes. He knew what Kong Ming said: while he clearly explained the problem, he must also have a solution to the problem in his heart. Therefore, he asked, "Kong Ming, can you give us the trick of how to crack all this?" ”

"Quite simply, they can counter-surround us, why can't we surround them? With the current strength of our Datang, it is not difficult to open up several battlefields one after another. Zhuge Liang said and narrowed his eyes with a smile.

"Let's be more detailed." Li Sheng was concerned about this. He thought that this was Kong Ming's idea alone, but he didn't know that in this matter, Kong Ming had already discussed it with Xu Shu and Fa Zheng, and he also got the approval of Pang Tong, the overseer of Jingzhou.

"The grasslands are vast, and we are not afraid to meet them. We also have about 300,000 soldiers and horses on the grassland, and my idea is to divide these 300,000 men into two parts: one part is 100,000, and the enemy army will quickly cross the Great Wall and attack Jizhou after entering the grassland; The other part was divided into 200,000 men and divided into several parts to fight with Cao Wei's army in the guerrilla method that His Majesty had described in the past, dragging it on the grassland. This road is completely in the responsibility of Zhao Yun and General Ma Chao, but we don't need to say more about their grain and grass. It's all the way! Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu glanced at each other, smiled indifferently and then began to explain: "Second, Your Majesty can order the army to leave Yangping Pass, attack the fortified areas from Hanzhong, and order Ma Dai in Liangzhou to lead heavy artillery and horse troops to attack, and cooperate with the infantry army in Hanzhong to strike at those dock forts in Guanzhong." Although the dock fort in Guanzhong was strong, it could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment - the progress along the way did not need to be too fast, only one step at a time. Of course, to complete the strategy of this road, we need to be prepared in Yizhou; Third, Jingzhou only needs to do its best to defend Eastern Wu. Pang Tong is here here, but there is no worry. As for the sea, my idea is to have all the fleets completely cruise, to defend our trade routes. ”

"Hmm!" Li Sheng nodded understandingly, and seemed to agree with Zhuge Liang's plan, except for one point: "Why do you want to take our navy's fleet to escort?" Don't you know what a navy is? They are the same as the cavalry, and their value can only be demonstrated by attacking and attacking. As for defense, that's to send them to death. ”

"And what is Your Majesty's idea?" Zhuge Liang didn't know much about the navy, not only did he not know much, but even Fa Zheng and Xu Shu didn't know much, and they had no choice but to ask Li Sheng out loud.

"I can't say what the specific method is, but there is one thing that needs to be affirmed, that is, the existence of our navy is to attack, and only by attacking and attacking can we truly give full play to the strength of our navy. All this is left to General Xingba. I'm sure he'll be able to get it right. Li Sheng said very confidently. He had decided to release this power and hand it over to Gan Ning, with a professional like him in charge of all this.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Seeing that Li Sheng had made such a decision, everyone couldn't help but chant in unison. As courtiers who have been with Li Sheng for several years, and they are Li Sheng's confidants, of course they know Li Sheng's personality. For this kind of personality, they don't think there is anything bad, on the contrary, they are further glad that Li Sheng has this kind of personality, after all, he knows his own shortcomings, is willing to let go of power, and is willing to give trust to his courtiers and is also very clever Master is too few, how to say it, it can be regarded as one in ten thousand.

"Stop being a sycophant. You know that...... I don't like that. Li Sheng shook it lightly and said with a smile. What does it mean to be inherently immovable? That's clearly what he's doing right now.

I was really talking about something, and I was trying to discuss something. But I heard a nervous footstep outside the hall. I saw a horse in white clothes embroidered with yellow edges and white clothes breaking into the main hall where everyone was, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, disaster is coming." Our Jilong military port was attacked by Koto, and the Oriental Fleet was completely annihilated! ”

"What? When did this happen? "This kind of news is really terrible, although it has long been understood that Bai Yi is unlikely to lie, but neither Li Sheng nor the others in Kong Ming's disaster hall want to believe that this is the real truth.

"Three days! This was three days ago! The white-clothed detective replied loudly.

"Three days ago?" The cold sweat on everyone's heads couldn't help but fall, and they all believed that it was the truth when they heard the white-clothed Tanma say it so surely. "That's terrible." They groaned involuntarily. Although among the four major fleets under Li Sheng, the Oriental Fleet and the Western Fleet are fleets with low combat effectiveness, and the loss of their warships is not a big deal for Li Sheng, the Ryukyu base, where the Oriental Fleet is located, has an extremely important strategic position. Now that the Oriental Fleet has been wiped out, and the port of Jilong is likely to be captured, the entire chain of defenses has been cut in two, and the connection between Li Sheng's northern navy and the southern navy has been easily severed, which is not what Li Sheng wants to see. Once such a situation occurred, Li Sheng didn't even need to use his mind to figure out where Cao Wei and Sun Wu's next goal would be -- but they thought that they would join forces and go north to completely wipe out one of their two major fleets, the Beiyang Fleet, and unlike Li Sheng's idea, Cao Wei and Sun Wu did not put the importance of the navy on a very high level, which certainly had a great impact on their naval construction, but it also made it easier for them to cooperate more closely in this aspect of the navy. Li Sheng was sure that at this time, Cao Wei's fleet and Sun Wu's fleet had completed the confluence, and they were approaching his vital point step by step.

"What to do? The sneak attack planned by Wu and Wei was carried out perfectly, we were all fooled, and the current situation was very unfavorable to us: because the East China Sea Fleet was broken, our Beiyang Fleet and Nanyang Fleet had no way to unite at all, and it was very difficult for the fleets without a joint fleet to completely defeat the fleets of Wu and Wei. Li Sheng frowned tightly, and from the expression on his face, it could be clearly seen that he was worried about the current situation.

"Let the Nanyang Fleet give me a quick rush to the north, and at the same time transfer the Western Fleet back to me. There are only two things we have to do now, one is to let the Nanyang Fleet rescue the Beiyang Fleet as much as possible; The second is to let the Western Fleet equip me with the most sophisticated firearms, destroy Quanzhou, Jianye, and Zhoushan for me, and then gradually go north, and destroy the maritime forces of Wu and Wei one by one for me as at the beginning. You must know that while the navy is important, the seaport is also important. Once there is no seaport, the navy will not have the ability to fight for a long time. I want to see how many days the combined fleets of Wu and Wei can hold out under such circumstances. Li Sheng hatefully gave the order. Of course, he knew how many innocent people would die under this order, but the war of reunification had already begun because of the sneak attack of Wu and Wei, and from now on Wu and Wei would be their own enemy countries, and the people who funded the development of the enemy country would naturally not be innocent.

"The sea is already fighting, and I think the battle on land is about to begin. We've already suffered a loss at sea, and I don't want the same on land. Zhuge Liang frowned and suggested, "Your Majesty, I think we should also launch a new attack." I think we have to get ahead of the curve in this matter.

"You mean we're going to attack Cao Wei's side directly on land? What do you think is the chance of success? Li Sheng doesn't think there's anything wrong with attacking first, he is concerned about how many chances of success the opponent can be with the first strike.

"Cao Wei must have been prepared to attack outside the Saiwai side and planned to launch an attack. If we take the lead at this time, we are afraid that it will be just in time for them to attack, and when the attack and defense are switched, their strength will be the weakest. That's where our opportunity lies. Zhuge Liang said with a smile.

"Just do what you say." Li Sheng was persuaded by Kong Ming and nodded seriously, and then instructed Liao Li, the prime minister on the side: "Gongyuan, from now on, you must turn your energy to supporting the war with all your might." I don't intend to give up halfway, and I will finish the war in one battle, so our empire is preparing to move into a wartime economy. ”

"I understand!" Liao Li nodded heavily with a calm ugly face, and the excitement in it was faintly revealed with the light of his eyes, making people see at a glance that his heart was completely different from his surface.

"Another ......!" Li Sheng raised his voice slightly with a serious face: "Zhong Ming, you quickly send people to me to investigate the success of the Wu Wei Combined Fleet's sneak attack on Jilong Harbor. We suffered a loss, but we have to figure out why we suffered, and if we continue to be unclear, I will not be reconciled.

"No!" Luo Zhao nodded heavily and agreed. He is in charge of intelligence, and he already needs to pay 100% attention to the enemy's movements, and at this moment, he has let others take advantage of the loophole, causing such a big loss to his own family, he is naturally ready to use his own efforts to recover the loss. Listening to his lord's orders now, of course, he nodded again and again.

The meeting ended like this, everyone quickly made preparations, Liao Li went to deal with the matter of economic mobilization, Xu Shu naturally began to mobilize the military forces of all parties, and Luo Zhao also began to run around to wash away his own shame. He was heading for the Guangzhou Military Port. The reason why I went there was not only because it was the closest military port to Jilong, but also to convey to Gan Ning and them the latest order from Li Sheng's side: Let all the southern shipyards start work again -- I think Li Sheng was ready to fight Wu Wei to the end. You must know that Li Sheng's earliest place to develop the navy was in the south, not in the north. Although Li Sheng later shifted the focus of shipbuilding to the north because the north outweighed the south with its giant wood advantage, the shipyards in the south did not abolish because of this, on the contrary, they turned the original task of mass production into the task of research and development. Although he has to use a large amount of money to support, Li Sheng has a lot of money. With the support of a large amount of investment, the shipyards that were gradually closed were maintained on a certain scale, and there was no loss of personnel or anything, and it was naturally easy to resume production. At this moment, he was already working on rebuilding a new fleet.

Of course, the transmission of orders is only incidental, and the real task is to investigate the reasons for this series of failures. This time, Luo Zhaoke, who was provoked, went out in person, and under the determination to swear blood and shame, he was very concerned about the investigation of all this. Under Bai Yi's powerful ability to move, the whole thing probably appeared in front of Li Sheng's side: using the merchant fleet as a guise, ambushing the dead water ghosts, and then using the human body as a bomb carrier to sneak into the military port, so as to blast the warships in the military port, and use the wreckage formed by the blasting to blockade the military port, so as to block the actions of Li Sheng's Oriental Fleet. Naturally, a further blockade of the military port with the fleet is also a matter of course. However, there are still some exceptions to this, such as the last resort used by the Wu-Wei coalition to attack Jilong was not to unload the guns on the warships and attack the port with artillery, but to attack with the most primitive fireships.

“…… That night, the fire in Gillong Harbor was pervasive. "This is how this information ends.