Chapter 66: Zhuge Qiao's Proposal
Zhuge Qiao's proposal
Liu Bei stared at Zhuge Qiao in a daze, he couldn't believe that the seventeen-year-old boy in front of him could have such an understanding, borrowing Sun Wu's art of war, completely penetrating the entire battlefield situation, and then thinking about the exploits he had made before, everything seemed so natural.
"Bo Song, is this what the prime minister taught you" Liu Bei walked up to Zhuge Qiao and helped him up, still asking in disbelief.
"It's not taught by my father, if it is taught by my father, it will be more than ten times stronger than these words" Zhuge Qiao responded, without the slightest panic, before this he had already deduced all the questions that Liu Bei would raise.
Liu Bei still stared at Zhuge Qiao carefully, "Do you remember how you answered when I asked you why you were fighting when you returned to Zigui?"
"Back to Your Majesty, at the end of the day, the general will think that our army's attack on Wu is a battle for righteousness, and a battle for the Wu army to seize my Jingzhou and kill Guan Junhou; But now we have killed Han Dang, the former governor of the Wu army, General Chen Zhi has also killed Pan Zhang, the general of the Wu army who captured General Guan, and Fu Shiren, who surrendered without a fight, has also been captured, and our army has recovered Jianping County, Wuling County, and most of Yidu County, and the public security of the important town, which can be regarded as revenge in the past; Zhuge Qiao cautiously persuaded;
"If I must capture the entire Jingzhou, do you think there are several layers of victory" Liu Bei is still insisting, after all, occupying Jingzhou and sending troops to Wanluo is the national policy formulated with Zhuge Liang at the beginning.
Zhuge Qiao looked at Liu Bei's deep eyes, as if he was expecting the answer he wanted; However, Zhuge Qiao wanted to go against his will, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, "less than three layers" Zhuge Qiao still resolutely decided, and said the original calculation in his heart.
Listening to his harsh voice, he was full of confidence "Bo Song, why are you so confident" Liu Bei asked bluntly, and his words were mixed with some of the breath of a king.
"Let me ask Your Majesty, if the Wu army does not leave the city, can we capture Yidao City? If Xiangyang Xu Huang suddenly attacked, would the Zhenbei general be able to resist it, Jingzhou's rivers and rivers would be crisscrossed, and the Wu army would be good at water warfare, how could our navy be able to compete with it, so the last general asserted that he could capture the entire Jingzhou in the hands of Eastern Wu, and there were only three layers at most" Zhuge Qiao faced Liu Bei's questioning, and did not choose to persuade him politely, but spoke bluntly.
But what was left for Liu Bei was endless sighs, just like when he responded to Chen Zhen when he persuaded him to retreat, there was not much time left for him, so he didn't want to give up any opportunity, if he retreated this time, he didn't know when he would be able to go out again to complete the original dream in his heart.
"Do you know what it means to retreat from the army this time" Liu Bei turned around and asked with his back to Zhuge Qiao.
Regarding Liu Bei's question, Zhuge Qiao had thought about it for a long time and planned it for a long time; Maybe before he came to this world, he gave an explanation for the answer, but he didn't have any say before the war, even if he had the opportunity to mention it in front of Liu Bei, but without the war exploits as a foreshadowing, who would scrutinize.
"Your Majesty, although this battle was launched by our army, the sin was in Eastern Wu, and there were envoys who came to negotiate peace before; The current situation is also biased in favor of our army, if you send an envoy to make peace at this time, you can ask Sun Quan for money and food, and then form an alliance with Wu to resist Cao Wei, in order to map the Central Plains," Zhuge Qiao said probingly.
"Jingzhou is broken, Qinchuan is difficult and dangerous, and where should we send troops, we have already crusaded against the Cao family" Liu Bei turned around and continued to ask Zhuge Qiao; It's not so much to ask Zhuge Qiao for a plan, but to test how much strategy he has, mainly because Zhuge Qiao's reply just now didn't make Liu Bei feel anything new, ordinary people can come up with this strategy, but he didn't know that Zhuge Qiao was putting him in step by step to lead him out of his final strategy.
Zhuge Qiao stared straight at Liu Bei, his eyes touching
"Above Qinchuan is the land of Guanzhong, which is rich enough to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and has become the hegemony of Gaozu; But does Your Majesty know that there is a potential force outside of our Yizhou, which is waiting for our army to decline and give us a surprise attack? ”
"Who is it," Liu Bei said in surprise; When Zhuge Qiao said that in addition to Cao Wei and Dongwu, there were still people who were worried about Yizhou, he couldn't help but be interested.
"Zhurong and Yiyue in the southwest;" Zhuge Qiao responded slowly;
"Bo Song is too worried, the Southern Barbarian King Meng Shu, he is indeed a threat, but he is not afraid, it is impossible for the barbarians to attack my Yizhou City" Liu Bei said confidently, and also sighed, because Zhuge Qiao's answer disappointed him again and again, and began to doubt Zhuge Qiao's ability.
"If Meng Huo colluded with my Yizhou officials, then Meng Huo could still attack Yizhou" Zhuge Qiao said slowly, but Liu Bei frowned when he heard it, and fell into deep thought again, filtering the officials in the entire southwest of Yizhou from his mind; Suddenly, there was a slight tremor, and he seemed to think of something.
"You mean Jianning Yonghong," Liu Bei stared at Zhuge Qiao in a daze.
"Exactly, Yonghong has been deeply rooted in the southwest of Yizhou, especially in Jianning County, even if His Majesty issued an edict, he may not be moved to serve His Majesty; Now that His Majesty is powerful, he should give three points of courtesy, if His Majesty is defeated in the future, can he still make Yonghong safe in Jianning County?"
Liu Bei also seems to have been brought into the land of Nanzhong by Zhuge Qiao, Nanzhong is not only the rear of the battle with Cao Wei and Eastern Wu for the Shu Han regime, but also one of the important areas for Shu Han to obtain manpower, material resources, and financial resources, so if there is a rebellion in Nanzhong, it will not only weaken the power of Shu Han, but also threaten the security of the Shu Han regime.
"Yonghong's power in Nanzhong is indeed very large, but after he is the founding hero of Yongya, we can't crusade against him in the fiefdom here, and Bo Song thinks how to deal with this" Liu Bei analyzed it, and kicked this question to Zhuge Qiao, but Zhuge Qiao was waiting for him to ask himself.
I hope that my strategy can work, Zhuge Qiao said silently. "Your Majesty, the last general thinks that if you want to convince the people and the natives of Nanzhong, your Majesty must have a hundred soldiers to deter those careerists and make them submit to Your Majesty; In the dispatch of generals to garrison Nanzhong, they are ordered to obey military service; One is to expand the source of our army, and the other is to reduce the threat of South China; In addition, the landless people in Yizhou can be transferred to Nanzhong to cultivate and weave, so as to strengthen the control of Nanzhong. Therefore, Your Majesty, this elite army of a hundred battles, must win and break through," Zhuge Qiao responded. With a confident look on his face, he hoped that his cross-century proposal could play a real role in this era, and he was waiting for Liu Bei to continue to test.
"My Jingzhou army can be regarded as a soldier of a hundred battles"
"Not counting now"
"Why"
"Because no one in Nanzhong will know what the combat power of this hundred-battle army in the hands of His Majesty is, unless His Majesty lets them know and let them see the Tiger Ben in His Majesty's hands."
"Bo Song has a plan?"
"Your Majesty can be on Chinese New Year's Eve this year; Invite the southern sergeant clan, the natives, as well as Zhurong and Yiyue to come to Chengdu, and His Majesty promised to reward them; Then transfer the designated number of people from each county to Chengdu for an audience, and you can also invite Soochow to Chengdu as a guest; During this period, His Majesty summoned the elite soldiers of the whole country and held a grand military parade on Chengdu Avenue, showing the most powerful military strength of my Shu Han, and also telling the people of the world that my Shu Han is the orthodoxy of the Han family and the lord of the world; If anyone offends my Han Tianwei, even if it is far away, he will be punished! Zhuge Qiao Dahan finished this paragraph, which made him feel shocked and unbelievable.
[This chapter mentions military parades, which may be considered very ridiculous, but there were precedents of military parades in the Shang Dynasty; It's just that the meaning of the two is not the same, and I will show you almost all the troops and all the numbers of Shu Han in the Chengdu military parade; I hope you will support, the author asks for recommendations and collections; I wish you all a good mood every day]