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In the early years, when Liu Bei wanted to accept him as his adopted son, Guan Yu made it clear that he was against it, and later it was completed, and Guan Yu did not show much concern for him, a "nephew". Later, after Liu Chan and others were born one after another, Guan Yu looked at him coldly.

Over the years, he sat in Hanzhong and the three eastern counties, and was ordered to attack Wei several times under Guan Yu's control, but no matter how much effort he made and how much land he fell, he was finally taken into Guan Yu's pocket and collected by himself. And he himself has worked hard for so many years, but the land under his jurisdiction is still only the territory of Hanzhong and the three eastern counties.

In this battle of Wei, the court ordered him and Guan Yu to send troops to attack Wei at the same time, but Guan Yu was afraid that he would share his merits, so he strictly ordered him to station his soldiers and horses on the Shangyong front line as a reserve.

Guan Yu's various actions, Liu Feng naturally held a grudge, but he was helpless.

In Liu Feng's opinion, there should be no suspense in the battle of Wei this time, but he never expected that Eastern Wu would send troops, and after only a few days, Jingzhou fell into an embattled situation.

In addition to Liu Feng's schadenfreude, there was actually a lot of surprise, and he vaguely felt that it seemed that the "opportunity" that Zhang Song had mentioned before was already in front of him.

Gathering his thoughts, Liu Feng raised his head and asked, "Sir, Guan Yun ordered me to lead the army south to aid Xiangyang, what do you think?" ”

At this moment, Zhang Song's eyebrows were a little radiant, and it seemed that the predicament faced by Guan Yu made him feel equally excited.

"The king, Song said before, let the king wait patiently for the opportunity, I don't know if the king still remembers."

Hearing this, Liu Feng's expression became more and more excited, and he hurriedly said: "How can you not remember, this king is waiting for this opportunity all the time, sir, isn't it time now?" ”

Zhang Song stroked his short beard and nodded slightly: "The emperor lives up to his wishes, the king, you have finally come to turn over and be the master, and the opportunity to raise your eyebrows has finally arrived." ”

Liu Feng was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "If this is the case, then according to Mr.'s opinion, how should this king act." ”

Zhang Song smiled: "Song has formulated three strategies for the king, and it is up to the king to choose." ”

It turned out that Zhang Song had already made up his mind, and Liu Feng urged: "Sir, why don't you come quickly, let's start with this strategy." ”

"This is a policy, not only to obey Guan Yunchang's dispatch, but also to lead the army south to relieve the siege of Xiangyang, so, one is meritorious to the country, and the other is to be kind to Yunchang, some of the two benefits, not only to consolidate the king's position, but also to increase the king's right to speak in the court, this is the next policy."

Liu Feng had long been fed up with Guan Yu's anger, and now that he saw his suffering, he couldn't wait to see the excitement, how could he be willing to come to the rescue, after listening to this strategy, Liu Feng shook his head: "What about the middle strategy?" ”

"Now that the Xiangyang Naval Division has been destroyed, Guan Yunchang's connection with Jingzhou is equivalent to being cut off, and Xu Yuanzhi's troops and horses in Lukou are only a few thousand, and it is difficult to resist the attack of the Wu army. In the name of rescuing Jiangling, the king justifiably led his army south to Shuzhong, when the Shu Chinese military force would be defenseless, and the king could take advantage of the situation to take Shuzhong into his own hands. In this way, the king will possess the entire Bashu, the north has the risk of Qin, the east has the risk of the Three Gorges, the court will not be able to help the king, then the king can retreat to one side, enter can wait for the times to change, compete for the world, advance and retreat freely, this is the middle strategy. ”

Zhang Song's middle strategy made Liu Feng's eyes light up, and he said excitedly: "Sir, this middle strategy is really wonderful." ”

Zhang Song said triumphantly: "The king is not too happy, I still have a good plan to finish." ”

Liu Feng thought that this strategy was better than the other, that is, he pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"Now that the three armies are entangled with the enemy, at this time, Chang'an City will inevitably be empty. The king might as well secretly lead the army to the north of the Meridian Valley into Guanzhong, and within ten days, he can reach Chang'an City and take Yanjing in one fell swoop. At that time, the queen mother, the emperor and the civil and military officials will all be in the hands of the king, hehe-"

Zhang Song replaced his next sentence with a secret and smug smile, but this best policy made Liu Feng tremble, both excited and frightened.

The excitement is that if this strategy is adopted, the supreme power of the Great Han Kingdom can be said to be at your fingertips, but what I am afraid of is that if this plan fails, then I will have no place to go and no return, and there will be no place to die.

At this time, Liu Feng's thinking had to fall into a dilemma, at this moment, he was facing the most important choice in his life, a little careless, not only his ambition was wiped out, but even his surname life would be lost.

"Three strategies, these three strategies, which one should I choose?"

When Liu Feng was tormented by choice, Xu Shu of Lukou was also unhappy.

This morning, the most undesirable information came back, Guan Yu was finally a step late, Lu Xun destroyed Xiangyang the day before Guan Yu's army returned south, cut off the north-south connection of Hanshui, and formed an encirclement of Xiangyang City.

The field army of Xiangyang City plus the county soldiers had about 4,000 troops, and there was a general Zhao Yun to defend it, although the Wu army besieging the city was more than ten times larger, but Xu Shu was not worried that Xiangyang City would be breached.

In fact, Xu Shu is worried about himself.

In the entire line of the Yangtze River, only the 5,000 field army in his hands remained, and the rest of the county soldiers stationed in various counties were small in number and extremely weak in combat effectiveness.

The destruction of the naval warships in Xiangyang meant that Lu Xun only needed to use a small number of naval troops to easily block any attempt by Guan Yu's army on the north bank to cross the river. At this time, Lu Xun could divide more troops to clean up the Han army in Lukou.

The information received next proved Xu Shu's fears, and sure enough, after completing the encirclement of Xiangyang, part of the Wu army had already returned south, and would soon enter the Yangtze River, and it was clear that this force was rushing to the landing pass.

At this time, the Wu army was roughly divided into three combat corps, the Ganning army besieging Xiakou had about 40,000 people, and the Wu army besieging Xiangyang and cutting off the Han River had about 60,000 Lingtong troops, and the 50,000 Wu army led by Lu Xun himself would be about to attack Lukou.

50,000 Wu troops, ten times as much as himself, and Wu can increase troops to Jingzhou at any time.

With such a disparity in strength, even the resourceful Xu Shu felt a little chill.

"It seems that Lukou can't hold it." After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Shu said this sentence helplessly.

Zhang Liao's expression changed: "If you can't defend it, you have to defend it, if you don't defend the land pass, the Wu people's naval army will drive straight in, and the land of Jingzhou behind us will not be able to be saved." ”

As a general who once held on to Hefei, Zhang Liao was accustomed to his surname and was ready to stick to it, but Xu Shu obviously didn't think so.

"Lukou is not as strong as Xiakou to defend, and sticking to Lukou must be established on the premise that there is a naval army to cooperate.

Listening to Xu Shu's tone, Zhang Liao already felt a little bit of his intentions, so he said bluntly: "Da Sima, what do you think in your heart, you might as well say it directly." ”

Xu Shu pondered for a moment, and said: "The key to competing with the Wu people is the water army, now the Xiangyang water army is gone, if the water army of Lukou and Jiangling is also destroyed, then the land of Jianghan will be the world of the Wu people." I think the most important thing we need to do at the moment is to keep our water army no matter what. ”

Specifically, Xu Shu's plan was to abandon Lukou, collect all the available troops in Nanjun and Jingnan Prefecture, and retire to Jiangling City. At the same time, more than 500 warships from Lukou and Gangneung were transported up the river and retreated to Yizhou.

This plan can be described as a strong man's broken wrist, which is equivalent to giving up all the lands of Jiangxia, Changsha, Wuling, and Lingling Jiangnan Jingzhou to the Wu people, and the whole army retreats to Jiangling City, forming a north-south echo trend with Xiangyang City, and barely able to protect the land of Jingbei between the two cities. At the same time, more than 500 warships retreated to Yizhou, and as soon as they crossed the Three Gorges, the Wu people would be helpless against these warships.

In this way, although a large area of land was lost, 500 valuable warships were saved, and the city of Gangneung was strong, with countless grain accumulations, more than 5,000 regular troops, and then temporarily mobilized a part of the city Ding Zhuang, which was enough to hold on for a long time.

And as long as Jiangling and Xiangyang, the two nails that choke the throat of the Jianghan waterway, are not pulled out, then even if the Wu people seize more land in Jingzhou, it will be a floating cloud.

Zhang Liao is not a pure martial artist, he is also quite knowledgeable in terms of overall strategy, and after careful consideration, he quickly realized that Xu Shu's plan is indeed the best choice and the only choice.

"I also understand what Yuan Zhi means, but you and I have neither the permission of the imperial court nor the permission of the general, so we abandon the land pass like this, and give up Nanjingzhou to the enemy, such a heavy responsibility, I am afraid that ......"

Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, this is Zhang Liao's real surname, and he clearly remembers his responsibilities, so he is worried about Xu Shu's plan to disobey military orders.

Xu Shu was silent for a moment, and said: "I issued this order as the right big Sima, since General Zhang and the soldiers below, they all obey the order, if someone is held accountable in the future, I Xu Shu will bear it by myself." ”

………… Yecheng, Han Ying.

Naturally, there are Fang Shao's meticulous works in Yecheng, some of them are intelligence officers who have been lurking in the city before, and some are Wei officials who took the initiative to express their willingness to submit after the siege of the city, and they naturally have a way to send the information in the city out in time.

Intelligence from all sides shows that there is already an undercurrent surging in Yecheng, and dangers are lurking. Xiahou Shang's wanton arrest of the ministers of the scholar clan has already put everyone in the city in danger and panicked. And some powerful figures, in order to protect themselves, seem to have begun to act in secret.

The corners of Fang Shao's mouth raised a smile, everything was expected by him.

At this moment, Wang Jun hurriedly entered, sent a piece of information from Liyang, and said anxiously: "Da Sima, the situation in Wei has changed, you can take a look." ”

Fang Shao took the secret report and looked surprised, because the secret report claimed that a large number of Wei troops were crossing the Yellow River in the north, heading towards Yecheng, and as of the time when the information was sent, about 40,000 people had crossed the Yellow River, and the number was still increasing.

"What's going on, how could the Wei army suddenly have the ability to send so many troops to rescue Hebei!"

(To be continued)