Diaoyutai Legend 11515 Goddess of Victory, Goddess of Peace (37)

This chapter may be boring for some friends, but perhaps friends who like to explore the mysteries of history will be interested. These histories are actually clearly written in the history books, but the novel interpretation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has made many people obsessed with it, and they forgot to see what the real history is like.

Guan Yu was in full swing on the Fanxiang battlefield, so what happened to Sun Quan in the Hefei battlefield of Eastern Wu?

Let's introduce the strategic position of Hefei during the Three Kingdoms period, and why during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu took the initiative to launch the battle against Cao Cao in Hefei, and it was again and again to attack with perseverance to seize Hefei.

Everyone knows that Sun Quan's Eastern Wu is located in the south of the Yangtze River, but few people notice that Sun Quan's father, Sun Jianjun, started in Xiapi, Jiangsu. And Sun Quan was also born in Xiapi in 182 AD. Further north of Xiapi is Shandong. The proud ancestor of the Sun family, Sun Wu, was a native of Guangrao, Shandong, and Sun Quan had a deep affection for Shandong, as can be seen from the names he gave to his two beloved daughters. The big tiger princess is named Sun Luban, and the little tiger princess is named Sun Luyu.

Why did Sun Quan think about going back to his hometown in Shandong all his life?

First of all, Sun Quan's father, Sun Jian, raised an army in Xiapi and began to grow stronger.

Sun Quan was ten years old when Sun Jian died, and Sun Quan was seventeen years old when his eldest brother Sun Ce died. Therefore, Sun Quan is very clear about the strengths and weaknesses of the Sun family.

Sun Quan personally participated in the whole process of the development and growth of the Eastern Wu Navy and became the overlord of Jiangnan.

At the same time, Sun Quan also witnessed the whole process of aging and death of the military horses brought down by Sun Jiajun from the north.

Because the Eastern Wu did not produce horses, (Cao Cao imposed a strict blockade of the horse trade in the Eastern Wu), so the Eastern Wu army had the absolute advantage of the Yangtze River waters, but lost the land combat ability of the Jin Ge Iron Horse to compete in the Central Plains.

Sun Quan once ordered the minister to bring a large amount of gold and silver treasures to Liaodong and give them to Sun Yuan, the prince of Yan, wanting to buy horses from the territory of Sun Yuan, the prince of Yan, but after being deceived by Gongsun Yuan to obtain an extremely huge amount of gold and silver treasures, he slaughtered more than 400 friendly envoys of Eastern Wu who went to Liaodong to buy horses in the form of pirates.

This made Sun Quan understand the truth that money cannot buy strategic materials (horses).

In order to build a powerful army that can compete in the Central Plains and win in field battles, it is necessary to fight to the north.

If we want to go to the north, we must first lay the gate of Hefei and Dongwu to the north.

This is the goal that Sun Quan has been striving for unremittingly throughout his life.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Hefei was surrounded by water on three sides in the south, east and north, and directly connected to the Yangtze River. The powerful sailors of Soochow could easily reach Hefei directly and encircle Hefei.

Since the Three Kingdoms period, warlords from all walks of life have begun to reclaim in the waters of Hefei, because the water and fertile soil are beautiful, the reclamation effect is quite good, and the harvest grain is very considerable. If the Eastern Wu Army occupies Hefei, it will not only be able to advance and retreat, but will also be self-sufficient in logistics and food security.

The land route in the northwest of Hefei goes directly to Shouchun.

When Sun Jian died, Yuan Shu took the opportunity to take the 3,000 cavalry that Sun Jian could fight as his own. Sun Ce raised 17 troops and immediately started the battle for Shouchun with Liu Xuan, and the bloody battle lasted for several months, and Sun Ce's Jiangdong soldiers suffered heavy casualties. But he couldn't take Shouchun.

Sun Ce was grief-stricken, so he rushed home to take out the jade seal of the country (in fact, it was the famous jade mountain that was favored by Sun Shangxiang), exchanged it with Yuan Shu, and exchanged the 3,000 cavalry back.

The arrival of 3,000 cavalry immediately boosted Sun Ce's military prestige.

Sun Ce captured Shouchun in a battle.

(From this, we can also see the decisive position of cavalry in land warfare during the Three Kingdoms period.) ）

Then Sun Ce immediately and quickly swept through the six counties of Jiangdong, established the foundation for the establishment of the Eastern Wu state, and became a recognized small overlord.

If Sun Quan's army occupies Shouchun, it will be directed at Xuzhou and Xiapi, the bases where Cao Cao started.

After Sun Quanjun occupied Xuzhou and Xiapi, he could directly march into Shandong.

The meaning of the name of the Great Tiger Princess Sun Luban is here: the Sun family army should advance to the north until they get Shandong, and then they can be classified.

Only after the Eastern Wu occupied Shandong could the Eastern Wu obtain the military horses of strategic materials, establish an iron cavalry force, and have the ability to compete in the Central Plains.

In fact, this is the national policy of the Soochow hegemony plan, and the implementation of this national policy runs through the entire history of Soochow.

Let's take a look at Shu Han's "Longzhong Pair" national policy (for "Longzhong Pair", we have repeatedly talked about it many times, and we will not repeat it), it and the national policy of Soochow are really a perfect match, complement each other, there is no mutual conflict of interest, but there is mutual interest support, it is a real win-win cooperation.

So at that time, when Cao Cao heard the news of the Sun-Liu alliance and the marriage of Sun-Liu, he was so shocked that his chopsticks fell to the ground.

At the same time, we can clearly see that the battle for Jingzhou in Wu and Shu, even if Eastern Wu later got Jingzhou, it seems that Eastern Wu has achieved a great victory and expanded a large territory, but it has no benefit to Eastern Wu's national policy of hegemony and fundamental national strength (Jingzhou also does not produce horses), but it fundamentally tore up the Sun-Liu alliance, making Eastern Wu and Western Shu become two pieces of fish and meat that had no threat to Wei and Jin, and Wei and Jin could choose one of them and devour it at the most delicious time.

At this time, Cao Cao knew that he would die suddenly, so all his arrangements were deployed with the leading idea of absolutely guaranteeing internal stability so that Cao Pi could succeed smoothly. For this reason, Cao Cao transferred all the elite troops south of the Yellow River who could fight well to Mopo for centralized management and scheduling. North of the Yellow River, Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, was in control.

At this time, Cao Cao not only did not increase his troops to Hefei, which was besieged by the Eastern Wu army, but transferred Zhang Liao's tiger army stationed in Juchao to Mopo.

What did the withdrawal of Zhang Liaojun's army from Juchao mean for Sun Quan's attack on Hefei? One chance at a time! Soochow had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to seize Hefei and go north to capture Xuzhou, Xiapi, Shandong!

Sun Quan has attacked Hefei several times in the past, and several times he has already attacked Hefei, but under the ravages of the counterattack of Zhang Liaohu's army's iron cavalry, Sun Quan's army was defeated, and even Sun Quan himself was almost killed, so he left Xiaoyaojin, Feiqi Bridge and other nostalgic places.

These examples also show how helpless and weak the Eastern Wu Army, which had no cavalry, was and how vulnerable it was when it encountered the enemy's cavalry in land battles.

Zhang Liao's Iron Cavalry Tiger Army was the Dinghai Divine Needle arranged by Cao Cao to guard Hefei and defend against the northward movement of Sun Quan's army of Eastern Wu.

In fact, since Zhang Liao's army was transferred to Mopo, it was equivalent to Cao Cao himself pulling out this Dinghai Shen Needle, Hefei, Xuzhou, Xiapi and other places have actually opened their doors, and there is no decent armed force to resist the attack of the Eastern Wu army.

As long as Sun Quanjun takes Hefei, he can immediately drive straight into the north and advance north.

Sun Quan was the first to respond to Liu Bei's "Letter to the People of the Whole Country" issued by Liu Bei to crusade against Cao Cao when he became king in Hanzhong. The vigorous Sun Quan was ready to do the same as the Red Cliff War back then, and the Sun-Liu Alliance exerted its strength again to deal a fatal blow to Cao Cao.

Therefore, Sun Quan first poured the strength of the country and launched a campaign to attack Hefei.

Sun Quan's strategic arrangement was very correct. But Sun Quan did not notice that the Sun-Liu marriage was the fundamental foundation of the Sun-Liu Alliance, and without the Sun-Liu marriage, there would be no Sun-Liu Alliance. At this time, the Sun-Liu marriage had been destroyed (Zhuge Liang intercepted the river and seized Adou), and the Sun-Liu alliance had already existed in name only. The first thing Sun Quan should do in diplomacy at present is to take the initiative to repair the marriage between Sun and Liu, let Sun Shangxiang return to Shu Han, and reunite with Adou's mother and son.

At that time, Cao Jun was very nervous, and the "Zizhi Tongjian" recorded: "Sun Quan attacked Hefei. When the troops were in Huainan, Yangzhou Assassin Shi Wenhui said that Yanzhou Assassin Shi Pei Qian said: "Although there are thieves here, there is no need to worry. Today, the water is full of people, and the county army of Zixiao (Cao Renzi) has no long-term preparation. Guan Yu is cunning, and he is afraid that Zhengnan (General Zhengnan, Cao Renye) will change his ears. ’”

Sure enough, Guan Yu immediately dispatched a large army and launched the Battle of Fan Xiang.

At that time, because Zhang Liaojun was still in the nest, the other soldiers of the Cao army were nervous, but Yangzhou Assassin Shi Wenhui seemed very leisurely. is still worried about Cao Ren in Fancheng.

But when Zhang Liaojun, who lived in the nest, was suddenly transferred to Mopo, the soldiers of Cao Jun in Hefei, who had lost the Dinghai Divine Needle, were panicked.

Until this time, the cooperation between Wu Shu (Shu Han, in fact, just Guan Yu) and the two countries can be said to be very tacit, so that at that time, China was shaken, so that Cao Cao could not bear it, and he was ready to move the capital at any time.

Sun Quan's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack Hefei came, but Sun Quan suddenly ordered to besiege Hefei without attacking, and the whole army waited and watched to rest.

It turned out that Sun Quan's attack on Hefei was to cooperate with Shu Han to act together, and Guan Yu passed on the good news on the Fanxiang battlefield, which encouraged Sun Quan's army's attack on Hefei.

Sun Quan knew very well that the Sun-Liu alliance at the time of the Chibi War was dominated by the Eastern Wu naval army, supplemented by Liu Beijun. And in this Sun-Liu Alliance's offensive against Cao Cao, his Dongwu was only a supporting role, and Guan Yu's Jingzhou Army should be just an auxiliary army and a vanguard commando. The main force should be the Shu Han army in the direction of Hanzhong.

To Sun Quan's surprise, in the three months since the siege of Hefei by Eastern Wu and Guan Yu's attack on Fanxiang, there have been frequent reports of successes in the Hefei battlefield in the east and the Fanxiang battlefield in the south.

You must know that if the Shu Han army does not act, if Sun Quan's Eastern Wu army captures Hefei in one fell swoop at this time, and advances into Xuzhou, Xiapi, and Shandong as if it were no one, it will form a lone army and go deep, committing the taboo of soldiers.

Sun Quan besieged Hefei but did not attack, and rested. At the same time, Sun Quan paid closer attention to the situation in various parts of the country.

At that time, the situation of Cao Cao and the Shu Han army was unusual, which made the whole situation seem particularly strange, and Sun Quan had to guard against it.

Sun Quan sent a large number of scouts to monitor the military situation throughout the country at all times.

Sun Quan first discovered that Cao Cao had concentrated all the elite troops south of the Yellow River in Mopo, with hundreds of thousands of troops, as if he was going to make a big move.

The strange thing is that Cao Cao did not save Fancheng, which was close at hand, nor Hefei, which was in danger, but transferred Zhang Liaojun, who lived in the nest, to Mopo. Cao Cao seemed to open the door to welcome the Eastern Wu army north.

Sun Quan watched the iron fist formed by Cao Cao's shrinking army of hundreds of thousands in Mopo.

This iron fist is hidden, and I don't know where to strike?

If the Eastern Wu army captured Hefei and drove straight north, Cao Cao, the iron fist of hundreds of thousands of Mopo's army, struck over and blocked the retreat of the Eastern Wu army, then it would not be as simple as the annihilation of the entire army of Eastern Wu, but whether Eastern Wu could still exist and whether it would be a matter of national destruction.

What especially frightened Sun Quan was that when Guan Yu's Jingzhou army fought bloodily on the front line of Fanxiang and achieved a great victory, Shu Han, whether it was in the direction of Hanzhong Shangyong or Chengdu Jiangzhou, did not move, and actually sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and did not give Guan Yu the support of a soldier, a soldier, a grain and a grass. Is it to let Guan Yu fight alone until he perishes?

Liu Bei has just issued a "Letter to the People of the Whole Country" in Hanzhong, announcing that he is going to fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao, and now in a good situation, Liu Bei can't hear the frequent good news, and can't see the situation of the earthquake in China, is Liu Bei deaf or blind?

Are those two "letters to the people of the whole country" actually a big scam?

Shu Han obviously has another big plan, who is this big plan for?

Against Cao Cao?

One by one, apparently not.

Guan Yu's Jingzhou army launched the Battle of Fan Xiang, which is obviously the most in line with the Shu Han national policy of "Longzhong Pair", and achieved a great victory, far exceeding the expectations of the national policy of "Longzhong Pair", if it is aimed at Cao Cao, at this time the Shu Han army should take advantage of the situation, and the victory that can be achieved will be greater and more brilliant.

Sun Quan thought vigilantly: Is it aimed at my Dongwu?

Is it trying to lure my lone army of Eastern Wu to go deep into the north, and Cao Cao copied the back road, so that my whole army was annihilated, and Liu Bei himself got the benefit of the fisherman?

Could it be that Liu Bei is a hairy little kid who is just starting out of the rivers and lakes?

Sun Quan was puzzled.

Sun Quan decided to wait and see what happened one by one.