Chapter 231 takes Fancheng lightly

After listening to the words of the adjutant general, Zhu Ling said: "The art of war is cloudy, 'Those who are good at fighting in the past are invincible first, and then they can be defeated by the enemy. And he said, 'Whoever is invincible, keep it; The victor is also attacked. Therefore, when we fight, we must be able to defend before we can be invincible, but the current Fancheng is obviously impossible to defend. If you force it to defend it, not only will you not be able to win, but it will only increase the attrition of the soldiers.

Sun Tzu said: In the method of using war, there are scattered land, light land, contentious land, handover land, Qu land, heavy land, enclosed land, encircled land, and dead land. If we don't leave it as soon as possible, find another way to live, and wait for the embankment to be dug up, and the Shu army will surround us again, then we will die and have no place to be buried.

Besides, although we retreated, it was not greedy for life and afraid of death, we were just changing to a more favorable terrain and fighting to the death with the Shu army. Water is impermanent, and the way of using soldiers is the most taboo, so why do we have to care about the gains and losses of this city and a place? ”

The meaning of the two sentences of the art of war that Zhu Ling said: In the past, people who were good at fighting always created conditions to make themselves invincible, and then captured fighters to defeat the enemy. If you want not to be defeated by the enemy, you must first do a good job of defense; If you want to defeat the enemy, you have to attack. These are the words in "The Art of War", obviously, Zhu Ling is also a person who is familiar with the art of war.

What he said was reasonable, and the adjutant general was speechless for a while. Xiahou Ba thought for a long time, sighed, and finally made a decision: abandon Fancheng.

This is also something that can't be helped, it's like speculating in stocks, if you know that after tomorrow it will be nine consecutive down limits, will you continue to hold or decisively cut the meat? The answer is obvious, although the meat is cut and it loses a little, it is better than losing all your money after nine falls.

Now the situation of the Wei army is clearly facing the threat of nine falling limits, Sima Yi is a behind-the-scenes operator, and the Shu army is the main army of bears, and they are bent on being the Wei army in the empty Fan City. At this time, the wisest thing for the Wei army to do was to cut the meat out of the game and look for an opportunity to fight the rivers and lakes again.

It's a pity that the senior generals of the Wei army don't understand the truth of the news, and now the war situation of the two armies and the stock market are a truth, and the most favorite thing for those bookmakers to do is to put some false news out, misleading the majority of retail investors, so that they have panic, so as to make irrational behavior.

When the retail investors couldn't withstand the pressure and left the market one after another, they didn't expect that this time was a good time for the bookmakers to collect chips and quietly build positions. This is what Sima Yi is doing now, he released the false news that he was going to dig the river embankment and release the water to flood the city, which made Wei Jun's small scatter panic, thinking that the stock of Fancheng would continue to fall by nine limits, and even face the risk of delisting, for this reason, they also made a lot of fake actions, so that Wei Jun had to believe the news.

As a result, the Wei army had to reluctantly give up Fancheng, cut the meat and withdraw, and the Shu army, the banker, could enter without much effort and take over this promising stock. When Wei Jun withdrew, he found that the stock of Fancheng would not only not be delisted, but would pull ten daily limits in a row, because the dealer had already built a position and could calmly pull it up.

At this time, it was too late for Wei Jun to regret it, because the stock had been closed and could no longer intervene.

The Wei army withdrew three days later and retreated to Xinye, where the Shu army immediately settled in Fancheng, and the process of entering the city went very smoothly without encountering any resistance. However, the Wei army took away all the qiē that they could, and all the food and property in the city were looted by the Wei army, leaving a mess and tens of thousands of people waiting to be paid to Liu Hou.

Liu Hou originally planned to launch an attack on the Wei army when it withdrew from Fancheng, so as to recover the food and property they had looted, but Sima Yi said that it would be easy to lead the Wei army to see that the situation was not good, and retract back to Fancheng, and defend the city to the death, so that all the previous efforts would be wasted, so it was better to ignore them and let them leave safely, so that they could recover Fancheng smoothly.

Because Fancheng is in the whirlpool of war, many people have fled before, especially those who have a little wealth, they have long run away, so this time the Wei army did not loot much property, which Liu Hou also looked down on, but let the Wei army get cheap in vain, a little resentful.

For the sake of the overall situation, he still adopted Sima Yi's opinion and let Wei Jun go. After the Shu army occupied Fancheng, Liu Hou convened his ministers again to discuss the direction of sending troops. Because at this time, there were two routes to send troops, the first was to continue to go north, attack Xinye and Wancheng, and get Nanyang County in hand.

As long as Nanyang County is a little, you can face Xuchang directly, and at that time, if Cao Pi does not move the capital, it will be a decisive battle with the Shu army. The second route is to the west, and some readers may have questions, isn't it to Hanzhong and back to Shu to go west? Yes, it is true that you can reach Hanzhong by going northwest, but before that, you will pass through Xincheng County.

Xincheng County is a newly established county, and a few years ago, the Wei State merged the three counties of Fangling, Shangyong, and Xicheng into Xincheng County. The reason why it became a route for troops was because there were 300,000 Wei troops entrenched here.

After Wei lost Hanzhong, they retreated here, and all along, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong led a large army Chen stationed in Hanzhong, coercing Wei, and Wei had to also Chen garrison heavy troops here to confront the Shu army. This place is too important, if the Shu army sends troops from here, it can go straight into the hinterland of Wei at once, and Wei really can't ignore this strategic place.

This is also the reason why Sima Yi and Liu Hou are working hard in Xiangyang, there are only 300,000 troops here, but they dare not move. During Liu Hou's first Northern Expedition, if the 300,000 troops also ran over to participate in the outflanking of the Shu army, then Liu Hou might not be able to escape back to Maicheng.

It's a pity that they were pinned down by Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army, and it was still very difficult to protect themselves, let alone draw out manpower to support Sima Yi.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that he should continue to go north, capture Xuchang as much as possible, and capture Cao Pi alive. As long as Xuchang is captured, the Cao Wei regime will collapse, and then the entire Wei State will be at your fingertips, and all the Wei army will be leaderless. As soon as the meeting began, Sima Yi began to express his opinions.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is impossible, if our army continues to go north, then the 300,000 troops of Xincheng County will become our henchmen, what if they outflank us from behind and cut off our back road?" Guo Youzhi was the first to come out to oppose the construction of the north.

"The minister thinks that the 300,000 Wei troops will definitely not come out to cut off the back road of our army, as long as they dare to move, the Marquis of Xixiang (Zhang Fei's title) will inevitably lead the troops to pursue them, and they will face annihilation." Sima Yi retorted.