Chapter 232 Choice

Guo Youzhi listened to Sima Yi's words and said, "Zhongda, even if these 300,000 troops don't come out to make trouble for a while, we can't overthrow the Wei court and capture or kill Cao Pi alive in a short period of time if we rush north. It must be known that the last time the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion (Guan Gong's title) attacked Xiangyang, the Wei court clamored to move the capital.

This time we directly occupied Xiangyang and Fancheng, and it was strange that Cao Pi did not escape. Therefore, even if we can capture Xuchang quickly, it is impossible to capture Cao Pi, but it will make the army dangerous because of the lone army going deep into the enemy territory. Majesty should not rush forward, it is better to clear the obstacles along the way, step by step, and slowly draw it. ”

Liu Hou quite agrees with Guo Youzhi's point of view, the Hong army has always been marching step by step, marching steadily and steadily, like to crush the opponent with absolute strength, never fight uncertain battles, never take risks, and have a gambling decisive battle with the enemy.

Now in this situation, it can be said that the world will fall into their own hands sooner or later, the difference is only a matter of sooner or later, with its risk to break through, it is better to fight steadily. Don't take the risk and capsize in the gutter at the moment when you finally see the dawn of victory, it will be sad.

"Your Majesty, our army is small, and now every time we occupy a city, we have to assign some soldiers and horses to defend it, and with the length of the battle line, the defense of the logistics and transportation channels has become difficult, which requires more troops to be invested to ensure the logistics work. We only have tens of thousands of soldiers, and if we divide our forces repeatedly, there will indeed be a certain danger.

It's better for us to solve the 300,000 Wei troops in Xincheng County first, and join the army of Xixiang Hou. As long as the army of the Marquis of Xixiang can enter the Central Plains, then the disadvantage of our troops will be reversed in one fell swoop, and we will have the logistics channel of Hanzhong. With two passages, even if one is cut off by someone at that time, there is another backup, then we can be invincible. ”

Deng Zhi saw that the two were arguing lively, and also joined the war group, obviously he supported Guo Youzhi, his reason was to open the passage to Hanzhong, pull Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's corps over, and attack the Central Plains together, in that case, the strength of the Shu army is not less than that of the Wei army, and the weapons and equipment exceed the Wei State for more than a thousand years, and it is difficult to dominate the world.

"Your Majesty, the methods of the two adults Guo and Deng are certainly safe, but the speed is too slow, according to such a city to fight one city after another, to unify the world, I am afraid it will not be completed in ten or eight years. Although Wechen's method is a bit risky, it can solve the problem the fastest. Sima Yi said.

Liu Hou thought for a while, and said, "Zhongda, please estimate, use your method and go north immediately, how likely is it that we will encounter danger, and if we follow the methods of Mr. Guo and Deng, we will open the passage to the west first, how dangerous it is." ”

Sima Yi thought for a moment and said, "Weichen estimates that if we move our army north quickly, we have at least a fifty percent chance of catching Cao Pi." And the army is encircled, and the probability of danger is no more than two percent.

And according to the way of the two gentlemen, it is 10% safe. Weichen believes that there is no army in the world that can defeat our army head-on, as long as we take it step by step and fight steadily, the army will not be in any danger, but it will only grow a lot in time. ”

"In that case, it's a good choice, we don't have to bother with victory on the horizon. Since we just need to take our steps and take our time to get the victory we want, then we shouldn't take any risks, even if they don't have to take them, and we shouldn't take them.

This is like gambling, if a gamble wins, only a small amount of money is lost, but if the gamble is lost, the family will be bankrupt, then, no matter how high the chance of winning the bet, as long as there is not a 100% chance of winning, we should not participate in this gamble.

In layman's terms, we are noble blue and white porcelain vases, they are nothing more than stoneware pots, why should we fight with them? It's simply not worth it. I have decided, we will first solve the 300,000 Wei troops in Xincheng County, and join the third uncle, and then hundreds of thousands of troops will take the thunderous momentum and then conquer the Central Plains. At that time, no matter where Cao Pi went, it was useless, and he would be crushed into mud by my army of hundreds of thousands. Liu Hou finally clapped his head.

Sima Yi saw that the emperor had already made a decision, and he didn't say anything, according to his calculations, with the combat strength of the Shu army, as long as they acted quickly and advanced at full speed, they could completely besiege Xuchang before the Wei State # The imperial court reacted.

He knows too well the people of the Wei State # Imperial Court, the current Wei State # Imperial Court is no longer the former doer who followed Cao Cao to conquer the world, and the rest is just some rhetoric, but useless rotten Confucianism, when they finished tearing off the skin and decided to move the capital, the Shu army had already broken a few cities, killed them under the city of Xuchang, and served them in a pot.

However, the little emperor did not adopt his strategy, he was not frustrated, he missed this opportunity to quickly unify the Central Plains, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future, as they said, there is no suspense that this world will fall into the hands of Shu Han, although the approach of Xu Tuzhi is a little slower, but there is no risk, maybe that is not a bad thing.

Sima Yi's prediction was not wrong, now that the Wei court has made a lot of noise, in the entire court before, only Sima Yi was an understanding person, and only he could clearly realize the power of the Shu army. Although there are many other famous Confucians, their understanding of the current shape of the world is still at the kindergarten level.

Now there are two factions in the Wei court, one can be called the escape faction, of course, if you want to take care of their face, you can also call them the capital relocation faction or the hunting faction. Situ # Huaxin is a representative of this faction, and they believe that it is time to move the capital to Chang'an immediately to temporarily avoid the edge of the Shu army.

Even if he doesn't move the capital, the Son of Heaven can go out to "hunt", and this "hunting" means to escape. Obviously he was forced to escape, but he wanted to say that he was going on a hunting trip, and this kind of death to save face and suffer was something that creatures like the emperor always liked to do.

However, the faction led by Taiwei Zhong Xuan advocated mobilizing all the soldiers and horses in the country to fight to the death with the Shu army.

Another "Three Princes" Sikong Wang Lang Mingli is a wall-riding faction, or to put it better, a neutral faction, on the surface the two sides do not help each other, in fact, he is secretly a surrender faction, but in this sensitive period, he does not dare to jump out and openly advocate surrender. If he dares to do this, it is estimated that he will not be killed and drowned by everyone's spittle.

Not long ago, Wei was the most powerful country among the three countries, but I didn't expect that it had only been a few months, and it had been forced to come to the doorstep, and everyone had not yet woken up from the dream of being the largest military power, and the pride of the Heavenly Empire did not allow them to have the idea of surrendering.