In addition to the Eastern Front and the Northern Front, there is actually another front, and that is the Southern Front. After discussion, it was believed that once the Wei army was defeated like a mountain, the Wei court was forced to be in a hurry, and it would not invade Hanzhong from the mountain trails of the Qinling Mountains, such as the Meridian Valley and the Slope Valley.

This is not impossible, you must know that in the original history, Zhuge Liang took these trails several times to attack Wei, and the two countries of Wei and Shu have long faced each other on these trails, and Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army have fought countless battles with Wei in recent years, and they have been carried out in these trails.

Since Shu Han was able to attack Guanzhong from these trails, Wei could naturally enter Hanzhong from these trails. However, this is only theoretical, due to the special geographical environment, there are many terrains that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, so for so many years, Wei and Shu have been helpless against each other on these trails.

However, now the situation is different, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army withdrew from here, entered the Central Plains, and then stationed troops east of Hugao Pass, so that the forces of Shu Han here became very weak, and the original balance was broken.

You must know that Shuzhong and Hanzhong are the foundation of Shu Han, and if they are captured, the consequences will be very serious. Although Liu Hou has now grabbed a large amount of territory in Wei and Wu, which is far larger than Shuzhong and Hanzhong, these are newly occupied lands and the degree of development is still very low.

Most of the various and astonishing supplies of the Hong army still come from Shuzhong, especially all kinds of firearms, which are mainly manufactured in the Ministry of Industry in Chengdu.

Liu Hou's four think tanks are all outstanding people for a while, especially Sima Yi, who is known as an old fox who has no last resort, how could he miss such a big loophole for the enemy to drill, a few people gathered in front of the military map and looked at it for a while, and then decided to open up the battlefield on the southern front.

The troops who were sent to fight on the southern front were Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's corps, firstly, because it was originally their war zone, and they were most familiar with the terrain and situation in that area, and secondly, that front was relatively not so important, and it was enough to send their cold weapon troops to deal with it.

Just now it was said that the consequences of being attacked by the enemy into Shuzhong were very serious, why is it said that it is relatively not so important now? The reason is that although it is possible to take this route into Shuzhong, there are many dangerous passes along the way, even if there are very few garrisons there now, but it is not possible to reach Chengdu in a short period of time by attacking the city along the way.

Therefore, as long as there are cold weapons troops such as Zhang Fei and Pang Tong to rely on the dangerous terrain to defend, the southern front is almost foolproof, and there is no need to send valuable firearms troops to garrison there.

In this way, it will be possible to save firearms troops and make all-out sorties on other fronts. However, the journey from Hujiao Pass to Hanzhong is not close, and it takes a lot of time for Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army to rush back.

In order to save time and launch a general attack on Wei as soon as possible, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong discussed and decided that Zhang Fei would personally lead 5,000 elites to rush over at full speed day and night, and the large army would be led by Pang Tong and then rush over.

Zhang Fei and the 5,000 elites hurried much faster than the large army, and could rush over before the big battle started. With their reinforcements to various key passes, even if the Wei army jumped over the wall and tried to attack Hanzhong under the attack of the eastern and northern troops of the Hong army, these passes could support the arrival of Pang Tong's large army.

In fact, the arrangement of Zhang Fei and Pang Tong on the southern front is just to make the entire combat strategy perfect just in case, all of which is based on the assumption that the Wei army will jump over the wall in a hurry and attack the southern front in a desperate way, but the assumption is just a hypothesis after all, maybe they will not do it, what has not yet happened, who knows what the final event will be.

However, as a good strategist or a good chess player, you must fully consider the trend of events or the situation on the chessboard after the N moves back, and you should think of preventive measures for various situations in advance.

This is what is said in the "Strategy" of "The Art of War": "The husband who does not fight and the temple is counted as the victor, and the temple without a fight is counted as the winner, and the person who does not fight and the temple is not victorious, and the one who is counted as the less." More wins, less wins, and nothing counts! ”

Now Liu Hou is no longer as stunned as he was when he was the prince before, at that time he led a force to rampage on the land of China, and he didn't have to think about the overall situation or the overall situation.

At that time, these things were considered by his Laozi Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, even if he broke the sky, they stood on a high place, even if he was running around with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, even if his reckless behavior led to heavy losses in his army, it was just a prince's army, and it had little impact on the general trend of the entire Shu Kingdom.

But now it's different, now he is the emperor, in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops in the entire Shu Han, he needs to focus on the whole world, the layout of troops must consider the overall situation, the whole country is a game of chess, the chessboard is a huge battle map hanging on the wall, of course, sometimes in order to show the details of the terrain, but also use a sand table.

And the people who play chess are naturally Liu Hou and his four think tanks, this time this game of chess, will attack Wei from three directions, and the fall of Wei is already a sure thing. In fact, this game of chess, in addition to the arrangement for the Wei State, also has the Wu State.

In order to prevent Wu from taking advantage of the war between Wei and Han to make trouble, certain precautions are still needed. Liu Hou asked E Huan's Fifth Division and Zhu Bao's Eighth Division to quickly move south and stationed on the border between Han and Wu north of the Yangtze River, so as to deal with Wu's troubled waters at any time.

In fact, Soochow has now been pinned down by Huang Xu's Sixth Division, Zhang Bai's Seventh Division, and Guan Suo's troops, and Guan Gong's Jingzhou Corps is also threatened by training troops day and night in the upper reaches, and the chance of them coming out to make trouble is not great.

But there are no absolutes in everything, and it is always right to count more, if the people of Dongwu are really in a hurry to jump over the wall and struggle, it will still cause some damage to the territory of Shu Han. In order to avoid injury, it is necessary to take adequate safety measures in advance.

In addition to mobilizing troops to deter Soochow, there was also a secret operation against Soochow, which was carried out by the "CIA", that is, to promote Sun Quan's early death and cause civil strife in Soochow.

As mentioned earlier, the "CIA" infected Sun Quan with schistosomiasis before, but although this disease is a terminal disease, it does not kill people immediately, but has a long course of disease, and slowly consumes people to death.

In particular, people like Sun Quan, who can mobilize the country's medical resources to serve them, can survive with worms for a long time after traditional Chinese medicine conditioning and symptomatic treatment, although they cannot be completely cured. Yes, although Sun Quan's physical condition is deteriorating, the former Emperor of Eastern Wu, who was like a jade, has been tortured by illness to the point that he is almost unable to form a ~ human form, but he has always held on to his immortality.