It didn't take long for them to reach Xiakou. Xiakou is where the naval camp of Eastern Wu is located, the main force of the naval army of Eastern Wu was originally stationed here, and Guan Gong was already ready for a big battle, but when he came here, he found that the naval camp of Eastern Wu had already been empty.

There was no one in the huge naval camp, which made Guan Gong very unhappy, and in a fit of anger, he ordered the camp to be set on fire to vent his anger. The fire burned for a day and a night before it was extinguished, and then he ordered his army to continue eastward in pursuit of the enemy.

At this time, Wang Fu came out to dissuade Guan Gong again: "Duke Ming, Dongwu has been operating the Xiakoushui Army Camp since the time of Zhou Gongjin, and it has been more than 20 years now. At that time, Cao Mengde was known as a million army to press the border, and they did not give up this camp, which shows the importance of the Xiakou camp to Eastern Wu. Now that they have abandoned this camp, I am afraid that this is a deception. ”

Guan Gong said disdainfully when he heard this: "I'm afraid that he will do something, even if they have an ambush, with the current firepower of our army, they will definitely have no return." ”

"Ming Gong, that's right, but as the saying goes, guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, if we know that the enemy has set a trap, we will automatically jump down, resulting in unnecessary casualties, very unwise?" Wang Fu said.

"Then according to the opinion of Guoshan (Wang Fuzi), what should it be." Guan Gong asked.

"It's better to slow down for a while, wait for everything to be prepared, and advance slowly, it is best to wait for the army on the north and south banks, and it is the safest for the three armies to go hand in hand."

"It's too slow, if we go downstream, we will be able to destroy Soochow in ten days, unify the world, and establish immortality. But if you slow down, I don't know if it's the Year of the Monkey. Guan Gong said dissatisfied.

"The subordinates know that Ming Gong is anxious, but this is a military matter, and he is really impatient."

"If only you knew I was in a hurry." Before Wang Fu finished speaking, Guan Gong snatched the conversation and said, "The people of Eastern Wu are all insidious and cunning, and I can't wait to drink their blood and eat their flesh." If it weren't for the fact that there weren't many ships, I would have swung my army eastward a few years ago to destroy its country. Now that we have a strong ship and a cannon, what are we waiting for?

You have also seen the power of these strong ships and cannons, with these sharp weapons in hand, what else is there to be afraid of, any conspiracy and trickery is nothing more than a paper tiger in the face of such absolute strength. I have already missed the battle to destroy Wei, and I don't want to miss the battle to destroy Wu again! "Guan Gong is categorical.

Wang Fu saw that he couldn't persuade Guan Gong, so he turned his head and gave Chief of Staff Zhuge Wang a look. For more than a year after the destruction of the Wei State, Liu Hou not only devoted himself to promoting shipbuilding work and developing domestic industry and commerce, but also did not stop building the army.

One of the most important tasks was to promote the staff system among all Han troops. Therefore, now every Han army has a staff or staff department, whether it is Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army who went to Tibet to conquer Tibet, or the Jingzhou army led by Guan Gong, they all have a staff department.

Zhuge Wang is Zhuge Jun's eldest son, Zhuge Liang's nephew, twenty-four years old, after graduating from the Han Longteng Academy, he entered the Military Research Institute for further study, and now serves as the chief of staff of the Jingzhou Navy Staff Department. After receiving Wang Fu's hint from his eyes, he stood up, hugged his fists at Guan Gong, and said:

"General Qiyu, according to the deduction of the General Staff, there is an eighty percent chance that the Soochow Army will have a trap in front for us to drill. Although the courage of the general to know that there is a tiger in the mountains and to go to the tiger mountain is commendable, His Majesty once said that soldiers are the most valuable asset of the troops, and generals at all levels should give priority to minimizing the casualties of soldiers when formulating combat plans.

For this reason, we can delay the end of the war, we can not care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, and we can also not worry about the loss of equipment, food, and materials. If the general advances rashly this time, although with the powerful firepower of our army, he may not be able to break the conspiracy and tricks of Soochow, but it is certain that there will be many dead and wounded soldiers, which will violate the operational principles set by His Majesty. ”

Guan Gong raised his eyebrows, his face was full of anger, Zhuge Wang's sentence "rash advance" reminded him of the past of the Northern Expedition to Xiangfan. Of the 100,000 troops who fought that year, only a few thousand people fled back in the end, to put it bluntly, this has a lot to do with his stubbornness and self-use back then, and when the rear is not stable, he rushed forward alone, which is a lifelong pain in his heart, and he can't let go of it until now.

In addition to being dissatisfied with Zhuge Wang's way of speaking, he also had a lot of opinions about Liu Hou's battle plan. Since ancient times, warfare has not heard of prioritizing the lives of soldiers.

As a general in the army, he has also read a lot of books on the art of war over the years, and has heard that "soldiers are noble and fast", and in order to gain time for battle, he would rather run to death and exhaust soldiers; I have heard of those who do not hesitate to fight for every soldier in order to occupy or protect strategic places; I've heard of people fighting to the death to protect important strategic materials, but I've never heard that the death or injury of soldiers is more important than anything else.

He's X, what did this little Adou learn from that art of war? Guan Gong secretly slandered the little emperor and son-in-law. In this era, the most valuable thing is human life, and it is no exaggeration to say that a human life is not worth more than a few hundred stones of grain. If the war situation requires a choice between protecting a few hundred stone of food and sacrificing a soldier's life, it is estimated that most generals will choose food and ignore the lives of soldiers.

However, his son-in-law values human life more than anything else, and sometimes values not only his own human life, but even the life of the enemy.

Where is this where he X is fighting, it's just a game. These requirements of the little emperor brought great trouble to the generals in the army to formulate strategies and tactics, and made the combat difficulty of the Han army rise by several levels.

Guan Gong also didn't know where his son-in-law, the emperor, learned these messy things, which was obviously not in the category of the art of war, because it did not conform to the principles of the art of war at all. If you want to talk about the source, it is estimated that it is likely to come from his father, his sworn brother who talks about benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long.

There may be another source of this kind of thinking, that is, his master, the Taoist Zuo Ci, and it is not surprising that Taoism emphasizes compassion and has the virtue of a good life in heaven. No matter where Xiao Adou's thinking comes from, since it is from the emperor's "supreme instruction", the generals in the army should still abide by it.

Although Guan Gong's status in the Han Dynasty and the Han army is very respectful, he cannot disobey the emperor's holy decree. The feudal society has the moral code and code of conduct of the feudal society, and the creed of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith is not only a requirement for scholars, but also widely publicized in the Han army.

Guan Gong is also a martial saint, and the consciousness of the saint is leveraged, so although he is dissatisfied, after Zhuge Wang moved out of the emperor's "supreme instruction", he could only temporarily endure the breath in his heart and asked, "Then what are the plans of the General Staff?" ”