In November of the seventh year of Zhang Wu, Cao Pi died of illness in the west hall of the Luoyang Imperial Palace at the age of forty-one.

The crown prince Cao Rong inherited the throne.

After Cao Rong came to power, he urgently appointed Chen Qun as the secretary of the office, recorded the affairs of Shangshu, and was in charge of national government affairs.

Sima Yi was the general of the Fu army and went to Henan to stabilize the situation in the south.

With the death of Cao Xiu, Huainan was lost, and the entire Runan, Peiguo, Xuzhou and Yingchuan areas were attacked by the Han Dynasty.

The most important thing is that there is a serious shortage of troops, so that the entire southern and southeastern defensive lines are extremely weak.

You must know that at present, Cao Wei's national army is also worth 300,000.

The western front is about 100,000, and the southern front, plus a small part of the central army, has a total of only about 200,000 troops.

This is at the cost of giving up border armies such as Youzhou and Bingzhou to gather so many men.

In addition, the hinterlands of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan are now almost unguarded, and the local army is almost non-existent, and only some county officials are left to barely maintain law and order.

On the other hand, on the side of the southern Han Dynasty, the army is unprecedentedly strong.

Shen Chen had 80,000 troops in Chang'an, but there were about 20,000 local troops in Liangzhou, and then there were some garrisons in Hanzhong, Yizhou, and Ningzhou, adding up to about 30,000 or 40,000.

The main force led by Zhuge Liang on the Nanyang side is about 120,000, but Nanjun, Jiangxia, Xiangzhou and even Jiaozhou have local county soldiers, at least more than 30,000.

This is not counting the Jiangxia Water Division, if the Jiangxia Water Division is also counted, the strength of the entire Jingzhou is about 200,000, and there are a lot of soldiers and horses.

The troops on the Yangzhou side are less.

The main reason is that Jiangdong fought with Sun Quan in the early years, which consumed a lot of young and strong labor, and the population declined sharply.

After Liu Bei ascended the throne, he adopted a strategy of recuperation and recuperation in Yangzhou, which indicated that some of the soldiers in Yangzhou were young and strong, and the other part of the soldiers were actually from Jingzhou, so the Jiangdong army was less than 100,000.

There are 80,000 of Guan Yu's main forces, and the other 20,000 are scattered in various counties of Yangzhou, which are the county soldiers of the counties, and it is also this part of the troops to pacify Sun Quan.

In this way, the total strength of the entire south has reached more than 400,000, which is equivalent to the sum of Liu Bei's group and Sun Quan's group in history.

However, although the total strength of Liu Bei's group was more than that of the north, it was not as extreme as Cao Wei and transferred all its troops to the southern border, but stationed a lot of troops and horses in the rear.

For example, the Jiangxia Naval Division is currently stationed in Lingnan, radiating to the two Guangzhous and attacking Jiaozhi. There are also local garrisons in Liangzhou, Yizhou, and Yangzhou to maintain law and order in the counties.

So if you only count the frontal battlefield, in fact, both sides are about 300,000.

It's just that Cao Wei's elite soldiers have been almost wiped out in several battles, and now only a part of the border army can be called elite, like the armies of the Western Front and the Southern Front, which are often mixed with half-old and half-new, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.

Two months later, at the beginning of 228 AD, Liu Chan officially changed to Yuan Jianxing, Cao Wei in the north also changed to Yuan Taihe, and the Han and Wei Southern and Northern Dynasties also officially entered a new stage.

Although Cao Wei's side was mainly defensive before, it was in a strategic defensive counterattack, and there was still room for counterattack.

But now it is complete and has begun to go on the defensive.

In January of Jianxing Spring, Chang'an Weiyang Palace was dripping with snow.

At the end of last year, heavy snow covered the sky and earth in Liangzhou, and a cold snap from the north swept through Guanzhong, causing the temperature here to drop sharply.

Shen Chen sat cross-legged under the corridor of the side hall on the right side of Weiyang Palace, looked at the snowflakes in the courtyard, and put down the pen in his hand.

Recently, when he has nothing to do, he is also writing a book, a book of soldiers.

In literature, he has reached a very high level, and the status of "Zhuziyan", "Shen's Classics" and "Treatise on People" in the southern Han Dynasty is almost comparable to the Confucian Seven Classics, and even exceeds the proportion of the Confucian Seven Classics in the imperial examination.

In terms of martial arts, there is only one way to dominate the world now, and after barely counting the domination of the world, he will send troops to Mobei, sweep the Wuhu such as Xianbei Wuhuan, seal the wolf, Juxu, Yanran, and Le Shi.

This aspect is still on the way, so just like Cao Cao began to write "Mengde's New Book" in his later years, he wrote the soldiers first.

The main thing is that this thing is really useful and can be used to teach students.

Although the art of war is that the dead are alive, and fighting a war requires more improvisation, no one is born a military strategist, and what should be learned still needs to be learned.

It's like no matter how good Li Yunlong is, it is a reason to be a student of Chang Naichao.

Shen Chen stared at the snow that was still falling, he was now waiting for the snow to melt in spring, and it was indeed not a good thing to fight on a snowy day.

"Master."

At this time, Jiang Wei and Deng Ai walked in and saluted Shen Chen.

Shen Chen nodded slightly and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"The river has frozen."

Jiang Wei said.

"Hmm."

Shen Chen said: "It's good news, it means that the weather is already warming, or it won't be long before the snow stops, and we will be able to send troops." ”

Heavy snowfall at the end of last year froze the Yellow River.

But it is a pity that this snow did not appear to the point where it allowed the army to flow unimpeded as when the Northern Wei Dynasty pursued Houyan later.

The ice on the river surface may be two or three inches, that is, four to seven centimeters, and the people standing are relatively reluctant, and the ice will crack when people step on it, not to mention the carriages and horses, and there will definitely be a large-scale collapse.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Shen Chen did not gather troops to attack Hedong.

However, this is not a good thing, because then Cao Jun will definitely let down his vigilance, knowing that they will not be able to cross the river, and when the ice melts, the other party may not be able to react to a sudden attack.

Deng Ai said: "Master, this year we have newly harvested corn million stones, plus the wheat in May last year, the grain and grass are much more abundant. ”

"Not bad."

Shen Chen asked, "How many people are there in Guanzhong now?" ”

"More than 40,000 households, less than 200,000 people."

"There are many fields in Guanzhong, countless wasteland, now what we lack is not land, it is Dingkou, I remember when Cao Cao moved to Liangzhou Qiangdi, Han people to Hedong to farm, grazing?"

"Yes."

"There are quite a lot of Hu people in Xiliang, you can migrate some to Zuo Fengyi, where the grass is now about to grow to the height of people's waists, and in the future, the country will have its own pastures and raise its own horses, and these Hu people can also be sinicized."

"Does Shijun mean that we should migrate some Hu tribes?"

Jiang Wei asked in surprise.

Although Shen Chen's policy in Liangzhou is to adopt the equality of Hu and Han, Guanzhong has always been the habitat of the Han people, will there be some unnecessary trouble if the Hu people are let in?

Shen Chen nodded: "Well, recently, the Southern Huns have sent envoys to secretly defect, and there is no problem in placing some Hu people in Guanzhong." ”

The objective reason for the Wuhu rebellion is that Cao Cao migrated a large number of Hu people to Guanzhong, Bingzhou and Youzhou, resulting in the border of the Han Dynasty being all Hu people.

But the main reason is that the Jin Dynasty itself is too wasteful.

During the Three Kingdoms period in history, which country could not beat the Hu people?

The essence of the Hu people is that if you are strong, he will be your vassal, and if you are weak, he will back.

Shen Chen is not so virgin that he thinks that as long as he is a human being, he should be equal, but he will not discriminate against Hu people who really want to take refuge.

Now Cao Wei is crumbling after several wars, the Southern Xiongnu and some small tribes of the Hu people have secretly surrendered to him, and it happens that the population of Guanzhong is now lacking, and the weeds and basil grow more than cow hair, which is suitable for grazing and breeding.

Therefore, Shen Chen planned to migrate some of the Hu people to Zuo Fengyi, so that he would have a stable source of horses, and when there was a loss of war horses, there was no need to mobilize horses from Liangzhou for thousands of miles.

As for the problems that may arise later?

Hehe.

If the Hu people are obedient and obedient and become the people of the Han Dynasty, then they will be the people of the Han Dynasty, and they will become one of the ethnic minorities of the Han Dynasty when they are naturalized and issued identity certificates in the future.

If you don't obey. Naturally, he could only raise the butcher knife in his hand.

"By the way, Shijun, the batch of new ordnance and equipment built from Hanzhong this year should arrive in a few days, should someone be sent to pick it up?"

Deng Ai remembered something.

"Well, Yan Zhi has a relatively calm personality, let him go."

"Yes."

"Anything else?"

"Yes, recently, there are more and more people around Chang'an, and the scale of the market is getting bigger and bigger, but we haven't set up an official government yet."

"Well, this is a problem, it has always been in the management of the military department before, but the military department can't manage government affairs for a long time"

Shen Chen thought for a while and said: "I will write a letter to Xiangyang later, and ask Xiangyang to send officials over to establish an official government, the government will manage the people, and the army will fight, this is the right reason." ”

"Yes."

Deng Ai nodded.

Now there are 40,000 households around Chang'an.

But before Chang'an, Shen Chen had always been in charge of the military and the people's livelihood, and had not yet set up an official government.

But there are a lot of trivial matters in government affairs, such as people's livelihood, public security, disputes, judgments, etc., all of which are handled by the government, and the army is in charge of these, so what is the difference between it and the military government?

So now that there are people, the supporting facilities that should be there still have to keep up.

The three of them chatted about some trivial matters again, and at present, Jiang Wei and Deng Ai have become middle and senior officers, and in addition to being responsible for the official affairs of docking with him on weekdays, they are also managing government affairs.

Now it seems that it is better to shirk these government affairs as soon as possible.

Just as Shen Chen was dealing with the problems one by one, Pang De hurriedly came in and reported to Shen Chenyu: "Governor Dadu, just now the scouts came to report that the enemy had begun to build a walled wall on the other side of the river. ”

Shen Chen was a little surprised and said, "Repair the wall? Where to repair? ”

"In Kabasakatsu."

"Interesting, what kind of wall?"

"It's just some wooden fences and rammed earth walls, which are quite rudimentary."

Pound described: "Look at them, it looks like they are going to set up camp directly at the ferry port of Kasakatsu? ”

"Build a camp in Kabanjin?"

Deng Ai smiled and said: "The camp is directly on the edge of the river, if we go around it from somewhere else, wouldn't we be able to block them directly by the river?" ”

Jiang Wei scratched his head and said, "Xu Huang doesn't want to learn from the Marquis of Huaiyin?" ”

"It's almost the same as killing yourself."

Shen Chen supported his chin with one hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "There shouldn't be as stupid as a horse in this world." ”

"Shijun said?"

Jiang Wei didn't hear too clearly.

"Nothing."

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "Han Xin can fight against the water because he can command the army perfectly, and when King Zhao's army pursued, the formation was scattered and he rushed away, why did Xu Huang think that he could fight against the water?" ”

"Yes, we have boats, we can attack from the river, and he camps near the water's edge, isn't that a dead end?"

Deng Ai was also puzzled.

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "Could it be that he wants to learn from the First Emperor and build a wall by the river to intercept our army?" ”

"It's possible."

Deng Ai said: "There are only more than 100 miles from north to south of Pubanjin, and if we build a wall on this side, it will be connected to the mountains in the north and the big river in the south, so it will be difficult for our ships to dock. ”

"Whether the ships come to shore or not, I don't think their purpose seems to be to stop the ships, but rather to stop our carriages and horses."

Shen Chen found a map of Hedong from the ground next to him, pointed to it and said, "You see, they are building a wall by the river, and the ships can dock, and our ships are condescending, and the bows and crossbows can't kill them. But if you want to get off the ship with the moon array, and you are blocked by the wall, I'm afraid it won't work. ”

Before, he planned to attack Hedong and the main force to raid Pubanjin head-on, just to use the Qiyue array to deal with Xu Huang's half-crossing attack, so that after his main force successfully crossed the river, he could directly attack Puban County, where Xu Huang was stationed.

Then Zhao Yun and Pang De's partial division went all the way from Huayin to Tongguan, intercepted Cao Zhen's reinforcements, and crossed the river from Longmen all the way to attack Pi's.

In this way, the three-sided containment, regardless of the main force or the partial division, can launch a powerful attack on the Cao army.

But now that Xu Huang is building a wall, his wall is relatively simple, and the distance is short, not as troublesome as the Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang to build, I am afraid that a defense line of more than 100 miles can be built in a few months.

When the time comes, his ships will definitely have no problem docking at Kasakajin, and even the soldiers can go down and tear down the wall, but the chariots and horses will not work.

Without the Moon Formation, Xu Huang could have attacked halfway and raided his disembarking soldiers.

"Listening to Shi Junyi, it seems that Xu Huang is specifically targeting our Moon Array."

Jiang Wei heard Shen Chen's analysis and wondered, "But how did Xu Huang know that we were going to attack with the Moon Array?" ”

"Could it be that our army has an internal response?"

Deng Ai was shocked.

However, Shen Chen of the Moon Array originally planned to use it, but Yu Ban was timid and did not pick it up, resulting in useless success.

Therefore, this formation is also known to only a few people.

If Xu Huang really built a walled wall by the river specifically to deal with the Moon Array, wouldn't that prove that there were spies at the top of the hierarchy?

Shen Chen glanced at him and said, "Don't be suspicious, I read the generalissimo's battle report before, and in the battle of Shazhou Island, the generalissimo used my moon formation, maybe it was said by the Wei soldiers who escaped." ”

"If that's the case, then it's going to be hard for us to get ashore."

Deng Ai hesitated.

People build a walled wall by the river, and the fleet is close to the past, it will definitely be attacked by others, without the cover of chariots and horses, once the Cao army finds them, the cavalry can quickly approach the battlefield, and then use the walled wall to return the color with bows and crossbows to them.

Although their ships are condescending, as long as Xu Huang is not stupid, he will definitely leave a buffer zone of dozens of steps by the river, so that their bows and crossbows will be blocked by the wall, and the wall will become a cover for the enemy.

Only Shen Chen looked at Yutu and pondered for a long time, then pointed to the mountains to the north and said, "It's really interesting, originally I didn't plan to march from here, but if Xu Huang built a wall, wouldn't it be a Maginot Line?" What if I march from here? ”

"What is the Maginot Line?"

A few people were surprised.

"Nothing."

Shen Chen said: "Let him build a wall, and tomorrow send a few clever people to cross the river from here and go to the mountains to reconnoiter and see if he can find a way." If there is no road, it doesn't matter, as long as I can open up a road out, I will let Xu Huang know what it means to be a divine soldier descending from the sky. ”

"Yui!"

A few people should go down.

Pound immediately made arrangements.

Shen Chen looked at the map and fell into deep thought.

There were still a lot of cavalry on Cao's side.

Xu Huang probably guessed that Shen Chen was going to cross the river with a boat to attack.

And Guan Yu used the Moon Formation once in the Huainan region, so he guessed how Shen Chen planned to deal with his cavalry.

Therefore, he built a walled wall, and wanted to abolish the moon array.

But I don't know, if that's the case, then why would I force the wall?

Wouldn't it be nice to get around?

If a road can be found in the northern mountain range, it will definitely surprise Cao Jun at that time.

Today is a chapter, because the power went out during the day, and the call came in the afternoon, I fell asleep in the heat, and I didn't get up until about six o'clock in the afternoon, and I had a headache.

(End of chapter)