Ran Min was really drunk, drunk, and unconscious.

Qin Mu asked Ran Min to be helped to sleep in the cabin, took care of himself, and then walked out of the cabin, and was greeted by Xun Ji, who was still pacing back and forth.

"Lord Qin, it's not me, this time Your Majesty is really too disagreeable. With the strength of wine, he was just a poet, but before the war, he drank alcohol and sprinkled it like this in front of so many generals of the Jin Kingdom, verbally insulting the queen mother and princess of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I am afraid that people will not be convinced! And the next has not yet been unified, Your Majesty is so profligate, this wind can't last! ”

"I know."

"Oops! My Lord Qin, since you know, why didn't you let me dissuade Your Majesty at the banquet? If this is a catastrophe, our Wei army will be defeated and Jiankang, and then the good situation will be in vain! The situation we have managed to build is all in vain! ”

Hearing this, Qin Mu sighed faintly and said: "Xun Ji, I know all of yours, but Your Majesty is on the rise, if you dissuade it at this time, Your Majesty will scold you at the least, and dismiss the official at the worst." ”

"What if His Majesty wants to cut off my head? I can't watch Your Majesty fall like this! Now that the national strength of the Great Wei is thriving and the momentum is like a rainbow, how can it be destroyed like this? Before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was originally capable of unification, but he was defeated and lost this excellent opportunity. Do you let Your Majesty repeat the mistakes of Cao Cao, and let my Wei army repeat the mistakes of Cao Jun back then? ”

Xun Ji and Qin Mu are both people who are familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, and they are no strangers to the Battle of Chibi.

But why would the Cao army, which had more than 200,000 troops, fail to defeat the Sun-Liu coalition army, which had only 50,000 or 60,000 troops?

In the past, Cao Cao pacified the north, with an army of unprecedented size, and won Jingzhou without a fight, which was even better than expected. But based on the pre-war situation in Chibi, Cao Cao was almost certain to lose.

First of all, Jingzhou is not stable and needs to be digested. Cao Cao's biggest help in taking Jingzhou was the orthodox faction of the imperial court under Liu Cong's account, such as Kuai Yue, Han Song and others. Cao Cao was fond of killing, and the local officials and people in Jingzhou did not welcome it.

Liu Biao loves the people like a son and has a good reputation in Jingzhou, and Liu Qi also fights against Cao Cao.

In this situation, once the battle with the Sun-Liu coalition army is lost, Jingzhou may fall apart. In fact, after the Battle of Chibi, a large area of Jingzhou was taken away.

Second, the naval force is weak. Cao Cao unified the north, and there was no need for a water army, and there was no water army.

Before heading south to Jingzhou, Cao Cao drilled the Xuanwu Pond in Yecheng to train the navy, and only a few months later, this army set off, and its strength can be imagined.

Cao Cao mainly relied on the Jingzhou naval army, which had never been an opponent of Jiangdong, and was taken away by Guan Yu with 10,000, not to mention the low morale at this time.

Third, there were no strategists who worked closely with Cao Cao. Before the Chibi War, Cao Cao's advisers were Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You and others, but Guo Jia had died, Xun Yu was estranged from Cao Cao, Cheng Yu made too many enemies to convince the public, Cui Yan, Sima Yi, Kuai Yue and others had just joined Cao Cao, and Jia Xu was not reused by Cao Cao in his life.

Cao Cao went to Jiangling, to carry out the alliance with Sun Liu, Jia Xu: "Ming Gong eliminated Yuan Shao, pacified Hannan, shocked the Quartet, if Jingzhou property, reward the soldiers, appease the people, Jiangdong can be decided without a fight", it is not recommended to go to war, but Cao Cao did not listen.

Fourth, Cao Cao, who was immersed in the joy of victory, made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

Cao Cao occupied the four counties of Jiangbei in Jingzhou at that time: Nanyang County, Nan County, Zhangling County, and Jiangxia County, and Liu Bei and Liu Qi had only one county territory.

Cao Cao feels good about himself and thinks that he is about to complete the great cause of reunification, "singing about wine, life is geometric"! Driven by this mentality, Cao Cao did not have a clear understanding and did not seriously prepare for war.

And among these four reasons, Ran Min committed the most fatal one - underestimating the enemy!

"Lord Xun, our army has won too many battles over the years, and the Wei army is almost invincible. Now not only have the soldiers become arrogant soldiers, but even His Majesty will inevitably have some arrogant emotions. However, it should be sparse and not blocked! ”

"What do you mean by this, Lord Qin? Won't Your Majesty listen to any exhortation now? Can you and I ignore his advice? ”

"Why don't you try to advise?"

Xun Ji was scared and stopped.

"Lord Qin, Your Majesty's prestige is growing now, and the king's spirit is growing, but being so stubborn and self-serving, I'm afraid it's not a good thing!"

Mu Chang Qin sighed and said, "When Your Majesty suffers that day, he will wake up." And it is not without reason that Your Majesty is so profligate today. In fact, I know very well that in the past year or so, the Great War of Wei and Jin, His Majesty has been under too much pressure, and he needs to vent well. ”

"I hope so."

Ran Min is really unreasonable this time.

The war was imminent, and he actually took his generals to drink, and he himself was drunk and drunk. What Ran Min did during the banquet really made the generals of the Jin Kingdom feel cold, if the war did not go well, I am afraid that these generals would turn against him!

At this time, a colonel came over and announced: "Two adults, the speedboat in front has come to report that the Hu army in the direction of Baishilei, Xuanwu City and Nanlangya County is evacuating!" Within a radius of 100 miles from Jiankang City, it has become a white land! ”

"Yao Xiang and Pu Jing both ran away?" Qin Mu was not surprised, and said, "How long will it take for the pioneer's fleet to dock?" ”

"A stick of incense will be reliable in time!"

"Good! The order was sent down, and the whole army quickly crossed the river! Hit Jiankang! ”

"No!"

"Lord Xun, in your opinion, how will the Eastern Jin Dynasty court deal with it when it knows that my army is coming?"

"Surrender, resist, or abandon the city."

Xun Ji shook his head and said: "It is unlikely to surrender, after all, the foundation of the Jin Kingdom is still there, and there is still the capital to resist." Resistance will definitely exist, but most of it is to delay time, this time our army is known as 500,000 horses, the momentum is huge, how can the Jin people not be afraid? So they will definitely abandon the city and flee. ”

"I agree with you." Qin Mu said in a deep voice: "Where will the Jin people flee to abandon the city and flee?" I think there are only three places they can choose, one is Jiangling, one is Nanchang, and the other is Chengdu, all three of which are ideal places for the Jin Kingdom to move their capitals, but one is worse than the other. ”

"First of all, Chengdu can be ruled out." Xun Ji squinted his eyes and said: "It has only been a few years since the fall of the Cheng Han Dynasty, and the hearts of the people have not been attached, and there are many foreign races in the local area, which is biased towards the north, and it is so far away from Jiankang. So I think it should be impossible for the Jin people to move the capital to Chengdu. There is also Nanchang can also be excluded, Nanchang has a tangible place of beauty, the mountains and rivers are closed, and the barrier is true, but the transportation is not convenient, unless the Jin Kingdom wants to always be in a corner of peace, no longer enterprising, otherwise it will never be the capital of Nanchang. ”

"So, the Jin people will move the capital to Jiangling?"

"It's very likely!"

Xun Ji said: "The city of Jiangling was formerly known as Ying, the capital of Chu State, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present, there have been more than 20 generations of emperors to build their capitals here, which lasted hundreds of years. Since the Han Dynasty, Jiangling City has existed as the seat of Jingzhou for a long time, so it is often called Jiangling with Jingzhou! Gangneung is very prosperous, second only to Jiankang. Jiangling controls Bashu in the west, connects Xianghan in the north, takes the rivers and lakes in the north, and refers to Wuyue, which is the key point of the Central Plains to communicate with Lingnan, and is called an important town in the southeast, and it is also a metropolis. ”

"Only by moving the capital to Jiangling can the Eastern Jin Dynasty be stabilized. Moreover, Jiangling is stationed with heavy troops of the Jin State all the year round, the people's hearts are wanted, and the terrain is dangerous, and it is even more difficult for our Wei army to capture Jiangling! ”

Qin Mu's thoughts were similar to Xun Ji's, so he said: "In this way, we should also arrange an army to intercept the fleeing Eastern Jin clan clans in the middle of the road?" ”

"It's best to capture the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Chu Garlic and Sima Yu, and kill them all. In this way, the Jin State will no longer be able to pose any kind of threat to my Great Wei. ”

"Good!"

"Xiakou and Yicheng are the only way for Jiankang to Jiangling, and no matter whether the Jin people take the water route or the land route, they will pass through these two places. Therefore, I propose to send two capable generals, each of whom will lead more than 10,000 cavalry first, occupy Xiakou and Yicheng, and take the opportunity to intercept the Jin people who are transiting! ”

"Good. Let the two generals, Ran Ke and Wei Liao, go. ”

Qin Mu said again: "What about the Hu people? Pu Jing and Yao Xiang's subordinates numbered more than 100,000 people, where would they flee? ”

"Thieves."

Xun Ji and Qin Mu looked at each other and smiled.

The next is so big, there is no place for the subordinates under Yao Xiang and Pu Jing to live, where can they flee to? They are already in the hinterland of Kyushu, China, and can only flee around like thieves, where else can they go?

They had no choice but to surrender to the Wei State!

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