Chapter 58 Liu Xuan and Liu Chen

Of course, the so-called ups and downs are only superficial.

As early as the beginning of the attack on Jizhou, Kong Ming and I analyzed various situations and formulated countermeasures for various possible problems.

To tell the truth, the joint attack on Ji Han by Wei and Wu is completely within our consideration.

It was not the first time that Cao Wei and Eastern Wu had joined forces to attack Ji Han, from the time Eastern Wu captured Jingzhou and Sun Liu's rebellion, until I later joined forces with Sun Deng in the White Emperor City, during which Eastern Wu had always been a vassal state of Cao Wei and nominally a vassal. At the time of the Weinan War, Ji Han was in internal and external difficulties, and at the same time was attacked by Cao Wei, Eastern Wu, Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Xiqiang five powerful forces at the same time, Cao Pi concentrated nearly 300,000 horses from Cao Wei's elite, led by him personally, Cao Zhen, Zhang He, Sima Yi, Chen Qun and other famous generals fought in person, as well as the overall support of the old fox Jia Xu in the rear, did not let Ji Han be destroyed, and now Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, naturally it is even more unlikely to cause us too much danger.

Of course, there are two sides to it, any problems on the battlefield are possible, and although Ji Han is strong, he is not strong enough to win the war on all fronts in the country at the same time. When we concentrate all our forces on Jizhou, we have to face the emptiness of Yizhou and Sizhou.

Kong Ming currently only has about 40,000 men and horses in Sizhou, Pang De and Guo Huai, but they are facing about 150,000 troops of Sima Yi, Cao Xiu and the Eastern Wu coalition. Although Guo Huai is also a general, whether his loyalty can be guaranteed is still between the two.

Kong Ming's eldest son, Zhuge Qiao, faced Lu Xun with 30,000 horses with 10,000 horses. Lu Boyan's skills are superb, his attack, soaring above the nine heavens, his guard, hidden deep under the nine earths, I know history better than anyone in the present world to know this culprit who has greatly damaged Ji Han's vitality. Although Zhuge Qiao is also known as wise. But for now, he is not a figure of equal weight to Lu Xun.

In Yizhou, Chen Zhi used 3,000 naval troops and 5,000 troops to fight against the enemy Zhuge Jin's father and son with more than 20,000 people. Although Chen Zhi has always said with his fourth uncle Zhao Yun that he has been commanding the elite soldiers of Bai'er before leaving his father's Chinese army, and he can be regarded as a general, but he is more than steady, and he is not enough to change, and he is still a little worse than Zhuge Jin.

For now. The pressure on all three fronts is very strong. It is conceivable that in the next few months, Ji Han's defeat on the battlefield will definitely happen, but Kong Ming's Sizhou does not have to worry about me, with him alone, Sima Yi, who was scared in the battle of Luoyang and has two hearts for Cao Wei, will not fight with him with all his might, and Cao Xiu's skills are strong. But he is not as brave as Pang De, his wisdom is not as good as Kong Ming, and the Wei and Wu families formed an alliance due to the huge pressure of Ji Han, and the knot in each other's hearts has not disappeared, and they are wary of each other's opponents. It won't be long before even if we don't destroy it, there will be contradictions between them. What's more, Cao Wei was defeated at the beginning, if he wanted to fight a war for a long time with no obvious benefits. It was something that his national strength could not bear, so the Sizhou battlefield, which was under the most pressure, was not very tense. In fact, if it weren't for the sudden illness of the fourth uncle, Sizhou could be said to be as stable as Mount Tai, with Cao Xiu's skills, if he wanted to please him in front of him, as long as he was embarrassed.

Compared with Sizhou, which is not dangerous, the two battlefields in Yizhou are more subtle. Zhuge Jin's father and son are both unborn geniuses. And Lu Xun is even more open-minded, and the countryman is unparalleled, and among the people who fight against him, whether it is Chen Zhi or Zhuge Qiao, they are all insufficient. However, I don't have high requirements for them, for Chen Dao, my requirement is not to lose Chengdu, and for Zhuge Qiao, my requirement is not to lose Nanzheng. The rest of the place. I don't blame them for losing it. Hear my request. Everyone, including Kong Ming, was so surprised that they almost fell. This request seems to be joking with Ji Han's fate. But I know it. My bottom line is to exchange a certain amount of land for time to train talents. The reason why I generously offered an unbearable reserve price was to make them relax themselves and boldly command.

Although Kong Ming's practice of doing everything has been criticized countless times, it is difficult for him to correct. This time, he was also prepared to work tirelessly to formulate a complete set of combat plans to ensure that Ji Han would not have any major failures. I don't agree, the more difficult it is, the more you can train your talents. At present, although there is no shortage of talents in Ji Han, the phenomenon of lack of talent is still emerging, if Kong Ming and these old characters stop doing it, Ji Han's overall strength will drop a lot. This crisis is handled by these young people. Without wind and rain, towering trees will never grow. Only by letting them do it can their true abilities be tested.

For this reason, I also sent Hesse to Luoyang to personally send a message to tell Kong Ming that he should minimize the command of the officers and soldiers on the front line. --The Battle of Jizhou, although Kong Ming did not participate, but every step on the battlefield was like a precise chessboard, which was carefully calculated by Kong Ming. The trouble of this kind of calculation is unimaginable to ordinary people, if he is always like this, then the end of the hard work will only be repeated. These are all reported to me by the imperial doctor I sent to Luoyang, Zhang Ji's grandson "Xiao Zhongjing" Zhang Fang. These reports made me feel moved and filled with remorse. In the past two years, due to the eagerness of Cao, the unpredictable situation of the war, and the dangers lurking, I seem to care a lot less about Kong Ming. In the future, I will reduce his control over the local battlefield and let him only work on central planning.

When the storm is surging, it is the day when the heroes are revealed, these two battlefields, I will all be training, if Chen Zhi and Zhuge Qiao can't conduct the most appropriate command according to their actual situation, then they are not qualified battlefield commanders, proving that they are incompetent.

Although Kong Ming didn't think so, he couldn't change it, after all, I was the emperor, and he was the prime minister, when I restricted his rights, especially when everyone knew that I restricted his rights for the sake of his body, even the rafters around him would use twelve points of strength to cooperate with me.

In this way, I put Zhuge Qiao and Chen Zhi on the cusp.

And I ignored one point, I think Zhuge Jin is generous, even if he attacks Yizhou, he will not use all his strength, Chen Zhi and others should resist as much as possible. And Lu Xun and Zhuge Qiao have a son-in-law relationship, and there will be room for it no matter what. As a result, I thought wrong, I overestimated Zhuge Jin's ability to control the army and underestimated Lu Xun's loyalty to Eastern Wu. As a result, one Zhuge Ke and one Lu Xun almost broke through my minimum goal. Of course, that's an afterthought.

At this time, I was only half focused on state affairs, and the other half was on family affairs.

I'm a person who doesn't worry much about housework, and I don't even have 10% of all my energy at home. This situation is very strange, when I was a child, I valued my family the most, and for the warmth of home, I could even risk my life to go to Koto. But when I became the prince of the world to support the affairs of the military, and later became the emperor in charge of one-third of the living beings in the world, I seemed to put all my energy into state affairs. I don't know if this was because of the dream that taught me about history as a child, or because of natural selection when I grew up, or simply because I was moved by the ministers like Kong Ming, who had done their best and made their life goals after death.

But this time the family matter is more important, and my Xian Empress Xingcai is pregnant. Xingcai is the daughter of my third uncle Zhang Fei, my queen of the main palace, beautiful and dignified, talented and civil, presiding over the six palaces, is my most outstanding arm. She once galloped a horse and danced a gun in front of the palace to fight the military guard camp, and also quietly helped me solve various crises in the palace, so that I don't have to worry about family affairs. Although I am also beautiful in the harem, I really love her alone. She has been married to me for eight years, and she has never conceived a child before that, which has become a problem for her, and now, she and I can finally smile comfortingly.

This child has been touching my heart since the day I was conceived, because he is the crystallization of me and Xingcai, and he will be my sister-in-law. I had extremely high expectations for him, as evidenced by the name I had prepared for him early on.

He is not called Liu Yao, but Liu Chen. The name Liu Chen is the name of my fifth son in history. He has the most ancestral style, won the hearts of the people, and finally when Shu Han was broken, he chose to commit suicide with his family in the Taimiao to be loyal.

If I know history in my childhood dreams what is the most embarrassing thing for me, then Liu Chen is definitely the most important factor that made me choose the path of life again.

Thankfully, I've changed, and the world has changed. Even if it's just Adou, as long as he makes up his mind, he can still make amazing results.

Everyone knows how important Xingcai occupies in my heart, in the harem, she is the only woman who can persuade me to change my mind, and the only woman who can enter my imperial study in Weiyang Palace at will. Her concern for me is silent, but everywhere. She is my strongest backing.

When she began to vomit when she was pregnant, I was so nervous that I tried my best to get her delicious fruits, and even rebuilt the fruit orchard of Fuli Palace for her, and called famous flower and carpenter to cultivate flowers and fruits for Xingcai to taste. There was a raisin brought from the Western Regions by the Hu people from the Western Regions and the appetite of Xingcai, and I gave him 5,000 yuan. To be honest, I didn't care so much when Wang Guiren was pregnant with a child, and it seemed that I just nodded to the female officer who came to report the news, and continued to read the music.

My eldest son Liu Xuan is three years old, I like him very much, one day I was holding him to write, he suddenly asked me: "Father, is the little brother going to be the emperor in the future?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Liu Xuan opened a pair of bright big eyes, and said in a milky voice: "Then, I will be a general in the future, he is my younger brother, I let him, he is the emperor, I will be a general, and I will fight the bad guys of Cao Wei for him." ”