Chapter 140: Strategic Vision [Five Watches]
"Before today, if someone asked me what was the funniest thing I watched this year, I would give a lot of answers, but I would never have imagined that it would be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But after today, I have only one answer, that is, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I TM am now the whole person is about to die of laughter, I never thought that the prime minister also had such a time to laugh, it was so funny! β
This is the first sentence that appears in the group after the latest three-chapter chapter update, and it also represents the voice of all readers.
No way, this plot is really a joke.
In the plot updated yesterday, Cao Cao was unexpectedly defeated, because the various foreshadowing in the early stage was very perfect and meticulous, so even the most angry prime minister party gladly accepted this defeat in the face of it.
They can only sigh that the prime minister is really drifting and waves, and it is unreasonable for this battle to be undefeated. At the same time, if this battle is won, then the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is estimated to be over here.
So yesterday, although it was the fiasco of the Prime Minister's Party, the whole Chibi burned a sea of fire, but I was surprised that all the readers' emotions were quite stable, and at the same time, everyone knew in their hearts that the plot of the second day update should be the afterglow of the climax, and everyone should gather their own gains.
Sun Quan won a big victory, and then took half of Jingzhou, and Liu Bei also won a big victory, won half of Jingzhou, Cao Cao gave up Jingzhou in embarrassment, and the two sides faced off again on the border line of Yuzhou and Xuzhou, as well as Yanzhou, basically this is the plot.
The next chapter should be quite stable, the two sides devour their own interests, no one thought that Liu Xu could make anything at this time, but it turns out that Liu Xu not only did it, but also made all the readers almost stupid.
It turned out that at the beginning of the chapter, Cao Cao was really miserable.
first met LΓΌ Meng in Wulin, and Cao Cao could only leave Zhang Liao to resist LΓΌ Meng.
Then Ling Tong came, fortunately, Xu Huang arrived in time, and met three thousand military horses, which seemed to be better, but he met Gan Ning, and there were only 1,000 of the 3,000 soldiers and horses left, and two generals were killed.
Cao Cao could only continue to escape, but he didn't expect to meet Lu Xun and Tai Shici, and thanks to Zhang He's arrival at this time, he was spared, but Zhang He was also thrown back to break off.
When Liu Xu read this paragraph, he also felt very magical, Cao Cao successively left Wen Ping, Zhang Liao, and Zhang He to give his own broken queen, but none of the three died, and they each became the nightmare of Shu Han and Dongwu, which was really amazing.
Fortunately, after that, he finally did not encounter anyone chasing and intercepting him, and fled all the way to the west of Wulin, the north of Yidu, and at the same time Jingzhou was in front, Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh proudly, Liu Xu described that this laughter alarmed the birds in the surrounding empty streams.
The surrounding generals were all disgraced, and when they saw that their prime minister was still laughing, they immediately asked puzzledly, "Why is the prime minister laughing?" β
Then Cao Cao said the classic line: "I don't laugh at others, I laugh at Zhou Yu without a plan, Zhuge Liang is less wise." If I ambush an army here in advance when I use my troops, what can I do? β
As a result, Cao Cao's words fell, and Zhao Yun killed him directly, and Cao Cao, who was shocked, almost fell off his horse, so he could only let Xu Huang and Zhang He, the two unlucky guys, block Zhao Yun, and he only cared about running away.
This concludes the first chapter.
In fact, it's okay that this chapter has been updated, most readers haven't had time to laugh, and only some readers complained, "Is the prime minister stupid, at this time, he still says such things." β
But soon the prime minister's party came out and explained, "No, how can the prime minister be so superficial, there must be a reason why he talks like this!" β
"What is the reason?" Others asked rhetorically.
"This ......" The Prime Minister's Party himself was suddenly dumb, but fortunately, Xiuyan helped them out of the siege in time, "Cao Cao did this for a reason, and he was very witty. β
"You think, Cao Cao's 830,000 army was almost burned down by the Yangtze River, and the remaining remnants of the defeated generals were also chased and killed by the soldiers and horses of Eastern Wu for so long, and their spirit and spirit must have declined to the extreme, and they fled for a night in a row, they must have hoped to get some spiritual comfort at this time."
"So the prime minister deliberately said such things at this time, the purpose is to boost morale, who would have thought that Zhuge Liang would have arranged a lot of people here." Xiu flue.
"That's right! That's right! That's it, yes! The prime minister's party immediately echoed, completely forgetting that Xiuyan was actually the leader of the imperial uncle's party.
However, there is only one paragraph of discussion about the prime minister's laughter, and everyone is more about discussing how handsome Zhao Yun who appeared at the end is too handsome, after all, almost half of the entire Romance of the Three Kingdoms group is now a fan of Zhao Yun.
At the same time, some people felt sorry for the prime minister and said, "The prime minister is too merciful, if he had ordered archery at Nagasaka Slope, where would there be such humiliation today!" β
"Wait, I remember that in the chapter updated yesterday, Zhuge Liang seems to have arranged three groups of people by the lord!" Some readers said that everyone reacted at this time, and yesterday actually described the story that happened after Zhuge Liang escaped from Zhou Yu's military camp.
After Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei's army converged, he had already concluded that Zhou Yu would win the battle, and then began to arrange manpower, three of which were aimed at Cao Cao, and in the future, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were arranged to go to three positions to intercept Cao Cao.
"Do you think the prime minister will meet Zhang Fei and Guan Yu next?" Readers looked at this sentence and were stunned for a moment, and then began to mourn in silence for the Prime Minister.
In response to this plot of Zhuge Liang's arrangement of his troops, the focus of most readers is how Zhuge Liang anticipated the enemy's opportunity and how he was invincible, and successively sent Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun to count Cao Cao's escape route to death, and played with Prime Minister Cao between applause.
Few people will notice that in fact, Zhuge Liang also arranged two other groups of people.
All the way are Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, and Liu Feng, let them each drive the boat, along the river to capture the defeated army, seize all kinds of military equipment.
On the other side, Liu Qi was ordered to defend Wuchang, and the task was also to capture the fleeing soldiers, but not let Liu Qi leave Wuchang.
In Liu Xu's opinion, these two orders are the most important, much more important than what Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun ordered to do before.
First of all, the most important thing is the task of Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, and Liu Feng, that is, to capture the defeated army and seize military equipment.
Later, a famous librarian once said that the most important skill in combat is how to preserve one's own living force and at the same time annihilate the enemy's living force.
So what is a living force?
It's people!
Many generals and emperors, their favorite thing to do is to expand their territory, as if how much territory they have won is what a great thing.
But in fact, talent is the most valuable thing.
This can be seen by comparing the changes in strength between Liu Bei and Eastern Wu after the Battle of Chibi.
Before the Battle of Chibi began, Liu Bei only had an army of less than 20,000 left, but Eastern Wu had an elite army of 50,000, and its strength was far stronger than Liu Bei's.
However, after the Battle of Chibi, Eastern Wu barely got any territory, but Liu Bei almost swallowed the entire Jingzhou.
Why? Could it really be Zhuge Liang's plan to make Zhou Yu angry to death?
Of course not, it is because after winning this battle, Dongwu has exhausted its own strength, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 elite troops left, and it is a little difficult to even maintain the territory of Jiangdong, let alone swallow the entire Jingzhou.
On the contrary, after Liu Bei's battle in Chibi, his army quickly expanded to about 60,000 people, so he could have the strength to quickly take Nanjun and Jiangling and other major cities in Jingzhou in Jiangbei, and at the same time have the spare strength to send another army to capture the four counties of Jingnan.
Because after the Battle of Chibi, the military strength between Liu Bei and Sun Quan had changed dramatically, and Liu Bei had more soldiers.
Where did the 60,000 soldiers come from?
The answer is Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, and Liu Feng, which said that Zhuge Liang's task for them was to capture the defeated army, and in translation, it was to capture a large number of prisoners, and capture all the soldiers who were scattered by Cao Cao, and then become their own soldiers.
It is actually impossible for a fire to burn 830,000 people, after all, people have two legs, and if you run with all your might, you can't outrun the flames?
So except for a small number of soldiers who were really burned to death, most of the rest of the soldiers scattered and fled, which also gave Liu Bei the opportunity to directly capture the prisoners.
At the same time, it is impossible for these soldiers to escape with all kinds of military equipment, and Zhuge Liang has another order, that is, let them seize all kinds of military equipment, which are all kinds of military equipment that Cao Cao has accumulated for most of his life, and in the end they are all cheaper than Liu Bei.
So what is Soochow doing at this time?
Their armies and generals were chasing Cao Cao, wanting to get the greatest credit that could be seen with the naked eye, but they didn't know that the real wealth was actually hidden in the scattered soldiers and military equipment everywhere that no one cared about.
This is also the reason why after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei became the strongest force in the entire Jiangnan, it is really because of the Battle of Chibi, almost all the benefits were swallowed by Liu Bei.
Zhou Yu was just a wage earner, sacrificing a lot of his strength to help Liu Bei drive away Cao Cao, but he couldn't get any practical benefits, which is why Zhou Yu was later angry to death, and at the same time, Sun Quan later didn't want to see Zhou Yu, because Zhou Yu won the tactics, but made a fatal mistake in the overall strategy.
On the contrary, Prime Minister Zhuge saw clearly where the real interests of the whole battle were, and he first sent Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and three people to intercept Cao Cao.
But in fact, everyone knows that Zhuge Liang didn't want to kill Cao Cao at all, he actually did it for Dongwu to see.
Tell Dongwu that I am actively cooperating with your actions, actively cooperating with you to capture Cao Cao, and even the three strongest generals under me have been sent out, you can't say that I have a problem sending a few unknown generals to salvage a little loot!
As for Liu Qi on the other road, it reflects Zhuge Liang's dark side.
First of all, Zhuge Liang asked Liu Qi to hold Wuchang, which seems to be a beautiful difference, but in fact, Wuchang is the only place for Sun Quan to attack Jingzhou, and holding Wuchang is equivalent to blocking Zhou Yu's way to take Jingzhou, which is a very important strategic place, can Zhou Yu take the opportunity to take Jingzhou.
This is to let Liu Qi and Zhou Yu confront each other, and let Liu Qi consume the strength of his descendants to take the pot.
And there is another point that many people overlook.
Cao Cao's army in Chibi can be divided into two parts, one is the soldiers and horses brought from the north, and the other part is the Jingzhou army from the south.
After Cao Cao's army in Chibi collapsed, his soldiers would flee along two different paths.
The soldiers in the south will flee directly along the banks of the Yangtze River, and then they will directly meet Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, and Liu Feng, because Liu Bei is already a native of Jingzhou at this time, so these soldiers surrender Liu Bei There is no psychological barrier, because if they surrender Liu Bei, they can go home directly.
And the soldiers and horses fleeing from the north must go to Hefei through Wuchang, which is also on Liu Qi's only way, although Liu Qi can also capture soldiers through this route.
But these soldiers all want to go back to their homes in the north, how can they stay in the south as soldiers with peace of mind, so even if Liu Qi surrenders these soldiers, it is impossible for them to stay with peace of mind, and in the end these soldiers will only flee.
In this way, the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Liu Qi's hands could not grow, and after Liu Bei's side digested the entire Jingzhou army and had an army of 60,000 people, Liu Qi could no longer pose any threat to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei really had the power to dominate Jingzhou.
This is the huge impact that Zhuge Liang's various orders issued in just one hour after borrowing the east wind had a huge impact on the entire subsequent situation.
It can be said that such an order directly laid the foundation for Liu Bei to be able to take Jingzhou and then march into Yizhou, which is the strategic height
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