Chapter 252: Zhuge Jin: No matter how Zhou Yu chooses, we can say that he has won the scheme
Because Chen Deng was too greedy and used too much force in "striking the morale of the enemy before the decisive battle", he finally scared the cautious Zhou Yu away.
This change really made Zhuge Jin spend a lot of time, and he had to find another way to deal with the main force of the Sun family's naval army that had withdrawn to the south of the Yangtze River.
But in any case, Liu Beijun spent a small price to kill nearly 10,000 of the main force of Sun Cejun's 30,000 naval army, and the remaining more than 20,000 fled back, which is already a good victory-
That is, if you put it on the Zhuge brothers, you will feel that such a result is not enough, and you want more, but if you change to any other general in the world, you will be absolutely satisfied.
Fortunately, Zhuge Jin is a person who knows how to look forward, and the enemy who has already run away has nothing to worry about, so he can think about it again.
Only two or three days later, several new alternative yin tricks popped up in his mind, and then he found Guan Yu, Tai Shici and Chen Deng to sit down and discuss it together.
Zhuge Jin got straight to the point and directly said his core idea: "This time Zhou Yu is defeated, he will inevitably be held accountable, Sun Ce may have absolute trust in Zhou Yu, but it is useless." Sun Ce himself couldn't do everything internally, and many things had to be discussed with those veterans and former allies left by Sun Jian.
Therefore, we just need to find a way to push Zhou Yu to temporarily lose the right to directly lead the troops, and change someone to be the commander, or even Sun Ce himself as the commander. Then, spread some news that 'Zhou Yu had been tricked into retiring from the army before, and if he didn't withdraw from the army, he wouldn't suffer such a big loss at all'.
If you have a nose and an eye and add the details carefully, it will inevitably make the Jiangdong Army unable to hold its breath and come to a decisive battle with us in a water war. ”
Guan Yu, Tai Shici, and Chen Deng all thought deeply of the first thing they said to Zhuge Jin, and they also knew a little bit about the contradictions in Jiangdong's internal struggle for power and profit. Many of the armies in Jiangdong were private soldiers and were temporarily transferred to a governor during the war.
But once the battle is lost, some parts will suffer heavy losses, and some parts will retreat in their entirety. Troops who have been sacrificed or cut off or who are on dangerous missions will definitely complain. The other troops, out of suspicion and fear that they will be sacrificed next time, will definitely make a fuss, and then the governor may have to be replaced.
However, regarding the second half of what Zhuge Jin said, continuing to spread false news, how to spread it specifically, Guan Yu and others were still confused, and they didn't expect it for the time being.
"I wonder what rumors Ziyu plans to spread?" Guan Yu didn't bother to use his brain, and asked directly.
Zhuge Jin shook the folding fan and said in a probing tone:
"It's very simple, didn't Zhou Yu believe in Yuanlong's threat before, and found out that the Cao army really did not enter Kouhuaibei, so the main force of our army was not contained, and when the main reinforcements of our army arrived, Zhou Yu would be outnumbered and inevitably defeated?
Then we will lie to them again and make them think that Zhou Yu's decision was actually a misjudgment. ”
Guan Yu and Chen Deng couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, and asked in unison in disbelief: "Do you want to spread the news that Cao Jun has entered Kouhuai North again?" It's not going to happen. ”
Chen Deng paused, and did not forget to add: "And now even the Sun family knows with certainty that Yuan Cao is fighting by the Yellow River, and the fierce battle in Yanjin is in full swing." Time is not on our side, how can some news be capricious and one word a day, and the enemy will not believe it. ”
Zhuge Jin pointed out sharply: "I didn't say that Cao Cao must be used as an excuse again, but it is completely possible to use Liu Biao and Zhang Xian - Cao Cao has indeed won over Zhang Xian, and he must have won over."
At present, I have not heard of any news of a war with Zhang Xian on the lord's side, probably just because Zhang Xian is also watching, and wants to wait for Liu Biao to send troops to the north to attack Wancheng first, or wait for the lord and Sun Ce to fight fiercely and have no time to take care of him before taking action.
But these are not important, Zhang Xian may do it, this reason makes sense, let's make a time difference, let's say that the main force of the lord has already fought with Zhang Xian, so the thunder and rain are small on the Jiangdong side. In another month, once all the four counties of Jingnan are breached, and the main force returns to the division and goes down the river, the Sun family will be finished!
In this way, we can say that Zhou Yu's retreat this time is 'missing the God-given opportunity for the Sun family to break our army for the last time', and it's no wonder that those veterans under Sun Ce don't jump up! ”
Guan Yu and Chen Deng suddenly realized.
That's right! It is to make Sun Ce have a kind of "decisive battle with Liu Beijun this month, and you can only fight one Guan Yu." If the decisive battle is fought again in two months, he may have to fight Liu Bei and Guan Yu at the same time, and the enemy will be two or three times stronger than now! ”
gave you a chance to add fuel to the tactics and broke each one, but you didn't seize it, and there would be no such shop after this village!
If you make up for this trick, it will become an absolute nirvana, no matter whether Guangling Chengnan and Zhou Yu retreat or not that night, there is no solution.
If you don't retreat, I will let you fight a decisive battle with extremely low morale, and if you retreat, I will falsify information to make you mistakenly think that you have won a bigger plan.
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Zhuge Jin's new round of strategy was quickly implemented.
Liu Beijun's conditions for engaging in rumors and rebellion are still very good, who let Liu Beijun occupy part of the land in Jiangnan and Jiangbei at the same time. From Wuhu County in the south of the Yangtze River to Niuzhu, Jurong, and Moling to spread rumors, and send out meticulous works, it is simply mercury and pervasive.
On the other hand, even if Zhuge Jin's rumors have not yet spread, Zhou Yu's life is already very difficult.
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After all, he worked hard this time in vain, and he lost his troops. The only thing he is commendable about is that "although he was defeated, the loss of troops was not too much", but since ancient times, no general has been pardoned because of a small loss.
Even if you fight desperately and rush and suffer even worse losses, but you finally achieve some results, it will be easier to shirk the blame after the war.
Of course, Sun Ce did not criticize Zhou Yu, and after Zhou Yu was defeated and retreated, the two talked openly and honestly.
Zhou Yu also said to Sun Ce in his heart that he thought that withdrawing the army was the best choice under the circumstances: "Bo Fu, it's not that I'm cowardly, this battle is really before I decided to send troops, I fell for Chen Deng's trick!"
We mistakenly thought that Guangling was empty and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses in Xuzhou were all gathered in Huaibei, so we attacked Guangling. But Guangling is not empty at all.
Secondly, we had too high expectations for the siege vehicle given by Cao Cao, and we felt that we were fully prepared, so we dared to do it. In the end, it turned out that the siege vehicle was only similar in shape but not in god, and there were great hidden dangers - of course, after this battle, I roughly figured out the hidden dangers, and I would definitely be able to change it for a month later.
If you are not at ease, you can set aside a few more months, and we will try it out on our own, and see how we can destroy this siege vehicle by all kinds of means we can think of, and whether it can be compensated.
The defeat in this battle was doomed when the troops were dispatched, because our news was too closed, and all the communication with other external princes was cut off by Liu Bei. As long as Liu Bei wants to hide it from us, he may even delay the news for several months! ”
After listening to Zhou Yu's complaints, Sun Ce also paid attention to this issue thoroughly.
The information blockade of our own side is really miserable. Although Liu Bei can't be sealed permanently, it is definitely possible to make a time difference. There are some things that Liu Bei wants Sun Ce to know, so they can be spread as soon as possible, and some things that he doesn't want him to know, so he will seal them for two more months. This is too fatal for a strategic miscalculation.
The point is, Sun Ce knew this, and he still didn't have a solution.
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Sun Ce himself can forgive Zhou Yu, and he also knows that "non-war crimes are also".
But the others around Sun Ce may not be.
In the first five days after Zhou Yu's withdrawal, the Jiangdong Army was always shrouded in a strange atmosphere of faint complaints, but no one spoke first.
Until the eighth day of the fourth month, on the sixth day after the defeat and retreat, Zhu Zhi, the Taishou of Wu County, who was in Wu County, asked someone to send a letter.
The content of the letter, on the one hand, was to report to Sun Ce on the combat readiness of Wu County's soldiers and horses, and at the same time, he was also concerned about the defeat of Guangling the day before yesterday, and asked whether Wu County needed to send follow-up troops to Dantu for reinforcements.
Zhu Zhi's letter did not mean to blame Zhou Yu, but because Zhu Zhi was in the rear and did not understand the situation, he cared about it.
But Zhu Zhi's letter became the fuse for accountability, and many people who were not high enough in status, or who were embarrassed to speak, all poured out after Zhu Zhi opened his mouth.
Among them, the most representative is Danyang Taishou and Sun Jian's cousin Xu Kun.
Xu Kun can also be regarded as a top veteran, after all, before Sun Ce took office as "Yangzhou Mu", the three real power guards under him were Danyang Taishou Xu Kun, Wujun Taishou Zhu Zhi, and Huiji Taishou Sun Ce himself.
Now that Sun Ce has been nominally promoted to an official, Huiji Taishou has become his uncle Wu Jing. However, Wu Jing is also old, and his health is not very good, and Sun Ce has also considered that once his uncle is seriously ill, he can only let his second brother Sun Quan take over as Huiji Taishou.
If Sun Quan is too young to serve the public, only by asking Gu Yong, the number one person in the Wu Hui family, to give Sun Quan the county prince and actually take power, can he appease the hearts of the Huiji.
This is a bit far, in a word, Xu Kun, who now jumped out to question Zhou Yu, is definitely also a veteran of the real power faction in the Sun family.
After Zhu Zhi sent a letter concerned about the defeat, Xu Kun took advantage of the situation to find Sun Ce, forced Chen Zhouyu to retreat, and also pulled Cheng Pu and Huang Gai together.
Huang Gai didn't want to pull Zhou Yu off the horse, but when Cheng Pu found him, he just wanted him to make a statement and testify to everyone, and Huang Gai couldn't refuse.
After all, he was the deputy general of the Battle of Guangling, and Huang Gai witnessed many of Zhou Yu's decisions.
After the three generals met Sun Ce, Xu Kun went straight to the point and said: "Lord! Recently, I heard that the scout detective reported that although Cao Thief was dragged by Yuan Shao and did not attack Liu Bei in person, he was actually a treacherous and cunning man who had buried a lot of ambushes.
Liu Biaotu of Jingzhou was empty in Nanyang, and went north to Wancheng with soldiers and horses. Changsha Zhang Xian, like the lord, was persuaded by Cao Cao to take the position of 'Jingzhou Mu', calling Liu Biao a rebel who betrayed the imperial court, raised troops to occupy Jingnan, and attacked Liu Biao.
Jiangxia Liu Bei immediately sent the main force south to attack Changsha to compete with Liu Biao for the opportunity to counter the rebellion, and it seems that he also fought with Liu Biao, just to grab the territory! From this point of view, Gong Jin's withdrawal from the army this time was actually a trick of Zhuge Jin! When Chen Deng was deterred, he was really just bluffing to scare him!
At that time, if our army was desperate, we could still take advantage of the fact that the enemy army was only 20,000 or 30,000 to try to break them all! If it drags on any longer, until Liu Bei finishes fighting Changsha and returns to the east, how can we fight! Please see Zhou Yu's mistake in delaying the fighter! With military discipline! ”
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