"Mr. Fengxiao, the idea you gave to the lord is not good at all! We finally chiseled through Langya from Kaiyang County and hit all the way to Rizhao Port. The result? In those small counties in Langya, Liu Bei had already fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness and hoarded enough supplies!

Now that their supplies are cut off, they don't need to travel supplies at all in the short term! If you want me to say, why does the lord have to strictly order the scope of the battle to be limited to the territory of Langya and gnaw the bones of this kind of mountainous area! If I am allowed to fight the East China Sea and Xiapi in the south, I can even fight all the way to the west of the Haixi in Guangling! ”

After being frustrated in Juxian County and losing his troops, Xiahou Yuan was also extremely depressed.

He originally respected Guo Jia, who was sent to him by Cao Cao, but now he couldn't help but vent his bitterness whenever he had the opportunity.

But standing in the position of a front-line commander, Xiahou Yuan has his own interests, and it is understandable to complain like this.

Because his tactics in the first stage were to find a position that was easy to break through along the junction of the Yimeng Mountains in southern Lunan and the North Jiangsu Plain, and quickly chiseled through.

Then in the second step, there will naturally be two choices: go north and hit the Yimeng Mountains that have been cut down. Go south, hit the fertile northern plain of Pingchuan.

Therefore, after trying to attack the Yimeng Mountains and being frustrated, how could Xiahou Yuan not regret it and not be greedy.

If you didn't have to gnaw on that kind of hard bones and indisputable soldiers, and you were allowed to fight the Northern Jiangsu Plain from the beginning, it would have been over a long time ago! How many times the results of the battle must be the current one!

In the face of Xiahou Yuan's anger, Guo Jia had no choice but to cool him down from the height of the overall situation, and let Xiahou Yuan think about the problem not only military, but also politics and diplomacy.

So Guo Jia persuaded hard: "General Miaocai must not be reckless, how to fight is a question that you should think about as a commander of one side." But who to hit and where to fight, that's what Cao Gong should strategize.

After our army chiseled through the sunshine, if it turned around and went south, it would be easier militarily, but it would lead to a bow without turning back, and we had to tear off the fig leaf of 'crusading against Yuan Tan' and start a full-scale war with Liu Bei, which is not what Cao Gong wants to see at the moment, he looks at the problem at a much higher height than you and me.

Another purpose of our tentative attack on Langya this time is to let Yuan Shang see the sincerity of our southward journey, and let Yuan Shang have the audacity to provoke a civil war between the two Yuan brothers. As long as Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan fight, we can't stop it anymore and don't die, it is possible for us to see the opportunity at any time, tear up the contract with Yuan Shang, and then invade Hebei and take Yecheng!

If you go south to the East China Sea, it is indeed possible to conquer the East China Sea, and even fight all the way to Haixi County, which is bordering the Huai River. But this point of gain, compared with the timely backstabbing of Yuan Shang and taking Yecheng in the future, which is more important?

Therefore, we must control the scope of the battle against Liu Bei and ensure that it is free to be retracted! The life and death of thousands of soldiers, this is not the focus of Cao Gong's concern! Focus on the big picture! ”

Xiahou Yuan was splashed with such a basin of cold water, and he was helpless.

He also knew that military affairs serve politics, and sometimes he could not plan the war situation with the best solution purely military.

Cao Cao must have a higher position and a farther plan, which is not something that he can think of as a general.

But Xiahou Yuan also had his own problems that he had to solve, so he couldn't help but complain angrily: "Then we will continue to gnaw hard here?" Mr. Bonghyo, you can't just point fingers and stop me from doing this, don't let me do that. So what should I do, you also have to plan and improvise! ”

Xiahou Yuan was quite polite to Guo Jia, even if he was so depressed, he only pointed out that the other party could not "only break but not stand, only oppose but not put forward constructive suggestions".

Of course, Guo Jia also knew that this was his duty, and he had the obligation to think of some solution for Xiahou Yuan.

After pondering for a long time, Guo Jia finally put forward two strategies: "General Miaocai's forgiveness, at the beginning, I thought about the problem simply. At present, we have at least two efforts to do in the face of Liu Bei's strong wall and be prepared.

First of all, didn't the general have a heart for the southern invasion of the East China Sea and wanted to pick soft persimmons to pinch. Although this point is not allowed now, I have thought of a compromise and obscure way, I need to send an envoy to Xu Du to ask Cao Gong, and I also need to wait for Zang Ba, Chang Xuan, Sun Guan and other generals to cooperate and do some foreshadowing work.

It may take a month, and at that time, if Cao Gong nods, we can invade the East China Sea south. But until these preparations are completed, it will never work.

Secondly, before waiting for Cao Gong to adjust the overall strategy, we have nothing to do in the past month or so. The general can pretend that Ju County is difficult, and he has no choice but to leave troops to besiege him, and at the same time divide his troops to the north, attack the counties, and plunder the four fields, and wipe out all the coastal seaports in Langya County.

When the time comes, I will also help the general to devise some other small tricks, such as taking advantage of the weakness of the enemy army being surrounded and unable to communicate with each other, spreading false information, and trying to make the defenders of Ju County mistakenly think that the counties are in danger, or do the opposite, so that the defenders of the counties mistakenly think that Ju County is in danger.

Once this deception can work, although it will not force the defenders of the two cities to send troops to rescue each other - they also know that they are not strong, and if they do, they will be in vain. However, it may force Gao Shun to find the weak link in our army's logistics grain routes, and go out of the city to harass and burn the grain routes of our army's besieging troops in various counties. When the time comes, we will attack it with an ambush and defeat Gao Shun outside the city, and then we can do great things! ”

Guo Jia's strategy may be heard by officials who don't look at the map, but in fact, as long as they are a little bit of dialing, it is easy to understand-

Ju County and Zhuxian are both located along the Shushui River, a tributary of Yishui, and Zhuxian is further upstream of Ju County. If Xiahou Yuan felt that Juxian was difficult to take and wanted to surround Juxian, then go around the city and continue to advance to the upper reaches of the river valley to fight Zhuxian, then the army he went to Zhuxian would definitely pass through outside Juxian.

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Because of this large area of Yimeng Mountains, it is relatively easy to march and transport grain only along the Shushui River Valley, and no one can directly cross the reckless mountains to transport grain.

Geographically, the counties are also relatively broader, not as steep and easy to defend as Juxian - when Le Yi led the five-nation coalition army to attack Qi, what failed to capture in the end was only Jimo and Juxian, I haven't heard of how strong the resistance is in that kind of place in Zhuxian, it can be seen that the difficulty of Zhuxian is indeed at least an order of magnitude lower than that of Juxian.

If Xiahou Yuan was impatient to fight Gao Shun, he left a small number of troops to watch Gao Shun, and then continued to go north along the river with the main force, surrounded Lu Su and Zhuge Jun, and then released the rumor that Zhuge Jun was in danger.

So as a general in Gaoshun, does he dare to let Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang's third brother be killed and sit idly by?

Everyone in the world knows that Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang are the number two ministers under Liu Bei.

A military general in Liu Bei's camp, if the people trapped in the Zhuge family don't save him when he sees death, then his career will come to an end.

Moreover, militarily speaking, when the enemy marches along a river, when he bypasses the previous node along the river to attack the latter node, the former node will definitely go out of the city to harass and sabotage when the enemy's grain convoy passes by. If you don't even have the courage to do this, it will be a great dereliction of duty for the defender of the previous node.

To give the simplest example, when Zhang Fei entered Sichuan in "Romance", in order to deal with Yan Yan, Luo Guanzhong also used this strategy: Zhang Fei saw that he couldn't attack Yan Yan head-on, so he pretended to find a small way to bypass. Then Yan Yan thought that he could take advantage of Zhang Fei's main force to pass first, and wait until Zhang Fei's grain and grass baggage passed before ambushing and killing and burning Zhang Fei's materials.

Although there is no specific strategy for Zhang Fei to break Yan Yan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", from the perspective of the right way of the art of war, Luo Guanzhong's deduction is no problem.

Although Guo Jia has not seen Luo Guanzhong's strategy, he himself has read military books, of course, he doesn't need to learn from anyone, he can think of this trick just by relying on his own skills, and it can be regarded as the right way of war.

And he felt that Gao Shun in the city was not a wise general, and with this level of strategy, it might be difficult to deceive the famous general Zhijiang, but it was enough to deceive Gao Shun.

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Guo Jia thought of the adjusted new strategy for Xiahou Yuan, and after Xiahou Yuan accepted it, Cao Jun quickly acted separately according to the new deployment needs.

Guo Jia's strategy has three parts, all of which can be implemented independently and do not need to be interdependent.

Therefore, from the second half of June, Cao Jun continued to move north along the coastline from Rizhao on the one hand, striving to destroy all the large and small seaports in Langya, and increase the intensity of penetration and division.

On the other hand, according to Guo Jia's suggestion, he also divided his heavy troops to bypass Juxian and go north to besiege Zhuxian and threaten Lusu and Zhuge Jun.

Although these two moves are of little practical value, they are also a kind of destruction of Liu Beijun's logistics after all. And the key is that the reputation is good, which is enough to cover up Xiahou Yuan's actual slow progress.

In the battle report handed over to Cao Cao that month, Xiahou Yuan brazenly wrote "200 miles of land from east to west, 600 miles from north to south", as if a large territory had been laid.

But in fact, this vast area of 200 li by 600 li was only carved along the river and coastline, and in fact, not a single fortified city was breached, but only surrounded such a large area of the Yimeng Mountains.

In the Yimeng Mountains, which are 20,000 or 30,000 square kilometers, except for the areas where cities are concentrated, all the other barren mountains have been sent!

After Cao Cao received the battle report, of course he knew about it, but he didn't want to expose it, but instead rewarded Xiahou Yuan heavily and gave him a high-profile promotion.

Xun Yu, who was in Xudu with Cao Cao, also saw the moisture in Xiahou Yuan's battle report, and he thought that Cao Cao was protecting his shortcomings, or he didn't understand it, so he found a private occasion to remind:

"Tomorrow is a big deal, and some things may not be too good to think about. But the good news of General Miaocai...... It is foolish to think that the actual results may not be so great. If this is the case, if the official is promoted to the knighthood and the reward is regained, once the truth is revealed in the future, it may be detrimental to the reputation of the Ming Duke who rewards and punishes clearly and meritocracy......"

When Cao Cao heard this, he just laughed, and then lowered his voice and patted Xun Yu's shoulder: "Don't worry, Wen Ruo, don't you see it?" Of course, Lone knew that Miaocai had falsely reported his military exploits, and it was estimated that this was still taught by Feng Xiao, so he was even more unscrupulous.

However, the imperial court also needed such a victory to boost morale and stabilize the hearts of the people. More importantly, Lone needs to reward the wonderful talent to deceive Yuan Shang and make them overestimate the intensity of the battle between our army and Liu Bei, so that he will be more emboldened. ”

Xun Yu is also a very smart person, of course he understands this truth, he is just afraid that Cao Cao will be deceived.

found that Cao Cao was like a mirror in his heart, but he actually knew everything, and Xun Yu didn't need to be a villain anymore.

Xun Yu was about to retire, but Cao Cao stopped him: "Wen Ruo is slow, since he has come, you might as well see if this backup strategy mentioned in Feng Xiao's secret letter is feasible." ”

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