When the sky got bright the next day, the large locust tree, which originally had dense leaves, was mostly bare, and the bottom of the tree was covered with a thick layer of locust leaves.
The four tribes lit a fire in the distance, roasting the remaining antelope meat from last night, while looking at this place in admiration...
Ma Su calmly jumped down from the tree, took away a leg of lamb, and returned to the tree to serve as a tree scout.
The battle last night was very fierce.
After a rough-and-tumble battle, Su Shang's 5,000 troops finally succeeded in overpowering the Xianbei camp. Under the triple blow of darkness, fire, and sneak attacks, the Xianbei soldiers panicked and collapsed. Kirbineng's son-in-law Yu Zhuge
Jian is missing.
By the time Kirby received the news and led his army back, the Wei army had already occupied the northern exit of Luochuankou and built fortifications, cutting the Xianbei army into two sections, the north and the south, making it difficult to see the beginning and the end.
The current situation is like this. There are currently more than 15,000 troops under Bi Gui's command, while there are only more than 10,000 troops under Kirby Neng's command, and they are blocked at Luochuankou in the north; Kirby Neng's third brother is commanding the other
More than 30,000 soldiers and horses were blocked in the canyon south of Luochuankou and were unable to leave.
The apparent strength comparison is: Kirby 3, Bigui 1.
But in fact, because the Xianbei army was cut off, the strength comparison should be: Kirby Neng 1, Bi Gui 1.5; or Kirby Neng's third brother 2, Bi Gui 1.
Although Kirby was able to successfully defeat Bu Dugen and Xie Guini in this battle and subdue their hundreds of thousands of troops, he lost more than 30,000 elite cavalry.
Next, as long as Bi Gui can hold on at Luochuankou for ten days and wait until Wei General Qin Lang's 50,000 reinforcements arrive and launch a pincer attack on the Xianbei cavalry stranded south of Luochuankou, then the outcome of the war will be obvious.
Fortunately, Luochuankou is not the only passage leading to the Yunzhong Plain, and Kirby Neng's third brother is not an ordinary person. In addition, the Xianbei people also have buggy high-dimensional means of eagle messaging, so after learning that
As soon as the battle situation changed, Kirby ordered his third brother Alstair to lead his army back through a detour and join him before making further plans.
The war between Wei and Xianbei has almost declared the defeat of Kirbineng at this point. Although this is the same as the final result of the war between the two sides in the original time and space, Ma Su feels a little puzzling.
Logically speaking, with his help, Kirby's battle losses should be smaller. At least there would be no problem in defeating the coalition forces of Bigui and Budugen. But the current result is that Bigui only lost a quarter of his troops.
The horses were still capable of fighting, while Kirby's 80,000-strong army had lost almost half.
The damage in this battle was too great.
Since he came to this era, Ma Di has not dared to make a move that significantly changed the course of historical development. Just like he could kill Zhang He at the beginning but stayed until he conquered Liangzhou, and he could swallow Soochow but had to pretend to do it on the mainland.
Home is the same thing.
It has greatly changed the course of history, which has done more harm than good to Ma Di. Although having a system allows him to be invincible at any time, before he can control enough voice, the situation where the three kingdoms are still in conflict will undoubtedly give him
Larger operating space.
Once the three-legged confrontation collapsed, Ma Su lost a true knowledge and foresight of the future and could only rely on the system to slowly explore.
This will undoubtedly greatly lengthen the process of helping the Han Dynasty dominate the world.
Therefore, Kirby must win this war, otherwise the rise of Xianbei will be hit head-on, and the Shu Han will also fall into the dilemma of being alone.
Today's situation is just like the Battle of Guan Yu and Jingzhou in the past. The one who struck first won first, and then laid the hidden danger of a disastrous defeat.
In fact, if Guan Yu had not been defeated at that time, the Shu Han would have had a chance to dominate the world - that was also the best chance for the Shu Han.
Although in the macroscopic view of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei has always been the strongest, followed by Soochow and Shu Han, but this is not the case every year. For example, after the Battle of Hanzhong, in the months before Guan Yu took the initiative to launch the Battle of Xiangfan
, the national power of Shu Han is higher than Soochow, and second only to Cao Wei.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), when Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao and occupied Hanzhong, the Shu Han's strength had surpassed Soochow and ranked second in the world. Even at this moment of victory, Liu Bei still remained calm enough and did not
Continuing to launch an attack on Cao Cao, he instead followed Zhuge Liang's idea of "Long Zhong Dui", hibernating, recuperating, and waiting for the opportunity for change in the world.
At that time, Cao Cao was already sixty-four years old. He had been fighting in the world for more than thirty years. His body was already in disarray and he was suffering from many illnesses. In addition, he was already extremely old in this era. It is foreseeable that Cao Cao's remaining
Time is running out. At this time, Liu Bei is high-spirited and willing to wait for this opportunity.
Zhuge Liang once said in "Longzhong Dui" that when the world changes, the Shu Han Dynasty will be able to defeat Cao Wei in one fell swoop as soon as it leaves Hanzhong towards Qinchuan and once it leaves Jingzhou towards Wanluo. At this time, the road to the northern expedition from Hanzhong has been opened.
The next step is to rest and train the army and wait for the world to change. According to the historical trajectory, Cao Cao died in the second year after the Battle of Hanzhong. This is in line with Zhuge Liang's sentence "The world will change."
After Cao Cao's death, Cao Wei must have fallen into a short-term chaos, and people's hearts were floating. This is a good time for Liu and Sun's alliance to make the Northern Expedition!
However, before Liu Bei could wait for Cao Cao's death, Jingzhou was lost. Just two months after the Battle of Hanzhong, Guan Yu suddenly launched the Battle of Xiangfan.
Guan Yu's military action to attack Fancheng was not authorized by Liu Bei, and it was impossible for Liu Bei to issue such an order, because the Battle of Hanzhong lasted for one year and seven months, and both the process and the result were extremely difficult. Shu Han was in urgent need of recuperation.
It was impossible to take the initiative to provoke a war. This could be seen from the fact that during the six months from Guan Yu's initiation of the war to the end, Shu Han watched the whole process.
It can be said that the entire Shu Han senior officials were confused about Guan Yu's actions and did not know or understand why he launched this war.
From the perspective of looking at the overall situation, it is obvious that Guan Yu launched this war at the wrong time. Liu Bei, who had just fought a battle, could not give him any help at all.
But from Guan Yu's point of view, there is nothing wrong with launching this war. At that time, Guan Yu saw Liu Bei's victory in Hanzhong, so he sent Liu Feng and Meng Da down the Han River to capture the three counties of Shangyong, which were almost connected with Jingzhou. Many generals also established
Great achievements. Only he has been in Jingzhou for eight years, but he has not achieved any great achievements. On the contrary, he was attacked by Soochow four years ago and took away three counties. The situation is not very comfortable. Guan Yu also wants to gain some military exploits to prove that he is the first Shu Han.
The positions of the two were worthy of their names, and they were not held by nepotism. However, Guan Yu did not expect that the war would turn out to be so big in the end, with all three countries participating in the battle.
As early as during the Battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to attack Guan Yu in Jingzhou, hoping to put pressure on the Shu Han in Jingzhou and force Liu Bei to divide his troops for rescue, thereby reducing the pressure Cao Wei faced in Hanzhong.
As a result, there was a rebellion within Cao Ren and he was unable to use large-scale troops against Guan Yu.
After Guan Yu discovered Cao Ren's internal weakness, he took the opportunity to launch an attack on Xiangyang and Fancheng. Cao Ren was forced to defend the city. Seeing that the situation in Jingzhou was tight, Cao Cao ordered Yu Jin to lead the seven armies to rescue.
Yu Jin's army numbered about 30,000, which was about the same strength as Guan Yu. Yu Jin was a famous general in Cao Wei and knew the art of war well, not inferior to Guan Yu. Cao Cao had high hopes for this trip. As a result, Yu Jin camped on the ground, but it happened to rain heavily and water started to form on the ground.
Several feet away, Cao's army was not good at water warfare and lacked warships, so they could only abandon their baggage and flee to higher ground to avoid the water. Guan Yu ordered his men to mobilize the warships to attack, and finally captured Yu Jin and San from the isolated islands separated by floods.
Wan Caojun.
The whole army was wiped out, which directly broke the balance between the two sides, leaving a vacuum in Cao Wei's military strength in the Xiangfan area. Cao Cao was forced to mobilize other armies to reinforce Xiangfan, and teamed up with Sun Quan to attack Jingzhou.
Sun Quan originally sided with Guan Yu, but Guan Yu's record in the Battle of Xiangfan was too terrifying. The soldiers captured 30,000 elite Wei soldiers with almost no casualties. If Guan Yu were to digest these Wei soldiers, the pattern of Jingzhou would also be completely changed.
When the time comes, whether Guan Yu continues to attack Jingzhou in the north or goes east into the hinterland of Soochow, it will be difficult for the Wu army to resist. In order to eliminate the threat of Guan Yu and to fully occupy the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, Sun Quan decided to cooperate with Cao Cao and launch a sneak attack on Jingzhou.
At the same time, Guan Yu was also dazzled by the easy victory. He did not expect that Cao Jun was so weak that he could not help fighting, so he decided to expand the results and let everyone in the world see what Guan Yu could do. So Guan Yu continued to deploy troops to defend Jingzhou
, to reinforce the front line. In the end, the rear area was empty, and was successfully attacked by the Wu army. In an instant, Jingzhou changed hands.
At this point, the Shu Han lost Jingzhou, and consequently the three Shangyongdong counties, Guan Yu and tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Feng. Not only was their strength greatly reduced, but they also missed an excellent opportunity to unify the world.
Originally, as long as Guan Yu did not launch the Battle of Xiangfan, Liu Bei could start the Northern Expedition when Cao Cao died the next year and Cao Wei was in chaos. However, due to Guan Yu's great success, Jingzhou was lost. Shu Han's plan to conduct a two-pronged Northern Expedition became a luxury and could only
Waiting for subsequent opportunities.
All in all, from the surface, Cao Wei does have the best chance of unifying the world, and in the original time and space, it was indeed Cao Wei who destroyed Shu Han, and Cao Wei's successor, the Western Jin Dynasty, destroyed Dongwu and unified the world.
But in addition to Cao Wei, the Shu Han before the Battle of Xiangfan also had the opportunity to unify the world. That was also the best opportunity. As long as Guan Yu did not launch the Battle of Xiangfan and did not give Soochow an opportunity to take advantage of it. After the Shu Han stabilized the situation, they would
There is a chance to dominate the world.
As for Soochow, there is absolutely no chance of unifying the world. This is not only because the Soochow army's land warfare capabilities are insufficient, but also because the Soochow monarchs and ministers are not enterprising enough. Especially when Sun Quan came to power, his goal was to "isolate the southeast and divide it."
"Rule the river". After achieving this goal, Sun Quan quickly lost his enterprising spirit.
Not to mention that the intricately connected aristocratic families in Soochow all just wanted to stay in the south of the Yangtze River and enjoy life, and did not want to cooperate with Sun Quan's Northern Expedition. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of Soochow's army showed two extremes. During the defensive war, the soldiers were 100% invested.
Gods will kill gods if they block them, and Buddhas will kill Buddhas if they block Buddhas. Once they go abroad to fight, the combat effectiveness of Soochow soldiers will immediately drop by more than 90%.
Judging from the original time and space, the Shu Han actually had another half chance to dominate the world. This half chance appeared during Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition. Zhuge Liang's previous Northern Expeditions all failed due to various problems.
During the Fifth Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang had successfully solved various problems, especially the most important logistical problem of the Shu army. Through measures such as wooden oxen and horse disgrace and establishing farmland in Cao Wei's territory, the Shu Han Dynasty was able to launch a protracted war with the Wei army, and the situation became increasingly difficult.
Tilt towards Shuhan.
Unfortunately, Sima Yi was too calm and did not give Zhuge Liang a chance for a decisive battle. If Zhuge Liang had been allowed to live a few more years, he might not have had the opportunity to completely occupy Guanzhong, regain Longliang, build the foundation for a strong Qin, and then create an opportunity to unify the world.
Many people have a wrong understanding of the wars between the Three Kingdoms and even ancient times. They believe that even if the stronger country loses a battle and the main army is wiped out, it will not be destroyed by the weak country.
Actually this kind of view is wrong.
The efficiency of the military mobilization force of ancient countries was very low. Once a main force was lost, it was difficult to replace it in a short period of time. In this era, for example, after the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao, who had all his main forces wiped out, was still at an advantage.
One side, however, no longer has the ability to take the initiative to attack and is forced into a defensive posture.
After the Battle of Chibi, after Cao Cao's entire army was wiped out, he lost his ability to fight with water and lost the possibility of unifying the world.
After the Battle of Yiling, the Shu Han not only completely lost its water warfare capabilities, but also lost most of its elite army. It even lost ten counties and almost destroyed the country on the spot.
Later, in the Battle of Liangzhou initiated by Ma Su, after tens of thousands of Zhang He's cavalry were wiped out, Cao Wei lost most of its field capabilities. Even though its national strength was still stronger than that of Shu Han, it had to adopt a defensive posture. Of course, since Cao Wei still had a considerable number of cavalry
, so it still has certain field combat capabilities. It adopts a defensive posture because there are enemies on all sides and there are various factions competing internally, so it has to defend.
In other words, the 50,000 troops and horses brought by Qin Lang and the more than 10,000 cavalry under the command of Bi Gui, the governor of Bingzhou, were Cao Wei's last field force.
As long as these two soldiers and horses are killed, Cao Wei will lose all its cavalry.
In this way, Cao Wei, who only had infantry left, became a piece of meat on the chopping board in front of the Shu Han, who had tens of thousands of cavalry.
Considering this, Ma Su decided to take action.
After eating, Ma Di led his four generals and the great wizard down the mountain to Kebineng's camp.
Kirby can cut off his roots and return to the mud at the same time.
As soon as he saw Ma Su arriving, Kirby Neng's eyes immediately turned red. He turned around, pointed his sword at him, and said sarcastically: "You came thousands of miles to help me, and this is how you helped me? Where were you during the battle yesterday?"
?Where were you during the battle last night? Now that the war is over, you are back. How is this behavior different from that of a villain?"
"..." Ma Su raised his hands to signal Kirby to calm down.
"Your Majesty, I have a plan to defeat the Wei army."
"..."
Hearing this, Kirby quickly calmed down and put away his sword without hesitation: "Oh? Tell me!"
Ma Su walked slowly in front of Kirby, put his hands behind his back, clasped the iron box tightly, and said calmly: "Lure the enemy to go deep, gather them and annihilate them!"
Lin San, a fish pond businessman, woke up and found himself lying naked in the wilderness. This world was very much like a certain dynasty in ancient times, and was filled with absurd atmosphere...
