Not long ago, when his army attacked Chencang, he received a letter from Meng Da to Li Yan. Meng Da mentioned many times in the letter that he wanted to leave Wei and return to Han.
Zhuge Liang wrote a very serious letter to Meng Da, urging the latter to make a decision early if he had the heart to surrender, otherwise he would change later.
After the letter was sent, no reply was received from Meng Da.
Zhuge Liang guessed that Meng Da did not really want to surrender to the Shu Han, but when he saw the Shu army retreating, he hesitated, weighed his options, and waited for a price to sell.
To put it bluntly, Meng Da would never contact Shu Han if it was not an urgent matter.
In the past, Mengda surrendered to Wei. On the surface, it was forced, but in fact there was another reason.
At that time, the battle in Hanzhong was over, Shangyong, and the new city was initially decided. Guan Yu launched the Battle of Jingzhou without Liu Bei's permission, and asked Liu Feng and Meng Da to send troops to surround Xu Huang.
Because the three counties were first attached, the local forces were intertwined and needed someone to guard them. The general Liu Feng and the partial general Meng Da combined their efforts and rejected Guan Yu's request for help.
Unexpectedly, the situation of the war changed too quickly. In an instant, Guan Yu was defeated and killed by Soochow, leaving no one with a chance to save the situation.
After Guan Yu's defeat, Meng Da was challenged by Liu Feng again, and he surrendered to Wei in anger. He was reused by Cao Pi and led troops to attack the three counties guarded by Liu Feng.
With the help of his two brothers, Nei Ying Shen Dan and Shen Yi, Meng Da quickly defeated Liu Feng and captured Dongsan County, where he has been stationed ever since.
After Liu Feng was defeated and returned to Chengdu, he was severely reprimanded by Liu Bei. First, he blamed Liu Feng for not saving Guan Yu, and second, he blamed Liu Feng for bullying Meng Da and causing him to defect to Wei. Liu Feng was ordered to commit suicide to apologize.
In other words, Meng Da took the initiative to surrender to the Wei Dynasty for the sake of "rich and prosperous future", not because he had no choice but to surrender to the Wei Dynasty because he was facing a dead situation.
After Mengda surrendered to the Wei Dynasty, he lived a good life at first. He was appreciated and put into use by Cao Pi. He became the governor of Xincheng, guarded the three counties of Shangyong and Jincheng, and was entrusted with the task of defending the southwest.
But the good times did not last long, Cao Pi died of illness, and Cao Rui came to the throne. Many people in the court were jealous of Meng Da, who "was a surrendered general, but held great power; he was called Wei Chen, but he was actually the emperor of the earth." They frequently made remarks in front of Wei Lord Cao Rui,
He advised Cao Rui to remove Meng Da from his post and appoint him as a sinecure.
Meng Da was therefore worried and thought about his retreat day and night. So he wrote the letter he sent to Li Yan.
If you look at Mengda's life, you will know what kind of person he was.
A refined egoist.
Meng Da was originally Liu Zhang's general. Seeing that Liu Bei was powerful, he defected to Liu Bei together with Fazheng in the 16th year of Jian'an (211). In the 24th year of Jian'an (219), seeing that the Shu Kingdom was poor, he defected to Liu Bei again.
He surrendered to the Kingdom of Wei; now (228 years) he was forced by Wei Chen and wanted to defect to the Kingdom of Shu...
Such selfish people are absolutely unreliable.
Although Zhuge Liang was confident in uniting all the forces that could be united, he was not sure that he could fully control a duplicitous man like Meng Da.
If you can't control it, then there is only...
Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang made up his mind, spread out the brocade silk, and splashed ink on it in one go.
Ma Su looked over and saw that Zhuge Liang's handwriting was vigorous and powerful, his writing was neat and smooth, his writing was gorgeous, and it was written in one go. The whole letter was like a work of art.
The content of the letter is extremely provocative and can be summed up in one sentence: "I am leading an army of 150,000 to besiege Sima Yi in Longyou. If you are a brother, come and kill him!"
After writing the letter, Zhuge Liang summoned his confidants and ordered them to take the letter and go down the river through Hanzhong to meet Mengda.
In order to secure the Longnan area that he had captured, Zhuge Liang tried his best and used all his methods this time.
Even at the expense of Meng Da.
Ma Su knew that in fact, Zhuge Liang's primary goal of the Northern Expedition was never to directly eliminate Wei, but to capture Longyou and break Wei's so-called advantage of "taking Shu and taking Long".
The "Long" in "Delong Wangshu" refers to the Longyou area, not Hanzhong.
Taking Longyou will not only greatly enhance the national power, but also change the passive situation of Shu.
By that time, Shu, Han, and Long were connected, and Shu not only had a springboard for the Northern Expedition, but also had greater strategic room for maneuver.
Then he asked Sun Quan to "in the spirit of alliance, order the generals to march north and attack the Central Plains together" to form a semi-encirclement of Cao Wei. This would change the situation of Shu Han only occupying a remote corner of Sichuan and Shu, far away from the central plains of Qinchuan and Sichuan, and being isolated and alone.
situation.
Therefore, the initial goal of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was not to conquer the world, but to plot Longyou, so as to achieve a situation where the Shu Han regime could safely separate itself and protect itself.
As long as this is understood, all military actions will have a basis.
Of course, this is one of the main reasons why Wei Yan's "Ziwu Valley Plot" was not adopted.
Although it was called the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Zhuge Liang never thought of attacking Guanzhong from the beginning. The place he wanted to capture first was Longyou. He just wanted to capture Longyou.
In this case, Ziwu Valley's conspiracy is naturally useless.
Ma Di thought for a while, he hadn't studied the new system thoroughly yet, and just getting military power was not enough insurance, so he raised his hand and said:
"Prime Minister, I have a plan that can destroy Jianwei in ten days."
Zhuge Liang waved his fan and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, I also have a plan."
"Prime Minister, in this case, we might as well write down our strategies on the palms of our hands to see if the hero sees the same thing?" Ma Su suggested.
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, agreed to the proposal, and wrote his answer with a pen in his hand.
Ma Su also wrote down what he was thinking in the palm of his hand.
The two looked at each other, smiled, and spread their palms together.
I saw the words "Tune the tiger away from the mountain" written clearly on the palm of Zhuge Liang's hand.
On the palm of Ma Su's hand were written the words "Prime Minister's clever plan".
"..." Zhuge Liang was speechless for a while, knowing that Ma Di's stubbornness was showing up again.
Ma Di chuckled, cupped his hands and said, "I will follow the Prime Minister's clever plan and go to regain Jianwei!"
"But these three thousand soldiers and horses..."
"I'll give you another two thousand!"
"Thank you, Prime Minister!"
Ma Su was overjoyed and left excitedly with his troops.
As soon as Fang left the camp and had traveled less than ten miles, Ma Su took up his position, got into the makeshift tent, and quickly opened the light screen.
[Warning, warning! The host needs to repay the total amount owed by the system: 632. Please repay as soon as possible!]
[Warning, warning! The host’s repayment time limit remains: 1 day. Please repay as soon as possible!]
[Congratulations, the host has become the leader again, and all functions of the system have been fully activated. 】
[Information to the host: The system has made amendments to the rules for obtaining stability points. The host can only "avoid an inevitable death", "win a war", or kill/capture/surrender the "enemy" in the simulation scene.
Only by "side soldiers/general" can you get stability points. Note: Each soldier can get 1 stability point, the bias will be 100 points, the leader will be 200 points, and winning a war will be 300 points. Avoiding an inevitable death will still
It’s 20 points.]
[Information to the host: The main/side missions and copy experience will be opened after the end of the Northern Expedition and will be deactivated before the next Shu-Han foreign war begins. All mysteries need to be explored by the host.]
"..."
"You don't want me to be a coward? You want to encourage me to be tough with the opponent!" Ma Su unhappily clicked on "Personal Attributes".
Name: Ma Su.
Force: 48 (Wen Yi, Wu Mo)
Intelligence: 72 (Wu San, Wen Mo San)
Prestige: 45 (can command up to 30,000 horses)
Robustness: 8 (poor)
Amount owed: 200.
Loan: 440 (including interest 40).
After reading the personal information, Ma Su quickly entered the simulation scene without thinking too much.
