At this point, the Hanzhong War began under some unforeseen accidents.
Liu Bei's army divided the main battlefield into two directions. On one side, he focused on the Jinniu Road and stormed Yangping Pass to contain a large number of Cao's main forces. On the other side, in the Dingjun Mountain area, the attack and defense were no less bloody than the front.
The tug of war.
The focus of the competition is naturally Dingjun Mountain, a place that once seemed inconspicuous.
However, all this seems to have been anticipated by Cao Jun.
Cao Jun's rear decision-making team, headed by Jiang Wan and assisted by Xun You, controlled the distribution of troops on the front line to the extreme while maintaining absolutely smooth information exchange.
This point fully demonstrates Jiang Wan's ability to assist the political army.
Even Cao Cao mistakenly thought that Xun Yu was beside him after seeing Jiang Wan's meticulous performance and ability to see the overall situation.
There are still some differences between Jiang Wan and Xun Yu.
Not to mention that many years ago Xun Lingjun had a grudge against Cao Cao for usurping the Han Dynasty. In fact, Xun Lingjun's own abilities were not fully adapted to the battlefield.
If we really want to make an analogy, Xiao He who was beside Gaozu may be a counselor who is more in line with the image of Xun Lingjun.
And Jiang Wan, who is good at scheming and has an overview of the whole situation, is always moving closer to Zhang Liang.
It's just... In this troubled world, if you only know how to plot, it's a huge shortcoming.
Therefore, a certain "hermit" who specially assigned Jiang Wan to Hanzhong naturally helped Jiang Wan make up for his shortcomings in conspiracy.
For example, if someone hadn't reminded him, Jiang Wan might not have thought of sending someone to drive a wedge between Liu Zhang and Liu Bei.
In fact, in addition to the two frontal battlefields, unknown to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, the third battlefield opened by Cao Jun may cause far more severe damage to Liu Bei's army than the blow they encountered head-on.
Of course... these are all things for later.
Just as the war is entering a fierce stage, we might as well turn our attention to the other side of the territory that we have not noticed during the Hanzhong War.
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In the late Eastern Han Dynasty and even during the Three Kingdoms period, Hefei was actually a slightly inferior city in all aspects compared to Shouchun.
At that time, Liu Fu was in charge of Shouchun in Yangzhou. On the one hand, he wanted to remove many of the residual influences left by Yuan Shu in Yangzhou. On the other hand, the focus was on the construction of Hefei.
Hefei was originally just a small county town. Due to its advantageous geographical location, it was located above Chao Lake. There were many ways to advance and retreat. In front of it was the Feishui River. Not only was the waterway convenient, the cavalry could also attack unscrupulously from the less undulating areas east of Hefei.
Mercedes Benz Charge.
"Minutes of Du Shi Fang Yu" once recorded that the area around Luzhou: the capital is Huaiyou Qihou, south of the Yangtze River. If you go north from the Dajiang River and get to Hefei, you can ask Shen and Cai to the west, Xu and Shou to the north, and compete for victory in the Central Plains
"If the Central Plains gets Hefei, it will choke the south of the Yangtze River and pinch its back."
These words clearly demonstrate Hefei's current strategic position.
As the old saying goes, the art of war always emphasizes mutual echo.
The so-called power of holding a corner, originally, before Sun Quan showed his ambition, Hefei may not have been that important.
Now, after taking Lujiang, Sun Quan, who owns one state and seven counties, has to consider the future direction if he wants to continue to develop.
Now that Huang Gai was killed in the battle, Cheng Pu of Ganning had been in a state of decline since the battle of Xiangyang. Now, except for the governor Zhou Yu and the prefect of Jiangxia Lu Su, the people currently in charge of the Soochow army were some generals with flaws.
For example, people like Zhu Huan, Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang, their loyal Sun Quan will naturally not worry. After taking away the voice of Zhang Zhao and the gentry group headed by Zhang Zhao in front of the account, Sun Quan became increasingly aware of their ability.
of weakness.
Although Zhang Zhao had various shortcomings, these did not affect Zhang Zhao's decisive role in all matters of Soochow during his reign.
No one is available - the more this happens, the more Sun Quan is thinking about when there will be a stable period of development so that more talents will emerge in Soochow and the impact of the previous defeat will gradually disappear.
To put it bluntly, as long as Hefei, Guangling, Hefei, and Shouchun are still there, as long as any of the three can cross the blockade along the Dongwu River and land on the land of Jiangdong, no one can stop them.
Delay their steps.
Jianye?
Jianye is on a mountain and the terrain is quite high. If reinforcements are cut off, the only result will be death.
As for Kuaiji in Wu County, although it is very close to Jianye, these two city gates have never been subject to war. There is no problem as a backup city defense, but if they face an invasion by a powerful enemy, it is difficult to guarantee that they can survive for a month and a half -
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This is why, in another time and space, Sun Quan led his army around Hefei when he had nothing to do - he was not really a street kid. No one can deny Sun Quan's desire for Hefei and even Shouchun.
But the problem is that after Zhang Liao's guarding, it seemed that there was some kind of attribute restraint. Sun Quan could only achieve some small stage victories near Hefei...such as Wancheng and Lu'an - but when it came to the general offensive
When it came to Hefei, both God and themselves were working hard and never giving up until their family was in vain. This tug-of-war in Hefei lasted for more than ten years.
I don’t know how many souls Sun Quan buried under Hefei City later.
But at least to a certain extent, Sun Quan's decision was impeccable.
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While the battle was raging in Hanzhong, Lu Su hurried from Jiangxia to Jianye without even changing his clothes.
With the same urgency as before, he stepped on, stepped on, and just when Sun Quan had just summoned his ministers to discuss morning affairs, he rashly barged into the banquet again.
Before anyone could speak, Lu Su said what sounded like an excellent opportunity to many people:
"Cao Cao...Cao Cao and Liu Bei, with an army of 200,000, are fighting near Hanzhong!"
"If my calculation is not wrong, they must not have taken care of the defense in the Shouchun area at this moment... A few days ago, my lord left the governor to train in Chaisang, but I know that you are actually ready to take Hefei again... My lord! Machine!
Don’t lose it! What you lose will never come back!”
As soon as this word reached everyone's ears, everyone looked at Sun Quan in front of the case in shock.
Unexpectedly, Sun Quan was stroking his beard at this moment, smiling coldly, as if he had known that this would happen.
"I can't blame me for not meeting the Grand Governor before, my lord! Where is the Grand Governor?"
"Gong Jin?"
The minister asked in shock, and finally elicited a plain and ambitious answer from Sun Quan:
"I had known about this, and I had previously assigned Gong Jin to station in Lujiang - if nothing else happened, there should have been 50,000 troops near Lujiang -"
"But...but!"
Everyone was a little confused, mainly because after rectifying Zhang Zhao and others in the hall, everyone thought that Zhou Yu was going to take over Zhang Zhao's position and take charge of the civil and military affairs. However, for some unknown reason, Zhou Yu suddenly disappeared.
At the right time, Sun Quan released the news that Zhou Yu had been training troops in Chaisang——
"The news that Gong Jin is training troops in Chaisang is just a cover-up trick I used. If you want to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your own family. Don't you guys not understand this?"
Sun Quan sneered, but in fact he was impatient - Hefei... just like its name, this is a piece of fat that Sun Quan has been eyeing for too long. If he can't win it, Sun Quan will not think about it.