Cao Rui never regarded himself as a conservative king.
Although in his early twenties, Cao Cao of Wei Dynasty was different and asserted that "I have been based on you for three generations."
It not only provides a conclusion for the past "Wei seizes the direct descendants", but also vaguely reveals the expectation that Cao Rui can maintain the foundation.
Because in Cao Cao's expectation, Cao Wei, who occupies the richest land in the world, only needs to rest and recuperate, and the situation where the world is falling apart will usher in a great unification, and it will definitely be defended by the third generation of Cao Rui.
However, things didn't go as planned.
After Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, he determined to leave himself a posthumous reputation of pioneering and enterprising.
Without him, it was because Wei Wen and Cao Pi did not give him the capital to maintain success.
Cao Pi only reigned for a few years, but he ignored the poor people's livelihood in all the states and counties and launched three large-scale military expeditions against Soochow, but all of them returned without success!
During Wei Wu's lifetime, the military power accumulated through decades of conquests languished!
No longer afraid of Jiangdong and Bashu!
The most fatal thing is that when Cao Pi was in power, he deployed heavy troops on the Jingxiang and Huainan fronts, and always took Bashu lightly. As a result, Bashu suddenly sent troops to Longyou, which plunged Wei's Yongliang front into irreversible danger!
It also made it a luxury for Wei State to even defend the territory it had during the Wei Wu period.
In this case, how can Cao Rui maintain success?
However, his pioneering ambition did not lead to many achievements.
The Battle of Shiting, Ziwu Valley's Conquest of Shu and the just-concluded Battle of Yongliang are all lackluster. Only the conquest of Liaodong Gongsun and the defeat of Xianbei in the northern frontier are worthy of praise in the history of Qing Dynasty.
Now, Jiangdong secretly attacked Huainan and broke into the new city of Hefei in one fell swoop. Shouchun was trapped in the army. He abandoned the plans of Wu, who had repeatedly defeated the thieves, and the Manchu favorite Jiang Ji who was familiar with Huainan affairs, and turned to what Wang Ji said, who had never been in the battle. He is unwise.
But the plan is very big.
Because he took Wang Ji's words and was just covering up his own intentions.
As a monarch, he was fully aware of Wei's situation of fighting on two fronts.
Therefore, he looked forward to completing the battle in one battle, completely defeating Jiangdong's ambition to look north to the Central Plains, and allowing him to settle down in a corner of Huajiang, so that Wei could concentrate on dealing with it in the next ten years or so. Bashu attacked Guanzhong.
After all, for the Wei State that was established on behalf of the Han Dynasty, Bashu is the enemy of life and death~~
Cao Pi didn't know what was important or light, but Cao Rui knew it.
Yes, the Wei army's advance into Lujiang County is just a pretense.
Cao Rui's real intention was to deceive the enemy and allow the Wei army to attack Ruxukou.
Ruxukou refers to the mouth of Ruxushui (today's Yuxi River) flowing south into the Yangtze River, rather than another port connecting Chaohu Lake.
For example, the Hefei City built along the Nanfeishui River was an important town for the Wei State to control the east of the Yangtze River; then, the dock built by the Jiangdong River in the middle section of the Ruxu River (passing through the pass between Ruxu Mountain and Qibao Mountain) was the eastern part of the city. Wu’s life gate.
The strategic significance of the two is exactly the same.
Because large rivers flowing in plain areas can easily form sandbar islands in the center of the river due to sediment accumulation or river diversion.
This is the case around Ruxukou, with many Jiangxin Islands (sandbars).
In winter, when the water is shallow, the distance between the two sides of the Yangtze River and the island in the middle of the river is reduced, which greatly facilitates the attacker's crossing of the river.
If the Wei army breaks through Ruxuwu, they can use small boats to seize the island in the middle of the river with their elite soldiers and horses, and then use a leapfrog style march to build a bridgehead on the east bank of the river. This can replicate the strategy of using a pontoon bridge to cross the Wei River during the Battle of Tongguan. ——The ribbed pontoon bridge was formed to connect Ruxukou, Jiangxin Island, and the bridgehead on the east bank into one, building a passage into the east of the Yangtze River, allowing the army to quickly cross the river and fight Soochow on the ground.
In this way, Wei Guo's drinking horse Jiangdong is just around the corner!
After all, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on the plains, how could Jiangdong be able to defeat Wei?
Therefore, as long as the Wei army approaches Ruxuwu, whether it is Lu Xun who is trapped in Shouchun City, Quan Cong who is stationed in Shaobei or Zhu Huan's branch who is stationed in Hefei New City, they will rush back in a hurry.
There is no way, if they can't come back in time, they won't be able to go back to Jiangdong.
Nowadays, Jiangdong has deployed its troops in Jiangbei, and its elite navy has entered Chaohu and Shaopi. There are only a few troops left in Ruxuwu, and they are unable to resist the rapid attack of Wei's large army.
If they cannot get back in time, they will be isolated on the north bank and become lambs to be slaughtered.
In addition, given the private ownership of soldiers in Jiangdong, where fathers died and sons died, once the generals and generals saw that they were unable to do anything and were facing the end of the generals, there would be many people who rebelled against Wu and entered Wei!
Such tactics were not planned by Cao Rui himself.
It followed the tactics used by Wei Wu and Cao Cao to attack Jiangdong in the past.
At that time, Jiangdong's army did not penetrate deep into the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Huai River, and all the elite naval forces gathered here to cross the north and south of the river. Therefore, Wei Wu's plan could not be implemented and he returned without success.
Now, the time has come!
This is the main reason why Cao Rui doesn't want to be favored by Manchu: he wants to complete Wei Wu's unfinished work!
Moreover, the road from Wuqiangkou in Shuxian County along the bank of Chaohu Lake to Ruxuwu is densely covered with swamps and hills. How to overcome these unfavorable marching factors and ensure that the Wei army can be surprised when it comes unexpectedly? Cao Rui had a countermeasure when making decisions. .
In today's Wei army, there are elite soldiers and horses capable of taking on this important task!
He was Han Zongbu who rebelled against Wu and joined Wei, and was given the title of General and the title of Marquis of Guangyang.
Han Zong himself was a good general, and the thousands of soldiers under his command were the death soldiers who had followed his father Han Dang in the past. They were familiar with the geography of Jiangdong and had been fighting in the mountains and rivers all year round.
Using that unit as the vanguard to clear the way for the army to Ruxuwu was a matter of easy capture.
And Cao Rui doesn't need to worry about whether Han Zong is willing to die.
After Han Zong entered the Wei Dynasty, he stationed troops in the north of the Yangtze River. He frequently drove troops into the Wu territory and committed burning, killing, and looting. His evil deeds were heinous.
I heard from afar that every time Sun Quan said that, he would be gnashing his teeth and grinding his heart.
If he didn't go all the way, as a pioneer, he would be captured by the Wu army, and he would inevitably have his heart disemboweled and his heart gouged out; even if he was lucky enough to escape and come back, Cao Rui would not spare him.
In the light case, for the crime of defeating and humiliating the division, he will seize the title and move thousands of miles away.
If it's serious, kill it to show the military law!
For the Wei State, Gein's foundation for joining Wei has been lost~
I would like to ask, if Han Zong, who has no loyalty and no moral character, can no longer hope to attack Wu, what is the use of Wei's keeping him?
Yes, in fact, Cao Rui also despised Han Zong's behavior.
The reason for treating him favorably before was because he felt that he was a person who could be beneficial to the war situation, and out of the desire to buy a horse's bones, in the hope that more generals from Jiangdong would rebel against Wu and join Wei.
When the world is falling apart, let's surrender talents regardless of the style.
Naturally, when necessary, they can be discarded like rags and rags.
What's the violation?
Therefore, when others thought that the Wei army would stop advancing after reaching Xiashikou, Cao Rui had already secretly sent Han Zong to advance.
However, Lu Xun, Quan Cong and other troops from the Wu Kingdom, as well as Sun Quan who came from Jiangling City in Jingzhou to the Huainan front and stationed at Ruxuwu, did not know this.
