Since the Battle of Xiaoyaojin, the Battle of Shiting is the only representative example of Jiangdong’s repeated Northern Expeditions.
However, from a strategic level, the Battle of Shiting can be regarded as an attack instead of a defense, in order to eradicate Cao Wei's frequent intrusions on Jiangdong.
Because at that time, the commander-in-chief of the Wei State supervising the war in Huainan was Cao Xiu, who always coveted Jiangdong.
In fact, Sun Quan personally was very decisive in devoting all his national strength to the Northern Expedition.
But it's a pity that he has the intention but is unable to do so.
Because I can't afford to lose.
Bashu dared to use all its strength in every Northern Expedition. It was Prime Minister Zhuge Liang who won the hearts of the people and was able to integrate the people in power with different interests into one, so that everyone was united. Even if the Northern Expedition did not go well, with the closed geographical location, he could still pursue the Wei State one after another.
This will ensure that Shu will not fall.
This is not the case in Jiangdong.
It’s not that the danger of the river is incomparable to the difficulty of the road to Shu, but that the people of Wu, where there are many wealthy families, are divided.
For Jiangdong Haoyou, after entering Wei State, which implements the nine-rank official system, the treatment received by the clan will not be much worse than that in Sun's Wu State, so why go all out and leave no way out?
Sun Quan understood the mentality of his subordinates and subordinates.
Therefore, when planning with Lu Xun and vowing with the generals that "once this battle begins, no matter what the situation is, Wu will never stop fighting until Shouchun is captured south of the Huai River."
, Sun Quan’s actual sincerity was only half.
Yes, things are so bizarre.
When Sun Quan was aggressive and aggressive, not many of the Jiangdong tribes were willing to go all out.
But when all the tribes in Jiangdong were willing to fight to the death, Sun Quan secretly wanted to retreat.
This was the conclusion that the two men whispered when Lu Xun led his army to Huainan: The chance of Wu State conquering Shouchun City and occupying the whole south of Huai River is almost zero!
Yes, it's a very pessimistic guess, with no chance of winning.
Without him, the timing of Jiangdong's insidious attack on Huainan was both too good and too bad!
At that time, Zheng Pu came as an envoy to plan for the state of Wu. After Sun Quan and Lu Xun decided on the strategy, no one expected that the Wei state would launch the Yongliang Campaign with the strength of the whole country. Moreover, Jiangdong's defeat on the Jingxiang front made the Wei state
Completely focus on Bashu.
Therefore, the timing of the insidious attack on Huainan is perfect.
Fortunately, when Jiangdong's preparations for this battle were insufficient and he did not have the strength to capture the entire territory of Huainan, Lu Xun could not help but advise him to send troops immediately.
There is no way, the fighter plane is fleeting.
Once the Yongliang Battle of the Han and Wei Dynasties is over, Jiangdong may never have such a good opportunity again.
This also caused Jiangdong to find himself in two difficulties before the war.
First, the army is in dire straits.
Although the land east of the Yangtze River has fertile rice fields and the people never go hungry, Sun Quan has used troops too frequently in recent years, which has made the country's reserves insufficient.
What’s more, the latest war horse trade with Bashu was all based on grain!
Originally, if we had followed the previous plan and attacked Huainan three to five years later, Jiangdong would not have suffered from a shortage of food and fodder. But we only purchased war horses last year, and this year we have been using weapons repeatedly.
It’s hard to keep the grain till three months of next spring plowing!
In other words, Wu State cannot fight for a long time.
Given the strength of Shouchun City, if the Wu State could not besiege it for a year and a half after Wei's reinforcements arrived and the city itself was in chaos, how could it be possible to break the city?
On the other hand, the cavalry and pawns have been established for more than a year and are not yet ready for great use.
Letting Ding Feng lead his cavalry to attack Wei Chengde's garrison point was a helpless move.
Otherwise, with the lax defense of Wei Guo Chengde, it would be enough for Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao, who were marching towards Shaopei, to detach two or three thousand troops to relieve Fan!
In the original plan, Ding Feng had to drive to Shoushan, north of Shouchun City, to ambush, and ambush the Wei cavalry on the north bank of the Huai River!
This also led to the fact that when Lu Xun was trapped in Shouchun, he left a gap in the north out of fear of the Wei cavalry on the north bank of the Huaihe River. It seemed that he was well versed in the military theory of "encircling three towers and one tower", but in fact he was very powerful.
Helpless not to be caught.
These two factors also contributed to the private conclusion between Lu Xun and Sun Quan - after winning Hefei New City, they must not be greedy for merit, otherwise they would be self-defeating.
However, it is inevitable that the troops will be trapped in Shouchun City and they will pretend not to stop their troops until they seize the south of the Huaihe River.
That was to confuse Wei's tactical needs.
This will buy enough time for Wu to rebuild the old city of Hefei.
Because only the three strategic points of Ruxuwu-Hefei Old City-Hefei New City are firmly in Jiangdong's hands, relying on the waterways of Dajiang-Chaohu-Shaopi allows the elite navy to come and go freely, which is to lay a solid foundation for Jiangdong.
This laid the foundation for looking north to the Central Plains in the future!
Of course, in order to avoid affecting the morale and determination of the soldiers to fight to the death, such thoughts cannot be made public.
Even Quan Cong and Zhu Huan didn't know.
Therefore, after Sun Quan arrived at Ruxuwu and took up command, in order to boost the morale of his troops and show his determination to fight to the death, he often put himself in danger and entered Chao Lake in a small boat to confront Wu.
The intention is naturally not to spy on military intelligence.
But for demonstration!
In order to let all the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong know, he treated the Wei army as if it were nothing!
This approach is very effective.
Because he tried it many years ago, and the effect was remarkable.
At that time, Cao Cao, the military commander of the Wei Dynasty, came to fight, and he acted like this: relying on the advantage of the boats in the east of the Yangtze River, he personally crossed the river to approach the enemy's formation, provoked him back and forth, and humiliated him with the sound of drums and drums.
Wei's shipbuilding technology could not match Jiangdong's, so it could not catch up with Sun Quan.
After being provoked like this, he fired all his bows and crossbows at Sun Quan's canoe.
The arrows were so dense that the boat once tilted.
Sun Quan asked the boatman to turn the boat around so that the other side was covered with arrows, which restored the balance of the boat and left calmly.
As the lord of Jiangdong, he dared to cross the river alone, which reminded Wei Wu and Cao Cao of Sun Jian, who killed Hua Xiong and broke Lu Bu's lone army to invade Luoyang during the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and Sun Jian, who had more than a thousand soldiers and horses and conquered Jiangdong in just a few years.
Sun Ce, who was worried about the situation, could not help but sigh, "It is like Sun Zhongmou to have a son," and then he stopped his troops and went back.
Nowadays, Sun Quan is repeating his old tricks, boosting morale is one aspect.
Another intention is to let Cao Rui retreat when he sees difficulties - the land east of the Yangtze River that neither Wei Wu Cao Cao nor Wei Wen Cao Pi can touch, Cao Rui can't do anything about it either!
But he didn't know that Cao Rui was very decisive this time.
Not only did he turn a blind eye to his provocation across the river, but he also secretly sent the Korean General Department as a vanguard to march to Ruxuwu, preparing to capture the Mingmen of Jiangdong.
However, for Sun Quan, it didn't matter whether he knew it or not.
He and Lu Xun, who did not have the extravagant hope of conquering Shouchun City and occupying the whole south of the Huai River, would naturally take the lead in considering making themselves invincible. How could they let Jiangdong's defense of Mingmen relax?
It is true that, as Cao Rui saw, the military deployment in Jiangdong was very scattered and they were all in Jiangbei. There were not many troops left to guard Ruxuwu.
However, the troops and horses that penetrate deep into Jiangbei can also return to defense after achieving their strategic goals!
