Shu Chen

Chapter 481 Unfavorable
Naturally, the attack on Huainan would not be delayed by the news of Pan Jun's death.

But it made Sun Quan feel uneasy.

He suddenly remembered that before he decided to mobilize troops in Huainan last year, Lingling prefect Yin Li wrote to him and proposed another battle plan.

Yin Li, courtesy name Desi, was born in Danyang.

He was a confidant minister promoted by Sun Quan himself.

He once accompanied Zhang Wen as an envoy to Dahan to communicate with the two countries about re-establishing an alliance.

After the Prime Minister Zhuge Liang met with him and had a detailed discussion, he spoke highly of his talent.

Yan said: "In the wild rice reeds of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, there are such wonderful people", "Yin De's heirs are talented, and today's overseas Chinese are also stunned."

And he himself deserves the praise as well.

In the above table, he claimed that this year's Northern Expedition should focus on the Jingxiang front, not Huainan.

There are three reasons.

One, it is natural to take advantage of the vacancy.

The [-] troops led by Wuhuan Tuqi, Xue Ti, and Xiahouba, who were originally stationed in Yuzhou, returned to Guanzhong, and also sent away several soldiers and horses stationed on the Jingxiang front. It was the time when the defense was weak.

At a time when the Yongliang army of the Wei State was pinned down by the Han army and unable to enter Jingxiang for rescue, at this time, it attacked the "looting while taking advantage of the fire" who was well versed in the art of war.

The most important thing is the strategic significance.

The two countries of Han and Wu have been allied with each other and agreed to fight against Wei for many years, but they have never marched at the same time.

This time the Han army has entered the pass and confronted Wei Wei, so Jiangdong should go north to Xiangfan at the same time, hoping to support each other and fight.

For example, both countries can attack the three eastern counties with their troops!
Second, it is politically dictated.

War is a continuation of politics, and the rational distribution of power and interests can make Jiangdong more cohesive.

Because Pan Jun was seriously ill at the time and feared to die soon, he concluded that the counties and counties in southern Jing would not be appeased, so he advised that the Northern Expedition should be used to seize Jingxiang, distribute the benefits of this war to the powerful families of Jingzhou, and resolve the increasingly sharp tension. contradiction.

In any case, the premise of the previous sneak attack on Hefei was that tens of thousands of soldiers were killed or injured in Jiangxia and Jingshan.

Among them, the wealthy Jingnan family suffered the most!
In terms of emotion and reason, at this time they should march into Jingxiang, seize the Jingbei prefectures and counties and distribute them to the Jingnan nobles, so as to alleviate their resentment.

Again, it is the virtual reality of the art of war.

After capturing Hefei New City, it is impossible for Wei Guo not to have expected that Jiangdong will place the main battlefield in Huainan, and he will also make perfect defenses.

The distance from Chaohu to Shouchun is about three hundred (Han) miles, and Jiangdong’s advance will inevitably fall into the pain of transshipment of grain and fodder, and there is a faint danger of being "lured into the enemy". In addition, Shouchun City is easy to defend and difficult to attack. meritorious service.

If it is to enter Jingxiang, although there are also many difficulties, but there is a river that can directly reach the city of Xiangyang, and it is easy to advance and retreat, which is easier than entering Shouchun.

And now Wei Guo's defense on the Huainan front is much stricter than the Jingxiang front.

If soldiers from Jiangdong invade Jingxiang, it is by surprise!
After Yin Li explained the reason, he also attached his own battle plan.

It is to ask Sun Quan to personally supervise the troops to attack from Guangling City and march towards Xu and Qingzhou; and Lu Xun also marched into Huainan.

But both are feints.

In order to confuse Wei Guo, thinking that Jiangdong's main offensive and defense line is still in Huainan, let the Luoyang Chinese Army who rebelled against Wei rush to Huainan for rescue!
The Jingnan ministries that were originally supporting the battle turned the fictitious into reality. For example, Lu Dai, who was stationed in Wuchang, could cross the river to contain the defenses of Jiangxia County against the Wei Dynasty; Zhu Ran, who was guarding Jiangling City in Jingbei, and Zhuge, who was stationed in Gongan Jin went straight up to besiege the city of Xiangyang, and sent Zhuge Ke and Chen Biaodu to lead the headquarters to stick to Jingshan (there is a road to pass, Bashan North Road) to the three east counties, and all the garrison troops on the Jingxiang front of Wei State were killed. attract away.

The real main force is to let Quan Cong supervise the leadership.

Directly enter the Han River (Mian River) from the Dajiang River and go upstream, cutting off the connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng, and making a move northward to Wanluo, which made the Jingxiang front of the Wei State rush back to help.

In this way, in the chaos of taking care of one thing and losing another, Wei Jun will inevitably be at a loss!

Because there are big men holding Wei's Yongliang army and Luoyang's Chinese army to Huainan, even if they want to come to rescue, they will not be able to arrive in a hurry.

That is to say, as long as Jiangdong can grasp this confusion, he can "break the surface with a point" and drive the whole line of the Northern Expedition to make achievements!

Sun Quan looked at Yin Li's proposal and rejected it without discussing it with others.

Even if he thinks the plan is good.

But from his point of view, Yin Li's plan cannot be put into practice.

Before seizing Hefei New City, he had already promised the interests of the whole of Huainan to the noble family of Wudi!

If he changed his course before capturing Shouchun City, those Wu family who were willing to work hard for Jiangdong's foundation would feel that he broke his promise and became fat
Will harbor resentment!

There will be greater harm than the Jingnan nobles!
After all, most of the generals and generals who control military power in Wu State are from Wu land.

Even if the aristocratic families in Jingnan rebelled, he was still confident that he could make peace, but if the aristocratic families in Wu land rebelled, then the state of Wu might not be the foundation of the Sun family!

Yes, it wasn't that Yin Li's planning was bad, but that he couldn't carry it out.

However, what he didn't know was that when Warden Lu Xun arrived at the city of Shouchun, he also had the realization that the Northern Expedition would be difficult to accomplish.

But he said that the deployment of Wu's Northern Expedition was like this.

Sun Shao and Zhang Cheng in Guangling City were still acting as partisans, holding back the troops of Wei Guoqing and Xu Erzhou.

And Zhu Ju, who was re-used again, supervised more than ten thousand people to march into the Lu'an area, and the camp near the water restrained the Wei State's troops in Yuzhou, and curbed the possibility of Wei State's oblique insertion into the Lujiang River.

As the deputy governor, Quan Cong, with the cooperation of the elite navy guards, supervised [-] troops into Shaopi, threatening Wei Taiwei Manchong's garrison.With the strategic significance of opening up the passage from Shaopi to Huai River, Manchong was unable to send troops to rescue Shouchun City.

However, Liu Zan, Zhuge Ke, Chen Biao and others, who were brilliant in the past, rushed to Bagong Mountain in the north of Shouchun City under the support of Ding Feng, the cavalry supervisor, with the intention of cutting off the connection between Shouchun City and Huaibei from the rear. , and see if there is a possibility of sneaking to steal the city.

As for the governor Lu Xun, he led the [-] Chinese army himself, and went northward to besiege Shouchun.

The rest of the scattered ministries are stationed in the old and new cities of Hefei and Ruxuwu, as well as transshipment of grain and fodder.

Before the war started, they encountered setbacks.

Liu Zan, Zhuge Ke and other ministries who had traveled the farthest and were the first to go to Bagong Mountain sent messengers back to report that Sun Li, the governor of Yangzhou in Wei State, had already set up camp on Bagong Mountain!
The Wei army was condescending and had camps to rely on, and Sun Li had always been known as a good fighter, so Liuzan and other ministries did not try to attack by force.With the Wei army taking the lead, they have no possibility of breaking through, and there is no need to increase the loss of soldiers.

In this regard, Lu Xun did not demand that they not fight hard, but sent them back to the Chinese army.

Because Quan Cong, who entered Shaopi, also wrote a book!

(End of this chapter)