I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 437: All-front attack
In ancient times, war was an extension of politics.

When conflicts reach a certain level, politics will resort to force to achieve goals.

This goal is the goal of politicians, not civilians.

But civilians must sacrifice their lives to achieve this goal for politicians.

In order to eliminate the opinions of other civilians, politicians must give great meaning to this goal.

Mothers who lost their sons could not even find their bodies, so they could only see their sons in their dreams day and night.

It seems that the dream can only be fixed on the day when I send my son off to war.

That night, Wang Ling received a complete good news.

After reading it, he just said: "Regroup tomorrow and prepare to deal with Qingzhou soldiers and horses."

That night, Shi Bao, who was in Wuyuan, also received a letter from Pengcheng.

After finally arriving in Xuzhou, we set up camp, only to hear that the 200,000-strong army was completely routed in one day.

The Han cavalry in the distance was regrouping.

No need to obey Hu's instructions, Shi Bao had people start digging trenches and building fences overnight.

Li Heng said: "Tell Zhuge Ke to take Lu'an, march eastward from Lu'an to Hefei, and cut off the water supply."

Shi Bao was shocked by the news of Pengcheng's defeat.

Before coming, Master Sima said that the situation in Xuzhou had stabilized and that he could just come over and provide assistance to Hu Zun. All the counties and counties along the way would also cooperate with him in providing food.

In the end, there was no choice but to recruit strong ones through violence.

"It's getting late." Lu Kang said, "The prince has won successive victories in Xuzhou. If the reinforcements from Qingzhou are defeated again, Sima Division will gather the main force from Yangzhou and enter Xuzhou. Hefei will be empty by then, but Ruxuwu will still be left with some Wei troops to defend it. If Zhuge Yuan Xun can cut off the water supply, and if the food and grass of the Wei army in Ruxuwu are cut off, they will collapse without fighting. "

People from the surrounding villages came out one after another to dig through the pile of corpses.

Who is not anxious about this?

"Is it too early to enter Liu'an?" Zhu Zhidao said.

On the tenth day of May, the day after the collapse of the Northern Wei army in Pengcheng City, the sky was full of crows, wandering over the battlefield like black clouds.

Wang Ling has confirmed Shi Bao's specific location and is preparing to launch a lightning raid on Shi Bao's troops.

"It will take at least ten days to send troops from Wan County to Lu'an. On the tenth day, the Sima Division should have been unable to sit still and want to withdraw its troops from Hefei. This is when Zhuge Yuanxun took action."

On May 11th, Shi Bao received information that the Han army was coming!
He immediately hastened his defenses.

In order to ensure this absolute victory against the Qingzhou soldiers, Wang Ling sent out a combined infantry and cavalry force.

The total strength is 10,000 men.

Instead of running back to Qingzhou with his soldiers and horses overnight, this was Shi Bao's last tenderness to Hu Zun.

Shi Bao felt that he had been tricked by Master Sima.

As a result, along the way, various excuses were given by various counties and counties.

In the early morning of May 12th, news of Pengcheng's great victory was delivered to Li Heng's desk overnight.

Zhu Ju nodded, even more shocked by Lu Kang. He saw the shadow of Lu Xun in Lu Kang.

"The food and grass in Wan County is sufficient." Zhu Zhi said, "Zhuge Yuanxun can send troops at any time if he wants."

Li Heng said: "Well, this battle is related to the Northern Expedition. I have ordered Zhuge Yuanxun to only win but not lose!"

"Here!"

Zhu Ju went out after receiving the order.

Li Heng picked up the letter sent from Guanzhong.

"The general seems to have something on his mind?"

"The Prime Minister has sent troops," Li Heng said.

Lu Kang was slightly surprised: "Why send troops?"

"Sima Yi wanted to gather more troops in the southeast. Prime Minister knew that if we captured Jianye, we would attack Ruxuwu and Hefei, so he sent troops to contain Sima Yi."

"Prime Minister Zhuge knows things like a god!" Lu Kang said with emotion. "But I'm worried about his health." Li Heng sighed.

To be honest, Zhuge Liang's political significance is far greater than his military significance.

At least that's what Li Heng thinks so far.

With the Prime Minister here, many of Li Heng's strategies can be implemented smoothly.

If the prime minister suddenly disappears, there will inevitably be a group of rebels against him within Ji Han.

Of course he can use some political means to get rid of these rebels, but internal friction is unavoidable.

Unable to avoid internal friction, it will cause a series of political and military crises that he cannot foresee.

The development of worldly affairs is unpredictable.

Even a genius can only intercept some possibilities from the infinite chaos and randomness to affect the situation.

That way, he would be very, very passive.

"If the prime minister falls ill, will the court welcome a general to take charge of the overall situation?"

"Not necessarily." Li Heng said, "People are unpredictable."

"But the generals have mastered the troops of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, so they must do this."

There are many good situations in history that collapsed into internal strife at critical moments, and it is not impossible for Ji Han.

After all, the soldiers in Guanzhong are also very sophisticated, not even worse than his Jingzhou soldiers.

That was the Han Iron Army that Zhuge Liang personally trained and had been confronting the elite Wei army in Guanzhong all year round.

"The only way now is to end the Southeast Campaign as soon as possible. Sima Yi will probably vomit blood after learning about it." Lu Kang said with a smile, "This can be regarded as helping the prime minister."

"What you said makes sense." Li Heng stood up and said, "After preparation, we are going to add some troops to Du Yuankai and take control of Ruxuwu."

"Here!"

On the same day, the Jianye Ferry warship was summoned.

On May 13, the situation in the entire southeast was still undergoing major changes rapidly.

The Han and Wei sides fought a thousand-mile confrontation around Ruxuwu, and the Wei army dispatched a large number of manpower and resources to Hefei.

Give Sima Division another month and a half, and he will complete the construction of Hefei's deep defense line.

At that time, if the Han army wants to compete for Ruxukou, it will become hell mode, or it will be almost impossible.

Then, the Northern Expedition route in the southeast will be completely closed.

If so, Cao Wei will take the initiative in the southeast in the future.

In order to change the situation, Li Heng adopted the strategy of attacking Xuzhou and forcing Sima Division to mobilize the main force to Xuzhou.

At the same time, during this special period, Zhuge Ke entered Hefei by land and cut off Ruxuwu's logistics.

By this time, the Han army had formed a multi-line containment of Ruxukou, which meant that it was determined to win Hefei.

Also on the same day, the situation in Xuzhou changed again.

Ten thousand infantry and cavalry sent by Wang Ling arrived in Wuyuan and launched an offensive against the Qingzhou soldiers.

Qingzhou is located to the north of Xuzhou, on the bank of the East China Sea.

Cao Wei stationed troops in Qingzhou not for direct border defense.

There is a group of veterans here from when Cao Cao conquered the world, called the Taishan Army.

The Taishan Army is very capable of fighting and comes from Qingzhou.

Later, when Cao Pi came to power, the Taishan army refused to obey Cao Pi. Cao Pi made some adjustments to Qingzhou's troops and horses, weakened that group of people, and placed some foreign troops and a large number of state and county soldiers here.

With the presence of Qingzhou soldiers, the north can reinforce Jizhou at any time, and the south can reinforce Xuzhou at any time.

In other words, he does not fight the enemy directly, but often acts as a reinforcement.

The soldiers in this area are no longer the brave ones who followed Cao Cao to conquer the world.

How have you ever seen this kind of soldiers that could destroy the Wu State and beat the Wei Army to the point where they howled several times? How did the Han Army fight?
(End of this chapter)