The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 543

"Could it be that Zhuge Liang doesn't understand the way of military strategy at all, he thinks that by besieging the city, he can consume all the food in Hanzhong City, and finally he will open the city and surrender?" Jiang Qin said a very idiotic possibility...

Three black lines appeared on Cheng Pu's face, and he denied it: "Impossible, my lord once said that Zhuge Liang is a master of military affairs, with clever calculations, how could he be so stupid, he must have his own intentions in doing so."

At this time, Cheng Pu missed Zhou Yu a little. If Zhou Yu was here, he would not have such a headache to guess the enemy's thoughts. Zhou Yu often told him not to rush to attack when confronting the enemy, but to see through the enemy's intentions. When you know what the enemy wants to do You can only do it when it is time, otherwise it is easy to fall into the enemy's trap.

In the past, it was Zhou Yu who came up with strategies to defeat the enemy. Cheng Pu and others only had to follow Zhou Yu’s orders. It has been a long time, so his way of marching and fighting is becoming more and more like Zhou Yu.

When Cheng Pu was in trouble, Li Yuanzheng and Zhou Yu were talking about sending Cheng Pu to Shangyong in Xiapi.

"Gong Jin, in your opinion, what kind of person is Old General Cheng? Is he reliable?" Li Yuan actually doesn't know Cheng Pu well. Although Cheng Pu is already a veteran in the battlefield, the person who really knows Cheng Pu is Zhou Yu.

"Is my lord worried that Old General Cheng is not up to the task of assisting Zhang Lu?" Zhou Yu saw Li Yuan's worry.

"It's still Gongjin who understands me. Although Old General Cheng is a veteran in the battlefield, if the opponent is Zhuge Liang, even he may be difficult to match."

Now Li Yuan has begun to regret that he is afraid that Cheng Pu will go alone. In his opinion, Zhou Yu is the most suitable candidate to deal with Zhuge Liang. Now he has two most capable generals under his command. One is already famous all over the world. Zhou Yu, one is Lu Xun, who has not yet formally commanded a war. These two are the two people Li Yuan values ​​most.

Although the five tiger generals are brave and invincible, and they are good at marching and fighting, but when it comes to arranging troops, making plans, and leading thousands of troops to attack cities and land, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun are the most powerful.People like Xi Zhicai are good at intrigue, and they tend to be strategists. When it comes to the way of running an army, they are definitely far inferior to Zhou Yu and Lu Xun in confronting the enemy. Lu Meng also has such potential, but he is more like the second Class Zhou Yu.

"My lord, don't worry. Among the three veterans in Jiangdong, General Cheng's martial arts may not be the best, but he is the most cautious and calm in doing things, and he is the most suitable for commanding the three armies, so I think he has absolutely no problem." Zhou Yu believed in Cheng Pu's ability .

"If Cheng Pu's opponent is someone who can be compared with Gong Jin, Gong Jin thinks Cheng Pu can still win?" It's not that Li Yuan looks down on Cheng Pu, but he knows that Zhuge Liang is powerful, and only Zhou Yu's level Only the most talented people can face Zhuge Liang. Even if he sends any of the five tiger generals to face Zhuge Liang, he will definitely not be Zhuge Liang's opponent.

Li Yuan originally asked Cheng Pu to increase troops to Shangyong just to help Zhang Lu guard Hanzhong and not give Zhuge Liang a chance to capture Hanzhong. Generally speaking, defense is much easier than offense, so Li Yuan thought that Cheng Pu's prudence should be able to do it, but he Still worried that Cheng Pu would fall into Zhuge Liang's scheme.

"My lord, is that Zhuge Liang really so powerful?" Zhou Yu felt that Li Yuan had too high a view on Zhuge Liang.

At this time, Xi Zhicai walked into the meeting room and said: "My lord, something is not right. The spies from the Ministry of Secrets heard a news in Hebei. Cao Cao has been mobilizing troops, horses, food and grass recently. The action is very intensive. It seems that there will be a big move. "

"Do you know which direction the soldiers and horses are dispatching?" Li Yuan thought that it was less than half a year since Cao Cao unified Hebei, so he shouldn't be in such a hurry to send troops again.

"Most of the soldiers gathered in Yecheng and the plains, but this should not be his goal, because a large number of ships gathered near Liyang, they should be crossing the river, if I predict that Cao Cao's troops will eventually gather in Chen Liu and Jibei." Xi Zhicai knew exactly what it would mean if Cao Cao stationed his troops in Chenliu and Jibei.

"It seems that Cao Cao can't sit still anymore. He wants to use his entire army to go south to compete with me," Li Yuan said with a smile. "Hahahaha, since that's the case, we must face the enemy well!"

Half an hour later, all the important civil servants and military generals in Xiapi had arrived at the conference hall. Li Yuan sat on the main seat and said, "Everyone, the Ministry of Secrets has recently inquired about the news that Cao Cao is going south to fight our army. It was only predicted that he would station his soldiers and horses in Chenliu and Jibei, and we also need to dispatch troops and horses in advance to meet the enemy."

Everyone was surprised when they heard the words, Huang Xu stood up and said: "My lord, Cao Cao has just unified Hebei not long ago, why is he so eager to go south to fight our army? This is obviously not good for him."

"I don't know, maybe it's because I killed Xiahouyuan's son Xiahouheng, and Xiahouyuan tried his best to persuade him to send troops, or maybe it's because he joined forces with Liu Bei to boost his confidence, or it's more likely because I pacified Shanyue not long ago , made him feel deeply worried, but no matter what, now that Cao Cao’s going south has become a fact, we cannot avoid competing with him, since he wants to fight, I will fight!” Li Yuan didn’t know why Cao Cao wanted to fight He was eager to go south, but he was never afraid to fight against Cao Cao. Since he had defeated Cao Cao once, he was capable of defeating Cao Cao again.

"My lord, it will take several months to mobilize troops and horses. Cao Cao probably wants to attack after autumn. Since he gathered his troops in Chenliu and Jibei, he must want to divide his troops into two groups to attack Yuzhou and Xuzhou. The place is the foundation of the lord, no matter where it falls, it will cause great losses to us, so we must block their way." Xi Zhi asked someone to take out the sand table.

Everyone looked at the sand table on the table and felt that what Xi Zhicai said was absolutely correct. Yuzhou and Xuzhou were places where Li Yuan had been operating for a long time. It was also imaginable for Cao Cao to concentrate his forces to attack these two places. Cao Cao's soldiers and horses can go south and drive straight in. The only thing that can stop him is the Yangtze River, but Li Yuan will never retreat to Jiangdong and rely on the Yangtze River to guard him.

"Zhicai, Zhongjun, Gongjin, do the three of you think of a strategy to deal with Cao Cao?" Li Yuan's most outstanding advisers are Xi Zhicai, Sima Yi and Zhou Yu. Of course, Jia Xu can also be counted, but He seldom advises Li Yuan, this is his character, and Li Yuan never forces him, and only asks him to advise him when he has to.

Xi Zhicai looked at Zhou Yu and Sima Yi, and said first, "My lord, there is no need to worry. Cao Cao divided his troops into two groups to attack Yuzhou and Xuzhou. We can also divide our troops to deal with them. One of Cao Cao's two groups of troops must be the main attack, and the other is the main attack." It is auxiliary, if my prediction is correct, Cao Cao should be in command of Chen Liu’s army, and the other generals will be in charge of the other army, the most likely ones are Xiahou Dun, Xiahouyuan or Cao Ren, these three are Cao Cao’s most trusted generals.”

(End of this chapter)