Chapter 3421 Success and failure

It's late at night.

Xiangyang City.

Pang Shanmin and Huang Zhong marched to Pangcheng...uh, outside Wancheng, preparing to launch a battle to seize the city.

At this time, the Cao army scout urgently reported to Cao Ren and also brought news of Wen Pin's surrender.

Cao Ren was shocked and urgently summoned the generals to discuss matters.

When the generals heard the news, they were very angry and accused Pang Shanmin and Huang Zhong of not following the rules. Since they had seen the angels, why did they keep fighting and attack Wancheng? Where did this place the emperor's face?

Kuai Liang was beside him, expressionless, but in fact he felt very happy.

It’s right! Cao Ren did not listen to the advice before and insisted on marching to attack Guanzhong. Today’s dilemma is purely his own fault!

Of course, Kuai Liang would not say that he would consider the problem from Cao Cao's perspective. They were only Jingxiang gentry and were Jingxiang gentry all their lives.

With Wancheng's current troops, there should be no problem breaking through and withdrawing, but Cao Ren is obviously unwilling to do so.

『Everyone!』 Cao Ren said in a deep voice, 『Wancheng is now in an emergency?』

The originally chattering people suddenly became quiet.

It’s like the students who hear the teacher ask questions in class.

I don't know, I don't know, don't ask me...

Kuai Liang was silently reciting the three and the other day, but he heard Cao Ren's voice, "Zirou, what are the solutions?"

Kuai Liang took a breath, silently recited three times and then said slowly: "General, there is a best strategy for the best..."

Cao Ren coughed, "Say the most important thing."

Kuai Liang paused for a moment, and then said in a voice that was even less fluctuating: "Retreat."

"Why?" Cao Ren asked.

"Guest General." Kuai Liang replied.

Cao Ren nodded, was silent for a moment, and then asked Cai Mao, "Degui, do you have any countermeasures?"

Cai Mao was stunned for a moment, "General...but do you want to use a car? I only have one car. If the general wants to use it, I will just send it to someone."

"Countermeasures! Strategy!" Cao Ren also held back his anger.

Who the hell wants your broken car?!

Cai Mao seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "Ah, thank you for your tolerance... Now that I am old, I am not only confused by my eyes and ears, but also with inconvenience in my legs and feet. If I didn't have this car... Alas, there were several cars in my home, now... Oh, the general asked about this countermeasure... Let's think about it again, General, please ask others first...

Cao Ren narrowed his eyes and smiled, nodding.

They are all foxes, so what kind of fairies are they pretending to be?

Kuai Liang's so-called three strategies of the upper, middle and lower are certainly only the middle strategies are feasible.

Moreover, this strategy is more conservative, and it can even be said to be a relatively poor strategy, but it is indeed feasible and cannot find any mistakes. Just like when Cao Ren questioned, Kuai Liang's answer was only two words "Guest General".

Pang Shanmin Huang Zhong can only be regarded as a guest general of the cavalry, so it is impossible to use any edict to restrain Pang Shanmin from attacking Wancheng...

Moreover, in the current situation, if the soldiers from Wancheng were not withdrawn to Xiangyang, they would be beaten in vain if they were beaten, and it would be difficult to fight back!

Because the guest general is also considered a cavalry army!

The emperor issued an edict to mediate the struggle between Fei Qian and Cao Cao. As a result, the edict had not been handed over to Fei Qian's hands, but Cao Ren took action first...

This inevitably led to the loss of Cao's moral stance.

If you are already at a disadvantage in the battle, you will lose your reputation as a righteous person.

Cao Ren summoned the sects of Jingxiang, but in fact, it was not to ask for specific countermeasures, but to hope that among the sects of Jingxiang, there were more or less some friendships with Pang Shanmin, especially Cai Mao.

But Cai Mao pretended to be stupid.

Withdrawal is certain, but how to withdraw?

How to retreat to ensure the safety of troops to the greatest extent and avoid greater losses?

When Wancheng was in the hands of Pang Shanmin, it was a commercial and trade city, but when it came to Cao Jun, it became a pick-up granary, and it was a place where it only cared for picking up and replenishing the goods.

Cao Ren had no choice but to force the order to let Cai Mao go to Wancheng immediately and send an envoy to Pangshan Minjun. He had to stop Pangshan Min from attacking Wancheng...

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Night Chaos.

Zhou Yu looked at the river.

There are still some bright scenery during the day, but now it is full of chaos under the night.

Although Zhou Yu comforted Jiang Qin, he was actually worried.

The original plan was obviously failed.

The speed of change of the Sichuan-Shu naval army was significantly beyond Zhou Yu's perception.

Zhou Yu even felt that this was not the same army.

But now, Zhou Yu has to adopt a backup plan...

Zhou Yu looked at the mountains and waters in the distance, thinking and planning.

"Governor..."

The guard behind Zhou Yu said in a low voice, "The wind is strong at night..."

Zhou Yu looked into the distance, "It's okay."

Is it okay?

Not necessarily, but as long as you win this battle, what's wrong with even if you die here?

He is waiting.

Wait for a fire.

Either they turn into ashes in the fire, or they are reborn in Nirvana in the flames.

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...

Zhou Yu set his sights on the ships in Sichuan and Shu, and Zhuge Liang also understood the importance of ships.

If this big river does not have enough ships and wants to cross those mountains and attack the downstream areas, it will be almost empty talk. Without enough warships, you cannot control the river water, let alone transporting enough soldiers and supplies, of course, it will not be possible to pose any threat to Jiangdong.

It was like Liu Bei's last battle in history.

Liu Bei, who had been gnawing hard all his life, finally broke his teeth because Sichuan and Sichuan had no naval army and could not control the river surface. However, Jiangdong could use naval army to transport soldiers and supplies, which was almost tied to fight Jiangdong. If Guan Yu's Jingzhou naval army was still there at that time, then there were Liu Bei and Zhang Fei on land, Guan Yu on water, and Jiangdong...

In this way, Sun Shiwan's backstab in history was indeed scared of him.

Zhuge Liang considered that Zhou Yu might come to attack, especially the warships that destroyed Sichuan and Shu, so Zhuge placed all the ships inside the water camp and arranged heavy troops to guard them. The number of troops guarding the ships was even greater than the number of camps on duty on the shore, which was enough to prove his importance to these ships.

Don't think that only the Cavalry Army will attack at night.

Zhuge Liang felt that Zhou Yu was also a good player in sneak attacks.

Zhou Yu did not have much research on Zhuge Liang, but on the other hand, Zhuge Liang knew much about Zhou Yu.

Thanks to the strength of the intelligence system of the General of the Cavalry, Zhuge Liang had already obtained relevant information about Zhou Yu before the war...

And these information is basically not kept confidential in Jiangdong.

For example, Zhou Yu's life, family, county honours, the process of starting a fortune, etc.

Of course, Zhou Yu not only represents his individual, but also represents the interests of the Zhou family in Lujiang.

However, the keen Zhuge Liang discovered some interesting problems when examining and studying Zhou Yu's life.

For example, the choice of the person to be dependent in the Zhou family was actually not Sun Ce at the beginning, and the Sun family didn’t even have a meeting...

You should know that the Zhou family in Shu County, Lujiang County is also a royal family with a prominent status.

Like Zhou Zhong, he was following the emperor, and then perhaps because he saw that he had no future with the emperor, the Zhou family found another way, and then chose Yuan Shu...

This has nothing to do with Zhou Yu's vision, because it is highly likely that Zhou Yu would not be the turn of Zhou's family to speak at that time.

After all, the two Yuans dominated the world at that time. If the two Yuans joined forces, the Han Dynasty would have been likely to have changed its surname directly at that time!

So in the view of Zhou's family at that time, the emperor was no longer able to do so, so of course he had to surrender to the Yuan family, who was the most "singular" and this was normal. It was a pity that he made the wrong bet.

However, in this process, Zhou Yu at that time betrayed Liu Yao first in the first battle.

Liu Yao was a relative of the Han Dynasty. If Zhou wanted to change camps, he would of course need to stab Liu Yao in the back.

The person who carried out the backstab mission was Zhou Yu. He showed outstanding military talent and successfully became the spokesperson for the subsequent Zhou family.

Sun Ce was able to successfully cross the river and establish himself in Jiangdong, and Zhou Yu could be said to have made his first contribution, and Zhou Shang, the prefect of Danyang, also made an indelible contribution.

However, Sun Ce was in the position of a guest general under Yuan Shu.

The guest general can be regarded as the loyalty and righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, while the loyalty and righteousness of Confucius and Mencius was not so strong. When Confucianism rose to its peak in the Song Dynasty, it was "the king asked the minister to die, and the minister had to die." How could he "coming and going freely" like the guest general of the Three Kingdoms?

The two typical hosts in the history of the Three Kingdoms are Lu Bu and Liu Bei.

Sun Ce can't even get a rank.

When a person or group leads his army to another person or group, three situations usually occur. The first situation is to hand over all rights and unconditionally accept the other party's adaptation. The final result is that the soldiers and generals are separated, but their vested interests are usually respected. For example, Xu Chu, Lu Su, etc. in history.

The second situation is to retain the independence of the army, but be willing to accept restrictions in other aspects. The final result is to ensure a certain degree of independence, but the power will be greatly reduced, just like Li Dian.

The third type is the guest general. Liu Bei has defected to various warlords many times, but his generals have always been directly under Liu Bei. No one has been able to dispatch these people without Liu Bei's consent.
To be continued...