Chapter 1702: Cao Wei Mistakes Spring Plowing in Trapped Fan City
"I don't think there will be times when we face an army of more than 100,000 alone!" Guan Xing sighed on the top of the city, looking at the densely packed camps outside the city. Of course he yearned for the glory of his fathers, but he felt that even if he led the army to fight, You can only start from the vanguard who charged into the battle. I am afraid that you will not have a chance to fight against an army of more than 100,000 until you are 30 years old. I didn't expect the opportunity to come so quickly. Wan Jingrui, and the leader of the army was Cao Pi, the emperor of Wei.
"It's a pity that I can't go out of the city to fight, it's a bit uncomfortable!" Zhang Bao looked greedily at the Cao Wei generals below. If he could kill one or two Cao Wei generals, his father would be overjoyed when he returned to Chengdu in the future.
"We have a strong city to defend, so why go out to fight?" Zhao Tong was as thoughtful as his father, unmoved at all, and continued to direct his men to prepare rolling logs, stones, gray bottles of golden juice, bows and arrows arrow.
Ma Dai raised his eyes to the northwest direction and thought to himself, brother, the military master's clever calculations are really admirable, maybe we will have a chance to return to Xiliang in the future, and then we will be able to avenge our family.
Ma Di held a book in one hand and a writing brush in the other, counting the number of people and defending the city with equipment. He was very busy. After seeing the real battle on the battlefield and how Shen Long commanded the battle, he no longer dared to talk about it on paper .
The group of young people that Shen Long brought over from Shuzhong have more or less grown up. In the near future, they will take over the banner of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong and others, and continue to conquer the Quartet for the Shu Han.
At the same time, the news that Cao Pi personally led an army of 100,000 troops to the south to threaten Fancheng also reached the ears of Sun Quan and Liu Bei. , it is a good opportunity to regain Jingzhou!"
"My lord, you must not do it!" Lu Xun hurriedly advised, "When Cao Wei and Wei Sanlu attacked us earlier, Liu Bei not only did not take advantage of the danger, but also sent a large army to help us block Cao Zhen. If we take advantage of this to attack Jingzhou, the world may be afraid. Everyone will laugh at us as ungrateful people!"
"What's more, Guan Yunchang has returned to Jingzhou now. With him in town, Jingzhou must not be taken lightly; on the contrary, now that Zhang Liao is dead, we will not take this opportunity to attack Hefei and Xuzhou. Let’s repay Liu Bei’s kindness by besieging Wei and saving Zhao!” Lu Xun gave his own plan, that it would be better to attack Hefei and Xuzhou than to attack Jingzhou.
Zhang Liao's death was indeed equivalent to removing a big rock that weighed on Sun Quan's heart. Otherwise, whenever he wanted to attack Hefei, he would recall the nightmare of being defeated by Zhang Liao's 800,000 people in Xiaoyaojin that day, but Jingzhou made him Sun Quan couldn't give up, "Bo Yan, Gu also wanted to attack Xuzhou in the past, but Ziming said that Xuzhou's terrain is good for land warfare, not good for water warfare. Liang Tu; why did Bo Yan persuade Gu Gu to attack Hefei and Xuzhou?"
"At this time and at that time, at that time Guan Yunchang was full of ambition and Jingzhou was not on guard. If Shen Zifeng hadn't appeared suddenly, Jingzhou would have been owned by me in Jiangdong! But today Shen Zifeng is guarding Fancheng and Guan Yunchang is guarding Jingzhou. There are these two Now, even if you have all the soldiers of the Eastern Wu, you can easily press it." Lu Xun quickly explained.
"On the other hand, in Hefei and Xuzhou, the morale of Cao Wei's troops was lost, Zhang Liao died, Cao Ren was seriously ill, and Cao Pi raised his army to attack Fancheng. Hefei and Xuzhou have few major generals, and they can be won in one battle!" Since Jingzhou has no hope, It would also be good to get some land in the east.
"That being the case, let Bo Yan arrange this matter!" Hearing his explanation, Sun Quan had no choice but to agree, so Lu Xun raised an army of 50,000, leading Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng, etc. People marched into Hefei.
At the same time, Sun Quan went to Chengdu with Zhuge Jin as an envoy to inform Liu Bei of the news.
Think of it as repaying Liu Bei's kindness for sending Shen Long and Guan Yu to stop Cao Zhen for him.
While in Chengdu, Liu Bei was worried about the frontline war, so he quickly summoned Zhuge Liang to ask, "Prime Minister, Cao Wei has 150,000 troops outside Fancheng, and Yunchang has returned to Jingzhou. Can Zifeng resist it?"
"Shen Zifeng is a great talent in the world. Since he is willing to let Yunchang return to Jingzhou, he must have undefeated confidence!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map and analyzed to Liu Bei, "Your Majesty, please see that Cao Pi had been stationed in Wancheng for ten months before. The food and grass in the city must be exhausted, and now Cao Wei may have to transport food from Runan, Yingchuan, Xudu, Luoyang and other places!"
"The distance from these places to Fancheng is several times that of Jingzhou, and there is no advantage of water transport, and the cost of traveling is doubled. 'One man fights, and three men transport food'. In order to supply food and grass for the 150,000 army, Cao Wei must recruit at least 500,000 civilian men. Folks also need to consume food and grass, and the daily consumption of food and grass should be around one million catties."
"Therefore, Zifeng doesn't have to think about how to defeat Cao Pi. He only needs to drag Cao Pi's army under Fancheng. Sooner or later, they will retreat on their own due to insufficient supply of food and grass!" Zhuge Liang analyzed enthusiastically. Long, he will be the one who will face Cao Pi's current predicament in the future. He has to retreat almost every time he goes out of Qishan six times because of food and grass problems, consuming countless national power in vain.
"What's more important is that it's spring plowing season at this time. Cao Wei's hundreds of thousands of young and strong are busy transporting grain and grass and can't cultivate. This year, there will be famine in Nanyang and Runan. The longer Cao Pi stays in the city, the worse the famine will be; Your Excellency please Your Majesty exchanged snow salt and Sichuan brocade for food from the rich families in the north, even if you earn less money, you will do it, and this will greatly consume Cao Wei's strength." Zhuge Liang immediately thought of using economic means to weaken Cao Wei.
"I'm afraid that the people of Nanyang and Runan will cry!" Liu Bei showed a look of impatience.
"Your Majesty is benevolent, and I congratulate the people of the world!" After a word of praise, Zhuge Liang continued, "But don't worry about this matter. This year Jingzhou will surely have a bumper harvest. At that time, we can use grain to attract the people of Nanyang and Runan to vote. The population can increase again." Zhuge Liang had already thought of the next step, and made arrangements according to the situation in Jingzhou, "When the army goes north to attack Cao Wei, these people will be of great use."
"So, according to the prime minister!" Liu Bei agreed to Zhuge Liang's plan, and then a load of snow salt, Sichuan brocade, paper, and books were continuously transported out of central Sichuan, and a large amount of food was exchanged from the northern aristocratic family.
But Cao Pi didn't know anything about these, he just wanted to take down Fancheng now!