Mi Han

Chapter 267 Northern Expedition Strategy Guan Gong's Condition
After Cao Pi sat down, Cao Pi showed a questioning look on his face.

"Jia Gong, how about Marquis Wu De?"

The Marquis Wu De that Cao Pi refers to is his eldest son Cao Rui.

Hearing Cao Pi ask his opinion on Cao Rui, Jia Xu, who was opposite Cao Pi, put on a dazed look, as if he couldn't hear Cao Pi's words.

But Cao Pi knew Jia Xu well, so he continued to say: "Back then, Mr. Jia helped me ascend the throne of the prince, so after I succeeded to the throne, I immediately worshiped Mr. Jia as a captain as a reward."

"If Duke Jia can appoint three generations of kings for Great Wei today, I guarantee that the future kings of Great Wei will definitely take care of Duke Jia's descendants."

After hearing Cao Pi's promise, Jia Xu immediately opened his cloudy eyes and said to Cao Pi:
"Marquis Wu De is talented and intelligent, with great insight, and his achievements in the future will certainly be limitless!"

Jia Xu's words made Cao Pi a little surprised. He didn't expect Cao Rui to be so highly regarded in Jia Xu's heart.

It's just that he knows Jia Xu's intelligence very well, and of course he trusts Jia Xu's judgment.

After getting the answer he wanted, Cao Pi was speechless for a while.

Then he let Jia Xu leave.

And when Jia Xu got up and walked tremblingly to the door, Cao Pi's words suddenly reached Jia Xu's ears.

"Tomorrow, I will ask Yanlong to draw up an imperial edict, confer the Marquis of Pingyuan as the Duke of Qi, and honor you as the Duke of Qi, Duke Jia."

Cao Pi's words made Jia Xu stop.

Although Jia Xu was old, he heard Cao Pi's words very clearly in this silent hall.

But Jia Xu just hesitated for a while, then walked out again with heavy steps.

Jia Xu understood the deep meaning of Cao Pi's words.

This is Cao Pi's new reward to him, and it is also a task that Cao Pi entrusted to him.

Perhaps it was the series of defeats that made the emperor realize something.

After Jia Xu left, Cao Pi got up alone in the empty hall, his expression had already returned to indifference.

Cao Pi rubbed his fingers against the hilt at his waist. His saber was the Yitian Sword that had followed Cao Cao for decades.

The Yitian Sword has followed Cao Cao for decades. As Cao Cao's status and power continued to increase, this Yitian Sword was gradually regarded as a symbol of Cao Cao.

In Cao Cao's later years, he once gave an exam to teach scholars at a banquet. The topic of the exam was to express his own ambitions based on the word "Yitian" on his saber.

At that time, the ministers were also present, and the answers of two of Cao Cao's sons were the most gratifying.

Cao Pi, who was still the crown prince of Wei at the time, replied: "The long sword leans on the sky, and I would like to use the square land as a chariot and the round sky as a cover, and use the sword to attack the four directions."

Even though Cao Pi's answer was amazing at the time, Cao Zhi's answer, which was better than Cao Pi's in writing, was even more amazing.

"Annex the four barbarians, drink up the rivers and seas; cross the Kyushu, there is nothing to stop;

If you are ambitious, you can't worry about it.With Yitian in hand, all the world worships. "

Cao Pi still can't forget the satisfaction and admiration in Cao Cao's eyes after hearing Cao Zhi's answer.

He knew that he was never the ideal heir in Cao Cao's mind.

Just because he knew this, after he succeeded to the throne, he always wanted to prove that he was the best among the sons of Emperor Wu of Wei by establishing great achievements.

But the two big defeats undoubtedly made him realize something, and at the same time made him more mentally exhausted.

Cao Pi rubbed his fingers against the hilt of Yitian's sword faster and faster. Cao Pi, who had fallen into deep thought in the past, seemed to see that stalwart figure standing in front of him, with a look of disappointment on his face.

Is the Yitian sword entrusted to someone else?
If Cao Pi had this hallucination in the past, he would be panicked because of the fear of Cao Cao in his heart, but now Cao Pi, who has become the emperor, has changed a lot in his mentality.

His awe of Cao Cao has gradually dissipated, replaced by the urge to prove himself more and more.

In the end, Cao Pi just said firmly in his heart:
Father, the clan is no longer useful.

Next, the son will lead Wei to a brand new path according to his own ideas.

Now he, Cao Pi, is at the helm of Great Wei!

After claiming to be the emperor and founding a country, Cao Pi, who suffered two consecutive defeats, attached great importance to Zhang Liao's expedition.

Because he valued it, Cao Pi could hand over the command of the [-] Chinese Army to Zhang Liao without hesitation.

Because of the importance, on the day of Zhang Liao's expedition, Cao Pi, the emperor, came to see him off outside Wancheng in person.

Before Zhang Liao left with his army, Cao Pi held Zhang Liao's hand tightly many times, and gave Zhang Liao royal clothes in public, and continued to show favor to Zhang Liao.

The current Great Wei needs a victory too much.

Even if the victory cannot be won, as long as Zhang Liao's reinforcements can support from the side and prevent Guan Yu from taking Fancheng, then such a result is still beneficial to Wei.

So now Cao Pi can be said to be responsive to Zhang Liao.

Facing Cao Pi's favor to him, Zhang Liao naturally expressed his gratitude.

After all, although Cao Cao valued his talent very much when he was alive, he had never been so favored by him.

The intelligent Zhang Liao certainly knew why Cao Pi favored him so much, so Cao Pi's performance undoubtedly made him pay more attention to the next battle journey.

When the time for the expedition arrived, Cao Pi let Zhang Liao go away with full expectation.

As Zhang Liao led the army farther and farther away from Wancheng, Cao Pi's gaze gradually became more and more sudden.

If the destiny is in Dawei, I hope that God will help Dawei again in this battle.

Cao Pi, who had never believed in ghosts and gods in the past, became more and more superstitious since he usurped Han and proclaimed himself emperor.

And when Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of troops disappeared completely on the horizon, several messengers quickly left Wancheng and headed for Yizhou.

Tens of thousands of infantry troops are not as fast as the cavalry army, so when Zhang Liao led the tens of thousands of Cao Wei Zhongjun to go south, the spies of the Han army found out the news immediately.

They then quickly went south and reported the news to Guan Yu outside Fancheng.

And when Guan Yu heard the news, Rao, who had never been excited before winning the big victory in the moon, clapped his hands excitedly in the big tent.

The big things are harmonious.

Everything was as he expected. After the defeat of tens of thousands of Wei cavalry, Cao Pi will definitely send the backbone of Wei to support Fancheng again.

However, the foreign army in Nanyang had been defeated in the previous battle of Xicheng, and had not yet recovered.

As for the state and county soldiers and the field soldiers, it is okay to defend the city, but it would be unrealistic to rely on them to resist the current morale of the Han army.

The backbone force that Cao Pi can use at present is of course only the Great Wei Zhongjun that Cao Wei has always been proud of.

Although the Cao Wei Zhongjun brought by Zhang Liao this time can be seen from the intelligence, at most no more than [-], which is still far behind the overall Cao Wei Zhongjun, but this has already excited Guan Yu.

It's just why Guan Yu was excited about Zhang Liao leading his army south instead of being troubled?

It was because all of Guan Yu's previous actions were aimed at luring Cao Wei's Chinese army to go south.

And as long as the Central Army of Cao Wei goes south, Guan Yu will not feel troublesome no matter who the general is.

The moment he learned that Cao Pi was marching south in person, Guan Yu found out that most of the tens of thousands of troops Cao Pi led this time were Cao Wei Zhongjun.

After knowing the news, a plan emerged in Guan Yu's heart.

This plan is that he will try his best to eat the tens of thousands of Cao Wei Zhongjun brought by Cao Pi.

As early as the moment Liu Bei took Yizhou, the entire Liu Bei group was preparing for the Northern Expedition.

Among the generals under Liu Bei's command, everyone has different ideas about the strategy of the Northern Expedition.

Some people said that we should try our best to seize strategic points and gradually erode Cao Wei's territory.

Some people proposed that the main direction of the Northern Expedition should be placed in Jingzhou, with various ideas.

But Guan Yu has his own idea, that is, instead of seizing the land, it is better to kill Cao Wei's vital forces as much as possible.

Because in Guan Yu's view, Cao Wei's area is too large.

If you just use up all your national power to seize one or two cities, even if those one or two cities are strategically important places, what's the use?
Take today's Fancheng as an example, after taking Fancheng, there are still more than 30 large and small cities in Nanyang County.

The geographical location of Fancheng is very important.

But the reason why Fancheng can become the bridgehead against the Han army is because Cao Wei used the national strength of the entire Nanyang County to build a complete defense system with Fancheng as the bridgehead.

A Fancheng is not enough to withstand the pace of tens of thousands of Han troops. It is this perfect defense system that prevents tens of thousands of Han troops from directly crossing Fancheng and entering Nanyang County.

Winning Fancheng can certainly destroy this defense system, but with Cao Wei's national strength, they can select another city as a new "Fancheng" in a short time, and then rebuild a complete defense system.

Even with Cao Wei's national power, they can build a new city out of thin air.

The key to Nanyang lies in Wancheng, and in front of Wancheng, there are many cities. Is it necessary to pull out those cities to get under Wancheng?

Such consumption of food, troops, and time is an astronomical figure, and the most important thing is that Cao Wei has a lot of counties like Nanyang.

Under such circumstances, it is not feasible to just think about attacking cities and occupying strategic locations.

The best way is to kill Cao Wei's powerful foreign and Chinese troops as much as possible.

Once Cao Wei completely loses these two powerful weapons, over time, drastic changes will definitely take place in the north.

At that time, the probability of victory in the Great Han Northern Expedition will be greatly increased!

This method will not consume too much national power for one's own side, and can cause damage to the enemy to the greatest extent. It is an essential strategy for the weak to defeat the strong.

Guan Yu's strategic conception did not come out of thin air, but was slowly formed based on his experience in the army for many years.

Therefore, during the Battle of Xiangfan last year, in terms of military tactics, Guan Yu should not have risked crossing the Han River to attack Fancheng when Xiangyang was not captured.

Because of the blocking of the Han River, the northern reinforcements could not rescue Xiangyang, and Guan Yu could take Xiangyang calmly.

And if the troops are divided to capture Fancheng, then Guan Yu will have Xiangyang in his rear, which will undoubtedly be risky.

Many people think that Guan Yu is eager to win and wants Cao Ren's head, but thinking like that undoubtedly makes Guan Yu, an excellent commander, too superficial.

At that time, Guan Yu's real purpose was to encircle Fan and fight for aid!
Regarding this strategic idea, Guan Yu had also discussed with Mi Yang in private, and Guan Yu's strategy undoubtedly coincided with Mi Yang's inner thoughts.

Guan Yu's strategic thinking can be expressed in a sentence of later generations: if you lose people, you will lose all your land; if you lose your land, you will gain all your land.

The people among them specifically refer to the enemy's vital force.

Moreover, Mi Yang, who is a traverser, also knows that not only does he have similar views with Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, who has achieved great tactics and strategies in history, is also the successor of Guan Yu's strategic thinking.

In history, when Zhuge Liang started the Northern Expedition, the obvious strategic policy was to capture Longxi.

He mainly occupied the territory, so he deliberately sent troops to the Northern Expedition when Cao Wei was empty in Longxi.

But after being frustrated one after another, Zhuge Liang immediately adjusted the corresponding strategy.

Afterwards, his Northern Expedition direction was to go to Cao Wei's heart in the Yongliang area. His purpose was to actively lure Cao Wei's army in Chang'an to fight with him in the field, so as to consume Cao Wei's vitality to the greatest extent.

Even during the last Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang didn't even go to Longxi, and directly camped at the gate of Chang'an, forcing Sima Yi to come out and fight him.

It can be said that if Ji Han wants to truly defeat Cao Wei, he must not gnaw at the top of the city one by one, but he must fight according to the strategic concept of Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang in the later period.

In this way, the effect may not be seen within several years, or even ten years, but after more than ten years, the situation is likely to be reversed.

And precisely because Guan Yu and Mi Yang, the son-in-law Weng, had discussed in private, Mi Yang's actions have been a little quiet for a period of time after Guan Yu dispatched troops.

Because the plan of Guan Yu and Mi Yang was to do everything possible to attract Cao Wei's Chinese army to a decisive battle outside Fancheng.

Compared with Wudang, the terrain outside Fancheng is conducive to decisive battles between large corps.

That's why Guan Yu did not attack Fancheng, and Mi Yang used the memory of later generations to make Guan Yu reproduce the Queyue formation.

At the beginning, Guan Yu and Mi Yang, the Weng sons-in-law, planned to eat Cao Wei's tens of thousands of Chinese troops.

Seeing that the situation is developing step by step towards what he and Mi Yang imagined, Guan Yu will of course feel happy.

Realizing that Zhang Liao's army was about to arrive soon, Guan Yu immediately sat down to write a letter.

His letter was written to Mi Yang, and the content was to ask Mi Yang to lead the army south to join him immediately.

It may be because he was a little emotional, so Guan Yu covered his head again when writing the letter.

It was during this period of time that the headache that tormented Guan Yu recurred.

But at this time in the big tent, apart from Guan Yu, there was also a doctor accompanying Guan Yu.

The doctor's name was Fan A, and he was an apprentice of Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in China.

Among Hua Tuo's disciples, Fan A was good at acupuncture and surgery. Fan A was the one who healed Guan Yu's bone scraping.

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period, even if Guan Yu dared to ask doctors to scrape his bones, apart from Hua Tuo, the only ones who had the confidence to perform this kind of surgery were Hua Tuo's apprentices.

At that time, Guan Yu visited famous doctors everywhere in order to heal his arrow wounds. At that time, Fan Ah was practicing medicine in the Xiangfan area. After hearing Guan Yu's visit, he took the initiative to come to treat Guan Yu.

Later, Guan Yu's smooth performance not only impressed all his subordinates, but also made Fan A admire him. Since then, Fan A has been willing to stay by Guan Yu's side as a personal medical officer.

Seeing that Guan Yu started to have a headache again, Fan Ah immediately got up and walked behind Guan Yu, took out the silver needles on his body and pierced the acupuncture points on Guan Yu's head.

Under Fan A's acupuncture, Guan Yu's headache symptoms gradually eased.

Seeing that Guan Yu no longer had a headache, Fan A, who stopped performing acupuncture, saw that Guan Yu started writing letters at his desk again after his headache eased a little. He couldn't help persuading him:
"The general has a stubborn head disease, he should take a good rest and rest, and stop wasting his mind."

In similar words, Fan A has persuaded Guan Yu many times.

But Guan Yu's reaction today was the same as in the past, and he didn't care.

Seeing Guan Yu's reaction, Fan Ah could only sigh helplessly.

Guan Yu quickly finished writing the letter to Mi Yang, and then immediately summoned a personal guard, asking him to deliver the letter to Mi Yang as soon as possible.

After the guard left, Guan Yu leaned on the soft table beside him and closed his eyes to rest.

Regarding his physical condition, if he didn't know anything about it before, but under the recent more and more frequent headache attacks, he has already found Fan A to understand everything.

It is precisely because of his understanding that he let Fan A stay by his side during this period of time.

Under Fan A's diagnosis, he came to the conclusion that the reason why he had frequent headaches recently was because he hadn't had a good rest from the arrow wound on his forehead, which left the root cause of the disease.

But the situation then was just like it is now.

The defense of Fancheng was strong, and the enemy generals Yu Jin and Pang De led tens of thousands of Wei troops to stare at them.

And the army of one's own side can only rely on one person to fight against the enemy's army without losing the wind under the situation of inferior force.

Under such circumstances, what time and thought does he have to rest?
After Fan A understood the root cause of Guan Yu's disease, he gave Guan Yu a suggestion: "The disease of the brain is difficult to cure, and the general did not take much rest before, and it has become a chronic disease.

If the general can give up military affairs, take care of himself without worrying about his mind, he may prolong his life. "

After Fan Ah finished saying this, he also asked Guan Yu many times not to waste his mind, otherwise his illness would aggravate.

But Guan Yu couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing Fan A's words.

Maybe Fan Ah is thinking about himself completely from the perspective of a doctor, but how can he be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death?

Just like what Fan Ah warned in advance when he scraped his bones to heal his wounds, at that time, I still decided to let Fan Ah use the knife for the sake of military affairs.

Similarly, Guan Yu is also this choice now.

Guan Yu knew that if Fan Ah could not cure his brain disease in this world, even if he listened to Fan Ah's words to rest in peace, I am afraid that the only thing left in the world would no longer be a general Guan who cut his sword at once, but A lingering and sick man of great honor.

But how could Guan Yu want to be like the latter?

Now when Guan Yu closed his eyes, all he could think about was how he would eat up the tens of thousands of Cao Wei Zhongjun in the future, without worrying about his own life at all.

The terrain outside Fancheng keeps reappearing in Guan Yu's brain, and all the possibilities of the battle between the Japanese army in the future are deduced under Guan Yu's imagination.

After a long time of contemplation, Guan Yu, feeling a little tired, opened his eyes and looked at the map on the table in front of him.

He stretched out his callused hand and stroked towards the location of Fancheng on the map.

Last year, because of the safety of Jingzhou, he gave up Fancheng and had no choice but to return to the South Bank.

But this year, he will never retreat again!

　The update will be late in these two days.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)