Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

In the 21st year of Jian'an, 216 AD, at this time in history, Cao Cao had already become the king of Wei.

But one step at a time, one step at a time.

Yuan Shao did not die in the battle of Guandu, and it was delayed for three years for him, so that he has not yet become king of Wei.

Fortunately, now that Xiliang in Guanzhong has been pacified, and Huainan has won a big victory, by virtue of defeating Han Sui Ma Chao in the west and Sun Quan in the south, Cao Cao officially ascended to the top and established the Wei State.

What is the general trend of the world at this time?

Sun Quan was defeated in the Battle of Hefei, and fled back to Jiangdong with his tail between his legs. When Cao Cao called Wei Gong, he shamelessly expressed his congratulations.

Although Cao Cao was not ashamed of his ugly record, he thought he would use him to weaken Liu Bei's strength, so he wrote a letter to appease him, and suggested that the two form an alliance to plan Liu Bei's territory together.

Guo Jia first proposed this plan, but at that time Cao Cao looked down on Sun Quan because of the Battle of Hongkou, so he did not directly disclose the plan to him, but brazenly sent troops to Huainan, and fought with Sun Quan at Ruxukou with real swords and guns .

This is done for two reasons.

One is to see Sun Quan's strength, to see if he can withstand his own offensive.

If you can stand it, then talk about it.If you can't stand it, then of course you will hug the grass and beat the rabbit, and kill it for him.

The second is to let Liu Bei see that Cao Cao and Sun Quan fought, and it was a real war in which 2 or [-] people died.

At this time, Liu Bei is likely to lower his defense against Sun Quan and provide assistance for Sun Quan's surprise attack on Jingzhou.

However, Liu Bei was not a good stubble, he did not fully trust Sun Quan, and was always on guard, so he actually threatened Sun Quan to fight Hefei.

Cao Cao knew that this battle was inevitable, so he had already made plans to abandon Huainan and simply let Sun Quan occupy it to win Liu Bei's trust.

Unexpectedly, Sun Quan really was a little bit down. In Hefei, he was stopped by Xue Ti, Zhang Liao and Li Dian with 7000 people. While Cao Cao was overjoyed, he was also disappointed in him. He was really ashamed of the Jiangdong tiger Sun Wentai.

However, he needed Sun Quan to send troops to attack Jingzhou, so he finally revealed the plan and told Sun Quan that he would return to Guanzhong in the middle of this year and continue to fight Liu Bei, forcing Liu Bei to mobilize troops from Jingzhou. I hope he will not miss this opportunity and so on.

At this time, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses still maintained the situation of last year. Hanzhong currently has 3 people stationed, Guan Yu's 5 people are stationed at Baoxiedao Xieyuguan, and Zhang Renyue has more than [-] people stationed at Chencang Road Dasan Pass. .

Bajun and Shujun in Yizhou also guarded some soldiers and horses, which were scattered in various places, and they also wanted to suppress the occasional uprising of ethnic minorities in Yinan.

In Nanyang, Shen Chen's 2 people confronted Xu Huang's 1 people in Wuguan, and 6 people from Wenpin, Ganning, and Lu Chang's departments confronted Cao Hong's department in Runan, Yingchuan in Wancheng and Yexian.

Jingnan soldiers were transferred to Nanjun, and there are still thousands of soldiers left in each county. At the end of last year, Liu Pan died of illness. Huang Zhong inherited his troops, and more than 2 people were in Jiangling.

In this way, adding Jiangxia Huangshe Department, Xiling Zhaoyun Department, and soldiers from ten counties except Guiyang County, Jingzhou still has a total force of about 17.

Sun Quan imagined that the remaining troops in Jingzhou would be able to send troops with 13 troops.

Because the 8 people in Nanyang are watched by Cao Hong and Xu Huang, once Shen Chen takes action, Cao Hong and Xu Huang from Yingchuan Runan and Wuguan will immediately rush into Nanyang.

So he thinks that in an ideal situation, he only needs to deal with Jiangxia's [-] navy and Xiling Zhao Yun's total of more than [-] troops.

Now there are still some county soldiers in Jingnan counties, together with Huang Zhong's troops, they have become his hindrance.

Therefore, Sun Quan hoped that Cao Cao could step up his efforts and continue to put pressure on Liu Bei in Guanzhong, asking him to transfer at least another 4 or [-] people to Bashu.

In this way, Liu Bei transferred a total of 7 people from Jingzhou, and the Jingnan and Jiangling areas were empty, so he could take advantage of the vacancy and attack Nanjun, Jiangxia, and Xiling from Jingnan and Yuzhang, and sneak attack Jingzhou.

At that time, join Cao Hong, Xu Huang and others who are attacking Nanyang, and surround Shen Chen together.

Even at that time, Cao Cao could lead an army from Wuguan to Nanyang to join in this gluttonous feast.

As Liu Bei was blocked by Cao Cao on the road from Guanzhong to Nanyang, he could only return to the south and withdraw support from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

After Cao Cao received Sun Quan's suggestion letter, he readily agreed, so in the middle of the 21st year of Jian'an, he set off again to return to Guanzhong, assuming he wanted to attack Hanzhong.

But before that, in October of the 20th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei, who was preparing his troops in Jiangzhou and continuing to implement Jia Xu's plan to lure the enemy step by step, suddenly heard that Sun Quan's 10 people attacked Hefei, and Zhang Liao's 800 people beat him to the ground and fled in embarrassment. information.

"Uh this."

At the mansion of General Zuo in Jiangzhou, Liu Bei looked at the letter in his hand, and looked at Zhuge Liang beside him.

Compared to Cao Cao's belly laugh, Liu Bei was stunned and speechless.

He even rubbed his eyes, and read the contents of the urgent document in his hand several times to make sure that he read it correctly.

10 million people.

By 800 people.

Easily defeated?
And this kind of operation?

Liu Bei just couldn't believe it.

"I used to hear that Jiangdong was good at water combat but weak on foot and cavalry. I thought that no matter how weak he was, he couldn't be much weaker. Now, I have seen it."

Zhuge Liang euphemistically expressed his concern about the level of Jiangdong Army's combat power.

Liu Bei threw the letter in his hand on the table, showing a dumbfounding expression: "Mr. Wen He once said that Sun Quan could just use Sun Quan to capture Huainan, and when Sun Quan came to attack Jingzhou, he would take advantage of the opportunity to occupy Jianghuai. Who knows. "

"It seems that it is impossible to count on Sun Quan to help us seize Huainan."

Zhuge Liang thought for a while, put down the feather fan in his hand, walked to the side of the table case map and observed: "But this is not a bad thing, my lord can blatantly dispatch troops to leave."

"Oh?"

Liu Bei asked in surprise, "Why?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "My lord, you can write to Sun Quan, and you don't need to mention anything else, just comfort him. What will Sun Quan think when he deploys troops at this time?"

Liu Bei raised his head and looked at the ceiling, thinking: "If I were Sun Quan, I would probably feel that the other party is mocking me. The blatant transfer of troops to leave is nothing more than that the other party saw my defeat in Hefei and thought Jiangdong was nothing more than that, and they didn't let me go at all. In the eyes."

"That's it."

Zhuge Liang nodded in agreement and said, "Sun Quan has suffered too many defeats. Yi County was flooded by Xiaoqing's water, Hongkou was burned by Xiaoqing's fire, and now in Hefei, he was beaten by 800 people from Zhangliao. Come to think of it, that's a miracle."

"Ah."

Liu Bei thinks so.

Zhuge Liang drew a circle somewhere on the map, and continued: "My lord, next year you can transfer Huang Zhong's troops to Jiangzhou, and then go north in person to Guanzhong to fight Cao Cao."

"Isn't it stationed in Jiangzhou, waiting for the right time?"

Liu Bei was puzzled.

Zhuge Liang said: "The annexation of Jiangzhou is too obvious. Even Mrs. Sun has already formed secret agents to inquire about the movement of the Lord's soldiers and horses. It is even more impossible for Sun Quan not to place troops in Jiangzhou. It is impossible for us to check every citizen, so Things have to be done."

"Really?"

Liu Bei was shocked and said, "But if Jingzhou is attacked after leaving Guanzhong, and Cao Hong involves Xiaoqing in Nanyang, Jingzhou will really be empty. It is impossible for us to withdraw from Guanzhong and return to Jiangling in just one month."

"So we had to find a place that was suitable for shipping."

Zhuge Liang set his sights on Wuyang, Nan'an, Bodao and other places. These places are Leshan and Yibin in Sichuan in later generations. They are the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, especially Bodao, where the Jinsha River and Minjiang River meet. , day and night, within ten days will be able to Jiangling.

"Bo said."

Zhuge Liang finally said: "I ordered Huo Jun to train troops in Bodao for several years. At that time, my lord, you can send the main force to the north, take Micang Road to Hanzhong, and then go back to Shuzhong through Jinniu Road from Hanzhong, avoiding Sun Quan's eyes and ears, and station troops to Bodao. , and then transferred Huo Jun to Zhuti in the name of crusade against the Nanman, leaving Bashu empty."

Liu Bei thought for a while, and said: "But until now I have sent only [-] troops in Guanzhong. Cao Cao has now conquered Xiliang to attack Ma Chao. Even if I send troops to Jingzhou to Bashu, there will be no one in the front line of Guanzhong. Sun Quan will still be suspicious."

That's the problem.

Liu Bei's advisers calculated that if Sun Quan was to be lured into sending troops, at least 20 to [-] troops would have to be mobilized from Jingzhou's [-] troops.

In this way, the Nanyang army was watched by Cao Hong, and what Sun Quan really had to deal with was the [-] Jiangxia navy.

Although there are still some guarding forces, this is enough to lure Sun Quan to attack.

But you took so many Jingzhou troops away, but the Guanzhong front line has not seen the army dispatched for a long time. Sun Quan will not be so stupid as not to pay attention to the situation in Guanzhong.

Once it is discovered that Liu Bei's main force has not appeared in Guanzhong, he will definitely not take action.

Therefore, there must be so many soldiers and horses in Guanzhong.

Is it okay to transfer from Bashu?
Nor can it.

Because Bashu has fewer troops than Jingzhou. Before that, there were only [-] main forces and [-] county soldiers.

Now that five years have passed, in terms of the main combat troops, only [-] cavalry and [-] well-trained soldiers have been added.

In addition, Zhuge Liang asked Huo Jun to train [-] county soldiers in Bodao to deal with the major families in southern Yizhou and the southern barbarians who were constantly uprising and making trouble.

There are now fourteen prefectures in the northern part of Yizhou, and the soldiers of the prefectures are scattered, and each prefecture has no more than 2000 people.

Then distributed to the counties, there are basically 200 people in each county. They are used by the county guards and county magistrates to maintain law and order in various places. Basically, they are used to serve as government servants, arrest robbers, county soldiers, resolve local disputes, and promote government policies.

This means that the main soldiers that can actually be dispatched in Yizhou are the [-] infantry in Guan Yu's hands and the [-] cavalry in Zhang Fei's hands.

Now that they have set off, they will confront Cao Cao's soldiers and horses in Guanzhong.

The current 3 people in Hanzhong are all transferred from Jiangling. Even Liu Bei's current government in Jiangzhou has only five or six thousand troops. The soldiers and horses are very empty and a little stretched.

Therefore, in a sense, apart from the county soldiers and county soldiers used by the counties and counties in Jingyi to suppress the aristocratic tyrants and promote the policy of reforming the system, the real main force in Liu Bei's hands is actually about 21.

They are [-] in the hands of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, [-] in the hands of Nanyang Army in the hands of Shen Chen, [-] in the Jiangxia Navy in the hands of Jiangxia Huang Archer, and [-] in the original Changsha Army that Huang Zhong inherited from Liu Pan.

Even Zhao Yun's army is not counted, because the more than 1 people in Zhao Yun's hands actually belonged to Xiling County soldiers. They were streamlined and eliminated from the Lei Xu, Chen Lan, Mei Gan and other departments that originally came from Huainan, and they were not first-line elites.

In Nanyang, Shen Chen alone resisted the two armies of Cao Hong and Xu Huang, and the Jiangxia navy could not fight land battles. The soldiers Liu Bei can currently mobilize are Huang Zhongjun and some county soldiers from various places in Jingyi, which add up to about [-] to [-] troops.

In this way, the entire land of Jingyi will be completely empty.

But after the transfer, there should always be more than [-] troops on the front line of Guanzhong.

How can Sun Quan act rashly if he doesn't see the rabbit and doesn't scatter the eagle?

Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, but at this moment, a guard outside the door came to report: "Report!"

"What's the matter?"

Liu Bei asked.

The soldier said: "Cao Cao marched west to Liangzhou, Ma Chao was defeated, fled from Longyou to Hanzhong, and wanted to surrender to the lord."

"Oh?"

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Where is he?"

"Still in Hanzhong."

"Shan, you go back and pass the order. I will go to Hanzhong to meet him next month."

"only."

The soldiers leave.

Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Bei and said with a smile: "Congratulations, my lord, aren't the soldiers and horses coming soon?"

The timeline at this time is still in October of the 20th year of Jian'an.

At the end of the 19th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao defeated Han Sui and Ma Chao, and drove them to Xiliang.

Ma Chao then occupied Hanyang County at the beginning of the 20th year of Jian'an, killed Wei Kang, the governor of Liangzhou, and separated himself from Longshang.

In the first month of the 20th year of Jian'an, Guan Yu left Hanzhong and confronted Cao Jun in Wuzhangyuan.

The two sides had a stalemate for more than seven months. Guan Yu was besieged by Cao Jun, who was twice as large as himself, for half a year. He was gradually lost and retreated to Xieyuguan on Baoxie Road.

Cao Cao left Xiahou Dun in Jin to watch over Guan Yu in August, and he personally conquered Xiliang in September of the 20th year of Jian'an.

In August of the same year, on Cao Cao's way to Xiliang, Sun Quan went north and surrounded Hefei, but was beaten head-on by Zhang Liao, and his face was disgraced.

After that, Sun Quan became furious and besieged Hefei for a month, before withdrawing his troops back to Jianye in September.

At that time, Cao Cao had just cooperated with Yang Fu, Jiang Yin and others who rebelled against Ma Chao to defeat Ma Chao, and sent Xia Houyuan to continue to attack Jincheng County where Han Sui was located, while he was still in Hanyang, Liangzhou.

After Ma Chao's defeat, he defected to Hanzhong and wanted to submit to Liu Bei. The news did not reach Liu Bei until October.

Similarly, Sun Quan withdrew his troops back in September, and his experience in Hefei was also sent to Liu Bei in October, so Liu Bei held a meeting with Zhuge Liang in Jiangzhou.

The two thought that with Sun Quan's defeat, they could continue to transfer troops to Guanzhong.

It's just because the main force is stretched thin, the territory is too big and there are more than [-] troops, but there are so few troops that it makes people feel helpless.

Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, Ma Chao came.

At that moment, Liu Bei was overjoyed, and smiled at Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, that Ma Chao is known as Xiliang Brocade Ma Chao, and has a very high prestige in Liangzhou. If he is there, Liangzhou is preferable."

Zhuge Liang picked up the feather fan and shook it lightly, looked to the north again and said, "Not only Ma Chao, I believe Han Sui will also come. At that time, our troops will be sufficient. Even if we can't defeat Cao Cao in Guanzhong, we can go out of Qishan and compete with Cao Cao for Long." Right, with Liangzhou in hand, we can show off our cavalry like Shi Yuan did."

Liu Bei stood up, stretched his waist, and walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back.

Recently, in October, it has been raining in autumn and winter in Jiangzhou, and the pattering rainwater hits the eaves, making a crackling sound.

The courtyard was lush with vegetation, huge banana leaves covered half of the courtyard, and a raccoon slave ran past the porch.

Liu Bei watched the raindrops fall on the banana tree, and then dripped along the banana leaves in the courtyard, and then gathered into a stream, flowing out along the drain.

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth involuntarily, and then he laughed out loud.

"Hahahahaha."

The guards standing around the door are unknown.

Chen Dao didn't know why the lord was going crazy suddenly, and looked at him in bewilderment.

Only Zhuge Liang's feather fan covered half of his face and his smile.

"Hahahahaha."

Liu Bei continued to laugh, then sat down on the porch, turned his head and asked Zhuge Liang, "Kong Ming, do you know what I'm laughing at?"

Zhuge Liang cupped his hands and said, "My lord is laughing at Sun Quan's 10 people, who were almost captured alive by 800 people."

"Hahahahaha."

Liu Bei covered his stomach and waved his hands again and again: "Don't say it, don't say it, I'm going to die laughing. I can't think about it carefully. When I think about it, I think there are such ridiculous things in this world, hahahahaha."

In November of the 20th year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao received news of Huainan's siege and Hejian's rebellion, he returned to Guandong.

Liu Bei got up and went to Hanzhong to meet Ma Chao in person.

Sun Quan was defeated, Liu Bei won Ma Chao, and Cao Cao called Wei Gong. They all have a bright future.