It turned out that Sun Quan didn't want to make up his mind about Liu Han this time, but had bad intentions towards Wei State.

But despite this, the brows of the four of His Highnesses were still tightly locked.

The Han Dynasty and their Wu State can't afford to provoke it, and the Wei State can't afford to provoke it either.

Although the Wei State has been defeated repeatedly in the face of the Han Dynasty in recent years, there have been many losses in soldiers and horses, and the country's military strength is not as good as before, and now there are only about 300,000 left.

However, Wei still deployed 100,000 heavy troops in Yangzhou and Xuzhou, and these soldiers and horses were not transferred even at the most critical juncture of Wei in the pass.

From the perspective of terrain, if Jiangdong wants to attack the Han Dynasty, it can only fight Jingzhou.

And if you want to attack Wei, you must either go north from the area of Poyang Lake in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and attack the territory of Wei in the north of Yangzhou Jiangbei.

Jiangdong's main territory today is Yangzhou, but Jiangdong does not fully occupy Yangzhou, only occupies the Jiangnan region, of course, north of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong also has some territory as a buffer land, but the territory is not large, Yangzhou Jiangbei, most of it is in the hands of Wei, that is, Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, which is commonly known as the Huainan region.

This area is the territory of Anhui in later generations, Jiangdong occupies about 200 miles of territory along the north of the Yangtze River, that is, the Anqing area of Anhui Province (my hometown) in later generations, and to the north is the stain of Sun Quan's life in Hefei!

Therefore, if Jiangdong wants to expand northward and attack the Jiangbei region of Yangzhou, it must take Hefei.

This is also the reason why Sun Quan attacked Hefei several times, repeatedly defeated and fought repeatedly, because in history, Sun Quan successfully attacked Jingzhou, and after taking Jingzhou, he could only expand to the north, thus attacking Hefei.

Of course, there is a second way to expand north on the Jiangdong side, which is to cross the river from Jianye and attack Xuzhou.

To the north of Jianye, it is Guangling County in Xuzhou, which is also separated by the Yangtze River, but Jiangdong is north of the Yangtze River, and there is also a 200-mile territory as a buffer zone.

But it is very risky to send troops from this road.

Because Guangling went south, it is the capital of Jiangdong, Jianye, if Jianye went north to attack Xuzhou, it would naturally be happy if it was won, but if it was defeated, it would not be able to deal with the aftermath.

Because if the defeat is too bad, it will not be good, and the soldiers and horses of Wei in Xuzhou will take advantage of the victory to pursue and go south to attack Jianye.

The Hefei area is in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and if the attack on Hefei is defeated, there will still be a section of the Yangtze River as a barrier, and there is still room for maneuver.

On the surface, Jiangdong attacked Wei, either from Anhui County to the north, to fight Yangzhou Jiangbei, or from Jianye to the north to attack Xuzhou Guangling, there were two ways to send troops.

However, the latter was too big to take risks easily, so Jiangdong wanted to expand northward, or only to attack Hefei.

Hefei Hefei, the nemesis of Sun Quan's life, was put on the table again.

Lu Xun arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, if I want Jiangdong to expand northward and attack Wei, there is only one way to attack Hefei." Hefei has always had the heavy troops of Wei, and Cao Xiu led the main force of soldiers and horses to sit in Shouchun.

Therefore, if you want to take Hefei, it can be said that it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and my Jiangdong strength has just recovered, so it is really not appropriate to act in vain. ”

Lu Xun said, Lu Su, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and others also stood up to dissuade them.

Sun Quan pressed his palm and said: "Hefei is impregnable, the Lone King has attacked Hefei several times, so he naturally knows that Hefei is not easy to fight." During this time, the Lone King pondered and finally came up with a plan. ”

Lu Xun arched his hand and asked, "Dare to ask His Highness what his plan is?" ”

"Lure the enemy deeper!" Sun Quan said slowly.

"Lure the enemy deeper?" The four of His Royal Highness all nodded when they heard this, and immediately looked at Sun Quan, waiting for him to continue.

If there is no way to take a city, then lure the enemy out, lead it to its own territory, and then set up an ambush to annihilate it, then the city is not garrisoned, and it is much simpler to take the city, which is also a good way to take the city.

Although luring the enemy deep is the way to break through the fortified city, it requires a very good plan, and how to lure the enemy out and successfully annihilate it is the key.

If the plan is not rigorous and the enemy cannot be deceived out, then it will naturally be blind, and if the plan is discovered, the enemy can still plan according to the plan, and if the plan is not successful, he will suffer a big loss.

Therefore, the strategy of luring the enemy is a very risky strategy.

Sun Quan got up and walked to the back of the hall, untied the map hanging in the hall, pointed to Poyang County, and said to everyone: "Do you know the Shanyue Sect Marshal of Poyang County? ”

Lu Su nodded and said, "Naturally, I know that this person has thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, gathers in the mountains and forests, and is quite famous in the surrounding counties, and even in the northern Wei Kingdom!" But with me Jiangdong, get along quite well. ”

Sun Quan nodded and said, "I plan to let Poyang Taishou Zhou Yi go to this person for help, let this person contact Cao Xiu, pretend to surrender to him, and thus lure Cao Xiu out." ”

The four of them were silent when they heard this, although Sun Quan didn't say much, but with their wisdom, Sun Quan only needed to mention it, and they could understand.

First of all, in terms of feasibility.

Wei was defeated on the Western Front, and the situation in Wei was very turbulent, and a big victory was urgently needed to stabilize people's hearts.

Although Cao Xiu is a good general, in the face of the surrender of the Shanyue Sect Marshal Cao Xiu, Cao Xiu also hopes to take this opportunity to fight a big victory against Wu State, so the probability of him winning the plan is very high.

From a topographical point of view, Poyang County is located south of the Yangtze River, and between Hefei and Hefei, there is also a Lujiang County.

Lujiang County is located in the north of the Yangtze River, of course, this is not the Lujiang County completed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but only a buffer zone located in the north of the Yangtze River, the territory is not large, that is, the scale of Anqing City, Anhui Province in later generations. Most of Lujiang County was still in the hands of Wei.

However, the strength of the Shanyue Sect Marshal is in Poyang County south of the Yangtze River, and Hefei is separated by the Lujiang River, if Cao Xiu wants to send troops to meet the Shanyue Sect Marshal, or take the opportunity to go south to Poyang County, Cao Xiu has to go south to enter the territory of Lujiang County no matter what.

The territory of Lujiang County is mountainous, in later generations here is the famous Dabie Mountain, if Cao Xiu is ambushed here, Cao Xiu will be defeated, or even the whole army will be annihilated, then the Jiangdong Army will take advantage of the situation to go north, take Hefei, and even directly take Yangzhou Jiangbei The probability is very high.

At that time, the Jiangdong army could march into Huainan, Wei did not have Huainan as a barrier, and the western front was threatened by the Han Dynasty, so it was difficult for Xuzhou and Yuzhou to be taken away by Jiangdong.

At that time, Sun Quan achieved such a great victory that he would be qualified to be the emperor.

Sun Quan looked at the four of them, waiting for their response.

Lu Xun said first: "This plan is feasible, but my Jiangdong can't afford any failure now, and I must be cautious every step of the way."

The marshal of Shanyue Sect didn't know much about him, and Poyang Taishou Zhou Yi was a capable person and familiar with Shanyue's situation. His Highness may write to him and ask him for his opinion before making a decision. ”

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