Chapter 477: Internal Strife
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang looks quite beautiful, but obviously it is impossible for Wu Guo to agree, after all, it is not impossible for a fake Dao to cut or something, it is not impossible to happen at this time, unless Sun Jian has a brain in water, otherwise how can he agree to let Jing Han's sailors swagger past his own territory.
Sun Jian's resolute opposition eventually led to Zhuge Liang's idea falling in vain, and he could only attack north from Xiangyang.
Shaking a shot, it is really Zhuge Liang's approach, Cao Cao sighed in his heart, in addition to the surprise at the beginning, at this time, Cao Cao's mood has almost calmed down.
Although it is said that Shangyong has fallen, compared with such an important city as Nanyang, whether Shangyong has fallen or not is not very important at all, and this is also the idea of the important ministers above the Great Wei Dynasty.
Compared with Jing Han, who already had a clear goal, Shu Han, who closed off the country and stayed at home, Cao Cao paid more attention to the powerful Wu State, but there was almost no substantive Wu State!
The enemy hidden in the shadows is the most terrifying, looking at the map hanging high, Cao Cao kept thinking in his heart where the target of the attack of the Wu people would be?
The Great Wei ministers who were summoned by Cao Cao also looked at the map and kept thinking about the possible targets of the Wu people's attack, as for Zhuge Liang, well, up to Cao Cao and down to them, in fact, they didn't pay too much attention to it.
The 70,000 army was indeed a huge force at the beginning of the chaos in the world, but at this time, 70,000 people were almost no different from the thousands at the beginning, at least the Great Wei soldiers stationed in Nanyang alone. Among them, there are 100,000 standing soldiers, as for those who are half-soldiers and half-peasants. As long as the logistics follow, at least more than 100,000 can be pulled.
An army of more than 200,000 guarded Nanyang. Unless Zhuge Liang can really call the wind and rain as in the romance, and be wise and close to the demon or be wise and close to the god, otherwise, Zhuge Liang led the Northern Expedition of 70,000 troops this time and the six out of Qishan on top of history.
Originally, Jing Han's strength was not weak, and in the Liu Biao era, Jing Han was still able to pull out more than 100,000 troops of the Northern Expedition, and Zhuge Liang was too impatient.
Zhuge Liang's original strategy has benefits, but it does not mean that there are no harms. One of the disadvantages is that Jing Han's strength has been greatly reduced, and the fall of a top-level family like Cai Mao has also affected Jing Han's strength to a certain extent.
The strength of Jing Han is actually formed by the gathering of families, and the royal family is equivalent to the most powerful among the families, which is also a trend in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The advantage of this is that when the war starts, because the various families have contributed to the effort, they are not too lagging behind, and at the same time, they can also make the court in ordinary times. It can save a lot of financial resources.
But the downside, that's more, at least in this way, the emperor takes turns to do it, which is a reality. The second is that, like the current Jing Han, with the collapse of some families in the civil strife, Liu Qi's imperial power was strengthened. It is that the number of troops that Jing Han can dispatch is much less than that of Liu Biao's period, and the destruction of the Cai Mao family is alone. It made Jing Han lose nearly 50,000 deployable troops.
One is almost dying, but the other is silent like a poisonous snake in the dark. It is obvious which side to pay attention to, and just when Cao Cao and other Great Wei monarchs and ministers were constantly thinking about the direction of Wu's attack, Wu State, Zhou Yu, who had re-served as the governor of the Northern Expedition this time, was also fighting for the direction of the north this time.
Wu Guo was able to send troops from the infighting this time because Sun Jian and the family reached some compromises, the most obvious is that Zhou Yu, who didn't want to argue at all, had to argue with those children of the family about the direction of the expedition at this time.
Zhou Yu's idea and Zhuge Liang coincided, also through the sea route, taking advantage of the fact that Wei had no sailors at all, to attack Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and even Jizhou across the sea, but in the eyes of those children of the family, Zhou Yu's words were too taken for granted.
In their opinion, compared to the oceanwide attack on Qing, Xu Erzhou, it is better to attack Shouchun by sea and land, as long as Shouchun is captured, then the road of Wu to the north of the Central Plains will be completely cleared, which is not much better than which side of Zhou Yu's attack direction.
It's just that just as they don't look down on Zhou Yu's offensive policy, Zhou Yu also looks down on them, in his opinion, compared to attacking Shouchun, which is heavily guarded, attacking Qingzhou and Xuzhou, which are not defended by Wei, is obviously more profitable and has great success.
And because Wei has no naval division, when Qingzhou or Xuzhou is captured, the soldiers of Wu seem to be far away, but through the sea route, it is actually close at hand, not only can it be attacked, retreated and defended, but also can burn the war directly to the rear of Wei, and the support of military supplies and materials on the part of Wu can be completed by sea!
As early as the first Northern Expedition defeated the hands of Wei on land, Zhou Yu did not have the idea of winning a field battle with Wei on land, but wanted to attack the shortcomings of Wei through Wu's strengths!
Zhou Yu's phalanx can not be said to be bad, if everything is achieved, even Cao Cao will be dizzy, and in this case, it is even possible to make some faint moves, but obviously, the children of those families who are proud of the sky will not understand this, or they may understand it in their hearts, but compared to weakening Zhou Yu's authority and prestige, everything else is not too important.
In their opinion, Wu State, which has the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the strength of the water division, does not have to worry about the Wei State crossing the Yangtze River to destroy the Wu State, since this is the case, of course, the internal power struggle is important.
The final solution was handed over to Sun Jian's holy judge, and the solution of the holy judgment was that both sides came, and the sailor was divided into two, one faction and attack Shouchun, and the other cooperated with the attack on Xuzhou.
And Cao Cao, who has been worried about Wu Guo's new house in Daliang, is obviously not clear that the reason why Wu Guo is making noise and not moving is not because Wu Guo has any earth-shattering conspiracy, but because of the chaos in his own court and inside, which can be described as laughable. (To be continued......)