Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 132 Top Showdown, Sima Yi vs. Lu Xun (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

Because he wanted to write back to Zhuge Liang to explain his views on the Wei-Wu War, Ma Di only teased for a moment, then abandoned the great wizard, took a pen at the desk, and meditated.

Since Wei and Wu did not go to war this year in the original time and space, there is no way to refer to it.Ma Su can only analyze the outcome of this battle from the personalities of the commanders on both sides.

Needless to say about Sun Quan's journey, Sun Shiwan's reputation is well known to the world. Even if he has a crowd of [-] people, there is a high probability that the Dongxing embankment will be taken by Wei Guo.

However, Sun Quan did not need to panic, even if Wei Guo won the Dongxing Dam, it would be difficult to threaten Jianye.

Because Wei Guo's navy is too weak.

Based on this, Ma Di concluded that no matter who the leader of Wei Guo's east front is, Sun Quan, the commander of Wu's east front, will surely lose.

There is no need to analyze the middle road too much, although Zhuge Liang did not explicitly state in the letter that the commander-in-chief was Zhuge Jin, but only said that Zhu Huan commanded [-] troops to defend against the enemy.But obviously, Zhu Huan is not qualified to command [-] troops alone, and his commander must be Zhuge Jin, the general of Wu State stationed in Jiangxia.

Zhuge Jin is very cautious in dealing with people, not seeking merit, but seeking not to lose.Therefore, he may not be very good at commanding the army to attack, but he is a good player at defending the city.

Therefore, the probability of a tie along the way is quite high.

In this way, the most critical battlefield is the western front, that is, the battle of Jiangling, in which Sima Yi, the great general of the state of Wei, fought against Lu Xun, the great general of the state of Wu.

Sima Yi is 50 years old and Lu Xun is 46 years old.

A duel between two old men with outstanding resourcefulness but both steady as old dogs.

Who wins and who loses?

No one could have predicted it.

However, when it comes to Lu Xun's official position, we have to mention the special situation of Wu.

In April of this year (229), Sun Quan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Wuchang. Considering Lu Xun's three great achievements, he set up a top general on top of the general.Lu Xun was worshiped as the top general and the guardian of the right, while Zhuge Jin was worshiped as the general and the guardian of the left, and led the shepherd of Yuzhou.

After Sun Quan moved the capital to Jianye, Lu Xun, as the top general, assisted the prince Sun Deng to guard Wuchang; Zhuge Jin led Zhu Huan and others to guard Jiangxia.Therefore, Lu Xun, who served as the top general, had a higher status than Zhuge Jin, who served as the top general.

Generally speaking, in this era, the general is the head of the generals.But the official position of Soochow is very special, and there are certain differences from Shu Han and Cao Wei.

The appointment of an official depends entirely on Sun Quan's imagination.

How big the brain hole is, how big the official position is.

Even after the death of Gu Yong, the prime minister of the Eastern Wu Dynasty (244), Lu Xun was canonized by Sun Quan as the prime minister (the head of hundreds of officials and civil officials) and Jingzhou Mu (the local official), and concurrently served as the top general (the head of the generals). In name and in fact, he has been able to go out and enter the prime minister and sit in charge of one side, and he is an extremely personable minister.

Although the official positions are a bit exaggerated, Lu Xun can afford these three official positions.

Because his record is too shining.

If in later generations, ask the general public who is the most capable commander in the Three Kingdoms era?I believe there will be many answers, or Zhuge Liang, or Sima Yi, or Cao Cao, or Guan Yu, or others.

But in fact, the most capable commander in this era is Lu Xun.

He did not deserve half of the credit for the annihilation of Guan Yu, the general of Shu Han, and the annihilation of Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu Han.

These three coaches above the general level also died quickly after the battle with him. Two were mad at him, and one was captured alive on the spot, and his head was stabbed.

Lu Xun's reputation may not be very famous in later generations, but in this era, he is an existence that the soldiers of Wei and Shu countries are extremely afraid of, and their faces turn pale when they hear about it.

In the battle of Yiling, the Shu Han did not dare to go east for more than 40 years; in the battle of Shiting, the Wei State was frightened, and did not dare to go south (Jingxiang) for 20 years.

Lu Xun is humble and forbearable. If he leads the army to fight, he either doesn't fight, or if he fights, he will be thunderous. One blow is fatal, and he will fight until the opponent's army is wiped out.

This can be seen from the official position Sun Quan granted him.

However, Lu Xun, who is super capable of fighting, has met his opponent this time, because Sima Yi on the other side is not good at it.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to predict the outcome of the confrontation between the two.

If there is a real fight, the possibility of Sima Yi winning is not high.There is a high probability that the two sides will rub each other for a while, and stop when they see profit.

Thinking of this, Ma Di wrote: "Look at it with Su: the Eastern Front is defeated, the Central Front is tied, and the Western Front may be a small victory for Lu Xun."

"In addition, the monarch and ministers of the state of Wu are treacherous, more than self-defense, not aggressive enough, this battle will last three months." After writing this, Ma Di thought for a while, cut this paragraph, and only put the first half into a letter bag, and called his relatives Bing, sent to Chengdu.

Say less and make less mistakes.

To avoid getting slapped in the face again.

In case the state of Wei takes the lead, we will fight with the state of Wu forever
This possibility also exists.

After analyzing from the perspective of a bystander, Ma Su deeply felt Lu Xun's strength.

This person can be called the general killer.

Zhongda, take care!
After a short while, watching the messenger leave quickly, Ma Di suddenly felt moved, and replaced himself in Sima Yi's position, balancing the battle situation in Jingxiang.

If he is Sima Yi, how can he defeat Lu Xun?
However, as soon as this thought came up, Ma Su curled his lips.Withdrawing his thoughts, he scoffed:

"Lu Xun, a self-defense dog, nothing to worry about!"

"If I lead the army, I can destroy this beast with a snap of my fingers!"

.........

At the beginning of November, Chaohu Lake, Dongxing Embankment.

In the past few days, the north wind is howling, the sky is full of snow, and the cold air is bitter.

Wu Jun set up camp on the embankment and repelled several fierce attacks by Wei Jun one after another.Seeing that the embankment could not be captured for a while, and the Wei soldiers were a little tired, and the enemy coach Sun Quan's reinforcements were about to arrive, the coach Man Chong decided to take a break and fill his stomach first.

So the lieutenants Tian Yu, Zhang Ying and others were ordered to hold a banquet on the flat ground not far from the embankment, drink and have fun, as if they were warming up in this ghostly cold weather.

At the same time, Man Chong secretly ordered the soldiers to keep their swords and knives in their hands, and make loud noises while eating, pretending to be unguarded.

Quietly wait for the fish to take the bait.

The banquet lasted from noon to afternoon, and after they were full, many soldiers of the Wei army even fell asleep in the snow.

This scene made Hu Zun, the guard of the Dongxing embankment, gnash his teeth in anger, so he sent someone to report the current situation of the Wei army to Sun Quan, who was twenty miles away.

Previously, because he was dissatisfied with Wei Guo's construction of a new city in Hefei (the new city was closer to Soochow than the old city), Sun Quan ordered people to build a levee in Dongxing in response.

After the Battle of Hefei broke out, Sun Quan led his army to the ground early. He wanted to take advantage of Manchong's troops to attack the Dongxing embankment and raise troops to take Hefei's new city. Hide twenty miles away to observe the movement of the battlefield.

Now hearing that Wei Bing was actually drinking happily under Wu Jun's nose, until he got drunk, he was suddenly ecstatic.

The opportunity is coming!

I will be full of pets alive!
Thinking of this, Sun Quan urged [-] soldiers to go ashore, and under the leadership of the veteran Pan Zhang, they walked through the vast snow and quickly approached the Wei army.

I still remember that Zi once said in Chuan Shang: If you can grasp every fleeting opportunity, you are a top commander.

Sun Quan considered himself a top commander.

On the shore, when the Wu army was about to approach the Wei Bing Dazhai, Pan Zhang said to the soldiers on the left and right: "The enemy is drinking and sleeping soundly. This is a golden opportunity. Make a contribution and receive the reward today!"

Infected by the bright prospect he described, the soldiers held up their weapons one after another, willing to fight to the death.

Pan Zhang ordered his soldiers to walk along the embankment and quietly approached the Wei army.

Wei Jun, who was drinking or lying on the ground, saw Wu Jun approaching lightly from a distance, secretly thought it was funny, and some of them even couldn't help laughing.

Pan Zhang immediately waved his hand, and Wu Jun took the opportunity to charge forward, and the killing sound shook the sky for a while.

Unexpectedly, instead of being chaotic, the soldiers of Wei suddenly rose up and charged back with their weapons in hand. They all went down the mountain like fierce tigers, and no one could stop them.

The battle situation was reversed in an instant, and the main general Pan Zhang was stunned on the spot.

The Wu army was in chaos immediately, and there were countless people who were hacked to death by the Wei army, trampled on each other to death, and those who fell into the water.

Man Chong led the crowd to chase all the way for more than [-] miles, captured nearly [-] soldiers, and piled up weapons and armor like mountains.

Seeing that the Wei army's soldiers were so strong, Sun Quan was so frightened that he quickly moved his boat away from the shore, and did not dare to go to reinforce the Dongxing embankment.

Seeing this, Man Chong did not go after the Wu army, so he sent a thousand cavalry to take down the Dongxing embankment easily, and sent the battle report to Luoyang, and reported it to Wei Emperor Cao Rui.

The middle line, the Jiangxia battlefield.

The leader of the Wei army is 57-year-old Wang Ling, and the 55-year-old leader of the Wu army Zhuge Jin has been in a stalemate in the small town of Jiangbei for more than a month.

Two veterans who are nearly sixty years old, about the same age, and see through the world, face each other across the city. They both realize that the battlefield here is not the key to the victory of the Wei and Wu battles, so they tacitly began to grind their laziness.

Western Front, Jianghan Battlefield.

Sima Yi sits in Xiangyang and threatens Jiangling; Lu Xun stands tall and does not move, responding to all changes with the same.

The current situation in Jingzhou is like this, Wei Guo occupies Xiangyang, which is south of the Han River and north of the Yangtze River.

Soochow controlled Jiangling, an important town in Jingzhou across the Yangtze River. Jiangling was located in the middle of Chu.Wu Yanzhi remained unchanged.However, Jiangling is the place of the Four Wars, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend, so it must echo with Xiangyang.If "Xiangyang does not guard, the north of Jiangling will be in danger."

In the winter of the third year of Huangchu (222), Cao Wei's siege of Jiangling fully demonstrated this point. When you own Jiangling, you must also own Xiangyang, otherwise it will be difficult for the side located in Jiangling to defend itself safely.

Xiangyang has been an important place for military strategists since ancient times.For Soochow, it is necessary to occupy Xiangyang whether it is to protect Jingzhou or develop northward.Therefore, capturing Xiangyang has always been the strategic goal of Soochow.As early as the 14th year of Jian'an, Zhou Yu suggested to Sun Quan that "according to Xiangyang, we can do exercises" and "the north can be explored".Therefore, after Sun Quan seized Jiangling and its surrounding areas, he repeatedly launched attacks on Xiangyang, which was occupied by Cao Wei. The two sides thus drew nearly [-] troops and fought repeatedly.

For Cao Wei, Xiangyang was the strategic base for defending Xu and Luo, conquering Sun Wu in the south and realizing national unification. Therefore, Cao Wei attached great importance to the defense of Xiangyang.
When Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi came to the throne, most ministers of Cao Wei advocated withdrawing the Jingzhou prefecture to Wan in view of the war damage in Xiangfan area.At this time, Cao Wei was still unable to unify the country, so he put on a defensive military position.Xiangyang is located in the south of the Han River. Although there is danger of Xianshan Mountain in the south, the Wei army is not good at water warfare, and it is difficult to control the defense line of the Han River and prevent the Wu army from attacking. The catastrophe.

Just like the scene of Guan Yu flooding the Seventh Army in the past.

However, although Fancheng is located in the north of the Han River, it is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is not suitable as a military command center. Therefore, Wei State shifted its defense focus to Wancheng in a short period of time, abandoning Xiang, Fan, whose land of Jingzhou was completely lost.

But it was later discovered that doing so was very disadvantageous both in battle and in defense.

From Cao Wei's point of view, it could temporarily give up Xiang and Fan, but it would never allow Soochow to intervene, so Cao Pi soon recaptured and rebuilt the two cities of Xiang and Fan as Wan's outlying strongholds.Such an arrangement can not only avoid the strength of the Wu Shui Army, retain a strategic buffer zone for maneuvering, but also maintain the two towns of great strategic significance, Xiang and Fan.

By the time of Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, with the intensification of the north-south competition, Xiangyang's status as an important city in the south of the Wei State was confirmed again.The political and military status of Xiangyang was further improved.

In the battle of Jingzhou, Soochow was unable to acquire Xiangyang, and Wei went south unconditionally on a large scale. The two sides have been stalemate in the Jianghan area for a long time.

Expanding to the entire border between Wei and Wu means that the state of Wu occupies the entire north and south sides of the Yangtze River, occupies a certain amount of land in the north of the Yangtze River, and controls a certain number of counties.The Wei State completely withdrew from the riverside area and retreated to the plains to defend.

This dividing line was gradually determined (played) by both Wei and Wu according to their own strength and the opponent's bottom line.

Because the national and military conditions of the two countries are different.Wei Guo lives in the north, good at land warfare but not good at water warfare.Wu Jun was on the contrary. It is not that Cao Wei has not experienced the consequences of fighting on the Yangtze River. The Battle of Chibi is the best lesson from the past.Therefore, if this demarcation line is really pushed to the coast of the Yangtze River, for the Wei State, it will face sanctions from the Soochow Navy all the time. It is impossible to fight the Yangtze River in China.

The principle of Nanyang Plain and Jianghuai Ping is not the same. Wu army is not as good as Cao army in land warfare. Cao Wei was able to stick to this area, but the navy was disadvantaged and could not go south, and Wu country could not go north, so a kind of check and balance was formed.

The second is the adduction strategy adopted by Cao Wei.Just as Cao Cao moved the population out of Hanzhong when he abandoned Hanzhong and left the empty city to Liu Bei, Cao Wei also adopted the same strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wild in Jiangbei.

In this era, the essence of war is to compete for population, and population is the basis of production and warfare.Although the state of Wei is shrinking in the north of the river, the population moving north does not suffer much in essence, and where there is no population, there will be no material production, and it will also allow the state of Wu to lengthen the supply line when it attacks.

In this way, the state of Wei cannot be defeated, and the state of Wu cannot be defeated. This line actually represents a balance point.Although it is not on the Yangtze River, its meaning means that it is backed by the Yangtze River.Therefore, the dividing line between Wei State and Wu State is essentially the Yangtze River.

Now, under the order of Cao Rui, General Wei Sima Yi led [-] soldiers to the south along the Yangtze River, intending to expel Lu Xun to the south of the Yangtze River, and then plot Jiangling.

Lu Xun, the great general of Wu, naturally wouldn't let Sima Yi do what he wanted.

The two sides then set up a battle in the Pingchuan area north of the Yangtze River and south of Xiangyang.

War is imminent.

(End of this chapter)