Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 421 Fake Surrender, Lure the Enemy, Burn Bowang Slope

After listening to Jia Xu's words, Zhu Wei naturally understood the meaning of far friendship and close attack.

In Jia Xu's view, since Zhu Wei is more afraid of Cao Cao, he should weaken Cao Cao first. Regardless of whether Cao Cao will fight Yuan Shao in the future, anyway, get rid of Cao Cao who is closest to Zhu Wei first, and it will be a big deal later. Just have a decisive battle with Yuan Shao.

Zhu Wei must also have the strength and spirit to fight Yuan Shao in such a decisive battle. Only in this way can he truly have the courage to unify the world.

Always put the results you want on other people's actions, that is definitely a kind of small mind of the weak, and will eventually be eliminated by the strong who dare to fight. If you have no ability to fight, how can others give you a chance? grab it?

Others will only strive to become stronger and stronger, but while you are hiding by the side trying to steal something, you are standing still and watching others become stronger and stronger.

So at this moment, Zhu Wei felt that what Jia Xu said was also reasonable. Far-reaching and close-attacking is originally a conspiracy strategy to gradually eat away at the world. .

Now Zhu Wei didn't think about anything else, and made up his mind to deal with the more than 2 Cao soldiers under Xia Houyuan's command. Getting rid of so many Cao soldiers was also a traumatic loss for Cao Cao.

"Fake surrender, lure the enemy, and burn Bowangpo!"

Looking at Zhu Wei, Jia Xu first said a few simple points, and then told Zhu Wei in detail the strategy he had come up with, which is almost like this.

Jia Xu is a poisonous man with a high intelligence of 94. Obviously, he had already thought of this strategy in Zhang Xiujun before, but he hadn't contacted Zhu Wei yet, so naturally he couldn't confirm the strategy and use it.

But now this strategy can be implemented. With his explanation to Zhu Wei, this strategy seems to be more and more mature.

Zhu Wei nodded repeatedly when he heard the words. Of course, Jia Xu's plan is only his unilateral idea now. Whether it can be realized or not depends on whether Xia Houyuan will fall into the trap, and whether Cheng Yu will see through this plan.

However, according to what Jia Xu said, even if this strategy fails, it is harmless. At most, it will be a decisive battle with Xiahouyuan's army in Wancheng. After all, the combined forces of Zhu Wei and Zhang Xiu are far more than Xiahouyuan's.

Even if the two sides confront each other in Wancheng, they are not afraid of Xiahouyuan's soldiers, but they may not be able to wipe out Xiahouyuan's more than 2 troops by then.

In the end Zhu Wei agreed to Jia Xu's plan, so Jia Xu sent people back to Wancheng, first let Zhang Xiu follow the plan, and then Jia Xu arranged for Zhu Wei's army to go to Wancheng.

Now that Zhang Xiu has completely invested in Zhu Wei, naturally he will not keep Zhu Wei's army out of Wancheng.

And if Zhu Wei's army is not allowed to enter Wancheng, how can Zhu Wei believe that Zhang Xiu is sincerely surrendering? Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu don't know that Zhu Wei can know their loyalty, so letting Zhu Wei's army enter Wancheng is also Zhang Xiu's performance The meaning of sincerity.

Although Zhang Xiu also let Cao Cao enter Wancheng to express his sincerity in surrendering, he rebelled again in the end and almost blocked Cao Cao in Wancheng, but Zhu Wei would naturally not make such a mistake. If Zhu Wei's army entered Wancheng City, of course, will not give Zhang Xiu a chance to rebel.

At this time, Zhu Wei also summoned Huang Yueying, Yi Ji and others to discuss with Jia Xu about entering Wancheng, and at the same time, make corresponding military deployment arrangements according to Jia Xu's strategy.

After such a short half hour, Zhu Wei's Chinese army camp continued to advance towards Wancheng, preparing to enter Wancheng, but Zhang Xiu's main force of Wancheng soldiers and horses withdrew from Wancheng first, and went in the direction of Bowangpo.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also sent Yiji to pass on the military order to Pang Yan of Xiongba camp, and then according to Jia Xu's plan, Yiji assisted Pang Yan to move Xiongba camp to Bowangpo.

In addition, Zhu Wei sent military orders to Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, and the light cavalry they commanded would also be stationed outside Wancheng. Go to Bowangpo to chase and defeat the retreating Cao Jun.

In this way, almost in the evening of the day, Zhu Wei's Chinese army camp arrived at Wancheng.

Wancheng, located in Nanyang County, is also an ancient city with a long history. It is located in the upper reaches of the Han River and the source of the Huaihe River. There are Qinling and Funiu Mountains in the north, Daba Mountain and Wudang Mountain in the west, and Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the east. , can be regarded as standing on a basin plain surrounded by mountains on three sides and opening to the south in the middle.

It can be said that Wancheng has high mountains and mountains to control, and wide cities and plains to station troops. It is a natural capital of victory.

At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu State in the south became more and more powerful. It once annexed the countries in the Han River Basin to the north, and then occupied this piece of land with both fertile and beautiful soil and rivers. Later, the Chu State established Wanyi here. , as a frontier military town aspiring to the Central Plains, this is also the original origin of Wancheng.

Therefore, in terms of military strategy, Wancheng can become the forward position for the southern forces to develop northward, and it is also an important gateway for the northern forces to open the land leading to the south.

As far as Wancheng's military strategic significance to Cao Cao in the north is concerned, whoever occupies Wancheng will pose a threat to Xudu, who is holding the emperor hostage by Cao Cao.

In the original history of the Three Kingdoms, after Liu Bei fled from Yuzhou to Jingzhou to attach himself to Liu Biao, he was ordered by Liu Biao to take advantage of the opportunity of Cao Cao going north to attack Yuan Shang, and tried to send troops from Xinye to attack Xudu.

Liu Bei's leading army had already reached the vicinity of Ye County at the beginning, not far from Xudu. For this reason, Cao Cao had to transfer Xiahou Dun as the main general, Yu Jin and Li Dian as the deputy generals, and sent troops to fight back against Liu Bei.

Liu Bei's troops were insufficient, and Cao Jun, commanded by Xiahou Dun, was unable to attack again, so he could only retreat his front and chose to confront Cao Jun at Bowangpo.

After that, Liu Bei used the strategy of burning his own camp and luring the enemy to go deep in Bowangpo to lure Xiahou Dun to ambush in pursuit of Bowangpo. If Liu Bei's troops were not too small, it is estimated that he could use this battle to defeat Cao's army and threaten him again. The safety of Xudu.

This is also the real battle of burning Bowangpo in history, but later in the novel, this battle was put on Zhuge Liang's head. In fact, Zhuge Liang hadn't been invited out of the mountain by Liu Bei at this time.

Moreover, this battle started when Liu Bei was ordered to take the initiative to attack, and it was not Cao Cao who deliberately launched the southward invasion, and the time was far earlier than the Battle of Chibi.

But the occurrence of this battle also shows that Liu Bei, who occupies the Xinye side of Nanyang, can pose a threat to Xudu with only a few thousand troops under his command, and Wancheng is more north of Xinye, closer to the direction of Xudu. It can be seen that occupying Wancheng , there will naturally be a greater threat to Xudu, where Cao Cao placed the emperor.

But at the same time, if Cao Cao occupied Wancheng, he could directly attack Xiangyang and the south through Wancheng.

Before the Battle of Chibi in the original history, Cao Cao accepted Xun Yu's opinion, took a shortcut and made a surprise attack with light clothes, rushed to the land of Wan and Ye, and captured these two cities, which was equivalent to opening the road to Jingzhou. After that, Cao Cao mobilized his army to go to Xinye and Xiangyang. He was so frightened that Liu Cong of Jingzhou surrendered directly.

At this time, Liu Bei happened to be stationed in Fancheng in the north of Xiangyang City. He was originally recruited by Liu Biao, thinking that Liu Biao would assist his son Liu Cong.

Unexpectedly, Liu Cong surrendered Cao Cao directly with Xiangyang City, so of course Liu Bei could not resist Cao Cao's army only by relying on Fancheng, so he had to abandon Fancheng and flee south with his troops. Zhao Yun entered and exited Cao Jun's formation seven times and gave up his life to save Adou.

Of course, this is also why Cao Cao had conquered Nanyang many times before, even if his eldest son was killed by Zhang Xiu, he was willing to accept Zhang Xiu's military intention to surrender again.

In short, now that Zhu Wei is marching to occupy Wancheng, it is actually of great strategic significance...

(End of this chapter)