Chapter 151 The plan for the Northern Expedition (II)

But Xue Bing was listening to the two military advisors and Fa talking about the strategic plan of the Northern Expedition, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind, believing that this method is the largest, most complex, and most difficult strategic plan to implement today.

Without thinking about it carefully, he immediately said, "There will be a method at the end, so please judge the people."

When everyone heard this, they all turned their heads and looked at Xue Bing. Liu Bei even breathed a sigh of relief, but was afraid that Xue Bing would make another suggestion, which would lead to another debate. At that moment, he had to say first: "What's the plan for Zi Han? Let's talk about it first."

When Xue Bing heard Liu Bei's words, he immediately said, "In the view of the last general, the Northern Expedition is not an act of one state or one place. Only by gathering all the strength and moving forward together can the greatest victory be achieved."

Liu Bei nodded and said, "The second brother of Gu Chang led troops from Jingzhou and then invited the Eastern Wu troops to Yangzhou. In this way, three groups of people advance together. Zi Han sees where else can he send troops?" He said Xue Bing wanted to propose a few more ways to make Cao Cao's combat power more dispersed.

But he also had some questions in his heart, even if he divided his troops, his military strength would be weakened. In that case, the main attack direction would be affected?

Xue Bing said: "Although these three groups were together, they fought each other and did not know how to cooperate with each other. Although they dispersed Cao Cao's troops, it was not as difficult to deal with them.

After all, Cao Cao was in charge of several states in the Central Plains. Without mentioning the border troops, he was the garrison of each state, which was enough to cope with the joint attack between us and the Eastern Wu. Not to mention, he also had the elite mobile corps of the Central Army, which could be used. “

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he seemed to think of something and asked, "In Zihan's intention, would it be that the three armies must cooperate with each other, and the virtual and real are mixed, so that Cao Cao could not understand the main attack direction of our army, so he could not resist it?"

Xue Bing smiled and said, "That's right."

After hearing this, Liu Bei became interested and asked hurriedly: "How should Zi Han do it in his opinion?"

Xue Bing paused and sorted out his thoughts. He just suddenly thought of this strategic plan and did not organize it carefully. When he wanted to say it, he still needed to go through it in his mind, so he paused for a while.

Then he said: "In the view of the last general, we should ask the king to lead the army in Sichuan to the Qishan Mountains."

As soon as this statement was made, everyone present frowned. But no one expected that Xue Bing would propose that the army in Sichuan would go to Qishan Avenue. After all, the disadvantages of walking this path were that only two military advisors had analyzed in detail.

However, everyone knew that there were still some words, so they didn't say anything. Xue Bing continued, "The king went to Qishan, and first took Beiyuan, Yicheng and other places, and then took Tianshui County to be the foundation in front. If Tianshui was taken down, Yongliang would shake.

The king's army can attack Liangzhou in the north. If he advances eastward, he will reach Chang'an. Liangzhou is vast and sparsely soldiers, so the king only needs to send a general to lead his troops to the north to take down all the northwest lands.

In this way, the Cao soldiers stationed in Chang'an will definitely come out in full swing and take our army's flanks. At that time, the soldiers will be sent to Chen Cang, Qinchuan and other places, and will look at our army's side and force our army to not go north." When he said this, he felt dry and dry.

But at this time, I couldn't drink water to quench my thirst, so I had to swallow a mouthful of saliva, then take a breath, and continue talking.

Fortunately, everyone was still thinking about what Xue Bing said, and Liu Bei even took out the map and compared it one by one according to what Xue Bing said. Therefore, no one urged him to speak quickly.

Liu Bei looked at a map and thought to himself: "If Zi Han said, our army would all be stationed in Tianshui to Jieting and Jincheng. He confronted the Cao army of Qinchuan and Chen Cang.

If this happens, it will lead to a confrontation between the two families. Wouldn't it be the military advisor's words and the food will be exhausted over time?"

Thinking of this, Xue Bing looked up at Xue Bing. Seeing that Liu Bei looked up, he knew that he had already observed the map and had digested what he said, so he continued: "The army went out to Qishan. He was bypassing the Qinling Mountains.

First go to Longyou. In this way, the front line will be pulled to Tianshui County. Whether it is the King's Army or the Cao's Army, the main combat forces will be gathered in this area.

"As he said, he wanted to draw a circle on his hand, but found that there was no drawing in front of him, so he had to withdraw his hand in disappointment.

Seeing this, Liu Bei also wanted to understand more clearly and to make Xue Bing's thoughts clearer, so he called him to his side, looked at the map together, and asked him to point to the map and talk about it.

Xue Bing hurriedly walked to Liu Bei, and after saying with his fingers, he said with a graphic message: "The area between Tianshui and Jieting will be the key point of our army's defense. In order to completely intimidate our army, the Cao army must mobilize a large number of troops and deploy large troops in Chencang, Qinchuan and even stabilize the line. Only in this way can we have a deterrent effect on our army and prevent our army from going north.

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Speaking of this, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and other people around him nodded, while those who Fa Zheng were equal to the lower head needed to think about the shape of the lower ground in their minds, and after a while, they nodded.

Seeing that everyone was clear, Xue Bing said again, "In this way, Cao's army was all here..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Pang Tong interrupt and said, "There is no heavy guard to the east of Chen Cang and even the front line of Chang'an, and there is no barrier to the pass. It is actually a flat horse.

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Everyone suddenly heard this and was shocked. Zhuge Liang frowned and stared at the map for a long time.

Then Pang Tong continued, "I think Zihan wanted to take advantage of the confrontation between the troops on the western front, and another strange army came out from Hanzhong and went straight to Chang'an?"

Xue Bing nodded and replied with a smile: "That's true. At this time, both our army and the Chang'an army were trapped on the western front. Although our army could not go north to capture Liangzhou, Cao's army could not retreat to defend Chang'an.

Because the confrontation is 100% strong, if we retreat at will, we will be pursued by our army. At that time, our army can still take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and perhaps we can still attack all Cao soldiers to Luoyang. Therefore, the commander of the Cao army knew that Chang'an was lost and could not return to the army to rescue."

Zhuge Liang said: "Zihan's method is indeed good, but where should the strange soldiers in Hanzhong come from? The road connecting Yongzhou in Hanzhong can only allow large troops to pass through. But if the troops leave Xigu, they will go to Chencang.

Zi Han once said that Cao's troops stationed all heavy troops from Chencang to Qinchuan. From this we can see that Chencang is also the place where heavy troops are located. Even if they suddenly emerge from the Xigu, it would not be so easy to take it off.

If it drags on for a long time, Cao's army will know and send troops to reinforce. Isn't this another confrontation?"

Just as he was talking about this, he heard Pang Tong suddenly smile strangely. He said, "I think Zihan has a general idea with me!"

Zhuge Liang frowned when he heard this and asked, "Ziwu Valley?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's reactions were different. Fa Zheng was surprised, Liu Bei looked headache, while Zhao Yun had no expression changed, and just sat quietly.

Zhang Fei felt uncomfortable. The large series of deployments made him feel like his head was getting bigger. He only thought that those few people were so tempted that they had already planned so many twists and turns before they even started fighting.

Xue Bing took everyone's reaction and smiled and said to Zhuge Liang: "It's Ziwu Valley."

Zhuge Liang said: "But the terrain of Ziwu Valley is steep and the army is difficult to move. How many soldiers are Zihan preparing to use to walk this way? If there are few soldiers, how can he take Chang'an?"

Xue Bing said: "Chang'an City is strong, if you attack forcefully, tens of thousands of troops cannot be defeated. And the Ziwu Valley is a soldier who wins with wonders, and there must not be too many soldiers and horses. Therefore, if you want to destroy Chang'an, you cannot attack forcefully. You should make people destroy it from the inside."

When Pang Tong heard this, his eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "Zi Han wants to help his inner support?"

Xue Bing said: "That's right, I want to send our elite troops into Chang'an City. When the troops from Ziwu Valley arrived, they opened the city gate at night and captured Chang'an."

Zhuge Liang frowned again, but the reason was that the method was too dangerous. But now Xue Bing had obviously not finished his plan, so he just asked: "How many inner men want Zi Han to enter Chang'an?"

Xue Bing said: "No less than a hundred people."

Zhuge Liang was surprised and said, "How do you send these many people into Chang'an?"

Xue Bing said: "A hundred people say more than more, and less is not much. If you want to send them to Chang'an, it is not a feasible solution in one day."

Zhuge Liang lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked, "Is Zihan trying to use the method of rushing to increase troops?"

Xue Bing smiled and nodded, and replied: "Yes."

Everyone was confused by the conversation between them and the two of them, but Pang Tong explained: "Zi Han wanted to infiltrate our elite soldiers into Chang'an. But if these many soldiers suddenly appeared in Chang'an City, they would be alert.

Not to mention the sensitivity of fighting with our army. Therefore, Zi Han wanted to take advantage of the war before it started and send an internal response in the city. Today, he sent one person, and another person a few days later. But this method has been prolonged for a long time. It cannot be achieved day and night."

Liu Bei asked: "Zihan's method. Does it take too long?"

Xue Bing replied: "Report to the king, although this method takes a long time, the Northern Expedition cannot be carried out in a short time. Even if the strategic negotiation is made today, the preparations will not be completed in a few months.

After all, it took a long time to discuss the advance of the army with the second general and contact the Eastern Wu to raise troops together. After all, it took time to finish these preparations, it was the end of the year.

It is not advisable to send troops in winter, so we can only wait until the beginning of spring next year. In this way, we have a year to see the detailed work of Chang'an. Not to mention one hundred people, even two hundred people will be sent in.

It’s just that there are too many people and it’s too easy to be exposed. Sending a hundred people is already a very dangerous move.”

Liu Bei nodded and agreed with Xue Bing's words. Although he asked everyone to discuss the Northern Expedition at this time, it would take a lot of preparations to formally send troops.

Now we just need to agree on the strategic direction of sending troops to decide on what preparations are done.

At this time, Zhuge Liang said again: "It's just that Zi Han took Chang'an, how can he defend himself?" This is enough to discuss this strategy. How to take Chang'an in detail is a tactical level, and it should not be within the scope of this discussion.

Although whether Changan can take it down will be related to the entire situation of the war.

Zhuge Liang's question at this time was related to whether this battle would become a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

Because once Chang'an is lost, Cao Cao will inevitably be furious. If he only guards the troops of the Eastern Wu and Guan Yu, he will not fight with them, but will instead of rushing the army to advance westward.

Then, whether Chang'an can persevere until Liu Bei's landlord army eliminates all the Cao troops in Yongzhou, it depends on whether this battle will be a great victory or a great defeat.
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