Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Wuzhangyuan, Guanzhong, the camp of the Han army.

Zhuge Liang knelt on the futon, leaned on the desk, and wrote a book of war with a brush in his hand. He wanted to write his experience in marching and fighting for many years and his thoughts on the ancient art of war on the scarf for the generals in the army to read.

On Zhuge Liang's left hand side, there are several volumes of drafts of the Art of War written in the early years. If you take a closer look, you can see Zhuge Liang's comments and revisions densely everywhere.Zhuge Liang stopped writing from time to time to read his notes from earlier years for reference.

Zhuge Liang began to write the art of war from the period when he was in charge of the army in Hanzhong, and originally intended to pass it on to his private disciples.But a few years ago, His Majesty implicitly proposed that Zhuge Liang could revise the currently written Art of War, so that it could be read by the lieutenant generals of the Han army and passed on to future generations.

Faced with Liu Chan's request, Zhuge Liang could only revise the outline of the Art of War, adding details, improving the outline, and writing the book of war in a more easy-to-understand language.Even at Liu Chan's suggestion, formation patterns were added to some chapters to illustrate how to arrange battle formations.

As for why Liu Chan did this, it is also very simple.Whenever Liu Chan asked Zhuge Liang how to build an army, Zhuge Liang often said to him: "A soldier with discipline, an incompetent general, cannot be defeated; a soldier without discipline, a capable general, cannot win." '

Zhuge Liang emphasized that the quality of the army and the underlying organizational system should be placed above the ability of military generals, rather than trying to imagine a soldier who rises in vain and sweeps away powerful enemies.Therefore, as Zhuge Liang's student, Liu Chan's idea of ​​building an army is exactly the same as Zhuge Liang's.I am very worried that with the death of Zhuge Liang and a large number of generals of the Han army, the military strength of the Han army will fall into a low period.

We must know that a strong army is built on a large number of middle and low-level officers, and the current middle and low-level officers of the Han Dynasty are, on the one hand, the generals in the Bashu area trained by Zhuge Liang during the Southern and Northern Wars, and on the other hand, the old Liu Congyiling. The elite Jingzhou soldiers left after the war retreated.

Twelve years have passed since the battle of Yiling.Before the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong, the Jingzhou generals left behind by Lao Liu either died of old age or illness.It was a big blow to the military strength of the Han Dynasty. Fortunately, the generals Zhuge Liang trained in recent years replaced him.

But if it takes more than ten years, or experiences a major defeat, it will be very scary.After all, the ability of the successor is always inferior to Zhuge Liang. If you don't make a plan now, you will regret it when it happens in the future.

While writing, Zhuge Liang put down the brush, put it on the table, picked up the teacup, sipped the ginseng tea, and rubbed his eyes for a rest.

Yang Yi stood at the entrance of the tent and shouted in a low voice: "Prime Minister!"

"What's the matter?"

Zhuge Liang opened his eyes and saw that it was Yang Yi. He covered up the important chapters such as "General Garden" that he was writing, and put the chapters suitable for middle-level generals to study on the upper level.

There are 24 articles on Zhuge Liang's The Art of War, each of which has a different content. Except for the articles suitable for middle-level generals who promised to help Liu Chan write, most of the 24 chapters are intended to be dedicated to Liu Chan and taught to his favorite disciples.For example, "Jiangyuan", which discusses the selection of general candidates, is an important article that most people can read.

Yang Yi lowered her head and peeked at the book of war on the case, and said, "When you arrive at Sima Yi's camp on the Niwei Xin Festival, Sima Yi will not go out to fight!"

Before Xin Hong went to the camp of the Wei army, he sent women's clothes to Sima Yi, and stimulated the generals to fight.Sima Yi had no choice but to write a letter to Cao Rui who was on the front line, pretending to ask for a fight.

Cao Rui understood Sima Yi's deep meaning, and on the surface he ordered Simpi to be the general's military adviser, and went to the Wei camp to save the generals, ordering the generals not to fight, and waiting for a good opportunity.Secretly wrote another letter to Sima Yi, asking him to act accordingly, and once he wanted to keep Chen Cangcheng, he would prevent Zhuge Liang from communicating with Longyou.

Zhuge Liang stood up, walked towards the entrance of the tent, and complained: "Sima Yi has no heart to fight, and now he is asking Cao Rui to fight thousands of miles away. This is to show the generals that he is not afraid of us, but Cao Rui ordered him not to do so. Besides. The general is outside, and the emperor's orders are not accepted, if he can defeat me, how can he fight for thousands of miles?"

Yang Yi glanced at the book of war reluctantly, followed Zhuge Liang and said, "Prime Minister, if we don't fight Sima Yi again, our army will really spend the winter in Guanzhong, and it will be bad for the morale of the army!"

Zhuge Liang walked out of the tent, looked at the tent of the Wei army on the other side of the river, and said, "I don't know about this. It's just that Sima Yi can't get out of the river, how can we force him to fight!"

As he said that, Zhuge Liang looked at Yang Yi who was in a hurry, and said in a deep voice: "I said earlier that you should not be in a hurry. This battle may be like the battle of Hanzhong, and the winner will be determined after a long time. Chencang is surrounded, and no matter how calm Sima Yi is, He didn't dare not save Chen Cang, but he didn't come out now, it's just that he didn't think of a strategy to defeat our army. Unless Chen Cang can be defended for several years, Sima Yi will still go out to fight."

Yang Yi showed a trace of shame, and said: "What the Prime Minister said is very true, I am impatient!"

Zhuge Liang waved his hand, signaling him to back down.

Yang Yi saluted, looked reluctantly at the Art of War on the case, turned around and retreated.

When she turned around, Yang Yi almost collided with Guan Xing who came excitedly.

Guan Xing put away the smile on his face, bowed to Yang Yi and apologized, and after he left, he bowed to Zhuge Liang, handed the letter in his hand to Zhuge Liang and said, "Report to the Prime Minister, great joy!"

"The former general led his troops eastward along the Han River to attack Nanxiang County, attracting soldiers from the Second East County to help; Chen Yong'an went to Xingshan Mountain, crossed Bashan Mountain, and attacked Fangling County. The two armies converged on Shangyong City, and currently they are besieging Zhugai. In the city, Shangyong City may be captured soon."

Zhuge Liang looked at the news on the battle report, his smile was hard to hide.After reading the battle report in detail, although Wang Ping faded away the details of the battle, Zhuge Liang still saw that the battle was not easy.

Holding the battle report, Zhuge Liang said with emotion: "Zijun has grown a lot in recent years. In the early years, he led troops to fight steadily and fought fiercely. But in these years, he has accurately predicted the enemy and used troops. However, he can detect the enemy's reality. Retreat can keep the whole army safe, and advance can control the enemy and seize the city. His talent is not inferior to Zhang Yun, and he can be called a famous general in the world!"

From then on, Wang Ping's command and deployment of troops basically imitated Liu Feng and Meng Da's method of attacking the three eastern counties.And most of the troops of the Wei army in Jingzhou were also transferred to the Xiangfan battlefield to confront the Wu army. The reinforcements were only 4000 people led by Wu Qiujian.

The reason why Zhuge Liang is so happy is that the news of the capture of Shangyong and Fangling counties will greatly inspire the fighting spirit of the Han soldiers.Another point is that once the Dahan occupies the three eastern counties, the strategic depth to the east of the Dahan will be greatly lengthened, forming a geographical advantage for Wei and greatly reducing Ankang's defensive pressure.

Zhuge Liang looked at the content of the Soochow Military News in the Wang Ping Army News, stroked his beard and fell into deep thought.Wu Zhugejin's army defeated Strider County, and Lu Xun led his troops back.Cao Rui's army arrived in Fancheng, Sun Quan withdrew to the south bank to besiege Xiangyang, and confronted Wei...

"I'm afraid Soochow will retreat soon!" Zhuge Liang muttered.

"Prime Minister, what's the matter?" Guan Xing shouted.

"Yeah!" Zhuge Liang came back to his senses, looked up at Guan Xing and said, "It's all right. Tell the whole army about the news of Zijun's victory, and at the same time make a copy of the Wu army's battle situation to Huang Cheqi."

"promise!"