At that time, the Qin State was precisely because it got Yizhou, the country of abundance, and with the grain and grass of Yizhou, coupled with the strong Qin soldiers, it established the momentum of dominating the world.
If Cao Cao captures Yizhou and then conquers the Qiang people, his strength will indeed explode, posing a threat to the Great Wei.
After all, the Central Plains states owned by the potters, although the territory is large, but they have been poisoned by war for many years, although the potters have been recuperating for many years, but they have not yet eased up.
Yizhou is different, it is far away from the Central Plains, it has not been damaged by a major war, it has a million household registrations, and it is extremely rich.
Moreover, the place where Cao Cao was based was originally based on the geographical advantage of the Great Wei War, and the land in the middle of the pass could attack the Central Plains if it advanced, and it could be defended by retreating to defend the three passes, which was already easy to defend and difficult to attack.
If Cao Cao regained control of Yizhou, he would be able to form a downward trend in the Jingyang region, and then form an advantage over the Great Wei in terms of geographical advantages.
Analyzing Zhang Liang's words, the potter looked at the map, and after pondering for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "It seems that this king is going to take the first step and take Shu first." ” Hearing that the potter said that he wanted to destroy Shu, in the hall, the generals immediately became excited, as if they saw the great prospect of meritorious service.
"What about Youzhou, what is Liu Bei's movements" The potter's eyes looked at Su Qin again.
Su Qin hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "King Yu, according to my Jinyi Beiwei secret report, Liu Bei had originally gathered 80,000 iron cavalry and contacted the Xianbei people, obviously wanting to invade our Great Wei, but after the news of the destruction of Wu State reached Youzhou, Liu Bei ordered the mobilization of Ding Fu to rebuild the Yijing defense line, and ordered his iron cavalry to move to the Liaodong area. ” Hearing the news, the pottery merchant's eyes suddenly lit up, and Liu Bei's actions were in his arms.
Obviously, Liu Bei, like Cao Cao, had realized that the strength of the Great Wei had increased dramatically, and he had formed a suppression of his Yan State, and it was no longer wise to forcibly attack, so he had to turn from attack to defense, otherwise, he would not have rebuilt the Yijing defense line.
As for Liu Bei's main force to assemble in the direction of Liaodong, the pottery merchants speculated that Liu Bei's purpose was the same as Cao Cao's, and he should have wanted to annex Goguryeo in order to enhance his own strength.
Yan has the advantage of cavalry, Yijing's defense line is solid, and Qin has the danger of Tongguan and other three passes, even if the pottery merchants destroy Wu and their strength is greatly increased, it is not easy to forcibly destroy these two countries.
Since this is the case, why not destroy the Shu Kingdom first, completely pacify the south, and then destroy the Qin and Yan Kingdoms.
Moreover, at this time, Cao Cao's energy was focused on the Qiang people, and Liu Bei's goal was to destroy Goguryeo, both of which could not be withdrawn, which just gave him the opportunity to concentrate his forces and destroy the Goujian Shu State.
"First easy and then difficult, it is my Great Wei's strategy to dominate the world, and destroying Shu can not only completely remove the threat from the south, but also prevent Cao Cao from becoming stronger, killing two birds with one stone, and the minister agrees to destroy Shu first."
Zhang Liang seconded.
Zhang Liangyi seconded the proposal, and the rest of Su Qin, Zhang Yi and other strategists all agreed to destroy Shu first.
Not to mention the generals, for them, it doesn't matter who they kill first, the important thing is to let them fight and make meritorious contributions.
Now that the state of Wu has been destroyed, the generals are eating and drinking every day, enjoying the Jiangnan people, and they have enough rest, and the blood is gradually boiling, and they are eager to use the knife against anyone again, of course, no one is not in favor of sending troops to destroy Shu.
In the midst of the shouts of war, only Wu Zixu, an all-rounder who can write and martial arts, has been silent.
"Zixu, do you have any concerns" The potter had insight into people's hearts, and saw his thoughts at a glance, so he asked with a smile.
Wu Zixu retracted his thoughts, then stood up, pointed to the map and said: "The king's decision to attack Shu, the minister naturally raised his hands in favor, but Shu is not as good as Wu, we can attack in two ways, if we want to attack Shu, there is only one way to go west against the river, and there is the danger of the Three Gorges in the east of Shu, even if we have many generals, but if we want to conquer the army in a grand manner, I am afraid that it is not as simple as you think." ” Wu Zixu's words reminded the potter, causing his eyes to fall back on the mountains of Shudi.
He remembered the process of Liu Bei's extermination of Shu above history.
At that time, Liu Bei had Fa Zheng and Zhang Song as internal responses, persuading Liu Zhang to lead Liu Bei into Sichuan to deal with Zhang Lu, so that Liu Bei could confidently cross the danger of the Three Gorges and go deep into the hinterland of Yizhou.
But the potters were not so lucky.
Liu Zhang is no longer "Liu Zhang", but Gou Jian, this person is also wise and heroic, Fa Zheng has become the chief strategist in his hands, and it is impossible to act as his internal response.
This means that if he wants to destroy the Shu Kingdom, he can only come hard and kill it step by step.
It's just that with the danger of the Three Gorges, if Gou Jian was aware in advance, he would only need to increase tens of thousands of troops on the front line of the fish belly in the east.
"Zixu is reasonable, it seems that it is not possible to destroy Shu clearly, you have to spend some thought and play some yin" The potter calmed down and thought thoughtfully.
At this moment, the corners of Su Qin's mouth raised a sly smile, and he arched his hand and said, "King, the minister has a way, maybe he can hide it from Liu Zhang." ” Two days later, Su Qin set off, taking the holy decree drawn up by the Son of Heaven from the potter, and also carrying the greetings of the potters to Gou Jian, and went up the river to Chengdu.
Su Qin walked on the front foot, and the potter began on the back foot, secretly preparing for the destruction of Shu.
Of course, the potter would not be stupid enough to shout the slogan directly, claiming that he was going to cut down Shu, so that Gou Jian could be prepared.
In order to confuse Goujian, the potters have issued an edict ordering them to transport grain and grass to Nanyang, Luoyang, and Hedong, in order to pose as if they were about to destroy Qin.
The potters did not claim to destroy Qin with great fanfare, so as not to cover up the situation, but let Gou Jian arouse suspicion, so they only secretly ordered the Central Plains to mobilize grain and grass.
However, the potters knew that Gou Jian also had a large number of fine works in the Central Plains, and he would definitely be able to detect the movements of grain and grass transshipment in various places, and the potters wanted Gou Jian to speculate that he was going to attack the Qin State.
Now the main army of potters, still in Wu did not return to the north, as long as Gou Jian decided that he was going to cut down Shu, at that time, his army could go against the west in a grand manner, swaggering to Jingzhou, so that Gou Jian mistakenly thought that he was just passing through Jingzhou and going to Nanyang.
When the army of potters arrived in Jingzhou, they could take advantage of Goujian's unpreparedness and suddenly go west to kill Shu, and kill Goujian by surprise.
The pottery merchants want to deal with the Shu State and the soldiers, and other key points, naturally they will not despise it.
In Yejing, there is the princess Hua Mulan in charge, and the steady and loyal Gao Shunxie Town, and the pottery merchants are naturally relieved.
On the border of Youji, the pottery merchant has ordered Tian Dan, who is good at defending the city, to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to sit in Lunu to prevent the Yan army from attacking southward, and at the same time ordered Le Yi to go north to command the northern Hebei army.
On the Jinyang side, the pottery merchants had Wei Qing and Huo Quai, and these two cavalry troops joined forces to prevent the Xianbei people from attacking Bingzhou.
On the Hedong front, the pottery merchant ordered Zhang He to lead the Hedong Taishou, not only to guard against the Qin army in Guanzhong, but also to form a false impression of attacking Qin from the Puban line.
In Wancheng, Nanyang County, the pottery merchants also continued to let Peng Yue and Chen Deng guard the town, and as for the Luoyang line, Zhou Yafu was in charge.
From Hedong to Luoyang and then to Nanyang, these three routes of soldiers and horses are all to guard against Cao Cao in Guanzhong, and there are 50,000 soldiers and horses, which are under the unified command of Zhou Yafu.
As for the newly pacified Wu land, the pottery merchants had transferred Shang Ying from Yejing, so that he could also lead the Yangzhou Assassin History, soothe the people's hearts, and implement the Shang Yang Reform Law in Jiangdong to strike a blow at the powerful clans in the south.
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In order to ensure the logistics of the battle of Shu, the potters transferred Xiao He, who was good at grain and grass transportation, from Yecheng to Jingzhou in the name of pacifying Jingzhou, and also led the history of Jingzhou.
The tasks of the generals were arranged separately, and the potters continued to "spend all day and wine" in Jianye, so that the soldiers could recuperate, just waiting for the successful return of Su Qin's envoy, and the army marched west to punish them.
And this time, the number of troops that the pottery merchants will use to cut down Shu will reach an unprecedented 180,000 At the same time that Su Qin went to Chengdu as an envoy, a large number of Jinyi Nanwei's meticulous workers had already entered Shu and began to launch a public opinion offensive for Su Qin's plan, preaching everywhere, saying that the reason why Cao Cao wanted to conquer the Qiang people was to invade Yizhou again.
It took Su Qin more than 20 days to slowly enter Yizhou, and in this month's time, Cao Cao's "conspiracy" to invade Shu again has been publicized everywhere in Yizhou, and everyone knows about it.
For a time, there was a lot of discussion in Shu, and the spearhead was pointed at the Qin State in the north, and the vigilance of the Wei State was greatly reduced.
At this time, Su Qin happened to enter Shu as a waiter of the Yellow Gate, with the "Holy Decree" of the Son of Heaven.
Everyone knows that the Son of Heaven in Xu Du is a puppet, and Su Qin was ordered by Qin to come to Yizhou on the orders of the pottery merchant of the King of Wei.
At this time, the pottery merchants had successively destroyed the three kingdoms of Jin, Chu and Wu, and the world was shocked, and the people of Shu were all intimidated by the prestige of the pottery merchants.
Including Goujian, which is far away in Chengdu.
Since the failure of the previous invasion of Jingzhou, Gou Jian has deeply realized the strength of the pottery merchants, and after returning to Chengdu, he has been paying attention to the movements of Chu and Wu all the time.
The Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Pengze, the Battle of Wancheng, and the Battle of Jianye were all thrilling battles, and Goujian, thousands of miles away, all knew clearly, and they were deeply terrified by the god of pottery merchants.
At this time, although Gou Jian's ambition is still the same, he has long been deeply afraid of the potter, and even has a deep fear.
Therefore, when Gou Jian heard that Su Qin's envoy was coming, he did not dare to have a trace of slackness, and immediately ordered the local officials along the way to treat Su Qin well.
So, Su Qin was full of wine and meat, and under the warm reception of the magistrates of Shu, he went to Chengdu to eat and drink.
On that day, Su Zuo rode in a gorgeous carriage, escorted by the Shu army, and finally arrived in the east of Chengdu.
When Su Qin's chariot and horse entered seven miles east of Chengdu, Goujian, the king of Shu, went out of the city and waited on the side of the road for a long time.
"This Liu Zhang, with the respect of the king, can deign to go out of the city to greet him, the king said that this Liu Zhang has the wonder of hooking, it seems that it is really right" Looking at the "Shu" word Wang Qi in the distance, Su Qin secretly sighed in his heart.
Of course, he wouldn't know that Liu Zhang, the king of Dashu, not only has the wonder of Goujian, but he himself is Goujian.
Su Qin sighed with emotion, and the carriage and horses were near.
On the avenue, Gou Jian, who had been waiting for a long time, saw that Su Qin had arrived, so he immediately took a few steps forward and greeted him with a group of Shu ministers.
Su Qin's eyes were sharp, he recognized Gou Jian at a glance, thinking that the task was in his body, so he didn't feel sorry for the envoys of the great powers, and immediately jumped down from the carriage, and arched his hand towards Gou Jian: "Su Qin, the squire of the Yellow Gate, has seen His Royal Highness the King of Shu." ” Gou Jianyuan was also worried that Su Qin, relying on the prestige of the pottery merchant, would dictate to him, and he was still thinking in his heart how to be neither humble nor arrogant, neither offending Su Qin, but also not losing his identity as a king.
He never expected that Su Qin did not feel confident at all, but politely got out of the car and saluted him first.
Gou Jian secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he had a little more good impression of Su Qin's preconceived ideas, so he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, helped Su Qin up with his own hands, and said with a smile: "Su Shilang has worked hard all the way, why bother with etiquette, please get up quickly."
After a few polite words between the two, Su Qin approached Gou Jian and said in a low voice: "Although the lower official came at the behest of the Son of Heaven this time, he did not hide it from His Royal Highness, but actually came to the king of my family to show his respect for Your Highness." ” The next few words, Su Qin made it up by himself, or whether the potter really told him, in short, in the name of the potter, he greatly complimented Gou Jian, and Gou Jian was very comfortable to listen to, and he laughed again and again.
Pottery merchants, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the king of the Great Wei, two-thirds of the world, what a monstrous power.
With the prestige of a potter, he was able to show such appreciation and respect for Goujian, which was enough to give Goujian face, and he couldn't make him sound sour.
Even if Gou Jian knew in his heart that there was a lot of water in Su Qin's words, it was enough to make him feel useful. isjgy: