An Wensheng's words stopped.There was silence in the tent for a while.Su Dawei held the wine glass in his hand and shook it slightly, thinking carefully about what An Wensheng said, and deducing the strategy of Zhuge Kongming's first Northern Expedition.Originally, he didn't pay much attention to military affairs, but now that he was in the army, he had just gone through the battle formation, and when An Wensheng brought it up, he inevitably thought about it more.And Ashina Daozhen frowned, sometimes shaking his head, sometimes clenching his fists, not knowing what he was thinking.An Wensheng took a bite of mutton and a sip of wine, and then said, "Is there anything difficult to understand?"
”"I understand the general idea you just said, I read that it was mentioned in "Three Kingdoms" that Ma Tan violated the Liang order and lost the street pavilion and was beheaded, and he has some of his own ideas."
Ashina Daozhen licked his lips, his eyes flashed, and he looked eager to try."
Let's talk about it."
An Wensheng said with a smile: "You must have your own thinking when you read a book, if you don't think about it, you forget it after reading it, it is equivalent to not reading, it is a good thing that you have ideas now, whether it is right or wrong, as long as you are thinking, it is a step forward." ”With his encouragement, Ashina Zhen raised his wine glass and put it down, as if he had mustered up the courage to say: "The terrain on the side of the street pavilion, I have checked the map, but it is very open, there are mountains on both sides, the north side is steep, and the south side is a mound, and the terrain is gentle.Some people say that Ma Tan led the army up the mountain, did not listen to Wang Ping's advice, in order to occupy the geographical advantage, after going up the mountain, if the Wei army reinforcements do not pull out the Ma Tan army, it will be threatened the back road, if it is attacked, it is the Wei army to attack on the back, and the Shu army swooped down, twice the result with half the effort. ”After a pause, Ashina Daozhen said in an accentuated tone: "I thought that this was a corrupt opinion. ”"How so?""
You see, if you and I stand in the position of Ma Tan, and the prime minister orders us to guard the street pavilion and resist the Wei army reinforcements, I first guess that the street pavilion here should be a ruined city, or there is no city wall that can be defended, if it is on flat ground, the Shu army is all foot soldiers in the mountains, and the Wei army is mainly cavalry, and it is difficult for the Shu army to resist in a head-on duel.And going up the mountain and occupying the mountain can indeed minimize the advantage of the Wei army and magnify the advantage of the Shu army.But there is a question here, why the Shu army was cut off from water, as the chief general of the Shu army, Ma Yan, who has followed Zhuge Kongming for many years, will not be an unwise person.Unless he suddenly goes insane.Then there is only one explanation. ”"What is it?"
Su Dawei was intrigued by his words and couldn't help but ask.Ashina Dao really took a sip, drank a glass of wine, and said happily with wine: "My inference has three points, the first point is that there is no danger to defend on the main road of the street pavilion, there is no city to follow, as an infantry, it is difficult to be the impact of the Wei cavalry, so I have to go up the mountain."
The second point is that if you go up the mountain, assuming that Ma Tan is in a normal state of mind, it is impossible not to consider the supply and water source, I have checked the map, there is no water on the mountain, I don't know if I can dig a well, this is not for the time being, if you want to drink water, you have to go down the mountain, there are two rivers near the mountain.When Ma Tan goes up the mountain, he doesn't want to have a problem with getting water.Therefore, I came to the conclusion that I had to go up the mountain out of desperation.Why?
Because they can't hold it on flat ground.Why can't you hold it?
Because there is no city defense, and if there is no city defense, the infantry army and cavalry are dead. ”Ashina Daozhen slapped the table hard: "But there is still a problem in this." ”"Don't sell it, say it quickly."
Su Dawei urged."
Even if there is no city defense, the infantry can still build fortifications, wooden fences, horse rejections, horse pits, earthen walls, in short, it is not impossible to think.But all this, judging by the results, it seems that the Shu army did not do it.Either that, or the Wei army came too quickly, and the Shu army did not complete its own fortifications at all.Either way, they built fortifications, and they could not resist the onslaught of Zhang He's cavalry, so they were forced to move their troops up the mountain. ”Ashina Daozhen said with a red face: "This is what I thought of from the Shu Han chapter of "Three Kingdoms", watching the section of Ma Tan's loss of the street pavilion, Ami, you said that what I thought is not reasonable, in fact, Ma Tan is quite wronged." ”"Makes sense."
Su Dawei looked at Ashina Daozhen with some surprise.Although I usually think that Ashina Dao is really too rash and a little unreliable, he has a good skin in vain.But at this moment, Su Dawei felt that he was wrong.At most, this guy has low emotional intelligence, but he is by no means stupid.This view just now is quite insightful.Some of the contents recorded in many history books seem to be a bit anti-intellectual and quite unreasonable.But some irrationalities just hide a lot of secrets, and if you extrapolate from this, you can really dig up a lot of things.It seems that Ashina Dao in front of him has unintentionally touched this doorway.An Wensheng stroked his palms on the side and smiled: "What Daozhen said is quite interesting, although it is not true, it is not far away. ”"Hey, I've been thinking about it for a long time, isn't there anything wrong?"
Ashina Daozhen looked at An Wensheng, and then looked at Su Dawei.That means, I've made you a master of the art of war, so I have to give you some advice.In this regard, Su Dawei's face was not red and his heart was not beating: "Wensheng, you tell him what is going on." ”When he said this, what flashed in his mind was the classic sentence in "Detective Di Renjie": Yuan Fang, what do you think?
It seems that when you are the boss, you have to have a few praises around you, otherwise it will seem a bit down.An Wensheng didn't think much about it, and said: "In fact, the battle of Ma Tan Street Pavilion is only a very small part of Zhuge Kongming's first Northern Expedition, although it is important, but it is not the most important, I will talk about the strategic ...... of the first Northern Expedition of Shu Han" In the second year of Emperor Taihe of Wei Ming, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, used the strategy of "secretly crossing Chen Cang", and mobilized the main force of the Wei army to hold the valley.After Cao's army was defeated, Zhuge Liang personally commanded an army of 60,000 to storm Qishan.Nan'an, Tianshui, Anding and other places under the jurisdiction of Wei Qi have successively descended to Shu, which is the three counties of Longxi.Later, Ma Tan Street Pavilion was defeated, the Shu army withdrew from Hanzhong, and the Wei army Cao Zhen led Zhang He and others to recover the three counties of Nan'an, Tianshui and Anding.First of all, it should be noted that Han Xin's example of "darkness and cang" cannot be replicated.At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Han River flowed through the entire Hanzhong region, and Han Xin relied on the Chencang Waterway to transport grain.Later, there was an earthquake in Hanzhong, which caused the Han River to break off and become two rivers flowing in different directions.Not only that, the Three Kingdoms were still in the Xiaoice period, and even the famine and plague in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were related to this ice age, so the three countries were more short of water than hundreds of years before the Han Dynasty.The Chencang waterway has become shallow and depleted, and Zhuge Kongming basically can't count on water transportation to transport grain.However, if the Northern Expedition is to be solved, the first thing to solve is the problem of the grain route, and if this matter is not solved, the Northern Expedition is just empty talk.Fighting in the mountains, the demand for food, grass and logistics, in terms of productivity at that time, was almost hellish.Therefore, the cost of the Northern Expedition of the Shu Army was very high, while the cost of the Wei defense was very low, as long as it dragged on for a few months, the Shu Army naturally could not continue because of the lack of food.Therefore, Zhuge Liang made several northern expeditions, trying to solve the problem of transporting grain in mountainous areas.If Tianshui is chosen to replace Hanzhong as a base, and the counter-march is carried out from Jieting along the route of Zhang He's march, it only takes a few dozen kilometers to reach the river valley area, and if the army marches in a hurry, it can enter the plain in two days, completely solving the problem of the Shu army being blocked in the mountains to fight a war of attrition.At that time, the Shu army can be fed to the enemy, and it can also choose a suitable battlefield at will.In this way, the Wei army became extremely passive, and the difficulty of defense was greatly increased.From the point of view of distance, if Wei wants to defend Longxi, the battle line will be stretched.Compared to defending Chencang, Xiegu and Meridian Valley, it is hundreds of kilometers longer.In addition, Tianshui was attacked by the Shu army, and the news had to be transmitted back to Chang'an, and the distance would be doubled.In Zhuge Kongming's plan, the most critical part is to make a time difference.First of all, the suspicious troops were deployed, and the main force of the Wei army was transferred to the first line of Xiegu and Meridian Valley, and then the main force quickly broke into Tianshui, and took advantage of the Wei army's failure to react, and quickly took Tianxiashui and other three counties of Longxi.Then solve the stronghold of the Wei army in the three counties as soon as possible, uproot the Wei army's forces, achieve full control of the three counties, and then integrate the resources of the three counties as an advance base to provide a steady stream of grain and grass for the Shu army.In this way, it is a long-term plan to attack and retreat to defend.Despite this, Zhuge Liang's attack on Tianshui was still a hell-level difficulty.This route was far for the Wei army, and for the Shu army, it meant trekking hundreds of kilometers of mountain roads, even further.Time is extremely tight.Therefore, if Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition wants to succeed, it is based on the successful rebellion against the local heroes in the three counties, and there should be internal responses to lead the way.Zhuge Kongming's plan should be to sweep away the three counties of Longxi before the Wei reinforcements arrived, and then deploy the street pavilion and fight a positional battle with the Wei reinforcements in the street pavilion.The reinforcements were repulsed, and then the city was built on the advantage of the location.The newly built city was the starting point of the Second Northern Expedition.From here, you can reach the city of Chang'an in ten days.Solving the food problem, laying a forward base, and preparing for the Second Northern Expedition were the strategic intentions of Zhuge Kongming's First Northern Expedition.However, it turned out to be unsuccessful this time.The fundamental reason is that Shu Han had already lost Jingzhou at this time, and he could not send troops from Jingzhou to contain it as planned in Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair".Wei only had to defend Longxi, and it was easier to deal with it.The only chance for the Shu army was to occupy Longxi and build a new city defense at Jieting, relying on this city, the Shu army could continue westward and enter Liangzhou.Shu is short of horses, and it is impossible to fight in the northern plains without relying on cavalry, and only by occupying Yongliang can a cavalry army be formed, and then counterattack Chang'an.Generally speaking, Wei was confused by a series of Lost Fists in the early stage of Zhuge Kongming, and mistakenly thought that the Shu army would not fight Longxi's idea, so the military strength in Longxi was relatively weak.Because on paper, the Shu army relied on two legs to climb the mountains and mountains to Tianshui, and it was more difficult than the Wei army that relied on horses to hurry.Logistics may be cut off at any time.And the reason why Zhuge Liang dared to do this was because he had secretly rebelled against some local heroes in the three counties of Longxi.This is the game between the two sides, Zhuge Liang secretly hid a hand of Wang Bang.Historical records record that "the three counties fell from the wind", which refers to the fact that the local family took refuge in the Shu army, not the local army and officials left in the Wei state.With the surrender of the family, the Shu army could obtain food supplies in Longxi and have the ability to continue fighting.If the cities in the three counties of Longxi in the hands of the Wei army are not uprooted, then as soon as Zhuge Liang turns around, the Wei army will come to a local power purge, and then cut off the logistics supply of the Shu army.Therefore, Zhuge Liang must completely deal with the forces of the Wei army in the three counties before he can enter the Jieting.Before that, he sent Ma Tan to take one-third of the people and horses of the Shu army to the street pavilion first, which was to be the shield of the Shu army and firmly guard the gate of the street pavilion."
The strategy of the first Northern Expedition of the Prime Minister of Shu Han was extremely clever, but unfortunately, he made a fatal mistake......
"Use the wrong horse?""
Of course not."
An Wensheng smiled slightly, with the demeanor of a wise man and strategist.()