Guan Ping accompanied him to set up a few chess pieces and couldn't help asking: "Father, Le Jin's troops have completed the formation, do we ignore it?"
Guan Yu replied: "No need to pay attention, let's camp!"
Guan Ping was a little confused.
In the past few years, because the Cao army cleared the fields in the north of Jingbei, the Cao and Liu armies rarely confronted each other for a long time. Usually, they started with one or several more large-scale field battles. Then the Jingzhou army continued to intervene northward, the Cao army retreated, and the Jingzhou army immediately retreated, and never consumed time and strength under the city.
But as he heard Guan Yu's intention, he had to camp under the nose of Cao's army in Yicheng this time. Is this determined to attack the city and fight a battle that costs no matter what the cost? These strong cities in Jingbei are like chains, and I don't know how much energy it will take to slowly chew it down!
When Guan Yu followed the Xuande Gong cavalry in Zhuo County, Guan Ping was still an ignorant child. Later, for decades, he followed his father countless times, and his subordinates went from 35 to 350 to 50, and then to hundreds and thousands. When he established himself in Jingzhou, he watched his father gather troops to speak martial arts, and slowly united an army of tens of thousands.
While Guan Ping was proud of this, he knew very well how difficult it was to be today. So like a poor man who had just begun to be rich, he subconsciously rejected the war of attrition of force and force.
Guan Yu looked up at Guan Ping's expression, and immediately guessed that Guan Ping felt sorry for the loss of the soldiers.
Just caring about the mentality of the soldiers, Guan Yu and Guan Ping were the same as each other, but Guan Yu’s will was much tougher than Guan Ping. He knew very well that when the general was devoted to commanding on the battlefield, life was just a number. No matter how many deaths were, it could not affect the situation of the battle and calmly weigh the situation.
Over the past few years, the strength of the Jingzhou Army has been continuously recovering and improving, and has expanded to an astonishing level. However, with its huge power, more and more places as the main generals are paying attention to.
Many people thought that the shore of Guan Yu cliff was high and disdained to pay attention to these things. In fact, he watched calmly and saw everything clearly. However, he did not discuss many things with Guan Ping, but instead discussed them more with Lei Yuan.
After Lei Yuan entered Jiaozhou, he often wrote letters to Guan Yu, Guan Ping and his son, mainly for the coordination and cooperation between Jingjiao and the two prefectures in military, agriculture, water and land transportation, and also said some private topics at the end of the letter.
For Guan Yu, he asked his elders; for Guan Ping, he was a relationship between friends, and he often gave some special gifts from Jiaozhou that Zhao Xiang brought to Guan Ping's wife.
If someone else was like this, Guan Yu would probably not bother to pay attention to it. But Lei Yuan was Zhao Yun's son-in-law and Guan Ping's friend. He was attentive as a junior, but Guan Yu really couldn't bear to refuse.
In his letter to Guan Yu, Lei Yuan mentioned it many times that as his territory expands and his military strength increases, the hearts of the people inside become more and more complicated, while the changes in external enemies and friends only happen in a blink of an eye. He repeatedly said that the Jiaozhou Army is all about guarding against Jiangdong, and Jiangdong is accustomed to cheating, so he must deal with it with trustworthy people, and cannot relax at all.
After reading too many such sentences, Guan Yu even felt that Lei Yuan was a little crazy.
It seems that it is because young people have a heavy responsibility and lack confidence, so they can't help but complain. The letters come over with the intention of asking for advice.
Lei Xuzhi, as the left general of the governor of Jiaozhou, was almost the same as Guan Yu. But he placed his position very low and always respectful. Guan Yu was very satisfied with his attitude, so he often replied to a few words.
With too many letters from each other, Guan Yu also felt that it is not a bad thing to weigh everything carefully like Lei Yuan. After all, how can he be neglected as a general who commands a state?
He once wrote letters to Lei Yuan for teachings:
When a warrior reaches the level of Guan Mou and you, Lei Xuzhi, he cannot just consider fighting and defeating the enemy. On the one hand, he should look at the big picture, see the overall situation clearly, and consider issues more from the perspective of his lord; on the other hand, he should look at the small things, and pay attention to the mentality of his subordinates. He should not think that they are naturally in the same heart and virtue as his lord, and should investigate, manage, lead, and encourage them appropriately.
That's the situation.
From the overall standpoint, Guan Yu's purpose was first to attract the attention of the Cao army and try to force the Cao army to dispatch troops to Jingbei to reduce the pressure on the King of Hanzhong in the battlefield of Guanzhong. Therefore, he had to act as a strong attack and attack, and seize the strong city at any cost.
Standing in a small place, Guan Yu also wanted to see if when he brought troops north, the prefects and generals of Chengchi Town who had been appointed one after another in recent years were capable and competent.
In this case, the army does not have to block Yicheng too far, and pretend to attack the city. If Cao's army comes to rescue, they will come to attack one by one; if there is something wrong in the rear, it will be very convenient to retreat.
Guan Yu remembered Lei Yuan and repeatedly nagging. Maybe it was because the Lujiang Lei family was sold too tragically by the Sun family when they were in Jianghuai. Lei Yuan never believed in Jiangdong and was worried that the people of Jiangdong rushed over and stabbed him at any time and anywhere.
Guan Yu chuckled a few times and started to make a move.
This is true for Lei Xuzhi, and Kong Ming is actually the same. Both of them are surprisingly cautious. It is not as good as Guan’s pleasure as I. No matter what Cao or Sun wants to do, I have my own weapons to wait.
While playing chess, he explained to Guan Ping: "Fangzhi, I often feel that the military confrontation between heroes in the world is like two giants playing chess on the board."
"Dare to ask my father for his teachings."
"You think, the King and the Cao family first used Guanzhong as the chessboard and each joined the central army of their headquarters. This game is not close to the endgame. In order to support the King, I set up another chessboard in Jingzhou and started a new game. The key to the new game is naturally on the front line of Xiangyang, Jingzhou. The huge resources of the two companies will soon pour into this place, right?"
“It’s true.”
"When Cao and Liu were in Guanzhong and Jingzhou frequently threw their hands and killed them in the dark, Sun, who was watching the game, would take out Sun's chess pieces and try to find a chessboard suitable for Sun's play. Some people in Jingzhou would also think of starting a small chess game in the big chess game." Guan Yu's eyes flashed, but his voice was very stable: "Therefore, people who play chess games must consider the relationship between multiple chess games and understand that victory or defeat is not limited to the chessboard in front of him."
He spoke easily, and Guan Ping was shocked after thinking for a moment.
Guan Ping suddenly stood up, then lowered his voice and asked, "What my father meant... what he saw in Jiangdong is not only Jianghuai? And there are people with ulterior motives in our Jingzhou?"
Guan Yu frowned: "What are you panic? Sit down!"
Guan Ping hurriedly came back and sat upright.
"Jiangdong's plan is nothing more than two directions. Over the years, everything has not been hidden from me, nor can it be hidden from the center. All parties have prepared for a long time, so there is no need to worry about it. But..." Guan Yu held the chess piece ground into a stone and gently tapped on the edge of the chess board: "As soon as the chess game is started, it involves the lives of tens of thousands of people, and the outcome is often in a thought. Every choice and every piece falls, it is related to the whole chess game. If you are not careful, you will lose the whole game. Therefore, we would rather let the opponent first than let the opponent make the chess floor we selected."
Guan Ping bowed deeply. He felt that in recent years, his father had gradually gained political vision and decisiveness in addition to his powerful power on the battlefield and military management methods, which became more and more awesome.
But after a moment, he still couldn't help but wonder: "However, our army is out and fighting with Cao's army is about to happen. If a new situation begins, who can handle it for a moment?"
Before Guan Yu could answer, the chief clerk Liao Hua hurried over and bowed a little further away.
"What's the matter?" Guan Yu asked loudly.
"Report to General Jiangling, when he came to Chengdu, he urgently reported that General Left Lei Yuan is about to set off and return to Jiaozhou."
Chapter completed!