What's more, if Zhuge Liang fakes his death, if it succeeds, the benefits will not stop at this point!
As long as Zhuge Liang successfully fakes his death, he will truly deceive Zhu Yuanzhang, the entire Yangzhou Group, Liu Xiu, Xu Shiji and the others.
Then, in the following days, Zhuge Liang can turn from the bright side to the dark side and carry out the things he planned in the dark.
If Zhuge Liang wants to openly plot against Zhu Yuanzhang's entire Yangzhou Group, Liu Xiu, Xu Shiji and the others, you can imagine the difficulty! But if he does it secretly, how much less difficult will it be?
After all, under normal circumstances, how much vigilance can one have towards a "dead person"?
In the outer hall, Shi Hongzhao is indeed a person Zhuge Liang relies on. Only a few people know about Zhuge Liang's fake death. Even Shi Hongzhao doesn't know about it. However, after Zhuge Liang faked his death, the heavy burden in the army temporarily fell on Shi Hongzhao's head. .
Zhuge Liang did not disclose any information to Shi Hongzhao in advance, obviously he had enough trust in him, and Shi Hongzhao did live up to Zhuge Liang's expectations. In the end, he calmed down the rioting people and calmed down their emotions without letting them go. They really went back to fight the Yangzhou Army.
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Hezhou!
Yinshan Fortress!
The Yinshan Mountains are Hezhou's natural line of defense against the grassland. However, the Jin army did not build any checkpoints here, but only used layers of fortresses as the first line of defense to defend the grassland.
First of all, building checkpoints costs a lot of money and puts a lot of financial pressure on them.
Secondly, Li Xiang's goal is not satisfied with defense, but offense. Moreover, in Li Xiang's view, the best defense is offense. What Li Xiang hopes for is that one day, after he has completely pacified the Han Dynasty, he can send troops out. Outside the fortress, the land in all directions of the Han Dynasty was thoroughly plowed.
Thirdly, the mountainous terrain is not suitable for cavalry operations. The terrain advantage alone has weakened the strongest place on the grassland to the greatest extent.
However, although there have never been levels built here, it does not mean that Li Xiang has relaxed his vigilance about the grassland, nor does it mean that Li Xiang has seen the grassland clearly.
In fact, Li Xiang has always attached great importance to the grassland. Throughout every battle they have, they will leave enough soldiers and horses in the border areas to ensure the possibility of fire in their own backyard.
In the most critical place of Hezhou, Li Jing first served as the Grand Governor and sat here all year round. Later, Meng Tian served as the Grand Governor and guarded this place all year round.
In addition, in the Yinshan frontline fortress camp, the guard is one of the most famous defensive generals in Chinese history, Meng Gong.
In terms of defense, Meng Gong does have his own uniqueness and specialization in his skills. On this point, even many god-level commanders cannot compare with him.
Since Meng Gong arrived at the Yinshan Frontline Fortress Camp, he once again improved the defense of the Yinshan Frontline based on Li Jing and Meng Tian.
Nowadays, a total of 36 fortresses have been built in the entire Yinshan Mountain, and hundreds of bunkers have been built overtly and covertly. With this defense system, even if it really builds a level, it cannot compare to its defensive strength.
Just like this time, the famous Yuanmeng general Boyan led 30,000 cavalry to invade. However, under the command of Meng Gong, he did not even rush through the first fortress. He only broke through the seven or eight fortresses in front.
has been forced to return without success.
Boyan made a simple calculation. If he really continued to fight, he would probably be able to break through three or four fortresses at most, and he would not have many of the 30,000 cavalry left.
But this time when Yuan Meng came to Seoul, he didn't even alert Meng Tian, who was coordinating the three states of Hezhou, Hezhou, and Liang, and was directly solved by Meng Gong.
"Pu Yu, what the hell is this Yuan Meng doing? He fights but doesn't fight, retreats but doesn't retreat!"
When he heard that Boyan had led his troops to withdraw and even withdrew from the Yinshan Mountains, he did not return to the grassland, but instead stationed himself in several nearby tribes, this made Jiang Song feel relieved.
If you want to fight, hurry up and intimidate; if you want to run, run quickly. This feeling of not being able to get up or down is really disgusting.
"What exactly Yuan Meng wants to do is currently unknown! However, just be careful!"
"First of all, I ordered people to renovate several destroyed fortresses!" Meng Gong was not sure what Yuan Meng was planning in a short period of time, and he could only cope with the changes by staying the same.
"The enemy has already breached these fortresses once. Even if they are repaired, I'm afraid they won't be as effective next time!" Jiang Song said with some confusion, worried that their actions were in vain. They had been breached once.
If you know the basics of the place, it will definitely be much easier to break through the second time than the first time.
"It doesn't matter, just make a few modifications!" Meng Gong said nonchalantly.
In the Yinshan defense system, Meng Gong had done a lot of research on every fortress and every fort before making a choice. He even visited each of these places personally.
As for the current situation, he had already considered it. Even if it was renovated after being breached, in fact, Meng Gong had already made other preparations when building these fortresses.
Maybe the fortress that was repaired for the second time looks exactly the same as the first one, but the situation inside is completely different. If the enemy still wants to use their inherent experience to break through this fortress for the second time in the future,
, then these fortresses will definitely cause them double casualties.
And as this battle began, the situation on the grassland began to become more and more strange.
In fact, the so-called troops sent by Yuan and Meng this time were not the Jin army at all, but other forces from the same grassland.
Originally, if they wanted to start a war with the Jin army, this force alone would definitely not be enough. This force would not even be able to break through the Yinshan defense, let alone the entire Jin army in the future.
If Yuanmeng and the Jin army went to war, it would probably be a confrontation with the full strength of both sides. But if they really went south with all their strength, they would end up fighting the Jin army and lose both sides, but the benefits would be cheaper.
Others, and it is very likely to bring about a series of negative reactions.
Therefore, Yuan and Meng did not target the Jin army from the beginning of this battle.
The reason why this battle was fought was that Tuoba Wei was too stable and wary of Yuan Meng. Murong Tian and Temujin successively marched westward with two armies. At this time, Yuan Meng was no longer able to go eastward.
Although they launched a war in front of them, Tuoba Wei remained so steady.