In fact, Zhou Yu only realized the importance of Xiakou during the rapid advancement of his navy and when he repeatedly demonstrated his military plan on the road.
Cheng Pu and other older generals could not understand again. Cheng Pu took the lead and asked: "Why is Xiakou so important in your eyes, Zhou Yu? Haven't you already blocked Cao Zhi's navy? Which ships are the most important?"
It can burn for at least two days. We can completely ignore this Xiakou city, continue to go straight to the river, go upstream, and capture Jiangling as quickly as possible. We can still complete the original plan, make Cao Zhi exhausted, and let the Jingzhou navy
There will be chaos without fighting.”
"No, look at Le Jin. Li Dian arrived at Xiakou so quickly, which means that Cao Zhi has already seen the importance of Jiangling. I suspect that Jiangling is no longer in the hands of the Jingzhou people, but has fallen into the hands of Cao Zhi!" Zhou Yu
He took a breath and looked outside the account, thinking thoughtfully.
"No matter whose hands it is, we will still make a surprise attack. With the speed of our clipper, we can reach Jiangling in three days. It is already too late for Cao Zhi's navy to catch up, and even the messenger sent by Le Jin has not yet arrived.
By the time we reach Xiangyang, we have already captured Jiangling!" Huang Gai interrupted in time to express his opinion.
"So optimistic!" Zhou Yu said softly after talking about Huang Gai in a quiet voice.
"What did you say?" Huang Gai turned around and asked again with an unkind expression.
"I said General Huang was too optimistic. If Jiang Qin could dredge the Han River one day earlier, if he also abandoned the large shipyard and led the speedboat to pursue us all the way, because Xiakou is not in our hands, not only our retreat
If we are cut off, we will still be cut off by Cao's army. Even if the lord leads the reinforcements behind us to help us, we will be eaten. If there is another problem with our rendezvous with Sun Jing, we will become
Really alone!" Zhou Yu finally said the main problem he was worried about, "And it's hard to say whether Cao Zhi is in Xiangyang now or not!"
I have to say that Zhou Yu is very smart, very foresight, and what he said makes sense. Their whole plan is to give full play to the advantages of their navy over Cao's army, use their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and fight against Cao's army in the great river, the mother river of the southerners.
Have some fun.
But there are always unforeseen things in real wars, and the information cannot be absolutely clear to him. At this time, it is necessary to control and envision the overall situation for the generals as if they are thinking about it. Zhou Yu thought of it, so he said that they would do it for them.
Prepare a retreat. This is the prudent side of Zhou Yu's radical style. When making the plan, no one noticed that Xiakou, a small town at the intersection of three rivers, was their main supply and retreat route by land and water.
Everyone thought that this place would be easily wiped out and occupied by them. But who would have thought that Cao Jun's troops would come so quickly. Huang Zu was dead, but Jiangxia had just lost its owner. But in the blink of an eye, Jiangxia was like Cao again.
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If Cao Zhi is smart enough, he will definitely be able to see the importance of Xiakou, a strategic town. And if he sees it, and sends more troops to defend this place with all his strength, wouldn't it be equivalent to grabbing Sun Jun's throat. They
When Zhou Yu and his army are chasing after Zhou Yu and fighting fiercely, no matter how flexible Zhou Yu's navy is, no matter how fast it runs if it can't be defeated, and no matter how determined it is to stay on the water for a long time to compete with Cao Jun, Cao Jun can't be surrounded even if Zhou Yu's navy is strong.
Even if they fight, they can trap Zhou Yu's 20,000 navy and Cheng Pu's 10,000 army to death and starve to death!
"Then how are you going to change the plan?" In the face of major issues of right and wrong, Cheng Pu and others will not deliberately distort the facts because of personal grievances. When it is time to consider the overall situation, they will still put aside their grievances and obey the overall situation.
Zhou Yu laughed sincerely after hearing Cheng Pu's statement. He turned around and walked back to the map hanging on the wall of the tent. He continued to point at the curved river on the map, stopping in the direction of Jiangling, and then said decisively: "We give up.
Xiakou, give up the original idea of capturing Jiangling!"
"What?……."
After two "give ups" in a row, the tent exploded again. The established goal was Jiangling, and now it was temporarily changed. This is not the same as retreating from the battlefield. To put it nicely, it is called "giving up", and to put it worse, it means that it is incompetent.
, without the strength to compete for these areas, this is a typical retreat without a fight. For a room full of generals, this change is really too big and too difficult to accept.
"Our plan was finalized a few days ago. If we abandon the original goal now, our army will be in chaos!"
"We have already set out. The reinforcements and supplies from our lord behind us, as well as Sun Jing, the prefect who is cooperating with our actions in Changsha, don't know about our temporary response, which will cause chaos!"
"Even if Jiangling is occupied by Cao's army, they won't be able to evacuate it so quickly. We still have a chance!"
"This is just your conjecture. There is no intelligence indicating that Cao Zhi has insight into our goal!"
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"Don't make any noise, just listen to what Governor Zhou has to say!"
This time, not only Huang Gai and other older generals raised objections to Zhou Yu's change of plan, but also Zhou Tai, Lu Meng and others opposed Zhou Yu's drastic changes to the original plan. Amid the noise, it was Cheng Pu who
He shouted to stop the noise.
Cheng Pu looked at Zhou Yu with bright eyes. He wanted to hear how this junior who always had fantastic ideas would modify his original plan.
"Captain Zhou, please continue!" Cheng Pu's cold voice warned everyone in the room not to make any more noise, and to let Zhou Yu finish speaking, and the title would be absolutely official.
Zhou Yu glanced at the old senior Cheng Pu gratefully, moved his finger on the map away from Jiangling, and returned to the Dajiang and Dongting Lake areas. He pointed at this place very seriously and said: "We will continue to divert here, and communicate with you."
After Sun Taishou joined forces, he went straight to Changsha and changed his goal to capture Lingling and Guangxi.
The two counties of Yang and our Yuzhang and Luling counties are connected, so that we no longer have to worry about our future. After we no longer rely on Jiangxia for logistical supplies, or do not place our throat on Xiakou, we will
You can have more time and energy to compete with Cao Zhi for the other half of Jingzhou!"
After Sun Ce captured Yuzhang, he separated part of Yuzhang County and established Luling County. He appointed Sun Bi as the prefect of Yuzhang and Sun Fu as the prefect of Luling. Sun Jing was left to guard Changsha, their old base.
But in fact, the real Luling County has not yet arrived.
In the hands of Sun Ce, Luling has always been in the hands of the Jingzhou people. It can be said that Zhou Yu changed his plan at this time and focused on opening up Luling to make it the same as Yuzhang. This made their original somewhat opportunistic plan to attack Jiangling look more
Perfect, more grand.
It is a pity to give up the fat piece of Jiangling, but it can make the best use of all the resources in our hands. Instead of competing with Cao Zhi for the hinterland of Jingzhou, we first take down the four lowest counties in Jingzhou and open up. It seems that we are making the best use of our talents.
, make the best use of everything. If successful, it will be much better than fighting guerrillas with Cao Jun in the hinterland of Jingzhou, and Sun Ce's territory will also be greatly expanded.
As soon as Zhou Yu's new plan was implemented, it was heatedly discussed among all the generals in the military tent.
Of course, there are some who say it is good, and some who say it is not. Most people think that this new plan is feasible. It is a good plan that looks beyond the local area and focuses on the overall situation. However, the opponents still think that it will not compete for the prosperous central Jingzhou.
We have to fight all the way to South Vietnam, where the indigenous peoples are densely populated. The words used in that place are very different from those in the north now. They can't even communicate with each other. What is the purpose of such a useless land? The opponents still insist on the original
Make a plan. They believe that Cao Zhi is not a perfect person, nor is he the God of War. He can grasp and predict their every move so accurately, and then build up defenses at all levels. As long as he is a human being, there will always be oversights and mistakes.
Their unswerving attack on Jiangling may not necessarily leave them without any chance.
The two sides were at loggerheads for a while, but at this time there was no trace of the explosive atmosphere just now. Everyone was working together to maximize the interests of their team.
At this time, Zhou Yu still paid attention to Cheng Pu, the right governor, because on such a major issue, Zhou Yu, a left governor, could not act arbitrarily. He had to get the support of the right governor Cheng Pu and most of the generals.
and approved it, and also promptly informed Sun Ce at the rear. In the end, it would not work if Sun Ce or his think tank did not approve of the new plan proposed by Zhou Yu.
But Zhou Yu is not worried about the generals here, nor is he worried about Sun Ce in the rear. Zhou Yu believes that these people will eventually side with him. But as long as the older generation of Sun generals in front of him do not approve, Zhou Yu cannot immediately execute
The plan could not even get rid of the dilemma at hand, so Zhou Yu kept his breath and devoted all his attention to Cheng Pu, hoping that he would give him a satisfactory answer.
The silence of Zhou Yu quietly waiting for Cheng Pu's result slowly affected everyone in the tent. Everyone in the tent slowly stopped discussing and focused on Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu. Indeed, at this time
The two people who have the most decision-making power here are these two people. After Zhou Yu finished talking about the change plan, he also expressed his attitude. Now it depends on Cheng Pu.
When Sun Ce sent them to the expedition, he did not explain who he respected. Therefore, when encountering such a major problem, negotiation between the left and right governors became the only and necessary way. Of course, in the end, one party would have to compromise with the other in order to achieve success.
They decided whether the next march plan should be the same as before or a new one.
Should we continue to attack Jiangling? Or attack Guiyang and other four southern counties of Jingzhou? To be honest, Cheng Pu admired Zhou Yu from the bottom of his heart for his quick thinking. Just because the battle at Xiakou failed, he immediately jumped out of his original thinking and was able to do so.
In a short period of time, based on local conditions and limited information, a new combat plan that went beyond the original boundaries was formulated. This was not easy, at least Cheng Pu couldn't do it.