It was just that the night when we were forbidden to enter Wancheng, Feng Yu had already arrived at Zhuyang himself.

If you follow the traditional route from Chang'an to Zhuyang, first cross the Qinling Mountains from Ziwu Valley to Hanzhong. Then take a boat down the water or take 6 routes to Zhuyang, it will take nearly twenty days.

But this time, Feng Yu's imperial guards walked directly to Shangluo, two hundred miles southeast of Chang'an, where they walked the Danshui River and entered the Han River Mianshui River, and arrived at Zhuyang in five days. The entire trip was shortened by three-quarters.

Feng Yu's arrival was naturally related to Cao Wei's large-scale dispatch of troops to Nanyang. Although the Wei army's operation was low-key and secret at the beginning, it was not until after entering Nanyang County that it claimed that 100,000 troops were attacked. However, tens of thousands of troops gathered and mobilized, and it was impossible not to leak the news. So at the first time, the news was sent to the capital Chang'an by the Daliang Spy Network in the fastest communication method - Feige.

In the past, although the entire Handong County only had three legions of Dian Qing, Yan Yan and Shen brothers, with a total of only more than 10,000 troops, Feng Yu had absolute confidence in Zhuyang's defense, and those defense facilities were the result of Feng Yu's hard work for more than ten years.

But the situation is different now. Because Liu Bei's army had just attacked the three cities along the Mianshui River in Handong County, although Liu Bei himself suffered heavy losses and returned in failure. However, the Liang army also suffered huge losses and was exhausted.

This time, Cao Cao claimed that he had come to fight the thief by 100,000 troops, which made Feng Yu nervous about the situation in Handong, Nanyang. He was not sure that this line of defense that had been hard-working for more than ten years could block the Wei army on the Nanyang Plain. He immediately summoned all the ministers in the Taiji Hall of Chang'an Palace to discuss countermeasures.

The ministers in the palace immediately started to discuss and say everything, but the main opinions were three.

The most conservative view is that you only need to gather troops from Handong County and defend the Mianshui defense line. No matter whether Cao Wei has a hundred thousand troops or a million troops, as long as the time lasts, the two sides will naturally fall into a confrontation on the two sides of the Mianshui.

The second concept believes that the legions should be avoided by the real and the false, and then the army in the Yongzhou War Zone attacked from Tongguan to occupy Luoyang, which could "surround Wei and save Zhao", and force the Cao Wei army advancing to Nanyang to return to aid. This not only saved Handong County, but also obtained Luoyang in vain. If this goal is achieved, the Liang Dynasty occupied the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, Feng Yu's position as emperor would be even more orthodox. Moreover, garrisoning troops in Luoyang would be an important springboard for sweeping the Central Plains in the future. Why not do this?

The third is the most radical view. Those who hold this view believe that Daliang is now strong in the army, strong in the country, rich in the people, and unify the world and pacify the universe. Therefore, we should take this opportunity to gather troops in Zhuyang, defend first and then attack. After consuming some of the living forces of Wei, we will then fight the Wei Kingdom on the Nanyang Plain. One battle will determine life and death! Then we will exit Nanyang from Fangcheng, sweep across the Central Plains, and then sweep the world.

Feng Yu, who was sitting on the dragon throne, shook his head repeatedly, thinking that none of the three was feasible.

Regarding the third view, Feng Yu believed that the time for a desperate battle with Wei State was not ripe. Although Daliang is now strong in military strength, there are not many soldiers. Military strength is more reflected in the combat effectiveness of soldiers and generals and weapons and equipment, rather than the number of soldiers.

This means that the Liang army and the Wei army have a very big chance of winning the decisive battle, but if they win the decisive battle, they need to occupy a vast territory, otherwise the battle will be in vain. Because of the rapid expansion of the territory, the limited force suddenly spread out and the meeting seemed very sparse, which made it impossible for the rule of the newly occupied land to be consolidated immediately.

In this case, Cao Cao would inevitably concentrate all the remaining forces to fight back. Even if the Wei army claimed to be a real Wei warrior, it only accounts for half of the total Wei army and eliminated them. There were still 100,000 Wei troops in the Central Plains. The scattered Liang army may not only not occupy the Central Plains, but also lose more troops.

Feng Yu's above deductions have not yet considered Liu Bei's Linjiang Kingdom and Sun Ce's Wu Kingdom. They cannot sit idly by. They may have intervened in the war from the beginning, or they may have intervened after the final battle was decided. But whenever they intervened, it would have been a huge threat to Daliang. Especially Liu Bei, even if he did not intervene in the decisive battle between Liang and Wei. But if the Liang army annihilated the main force of the Wei army in Nanyang and attacked the Central Plains, he would have gone up again to the Mianyang city and even the Handong County, and stabbed Daliang in the back.

Based on the above reasons, Feng Yu flatly rejected the third opinion. According to the current national conditions of Liang State, if we want to unify the world, we can only carry out the strategy of taking steady steps, avoiding the real and turning to the virtual, and gradually eroding the territory of the Three Kingdoms.

As for the second article, the so-called "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" and sending troops to Tongguan, Feng Yu's observation, the people who supported them were civil officials who were on-site inspections in the Korean and knew very little about military affairs. Their understanding of military affairs and wars came from books. They had never actually visited the front line of Tongguan. They did not know that after Tongguan left the pass, there were many strong forts and solid buildings of the Wei Kingdom where the main roads passed through Hongnong were all set up. Even in the canyons upstream of the Luoshui River, there were also such strong forts and solid buildings to prevent the Liang army from entering the Luoshui Valley from the Shangluo direction into the Luoyang Basin.

The Wei army worked hard to manage these solid fortresses for many years, and was no worse than Daliang's Mianshui defense line. The Liang army faced such fortresses and faced the Wei army, which was known as 100,000, and encountered on the Nanyang Plain.

The last first opinion seems to be the most secure, but how many troops are there to assemble reinforcements is appropriate. At present, for Daliang, it is not only Nanyang that is fighting. A partial army of Wu was invading Yongchang County in Daliang. Yongchang County was originally just a remote and barren border county of the Han Dynasty. But now for Daliang, its status is quite significant. It is the key place for the southern sea trade route branch into Shu. If it loses it, Daliang's taxes will be reduced immediately by about 40%, even if it is plagued by war.

So before, when Feng Yu received news that Yongchang County, Handong County was attacked at the same time, he did not send troops to Handong to reinforce, but immediately issued an edict to allow the legions distributed in Hanzhong, Yizhou to reinforce Yongchang, with the reinforcements reaching 20,000. Of course, so many troops were not just to repel the Wu army, but Feng Yu also had to take advantage of the situation to counterattack and recover the four counties of Jiaozhi, Rinan, Jiuzhen and Yulin, so as to turn Yongchang into the rear and at the same time ensure the safety and smoothness of the South China Sea route.

Therefore, in the nearby Yizhou, Feng Yu had no troops to adjust. Feng Yu would not transfer his troops back from Yongchang. Even if he wanted to transfer, it would be too late. The area of ​​direct and indirect jurisdiction of Daliang is extremely vast. In this way, it would not be possible for Feng Yu to gather the army farther away in just a few days or weeks.

In the end, Feng Yu made a decision, but he did not say it publicly. It was only after he retired from the court that he left a few important officials and told them about this decision.
Chapter completed!