Chapter 56 The Confrontation of the Weak and the Strong(2/2)
Fundamentally speaking, the responsibility is not mine, and in principle, what I did was not wrong.
If you must blame someone on Huangquan Road, then go to our boss.
Who made this bastard make such a bad decision?
With Chen Youliang's retreat, the second battle since the founding of the Han Dynasty failed.
Together with the defeat, more than 20,000 corpses and more than 7,000 prisoners were left on the battlefield.
Zhu Yuanzhang's army on the other side declared a complete victory. During the victory, there was almost no damage to the soldiers and horses. At the same time, more than 100 large ships and hundreds of small ships were captured.
These ships greatly made up for the disadvantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's navy, and played an indispensable strategic role in the subsequent decisive battle with Chen Youliang.
At the same time, on the way to the beginning of this battle, there was a person's performance that Liu Ji, who was at the rear, saw in his eyes and remembered in his heart.
This person's name is: Zhang Shicheng.
After the Battle of Longjiang, Liu Ji made a strategic positioning and political evaluation of Zhang Shicheng that was extremely important to him and to Zhu Yuanzhang's entire war career, that is: Shicheng defended himself as a captive and there was nothing to worry about (Zhang Shicheng was a man who only
There is nothing to fear about a helpless person who can live his life guarding his palm-sized area).
In the Battle of Longjiang, Chen Youliang, who was the main combatant, suffered a complete defeat and fled back to Jiangxi after suffering the defeat.
However, Zhang Shicheng, who served as a strategic assistant and was notified by Chen Youliang's handwritten letter before the war to launch an additional attack, only sent a few thousand soldiers and horses to wander around the border with Zhu Yuanzhang's territory during the Longjiang Battle.
After marching for a week like a publicly funded tour, we headed back home.
From beginning to end, there was no war offensive against Zhu Yuanzhang.
This situation is like if Party A, Party B and Party B are mutually hostile individuals. In normal days, the three parties do not interfere with each other but never interact with each other. But one day, Party A and Party B started fighting because of some absolute interests. According to
Normal people think that as the only remaining Party C, it is acceptable for Party C to watch the excitement at this time. While watching the excitement, he can also take advantage of the situation when the relationship between the two parties is so tense that it is impossible to communicate, and take the opportunity to sneak behind Party A or Party B.
Poke a knife and get some benefits.
This cannot be said to be despicable, nor can Party C be said to be a villain.
Because in that case, Zhu Yuanzhang or Chen Youliang would definitely do this. In the face of political and military interests, this approach is reasonable and reasonable, and is more in line with the needs of political interests.
Anyway, these are some ready-made bargains. If you don’t pick them up, it’s for nothing. If you pick them up, you can’t pick them up.
At this time, Zhang Shicheng could take advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's empty back and seize his retreat, seize some cities, expand his territory, and expand his sphere of influence.
But the fact is that Zhang Shicheng, as a completely independent party, actually watched the two of them passionately kissing each other, but chose to ignore the matter and ignore it.
Zhang Shicheng's approach reminds me of a word that is very popular in contemporary society, that is: philanthropist.
In the Battle of Longjiang, Zhang Shicheng fully demonstrated the huge concessions he made as a great philanthropist. He did not take advantage of the loopholes of both sides to attack the other side, but chose to watch the fire from the other side and turned a deaf ear.
To this day, I still can’t figure out why Zhang Shicheng, as the only party that could profit for free at that time, chose to stand idly by when it could be said that he was getting a free advantage.
I really can't imagine how such a person could survive in such troubled times.
This also doomed his fate of subsequent defeat.
Chapter completed!