This battle of Xiling was also full of opportunities for Jiang Wei. The general of Eastern Wu, Lu Kang, was forced to the dead end by the Wei army. He surrendered to Shu and surrendered to the land of Xiling to Shu. At the same time, nearly 100,000 troops of Wu were also surrendered.

This was undoubtedly a god-given opportunity for Jiang Wei. Jingzhou was originally the territory of Shu Han and was their place of prosperity. Compared with Guanlong, Shu people hoped to recover Jingzhou and return to their hometown.

Lu Kang's surrender undoubtedly made the dreams of Shu Kingdom come true for many years, and they finally had the opportunity to regain Jingzhou.

However, there must be challenges when there are opportunities. There is no fruit in this world that can be picked in vain. If the Wei army that is chasing closely, the Shu people will eventually be in vain and have a dream of yellow beams in vain.

Jiang Wei wanted to fight this battle with all his might. After all, the gains and losses of Xiling will determine whether the Shu army can gain a foothold in Jingzhou.

He carefully deployed the defense line of Xiling. When he knew that the Wei army's attack on Xiling was the Right Legion led by Du Yu, Jiang Wei also made targeted arrangements.

Du Yu was knowledgeable and talented, well-versed in military tactics, and had the nickname of Du Wuku. However, because of this, Du Yu rarely took strange and dangerous strategies, followed the rules in wars, and was well versed in military tactics. Based on this, Jiang Wei set up heavy troops in the Qiting Pavilion to build a defense line to resist the enemy, thinking that it was a complete plan.

But in the end, Jiang Wei lost to Xiling City. The Wei army attacked Xiling with a navy, which disrupted all the deployment of the Shu army, causing Jiang Wei to be completely defeated.

Jiang Wei was also surprised by the Wei army's methods at that time. In his opinion, Du Yu's talent might not have been able to come up with such a trick. Now that he learned that it was made by Cao Liang, he was not surprised. Cao Liang's methods were much more powerful than this. Hiring attacks on Xiling was just a pediatric department.

Jiang Wei withdrew his troops and returned to Yong'an, learned from his mistakes, actively prepared for the war, and prepared to face the invasion of the Wei army.

Jiang Wei has always been a person who looks forward because he knows that there is no drug for regret in this world. Regret and regret are just the behavior of cowards. People will never live in the past, worrying about gains and losses, and it doesn’t matter if they fall. The important thing is to get up, regain confidence, forget everything in the past, start from a new beginning, and start from scratch. This is the most important thing.

The Battle of Xiling is over. No matter what the outcome is, there is no need to worry about it anymore. What you lose is lost and can never be saved. Instead of living in regret in pain, it is better to forget everything and start over.

And even if you don’t want to start over, the Wei army may attack Yong'an at any time. The situation between Shu and Wei will then change from attack to defense and be forced to enter the defensive mode. Now Jiang Wei can no longer consider the attack. How to resist the offensive of the Wei army and avoid Shu from following in the footsteps of Wu.

Since Cao Pi usurped the Han and established Wei, the situation of the Three Kingdoms has been in power for more than 40 years. During these forty years, although the Three Kingdoms have attacked each other, their basic territory has not changed much, and they have always maintained their appearance when they were founded.

Whether it was Zhuge Liang's six out of Qishan or Jiang Wei's ninth attack on the Central Plains, whether it was the Battle of Huainan or Jingzhou, the battles of large and small scale between the Three Kingdoms had almost never stopped, but the territory between the Three Kingdoms was unusually stable. At most, your family lost a county and my family seized a county. This was just a tug-of-war. The real border between the Three Kingdoms has almost not changed much in the past forty years.

However, Cao Liang's strong rise completely changed the territory of the Three Kingdoms. Cao Liang not only eliminated the powerful Sima family in Wei, but also launched a large number of troops and swallowed the Wu Kingdom in one breath.

The three kingdoms have always maintained an extremely delicate balance. If the world is divided into ten parts, the Wei Kingdom can occupy 50%, Wu and Shu account for 50%. If it is further subdivided, Wu can account for 30%, and Shu can account for 20%.

In other words, generally speaking, if Wu and Shu join forces, they can tie the Wei army, which is also a key to maintaining balance in the Three Kingdoms. If Wei is too strong and Wu and Shu are not opponents when they join forces, then Wu and Shu will sooner or later die at the hands of Wei.

But this is just a general division of the strength of the three parties. There are many factors that determine the unity of the Three Kingdoms, such as the factors of geographical advantage. Shu Kingdom occupies the dangers of mountains and rivers, and Wu Kingdom has a natural barrier of the Yangtze River. These factors also play a special role in stabilizing the territory of the Three Kingdoms.

However, the alliance between Wu and Shu is not the kind of hard-core alliance. There are still grudges and suspicions between them, and even suspicion of mutual use. In this case, it is difficult to form a joint force. For example, Zhuge Liang's northern expedition to Guanlong and asked the Wu Kingdom to send troops to Huainan to form a double-sided attack on Wei Kingdom. However, Wu Kingdom sent troops, but it was basically a wait-and-see attitude. Instead, he hoped that the two families of Wei and Shu would compete with each other and would benefit from the fisherman.

vice versa.

In short, the Wu and Shu were not formed into an iron alliance, which was a favorable thing for the Wei State, which gave the Wei army a chance to defeat each one.

Cao Liang seized this opportunity and used his superior weapons and equipment to break through the natural danger of the Yangtze River in Wu, conquered Jianye, and destroyed the Wu Kingdom.

Although there are still local remnants of the Wu Kingdom that are constantly resisting, it is just a whole, and the pattern of the Three Kingdoms in the Three Kingdoms has been completely broken.

After the demise of Wu, Shu had no such an allies that looked like a god. Moreover, after Wei swallowed Wu, its territory and strength doubled. At that time, Wei could monopolize 50% of the world. Now, it has gained 30% of the world's power, and the world has already occupied eight of the world. In terms of strength, it has formed a crushing force against Shu.

In the past, Shu Kingdom had always attacked more and defended less than Wei Kingdom. For many years, Shu Kingdom had been in a state of active offensive. Now, with the change of the situation in the world, the Shu army must adjust its strategic decisions and can no longer focus on offense, and even have no strength to organize an offense.

From then on, Shu will fully move into the strategic defense stage. In order to prevent the tragedy of Wu from happening to him, Shu must unite and unite against the enemy, and make serious defense preparations.

This change in concept requires Shu people to adapt well. They shouted the slogan of restoring the Han Dynasty and remaining in the old capital for decades. Now they should give up. Only by taking a pragmatic path and firmly adhering to the belief in protecting the land can Shu have hope to persevere.
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