Let's talk about Wei Yan's so-called"Meridian Valley Conspiracy".bar.
According to Wei Yan's naïve assumption:
1.I led 5,000 elite soldiers to ride straight from the meridian road to Chang'an, and I could arrive in less than ten days.
2.Xiahou Nan, the guard general of Chang'an, is as timid as a mouse, and when he hears that I am coming, he will definitely abandon the city and leave, and we can eat Chang'an's grain until the prime minister's reinforcements arrive.
3.Therefore, Prime Minister, if you lead a large army to come to your aid from the Slope Valley Road, it will be enough to give you twenty days. At that timeIn one fell swoop, the west of Xianyang can be determined. ”
When I first heard it when I was a child, I thought that Wei Yan's trick of stealing the house was also a way.
When I look at it a little older, there are only two words to evaluate:Immature.
1.Coincidentally, when Cao Zhen took the initiative to cut down Shu later, he also walked in the Meridian Valley, which was originally expected to take a month, but in the event of heavy rain, he couldn't walk half the distance in a month and withdrew his troops.
2.Just when everyone marches quickly, you can reach Chang'an within ten days.
But five thousand light cavalry must not be able to bring siege equipment, even if Xiahou Nan is so stupid that he is not defended at all, but a fool can't be stupid in the whole city. Even if the whole city is stupid, it is impossible to leave you enough rations to feed you, so that you can wait for reinforcements comfortably.
3. I also have to make sure that the news of this Meridian Valley conspiracy must only be known by God, the prime minister, you know me, Wei Yan knows, Cao Wei, Guanzhong, and Nanyang's spies are all fools.
And Zhuge Liang was asked to rush all the food and reinforcements to Chang'an within 20 days.
Otherwise, even if Wei Yan captures Chang'an soon, he will be counterattacked by Cao Wei's reinforcements and soon lose Chang'an.
This so-called "Meridian Valley Conspiracy" is obviously very unreliable.
Some people are still not convinced, so take history as a mirror and see what the result of Gao Yingxiang (the former boss of "King Chuang" Li Zicheng) in the late Ming Dynasty who also went to Meridian Valley to prepare a surprise attack on Chang'an.
At that time, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong joined Sichuan, and the next target was Chang'an, Guanzhong.
Gao Yingxiang remembered the "Meridian Valley Scheme" that was not adopted by Prime Minister Zhuge who had been cautious all his life.
So I wanted to be the second Wei Yan - a gamble.
Just do it, the next day Gao Yingxiang led a large army to the Meridian Valley, as a result, due to the rugged mountain roads and countless cliffs, Gao Yingxiang walked tens of thousands of people for many days and failed to get out of the Meridian Valley, and the military rations were also exhausted.
And the news of the "Meridian Valley Conspiracy" also came to the ears of the opponent, Sun Chuanting, the general of the Ming army, who had already set up an ambush halfway, and in the end, Gao Yingxiang could only wait to be killed.
Therefore, you still have to be down-to-earth in doing things, and you can gamble for a while, but you can't gamble for a lifetime.