Chapter 845 Ma Youchang's Package
The adviser who proposed to Zhao Xing alone to stab Yizhou's "ass" is named Ma Su. {Book friends uploaded and updated}
Perhaps, in Zhao Xing's memory of his previous life, Ma Su was a very tragic person. Since this person was appreciated by Zhuge Kongming and stayed with Zhuge as a secretary and staff member, it was definitely not a good fortune. But perhaps the most suitable job for Ma Su was to be a secretary and staff member, rather than being a commander and general.
Kong Ming asked a senior magistrate to directly command troops to guard Jieting, but Ma Su was also misleading himself. This is called not being able to achieve "benefiting one's job."
In this time and space, Zhao Xing paid attention to and observed Ma Su, a controversial talent from the beginning. As a result, he found that Ma Su was indeed talented, but was not suitable to be a "master official". So Zhao Xing unceremoniously took Ma Su into his command, allowing him to be a low-key and unknown combat adviser.
Judging from Ma Su's behavior of making suggestions to Zhao Xing alone, it is obvious that the senior "old guys" in the commander-in-chief did not recognize Ma Su's imaginative idea this day, and at the beginning of the plan, he ignored Ma Su, the newcomer.
It is no wonder that these middle-level officers who came from the mainland army and had led troops to win many victories are short-sighted, because Zhao Xing never taught them the concepts of "leapfrog tactics" and "ocean landing".
Another reason also restricts these staff members from turning their attention to Jiaozhou. Now Sun Jian of the Eastern Wu is an ally of Jin, and Jiaozhou has become Sun Jian's backyard, and it is about to be eaten up by Dongwu. If the army of Jin suddenly touched the backyard of the ally's home, they might even have to use black bricks to pat the back of the allies' heads, which is not what it should be. {Book friends uploaded and updated}
Zhao Xing asked Ma Su this: "Young Chang (Ma Su's name) is very novel in the plan to break into Yizhou from Jiaozhou, but have you ever considered the reaction of the Eastern Wu?"
Ma Su seemed to have thought about this and replied: "Although the Eastern Wu is our ally now, it will be solved sooner or later. Whether it is military or diplomatic means, we have to face this problem. Since it will be solved sooner or later, why do we have to wait until Yizhou is captured and the Central Plains? Why not have a package of plans to put both Yizhou and Dongwu into the basket!"
After hearing Ma Su's words, Zhao Xing became interested. He really didn't expect that Ma Su had this insight and actually jumped out of the constraints of the Battle of Yizhou and turned his attention to the whole situation. Now it seems that sometimes being good at talking about war on paper is not necessarily a bad thing.
Zhao Xing said: "Young people often talk about how to solve the Yizhou problem, even Dongwu solved it."
Seeing that Zhao Xing really attached importance to his proposal, Ma Su became more energetic and reported the strategy he had come up with over the past few days from beginning to end to Zhao Xing.
Ma Su still had some elements of his thoughts, but he firmly grasped the general direction, which was to make full use of the huge advantage that the Jin navy could conceal long-distance maneuver, to maximize the effect of raids in Yizhou, and to greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers.
Zhao Xing was very happy at this time. Firstly, he was inspired by Ma Su and suddenly had a larger and feasible solution. Although it might take more time, it could successfully solve the problems of Yizhou, Jingzhou, Wuzhou and Central Plains at the lowest cost. Secondly, he discovered the advantages of Ma Su. In the future, this high-ranking tutor who is good at "talking about military affairs on paper" can be used in the most suitable position, rather than letting the tragedy of "killing Ma Su with tears" happen again.
Zhao Xing immediately adjusted Ma Su's position, and specially transferred Xu Hui and several clever generals from the Jin Navy to the City of Hu to assist Ma Su, and he led a team to refine and deduce the overall combat plan. In other words, Ma Su is about to undertake an important task that will make him proud in many years to come.
In the same sentence, Zhao Xing already had a complete plan in his mind, but it involves the movement, assembly of specific troops, the collection and preparation of various combat equipment and materials, various specific marching routes and detailed offensive plans, which still require the wisdom of everyone to be gathered for repeated consideration and demonstration.
Although Zhao Xing himself could complete this work with a few advisers, and it would be the highest quality one, he obviously wanted to train Ma Su, Xu Hui and others through this task. A strong person cannot support the strength of a nation and country; only by going forward and backward, can China and China be at the forefront of history forever.
Most of Zhao Xing's current attention has been devoted to institutional construction and internal planning. Military tasks are only the primary task in a specific period and environment. Sooner or later, they must make way for internal construction. Prospering the country and strengthening the military is always an inseparable process. We cannot throw military construction aside and focus on developing internal affairs and people's livelihood, nor can we expand rapidly without regard to the strength of the country.
Shortly after meeting Ma Su this time, Zhao Xing asked Li Jinsi to send secret letters to Guan Yu, Jia Xu, Taishi Ci, Zhang Xiu, Zhao Zhenbang and Lu Meng, and proposed to the leaders of several aspects this year's general guidelines for the military advisor's operation and the time node for completing the corresponding tasks.
In his letter to Guan Yu, Zhao Xing suggested that the Pingxi Army should advance steadily this year, and try to use gentle means to subdue or appease many countries in the southern Xinjiang region. It does not necessarily mean that the whole Western Regions will be unstable. The purpose of Zhao Xing's words is actually to tell Guan Yu that he would draw the Kunlun Army from the Pingxi Army to enter the pass to participate in the war.
In his letter to Jia Xu, Zhao Xing expressed his overall idea of solving various wars in a package. Regarding this wise man who is more and more serious, Zhao Xing felt that it was not necessarily a bad thing to say something in advance, because Jia Xu often brought him unexpected surprises. Zhao Xing believed that after receiving this letter, Jia Xu would definitely have a very detailed and perfect deployment in Liang Kingdom to cooperate with his plan.
In the letter to Zhang Xiu and Zhao Zhenbang, Zhao Xing gave a death order to his uncle and nephew in an abnormal manner, requiring them to completely solve the Northeast problem before July. Zhao Xing also said that if the mountain jungle warfare was really troublesome, some fierce measures could be taken appropriately. To what extent is the appropriate killing and which methods are fierce, only Zhang Xiu and Zhao Zhenbang and others understood this themselves. Anyway, the King of Pingxi only had one result this time.
In his letter to Taishici, Zhao Xing asked him to mobilize all forces this year and build another transmission fleet that can take 50,000 troops at the same time by the end of the year, and from now on, the scope of the maritime survey team's activities, Yizhou will be expanded to the scope of the Rinan County, Jiaozhou (now Nanyue location).
In his letter to Lu Meng, Zhao Xing reminded Lu Meng that he must find a way to let Yizhou and the Eastern Wu join forces to attack Jingzhou, and at the beginning he deliberately threw out some sweet things to attract the troops of the Eastern Wu and Yizhou in the Jingzhou area. Zhao Xing was worried that Lu Meng was eager to make contributions, so he beat him up and his face turned blue and swollen, which scared him away.
Chapter completed!