In June of the 14th year of the Great Cause, Li Qin accepted Dou Qing and attacked Baling City, forcing Xiao Miannan to retreat to Changsha. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At that time, Li Jing led his troops to occupy the four counties of Poyang, Luling, Yichun and Linchuan, and gathered 100,000 soldiers to suppress Lin Shihong in Nankang.

In order to protect himself, Xiao Mo sent an envoy to meet with Lin Shihong, and the two sides had secret talks, signed an alliance, and watched and helped each other. In order to show his sincerity, Xiao Mo withdrew his troops from Chenxian and ceded Guiyang County to Lin Shihong.

Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong jointly gathered more than 150,000 troops to defend Changsha and Nankang in case of Li Qin's attack.

"A coalition of the defeated and the weak. Lord, according to my opinion, we should hurry south now and wipe out Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong, two blind guys, in one fell swoop. In the Liang Mansion in Baling City, a slender and well-proportioned young military general said loudly and excitedly.

He is the spear general Gu Jun, who was originally a general of Shen Lun, the son of Shen Faxing, and after Shen Faxing returned to Li Qin, he was selected by Li Qin into the army, and finally stood out and became the commander of Shenji III. He is a rather courageous man, but with a slightly stubborn personality.

At this time, the latest information from the south had just reached Li Qin. Knowing that Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo had united, he gathered his subordinates together to discuss ways to deal with the current situation.

Li Qin let everyone speak freely and express their opinions. Many people think that they should go all out and kill Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo directly, just like the young general in the lobby just suggested.

The consecutive victories have boosted everyone's morale, and they all think that Xiao Mo and Shen Faxing are vulnerable, and they are just striking while the iron is hot.

Listening to everyone's unanimous suggestion, Li Qin was also a little moved.

However, Cen Wenwen, who had just joined Li Qinjun, put forward a different opinion: "My lord, I don't think we can directly attack Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong in the south. ”

Cen Wenwen joined Li Qin's army after the Battle of the Yangtze River. At that time, he was suspected of disloyalty by Xiao Mo because of Dou Qing's raid, and he was imprisoned.

Later, Xiao Mo fled south, walked in a hurry, and locked him at the bottom of the cabin, he forgot about it forever. Cen Wenwen was dazed with hunger in the bilge of the ship, and he was not rescued until Li Qinjun cleaned up the battlefield.

After this incident, Cen Wenwen no longer had any loyalty to Xiao Mo in his heart. When he saw that Li Qinjun was prosperous, he agreed to Li Ya's invitation and then joined Li Qinjun.

After coming to Baling City, Cen Wenwen talked with Li Qin, who appreciated his cleverness, so he appointed him to join the army, and included him by his side to draft relevant documents for himself, and participated in the military for himself.

At present, there is a consensus of opinion on everyone, but Cen Wenwen has put forward different opinions.

"How so?" Li Qin looked at Cen Wenwen, whose body was a little thin, and asked calmly.

After experiencing the incident of the Yangtze River Water Battle, Cen Wenwen was frightened, he was originally a literati who did not know martial arts, but now he was frightened and hungry for several days, and the whole person became very weak.

He stood above the lobby, dressed in green clothes, and straightened up. The wide garment draped over his thin body, as if a gust of wind could blow him down.

But he didn't care about it with a pale face. He just coughed lightly, and Rumo's sword eyebrows raised slightly: "Lord, everyone, don't forget why we are on the western expedition.

Advancing west along the Yangtze River, accommodating the Yangtze River Naval Division, and then going north to attack Du Fuwei's rear route, relieving the danger of Jingling, and preventing Du Fuwei from conquering the Pegasus Ranch -- this is the purpose of the Western Expedition, and all our combat operations should be carried out around this goal. ”

"But we solved Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong first, so that we could be safe when attacking Du Fuwei! The battle between us and the Jianghuai Army is certainly not small, and it is impossible for the two sides to distinguish the winner or loser in a short period of time.

Therefore, if we don't solve Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong, it is very likely that we will be threatened by Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong when we are fighting with Du Fuwei, and we will not be able to go north with all our strength at that time. ”

The young general who spoke in front of him retorted.

"Solve Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong first, and then fight Du Fuwei, this idea is good. But there is one prerequisite that we must be aware of. Can we beat Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo before Du Fuwei? Cen Wenwen held up his slender finger and shook it in front of everyone's eyes.

"Do you think you can't defeat Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo quickly?" Li Qin keenly grasped the meaning of Cen Wenwen's words.

"It is true that our army is strong, but the victory of our army in a series of battles is based on the strength of our army's naval division. I have watched the battle of Jiangdu of the lord and found that our army did not have very good means of attacking Chongcheng - this is also a fact.

Our artillery is very useful, but compared to traditional siege equipment, artillery has one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, it is too bulky. In addition to the territory of Lin Shihong and Xiao Milling, Xiao Mill's Changsha is close to Dongting Lake, and most of the other places exist in the mountains. Can we overcome these quickly?

The mountain road to the south is not easy to walk. What's more, after we take down Lin Shihong and Xiao Miao, we will directly border Song Valve, what is Song Valve's attitude towards us? Can the lord be sure?

This time we attacked Baling, we fraudulently used the name of Song Valve, which can be regarded as offending Song Valve. ”

The lobby talked eloquently, and the questions were so clear that everyone in the hall couldn't help but close their mouths.

He made a lot of sense, so everyone was thinking.

"But if we can destroy Lin Shihong and Xiao Mo in one go, we will be able to unify Jiangnan, which will be very beneficial to our future development." Although Cen Wenwen listed all these reasons, Gu Jun still felt that this opportunity was too rare at the moment, and he still preferred to go south first and then north.

"As long as it can be done in 10 days, I have no objection. But if it takes more than ten days, I don't know what will happen to the north. The two apprentices of the lord, Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong, are still in the north. They hold out in the city of Jingling! Now that the city is a lonely city, it is cut off from the inside and outside, and ten days has already overestimated their ability. Cen Wenwen frowned, and said something that had been inadvertently ignored by everyone.

"Ten days? Ten days to defeat Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong? "Everyone shut up at this point.

No one thinks they can do that. Even if they were confident in their soldiers' and horses' combat strength, they didn't dare to guarantee that they would be able to defeat Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong.

Ten days? It may be enough to attack Changsha, but south of Changsha, there is no way.

Ten days is definitely not enough. Even the general, who was so confident in himself, thought that if he wanted to defeat Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong, it would take at least a month.

And a month later, I'm afraid that Pegasus Ranch will also fall into the hands of Duvoway.

This is unacceptable to Li Chin.

So Li Qin quickly made a decision: "The troops of the three towns will stay here, and the rest will go north with me!" We can't continue to play here with Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong. We must go north, defeat Duvowe, and let his claws retract back to Huaisi. ”

"Yes!" Li Qin made a decision, and everyone did not object, he neatly bowed his hand to Li Qin, and neatly received the order.

"But who is the lord going to be responsible for the battle situation here?" After receiving the order, Cen Wenwen reminded Li Qin again: "Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong have not been eliminated, and the battle situation in the south still needs a capable general to be in charge." ”

"Leave it to Li Jing! His ability can be seen in four counties in half a month. I'm going to put him in charge of the protection of the whole South. As for Baling City...... Li Qin thought for a moment and nodded Chen Ling's name: "Changwei, I will hand over Baling City to you." I hope you will guard this place well, and make sure to stop Xiao Mo from threatening us. ”

"Yes!" Chen Ling threw his hand towards Li Qin and excitedly received his order.

Li Qin nodded with satisfaction, and then named the names of several town generals, asking them to come under Chen Ling's command and obey Chen Ling's command.

As for the men and horses who went north with him, Li Qin also had his own arrangements. He planned to let Bu Tianzhi load the affairs under his command on merchant ships again, and then go east into Jiangxia along the river, and go north from the Han River to outflank Du Fuwei's back road.

"So that our soldiers can get enough rest on the ship and then deal with Duvowe in the best possible condition." Li Qin smiled and said his plan.

"All by water?" Cen was a little surprised.

"Yes! Taking the waterway is the fastest and most convenient way to do it right now. Go north along the Han River and make a huge momentum. I think as long as we pull the shelves apart, Duvowe will be a little worried. Li Qin smiled and nodded.

"Lord ......" Cen Wenwen solemnly bowed his hand to Li Qin: "The soldiers are very fast, if we want to rescue Jingling as soon as possible, we shouldn't just think about going by water...... Faster by land than by water! ”

"What do you mean?" Li Qin looked at Cen Wenwen suspiciously.

Cen Wenwen smiled and made a gesture on the map hanging on the left side of the lobby: "From here...... To get here, a horse and a flat river, if you use a foot pawn, a little tighter, you can arrive in three or four days. The key is to take the land route, although it is a little tiring for the soldiers, but there is no need to think about landing and other issues before the battle like the sailor transport. ”

"Hmm...... That's it! We can also give Duvowe a ruthless one. Li Qin looked around on the map for a moment, and suddenly turned his head to ask Feng Tianqing: "I remember that this Fengxiang County is a very important material gathering point for Du Fuwei." ”

"Indeed! Du Fuwei's army was assembled in Fengxiang County. He used the sailors stationed in Fengxiang County to transport grain and grass to support his 100,000-strong army to attack Jingling. Feng Tianqing said and nodded heavily.

"In that case, if we capture Fengxiang County. Even if Du Fuwei didn't want to retreat, he wouldn't be able to do it. Li Qin's eyes lit up when he heard the words and thought about it.

"That's true!" Everyone gathered in front of the map nodded insightfully.

But Feng Tianqing poured cold water on everyone's interest: "Fengxiang County is not easy to fight. The information I received was that it was Du Fuwei's lieutenant Fu Gongyou who was defending Fengxiang County, which was a difficult character to deal with. It is said that he is also the descendant of the Demon Gate Heavenly Lotus Sect. ”

"Demon Gate? Heavenly Lotus Sect? Presumably Fu Gongyou is an old and cunning person. That being the case, I think we should have a big plan. Li Qin thought for a while, and a confident smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"What does the lord want to do?" Everyone asked curiously.

"Hehe, what do you think of this?" Li Qin smiled and said his arrangement.