Xu Huang has never led a large army to fight a big war, nor does he have much experience in being alone, and he is relatively young, so he handed over the defense of Lujiang County to Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao was a little bottomless.

He felt that compared with the newcomer Xu Huang, Guo Peng should let Yu Ban go to the front line to guard the Lujiang River, instead of sitting in the rear.

To this end, Zhang Liao also personally rode his horse to Lujiang County to see how Xu Huang had set up a defensive line to prepare against the possible invasion of the Jiangdong Army.

Guo Peng speculated that the Jiangdong army would enter Lujiang County from Weixushui, then enter Chaohu Lake, and arrive at Jiujiang County, during which the Jiangdong Army might divide its troops and enter Lujiang County and capture the Tuntian farms set up by Guo Peng in the area of Anhui City to obtain enough grain and population.

Jiujiang Lujiang No. 2 County has a population of nearly 500,000, all of whom are Tuntian people, and constantly open up land to cultivate grain, making Jiujiang Lujiang No. 2 County become the granary of Jianghuai in just two years, rich and rich.

Zhang Liao thought that Guo Peng's speculation was right, Sun Ce would inevitably divide his troops to plot Lujiang County, so Xu Huang's task was very important.

Zhang Liao came to Xiang'an County, which is the closest county seat to Misushui, where Xu Huang set up heavy guards, actively built fortifications, and decided to fight a defensive counterattack.

Xu Huang tried to shrink his line of defense and guard the county seat, but when Zhang Liao arrived, he noticed this trend and immediately stopped it.

"Isn't it the right move to shrink the defensive line and guard the county seat, so that the Jiangdong sailors can leave the defense of the boats and ships, and facilitate our army to give full play to the advantages of cavalry?"

Xu Huang was a little puzzled.

"What is the trebuchet that Duke Wei allocated to you for?"

"Huh?"

Xu Huang looked at Zhang Liao and blinked, a little incomprehensible.

Zhang Liao said angrily: "What can a trebuchet do?" ”

"Throwing stones."

"What are you throwing rocks for?"

"Smash people."

"So?"

"So?"

Looking at Xu Huang's appearance, Zhang Liao was angry, stomped his feet, and said angrily: "Elm head!" Smash their ship with a trebuchet! The building ship is tall, slow, and carries a large number of soldiers, it is simply a live target! Idiot! Smash them all to death on the water! ”

Xu Huang's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted, "Ah! I get it! ”

"How could Duke Wei have thought of handing over such an important frontier county to you to defend? Gongming, you remember, but if Lujiang County is lost, if you don't die on the battlefield, I will take your head to ask Duke Wei for guilt, do you understand? ”

Xu Huang was taken aback by Zhang Liao's murderous appearance, and hurriedly said that he must be careful and dare not make any mistakes.

Then Zhang Liao instructed Xu Huang how to use a trebuchet to smash them into the water to feed the fish, and if he was lucky, he would be able to make a great contribution by annihilating the Jiangdong Sailors in one go.

At that time, Xu Huang, the general of Hengjiang, will not be unable to become a general of Hengjiang, it all depends on Xu Huang's own efforts.

Xu Huang's eyes suddenly turned red.

"Lujiang is missing, Xu Mou came to see him!"

Only the heavy battlefield killing weapon trebuchet mastered by the Wei army, its existence is still unknown to the people in Jiangnan, and Guo Peng is doing his best to block the news of the existence of this killing weapon and not let the people of Jiangnan know.

But this time, it's time for the trebuchet to do its job.

After several years of improvement, trebuchets made a great breakthrough in accuracy and range.

According to Guo Peng's instructions, the craftsmen developed a counterweight trebuchet, which greatly increased the range of the trebuchet and the weight of the stone projectile, and the Southeast Front was equipped with this new type of counterweight trebuchet.

Guo Peng asked Zhang Liao to use these trebuchets to fight a war of annihilation, and destroy the superior water division in Jiangdong in the inland waterways, so as to prevent them from repeatedly attacking and harassing his southeast defense line.

In the next one to two years, Guo Peng's focus will still be on the west, and he will have to complete many tasks in the west, and it will not work without stability in the southeast.

This battle extinguishes Jiangdong's arrogance and tells them that even if there are many warships, you can't do anything in the face of my black technology.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces!

Are you, a backward and reactionary regime, ready to feel fear?

Probably not.

At this time, Sun Ce was working with Zhou Yu and many meritorious veterans to discuss the specific tactics of entering Jiangbei.

It has always been Sun Ce's goal to make Yangzhou's territory complete.

It is a pity that after the pacification of Jiangdong, he has not been given the opportunity to forge ahead, and this time he finally got the opportunity to forge ahead, and Sun Ce attached great importance to it and demanded that the whole army must step up training and preparation.

In this battle, Sun Ce decided to go all out, and while responding to Liu Zhang, he also wanted to take advantage of the situation to obtain Jiujiang and Lujiang, which was a real strategic goal and could not be shaken.

The land of Jiangdong seems to be a vast map, but in fact, most of it is unusable primeval forests occupied by indigenous people such as Shanyue, which have not been developed, and what Sun Ce Group can use is only a narrow plain area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Han Chinese were pitifully small in number and settlements throughout Jiangdong, which greatly limited the potential of the local government in Jiangdong.

For Sun Ce, obtaining the Jiujiang Lujiang River was not only to expand the territory, but also to obtain the northern barrier, and it was also a channel to obtain a large population to supplement the biggest shortcomings of the Jiangdong regime.

"When Princess Wei is in Guanzhong, she can't look east, there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses along the Yangtze River, and she can't compete with me, and Liu Jingsheng and Liu Jiyu sent troops north at the same time, it is a good time for me to enter Lujiang and Jiujiang, and I must not lose such an opportunity!

Lujiang, Jiujiang have 100,000 households, the households are full, the products are abundant, Wei Gong is in the two places of Tuntian, the grain is very rich, for Jiangdong, Jiujiang Lujiang two counties are bound to win, the princes need to move forward bravely, compete for the two counties, if the two counties are obtained, then the big thing will be done! ”

Sun Ce slammed his fist on the table, expressing his unshakable determination.

Looking around, Sun Ce saw resolute faces.

Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai.

Three veterans who have followed Sun Jian for a long time.

Lv Fan, Zhou Yu.

Nengchen, who is almost a close friend who grew up with him, can be called his own family.

Sun Ben, Sun Jing, Wu Jing, Xu Kun.

Four generals of the family.

Dong Xi, Ling Cao, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Yuan Xiong, Deng Dang.

Most of the young and courageous generals who joined Sun Ce's group after coming to Jiangdong were good at water warfare.

Jiangdong people are good at water warfare, and when it comes to water warfare, Jingzhou people are not opponents of Jiangdong people.

Sun Ce had thought countless times about using them to attack Jiangxia after capturing the Lujiang River, killing Huang Zu to avenge his father, but now Guo Peng's threat is greater, and this revenge can be left for later.

Anyway, it is inevitable that he and Liu Biao's forces will not dominate the world at the same time, even if Guo Peng collapses and everyone competes in the Central Plains, they will eventually have to win or lose.

It is time to show his command ability, drive straight into the big battle of Zhang Liao, break it, and obtain the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang, so as to demonstrate his ability and the strength of Sun Wu's regime.

This can not only avenge Guo Peng's revenge for winning over the Lu family, but also reverse the negative impact of the defeat in the previous political war.

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