Chapter 973: Which to Hit First

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, he admitted this.

Strategically speaking, there is no doubt that Lu Guangda misjudged Pei Zilie's strategic goal, and from a tactical point of view, Lu Guangda's choice of blocking position was not good, of course, he may have underestimated Pei Zilie's determination to win this battle, after all, in the end, according to statistics, Pei Zilie's troops suffered a lot of losses, which can be said to be a miserable victory.

As a general from Nan Chen, it is obvious that Pei Zilie is very aware of the common problems of Nan Chen's generals.

For a long time, Nan Chen's strategy for the north is defensive, which leads to many generals who are too cautious when fighting, lack the overall situation and the ability to take the initiative to attack, and can only pursue defensive counterattacks, which is why Wu Mingche attacked Huaibei so unsmoothly, firstly, because the resistance of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was very tenacious, and secondly, because the generals of the Nanchen front line had disagreements about whether to attack and how to attack.

Even at that time, including Chen Ji and Wu Mingche, they all fantasized about being able to resist the reinforcements of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and then seek a counterattack, without taking into account the gap between the two sides' troops, baggage, etc., in Li Xinchen's view, if Wu Mingche could launch a fierce attack to seize Northern Xuzhou before the arrival of the main force of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, or retreat one step earlier, there would be no danger later, let alone bury the last main force of Southern Chen as in history.

Therefore, Pei Zilie didn't give Lu Guangda a chance to counterattack after defending, and pushed it directly in one go, this style is actually not quite like Pei Zilie's, but more like Li Xinchen's consistent style of play, and the army commanded by Pei Zilie is mainly Li Xinchen's old subordinates, so the attack is naturally handy.

Li Xinchen was not surprised by the battle in Wuning, but Ren Zhong's performance made him a little curious, although Zhangchuan County was located on the side of Zhangshan, it was not directly threatened to the flank, Ren Zhong retreated in such a hurry, and the news conveyed was very intriguing.

Ren Zhong is known as "Ren Barbarian Slave", and he can afford the word "barbarian", which shows that this is not a cowardly person, so Ren Zhong is more likely to take the initiative to show favor to Li Xinchen by doing so.

After all, once Lu Guangda was defeated, there were fewer generals under Xiao Maha, and it naturally became more difficult to hold Jiangling, and Ren Zhong had nothing to fear.

"Send someone to contact the old general Ren Zhong," Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "If you can get Ren Zhong's support, there will really be no one around your father." ”

The corners of Xiao Shilian's mouth twitched, and the strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle was ruthless: "Old General Ren Zhong took the initiative to contact us during the previous battle of Xiangyang, so I think it is not difficult to get his support, and now the question is where do we need to attack next?" ”

"Seize the Jingzhou Naval Division first, without the Naval Division, the Chen people will no longer be able to stop our advance," Li Xinchen said in a deep voice, "and then attack Gong'an and Songling." ”

"South Shore?"

"That's right, Jiangling can be handed over to Pei Dashi, a lonely city can't turn up the wind and waves, what we have to solve is the enemy from Xiangzhou." Li Xinchen replied decisively, "Compared with Jiangling, Xiangzhou is the real core of the Chen people on the Western Front. ”

Xiao Shilian's expression froze, this was indeed a problem he hadn't considered before.

Before taking Jiangling, all the battles of Nan Chen on the west side were centered on Xiangzhou, and now Xiangzhou is still the support point of Nan Chen's second line of defense on the western front.

"But we don't care about Jiangling, isn't it a bit risky to attack Xiangzhou directly?" Xiao thought of something, and said worriedly, "If it is not good to attack Gangneung, then it is equivalent to exposing our flanks." ”

Li Xinchen laughed, Li Ping next to him already spread out the map very familiarly, Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and pointed to the location of Xiangzhou marked on the map: "See, Xiangzhou is here, to the north is Jiangzhou, where Uncle Pei is located, as long as we can take Xiangzhou, then connect Jiangzhou, Suizhou and Yingzhou to the north, and we can cut off the connection between Jiangnan and Jiangling, how do you say your father will choose when the time comes?" ”

Xiao Shilian gasped: "If it is to come back to help, then Jiangling will not be guaranteed, if it is not rescued, then Jiangling is destined to be a lonely city, and the lonely city will definitely not be able to hold it for long." ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly: "The main reason why we are in such a hurry to take Xiangzhou is because we must open the road to Jiankang Mansion as soon as possible." Although I don't know whether it was Chen Ji or someone in the East Palace who made the decision, at least from this stage, it is not a bad thing to let Chen Shuling return to Guangling to preside over the war, and it will be difficult for Wu Huijue and Lu Zicai to break through Chen Shuling's obstruction for a while. ”

After a pause, Li Xinchen's hand fell on Xiangzhou again: "If you are not mistaken, Chen Shujian should also be on the way to Xiangzhou." ”

Xiao Shilian's expression was a little solemn, he was born in Nanchen, and of course he knew Chen Shujian very well. Chen Shujian's title is the king of Changsha, and before that, he also served as the assassin of Xiangzhou, and presided over the training of soldiers and horses in this important military town in the west, so it can be said that the current Xiangzhou can become an important town of Southern Chen in the west, and Chen Shujian's efforts are inseparable.

It is precisely because of the heavy troops in his hands that Chen Shujian himself felt panicked, when the direction of Nan Chen's attack was still Huainan, as a prince, it was naturally not a good thing for him to hold heavy troops, who knew if the suspicious father would be worried that he would lead the army into the empty Jiankang Mansion one day, so he invited himself to return to the capital.

But in any case, the soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou were brought out by Chen Shujian after all, and if Chen Shujian was in Xiangzhou, this battle would not be easy to fight.

"We've got to hurry." Xiao Shilian said decisively.

Li Xinchen nodded: "The top priority is to find the Jingzhou Sailor, as long as we are pressing step by step, the Jingzhou Sailor will not show up." ”

Just when Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian were about to go down to the city, a scout rushed over quickly: "Your Highness Qiqi, find the Jingzhou Sailor!" ”

"Where?"

"Yiling!"

Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian glanced at each other and gasped.

In history, Liu Bei, the Zhaolie Emperor of Ji Han, led the army out of the Three Gorges to crusade against Eastern Wu, but was burned by Lu Xun in Yiling for 700 miles, Liu Bei's life's hard work was half wiped out, and Ji Han's national strength was greatly reduced, and he lost the strength to go east and compete with Sun Quan, and completely became "Shu Han".

Now Li Xinchen is the new generation of the king of Hanzhong, and he has the same country name, and he is leading the army out of the Three Gorges, is he going to be defeated here in Yiling?

Obviously, the Jingzhou sailors also took a fancy to the good fortune of this place, not to mention that the line from Yiling to Qiting was originally a natural danger to go to Jiangling after leaving the Three Gorges, and Li Xinchen wanted to go down the river, so he had to overcome the defense line in this area.

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