Fa Zheng proposed at this time to enlist Shanyue to harass Nanchang, which is indeed a good idea. When Liu Cong was still in charge of Jingzhou, he made trouble with Wulingman, and it was Wulingman who allowed Liu Cong to successfully intervene in Wuling, accept A-Ying, and get tens of thousands of soldiers and several people.

When attacking Yizhou, in order to delay Liu Zhang's pace of reinforcements to Yucheng, Liu Cong sent Zhao Yun deep into Bumao, saying that the barbarian king would send troops to attack Chengdu. Although it was not able to really converge in Chengdu in the end, it effectively dragged the army of Chengdu, and was blocked outside Chengdu by Liu Cong when he returned to defense, and was finally wiped out!

But this time, Liu Cong still didn't plan to use Shanyue after thinking about it. There are several reasons, first of all, Sun Quan is not Liu Zhang, Sun Quan took a pacification of Shanyue in Jiangdong, the resistance is more fierce, the destructive force is relatively large, and the general is to win over and appease. So the current Shanyue may be more afraid of Sun Quan.

If you rush to contact and give less benefits, Shanyue may even help Sun Quan in turn, and if the benefits are greater, Shanyue is so widely distributed, and when he occupies Jiangdong in the future, if he doesn't give the corresponding benefits, I'm afraid that these people will still rise up and make trouble.

And he will win over Shanyue, and Sun Quan will definitely do too. It is quite possible to waste money and not be able to get reinforcements. Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Cong has not had any friendship with these Shanyue people all along, and when this Pandora's box is opened, I don't know if it is an angel or a devil that comes out of it.

Not choosing Shanyue, and not wanting to transfer too many soldiers from Jingzhou, Liu Cong naturally had to find another way if he wanted to capture Chaisang quickly and smoothly. Liu Cong quickly made a decision, the first thing was to ask someone to send a letter to Xu Ming, who was far away in Qu'a, and asked him to act immediately.

Xu Ming has been in ambush in Jiangdong for almost half a year, and he has also contacted many people, especially those Jiangdong Wang clans who were bullied by Sun Ce back then. This time, he planned to rebel at the same time in Qu'a and Jian'an and other places to disrupt Jiangdong! These people were originally dissatisfied with Sun's rule, and as soon as the imperial court's crusade came out, they were ready to move.

Because Xu Ming told him, the current rebellion against the rule of the Sun family is not the rebellion of the imperial court in the past, but to cooperate with the imperial court to expel the Sun family, everything is justified, waiting for the imperial court to pacify Jiangdong, they are all heroes! Being able to rebel and get the support of the imperial court is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so many noble families are ready to move, just waiting for an order to act at the same time.

Of course, Xu Ming himself also recruited a lot of private soldiers, these people of his are used to monitor the Sun family, although Liu Cong promised that after pacifying Jiangdong, the Sun family will be handed over to him to dispose of, but this army is in chaos, if you don't watch it, who knows where Sun Quan, Sun Shao and others will flee to?

Liu Cong originally thought of waiting until the army attacked Wu County before using this hidden force. But now it seems that it is impossible to get close to Wu County without taking Chaisang. And once Chaisang is taken, it is equivalent to controlling half of the entire Yangzhou. Moreover, almost all of Jiangdong's famous generals are concentrated in Chaisang and Nanchang.

As long as these people are eradicated, even if Sun Quan raises another 100,000 troops, there will be no one to command! Combat effectiveness is bound to be greatly reduced. Therefore, Liu Cong asked Huang Quan, the commander of Jinyiwei, to personally lead people to Wu County to cooperate with Xu Ming's action.

Another change was to recruit Gan Ning back from Bali Lake, and instead let Jiang Qin lead about 10,000 people to continue to contain the Chaisang army in the lake area. After Gan Ning joined up with himself, he detoured to the mouth of the lake, joined forces with Guan Yu, and prepared to log in directly from Poyang Lake, and then attack Chaisang from the east!

The 10,000 supporting infantry sent by Ma Liang from Wuchang was led by Huo Jun to abandon the waterway and move directly south from Chiwu Town to approach Chaisang, while Yu Ban continued to march south from the land between Bali Lake and Poyang Lake to Chaisang. As expected, the first troops to arrive near Chaisan attracted the attention of enemy troops.

At the same time, Liu Cong also sent a handwritten letter to Liu Pan and Zhang Jaw. In the letter, Liu Cong confessed to the two of them to transfer the battlefield from the west of Nanchang to the north of Nanchang as soon as possible, making a false impression of cutting off the connection between Nanchang and Chaisang. Cause panic in the city, and then march north for dozens of miles, and then turn back to Nanchang, and repeat this several times, until the enemy is numb, ready to attack Chaisang at any time!

Liu Cong estimated that at present, there are about 30,000 sailors and 5,000 infantry troops in Chaisang, and the 30,000 sailors are widely distributed in Saihu, Qili Lake, and Bali Lake to the north of Chaisang and Poyang Lake to the east. And Qili Lake and Saihu Lake are only ten miles away from Chaisang City, and Poyang Lake is nearly forty miles away, Lu Su will definitely deploy a large number of sailors in Saihu Lake and Qili Lake to resist Liu Cong's frontal attack!

If he moves quickly and after converging with Guan Yu, tens of thousands of people will land from the east of Chaisang, even if Lu Su finds out in time, it will not be easy to withdraw from Saihu Lake and Bali Lake at once, and when Huo Jun, Liu Pan, and Zhang Jaw arrive, they will attack Chaisang from all sides!

Of course, there are two keys to this plan, one is that Jiang Qin and Yu Ban can firmly attract the Chaisang army. Jiang Qin is very familiar with this area, although the strength is limited, and the strong attack is not possible, but it is not difficult to shuttle through the lake and attract the Chaisang naval army. The main task of Yu Ban's 10,000 men is to clean up this large area of villages and towns surrounded by the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and Bali Lake, and let them tell the people of Chaisang that the Jingzhou soldiers have completely controlled the north!

Another key is how Liu Pan and Zhang Jaw quietly got out of the Nanchang battlefield, these days of continuous siege must have suffered a lot of losses, the most people who can fight are only 30,000 people, and a large amount of grain and grass must be guarded, so Liu Pan's side can have 20,000 people to participate in the battle without alarming Lu Meng in Nanchang City is a success.

If Lu Meng finds out, then Liu Pan and Zhang Jaw will definitely be entangled by Lu Meng, and of course Lu Meng will not let Liu Pan go to Chaisang. So along the way, Liu Cong just made a fifty percent plan! After all, Lu Meng is by no means an ordinary general.

Of course, the siege plan that Liu Cong was going to implement was based on holding the mouth of the lake. If the mouth of the lake is lost, then Jiang Dongjun may continue to enter Poyang Lake from the mouth of the lake and even go around to the river outside the lake to flank Jiang Qin! Therefore, Liu Cong was even more emotional at this time, what a heroic decision it was to send Guan Yu to occupy Hukou in the first place!

The plan is certain, and after Liu Cong and Gan Ning converge, they will rest and recuperate at the mouth of the lake, and at the same time carry out simple repairs to the Hukou water village. During this time, the heralds were busy, the main battlefield was usually land, and it was generally only a round trip between the front line and the commander's camp, but now it was good, the commander's camp was constantly moving, and the herald even needed to cross the enemy's defense area many times.

Of course, these are not difficult for those well-trained elite soldiers, and the first thing to get is Guan Yu's intelligence, Guan Yu has entered Poyang Lake for several days, and finally encountered a large-scale enemy, according to Guan Yu's estimate, there are about 10,000 or so Chaisang water army, on the lakeside of about forty miles east of Chaisang City, on the south side of Gutang Mountain, there is a large water village.

Obviously, Lu Su is also guarding against Liu Cong's landing from Poyang Lake, the north of this Gutang Water Village is a high mountain, the other three sides are surrounded by water, and the mouth of the lake is across the lake, and the south boundary is Gushan Lake, and the range of activities is extremely wide. It is an important stronghold to effectively control the waters of Poyang Lake! If such a stronghold were to be attacked by the whole army as soon as it came up, it would definitely expose Liu Cong's true thoughts, so Liu Cong planned to wait until Huo Jun arrived at the intended location before attacking Gutang.

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At this time, there was already a panic in Chaisang, and almost all the soldiers and people in the city knew the news of the fall of Hukou and the death of Zhou Tai in battle. If it weren't for the trust in Zhou Yu's ability to build Chaisang Water Village and Lu Su's commander, I am afraid that there would have been deserters at this time.

Although Lu Su sent people to appease him, there were still some timid people who began to prepare to flee, which of course was inseparable from the propaganda of Jinyiwei. Nanchang City is also facing a predicament, and most of the people in the city know that a new Taishou sent by the imperial court is Liu Shang, the third son of Liu Xuan, the former Yangzhou assassin.

The reason why the imperial court started a war against Jiangdong was that Sun Quan detained Liu Shang, an official of the imperial court, and then disobeyed the order and claimed the king without authorization! The people of Nanchang, especially those of Liu Xiang's old department, still miss Liu Xuan, although they haven't been able to see Liu Shang with their own eyes, but now the imperial army is coming!

If Lu Su and Lu Meng can resist it, it's okay, but if they can't stop it, they will have an idea, and their hearts are ready to move, of course, the most important thing is to find a way to rescue Taishou Liu Shang! The imperial army outside the city is attacking the city day by day (there are more and more siege equipment!). If it weren't for Lu Meng, who was guarding Nanchang, I'm afraid that the people in the city would have already surrendered!

But what made Lu Meng strange was that Liu Pan suddenly gave up the siege position that he had set up at the west gate of Nanchang for many days, and moved to the north gate instead! It stands to reason that this should not be at all. After all, after many days of destruction of siege equipment, the west gate and the city wall have been crumbling. And the north gate and the north city wall are as strong as new, if you want to enter the city from the north gate, wouldn't you have to start from scratch, and it is very difficult to transfer the large siege equipment, Liu Pan didn't even launch a large-scale attack for two days! This made Lu Meng very vigilant, and at night he sent a large number of sentinels out of the city to investigate.

As a result, Liu Pan's main force was still there, and the grain and grass baggage was also transferred to the northwest of Nanchang City. Is this Liu Pan going to prepare to go to Chaisang? Immediately Lu Meng shook his head again, this Liu Pan is not a simple-minded martial artist, not to mention Zhang Jaw and Xu Shu to assist. If you want to go to Chaisang, how can you be so startled? But if not to go to Chaisang, then what is it?

On the second day, outside the city of Nanchang, tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers appeared as in the past, and a large number of siege equipment continued to throw boulders at the city gate and city wall! Such a scene made Lu Meng feel a lot more at ease. As long as Liu Pan is outside the city! Although the defenders in Nanchang City are not as many as Liu Pan, in this situation, it is impossible for Liu Pan to take Nanchang.

In Lu Meng's view, although the besieging side has a large number of siege equipment, the destructive power is huge. But to defend the city by himself, there are more than 100,000 people available, from which a large number of people are recruited to carry earth and stone day and night, and Liu Pan can strengthen the city wall at night! So repeatedly, the troops of both sides will be consumed, and Liu Pan will drag himself at most! And the task given to him by Lu Su was to stick to Nanchang. 20,000 against 30,000, Lu Meng is very confident.

On the third day, it was strangely calm, so calm that even the people in Nanchang City were not used to it, because it was already sunset, and the enemy army had not yet appeared! Lu Meng stood on the tower of the city, looking far away, and there was no trace of the enemy!