Of course, for Xiao Maha, Lu Guangda's initiative to help is naturally unwanted. Xiao Maha was born in a poor family, and his connections could not be compared with those from a family, and this time he was leading the troops to fight for the first time as a commander, and what he needed most was the help of someone who was familiar with the front-line situation in Jingzhou.

Now it looks like the best candidate Jingzhou Thorn Shi Fan Yi can't be counted on, but Lu Guangda has been stationed in Jingying for a long time, and it is not bad.

In this regard, Li Xinchen and Pei Zilie and other subordinates also breathed a sigh of relief, Xiao Maha is obviously changing, although his changes are a bit blunt no matter how you look at them, for example, he was too polite to Lu Guangda along the way, but at least it shows that Xiao Maha is very clear about his own shortcomings.

What's more, Xiao Maha is now the commander of the Nanchen army, and he is the main general of this battle of Xiliang, even if he doesn't take the initiative to extend an olive branch, many people will come to take refuge, which is of course much better than when Xiao Maha was the general of Wu Yi before.

Lu Guangda said in a deep voice: "The entire Western Liang still has Jiangling, that is, the South County, and the three counties of Wuning County (now northwest of Zhongxiang, Hubei) and Zhangchuan County (now Dangyang, Hubei) that were allocated to it by the Northern Zhou Dynasty on the north side, the three counties nominally belong to the Western Liang, but in fact, including the appointment of the county guard and the deployment of the army, they must consult the Northern Zhou, except for a small number of Western Liang troops stationed, there is no threat, and it can even be directly regarded as the territory of the Northern Zhou. ”

Lu Guangda then pointed to the north of Baling: "On the north side of Baling, it is Fuzhou Chuyang County that belongs to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but because Chuyang County protrudes forward, it is the only state and county in the southern side of the lower reaches of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it borders Xiliang, so it is generally stationed in Xiliang." In short, there are two main counties that we are attacking. ”

"Gangneung, Chuyang!" Lu Guangda paused for a moment before saying the two names.

Loud and sound.

On the map, the two places of Jiangling and Chuyang were clearly marked, and Lu Guangda said in a deep voice:

"Nine years ago, Tian Hong, the governor of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Cao of the Western Liang Zhu, Li Guang, Xu Xiaojing and others who opposed us have all passed away, and now the one who is in charge of the defense of the entire Jiangling is still the Jiangling governor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the veteran Lu Teng is the main commander, and the Western Liang general Ma Wu and others are his deputies, according to the custom, Lu Teng personally sat in Jiangling, and controlled the Western Liang and Northern Zhou armies of about 30,000 people, and Ma Wu was stationed on the front line of Weiyang."

Xiao Maha nodded: "This Lu Teng can also be regarded as an 'old friend', I didn't expect him to return to Jiangling this time." ”

Lu Guangda couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Yes, we also received the news in the past two days, it is impossible for Yuwen Yong to really present such a big gap in Jiangling in front of us, so he deliberately transferred Lu Teng, who has returned to Beijing to take up his post, and he is more or less worried that Wei Chi Yuan will support the entire Jingxiang alone." ”

"That makes sense," Xiao Mahama whispered, rubbing his chin. Although Yuwen Yong is young, he is not the kind of person who does not know the importance of it, although it is important to attack the Turks, but it is naturally impossible to relax the defense against Nan Chen, if Yu Wenyong does not care about Xiliang, the most important little brother, then it is when there is a problem.

This is not the first time Nan Chen has dealt with Lu Teng, and Xiao Maha also understands this veteran of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Lu Teng can also be regarded as from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, experienced the division and merger of the Eastern and Western Dynasties, and is the only remaining veteran today.

The purpose of Jiangling Governor is a post specially established by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and its purpose is self-evident, that is, to send an experienced general to sit in Jiangling, the capital of Western Liang, to make suggestions on the operations of the Western Liang army, and even have direct command, and of course, more importantly, to supervise the Western Liang nearby.

In addition to the Western Liang army, which could be mobilized at will, there were also about a few thousand Northern Zhou troops under the command of the Jiangling governor, and these soldiers only obeyed the orders of the Jiangling governor, and could enter the battle at any time as the army to which the Jiangling governor belonged, regardless of their own identity.

This should also be regarded as a system that the Northern Zhou Dynasty came up with in desperation, and its purpose was naturally to be able to adapt to the situation when the Southern Chen launched an attack on the Western Liang, after all, the Western Liang was still an independent dynasty at least nominally, and was the reasonable and legitimate successor of the former Southern Liang, so the Northern Zhou had no reason to station troops on a large scale in the territory of the Western Liang for the stability of the Western Liang.

The role of this army is to stall for time.

In the great battle nine years ago, Tian Hong, who was the governor of Jiangling at the time, used this army to cover the retreat of Xiao Yue, the emperor of Xiliang, and others to Jinan City, while he and Wang Cao led the people to defend Jiangling, using Jiangling's strong city defense and Wu Mingche to maneuver, and finally successfully delayed the arrival of reinforcements.

It is precisely because he has the actual command of the entire Western Liang army, as well as the possession of a rather elite direct subordinate team, that the existence of the Jiangling Governor cannot be ignored.

And Li Xinchen also frowned slightly, Yuwen Yong thought about it carefully, and it was indeed beyond his expectations, the omissions in the Northern Zhou Dynasty that he had found based on the truth of history were also thought of by Yu Wenyong, but the available soldiers in Yuwen Yong's hands were mainly concentrated in the hands of Wang Rail, and Wang Rail led the cantonment in Huaibei - in the final analysis, Huaibei is the main direction of attack in Nan Chen, so even if Yu Wenyong guessed something, he would not gamble with the safety of Huaibei.

He can't afford to make this bet.

Therefore, Yu Wenyong's decision to send Lu Teng to defend Jiangling is a bit anticlimactic no matter how you look at it, and it is precisely because of this anticlimactic decision that Nan Chen can still calmly carry out his own attack.

After all, Lu Teng is just one person in the end, and in the face of Nan Chen's army, he may be able to hinder it, but there is no way to stop it completely.

Sure enough, Lu Guangda didn't have too much fear of Lu Teng, and said directly: "And in Canyang, there are about five or six thousand people in Xiliang, most of whom are new soldiers, and Xiliang obviously doesn't intend to have too many illusions about Canyang, after all, there is no way to compare with Jiangling in terms of the size of the city, the height of the city wall, and the reserve of grain and straw blades." ”

The impression of Xiao Maha in Chuyang is actually not deep, these cities located on the periphery of Jiangling can almost be said to be in the wind under the front of Wu Mingche's troops, and the real hard bones of Xiliang are still in Jiangling.

"Where are the scouts now?" Xiao Maha then asked.

Lu Guangda hurriedly replied: "The scouts and meteor scouts were released early, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to be so clear about this line, but we figured it out before, mostly because Xiliang didn't have too much vigilance, and now I want to know the details of his troop movements, I'm afraid it's not so easy." ”