The large army led by Li Jing was stationed in the camp outside the city of Guizhou, from Guizhou in Yiling County to the west to Ba County, there were several counties and more than ten Chengyi for hundreds of miles, all of which were swept by Li Jing with the momentum of autumn wind sweeping away leaves.

Now the states and counties along the Yangtze River have been conquered by Li Jing's army, this is his strategy, from west to east, along the Yangtze River shoreline, the naval army and the horse infantry army are sent together, and the river goes all the way east, like a bamboo.

Qingjiang County, Badong County, and Yiling County have been pacified, and the next target is Nanjun Xiazhou City, as long as it is taken, the east gate of Jiangling will be completely demolished, and if Liang Guo and others go to one-third of the territory, the west will completely fall. Only the eastern, southern, and southwestern remote areas are still under its jurisdiction.

In fact, the Liang State seems to have a large territory, and many of them are superficially dependent and governed, but in fact, like the southwest area, the Nanling area, etc., are all managed by local Tusi and tribes, and there is no righteous army to claim the king, so the city lords of large and small cities expressed their attachment to the nearest Liang State for self-protection.

However, Xiao Liang's regime has just been established for two years, and it is far from being as good as Dahua, implementing new policies and regulations, intensively operating the state apparatus, and reappointing and sorting out the local officials in the jurisdiction, which is very easy to control, but Xiao Liang's imperial court did not promulgate policies in detail, nor did it have enough talents to appoint localities, so many counties and counties seemed to be the territory of Liang State, but in fact they were only nominal.

Return to the state camp.

Li Jing received an edict with His Majesty's holy will on it, and sent Hou Jun to gather tens of thousands of troops to come over for reinforcements, attack Jiangling, the capital of Liang State, from Jiangbei, cooperate with the battle, and accelerate the elimination of Liang State.

"Your Majesty really has great talent, more than 100,000 infantry and cavalry, actually defeated twice the Turkic army, stabilized the northwest border, and now only the land south of the Yangtze River has not been pacified, it seems that I have to speed up the deployment." Li Jing sighed with a little emotion, when he met Luo Zhaoyun in Chang'an City, he never expected that the young man would be able to turn his hands into clouds and rain in troubled times like this in the future.

After listening to this, several generals also seemed to be interested.

Xue Wanbei stroked his palm and said: "After the increase in troops, we will be able to take Jiangling City this year, and we will be able to occupy all the states of the Southern Liang State next year and complete the important task entrusted by the imperial court." ”

"As it should be!"

Li Jing's expression was calm, his joy and anger were not obvious, and he said: "Xiazhou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, on one side by the river is steep, and on the other side there are mountains and ridges, it is a hard bone, but we have been laying out for many days, scouts and meticulous work have entered the city one after another, and many people have been planted, and several captains and lieutenants have rebelled, they can cooperate with us, once this city is taken, Jiangling is in front of us." ”

"Haha, King Xiao of Liang is probably going to be frightened now, his soldiers and horses have not yet come over King Qin, and there are already internal disagreements, and it is difficult to compete with my Dahua's army."

Li Jing said with emotion: "The two countries are at war, and there are many factors in the competition, such as national strength, grain and grass, soldiers and horses, generals, the trust of the king, and the unity of the imperial court, all of which have a great impact. You have also seen that the current Liang country is scattered, which is related to the instability of their country, although Xiao Mo is a descendant of the Lanling royal family, some talented women, but after all, he is not a royal family, and there is no real talent for governing the country, although he runs a consortium and has a good reputation in Xiao Liang, but compared with our Majesty, it is also a fist and embroidered legs, and it is useless. ”

"The people who have been surrounding him, who are his consortium, have all benefited, but the people who belong to him do not trust him, and they are more suspicious. Moreover, in terms of governing the army, there is no experience, so let the soldiers of these generals truce and farm, in fact, they want to deprive the generals of their military rights, and some generals stationed in various places gradually become dissatisfied with the imperial court. Last year, we sent scouts to spread the news in various places and use discord tactics to target this. ”

"That's what the general said!" The lieutenants all nodded their heads, showing admiration.

This Li Jing used troops, not only marching and arranging strongly, but also proficient in the way of scouting, paying attention to the strategy of the army, and brilliantly sending meticulous work to infiltrate the enemy's city to rebel, or sabotage, spreading discordant news, etc., to disintegrate the enemy's combat strength, so this road to the east was quite smooth, and there were not many soldiers. ”

A strategist wearing a round-necked robe smiled and said, "According to the latest news from the spies, the generals represented by Dong Jingzhen's brother Dong Jingyi were extremely dissatisfied with Xiao Miao's practice of weakening the generals in disguise, and they gathered together and complained. As long as the general sends a fine work into Jiangling City again, he begins to spread the news, claiming that Dong Jingyi and others are plotting rebellion, so that we will not need to make a move, and the contradiction between Xiao Mo and Dong Jingyi will be aggravated, and when the time comes, no matter whether Dong Jingyi wants to rebel or not, he will be forced into a desperate situation, as long as the court has suspicious actions, the wind is blowing, Dong Jingyi and others will be afraid, and if they don't fight, they will have to rebel, no matter who wins, they will have a fatal blow to Liang in the end, and at that time, we can recruit Dong Jingzhen, who is guarding Changsha, and the generals of other state ministers, It didn't take much to conquer many cities. ”

When many generals heard this, although they felt a little cold all over their bodies, and they knew that this plan was very good, but they were also very vicious, and the most fearful and taboo of these generals was that they were suspicious of the king, did not die on the battlefield, and finally were ordered by the imperial court to be killed, the most humiliating and innocent.

Therefore, as soon as the strategist's poisonous plan came out, the generals all fell silent, and there was a feeling of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.

Li Jing's face was dark, he didn't express his position or show joy at the first time, he also knew that this plan was very good, but it was a little vicious, as an old general, he couldn't show that he was keen on this conspiracy, so although he accepted this opinion in his heart, he didn't agree immediately, and still planned to implement it privately.

He digressed the topic and said, "General Ben will consider it." But at present, grain and grass and military equipment is the top priority, the army has half a month of grain and grass to see the empty, according to His Majesty's edict, the grain and grass will be collected by Bashu in the future, and successively through the Han River, the Min River into the Yangtze River, and then supply over. It will take at least 20 days for the first wave of grain and grass to be delivered. On this vacant day, we need to find a way to send out people to collect grain in the conquered cities, and store the grain warehouses in those cities and towns, and temporarily requisition. As for the money and silk, two-fifths of it is used as military supplies, and three-fifths is left to be sealed, so that the garrison can take good care of it, and leave it to the incoming governors and county officials, and hand it over to the imperial court. ”

"I'll understand!" The generals stood up and bowed their hands.

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