Xi Zhicai's analysis is very reasonable, Gao Cheng also nodded silently in agreement, Yuan Shu has a violent personality and has no patience to develop his power step by step.

If he wants to encroach on Yangzhou, the fastest way is to lure out the main force of Yangzhou's soldiers and horses, and then conduct a decisive battle to find a way to kill Gao Cheng in the battle array. As soon as Gao Cheng died, because there were no heirs, the power of Yangzhou would instantly become a plate of loose sand, and Yuan Shu could calmly take Yangzhou into his arms.

This is the strategy that Yan Xiang, the chief secretary of Yuan Shujun, came up with, which is very in line with Yuan Shu's character.

"Want to fight a decisive battle with our army?" Jiang Qin glanced at Gao Cheng quietly, he was also a general who could command the troops, not a fool, and quickly guessed the enemy's plan from what Xi Zhicai said.

"We have 250,000 troops on our ship, and when Ruyin and General Wu'an and General Chen's soldiers and horses converge, we will have nearly 500,000 troops! Yuan Shu actually wants to defeat 500,000 elites in one fell swoop? Hehe, when the time comes, I want to learn from the generals under Yuan's command and see why they are so arrogant!" Dong Xi on the side secretly said in his heart, he didn't think as deeply as Jiang Qin.

However, Dong Xi didn't know that there were 500,000 troops, of which nearly 200,000 were sailors. There are only 300,000 people who really fight with the Yuan family.

When Yuan Shu was in Nanyang, he looted the wealthy families and ordinary people under his command, and obtained a lot of resources, and the soldiers and horses under his command were like blowing up balloons, and they quickly rose to as many as one million.

In addition to a part of the rabble, the 300,000 of these million troops have reached the elite level after strict training by Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Sun Ce and others. After the training was completed, Yuan Shu gradually increased his troops in Ruyin, which brought strong pressure to Lu Dai. Finally, not long ago, the Yuan clan artifact was suddenly sacrificed, and the nearly 300,000 troops of the Ruyin camp were beaten in an embarrassment.

This time against Yuan Shu, it will definitely not be as easy as attacking Guangling.

......

Three days later, a dull sound of trumpets came from outside, and the sound was desolate and expansive, spreading all over the banks of Yingshui. Soon after the horn sounded, there was a faint sound of military trumpets in the distance.

"Ruyin has arrived!"

The sound of the military horn in the distance came from the warship sent by Wu Anguo to greet him. Gao Cheng, Xi Zhicai and several generals around him walked out of the cabin and took in the scenes on both sides of Yingshui and in the distance.

Ruyin is located in the territory of Runan, guarding the upper reaches of Yingshui, and there are often merchant ships passing through here, which is an important town in Runan County. It's very prosperous. But that was all back then.

After the Yellow Turban Incident a few years ago, Runan fell into war, and the officers and soldiers and Yellow Turban soldiers killed in the darkness of Runan, and hundreds of people died in the war. Even if the Yellow Turbans were pacified, the place did not return to its original scene.

War was followed by famine. Three years ago, Gao Cheng made a plan in Lujiang County to bring the people of Yuzhou, especially Runan, to Lujiang.

More than half of the people in Ruyin are now cultivating fields in the Lujiang River to rebuild their homes. The people who stayed in Runan heard the news of their fellow villagers and had a great impression of Gao Cheng and the Yangzhou army. In the southern part of Runan, the Yangzhou Army also has some foundations.

"What a desolate place!"

Dong Xi saw that on both sides of the river, there were wilderness ruins everywhere, and with a sweep of his eyes, he could see the white bones of the forest, there were many jackals walking back and forth among the white bones, his eyes exuding a faint light, he saw this scene, and his face couldn't help but change, and he didn't dare to observe it carefully.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion did not affect Yangzhou. Dong Xi had never seen such a situation when he was in the meeting.

Gao Cheng looked at the sky from afar, his expression a little solemn. His powerful spiritual power sensed that there was an extremely powerful military aura in the sky in the distance.

When he was in Changshe, he had seen the spectacular scene of a million-strong army of hundreds of miles, and he had also sensed the momentum of the condensation of a million-strong army.

However, most of the Yellow Turban soldiers were rabble, and the soldiers at that time were ordinary people, and the momentum condensed was not as strong as half of Yuan Shu's army.

"It seems that Yuan Shu should not be underestimated!" Gao Cheng muttered, his mind swept slightly in the dimensional space, sensing his own dragon incarnation, and immediately let go of all worries.

The breath of the dragon incarnation is easy to cause the rejection of this heaven and earth, and as long as it comes out, it will be punished by heaven. But after all, it is a third-order dragon, and its strength is far superior to that of the powerhouses on the bright side of this world. You can make a move in an instant, plus the power of the jade seal of the country, as long as there is no existence of the third-order divine power realm under Yuan Shu's command. It can't threaten Gao Cheng's life.

Gao Cheng is not in danger of his life, he can exert a strong force, and he already has a sixty or seventy percent chance of winning this battle.

The warship broke through the river and kept moving forward. Soon, the warship sent by Wu Anguo to greet him appeared in everyone's eyes. Dozens of warships followed this warship, passed through a river bay, and finally came to the place where the Ruyin camp was now stationed.

Under the blue sky, wisps of black smoke rushed into the sky, and if you looked down from the sky, you could see a large river meandering to the southeast, and on the surface of the river, there were more than a dozen warships staying.

On the left side of the river, a camp stands on the bank with difficulty. Black smoke rose from the camp, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers waited for the day, relying on various instruments such as rejecting horses, trapping pits, platoon guns, and antlers, and defending very tightly.

Ten miles away from this camp, military camps have risen from the ground, stretching for hundreds of miles. The black pressure is boundless. Each military camp can garrison 10,000 soldiers, and roughly calculated, there is an army of one million.

"Hundreds of miles of company camps...... Yuan Shu has an army of millions?" Dong Xi noticed this, and was immediately shocked.

The million-strong army in front of him is not all of Yuan Shu's strength, he still has hundreds of thousands of troops in northern Yuzhou and Nanyang County. In this world, in terms of the ability of the rioters, in addition to Zhang Jiao, it is Yuan Shu.

Of course, the army that these two people have developed wildly, except for some elites, the rest are cannon fodder used to consume when fighting, and they don't have much combat effectiveness.

Dozens of large ships were like small hills, slowly moving from a distance. The Yangzhou soldiers in the riverside camp were overjoyed when they saw these warships and cheered. Especially after they saw Gao Cheng's Daxu, the originally low morale was instantly invigorated.

"Lord, it was the lord who personally led the troops to support us!"

"It's the lord's lord! The lord is invincible, and he will definitely be able to defeat the enemy if he personally leads his troops. ”

More than 200,000 soldiers cheered in unison. There was such a big movement, and the Yuan Shu camp ten miles away naturally reacted.

"Gao Cheng is finally here!"

In Yuan Shu's camp, a handsome young man was wearing battle armor, exuding a heroic and masculine aura, and there was an indescribable domineering spirit between his eyebrows. He grabbed the spear beside him, and looked in the direction of the riverside camp, his eyes were cold and contained deep hatred.