It seems that the Wu army really gave up the estuary area of the Yangtze River below the Jiangcheng, and only went all out to defend the national capital Jianye and the Niuzhu Naval Army Dazhai.

Gan Ning, who received Lu Su's message, led the entire fleet up the river and came to the Dantu waters.

After surveying, the Yangtze River waterway is completely capable of passing thousand-ton warships, and it is still a dry season, if the river is rising, I am afraid that it can go directly to Hankou.

The escort fleet set up a formation in the upstream direction and the Yangzhou direction, and all the battleships faced the enemy on the side of the ship, so as to prevent the Dongwu naval army from making trouble.

Reconnaissance ships and small boats such as Meng Chong cruised in the outermost area, while all the transport ships unloaded their goods and men in an orderly manner on the riverside on the Guangling side.

The first batch to disembark and land was the engineer regiment of the Haotian Army and the Navy, and after the two engineer regiments rushed to land, they immediately used the timber they brought to build a trestle bridge and a simple wharf to facilitate the large-scale berthing of subsequent transport ships.

The professional engineering unit was extremely efficient, and the materials prepared by the Central Navy and the Haotian Army were also sufficient, and soon a huge wharf appeared on the bank of the Guangling River.

The Haotian Army and the Marines of the brigade thus landed on the land of Guangling County, and quickly searched and advanced to the periphery, established an advance base, and set up a cordon and defensive positions.

The scout unit immediately set out to reconnoiter the enemy within fifty miles of the surrounding area.

At this moment, Wu Capital Jianye, Wu King Sun Quan of Wu State had received an eight-hundred-mile expedited from the navy, saying that he had encountered twelve Han warships at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there were more ships faintly behind.

However, because he was in a hurry to come back to deliver the letter and get rid of the pursuit of the Han army, he did not investigate deeply.

These Han warships chased all the way to Dantu, and two small boats even chased them outside the mine array of Jiangcheng with unknown purposes.

After receiving the alarm, Lu Meng, the governor of the navy, also got up and rushed to Jianye.

As soon as Sun Quan heard this, he immediately ordered a large number of scouts to be sent to search along the river.

Soon a large number of Han ships were found in the waters of Dantu, and the number was so large that the scouts could not count them, and there must be thousands of large and small ships anyway.

There were dozens of new sail ships equipped with a large number of guns alone, and two of them were particularly eye-catching, several laps larger than the others, and more cannons than others.

Sun Quan couldn't judge the intentions of the Han army, so he could only wait for Lü Meng's arrival.

He had already sent a message to Zhou Yu who was far away in Xiangyang, asking him to make a decision, and he also informed his ally Cao Cao as soon as possible, after all, the Han army had now landed in Guangling, and it was clear that he was going to make a move against Wei.

Guangling is the seat of Guangling County, but because it is adjacent to its ally Wu, there are not many garrisons, but 10,000 state troops stationed in Xuzhou.

In addition, in several important county towns such as Jiangdu, Hailing, Gaoyou, Yandu, Sheyang, Haixi and other places, there were garrisons ranging from 2 to 3,000 people.

The Taishou of Guangling County is Mao Jue, and he is also a very strategic person in the Wei State, how can it be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice?

He immediately received the news that the fleet of the Han army's sailors had entered the mouth of the Yangtze River from the lookout posts along the river, saying that the number could not be counted.

Then he received a message from Jiangdu that he had found the warship of the Han Army's naval brigade.

In addition to sending people to urgently inform Cao Pi, the prince of Wei, who was left behind in the national capital, Cao Pi, he immediately ordered the mobilization of soldiers and horses from all counties in the county to gather in Guangling, and even the soldiers and horses of Jiangdu withdrew to Guangling, but only sent a large number of spies to monitor the movements of the Han army.

He believed that as long as Guangling was not lost, it was equivalent to Guangling County not being lost, and he would be able to contain the Han army, so that the Han army could not attack Xiapi.

He also issued an emergency mobilization order in accordance with the laws of the Wei state, conscripting all retired soldiers in the township to re-enlist, and all men of appropriate age to join the state army to defend Guangling.

According to his estimates, relying on this method, he can recruit at least 50,000 people to join the state army, and as for how much combat strength he can have, he doesn't care.

Anyway, there are a lot of obsolete cold weapons in the armory of Guangling City, and the state army is not qualified to replace firearms, only some grenades are considered firearms.

This kind of reserve-like system is still due to the Tuntian system proposed by Guo Jia back then, because Cao Cao's power has always been weak, so he advocated and carried out the operation of all the people as soldiers as early as possible.

All men between the ages of 15 and 50, as long as they are not disabled and are not stupid, even if they are not soldiers, are required to undergo military training for one month a year, without exception.

And all men who have reached the age of fifteen have to join the army for three years before they can retire and go home, of course, there are those who are willing to continue to serve as soldiers and eat salaries, and they can naturally serve beyond the time limit, anyway, the treatment of soldiers in Wei is also good, a little bit to learn from the Central Army.

In order to implement this national policy, Cao Cao did not hesitate to lead by example, even his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were no exception, Cao Pi was also established as the son of the family after joining the army for three years, and Cao Zhi was serving in the army, but he was in the garrison of Xiapi and did not go to the front line.

Therefore, the men of the right age in Wei naturally have no complaints, and they join the army to serve, even if they retire, they will train for a month in the agricultural slack season, in order to really have an emergency military situation, and all the people can be soldiers.

After the Han army landed in Guangling, according to the essentials of amphibious landing operations they learned at the military academy, they did not rush to attack Guangling City, but were busy expanding the landing ground, establishing a defensive line, and unloading personnel, materials and equipment.

Of course, Ma Chao was impatient, but Sima Yi insisted on standing still.

His point of view is that no one has ever fought such a large-scale landing battle, and it is still a landing behind enemy lines far away from his own side.

It was not until the third day that the four divisions of the Haotian Army, including two cavalry divisions and artillery regiments, had all landed, and they began to attack and advance in the direction of Guangling.

The day before, the 1st Marine Division had captured Jiangdu, and Lu Su personally led the team, but Jiangdu was already an empty city and undefended.

At this time, the intelligence department's hidden personnel in Guangling County sent the latest information, explaining Mao Jue's response measures one by one.

When Sima Yi saw this information, he also regretted that he missed the best opportunity and failed to catch Guangling off guard, but this Mao Jue is also a talent, and all kinds of measures are in order.

Now that the enemy has taken precautions, if it is attacked, it will inevitably be a tough battle.

Ma Chao will not complain about Sima Yi, after all, they have been partners for many years, and Sima Yi's decision is not wrong, it is right to go behind enemy lines and seek stability.

However, Ma Chao's brain turned quickly, and he was born with an adventurous personality, so he immediately had a bold idea.

Ma Chao hurriedly said to Sima Yi that although Sima Yi usually seeks stability in everything, he is not inferior to being crazy.

He felt that Ma Chao's idea was worth trying, but it also needed the cooperation of other troops.

Fortunately, the original plan originally had the cooperation of the brother troops, and Sima Yi immediately sent a letter to Zhao Yunfeige, who was on standby on the border between Langxi and the East China Sea, explaining his plan and asking Zhao Yun to cooperate.

(End of chapter)