Through field investigations in Rongcheng County and Duliang County, as well as a survey of the roads leading from the two counties to Lingling County, Zhang Long found that the importance of Rongcheng County was not as important as Fu Tong had predicted.

In other words, if Zhang Long emptied the grain and other military supplies in Rongcheng County, as well as the people in the city, and left only an empty city for Sun Ce, Sun Ce would have no use for this county seat.

What's more, from Rongcheng County to Lingling County, not only is there a place where countless heavy mountains, Miao and Wuxi tribes have settled, but also Shi'an County, where the former Taishou of Lingling County is located, has not been broken by Cheng Pu.

If Sun Ce chooses to break through from here, even if he himself can escape alive, the nearly 10,000 elite soldiers of Eastern Wu led by Sun Ce will lose more than six or seven percent because of this.

If Zhang Long had been given his own choice, he would rather risk Zhang Xian's rebellion in the rain, and would have led his troops through Changsha County and returned to Yuzhang County, rather than crossing the border into Lingling County from Rongcheng County.

Therefore, when Zhang Long found out this information, he immediately adjusted the battle plan formulated by Fu Tong, took the initiative to abandon the defense of Rongcheng County, and transferred the defenders, people, food and military supplies in the county to Duliang County.

Zhang Long handed over the transfer task to the young Liao Hua, and handed over the defense of Duliang County to Deng Fang.

As for the 100 personal guards under Zhang Long's command, if they have already served as other Simas, although the troops in the hands of these people are two-thirds less than those other Simas assigned by Jin Jue in Shu County and Guanghan County, they are much stronger than the first batch of other Simas.

On the one hand, in the southern part of Wuling County, the northern part of Lingling County, and the western part of Guiyang County, the local family power is very weak.

In these three places, although there are also many small and medium-sized landlords who have built manors for defense, the squires in these places have fewer troops in their hands, and the fighting power of the villagers is weaker, and they cannot be compared with those big landlords in Shu County and Guanghan County.

And Zhang Long sent these other subordinates to go down to the countryside, as long as the task was not to eliminate these local forces.

On the other hand, Zhang Long had already sent people to contact the local barbarians in advance, explained the purpose of his army's passing through these tribes, and obtained the understanding of most of the leaders.

In this way, it is not surprising that there are fewer losses.

So far, except for one other division of Sima's entire army, all the others are safe.

In order to prevent Sun Ce from returning to Yuzhang County from Changsha County, Zhang Long secretly dispersed 2,000 soldiers with 2,000 soldiers from Sima of other divisions, and led the troops to lurk on the main transportation roads of Changsha County. Once Sun Cejun really had this intention, they only had to do two things - destroy the roads and bridges along the way and try to alarm the defenders of Changsha County, so as to delay the speed of Sun Cejun's passage through Changsha County.

Before Zhang Long sent these guards to infiltrate Changsha County, he repeatedly told him that he must not directly confront the main force of Sun Cejun, and it is not possible to attack and disturb, because Zhang Long knows very well that these guards of his are not well qualified, not to mention compared with Wei Ming's guy, even if he can compare with Zhao Hu's guy, if he meets Sun Cejun, it will be to see the light and die.

As for the remaining eighty guards, Zhang Long incorporated fifty of them, who had lost more manpower, into his army, and the remaining thirty made up for the manpower lost during this period for them and continued to disperse them.

This is what happens in the Jin Jue army, if it is placed in other forces, it is impossible for any general to dare to change the battle plan formulated by the main general in advance.

Of course, Zhang Long dared to do this, not only because of the military ideas that Jin Jue taught them, but also because of the relationship between him and Fu Tong.

Mingli, under Liu Biao, Fu Tong's official position and jurisdiction are much greater than Zhang Long's, but in fact, since Zhang Long took office in Changsha County, there has been no mutual subordination. There was no need for Zhang Long to fully follow Fu Tong's orders.

What's more, the relationship between the two was originally an equal relationship. In Jin Jue's army, Fu Tong's official position is greater than that of Zhang Long, but Zhang Long is Jin Jue's direct personal guard, and in terms of it, his authority is sometimes even much greater than Fu Tong.

Zhang Long arranged his troops in this way, because he knew that in the next period of time, he was very likely to encounter a fierce battle before Fu Tong.

And the county seat of Duliang County may even become the main battlefield in the entire Jingnan battlefield, second only to, or even far more than the county seat of Linyuan County.

If Zhang Long did not repel the rushing Cheng Pu army as soon as possible, or even completely defeat it as soon as possible, he would soon encounter the risk of being flanked by Sun Cejun's main force and Cheng Pu's subordinates.

At that time, Zhang Long didn't think that in this world, except for Gongzi and Fu Tong, who could resist the joint attack of Sun Ce and Cheng Pu in such an extremely unfavorable situation and under the walls of such a small county town in disrepair, and firmly hold Duliang County in his hands.

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On April 4, the fourth year of Jian'an, just when the two main battlefields of the Battle of Jingnan had broken out and were about to break out, a major event occurred on the land of the Central Plains that would shake the whole world in the future.

Cao Cao and his newfound ally, the warlord Ma Teng of Xiliang Guanzhong, finally tore his face.

On a sunny spring day, the snow outside Wuguan has not yet melted, Cao Cao personally led the army to attack Wuguan, even if he encountered Jin Jue's success in stealing the pass, Ma Chao has been very careful to arrange cautious people and 5,000 soldiers to guard one of the four stoppers in this pass, but in the face of the fierce attack of the Cao army, he was still drummed down by the fierce generals led by Le Jin.

Le Jin participated in the siege battle with a belly full of fire, and it is said that with his military position and status in Cao's army, he did not need to personally participate in Xiandeng. However, the last time in Lujiang County, the 3,000 troops he led to attack Lujiang were completely defeated by the cavalry led by Zhang Fei.

After the war, although even the lord Cao Cao and the military advisors said that the responsibility for Lejin's defeat was not Lejin, but that the surprise attack arranged by Cao Cao and the military advisors was too simple and thoughtful, and Liu Beijun seized the loophole.

However, some generals and many soldiers in the army did not think so, and 3,000 people went to make a surprise attack, but as a result, there were less than 100 soldiers who came back with Lejin. How can this convince them?

Therefore, this time, in the battle of Wuguan, Le Jin took the initiative to ask Cao Cao to participate in the battle of Xiandeng.

Cao Cao had actually learned that Le Jin was having a hard time in the army because of his defeat in the last battle, and after several considerations, he finally agreed to Le Jin's request.

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