Outside the cabin, Xu Huang asked to see him.

Liu Zhang waved his hand and let him go.

Xu Huang came to Liu Zhang's side and bowed: "My lord, in this battle, all the four ships of our army were damaged, but the situation is not serious, and they can still drive safely." A total of 56 soldiers of our army were killed in the battle, and in the chaos, six soldiers unfortunately fell into the water and disappeared! ”

Liu Zhang said: "What about the wounded soldiers? ”

Xu Huang's face was stunned, and he said: "My lord, there are no injured people, all the weapons used by the assassins are rubbed with poison, and all the injured soldiers are poisoned to death!" ”

"What?" Liu Zhang's fist slammed into the case, the enemy was so despicable, if he was unfortunately bruised, wouldn't it be the same...... The so-called puppet is angry, and blood is splashed seven feet; The Son of Heaven is angry, floating corpses are million, Liu Zhang is not the Son of Heaven, but he is also a prince, although his anger is not to millions of floating corpses, but blood splashing seven feet is definitely not enough!

Liu Zhang said: "Attack, order Yu Ban, lead the troops to the public security, I want to annihilate Cao Yin and others in one fell swoop, I want to use their heads to pay tribute to the soldiers who were killed by their despicable death!" Previously, Liu Zhang synthesized everyone's opinions and chose to temporarily withdraw his troops, but he was still unwilling to Cao Yin and others to occupy Jingnan, you must know that they have 40,000 troops in their hands, and this number is increasing every day, as long as they are still in Jingnan, it is an uncertain factor, which may break out at any time, which will affect his next plan. This assassination, whether it was done by Cao Yin and others or not, the main envoy has been detained on their heads, which gave Liu Zhang an excuse to send troops, and the assassination operation also successfully angered Liu Zhang, in order to vent, for the majesty of Yizhou Mu and Zhenxi generals, he must say something, and the final result is that the war that Jingzhou has just quelled is ignited again.

"This is the last battle in Jingzhou, and after this battle, the flames of war will be extinguished from the land of Jingchu!"

When Liu Zhang did not make up his mind, Man Zhong and others could dissuade him and explain his opinions, but when Liu Zhang decided, they could only obey unconditionally, and racked their brains to give advice to Liu Zhang, which is the duty of a courtier. Since Liu Zhang was determined to solve the Jingnan problem, everyone immediately began to operate and offered suggestions one after another.

Among them, Xun You's strategy moved Liu Zhang the most, and finally decided to act according to his strategy.

Xun You proposed to first order Changsha Yu Ban and others to divide their troops into two routes, one way to climb Yueheng Mountain in Vietnam, capture Chong'an, threaten Liu Duzhi's Quanling, and the other way to capture Rongling and Yinshan counties, coerce Bin County, and put on a posture of wanting to take advantage of the situation and recover Lingling and Guiyang. At the same time, the army moved south from the public security and attacked Tang again, putting on a decisive battle posture. The main forces of Liu Du and Zhao Fan all went to Wuling to guard against our army, the rear was empty, and once they got the news, in order to avoid losses in the rear, they would want to return to the division to resist our army. And Cao Yin knew very well that once Liu Du and Zhao Fanjun left, he would not be able to hold Wuling on his own, and seeing that our army was about to attack, he would definitely not agree to the two leaving, so Cao Yin, Liu Du and Zhao Fan would inevitably have contradictions. At this time, he sent people to infiltrate Wuling and spread rumors, so that Liu Du and Zhao Fan believed that Cao Yin had a plan to assassinate them and annex their men and territory; Cao Yin believed that Liu Du and Zhao Fan saw that the rear was lost, Liu Zhang's army was strong and unmatched, and the two had the intention of binding Cao Yin to ask Liu Zhang to surrender for acceptance. There are tens of thousands of troops stationed in Linyuan City, originally these soldiers and horses were hostile and wary of each other, once these rumors worked, there will be chaos in the city, Liu Zhang can take advantage of the enemy's civil strife to wave the army to take Linyuan, as long as the enemy of Linyuan is solved, the three counties are no longer able to resist.

According to Xun Yu's strategy, Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren to lead 37,000 troops to cross the river and go to the public security to meet, and at the same time gave orders to Yu Ban and Zhou Tai, ordering the two to attack one way to disturb Liu Du and Zhao Fan's hearts.

Three days later, Liu Zhang arrived at Gong'an Port, and that night, Zhang Ren also led his troops across the river to join Liu Zhang.

The next day, after Liu Zhang left Wu Ban to guard the public security, he personally led an army of 70,000 to advance towards Zuotang. Don't look at the number of 70,000 is very huge, but most of them are the Jingzhou army, which is dominated by the naval army, these troops have just begun to be reorganized, and the combat effectiveness is very problematic, and there are about 10,000 injured people who are recovering in this number, which affects the combat effectiveness even more. So don't look at Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses twice as many as Cao Yin and others, but the combat effectiveness is not much stronger, if Cao Yin and others refuse to defend the city, Liu Zhang may not pull this army up to attack the city, but can only change to a long-term siege, hoping that the defenders in the city will run out of food and surrender, because once he has an accident when he storms Linyuan, it is not impossible for those troops to defect. Of course, the number of 70,000 troops is still very bluffing. No, the forward of the Yizhou Army is still twenty miles away from Zuo Tang, and Xiao Yun came up to him by himself, expressing his willingness to lead the people to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light......

Liu Zhang was naturally willing, and ordered the pioneer Pang Yi to lead the army into the Tang Dynasty.

When Cao Yin and the others learned that Liu Zhang led an army of 70,000 to approach and Zuotang County surrendered without a fight, the three of them felt that the end was coming. The three of them immediately gathered together to discuss a way out. Although Liu Zhang was not sure who was the one who instigated the assassination, Cao Yin and the others couldn't be clearer, wasn't it the dead man they chose from their henchmen to carry out the assassination? It turned out that when they learned that Liu Zhang had withdrawn from Nanyang, the army was rapidly moving south, and Changsha and the public security had already stationed Liu Zhang's heavy troops, and the three immediately guessed that Liu Zhang was going to solve the Jingnan problem...... It's just that what they didn't expect was that the well-prepared assassination did not succeed, but attracted Liu Zhang's revenge. Liu Du has a short temper, but he has the least courage, he has been frightened by the number of 70,000, he does not know the reality of this army and horses, he only knows that Liu Zhang only took more than a month, and then defeated most of Jingzhou, and even invaded Yangzhou, all of which took Yuzhang County, how can he resist such an elite division? Zhao Fan was also worried, but he knew that the assassination had made him and Liu Zhang incompatible, and even if he surrendered, he would be liquidated, and he now hoped to be able to block Liu Zhang's attack in Linyuan, so that Liu Zhang would retreat. The most fierce reaction was Cao Yin, because Liu Zhang sent troops, and he was the first to be shot......

In the past few days, Cao Yin and others have raised 70,000 troops, of which 43,000 are stationed in Linyuan, most of them are veterans of the three counties, only a small number of new soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is not bad. Cao Yin and others believed that with this army and horses and a strong Linyuan, it was still possible to resist Liu Zhang's attack, and they had already become mortal enemies with Liu Zhang, and they did not send envoys to seek reconciliation, and decided to defend Linyuan with all their might.

Liu Zhang had no intention of attacking, he put on a formation of encircling three and one, sent troops to surround the north, west and east of Linyuan, and then practiced siege tactics outside Linyuan all day long, the soldiers' shouts and deafening slogans were like someone holding a sledgehammer and constantly hammering the hearts of every soldier, officer, general, and even Cao Yin and others in Linyuan City, making everyone panic all day long, and it was difficult to sleep and eat.

The panic of Cao Yin and others did not last long, and just four days later, an even greater evil consumption came, and Chong'an, Rongling, Yinshan and other places were conquered by the Yizhou army one after another......

In order to prevent Liu Zhang, Liu Du and Zhao Fan transferred almost all of the main forces to Linyuan, leaving only the newly recruited strong men to guard the rear, these new soldiers scared and frightened the people, and it was so-so to maintain local law and order, but it was so difficult for them to block the attacks of Yu Ban and Zhou Tai! Yu Ban and Zhou Tai completed Liu Zhang's order without waste. If it weren't for Liu Zhang's desire to keep Binxian and Quanling, give Zhao Fan and Liu Du an illusion, so as to facilitate the relationship between them and Cao Yin, and strictly order Yu Ban and Zhou Tai to stop, I am afraid that the two counties of Guiyang and Lingling have all been included in Liu Zhang's territory.

Liu Du and Zhao Fan felt the danger in the rear, and they knew that once they lost their foundation, then they would not defend Linyuan, but die! Without a foundation, where will their soldiers and food come from? Don't say Cao Yin's support, how many people does Wuling County have? How many soldiers and horses can be fed? Even if they can feed it, can they accept the fact that their necks are stuck by Cao Yin? And if the two rely on Cao Yin for help, in the long run, their soldiers and horses may also change their surnames to Cao! And the Chinese people have always been nostalgic for their hometown, once Lingling and Guiyang are captured by Liu Zhang, can the soldiers and horses under Liu Du and Zhao Fan still endure homesickness? What if they fought with Liu Zhang's army, annoyed Liu Zhang, and harmed his family?

Liu Zhang also sent people to infiltrate Linyuan in a timely manner, and soon, all kinds of rumors soon spread in Linyuan.