Wang Lei is also Liu Zhang's most admired people, in the past, every time he read the chapter of Wang Ti's Death Festival in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he remembered the scene of a person hanging upside down at the city gate to admonish each other to death, and he couldn't help but break the rope and die after not being obeyed, he couldn't help but have a hot face. Therefore, Liu Zhang, despite Wang Ti's lack of meritorious service and lack of qualifications, overrode public opinion, transferred him from the post of Shu Qun Taishou to a career, and included him in the cabinet.

Liu Zhang looked at Wang Lei and said respectfully: "Is the prince willing to go to Luoyi to ask for an order?" ”

Wang Ti said meticulously: "The order of the lord, don't dare to disobey it!" If you are tired, you will return to Shu with holy will, and if you fail, you are tired and willing to die by throwing yourself into the city wall! ”

Liu Zhang hurriedly said: "The prince is serious, although it is important whether the matter is successful or not, it is difficult to reach people's lives, the prince is my minister of Yizhou, and he can talk about life and death lightly?" At the same time, I was secretly wondering if jumping the city wall was still addictive? Isn't he just jumping off the city wall and dying in history?

Lou Gui, as a person from Jingzhou, knows the situation in Jingzhou very well, and the local property, population, and territory are not inferior to Yizhou, and if you want to swallow it, you may not be able to do it, so he said: "Jingzhou has a vast territory and rich products, and Wang Rui's Kuai clan and Cai clan are all heroes, which can be described as outstanding people, if our army dares to attack, it may be difficult to win completely!" ”

Xun Yu also said: "Yes, Jingzhou's water network is dense, Jingzhou's navy is the best in the world, our army's navy has not been established for a long time, whether it can compete with the Jingzhou navy is unknown, if our army does not have a strong navy, I am afraid that it will be difficult to capture Jingzhou." ”

Speaking of the navy, Gan Ning immediately shouted: "I knew a lot about the Jingzhou navy when I crossed the Yangtze River in the past, its sailors have been abandoned for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is very low. What's more, it has been two years since the formation of our army's naval division, which can be described as well-trained, and all that is owed is actual combat experience. ”

Lu Su also said: "Not only the Jingzhou Water Division, but the entire Han Water Division, I have heard Zhou Taiyan, he and Jiang Qin are only hundreds of people, but they regard the Water Division as a person who sells the head of the bidding, and his department is in the Jiujiang Waterway, and there is no one who dares to offend." ”

Liu Zhang asked: "Zijing, according to what you see, the Yizhou Sailor is the enemy of the Jingzhou Sailor?" ”

Lu Su said: "Back to the lord, after two years of arduous training, our army's strength has been greatly improved, half a year ago, our navy army took the Jingzhou naval division as an imaginary enemy and carried out a lot of targeted training, and they also know their combat methods very well, although our army still lacks actual combat experience, but as the main force of the former water bandits are experienced, they can fight. ”

Liu Zhang nodded and said, "What is the strength of the Jingzhou infantry army?" Do you have more information? ”

Xun You said: "My lord, Jingzhou has a vast territory and a large number of soldiers, with a total strength of between 140,000 and 150,000, which is comparable to Yizhou in number, but the combat power is not too strong, otherwise the Yellow Turban would not have been able to capture Nanyang with thousands of rabble, and it has been murderous in recent years!" Moreover, Jingzhou's internal contradictions have been born, Jiangxia Huangzu is arrogant, and has always disobeyed Wang Ruiyang; Wuling Taishou Cao Yin was even more ambitious, and twice united with Sun Jian to replace him, and Mao Dun with Wang Rui had already been made public, only to meet each other; After Changsha Taishou Sun Jian was killed, Wang Rui replaced him with his henchman Su Dai, Su Dai was loyal to Wang Rui, in order to maintain Wang Rui's rule over Changsha, he implemented harsh rule in the county, wantonly attacked the county's heroes, especially the bloody massacre of Sun Jian's old department, his behavior was often subjected to violent resistance, the position of Taishou can be said to be precarious, self-protection is still reluctant, and it is difficult to rescue Wang Rui; The two counties of Lingling and Guiyang are far away from Xiangyang, and there are Wuling Cao Yin and Changsha Su Dynasty in the middle, and it is difficult to do anything. Therefore, Wang Rui actually only controlled less than half of Jingzhou, that is, Nanyang County, Nanjun County, and Changsha County, with about 80,000 troops, including about 30,000 naval troops. ”

Liu Zhang asked: "If our army attacks Jingzhou, will Wuling and other counties be in danger of dying and sending troops to help Wang Rui?" ”

"I don't rule out this possibility, so my subordinates think that the primary combat goal of our army is Wang Rui, don't expand the war, and only after Wang Rui is pacified can we fully capture Jingzhou!" Xun Yu Dao.

"How can we do it without expanding the war?"

Xun You thought for a while and said, "Lord, in the humble opinion of his subordinates, you should start with Cao Yin." Cao Yin's enmity with Wang Rui can be said to be incompatible, if you can see Wang Rui's defeat and death, Cao Yin will gladly look at it. Our army can contact Cao Yin in advance and ask him to send troops to help our army capture Jingzhou, and after the matter is completed, the lord will protect him as the assassin of Jingzhou. Cao Yin's many measures are nothing more than coveting the position of assassination, and our army will lure him with this, so that he can not only take revenge, but also become the coveted position of assassination, which will inevitably be tricked. ”

Full of favor said: "Otherwise, I look at Cao Yin, who has joined Sun Jian on behalf of Wang Rui twice and has not seen any substantive action, but he only knows that he is waving the flag behind, and wants him to send troops to help our army attack Wang Rui, and the success is not high!" ”

Xun You said: "Our army does not need to borrow Cao Yin's strength, just to stabilize him, as long as he holds a wait-and-see attitude, Jingnan Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang will inevitably take a long-term view on whether to send troops to help Wang Rui, if they send troops on a large scale, but Cao Yin takes advantage of their fundamental land, then they will be homeless, do they dare to take such a risk?" ”

Liu Zhang's Qiangang was arbitrary, and immediately made a decision and took Jingzhou as a knife.

The next thing is the time to send troops, Liu Zhang directly decided, the ninth day of the next month!

Everyone was stunned, the eighth day of the next month was Liu Zhang's wedding day, and he would have to fight on the second day of his wedding, which was ......

But Liu Zhang's reason is very simple, this can be done to the maximum surprise, who would have thought that Liu Zhang would start the war on the second day of the wedding? Then Liu Zhang began to transfer troops and generals to deal with the war in the near future.

The meeting lasted a whole day, and when everyone left, although their bodies were a little tired, their faces could not hide their excitement, even Xun Yu, who was a little disappointed because he could not welcome the Son of Heaven, was also full of energy.

Waiting for the day of marriage, Liu Zhang's mood was a little apprehensive, he didn't think that in his previous life, he lived for thirty years but didn't even find a girlfriend, but when he came to this era, he was going to get married in just over four years (if it wasn't for filial piety, I'm afraid he had been "forced to marry" by his subordinates three years ago), and more importantly, this wife has not seen his true face of Lushan until this moment, but his mother has seen Cai Dacai's side of a talented woman, it is said that the long closed moon is shy of flowers, sinking fish and geese, which makes him in a state of anxiety and a trace of expectation...... However, thinking about the fact that too many film and television works in later generations show discord between husband and wife, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he can't help but worry about whether these troubles will happen to him...... Suffering from gains and losses, he was a little skeptical that he was suffering from the legendary premarital phobia!