After making all the preparations, early the next morning, the various units began to leave the camp.

Once an army of more than 80,000 people is moved, how great will it be? Even if you want to pull out the camp and leave, it will not be completed in a short time.

The whole camp was busy up and down for several hours, and then left the camp and headed north or west.

What was once a huge camp, stretching for more than ten miles, was now suddenly empty, leaving only a few remnants of what showed that a large army had once been stationed here.

After the main force of the army left, Yang Wudang even gave the order, while moving the camp to the south, he found a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack to re-establish the camp; At the same time, he ordered his royal flag to be lowered and raised a flag with the character "Li".

The reason why this is so is mainly because he doesn't want Gao Jichang and others to find out their movements, so that the enemy army thinks that he has led the main force to intercept the enemy's reinforcements.

In terms of the specific construction of the camp, Yang Wu ordered the camp to be built as small as possible, so that from the outside, the camp could only accommodate two or three thousand troops.

The purpose of this is to confuse the enemy army and make it unclear about its actual strength.

In addition, Yang Wu directly abandoned the acropolis captured in the north of the city, leaving only two acropolis in the east and south of the city to facilitate defense.

Yang Wu arranged 1,000 troops to defend each of these two acropolis, and left them with enough arrows, believing that it was impossible for the enemy to take the acropolis in a short time.

After doing all this, Yang Wu summoned the remaining generals to come to the meeting.

The Wu army that stayed here this time had a total of 7,000 troops, of which 2,000 Yulin troops were led by Zhang Cheng and Li Chan respectively, while the 5,000 forbidden troops were led by the commander Li Zhang.

Zhang Cheng and Li Chan are both meritorious service, among which Li Chan is the son of Li Chenghei, and Zhang Cheng is Zhang Xun's son and inherited Zhang Xun's position, but unfortunately his ability is relatively mediocre, so he has not been able to get much use.

As for Li Zhang, this person is already sixty years old this year, and he is a real veteran, who served as a cavalry general under Yang Xingmi, but unfortunately failed to establish any great achievements, so although his qualifications are old, his position is only that of a commander.

The reason why Yang Wu kept him was because Zhu Jin had some friendship with him and knew him better.

So when Yang Wu planned to choose a commander to stay, Zhu Jin recommended Li Zhang, saying that this person was steady, good at pacifying soldiers, and diligent in his duties, and was an excellent general.

Even though Yang Wu summoned him, after some conversation, Yang Wu found that although this Li Zhang was old, he still had great ambitions and was eager to make contributions, which made Yang Wu immediately interested: Could this person be an "old Huang Zhong"?

So Yang Wu finally decided to follow Zhu Jin's advice and give this person a chance to perform meritorious service.

At this time, there were only a few people in the camp tent, such as Zhu Jin, Li Zhang, Li Chan, Zhang Cheng, and Zhou Zong, which was completely incomparable with the number of generals who had gathered together before.

"Although it is said that after the departure of the main army, we are ready to defend, but Lone does not plan to defend wholeheartedly, Gao Jichang has much more troops than us, if we are dedicated to defending, it is undoubtedly too passive, and it is even more difficult to play a role in containing the enemy." Yang Wu hoarsely said to the generals slowly.

On the side, after listening to this, Zhu Jin hurriedly asked, "I don't know how the king plans to grasp the initiative?" The king isn't going to take the initiative to launch a siege, is he? ”

"Take the initiative to attack the city? How can it be? Gu is not arrogant enough to attack a big city like Gangneung with 7,000 men! Yang Wu suddenly laughed.

If it is an ordinary enemy, or an ordinary city, if Yang Wu has 7,000 people, he can let go of the siege, but Jiangling City is obviously not so easy to attack.

Although Gao Jichang is not good at military affairs, he can survive in the cracks of various countries in history, and naturally he has a certain strength, otherwise it is impossible for him to survive for a long time just by relying on the support of other countries or relying on the contradictions between other countries.

At the beginning, Yang Wu did not plan to capture Jiangling easily, but made sufficient preparations before starting to send troops.

"Although Lone doesn't plan to take the initiative to attack the city, he can make an appointment with the enemy! Gu directly sent someone into the city to challenge Gao Jichang and let him go out of the city to fight with our army, so that Gao Jichang would definitely not know the reality of our army, but he would not dare to go out of the city easily! Yang Wu continued.

Zhu Jin nodded, and then said: "The king's plan is feasible, but what if Gao Jichang really goes out of the city to fight our army?" ”

Yang Wu said with a smile: "If he really dares to go out of the city to fight our army, then naturally we must teach him a profound lesson!" ”

Zhu Jin's expression lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Could it be that the king has the absolute certainty of defeating the enemy army?" ”

The other generals also looked at Yang Wu with burning eyes one by one, wanting to hear what he had planned.

Yang Wu's voice just now seemed extremely confident, so everyone looked at him with expectations on their faces.

"Absolute certainty is naturally not enough, but there is an eight-layer certainty!" Yang Wu said in a deep voice.

He did not directly state his plans, but directly sent Zhou Zong into the city to send a letter of challenge to Gao Jichang, of course, not in the name of Yang Wu himself, but in the name of the commander Li Zhang, and at the same time, Zhou Zong's identity also changed from a general to a small staff member around Li Zhang.

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In Jiangling City, the large-scale mobilization of the Wu army naturally could not hide from the defenders in the city.

After Gao Jichang learned the news, he immediately ordered to summon the generals and staff to come to the Jiedu Embassy to discuss the matter.

"The transfer of the Wu army, presumably everyone also knows, if it is expected to be good, it should be that after King Wu learned that our army's reinforcements were dispatched, he began to send troops to intercept it. The number of enemy troops left in the camp today should not be large, no more than 10,000 at most! Gao Jichang first informed the generals of the situation.

Ni Kefu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately proposed: "Marshal, since the main force of the enemy army has left, why don't our army take this opportunity to defeat the enemy forces outside the city in one fell swoop and take back the fallen acropolis?" ”

Gao Jichang said: "Don't worry, it's not completely certain about the enemy's movements now, and it's difficult to determine how many troops the enemy has left, let's discuss it first!" ”

Liang Zhen on the side also said: "What the commander said is very true, since the enemy army intends to intercept our army's reinforcements first, it means that before defeating our army's reinforcements, the enemy army should not launch another siege." And the enemy wants to defeat our reinforcements, which is obviously not something that can be done in a short time, so we don't need to be in a hurry. ”

Ni Kefu also knew that his proposal just now was a little too eager, so he immediately saluted Gao Jichang, and then sat down to listen.

"Senior, the total strength of the Wu army should not be as good as our army's reinforcements, and we have to leave a part of the troops to contain our army, so that their troops should be even more insufficient. Do the seniors think it is possible for them to achieve their goals? Gao Jichang turned to Liang Zhen and asked.

Liang Zhen shook his head and said: "I'm afraid no one can say for sure, after all, the affairs of the military family have always been impermanent in victory and defeat, not to mention, although the number of troops is very important, it has never been the key to victory; Are there still fewer examples of outnumbered battles? Not to mention anything else, the news from His Majesty's side some time ago ......"

Even Yang Wu received the news of Zhu Wen's defeat, and Gao Jichang and they naturally received it, after all, Jiangling's contact with the outside world has never been completely cut off.

Zhu Wen led an army of more than 100,000 people to launch a fierce attack on Zhao all the way, and the momentum was so huge; However, the army of the Jin State only had 800 cavalry under the command of Fu Cunxian, plus more than 10,000 infantry troops; The strength is obviously too far behind the Liang army.

But the final result was that Zhu Wen was so frightened by a fake news that he fled for 150 miles overnight, and finally became very ill after finding out the situation.

Now that Wu has sent a large army to intercept the reinforcements from Jiangling, who can say for sure whether it will be victorious in the end?

Gao Jichang was silent after hearing this, whether he can continue to possess Jiangling and his own fate has never been decided by himself, but by the next battle, as for him, except for staying in Jiangling City and waiting for news, he can't change the overall situation.

Thinking of this, Gao Jichang's mood couldn't help but be very bad.

Liang Zhen saw his face, and naturally knew the reason for his frustration, and immediately said: "Jie Shuai, in fact, our army may not be able to do nothing. Just as General Ni just said, the main force of the enemy army has left, and there must not be many troops left to contain our army, maybe our army can defeat it! ”

Gao Jichang said: "What if you defeat it?" Even if our side wins, it won't change the big situation, unless the reinforcements can defeat the main force of the Wu army! ”

Liang Zhen smiled and persuaded: "Jie Shuai, if our army can defeat the Wu army outside the city, maybe King Wu will have to divide his troops to help after learning the news?" When the time comes, the number of reinforcements to deal with our army will be reduced, how can this be said that it is not beneficial to the overall situation? ”

Gao Jichang's expression lit up, and then he nodded and said: "What the senior said is good, Ben Shuai was a little confused just now!" ”

But then, he asked again: "I heard that the general flag of the Wu army outside the city at this time is a 'Li' character general flag, I don't know who this is?" King Wu would actually hand over the heavy responsibility of staying behind to this person? ”

Among the Wu army, there are not many generals surnamed Li, but there are only a few people in high positions, such as Li Jian, Li Chengding, and Li Chengsi.

According to the news, it is impossible for these three people to lead troops in Jiangling, so everyone is a little curious about who this general surnamed Li is.

Just as the generals were thinking about the general surnamed Li in the Wu army, a guard came to report that an envoy from Wu came and said that he was coming to write a war letter.