In the big tent of the Chinese army, at this time, the generals looked at Guo Chongtao and listened to him explain his views in detail.

I only heard Guo Chongtao's voice calm, and said without hurry: "The minister thinks that the land of Jingxiang is first and foremost on the two places of Jiangling and Xiangzhou; If only one of the two places is obtained, then Jingxiang is not complete; Both places must be captured in order to be regarded as capturing the entire Jingxiang! ”

"Therefore, the minister thought that after our army captured Jiangling, it must continue to seize Xiangzhou in the north; In order to achieve this goal, our army should take the Liang army as the primary target next, so as to facilitate the next attack on Xiangzhou! ”

"As for the Shu army, even if the Shu army is allowed to go back this time, it will be difficult to affect the overall situation, why rush to deal with them?"

Guo Chongtao did not answer which enemy army should be attacked first from a military point of view, but talked about the situation in Jingxiang as a whole.

In fact, this is also what Yang Wu admires most about him, looking at the problem is not purely from a military point of view, but taking into account the overall situation, which is the role that a qualified strategist should play.

After listening to his analysis, Yang Wu suddenly made a decision, first concentrating his forces to deal with the Liang army, then the Shu army, and finally it was his turn to attack the city.

However, even if the overall operational policy is determined, it is not so easy to accomplish this policy in concrete terms.

No matter how weak the Liang army is, it is only relative, and its strength will also be as high as 40,000 to 50,000 people.

And Kou Yanqing, the general of the Liang Army, can also be regarded as a general in the Liang Army, although his fame and ability are far inferior to top generals like Yang Shihou, but his basic quality is still sufficient.

With forty or fifty thousand troops, and a general like Kou Yanqing in command, the Wu army wanted to eliminate the Shu army before it joined them, but it was not so easy.

When Kou Yanqing found out about Wu Jun's attempt, as long as he was not stupid, he would definitely not rashly engage Wu Jun, but should choose to hold on and wait for the arrival of the Shu army.

Of course, now that the Wu army has not yet been dispatched from Ezhou, and the Liang army is still in Xiangzhou, the specific deployment of all parties has not yet been determined, and it is obviously a little early to discuss the specific tactical use now, at least until the army arrives in Jiangling, and the Liang army is also dispatched.

At present, Wu's army is mainly concentrated in the four prefectures of Ezhou, Yuezhou, Lizhou, and Langzhou, of which Chai Zaiyong and Lü Shizhou are assembled in Lizhou and Langzhou respectively, while Wang Maozhang's troops are usually concentrated in Yuezhou and Ezhou.

Therefore, after resting in Ezhou for a day, the Wu army did not stay long, and then pulled out the camp and set out, the first target was to locate Fuzhou in the upper reaches of the Han River, which was the flank of the Wu army's attack on Jiangling, and it was impossible not to capture it first.

This advance was extremely smooth, and the Liang army obviously knew that the attack of the Wu army was at hand, and Fuzhou was close to the state of Wu, and its location was extremely important, so it was impossible to block the attack of the Wu army, so in fact, before the arrival of the Wu army, Fuzhou became an empty city.

When the Wu army arrived, the few minor officials left behind in the city obediently opened the city gate and surrendered.

After resting for a day in Fuzhou, Yang Wu left 5,000 forbidden troops to defend the city, and then led the rest of the army to continue to march towards Jiangling.

At the same time, Chai Zaiyong and Lü Shizhou also led their troops to cross the river and march towards Jiangling.

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News of Wu's large-scale attack soon spread to Jiangling, Xiangzhou, and Guizhou, and Gao Jichang, Kou Yanqing, and Wang Zongshou quickly responded with them.

Among them, Gao Jichang can do the least, after all, the troops in his hands are extremely limited, and some preparations for defending the city must have been completed before this.

Therefore, there are only two things he can do at this time, the first is to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the city, and all merchants from all over the world, no matter what country they come from, will be driven out of the city, so as not to be mixed with the fine work of the Wu State.

Of course, when those merchants learned that Gangneung was about to encounter a military rebellion, most of them had already begun to flee to other places.

After all, the military rebellion in this era is not a joke, if you are besieged in the city, who knows if you will suffer a military disaster.

In addition to cleaning up and meticulous work, the second thing Gao Jichang can do is to take advantage of the fact that Jiangling's external connection has not been cut off, and constantly send people to Xiangzhou and Guizhou to ask for help.

Other than that, he could only secretly pray for victory.

Compared with Gao Jichang, Wang Zongshou and Kou Yanqing have many more issues to consider.

Although the Liang and Shu kingdoms had formed an alliance, the armies of the two families did not gather together, but prepared to march towards Jiangling separately.

Fortunately, in terms of the timing of sending troops, the two families still made some discussions, that is, there is no need to send troops to rescue now.

After all, Jiangling is also a strong city, and Gao Jichang's defenders are not few, so it is no problem to hold on for a while in the face of the attack of the Wu army.

Kou Yanqing's plan was to use Jiangling Jiancheng to first consume the menacing Wu army in order to thwart its spirit.

Especially after learning that Yang Wu, the king of Wu, led the army to march in person, the two of them did not dare to act rashly.

In the early years, Yang Wu, the king of Wu, was also a famous general known as a hundred victories, and the most commendable battle he commanded was the great battle caused by Zhu Wen's crossing of the Huai River to the south, and the subsequent Huainan Expedition.

In that war, the total number of Liang troops destroyed by the Huainan Army was as high as 100,000, and Yang Wu's own name was truly famous with the Northern Expedition, and his momentum was no lower than that of the current Jin King Li Cunmiao.

However, in the following years, Yang Wu has been staying in Jinling to "live in a simple place", and the external wars are led by the generals, and he himself has not commanded any wars.

In contrast, the Jin king Li Cunmiao has been in the limelight in recent years, especially in the Battle of Luzhou and the Battle of Gaoyi, the Jin army led by him defeated the Liang army one after another and won a big victory, making Li Cunmiao's reputation overshadow Yang Wu in recent years and become the most noteworthy figure in the world.

However, even if Yang Wu has been "staying" in Jinling for a few years, no one dares to underestimate this figure who has many brilliant achievements back then.

This time, Yang Wu personally led the troops to conquer Jiangling, which greatly boosted the morale of the Wu army, and the momentum was amazing.

In this case, Kou Yanqing and Wang Zongshou naturally wanted to avoid the edge of the Wu army and let Gao Jichang face the peak of the Wu army.

After the initial sharpness of the Wu army was consumed and the morale dropped somewhat, the difficulty of winning would naturally drop a lot if the reinforcements were sent again.

Of course, whether it is Kou Yanqing or Wang Zongshou, they all have a tacit idea in their hearts, that is, to use the Wu army to consume Gao Jichang's strength.

Gao Jichang's ambitions, whether Wang Jian or Zhu Wen, were well aware, if he hadn't used him to resist the Wu army, I was afraid that Zhu Wen would have attacked Gao Jichang a long time ago; And Wang Jian knows Gao Jichang's ambitions very well.

It is not good for Gao Jichang's strength to be too weak, but it is also not a good thing for his strength to be too strong, and it is easy to threaten the two families.

Therefore, Kou Yanqing and Wang Zongshou both secretly had their minds and were ready to use Wu Jun's hand to weaken Gao Jichang.

Of course, all this is premised on resisting the Wu army, and the two will not really put Jiangling in a dangerous situation.

On 18 February, the various units of Wu's army merged at Jiangling City, and the 80,000-strong army was divided into two camps and stationed separately.

Among them, Wang Maozhang was the governor of Zuo, and he was stationed in the camp in the north of the city with Chai Zaiyong; and Qin Pei was the right governor, and he was stationed in the camp in the east of the city with Lu Shizhou; To the south of Jiangling is the rolling Yangtze River, which is blocked by the sailors; As for the west of the city, there was no siege.

After all, the overall operational policy has long been determined, and defeating the Liang army's reinforcements is the top priority, so there is no need to completely besiege Jiangling, it is better to leave a passage for Gao Jichang, so that he can continue to send people to urge the enemy reinforcements to come early.

As for Yang Wu himself, he is naturally the commander of the whole army and conducts overall command.

He set up his royal tent in Qin Pei's camp in the east of the city, surrounded by three thousand Yulin troops, and naturally it was extremely safe.

And after the Wu army surrounded Gangneung, it soon had a big battle with the Gangneung army.

However, the first battle between the two armies did not take place on land, but between the two armies in the Yangtze River.

The waterways near Jiangling, especially near the Yangtze River, naturally require a strong naval army.

Gao Jichang's navy was established more than two years ago, when the Wu army was still dealing with Wang Shenzhi in Fujian, and the threat to Jiangling was not too great.

However, now with the approaching attack of the Wu army, Gao Jichang did not invest more troops in the navy, after all, the consumption of establishing a navy is large, and his troops are insufficient, all of them are not enough to defend the city, so naturally he will not invest more troops in the navy.

This time, after the Wu army besieged the city, Gao Jichang even let most of the sailors abandon the ship and go ashore and enter the city to hold on.

In the face of the blockade of the Wu army's water army from the river, the small number of sailors left behind naturally did not dare to come out to fight, so they could only stick to the water village.

After all, if the enemy army is not eliminated, then the enemy army may rush out through the waterway at any time and cause trouble for the Wu army, so it is better to take the initiative to attack and destroy the enemy army in the water village first.

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