Ling Tong, known as the Tiger Ministers of Jiangnan, led the naval army handed over to him by Lu Xun and stationed in the Chaisang Water Village to protect the safety of the Chaisang Waterway.

As a tiger minister who can fight well, his personality is quite strong, in the face of Liu Bei's unformed naval army, Ling Tong has been asking Lu Meng for battle, but Lu Meng resolutely rejected him every time, which made Ling Tong feel very aggrieved in his heart. often sighed when drinking: "If I had been under General Lu Xun, I would have gone straight out of the army and wiped out Zhuge Liang's villager, why bother to be so cobbled." ”

As a result, these words reached Lu Meng's ears, and Lu Meng was quite dissatisfied with Ling Tong, but the big war was imminent, and he couldn't always dwell on these things, so he slowly alienated Ling Tong.

As a result, Ling Tong was even more lazy to go into the city to discuss military affairs with Lu Meng, so he hid in his own water village, planning how to defeat Zhuge Liang in his heart every day.

However, without sending troops, the two armies cannot directly confront each other, and it is absolutely unrealistic to defeat the opponent, so they can only compete in their own hearts.

On this day, he was setting up a model with many of his generals to conduct a hypothetical confrontation between the two sides, and everyone was having fun, when suddenly a long report came from outside, and a soldier in charge of patrolling hurriedly ran in, knelt on the ground on one leg, and reported to Ling Tong: "General Qiyu, Zhuge Liang's sailors are divided into two ways and attack us." ”

As soon as he heard that Zhuge Liang's army was attacking him again, Ling Tong was so angry that he gave himself a while every three or five days, but under his strict defense, he hurriedly retreated, but he couldn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, he could only watch them go away, which was really infuriating.

However, since the enemy is attacking, and there is a battle to fight, then everyone will compare and match again.

So Ling Tong was a little excited, ready to go to the water village to guard, but as soon as he came out of the tent, another sergeant ran over and reported to Ling Tong: "Governor Lu Meng has an order, ordering the general, strictly guard the water village and not attack, once the general acts without authorization, the military law will not be spared." ”

Every time Zhuge Liang attacked, there must have been Lu Meng's strict orders in his front and rear feet, which made Ling Tong feel very unhappy every time. Lu Meng is sick, too conservative, and has lost the sharpness that a military general should have, but the angry thing is that he is his direct boss, and it will never be allowed to commit the following crimes, so Ling Tong can only pinch his nose and admit it every time.

"You go back to the Metropolitan Governor, I will definitely stick to the water village and not come out." After saying this, he didn't pay attention to the herald anymore, and took a group of soldiers and went directly to the head of the water walled city.

As a result, Ling Tong couldn't help but be surprised, because the entire river had been densely lined up by Zhuge Liang's water army, and what surprised him even more was that this time Zhuge Liang did not use all his strength to deal with himself, but obviously divided the water army into two roads, one way to besiege his own water village, and all the way to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and began to trace the west of the river in a place beyond the reach of his catapult.

At this time, one of his generals shouted anxiously: "General, look, Liu Bei's army along the south bank of the Yangtze River is planted with the banner of the army." ”

Ling Tong immediately looked at it, but this look surprised him again, it was indeed the case, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, on the big ship of Liu Bei's army, Jiang Wei's banner was fluttering.

Jiang Wei is a powerful character, he can be described as brave and strategic, but he is a general of the land war, why did he suddenly run to the warship of the sailor?

After pondering for a while, Ling Tong shouted badly: "This is Zhuge Liang who can't hold it anymore, and is ready to give us a broken kettle and give up the back road Chai Sang, this is to kill Jingzhou." ”

This kind of judgment scared Ling Tong into a cold sweat at that time, but he knew that now Jingzhou had just been occupied by himself and others for only a year, and the people's hearts and military hearts were not completely attached, Liu Bei's name of Rende, in his governance of Jingzhou for several years, was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, once Zhuge Liang abandoned his cautious thinking of using troops and directly crossed Chaisang into Jingzhou, it was almost equivalent to returning to their hometown.

This doesn't count, and once Zhuge Liang enters Jingzhou, he will threaten the back of Lu Xun who is fighting in the north, and the backs of the two old generals of Huang Gai and Han Dang, who block Lu Peng in the west, will be completely exposed in front of Liu Bei Zhuge Liang, no matter how brave the three generals are, after being cut off, failure has become a doomed thing.

In the face of this sudden change in the military situation, Ling Tong immediately decided: "Immediately rectify the whole army, open the gate of Shuizhai, intercept Zhuge Liang's sailors on the Yangtze River, and absolutely not let them break into the empty Jingzhou." ”

As a result, as soon as his order was issued, Lu Meng's cronies, who were performing military affairs here, immediately came out to stop him: "Zhuge Liang has been cautious all his life, he will never take this dangerous move, and Zhuge Liang is scheming, maybe this is a strategy to lure the enemy and force us to fight, and the general must not be deceived." ”

Ling Tong was furious at the time: "Zhuge Liang has been cautious all his life, if it is under normal circumstances, of course he will not abandon his back road and go deep alone, but don't you understand what the situation in Jingzhou is?" It is an empty space guarded by no soldiers, and the hearts of the people are still towards Liu Bei, once he enters Jingzhou alone, the people of Jingzhou must have a part to support them, then they can obtain local grain and grass, in this way, can he still be called a lone army? You don't understand such a simple truth? How did you do this? ”

The general was scolded by a stinking meal, and was a little annoyed and angry at the time, pointing at Ling Tong and shouting: "Ling Tong Xiaoer, you are just a reckless man, and you are useless to the military strategy, this is obviously Zhuge Liang's strategy to lure our naval army into battle, but you turn a blind eye, you are really a stupid pig, I will go back to the city now to report to the Governor of Lümeng, and I will definitely apply military law to you." ”

Ling Tong did not back down, and also pointed at the other party's nose and roared: "Since I followed my father to fight, our father and son have been invincible, and our official positions have been fought step by step, what are you, you dare to accuse me of right and wrong, I will never spare you this time." Then he yelled at the soldiers on the left and right: "Give me this bastard to beat me up, and don't let it interfere with my command." ”

The pro-soldiers have long seen that this Lu Meng's cronies are not angry with their generals, and today there is such a legitimate reason, where can they show mercy? So he pounced, punched and kicked, and blasted this guy straight out of the barracks.

Without the people to watch, the military situation is also urgent, Ling Tong ordered the officers and soldiers of the water army, and prepared to open the water village to send troops to meet the enemy.

(End of chapter)