It took Chen Deng a few days to build siege equipment, which was completely enough time for Li Jing to rush to Dantu. However, Li Jing did not rush directly to Dantu, but stopped fifty miles away from Dantu, and sent someone to inform Li Hongzhang and ask Li Hongzhang to send a military report to Zhang Yi, while sending someone to investigate Chen Deng's movements.

Chen Deng did not only besiege the Dantu, he sent troops to plunder the people around the Dantu, looting property, food, and population. Every day, he sent people to send the looted population back to Guangling to enrich the counties.

Li Jing is not in a hurry due to the lack of population, even if Chen Deng plunders the population again, it will only be a few thousand. Dantu is a military town, and there are not many people around. Even if there are people, most of them are in Dantu City, and it takes a large number of people to build a city that takes care of everything, how can a city without a population be defended?

Li Jing observed for a few days and found that Chen Deng did not want to stay for a long time, so he asked people to take out a map and carefully check the best foothold across the river from Guangling County, which was Dantu County. In the east, it is necessary to go deep into Qu'a County and Biling County, which are either far away from the river or far away from Jiangbei County, and the Tonghai (now Nantong City, belonging to Hailing County) area is barren and cannot be used as the foundation for crossing the river.

Moling County in the west is blocked by high mountains, and it is impossible to cross the river. But Chen Deng was plundering the people and attacking the city at the same time, and he had no intention of staying, so what was he going to do? Did you fight across the river just to destroy Dantu City?

Li Jing will move on the map, and to the west of Guangling is Jiujiang County, Chen Deng ignored the threat of Jiujiang County at this time, and must have some plan. He wants Jiujiang County to attack Guangling County? Li Jing immediately figured it out, he just wanted Jiujiang County to attack Guangling! In this way, Jiujiang County will not be able to send troops elsewhere! He is going to relieve Cao Cao! Cao Cao is going to make a big move!

Shouchun, Zhang Yi also received the news that Chen Deng crossed the river, and he immediately summoned the talents in the Zhendong General's Mansion to discuss it.

Zhang Yi also felt very strange! Chen Deng's crossing of the river at this time made no sense at all. When Sun Quan was in a weak position before, he didn't cross the river, but now he has crossed the river! There's definitely something going on here!

You must know that although Gan Ning returned to the mouth of the water, it was only a matter of two or three days to take a boat from the mouth of the mouth to Dantu, and if you were to go as fast as possible, you could arrive in one day. There was an interception by Gan Ning on the river, and Chen Deng still crossed the river, which was not done by a wise man.

Liu Ye looked at the military newspaper and said: "Although there are many soldiers in our army, but the lord has just won Jiangdong, most of the soldiers need to recuperate, and those who can be called are the soldiers stationed in various counties, as well as the 3,000 people of the Jianyang and Quanjiao generations, if you want to force Chen Deng to return to Jiangbei, you only need General Shang to lead the troops into Guangling to plunder!" If the lord is worried about the lack of troops, he can transfer some soldiers from Lujiang County. ”

"You can't transfer troops from Lujiang!" Liu Muzhi said: "Chen Deng is buying time for Cao Cao. ”

When Zhang Yi heard this, he immediately suddenly realized that this was the case, it seemed that Cao Cao was preparing to make a move on Liu Bei, otherwise it would not be like this. Cao Cao must have known that he was supporting Liu Bei behind his back, otherwise he would not have used Chen Deng to disperse his forces. This is a yang conspiracy! He will definitely be entangled with Chen Deng for the sake of Jiangdong, so Cao Cao can draw his hand to defeat Liu Bei, solve the crisis behind him, and concentrate all his forces to deal with Yuan Shao.

"Cao Mengde's good calculation! Let Chen Deng contain me, he can achieve his goal without spending a single soldier! Even if there is a loss, it is a loss for the Xuzhou family! What a trick! Zhang Yi said with a smile: "What a big stroke, this is a yang scheme!" ”

Zhu Zhi said: "Three thousand people are enough for Chen Deng to return to Guangling, there is no need to attack the city, only need to loot the township, Chen Deng's soldiers in the city do not come out, our army can empty the countryside of Guangling, Chen Deng can't bear it!" ”

Zhang Yi nodded, "Ordered Master Shang and his apprentices to march eastward, ordered Gan Ning to send Dan disciples, and ordered Di Qing to gather soldiers to Runan, so that Cao Cao could not succeed!" ”

One order after another was issued, and Zhang Yi prepared to fight on both sides, forcing Chen Deng back on the one hand, and preparing to rescue Liu Bei on the other. Although Liu Bei and Zhang Yi are not allies, they are an obstacle for Zhang Yi to advance west to seize Jingzhou! If Liu Bei were in Jingzhou, it would be much more difficult for Zhang Yi to capture Jingzhou! In order to get Jingzhou more easily, Zhang Yi had to ensure that Liu Bei stayed in Runan!

That's why before, Zhang Yi helped Liu Bei in a low voice, he had a plan!

Jingzhou is a big deal, not only representing a large territory and a large population, but also the key to westward expansion into Yizhou, whoever controls Jingzhou will have the geographical advantage to attack Yizhou! There are only so many roads into Sichuan, and Zhang Yi must occupy a close one.

Master Shang received the order and immediately took Meng Liang and Jiao Zan as the vanguard and led a thousand people into Tangyi County. Tangyi County and Moling County face the river, east of Yuguo, west of Jianyang, is one of the western gateways of Guangling County. However, it is a sparsely populated area and is not an important county in Guangling.

After Meng Liang and Jiao Zan entered Tangyi County, they immediately divided their troops into two routes, all the way to Tangyi County, and all the way to the country. Master Shang then also entered Tangyi County, and the purpose of his visit this time was to plunder the population and move all those who could be caught to Jiujiang County.

Chen Deng did not have many troops left in Guangling, and his 10,000 soldiers were all gathered with great difficulty, and many of them were private soldiers borrowed from the family. Otherwise, relying on one Guangling County, how could it be possible to raise 10,000 soldiers?

In just a few days, Master Shang and his apprentice had already crossed the country and came to Guangling County.

"Report! General, the camp ahead should be inhabited by the people of Wu County plundered by Chen Deng! "Detective Malay newspaper.

When Master Shang heard this, he laughed, and immediately ordered loudly: "Capture the camp, I will let Chen Deng return with all his blood!" ”

Under the leadership of Master Shang and his apprentices, Zhang Jun entered the camp and dealt with the guards and soldiers.

Chen Dengzhen suffered heavy losses, not only lost the people taken from Wu County, but Guangling was also plundered a large number of people. And he himself was trapped in the Dantu, and he couldn't retreat if he wanted to.

Gan Ning led the navy to cut off the river, and Chen Deng's warships would be attacked by Gan Ning as soon as they moved. And Li Jing was also approaching the Dantu, so he trapped him near the Dantu!

Chen Deng watched Zhang Yi's waterway army dispatch, and knew that the time was almost up!

"It's time to leave! Everyone gets on board, and we go down the river! Take a detour back to Quang Lae! ”

Chen Deng had already thought of a way out, and he didn't need to be like Sun Yi and Sun Jing, he only needed to follow the coastline, and it was easy to find a dock to land in Hailing or Yandu County.

Gan Ning didn't expect that Chen Deng would choose to take the sea route, and the limitations of this era made him not consider this. But he was not ready to let Chen Deng escape, "Let's catch up!" I'd like to see where he wants to go back! ”