Li Jing was sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army, his brows furrowed.

From planning Xu Yuanlang to capturing Dongping and encircling Lu County, it has been more than two months, and Li Jing has never fought such a long battle before.

If you analyze it historically, this is nothing, the ten-year-long siege battle has occurred, not to mention that Li Jing only took more than two months? What's more, how many counties is Li Jing mapping?

However, it is almost the middle of September, and although it is the best autumn time for attacking, it is likely that the first snow of the year will fall in another month.

If Lu County could not be taken before the heavy snowfall, the difficulty of fighting in the wind and snow would be half the effort, and the problem of food and grass for 50,000 or 60,000 people alone would not be a simple matter.

Of course, Li Jing also knew that the grain and grass of the Xu Jiajun was twice as large as his own, and it was even more difficult.

The resident population of Lu County is only 120,000 people, but Xu Chang and Xu Yuanlang father and son have increased their troops within three months, and the Xu family army that has entered Lu County has reached 130,000 so far!

Now, after many years of war, can 120,000 people grow food for a year, and 230,000 people can be fed for a few months?

This was also the basis of Li Jing's benevolence and righteousness, knowing that they were short of food, and they did not rush to harvest with the local farmers like Liu Wuzhou, who had already seen the most fundamental reason for his downfall long before he launched troops against Xu Yuanlang.

It took a while for them to fend for themselves due to lack of food, but the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and Su You went from taking Lu County without counting the time at the beginning to urgently taking Lu County, and it was only a month later.

Fortunately, Li Jing didn't just let the soldiers train on the spot during this time, at least after he met with Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing, he assigned them the task of harassing Xu Yuanlang's grain road.

It has only taken half a month to completely encircle Lu County, but Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing each led a small group of Wagang troops to detour through Langya County in only ten days and stirred Langya into a pot of porridge.

Of the seven counties of Langya, Fei County is the weakest county, and Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing used this county as a breakthrough point.

When Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing's nearly 10,000 generals and soldiers approached the city, the soldiers guarding Fei County were stunned.

General Manager Xu had gone to Lu County half a month ago to resist the Yunzhong army, but how did the Wagang army kill their rear? What is the military situation on the front line, has Lu County been broken?

All kinds of questions could not be answered, and then fear spread to their hearts, and Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing entered Philadelphia almost effortlessly.

Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing wanted to use Philadelphia as a base point to expand the results of the battle and attack the rest of the counties, but they returned with a feather.

After all, there are also thirty or twenty thousand defenders in Langya County, and in the absence of siege equipment, it is simply a joke that they want to attack the city again with seven or eight thousand people.

Fei County can't control the overall situation, but the northwest of Fei County is where Xu Yuanlang's nest is located.

Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing's attack range suddenly approached Xu Yuanlang's heart, can Xu Yuanlang still be at ease to fight Li Jing in Lu County?

As long as Xu Yuanlang's army moves, the real battle will start, will Li Jing, who is waiting for work, be afraid of Xu Yuanlang?

Previously, Xu Yuanlang had pulled the defense line very long, almost all over Lu County; Li Jing ordered the attack point to be closed and concentrated the army in Juye County.

Li Jing has been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for Xu Yuanlang's chance to finally collapse; He sat in the tent of the Chinese army, waiting for news from the spies.

Although Li Jing shrank his forces in Juye, the scouts of the Yunzhong Army had long been distributed in all directions around Lu County, and some had even mixed into the major cities in Lu County.

If Xu Yuanlang has any movements, he will definitely not be able to escape Li Jing's ears and eyes.

Who knew that Li Jing had not yet waited for Xu Yuanlang's movements, but he heard the news that Zhao Hu had led a thousand heavy cavalry to come to reinforcements, and he had now passed Dongping and would be able to come to join Li Jing immediately.

After Su You established the country, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others, who were the first to follow him, all ascended to heaven, Zhang Long became the governor of Liaodong, and Zhao Hu was named a general; Although his official position is under Li Jing, he is listed with Li Mi.

Zhao Hu led a thousand heavy cavalry to reinforcements, does it mean that Su You is in a hurry to take Lu County?

It's no wonder that Li Jing did this, after all, he only received an order from Su You a few days ago to take Lu County as soon as possible, and a few days later, Su You sent another Zhao Hu to come, does this mean that Su You feels that he has been dragging on in Lu County for too long?

With this in mind, Li Jing and Zhao Hu met for the first time.

Li Jing is now over fifty years old, and Zhao Hu has also reached the age of not being confused, they are all veterans in the Su You Army, and they have no advantage in age with Luo Shixin, Liu Heimin and others who have newly joined the Su You Army.

Because Zhao Hu came with Su You's message, he first asked about Lu County's movements after arriving, "The general won't have much pressure to take Lu County, right?" ”

Listening to Zhao Hu's nonsense, Li Jing shook his head with a smile, "Xu Yuanlang, this person has now attacked his rear, but he is not in a hurry to turn back, this person is not simple." ”

Speaking of Xu Yuanlang, Li Jing was a little helpless, but he was not anxious, after all, now is the time to compete for patience; Xu Yuanlang can dominate one side and occupy half of Shandong's territory, and he is by no means incompetent.

Zhao Hu nodded and said with a smile, "It's okay, they are unpopular with the people, the people can't last long under the heavy army, and when the people accumulate grievances, it will be when they collapse." They're expecting more from us now because they're under more pressure than we do. His Majesty asked the Admiral to bring a message to the General - 'We can wait.' ’”

Listening to Zhao Hu's words, Li Jing immediately became relieved, "With Your Majesty's words, I am relieved." ”

Li Jing is not afraid of war, but Li Jing will never pursue the principle of "one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither", what he pursues has always been to shoot at the best time and surrender without a fight!

Li Jing was originally worried that Su You would be hot-headed for a while because of his recent victory, urging him to send troops.

If this is the case, there will be no advantage at all for his side of 60,000 soldiers against 130,000 Xu family troops, and they will fight away from home.

Now that he learned that although Su You was in a hurry, he did not lose his cool and trusted himself without any choice, how could this make Li Jing not happy?

Although Xu Yuanlang's strategy is correct, his weakness is, of course, that he lacks confidence and is too weak; Su You is the first person in the Central Plains with a wide area, and has resumed trade with overseas, and the supply can be described as endless.

Xu Yuanlang's power is just a small stumbling block for the Yunzhong Army to unify the world!

After passing on Su You's message, Li Jing and Zhao Hu finally sat down, but the latter did not say the purpose of his coming, but said lightly, "Your Majesty has begun to formulate a plan to march into the Eastern Capital, and I am afraid that the general will still lead the army when the time comes." ”

Li Jing heard the song and knew the meaning of the strings, and immediately nodded, "Oh, has the time been determined?" ”

Zhao Hu smiled noncommittally, "If you want to take the Eastern Capital more easily, the assistance of the fleet is indispensable, and there are two discussion plans now, one is before the Yellow River freezes, and the other is after the ice melts after the year."

Li Jing nodded, how could he not know what Zhao Hu meant?

If Su You could choose between these two times of such a large span, he would not have to send Zhao Hu to inform him.

In other words, Su You was obviously more interested in driving the warship to the Eastern Capital a year ago, and Zhao Hu was here to help him take Lu County as soon as possible.

Zhao Hu's arrival is a paradox from the word just now, but continuing to hand over the heavy task of attacking the Eastern Capital to himself is not Su You's great response to himself.

People leave names, trees take pictures.

The exploit of taking the eastern capital, even for thousands of years, is remembered, because it is not just a dynasty that ended.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing finally said slowly, "It is also a good choice to let the general Li Mi lead the army." ”

Li Mi and Wang Shichong confronted each other for more than half a year, nearly 100 battles, but the last stop was defeated by Wang Shichong in Yanshi.

If Su You's order was to let Li Mi attack the eastern capital, Li Mi would definitely take the lead and happily carry out Su You's mission.

But now Li Jing actually gave up his great merits to Li Mi, which not only shows his benevolence to Li Mi, but also shows his determination to fight the battle in front of him!

"General Li Mi? Maybe it's a good choice, right? Zhao Hu nodded, he knew Li Mi three years earlier than he knew Li Jing.

It is precisely because of these three years that most of the people around Su You have recognized Li Mi's face.

Li Mi is indeed capable, but after he led the Wagang Army and made the Wagang Army's power shake, did he have Su You in his heart?

It is precisely because of this that the first to follow Su You, such as Fu Ziheng, Wang Bodang, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and Lu Sheng, naturally had a heart of exclusion towards Li Mi.

Li Jing could probably guess this from Zhao Hu's expression at the moment, and immediately smiled, "Let's discuss how to fight this battle first!" ”

"I've heard my husband say, 'When you don't know how the enemy fights, let them fight them, let's fight ours,'" Zhao Huhan said with a smile.

In a small-scale battle, Zhao Hu led the world's unparalleled heavy cavalry to crush the past, but he was not sure about the large-scale group army battle, so he could only obey Li Jing's command.

In fact, Zhao Hu quoted Su You's sentence, and Su You also quoted Lao Mao's quotations.

This does not apply, after all, the enemy is not fighting, but only defending.

Li Jing naturally knew this, so he didn't answer Zhao Hu's words, but said faintly, "I don't know that Xu Yuanlang hasn't given up struggling until this moment, so he still wants to join forces with other forces?" ”

Li Jing was not bad, Xu Yuanlang was receiving Li Zitong's general Wu Ming at the moment.

Wu Ming was talking eloquently at the moment, "It is definitely not a good strategy to clear the wilderness, I think Li Yuan used this to deal with Xue Ju in the first place, but it is really because of the land of the four stoppers in the middle. If you follow this example, won't you follow suit? ”

In the face of Wu Ming's sarcasm, Xu Yuanlang did not have the slightest look of annoyance on his face, but asked with a smile, "What is General Wu's opinion, you might as well speak up." ”

Wu Ming said, "If you see it according to me, you should take the initiative to attack and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop." ”

Xu Chang snorted and said by name, "Wu Ming, you don't have back pain when you stand and talk, if we ......."

Xu Chang originally wanted to say that if he could defeat Li Jing, why should he be like a turtle, but saying this would be too demoralizing.

Liu Shiche was much smarter than Xu Chang, and took the initiative to ask, "Since General Wu is willing to come, does it mean that King Wu has plans to advance and retreat with us?" ”

Li Zitong was already the emperor a few years ago, and he was called the king of Chu at the beginning, but the banner of the king of Chu was not so easy to raise, after all, the land of Chu is really wide, and the territory he occupies now is just a corner of the old Chu.

Later, after Lin Shihong established the state of Chu and was called the king of Chu, Li Zitong could only be called the king of Wu. However, Lin Shihong's previous title was "King of Nanyue", and compared with the two, these two people seem to have changed their titles.

Wu Ming listened to Liu Shiche deliberately use an accent on the word "King Wu", but he didn't care, but said expressionlessly, "I can only say that the opportunity is right in front of me." ”