Sent away the county officials, Liu Jing left the county Cheng Zhou Yi, and ordered someone to invite Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, and the three of them to discuss the strategy of breaking the construction industry, Zhou Yi saw Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, and couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that these two Jiangdong ministers also surrendered to the Han State, and a trace of uneasiness in his heart disappeared without a trace.

Zhuge Jin was more concerned about his family's situation at this time, he had learned that Sun Quan had sent his family to prison, which made him very worried, he hurriedly pulled Zhou Yi aside and asked in a low voice: "Ziyu, how is my family's situation now?" ”

Zhou Yi comforted him and said: "Zhuge Gong's family is not in Jianye Official Prison, but in Moling County Prison, Zhuge Gong can rest assured, although Wu Hou's order is not disobeyed, but it will not abuse Zhuge Gong's family, and Zhang Junshi has specially instructed them, and they are all safe and sound now." ”

Zhuge Jin also understands the way of officialdom, no one dares to touch his family at this time, but after all, his family is in prison, which makes it difficult for him to feel at ease, Zhuge Jin nodded, and saw that Liu Jing had already entered the big tent, so he said: "Let's listen to what His Royal Highness the King of Han has to say first!" ”

Liu Jingzheng and Lu Su talked about the situation of Jianye City and Moling City, in this regard, Lu Su has a lot of say, it was he and Zhang Hong who built Jianye City, and he is very familiar with every brick and tile of Jianye City.

The rebuilding of Moling County was also presided over by Lu Su, and he was also very familiar with the defense of Moling County, but Lu Su still hoped that Liu Jing would try not to attack the city violently and minimize casualties.

Zhuge Jin also has the same idea, but Zhuge Jin hopes that he can be reused by Liu Jing after the war, and even hopes that he can enter the picture, he is only over forty years old this year, and there are more than ten years of prospects, and his fame is much more fiery than Lu Su.

Liu Jing stood in front of the sand table, pointed at the two cities of Jianye and Moling with a wooden pole, and said to them slowly: "Since the attack on Jiangdong, I have tried to surrender the soldiers without a fight, and at the same time I found that the soldiers in Jiangdong are generally war-weary, and the battle is slightly unfavorable and they raise the flag and surrender, so that I am like a bamboo all the way, so I also hope that they will surrender without a fight to the two cities of Moling and Jianye, and try to avoid the war being ruined. ”

The three of them glanced at each other, and Lu Su smiled: "Let's ask Zhuge Gong to talk about it first!" ”

Among the three, Zhuge Jin's official position and status are the highest, so naturally he spoke first, Zhuge Jin did not shirk, picked up the wooden pole and pointed to Moling City: "Weichen's opinion is to attack Moling County first, the reason is very simple, first, there are few garrisons in Moling County, and secondly, the county city wall is far less tall and strong than Jianye City, and it is easier to capture, but the more important reason is that most of the officials and the families of some soldiers live in the county, if Moling County is taken, the army of Jianye City will be shaken. ”

Lu Su and Zhou Yi both agreed with Zhuge Jin's words, and Zhou Yi smiled and said: "Your Highness, Zhuge Gong said very well, Moling County is the foundation of Jianye, and it is also the weakness of Jianye. ”

The three of them had the same idea as Liu Jing, but he also wanted to know how to capture Jianye City most effectively, and he looked at Lu Su again.

Lu Su understood what Liu Jing meant, and he smiled bitterly and said: "When I first repaired the county seat of Moling, I found that the city walls of Moling were made of mud bricks, so I built the county town and Wu Hou demolished the county seat and rebuilt it and replaced it with stone bricks, but it was jointly opposed by Zhang Junshi and Bu Changshi, Gu Yong, Yu Chuan and others also disagreed, thinking that it would cost too much, so my construction was rejected, and in the end it was just a simple repair to the county seat of Moling, which looked good on the surface, but it was still rotten wood and old bricks inside, relatively speaking, the north side was slightly stronger, because the ministers were in and out of the north gate, and the south city is the most dilapidated, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it has been very fragile and vulnerable, but I don't know if it has been rebuilt this year, this has to ask Zhou Juncheng. ”

Next to him, Zhou Yi said: "This year, Jianye City has been strengthened, and Moling County has only changed the city gate, and the city wall has not been repaired." ”

Liu Jing pondered for a long time and said to them: "My thoughts are the same as yours, attack Moling County first. ”

Moling County is the seat of Danyang County, after Sun Quan moved the capital from Jingkou to Jianye, he did not use Moling City as the capital, but built a stone city in the north of Moling City, that is, Jianye City, but Jianye City only has the official office and garrison and Sun Quan's Jianye Palace, and Moling County has assumed other urban functions.

As the signs of the Han army's attack on Jianye became more and more obvious, the city of Moling County was also full of rumors, the atmosphere of war became stronger and stronger, martial law was implemented during the day, a curfew was implemented at night, all the people were not allowed to go out, the rationing system was implemented, the whole city was deserted, there was no figure in the streets and alleys, and seven thousand Jiangdong soldiers strictly guarded the county seat of Moling under the leadership of the generals Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin.

At night, the patrol soldiers at the head of the city patrol back and forth, vigilantly watching every move outside the city, the county seat of Moling is not high, the city height is only two zhang and five feet, the city wall is not wide enough, can not place a large trebuchet at the head of the city, outside the city is a moat with a width of three zhang, in fact, it is a tributary of Qinhuai water.

Although the patrol soldiers at the head of the city were very vigilant, at night, they could not see the subtle abnormalities in the moat, at this time, in the moat south of the city, several Han scouts wearing water leaning quietly surfaced, and they took advantage of the opportunity of the patrol soldiers to leave, quickly jumped out of the water, and clinged to the root of the city wall.

The root of the city wall has always been the dead end of the patrol soldiers at the head of the city, unless the soldiers look out, it is difficult to observe the movement under the root of the city wall, three Han scouts took out the stainless steel fish bone, which is a sharp weapon for fighting in the water, but the sharp blade of their fish spine is sharp and flat, and it is easy to insert into the city wall.

This is Liu Jing's experience and caution, although Lu Su told him that the walls of Moling are all mud bricks, and the southern city is especially dilapidated, but that is just Lu Su's words, which can only be used as a reference.

The three scouts were very skillful, quickly hooked out a few bricks, and took out a few handfuls of soil from the hole in the wall, carefully wrapped them in oiled paper, and then changed places, and in less than half a column of incense, they took three samples, at this time, the patrol soldiers on the head just walked over, and the three scouts entered the water silently and quickly disappeared.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen city bricks and filled soil were placed in the Han army's Chinese army tent, at this time Lu Su and the other three were gone, replaced by Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Liao Li and other generals and military divisions, they are very experienced, from these dozen city bricks and filling soil samples, they all learned about the solid Cheng dù of the city wall of Moling County.

Huang Zhong picked up the filling soil and twisted it lightly in the palm of his hand, sniffed it close to his nose, and said to Liu Jing: "This soil is at least a hundred years old, black and moldy, indicating that the filling is very loose, and it has not been replaced, and there are decay chips of the top wood on it, it can be seen that the top wood does not know what it has decayed into, and such a city wall will collapse if it lasts for another twenty or thirty years at most." ”

Liu Jing shook his head, "If there has been no defense, maybe it can hold out for twenty or thirty years, but now there are a large number of stones and rolling logs piled up on it, and there are thousands of soldiers walking back and forth all day long, where can the city wall withstand it, if it goes on like this, it will collapse in no more than five years, everyone, please see!" ”

Liu Jing picked up a city brick and knocked it with a small hammer, and the city brick was immediately shattered, "Have you seen it, the normal city brick should have been broken into two under my knocking, but this brick was knocked into brick powder, which shows that the inside of the city brick has been full of cracks." ”

Liu Jing used a small hammer to continuously beat the city bricks, all the city bricks were knocked to pieces, he put down the hammer, clapped his hands and smiled: "I can even break a solid bluestone city wall like Hefei, let alone this mud brick wall, everyone, the city will be broken tomorrow!" ”

At the time of the third watch, there are still patrol soldiers on the head of Moling City constantly patrolling back and forth, monitoring the movements of the Han army outside the city, the main general of the town guarding Moling County is Zhou Tai, he is Sun Quan's henchman, serving as the captain of the Jiangdong Internal Guard Army, and the 10,000 elite army guarding Sun Quan is commanded by him, although Sun Quan trusts Zhou Tai, but Zhou Tai is still relatively weak in defending the city, so Sun Quan appointed Jiang Qin, a general who is good at defending the city, as his deputy general.

At this time, Jiang Qin rode on a war horse and led 500 soldiers to inspect the defense of the city wall.

Jiang Qin is recognized as a general who is good at defense in the Jiangdong army, and it is precisely like this, he has no confidence in the defense of Moling County, the city wall is short and thin, old, and the ability to resist is very weak, which is not enough, the key is that Moling County did not consider military defense at all, and most of the cities in Jiangdong, the city wall has no horse face wall, no battlement, no shooting hole, no stone throwing, just an ordinary city wall.

How could such a city withstand the powerful attack of the Han army, and how to spend so much manpower and material resources to dredge useless canals, but refused to rebuild Moling City, Jiang Qin had nothing to say about Sun Quan's decision.

"General!"

A soldier ran over panting and said, "General Zhou is in Nancheng, please come over." ”

"I see!"

Jiang Qin unhappily agreed, urging the horse to run towards the south gate, he ran to the south gate, hundreds of soldiers in the city gate held torches, the city gate as if it was day, only to see dozens of soldiers kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, hanging their heads.

Jiang Qin was startled, urged the horse to run up, the soldiers at the city gate saw Jiang Qin coming, they all dodged a way, Jiang Qin turned over and dismounted into the crowd, he immediately recognized that the soldiers who were tied up were actually his subordinates.

"What happened?" Jiang Qin asked anxiously.

The soldiers didn't dare to say anything, Jiang Qin turned around and asked, "Where is General Zhou?" ”

"I'm here!"

Zhou Tai slowly walked out of the darkness and walked in front of Jiang Qin, he pointed at the bound soldiers with his horsewhip and said: "General Jiang, these soldiers tried to defect to the enemy, and they were caught when they climbed the city wall. ”