The next offensive plan of the Zhou army is already very obvious, that is, to prepare to directly divide the troops into four ways to build a pontoon bridge and attack with all their might! Lin Feng urgently ordered the special soldiers to reconnoiter along the riverbank, and at the same time ordered the generals above the deputy general in the army to rush to the west camp behind the water village to discuss matters.

When these generals arrived, the reconnaissance information also arrived: at the pier north of Shouzhou City, the Zhou army also built two pontoon bridges in the rear.

Before Lin Feng could speak, Li Congqian, the king of Ji, rushed over with the four Chen Fei brothers and Lin Hong, and shouted as soon as he entered the big tent: "Mr. Lin, I didn't catch up with the last battle, and I must not be left behind again this time!" ”

The last time the Zhou army crossed the river to attack, Li Congqian was training with Chen Fei and them at the Junior Military Academy, and he was very annoyed after hearing the news, and kept shouting that he wanted to lead the junior soldiers of the Junior Military Academy to the battlefield, but was persuaded by Lin Feng to go down. This time, he took the initiative to come to the door.

Lin Feng motioned to Chen Fei and the others to go out first, and then put the big tent under martial law and start a secret military discussion.

In the first item of the military discussion, Lin Feng first raised a major problem: the defense of the counties in Shouzhou.

Lin Feng did not shy away from saying anything, and laid out the difficulties of defense one by one, and asked everyone to discuss and come up with ideas together.

At the beginning, because Li Congqian was present, everyone was silent, and after a long time, Xi Mucheng spoke: "I suggest that the county towns be given up and the population will be temporarily relocated to Shouzhou. ”

The people in the house shook their heads together when they heard the sound, if tens of thousands of people are added to Shouzhou City, how many days will the food in the city last? This is equivalent to tying one's hands and feet and surrendering without a fight!

Lin Feng also shook his head slightly, he wanted to say but had nothing to say, and he completely realized the deep desolation when those guards lived and died with the small city in the past war.

The 180,000 wolf-like Zhou army can sweep these four small counties with a little time by casually dividing tens of thousands of people. If there are too many guards, it is one thing to disperse the defensive strength of Shouzhou, and the small county town will not be able to live, and the grain storage in the city will not be able to withstand it; If there are fewer troops, it will simply be sending sheep into the tiger's mouth; No matter how you choose, you will lose manpower in vain. But if Lin Feng really wants to let go and abandon those people, he can't get over his psychology at all.

Except for Lin Feng, who bowed his head and was silent, the others unanimously turned their eyes to Li Congqian.

Li Congqian, who was originally relaxed, felt this invisible pressure, slowly sat up straight, his face became stiff, and after a long time, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said loudly: "I am King Ji and a prison army, I will make up my mind about this matter!" I think we should focus on Shouzhou, and the counties can abandon and surrender if necessary, as long as they don't join the enemy army, they will not be guilty in the future! But, Mr. Lin, you have to swear to me that you will definitely recover every county town in the future! ”

The other generals couldn't help but exhale secretly, Li Congqian's willingness to come forward to assume the political responsibility of ordering the abandonment of the city was undoubtedly the best result.

"Please testify to the generals, I hereby solemnly swear to King Ji that even if I give up this life, I will completely recover all the county seats!" Lin Feng slowly stood up, raised his right hand, and bowed deeply to Li Congqian, expressing his deep apologies and gratitude to him in his heart!

This time, Lin Feng deliberately let Li Congqian take responsibility, and there was no way, as long as the war between the north and the south could develop according to the plan he had set, and then successfully recover the four county towns, Li Congqian's abandonment of the city was a trivial matter.

Lin Feng's right hand did not let go, two lines of tears flowed from his closed eyes, and he choked up in words: "Today, I, Lin Feng, am incompetent and unable to protect every citizen of Shouzhou. This is a shame that Lin Feng will never forget! I, Lin Feng, swear here that as long as the Zhou army has any act of harming the people in Shouzhou, I will definitely double it in the future! ”

Feng Jingyun, Ge Chang, and Cheng Yuehai jumped up at the same time, beat their chests and shouted: "We also solemnly swear!" ”

Suo Chao, Chen Lifei, Li Yuanqing and others were half a beat slower, but they all stood up and roared wildly.

Li Congqian was also infected by the atmosphere in the tent, and the person suddenly jumped on the chair, beat his chest and shouted: "I swear on behalf of Datang that I will never let go of anyone who hurts my Datang people!" ”

The other generals also roared at the same time: "I will never let go of anyone who harms my Tang people!" ”

In the roar, Xi Mucheng quietly retreated and arranged the matters that had just been agreed.

After waiting for the tent to calm down, Lin Feng looked serious and announced that he would begin to discuss the second agenda item, how to deal with the enemy's pontoon attack.

Affected by the atmosphere just now, the generals suggested that half of the defenders of Shouzhou should be pulled to the bank of the Huai River, and that not a single Zhou soldier should be spared to kill on the embankment.

Lin Feng turned his head and asked Lu Jiang in a low voice, how many movable trebuchets have been designed? Lu Jiang shook his head slightly and stretched out two fingers.

Two is no less! Lin Feng waved his fist and shouted, "Okay, just according to what everyone said!" Let's use their blood to tell these enemies that our Shouzhou will be their eternal nightmare! Kill! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The generals also turned into bloodthirsty demons, waving their fists and roaring.

Chen Fei and Lin Hong, who were outside the tent, also rushed in, and together with Li Congqian, who jumped on the chair again, they waved their small fists and shouted loudly.

Taking advantage of this excitement, Lin Feng ordered the six lieutenant generals to lead their respective subordinates and regimental training soldiers to defend the attack lines of the six pontoon bridges and immediately start preparing for battle.

The generals took orders and left.

At the same time, the Southern Tang Dynasty Hall, which had been holding a court meeting for several days in a row, was also excited, but they were because of two urgent reports sent by the eight-hundred-mile fast horse:

Earlier, it was an urgent report from Li Jingda, the envoy of the king of E, Jiangyin Jiedu, that Wu Yue sent 40,000 troops to attack Changzhou, and it was very likely that he would send more than 100,000 troops to attack Fuzhou and Quanzhang.

The other letter was sent a little later, by Chen Xu, the envoy of Jianzhou and Zhangwu Jiedu, who reported that Fuzhou in the north and Chaozhou in the south were likely to be invaded by heavy troops, and asked the imperial court to send troops and food support as soon as possible.

Coupled with the Zhou soldiers who had already Chen Bing Huaihe, the current Southern Tang Dynasty was very likely to face three strong enemies at the same time, which was exactly the battle situation that Lin Feng had predicted before! This fact is like an invisible mountain, which makes the atmosphere that has been suppressed in the Southern Tang Dynasty even stronger.

At the beginning, Li Jing told Lin Feng that Lin Feng originally proposed to deal with the Hou Zhou, supplemented by Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty, and set up three defense lines along the Huai River, Jiangbei, and Jiangnan.

Some people have suggested that if Wu Yuetu sends a partial army to attack, he can attack Jinling to the west and cross the river to attack the eastern capital to the north. Of course, this childish and ridiculous was immediately attacked by the other ministers to nothing. This is like saying that the Southern Tang Dynasty can also send a partial division to successfully raid Wu Yue's Jingshi Hangzhou!

Some people suggested that all the elite soldiers from Fenghua, Anhua, Zhennan, Zhaowu and other places should be summoned to Jinling City as soon as possible to strengthen the city's defenses. This suggestion had similarities with Lin Feng's third line of defense, and was also scoffed at by many ministers.

Li Hongji of the Eastern Capital also sent a battle order, requesting to lead the troops of the Eastern Capital to the front line to help, and also caused the ministers to argue over whether to send troops to the Eastern Capital and in that direction.

And so on and so forth.

The theme of the debate in the Tang Dynasty of the Southern Tang Dynasty changed three times a day, and it was not the most difficult to form a final resolution.

After Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, rushed back from Chuzhou, a short-sighted imperial historian handed over a fold, saying that the western capital of the Tang Dynasty was very close to the eastern capital, and it was too close to the Zhou State and Wu Yue, so it was necessary to take precautions and move the capital to Hongzhou (now Nanchang, Jiangxi), where the Zhennan Army was located, or Tanzhou in Chudi, which would be more beneficial to the country's long-term prosperity.

This letter made Li Jingsui angry, and immediately ordered the Chaoban army to take down this imperial historian and send him to prison.