Zhao Yun was not dead-eyed, and he also speculated that the opponent's legion combat skills should only be effective when defending, and he also played a lot of tricks in the past few days to lure Yan Yan to take the initiative to attack, but Yan Yan didn't eat this set at all......

There is the effect of "resisting war", and the defenders of Linjiang, even if they keep shrinking, have little impact on their morale.

Of course, in essence, this is not a magical thing such as mental interference, but Yan Yan can train special Ji Zao soldiers, and mixed with ordinary Ji Zao soldiers, it can have an additional soothing effect.

Gan Mao returned to the Gan clan and hoped to rebel against the whole clan, but was rejected by the family......

Linjiang is the hometown of the Gan family.

Although the investment of the "Huiji Gan Clan" made the Gan family very pleased, the Linjiang Gan clan did not have the idea of the whole clan relocating and joining the Chu State.

After all, for the family, migration is a major event - when the Hu people went south in later generations, there were many families, as for the ordinary family, rooted in the north, relying on Wu Fort to protect themselves, and they were not willing to cross south.

Even if the Chu army was already in front of them, the Gan clan, as a typical local conservative clan, was not willing to take this risk.

After all, with Gan Ning, if Ba County or Yizhou are really annexed by Chu in the future, even if the Gan family does not have any credit during the period, as long as he expresses his submission, he can be stable and happy......

This generation of Gan has no other outstanding characters except for Gan Ning, and Gan Ning's character is still very flawed.

Now that Gan Ning can be reused in the Chu State, it is unexpected, and the Gan clan has no more ideas.

Because if you bet once, you will have limited credit and limited income if you win, in case you lose the bet, and finally the Chu State will return to Jingzhou this time, then no matter whether you can fight back in the future, the Gan family will be settled by the Marquis of Shu!

Even if he connected several other Linjiang Dashi clans and directly opposed the Shui Chu army, Yan Yan was not defenseless, the military affairs of Linjiang City had already been taken over by him, and the local Shi clan couldn't say anything at all.

Even if the scholars in Linjiang County are really willing to fully oppose the Chu army, Yan Yan's defenders can still build a village along the Yangtze River, as long as the grain road is unblocked, and can continue to confront the Chu army in Linjiang City, the pressure of logistics and transportation will still exist, and the Chu army may not be able to hold on and withdraw at any time.

It is equivalent to the grain tax of only the two counties of Quren and Yufu, which can be used to subsidize the military, as for Linjiang...... As long as Linjiang City is under Yan Yan's control, it will be difficult to counterattack the Chu army, but if you want to destroy the fields in other parts of the county, it should not be too simple.

Now the other clans, including the Gan clan, are still on the side of Yizhou Mansion, and they can still check and balance Yan Yan, so that he does not dare to defend the wall, but once he surrenders to Chu, Yan Yan no longer needs to care about them.

As for Gan Mao......

Since he had chosen to surrender to Chu, the Gan clan did not stop him, and even supported him to take away some clansmen who were willing to follow him.

It's just that except for some close relatives, there are actually no one.

After all, if you really want to go to the Chu State, isn't it good to rely on the surname "Gan" to follow the Metropolitan Governor of the Navy?

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"It is reasonable for Gan to have such concerns, and Camp Chief Gan does not have to blame himself." Zhao Yun comforted Gan Mao, who looked depressed.

Of course, Gan Mao didn't come back empty-handed, and Gan also gave him some hints, such as asking him to bring a message to Chu Jun......

"Will ...... Division commander, the clan also hinted to me that if there is anything that needs help in the military rations, you can contact them privately, not only the Gan clan, but also many other clans are willing to help...... Even if it doesn't play a key role, a little bit of a hand is still fine. Gan Mao said to Zhao Yun specially.

"Oh? If this is the case, then it is even better, and it will not make the Gan clan and other righteous people suffer, we can exchange the reserves of dried meat and Chu salt, or buy them with gold, silver, and Chu coins according to the market price of Yizhou. Zhao Yun said very gratefully when he heard this.

Of course, Zhao Yun could vaguely guess that Gan's meaning was not only to tell him that the scholars in Linjiang were "willing to help", but also to tell him that "they can't play a key role".

In other words, it is to prevent the Chu army from looting on the spot.

However, Zhao Yun didn't mean this in the first place, when he was in Youzhou, Zhao Yun was dissatisfied because Gongsun Chan began to rob the people, and the military regulations of the Chu army did not allow this......

What's more, there is also the relationship between Gan and Ning!

From the time Wen Ping arrived with the vanguard, on the tenth day when the Chu army was blocked in Linjiang, the two regiments behind the palace and Fa Zheng finally arrived - the road march of Ba County was difficult, and it was impossible to march in coordination on a large scale, so the team could only be stretched.

In the past ten days, the expenses of the two divisions were enough to garrison the troops in place for two or three months, and even Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were a little distressed.

It's just that Bajun is a mountainous place, not only is the road rugged, but it is easy to get lost, and Zhao Yun does not dare to bypass Linjiang easily, so as not to suffer the enemy on his back later-the Chu army is not as many as the other party!

"Confronting the Shu army here is not a long-term solution, what are your staff officers' best strategies to break the enemy?" Zhao Yun asked the staff headed by Fa Zheng for advice.

"Can you find the locals and see if there are any paths to the west? Yan Yan concentrated most of the troops of Ba County in Linjiang, if we can attack Jiangzhou in one go, the enemy army will be defeated without a fight, and Ba County can also be decided in a battle! A young scribe said.

This is also a scholar who won "A" in the military department during the imperial examination.

It's a pity that after Zhao Yun heard it, he shook his head and said: "I have also thought about this plan, but unfortunately even if it is a local, at most, they only know some mountain trails, and it is difficult to march on a large scale, and the mountains and rivers of Bajun are heavy, and the local Shu army is far better at mountain and forest warfare and mountain and forest marching than us."

If you rush into the mountains, not only will you not be able to get rid of the Shu army that is good at marching in the mountains, but you will be more likely to be besieged from many sides in unfamiliar mountain roads. ”

Fa Zheng frowned at this time and began to think of countermeasures......

I have been distracted just now, mainly scolding Zhang Song in my heart - I don't want you to give it to me! If you don't send a picture, you still burn it?

Fa is a Fufeng person, not from Yizhou, otherwise he wouldn't have been so bad before.

What's more, Yizhou is a mountainous place, how complicated are the mountain roads? Even locals don't necessarily know how to walk ten miles away!

Even the map is unreliable in Yizhou, especially Ba County - after all, the road here is three-dimensional!

That is, Zhang Song's unforgettable attention was not forgotten to integrate the topographic map of Xichuan that no one else could understand except himself......

Whether there is such a thing as a hidden path is not something that the "outsider" Fa Zheng will know, even if it is Yan Yan......

Kindness?

Fa Zheng suddenly thought of something, showed a confident but under-beaten smile, and then said: "Senior Zhao, according to the righteous opinion, if you want to defeat Yan Yan quickly, you should ...... 'so and so', 'so and so'......"

After listening to Fa Zheng's explanation of his plan, Zhao Yun showed a sudden expression, but he still said with some worry: "The chief of staff of the law has a very good plan, but ...... Is it too sinister? It's better to wait for Master Huang to come to converge, and then ......"

When Fa Zheng heard this, he directly interrupted: "No! If the two divisions of our Chu army converge, then Yan Yanding will be doubly cautious, this plan will be a suspicion, otherwise it will be even more difficult to make the trip. ”

The 1st Division of Shinno is arranging defense, and the main force will also arrive later.

After Zhao Yun cautiously took a step or two, he finally nodded and agreed to Fa Zheng's plan, and began to arrange it.

That night, Yan Yan found that the Chu military camp was too quiet, so he sent scouts to the front to strike the gong and then withdrew, and sure enough, it was ...... There are no pursuers!

When I explored again, I found that there were traces of the army rushing in the mountains and forests on the north side.

"To the north is the Horse Mountain, which is like a horse drinking water, and on the southern slope is a low-hanging horse, and the mountain is densely forested, with a steep slope, and although there is a stream, the steepness is by no means suitable for camping...... What are they going to do over there? Yan Yan wondered in his heart.

For this reason, Yan Yan specially asked the local woodcutter hunter to inquire, and the result was that they all said that there was no way to march in the mountains.

However, when I thought of Gan Ning of the Chu State, and Gan Mao, who had previously confirmed the surrender of the Chu army, and ...... It's Gan's in Linjiang County!

Yan Yan felt uneasy in his heart—could it be that Gan's knew what secret path?

Linjiang Gan clan came from Huainan Cai Gan clan, the ancestor was the prime minister of Qin in the pre-Qin period Gan Mao - that is, Gan Luo's grandfather - when Shu rebelled, Gan Mao was in command to quell the rebellion, and after the war, there were Gan clansmen who stayed in Shu, and it also became Linjiang Gan.

The time when the Gan clan took root in Ba County is older than the history of the Han Dynasty, and it is not surprising that he really knows what secret paths in the mountains and forests!

As soon as he thought of this, Yan Yan couldn't be calm, and after first determining that there were only a small number of soldiers in the Chu army camp pretending, he immediately ordered 5,000 people to press, and the remaining Chu army soldiers retreated to the northeast after being discovered.

Yan Yan ordered the Chu army's camp to be burned first - if it weren't for the fact that it was already late spring at this time and the vegetation was abundant, Yan Yan would even have the intention to set fire to the mountain!

After the camp was burned, the Chu army still had no intention of coming back, which made Yan Yan more and more dissatisfied.

But...... Yan Yan still didn't forget to beware of the Chu army's suspicious tactics, and more importantly, he found that there were signs of frightened birds in Junma Mountain - a flock of birds flew around the forest during the day, and it seemed that there were people in the mountain!

This made Yan Yan feel at the same time that it was likely that the other party was ambushed in the forest, and he didn't really have a way.

However, after this situation lasted for two days in a row, Yan Yan felt that something was not quite right-the Chu army should have only brought the grain and grass with him, could he really hold on for so long?

So he sent someone to investigate, but this time...... The scouts found a few civilian horses, cattle and sheep, and even captured wolves, tethered in the woods, neighing from hunger and irritability, or weakened.

Knowing that it was actually the livestock left behind by the Chu army that frightened the birds, Yan Yan couldn't calm down for a while......

Although I don't know the "secret path" of the Chu army's march, I can roughly guess that the Chu army must continue to the west after passing through Junma Mountain, Yan Yan hurriedly ordered the soldiers and horses, took the avenue to the west, and explored the traces of the Chu army along the way!