As Chen Ping said, there are cities on the east, west and north sides of Jiangyang, forming a semi-encirclement to sandwich it between them, Lin Haotian does not know how these four cities were built at that time, but their unique layout is indeed suitable for defensive purposes.

In fact, Jiangyang was not a city, but a town, but the location is just between Songqiu, Ningding, Taifeng, and the junction of the three counties, many caravans, tourists have to pass by Jiangyang, here to rest and play sharp, so Jiangyang Town is very lively, the population is increasing, the town is also expanding, and later the county head of the county to which it belongs is very happy, in order to increase the number of cities in the county, he applied to the court at that time to promote Jiangyang Town to Jiangyang City, the court at that time did not do much checking, and approved it in a daze.

As a result, Jiangyang Town became Jiangyang City, but the scale was indeed smaller than other cities.

Chu Lianyu said that Jiangyang is a small city, with low walls and no moat.

Lin Haotian carefully studied Chen Ping's opinion, and finally decided to adopt it.

It's not that he thinks Chen Ping's strategy is clever, but now he can't think of any other way to deal with the enemy. However, Lin Haotian did not break his promise, and promoted Chen Ping's position as a counselor with the army to join the army.

The rank of the military officer is higher than that of the military counselor, second only to the military division of the army, and he can directly make suggestions to the commander-in-chief, and is also qualified to participate in large-scale military meetings.

According to Chen Ping's insight, Lin Haotian left the Sixth Army in Changyu County and ordered it to avoid the enemy's edge and hide in the jungle to specialize in the logistics of sneaking attacks on the enemy.

Lin Haotian was able to leave the Sixth Legion led by Mu Wu in Changyu County, showing great trust in Mu Wu and the Sixth Legion, which made Mu Wu very excited, and he also completely made up his mind to follow Lin Haotian to the death.

In the following battle, the Sixth Legion greatly pinned down the You Yan coalition army in Changyu County and became their henchmen. This also greatly reduced the pressure on Lin Haotian.

Let's say that on Lin Haotian's side, he successively sent the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army, and only the Fourth Army was left under his command, and the strength of the army was sharply reduced to more than 100,000.

Lin Haotian didn't stop much in Changyu County, and traveled all the way to the northeast, heading straight for Jiangyang.

Five days later. The Jin army arrived in Jiangyang.

When he arrived in Jiangyang, Lin Haotian couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

Jiangyang is actually not small, but the problem is that its city is very small, only a few miles in radius, and outside the city wall, there are dense houses and streets, if you count these houses, then the area of Jiangyang has to be at least one or two times larger.

Obviously, there was something wrong with Jiangyang's original planning. The city was built so small that as the population increased, the original city could not accommodate so many people, and the people who had nowhere to live had to build houses on the periphery of the city walls.

After the Jin army arrived in Jiangyang, it could not deploy defenses first, but had to clear the people inside and outside the city wall first. Otherwise, when the time comes, the sword and gun will have no eyes, and I don't know how many people will be killed by mistake!

Lin Haotian also ordered Shao Lin to send letters to the city lords of Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng respectively, ordering them to organize troops and manpower. Do a good job of defense, the main force of the You Yan coalition army may attack at any time.

The city lord of the three cities received Lin Haotian's order. Where they dared to delay, they sent letters to the county and the county, asking the county soldiers and county soldiers to reinforce immediately, and at the same time they themselves gathered the officers and soldiers in the city to strengthen the city defense and store grain and grass.

Jin Jun has only been in Jiangyang for one day. The people of Jiangyang were about to run away, and in the end, only some strong men who were willing to stay as coolies remained.

The city lord of Jiangyang City did not run, nor did he dare to run, and organized a small number of officers and soldiers in the city and strong men to cooperate with the Jin army to deploy defenses.

Lin Haotian inspected his own defense situation on the city wall, and looked at the empty houses inside and outside the city. He sighed in his heart, fighting on the mainland, no matter whether the battle went smoothly or not, it was the people of his country who suffered in the end.

The Jin army outside the city walls did not waste it, and they set traps from house to house, although it was very rough, but it was absolutely no problem to kill and injure enemy soldiers.

The city also concentrated all the trebuchets of the Jin army, once the enemy ran into the houses to avoid their own arrows, the stone bullets of the trebuchets could collapse the houses, killing and injuring the enemy.

Lin Haotian was ready in Jiangyang, just waiting for the You Yan coalition army to attack.

At this time, the You Yan coalition army was still marching slowly in Changyu County.

The terrain of Changyu County is too complicated, with many mountains and woodlands, so he dare not venture into it, for fear of being ambushed by the Jin army.

Although the spies have reported it to him, Lin Haotian led the army into Jiangyang City, but Ren Tianxing is still cautious, in addition, the Yan army's baggage is too much, and he can't go fast if he wants to, and the siege weapons such as heavy stone throwers, rushing cars, thunderbolt cars, cloud cars, and arrow towers are extremely difficult to walk on the mountain roads of Changyu County.

The advantage of a slow march is that it can prevent the enemy from ambushing, and second, it also gives Ren Tianxing enough time to ponder the combat intentions of the Jin army.

Chu Chen was unimpressed by the Jin army's retreat to Jiangyang, according to the information sent back by the spies to Jiangyang, Jiangyang was just a small city, and the city walls were also short, in his opinion, Lin Haotian was asking for his own death.

He disliked that the Yan army was walking too slowly, so he proposed to Ren Tianxingfang that he lead the 250,000 You army to go first, wait for him to break through Jiangyang, cut off Lin Haotian's head, and then come back to meet him.

Listening to the meaning of Chu Chen's words, it seems that he led the army to capture Jiangyang, and the Yan army may not be able to go to Jiangyang.

After listening to his words, Ren Tianxing shook his head and smiled, and said: "General Chu, Lin Haotian knows the art of war very well, the reason why he chose to garrison the small city of Jiangyang, don't you have any doubts in your heart?"

Chu Chen blinked his eyes and said nonchalantly: "He must have been chased by our army in a hurry, and he chose to defend against our army in Jiangyang." ”

Ren Tianxing sighed, asked people to take the map, spread it on the ground, and then raised his head to Chu Chen, and said: "General Chu, you see, the layout around Jiangyang is very interesting, it is adjacent to the three cities, Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng are less than a hundred miles away from Jiangyang, if our army attacks Jiangyang, once the three cities send reinforcements, it will not take a day to arrive, and then my army attacking the city will not be attacked by the enemy?"

Chu Chen inhaled, he really hadn't carefully studied the terrain around Jiangyang, he lowered his head, looked at the map carefully, and found that what Ren Tianxing said was right, the layout of Jiangyang and the surrounding three cities was indeed very strange, mainly because they were too close.

He subconsciously asked, "How many troops are there in each of the three cities of Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng?"

Ren Tianxing shook his head and said: "The spies who went out to investigate have not come back yet, and the specific situation is not clear, but there are not a few troops who want to come to these three cities, otherwise Lin Haotian would never be so relieved and bold to be stationed in Jiangyang." ”

Chu Chen is also a commander who is good at using soldiers, after listening to Ren Tianxing's analysis, he secretly said that it was reasonable, he rubbed his chin, and muttered: "This is a little troublesome." ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and asked Ren Tianxing, "Ren Shuai, what are you going to do?"

Ren Tianxing smiled and said, "I didn't have a good way for a while. General Chu, do you still want to fight this first battle now?"

This time, Chu Chen was not in a hurry to fight, he shook his head and said: "If it is only Jiangyang, I am confident that it will be defeated, but the key is that there are three cities as its backup, and this battle cannot be fought only by the strength of my army!"

"So, we still march slowly, trying to break the enemy as we go. Ren Tianxing said with a smile.

He said that he didn't come up with a solution, but in fact he already knew it.

Ren Tianxing is an expert in fighting tough battles, and he has dozens of cities captured by Yan Guo, not to mention dozens of them, with rich experience and experienced soldiers. In his opinion, it is easy to break Jiangyang, encircle the point and send reinforcements, to put it bluntly, it is to feint Jiangyang, lead Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng to send troops to reinforce, which side will come first, and let it have no return.

In a war, in fact, the commanders of the two armies figure out each other's minds and make correct calculations, and the next battle will be able to defeat the enemy step by step.

Ren Tianxing thought that Lin Haotian dared to garrison Jiangyang, and the surrounding three cities must have heavy troops, but in fact, the troops of the three cities of Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng were not many, and they might not be able to fill 5,000 people together.

Chen Ping's strategy itself is a risky move, and the reason why Lin Haotian will adopt it is that there is no way, and he also has a strong adventurous spirit. (To be continued......)