Liu Zhang made his final decision as the sovereign.

There are some things that you can rest assured and boldly let your subordinates take the blame, but some things don't work.

As a sovereign, there is still a need to have the responsibilities that should be had.

So Liu Zhang asked Zhang Ren to pass on the word like this, which was to tell Wen Ping that he killed the person.

I also told Jiang Dong and Lu Meng that I would not agree to your request.

As for Liu Zhang's last sentence, obviously, Zhang Rendang didn't hear it, and went to greet Liu Zhang the next morning, and at the same time told Liu Zhang Wenpin's reaction.

Wen Ping really didn't know that Lu Meng had contacted Liu Zhang privately, and Liu Bei didn't do what Zhang Ren and Liu Zhang thought about, so he installed a fine work in Liu Zhang's mansion.

After all, Liu Bei is not an immortal, it is impossible to think that Jiangdong would use Liu Zhang's identity to make a fuss, in Liu Bei's opinion, it is enough to let Wen Ping keep an eye on Liu Zhang, just in case.

Wen Ping was still puzzled when he saw Zhang Ren carrying his head, and after listening to Zhang Ren finish telling him what happened, his whole back was soaked.

I'm afraid.

If Liu Zhang really started an incident in the public security city, it would be really difficult to deal with Wenpin.

Liu Bei did hint that Wen Ping was watching Liu Zhang, but this was only a hint and there was no formal order.

Liu Zhang's identity is too special, coupled with Zhang Ren's relationship, even if Wen Ping can quell this civil strife in time, he will be greatly injured.

It's just usual, but now that the Jiangdong Army is besieging the city outside, even if he is willing to help Liu Bei carry this black pot, the public security can't hold it, so it doesn't make any sense to carry this pot.

Now fortunately, Liu Zhang rejected Jiangdong's solicitation, and killed the messenger and asked Zhang Ren to send it to him, which is tantamount to cutting off his own way back and reassuring himself.

Wen Ping immediately got up and thanked Zhang Ren for saluting, this is not a gift to Zhang Ren, this gift is for Liu Zhang.

At the same time, Wen Ping also said that after repelling the Jiangdong army, he would personally visit Liu Zhang and ask Liu Bei for Liu Zhang's credit.

Indeed, just because Liu Zhang did not accept Jiangdong's solicitation and there was no civil strife, it was enough to help Liu Zhang ask Liu Bei for credit.

Of course, asking for credit is fake, but in fact, it is telling Liu Bei in disguise that now Liu Zhang is very honest, he just wants to be an honest rich man, and he doesn't need to worry too much.

This is what Liu Zhang needs most now.

After Liu Zhang heard Zhang Ren's words relayed by Wen Ping, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then hurriedly urged Zhang Ren to defend the city, and said that if the troops were not enough, he still had three or four thousand tenants to call.

Although it can't help much, but as a people's husband, you can still do it by transporting rolling stones and wood.

Now Liu Zhang, it is tantamount to making his position clear, so he simply puts it more obviously.

This really doesn't blame Liu Zhang, but whenever there is hope, Liu Zhang also wants to make a comeback.

But now the situation in the world is already like this, and fighting back and forth is nothing more than a question of who is strong and who is weak among the three, and there is no room for anyone to start from scratch in the gap between the three.

In this case, Liu Zhang might as well keep his wealth.

Liu Zhang himself is not an ambitious person, let alone an indomitable person like Liu Bei, otherwise he would not easily lose Yizhou, a treasure land that he has ruled for more than ten years.

Zhang Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the west gate and the south gate to be responsible for defending the city wall.

Lu Meng, who was outside the city, waited for about three days, but still did not wait for Liu Zhang to get into trouble, and the news of the civil unrest in the public security city was faintly uneasy.

It doesn't make sense.

Generally speaking, for a person like Liu Zhang, even if Liu Bei treats him well on the surface, he still has to be on guard in private.

As long as Liu Zhang sees his envoy, then Wen Ping will know that whether Liu Zhang wants to or not, he should rebel.

And if Liu Zhang reverses, Zhang Ren, the deputy general of the public security, will also rebel.

Why hasn't there been movement for half a day?!

Could it be that Liu Zhang is really so unproductive?! Or maybe Liu Zhang really didn't hate Liu Bei, and would rather kill his envoy to show loyalty to Liu Bei than cooperate with Jiangdong?!

No, I can't. This Liu Zhang, isn't it?!

This was the first time that Lu Meng felt that things were a little out of his control.

But no matter what, Lü Meng decided not to wait any longer, and wrote a letter to Wen Ping, the guard of the public security city, telling Wen Ping that Xu Shu of Wuling had been dragged by the barbarian rebellion, and he could not wait for reinforcements from Wuling.

Carry out a wave of attack first, maybe Wen Ping will surrender?!

And Wen Ping's reaction to this was to throw a human head from the city. Lu Meng ordered someone to take it back and take a look, and he knew that his plan had completely failed.

Wen Ping not only rejected his persuasion, but also sabotaged his plan to try to incite Liu Zhang to rebel.

Seriously, Lu Meng really doesn't understand, how Liu Zhang resisted this temptation, could it be that after so many years, the landlord has consumed his ambition as the lord of one party?!

Don't even dare to take this risk?!

But no matter what, since the strategy has failed, let's adapt to the situation and move according to the times.

The public security is an important fulcrum for Wuling County to support Nanjun, and if it is not taken down, it will always be a threat.

But at the same time, the place of public security is not particularly necessary for the Jiangdong Army, which has the advantage of a naval army.

If there are enough sailors to block the Yangtze River waterway, and block the public security and Wuling reinforcements on the south bank of the Yangtze River, so that they cannot cross the river, then in fact, public security is not so important.

Public security, for Jiangling, is an outpost and a transit point for reinforcements, but for Jiangdong, there is no need to fight public security.

Because Jiangdong's naval army is enough to block the public security ferry.

If you can lay down the public security and eliminate Gangneung's expectation of reinforcements, then it will indeed be of great benefit to attack Gangneung City.

But it can't be beaten, and it's not a big problem.

Lü Meng continued to attack the city for another five days, and after still not being able to break through the city defenses of the public security, Lü Meng began to consider the possibility of bypassing the public security and going ashore from the north bank of the Yangtze River to attack Jiangling.

After all, the important thing is the speed of the attack.

Now that almost half a month has been wasted under the public security city, it is not clear that Jiangling City has been prepared, and if the troops are not quickly advanced, I am afraid that it will change from a sneak attack to a strong attack.

Moreover, Lu Meng also had to cooperate with Sun Yu and Sun Huan's attacking troops, calculating the time, they should have already begun to attack Yingxian.

Although Yingxian County was the capital of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but after 500 years of abandonment, the original city could not be inhabited for a long time, and now there is only a newly built small city as the county seat, and it should not be a big problem to capture this city.

Therefore, Lu Meng also had to think about marching north as soon as possible and joining Sun Yu and Sun Huan brothers under Jiangling City.

As long as Jiangling City is broken, Jiangxia and Nanjun can be connected together, and then Lü Meng and the Sun brothers will wave their troops north together to attack Xiangyang, and cooperate with the Cao army in the north of Xiangfan to attack before and after, without worrying about Guan Yu not being broken.

As long as Guan Yu is defeated, then Wuling and Lingling can be determined, not to mention the small public security.

Of course, the public security could not ignore the fact that the public security only had 4,000 people to garrison, and Lü Meng, for the sake of safety, left Xu Sheng's commander 8,000 people to continue to besiege the city, and he himself led the remaining 30,000 people to the north to attack Jiangling.

And in Jiangling City, Wang Ji, who was the deputy guard of Nanjun in Jingzhou, had already received the information from Wen Ping before the siege of the city, and learned that Jiangdong had betrayed the alliance and that Lü Meng personally led a large army to attack Nanjun.

Wang Ji didn't panic, really.

Wang Ji himself felt super strange, it was obviously the first time he had come into contact with the war, and he didn't mean to panic at all.

It stands to reason that now Nanjun has just been sent north by Guan Yu with 10,000 soldiers to support, and there are only about 7,000 garrisons left in the city, which is indeed a time when the garrison force is insufficient.

But Wang Ji carefully checked the map and found that he was not actually without reinforcements.

First of all, the walls of Gangneung Fortress were built very high, and the city defense was strong, and this Wang Ji had inspected it himself, so he knew this very well.

The high wall means that ordinary ladders or hook ladders cannot directly climb the city walls, and must be specially made, which requires a waste of time for the besieging party.

Second, the autumn harvest has just been experienced, and there is no shortage of grain and grass in the treasury of Gangneung City, at least for a few months, there is no need to worry about the besieged grain and grass being cut off.

Third, in the southwest of Gangneung City, there is a miner battalion led by Deng Ai, where weapons have been distributed since last month, and under the leadership of Deng Ai, they are actively practicing and can return to Gangneung City at any time if necessary.

In this way, Gangneung City has a garrison of 12,000 troops.

In addition, the three counties of Linfang, Zhijiang and Dangyang in the north of Jiangling City all have garrisons, especially the Linfang garrison, which is as high as 3,000.

Therefore, after Wang Ji received the battle report from the public security, he immediately ordered that the garrison of Linfu should transfer 2,000 soldiers and horses back to Jiangling, leaving only 1,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the Wei army in Fangling County in the northwest.

Zhijiang, Dangyang's garrison troops all recovered the city of Gangneung and strengthened the defense. These two places were originally the hinterland of Nanjun, and if Gangneung held it, the two counties would not be in danger, but if Gangneung could not hold it, it would be impossible to rely on the garrisons of these two counties to hold it.

As for Deng Ai's 5,000 miners' battalion. Wang Ji did not immediately transfer back, but ordered Deng Ai to choose the opportunity to move, harass the flank of the Jiangdong Army, and prevented the Jiangdong Army from concentrating its forces to attack the city with all its might.

After Wang Ji's transfer, he suddenly found that there were more than 10,000 defenders in Jiangling City, and outside the city, there were 5,000 people led by Deng Ai to roam, which should be enough in theory.

After all, judging from the news that Tanma came back, Jiangdong has a total of 30,000 or 40,000 troops this time, and he has a total of 15,000 people to defend it, as well as the strong city defense of Jiangling City, and the strength of the troops is not too small.

But then, Wang Ji got another not-so-good news.

More than 20,000 Jiangdong troops were dispatched from Jiangxia, and they soon occupied Wulin, and now they are moving towards Yingxian.

If you calculate it this way, the Jiangdong army has about 60,000 people, while Gangneung City has only 15,000 people, of which 5,000 are still cruising outside the city.

It seems that the troops are a little insufficient.

Just when Wang Ji was pondering whether to let Deng Ai lead the army back to Jiangling and strengthen the defensive forces in Jiangling City, Wang Ji got another piece of good news.

The Jiangdong Army, which had attacked from Jiangxia, marched slowly in Yingxian, and only marched 50 miles in ten days.

Wang Ji wondered, what is the situation?!

As a result, if you take a closer look at the battle report, Wang Ji is a little incredulous. More than 20,000 Jiangdong troops were stunned and dragged by the Yingxian garrison, which had only 1,000 people.

And the reason for this is only because of a county lieutenant - Shi Bao.

(End of chapter)