Lü Meng is much luckier than Sun Huan, he doesn't have to worry about his grain and grass supply line, because Lü Meng's supply line is through the Yangtze River waterway.

Originally, if the public security was not laid, Lu Meng's grain and grass supply line would also be cut off by the public security.

However, the reason why Lü Meng dared to besiege the public security and attack Jiangling first was because the public security had few civilian soldiers and no naval army, so self-protection may not be a problem, but it was absolutely powerless to attack out of the city.

What's more, just in case, Lu Meng also arranged for Xu Sheng to watch the public security officer, so he was relieved to lead the troops north to attack Jiangling.

Jiangling is on the edge of the Yangtze River, the west gate of Jiangling City, and the distance between the south gate and the Yangtze River are all within fifty miles.

But Lu Meng also has Lu Meng's troubles.

Although Lü Meng led the army to cross the Yangtze River smoothly and landed on the north bank, it was not fast to go in the direction of Jiangling.

Because Deng Ai led 5,000 miners from the miners' battalion, they appeared on the flank of the Lü Meng army from time to time, threatening the safety of the Lü Meng army's march.

Since the attack on the public security, Lu Meng knew that this sneak attack on Jingzhou could no longer be described as a sneak attack, and the next attack on Jiangling could only be a strong attack.

If Lü Meng can successfully conquer the public security and cut off the possibility of Wuling Xu Shu supporting Jiangling, and Sun Huan and Sun Yu can also lead the army to march quickly, and the two armies converge under the city of Jiangling, then Lü Meng is fully confident that he can persuade Wang Ji to surrender.

After all, in Lu Meng's view, Wang Ji is just a scholar, with no experience in warfare, and at the same time, he is not a native of Jingzhou, and he has not even been a native of Jingzhou for a long time, so he can't afford to fight to the death for Liu Bei when he can't see any hope.

But the problem now is that the public security has not taken it, and the Wuling side does not know when it will be free, in this case, it is basically impossible for you to expect Wang Ji to surrender without a fight.

Therefore, Lü Meng changed his strategic plan, and before the situation in various places changed greatly, he attacked and stormed Jiangling to create enough pressure on Jiangling, so that he might be able to force the scholar Wang Ji to surrender.

As long as Gangneung is conquered and then swept across the northern counties of Gangneung, then the resistance of Wuling and Lingling will not last long.

As for Xiangyang, this is not something that Lu Meng can solve alone, it depends on whether Cao Cao in the north has the ability.

Therefore, Lü Meng's strategy has changed from breaking Guan Yu and capturing Jingxiang from the front and back to at least capturing Nanjun now, so as to force Wuling and Lingling to surrender, all according to Jingnan.

In order to capture Namgun, it is necessary to rush to Namgunjun to govern Gangneung as soon as possible, and launch an attack on Gangneung as soon as possible.

But at this time, on his flank, an army of about 5,000 people appeared.

Who is in command of this army?!

Unclear.

How's the fight?!

I don't know.

What is the purpose?!

Even less understood.

Faced with such a situation, how dare Lu Meng march with peace of mind.

After all, there are quite a few people, 5,000 people.

You must know that Lu Meng brought a total of about 35,000 people to Jiangbei, and 5,000 people threatened his flank, if he didn't solve it, he wouldn't be at ease.

Therefore, Lü Meng sent Ding Feng to lead 5,000 Jiangdong troops to tentatively attack this army.

As a result, the other party was very cunning and retreated with one touch.

Ding Feng wanted to pursue, but Lu Meng quickly called Ding Feng back.

Obviously, the other party's purpose is to divide his troops so that he can devote fewer troops to attacking Gangneung, so as to have the purpose of defending Gangneung.

If you go after it, you can only fall for someone else's job.

The most important thing is that Lu Meng found that the commanders and generals of this team judged the situation very accurately, and the timing was quite ripe when to approach to create a threat and when to retreat to protect themselves.

This kind of commanding ability and battlefield observation ability is absolutely not something that ordinary people can achieve.

Such a person is even more unable to divide his troops to attack, and would rather let him stay on the flanks and be on guard at all times, rather than divide his troops to pursue. If someone eats it in one bite, it will be a heavy loss.

Fortunately, Jiangling City is not far away, although Lu Meng always has to worry about a sneak attack on the flank, but after all, he successfully set up camp under Jiangling City.

After the camp was over, Lü Meng also sent a scout to contact the Sun brothers who came from Jiangxia, but the scouts left the camp fifty miles to investigate, but they did not find any trace of the Sun brothers.

Lu Meng was wondering, what is the situation?!

I wasted fifteen days under the public security city, and it stands to reason that the Sun brothers should have arrived earlier than themselves.

Why hasn't it arrived yet?!

Lu Meng didn't know the situation for the time being, so he could only set up a camp first, strengthen the guard first, and order the siege camp to build siege equipment and prepare for the siege.

Jiangling City Defense is strong, this Lu Meng knows, after all, there are key research reports on Jiangling City Defense in the early intelligence work.

But when I actually looked at it, I realized that this Guan Yu actually built Jiangling City so strongly.

The height of the city wall is about five zhang, which is one zhang higher than the wall of an ordinary city, and at this height, the attack of the ladder and the hook ladder will be very difficult, and the defenders have more time to throw the rolling wood and stones.

Even if you use a crossbow to suppress the head of the wall, the position of the crossbow shooter needs to be moved a few feet forward, otherwise it is difficult to effectively suppress it.

However, the crossbowman moves forward and is easily suppressed by the opponent's archers. Dilemma.

Not to mention such a Gangneung City, there must be conventional defensive facilities such as the urn city, the inner city, the hidden soldier cave, the arrow tower, and the arrow hole, and it is really not easy to gnaw this hard bone by siege warfare.

Looking at Jiangling City like this, Lu Meng frowned and thought for a long time, he really didn't know how to attack.

Conventional attack, it's not impossible, now the defenders in Jiangling City, Lu Meng calculated, will not exceed 10,000 people, and the defenders of Jiangling Wangji have no military experience, and it is not yet known whether they can effectively organize the city defense.

However, if the conventional siege method is to be used, it will inevitably increase the casualties of the Jiangdong army.

You must know that the sneak attack on Jingzhou is not the end of the battle, Xiangyang in the north is still in Guan Yu's hands, once Guan Yu really gives up the defense of Xiangfan to help, and if he attacks Nanjun and loses too much, he may not be able to hold Jiangling City.

And if you want to reduce the losses and break through Gangneung, the only way is probably to attract the defenders of the city out of the city to fight in the field, defeat them in the field battle, and reduce the number of defenders of the city, so that there is hope to take this fortified city at a relatively small price.

Although there were also battle losses in the field, Lu Meng felt that he was facing a weak scholar who did not have any experience in leading troops, and the losses in the field were within his control.

But here's the problem. How do you attract the guards in the city to agree to fight?!

It's not impossible, after all, the guard general Wang Ji is a scribe, even if he has read military books before, he won't have any experience in battle formations.

Moreover, Wang Ji's reputation was not obvious before, and he was young, but he was in a high position, relying only on the name of the teacher and the ancestor, and the guards in the city would inevitably be unconvinced, and Wang Ji should also want to prove himself.

Lu Meng thought for a while, and went back to the camp to write a letter to Wang Ji, a letter of persuasion to belittle Wang Ji.

Degrading Wang Ji is not the goal, Lu Meng wants to arouse Wang Ji's competitive spirit through this belittlement, and go out of the city to fight with him.

Therefore, Lu Meng first said in the letter that Wang Ji was young, relying on the shadow of his master to ascend to the throne, and he had nothing to do in literature and martial arts, but he was shamelessly in a high position in the state and county, not ashamed but proud, and he was a person without virtue.

Then he began to tell how he went from a small soldier, step by step to establish meritorious service, to his current high position, compared to Wang Ji, he should be a hero in the world, and Wang Ji is just a villain who relies on the lintel to get in.

In the end, it is to persuade Wang Ji to surrender, so that Wang Ji can quickly understand the surrender of current affairs, otherwise after the city is broken, the whole family will not be left.

From beginning to end of this letter, Lu Meng did not mention that he wanted Wang Ji to go out of the city to fight, but Lu Meng believed that if Wang Ji could not bear to go out of the city after reading these words, it would be incredible.

In this year, all the scholars have to be embarrassed, and they are all scolded like that, Wang Jidan should also go out of the city to prove himself in a battle.

And as long as Wang Ji is out of the city, it is not difficult for him, a general who has climbed up from the bottom step by step, to defeat a literati who has gone to the battlefield for the first time.

After Wang Ji received Lu Meng's letter, he was really angry.

It's not Zhang Xi, who is used to seeing people scolding the street in his previous life, so it's no wonder that Wang Ji is not angry about this kind of letter that completely denies himself.

And at this time, Wang Ji was indeed only in his twenties, somewhat young and vigorous, and at that time he was thinking of leading his troops out of the city and fighting to the death with Lu Meng.

But this time out of the house, as soon as the cold wind blew, Wang Ji suddenly calmed down. Go out of the city and go to the field on your own?!

Isn't that a death?!

Although I have read some military books and understand some strategies, I have never commanded a military battle.

People who haven't been to the barracks a few times command a group of soldiers to go out of the city to fight, isn't that an act of looking for death?!

Besides, if Lu Meng could choose to invade Jingzhou when the garrison of Nanjun was the emptiest, could he really be such an unwise person?!

If Jiangdong even dared to let this kind of person be the governor of one side, he would dare to let him lead so many armies to attack others. Unless Sun Quan is also mentally retarded.

Therefore, this should be a drama in which Lu Meng tried to provoke himself and provoke himself to go out of the city to fight.

You can't be fooled, or stick to the city.

Well, knowing is so knowing, but. The more I think about it, the more angry I get.

But Wang Ji really can't help it, he really doesn't have any available soldiers and generals in his hands now.

Wen Ping was trapped in the public security, and he couldn't retreat from the enemy to support for a while, Deng Ai was still outside the city and did not return to the city, although he was very smart and directly led the troops to threaten the flank of the Jiangdong Army, but it also led to the fact that there was no general in the army now.

Wang Ji knows very well that now his main general, just because of his high position, he has to catch ducks on the shelf, but he has no experience in battle formations at all, commanding soldiers to fight to defend the city, and he still has a chance to explore and tolerate mistakes, but when he goes out of the city to meet the enemy, he really thinks that he died not fast enough.

Seriously, as long as there is a general in the past now, Wang Ji really wants to try, and Lu Meng will break his wrist when he goes out of the city.

It's not a plan, the main thing is that Wang Ji also has some ideas of his own, and he wants to try it, whether it will work.

But now I don't have this manpower.

Wang Ji was thinking so, and this manpower was sent to the door.

The soldiers guarding the north gate came to report, saying that there was a group of soldiers knocking on the door outside the north gate, the number was about 600, and the leader claimed to be Shi Bao, the county lieutenant of Yingxian County, and carried the seal letter with him.

Wang Ji's face suddenly changed, and he hurried to the north gate.

(End of chapter)