From Chengdu to Yufu, Pang Tong chatted with Jiang Wei all the way, and there was a risk of reshaping the three views that Jiang Wei talked about, but Pang Tong himself was very satisfied.

I've long wanted to talk to my juniors, and none of these individuals around me are worry-free.

Although he himself is not.

And when he arrived in Yufu and saw Chen Dao, Pang Tong straightforwardly put forward his request - take 5,000 soldiers and patrol along the river to prevent a sneak attack by Eastern Wu.

Chen was shocked by Pang Tong's request at that time, and he didn't know what to say.

Yufu is located in Padang County, the closest territory to Soochow Changsha County separated by a Yidu County and most of the South County, and across the river there is a half-abandoned Wuling County. It is possible for Soochow to sneak attack anywhere, and it is absolutely impossible to sneak attack Padang County.

So, where is Pang Tong going to lead his troops to patrol?!

This question, not to mention that Chen Zhi felt depressed, even Jiang Wei also raised objections.

And Pang Tong's answer to this is - who stipulates that the inspection of Jiangfang must not leave the scope of Padang County?!

According to the Northern Expedition strategy formulated by Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang and others on the eve of the Northern Expedition, Chen Zhijun of Badong County needs to undertake the task of only being responsible for the safety of Jingzhou, but no one stipulates that the strategy can only occur after the Eastern Wu Army sneak attack on Jingzhou, right? !

Pang Tong's idea was to expand the patrol range of the Yizhou Navy in Badong County, all the way to Yidu County, and even near the public security, so as to give Dongwu a kind of judgment that the Han had already taken precautions, and then let Dongwu be afraid of a sneak attack on Jingzhou.

It only takes 5,000 people to achieve such a goal, so why not?!

But Chen still has objections to this.

If it is just to deter the Eastern Wu Army and make it dare not easily violate the border, in fact, it is not impossible for the public security to increase the number of patrols, and there is no need to let the Yizhou Navy go down the river.

Let's not talk about how much deterrent power the scale of 5,000 people can have, let's just say that the logistics support of these 5,000 people is also a problem.

Yufu is far away from the public security, and it takes about seven or eight days to go down the river, and it takes half a month to come and go.

Naval warfare also requires the supply of grain and grass, and there is no need to specially prepare transport ships to transport grain in inland river operations.

For Chen Dao's two questions, Pang Tong gave his own explanation.

First, the public security garrison itself is insufficient, if the troops are divided to strengthen the patrol of the river, it is very likely that the Dongwu Navy will find the opportunity to eat it in one bite, and at that time, who will guard the public security?! As soon as the public security was broken, Jiangling was directly exposed to the troops of the Eastern Wu Army.

Therefore, the public security defenders could not take the initiative to patrol the river and create opportunities for the enemy to break through one by one, on the contrary, the Yizhou naval army that set out from Yufu did not have this concern.

Second, the problem of logistics, in fact, there is no need to worry too much, although the distance to go to the public security is very long, but there is no place to get it in the middle.

Yidu County is still in the hands of the Han Dynasty, as long as Yidu Taishouzong is notified in advance to prepare and supply in Yidu County halfway, then the problem of logistics supply will be solved.

Therefore, Pang Tong believes that there is no problem with his own disposal methods.

These answers persuaded Chen Zhi, but not Jiang Wei.

Chen Zhi questioned from a tactical point of view, while Jiang Wei directly raised the problem to a strategic point of view.

Taking the initiative to attack and using the Yizhou Navy to inspect the waterway of the Yangtze River will cause a miscalculation to the Eastern Wu, thinking that the Han will send troops from Yizhou to attack Changsha County of the Eastern Wu, or it will recapture Jiangxia County.

Once this miscalculation was caused, Eastern Wu did not plan to attack Jingzhou secretly, and it was necessary to accumulate combat troops on the border to prevent the Han from taking the initiative to attack.

Once the troops of Eastern Wu were stationed in Changsha and Jiangxia, the situation would inevitably be tense, and in case of a chain reaction, the Jingzhou army on the front line was worried about the loss of the rear and had to return to the army to protect itself. But how is it good?!

In this way, the entire Northern Expedition strategy will be completely destroyed.

In this regard, Pang Tong just smiled, and then told Jiang Wei - you underestimate Sun Quan too much.

Sun Quan, although his ability to lead troops is a mess, as the lord of a country, he is indeed qualified to be compared with the first emperor and Cao Cao.

Sun Quan's thoughts about Jingzhou are not a day or two, you can exchange benefits to let him wave his troops north, but as long as he thinks it is profitable, he will not be taboo at all to turn his face with you and attack Jingzhou.

As a pure political creature, Sun Quan's way of thinking about problems is more rational, with the addition of the previous two betrayal alliances, Sun Quan's reputation is no better, and this time he has not officially formed an alliance with the Han Dynasty, so with Sun Quan's urine, what other concerns can he have?!

Pang Tong bet that Sun Quan must have an army hidden in his hands, and he was ready to do both.

If the Eastern Wu army is not in a good position in the north, then it is okay, Sun Quan should not have any thoughts about Jingzhou, and the army in his hand will definitely go north to support the Eastern Wu army in Shouchun.

But now that the war of the Eastern Wu army in the north is going well, and they have already counterattacked into the territory of Runan, then Sun Quan will definitely look for opportunities in Jingzhou to see if he can take advantage of it.

After all, now that the situation of the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty is going well, Wancheng can be conquered overnight, once the Han really invades the Central Plains, or even captures Luoyang, this is not what Sun Quan wants to see.

Therefore, in today's situation, it is inevitable that Sun Quan will drag his feet, but it is impossible to judge how determined Sun Quan is and to what extent he will turn his face with the big man.

If it's just a tacit understanding between the two sides, occupy the two counties of Wuling and Lingling, then it's okay. But Pang Tong believes that even if Sun Quan only wants to protect himself, his ambition should not be so much.

Therefore, Pang Tong judged that Sun Quan would definitely attack Gong'an and Jiangling again.

And once that time comes, the 5,000 soldiers he brought with him can at best deter Dongwu for a while, buy time for the Jingzhou army of the Northern Expedition to achieve its strategic goals, and at worst, it can be regarded as sending much-needed instant combat power to the public security.

As for Jiang Wei's fear of stimulating Dongwu, it is simply impossible.

Sun Quan has no future, and he will not be frightened by the 5,000 Yizhou Navy to change his strategy, and desperately stationed troops on the border, which inevitably looks down on Sun Quan too much.

Even if Sun Quan wants to make excuses for sending troops, he will not make such an excuse, and it is his Sun 100,000 who will be embarrassed.

Therefore, from a strategic point of view, if Dongwu did not have the idea of sneaking up on Jingzhou, Pang Tong's 5,000 men would not be enough to arouse the vigilance of Dongwu, and if Dongwu already had the idea of sneaking up on Jingzhou, Pang Tong's 5,000 people might be the key to delaying time and waiting for Jingzhou's reinforcements to return.

In this way, Pang Tong persuaded Jiang Wei and Chen Zhi to let Chen Zhi divide three thousand Yizhou naval troops for him, set off eastward, and began to patrol the river.

Yes, Pang Tong asked for 5,000 people, but in the end, Chen only gave Pang Tong 3,000 people.

Chen Zhi also has Chen Zhi's difficulties.

Now the Yufu defenders in Chen Zhi's hands are no longer Bai Yu soldiers, Bai Yu soldiers have been incorporated into the Northern Han Army, and now the people who are guarding Yufu are just ordinary Badong County soldiers.

Now that it is the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, many county soldiers from all over the country have been transferred to fight in the north, and the Yufu defenders have also been transferred a lot, and the troops are insufficient.

Even if it is necessary to undertake the task of responding to Jingzhou, the total number of sailors and armies left behind by Yufu is only 10,000.

Among them, 5,000 naval troops, 5,000 army troops.

If Pang Tong sent all the 5,000 naval troops to patrol the river, if there was really a war in Jingzhou, Chen Zhike would be aggrieved.

Even if you want to go east to support Gangneung, but the navy is gone, will the army swim to the public security by swimming?!

Therefore, I can only give Pang Tong 3,000 sailors, and the remaining 2,000 sailors and warships are used to ensure that Jingzhou can be quickly and maneuvering.

Pang Tong has nothing to say about this, anyway, he just went to patrol the river to deter Dongwu, there is actually no big difference between the 3,000 water army and the 5,000 water army, and the really important deterrent condition is the identity of the Yizhou water army.

Moreover, Pang Tong really doesn't pick it, after all, it's rare to have a chance to lead the troops alone.

For a long time, Pang Tong has been accustomed to the position of a military advisor who gives advice, and when leading troops into battle, he rarely has the experience of leading the army all the way alone, but this does not mean that Pang Tong does not have such ability.

The ability to lead tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, Pang Tong must be almost meaningless, but leading 3,000 people to patrol the river, Pang Tong can still easily do it.

Besides, even if Pang Tong really can't do it, isn't there still a Jiang Wei by his side.

Although Jiang Wei is still young, in his early years, he also led troops to guard the side of the first emperor, and when he was the prince, he was also the general in charge of the guards of the East Palace. I dare not say more, commanding 3,000 people to fight, more than enough.

Chen Zhi actually took this into account before agreeing to divide his troops to Pang Tong.

In this way, Pang Tong led 3,000 naval troops and marched east along the river.

When passing through Yidu County, a supply was carried out under the arrangement of Yidu County Taishou Zong, and then went directly to the direction of public security.

But in fact, Pang Tong's 3,000 sailors did not have any plans to directly enter the Public Security City.

Patrolling the river to deter is not really to increase troops to the public security, so Pang Tong's original intention is to rest and replenish there after the naval army patrols the port near the public security city, and meet with the public security guards Zhang Ren and Li Qiu, explain their intentions, and then return to Yufu.

But. Before he arrived at the public security port, Pang Tong found that on the river, there was a dense Dongwu naval army.

The most fatal thing is that the 3,000 naval army led by Pang Tong is less than fifty miles away from the vanguard fleet of Eastern Wu.

On the unobstructed river, the size of the fleet of the Soochow army can be seen at a glance.

Soochow, sure enough, still chose to sneak attack Jingzhou.

(End of chapter)