In the direction of Yingxian, Zhuge Ke was like a reckless man, relying on 20,000 troops to start attacking Yingxian, which was garrisoned by 10,000 troops, and Zhang Xi could not be ignored.

After all, with the ability of Yizhou Tai and the troops now stationed in Yingxian, he would not be easily defeated by a Zhuge Ke.

But Lingyang's Shibao was surrounded, and Li Qiu, who was stationed in the public security, begged for help, and Zhang Xi really couldn't ignore it.

Although Zhang Xi also did a good job at the last moment, he would give up the idea of public security if he really couldn't hold it, but. If it can be defended, the role of the public security will still be very great.

As long as the public security is not captured, the main force of the naval army of Eastern Wu will not dare to attack Jiangling on a large scale, and it is necessary to guard against the threat of the public security city behind it to the grain route of the Eastern Wu army at any time.

Therefore, if this place can not be lost, it is naturally better not to lose it.

One more. The stone bud is surrounded, and it can't help but save it.

If this is not saved, it will chill the officers and men in the army.

Therefore, Zhang Xi pondered whether to immediately send reinforcements from Jiangling, first to support the public security, and then let Li Qiu find a way to deal with the stone buds trapped in Lingyang.

But. This matter, no matter what, Zhang Xi feels as if something is wrong.

Zhuge Ke attacked Yingxian all the way like a flat-headed brother, and there was no teammate around him to respond.

Eastern Wu suddenly gathered troops from the four counties and besieged Lingyang, whether it was Zhang Xi or Shi Bao, he didn't receive any information in advance.

Combining the two aspects, no matter how Zhang Xi looks at it, there is a kind of intention of Dongwu to attract his own troops.

Zhuge Ke's way was to tell you "I have a flaw", and wanted Zhang Xi to take the initiative to attack, encircle and suppress Zhuge Ke, and weaken Jiangling's defensive forces.

On the side of Lingyang, if you can gather the soldiers of the four counties in advance, and at the same time avoid the eyes and ears of the detailed people, it must be a military operation that is carefully prepared in advance, and the purpose is obviously to attract Jiangling to the public security as much as possible, and Lingyang will send reinforcements.

And the most terrible thing is that the Lukou Water Army, which was supposed to be the main offensive force of the Eastern Wu Army, still has not made any movement.

This thing. Why does it feel so weird?!

For a while, Zhang Xi really didn't dare to immediately order more troops to increase the public security After all, this is what the enemy wants you to do on the bright side.

From a military point of view, the more the enemy wants you to do, the less you can afford to be led by the nose.

In addition, Zhang Xi actually didn't quite understand the significance of Dongwu's division of troops.

Zhuge Ke attacked Yingxian and sent troops from Jiangling, but it was only a five-day journey, and it was only ten days to come and go.

Even if Gangneung is attacked, it will not take too long to withdraw troops and return to defense.

Zhang Xi is not a fool, even if he wants to send troops to encircle and suppress Zhuge Ke, he will not take away all the Jiangling defenders and make Jiangling an empty city, no matter what, he has to leave a force of about 10,000 people to defend.

And Jiangling City, which is guarded by 10,000 people, even if it is suddenly attacked, refer to the experience of Lu Meng's sneak attack on Jiangling, no matter what happens, it will not be unable to defend it for ten days.

In the same way, even if Zhang Xi sent reinforcements to the public security to relieve the siege, Jiangling would not be in danger in a short period of time, and even if the public security really could not hold it, it was only a matter of time before they withdrew from the south bank of the river to the north bank of the river.

And this time, again, will not exceed a month.

Back then, Wang Ji could face the attack of the main force of the 50,000 Eastern Wu Army with only 10,000 troops, hold out for a month, and wait for reinforcements, which makes no sense now.

Therefore, even if Gangneung City really divides its troops to attack, if it wants to return reinforcements, it is actually not impossible.

What is the significance of such a division strategy of the Eastern Wu Army?!

Or, is Soochow sure that he can set up an ambush in the field and completely annihilate these reinforcements sent by himself?!

Anyway, no matter what Zhang Xi thought, he couldn't have imagined that Soochow had such an ability.

Again, with Lu Xun's strategy and thinking on the use of troops, he probably would not implement such a superficial plan to divide the troops.

So. What is the purpose of the Eastern Wu Army?!

Or, the person who is now commanding the Eastern Wu Army is Lu Xun or not, or. Is it Zhu Ran?!

And speaking of Zhu Ran. He has been stationed at Lukou, standing still, what do you want to do?!

Well?! Wait a minute!!!

As soon as he thought of Zhu Ran, Zhang Xi suddenly seemed to have something flashing in his mind. Zhu Ran, are you really stationed at Lukou?!

"Boyu, can there be information from the Xiakou Water Army?!" Zhang Xi suddenly thought of a possibility and hurriedly asked Wang Ji.

Wang Ji thought about it carefully, then took out a copy from a pile of documents, handed it to Zhang Xi, and said at the same time, "Jiangxia has made a report, Jiangxia Navy is still stationed in Xiakou Water Village, and there is no move to send troops. ”

"But you can see it with your own eyes?!" Zhang Xi immediately asked.

This question directly confused Wang Ji.

In the years of detailed investigation, how can it be written in such detail, most of them are close observations, and then draw conclusions and then talk about it, this kind of thing can be seen with your own eyes and judged, there is no difference, right?!

"The naval ships are in the water village, and the daily people in the village are boiling. In this way, how can there be a fake?! Wang Ji asked rhetorically.

Zhang Xi shook his head slightly, stood up, walked back and forth twice, and said with some uncertainty, "Some of Xi's guesses are just guesses. ”

Wang Ji looked at Zhang Xi's appearance, and also said, "It doesn't hurt to make the king say it, I'll study it carefully." ”

Zhang Xi hesitated slightly, and said, "Is it possible that those who are in the Xiakou Water War are the Lukou Water Army. Well, it doesn't seem to make sense to do so, if you want to go against the Han River and advance to Xiangyang, why not do the two armies together"

The more Wang Ji listened to Zhang Xi's words, the more strange he felt, and then the more he heard the back, the whole person began to be a little excited.

"Envoy, this may be a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea!!" Wang Ji was excited, and the more he thought about it, the clearer it became.

The Lukou Navy pretended to be the Jiangxia Navy and stationed in Xiakou, relaxing the vigilance of the Xiangyang Navy, and the Jiangxia Navy went against the Han River again, sneaking up on the defenseless Xiangyang Navy, and after annihilating or severely damaging the Xiangyang Navy, using the advantage of the Navy to cut off the previous connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng, following Guan Yu's tactics of the year, attacking Fancheng first, and capturing Fancheng, Xiangyang will inevitably not be able to defend for a long time.

In this way, Dongwu can fight and defeat Xiangfan.

Even in the time of the attack, it is also close to the time when Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan, if this time the sky is beautiful, and another Han water surges, and even heavy rain falls, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The more Wang Ji thought about it, the more he felt that he had discovered the true purpose of Soochow.

Soochow made a posture of suppressing Jiangling, but in fact, their target was not Jiangling at all, but Xiangyang.

If the goal of Dongwu is Xiangyang, then there is a reasonable explanation for all the abnormal actions of Dongwu in front of him.

Zhuge Ke led the Jiangxia Army to suddenly attack, and the light troops rushed forward, wanting to attract the Jiangling defenders to take the initiative to attack, it was indeed to divide the troops, but this division of troops was not to prevent the Jiangling defenders from returning to Jiangling, but to prevent the Jiangling defenders from going north to support Xiangyang.

In the same way, Lingyang and Gong'an on the south bank of the Yangtze River were besieged by heavy troops, and the purpose was also to attract Jiangling soldiers to rescue, so that Jiangling could not send reinforcements to Xiangyang at the first time.

The Jiangling defenders returned to Jiangling to aid them, and it was not a short time of ten days and half a month, but if they went north to support Xiangyang, these ten days and half a month were likely to be a fatal time gap.

So. Wang Ji came to the conclusion that the real purpose of the Eastern Wu army was to capture Xiangyang.

Once Soochow captured Xiangyang, the two sides would be in a jagged tug-of-war.

Eastern Wu has troops deployed in Xiangyang, Jiangxia, and Jingnan, while the Han is in Nanyang, and there is no room for troops to threaten Xiangyang.

At that time, Soochow will come out with troops from three directions, and if they besiege Gangneung, I am afraid that no matter how strong Gangneung is, it will not be able to withstand these three-way siege. The goal of the Eastern Wu army to capture Jingzhou was achieved.

The more Wang Ji spoke, the brighter his eyes became, and the more Zhang Xi listened, the more he felt. Something is still a little wrong.

In all fairness, Wang Ji's judgment is very much in line with the current situation, but there is one point, Zhang Xi can't be sure of Lu Xun's style of using troops, when did he take such a risk?!

Again, now that Lu Xun is still in Jianye sorting out the Jiangdong County soldiers, and he is not on the front line, how did he command the entire battle situation remotely? !

But no matter what, Wang Ji's judgment cannot be said to be unreasonable, and now, although Zhang Xi doesn't know if it's too late, he still has to do it to immediately send someone to warn Xiangyang's Wenpin.

As for sending reinforcements in advance, Zhang Xi still felt that he needed to be cautious.

Although Wang Ji wanted to persuade again, the commander of this Jiangling defense battle was Zhang Xi, and Zhang Xi was a person, Wang Ji also knew that he had always been very cautious in using troops.

Although there are good and bad things to do, it is not easy to fall into the enemy's trap when it is good, and it is easy to delay the fighter plane when it is bad.

But so be it. Wang Ji's judgment is also based on the analysis of the current situation, and there is no empirical evidence to prove anything, so Wang Ji is not very good at insisting on his own opinions, so he can only follow the judgment of the coach.

However, for Lingyang and public security on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Zhang Xi and Wang Ji's judgment is the same - immediately send reinforcements to rescue.

In any case, Shibao can't help it, and the public security can't fail to defend it.

As for Zhuge Ke, for the time being, don't care about him, and tell Zhou Tai to stick to it.

Anyway, just those 20,000 people, there are no waves for a while.

In this way, after making arrangements for the time being, Zhang Xi kept his heart calm and continued to wait for the situation to develop.

However, less than five days after Zhang Xi sent 10,000 reinforcements to the public security, Li Qiu sent back another piece of news that frightened Zhang Xi.

The Eastern Wu Army, which surrounded Lingyang in Wuling County, suddenly changed the Shuai Banner.

The leader of the troops was not Wuling Taishou Lu Dai, but the general of Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu.

This news directly stimulated Zhang Xi and jumped up from his position.

The commander of this attack of the Eastern Wu Army is not Lu Xun, but Zhou Yu?!

So Xiangyang is in danger!!

(End of chapter)