Zhang Xi's procrastination in Jiangling not only affected his decision-making, but also caused Zhou Yu a headache.

Why is this product so oily and salt?!

It's all put on such an obvious posture to capture Xiangyang, why don't you hurry up and send the Jiangling defenders to support Xiangyang, what are you waiting for?!

You don't divide your troops to save Xiangyang, my next thing is a bit difficult to do.

Moreover, this Lingyang County in front of him, this Shibao, is also a master who doesn't know what to say.

I've been attacking you for thirteen days in a row, and the tactics of encircling Sanque and one have been laid out, why don't you hurry up and retreat to the public security with the few poor troops you have left, and continue to carry what you are carrying here?!

Now that things are stuck, Zhou Yu wants to carry out the next action plan, but the opponent does not cooperate at all, which makes Zhou Yu a little entangled.

Why don't you just conquer Zero Yang directly?!

Or is it that a small number of troops were left to guard Lingyang, regardless of the reactions of Lingyang and Jiangling, and directly ordered Zhu Ran's naval army to act?!

But if you want to do this, I'm afraid that the next battle will return to a hard-fought fight, which will be in vain the series of tactical arrangements made by Zhou Yu before.

Yes, in fact, the main target of the Eastern Wu Army's attack this time was not Xiangyang, it was still Jiangling.

However, considering that there are more than 50,000 defenders in Jiangling, and more than 60,000 people in the defenders of Gong'an, Lingyang and other places, if they attack head-on, even if Dongwu can defeat it, its own casualties will not be small.

Therefore, Zhou Yu discussed with Sun Quan and planned this combat operation.

In fact, Zhou Yu had already set off to Changsha County at that time, and began to transfer troops from the three counties, and secretly marched to Wuling County to join Lu Dai.

Then, Sun Quan used the excuse to leave Lu Xun to gather Jiangdong soldiers in Jiangdong, making the illusion that Lu Xun was stranded in Jianye, but in fact, Lu Xun would also set off secretly and led a part of the Jiangdong soldiers who had been assembled in advance and the Huainan soldiers who had withdrawn from Huainan to arrive in Jiangxia.

After that, Zhuge Ke led the troops to take the initiative to attack Yingxian, and the light troops rushed forward, in order to attract Zhang Xi's eyes and ears, to provide cover for Zhu Ran's naval army operations, after replacing the Jiangxia naval army stationed in Xiakou, the Jiangxia naval army under the leadership of Zhang Cheng led 10,000 army and 20,000 naval troops, along the Han River to the north, making a posture threatening Xiangyang.

At the same time, Lü Dai would also lead 30,000 Jingnan soldiers to besiege Lingyang to attract the rescue of the Jiangling defenders, and at the same time, cooperate with the threat of Shang Zhuge Ke's 20,000 soldiers attacking Yingxian, creating a false impression that the Eastern Wu army wanted to hold back the Jiangling defenders and prevent them from supporting Xiangyang, thus deepening Zhang Xi's misjudgment that the main direction of Eastern Wu's attack was in Xiangyang.

After Zhang Xizhen divided his troops to the north to rescue Xiangyang, Zhu Ran, who was living in Xiakou, would suddenly lead the navy south, striving to defeat the Jiangling navy in a battle and cut off the direct retreat of the public security defenders, and Zhou Yu would also encircle and annihilate the flank defenders of Jiangling in Jingnan.

As for the direction of Yingxian, in fact, Zhou Yu prepared it with both hands.

If because of Zhuge Ke's troops, Zhang Xi took the initiative to send soldiers from Jiangling to encircle and suppress, then Zhuge Ke immediately chose to retreat to attract the generals and defenders to pursue, and Lu Xun, who had been prepared, would also send troops in advance to cooperate with Zhuge Ke to encircle and annihilate the Jiangling defenders in the city, and then regardless of whether other plans were implemented in place, he directly attacked Jiangling.

After all, if the main force of the Gangneung defenders went out of the city but was annihilated, then the lack of defensive forces in Gangneung City would inevitably cause a big loss of morale, and a strong attack would be possible.

It's just that Zhou Yu thinks that Zhang Xi will most likely not make such a reckless act and let himself pick up this kind of cheap for nothing.

Therefore, Zhou Yu believes that Zhang Xi will most likely ignore Zhuge Ke and continue to stand still.

And if Zhang Xi let Zhuge ignore it, then Lu Xun continued to lead the troops to wait in Jiangxia, and when Jiangling sent reinforcements to Xiangyang, his own guards were insufficient, and Zhu Ran cut off the channel for the public security defenders to return to help, Lu Xun immediately sent troops from Jiangxia and directly attacked Jiangxia.

The overall operational idea is like this, it is still necessary to use the strategy of dividing troops to disperse the defenders of Jiangling, but unlike previous wars, Zhou Yu did not use the attack on public security or the southern counties of Jiangling to divide the Jiangling defenders, but played a big game, creating the illusion that Eastern Wu was going to attack Xiangyang, and wanted to transfer the Jiangling defenders from the Jiangling territory to the Xiangyang territory.

Attacking the public security or Jiangling counties, Zhang Xi found that the situation was not right, and he would definitely shrink his forces and return to Jiangling.

However, if the defenders of Gangneung were transferred to support Xiangyang, then this army would not be able to return in a short period of time, and Gangneung would fall into a state of insufficient troops, and the hope of breaking through Gangneung would be greatly increased.

Even in order to let Zhang Xi be fooled, Zhou Yu also deliberately played a Li Dai Taozhuang, and used the way of the Lukou Navy to transfer Jiangxia north to make smoke bombs, and waited until Zhang Xi learned that Xiangyang was attacked, and deepened the misjudgment that Eastern Wu was going to attack Xiangyang.

If it's just a suspicious military strategy, you don't have to go to such great lengths to let the Jiangxia Navy go north, isn't it!!

Really, Zhou Yu has calculated all the reactions of Zhang Xi that he can think of, and even the cautious and almost timid character of this product, and he is not afraid that Zhang Xi will not be able to do so this time.

Well, this is how the plan was planned, when Zhang Xi suddenly learned that the main force of the Eastern Wu Naval Army went north to attack Fancheng, theoretically he would not continue to entangle in Jiangling, after all, Xiangyang is much more important than Jiangling.

If you lose Gangneung, if you have Xiangyang in hand, you still retain the ability to continue the battle, but if you lose Xiangyang, Gangneung will not be able to hold it for a long time. Zhou Yu didn't believe that Zhang Xi would not understand this truth.

Therefore, Zhou Yu really didn't understand, when the Xiangyang side had already started fighting, what was he Zhang Xi doing in Jiangling City!!

Hurry up and lead the troops to rescue Xiangyang!!

Well, maybe Zhang Xi still has his own ideas in it, or rather, Zhang Xi hasn't completely made up his mind yet. It's not impossible to wait.

But the stone bud in front of him, Zhou Yu really couldn't understand it.

What the hell are you doing here with me?!

5,000 men defended a county town besieged by 30,000 men, and it was stormed for ten days, and the casualties in the army were not small. Now that I'm around Sanque Yi, the retreat route has been arranged for you, if you don't hurry up and lead the troops to retreat, what are you doing in the city?!

Zhou Yu really didn't understand what Shi Bao did, according to the intelligence before the war, this Lingyang County guard Shi Bao was the kind of person who had some ability, but had a bad character.

This kind of person will not be the kind of reckless man who will not retreat, nor will he be the kind of loyal and righteous person who will die for the country. Not running in this situation is really beyond Zhou Yu's expectations.

To a certain extent, Zhou Yu really didn't anticipate Shi Bao's character, Shi Bao is indeed not the kind of person who fights for righteousness and death, but the problem is that Zhou Yu underestimated Shi Bao's ability a little.

Shi Bao is not the kind of person who has "a little ability", but the kind of person who has great ability.

At least in terms of grasping the situation and strategic judgment, Shibao has his own understanding and judgment.

If Zhou Yu chooses to continue to besiege Lingyang County, 30,000 people against 5,000 people, if he can't hold it, he will retreat, even if he needs to risk his life to break through, Shi Bao will not have any hesitation.

However, Zhou Yu attacked for ten days in a row under such an obvious advantage, resulting in heavy casualties among the defenders of Lingyang County, but on the eleventh day, he adopted the method of encircling three queyi. When I'm a stone bud, I'm stupid!!

If he really led the troops to break through from the only gap, Shi Bao would bet that Zhou Yu would definitely lead the army to follow closely, drive Shi Bao and others to retreat to the public security along the way, and then rely on the chaos of the defeated army in Lingyang to disturb the military morale of the public security defenders, and take advantage of the situation, there is no difficulty at all.

In these years, the army is in turmoil, and no matter how many troops there are, defeat is only a matter of time.

Therefore, if Shi Bao wants to withdraw, he must not withdraw when your Eastern Wu army has just surrounded Sanqueyi, and he must choose the time and route of retreat by himself.

However, the next development of the war was beyond Shi Bao's expectations.

During the siege for ten days, the attack of the Eastern Wu army was very fierce, but once the siege was over, the intensity of the attack went down.

It's not that there is no threat to Dongwu's attack, the threat is still very great, after all, now the Lingyang defenders have been sharply reduced to about 3,000 people, even if Dongwu sends 10,000 people to attack, it may break through Lingyang County at any time.

It's just that compared to when 30,000 people took turns to attack in wheel battles, the pressure was obviously much less.

Then the question arises - where did the remaining 20,000 troops of Eastern Wu go?!

If you want to change it to Li Qiu to guard Lingyang, maybe he can't think of so much, but the person who guards Lingyang now is Shi Bao.

Shi Bao carefully observed the map for a while, and came up with a bold guess - the 20,000 Dongwu soldiers who disappeared were very likely to have made a detour to the place between Lingyang and the public security, looking for an opportunity to set up an ambush.

Once Shi Bao chooses to retreat to the public security, and Li Qiu sends troops to respond, hehe, things will be over.

If one is not done well, the more than 10,000 soldiers on the south bank of the Yangtze River will all be folded here, and they will not be able to go back to Jiangling at all.

Shi Bao didn't have enough information at hand, he didn't know what it would mean if the more than 10,000 soldiers on the south bank of the Yangtze River couldn't return to defend Jiangling, but he knew that since you Dongwu wanted to do this, of course I couldn't just let you go along with it.

Shi Bao immediately wrote a letter and asked the guards to go out of the city over the wall at night to send a letter to Li Qiu of the public security, asking him to stay as still as possible and not to answer him easily.

At the same time, Shi Bao also asked Li Qiu to send the current situation of the public security to the front line of Lingyang and his own speculation to Jiangling as soon as possible and hand it over to Zhang Zhijun for decision.

Shi Bao always felt that Soochow was probably playing a big game.

(End of chapter)