Zhu Ran was busy arranging his own defensive deployment, and on the Jiangling side, Zhang Xi, Pang Tong, Wang Ji, and Shi Bao also began to hold meetings to formulate a specific strategy for this southern expedition.

As the coach, Zhang Xi of course put forward his own strategic concept first.

"I intend to garrison Wulin, personally lead the land and water army to attack Changsha County to feint, in fact, I sent a partial division to raid Wuling County, from Wuling County, all the way to attack Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang County, and finally with my army in Changsha, two sides of the attack, a battle to settle Jingnan."

Zhang Xi said as he drew circles all the way on the map, showing his strategy in detail.

To put it simply, it is a plan to repair the plank road openly and Chen Cang in the dark, and use himself to attract Zhu Ran to a decisive battle on the surface of the Yangtze River near Changsha, in fact, the real winner is on the sneak attack on Wuling County and other three counties.

At least judging from the current intelligence, Zhang Xi's strategy is still very feasible.

One of the advantages of the garrison Wulin is that it can not only suppress the Zhu Ran army on the other side of the Yangtze River, but also contain Zhuge Ke's Jiangxia army. After all, entering Jiangxia from Ulin is actually quite close.

As for the division of troops to attack Wuling County, Wuling County now only has 15,000 people to defend with the public security, as long as the raid is fought fast enough, it is not impossible to break through Wuling County.

And once Wuling County is broken, Lingling County in the south, and Guiyang County in the east, there are not too many troops to resist all the way to the push, and it is not impossible.

However, Pang Tong still raised questions.

"Who does the chief want to send as the commander to lead the division?! How much do you want to lead the army?! If Wuling is in trouble for a while, what should it do?! ”

Since it is a partial division, the number of commanders will inevitably not be too much, so as a candidate for commander, it is very important.

Moreover, it is also necessary to consider what the next response will be if Wuling County is difficult to conquer for a while, just like the last Shibao sneak attack on Wuling County.

Facing Pang Tong's question, Zhang Xi smiled slightly and said, "The main force is feint to attack Changsha, if I don't arrive, Zhu Ran won't believe it." Shiyuan's reputation is outside, and if he is not in the main army, it will inevitably make people suspicious. Therefore, both of you and I need to move with the army, I intend to be led by Shi Zhongrong, Jiang Boyo, Pan Chengming, 30,000 troops, and raid Wuling. ”

After Zhang Xi finished speaking, Pang Tong thought silently for a while and nodded slightly.

Although, Zhang Xi's words only answered the first two questions of Pang Tong, and the last question, once Wuling County could not be captured, how to deal with it, in fact, Zhang Xi did not answer.

But the problem is that everyone is a smart person, and there are some words that Zhang Xi doesn't need to explain, Pang Tong himself can understand them.

This candidate for commander, Shi Bao, as the person who ravaged Wuling County in the last war, is not strange as the commander of the partial division.

He is familiar with geography, and he cooperated very well with Wuxi Man in Wuling County last time, and the two sides also have a relationship with Weng and his son-in-law, this time he sent troops to Wuling County, Shi Bao may be able to incite Wuxi Man to cooperate with the Han army again and besiege Wuling County.

And Jiang Wei needless to say, since Zhang Xi sent Jiang Wei to this team, it shows that Zhang Xi intends to arrange the 20,000 Han Southern Army in this partial division team, and use the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army to ensure the success rate of the sneak attack.

And sending Pan Jun as a deputy general is to deal with the problem of what to do in the event of a sneak attack on Wuling.

It's very simple, Pan Jun has been a Taishou in Lingling County for more than ten years, although he finally had no choice but to withdraw to Jiangling, but the connections of those officials in Lingling County, Pan Jun has always been in his hands.

Once it is unfavorable to storm Wuling County, then Pan Jun can directly detour to lead his troops south to Lingling County, use his prestige in Lingling County to persuade the officials of Lingling County, and then transfer troops to attack Wuling County in turn.

This matter is not difficult to guess, not to mention that as early as two months ago, Zhang Xi had already instructed the clans in Jingbei to get in touch with the clans in Jingnan to divide and persuade these clans.

In this way, it is true that the success of the raid on the three counties will be greatly increased.

However, this is only based on the fact that Lingling County is only guarded by 15,000 people.

"If Zhu Ran increases his troops in Lingling County in advance, what should the Yuan Commander do?!"

You can't think of all the good things on yourself, Zhu Ran is not an idiot, we have been using troops in this Wuling County all these years, he Zhu Ran has to be a little guarded, right?!

If Zhu Ran increased his troops in Wuling County in advance, this Wuling County would not be so easy to fight, even if you could sweep away Lingling County in the south first, but you would not dare to attack Changsha before Wuling County was captured.

At most, it is to encircle Wuling County, and finally become a stalemate between the two families, and see who consumes the energy in the end.

"In this way, the only way to attack head-on is to break through Changsha!"

Zhang Xi was a little helpless and said.

If Zhu Ran really deployed in Wuling County in advance, with a partial division of 30,000 people, I am afraid it would be difficult to break through Wuling County in a short time. The real decisive victory depends on the outcome of the Yangtze River water battle.

It's just that in this case, although Zhang Xi is also certain that he can win, the odds of winning are really not too high.

After all, it was the Soochow Naval Army, and even if Yang Shu could really win, his own casualties would not be small.

Realistically speaking, Zhang Xi didn't want to go that far, so Zhang Xi consulted Pang Tong and asked, "Brother Shiyuan has a better strategy, you might as well say it, Xi will definitely act according to the plan." ”

This is the purpose of the military meeting, to discuss with each other, point out the shortcomings, and finally formulate a relatively high success rate of the battle plan.

Pang Tong was naturally not polite, and said, "The Yuan Chang might as well send troops to Wulin first and postpone the action of the division." If there are few Wuling soldiers, the Yuan Chang will act according to the plan, but if there are many Wuling soldiers, why don't the Yuan Chang change his thinking and attack Jiangxia?! ”

"Attack Jiangxia?!" Zhang Xi was slightly surprised, and then lowered his head or pondered.

Wang Ji stood up and spoke at this time, "Attacking Jiangxia also needs the help of the navy, but if the Jiangling navy wants to enter Jiangxia, it should first break the Baqiu navy, and Xiakou, there are also the Eastern Wu navy guarding the help of the navy, even if we can get the north of Jiangxia, we can't get the south of Jiangxia." ”

Pang Tong smiled and replied, "How can Boyu say that there is no water army?!" Wen Zhongye's 20,000 sailors, coming down from the Han River, can't they help our army?! ”

Wang Ji was stunned for a moment, and then he also fell into thought.

Wen Ping's navy can come over to help, but the problem is that Wen Ping's navy is at most down the Han River, and whether it can defeat Xiakou's Dongwu Navy is two words, even if it is really defeated, it is not necessarily. Well?!

Wang Ji suddenly discovered Pang Tong's true intentions and looked at Zhang Xi.

And Zhang Xi also understood it almost at the same time, and said, "Shiyuan's intention is to feint to attack Jiangxia, send the Baqiu naval army north to help, and then attack Changsha by surprise?!" ”

If you think about it, it's not impossible.

If the Jiangling Navy is in Baqiu, the Xiangyang Navy is in Xiakou, and Zhang Xi leads the troops to Tun and Wulin, if they attack Jiangxia, Zhu Ran will definitely not be able to sit idly by.

In terms of geographical location, Jiangxia is much more important than the four counties of Jingnan.

The four counties of Jingnan were the springboard for the Eastern Wu to attack Jiangling, but Jiangxia was the defensive barrier of the Jiangdong region.

Losing the four counties of Jingnan is at most a loss of the opportunity to attack Jiangling, but if you lose Jiangxia, Eastern Wu will face the pressure of the Han army attacking south at any time.

Therefore, Zhu Ran will definitely not sit idly by and watch Jiangxia lose, once the two naval armies in Jingzhou come out, Zhu Ran will inevitably lead the Baqiu naval army to assist in the defense of Jiangxia.

In this case, Changsha will have no defensive force.

A sneak attack on Changsha may really be feasible.

But Pang Tong still shook his head and said, "The partial division is still attacking Wuling County and feintting to attack Jiangxia, but it is just to mobilize the Changsha naval army. Although Zhu Ran does not have a general strategy, he can still see this clearly, so he will inevitably transfer troops from Wuling County and other places to help defend Changsha."

Okay, the rest of the things, needless to say, everyone can understand.

After going around in a big circle, Pang Tong's intention was to divide the troops of Wuling.

If Zhu Ran did not reinforce Wuling County in advance, then Zhang Xi's strategy would be enough to conquer the four counties of Jingnan.

But if Zhu Ran increased his troops in Wuling County in advance, and faced with the naval army attacking Xiakou on two fronts, and the army may attack Jiangxia or cross the river to attack Changsha, Zhu Ran not only wants to help defend Xiakou, but also naturally needs enough troops to defend Changsha, then the only choice is to transfer the reinforcements transferred to Wuling County back and tear down the east wall to make up the west wall.

It's just that

"If that Zhu Ran is unmoved, and orders the Xiakou Water Army to fight against the Xiangyang Water Army alone, and the Baqiu Water Army is still staying in Changsha, what can I do?!" Shi Bud hesitated, but still asked.

Our navy is not enough to crush the Soochow navy, right?!

There are also 20,000 Dongwu naval troops in Xiakou, so they are not necessarily afraid of the Xiangyang naval army led by Xiangyang's Wenpin.

As long as Jiang Xia doesn't ask for help, or asks for help but Zhu Ran doesn't go north to help defend it, then what can we do with others?!

Pang Tong glanced at Shi Bao slightly, and then said, "If this is the case, it is enough for us to attack the northern border of the Yangtze River in Jiangxia and suppress Chaisang." ”

If you don't cooperate in defense, just that little foot soldier in Jiangxia is used to defend the city, how can you resist the strong attack of the 100,000 infantry of the Han Dynasty?!

At that time, all the counties north of the Yangtze River in Jiangxia will inevitably be lost, and the Han army across the river will press Chaisang, guess if Sun Quan can stand it? !

(End of chapter)