"Tai Shi Ci's martial arts are outstanding, although he is secretly connected to Danyang, but there is a reason for it, if he is not successful by borrowing Zhang Liao's hand, I am afraid that he will be forced to rebel against the enemy, so."

Lu Meng gave the reason first, paused slightly and then continued to add:

"The last general plans to cooperate with Tai Shi Ci to march on the army, and then secretly send an army to occupy Liyang, as long as the soldiers' wives and children are captured, Tai Shi Ci will be captured, and so on. The threat of the lord will not be removed, nor will it damage the strength of our Jiangdong army. ”

"Not bad, not bad."

Sun Quan nodded again and again: "The bottom of the kettle is drawn, the root is broken, and the overall situation of Jiangdong can be taken into account, after Ziming became the governor of the capital, he has really made a lot of progress." ”

Lu Meng modestly responded: "The lord praises falsely, and the last general has many deficiencies compared with the governor of Zhou."

"Huh"

Sun Quan frowned and waved his hand, and said with relief: "You have to have confidence in yourself, I think you have done a good job, and it is not good to capture Jiangling at the moment, does Ziming have any ideas?" What will happen to Koto in the future? ”

Lu Meng thought for a while, clasped his fists and replied: "Inferred from the current situation, Cao Cao's destruction of Yuan Shao has become a certainty, and the northern princes will not be able to exist sooner or later, so they cannot compete with them for the time being, and the lord can only continue to march west to seize Jingzhou, and then go north to the Central Plains to compete with Cao Cao for hegemony;

Even if Cao's army is too strong to advance northward at that time, we can retreat to the line of the Yangtze River, use the elite naval army in Jiangdong, and cooperate with the Yangtze River moat to divide half of the wall. ”

"Good, Ziming's plan is well-founded, just say that you are no worse than Gong Jin."

Sun Quan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but praise two sentences in a row, followed by frowning and showing a worried face.

"But if we want to take Jingzhou, we must conquer the important town of Jiangling, but the defenders of Jiangling are waiting for work and harassing the grain road, which greatly affects the offensive of our army, and we have to find a way to resolve the decline."

Lu Meng bowed his head and said: "After this battle of Jiangling, I will gain some insights in the end, and I will try to talk about it now."

"Oh?"

Sun Quan was overjoyed when he heard this, and said happily: "Victory and defeat are all realized, I really didn't see the wrong person, come quickly." ”

Lu Meng immediately took out the map from his arms, spread it on the table, pointed to Jiangling, and said: "The water distance from Jiangling to Shaxian is long, and there are many swamps in this area of Jiangbei, among which there are many tributary rivers, and our warships cannot enter the draft, but the defenders can use fishing boats and boats to harass at will;

The confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River is located downstream of Shaxian, so in order to ensure the smooth flow of the grain route, it is necessary to keep an eye on the enemy in the direction of the Han River, and also to guard against the small boats that emerge from Yunmengze, causing the Jiangdong forces to be forcibly dispersed and unable to form a joint force."

Sun Quan saw Lu Meng's tone pause, so he hurriedly asked, "Then what?" ”

Lu Meng immediately moved his hand to the guide, pointed to the four counties of Jingnan and said meaningfully:

"Attacking Jiangling, which has a geographical advantage, can't avoid these troubles, let's turn the passive into the active, and change the target to the four counties of Jingnan, Liu Biao sent troops to save the Yangtze River, our naval army can give full play to its advantages, if Liu Biao does not save him when he sees death, the four counties of Jingnan will be the same as Jiangxia."

"yes, why didn't I think of that? There's really no need to smash Gangneung. ”

After hearing this, Sun Quan suddenly realized that the four counties of Jingnan accounted for half of Jingzhou, and Liu Biao, as the state pastor, could not be saved?

Lü Meng only needs to use the naval army to send reinforcements, and he can slowly consume the reinforcements in Xiangyang, and when the reinforcements in Xiangyang are exhausted, the difficulty of taking Jiangling will be greatly reduced.

Sun Quan, like Sun Ce and Sun Yi, has Sun Jian's blood in his body, and he is also very adventurous in his heart.

However, due to the death of his father and brother, and the countless open guns and hidden arrows when he succeeded to the throne, Sun Quan reined in his ancestral personality and turned to specialize in power and no longer resort to dangerous tricks.

After being 'taught' by Cao Cao in Huainan, Sun Quan realized that there was a heaven outside the sky.

Instead of wasting resources and gnawing hard bones, it is better to pick soft persimmons and pinch them like bullying Huang Zu, so Lu Meng's plan is very appetizing.

Just as he was thinking of the wonderful part, Lu Meng reminded him again.

"This attack on Jiangling has aroused Liu Biao's vigilance, and there must be precautions for attacking Jingnan again, so I suggest that you rest for a period of time first, understand the weaknesses of the four counties and the deployment of troops, and then attack them by surprise."

"Very good."

Sun Quan nodded in affirmation: "Jingzhou will be handed over to you to be fully responsible, but now you have to solve your worries first, I will leave the old general Cheng to guard Jiangxia, and you will handle the affairs of Tai Shici, and then lead the main force to withdraw to the Chaisang cantonment, and then seek to capture Jingnan." ”

"It's a good arrangement for the lord, but."

Lu Meng glanced at Sun Quan and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Sun Quan frowned: "If you have anything, just say it directly, you don't have to hide it like this." ”

Lü Meng replied: "Shaxian has experienced several wars, the entire city has been damaged, and the Han River flows into the Yangtze River downstream, and the Xiangyang Navy can be cut off at any time, and it is probably inappropriate for General Cheng to stay here."

Sun Quan asked back: "It makes sense, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

"Exian in the east is not far from Chaisang, the river is relatively narrower than Shaxian, and the terrain is more suitable for defense than Shaxian, and it can also echo with Chaisang.

"It's a good idea to move the office, but our goal is to seek Jingnan, but now taking the initiative to give up Shaxian City is equivalent to giving up this section of water, won't there be a wind and grass in the future, and it can be discovered by the defenders of Jingzhou? So what's the surprise? ”

In the face of Sun Quan's questioning, Lü Meng pointed to a map and said: "Xiangyang warships mostly come out according to the Han River, and the lord can build a small city on the ground, and then send a small number of soldiers and horses to choke the Hanshui Pass, so that no matter if you attack Jingnan or Jiangling in the future, you can block the enemy all the way at the minimum cost." ”

Sun Quan leaned over and carefully inspected the map, and then praised the case and said: "It's really good that you chose this place, building a city in Hanshuikou and building a dock fort in Weixukou are similar, and 20,000 people in Shaxian just rushed to build the city, which can be regarded as giving them a way to live." ”

After hearing this, Lu Meng bowed his head slightly to express his affirmation, and the people in the city consumed a lot of military rations, which indirectly affected the sufficient supply of the front-line soldiers.

Now, whether they stay in Jiangxia or bring them back to Jiangdong, these 20,000 people are an unstable factor waiting for food.

Now it is the cold winter wax moon, and it will be planted in the spring and harvested in the summer next year, and it will be raised for more than half a year.

Sun Quan felt that they were a burden, and originally planned to kill them directly in Shaxian, and then let the soldiers take their own property in the city, which was counted as a reward for the half-year expedition to the west.

Now it was decided to drive the people to build the city, and although one life was saved for the time being, there was not one out of ten who could really survive.

These low-level people and prisoners of war were not regarded as human beings by the superiors at all, and at this time they were even inferior to cattle and horses, and in the end they were either exhausted or starved to death.

Compared with the people who built Hefei New Town, the treatment is heaven and earth.

Lü Meng led his troops to Huainan first, and Sun Quan ordered Sun Yu to build Xiakou City in Hanshuikou, and moved the administrative office to Exian County with Cheng Pu, and changed the name of the county to Wuchang.

Shaxian, Jiangxia's original governing place, was plundered, tattered like a ragged old man, and was artificially abandoned like Hefei in the past.

(End of chapter)