After Li Yan was persuaded by Xu Shu and opened the city to welcome Zhang Fei, the follow-up things were logical.

Zhang Fei was stationed in Xiaoling County for a day, so that the troops who had been rushing for days could rest and relieve their fatigue, and Li Yan also simply set up wine and food in the county government to catch the wind, and the details do not need to be repeated.

Zhang Fei drank too much during the day, so naturally he began to sleep in the afternoon, and slept until the next morning.

But Li Yan and Xu Shu didn't dare to rest, and after Zhang Fei drank too much and slept more, they were still sorting out the recent military situation around them, discussing countermeasures, and helping Zhang Fei plan the next action plan.

The next day was April 21, Zhang Fei woke up, washed up, used a bowl of hot and sour soup to sober up, and ate some noodles at the same time.

And Li Yan and Xu Shu have already sorted out the battle plan and come to report to him.

After Zhang Fei heard about it, he couldn't help but glance at this Li Yan, and secretly wondered: How can you casually recruit a county order, and you can know some soldiers? Could it be that I am so lucky, I will definitely be praised by my eldest brother when I go back, right?

Zhang Fei respects readers, and when he saw this, he didn't even eat the fire, and sat upright and listened carefully: "Oh? I wonder what Li Xianling's opinion on the military situation? ”

Li Yan is also the first time to do things after changing the court, and he really wants to leave a good impression on his colleagues, so he said energetically:

"General, as far as I know, Zhang Xian had already taken the waterway of the Yangtze River five days ago, crossed the mouth of the Youjiang River without entering, and continued to go upstream, straight to Jiangling.

Leaving only a partial division, that is, the Wuling army under the command of Jin Xuan that was defeated by you, surrounded Xiaoling and attacked slowly to pull out the nails on the back road. Two days after the Wuling soldiers arrived at the city, the general arrived.

So calculate the time, it is only a day and a half after the Jinxuan division was broken, and Zhang Xian is very likely to be besieging Jiangling now, planning to take advantage of the weakness to attack. He shouldn't know the news yet, but he'll know soon.

Once Zhang Xian learned that the counterinsurgency forces were coming so quickly, he would inevitably give up the siege of Jiangling and withdraw the rebel army to Changsha. As long as our army responds properly, it can intercept and inflict heavy damage on the way, and it will save much effort when besieging Changsha City in the future. ”

After Zhang Fei heard the news, he immediately came to his senses: "Didn't Zhang Xian personally lead his troops to attack Jiangling?" ”

Li Yan thought for a while and said cautiously: "This is not a ...... After all, Zhang Xian is also a shepherd, not a famous general, he just got into trouble, and he should still sit in Changsha to stabilize the situation.

Five days ago, when Zhang Xianjun crossed the border, the county scout sentry boat, and the flag of the main general seen on the river was Xingzi. In the counties of Jingnan, there are very few generals surnamed Xing, and it should be Xing Daorong, the commander of Lingling.

Before Zhang Xian served as the Taishou of Changsha, he had served as the two counties of Lingling and Guiyang, so among the four counties of Jingnan, in addition to Wuling Jinxuan and his alliance relationship, the other two counties were actually semi-subordinate. Zhang Xian has also been operating in Lingling for many years, and can bypass Lingling Taishou and directly command Xing Daorong. ”

Zhang Fei also heard these insiders for the first time, and he can be regarded as gaining some knowledge and understanding of the enemy situation more thoroughly.

Eight years later in history, when Liu Bei came to collect Jingnan, the four county guards were Han Xuan, Liu Du, Jin Xuan, and Zhao Fan. But among these four, only Jin Xuan and Zhao Fan were already Taishou when they were five years old in Jian'an.

Han Xuan and Liu Du were all newly sent after Liu Biao pacified Zhang Xian's rebellion in history, and the original Changsha and Lingling Taishou were all identified as anti-thieves and killed. Including the later Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju and Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Laigong (but was expelled by Shixie and failed to take office), they were all appointed by Liu Biao after the destruction of Zhang Xian.

Even Huang Zhong was sent to Jingnan after Ping Zhang Xian, so these people haven't come yet.

The current Lingling Taishou is just Zhang Xian's puppet, a waste who doesn't even deserve his name, Zhang Xian is in fact the Taishou of the two counties of Changsha Lingling, and Lingling's resources are usually at his disposal.

Zhang Fei heard that Zhang Xian led the troops with Xing Daorong, so he continued to ask: "I don't know how many soldiers and horses Xing Daorong led to attack Jiangling?" ”

Li Yan: "I don't know about this, but that day I only found a large number of warships on the river, about a few hundred." According to common sense, if you want to take Gangneung, you can't use less than 10,000 troops. Otherwise, even if Gangneung's troops are relatively empty at the moment, it will never be possible to break through. ”

Zhang Fei scratched his beard, no longer thinking about the number of enemies, but humbly asked for advice: "That gentleman thinks that how our army should be deployed now can ensure that Xing Daorong is intercepted on his way back and annihilated here." ”

Li Yangang wanted to answer, but he didn't know much about Liu Beijun's deployment of other people, and the information was not sufficient.

So Xu Shu, who chatted with him for half the night last night, helped to answer: "General Zhang, I have already calculated with Brother Zhengfang, once Xing Daorong learns that Xiaoling is occupied by the counterinsurgency army, it is possible to retreat by three ways."

The first choice is definitely to go down the Yangtze River and go back the way you came. But this road was blocked by Gan Zhonglang's navy, and it was impossible for Xing Daorong to return to Dongting and Xiaoxiang through Baqiu.

The second choice is to seize the time to go down the Yangtze River first, retreat to the mouth of the Youjiang River, and then turn into the oil and water to our Xiaoling, and then go south by land over some hills, return to Wuling through Tang County, and then find another boat back to Changsha along the Yuan and Li coasts——

This road is the road that our army took when it came to attack Xiaoling, but Xing Daorong will go in the opposite direction again. As long as he dares to choose this path, with the prestige of General Zhang, he is afraid that he will not be able to intercept Xing Daorong in the field?

And the third choice is that if he moves too slowly along the Yangtze River and is driven to the mouth of the Youjiang River by Gan Zhonglang first, he will not even have the opportunity to retreat into the oil and water, so he can only go up the Yangtze River, cross the Yangtze River from the upper reaches of Jiangling to Yidao County, and go south to Wuling by land from Yidao.

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The advantage of this road is that it will not be directly intercepted by the land and water armies of General Zhang and Gan Zhonglang, but the road is more difficult, and there are more places to climb the mountains, so all the ships and vehicles must be abandoned, and if these materials are not burned, they will inevitably be captured by our army in the end.

And it is also very easy to crack Xing Daorong's third retreat - please don't give up your hard work today, immediately lead the troops along the south bank of the Yangtze River upstream, and go straight to Yidao, Brother Zhengfang also said that he and Yidao County Ling Dong He are colleagues, and they also have a little old friendship, and they are willing to help our army persuade them to return to obedience and work together to resist Zhang Xian's rebels.

As long as Yidao County is occupied, Xing Daorong's retreat will be completely cut off, and he can only wait obediently for death in Jiangbei, like a turtle in an urn. ”

Xu Shu took stock of Xing Daorong's three withdrawal routes in one go, and pointed out the map, which made Zhang Fei see it very intuitively.

Zhang Fei's heart suddenly brightened, and he slapped his thigh: "Clever plan!" Then deploy according to what Yuan Zhi said! I will take 3,000 cavalry today, and first go to Yidao to persuade Dong He to surrender, and Li County Commander has to work hard and run with me. Yuan Zhi temporarily stayed in Xiaoling to defend the city. ”

Zhang Feihuo hurriedly made a decision, and after the order, he suddenly remembered a detail, and hurriedly drew inferences from one another and asked:

"Yuan Zhi, you said that Xing Daorong could still go up the Yangtze River and find an empty place on the south bank to escape as a last resort.

In this case, if after we occupy the Yi Dao, then Xing Daorong continues to detour further upstream than the Yi Dao, how should we block it? Could it be that we have been patrolling upstream along the south bank of the Yangtze River? ”

Xu Shu smiled directly when he heard this, and signaled Zhang Fei not to worry: "General Zhang is too worried-this map can't see the terrain and mountains, and the general is not familiar with the geography of Jingzhou, so he will ask this."

In fact, on the other side of this Yidao County, a little more upstream, is Yiling County, and further upstream, there will be a county seat in Zigui and Wuxian County. In the middle is the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and the mountains stretch for thousands of miles on both sides, and you have to go all the way to Yufu County, Yizhou, where you will enter the Sichuan.

It is impossible for Xing Daorong to cross the Yangtze River in the Three Gorges and go south, and the mountains along the south side of the Three Gorges are not crossed, so as long as we block Yidao County, we will block the south bank of the Yangtze River after the entire section of the lower reaches of the Three Gorges. ”

The "Yufu" county mentioned by Xu Shu is a county under Yizhou Ba County, which is the place that was later renamed Yong'an by Liu Bei in history, and is located at the west entrance of Qutang Gorge.

Zhang Fei suddenly heard that no one further upstream was a mountainous area that could not be climbed, and he finally had no worries.

Xing Daorong can't get into Shennongjia to be a savage.

At that moment, Zhang Fei was full of confidence, and on the same day, he ordered 3,000 cavalry and rushed to Yidao in the upper reaches of Xiaoling, persuaded Dong He to surrender, and let Xu Shu stay to guard Xiaoling.

At the time of parting, Xu Shu gave Zhang Fei another advice, asking Zhang Fei to write a letter and find several boats, so that he could set off from Xiaoling, follow the oil and water to the mouth of the oil river, and then go down the Yangtze River to find Gan Ning.

Zhang Fei didn't understand what it meant, and asked it in detail. Xu Shu explained:

"General Zhang, our army blocked all three retreats of Xing Daorong, this is only the first step. After the blockade, Xing Daorong will inevitably jump over the wall in a hurry and forcibly choose a way to try to break through.

Therefore, our army should make preparations in advance and induce Xing Daorong to choose the most advantageous road for us to break through when all three roads are blocked, so that we can fight more smoothly when Xing Daorong is annihilated in the future.

And in my opinion, among the three paths, the most beneficial for us is to induce Xing Daorong to forcibly break through Xiaoling-

If Xing Daorong breaks through by Yidao, because the location is too upstream, and there is no waterway near Yidao to approach Wuling, then Gan Zhonglang's troops will not be able to exert their combat power, and they can only stare dryly on the Yangtze River, and the whip is beyond their reach.

In the same way, if Xing Daorong is allowed to forcibly break through the water army on the Yangtze River and return to Baqiu, our army will be useless, and can only watch Gan Zhonglang's water army meet Xing Daorong alone.

Only the most compromise of the three roads is this mausoleum, which can allow our army to use both land and water. As long as Xing Daorong dares to enter the mouth of the Youjiang River, Gan Zhonglang's army will then arrive and block the mouth of the Youjiang River, and I will defend the city of Xiaoling, General Zhang, you will block the detours around the Yanling Tomb.

In this way, the city, the wilderness, and the river are surrounded on three sides, the sky and the earth are netted, and the forces are combined, Xing Daorong is wiped out, only in an instant! However, in order to do this, it is necessary to make Gan Zhonglang's army march slower and not rush to the mouth of the oil river too early.

As mentioned earlier, General Zhang, you can come to Xiaoling by land from Lishui and Zuotang County, at least two or three days faster than Gan Zhonglang. And after Gan Zhonglang parted ways with you at the beginning, he had to spend a day or two to help General Zhao besiege Baqiu and clear the mouth of Dongting Lake.

All things are calculated, under normal circumstances, Gan Zhonglang's arrival time in Xiaoling should be four to five days slower than that of General Zhang, and now we have been here for two days, and Gan Zhonglang will arrive in two or three days. And within two or three days, Xing Daorong will not have time to retreat from Jiangling to Youjiangkou, and he has not yet begun to retreat.

Gan Zhonglang must be allowed to slow down under the pretext of letting Xing Daorong reach the mouth of the oil river before him, and not too much first, so as to lure the enemy to the bait. ”

Zhang Fei's brain turned slowly, and he was deduced like this by Xu Shu, and it took him a long time to understand the overall plan, and he couldn't help but sigh.

There was nothing to say about this, Zhang Fei immediately repaired a letter and asked people to send it down the river to Gan Ning, so that Gan Ning must find an excuse to slow down the boat.

In order to prevent Gan Ning from disobeying orders, Zhang Fei also specially "threatened" a few words: only if he drove slowly, he would share a bite of meat to eat, so that he could participate in the siege and annihilation of Xing Daorong.

If Gan Ning had to come too fast, Xing Daorong was so frightened that he didn't dare to withdraw his troops at the mouth of the Youjiang River, and went to Yidao County to climb the mountain, then Gan Ning's navy would just wait for a trip in vain!

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