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As Xu Shu, Lu Su and others analyzed, once Xichuan "changes the sky", it will inevitably directly threaten the security of Jingzhou. Jingzhou's main force went out to fight the Central Plains in the northern expedition, and the current military force left behind is less than 20,000.

From Jingbei to Jingnan, the front line is 7,800 miles long, and a mere 20,000 military strength is really impossible to take into account at the same time.

Even if Lu Xun was stationed in Jiaotong, the 20,000 troops on the border between the two prefectures of Jing were only 40,000. Moreover, Lu Xun's troops had to be used to prevent the Southern Central Barbarians.

The troops that Xichuan can use are conservatively estimated to have 780,000.

Previously, Xichuan needed to guard against Xiahou Yuan in Hanzhong, Zhang Lu in Badong, Barbarians in the South, and of course, the Jingzhou army. This would invisibly disperse the military force and could not pose a substantial threat to Jingzhou.

However, once Xichuan "changes the sky", there is no need to prevent Hanzhong. At the same time, due to Xiahou Yuan's restraint, even Zhang Lu's threat can be lifted.

In this way, in addition to being a little careful about the Southern Central Barbarians, Xichuan could mobilize more than half of the military forces to attack Jingzhou.

What's even more terrible is that since the main force is also involved in the Northern Expedition, Yangzhou cannot provide support to Jingzhou.

If Xichuan and Liu Bei really turned against each other, Jingzhou's security will become a huge hidden danger, and the current Northern Expedition plan may be destroyed at any time.

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"Will the plan come out?" Liu Bei said with a deep brow and pondered.

After thinking for a while, Xu Shu was the first to say: "Lord, I have a complete plan, so I think I need to take a multi-pronged approach..."

"What is a multi-pronged approach?" Liu Bei asked anxiously.

"First, try to eliminate this from the source..." Xu Shu analyzed slowly, "I have been sending a detailed message to this moment. However, it has only been more than three days, and it is very likely that the accident has not yet been launched.

If someone can be sent to Liu Zhang as quickly as possible, it may be possible to eliminate the chaos.

Shu believes that only a few people in Xichuan who were truly bewitched and sold by Cao Cao. As long as Liu Zhang noticed it, with his father and son's foundation in Yizhou for more than 20 years, stability and chaos will not be too difficult."

"If it's too late, what's the matter?" Zhang Zhao asked with a stroke of his beard.

"If it's too late, let our side's detailed work hidden in Xichuan directly spread the news that some Xichuan officials were bewitched by Cao Cao to sell off their anger and rebellion, and make a big splash.

I think some civil and military officials in Sichuan must be loyal to Liu Zhang. Once they know the "truth" of the chaos, they will inevitably fight against those Sichuan officials who were sold by Cao Cao. As long as the fight within Xichuan also starts, they will naturally not pose a threat to our Jingzhou.

"Xu Shu replied calmly.

Xu Shu's plan is likely to plunge hundreds of thousands of people in Xichuan into a civil war, but it is very helpful to ensure the security of Jingzhou and the plan for the Northern Expedition.

Although Liu Bei is a principled person, he is not pedantic. After thinking for a while, he slowly nodded in recognition: "Yuanzhi, continue!"

"Yes..." Xu Shu nodded and continued, "The second measure is to mobilize troops to Jingzhou as much as possible to garrison them in case of accidents or the previous measures are not effective.

At present, only the new soldiers who were trained in Danyang and a group of troops stationed in Wujun and Kuaiji were able to draw up the troops. The total number was about 25,000. This was originally intended to be used as a reserve force for the Northern Expedition.

But now they can only be used to solve the urgent problem."

"Yeah..." Liu Bei nodded and said, "Yuanzhi, who will lead these troops to reinforce Jingzhou?" The main generals of the Yangzhou army have participated in the Northern Expedition, and there are not many generals stationed in the rear who can lead the army.

Although Yu Jin is a good candidate, his identity is a bit embarrassing. He is currently in the decisive battle between Cao and Liu, and some things are difficult to guarantee.

"General Liao Hua is good at governing the army and is also a brave and powerful person. He is the best candidate to lead the army to reinforce Jingzhou!" Xu Shuluo replied after thinking about it.

"Yuan Jian is indeed very suitable!" Liao Hua was a heroic general in Liu Bei's army. He made great achievements in the wars in Runan, Shouchun and Jiangdong. In recent years, he was mainly responsible for guarding the hinterland of Jiangdong and fading out of the frontline.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Bei didn't think of Liao Hua for a while.

But at this moment, once Xu Shu mentioned it, Liu Bei expressed his approval without hesitation.

"Lord, it's better to arrange someone to coordinate the overall situation of military and political affairs in Jingzhou, and one can respond to the chaos in Xichuan. It's more important to ensure the smooth progress of the Northern Expedition." Seeing that Liu Bei recognized his proposal again, Xu Shu continued.

Liu Bei nodded, his eyes patrolling the four people in the hall. Finally, it fell on Kuai Yue: "Alien degree, do you want to go to Jingzhou!"

Kuai Yuezhi had outstanding plans and a prominent reputation in Jingzhou. He had also had the experience of leading a military and political affairs. He was indeed the only candidate to take on this important task.

"I dare not refuse!"

"Lord, it's best to send an envoy to contact Zhang Lu and ask him to create a certain shock to Hanzhong and Xichuan when necessary!" Based on Xu Shu's planned location, Lu Su added.

"kindness……"

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One hour later, six and seven carrier pigeons soared into the sky and flew to different directions.

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On March 25, 2018, the second year of Zhanghe, General Liao Hua led the Kuaiji army to the north, assembled the Wujun garrison, and then took a boat to Jingzhou westward.

At the same time, Jianwei's captain Quan Rou led 15,000 new troops in Danyang and headed to Chaisang to wait for Liao Hua in advance.

Quan Duan, the thief-paced captain, was ordered to recruit a large number of new recruits in Danyang.

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"Dangdangdang..." The rapid sound of gold sounds sounded, and the soldiers of Jingzhou who were sieging the city retreated like a tide, quickly and in an orderly manner.

Soon, the battlefield returned to tranquility.

If it weren't for the blood left everywhere in the city and the undispersed bloody smell in the air, no one would have thought that there was a fierce battle not long ago.

On the east city tower of Wancheng, Cao's soldiers, who breathed a sigh of relief, were busy carrying the casualties to the city. They were treated or buried directly; while transporting the materials, stones, oils, and arrows needed to defend the city to the city...

With the company of Jia Xu, Man Chong and others, Cao Cao came to the city tower with condolences to the injured soldiers.

Walking to the outer edge of the city tower, Cao Cao touched the dented female wall and looked deep at the outside of the city. Under the continuous attack of the Jingzhou army for seven or eight days, the moat more than three meters wide surrounding Wancheng had been filled.

Now it seems that it is no longer a river. It is a small ditch after a while.

About 280 steps from the foot of the city, two brand new trenches were in sight, each about 1 meter wide, less than two steps away from each other. What is strange is that these two trenches are not complete and are divided into sections.

About every hundred steps will be broken, with ten steps between each section.

When the Jingzhou army first started digging these two trenches, Cao Cao felt a little confused. But when the trenches first saw their scale, Cao Cao's mind suddenly realized the other party's intentions.

Among the defenders of Wancheng, there are more than 6,000 cavalry. The relatively flat terrain near Wancheng is an excellent stage for cavalry to exert their power.

If these cavalry are concentrated and the Jingzhou army in a certain direction is suddenly launched. Even if the enemy cannot defeat or break through the encirclement, it is undoubtedly possible to pose a great threat to the Jingzhou army.

The two trenches dug by the Jingzhou army were to restrict the land used for the Cao army's cavalry and even the Cao army infantry to break through and attack.

Facing these two closely connected trenches, if the Cao army cavalry left the city to launch an attack, they could only pass through the flat ground with only ten steps in width between the trenches deliberately left by the other party.

In this way, the power of the cavalry charge was weakened by half.

But this problem does not exist for the Jingzhou army. Using the new Pili chariot with a range of more than 300 steps, they can first suppress the Cao army Pili chariot on the city tower, and then pass through the trenches before siegeing the city.

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"Zhang Fei's intention to surround the point and attack the aid is very obvious!" Man Chong stood behind Cao Cao and said in a deep voice. "For the past five or six days after he arrived in Wancheng, although the attacks in the military and local areas in Jingzhou were vigorous, they were actually loud and the raindrops were small!"

"This bastard is too cunning!" Cao Xiu punched the female wall and said hatefully, "He seemed to have a clear understanding of our army's methods of defending the city, and he could avoid the vital points every time. The soldiers who attacked the city were all like turtles and could not even be smashed to death!

And that hateful thunderbolt car, what kind of thunderbolt car are they? Our army thunderbolt car frame is on the city tower. The range is actually 3 or 40 steps lower than theirs. If it weren't for crossbows, they wouldn't even touch their thunderbolt car!"

"He is not just trying to surround some and attack support..." Jia Xu said, picking up his beard, "Jingzhou's siege in the past few days. It's better to say that it's training than siege.

I don’t know if the Prime Minister noticed that the Jingzhou army involved in the siege seemed to be in a daily rotation. “

"He saw that our army was inconvenient to go out of the city to fight, so he actually treated Cao as the target of the training ground!" Cao Cao said with a angrily smile.

"This makes people feel terrible!" Jia Xu sighed and said, "The Prime Minister is in Wancheng, which is almost within reach for Zhang Fei. As long as he can conquer Wancheng, he can make extraordinary achievements and set a victory for Liu Bei in one fell swoop.

Such a great temptation can be said to be no one to refuse. But Zhang Feiling turned a blind eye to such a wonderful skill, which made people amazed.

"I wonder what happened to Zi Lian and Wen Qian?" Cao Cao stared at the huge flag in the Jingzhou military camp in the distance with complicated eyes and said in a deep voice, "I just hope Zi Lian will not act too recklessly!"

"Prime Minister, don't worry!" Jia Xu chuckled and comforted, "General Le acted steadily and should be able to dissuade General Cao!"

The day before yesterday, a team of tiger and leopard cavalry took advantage of the night to break through the blockade of the Jingzhou army and entered Wancheng.

Although there were only two of the more than 50 cavalrymen left, they successfully brought Cao Cao an important news - Le Jin, who escaped into the mountains that day, led his army eastward to bypass Wancheng and met Cao Hong.

Then the two met with several other Cao troops who went south to reinforce Wancheng, assembled an army of more than 50,000 people, and slowly approached Wancheng under the deployment of Xun Yu, so as to put pressure on the Jingzhou army.

However, it is a pity that the Jingzhou army has not shown signs of lifting the siege so far.
Chapter completed!