Decision Plan

Mi Zhicheng heard Lu Fang's whispers relaxed, and couldn't help but calm down, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu is indeed a mature planner, but have you ever heard the principle of 'the destiny of heaven cannot be violated'. Since King Wu Zhong's death, he has been unable to find his master, and the upper and lower levels have doubted each other; Zhu Jin and Wang Maozhang are both famous generals in Huainan. They were once-in-lawed by King Wu Zhong, but now they are all tied up to surrender. This is clearly a gift from Duke Lu in Huainan. Now Huainan is newly defeated, and the generals are distracted. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As the saying goes, "If God does not take it, you will suffer the consequences." Duke Lu must not miss the opportunity!"

When Lu Fang heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a long time, and looked up and sighed, "Since it is the destiny of heaven, although Lu's virtue is shallow, he can only try it out. However, this section of the river is wide, with only Jingkou and only a few ferry crossings to pass. Although he was newly defeated, he still should not be underestimated! Mr. Mi is a famous general in Huainan, can anyone teach Lu?"

"I dare not give advice, but I have some simple views in the end." Mi Zhicheng had already thought about Lu Fang's question. After all, this is related to his future future in Zhenhaijun. He moved the dishes on several tables, stretched his fingers and pointed them in the wine glass, and drew a curve on the tables that first pointed from the southwest to the northeast and then folded to the southeast to represent the Yangtze River. He took a few oranges and placed them on both sides of the curve to represent several important towns on both sides of the Yangtze River. Then he took a chopstick and talked about his plan on this simple map.

: "Before the last general escaped from Guangling, he had shot and injured the Xu bandit. He was defeated and was seriously injured, so he could only collect troops in a corner of Guangling. Although the adjacent states had Xu bandits' wings, people's hearts were shaken now, and they would not be willing to die. If Mr. Lu first took Jingkou, accumulated heavy troops and warships, and made the attempt to cross the river, forcing the Xu bandits to be powerless, and then he would use a partial army from the upper reaches of Hezhou Liyang, Lu, Shu, and Chu to cross the river, Lu, Shu, and Chu, the generals in Huaixi could be determined. At that time, Guangling's city was firm, could it still resist the Zhenhai army?"

After hearing Mi Zhicheng's plan, Lu Fang did not answer immediately, but just looked at the simple map on several cases in a daze. As a commander who has more than ten years of experience in command of the army, Lu Fang has long been aware of the geographical situation of the Jianghuai area. As the watershed between the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, the Dabie Mountains spanned the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, connected to Tongbai Mountain in the west, and the eastern section gradually decreased, connecting with the vast Jianghuai Plain. Thus, the vast areas between the Jianghuai, with today's Hongze Lake and Zhangbaling as the boundary, divided into two eastern and western regions: the northern Jiangsu Plain in the east and the Jianghuai hills in the west, the mountains in the west and the Yangtze River coastal plains. Guangling is the central city of the northern Jiangsu Plain in the east of Huai. Once the Zhenhai Army followed Mi Zhicheng's strategy, first captured Jingkou, suppressed Guangling defenders, and then crossed north in Liyang in the upper reaches, the Guangling defenders would be in a very dangerous position.

To the north, the Navy can go upstream from the Ruxue Water - Chaofei Canal - Feishui, go upstream from the mouth of Ruxue, pass Dongguan, enter Chaohu, and follow Shishui to reach Luzhou, and then go directly to the important town of Huaixi, Luzhou, and then follow Feishui through Shaobi to directly threaten Shouzhou; to the east, you can go along the flat Jiangbei Plain, and advance along the water routes to directly attack Guangling; to the west, you can go northwest along the Jiangbei Plain, occupy Shuzhou, Qichun, Wuwei and other important areas on both sides of the Yangtze River. In a word, the Navy can directly threaten the central area of ​​Huaixi. In terms of military tactics, this well-connected area is called Qudi. However, Xu Wen, who is located in Guangling, has only two choices to support Huaixi prefectures. One is to go along the land route and cross the rugged Jianghuai hills, and brave the danger of being taken away by the enemy's nest and travel a long distance; or go north along the canal and then go up the Huaihe River to reach Shou

The state, then goes south from Feishui to support Luzhou in a big way. None of these two roads is much longer and dangerous than the Zhenhai Army that captured Liyang. As long as the guards of Huaixi prefectures are not fools, they will not expect Xu Wen to take rescue operations in violation of military common sense. Moreover, the broken terrain of Huaixi also determines that it is extremely difficult for them to fight together. As long as Lu Fang can come up with a relatively preferential surrender condition, it is not difficult to force a large part of them to give up resistance, at least to neutrality. In this way, it will be sooner or later for Guangling, isolated in a corner of northern Jiangsu, to be captured. If we look at it from paper, this is indeed a very targeted plan, but all this has a premise - how to take Liyang as easily as possible? Lu Fang raised his head and looked at the man in front of him, and the other party's eyes were full of fanaticism.

"I believe that Mi Gong is confident in his heart how to cross the river and conquer Liyang!" Lu Fang suddenly smiled.

"Liu Jin, the governor of Hezhou, is the last general and the last general is willing to cross the river to persuade this person to surrender!"

When Lu Fang heard this, he pondered for a moment and suddenly asked, "What are the habits of this person?"

Mi Zhicheng replied: "He was born in a wild place, likes drinking and gambles."

Lu Fang nodded and said, "Mr. Mi can tell Liu Jin that if he is willing to release his armor and surrender, Lu Fang will ensure that his official position will be unharmed. If he has a daughter, I will become a marriage with him."

Mi Zhicheng was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "It just so happened that Liu Jin had a legitimate daughter. The king was so magnanimous, so why worry about the big thing not being done!" Mi Zhicheng saw that Lu Fang had adopted his plan, and the name he mentioned changed from "Lu Gong" to "King", and the division between the upper and lower levels was already decided.

Since the two sides had agreed, Lu Fan invited the subordinates, wrote the letter, used the seal, and handed it over to Mi Zhicheng to collect it. He agreed to set off the next day to Dangtu Dujiang River to Liyang. After the big plan was settled, Lu Fang was not worried at this time, and there were many old friends below. He couldn't help but let go of his heart and drank it. By the time he was holding the lamp, he was already drunk and fell asleep at his desk.

Above the river, there were masts and oars like forests and huge sails like clouds. From a distance, hundreds of warships looked like moving land, flowing down the Yangtze River. It was the Huainan Expeditionary Force that was withdrawn from Jiangxi to Guangling from Jiangxi.

On the flagship, Zhou Ben sat on the watchtower and looked at the scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River. In autumn, the river surface was vast and lush with plants and trees. It was the best time of the year, but his face was filled with sorrow. This veteran who was almost the only remaining fruit in Huainan felt like the cold winter in his heart.

At this time, a slow footstep sound came from behind. Zhou Ben did not turn around, so he identified the identity of the person through the footsteps and sighed in a low voice: "Mr. Liu, you have just recovered from the typhoid fever. The wind is strong here. Be careful that the disease will get worse and it will be troublesome."

"Cough cough!" The visitor coughed twice and sighed, "I still have the heart to recuperate now. I'm so tired that I'm even silenced in that cabin. Why not come up and say a few words to you, and I feel better!" The visitor's temples were gray and his face was sallow, which was exactly what he had just recovered from a serious illness, and it was Liu Wei.

Zhou Ben smiled bitterly, stood up, and gave the Hu bed under his butt to Liu Wei. Liu Wei was not polite, and sat down and scolded angrily: "I don't know what Xu Wen did. He threw the Jiangdong provinces to Lu Fang, but also wrote a letter to us to lead our troops back to Guangling, but threw the Jiangxi land that he had been struggling to defeat him to the repeated villain Zhong Yangui. That guy would betray his adoptive father who was as kind as a mountain, let us. If nothing happened in Jiangxi within three months, you would let me dig out my eyes!"

Seeing his old friend's appearance, Zhou Ben had to smile bitterly and shook his head and said, "Xu Wen is not a fool. Don't he know that Zhong Yangui is a recurring villain? But he had no choice. Wu Jin lost all the Wan Shatuo Iron Cavalry in a battle, and his capital was reduced. Even Zhu Jin ran to Lu Fang. If we don't transfer our two old bones back, would we still watch Lu Fang kill into Guangling City?"

Hearing his old friend's words, Liu Wei couldn't help but feel silent. After a while, he sighed: "When King Wuzhong was alive, Lu Fang was making trouble on both sides of Zhejiang, and he didn't see how capable he was. But after a few years of King Wuzhong's death, he was asked to fight to the edge of the Yangtze River. Is this he too capable or are we too incompetent, and we can't even defend this foundation!"

When Zhou Ben heard his old friend's self-pitying words, he didn't know how to answer for a while. The lookout was silent for a while. After a while, Zhou Ben suddenly stood up and pointed to the distance and shouted loudly: "What's going on over there? Could it be that something happened?"

Liu Wei was startled by Zhou Ben's shock. He stood up and looked in the direction of his old friend's finger. However, it was a small sandbank next to the north bank of the Yangtze River. You could vaguely see a dilapidated village above, which had been lit. There was a small dock on the shore. A small team of soldiers were transporting things on the boat, looking like they were about to evacuate.

"Duke Zhou, where is that? What happened to make you lose your composure?" Liu Wei asked. He stayed in the cabin all the way, and he didn't know where he was just out.

While Zhou Ben sternly ordered a few fast ships to go to Nashazhou to bring the sergeant to the team of soldiers, he explained to Liu Wei in a low voice: It turns out that Nashazhou is called Baisha Town, also known as Baishazhou, which is located on the Nanbin River Shazhou in Yizhen County, Yangzhou. The other side is Dantu County in Runzhou, which is a Jiangbang Prevention. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, as long as there were police in the north, the Southern Dynasties had stationed troops here, thinking it was an outpost. During the Tianan Rebellion, Yang Xingmi also stationed troops here, and later put down Tianan Rebellion, the two sides of the river were the territory of Huainan, and the garrison here was removed. But now the Zhenhai Army has all the land in Jiangdong, and the strategic position of this Baishazhou has become important again. Why isn't the Huainan Army not only not increasing its troops to strengthen its defenses here, but also withdrawing troops from here? Isn't it very strange?

Liu Wei was also a long-time general. After hearing Zhou Ben's explanation, he immediately understood and said in a deep voice: "What Mr. Zhou said is very good. It seems that the situation in Guangling is complicated. If we hit it back like this, it will be bad. It is better for us to dock first and garrison Liuhe, and then deal with it after the situation is clear!"
Chapter completed!