"Ashuer's troops of Nanliang and Beidi are advancing towards Jianguan and Zhonglingguan."

"The Northern Di was in Xiaoguan, and passed the pass, and the Ningjindushi stationed troops on the front line, and the cavalry frequently provoked."

"The troops of Wu State gave up Sucheng and retreated to Jiangzhou."

“…”

In just over a month, pieces of information flew towards Yancheng like snowflakes.

Zhao Xu also made strategic adjustments to the trends of the Shi Clan and Beidi.

"The soldiers and horses of the powerful tribe retreated to Jiangzhou in order to lure the enemy into depth. They must not fall into a trap. The prince's personal army only needs to leave 30,000 troops in Jinling and defend Jinling, Sucheng and Songcheng without garrisoning, so as to prevent them from being defeated due to excessive dispersion of troops and the remaining troops heading to Jingzhou."

"The Qin army focuses on responding to Jianguan, while the royal family's personal army focuses on responding to Zhonglingguan."

“…”

In the study, Ma Han and Chang Wei are both there.

There was an abnormal movement in Jianguan and Zhonglingguan, so Zhao Xu called Ma Han to Yancheng.

After transformation, the Qin army was now completely under the command of the royal palace.

However, the commander of the Qin army was still Ma Han, but Ma Han was directly obeying Chang Wei, equivalent to the general under Chang Wei's command.

His position is second only to the general Chang Wei.

After Chang Wei's powerful clan troops in Sucheng retreated to Jiangzhou, he returned to Yancheng by steamboat to discuss the next action together.

"Yes, Your Highness." After Zhao Xu gave the order one after another, Ma Han and Chang Wei said in unison.

Chang Wei frowned when he entered the study room, and he said, "Your Highness, the current situation is very dangerous. The army of the powerful clan and the Beidi army cooperated north and south, which is tearing our defense line up, allowing us to disperse our troops at several points in the border pass. As long as one of them points a mistake, they can take the opportunity to tear a hole and destroy Jiangbei."

At present, the Qin army has deployed 40,000 troops on Xiaoguan, Yongzhou River Beach and the front line of customs clearance.

There are still 10,000 troops patrolling the banks of Jiujiang.

Only 50,000 troops were drawn to deal with Jian Pass.

Their personal army in the royal palace is still fine. In addition to Jinling, they also divided their troops to defend the Jiujiang River, and were able to draw out 100,000 troops to Zhongling Pass.

This is under the condition that the King of Yan demanded that he only guard Jinling and not Songcheng and Sucheng.

Otherwise, the troops they could draw would be similar to those of the Qin army.

He also agreed with the decision of King Yan.

There is no need to occupy Songcheng and Sucheng at present.

The army of the powerful clan carried the people westward and defended too many cities, which would only disperse their forces.

"This move is really sinister, but after the Shi tribe and the Beidi army arrived at Jianguan and Zhongling Pass, they stopped moving, as if they were waiting for something." Ma Han cursed and added.

"Their purpose was to restrain your Qin army, lure your royal family troops to go south, and then find an opportunity to annihilate the royal family troops. Therefore, they will not take any action in the west for the time being." Zhao Xu sneered.

After pausing, he continued, "But they are going to be disappointed. I did not follow his plan and would turn them back and force them to fight a battle in Jianguan and Zhongling Guantong. If they steal chickens, they will lose rice."

Ma Han and Chang Wei looked at each other and nodded slowly.

Japan has been cleaned up, and the Westerners continue to stir up the wind and rain.

As soon as they integrated the Shi Clan and Bei Di, they put a trap and gave them a drill.

If it were a King of Yan who was eager for quick success and instant benefits, I was afraid that the royal family would really chase all the way to Jiangzhou, and the opponent would cut off the food route and cut off the retreat path, and a big victory turned into a big defeat.

"Go and take Jianguan and Zhonglingguan to me. Nanliang is called burning the body." Zhao Xu said in a solemn voice.

In response, Chang Wei and Ma Han turned around and left, one heading for Qinzhou and the other heading for Jingzhou.

After the two left, Zhao Xu came outside the study and stood with his hands behind his back.

Strategy should be adjusted at any time according to the situation.

Originally, in order to attack the Wu Kingdom, he controlled the grain-producing area in southern Ningzhou.

Now, since Nanliang has become the grain-producing area on which the powerful clans depend for survival, the focus of the offensive will be changed.

Next, it is very necessary to temporarily suspend the movements in the direction of Jinling and seize the last grain-producing area controlled by Yizhou, the powerful clan.

And he has another purpose in doing this, which is to force civil rebellion as soon as possible.

The people of Dasong worked very hard and would not easily rebel if they could not starve to death.

At present, the people are surrounded by powerful tribes, but as long as they have some food to eat, they dare not disobey the trend tribes.

But once there is a shortage of food, the powerful people will only give priority to supplying military food, and then the people's lives will be hard.

Faced with survival problems, the people who are being bullied will inevitably not escape from the inland or rise up directly.

At that time, the people's hearts will fall down completely.

The returned people returned to their hometown to recuperate, which also facilitated the cities he had captured and provided supplies to the army.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu nodded slowly.

However, it is obviously more difficult to seize Yizhou than to seize Jinling.

Jian Pass and Zhongling Pass are actually the easiest. To take these two passes, you have to face the problem of rugged mountain roads.

However, he was not in a hurry.

After taking down Jianguan and Zhongling Pass, the entire Jiangbei army will successively reinstall the needle-firing rifle.

The new tactics that emerged with the replacement of muskets would cause the enemy to collapse in front of them, which was not worth worrying.
Chapter completed!