The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 319 Jiangdong Strategy
"My lord, you can rest assured that General Tai Shici spent nearly a year in Xiangyang to study with General Gan Ning in order to get familiar with naval warfare. Although he is not as good as General Gan Ning, he has already mastered the essentials of naval warfare. , able to use warships more skillfully to fight.”

Xi Zhicai admired Tai Shici very much. Tai Shici is now one of the Five Tiger Generals, but he can still humbly learn from Gan Ning, who is also one of the Five Tiger Generals. This is really commendable.

"Very good. I hope you will all learn from Tai Shici. As the saying goes, "Live and learn, don't forget to learn at any time, Zhicai, let me tell you about the strategy of sending troops."

Xi Zhicai asked someone to take out the sand table and said to the sand table: "Look, everyone, although this time it was only to attack Jiangdong, Sun Ce's strength has greatly increased after he captured Jingnan, and his territory has also expanded a lot. This is very worthy of our attention. , so this time I not only need to attack Jiangdong, but also need to attack Jingnan."

"The military division is absolutely right, but we must not forget one thing." Ma Xian interrupted suddenly. He has been very low-key for the past three years and has not shown too much performance, but Li Yuan still did not relax his surveillance.

"Ma Changshi, please tell me." Xi Zhicai didn't mind Ma Xian interrupting him.

"Although we are attacking Sun Ce this time, the same Sun Ce may also have this idea. In our inherent thinking, we all feel that our army is stronger than Sun Ce, so Sun Ce should adopt a defensive posture and wait for our army to attack. , In fact, this kind of thinking is wrong, Sun Ce is extremely brave in combat, he prefers offense to defense, and with Zhou Yu's assistance, maybe he will use some clever tricks to surprise our army."

Ma Xian's remark reminded many people, even Xi Zhicai did not think of this, because in their minds they really thought that Sun Ce's troops were not as powerful as theirs, and they should use a defensive method to deal with them, but Ma Xian's words made everyone wake up, and everyone looked at this not-so-talkative Chang Shi with admiration.

"Zhongjun is absolutely right. We must not neglect our precautions when attacking. With the skills of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, we will definitely not sit still." Li Yuan nodded in agreement, but this made him even more confused about Ma Xian's identity. If it's really Sima Yi's words, there's no need to say such important words to remind them.

Xi Zhicai continued: "That's right, we can't be negligent when attacking. This time we can divide our troops into two groups, attacking Jiangdong and Jingnan. With General Tai Shici as the main general, the total strength of our army has exceeded 16, and Sun Ce's strength is estimated to be between [-] and [-]. Although the strength of our army is only half of ours, we must not underestimate the enemy."

"Don't worry, military advisor, my lord always tells us that a proud soldier will be defeated, no matter who the opponent is, we will go all out, and we will never underestimate the enemy!" Huang Xu always kept Li Yuan's famous aphorisms in mind.

"My lord, military advisor, I have a clever strategy." Ma Xian stood up.

"Please tell me, Zhongjun."

"Jingnan's defense and military strength must be weaker than Jiangdong's. Why don't we concentrate our forces to capture Jingnan first, and then use the force of encirclement to besiege Jiangdong. This will definitely defeat Sun Ce in one fell swoop." Ma Xian suggested.

"Mr. Zhong's plan is not the best strategy," Xi Zhicai immediately denied, "Sun Ce raised his army in Danyang, and his base is also in Jiangdong, so attacking Jiangdong is the most important thing. As long as Jiangdong is broken, Jingnan will not be able to defend, and Sun Ce We will definitely deploy heavy troops on the Yangtze River to prevent our army from crossing the river, so we should focus on attacking Jiangdong instead of Jingnan."

"Although Zhongjun's words are reasonable, Zhicai's words are more appropriate. Our army should focus on attacking Jiangdong." Li Yuan agreed with Xi Zhicai's opinion without hesitation.

Ma Xian frowned, didn't say anything more, and looked at Xi Zhicai with a little more uneasiness.

"There are two entry points for this attack on Jiangdong, one is Chaisang and the other is Moling. As long as we break through these two counties, our army will be able to find a foothold and let the army cross the river smoothly. Sun Ce will definitely realize this. , so he will definitely send heavy troops to guard these two places, and at the same time send water troops to patrol the river continuously, and once they find our troops, they will stop them immediately." Xi Zhicai pointed to the two counties of Chaisang and Moling.

In fact, Moling will be Jianye in the future. After Sun Quan became emperor, he would move his capital to Moling and change his name to Jianye. Sun Ce was supposed to be killed by an assassin in the fifth year of Jian'an, but now it has been the seventh year of Jian'an and Sun Ce is still alive, proving the "history" "It has been changed, some things may still happen according to "history", but some things will not.

"Then how should we defeat Chaisang and Moling?" Gao Shun, who had been silent all this time, asked, he didn't know much about water warfare.

"The navy in Lujiang concentrated its forces to attack Moling. It is inevitable to compete with Sun Ce on the water. Then it will be up to General Wenpin." Xi Zhicai's remark surprised everyone, because Xi Zhicai had always They are all ingenious tricks, and finally they can think of a good way to defeat the enemy, but this time Xi Zhicai did not provide any good method, but used a frontal attack strategy to compete with Sun Ce.

In fact, this is hard to blame for Zhicai, because he is not familiar with water warfare. He thought about letting Chen Dao attack from Guangling, and deliberately arranged a large number of ships on the river to attract the attention of the Jiangdong Army, so that Sun Ce would focus on this side of the defense. Then let Wenpin attack Moling from Liyang, but if Zhou Yu sees through this plan, Zhou Yu can send out elite water troops to defeat Chen Dao's troops from the river, and then attack Guangling. Once Guangling is defeated, Zhou Yu can go straight to Huanglong and kill To Xiapi, the risk is not insignificant, and Guangling has not many troops, so Xizhi dare not take risks.

"On the other side, Gan Ning will lead an army of [-] from Xiangyang to Jiangxia, and then attack Chaisang together with Yu Jin. As long as Chaisang and Moling are defeated, our army will be [-]% sure of winning this battle. After Xi Zhicai explained the strategy in detail, he ordered the mobilization of soldiers and horses, and asked the guards from all over the place to lead the soldiers to station at the target, waiting for the order to attack.

"Yes!" The generals took the order and led their respective troops to prepare to set off.

That night, Li Yuan went to Lu's house to look for Lu Xun. Lu Xun had been studying in Lumen Academy for several years, but it did not delay the development of the family. With the help of Li Yuan and Mi Zhu, the Lu family quickly established a firm foothold in Xiapi. And from now on, the Lu family's business has not only been limited to Xiapi, but has spread throughout Xuzhou, and maybe in a few years it will develop to Yuzhou and Jingzhou and other places.

Although it was already night, Lu Xun hadn't fallen asleep yet, and was still reading in the study. Every morning he would go to Lumen Academy to study, and then return to Lu's house to deal with business in the afternoon. Because he didn't have much time to study, he would hold candles even at night night reading.

(End of this chapter)