The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 495
Guan Xing knew very well that the reason why the prince didn't name the two brothers who led the army was because he didn't want the two brothers to hurt their feelings because of this, but hoped that the two brothers could discuss it themselves and come up with a result.It can be seen that the prince is indeed well-intentioned in this matter.

Therefore, Guan Xing and Guan Suo discussed for two hours before deciding that Guan Xing would lead the army to attack.

After all, Guan Suo knew that this matter did have some effect on the occupation of Nanjun, but it had a major impact on their Guan family.

Coupled with Guan Xing's war strategy, he is indeed better than himself.His prestige in the army is now almost second only to the crown prince.In the end, Guan Suo felt that the final result should be the judgment, rather than personal feelings.Therefore, if he gave in to Guan Xing, it would be considered an ideal choice within reason.

However, Guan Suo also has a prerequisite for agreeing.That is Guan Xing's battle this time, at least three of Guan Suo's wives must be accompanied by the army - husband and wife are one body, since his husband wants to stay in Xiangyang, he has to ask his wives to do it for him.

Of course Guan Xing would not refuse. Guan Suo's three wives are also good at fighting, and they will only help this time.Moreover, when Guan Yu was alive, he was very kind to the three wives of the Guan family, especially Bao Sanniang, and even taught martial arts by himself.With such feelings, it is difficult for Guan Xing to agree or not.

Then the next step is to wait for Mr. Ma Liang to prepare the food and grass, and the two brothers of the Guan family ordered their horses and horses to set off.

However, because this matter is of great significance to the Guan family, the two Guan brothers spent a lot of time and considered all the details of this military dispatch several times, striving to be perfect before deciding to dispatch the army.

And in order not to be ambushed by Jiangdong's spies in Xiangyang City, they spied that they were dispatching troops. Even if they spied on the new movements of the troops in Xiangyang City, they could not know the exact intention to send troops.The Guan brothers adopted a more complicated method of dispatching troops.

Guan Xing did not send out all the 1 troops at once.He found another way to dispatch all the troops in order of about a thousand people in the name of changing the defense of each region.However, there are actually only two final destinations for these small groups of troops: Yicheng in Xiangyang County and Bian County in Nanyang County.

As for the 1000-man cavalry team, which was much faster than the infantry team, it was handed over to Commander Meng Xi on the first night, and he led the army directly to Bian County to station in the dark.

After the Guanxing troops stationed in these two counties have all arrived at their positions, they will then meet at a checkpoint called Lankouju in the southeast of the two counties, which is almost in the middle of Yicheng and Dangyang County.

In this way, this 1-man army will be decomposed and dispatched, and will eventually be combined into an army, and the possibility of being discovered by the enemy will be greatly reduced.

In order to avenge their father, the Guan brothers have gone to great lengths.

After Zhuge Qiao got the report of the Guan brothers' dispatch of troops, he immediately showed it to Liu Chan.The two really appreciated their interesting arrangement.Especially for the Guan brothers, they still maintain such calmness when facing their enemies, which is the highest evaluation.

However, the Guan Brothers did this without a price, that is time.

Originally dispatching troops at one time, the army of 1 people is estimated to take about two or three days, and it is estimated that they will reach Lankouju.But they split up and send out troops in this way, and the army has to go through several rounds of operations.As a result, it took ten days for the 1-strong army to finally regroup at Lankou.

However, after paying such a high price, after the operation is successful, the harvest is indeed not small.At least Guan Xing's move really concealed the whereabouts of such a 1-strong army, and Jiangdong's spies did not discover it at all.

But at this time, Liu Chan was not idle.He really did his best this time to help the Guan brothers avenge Guan Yu.Therefore, in order to attract the enemy's attention to other places as much as possible, Liu Chan specially ordered Liao Hua's army to intensify their offensive during the time when Guan Xing sent troops.

Liao Hua was Guan Yu's veteran general. Now that he knew the whereabouts of Pan Zhang's subordinates, and the son had agreed to send troops for revenge, how could he not support it?

Although Shi Guangyuan didn't take too much responsibility for Guan Yu's death.However, as a military adviser accompanying the army, he did not dissuade Guan Yu's actions, which really made him feel a little guilty.

Therefore, Liao Hua and Shi Guangyuan worked together.The two of them formed a large army in front of the Zhijiang battlefield to attack.In the next half month, the two sides fought fiercely.The intensity and duration of the battle absolutely surpassed any previous one, and it indeed successfully attracted the attention of everyone in Jiangdong.

Therefore, the secrecy work of Guan Xing's army is not entirely done by themselves.The reason why they can succeed in secret operations also requires the close cooperation of others.

After the army arrived at Lankouju, Guan Xing ordered the army to repair on the spot for one day, and then sent troops to Jingling City the next day.

Although Guan Xing's order was issued in this way, Guan Xing actually asked Meng Xi alone to discuss military affairs in the afternoon of that day.

Guan Xing did this, of course, not to exclude Bao Sanniang and Wang's two sisters.The reason is that he has a secret task for Meng Xi to complete.

After the two had a secret discussion at Guan Xing's residence, Meng Xi immediately left.He then came to the station of the cavalry team that first came to Lankouju—they had been recuperating here for six or seven days, and they were the first to arrive among all the troops.

Earlier, Guan Xing had handed over the command of this cavalry team to Meng Xi.Therefore, after Meng Xi gave the order to assemble the army, it took less than a quarter of an hour for the 1000 troops to be assembled.

At nightfall that day, under the cover of darkness, Meng Xi led this cavalry team of 1000 men and headed towards Jingling City at the fastest speed.The responsibilities of this force are actually very heavy.Because they will travel almost 150 miles in one night or so.

Then, this cavalry team will spread out between Jingling City and Jiangling City, and sweep away all the Wu army scouts in the northwest of Jiangling City by breaking them into pieces, cutting off the connection between Jingling City and Jiangling City for at least one day half time.

Since the cavalry team had enough time to rest, the knights and their horses had already had enough rest, so Meng Xi was confident in completing this task.

The reason why Guan Xing set a time limit of one and a half days was because this was the time it would take for his infantry to advance from Lankouju to the northwest of Jingling City at a rapid marching speed.

At that time, once Guan Xing's infantry team secretly arrives in the mountainous area northwest of Jingling City, they will immediately sweep down the few checkpoints in the mountainous area by means of a surprise attack. In the mountainous area, Bao Sanniang and Wang's sisters will guard the two A cottage used to block enemy reinforcements.

At this time, Meng Xi's cavalry should immediately take back all of them.They still have a very important task, which is to pass through the northwest mountainous area, form a mixed army with another 1000 infantry team, enter the plain area on the north bank of Changhu Lake, and prevent the Soochow navy from going ashore to support Jingling City.

Meng Xi's ability is beyond doubt, otherwise Liu Chan would not value him so much.His one thousand cavalry team lived up to expectations and completed the task quite well. They successfully wiped out all the Wu Army scouts in the area secretly, and also successfully cut off the connection between Jingling City and Jiangling City.

Guan Xing's army has successfully reached the frontier of the mountainous area in the northwest of Jingling City!
(End of this chapter)