King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 940 Thinking About Jiangdong
Who is Zhao Yun, who has fought with Li Lin for many years, and his combat effectiveness has been proven to the world, not to mention that there are five thousand cavalry around him?Such a force, even if an army of tens of thousands comes, cannot be defeated, but it is still no problem to escape safely, but looking at the blood on Zhao Yun's body, and listening to Zhao Yun's words, five thousand soldiers and horses have been completely lost, what is this concept? , Is there any other strong soldiers in Jingzhou?

Blue veins appeared on Li Lin's forehead. Seeing Zhao Yun shaking his head and sighing slightly, Li Lin frowned and said, "Zilong! Quickly report the situation of the battle!"

"No!" Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said, "My lord, the general is guilty. The general led five thousand Qingqi to inquire about Liu Bei and others, and at the same time rushed to Changbanpo under the orders of the lord. When they arrived at Changbanpo, they found Liu Bei's men and horses. Ji, was about to go forward to fight, but it didn't look like a man was killed from the front right, and then another man was killed from behind the soldiers under the command of the last general! The two soldiers and horses added up to more than ten thousand people, the last general... the last general Invincible..."

"Invincible!" Li Lin frowned, wondering: "Zilong, even if there are more than ten thousand people, the five thousand Youliao cavalry under Zilong's command, can't stop these ten thousand people? In addition, Zilong With a silver spear, who can defeat him?" Li Lin hesitated for a moment, then murmured, "Could it be that Liu Bei's subordinate Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang defeated Zilong?"

Looking at the whole world, Guan Yu was the only one who could beat Zhao Yun like this. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun did say something that made everyone in the tent gasp.

"My lord!" Zhao Yun's eyes suddenly burst out with majestic murderous aura. If it weren't for the extraordinary people in the tent, they must have been affected by Zhao Yun's reality. It's a pity...it's a pity that the two groups of soldiers and horses killed, one is Wei Yan, the other is Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, Zhong Yao, the four stepped forward to fight the last general...so...so the last general lost , the five thousand soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses..."

"So... so..." Li Lin was shocked, and murmured, and the tent immediately fell into silence. When Liu Biao and Li Lin fought for the Central Plains, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan were the biggest highlights of that time. , and now, it has ruined Li Lin's good deed once again!

"As expected!" Li Lin said viciously, with murderous intent in his eyes, no wonder Zhao Yun would be in such a mess, the four strong generals, including Huang Zhong and Guan Yu, are the world's first-class A fierce general, that is, someone like Zhao Yun, if someone else came over, he would be a strong opponent!
"Where are the troops led by Huang Zhong and Wei Yan?" Li Lin asked after thinking for a moment.

"This..." Zhao Yun hesitated, clasped his fists and said, "The final general dare not make a decision. I only saw the leading flag with the word 'Liu' written on it. It is likely to be Liu Qi's soldiers and horses from Jiangling..."

"Well! It must be!" Li Lin nodded sullenly, and glanced at Pang Tong, who also gave him a sure look.

Seeing that he kowtowed and bowed his head in silence, Li Lin sighed slightly, stepped forward to help Liao Chun, and asked solemnly: "Zilong doesn't need to blame himself. If Zilong hadn't been brave and put him on top of others, how could he come back?" ! Come! Get up!"

Zhao Yun knew that Li Lin would not punish him, but deep self-blame was unavoidable. After all, after the first battle, the lives of soldiers before going to bed were destroyed, and they were all elite soldiers. How could Zhao Yun feel better? Looking at Zhao Yun's face, Li Lin waved his hand and said, "Zilong, don't think about it any more. Order that all dead soldiers will be buried generously!"

"No!" Someone naturally responded.

Li Lin then said to Zhao Yun: "Okay, Zilong has worked hard for several days, let's take a good rest! Hurry up and see if there is any serious injury on his body! Now Huang Zhong and Wei Yan have come out, and Zilong will be used in the future." There are so many places!"

"Thank you, my lord!" Zhao Yun cupped his fists and saluted, looked at Li Lin's expression, and slowly retreated. Although Zhao Yun was defeated, everyone in the tent did not blame him, and still admired Zhao Yun's five-body respect. Influence will not be changed because of a fiasco!

Jiangling soldiers and horses, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, damn it!This time, it's interesting. I didn't expect such a big change from history. Before the Battle of Chibi started, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan were under Liu Bei's command. The Five Tiger Generals, Zhao Yun, and Ma Chao were here. Fucked to death, the remaining beloved Huang Zhong and Guan Yu returned to their positions ahead of schedule!

Li Lin immediately said: "Immediately send an order to Wuguan and order Meng Qi to order Ming to lead [-] Xiliang troops south to Xiangyang!"

"promise!"

"Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Tai Shici, I don't believe that I can't deal with Guan Yu, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan!" Li Lin muttered to himself, with a vicious tone, looking at the void with angry eyes, and all the soldiers in the tent looked sideways.

In fact, Ma Chao had received Li Lin's order early in the morning to lead the army from Xiliang to Luoyang. Who knew that the incident happened suddenly, and Zhu Ling Xinye was defeated and lost tens of thousands of soldiers. Li Lin returned and immediately went south to Jingzhou. Ma Chao was the farthest in the northwest. So when Ma Chao arrived at Wuguan, Li Lin had already used Fancheng as a military strategy, and Li Lin also ordered Ma Chao to garrison at Wuguan. The restless grandson of a turtle, and now, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan suddenly rushed out, adding Guan Yu, which made Li Lin feel a little uncertain, but Ma Chao, and those ferocious Xiliang army, are more than enough to deal with Liu Bei... ………

Here, Xu Shu dealt with the matter of recruiting Xiangyang soldiers and horses. Seeing that Li Lin stopped in Xiangyang, he remonstrated: "Jiangling is an important place in Jingxiang, with a lot of money and food. If Liu Bei is based here, it will be difficult to be shaken. It is better to plan early!"

As soon as Xu Shu finished speaking, Guo Tu beside Li Lin shook his head and said: "Master Xu's words are wrong, because Jiangling is an important place in Jingxiang, and there are only 20 troops stationed in the city, and it will be difficult to defeat them in a few days. Therefore, our army should rest for a while. , Integrate 40 Jingzhou soldiers, combine [-] troops, march south, attack Jiangling in one go, and then, take advantage of the strength of the troops, continue to attract the victorious army, and wipe out Jiangdong!"

"This strategy... is not bad!" Xu Shu nodded, obviously what Guo Tu said was also reasonable.

"One month!" Hearing what the two said, Li Lin said intently: "No matter what the army or navy is, after one month, the army will take Jiangling and sweep Jiangdong!" Just like Guo Tu said, Jiangling City has many strong soldiers. , It can’t be done in a few days. Instead of this, it’s better to rest and reorganize the army in Xiangyang. Now Liu Bei has entered Jiangling, like a tiger with wings added, like a fish in water. He has already started fighting with Jiangdong, and the northern army under his command is not water-absorbent, and he is not very suitable for the climate in the Yangtze River Basin. If he goes south, he still has to rely on the navy, so rest is also very necessary!

"One month?" Seeing what Li Lin said, Pang Tong frowned and said, "Our army is not familiar with water skills, so one month is probably too urgent... My lord, will Liu Bei really join forces with Jiangdong?"

"En!" Li Lin nodded, and said in a deep voice, "Nine out of ten!"

"That's the case!" Pang Tong thought for a moment, and said hesitantly, "Isn't my lord adding troops to Luoyang? Why don't you ask my lord to send troops from Runan and Yuzhou, and add General Zhao Hu to attack Jiangdong from the sea? Then we can attack Liu Bei and Jiangdong from three sides..."

"Hey!" Guo Tu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you are also a soldier from the north. They are not familiar with water warfare. I am afraid that they will only stop at the Yangtze River in eight or nine days. If so, why are you afraid of Jiangdong..." Just as he was speaking, he saw a glint in Pang Tong's eyes. Shan, hurriedly said seriously: "Hey, what I mean is that if we want to break Jiangdong, we need to wait...Your Excellency must think so, right?"

"Hey!" Pang Tong smiled lightly, without comment.

In May of the sixth year of Chengye, almost all the nine counties of Jingxiang fell into Li Lin's pocket, except for Jiangling, Jiangxia and other places. Of course, Li Lin's main control ability was still in the northern part of Jingzhou for the time being. Lin, but even when Liu Biao was alive, he couldn't make the south settle down, not to mention that Jingnan and Jingbei are still separated by Liu Bei and Liu Qi's Jiangling and Jiangxia, so Li Lin still has not fully grasped Jingzhou.

It was decided for the First World War to wipe out Jiangdong and punish Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the two great enemies. Therefore, the Liao army was rectified in Xiangyang, reorganized its troops, and made equipment and warships.Li Lin has always been at a disadvantage in terms of military strength when he was the enemy since he raised his army. However, the Liao army is far stronger than Jiangdong and Jiangling at the moment. However, Cao Cao was stronger than himself back then, and Chibi was still defeated. Li Lin who knows this Li Lin was even more cautious.If Liu Bei and Sun Quan can be successfully killed, then the peace of the world will be just around the corner, and I will be able to retire and be with my wife and children.In other words, this battle is very important!Thinking about it this way, Li Lin seemed to be very conscientious in the past few days, not only to build boats and equipment, but also to inspect Cai Mao's naval training. Although he was very tired every day, he felt at ease.

Liu Bei fled to Jiangling, and he was afraid that he might be in contact with Jiangdong right now. For this reason, Li Lin was worried, but there was nothing he could do.After all, the Liao army wantonly supervised the building of warships and drilled the navy in Jingxiang. How could Jiangdong Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and others not know what their intentions were?Besides, it's not that I haven't fought Jiang Dong before, and Zhou Yu bullied them. How could Jiang Dong not be on guard against himself? I guess when I gave the order to go south, Zhou Yu had already started to make arrangements to resist him. Think about it Go, Li Lin still called Pang Tong, wanting to hear his advice.

Hearing that Li Lin was worried, Pang Tong murmured and said: "My lord said that Sun and Liu will join hands, probably nine out of ten, but even if the two join forces, it is not as strong as our army. With my strength, the enemy Sun and Liu are at a disadvantage. , how can it be invincible? When our army completes the pincer attack, we will definitely be able to take Jiangdong in one battle and achieve a great cause!"

"Hmm!" Li Lin sighed without comment.He said in a condensed voice: "Zhou Yu is good at fighting, and the Jiangdong navy under his command is also an elite division. On the other hand, our army is currently recruiting Jingzhou soldiers and horses. The good and the bad are mixed. The navy still depends on Zhao Hu's navy, and Zhao Hu is not in the Yangtze River. I have fought in Jiangdong, so I dare not let him enter the Yangtze River rashly, from this point of view, I am afraid it will not be conducive to the war!"

"Hey!" Hearing what Li Lin said, Guo Tu, who came in with Pang Tongtong, said with a smile, "Don't worry, my lord. After one or two battles, our army is full of elites!"

"What are you talking about!" A cold snort came from the corner.

"Hey!" Guo Tu turned his head when he heard the words, looked at the man and said mockingly, "Why, Mr. Yidu, what advice do you have?"

The man slowly stepped forward, pointed at Guo Tu and said angrily, "Aren't the soldiers under your command human? If you use troops like you, how would the soldiers dare to fight forward?"

"Interesting!" Guo Tu snorted softly and said lightly, "Then, in your opinion, what should we do?"

I saw Kuai Yue waved his sleeves, and said seriously: "Jiangdong is just a corner of the land. My lord owns six states and most of the rich land in the world belongs to him. You only need to station heavy troops at the border, seal off roads, and strictly order war horses and ore to flow to Jiangdong. , within three to five years, naturally, we can take Jiangdong without bloodshed!"

"Hahaha!" Kuai Yue's voice fell.Guo Tu laughed loudly, pointed at Kuai Yue and said mockingly, "What a pedantic opinion!"

After being ridiculed by Guo Tu, Kuai Yue shouted angrily: "What do you know, how can a mere Jiangdong be compared to the fertile land in the Central Plains? As long as we are good at internal governance, we can wait for Jiangdong to be defeated! This is the best policy!"

"Want to fight economic warfare?" Li Lin glanced at Kuai Yue in surprise, muttering in his heart, thinking, I have to say that now he has not only military generals under his command, but even counselors are mixed factions. You see, this Guo Tu is obviously trying to get serious with Kuai Yue again!Guo Tu is still a person who is good at crowding out people. Fortunately, Li Lin is not Yuan Shao, and Guo Tu also knows that Li Lin doesn't like this...

"Three to five years may not be enough!" Shaking his head.Pang Tong spoke Li Lin's heartfelt thoughts, "Don't underestimate Jiangdong, in my opinion, ten years may not be enough!"

"Haha, ten years!" Guo Tu was overjoyed when he heard the words, pointing at Kuai Yue and mockingly said: "Our army's strength is enough to wipe out the vast Jiangdong within one year, but according to your plan, it will take ten years, which is a good strategy. I can tell you clearly that the people of Jiangdong are rich and strong, and there is a natural danger in the Yangtze River, which is enough to protect themselves. If we don’t take advantage of the current strength of our army and take Jiangdong, after ten years, the climate in Jiangdong will be perfect, and we will spy on our Central Plains Land, when the time comes for our army to change, how will we fight? Talking about armies on paper is the opinion of scholars!"

"Humph!" Kuai Yue said coldly, and remained silent. Even if he felt that Guo Tu had some truths, he couldn't hold back his face. A famous scholar in Jingzhou, a famous scholar in Jizhou, and Guo Tu, who was under Li Lin's command and was older than Pang Tong , a newly promoted talent, Kuai Yue, Li Lin was also a little interested when he saw the people bickering.

Seeing the two quarreling there, Pang Tong shook his head speechlessly, and turned to look at Li Lin. Li Lin was looking at the visitor with great interest. Pang Tong said slowly, "My lord, I feel that there are only three things to worry about right now."

"Huh?" Li Lin raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and said solemnly, "Come on, Shi Yuan!"

"Yes!" Pang Tong cupped his hands and said solemnly: "First, most of our soldiers are from the north. They are not familiar with water warfare. Besides, they are not acclimatized to the water and soil. My lord must guard against it!"

"En!" Li Lin nodded.

"Secondly, the so-called know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. When we first arrived in Jingxiang, we didn't know anything about the dangers of the Yangtze River and the climate in the middle of the river. On the other hand, when we look at Jiangdong, we have lived here for a long time and have taken advantage of the geographical advantages. My lord, don't be careless!"

"Shiyuan's words are justified!" Li Lin said in second.He suddenly laughed and said, "But there is no need to be too anxious about this matter. Although we don't know the climate here, Cai Mao has lived in Jingzhou for a long time and fought with Jiangdong several times..."

"That's what I'm going to say!" Interrupting Li Lin, Pang Tong frowned and said, "Cai Mao raised the city and surrendered to our army. Although it is of great benefit to the lord, there are many generals in our army who are not ashamed of this man's actions. Even though Cai Mao is the commander of the navy, he can't mobilize a single soldier of our army. If we fight against Jiangdong in the future, it will be the same on the battlefield, not to mention adding Liu Bei now, our army... I'm afraid it will be difficult to win!"

"That's true!" Li Lin nodded.

Indeed, in Pang Tong’s words, if you want to defeat Jiangdong, you can only rely on Cai Mao, who has lived in Jingzhou for a long time and is proficient in water warfare. Unfortunately, generals such as Tai Shici and Zhang He in the Liao army look down on Cai Mao who surrendered without a fight. On the other hand, Cai Mao , but also did not dare to offend Tai Shici, Zhang Yun and others, so as not to offend Li Lin and cause disasters.Different orders, a big taboo in the army!
"What I mean is!" Seeing that Li Lin frowned and said nothing, Pang Tong continued: "The so-called employing people is not suspicious, and suspecting people are not. Since the lord has decided to reuse Cai Mao, you might as well give him arrows. Anyone who violates the order will be severely punished! As long as the lord comes forward , all the generals must have the same thing, and Cai Mao will feel very much the lord's respect, so why not do it? Cai Mao, according to the subject, is not difficult to grasp. If the lord is not at ease, you might as well call some blood clothes... ..."

"Forget about the bloody clothes!" Li Lin waved his hands, and said with a chuckle: "Isn't Shi Yuan suspicious of people and employers?"

"My lord is wise!" Pang Tong cupped his hands and said with a smile: "The art of war says that we can win with justice and odds. However, now that our army is coming to Jiangdong, even if it is Sun and Liu Lianian, we will not be afraid. , after this battle, we will no longer be in Jiangdong!"

"I hope so!" Li Lin smiled slightly, turned to look at Guo Tu and Kuai Yue and said, "What advice do you guys have? Let's talk about it! By the way, you two are going to scold me! Don't judge me! Hehe !"

Seeing Li Lin's appearance, Guo Tu and Kuai Yue were a little embarrassed. Guo Tu arched his hands, smiled awkwardly and said, "Master Pang Tong's plan is well prepared, so why should I make a fool of myself? This battle must be won!"

"Hmph!" Kuai Yue snorted lightly, and said with a sneer: "The so-called South Ship and North Horse have their own strengths. Now that we are weak and the enemy Jiangdong is strong, how can we win? It's ridiculous!"

Apparently hearing Kuai Yue's sarcasm, Guo Tu turned his head and said with a smile, "According to you, could it be that our army was defeated? Before the war, our army's morale was disturbed, and you should be pushed out and beheaded for public display!"

"The ancients said that before victory is counted, defeat is counted first. This is just a prudent statement. How can it disturb the morale of our army? If you follow what you said, you will be frustrated in the future, and it will be too late to regret it!" Kuai Yue did not want to be outdone, tit for tat......

(End of this chapter)