Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1155

"Can Deng Long break through Xiangyang in a short time?" Liu Biao asked.

"Disaster!"

Kuai Liang shook his head lightly.

He is not very optimistic about Deng Long, not that Deng Long is not capable enough, Deng Long is also a general of Jingzhou, he has been fighting for many years, his ability and vision are not bad, but Deng Long has not enough troops in his hands.

This was originally just the last force standing on the Eastern Front.

Since Huang Zu moved the main force westward to deal with Cai Mao, there were only two main forces in Jingzhou, one led by Huang Zu and Cai Mao, and the other led by Zhang Yun.

There was one more.

The soldiers and horses led by Wenpin can also be regarded as the main force in Jingzhou.

It's just that Wenpin's army was defeated, and there were not enough remaining troops in his hands. At most, they were similar to those under Deng Long's command. Moreover, after the new defeat, the army's morale would definitely be in turmoil, and it was not easy to say how much combat power was left.

It is helpless to dispatch Deng Long to go north.

However, Xiangyang County has been run by the Minghou Mansion for a period of time. It is not considered as stable as Mount Tai, but it has accumulated a foundation. Quick system, these can be used as reserves.

The most important thing is that after the Mu army defeated Jingzhou City, they sent people back to lobby the clansmen who stayed behind, but the talks did not go well. The people who stayed behind in Xiangyang had a lot of prejudice against them.

Among the previous Patriarchs, those whose hearts were still toward them were basically cleaned up.

The current Xiangyang family.

Whether it is the Kuai family headed by Kuai Wu or the Cai family headed by Cai Tu, they are already able to fight against their relatives.

At present, even if these people are from the same family, those who were submissive in front of them in the past are probably unwilling to help them now, and are becoming one with them to strengthen the family.

Once they use their family power, they will help the shepherds defend the city.

So Deng Long, don't think about breaking the city in a short time.

"What about Wenpin?"

Liu Biao asked.

"I'm afraid General Wen is powerless now. He has to rest. Even if he goes north to meet Deng Long, he won't be able to exert much combat power!" Kuai Liang said.

"I can't handle so much anymore!"

Liu Biao said: "Order Wenpin, we must speed up to go north, meet Deng Long, and take Xiangyang County. If there is any delay, I want his head!"

Wenpin's defeat broke his good situation.

There was resentment in my heart.

If Wenpin hadn't been his most powerful right-hand man and most trusted confidant general, he would have sent someone to arrest him and cut off his head directly.

"it is good!"

Kuai Liang took the order, and immediately arranged for eight hundred li to rush to deliver the order to Wenpin.

"If Xiangyang fails to capture for a day, we will not be able to leave Jiangxia for the time being, but we have to prepare for the worst. If we lose again, Jingzhou cannot lose again!"

He took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Liu Qi!"

"exist!"

A young man walked in from the outside, very childish, but somewhat resolute.

This is Liu Biao's eldest son.

That is, more than ten years old.

But as far as Jingzhou is concerned, he is definitely the heir. Even if the Cai family daughter gave birth to Liu Biao's son, she is too young to be recognized by Jingzhou's current situation, but Liu Qi can represent him.

"On behalf of the father, go to Jingzhou City, and then establish an official office in Jingzhou City!"

Liu Biao said.

"Father, why?" Liu Qi didn't quite understand.

"Let you go!"

Liu Biao said lightly.

"promise!"

Liu Qi nodded: "Then I'll go right away?"

"It's not too late, let's go!"

"promise!"

Liu Qi turned around and left.

"What are you worried about, my lord?"

"Just in case!" Liu Biao said softly, "Who knows what the Jiangdong Tigers will do? They will go up the river without slowing down. If we don't react, the Jiangdong Army will enter Jiangxia. At that time, if our troops can't hold back, there may be chaos!"

"I think the Jiangdong tiger should not be able to do so. If he wants to attack Yizhou, we must support him. If he dares to turn against us, he will not be able to eat Jingzhou. Even if he is stronger and wants to enter Jingzhou, he will not have trouble with us Too stiff!"

Kuai Liang analyzed and said.

"That's what you say!" Liu Biao sneered: "But people's hearts are unpredictable, and no one can tell. Let me ask you. We are right under Sun Wentai's nose. He can clean us up with a raise of his hand. Once he cleans us up, Jingzhou will It might be eaten by him, do you think his reason can restrain it?"

Marching and fighting is Liu Biao's shortcoming.

But it is Liu Biao's strength to try to figure out people's hearts.

"That's true!"

Kuai Liang smiled wryly.

Many people think that they will not do some things, and many things think that they will not happen, but they will happen. People's hearts are always the most difficult thing to guess.

Even if you guess right.

Who knows if it will change in the next second.

"Report!"

A loud voice burst in from outside.

"Enter!"

"Report to the lord, Dangyang army will play!"

"Send it up!"

"Yes!"

A military performance was placed in front of Liu Biao, his complexion darkened bit by bit, becoming a bit ugly.

"The Mu army is still heading south for reinforcements!"

Liu Biao said in a low voice.

"Unexpectedly, it makes sense!"

Kuai Liang was silent for a while, and said: "I'm just surprised, why we don't have any news at all, it makes me very confused!"

"That can only show that it is more difficult!"

Liu Biao jumped at the case: "Someone is blocking the news from the north, otherwise I would know, who is it?"

"Minghou Mansion!"

Kuai Liang widened his eyes.

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Jiangdong, Yuzhang, Chaisang.

One after another, warships entered Chaisang along the Yangtze River, and then set up camp.

"Lord!"

On the upstairs ship, a burly figure stood on the deck, and behind him, a general stood by with his hands folded.

"How is the situation in Jingzhou?"

Sun Jian asked.

It didn't take long for him to return to Jiangdong, but he immediately summoned soldiers and horses, because Sun Ce opened up a road, which made his heart a little restless, and he suddenly wanted to attack Yizhou.

The Mu army's offensive is too fierce and its development is too fast. This is a serious problem for Jiangdong.

for the future.

Even if he bears some notoriety, he is willing, so he doesn't think there is anything wrong with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu changing their positions and stabbing the Mujun fiercely. The battlefield is a continuation of the Political Department.

The feudal lords are destined to be enemies.

The so-called alliance is nothing more than the same interests.

But when the interests are different, both sides will stab the knife without the slightest hesitation. It's just that this time the Jiangdong Army's knife came out first, losing some reputation, but getting the upper hand.

Sun Jian even thought about whether he could unite with the main forces of Jingzhou and eat the Southwest in one go.

He is not afraid of the northern princes.

Northern horse and southern boat.

Without ships, the army in the north is strong, and it is difficult to deal with Jiangdong. Jiangdong is protected by natural dangers. As long as the cavalry is vigorously developed, it will be possible to use defense as offense and gradually counterattack the Central Plains.

However, Yizhou does not have too strong cavalry force or warship force, but they all have them. This is a danger, the most potential enemy in Jiangdong.

As for Jingzhou.

It has been beaten like this.

He concluded that even if Jingzhou is not destroyed by Yizhou, it will be swallowed by Jiangdong in the next two or three years.

It is no longer sufficient.

That's why he hurriedly wanted to unite with Jingzhou and attack Yizhou first before winter. As long as Yizhou's defense line was torn apart, even if Mujing withdrew his troops from the north at that time, it might not be stable.

Even if Mu Jing stabilized the Yizhou front, it would definitely hurt his vitality.

This is Jiang Dong's purpose.

"The scouting boat went northward and found that most of the water villages were empty. There were only a few of them on guard. They didn't have any troops who could stop us. As long as the lord goes north, we can quickly enter Jiangxia!"

The general is Tai Shici.

Tai Shici was supposed to fight Xuzhou Cao Jun in Guangling to defend the northern line for Jiangdong.

But now Cao Jun's thoughts are all in Guanzhong, so he can liberate Tai Shici's troops.

Only then did Sun Jian dare to march westward with his determination.

"Is Liu Jingsheng really unprepared for us?"

Sun Jian narrowed his eyes, somewhat puzzled.

If it were him, he wouldn't dare to do this. Even if it was an alliance, he would station the same troops for defense. These days, who dares to say that the alliance with whom will not be betrayed. In troubled times, there is no such thing as an ally.

"It's not necessarily that he doesn't want to take precautions, but that he doesn't have the strength to take precautions!"

Another middle-aged scribe, Cheng Pu, who was Sun Jian's first counselor, cupped his hands slightly, and answered Sun Jian's words: "In the past two years, Liu Jingsheng has almost resorted to military training for military training. Now most of the main force is on the battlefield with the Mu army. On the lost ground in Jingzhou, how many soldiers Jiang Xia has, can be counted. Even if there are, they are basically the young and strong who have just conquered. Now they are probably guarding Xiling. ah!"

"It makes sense!"

Sun Jian nodded, his tiger eyes brightened all of a sudden: "De Mao, tell me, if I send troops into Jiangxia and directly take down Liu Jingsheng, this Jingzhou will be in my hands!"

"It's possible, but unlikely!"

Cheng Pu smiled, shook his head again, and said, "My lord, don't underestimate the people of Jingzhou. It's really a riot. Even if the people of Jingzhou lose to us, if they bite us, the Mujun will benefit in the end. That's true." It's time to give Mu Jun a chance to come back!"

"The opportunity is in front of me, hey, I just can't move!"

Sun Jian waved his hand and said, "It's not very comfortable!"

Winning Jingzhou is equivalent to adding wings to a tiger to Jiangdong.

As far as the navy is concerned, Jiangdong is stronger than Jingzhou, but Jingzhou is not considered weak and can fight Jiangdong. Once the navy base of Jingzhou is captured, no one in the south will be able to fight Jiangdong in water warfare.

At this time, Jiangdong has the confidence to compete with the princes of the world.

"My lord, the enemy is still the Marquis of Ming, Jingzhou. Sooner or later he will take it, not in a hurry!" Cheng Pu said.

"you're right!"

Sun Jian nodded: "There is no rush to take Jingzhou at this moment, but I am afraid that this is the only chance to severely damage the Minghou Mansion. As long as we successfully enter Jiangzhou, at least the Minghou Mansion can be released within three years." Don't come to Yizhou!"

He thought about it, and ordered: "Pass my military order, rest for a day, and then the whole army advances to Jiangxia. Jiangxia already belongs to Jiangdong, so I will eat Jiangxia first!"

This is Jiangdong's trophy, even Jingzhou would not dare to renege on the debt at this time, he took Jiangxia justifiably.

"Yes!"

The generals took the lead.

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Anlu County.

This is one of the fourteen counties in Jiangxia. It is located in the west of Xiling, adjacent to Xiling, Jiangxia County City, less than 150 miles away.

This county is not big.

The flames of war have passed by several times, but they have never come here, so this place is still safe. Of course, stability is only relative to the battlefield. There is no safe place in Jingzhou now.

Together with the war, Jingzhou will be affected.

The first is taxation. During the war, there are countless names of taxation. What kind of tax is levied today, and what kind of tax is levied tomorrow. In order to fight the war, it is very possible to scrape the land three times.

In addition, Liu Zhengbing, in order to enlist the young and strong, he mobilized the whole of Jingzhou, before and after Anlu, three batches of young and strong were recruited, nearly [-] young and strong, and those who were sent to serve as soldiers lost so much labor force Not to mention, from time to time, some bad news will be sent. Whose son Lang died in battle, it's just a matter of one sentence.

Therefore, the atmosphere in Anlu is very low.

The county magistrate is a native of Anlu, over 16 years old, born in the head of the Anlu gentry, the Du family, named Du Yu, a rare talent, was recommended to be an official at the age of [-], once followed Huang Zu, and was appointed by Huang Zuyi The civil servants around him have been in Jiangxia Taishou's Mansion for many years.

Later, Jiang Xia was completely eaten by Liu Biao, and Huang Zu's influence was constantly weakened.

Du Yu is smart, he found a good relationship early, and retreated to Anlu. In Anlu, he was a local snake with the support of his family. Even the people above did not dare to take his position easily.

Today in Anlu, the sky is not very kind, the dark clouds covered less than half an hour, and an autumn rain came down.

Standing under the courtyard, Du Yu looked at the heavy rain, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

It's just that he couldn't find the source of this feeling, so he stopped thinking about it.

But when he turned around.

On the left and right, one by one were wearing coir raincoats, strange, with a murderous look, the water droplets on the coir raincoats were flowing, their faces were only indifferent, more than ten people lined up left and right, holding swords, which made Du Yu a little timid.

"Who are you?"

Du Yu shouted angrily: "Come on, come on!"

"No need to shout!"

A young man, wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, walked in step by step through the water drops. He gently took off the bamboo hat on his head: "Magistrate Du, right? Let me introduce myself first. My surname is Mu, my first name Scenery, word dragon picture!"

"Shepherd..."

Du Yu didn't react right away, but his eyes widened quickly, he stared at Mu Jing's face, and couldn't help but yelled out: "You are Minghou!"

Minghou Mujing is famous all over the world.

Of course, this name may not be a good reputation.

But it is definitely known in the world.

How could he, Du Yu, not know.

"It seems that you know me, so let's have a good chat!"

Mu Jing took off his coir raincoat. The autumn rain was not heavy, but it still affected him a lot. His clothes were already soaked. He sat on the steps of the promenade with a big horse, his eyes flickered, looking at Du Yu.

Du Yu glanced around.

"Don't look!" Mu Jing clapped his hands: "This county town has been controlled by me. I spent a total of one and a half hours. Now, whether it's on the city wall or patrolling the streets outside, they are all my people. You call Wake up, it may not be that someone will come to save you, but it will attract thousands of arrows to pierce your heart. If I were you, I should think about it carefully, whether it is worth dying for!"

Coming out of Lulin Mountain, we drove fast and drove day and night, passed Nanxin directly, and then quickly entered Anlu. Originally entering Anlu, because the terrain is relatively flat, there are few bunkers on both sides of the road, so it should be impossible to hide. .

But it happened that there was an autumn rain at this time.

The autumn rain was not heavy, but it was enough to make the world hazy. This gave the Mu army the greatest chance to take down Anlu without bloodshed. Anlu only had less than two hundred county soldiers, and he was still a young man who had not been conscripted recently. Huang Zhong He personally brought people in from the city wall, and within an hour, he took control of the whole city.

Only then did Mujing be able to enter the county government office quietly.

(End of this chapter)