Xu Shiji smiled slightly and unhurriedly unfolded a map of Jiangdong on the table.

The map opens, and more than 100 cities in Jiangdong are listed on it, and the mountains, rivers and cities are marked clearly one by one. Xu Shiji picked up a red pencil from Liaodong specialty and drew a bright red fork on the Jiujiang City icon on the drawing.

"Please look at the Governor, Jiujiang is already in our hands."

Then he picked up another blue pencil and put a circle in the four cities of Yuzhang, Linchuan, Luling and Nankang on the south side of Jiujiang.

"There are currently five thousand miscellaneous Wu Jun in these four cities."

Su Dingfang looked at Xu Shiji's actions in confusion, "General Xu, these are obvious things. What do you mean by this?"

Xu Shiji smiled mysteriously and handed the pencil in his hand to Su Dingfang and said, "Please also recommend General Su to mark the current distribution of troops in Jiangdong that you have controlled."

Although he was puzzled, Su Dingfang took the pencil and marked three places on the south bank of the blue Yangtze River on the map. They were Caishi Ferry to the west of Jiankang, Jiankang City, and Jingkou Guazhou Ferry to the east of Jiankang.

After Hu Hai and Su Dingfang finished marking, he took the pencil and marked Chushan City near the west of Caishi. Dangtu City and Tianmen Mountain were also marked, and the numbers of 10,000 quarries were marked, Chushan, Dangtu and Tianmen Mountain were marked on it. Then, 30,000 were marked in the Jiankang City marking map, 15,000 on Guazhou Ferry, and 20,000 on Huangjia Mountain and Juli Mountain near Guazhou Ferry were marked.

Su Dingfang looked at the map and said, "There are 22,000 Wu troops in the four counties of Yuzhang, and there are 70,000 troops near Jiankang on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Although the troops of the nine counties in Jiangdong were all drawn out and the guards were empty. But if they were temporarily wrinkled and pieced together, it is estimated that 30,000 to 50,000 troops could still be pieced together. Although the 3,000 elite troops in our army could be one to ten against the Wu army, the Wu army now has about 100,000 troops in Jiangdong, let alone if they seize the city, our three thousand troops will not work at all."

"Soldiers are a trick!" Xu Shiji smiled, "Although there are 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers in Jiangdong, Shen Faxin just died. The Shen family's children either died or died. The generals in the court did not die under Dong Chun's hands, and the rest are now all following Shen Luoyan into Jianghan. There are no generals in Jiangdong. Miscellaneous soldiers have become a mess. Although our army has only 3,000, when the governor followed His Majesty to make contributions in Liaodong, it was different that there were only 3,000 at the beginning, but the Goguryeo Kingdom was destroyed in the end? The nine counties in Hedong are not as good as those in the Goguryeo."

"Mr. Mao has any tricks, just say it quickly. Don't swear my appetite." Hu Hai said impatiently.

"Please look carefully, Governor." Xu Shiji pointed to the map and said, with red and blue marks marked on them.

"What are you looking at?" Hu Hai said with some difficulty.

However, Su Dingfang, who was standing beside him, had already seen some eyebrows and a sudden color appeared in his eyes.

Under the red and blue pencils, the situation in Jiangdong is indeed very clear. Although the Wu army still has 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers, you can find it by looking closely. When Shen Luoyan led troops to support Jianghan, he knew that Beichen in Jiangbei was not much more troops, but he still kept his hands. He set up seven camps in two important river crossing towns, the capital Jiankang and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. He blocked the river like a chain blocking the river.

There is a vast Yangtze River in front of the natural danger, and there are 100,000 troops guarding the important towns. In a short period of time, the Wu people really don’t have to worry about the Chen army from Jiangbei coming to attack.

When rescuing Jianghan, because the Chen army in Jiujiang took the initiative to abandon the five counties and retreated to Jiangbei, Chen Luoyan left 25,000 troops to station after taking over Jiujiang, defending Lingnan in the south and Huainan in the north. In Shen Luoyan's view, her army was in Jiangxia. Whether it was Lingnan or Huainan, she could immediately reinforce.

A hundred thousand soldiers were arranged in the Jiankang line in the north to defend against Huainan. To the west, there were another 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jiangxia. With these two lines of defense, one north and one west, it was equivalent to protecting the nine counties in Jiangdong. Although the nine counties had basically no soldiers and horses to defend, there were two lines of defense outside, and Chen Luoyan and others were obviously very confident that something would happen.

But now Su Dingfang suddenly understood what Xu Shiji meant. No one would have thought that they would suddenly shoot back and then suddenly seize Jiujiang. He would have thought that Chen Dang had not even come to take it away before he even brought the military talisman seal.

All of this gave them a chance.

"There are indeed not many three thousand troops, but it can reverse the world's trend at the critical moment. Governor, if our affairs are done this time, your martial arts will be even more advanced."

Hu Hai's heart was indeed hot. The war in the north had begun. After this war, I wonder how many generals and schools who had been under him would accumulate merit and get promoted to high positions. As the first veteran to raise an army with the emperor, others fought fiercely and were promoted, but he sat in the south to watch the show, which was unbearable for a warrior.

"Tell me your plan." Hu Hai said in a deep voice.

Xu Shiji smiled in his heart, and Hu Hai was indeed not a person who was unwilling to be lonely.

"Please look at the Governor. The last general's idea is like this. Below Jiujiang, Chen Dang fled to Yuzhang, and the soldiers of the fallen geese will not arrive at least half a day. Now if we go east, we will face the empty Pan Yang and Yicheng. With Chen Dang's seal in hand, we only need to use the prisoners and the Wu army armor in the warehouse, as long as we move quickly, we can trick the two cities before the two cities know the news of Jiujiang's loss."

"At the time being, our goal is not to be these empty cities. Our goal is to invade Jiankang, so the most critical plan is to immediately send a small army to advance eastward after secretly taking over Xuancheng, and take over the untouched Yuhang and Wujun, and go around behind the Jiankang and Guazhou Ferry to attract the attention of Jiankang defenders."

Hu Hai said in a deep voice: "Divide the troops?"

"No, let's fight east and west, and lure the tiger away from the mountain." Xu Shiji raised his eyebrows.

"After capturing Xuancheng, we can send messengers to Dangtu and Caishi, report to them to rescue, and ask them to send troops to remove the siege of Yuhang and Wujun. The troops were divided into two groups, one dark and one bright. The small troops sent to attack Yuhang, Wujun had to bluff their flags and make big noises to confuse and attract the attention of Caishi and Jiankang defenders. And Yicheng, which is south of Caishi, must be the main force, and must march secretly. It is best to be a fraud to seize Yicheng, and no news can be revealed."

Hu Hai heard what Xu Shiji meant, and wanted to mobilize the defenders of Caishi and Jiankang.

"Even if we can really attract some of the defenders to leave, we still have too few people."

"I heard that General Chen Shan, the governor of Anhui who guards Hefei, is an old friend of the governor, right? In addition, Chen Feng, the governor of Jiangsu who guards Jiangdu, has a good relationship with the general, right?"

"Do you want me to borrow troops from Jiangbei?" Hu Hai took a breath of air conditioning. Chen Shan and Chen Feng were both veterans from Liaodong back then, and they were brothers and partners the emperor had met since childhood. Now the troops from all over the country were basically the emperor's most trusted confidants. This time, the battle against Jiujiang was already his own private action. If the troops from Huainan were mobilized, it would be a bit too big.

He and Chen Shan were both governors and were on par. Moreover, in terms of trust before the emperor, he was definitely not as good as Chen Shan and Chen Feng. Even if he really wanted to borrow, they might not listen to him, after all, he was fighting privately.

"Governor, as long as we can really mobilize the quarry troops to move south, I believe that as long as 20,000 elite troops can attack the Yangtze River and land on the quarry with the help of a navy squarry. As long as we can capture Caijing, it is not impossible to capture Jiankang before Shen Luoyan returns. The main contribution of breaking Jiankang and rescuing the Supreme Emperor will be the governor." Xu Shiji advised.

Since he defected to the Chen Dynasty, Xu Shiji naturally was unwilling to be an unused person. If this plan could be successful, his position in the Chen Dynasty would naturally be bright in the future.

"Caishi, Dangtu, Chushan, and Tianmen Mountain, with 20,000 soldiers and horses. This is not easy to chew. Now the two provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu are only about 50,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly half of them are newly recruited village soldiers and militias. These people are all the troops to defend the Yangtze River defense line. If there is any mistake in going south, how can we deal with the Wu army's counterattack? Now the court is fighting against the Turks with all its strength. At this time, if something goes wrong, it will be a whole body. If His Majesty's arrangement is disrupted, I will be punished by death." Hu Hai said with some hesitation in his heart.

Seeing Hu Hai retreating a little, Xu Shiji felt unwilling to accept this plan. He felt that there was at least 50% chance of winning. Moreover, he had calculated that even if he failed, he could withdraw back to Jiangbei before Shen Luoyan's army returned.

After a silence in the hall, Xu Shiji finally said: "The general doesn't have to worry so much. I think that in the original arrangement of Your Majesty, General Lu Shishen from Xiangyang also took over his orders to actively defend? But now you see, General Lu Shishen did not hesitate at all when facing the opportunity of Jiang Lingcheng. What's the result? He took Jiang Ling in one fell swoop, captured nearly 100,000 Shen family soldiers, and annihilated Dong Chun's 50,000 troops and horses in one fell swoop, and occupied five counties at once. Now General Lu Shishen's reputation is not too loud, even compared to Wang Rengong and Marshal Xue Dingguo. Your Majesty is not displeased with this matter."

Su Dingfang's chest was slammed and suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted: "If you do this, it's natural to be successful. Even if it really fails, at worst, you will die and be afraid that he will be a bird. A man is a real man, how can he miss some opportunities?"

"Okay, do it!" Hu Hai finally slapped the table hard and decided to say.

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