The county of Xianggao is in the east, and the county is governed by Lancheng.

At this moment, Zhao Tong had assembled his entire army here and was truthfully telling his subordinates about the crisis that Jingzhou was about to be attacked on the school grounds.

It was just as Ma Zhong expected.

Most of the sergeants and soldiers in the army were from the Jingzhou Army who entered Sichuan to fight. Now that they heard that their hometown was in danger, they immediately became more motivated and clamored to fight back.

Military spirit is available!

This undoubtedly also determined Zhao Tong's determination to pass through Jingnan via the Zanggao County Mountain Road.

After calming down the mood among the sergeants.

Zhao Tong ordered all his troops to prepare for the attack and take rest.

Waited for several days.

After looking forward to it, we finally waited for the return of the Southern Barbarian King Meng Huo.

"Barbarian King, how is the situation?"

"Please rest assured, general, that Huo has reached a consensus with Shamoko, the leader of the Wuxi tribe. He agreed to use the road to pass with the general. He just hopes that the general will not disturb the normal life of the tribesmen of each tribe when he passes."

"Okay, I have to thank the Barbarian King this time."

Seeing the smile on Meng Huo's face, Zhao Tong also responded solemnly.

Ma Zhong had previously reported that when he needed to pass through the Wuxi barbarian territory to reach Jingzhou, his first reaction was to look for Meng Huo to see if his prestige among the barbarians could convince him to pass through.

After explaining the whole story, Meng Huo readily agreed and went to Wuxi Man in person to meet with the leader Samoko.

Now, the matter of passage can be considered completed!

Solved the difficulty of borrowing the road.

Zhao Tong then no longer hesitated and immediately commanded his troops to march along the mountain road.

Before departure.

He also specially wrote a letter and sent it to Chengdu again to express his intention of leading his troops to Jingzhou and to inform them of the upcoming crisis.

Now that time is running out, he will naturally not wait for a reply to the letter before marching.

As for the current political situation in the Nanzhong counties, Zhao Tong also temporarily appointed Li Hui to be in charge of handling the situation, and he was assisted by the Barbarian King Meng Huo until Chengdu appointed new officials.

And just when Zhao Tong and his men were on their way through the mountain road with great difficulty.

Upstream of Chaisang, Xunyangkou.

After rejecting Lu Su's suggestion, Sun Quan, the Marquis of Wu, also arrived in Xunyang to inspect Lu Meng's troops stationed here.

The two met each other.

"I have met my lord!"

"Ziming, you and I don't have to be so stuck on ordinary etiquette."

Immediately, Sun Quan looked serious and asked: "Ziming, do you have a complete plan for attacking Jingzhou?"

As soon as he said this, Lu Meng's face was calm, as if he had already expected it, and he slowly raised his hands and said: "Please rest assured, my lord, Meng has recently formulated a military strategy based on Jingzhou's geography."

"Oh? Can you tell me more about it?"

"The main lines of defense in Jingzhou facing our Jiangdong area are the Public Security and Baqiu areas. These two areas are strategically important areas. As long as we can seize them first, the overall situation will be decided!"

"But the rivers in the public security area are connected to the Xiang River. If Baqiu is attacked, the Jingzhou Navy will definitely be able to react in an instant and do its best to help."

As soon as he said this, Sun Quan couldn't help but look a little lonely after hearing Lu Meng's detailed analysis, and murmured: "Isn't there any possibility that our army can regain Jingzhou?"

"No!"

"My lord, there is a breach between the hooded breasts."

After saying that, Lu Meng's eyes suddenly brightened, and he said calmly: "Even if it is difficult to break through the Baqiu defense line, our army can take the land route from Yuzhang County directly to the east of Changsha by surprise."

"Launch an attack from the weak point of the Jingzhou Army."

"After Meng leads his troops to successfully capture Changsha, the lord can send a message to the infantry general stationed in Cangwu to take his troops north and wave flags to attract the attention of the Guiyang defenders."

"In this way, if the Mongols advance to Guiyang County, they can easily conquer it."

"Changsha and Guiyang are defeated, Lingling County's general will be determined!"

The words just fell out.

Lu Meng paused, then showed a hint of worry and said: "But the main force of the Jiangling garrison will be the ones who have experienced changes."

"Once the news of our army's surprise attack on the three counties spreads, Guan Yu will personally bring the main force to fight for it. Therefore, the focus of this strategy depends on whether Governor Lu can send troops to block Guan Yu's army's offensive and delay it."

"It's just that the governor has always defended the Sun-Liu alliance. Meng is afraid..."

Words came out one after another.

Sun Quan then nodded in agreement quite solemnly.

"Okay, Zi Ming, go ahead and do it boldly!"

"You don't have to worry too much about Zijing."

After finishing his sentence, Sun Quan softened his tone and said again: "Although Zijing does not agree with our army's use of force to regain Jingzhou, Gu has already made a decision."

"When the war begins, Zijing will also put the overall situation first!"

Hearing the assurance from Sun Quan's words, Lu Meng no longer hesitated, clasping his fists and saying: "Then please, my lord, sit down at Chaisang and wait for the good news of Meng's recapture of Jingzhou!"

Everything has been decided after discussion.

Next, on the downstream side, the frequency of deployment and assembly of various units of the Wu Army is also gradually increasing.

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On the surface, the Wu army seemed to be gathering towards Jiangbei crossings such as Wankou and Ruxukou, and seemed to be preparing for another northern expedition.

But in fact, under the leadership of Lu Meng, the generals headed by Ling Tong and Jiang Qin had secretly moved closer to Yuzhang County.

This is Lu Meng's plan to hide the truth from the sky.

Deliberately creating an appearance of a massive Northern Expedition on the surface, in order to confuse the Jingzhou spies upstream.

As the saying goes, "Dark clouds threaten to destroy the city."

Under the mobilization of Wu Jun, Jingzhou seemed to have a looming storm coming to Jingnan.

Look everything is ready.

Lu Meng did not hesitate and took the lead in launching the attack.

Since Changsha is connected to the land route of Yuzhang in the east, it is a relatively weak link in the Jingzhou Army's defense.

Due to Lü Meng's surprise attack, the important town of You County in Changsha fell.

In a short period of time, the Wu army had already entered the hinterland of Changsha.

This is not to blame for Guan Yu's carelessness.

It is true that Jingzhou's military strength is currently stretched thin.

Before entering Sichuan, there were more than 70,000 to 80,000 troops in Jingzhou.

However, with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang entering Shu one after another, Jingzhou's military strength now only has more than 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers left!

Therefore, in addition to the heavy military garrison stationed outside the waterway of the important town bordering Jiangdong.

There are only a few garrisons in other places.

Guan Yu led most of his troops to station in Jiangling to guard against Cao's forces in Xiangyang, Fancheng and other areas north of Jing.

And it was this good opportunity in Changsha that Lu Meng now found a flaw in.

With the fall of You County.

Lü Meng also ordered Ling Tong to lead the vanguard to rush to Linxiang City and launch a siege.

After the main force reached its full strength and no results were obtained in trying to persuade them to surrender, Lü Meng immediately ordered the entire army to attack without any hesitation.

Many days later.

The county administration of Linxiang City has been broken!

With the capital city already destroyed, the rest of the cities in Changsha were decided by propaganda.

Changsha fell.
Chapter completed!