Chapter 68 Take the initiative

If the land near Jiangling is divided into four parts, the Huan family has one share and the Chen family has one share. The other families can add up to one share, while the remaining part is from the temple.

And including the Huan family, they raise many strong men in their manor. They are usually farmers. If something really happens, they will give them knives and guns. They are a armed force.

When cleaning up the Huan family's property, Lu Qiang already knew about this, but he had a shallow foundation in Jiangling, so he could only endure many things, just like why the monk had so much land.

Chen Shansheng saw this and transferred 200 strong men to help Lu Qiang defend the city. He thought that Lu Qiang could be satisfied, but he did not know that from the day Lu Qiang entered Jiangling, the fate of these rich families had been doomed, and the only time difference was only.

The discord between Chen Liang and Chen Kun is a good resource.

After Chen Motao enters the government office, Lu Qiang will give him an idle job to raise him. Chen Moyu will be left by Lu Qiang. After this battle, he will make full use of these two brothers to achieve his goal of weakening the Chen family.

In the next few days, the information sent back by Luo Song became more and more detailed.

Huan Wei's soldiers were divided into two ways. He personally led 70,000 troops, set up from Guiyang County, went to Chaling and Changsha, and then killed Jiangling.

On the other route, Huan Shisheng, a member of his clan, led 30,000 horses to rise up from Lingling, went to Hengyang and Tianmen counties, and then met with Huan Wei under Jiangling City.

A total of 100,000 troops on both roads, like locusts, came to Jiangling.

What Lu Qiang didn't expect most was that this time, the Huan family completely tore off the mask of hypocrisy, burned ** and plundered wherever they passed, and did nothing evil. The people fled looking at the wind, and now refugees have poured into Jiangling.

After hearing the atrocities of the Huan army, the people of Jiangling united unprecedentedly. As Lu Qiang said on his notice, he vowed to defend his homeland to the death and would never allow the invaders to step into Jiangling. The Huan family can kill people in other parts of Jingzhou. Do you know that they will do the same thing to Jiangling?

This can only be said that God's sins are especially good, and self-inflicted sins are impossible to live.

After formulating a detailed battle plan, Lu Qiang and Tan Daoji led 3,000 people to sneak out of Jiangling on a dark night and went straight to Wuling.

Huan Wei's 70,000 troops will pass by here, and the reason why Lu Qiang chose the road with the most people is to seize Huan Wei's arrogant mentality of having many soldiers and horses, and first get rid of his spirit with his mind.

Huan Shisheng's strikers have arrived in Baling, so they must fight quickly, otherwise Lu Qiang may be separated from the city.

The moonlight is like water, sprinkled in the vast fields, with a trace of tranquility in gentleness.

However, this atmosphere was destroyed by the endless barracks in the field, and the lights in the 70,000 military battalions were simply more dazzling than the stars in the sky.

As analyzed by Lu Qiang and others, Huan Wei did not pay attention to Lu Qiang at all. The 70,000 troops walked slowly, and even the vanguards were not sent.

Luo Song lay in the grass on a high slope with several scouts and carefully observed the distribution of the Huan army camp.

In fact, with Luo Song's current identity, he doesn't have to come in person at all, but he knows the importance of this battle to Lu Qiang and knows that if there is a little mistake, I'm afraid he will make Lu Qiang doomed, so he must personally master the first-hand information and then report it to Lu Qiang.

At the beginning, he and Lu Qiang dared to break into the 20,000 horse camp of the Huan army, so although there are 70,000 troops in the Huan army now, they did not scare him at all.

It is also that he often uses this experience to inspire the scouts around him to remove their fear of 100,000 Huanjun from their hearts.

Luo Song knew that at this time, with the current situation of the Jiangling army, he and Lu Qiang could no longer sneak into the Huan army camp.

After observing for a while, Luo Song quietly withdrew. After walking for a while, he took out the war horse in the woods, jumped on the horse and quickly ran to the hideout of the strong man and horse.

In order to win this battle, Lu Qiang brought out the only 500 cavalry, but the key to this battle is to be surprised, not to fight hard with the Huan army, so you must choose the time and place to fight, otherwise they will be surrounded by the great Huan army, and these 3,000 people will have to explain this.

Three thousand people hid in the dense forest. Except for the sentries responsible for the guard, the rest were taking time to rest.

Lu Qiang and Tan Daoji were not sleepy at all. After arranging the soldiers, they sat together to study the map.

Wuling, like Jiangling, is on the south bank of the Yangtze River. After Huan's great army passed Baling, it only needs to go up the Shuojiang River and go straight to Jiangling.

"Dao Ji, what do you think?"

Tan Daoji smiled and said, "Your Excellency, don't worry. I just watched this battle against Fu Jian in those years, Huan Wei? Ha ha! I'm afraid it's not even enough to carry shoes for Fu Jian"

Of course, in those years, Fu Jian's 830,000 army invaded the south and was defeated by Xie Xuan and others with 80,000 horses. After that battle, the former Qin quickly collapsed. Otherwise, the Jin Dynasty would have made such a scene, and they would have taken advantage of it.

But what he led was not the powerful Beifu Army, and only one twentieth of the Huan army still turned around. How can it be compared with that war?

However, looking at the appearance of Tan Daoji, it seems that he has become a bamboo in his chest.

Facing Lu Qiang's doubtful eyes, Tan Daoji continued: "Now that the people of Wuling have heard that the Huan army is coming, almost all of them have escaped. They expect that Huan Wei will move into Wuling, and looking at what they have done along the way, the soldiers of the Huan army will take the opportunity to search Wuling. If we suddenly appear at this time, we will hit him. We were caught off guard, and we don't want to destroy them in one fell swoop, so we will leave in a war. With Huan Wei's suspicion, we will not dare to chase them."

"This is a plan, and the other plan is much simpler. Please take only 500 cavalry to attack the Huan army camp at night. My subordinates dare to guarantee the success of the war with their superiors. Although they dare not guarantee to kill Huan Wei, they also require him to dare not despise me, Jiangling."

The first plan is good, but the second plan is a little risky.

In fact, Lu Qiang also knew that the ancient army rushed forward and relied on a handsome flag. If the handsome flag falls and hundreds of thousands of troops are defeated in a blink of an eye, it is not surprising.

It's just that there are too few cavalry to break.

While talking, Luo Song rushed back.

After saluteing the two, Luo Song did not talk much. He took out the distribution map of the Huan army camp he drew from his arms, and then explained it to them.

"I followed my subordinates for a few days and found a very interesting phenomenon. Although Huan Wei's men and horses are known as 70,000, they are obviously different from each other. Among them, Huan Wei's headquarters is about 40,000, Guoquan 10,000, Sima Diao and Feng should be 10,000. As far as their subordinates know, Guoquan and Feng should were originally loyal subordinates of Huan Xuan, so their The people and horses are clearly separated from Huan Wei's men and horses. At the same time, the two armies seem to be on guard against each other. They dare to guess that no matter which people and horses are attacked, other people and horses will probably watch the fun."

This is the importance of Luo Song's attack. If it is an ordinary scout, it will not make such a detailed analysis of Lu Qiang.

When even Tan Daoji looked at Luo Song, he showed admiration.

"Who is this Sima Diao?"

Tan Daoji, like Luo Song, used to be low-level officers and knew very little about the upper class. Hearing Lu Qiang's question, he couldn't help shaking his head together.

Lu Qiang knew that it was no wonder that they had just started. No matter what, there were many differences. Luo Song had a good opinion that he could do this.

He asked about this Sima Diao because he was also surnamed Sima. You should know that there are not many surnames. Maybe this guy is also a royal family. He turned his back on his ancestors and followed the rebellion of his own family. This guy is no different from a traitor.

Of course, Lu Qiang's thoughts can't be told to them. Since he has first-hand information in his heart, he is more confident in winning.

After several people studied for a while, they finally decided to adopt Tan Daoji's first strategy, but Lu Qiang improved it for him, and then the army immediately acted and quickly ran to Wuling.

As analyzed by Tan Daoji, at this moment, in addition to the officials and soldiers loyal to the Huan family, half of the people have escaped.

Of course, there are also the results advocated by Lu Qiang.

However, the Wuling Taishou has closed the gate to prevent the people from fleeing. It is not that he wants to leave the people to Huan Wei, but that he is an official appointed by the Huan family, so he does not believe that Huan Wei will harm the people in his city at all.

In the dark night, Luo Song personally took 20 good scouts into Wuling, and then found a place to hide.

Lu Qiang and Tan Daoji hid 30 miles away from Wuling and waited for the change of Wuling City.

The weather in Jiangnan has always changed a lot. It is still full of stars at night, but it is cloudy in the morning. Although it hasn't rained yet, it obviously won't be long.

Guoquan's mood is as gloomy as this weather. Among other things, he is worried about his future.

Guoquan is a general under Huan Xuan. He has always been loyal to Huan Xuan. He once guarded Xunyang in order to cover Huan Xuan, but after hearing that Huan Xuan was expelled from Jiangling, he led people to break through and defect to Huan Wei.

What he didn't expect was that Huan Wei not only abolished the position of the head of the Huan Xuan family without authorization, but also called himself the king of Chu. He dared to use this title. I really don't know how long his head was kicked by a donkey?

Although Huan Wei was polite to Guo Quan on the surface, he had been waiting for the opportunity to deprive him of his military power, so that Guo Quan could completely see through Huan Wei's face.

What Guoquan can't stand most is that Huan Wei actually killed the people. What's the difference between this and digging his own grave?

Guoquan now regrets coming to Huan Wei, but if he doesn't come here, can he go there again? Huan Xuan was nowhere to find. Even if he knew that Huan Xuan was there, he was not going to look for it. The cowardly lord was no longer worthy of his service.

And when he was defending Xunyang, he killed the Beifu army, so the road to surrendering to Liu Yu was blocked by himself. He is really confused now and doesn't know where his future is.

Guoquan is not optimistic about the battle of Jiangling. After all, Lu Qiang, a rising star, is too young to attract his attention.

"General, General Feng sent someone here"

The voice of the soldiers interrupted Guoquan's meditation.

Feng's situation is similar to that of Guoquan. In order not to be annexed by Huan Wei, the two old guys seem to be clear, but they have been secretly contacting each other.

The army is about to be pulled out. The next stop is Wuling. I don't know why Feng should send someone to find him at this time?

"Let him in"