Chapter 860

Now that he had understood all this, Huangfu Chaobo was relieved again. However, he turned to Huang Zhong and said, "if you don't keep filial piety, it's inevitable that there will be casualties of soldiers. But elder brother Hansheng still needs to emphasize it to the generals of various departments, so as to reduce unnecessary casualties of soldiers as much as possible."

"The end will take orders!" Huang Zhong quickly got up to answer the promise.

Huangfu Chaobo waved his hand and motioned him to sit down and speak. Then he looked at Pang and Guo and said, "what about the specific deployment of troops?"

"The four cities of Jian County, Panguo, Xiyang and geyang must be conquered. Only in this way can we guarantee the retreat of the army. After all the four cities were captured, a general was left to lead the troops to guard the four cities, and the rest of the army went all the way down the Dabie Mountains and turned to attack Anfeng and Fulou. "

Guo Jia went to the map and said, "then the army went down to rijiaxiang county and Longshu county. As for how to arrange the army in the southeast of Lujiang County, it doesn't matter. It depends on the situation whether the army will attack the county city first and then the county town."

"Just At this point, Guo Jia pondered a little, pointed to a position on the map, and said: "for the city of Lu'an, we have not reached an agreement."

Huangfu Chaobo was stunned. He looked up at them and said, "what's wrong with Lu'an?"

Guo Jiachao nodded Pang Tong's head. Pang Tong got up and said, "Lu'an is only two hundred miles away from Shouchun, and the cavalry can get there overnight. If we occupy this city, it will certainly make Yuan Shu restless. Yes, if we don't occupy this city, the rear route of our army going south may be blocked by the Lu'an garrison. If the war is not favorable, it will be a serious threat to our army's retreat. "

"What do you two think?"

"The meaning of filial piety is not to pay attention to Lu'an, but to go directly around the city, because it is nearly 50 miles from Lu'an to the foot of the Dabie Mountain, which is enough for our army to move. My suggestion is to take Lu'an, but we don't need to garrison heavy troops to defend it. We just need to prevent Yuan Shu's army from seizing the city. "

After hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo fell into a deep meditation. Their plans are just the opposite. It can be seen that Guo Jia prefers to use odd soldiers, while Pang Tong is actually good at using odd soldiers, but he has become a little more cautious with Huangfu Chaobo these years.

After much deliberation, Huangfu Chaobo decided to take Lu'an for the sake of safety, but in terms of garrison defense, he was not prepared to leave nearly ten thousand troops to defend like geyang and Yucheng.

The preliminary plan has been decided, so the next step is to wait until the main force arrives. And Huangfu Chaobo gave Huang Zhong five thousand Tui cavalry to use as a reprimand marquis. During these days when he was waiting for the main force of the army, he found out the situation around him.

Guo Jia was right when they were discussing how to capture the Lujiang River. In Shouchun palace hundreds of miles away, Emperor Zhong's anger broke out. The battle report of lejiu's lost floating bridge was sent to Shouchun by him. Less than two hours after Huangfu Chaobo was relieved, Yuan Shu also got the news of Anton's Army crossing the huaishui river.

So he immediately ordered the civil and military ministers to be summoned for discussion. Who knows, after more than an hour, he didn't come up with anything useful. He was so angry that Yuan Shu was furious at the Jinluan palace.

In the end, it was Shu Zhao who proposed that Shouchun should be transferred to form Shouchun city guards by transferring 2000 elite soldiers from each city. Now there are 28 cities in Lujiang and Jiujiang counties, so a total of 56000 troops can be gathered. Even if some of the soldiers can't be transferred, a city guard of 40000 people can be formed at least.

Then general Ji Ling was transferred back to take charge of the battle of Shouchun. As for Xuzhou, they had to stick to the city for a day.

As for the two thousand soldiers in the city, they ordered each county to recruit another three thousand soldiers. As a result, the number of soldiers in each city reached more than six thousand, and half of them were veterans. With the ability of these forces, Anton's army could be dragged back to the general.

Yuan Shu appreciated Shu Zhao's proposal. Soon his imperial edict was written by the nearby writ, and then it was handed to him for careful inspection. After confirming that it was correct, he sealed the seal of the jade seal and handed it to the eunuch for distribution to the two counties and cities.

Prompted by Shu Zhao, it was soon proposed that since Anton's army had crossed the huaishui River and sun CE's army was in Guangling, the 10000 troops led by general Qiao Rui in Juchao city had lost the significance of defending sun CE's army. Instead of being defeated by each Anton's army by that time, they would not enter Shu county and defend Anton's army together with the 10000 troops led by Yuan Huan, the prefect of Lujiang.

His suggestion was also affirmed by Yuan Shu. In a moment, all the officials in the hall were inspired. They blurted out one suggestion after another, regardless of whether it worked or not. They said it first and won the emperor's approval.

Three days later, Anton's army finally arrived at the boundary of Xinxi county. Tens of thousands of troops, together with their food, grass, supplies and pack horses, formed a line of more than ten miles long, like a red dragon moving towards the floating bridge.

In the past few days, apart from arranging the expansion of the camp, Huang Zhong, together with Zhou Tai's navy, built several floating bridges over the Huaihe River, so that when the army arrived, he could cross the river as soon as possible. Zhou Tai, on the other hand, arranged nearly 2000 water officers and soldiers he had brought to the captured yuan Shujun's warship to inspect the waters within tens of miles of the upper and lower reaches of the pontoon.Of course, it was Guo Jia's and Pang Tong's two military divisions who investigated the movement of Yuan Shu's army in the surrounding cities and collected effective intelligence. After careful exploration in recent days, Anton's army has basically figured out the layout of Yuan Shu's army.

In addition to Shouchun's imperial guards and barracks, Yuan Shujun had 5000 garrisons in each county and 10000 garrisons in the county. Moreover, according to the intelligence collected in recent days, as Guo Jia expected, Yuan's army is adjusting its forces.

According to Chihou's report, when they explored geyang, they found that although the gate of geyang city was closed and the garrison in the city was patrolling day and night like a big enemy, they found that just late last night, a troop of 2000 people suddenly left geyang and headed all the way East.

After receiving the news, Guo jiaminrui sensed the abnormality of the army. Then he ordered Shi a to send an order to the shadow guard to screen out all the information collected in Huainan these days.