Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 139

It would take several days for Chen Deng to build the siege equipment, which was enough time for Li Jing to rush to Dantu.However, Li Jing did not rush directly to Dantu, but stopped fifty miles away from Dantu. While sending people to notify Li Hongzhang, asking Li Hongzhang to deliver military reports to Zhang Yi, he also sent people to investigate Chen Deng's movements.

Chen Deng didn't just besiege Dantu. He sent troops to plunder the people around Dantu, robbing property, food, and people.Every day he sent people to send the looted population back to Guangling to enrich the counties.

Li Jing was not worried about the lack of population. Even if Chen Deng plundered the population again, it would only be a few thousand people.Dantu is an important military town, and there are not many people around.Even if there are people, most of them are in Dantu City. To build a balanced city requires a large number of people to enrich it. How can a city without a population be able to defend it?

After observing for a few days, Li Jing found that Chen Deng didn't intend to stay there for a long time. He asked someone to take out a map and carefully checked the crossing river from Guangling County. The best foothold was Dantu County.To the east, we need to go deep into Qu'a County and Piling County, either far from the river or Jiangbei County. The area of ​​Tonghai (now Nantong City, which belongs to Hailing County) is barren and cannot be used as the foundation for crossing the river.

There are high mountains in Moling County to the west, and it is impossible to cross the river.But Chen Deng wanted to attack the city while looting the people, and he had no intention of staying, so what would he do?Was it just to destroy Dantu City by fighting across the river?
Li Jing will move on the map. To the west of Guangling is Jiujiang County. Chen Deng has ignored the threat of Jiujiang County at this time, and must have a plan.He wants Jiujiang County to attack Guangling County?Li Jing immediately figured it out, he just wanted Jiujiang County to attack Guangling!In this way, Jiujiang County will not be able to send troops to other places!He is going to rescue Cao Cao!Cao Cao is about to make a big move!

In Shouchun, Zhang Yi also received the news of Chen Deng crossing the river. He immediately summoned the talents in General Zhendong's mansion to discuss this.

Zhang Yi also felt very strange!It makes no sense for Chen Deng to cross the river at this time.When Sun Quan was weak before, he didn't cross the river, but now he did!There must be something going on here!

You must know that although Gan Ning returned to Ruxukou, it only took two or three days to get there by boat from Ruxukou to Dantu.Gan Ning intercepted him on the river, but Chen Deng still crossed the river. This is not what a wise man did.

Liu Ye looked at the military newspaper and said: "Although there are many soldiers in our army, my lord just won Jiangdong, and most of them need to rest and recuperate. The soldiers who can be called are all the soldiers stationed in various counties, as well as the 3000 soldiers from Jianyang and Quanjiao. People, if you want to force Chen Deng to return to Jiangbei, you only need General Shang to lead troops into Guangling to plunder! If the Lord is worried about the lack of troops, you can send some soldiers from Lujiang County."

"You cannot mobilize troops from Lujiang!" Liu Muzhi said: "Chen Deng is buying time for Cao Cao."

When Zhang Yi heard this, he suddenly realized that this was the case. It seemed that Cao Cao was going to attack Liu Bei, otherwise it would not have happened.Cao Cao must have known that he was supporting Liu Bei behind his back, otherwise he would not have used Chen Deng to disperse his forces.This is a conspiracy!I will definitely entangle with Chen Deng for Jiang Dong, so Cao Cao can draw his hand to defeat Liu Bei, solve the crisis behind him, and concentrate all his strength to deal with Yuan Shao.

"Cao Mengde made a good plan! Let Chen Deng contain me. He can achieve his goal without spending a single group of soldiers! Even if there is a loss, it will be the loss of the Xuzhou family! This move is really wonderful!" Zhang Yi said with a smile: "It's so big This is a conspiracy!"

Zhu Zhi said: "3000 people are enough for Chen Deng to return to Guangling. You don't need to attack the fortified city. You only need to plunder the countryside. If the soldiers in Chen Deng's city can't come out, our army can evacuate the countryside of Guangling. Chen Deng can't bear it!"

Zhang Yi nodded, "Order Master Shang and his disciples to advance eastward, order Gan Ning's soldiers to dispatch Dan's disciples, and order Di Qing to gather soldiers to Runan. Cao Cao cannot succeed!"

After issuing orders one after another, Zhang Yi prepared to fight on two fronts, forcing Chen Deng back while preparing to rescue Liu Bei.Although Liu Bei and Zhang Yi are not close allies, they are an obstacle for Zhang Yi to go west and seize Jingzhou!If Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, it would be much more difficult for Zhang Yi to seize Jingzhou!In order to obtain Jingzhou more easily, Zhang Yi must ensure that Liu Bei stays in Runan!
That's why before Zhang Yi helped Liu Bei in a low voice, he had a plan!

Jingzhou is of great importance, not only representing a large territory and a large population, but also the key to advancing westward to Yizhou. Whoever controls Jingzhou will have the advantage to attack Yizhou!There are only so many roads to enter Sichuan, and Zhang Yi must occupy the closest one.

After receiving the order, Master Shang and his apprentices immediately led 1000 people into Tangyi County with Meng Liang and Jiao Zan as the vanguard.Tangyi County and Moling County face the river, bordering Yuguo on the east and Jianyang on the west. It is one of the west gates of Guangling County.However, the land here is sparsely populated, and it is not an important county in Guangling.

After Meng Liang and Jiao Zan entered Tangyi County, they immediately divided into two groups, all the way to Tangyi County, and all the way to Yuguo.Master Shang then entered Tangyi County. The purpose of his visit this time was to plunder the population and move all the people he could catch to Jiujiang County.

Chen Deng did not have much of an army left in Guangling. His [-] soldiers were collected with great difficulty, and many of them were private soldiers borrowed from aristocratic families.Otherwise, how could Guangling County support [-] soldiers?
In just a few days, Master Shang and his disciples had already crossed Yuguo and came to Guangling County.

"Report! General, the camp ahead should be where Chen Deng plundered the people of Wu County!" Tan Ma came to report.

When Master Shang heard this, he laughed and immediately ordered loudly: "Take the camp, I will make Chen Deng lose everything!"

Under the leadership of Master Shang and his disciples, Zhang Jun rushed into the camp and eliminated the soldiers in custody.

Chen Dengzhen suffered heavy losses. Not only did he lose the people he captured from Wu County, but a large number of people were also plundered in Guangling.Moreover, he himself was trapped in Dantu and could not retreat even if he wanted to.

Gan Ning led the water army to cut off the river, and Chen Deng's warships would be attacked by Gan Ning if they moved.And Li Jing was also approaching Dantu, trapping him near Dantu!
Chen Deng saw that Zhang Yi's waterway army was dispatched, and he knew that it was almost time!
"It's time to leave! Everyone board the boat, let's go down the river! Detour back to Guangling!"

Chen Deng had long thought of a way out, and he didn't need to be like Sun Yi and Sun Jing, he just needed to follow the coastline, and he could easily land at a pier in Hailing or Yandu County.

Gan Ning did not expect that Chen Deng would choose to go by sea. The limitations of this era prevented him from considering this.But he was not going to let Chen Deng escape, "Let's catch up! I want to see where he wants to go back from!"

(End of this chapter)