Zou Jing’s doubts are indeed mature and persistent in military strategists, and it is very necessary to think clearly.

The storm water is soothing. Even if it goes downstream, the speed of the ship is slower than that of the galloping horses, and it will be even less likely to catch up with it against the current.

However, since Li Su dared to make this suggestion, he certainly had made up his mind, so he asked someone to bring a wooden map.

Liu Bei next to him had a thought and was inspired. He answered first: "Personnel Zou, you and I have been fighting here for several months, and the terrain has already been clear.

The three tributaries of the Hokkishui River must go to Yongnu County, Yuyang County before they finally merge. Therefore, even if the enemy wants to cross the river, they will never dare to go to the middle and upper reaches of the three tributaries, which have not yet converged. Otherwise, wouldn’t we be caught in the jar?

If Zhang Ju had just crossed the first tributary of Liangxiang County, our army rushed to Changping, Yuyang's second and third tributaries of defense, wouldn't he besieged in Sancha River and moved forward and retreating?"

After hearing this, Zou Jing quickly reacted.

As mentioned earlier, they fought with Zhang Chun before, and the defensive core was also the three tributaries in the upper reaches of the Hong River, Liu Bei, Jiao Chu, and Zhang Nan each guarded one, and the terrain was so familiar that it could not be more familiar.

Where is the three tributaries of the Haihe River mentioned in Liu Bei's speech equivalent to Yongnu County, which eventually converges in later generations? It is probably Wuqing County in Tianjin City.

Moreover, because during the Han Dynasty, the Yellow River had not yet washed away the land on the Bohai Coast, the main urban area of ​​Tianjin in later generations is now roughly the coastline. The Dagukou and Binhai New Area of ​​Tianjin in later generations are still the sea.

Therefore, to prevent Zhang Ju from crossing the river and escaping back after robbing, he would just keep the river channel equivalent to the later generations of Wuqing County to the main urban area of ​​Tianjin.

"That's right... Zhang Ju has been the prefect of Mount Tai, and should be considered a little wise man. He will not let himself fall into danger. If he only wants to guard the 40-mile river in the lowest downstream, he will ignore it for more than a hundred miles upstream. He is much more sure."

After Zou Jing figured it out, he nodded frequently.

There are very few rivers on the Hebei Plain that are enough to block the army. As the boundary river between Youzhou and Jizhou, the Huo River is already a river that is relatively easy to defend north of the Yellow River.

Where can I fight if I don’t fight here!

The governor of the state Liu Yu did not understand military affairs, so he had not expressed his opinion just now. Seeing that Zou Jing and Liu Bei had unified their opinions, Liu Yu hurriedly asked: "Person Zou, in this way, is it necessary to mobilize most of the government troops in the state and move east to the entrance of the Hang River?"

Zou Jing thought about the breath again and bowed and explained: "The envoy, this is roughly the case, but the rest of the risks must not be avoided - first of all, although it is important to intercept Zhang Ju, the Yanshan defense line on Zhang Chun's side cannot be relaxed. If it is too empty and is crossed by Zhang Chun, it will not be optimistic.

Secondly, small groups of rangers must be deployed in the upper reaches of the Hwai River to ensure that if Zhang Ju crosses the first tributary from the middle and upper reaches, we can discover military information in time and then have enough time to arrive at the third defense. Moreover, it is best to have a small group of mobile cavalry to harass and delay the enemy's troops in the middle, so that the enemy retreats in a difficult situation."

After hearing this, Liu Yu nodded and felt that he was indeed a mature and steadfast person.

You can't be completely unprepared for the threats of mid- and upper-stream.

It’s like you can’t just defend Jiange just because the probability of the enemy entering Shu from Yinping Road is extremely small, right?

So Liu Yu formally ordered: "Since this is the case, as Zou Jiaowei said, the deployment will start from now on! Guanzi City cannot provide direct rescue for the time being, so he can only cut off the food and grass of the Wuhuan army under Guanzi City, and prevent them from robbing Jizhou's grain and fodder supplies. In order to change over time, the enemy troops in the besieged city were destroyed before Gongsun Zan's grain."

After Liu Yu finished speaking, most people did not refute anymore. Only Zhang Nan, the commander of Yuyang County, whose defense zone was located at the easternmost point, was still a little uneasy and forced to persuade:

"Encourt! Even if this plan is successful, our army temporarily trapped Zhang Ju in the underwater waters, so that he could not cross the river, but our army could not take the initiative to cross the river and pursue Zhang Ju and annihilate him.

In this way, as long as Zhang Ju is not in a hurry to cross the river and always wanders in Bohai County, Jizhou, wouldn’t we have to be on the defense of the underwater for a long time? So what should we do if there are any flaws in other defense areas exposed?

Moreover, there were 100,000 people in the Guanzi City. They found that the partial troops who went out to plunder food and grass were not back for a long time. What should we do if we came here to pick us up? At that time, wouldn’t our army on the east bank of the Chen Binghuo River be attacked by Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju?”

Zhang Nan asked this, but he was selfish. Because his defense zone was on the easternmost side of the three county defense zones, and Yuyang County went east to the east to the Youbeiping County, which is now occupied by the enemy. When the enemy troops in Youbeiping really did not have enough food, they went west to pick up the robbery troops. The pressure behind it was all borne by Zhang Nan.

Liu Bei's defense zone Zhuojun is located in the west of the three counties, so he most hopes that the court will concentrate all its main forces on the side of defending Zhang Ju, so that his pressure will be minimized.

There are people in the world, even if they are for the court, officials hope that their jurisdiction will be as safe and complete as possible.

Therefore, after hearing Zhang Nan's instigation, Liu Bei immediately jumped out: "How cowardly this is! Qiu Liju claims to be a hundred thousand people, but in fact he is mostly farmers and is used to encircle Guanzi City. It is still possible to attack hundreds of miles and take the initiative to fight in the field.

Moreover, not everyone has horses. Zhang Ju only sent thousands of partial troops to plunder to achieve one person and two horses. The main force set up a camp of 100,000, and it would be good to have 10,000 or 20,000 war horses. Even if the Xianbei people joined forces with Qiu Liju, including the more than 10,000 horses of the Kebineng division or Suli division, there were only 30,000 horses. The remaining at least 70,000 to 80,000 people would not be able to come to Yuyang for reinforcements! Our Zhuo County departments fully support the envoy's plan and the Zou's lieutenant!"

Zhang Nan was so angry that he grinned and forced himself to go back, helplessly saying that he had no objection.

When fighting against Wuhuan King Nanqiao a few months ago, Zhang Nan carried the injury to Liu Bei to harvest the spoils. The two of them had already accumulated a lot of resentment. Later, when he saw Liu Bei actually got two thousand horses from King Nanqiao, he was even more envious of him.

Now that we have done this again, the conflict between the Zhuojun system and the Yuyang system has been completely publicized.

The troops of each county immediately launched according to the deployment of Liu Yu and Zou Jing.

Liu Yu looked at Li Su, who was the first to propose "cutting off the enemy's side troops' return path", and took a slightly higher look.

In addition, in order to temporarily requisition the fleet of the big merchant Mi family, Liu Yu personally promised Mi Zhu many benefits as compensation for delaying their business. This is the first time to come to Youzhou to sell horses on a large scale, and Mi Zhu still attaches great importance to it, so he personally led the fleet. In the past two days, Liu Bei invited Mi Zhu to drink almost every meal, and the two seemed to be able to chat. Now even Liu Yu has begun to show kindness to Mi Zhu.

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The war machine directly under the ship, the horse Xiaoxiao, and the Youzhou Governor Liu Yu started to operate quickly. In just two days, it was fully prepared to intercept Zhang Ju's way home near the estuary underwater.

At the same time, in the southern Bohai County, Zhang Ju, the new rebel leader and former Taishan prefect Zhang Ju were not aware of any crisis at all.

This cannot be blamed for him, because when he crossed the waters and went south to rob Jizhou, Guan Yu and Li Su's fleet had not returned to Youzhou yet.

In this era, there was no precedent for anyone to come to Youzhou from Xuzhou to do sea trade on a sea boat.

The original ships on the Imperial River were all small fishing boats without ceilings. If they wanted to carry soldiers to stop the Wuhuan cavalry, they would be destroyed by a rain of arrows. So who would be wary of this unprecedented threat?

"I have robbed it for the time being. If I robbed it, I can't bear it anymore. The cattle and donkeys plundered from the people have also been loaded with carts and loaded them. Let's go."

It was June 26th. Zhang Ju was very satisfied with seeing tens of thousands of horses and thousands of cars stuffed.

In fact, if you really want to grab it, there are still many things you can grab, but if you really can't get it, you'd better transport it back first and grab it next time.

In a sense, this trip was considered a return home in glory - because he killed the entire Bohai County and Pingyuan County, and arrived all the way to the area bordering Le'an County in Qingzhou and Taishan County in Yanzhou.

His original official position was the governor of Taishan County in the Han Dynasty. This was like betraying the court and actually returned to the jurisdiction of the government when he was an official. It was so glorious!

The whole of Jizhou was like a piece of paper, without any military preparation! Let him come and go! The governor Jia Cong and Wubei were actually paralyzed to this extent!

After walking slowly for a day, he saw the boundary river between Youzhou and Jizhou, and the water of the scattered river was right in front of him. After crossing this river, he could return to Youzhou again.

A general under Zhang Ju asked for instructions when the troops approached the Hunting Water: "Your Majesty, the water flows deeper and difficult to walk around. Why not swim through it when you follow me like that? That will save you the pain of collecting ships."

Dear readers, don’t think it’s strange that the generals under Zhang Ju’s command called him “Your Majesty”, because Zhang Ju was originally a very arrogant person.

In history, he rebelled for only a few months before officially proclaiming himself the emperor, asking Zhang Chun to be the general, and clearly putting a banner to replace the Han Dynasty.

In this life, although he has not yet been promoted to the emperor, he has already asked his subordinates to call him His Majesty.

Faced with the questions from his subordinates, Zhang Ju laughed directly: "Silly! When I waited for it, I was light and simple, and I was not afraid of crossing the river a few more times. Of course, I had to go to the shallow areas. Now that I have brought so many baggage carts, would I still let the carts cross the river three times? It would be better to find some ships and earn their contributions in one battle."

"Your Majesty is wise, we can't wait!" The subordinate general quickly took the order, took hundreds of cavalry vanguards to speed up, and first went to the river to search for civilian ships.

Unfortunately, the flattering general did not find the boat to come back.

About half an hour later, several rebel cavalry with arrows on their bodies ran back in a shaky way: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty! Captain Chen was shot to death by the Han army's arrows. Dozens of large ships came to patrol back and forth on the waters, and all the civil boats were taken away by the Han army's strong walls and clearing the fields! I waited until I escaped to report the news!"
Chapter completed!