Before the road was halfway through, Du Yu received news that the Wu army intended to cross the river north in Baqiu and enter Yunmengze, but was intercepted by the Wei Navy. The Wei army almost destroyed all the ferries of the Wu army. The main force of Lu Kang was blocked in Baqiu and failed to cross the entire army.

But there was still a Wu army crossing the Yangtze River and entering Jiangbei. The Xiling Army led by the Infantry Association was more than 7,000 people. They were the vanguard troops and had successfully crossed the Yangtze River before the Wei Navy intercepted it.

Fortunately, the Wei Navy arrived in time and blocked the main force of Lu Kang on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and did not allow Lu Kang to reach Jiangbei.

If the entire Lu Kang army successfully enters Yunmengze, that is what really makes Du Yu's headache. The complex terrain and the difficult roads of Yunmengze will bring great difficulties to the pursuit of the Wei army. The cavalry, which was originally known for their speed, may not be as fast as ordinary infantry on such muddy roads. If you want to catch up with the Wu army, it will be as if you ascend to the sky.

After all, the Wu army was born and raised in the south, and was familiar with terrain like Yunmengze and could adapt well to the continuous rainy weather in the south. If you fight here, the only one who suffers is the Wei army.

Perhaps this was Lu Kang's plan, otherwise he would not have chosen to cross the river north in Baqiu. However, Lu Kang's plan was completely bankrupt due to the emergence of Wang Jun's naval army, and only the seven thousand people from the Bu Xie arrived in Jiangbei.

Du Yu's army had about 50,000 people, so it naturally formed an overwhelming advantage over the Infantry Association's troops. Even if the cavalry was not strong, the Wei army would be enough to crush the Wu army with infantry alone. There were many ants to kill the elephant. Du Yu believed that even in such a difficult environment, it would be more than enough to destroy the Infantry Association.

However, if you want to destroy Bu Xie's troops, you must first find Bu Xie. If Bu Xie deliberately avoids and avoids fighting, then no matter how many people Du Yu has, it will be useless.

If you want to find a team of 7,000 Wu troops in the vast Yunmengze, the difficulty is not much different from finding a needle in a haystack.

Du Yu received Cao Liang's order, which was to give priority to the partial division of the Bu Xie, and it was best to annihilate Bu Xie before it fled to Jiangling, so as not to meet with Jiangling's defenders.

But this order was indeed a bit difficult for Du Yu. The environment in Yunmengze was too harsh, and the scouts were almost unable to move. Du Yu had sent out several groups of scouts, some of which were gone after departure. I don’t know if they were lost and could not come back, or they were trapped in the quagmire and died. In short, in Yunmengze, Du Yu was like a deaf and blind man, and he didn’t know where the enemy was, let alone destroying the enemy.

Even though the Wei army found some guides from the local area, these guides were only familiar with some local conditions, and no one had ever been able to travel thousands of miles to the entire Yunmengze.

Even if someone really has to walk out of Yunmengze, there are so many complicated roads in it, and it is estimated that those who have walked out of the past will not remember all the paths.

Therefore, the guides used by the Wei army are often replaced frequently. After passing a zone, new guides will be replaced. Anyway, with the reward of a lot of money, there is naturally no shortage of people to guide the Wei army.

Du Yu was very careful. Du Yu would order people to draw detailed maps on the route they took every day, and the rivers, lakes, swamps and hills they passed along were marked clearly. If the Wei army could indeed reach Jiangling one day, then this map would have extremely high military value.

Now Du Yu is still in a blind process of exploring the path. If you want to get out of the thousands of miles of Yunmengze, you still have to have a arduous journey.

In comparison, Bu Xie naturally has much more knowledge about Yunmengze than Du Yu, while Bu Xie has much fewer people than Du Yu. In this case, Bu Xie's possibility of taking the initiative to attack the Wei army is zero. He avoided the Wei army and was afraid of it. How dare he provoke it?

However, Bu Xie would be much easier to avoid the pursuit of the Wei army. He could easily bypass the Wei army by relying on his familiarity with Yunmengze.

There are thousands of roads in Yunmengze, some of which can be passed, while others have entered a dead end as they walk. The Wei army often takes such a detour. If they are not able to go through, they have to go back, which will waste a lot of time and energy.

The Bu Xie can more accurately determine which road can be walked and that road cannot be walked, saving a lot of time and easily get rid of the Wei army.

The plan to pursue and encircle and annihilate the Infantry Association is fundamentally unfulfilled, so after trying, Du Yu also gave up this idea. Now he has only one purpose, which is to get out of Yunmengze as soon as possible and rush to Jiangling.

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After Cao Liang knew this message, he did not insist on his orders. After all, Cao Liang did not know much about Yunmengze's situation. Du Yu was naturally empathetic. How to deal with it still needs Du Yu to change his mind at the right time, so Cao Liang naturally could not interfere too much.

In military affairs, the most taboo thing is to command blindly and command randomly. If Cao Liang had just started his army in Bingzhou, he had to do everything himself, so Cao Liang could naturally direct the battle directly.

However, with the development of the situation and the improvement of Cao Liang's status, Cao Liang no longer needs to go to the front line to charge. What he needs to do now is the strategic layout, and the specific tactics and tactics need to be mastered by the generals under his command.

If the general is outside, the king will not accept the order. This does not mean that the general who leads the army can resist the orders and fail to obey the orders. If the orders are not obeyed, it is a serious crime of treason. No matter in that dynasty, it will be a loss of mind. The correct understanding of this sentence from Sun Tzu is that the general who leads the army needs to judge the situation and change at the moment. He cannot stick to the orders of the monarch. He needs to make reasonable tactical arrangements based on the current situation.

With the abilities of generals such as Du Yu, Yang Hu, Deng Ai, Wang Jun and Shi Bao, they have the level of independent combat. If Cao Liang interferes too much, they will be at a loss.

Therefore, at the tactical level, Cao Liang has always adopted the delegation of power. He is only responsible for strategic matters. The generals will freely play the role of the generals when it comes to fighting. Cao Liang believes that with their abilities, they will definitely be better than if they are blindly commanding and fighting in the rear.
Chapter completed!