If Jiang Wei seemed to be unable to do so in the deployment due to weak military strength and disarray, and many tactical ideas could not be realized, then since the arrival of Lu Kang and Sima Lun, the situation has greatly improved.

The huge number of troops, sufficient strategic materials, and the authority established by Lu Kang to establish Jiang Wei made Jiang Wei easy and easy when building a defense line. Now Jiang Wei no longer needs to consider anything else. What he only needs to consider is how to build a solid and solid defense line.

The Wei army's delay in launching an attack also created a very favorable condition for Jiang Wei. The Wei army was obviously also spying on information. It was impossible for them to fight an unprepared battle, and it was impossible for them to launch an attack rashly without the enemy's situation. Knowing oneself and enemy, planning and then acting are what any qualified military commander needs to do.

Of course, this also leaves enough time for Jiang Wei to build a defense line, which allows Jiang Wei to design more calmly and create a perfect defense line.

After the Wei army entered Jiangling, they remained silent, which made Jiang Wei and Lu Kang a little confused. They didn't know what the Wei army was selling in this gourd.

Logically speaking, since the Wei army severely damaged the Wu army in Chaisangguan, they have been advancing all the way, chasing and attacking each other, forcing Lu Kang to almost have no way to escape. If Luo Xian had not led his troops to support in time, Lu Kang would have been destroyed in Yanziji.

Now that the Shu army and the Wu army are united in one, retreating to Xiling, the Wei army is continuing to pursue the victory and take over Jingzhou in one go, they suddenly paused in Jiangling. What is this?

If the Wei army needs to grasp the defense situation of the Shu army in Xiling, it took more than a month to figure it out. After all, although the Shu army is extremely strict in the investigation of spies and spies, it is completely impossible for Xiling to be so big and have such a long defense line, it is completely impossible to reveal it. The key is to see how much information the Wei army has mastered from the Shu army. After all, Jiang Wei was quite conscious when he was deploying the defense, real and fake. It is still quite difficult for the Wei army to master the defense line 100%.

But even so, the Wei army is as powerful as an arrow on the string, and it has to be fired. This battle will never end without success.

However, the Wei army did not launch an attack for a long time, which naturally made Jiang Wei and Lu Kang feel suspicious. Before the construction of the Xiling defense line was completed, they always hoped that the Wei army's attack would be later, and then later, so that the Shu army would have the opportunity to build the defense line more perfectly.

But after the Shu army completed the defense, they did not hear any more news. This seemed a bit abnormal. If something happened, it would be a monster. Therefore, Jiang Wei had a premonition that the Wei army would definitely have other conspiracies, so Jiang Wei ordered to increase the collection of intelligence and he wanted to see what the Wei army was doing.

Just as the Wei army sent a large number of spies and scouts to continuously infiltrate the Xiling defense line, the Shu army also sent a lot of scouts to infiltrate the area controlled by the Wei army to reconnaise to understand the dynamics of the Wei army.

However, at first, the reconnaissance scope of the Shu army basically only covered the Jiangling area, where the main corps of the Wei army were stationed there. At the same time, they were the most threatening to the Xiling defense line. Jiang Wei required the scouts to investigate clearly and no omissions were allowed.

Reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance are originally a secret battle on the battlefield. Whoever can grasp more enemy intelligence and who can prevent the enemy from obtaining their own intelligence more will be able to take the initiative on the battlefield.

In terms of intelligence spying, the Shu army seemed to have more advantages than the Wei army. After all, the Jingzhou army was born and raised here and knew the geographical advantage. It was more convenient for them to operate and could easily spying on more intelligence.

However, Jiang Wei analyzed the information he got back, but found that there was very little valuable information. After the Wei army arrived in Jiangling, they were not only passive and lazy to fight, and could not see their offensive plan.

Lu Kang suggested that Jiang Wei expand the scope of reconnaissance. Since the Wei army did not move in Jiangling, they must have other plans.

Jiang Wei followed Lu Kang's advice and sent a scout to secretly cross the Yangtze River, sneak into the Jingnan area, and spy on the situation there.

Now the Wei army has completely blocked the Yangtze River waterway, making it extremely inconvenient for the Shu army to travel between the north and south of the Yangtze River. Otherwise, Lu Kang would have traveled hundreds of miles away, which has been a long way to go.

Therefore, after the Shu army gathered in Xiling, most of its activity was concentrated on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and there were few opportunities to go to the south bank to move.

However, the abnormal situation in the Wei army in Jiangling at this time prompted Jiang Wei to expand the scope of reconnaissance so that they had the opportunity to know what kind of conspiracy the Wei army had.

It is indeed not easy to get through the Yangtze River, which was completely blocked by the Wei Navy. Unless the Shu army can take a relatively long way, it will take a lot of time.

So Jiang Wei had to find a way to arrange some scouts with good water quality. In the middle of the night, he secretly swam across the river. Even if the Wei army blocked the river surface tightly, it would be completely impossible to achieve a situation where water was not leaking. Therefore, these scouts with Shu army who smuggled in the middle of the night easily crossed the Yangtze River and entered the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The reconnaissance result was indeed not beyond Lu Kang's expectations. The Wei army did not raise troops in the Jiangling area. They actually sent troops to sweep the seven counties in Jingnan. In more than a month, they attacked and allocated seven counties. When Jiang Wei and Lu Kang were busy building the Xiling defense line, the Wei army took most of the Jingzhou area into their pockets without showing any signs.

The strategy of first solving the seven counties in Jingnan and then going back to clean up Xiling was naturally made by Cao Liang. After the Wu and Shu coalition forces retreated to Xiling, they concentrated about 110,000 troops. There is no doubt that Jiang Wei used this place as a battlefield for decisive battles and wanted to fight to the death with the Wei army.

When Jiang Wei wanted to fight to the decisive battle, Cao Liang naturally wanted to do so. Even though the terrain of Xiling was complicated and the mountains were dangerous, Cao Liang was not afraid of anything. After all, after fighting for so many years, Cao Liang had experienced any difficult opponents or difficult situations, so Cao Liang had absolutely no reason to be afraid of the joint efforts of Jiang Wei and Lu Kang.

However, before dealing with Jiang Wei and Lu Kang, Cao Liang still needs to deal with one person, that is, Shi Ji, who fled to the seven southern counties of Jingzhou. Only in this way can Cao Liang attack Xiling with all his strength without worries.
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