Zhang Qiao and Huangfu Jian were a little stunned. You should know that Shi Ji had more than 10,000 people. A large group of people of this size disappeared and there was no trace at all. This was really a bit too strange.

Huangfu Jian proposed to torture and force confessions to these captured Wu soldiers. Some of them must be aware of the information, but they just concealed the truth. If the Wei army used some tough measures, they would not believe that they would not confess.

Liu Jing shook his head. The captured Wu soldiers were all ordinary soldiers and they would definitely not be able to obtain the highest secret of the Wu army. Shi Ji actually had this plan to secretly cross Chen Cang, so it would definitely not be widely publicized among the Wu army, so it would not be surprising that the lower-level soldiers did not know about it.

What's more, for ordinary soldiers, they have a strong desire to survive. They do not have much idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and serving the country. When they join the army, they only want to make a living or be coerced by the government. Therefore, after being captured, there are few who would rather die than surrender.

As long as they know, there is no need to be punished and a little threat and temptation, they can tell them, but they don’t know what they don’t know. Even if they are crippled, they will never be able to find out what result.

However, when Liu Jing asked, he still got an important information. This Wu army's squad was sent by Shi Ji halfway, which means that they had been following the large army before, so this separation node became very important. From the Wu soldiers' explanation that the place where they left the large army was north of Leiyang. At that time, the entire army was still in the south. As for when it disappeared, they really don't know.

Leiyang?

Liu Jing quickly captured this very important information. There is no doubt that the Wu army was still heading south on the road from Changsha to Leiyang, so the only area where the Wu army disappeared was Leiyang to Guiyang.

It is impossible to get near Guiyang, because it is too close to Guiyang and it is easily discovered by the Wei army. Therefore, Liu Jing can basically determine the location of the Wu army's redirection, which should be between Leiyang and Binxian.

As for the whereabouts of the Wu army, if they flee east, they would enter Yangzhou. The war in Yangzhou has basically ended, and the Wei army has controlled most of the areas of Yangzhou. Shi Ji would not be so stupid that he would fall into the trap.

Therefore, the direction of Shi Ji's escape this time is still Jiaozhou. If you go to Jiaozhou, you will naturally take Guiyang, which is the first choice. However, if you detour through Lingling, you can also arrive in Jiaozhou. So Liu Jing could conclude that Shi Ji must have changed the route to Lingling halfway and headed to Jiaozhou through Lingling.

At that moment, Liu Jing immediately found some people who were familiar with the local terrain. After inquiring, there was indeed a small road from Leiyang that could directly lead to Lingling, so all the mysteries were solved now.

Shi Ji had previously set up a suspicion array and stockpiled a large amount of food, grass and supplies in Guiyang, in order to create the illusion that the Wu army would flee from Guiyang to Jiaozhou, and to lure the Wei army to pursue Guiyang.

In fact, Shi Ji had already secretly planned to divert to Lingling. After arriving in Leiyang, Shi Ji only sent some troops south and deliberately created momentum. The main force secretly diverted from Leiyang to west and fled.

In the end, Shi Ji did not let go of this batch of food and supplies that he used as bait. In order to prevent these supplies from falling into the hands of the Wei army, he specially ordered the Wu army to burn all the food and supplies before the Wei army arrived in Guiyang.

It has to be said that Shi Ji's plan was quite meticulous. He hoarded grain and accumulated grain with great fanfare to create the illusion of going south to Guiyang. He not only concealed the detailed work of the Wei army, but also concealed the vast majority of the Wu army, making everyone believe in his itinerary to go south to Guiyang.

In the secret, he planned to flee west without knowing it. From this point of view, it did prove that Shi Ji was still a scheming and wise man. Perhaps he had already decided to walk the Guiyang road and would definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of the Wei army, so he used this plan to build a plank road openly and cross Chen Cang secretly.

Obviously, Shi Ji's conspiracy succeeded. He deceived the Wei army's large group into Guiyang by him. And even if Liu Jing knew the truth and rushed to Lingling again, he would obviously be unable to catch up with Shi Ji. Once Shi Ji entered the Nanling Mountains, the road there would be rugged and steep and difficult, and Liu Jing's pursuit plan would be completely failed.

As for entering Jiaozhou, Liu Jing had thought about it, but if he was expeditioning to Jiaozhou, he would face many problems. At least in terms of intelligence reconnaissance and logistics supply, the Wei army had not prepared any preparations. Cao Liang's order to Liu Jing was just to march into Jingnan and pursue Shi Ji. If he really wanted to expedition to Jiaozhou, Liu Jing had to ask Cao Liang to report to Cao Liang. He would not dare to send troops rashly without Cao Liang's permission.

Although the general will not accept the orders of the outside king, it is just a means and measures taken by the leader of the front enemy when he is in a favorable opportunity, and does not mean that the leader of the leader has the power to openly disobey.

Moreover, this is entirely based on the premise that you are 100% sure to win a battle, and you dare to act at considerable risks. If you disobey the king's order and lose the battle, the result will be that the two crimes will be one. You don't use your head, but it may be that your life will be lost in vain.

Therefore, before disobeying the Holy Order, anyone must make careful considerations. The first thing is to look at the Lord’s character, whether he can accept the Lord’s actions in the front line. If he cannot, it is best to give up this idea as soon as possible. No matter whether you can win or not, it is not worth taking this risk.

Secondly, you need to weigh the situation and see if you have a 100% chance of winning. This is still the key point. If you are not sure about winning, everything will be false.

If Liu Jing is allowed to march into Jiaozhou now, he will not even have 30% sure. After all, Liu Jing is completely in a dark state against the situation in Jiaozhou and has no idea how could such a blind march win?

In this case, even if Liu Jing couldn't swallow his breath, he could only temporarily endure it. However, he did not stop. Although he could not enter Jiaozhou, taking down the seven counties of Jingnan was another target of Liu Jing's trip. So he sent the Jinqi Camp to Lingling County and the Zhonglei Camp to Linhe County. Regardless of the situation, he would first complete the goal of pacifying the seven counties of Jingnan.
Chapter completed!