: Murong Ke offers suggestions

On the eighth day of April 14th year of Qianyuan, Murong Ke, Yue Yun and Li Dingguo led 40,000 troops to Xiazhi, and with the help of Cai Mao, he successfully arrived in Chaisang.

"The last general Murong Ke (Yue Yun, Li Dingguo) paid a visit to General Yang!" Murong Ke and others saluted as soon as they saw Yang Yanzhao. Although Yang Yanzhao had been removed from his position as General Zhengdong, Yue Yun was still above him, but everyone knew that Yang Yanzhao's dismissal this time was only temporary, in order to give an explanation to the people of the world. After Yang Yanzhao successfully attacked Wu, he would naturally be restored. In addition, Yang Yanzhao was a long-time general in the army and had a high status, so the three of them dared not be disrespectful.

Yang Yanzhao hurriedly walked forward, helped the three of them up, and said, "Please ask them up quickly, I'm ashamed. It's all because of the incompetence of our generals that the three generals came to support thousands of miles."

"General Yang was joking. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. If you lose this time, we will win back next time. The king did not blame the general too much. Why should the general be concerned?" Murong Ke comforted Yang Yanzhao. Among the three, Yue Yun and Li Dingguo's positions were above Murong Ke, but Deng Sheng had a word before leaving and asked them to obey Murong Ke's instructions. Yue Yun was a heartless person, which didn't matter, but Li Dingguo was very dissatisfied. However, along the way, Murong Ke also convinced Li Dingguo with his own abilities, so now all three are Murong Ke.

Seeing Murong Ke’s extraordinary demeanor, Yang Yanzhao nodded secretly and said, “General Murong is worthy of being a general. Being able to win the attention of General Yue Fei is enough to prove that General Murong is extraordinary. I would like to ask General Murong for more advice in the future.”

"The general is joking. The last general is just a young general in the army. How dare you show off your skills in front of the general?" Murong Ke said in panic.

"So what about young generals? Now, which general in my Great Deng army is not from a young general. As long as he has the ability, he will naturally be promoted. Well, General Murong is a newcomer. I will introduce you to the people in the army." Yang Yanzhao said nothing, then took Murong Ke's hand and introduced Zhou Yu, Yao Guangxiao, Zhang Fei, Gao Siji and others to him one by one. Murong Ke also greeted them one by one.

The arrival of Deng's reinforcements must have been too hiding from the Wu army. Murong Ke was discovered by the Wu army within two hours after Murong Ke arrived.

In the Pengze County Government, the Wu army gathered together with civil and military officials. Zhou Kai had already woken up at this time, but because of his physical weakness, all the matters in the army were handed over to Lu Feng. Since the Battle of the Valley, Lu Feng has become famous in Jiangdong. Now he has been known as Zhou Kai's successor. If nothing unexpected happens, his position as the Grand Governor of the Wu Kingdom will be his in the future.

However, Deng's army's troops increased, so there will definitely be some big moves in the future, so Zhou Kai came out to deal with it himself.

"Grandmaster, there are no less than 40,000 Deng's army coming to reinforce this time. The leaders are three generals, one with a surname Yue and holding a double hammer. They should be Yue Yun, the son of Yue Fei, the first general of Deng State. The other two, one with a surname Li and the other with Murong, are not famous, and they are not clear at the moment." Lu Meng told Zhou Kai about the situation of Deng's reinforcements who came to Yuzhang this time.

Zhou Kai nodded and said with a serious expression: "With the support of this reinforcement, the Deng army's troops have returned to the number before the war begins. Our army now has only 50,000, so it is not a problem to defend the city. If it is a head-on battle with the Deng army, the chances of victory are not great. Therefore, this governor has already written to the king and requested to send reinforcements again. However, Yuzhang and Danyang can use basically all the troops here. Wujun's troops must be used to guard the Yue Kingdom, so if you want to transfer troops, you can only draw from Lujiang and Jiujiang, which will take some time, so we must defend Pengze next."

Everyone nodded. Since the war started, the Wu army has lost nearly 100,000 troops. Although the battle in the valley wiped out 30,000 to 40,000 Deng's army, it has only barely stabilized the situation in Yuzhang. Now the Deng State has sent more reinforcements, which is twice as powerful as the Wu army. If a war is head-on, it will definitely not work, so it can only stand firm and wait for reinforcements.

On the other hand, Yang Yanzhao, who received support from reinforcements, immediately summoned the generals to discuss the next action.

"Everyone, now that we have received support from General Murong and others, our army's troops have recovered to the point before the war begins. The battle situation in Yuzhang has been delayed for a long time, so I decided to take the next action immediately. However, Pengze has 50,000 Wu troops guarding him, so it is not feasible to attack Pengze. I wonder what good strategies do you have?" Yang Yanzhao said to everyone.

Everyone was silent and could not attack, but you couldn't help but not defending them.

"General, we will have a plan at the end." This was the first time Murong Ke said.

"Oh, what trick does General Murong have? Come quickly." Yang Yanzhao also wanted to see what kind of ability this young general who was so respected by Yue Fei had.

"General, everyone has entered a misunderstanding." Murong Ke did not express his plan immediately, but pointed out that Yang Yanzhao and others have entered a misunderstanding.

This puzzled everyone. What does this mean? Why do they get into a misunderstanding?

Murong Ke continued in the puzzled eyes of everyone: "General, our attack on Wu this time is not to occupy counties, nor to destroy Wu, but to make the King of Wu surrender and admit defeat."

Yang Yanzhao and others nodded. Yes, this is the purpose of their attack on Wu this time. Deng Sheng did not think about it, because this idea was too crazy. With Deng's current strength, it was not enough to swallow the entire Wu Kingdom. As for occupying counties, Deng Sheng did not think about it. The only places bordering Wu Kingdom and Deng Kingdom were Lujiang and Yuzhang, so Lujiang didn't need to think about it. It was one of the springboards of Wu Kingdom's northern expedition and an important part of Wu Kingdom's strategy of defending the river and must defend Huai. Wu Kingdom would not give up.

As for Yuzhang, although Jiangxia borders Yuzhang, it is difficult to walk by land and can only be connected by water. Although Zhou Yu defeated the 50,000 Wu Navy, in terms of the power of the navy, Deng State is still far inferior to Wu State. If he cannot control the Yangtze River, he cannot guarantee Deng's control over Yuzhang. Even if he barely occupys Yuzhang, he will be like an enclave.

Seeing that everyone had no objection, Murong Ke smiled knowingly and continued, "So since that's the case, why are we so persistent in destroying the main force of the Wu army? We can completely find a different approach and impress the Wu Kingdom."

As soon as Murong Ke said this, everyone suddenly realized, yes, why did they have to use the main force of the Wu Kingdom to force the King of Wu to submit? It can be made to surrender in another way. As long as the result is the same, the process is not important.

"Why don't General Murong have any good plans?" Yang Yanzhao asked.

Murong Ke walked to the map and said, "Please see, now our army occupied Chaisang and the Wu army retreated to Pengze, which is equivalent to exposing the entire northwest part of Yuzhang. As long as we want, we can take the opportunity to occupy the entire northwest part of Yuzhang, and even attack Nanchang City, the capital of Yuzhang, and cooperate with the Yue Kingdom to lead the Yue army into Yuzhang, turning the Yuzhang county into earth. Yuzhang county is equivalent to half of the Wu country. In order to protect Yuzhang, the King of Wu will definitely take the initiative to surrender."

A clever plan, especially the idea of ​​leading the Yue army into Yuzhang is definitely a magical move. Wu and Yue have a deep grudge. As long as you have the chance, you will want to kill the other party. As for the mountainous land between Kuaiji and Yuzhang, the road is difficult to move, but this is just for the Deng army. In the eyes of the Yue army, these mountains are simply a piece of cake.

Murong Ke’s idea was that since we cannot occupy Yuzhang, we would give it to Yue. In order to protect Yuzhang, Wu will definitely take the initiative to surrender to Deng. In this way, the goal will be achieved without having to fight to the death with the main force of the Wu army.

"Okay!" Yang Yanzhao praised: "Since that's the case, then please ask General Murong Ke to lead 30,000 troops to sweep the cities of Yuzhang. In addition, send envoys to Yue Kingdom to ask Yue Kingdom to send troops. As for the king's side, I will write a letter in person, and I believe the king will not object."
Chapter completed!