The day after conquering Yiling City, Liu Bu summoned all his senior officers to hold a meeting to study their next plan.

Although they had already used Dai Qianyuan's move and secretly sent a side division to take Chongqing, hoping to take Sichuan in one fell swoop, this is just a backup plan for them. With so few people, it is a bit difficult to win a province.

Dai Qianyuan brought thousands of remaining troops from the Ming army, and Yang Kang took them to Chongqing with him. Although the troops were tens of thousands, which was not small, most people were not optimistic.

Chongqing has been called a natural danger since ancient times. Once the other party is prepared, it will be difficult for them to take it down.

The Southern Song Dynasty was so weak that they could resist the attack of the Mongolian army with the natural danger of Hezhou City and killed the Mongolian army's emperor Mengge.

So since ancient times, this has been a military sect. If the other party is prepared, it will be difficult for you to take it down.

On that day, She Chongming rebelled and he easily captured Chongqing. That was because the government was not prepared for him at all. The governor and the prefect and others were not prepared for him. They forced them to send troops to Liaodong and went directly to inspect his military camp, let them attack and kill someone off guard, so he easily captured Chongqing.

Later, when the rebels occupied Chongqing Prefecture and the government army wanted to counterattack this place, they mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and took them back for four or five years.

Such a strong city will be very difficult unless you take advantage of the other party’s unpreparedness and a sudden sneak attack. If the other party is prepared and you want to take it head-on, it will be very difficult.

This is similar to the situation in Xiangyang. Li Dingguo created a miraculous record and even easily captured this unprepared city with twenty-eight. However, when they were prepared, they only used a few thousand people to block the siege of Zhu Xieyuan's hundreds of thousands of troops.

No one expects this group of partial teachers. After all, there are so few people who want them to control a whole province, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which is very difficult. It is already a lucky chance to win Chongqing.

After their research, everyone basically made an unanimous decision. They immediately went north to Xiangyang and jointly attacked Zhu Xieyuan's troops. As long as they killed Zhu Xieyuan and annihilated his troops, the Ming Dynasty would not have any force to threaten them in the south.

Zhu Xieyuan's group is now suffering a great blow. It was just when he was sick and took his life. So they decided that after occupying Yiling and controlling several surrounding counties, they would go north and go all out to attack Zhu Xieyuan's troops.

Zhu Xieyuan has not taken Xiangyang yet, but has taken down some surrounding counties in Xiangyang, and there is no danger to defend. If the army attacks and is lucky, he can work with Li Dingguo inside and outside to annihilate it together.

It's like the Battle of Yiling.

But they all knew one thing, this was unlikely, because the noise was too big in this battle. Before that, the Chinese army had been silenced and low-key. However, after arriving at Yiling Wharf, they made great contributions, and the battle at Yiling Wharf was a sensation. The Ming army would definitely send a quick horse to report to Zhu Xieyuan urgently or ask for help. I believe that by this time, Zhu Xieyuan should have received the news.

However, they had nothing to regret. They defeated the other side's 100,000 troops and wanted to completely control the battlefield of the 100,000 troops. This was quite difficult. Not to mention controlling the other side's affairs, even if so many troops on the other side fled, they were unable to pursue them. Just like they could know that Qin Liangyu led a unit of tens of thousands of people to retreat, but they were not able to send troops to pursue them.

The Chinese army landed in Yiling strongly and repelled the opponent's 100,000 troops in one fell swoop. They also used all their strength and had to be repaired before they could be dispatched again and gave the enemy a fatal blow.

When Liu Bu uses troops, he always stays still, and moves will make him thunderous. This requires his troops to maintain extremely good energy. He does not like being weak and dragged in the battle.

This time his Laizhou Division can be dispatched immediately, because the Laizhou Division has already been stationed in Nanjing City for a long time and is on standby at any time.

If the Chinese army does not directly participate in the battle, they are all on standby and must reach the point where they can come, fight when they come, and win when they fight. However, this time they really traveled a long distance and experienced a fierce battle. The soldiers and energy were consumed very much, and they could recover their combat effectiveness after renovation. Of course, their weapons and ammunition were also a problem.

This time, the Chinese army defeated the enemy strongly. They completely suppressed the opponent's firepower, making the opponent's head unable to lift up, but this required a lot of material loss. As the saying goes, a cannon firearms force with a firearms fired with a firearm of nearly 30,000 people will be an astonishing number once they are dispatched.

Fortunately, they defeated the enemy in one fell swoop with the power of a lion fighting against the rabbit and avoided the long-lasting battle against Japan. In this regard, they achieved great results, but no matter what, the Chinese army is now exhausted and must be repaired before they can fight again.

So they decided to rest on the spot for three days and set off after three days.

It would be a very unclear practice if they used a tired army to fight the enemy's elite.

On that day, Mao Shengli, who had all his strength to attack the city under Yiling City, had he not been so greedy for me and attacked in the rain, and he would use all his troops without even a reserve team, so it would not be easy for the enemy to attack him.

When he tried his best and tried his best to attack the city, the enemy suddenly appeared. Although they found that the enemy reinforcements appeared, they did not know how to deal with it.

Liu Bu didn't want this situation, that is, when his troops traveled thousands of miles and went through hardships to reach the city of Xiangyang, the soldiers were exhausted and not even enough ammunition. How could they fight against the enemy's elite troops?

Although Liu Bu knew that this was helpless and would give the enemy time to prepare. If it were other generals, they might not be able to use such a period of time, but the opponent was Zhu Xieyuan, a shrewd person, who would definitely have targeted deployment and response, but there was nothing he could do.

After the Chinese army captured Yiling, they immediately rested on the spot, which was considered a rest. On the one hand, they received supplies from the rear. Their ammunition was greatly damaged, and they did not have enough ammunition, nor did they have enough courage to fight against the enemy.

This is the difference between the firearms troops and other troops. They have extremely high requirements for logistics. For ordinary troops, soldiers can go to war with a knife, a spear, and carry food. However, they have to pull out their weapons, ammunition, cannons and other things, which seems a bit slow.

However, Liu Bu was not so passive. On the next day, he immediately ordered his elite Mongolian cavalry to set out first. The Mongolian cavalry had one advantage, that is, they could rest while rushing.

Liu Bu was worried that if his reinforcements came too late, and if Zhu Xieyuan was attacked, that would be a huge passive move for the entire strategic pattern.

Xiangyang is a place that can be south or north. No matter who controls it, it is very convenient to attack the south or attack the north. For the Chinese Empire, if this place is controlled by the enemy, their confidants, Huguang and Jiangnan, will be under the threat of the enemy's blade at any time.

Li Dingguo was struggling to defend Xiangyang City. Liu Bu had confidence in Li Dingguo, but having confidence does not mean that he would succeed. In this world, he was full of confidence to do something, but in the end he was a failure. There were countless examples of failure.

Li Dingguo was capable and very brave in himself, but his number was too small, only a few thousand people. Compared with the other side's army of more than 100,000 people led by famous generals, he had no advantage.

This is where Liu Bu lacks confidence. If he was given 10,000 troops from Li Dingguo, Liu Bu believed that Li Dingguo would definitely be able to defend Xiangyang. With Zhu Xieyuan's scheming and ingenious calculations, he would probably not be able to get a good deal.

Li Dingguo is a famous figure in history. In the original history, he became the only highlight of the Southern Ming resistance to the Qing Dynasty. His three famous kings were so powerful that they were all the best. If they had not died young, I was afraid that this history would have to be rewritten.

Now Li Dingguo surrendered to Liu Bu and became an officer under Liu Bu. Liu Bu gave him a bigger stage, hoping that he could play a greater role.

If it is someone else, you may not dare to upgrade a team leader directly to more than ten levels and to the division chief.

You should know that Shi Zheng is already a senior officer in the Chinese Army. The higher the one is the Grand Marshal, Liu Zhongyong and Liu Bu. Such people are often no longer responsible for commanding and fighting, and are only assigned to use them at critical moments.

One of them was directly responsible for a division and a province's strategic campaign operations. Just like Mao Shengli, he asked him to lead 20,000 troops to attack Yiling. After victory, he took the opportunity to cross the Three Gorges, enter Sichuan, and take the entire Sichuan.

Who knew that they were so unlucky that they encountered heavy rain and the monster Zhu Xieyuan, which caused a huge blow to their strategic plan.

Fortunately, Liu Bu responded quickly and made remedies for them, otherwise the entire strategic pattern of the Chinese army would have been greatly changed.

But even if Liu Bu made remedies, their plan was hindered. This is because their troops suffered such a huge loss and were unable to replenish for a while, and many plans were unable to be carried out.

In this way, the Qingzhou Division, which had 20,000 more people, was in hand. Liu Buhui did not hesitate and directly sent troops to capture Sichuan. He personally led a large army north to Xiangyang and destroyed Zhu Xieyuan.
Chapter completed!