Liu Daogui frowned slightly and said: "If the demon thief wants to have a decisive battle with Big Brother in the Leichi and Zuoli area, then we should not divide our forces to attack various parts of southern Hunan. If Big Brother's decisive battle is unfavorable, we can even capture the Yangtze River north of Wuling.
The entire southern Hunan area to the south is also useless, and we will still be forced to retreat to Jingzhou to face the next attack by the demon thieves."
"So, only if we take the initiative to send troops, join forces with the big brother to attack the demon thieves, and destroy their naval power in one fell swoop, can the demon thieves collapse. If the demon thieves block the Wuling Mountains and use miasma and poison to defend Guangzhou, then we want to force
I'm afraid it will take a lot of time and cost to break in. Even if we break in, the army may contract diseases and lose its combat effectiveness."
At this point, Liu Daogui frowned deeply: "Moreover, the demon thieves have a powerful naval fleet. Even if all the navy on the river is lost, there will still be naval ships that can take them out to sea to escape. Once the demon thieves go to the sea, then
We want to capture them again, but it’s hard to catch them in the sky, and we don’t know how many years or where they will suddenly appear.”
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "There is one thing I can tell you in advance. Your worries have actually been taken into consideration by Ji Nu. This time, he will not make the mistake of letting the demon thieves go into the sea and stay away from them. He will strive to annihilate the demon thieves.
On land, so while we were attacking along the river, he had already sent a surprise force to set off from Kuaiji on the transport fleets of the Xie family and the Wang family, bypassing the coastline of the entire continent, heading straight to Guangzhou, and
He has already agreed on a time. Three months later, when this fleet arrives in Guangzhou, it will also be the day when he completely defeats the demon thieves and forces them to retreat to Lingnan!"
Liu Daogui suddenly opened his eyes wide: "To attack Guangzhou by sea? My God, this is a genius and bold idea. Do we really have such ability?"
Liu Muzhi nodded: "There are old sailors who have walked the sea route from Kuaiji to Guangzhou several times, as well as crew members and merchant fleet members who often follow merchant ships to the sea and go to Southeast Asia, and even those who used to escort Du, the governor of Jiaozhou.
Yuan's son Du Huidu returned to a fleet of the Xie family in Jiaozhou. With these people to lead the fleet, it is entirely possible for them to make a surprise attack on Guangzhou."
Liu Daogui said in surprise: "Du Huidu? Isn't he an official in Jiankang? He is also a hostage. How could he be released?"
Liu Muzhi said calmly: "Because of Du Yuan's poor health, Du Huidu begged to go back to Jiaozhou to see his father for the last time. Jiaozhou is too far away from Jiankang, and the Du family has been in charge of the governorship for generations. They have high prestige in the local area, and the demon thief rises."
Since the rebellion broke out, we have sent envoys to Jiaozhou many times in an attempt to persuade Du Yuan to join forces with him, but all of these envoys were killed by Du Yuan on the spot to show his true intentions."
Liu Daogui frowned slightly: "But Du Yuan didn't send troops to attack Guangzhou and destroy the demon thief's lair. This kind of beheading might just be for outsiders to see. In fact, he and the demon thief are in a non-fighting situation.
This is a state of discord, neither unification nor independence."
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "You must know that Du's Jiaozhou itself is a remote and desolate border state with a rare population. The household registration is only thirty or forty thousand, and the number of soldiers and horses is only ten thousand. It is not only necessary to deter the barbarians from all walks of life internally, but also to
Be on guard against the Linyi Kingdom in the south. Linyi has repeatedly raised troops to attack Jiaozhou in recent years. It is not easy for Jiaozhou to withstand their attacks independently. It is even more difficult to raise troops to go out to fight. If you are not careful, you will fall again.
It is already very difficult to follow the same path as the Mao family in Yizhou and not surrender to the monsters and thieves."
Liu Daogui sighed: "That's right. Along the way, this demon thief has surrendered to the Central Plains nobles and even the children of aristocratic families. Even some veterans and officers of our Beifu Army have surrendered to them. A little
Jiaozhou has persisted until now, so I shouldn't say anything bad about them. In this way, Du Huidu was sent back in return for his loyalty to Jiaozhou in the past two years."
Liu Muzhi nodded: "Yes, it no longer makes sense to let Du Huidu be a hostage at this time, so at the end of last year, during the siege of Jiankang, we sent Du Huidu back to Jiaozhou. This young man was
He didn't want to leave, and said he shouldn't run away and leave Jiankang at this time. I persuaded him for a while, and finally said that if Jiankang was not guaranteed, I would ask them to continue fighting against the monsters and thieves after Jiaozhou, so that they could have a chance to restore the country, and they should be filial.
The word comes first. If he doesn't return to Jiaozhou to see his father for the last time, he is afraid that Jiaozhou may fall into the hands of thieves. Only then will he be willing to return to Jiaozhou."
Liu Daogui nodded: "Based on my understanding of these southern barbarians and barbaric lands, this statement is true. There are far more barbarian tribes in Wuling and Guangzhou than Han people. Our Han people's governors and county guards can only stay in the county.
In the cities of Han and Zhouzhi, the vast jungles and mountains outside are filled with barbarian tribes. If the old governor with high prestige dies, it is very likely that the local political power will fall to the local powerful family, which is actually the local barbarian chief.
In the hands of the emperor, these people may not be loyal to the imperial court. Maybe things will really change."
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "So, we have to send Du Huidu back as soon as possible, and take the new appointment from the court to let him take over as the governor of Jiaozhou. Du Yuan is already nearly eighty years old. No matter whether he can survive or not,
It is very suitable to continue to be the governor, and Du Huidu has been a hostage in Jiankang for many years and has been an official for many years. Now he has more military experience. It is most suitable to go back and take over as the governor at this time. The Xie family intends to take this path again.
On the route to Jiaozhou, he took the initiative to take on the role of escort. Along with Du Huidu, there were also several nephews of the Xie family, as well as a guard force of about a thousand people. The result was not bad, the trip back and forth went smoothly, and it was smooth.
After clearing the waterway and hydrology, if it hadn't been for this experience, the slaves would not have dared to send thousands of troops to take sea ships directly to Guangzhou."
Liu Daogui said in a deep voice: "The sea route is difficult. Even if there are sea channels and hydrology, the demon thieves have a sea fleet. Escorting Du Huidu may be a lucky success, because the enemy does not know the movements of our army. But if the army attacks Guangzhou from a long distance, the demon thieves will
If the thieves take precautions and send a fleet of warships to intercept them, wouldn't there be a risk of our entire army being annihilated?"
Liu Muzhi said sternly: "The main force of the navy of the demon thieves was disassembled and reorganized before entering the river to become a navy. Now it has not built the same fleet that it was when it went to sea. We have already found out this information. We want to
What we do is to capture the city of Guangzhou before the demon thieves are defeated and return to Guangzhou, so that Lu Xun and Xu Dao will not be defeated and have the possibility of escaping into the sea again!" ()