Seeing Tai Shi's compassionate expression, Long Xiang quickly comforted him and said, "Don't worry Ziyi, I will move all the people from Liyang, Quanjiao and Fuling counties to Hefei before Jiangdong."

"You don't want these counties?" Tai Shici looked surprised.

"No more."

Long Xiang answered extremely affirmatively, and then explained: "Although Liyang is in a good location and can be used as a springboard to cross the river, it is too far away from Hefei after all, which is not conducive to my overall strategy. Without the support of my own navy, crossing the river will be difficult."

There is no point in fighting for Jiangdong with Sun Quan. It is easy to lose the supply of food, grass and soldiers in the future, so it is better to stop the loss early;

As for Quanjiao and Fuling, which are adjacent to Guangling, the two counties are mountainous and have little farmland and are prone to disasters. It is even better to move to the plains to live. Now that Shouchun is in my hands, there are countless fertile fields between Shouchun and Hefei. It is a pity that they have been abandoned.

, the people who have moved in just fill the vacancies, and they will be able to live and work in peace and contentment."

Taishi Ci thought about it and nodded slightly in agreement.

"The general plans to shrink the defense line and abandon the towns along the river in Jiujiang County just like he abandoned the Lujiang counties, and then use the twin cities of Hefei as a barrier to focus on northern Huainan?"

Long Xiang and Lu Su looked at each other, smiled happily, and boasted: "Zi Yi is easy to understand. He is indeed a far-sighted general. With your help, I am even more powerful than a tiger."

"But if we do this, aren't we afraid that Jiangdong will take the opportunity to occupy the land?" Taishi Ci frowned and looked worried, "The general has insulted Lu Meng and others too much. Jiangdong will definitely regard us as enemies, and we will not be able to do what he did before."

"Jiangdong wants to occupy the city and land and let him go. Not only will I not stop him, I am also very happy in my heart."

Long Xiang spread his hands, looking indifferent.

Taishi Ci's face was full of curiosity: "Why?"

Lu Su who was standing next to him spoke up and explained: "General Ziyi doesn't know something. This is the tactic that Yun Qi and I decided on. Jiangdong is good at water warfare but not good at land warfare. Hefei has been sandwiched between Sun and Cao these years and has no time or opportunity to develop water warfare."

Therefore, he did not want to compete with Jiangdong for the length of the water battle, and deliberately led Sun Quan into a land battle. Yunqi deliberately humiliated Lu Meng today, which is also one of his strategies to deal with Jiangdong."

"I won't quite understand."

Taishi Ci shook his head gently. He only half understood what he heard, and his head was still like a mess.

Lu Su added: "Yun Qi is madly irritating Jiangdong today because he hopes that Sun Quan will not be fully prepared and hastily send troops to attack Hefei. We will then use the advantages of Hefei's city defense to defend and counterattack. We will defeat the confidence of the Jiangdong people in one battle and completely confirm our position in Huainan."

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As for the people along the Yangtze River who have been evacuated, it belongs to the strategic buffer zone between us. If Sun Quan sends troops to forcibly occupy it, he will not be allowed to transport military supplies from Jiangdong? This will waste Jiangdong's resources in disguise."

"I see."

Taishi Ci finally understood, and then looked at Long Xiang and Lu Su with admiration.

He said in his heart that all the links are traps. Sun Quan and Lu Meng will definitely fall into the trap and attack. The two of you are better than a group of think tanks in Jiangdong.

Long Xiang felt uncomfortable when Taishi Ci saw him, so he said seriously: "Although Cao Cao was trapped in Hebei, and I let Liu Fu go back to Xudu to 'delay', Shouchun may have no military for the time being, but there is no absolute in this world.

Cao Cao's military deployment is also difficult for others to predict. Shouchun needs a general to guard it, and Hao Meng is obviously not up to the task."

"The general wants me."

Taishi Ci pointed at himself and stopped talking.

"Who will give up his son for justice?"

Long Xiang nodded and added: "In addition to the important town of Shouchun in the north, Xiacai, Xiquyang, Dangtu and other places along the Huaihe River must also be included in the integrated defense. In the past, Cao Cao moved people from Lujiang, and many people were resettled in these places. At present,

Hao Meng doesn't have the energy to comfort him, so Ziyi will deal with it slowly after he takes office."

Taishi Ci raised his fists and responded modestly: "When Ci first arrived, the general entrusted him with such a big thing. I'm afraid some people will gossip, why don't you think of me as General Hao's deputy?"

"Haha, Ziyi is worrying too much."

Long Xiang said with a confident smile: "I don't care about family background or seniority here. It's all about meritocracy. You can feel free to take up the position boldly. No one will be unconvinced."

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Taishi Ci looked at Lu Su hesitantly and said in his heart that it was you who captured Shouchun that made him unrivaled in Huainan. It would be most appropriate for Long Xiang to let you guard Shouchun.

Long Xiang seemed to have noticed Tai Shici's thoughts, and he quickly laughed and joked: "Ziyi, don't take advantage of Zijing. I have to rely on him a lot on weekdays. Hefei is about to face a war. He doesn't have time to go to Shouchun with you."

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"That's not what the general meant."

"Then it's settled, but I'm not in a hurry to take up my post. It won't be too late to wait until Liyang's family has moved to Hefei and settled properly before heading north."

"only."

Seeing Long Xiang's resolute attitude, Taishi Ci responded with clasped fists.

Taishi Ci knew very well that Long Xiang transferred him to Shouchun for defense because he was afraid that he would not be able to deal harsh blows to Jiangdong, but he was really surprised by directly letting him be the commander.

It had only been a few days since he had joined Longxiang, but he dared to hand over the important town of Shouchun to himself and compete with Sun Quan to make a judgment.

Taishi Ci returned to the city with Long Xiang full of gratitude, while Xu Chu led the Tiger Guard to stay outside the city with the intention of supervising the boarding of Lu Meng's army.

Long Xiang returned to the prefect's mansion and saw Cao Xing waiting in the courtyard.

Cao Xing successfully completed his mission in Jiangjun Ridge. The first thing he did when he returned to the city was to return to his mission.

Long Xiang encouraged Cao Xing in public and gave Cao Xing several new tasks.

In addition to accompanying Zhang Liao to the old city, Long Xiang ordered Cao Xing and Liu Fu to conduct water and land surveillance on Lü Meng, to understand the whereabouts of Lü Meng's army, and to provide intelligence reference for the evacuation of Liyang and other counties.

Cao Xing's headquarters was under the jurisdiction of Xu Ding, but since its main responsibility was intelligence gathering, it was also directly managed by Long Xiang and Lu Su.

After receiving the new order, Cao Xing had no time to go home to see his wife and children, so he went to the camp to dispatch sentinels.

Compared with Hefei's rudimentary reconnaissance and fishing boats, as well as the Chaohu wine shop and watchtower personnel directly under Liu Fu, Hefei's two full-time reconnaissance troops, land and water, were mainly composed of Cao Xing's cavalry at this time.

It was evening and the sky was already dark.

More than a hundred sentries looked out of the city at dusk, using telescopes to follow Lu Meng's fleet.

Lu Meng and others were humiliated in Hefei. After boarding the warship, they were all angry, and depression and depression enveloped the entire army.

As soon as the fleet entered Chao Lake, the sky was almost swallowed up by darkness. Lu Meng was so confused that he didn't know where to go, so he ordered all the ships to dock and rest.

Shortly after the order to stop the ship was issued, a sergeant reported that Pan Zhang had left the group with his troops.

If Pan Zhang hadn't sent troops to commit murder before, he wouldn't have given Long Xiang a perfect excuse. Now he actually disobeyed military orders? It's simply unreasonable!

Lü Meng was furious and immediately ordered fifty warships to order, intending to personally capture Pan Zhang and punish him.

Xu Sheng, Han Dang and other generals were worried that Lü Meng would be angry and kill people, so they also mobilized warships to follow Lü Meng. Half of the hundreds of Jiangdong warships that had just anchored were moving at once.

Lü Meng chased Pan Zhang angrily, only to find that he had stopped his ship not far away.

Just as he was about to step forward to question him, Pan Zhang on the shore suddenly ordered his soldiers to light a fire and burn down the wine shop and watchtower at the rest stop.

It turned out that Pan Zhang led his troops to leave the group to vent his anger.

Seeing the restaurant and the tower burning with fire, Lu Meng felt an unspeakable pleasure as if he were ripping off his girlfriend's stockings with his hands.
Chapter completed!