As time entered 266, the three kingdoms of Jin, Han and Wu began to make their own plans around Xiling.

The importance of Xiling's geographical location is no longer important. What's more important is that the Bu family, which is now entrenched in Xiling. This family has been operating Xiling for more than 30 years, and the wealth and strength accumulated are quite amazing. Such a piece of delicious fat meat has naturally attracted many crows to get closer, waiting for the opportunity to pounce on and tear off the most fat piece of meat.

In January 266, the State of Jin began to urgently allocate 300,000 stones of grain, 100 million yuan and 20,000 deputy armor and other strategic materials to the Jingzhou Army of the side. At the same time, it ordered the original 10,000 Jingzhou Army, which is now in the Yongliang War Zone, to return to the construction.

In February, Emperor Wu, Sun Hao, issued an imperial edict saying that Bu Chan, the governor of Xiling, had been guarding Xiling for many years, and had loyal and dedicated the king's affairs, and had many achievements. He was specially promoted to the tent-abiding commander (the captain of the guard) and worked in Jianye.

After receiving the order, Bu Chan wrote a letter to Sun Hao, saying that his ministers were not talented and moral, and could not hold this position. He asked His Majesty to take back Chen's mission. He immediately showed up to Sima Liang in North Jingzhou: Xiling, do you want it? If you want it, you will offer a price.

In March, Sun Hao's second imperial edict was summoned to Xiling and said, "Small step, I really have to do with you, come here!" With this imperial edict, Jianye's five thousand Wunan Army began to go up the river. At the same time, General Lu Kang, the general of the army, was ordered to enter Jiangling City, and the left Grand Sima Shiji began to convene many generals from the Jingzhou Corps of the Eastern Wu.

Also in March, the reply from Jin State to Bu Chan was officially delivered to: Xiling, we want it! Comrade Bu Chan was able to repent and escape from the evil regime of Eastern Wu, and to the great and glorious and correct Jin. This contribution was great. Now Comrade Bu Chan is officially appointed as the governor of the Jin Dynasty, the military commander of Xiling, the general of the military, the general of the Wei Tong, the three departments of Yi Tong, and the Shi Zhong, the servants, the servants, the governor of Jiaozhou, and the title of Duke of Yidu County.

In April, the Wunan Army of Zhou Chu went to Jiangling City, the county seat of Nanjun to meet with Shi Ji, Lu Kang and others. At the same time, local officials from Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places in the Eastern Wu began to organize the civilians under their rule to gather various food, armored wars and other materials into Jiangling City.

In the same month, the Jingzhou Legion of Jin State completed preparations and began to assemble towards Xiangyang.

In May, Sun Hao issued the third call for the call, and the words of this call were very rude: Do you come or not? If you don’t come, you will die!

Bu Chan replied: If I don’t come, you can die!

After the reply, Bu Chan did four things.

First, Bu Ji, the two sons of his brother Bu Xie, were sent to Jin State as hostages. Second, Bu Ting and Bu Huan to Fuling County of Shu Han through Wuling County. Third, he summoned all his disciples, generals, private soldiers, and tenants into Xiling City. Fourth, he issued a manifesto, scolding Sun Hao for having framed loyal and kind-hearted since he came to power, and had his party attacked different parties, tyrannical and debauchery, and traitors. Then he announced: How can such a monarch be qualified to govern the country? From now on, I will not serve. Now, lower the banner of Wu State and raise the banner of Jin State!

On May 30, 266, the military governor of the Eastern Wu, the military governor of Jingzhou, the governor of Jingzhou, and the left Grand Sima Shiji held a military meeting in Jiangling City to discuss the strategy of sending troops to Xiling.

At this time, Jingzhou controlled by the Eastern Wu, there were 12 counties in total. The eight counties in Jingnan will not be mentioned for the time being. The four counties in Jingbei were Jianping County, Yidu County, Nan County, and Jiangxia County from west to east. All of these four counties were flooded by the Yangtze River. If the Yangtze River was a line, then these four counties were four beads closely arranged on this line.

Jianping County is close to Badong County, Shu Han. It is the intersection of Daba Mountain and Wuling Mountain. The territory is basically full of vast mountains. It has a small population, a small output, and very few soldiers stationed. This is actually a strategic buffer zone between Shu Han and Dongwu, so I will skip it for now.

Yidu County, its core city is Xiling. This is the exit of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and the junction between the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its strategic position is crucial. Now, after Bu Chan rebelled against Wu and surrendered to Jin, this place no longer belongs to the Eastern Wu.

Nanjun, the core county of Jingzhou during the Eastern Han Dynasty, was later divided into three. The current Nanjun has become a big rear in the past years because Yidu County has been in front of it for many years. Jiangling City, the core city of Jingzhou, has inevitably declined. Its strategic importance, the solidity of the city walls and even the prosperity of the city area have been surpassed by Xiling City.

As for Jiangxia County, although it has a long geographical border with the Runan County of Jin State, due to Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, the threat of Jiangxia County never comes from the north. It only comes from the Yangtze River. After the Eastern Wu controlled the upstream and downstream of Jiangxia County at the same time, it also became a large rear.

So, simply put it: the Eastern Wu will use Nanjun as the base to attack Yidu County.

The Jingzhou Legion of the Eastern Wu is now roughly the following:

The state garrisoned 30,000 troops, including 10,000 naval troops. Zhou Chu led 5,000 Wunan Army to support him under the order of Sun Hao. Therefore, the Eastern Wu national army had 35,000 troops.

Zuo Dasima Shiji's private soldiers (only private soldiers who were put into battle this time, the same below) had 3,000 people.

The private soldiers of the general Lu Kang of the army were 3,000.

Lu Su's posthumous son, General Zhaowu, and the private soldiers of Wuchang governor Lu Shu, 5,000 (the Lu family's nest is in Jiangxia County, which is different from the old nest in Jiangdong Shiji, Lu Kang. The loss of Xiling has a great impact on the Lu family. So this time, the Lu family has all the elite troops.)

The third son of Lu Meng, Chanling Hou, and the private soldiers of Lu Mu, the general of Pingxi Zhonglang, were 3,000 (like the Lu family, the Huai Si general who followed Sun Ce to the south, was unable to compete with the Jiangdong gentry after crossing the south, so most of his nests were built in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou. The Chanling County of the Lu family was called Gong'an. The most glorious battle of Lu Meng was the starting point.)

In addition, there are general Wuyan, who was recently promoted by Sun Hao, and miscellaneous generals Zuo Yi, Cai Gong and others, each with three or five hundred private soldiers, which can basically be ignored.

In summary, the military force of the Eastern Wu suppressed the rebellion this time was about 50,000.

"Everyone, news came from the school yesterday that Bu Zhongsi had publicly raised the flag of rebellion in Xiling City the day before yesterday. According to Your Majesty's order, our army should take down Xiling City as soon as possible before the Jin army arrived. If you have any opinions on how to fight, please give me advice."

Unlike Shu Han, Wei, and Jin, the country of Dongwu has many unique places. For example, in this era, most countries regarded the right as respected because the right hand was more powerful than the left hand (for example, when Liu Bei was the King of Hanzhong, he appointed Zhang Fei as the right general and Ma Chao as the left general. This was to let Zhang Fei be above Ma Chao). However, Dongwu regarded the left as respected. Therefore, the left Sima Shiji was actually the highest rank owner of the Eastern Wu.

His opinion is very clear: we must take down Xiling before the support from Jin State arrives. In this way, Jin State will naturally retreat when it sees no profit.

This is the most time-saving way: we just need to defeat the traitors. Then everyone can go back to their own houses - everyone's private soldiers will also suffer very little losses.

Therefore, after Shi Ji's opinion was put forward, it was quickly approved by Lu Shu, Lu Mu and others.

Fortunately, there is a person named Lu Kang among the people sitting below.

"Sima, I will have different ideas."

"Oh? What's there to say about Young Festival?"

"Sima, my colleagues. Xiling City was built by my father, and then Buzishan was continuously strengthened. It is a strong city with two layers inside and outside, with a high wall and deep walls. Now the city is stationed in the city, all of which are private soldiers of the Bu family. The fighting will not be a problem in the short term. Therefore, Xiling City cannot be taken down in a short period of time. Therefore, the last general's opinion is to first recruit more than 50,000 civilians to build walls around the west, north and east of Xiling. First encircle Xiling. Then wait for the Jin army to arrive, we rely on this wall to block the Jin army. After the Jin army retreats, the morale in Xiling City will inevitably be completely disintegrated due to the cut off of foreign aid, and Xiling City will naturally be successfully taken down!"

"Well, I understand the meaning of Youth Festival." After Shi Ji touched his beard, he asked a question: "But it takes time and effort to build a wall. What if our wall has not been repaired, the army of Jin will arrive?"

"Grand Sima, the army of Jin State will not come so fast. If it comes too fast, it will have to face our army with a strong spirit. At that time, the Jin army will inevitably suffer heavy losses. This is not worth it. If I am the commander of Jin State, I will sit and watch our army fight with the Xiling rebels. After both sides suffer losses, they will go south again and they will achieve twice the result with half the effort!"

"Okay, but if the Jin army attacked our army's walls, the rebels in Xiling City came out again? Then wouldn't our army be attacked from both sides?"

"Haha, Grand Sima, Bu Zhongsi is very clear about this person. He is greedy and short-sighted, stupid and timid. How can such a person have the courage to rush out of the city?"

"Well, everyone, what do you think about the opinions of the young festival?"

"The Grand Sima, Lu Shu, thought that the strategy of the young rituals was too many uncertain factors. He was too focused on the stupidity of the enemy. Therefore, the Monkey King still believed that he should attack Xiling City in a hurry."

"The Grand Sima, the last general, also agreed with Zi Zhan's opinion. He should send troops to attack Xiling City immediately."

"Well, Youjie makes sense. But I decided to lead the army to attack Xiling City first!"

"Uh...Lu Kang obeyed the order."
Chapter completed!