Of course, for Xiao Mohe, Lu Guangda's active help is naturally a dream. Xiao Mohe comes from a poor family, and his connections cannot be compared with those of people from aristocratic families, and this is the first time for him to serve as a coach.
As someone who is leading troops in battle, what he needs most is the help of someone who is familiar with the frontline situation in Jingzhou.
Now it seems that the best candidate, Jingzhou Governor Fan Yi, is not expected, but Lu Guangda has been stationed in Jingying for a long time, so he is not bad.
At this point, Li Xingchen, Pei Zilie and other subordinates also breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Mohe was obviously changing too. Although his change seemed a bit stiff, for example, coming here would have been too polite to Lu Guangda, but at least it showed that Xiao Mohe
He is very clear about his shortcomings.
More importantly, Xiao Mohe is now the commander-in-chief of the Nanchen Army and the commander-in-chief of this Battle of Xiliang. Even if he does not take the initiative to extend an olive branch, many people will come to join him. This is different from Xiao Mo before.
He was certainly much better when he was General Wu Yi.
Lu Guangda said in a deep voice: "The entire Western Liang now still has Jiangling, which is Nanjun, and the three counties in the north, Wuning County (now northwest of Zhongxiang, Hubei Province) and Zhangchuan County (now Dangyang, Hubei Province) that were originally allocated to it by the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
, the three counties belong to Xi Liang in name, but in fact, including the appointment of county guards and the deployment of troops, they have to consult the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Except for the stationing of a small number of Xi Liang troops, there is no threat, and it can even be directly regarded as the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
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Lu Guangda then pointed to the north of Baling: "On the north side of Baling, there is Fuzhou Mianyang County, which belongs to the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, because Mianyang County protrudes forward, it is the only one in the Northern Zhou Dynasty on the south side of the lower reaches of Mianshui River.
In addition, it borders the Western Liang Dynasty, so it is usually the Western Liang Dynasty that sends troops to garrison. In short, there are two main counties we attack."
"Jiangling, Mianyang!" Lu Guangda paused before saying these two names.
It's loud and clear.
On the map, Jiangling and Mianyang were clearly marked, and Lu Guangda said in a deep voice:
"Tian Hong, the general manager of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Cao of Xiliangzhu, Li Guang, Xu Xiaojing and others who opposed us nine years ago have all passed away. Now the person in charge of the entire Jiangling defense is still the general manager of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the veteran Lu Teng.
, with the Western Liang general Ma Wu and others as his deputies, according to the usual practice, Lu Teng personally sat in Jiangling, and controlled about 30,000 troops from the Western Liang and Northern Zhou armies under his command, while Ma Wu was stationed at the front line of Mianyang."
Xiao Mohe nodded: "This Lu Teng can be considered an 'old friend'. I didn't expect that he would return to Jiangling this time."
Lu Guangda couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Yes, we only received the news these two days. It is impossible for Yuwen Yong to really clearly present such a big gap in Jiangling to us, so he deliberately put it in front of us.
Lu Teng, who had returned to Beijing to resume his duties, was transferred back, and he was somewhat worried that Yu Chijiong would be able to support the whole of Jingxiang alone."
"This is also reasonable," Xiao Maha stroked his chin and said softly. Although Yu Wenyong was young, he was not the kind of person who didn't know the importance. Attacking the Turks was important, but it was naturally impossible to relax his guard against Nanchen.
If Yu Wenyong ignores Xi Liang, his most important younger brother, then there will be a problem.
This is not the first time that Nan Chen has dealt with Lu Teng. Xiao Mohe also knows this veteran of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Lu Teng can be regarded as the only remaining veteran who has experienced the division and reunification of the Northern Dynasties from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Originally, Lu Teng had already returned to the capital from his post as the general manager of Jiangling, but who would have thought that Yu Wenyong would still send him back.
The General Manager of Jiangling is a position specially established by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Its purpose is self-evident, which is to send an experienced general to Jiangling, the capital of the Western Liang Dynasty, to make suggestions for the operations of the Western Liang army, and even have direct command authority, and of course more
It is also important to supervise Xiliang nearby.
In addition to being able to mobilize the Xiliang army at will, General Jiangling also has about a few thousand Northern Zhou troops under his command. These soldiers only obey the orders of General Jiangling and can go into battle at any time as members of the army belonging to General Jiangling, regardless of their own personal safety.
identity.
This should be regarded as a system created by the Northern Zhou Dynasty out of desperation. Its purpose is naturally to adapt to the situation when Nanchen launches an attack on Xiliang. After all, Xiliang is still an independent dynasty at least in name.
The legitimate successor of the Southern Liang, so for the stability of the Western Liang, the Northern Zhou Dynasty had no reason to station large-scale troops in the Western Liang.
The purpose of this army is to delay time.
In the great battle nine years ago, Tian Hong, who was the general manager of Jiangling at the time, used this army to cover the retreat of Emperor Xiao Kui of Xiliang and others to Jinan City, while he and Wang Cao led their troops to defend Jiangling, taking advantage of Jiangling's strong defense.
The city defense and Wu Mingche fought back and forth, and finally succeeded in delaying the arrival of reinforcements.
Precisely because he has the actual command power over the entire Xiliang army and has a rather elite direct team, the existence of Jiangling General Manager cannot be ignored.
And Li Xingchen also frowned slightly. Yu Wenyong's careful consideration was indeed beyond his expectation. The omissions of the Northern Zhou Dynasty that he had just found based on historical facts were actually thought of by Yu Wenyong. It was just that Yu Wenyong had the available weapons in his hands.
It was mainly concentrated in the hands of Wang Gui, who led the troops stationed in Huaibei - after all, Huaibei was Nanchen's main attack direction, so even if Yu Wenyong guessed something, he would not gamble with the safety of Huaibei.
He couldn't afford this bet.
Therefore, Yu Wenyong's decision to just dispatch Lu Teng to defend Jiangling seemed a bit anticlimactic, and it was precisely because of this anticlimactic decision that Nan Chen could still calmly carry out his own attack.
After all, Lu Teng is only one person in the final analysis. Facing Nan Chen's army, he may be able to hinder it, but there is no way to completely stop it.
As expected, Lu Guangda didn't have much fear about Lu Teng and said directly: "In Mianyang, there are about five or six thousand people from Xiliang, most of whom are recruits. Xiliang obviously has no intention of attacking Lu Teng.
Mianyang has too many illusions. After all, Mianyang cannot compare with Jiangling in terms of the size of the city, the height of the city walls, and the reserves of grain, fodder, and weapons."
In fact, Xiao Mohe of Mianyang did not have a deep impression. These cities located on the outskirts of Jiangling were almost abandoned by Wu Mingche's troops. The real hard nut to crack in Xiliang was still in Jiangling.
"Where are the scouts now?" Xiao Mohe asked immediately.
Lu Guangda hurriedly replied: "The scouts and Meteor Scouts were released early, otherwise we would not have been able to arrange this line so clearly. However, we made it clear before, mostly because Xiliang did not have too many vigilances. Now we can't
If you want to know the details of its troop mobilization, I’m afraid it’s not that easy.”