Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Sun Jian was advised to fake his death and plot to seize Jingzhou.

The enemy army is going to withdraw to Exian?

Su Fei listened to Cai Mao's words, and immediately scratched his head and said:

"The city wall of Exian County is low, sparsely populated, and the enemy army is not guarding Xiling City, how can you withdraw to Exian County?"

When Cai Mao heard this, she raised her head and asked

"The enemy army has transported all the materials to Exian, how can they hold on without materials in Xiling City?".

"Now that our army has a naval army, once the river is blocked at that time, Xiling will immediately become a lonely city!"

"Such a move, not to retreat to Exian, but how?"

"It's... My subordinates don't know!".

Su Fei was stunned by the question, but felt powerless to refute.

Yes, such an action, what else can it be if it is not to retreat to Exian?

If the troops are divided now, they will be cut off by the water army in an instant, how can Xiling be defended?

But when Lu Gong on the side saw this, he frowned and said:

"But it doesn't make sense, General!".

"The enemy army finally captured Xiling City, and if they didn't take the opportunity to seize the surrounding cities, how could they have a reason to retreat?"

"If it is enough to say that the enemy army has suffered a crushing defeat, why should we retreat again and again now that the enemy's combat strength is not inferior to our army?"

"The enemy will have a plan!".

Cai Mao didn't think about it, so she affirmed

"Soldiers, treacherous!"

"If the enemy does this, there will be other plans!"

"Then general, what should our army do now?".

Su Fei saw that Cai Mao had concluded that the enemy army had a plan, and suggested:

"Do you want the navy to block the enemy's way?"

"Or continue to march into Xiling?"

"Thou shalt not act rashly!".

Cai Mao pondered for a while, shook his head and said:

"Now the navy is very important for our army, and it cannot be taken lightly. "

"Don't march into the army, the enemy army is cunning, such a demeanor may be a strategy to lure the enemy!"

"And order the navy to continue patrolling, and at the same time send a large number of spies to the east, and let me explore the dense forest and mountain roads along the road to prevent the enemy from ambushing!"

After receiving Kuai Yue's letter, he knew that Sun Jian now had a counselor to help.

This person used troops strangely, although he has withdrawn from Anlu now, but who can guarantee that this is not a ploy by the enemy to lure him to Xiling?

If there is an ambush on the road, then his troops and horses are also in danger.

When Lu Gong and Su Fei heard this, they also felt that this matter was strange, so they stopped talking at the moment and took the order again.

In this way, Cai Mao stayed in Anlu for two days.

Aside from sending a large number of spies to investigate, there was no action.

And as the news kept coming, he was also sure that Sun Jian was really preparing to withdraw his troops.

On the third day, Lu Gong finally brought the news:

"General, the enemy army has withdrawn from Xiling City!".

"Now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people in Xiling City!".

"The enemy has retreated again?".

Su Fei listened, looked at Cai Mao and said

"General, what are the enemy forces going to do?"

But seeing that Cai Mao's expression did not move, he asked directly

"How many troops and horses have the enemy withdrawn?"

"More than 10,000 soldiers and horses, all of them are lightly armed, and they are crossing the river to the south!"

Lu Gong replied:

"Now that our navy has rushed over, the enemy army may have crossed the river!"

"More than 10,000 soldiers and horses?

Cai Mao sneered when she heard this

"Sun Jian was captured by our army during this time, and there were at least more than 20,000 troops. "

"Now only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses have withdrawn from the city, where have the rest of the soldiers and horses gone?"

When Lu Gong and Su Fei heard this, they were both shocked, and hurriedly asked

"The general means that the retreat of the enemy army is fake?".

"Retreat is not fake!".

Cai Mao sneered:

"This is a suspicious tactic, and some soldiers and horses must be sent out first. "

"There are only two places for this soldier to go, one is to go east to Jiangdong, and the other is to return to the army from the south, wanting to follow the original plan of attacking Xiling and raid our army Changsha from the south bank!"

"The reason why they retreated without a fight was mostly to despise the hearts of our army, so that our army thought that they were about to go south to Jiangdong in order to seize the counties of Changsha. "

"The enemy army wants to take Changsha!".

Su Fei and Lu Gong were shocked again.

But after thinking about it for a while, Lu Gong said again:

"General, this is unreasonable, Changsha is remote, far less important than Jiangxia. "

"The enemy army has the cities of Jiangxia and can defend against the attack of our army, so why bother to attack Changsha at the near and far?"

"Hehehehe... Yoshiyama's words are fallacious!".

Cai Mao laughed when she heard this, and said with a look of Zhizhu in her hand

"Sun Jianqi is by no means comparable to ordinary thieves, he went south to Jingzhou, although he came on the order of Yuan Shu, but he may not have the heart to seize Jingzhou has become a foundation. "

"Now although they have taken Jiangxia, the land of Jiangxia is separated from the four counties south of Nanjun by rivers. "

"Our army has the advantage of a naval army, and it is difficult for the enemy army to advance west!"

On the contrary, Changsha is different, if Changsha can be captured, Sun Jian can avoid the harassment of the navy, and seize Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang and other counties in turn. "

"As soon as the four southern counties are taken, the momentum will be achieved, and it will be difficult for our army to expel this person again!"

"Therefore, I dare to conclude that one percent of the enemy's behavior is likely to go south to Jiangdong, and ninety percent is to attack Changsha!"

Seeing that Cai Mao was right, the second general was persuaded immediately.

Su Fei thought about it and couldn't help but sigh

"I don't want Sun Jian to have such determination, take Jiangxia, and abandon it, which is definitely not comparable to others. "

Lu Gong said with a straight face:

"General, now that our army knows the enemy's strategy, why don't we go south now and reinforce Changsha?"

"Why do you need reinforcements to Changsha?".

Cai Mao smiled smugly

"Then Changsha has Gongzi Pan leading more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, just need to be vigilant, you can stick to the city, let Sun Jian return in vain!"

"On the contrary, our army is now going south, so that the enemy army can detect it, and will let Sun Jian go and return, and return to Xiling!"

"Since the enemy army has given up the city, is there any reason not to occupy it?"

"And send an order to the whole army, prepare to set off to occupy Xiling!".

"I personally wrote a letter to my son, so that he could stick to Changsha!"

His abacus played extremely well, although Sun Jian may go south to Changsha, but he doesn't need to follow to fight against Sun Jian.

This letter was passed on, no matter whether Liu Pan could keep it or not, his regain of Jiangxia was indispensable.

Moreover, with his understanding of Liu Pan, as long as he is prepared and sticks to the city, even Sun Jian will not be able to capture it!

When Sun Jian returns, if he uses the soldiers and horses of Exian County to go south, he will take advantage of the situation to go south and outflank Sun Jian's back road.

If he didn't use the soldiers and horses of Exian, he would directly lead the soldiers and horses south to attack Exian, which was the icing on the cake!

Under such an action, no matter how he moves his troops, he will be meritorious!

So, under Cai Mao's orders, in less than half a day, his army marched in the direction of Xiling.

At the same time, a letter persuading Liu Pan to stick to Changsha was sent in the direction of Changsha.

But what Cai Mao didn't know was that at this time, a large number of ships were sailing out of Dongting Lake, heading towards Gangneung by night.

At night, Sun Jian disembarked with more than 10,000 troops, transported the supplies all the way to the north, and then turned around and came to the city of Jiangling, preparing to attack Jiangling.