But Pang Tong, as the top strategist of the Three Kingdoms, quickly calmed down.

Pang Tong muttered: "The various tribes of Wuxi Man, headed by Shamoke, have always been well-behaved, and they also have mutual markets with my Han people on weekdays, not to mention friendship with my Jingzhou, but they also have no deep hatred.

If Jiangdong can persuade them to rebel, he must lure them with heavy profits. In this way, I only need to repair a book, Chen Qing's interests, and send a messenger to send a generous gift, presumably to persuade Shamoke to withdraw from the army. ”

Thinking of this, Pang Tong immediately wrote a letter and prepared to send someone to Wuling quickly.

Liu Chan rushed to hear the news and saw that Pang Tong was writing a letter, so he stepped forward to look at the content of Pang Tong's letter. After Pang Tong finished writing, Liu Chan said: "The military advisor plans to send a letter to Shamoke and ask him to withdraw from the army?" ”

"Not bad!" Pang Tong handed the letter to Liu Chan to read, and explained: "Wuxi Man is located in Wuling County, the closest to Jiangling, and it is also the boundary and rich place of Jingnan, once they rebel, the threat to Jingzhou is huge, and Sun Quan sent people to persuade them to rebel, which is also right."

However, Wuxi Man and my Jingzhou did not have a bad relationship, presumably Sun Quan was able to persuade them to rebel, and he should have promised benefits. In this way, I personally repaired a letter to Shamoko, and then sent an envoy to send gifts, and Shamoke and they would no longer serve Jiangdong. ”

"Why don't the military advisors just calculate?" Liu Chan said with a deep sigh.

"Will it be calculated?" Pang Tong was stunned when he heard this: "How to calculate it?" ”

Liu Chan explained: "Pretend to send troops to pacify Shamoke, and then hit Jiangdong by surprise. ”

Pang Tong shook his head and said: "I've also thought about this, but in this case, I have to send some soldiers and horses to pretend to go to Wuling, otherwise I won't be able to hide it from Jiangdong."

Just sending troops over would easily cause a dispute with the barbarians of Shamoko, and I can't think of anyone in the city to send to quell the rebellious soldiers of Shamoko except me. ”

Liu Chan smiled and said, "Strategist, let me go to pacify Shamoke." ”

"Shizi, are you going?" Pang Tong frowned when he heard this.

"What? The military advisor can't trust me? ”

Pang Tong shook his head and said: "Naturally not, with the wisdom of the prince, Shamoke is not your opponent at all, but how can you let the prince take the risk yourself?" ”

Liu Chan said with a smile: "Military advisor, I also have considerations for personally sending troops, and after Shamoke is pacified, I can borrow his troops and horses to deal with Jiangdong and relieve the danger of Jingzhou."

If an envoy is sent, it will not be easy to persuade Shamoko to withdraw from the army. ”

Pang Tong nodded and said: "The prince brought two thousand soldiers and horses over last time, and now there are still ten thousand soldiers and horses in Jiangling City, a total of 12,000 soldiers and horses are available, I don't know how many people the prince needs?" ”

Liu Chan muttered: "In addition to the soldiers and horses of the headquarters I brought, the military division is giving me a thousand people, and in order to hide people's eyes and ears, I am bringing some Cao army to surrender troops and fill the number, so it should be about the same."

After all, when the time comes, you have to lead the soldiers and horses in the city to resist the Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and it is not safe for these Cao troops to stay in Jiangling, and I can also weaken their threat by taking some of them. ”

Pang Tong nodded and smiled: "This is also a strategy to kill two birds with one stone, taking away a part of the surrendered troops can not only weaken their strength, but also make Jiangdong mistakenly think that I sent a large army to Wuling."

During this time, I have already counted the household registration of those surrendered soldiers, and I will send someone to select some reliable surrendered troops who will not easily rebel and hand them over to the prince, and then let you take them with you to go on the expedition. ”

What is a reliable surrender that will not rebel?

That is a soldier who is alone, without a father or mother, without a wife and no children, these soldiers have no relatives, and they are soldiers just to seek a way to survive, so whether they follow Cao Cao or Liu Bei, it is the same.

As long as they are fed, they will become Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, and they can fight for Liu Bei.

At present, the Three Kingdoms have not been established, and rebellions often break out in the Wancheng area, so the lives of these soldiers are not good, and they do not have much sense of belonging to Cao Cao.

"Pass the order, close the Gangneung City Gate from now on, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except for the messenger."

In order to confuse Jiangdong, Pang Tong then ordered Jiangling City to be placed under martial law, and the gate of Jiangling City was closed tightly, so as not to make Jiangdong inquire about the news.

The world was in turmoil, and there were many lonely and helpless soldiers, and soon Pang Tong selected 3,000 people among the more than 10,000 soldiers.

These soldiers are all alone, let them follow Liu Chan to attack Shamoke, as long as they are fed, do not ask them to help Liu Chan fight together, but they will not rebel.

In this way, Liu Chan's army against Shamoke had 6,000 troops.

2,000 Xiliang cavalry, 1,000 Jingzhou troops, and 3,000 Cao troops surrendered.

Gangneung City was under martial law for three days, and the city was opened again, but the people were still not allowed to leave the city.

In three days, the soldiers and horses were already ready to attack Wuxi Man in Shamoke.

"Pang Tong" took the lead, with soldiers and horses out of the city, Liu Chan pretended to be a small soldier, followed behind "Pang Tong", and there were Lin Yuan, Huang Xu, and E Huan by his side, as for Zhang Bao, Liu Chan asked him to stay in Jiangling and help Pang Tong.

The Pang Tong in front of Liu Chan is naturally impersonated, and his real identity is Pang Tong's brother Pang Lin.

The two are brothers, and their appearance is already similar, and after some makeup, the ship's battle armor wears a helmet, which is no different from Pang Tong.

Liu Chan and Pang Lin led the soldiers and horses out of Jiangling, and then went straight south to Wuling County.

A few days later, Liu Chan led his troops to Linyuan County, the seat of Wuling County.

There is a tributary of the Yangtze River in Wuling County, called Yuanshui, and Wuxi Man is a barbarian tribe who lives near the five streams of Ruanshui, so it is named Wuxi Man.

Pang Lin led the soldiers and horses into Linyuan City.

As soon as he entered the city, he was greeted by a big man, whose name was Fan Zhou, who was engaged in Wuling.

Fan Xuan said to Pang Lin: "Strategist, you can count it, Shamoke and they have already attacked Yuannan City, and it is less than thirty miles away!" ”

"Fan Zhen, you recognize the wrong person, it's me!" Pang Lin laughed and ripped off the sticky fake beard from his face.

"Mr. Pang?" Fan Zhou was shocked when he saw Pang Lin: "Why is it that sir, didn't the military advisor come?" ”

Pang Lin said with a smile: "This Wuxi rebellion was instigated by Jiangdong, so he forced the younger brother to divide his troops to suppress it, and he didn't dare to move lightly, so he ordered me to pretend to be him and lead the troops to help!" ”

"I understand, I'm talking about entering the house first." Fan Xuan heard this, looked left and right, and invited Pang Lin into the mansion, as for Linyuan City, it was naturally closed again, and he was not afraid that the Jiangdong scouts would get the news out.

"Come, sir, please take a seat!" Fan Xuan took Pang Lin into the palace and invited Pang Lin to take a seat.

In fact, today's Wuling Taishou is Wu Ju, but Wu Ju is too old to be a director, and the affairs of Wuling County are all in charge of Fan Zhou.