Frankly speaking, blocking Deng Ai in Yinping Road was the first battle Liu Yin fought after coming to the Three Kingdoms, but that time Liu Yin led a private army, and there were less than a thousand soldiers.

But this time is different, Liu Yin, who worships General Anxi, is now in charge of three battalions, commanding 15,000 men and horses, and a fully regularized army, which is different from commanding private troops.

Wouldn't it be a big waste to have such a senior staff member as Deng Ai put it away.

Deng Ai said calmly: "I don't know where the lord wants to fight with the Wu army?" ”

Liu Yin has already had a preliminary consensus with Zhuge Zhan Yan Yu on the location of this expedition, if the Wu army does not move after capturing Yong'an, then the army will directly point to Yong'an, and the Wu army will fight in Yong'an, if the Wu army has attacked the interior of Yizhou, then they will rush to Jiangzhou before the Wu army, and use the strong city defense and dangerous terrain of Jiangzhou to block the westward advance of the Wu army.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, Zhuge Zhan had ordered the armies to set off tomorrow and strive to reach Jiangzhou before the Wu army.

At the beginning of the founding of the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Bei appointed Fei Guan as the governor of Jiangzhou, it can be said that among the four major governors of Shu, the governor of Jiangzhou was the earliest, and made great contributions to stabilizing the situation in Badi, during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Jiangzhou also became the largest source of its reserve troops, and Zhuge Liang always transferred Jiangzhou garrisons to the north when the troops were scarce in Hanzhong. Replenish combat power. But with the decline of Shu Han's national power. The number of standing troops has been repeatedly reduced. After the death of Deng Zhi, the last governor of Jiangzhou, there was no one to serve as the governor of Jiangzhou, and it was finally abolished, and the soldiers and horses under the rule of the governor of Jiangzhou were also transferred to other important passes, and Jiangzhou, as an important town, also existed in name only.

However, after the fall of Yong'an, the strategic location of Jiangzhou was highlighted, and Jiangzhou was the center of the three counties in eastern Sichuan. If Jiangzhou is lost, it means that the three counties in eastern Sichuan will all fall into the hands of the enemy. What's more, after leaving Jiangzhou in the west, there is the Chengdu Plain, which is almost unsafe.

Therefore, Zhuge Zhan also set his sights on Jiangzhou, and if he wanted to block the Eastern Wu soldiers of Lu Kang, he had to reach Jiangzhou City first.

Faced with Deng Ai's question, Liu Yin told the truth, Deng Ai chuckled lightly and counted it on his fingers. said: "Luo Xian's son left Yong'an West to come to Chengdu, and it took at least five or six days on the road. And Zhuge Zhan's army will have to arrive in Jiangzhou in at least ten days, so it will take about half a month before and after, and it will be difficult for the main guild to think that after Lu Kang takes Yong'an, he will enter Kuma and put Nanshan? ”

Liu Yin frowned, it was naturally Zhuge Zhan's wishful thinking to defend Jiangzhou, in fact, after Lu Kang took Yong'an, he would not stop at all, and would inevitably take advantage of the situation to move west to seize Jiangzhou.

"I'm also worried about this, if Lu Kang takes advantage of the situation to advance westward, I'm afraid that by the time we rush to Jiangzhou, Jiangzhou may have fallen." Liu Yin said with some worry, if he can't reach Jiangzhou before Lu Kang, then after Zhuge Zhan leads the army to Jiangzhou, he will change his defense to attack, and if he wants to take Jiangzhou, which the Wu people have already defended, the difficulty can be imagined.

Deng Ai said with a slight smile: "If I were Lu Kang, after capturing Yong'an, I would definitely go through the starry night and take Jiangzhou in one go." As far as I know, the defenders of Jiangzhou are still less than 1,000, and it is impossible to block the tiger and wolf army in Jiangdong, not to mention, after the Wu army captures Yong'an, block the news, and sneak attack Jiangzhou as concocted, Jiangzhou will definitely be able to take it lightly. Zhuge Zhan's army is on an expedition, and after Lu Kang hears the news, he will definitely wait for work and sit in Jiangzhou, I am afraid that the Shu army will not have the slightest chance of victory. ”

Liu Yin hesitated for a moment and said, "Then in Mr. Ai's opinion, how should we deal with the battle?" ”

Deng Ai said: "Lu Kang's appetite must not only be Yong'an Jiangzhou, his greater ambition is to seek Chengdu, so the lord does not have to go to Jiangzhou, outside Chengdu, choose his danger and garrison, and intercept Lu Kang halfway, you can take the initiative in your own hands and wait for work." ”

"Where does that gentleman think is the best place to stop it?"

Deng Ai said in an affirmative tone: "From Jiangzhou to Chengdu, you must take the Lu Road, as long as the army of the lord and Zhuge Zhan can hold Yun County, Lu Kang will definitely not be able to cross, the Wu army will hang grain for thousands of miles, and the benefit is in the quick battle, as long as the Shu army sticks to the city, the Wu people will fight for a long time without success, and they will inevitably lead the troops to retreat. ”

Yu County is not far from Chengdu, about 200 miles east of Chengdu, it is the county seat of East Guanghan County, and it is also one of the only roads leading to Chengdu. Deng Ai proposed a strategy to defend the road, which also made Liu Yin's eyes shine. Although Deng Ai is a Wei person, he knows everything about the geography of the mountains and rivers in Shu, and it is no wonder that Deng Ai dares to take the Yinping Trail to attack Shu, Deng Ai's understanding of Yizhou and even the monarchs and ministers of Shu are completely destroyed.

Liu Yin adopted Deng Ai's proposal, and after the assembly was completed, he rushed to the school military field in the eastern suburbs of Chengdu, according to the original plan, Zhuge Zhan will lead the second army of Yulin and Huben to appear in the school field in the eastern suburbs.

As Liu Yin expected, Zhuge Zhan arrived at the school military field an hour earlier. This is the first time since Zhuge Zhan entered the army, the first real sense of leading the troops, although he previously served as a cavalry captain, Yulin Zhonglang general and other military positions, but at most it was only when the emperor went out on patrol as a guard of honor, and never fought on the battlefield with real swords and guns.

Zhuge Zhanqing has been promoted repeatedly in the court all the way, and naturally people will inevitably be criticized behind it, but Zhuge Liang, who is wise and martial, did not pass on his skills to his son, which made countless people sigh secretly.

So this battle is Zhuge Zhan's chance to prove himself, 'He is eager to make a career on the battlefield and get out of his father's shadow.' Zhuge Zhan was not impressed by the concept of his father, after all, when his father died, he was only eight years old, not to mention that Zhuge Liang had been in charge of military affairs in Hanzhong, and his family in Chengdu had never been back for several years.

But he did live in the shadow of Zhuge Liang, whenever the imperial court issued a good decree, although it was not Zhuge Zhan's advice. The people would tell each other, "This is what the Marquis of Zhuge Wu advocated." This really put a lot of pressure on Zhuge Zhan.

After becoming the first auxiliary minister, Zhuge Zhan's pressure increased unabated, and he was eager to make contributions on the battlefield and completely take off the hat of relying on his father's shadow. (To be continued......)