After moving into Liu Biao's mansion, Lu Meng found that the situation in Jingzhou was worse than he had estimated.**--*

In Liu Biao's view, Jingzhou now has 200,000 soldiers and a treasury full of governments. There are many generals available. As long as the command is properly, it can be enough to deal with various crises. But in Lu Meng's view, these are just appearances.

Since he was here to help Liu Biao, Lu Meng did not care about Liu Biao's face and feelings, and directly raised several questions that made Liu Biao feel embarrassed. Lu Meng asked Liu Biao: "Sir, can you have an overall strategy to defend the enemy now?"

Liu Biao replied: "The soldiers come and the generals block the water and the soil come and the land is covered. As long as you need to send heavy troops to guard the important cities, can you not defend the enemy?"

Lu Meng shook his head without saying anything, and asked again: "Sir, how many of the generals under his command are good at defending the city and are loyal?"

Liu Biao replied: "I see that all my subordinates have extraordinary abilities, but there is no one who is unpredictable."

Lu Meng then smiled without saying a word, and the meaning was clearly said, "Who are you fooling? Do you dare to say that everyone in Jingzhou has the same heart as you Liu Biao?"

Liu Biao felt so depressed by Lu Meng's smile that he had to change his words and said, "Occasionally, those who have two hearts have been found out now and have been idle."

After hearing this, Lu Meng still refused to say anything and continued to ask Liu Biao: "Did the soldiers of Jingzhou practice day and night to prepare for changes from time to time? Can the morale of the army be considered to be condensed? Can the morale be considered to be encouraging? Can the number of weapons and armor be verified correctly?..."

Liu Biao was a little dizzy when asked by Lu Meng a long list of questions. He asked Lu Meng a little unhappily: "Since Lu Shenjun asked so much, what are his opinions on defending Jingzhou?"

Lu Meng was not polite to Liu Biao, and replied very simply: "There is no question of high opinion. Xiao Ke has a few suggestions here to the Lord of the Prefect. **--*As long as the adults can implement half of them, Jingzhou can be safe; if the adults can implement them one by one, not only will Jingzhou be safe, but it will also cause the invading enemies to suffer a great loss and Jingzhou will not hurt his muscles!"

Liu Biao disagreed, but he still said politely: "Please tell me in detail by Lu Zongjun."

Lu Meng then took out a detailed topographic map of Jingzhou from his arms. Regardless of Liu Biao's a little surprised expression, he pointed to the map and said: "Jingzhou is vast, with rivers and lakes crisscrossing mountains and hills, which are obviously not conducive to the maneuvering and confrontation of the large corps. The defense of Jingzhou is naturally centered on Xiangyang, with Shandu, Deng County and Caiyang as the barriers; the defense focus in the east is Xiling City in Jiangxia County, with Zhu County and E County as the barriers, and mainly rely on the navy to block the Yangtze River waterway; the defense focus in the south is Linxiang in Changsha County, where the city is lonely and has no support, so you need to be strictly guarded; the defense focus in the west is Yiling in Nanjun, where Jingmen Mountain and Huya Mountain can be relied on to block the enemy outside. The most important thing is that one or two strategic mobile troops must be maintained in Jiangling City, and four defense directions can be supported at any time..."

After Lu Meng finished explaining the strategy of the entire Jingzhou defensive operation, he waited for Liu Biao to express his opinions and opinions.

Liu Biao stared at the topographic map of Jingzhou in Lu Meng's hand and asked incrediblely: "I dare to ask Ziming, where is this map from and who is drawn by him? Why is it more than ten times more detailed and accurate than the map used in my mansion?"

Lu Meng did not hide it and replied: "To be honest, this picture comes from the Military Map Survey and Mapping Bureau of the Wohu Equipment Academy, and it was not completed by one person. If it weren't for Jingzhou being far away from the Jin land, there were fewer people from Jin who came to Jingzhou for business and tours, I'm afraid this map would be closer."

Lu Meng said vaguely, but Liu Biao knew in his heart that the so-called Jin people who went to Jingzhou for business and tourism were afraid that many of them were secret spies, but this is no longer the key. Liu Biao asked again: "Have Jin State drawn the mountains and rivers of the Han states on the drawings?"

Lu Meng nodded and replied sincerely: "According to the story of King Pingxi, the Jin State organized manpower to conduct the survey and mapping of precision maps for more than ten years. Now their tentacles are far away from overseas, and the domestic situation seems to be perfect."

Liu Biao sighed and said, "I didn't expect that the vision of King Pingxi was so long. If I remembered correctly more than ten years ago, he was just a county official in Shangdang County, right?"

Lu Meng also wanted to strengthen Liu Biao's determination to firmly hold the King of Pingxi and continued: "When I first met King of Pingxi in Shangdang the previous year, I saw several walls of bookshelf in his room. Half of the many books on it were I had never seen before. These books involved various fields, with novel content and objective arguments. Any book that appears on the market will definitely cause a sensation. The advanced and powerful state of Jin is far beyond what we can imagine. If Lord Zhou Mu doesn't believe it, he will have a chance to gradually see and experience it in the future!"

Liu Biao was a knowledgeable scholar. His study now also includes all kinds of books on the market and sale of Jin State Commercial Press. He naturally understood how many books could be placed on the bookshelf as big as a wall as Lu Meng said, and half of them had never appeared in front of the world. What a terrifying number.

The ancients often used "sweet and abundant" and "five carts of knowledge" to describe a person's collection of books and knowledge, which is for the bulky bamboo slips. If a new version of paper books with several walls is engraved on the bamboo slips, more than five ox carts will not be transported away, and it is estimated that even 500 taels of ox carts will not be able to handle it!

Although Liu Biao did not know that there was a famous saying in later generations called "knowledge is power", he believed that what Lu Meng said might be true, because no matter how Lu Meng used to win his trust, he would eventually stay with him in Xiangyang. If Jingzhou fell and Xiangyang City was broken, Lu Meng would also become a prisoner, which was not a glorious thing.

Lu Meng, who had already won some trust from Liu Biao, then proposed to him the candidates for guarding the generals in various aspects. Lu Meng said: "According to what we know, these generals under the governor of the state can defend one side alone and will not surrender. Among them, Wenpin is the main, Huan Jie is the deputy, and can station Xiling; Huo Jun is the main, Xiang Lang is the deputy, and can station Changsha; Huang Zhong is the main, Ma Liang is the deputy, and can station Yiling; Li Yan is the main, Jiang Wan is the deputy, and can station Jiangling; Gao is the main, Xiang Chong, Huang Zu, Zhang Yun, and Zhang Hu are the deputy, and can station Xiangyang."

Among the people listed by Lu Meng, there were no names of Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Liu Ba, Liao Li and others. This surprised Liu Biao again. He had heard Lu Meng say clearly that the person proposed based on his own situation. In other words, when Lu Meng had not arrived in Jingzhou, he had already "examined" all the civil and military staff under Liu Biao one by one!

What a terrifying intelligence spying and analysis ability!


Chapter completed!