"I see!"

After listening to Yan Xiang's words, Zhang Xun suddenly realized that he had always thought that Cao Cao had bad intentions towards Huainan before he got Yan Xiang's analysis, but now after Yan Xiang's analysis, he knew that Cao Cao intended to be in Xuzhou, and he did not dare to attack Huainan easily, unless he had no choice but to take the risk of playing this move.

"What about me!"

Seeing that Yan Xiang was analyzing, Qiao Rui on the side also asked impatiently.

Compared with Cao Cao in the north, the southwest of his defense is Liu Biao of Jingzhou, this person has been at odds with Yuan Shu for a long time, and they are like fire and water, and each wants to get rid of each other quickly, and Jingzhou has abundant troops, and there is no situation like Cao Cao's army to expedition to other states and counties, as long as the situation allows, he can safely lead a large number of troops to attack Yangzhou.

So Qiao Rui felt a lot of pressure.

However, Yan Xiang said with a relaxed face: "General Qiao Rui doesn't have to be nervous, you are also like General Zhang Xun, you can rest easy by deploying the army on the southwest border." ”

With an expression of disbelief on her face, Qiao Rui asked, "How is this possible?" Liu Biao is not Cao Cao, Jingzhou is strong and strong, and he is eyeing him fiercely, how can he take it lightly? ”

As soon as Qiao Rui finished speaking, he saw Yan Xiang looking up to the sky and laughing, and he said: "General Qiao Rui also said, Liu Biao is not Cao Cao, and it is not a matter of a day or two for Jingzhou to be strong and strong, but do you think this Liu Biao has ever dared to fight with our lord?" ”

What Yan Xiang said is true, Jingzhou has been rich and strong for a long time under the governance of Liu Biao, but he only keeps one and three points of land in Jingzhou, and he is not moving forward, not to mention the move to expand the territory, even Xiangyang was almost broken by others.

To say that this Xiangyang is located in the Yang of Xiangshui, so it is called Xiangyang.

During the Warring States Period, Chu placed Beijin Xu, which was a military and political important city, and the Han Dynasty placed the county.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiangyang had a prosperous economy and developed culture, and the area in the south of the city was known as "Crown Geli". In the first year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Biao moved the state from Hanshou to Xiangyang, making Xiangyang City jump from a county-level seat to the capital of the prefecture below the capital, and became the political, economic, military and cultural center of Jingzhou at that time.

The "others" who almost broke through Xiangyang are not others, but in fact Sun Jian, who is known as the "Tiger of Jiangdong" and is a Lian Dong Zhuo

The heroic man who couldn't sleep when he heard the name.

Although this Sun Jian is just a Changsha Taishou, but the battle is brave, invincible, when the princes combined the army to crusade against Dong Zhuo, he was the vanguard of the combined army, all the way to Luoyang, forcing Dong Zhuo to move the capital to Chang'an to avoid its edge, which shows that his bravery is invincible.

It's a pity that among the princes from all walks of life, except for Cao Cao and Sun Jian, everyone else is intriguing, with evil intentions, and finally the united army stopped at the ruins of Luoyang and began to fight openly and secretly with each other, and this Sun Jian, seeing that the princes had no intention of reviving the Han family, was extremely disappointed with them, so he chose to leave.

After the disbandment of the United Army, Sun Jian returned to Changsha, and he felt that since there was no hope for the revival of the Han Dynasty, he could only rely on his own strength to fight for a piece of the world and ensure peace and tranquility.

So he recruited troops there, intending to make a big show.

Such a hero, no matter where he is, will make other princes fearful.

So at this time, Yuan Shu, who was also a prince of the United Army, took the initiative to send someone to contact Sun Jian, wanting to become an ally with him and plan for great things together, and after that, Yuan Shu repeatedly provoked the relationship between Sun Jian and Liu Biao, instigated Sun Jian to start a war against Liu Biao, and promised that if there was a war, Yuan Shu would assist Sun Jian in attacking Liu Biao.

This divisive plan can't be thought up by Yuan Shu, it is naturally out of Yuan Shu's hands, instead of letting a tiger lie around, it is better to use him to attack his enemy, no matter what the result is, these two opponents will definitely have losses, and this is the reason why the snipe and the clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman.

Although Sun Jian also knew that Yuan Shu didn't really want to help him, most of them just used him to attack the enemy Liu Biao, but the problem was that before that, Sun Jian had a grudge against Liu Biao, because before Sun Jian left the United Army, Sun Jian found the jade seal of the Han Dynasty in the ruins of Luoyang burned by Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Shao, who was the leader of the United Army, also tried in vain to get the jade seal of the country, so in the name of the alliance leader, he ordered Sun Jian to hand over the jade seal.

But Sun Jian is the kind of person who is timid and afraid, even Dong Zhuo, who is regarded as a beast by the United Army, has to retreat in front of him Sun Jian, let alone this selfish

The self-interested alliance leader Yuan Shao? Sun Jian had already seen him unpleasantly, how could he succumb to his threat.

So the two sides quarreled, and Sun Jian was furious, and led people out of the camp of the combined army overnight and returned to Changsha.

Even Yuan Shao, who was the leader of the United Army, was afraid of the prestige of this "Tiger of Jiangdong" and did not dare to turn his face on the spot, so after he left, he wrote a letter to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, asking him to intercept Sun Jian, who was returning to Changsha.

Liu Biao, who is honest and quiet in normal times, doesn't know what medicine he took wrong this time? After receiving Yuan Shao's letter, he was really obedient and went to intercept Sun Jian's way home.

The two sides did not agree on a word, so they fought, although Sun Jian was brave, but after all, there were few soldiers, and Liu Biao seemed to know Sun Jian's bravery, and he had already prepared, brought many horses, and vowed to take Sun Jian.

A fierce battle is inevitable, Sun Jian is worthy of the prestige of "the tiger of Jiangdong", even if the number is less than ten times that of Liu Biao, he still broke through the siege and fought a bloody way back to Changsha, but after this battle, Sun Jian's subordinates also suffered a lot of losses, even when he was crusading against the national thief Dong Zhuo for the country, he did not lose so many subordinates, which made him extremely sad and angry, and vowed to make Liu Biao's blood debt repayable.

This is the origin of the hatred between Liu Biao and Sun Jian.

So when he received Yuan Shu's letter, even if he didn't believe that Yuan Shu would send troops to help him fight Liu Biao, Sun Jian had already wanted to avenge the original revenge, so he led the army in Changsha to fight all the way into Jingzhou.

Later, if he hadn't been too aggressive, fell into the strategy of Liu Biao's number one strategist Kuai Liang, and was ambushed and died, this Jingzhou might have been Sun Jian's.

Now that Sun Jian is dead, his subordinates have basically been recruited by Yuan Shu to Yuan Shu's design, which makes Yuan Shu, who has Huainan, have a higher level of strength.

So after experiencing this incident, Liu Biao in Jingzhou did not dare to start a war rashly, he seemed to have been frightened and turned into a timid and cowardly old man like Tao Qian.

Yan Xiang saw through Liu Biao's personality and knew that he didn't dare to use troops against Yuan Shu easily, so he was so confident in making a guarantee in front of Qiao Rui.