The defeat on the political battlefield dealt a blow to the Sun and Wu regimes, which was invisible to the naked eye but real.

After the Lu family escaped, many scholars who had already begun to contact Zhou Yu suddenly changed their minds.

They had already planned to go out to Sun Ce, but because the Lu clan's escape to the north caused a chain reaction, they had a negative sense of the Sun Wu regime and a yearning for the Wei regime in Jiangbei.

In fact, this war has to be fought, if it is not fought, the Sun Wu regime will slowly collapse sooner or later, and there is still a glimmer of life if it is fought.

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce have already seen that if Sun Wu wants to truly establish a country, this battle must be fought.

The pacification of Jiangdong is not considered the founding of the country, and only this battle is the real battle for the founding of the country.

Sun Ce mobilized 60,000 troops, carefully selected, selected strong and courageous soldiers, and asked the generals of each army to bring all their cronies, and if necessary, they must lead their pro-guard troops to attack the Wei army.

Sun Ce knew very well that in the military system of Jiangdong, the most powerful army was often the private soldiers of Jiangdong generals.

Of course, Sun Ce also had the most elite troops belonging to the Sun clan, and there were quite a few of them, about more than 10,000 people, while the county soldiers stationed in various places and the temporarily recruited peasant soldiers could not be counted as the main force.

Of course, the Sun regime could not get rid of the model of temporarily recruiting troops and withdrawing after the battle, and it was taken for granted that Guo Peng's army was the same, but it was relatively sophisticated.

Sun Ce believed that Guo Peng's troops stationed in various places were all in the mode of using soldiers and peasants to settle fields together.

Even Zhou Yu thinks so.

But they don't know that Guo Peng's regular army does not farm, only eats and trains every day to boil up their strength, and there is a weight-bearing long-distance cross-country training every seven days.

They have already sharpened their knives and are ready to wait for the Jiangdong soldiers and horses to come.

Sun Ce doesn't care, this battle must be fought.

Then Sun Ce set a grand strategy of three-way marching.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu personally led the main force to enter Chaohu Lake along the Wet Whisker River, and then launched an attack on Hefei, and then broke through to the northern part of Jiujiang, advanced to Shouchun, and annexed Jiujiang County.

The veteran Cheng Pu led 20,000 partial divisions into Lujiang County and attacked Lujiang County in order to occupy Lujiang County.

General Wu Jing led 10,000 partial divisions to attack and harass Guangling County, so that Guangling Zangba could not divide his troops to support Jiujiang and Lujiang, so as to ensure that Jiujiang and Lujiang could be captured.

The big strategy and tactics have been determined, and Sun Ce's group rose up to fight, reorganized its troops and horses, hoarded grain and grass, packed up its warships, and prepared to attack.

At the end of August, Sun Ce's preparations were basically completed and he was ready to attack at any time, and at this time, Zhang Liao had basically figured out the offensive direction and offensive strength of Sun Ce's army.

Realizing that the strength of Sun Ce's army was twice that of his own, Zhang Liao immediately issued an order to let Yu Ban bring 20,000 troops to Shouchun as backup.

Once they were at risk of overturning in front of them, Yu Ban immediately led his troops south to relieve the crisis and save the situation.

Zhang Liao didn't dare to wave casually, although he had Guo Peng's instructions, there was a distance from instructions to implementation.

In order to ensure the implementation of the instructions, the cautious Zhang Liao pulled Xu Huang, who was also extremely cautious, and took the calculating officials who came here from Yecheng to measure the best shooting angle and shooting distance of the trebuchet at the predicted location, and then gave Zhang Liao and Xu Huang advice on how to use the trebuchet from the most professional point of view.

After listening to them say something very profound and obscure, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang suddenly felt that the books they read seemed to be a little different from the books read by these people.

I heard that Guo Peng is now very willing to reuse officials who have made achievements in mathematics, and the group of officials is very popular and appreciated by Guo Peng, and many children of poor families and even children of Li Shu have been reused by Guo Peng by mastering mathematical ability.

Now it seems that mathematics can be used not only in government affairs, but also in military affairs.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang have changed their views on mathematics.

With the help of these people, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were now confident that when Sun Wu's sailors arrived in the Hefei and Xiang'an areas to prepare for the attack, they would give them a little color to see, and also try to see if the trebuchet bombardment of the warship was as sharp as expected.

In Zhang Liao's mind, this trebuchet is not much better at dealing with the city wall, and it is probably no problem to deal with the warship made of wood......

But what if there is a problem?

Can Sun Wu's soldiers and horses compete with the elite iron cavalry of the north?

If a group of boatmen who sailed boats had the upper hand in the field front, Zhang Liao felt that he would really be the military leader for nothing, and he would also waste Guo Peng's trust in him, and even Yu Ban, who joined Guo Peng's group earlier than him, would have to listen to his command.

I don't know if Yu Ban is happy......

Zhang Liao was a little worried about whether Yu Ban, a general of his rank, would be willing to accept his command.

He was worried that Yu Ban would not be satisfied, so he didn't deal with him, he didn't work hard, and there were hidden dangers in the rear, so Zhang Liao also wrote a humble letter to Yu Ban, hoping that he wouldn't mind.

Yu Ban replied quickly, saying that official business is official business, since Guo Peng ordered Zhang Liao to be the governor of the Southeast Front, then he listened to Zhang Liao, as long as he did not lose the battle, he also had merit to receive, not to lose.

Zhang Liao relieved himself and dispatched troops on the front line with peace of mind.

The war on the southeast side was about to begin, and Liu Biao was also making intensive preparations for the war in the north, and in the direction of Runan County and Yingchuan County, Guo Lie and Li Gan were also ready to defend and be ready to deal with the Jingzhou soldiers from Nanyang County at any time.

In fact, Le Jin, the person in charge of the Central Theater, is still quite depressed, because he likes to rush and fight fiercely, and when he goes to the battlefield, he must fight bravely and not retreat, so that he can be happy, but Guo Peng does not let him do this.

Guo Peng wrote a letter to Le Jin, asking Le Jin to sit in Chenliu, command Guo Lie and Li Gan to resist the enemy, fight a defensive counterattack, and never allow Le Jin to take the initiative to lead the army to attack, as long as he holds the defensive line, he is not allowed to attack.

Le Jin didn't understand why Guo Peng didn't attack in the face of the group of soft-footed shrimp in Jingzhou.

Jingzhou's more than 20,000 soldiers have not come north since they were stationed in Nanyang, and they have always guarded Nanyang carefully, not at all like an elite army that is good at fighting.

And with the combat effectiveness of the Wei army's elite soldiers in a hundred battles, as well as the ability of a veteran general like him who is soaked on the battlefield, can't he compete with the Jingzhou soldiers for Nanyang County?

Nanyang is flat, it is a good place for cavalry to deploy, if you want to fight for Nanyang County, Lejin is confident that you will take Nanyang County.

can even threaten Liu Biao's Xiangyang, force Liu Biao to escape, and take down the northern part of Jingzhou, how can Jingzhou people threaten Guo Peng's hinterland?

However, Guo Peng did not allow Lejin to attack, and specifically stated that Lejin was not allowed to attack, and if Lejin attacked, he would be removed from his post.

It is only allowed to play defensive counterattacks, defend Runan County and Yingchuan County, and leave the rest alone.

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