The princes of the Central Plains temporarily rested their swordsmen, but Jiangdong Sun Ce annexed Lujiang without damage, occupied Hefei, and shared Jiujiang with Cao Cao, but he had no intention of stopping.

Sun Ce had several times wanted to cross the river to attack Guangling, but was defeated by Chen Deng, and with the occupation of Shouchun by Lejin, it was more difficult to continue to attack Xuzhou, so Sun Ce looked at Jingzhou, now Jiangdong has been decided, Xuzhou is difficult to rush, and even if he occupies Xuzhou, with Sun Ce's current strength, even if he occupies Guangling, it is difficult to hold under Cao Cao's counteroffensive, so he listened to Zhou Yu's strategy, gave up continuing to attack Xuzhou and turned his eyes to the land of Jingxiang.

Jiangdong wants to attack Jingxiang, Jiangxia is the only place to pass through the first year of Hanping in December (the first year of Han award), Sun Ce led the army into Shaxian, after Huang Zu heard the news, he hurriedly raised troops to fight, at the same time Liu Biao also sent his nephew Liu Hu and the general Han Na to help, the two sides started a big war on the river, it stands to reason that Huang Zu occupies a favorable position in the upper reaches, is to occupy an advantage, but the Jiangdong naval army is too strong, Zhou Yu ordered the general Ling Cao to cross the river to sneak attack Xiakou, and take Xiling, Huang Zu hurriedly sent Han Si to guard Xiakou, but was attacked by Ling Cao halfway, repelled, Han Na himself was even beheaded by Ling Cao's array in the chaos.

Xiakou was captured by Ling Cao, followed by Ling Cao led the army to take Xiling, Huang Zu heard the news, wanted to lead the army back to Xiling to defend to the death, but Sun Ce clenched on, the two sides fought a killing battle on the river, and finally Huang Zu was defeated and retreated to Anlu, Sun Ce captured a large number of material warships and landed on the shore, and Ling Cao joined forces to capture Xiling, so far, Sun Ce captured most of Jiangxia, after occupying Xiling, he raised troops again and went into Anlu.

Huang Zu didn't dare to fight, just refused to defend the city, Liu Biao hurriedly sent Liu Pan and Wen Ping to lead the army to rescue, but was intercepted by Sun Ce with Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's two generals, and the two sides were unable to hold each other for a while, but in general, this war, Jingzhou suffered a little, not only because of the previous defeat, this time Sun Ce sent troops to seize Jiangxia, Jiangdong civil and military exhaustion, it can be said that the most elite troops in Jiangdong were gathered, Jingxiang, Wen Ping, Liu Pan is also good, but after all, they have just suffered a defeat, and their morale is not as good.

Luoyang, General's Mansion.

"Lord, if Sun Ce wins Jiangxia, he will only be separated from Nanjun by the Han River, and with the benefit of the Jiangdong Naval Army, I am afraid that he will be able to capture Nanjun in a few years." Xun You frowned and looked at Chen Mo, if Sun Ce was allowed to win Jingzhou, Hejiangdong and Jingxiang, Sun Ce could plot Bashu in the west, and Nanyang in the north, no matter how he fought, Sun Ce at that time would become a great prince who would stand side by side with the three heroes of the Central Plains, which was definitely not the ending that Chen Mo and they wanted to see.

Chen Mo looked at the battle report on the table, frowned and nodded, how Sun Ce fought this battle, Chen Mo naturally didn't know, in the water battle, Chen Mo was not proficient, but judging from the information recorded in the battle report, Sun Ce's performance in this battle was already quite eye-catching.

"In the past, he became a great enemy!" Chen Mo knocked on the table and looked at everyone: "If Jiangdong and Jingzhou are unified, then our army will be threatened in the south in the future." ”

Not to mention the grievances between Chen Mo and Sun Ce, from the topography alone, if Sun Ce wins Jingzhou, he will definitely enter Nanyang in the north, with the power of Jiangdong and Jingxiang, if a unification is formed, although Lu Bu is brave, it is difficult to compete, and if Sun Ce wins Jingzhou, the first to bear the brunt is Chen Mo, and if Sun Ce and Cao Cao join forces, Chen Mo will become a lonely army, which Chen Mo will never want to see.

"It's just that our army just wants to support Liu Biao, and Luoyang is also quite far from Jingzhou, so I am afraid it will be difficult to relieve the siege of Jingzhou." Yang Xiu groaned.

"Sun Ce is now in a state of power, and someone needs to be able to suppress him and break his invincibility." Li Ru twisted his beard and smiled: "Why don't you ask Feng Xian to lead his troops south?" With the courage of Fengxian, Sun Lang can be suppressed. ”

Chen Mo nodded, he did have this intention, but the premise was that Lu Buken made a move, Chen Mo had no benefit to give it to Lu Bu now, and looked at Li Ru and said: "Wen Wei, although I have a friendship with Lu Bu, I asked him to make a move before, it was for myself, but this time I am helping Liu Biao, I'm afraid it will ......."

Before Chen Mo asked Lu Bu to contain Cao Ren, that was the friendship between the two, the two sides were equal, but this time let Lu Bu attack Sun Ce, this is a bit of an order, Chen Mo knows Lu Bu quite well, that is a very proud person, if you go to ask Lu Bu to help with friendship, Lu Bu will help, but if you say it in a commanding tone, then Lu Bu will definitely not be happy in his heart, this is a strange existence that is unwilling to be subordinate to others but does not have much enterprising ambition, so he can only coax to come.

"Confucianism and Lu Bu still have a bit of affection, why don't you send an envoy to Nanyang by Confucianism to persuade Lu Bu to send troops?" Li Ru got up, bowed down and smiled.

At the beginning, Li Ru and Lu Bu were also considered to be Dong Zhuo's subordinates, although there was a later incident, which made the Xiliang military general quite dissatisfied with Lu Bu, but it has been so long, and in Li Ru's opinion, Lu Bu is actually the one who is being used, he doesn't have too many prejudices against Lu Bu, plus Chen Mo has a lot of friendship with Lu Bu, but he is not afraid that Lu Bu will be unfavorable to him.

"It's okay, by the way, help me send fifty war horses to him, Nanyang has no horse source, Feng Xian is good at riding and fighting, but he can't do without good horses." Chen Mo nodded and smiled.

In addition, Chen Mo also wrote a letter to drag Li Ru with him, there are a lot of correspondence between the two sides, but it is not abrupt, Chen Mo has put a lot of thought into winning over Lu Bu, but the time has not yet come, now if he rashly takes Lu Bu under his command, Liu Biao and Cao Cao are afraid that they will be alert and even united, which is not beautiful.

"Whoa." Li Ru smiled and agreed, got up to say goodbye, and prepared to go to Nanyang.

Sun Ce!

Chen Mo nodded at the table, but in his mind, he couldn't help but recall ten years ago, the hot-blooded young man of the same age as himself outside Yique Pass, back then, he just thought that this young man was a brave general's material, who would have thought that more than ten years later, he could become a figure who was enough to pry the situation in the world.

"My lord, in addition to Jingzhou, there was also turmoil in Shuzhong, and Liu Zhang said that Queen Zhao Wei led the Shuzhong clan to rise up and wanted to subvert Liu Zhang, but he was defeated and died." Xu Shu took a bamboo slip and showed it to Chen Mo: "It's just that our army doesn't have a lot of detailed arrangements in Shu, and the Shu Road is difficult to walk, so this news was only sent at this time." ”

Chen Mo nodded when he heard this, Shuzhong is a country of four stops, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the news is closed, if he can, Chen Mo naturally wants to plan Sichuan Shu, but several times with everyone deduced, he wants to capture Sichuan Shu, it will take at least five or six years, and he must be personally conquest, the unique terrain of Shu also makes it very likely that the generals who enter Shu are likely to breed the heart of the king.

It's not easy to fight in this place, but it's too easy to defend it, as long as you put a few checkpoints such as the sword gate, it will be difficult for people outside to get in, no matter who you send to fight, you can't worry, after all, people's hearts are the most fickle, especially if there are enough conditions.

Therefore, if you want to go to Shu, you must go to Shu in person, but the situation in the Central Plains will obviously not give Chen Mo five or six years to conquer in person, and therefore, Chen Mo's deployment of Shuzhong has always been to let Hanzhong Zhang Lu contain Liu Zhang, at least before the Central Plains is decided, Chen Mo will not spend energy to attack Shu.

However, it is time to plan and deploy in advance, and at the moment Chen Mo looked at the crowd: "It is appropriate to send more detailed works into Shu, in addition, Shu is not as good as the Central Plains, where the roads are closed, and the rule of officials is probably more outdated, but you can secretly search for talented and unambitious people in Shu to win over." ”

After all, in the Central Plains, the change of the family is very fast, like the Yuan family and the Yang family, the family of the four generations and the three princes of the family, only existed for more than a hundred years, and in Shu, there were many families in the pre-Qin era, which also led to the whole structure of Shu being more rigid and bloated, and it was difficult for the poor to get the opportunity to be promoted, and in the process of deduction by Chen Mo and everyone before, they agreed that if they could have some people in Shu who secretly supported Chen Mo, it would be much easier to enter Shu.

Now that the situation in the Central Plains has fallen into a three-legged stalemate, Chen Mo also feels that Shu can be used as an alternative, if it has been a stalemate, if he turns to expand Shu as the rear, he can also let himself have more abundant capital to play with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

"Whoa!" Xun You and Xu Shu nodded, now that the situation in the Central Plains is unclear, it is not a way to find a suitable place to expand from other directions.

"In addition, on the side of the Montenegrin Army, how is it progressing now?" Chen Mo rolled up the bamboo slips on the table and asked as he cleaned them up.

From before the war with Yuan Shao, Chen Mo had begun to migrate people from the Montenegrin army, the purpose was to make the Montenegrin army no longer self-sufficient, the more the Montenegrin army's mountain people moved away, the greater the Montenegrin army's reliance on Chen Mo's side, and at the same time, most of the mountain people were the families of the Montenegrin army's soldiers, and after the people of the Montenegrin army moved out, the Montenegrin army was almost controlled by Chen Mo.

After the previous battle with Yuan Shao, bandits broke out in Jizhou, which was the credit of the Montenegrin Army, so that Yuan Shao could no longer gather troops to attack, so that Chen Mo had more time to run Hanoi.

If this step is successful, then the Montenegrin Army will be able to let it go, and Zhang Yan also has some talents.

"Lord, since the fourth year of Jian'an, there have been nearly 10,000 households of people who have migrated out of Taihang Mountain, and the Black Mountain Army is still under the rule of the population, I am afraid that there are less than 1,000 households, according to the lord's previous plan, you can indeed try to negotiate with Zhang Yan about complete annexation." Xu Shu bowed and said.

Now that Chen Mo's planning around is basically over, Ma Teng Han Sui and the Montenegrin Army, which troubled Chen Mo in the early years, are now difficult to have an impact on Chen Mo, and then, if Chen Mo goes out again, he doesn't have to worry about the safety of the rear, and he can go all out to enter the Central Plains.

"Not busy." Chen Mo pondered: "In the current situation, it is not that we ask them to attach, but that they should come and join on their own, and we take the initiative to ask, but it will make them not understand the situation, just continue like this." ”

"Whoa!"