After Sun Ce learned Liu Biao's thoughts, he was greatly relieved.

"Liu Jingsheng agreed to an armistice, and the Jingzhou army retreated to Jingzhou, all of this can be regarded as if it had never happened, and the two sides abandoned their previous suspicions and worked together to deal with the threat of Wei Gong."

Sun Ce handed Liu Biao's letter to Zhou Yu, who took it and looked at it, and nodded with a smile.

"It seems that Liu Jingsheng is not stupid, he knows that the current situation is no longer tolerable for us to continue fighting."

"Yes, the Son of Heaven was killed, the imperial court collapsed, and the general trend of the world should be how to go, I am afraid that the strong are respected, the Duke of Wei occupies the Central Plains of Hebei, with more than 200,000 armor, and there are countless elite soldiers.

Sun Ce said calmly: "Having said that, Duke Wei is also a rare hero, if he can compete with Duke Wei on the battlefield, it is also something I would like to see, a man's husband, if this battle can fight to the death with a person like Duke Wei, what a happy thing." ”

"Definitely not now."

Zhou Yu smiled helplessly: "Now Jiangdong is in ruins, there are still many things to do, and the rebellion has not been quelled, and Bo Fu, after Xuzhou was occupied by Wei Gong, Xuzhou scholars have taken refuge in Wei Gong, and all the friends I can contact for you have taken refuge in Wei Gong, without exception." ”

Sun Ce sighed.

"This is human nature, and what is there to regret? Maybe the only one in the world who can refuse Wei Gong and take refuge with me is Gong Jin, right? ”

"What if I'm alone?"

Zhou Yu smiled bitterly: "Bo Fu, there are some things I know you don't want to do, but you have to do it, if you don't do it, the Jiangdong scholars will not accept you." ”

"That's not now!"

Sun Ce clenched his fists: "Force is fundamental, I want to use force to subdue them, and then negotiate terms with them, otherwise will this Wu country be my Wu country, or their Wu country?" Gongjin, I understand what you said, but only if you are strong, you will not be looked down upon! ”

Zhou Yu felt that what Sun Ce said was right, but for some reason, Zhou Yu felt that Sun Ce was wrong if he did this.

At the end of the first month of the fifth year of Xingping, Zhou Yu, the plenipotentiary representative of Sun Ce's side, brought a team of envoys from the state of Wu to Jiangxia County in Jingzhou, where he negotiated with Kuai Yue, the plenipotentiary envoy of Liu Biao's side, and determined the content of the covenant concluded by the two sides.

Because of the threat of a strong enemy, both sides have consciously reduced all kinds of red tape that should have been in negotiations, and directly chose the simplest and fastest way.

The two sides agreed to withdraw from each other's troops, no longer to fight, no heavy troops on the border, only patrol troops, and all troops to be placed in the north to face Guo Peng's threat.

When Guo Peng sent troops south to attack either of the two families, the other family had to send troops north to contain Guo Peng, so as to achieve the effect of encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

The two sides talked very quickly, and the whole process took only two days, and in two days, the two sides negotiated the conditions they needed, and then signed the covenant.

Jingzhou and Wu reached an alliance treaty of mutual help, faced Guo Peng's threat together, advanced and retreated together on major affairs in the world, communicated with each other, and expressed their positions together.

Their agreement was reached very quickly, and when Guo Peng had just arrived in Hanoi with his army, the agreement was reached.

Kuai Yue's side reached a very fast agreement, and Cai Mao's side and Liu Zhang's agreement was not so fast, just the envoy entered Shu is a little troublesome, and now the situation in Shu is very delicate.

Pang Xi led 40,000 Shu troops to the north to attack Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu led 20,000 Hanzhong troops to hold Hanzhong, and the outpost battle between the two sides has begun.

Pang Xi was bound to win, exerted all his energy and ability, and vowed to take Hanzhong, so that Yizhou would become complete, and it could be attacked and defended.

Yizhou's attitude towards this war is more complicated, basically supporting, of course, there are also opposition, but because Hanzhong also belongs to Yizhou, the opposition is not large.

After Liu Zhang realized the threat of Pang Xi, he also tried hard to make a balance, such as promoting Yizhou military generals Gao Pei and Yang Huai, promoting Yizhou scholar Wang Shang, etc., and then did some suppression of Dongzhou people to try to balance.

The atmosphere in Shu is very subtle because of this, and I don't know what will happen after that.

However, no matter what happens to them, Guo Peng's plan of 100,000 troops to conquer Kansai will not change and is underway.

Guo Peng held a swearing-in meeting on the first day of February in the fifth year of Xingping and took the oath to go out.

The army advanced in two ways, one was Guo Peng's main force, leading 60,000 elites to arrive in Hanoi from Yecheng, and rendezvous with Hanoi Taishou Han Hao and 10,000 Hanoi garrisons, a total of 70,000 elites.

Then they marched west together, took Hedong County on the north bank of the Yellow River, conquered the entire Hedong County, and then went south to Hongnong County.

The Second Route Army started from the sour jujube in Chenliu County, that is, the starting place of the princes to discuss Dong that year.

Unlike the last hilarious crusade, this time it's genuine.

Guo Peng took Cao Ren, the former general of Wei, as the commander of this army, made Guan Yu, the general of Zhenxi of Wei, the deputy general of Cao Ren, and ordered Chen Gong, the general of the military division, to rush to assist him, and led the 30,000 elite soldiers and horses of Chen's battalion to go on the expedition, which was also to march to Luoyang.

After Cao Ren took Luoyang, he would march all the way west to Hongnong County, go hand in hand with Guo Peng's main force, and advance westward across a Yellow River to carry out a flat attack on the Kansai region.

For this war, Guo Peng mobilized a total of 150,000 people, auxiliary soldiers, 100,000 carts, 100,000 livestock, and all the officials of the two states were mobilized.

The heads of the grass-roots villages, the county magistrates, including Cao Cao and Bao Xin, the assassins of the two prefectures, all had to work on the front line of logistics and grain transportation.

The goal of this operation was Chang'an, which was to take Chang'an, encompassing the entire Sili region, and the starting point was about 760 miles away from the final destination of Chang'an, nearly 800 li.

Since Guo Peng raised his army, he had not fought such a long distance in long-distance combat, which was an extremely severe test for the entire Wei group.

It was an unprecedentedly severe test for the bureaucratic system and management system from the top to the grassroots level of the Wei Guo Group.

A mistake in any one of these links could pose a danger to the soldiers marching on the front line.

Don't say that the enemy is not strong enough, it is easy to escape and so on, it is very safe, for Guo someone's army, the enemy is not the most dangerous enemy, the most dangerous enemy is that there is a problem with logistics, and the soldiers who rush to the front run out of food, that is the most dangerous.

Only Guo himself can defeat Guo himself, not others.

Guo deeply understands that at this point, there is no force that can defeat him by force.

But in addition to force, poor transportation, difficult terrain conditions, and the productive conditions of the population, which is difficult to obtain food on the spot, are even more formidable enemies.

It is impossible to lose to the enemy, but it is possible to lose to yourself, and the world is so fucked up.

Dispatching troops from a long distance, an offensive journey of nearly 800 miles from the end point to the starting point, this battle to conquer the west is definitely the largest unprecedented test since the establishment of Guo Peng Group.

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