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The stars have changed, the years have changed, and now it is the first month of the tenth year of Han Jian'an in 205 AD.

The people of Xudu are immersed in the joy of the New Year, because of Cao's 'Cao' governance and Qingming, at least the people in Xuchang City can still live a peaceful and contented life in this 'chaotic' world, and they can also enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of the New Year.

Two years have passed since the three-front war, and in the first year, Cao Cao's policy of recuperation and recuperation has been thoroughly implemented, and he has not taken any action outside except to deal with a few internal political enemies.

But in the second year, that is, in the ninth year of Jian'an, Cao 'Cao' resolutely launched a full-scale attack on Jingzhou.

In that three-front battle, although Cao 'Cao' suffered a lot of losses, Ma Teng, Liu Biao and Sun Jian also suffered their own losses.

Cao 'Cao' sits on the entire north, has a profound heritage, and the speed of recovery of vitality is naturally faster than that of other princes. A year has passed, Cao's army has been replenished, and Cao's army has a lot of generals who are good at training, even if it is a newly recruited soldier, it has a good combat power for a period of time. As for Jingzhou and other places, they are not so optimistic, not to mention the number of army replenishment, and the combat power of the new army is not high. After discussing with Guo Jia and other advisers, Cao Cao decided to take advantage of the fact that his strength had recovered slightly, and the strength of the rest of the princes had not yet recovered, to launch an offensive and 'swing' him in one fell swoop.

Cao's primary target was Jingzhou, because Jingzhou was the slowest to recover among the three princes.

Before the three-front war, Jingzhou had 200,000 troops, but 100,000 of them were naval troops.

Of the remaining 100,000 troops, Liu Biao sent 70,000 to attack Wancheng, but as a result, the entire army was wiped out.

Within a year, Liu Biao's new army was only 20,000, and the combat power of these 20,000 was extremely low.

Now is the best time to attack Jingzhou, although Jingzhou's total military strength is still 150,000, but the 100,000 naval army can only be on the Yangtze River, if it is pulled to the land to fight, its single combat strength may not be comparable to the 20,000 new army.

In other words, if Cao Cao' crusaded against Jingzhou at this time, he would only face 30,000 infantry troops.

Cao 'Cao' personally led an army of 100,000 people, with Xiahoudun, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Yu Ban and others as generals, and went south to attack Jingzhou.

In the previous three-front war, although the situation was very urgent for Cao Cao', after all, his subordinates were like clouds, and there would eventually be generals who failed to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield. Moreover, at the time of the three-front war, the situation in Xuchang was also very unclear, and all kinds of forces saw that Cao 'Cao' was in a critical situation, and they were all looking for opportunities to fall into the ground. These forces more or less have their own strength, if they make 'chaos' together, the consequences are unimaginable, Cao 'Cao' needs to have sufficient force around him, enough to deal with all changes 'chaos', to ensure that Xuchang will not fall into turmoil'.

And this time to attack Jingzhou, Cao 'Cao' brought the generals who did not participate in the last war, so that they had the opportunity to be promoted through meritorious service.

Attacking Jingzhou, the battle was very smooth at first, and the only 30,000 infantry troops that Jingzhou could rely on were easily annihilated by Zhang He's halberd warriors and Xiahoudun, Zhao Yun and other departments, and 20,000 new troops were also wiped out in the battle with Yu Ban. Liu Biao, who was extremely panicked, was busy adding "chaos" and transferred half of the naval army guarding Jiangxia to the north of Jingzhou, but the result was that the land combat ability of this group of naval troops was too poor, and Cao 'Cao' ordered Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, the rising stars of the Cao clan, to lead 10,000 troops and defeat the 50,000 naval army.

Xinye fell, Fancheng fell, and even Xiangyang could not be held in the end, and fell into the hands of Cao's army, and Liu Biao fled to Jiangling under the desperate protection of a cadre of 'guards'.

However, the Jiangling garrison only has a total of 5,000 left, and Cao's 'Cao' army has attacked, and it is not only the city that is broken.

At this time, Liu Biao fell into complete despair, and after sitting in Jingzhou for so many years, he still couldn't hold it, and finally changed hands.

However, just when Cao 'Cao' thought that he could take Jingzhou into his pocket, Sun Jian suddenly 'inserted' a kick.

Thanks to Liu Biao, he transferred half of the naval army, which greatly reduced Jiangxia's defense capability. Zhou Yu naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and immediately led a heavy army to take Jiangxia in one go.

After the occupation of Jiangxia, Zhou Yu was not satisfied, and soon turned his attention to the four counties of Jingnan - Changsha, Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang.

Jingzhou's forces have long been dwarfed, and almost all the soldiers who can pull the rear to the front line have been transferred, leaving only three or four thousand men in each city to deal with the possible barbarian 'chaos'. In this case, the four counties of Jingnan were naturally unable to cope with the invasion of Sun Jian's army and fell one by one.

And it was Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi who captured the four counties of Jingnan! Although they were unwilling to be Zhou Yu's pawns, as long as Liu Bei was still in Jiangdong for a day, they had no choice.

After Cao Cao' captured Jiangling and captured Liu Biao and a number of important ministers in Jingzhou, he also learned that Sun Jian's army had captured Jiangxia and Jingnan counties, and he was of course furious about this.

He fought hard, Sun Jian actually took the opportunity to pick the fruits of victory, which is unbearable!

However, Zhou Yu's defense in Jiangxia was very tight, and in the original three-line war, Jiangdong suffered the least losses. After the grain and grass were burned, the Jiangdong army retreated without hesitation, compared to the Jingzhou army, which was wiped out, the strength of the Jiangdong army was preserved a lot, so now in the face of Cao Cao', there is no fear.

Although Cao Cao's strength at this time was still much better than Sun Jian's, the goal of his trip was only on Liu Biao's Jingzhou, and he didn't expect Jiangdong to 'insert' a bar horizontally, so he only brought 100,000 troops. If it is to crusade against Jiangdong, then Sun Jian is naturally not Cao Cao's opponent, but now that Cao Cao's army is only 100,000 people, it is not so simple to bargain in front of the Jiangdong army.

You must know that Zhou Yu also brought almost 100,000 troops with him on this expedition, and there are many generals around him. Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai, Tai Shici, these famous Jiangdong generals should all appear on the battlefield, plus Zhang Fei and Chen Dao, it can be said that there are many talents. In terms of the strength of the Cao and Sun armies, there is not much difference in the strength of the generals of the two sides, and the combat power of the two sides on the battlefield is almost equal. Cao 'Cao' attacked Jiangxia several times, but in the end he returned in vain, and he also lost two generals.

Cao 'Cao' knew that the troops he brought on this trip could not defeat Sun Jian's army and swallow the entire Jingzhou, so he could only withdraw his troops first after arranging garrisons in Jiangling and Nanjun.

Cao 'Cao' couldn't capture Jiangxia, but Zhou Yu couldn't do anything further to capture Nanjun, so a huge Jingzhou was divided equally by Cao 'Cao' and Sun Jian. ~