Chapter 410: The Battle of Red Cliffs

Cao Cao finally destroyed the state of Chu with his violent strength, and when the news came out, it can be said that the world was shocked, and even some of the Qin side couldn't sit still.

Cao Xuan opened the map and took a look, Cao Cao probably occupied all the territory of the Chu State north of Xiangyang, as well as some areas of the Chu State south of Xiangyang, but did not occupy the entire Chu State.

Looking at the many county towns near the south, Cao Cao didn't hit there.

However, Cao Cao still has a lot of vitality at the moment, and he is about to wave his army to stop him.

And when Cao Xing saw this, he also sighed helplessly, he sat in his position and thought about it carefully, in fact, the Qin State and the Wei State have a lot in common, at least in terms of strategy.

Both countries are powerful countries in the north, and both are ready to expand their territory and finally have a final showdown.

Originally, Cao Xing also calculated all this well, but as a result, who knew that a Han Sui ran out halfway, and Han Sui burst out with unprecedented potential in his life, and directly defeated Ma Chao strongly.

Then Han Sui drove straight into the Yongguo Kingdom directly, although Cao Xuan had ordered Chen Hu to lead the army to resist.

But then again, the butterfly effect caused by Cao Xing's crossing is not just a star, not only has it affected the fate of many big people, but even the supporting role of Han Sui seems to have been greatly sublimated.

Han Sui has been completely opposed to Cao Xing, he will not do anything now, he just wants to conquer the Liang State, because only by defeating the Liang State can his territory be expanded, and as long as the Yong State is breached, he can threaten the Qin State, so as to kill two birds with one stone, he is naturally very hardworking.

Blocked by Chen Hu's army, Han Sui adopted another strategy, that is, the Huairou strategy, in general, every time Han Sui passed through a place, he spread rumors to the people of Yongzhou.

Don't look at the Qin State sending troops there, it seems to be well-intentioned to help Liang State, but in fact, it has bad intentions.

The Qin State just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to directly destroy the entire Yongguo, and at this moment, Han Sui gave many people in the Yongguo Kingdom, as well as those nobles, a question, that is, if the Yongguo was destroyed, where would these people go? Will it take refuge in the Qin State or enter the Liang State?

Although the Liang Kingdom is located in the northwest, the economy is certainly not as prosperous as the Qin State, but then again, there are still many people in this era who follow the thing of morality and value the concept of relocating their homeland. There are even some people who are deeply influenced by Confucian culture and have always believed in the truth that the monarch must die.

For the people of Yongguo, Qin is just an outsider, but Liangguo is different, as the so-called West Liang and West Liang, Liangzhou and Yongzhou City, if one day Yongguo really falls, they prefer to be called the people of Liangguo.

Han Sui seems to have figured out the minds of the people of Yongguo, and spread rumors everywhere, so the people began to resist Qin State one after another, in their opinion, Qin State is a robber who takes advantage of the fire to rob and take advantage of the situation, and wants to take the opportunity to annex them, since this is the case, the people of Yongguo are of course not allowed.

Chen Hu's troops could not stand well in Yongguo, so they were also struggling and unable to move an inch, while Liangguo launched an offensive and accelerated the pace of destroying Yongguo.

Even Cao Xing had received countless letters of help from Ma Teng during this period, Ma Teng may not have expected that things would be so bad, he, Han Sui, who usually looks inconspicuous and can only play with some scheming tricks, has burst out with such a strong military talent at this moment, he has no resistance at all, after all, the most elite Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Yongguo has already been killed and injured.

Although Cao Xuan also knew that the battle situation ahead was very tragic, he had nothing to do about it, because the Shu Kingdom in the south was also eyeing Cao Xing there, and Zhang Ren was a tempered person.

He always thought that the last time he lost to Cao Xing, it was a shame, and in that time, their king died Liu Yan also died because of him, anyway, Zhang Ren thought so. At this moment, his heart was full of remorse and self-blame for the former King of Shu, so to put it mildly, Zhang Ren felt that he had only one way to go, inherit the legacy of the King of Shu, and fight against the Qin State to the end.

As long as there is a little change on the side of the Qin State, and there is a little sign of sending troops, Zhang Ren will definitely take advantage of the situation, and even Zhang Ren will send his junior brother Zhang Xiu to run out and take the lead again.

Therefore, in the face of the attitudes of these two countries, Cao Xing also felt a headache.

Whenever people are in trouble, don't worry, maybe just wait a while, and a different turn will come.

And this turn didn't make Cao Xing wait long, but Cao Xing couldn't help frowning when he looked at this turnaround, because this turn may be a major turning point for the world, but it may not be a good thing for him Cao Xing.

This is this matter that Cao Cao, after conquering Xiangyang, continued to advance southward with a large army, and was bound to annex Chu in one fell swoop.

Seeing Cao Cao's iron horse rolling in, Liu Bei was already trembling with fright, not knowing what to do, but Zhuge Liang, the strategist next to him, was surprisingly calm, Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei not to panic, Cao Cao's power continued to expand, even if he and Liu Bei couldn't stop it, but some people would always stop it, Zhuge Liang looked to the east.

Zhuge Liang made some inferences about Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang's inference was that now that Cao Cao was about to occupy the entire Jingzhou, there must be some forces who still did not want to see such a thing in their hearts, that is, Sun Ce, who lived in the east.

The last time Sun Ce led the soldiers and horses, and Liu Biao fought a fierce battle, and defeated it strongly, after going back, Sun Ce's reputation increased greatly, and Sun Ce also relied on his series of means to quickly pacify Jiangdong, and now, Jiangdong has all fallen into Sun Ce's grasp.

Zhuge Liang expected that Sun Ce would never look at Cao Cao and do this, Zhuge Liang already had plans to leave, and was ready to go to Dongwu to lobby well, so that Dongwu could join them to fight against Cao.

Zhuge Liang's idea was agreed by Liu Bei, but there was one thing that surprised Zhuge Liang, that is, Zhuge Liang had not yet had time to leave. The news came that shocked Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, and their plans were forced to change.

That is, without uniting anyone, Sun Ce actually went up the river and attacked directly towards Cao Cao's side.

After Cao Cao unified Jingzhou, he was bound to extend his claws to the east, which was inevitable and could be analyzed by anyone with a little military concept.

But this Sun Ce's courage is indeed big, first of all, he rashly beat Cao Cao, first, the division is unknown, and second, Cao Cao is now a behemoth, in the face of a person who is stronger than himself, it would be good not to escape, and he actually dared to take the initiative to attack, so Sun Ce's move surprised many people, and at the same time, some people began to admire Sun Ce, this Sun Ce's courage is really not covered.

And after Cao Cao got the news, he was also a little stunned in his heart, originally he thought that Sun Ce was just a junior who relied on his father's name to ascend to the throne, and there was nothing outstanding, but now he found out that Sun Ce's title of Jiangdong Xiaoba was not for nothing.

Since he Sun Ce wants to play, then continue to play, Cao Cao destroyed the Chu State, although it cost a certain amount of financial and material resources, but because of the incompetence of Mrs. Cai and Liu Cong, the Shu State directly surrendered to Cao Cao, and harvested a large number of soldiers, plus the original Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, Cao Cao felt that even at this moment, he could still fight again, so the next step was to pacify Jiangdong.

However, if you want to pacify the state of Wu, it will take a certain amount of time to stock up on food, so Cao Cao only made a preliminary deployment, let the people in front of him hold on, and he can't let Sun Ce take a step forward, and it won't be long before he will bring a large army to level the state of Wu.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang made another move, and Zhuge Liang went to Dongwu and met Sun Ce directly.

When Zhuge Liang saw Sun Ce, Zhuge Liang's eyes couldn't help but light up, the Sun Ce in front of him was not like those rich sons, although he inherited his father's business, but others were born with a majestic and heroic atmosphere, which made people have an urge to follow him, which may be the so-called personality charm.

It is precisely because of this charm and courage that Sun Ce dared to fight directly.

In fact, Zhuge Liang's purpose is also very simple, that is, he wants to persuade Sun Ce to let Liu Bei join him, and the Sun and Liu families will fight against Cao Cao together.

However, what makes Zhuge Liang a little distressed is that there seem to be people within Jiangdong who oppose Zhuge Liang's view, such as Zhou Yu standing next to Sun Ce, Zhou Yu can basically be regarded as a hot figure in Wu State now, he is a brother with Sun Ce, and the ability of the whole person is also extremely strong, whether it is military or political strategy, he is a first-class master.

Zhou Yu directly said to Zhuge Liang that if they want to fight against Cao Cao, they can only be a country in Wu, and they don't need other countries to help, not to mention that now Liu Bei is down, and he can't be regarded as a country at all.

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he also had some distress in his heart. At this moment, it is still proceeding according to the trajectory of history, and the historical Sun-Liu Alliance, Zhou Yu was not very optimistic about Liu Bei.

Even Zhou Yu directly suggested that Sun Quan ignore Liu Bei, Liu Bei, this guy has wolf ambitions, and has the opportunity to arrest and kill.

However, Sun Quan also did not listen to Zhou Yu's words for various reasons, which eventually caused Liu Bei to become bigger.

But now it's different, Sun Ce is still alive, Sun Ce and his second brother Sun Quan are completely two personalities, Sun Quan is very introverted, and Sun Ce is the kind of person who is extremely aggressive.

Under his leadership, most of his men chose the main battle. Therefore, Zhuge Liang at this moment is in a very unfavorable form.

Zhou Yu stared directly at Zhuge Liang with burning eyes, and asked Zhuge Liang, what capital does Zhuge Liang have to unite with their Wu State, Zhuge Liang was thinking about how to answer, but what he didn't expect was that Sun Ce laughed, then waved his hand, and said generously.

"Cao thief is powerful, he actually wants to stretch out his hand to our Jiangdong, I Zhou someone is the first to not agree, although I and that Uncle Liu Huang are not related, and I don't know each other, but he dares to resist the powerful Cao Cao, it is enough to prove his courage, now Cao Cao's army is coming, but it is still not surrendering, it is enough to prove that he is a hero, in this case, let Uncle Liu Huang join our army with the army, after all, one more friend is better than one more enemy!"

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he was a little stunned in his heart, and what Sun Ce showed was pride. There is no informality about these little things, and it is precisely because of this character that so many people are willing to follow him.

Zhuge Liang was very moved in his heart, and after he went back, he told Liu Bei the news, and Liu Bei also nodded, but it was also on Liu Bei's side, when he was about to go to Jiangdong with soldiers and horses, something suddenly happened in Jiangxia, that is, Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao, died of a stroke because of the death of Chu State.

Now Liu Qi's identity is still a little sensitive, and it seems a little unbelievable that he died at this time.

When Liu Bei heard the news, he was also grief-stricken, but in the end he stood up strongly, he found Liu Qi's subordinates, and announced Liu Qi's death to them.

Even Liu Bei added a fire, and when these soldiers were discouraged, he directly said that the culprit who caused Liu Qi's death was Cao Cao, Cao Cao destroyed the Chu State. It's just a wrath of heaven and resentment, and they died to get back what they deserved from Cao Cao.

As soon as the soldiers heard this, their eyes gradually brightened, they stood up, raised their arms, and shouted Liu Bei's name, Liu Bei incorporated all Liu Qi's soldiers and horses, and then Liu Bei took almost 20,000 horses and went directly to Wu.

When he saw this, Cao Xuan didn't even have to look at it to know what was going on.

While deploying his arrangements for Shu, he slowly watched the situation in Jiangdong, because Sun Ce was different from Sun Quan, Sun Ce was a brave type of character, and he directly drove the expedition in person, so this war was fought fiercely from the beginning.

Cao Cao destroyed the state of Chu and got a large territory, when he was complacent, although Sun Ce was an obstacle, but in Cao Cao's view, Sun Ce's obstacle was nothing, Sun Ce was a junior after all, where could he be compared with an old-timer like him, so he ignored everyone's opposition, led more than 100,000 troops again, and drove directly to Jiangdong, and finally the two armies fought a decisive battle in Chibi.

However, as soon as the war started, Cao Cao's head hurt a little. originally thought that Sun Ce was a soft persimmon, but he never expected that this Sun Ce turned out to be a hard bone, and he directly sent a signal to his soldiers, that is, if he does not retreat, he will not surrender, he will fight to the death, and he will not retreat to defend the state of Wu.