For a reader who asked why the update stopped, although I feel sorry, I am still very happy, indicating that there are still people who like it. It's about to be the New Year again, so update the shrimp as much as possible, and promise that there will be no eunuchs, and the battle with Cao Cao and Dongwu in Jingzhou is to be capitalized

The crooked arrow earned me enough power, and Shana looked incredulous when she saw me.

I thought to myself, "Just wait and see!" Even more incredible is yet to come! ”

I brought 500 of my soldiers back to Shana's camp and told her that I could order someone to set up camp and wait for the Wu soldiers to withdraw. Shana saw my hand before, and although she still didn't believe what I said this time, she didn't refute me as directly as before. She just asked me, "How when?" ”

I looked at the sun and told her very frankly, "Before the sun sets." ”

In fact, the Wu soldiers retreated far faster than I thought, and I was sure that there must be hidden Wu troops around Pan Zhang's camp, because Pan Zhang's retreat was not cautious at all, and he did not have the slightest scruple that I would pursue him, and he did not even demolish the strong camp, but quickly withdrew his men and horses, and soon, I no longer saw a Wu soldier in my sight.

The reason why Pan Zhang withdrew so quickly was naturally related to the letter I tied to the arrow. In the letter, I didn't go around in any circles, and told Pan Zhang very straightforwardly: I know all the careful thoughts of Lu Meng wanting to lure me into attacking his camp, and then hoping to take Wuling and go north to attack Nanjun, and tell him to get out of Wuling with Lu Meng quickly, otherwise, I will stick to his camp and not fight or retreat, so that he can't get out if he wants to!

Shana was stunned by Wu Bing's withdrawal, and when she asked me what I had written in the letter, I pretended to be relaxed and told her, "Nothing? I just wrote their military plan to them, and they saw that they didn't have any more drama, so they had to withdraw in disgrace! ”

After the Wu army withdrew, I also led the troops back to Wuling, of course, before returning to the army, I did not forget to bring Xie Xian back to Wuling, saying that there was something important to discuss, but after returning to Wuling, I had to eat and drink for him, and I only sent people to continue to listen to the movements of the Wu army.

Sure enough, not long after Pan Zhang left Hanshou, news came from the direction of Dongting Port that Lü Meng's troops began to appear in Dongting in large numbers, and boarded the Wu army ships that had been waiting there for a long time and headed for Yiyang. Lu Su, who received reinforcements, began to counterattack Guan Yu, and after several victories and defeats between the two sides, Guan Yu, who was short of troops, turned to the defensive, tightly held the pass to Nanjun, and waited for reinforcements from the Sichuan army.

In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, in May 213 AD, Liu Bei's military preparations in Shuzhong were all completed, and Huang Zhong was ordered to guard Jiameng Pass, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong stayed in Chengdu, and he personally led an army of 50,000 with Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and other generals out of Chuankou to aid Nanjun.

Soon after Liu Bei's army arrived in Yiyang, a frontal battle broke out between the two armies of Wu and Shu in Yiyang, and the Wu army, which was weak in land warfare, was defeated, retreated to Lukou, and blocked the Yangtze River with a water army, opposite our army across the river.

Because the reinforcements from Sichuan were all land forces, and the Jingzhou Navy was not long in construction, it was impossible to engage the Wu army on the water, so the two sides fell into a state of confrontation across the Yangtze River, Liu Bei could not attack Lukou on the one hand, and on the other hand, he could not send a large number of troops to Wuling through the Yangtze River to recover Guiyang, Lingling and Changsha.

In September 213 (the eighteenth year of Jian'an), Wei Kang's subordinates Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others conspired to defeat Ma Chao, occupy Jicheng, and kill Ma Chao's entire family. Ma Chao was furious, but he couldn't return to Jicheng, so he attacked Licheng and killed Jiang Xu's mother. Yang Fu and seven of his brothers came to fight Ma Chao, but they were all killed by Ma Chao, and Yang Fu himself was seriously injured. Ma Chao had no home to return to, so he had to defect to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.

Cao Cao took advantage of the fact that Liu Bei and Sun Quan's armies were gathered in Jingzhou, and ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 100,000 troops out of Chang'an, as the front to join Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others to attack Hanzhong, and the 300,000 self-unified army set out from Xuchang to Wancheng, intending to attack Hanzhong from the east through the Shangyong counties.

Zhang Lu urgently prepared for war, and sent an urgent letter to Liu Bei for help. Although Zhang Fei and Pang Tong were in charge of Shuzhong at this time, because Liu Bei took most of the troops to Jingzhou to fight against Sun Quan, Shuzhong was just settled, and the remaining troops in Shuzhong were only enough to barely maintain the stability of Shuzhong, and they were unable to send troops to rescue Zhang Lu.

In this way, Liu Bei was forced to send an envoy across the river to negotiate peace with Sun Quan, but Cao Cao's conquest of Hanzhong was not only known to him Liu Bei, Sun Quan was overjoyed when he knew it, and his reply became very tough, saying that it was okay to negotiate peace, but Jingzhou must be handed over to Eastern Wu. Liu Bei thought about it, what else to discuss? If he directly gave up Jingzhou's entire army and withdrew to Shuzhong, this is too bearish! It can be said that there is a lot of rage.

But if you don't negotiate peace, you won't be able to rescue Zhang Lu, and if you don't rescue Zhang Lu, you'll lose Hanzhong, and then Shuzhong, a base camp that is just not easy to get, will be in danger. Dongwu also happened to grasp his thoughts, and said that he wanted to take back all Jingzhou.

Guan Yu proposed that Liu Bei return to the army to rescue Zhang Lu first, and he would lead the Jingzhou army to defend Nanjun to the death, maintain the status quo, and wait for Liu Bei to help Zhang Lu repel Cao Cao and then come to a decisive battle with the Wu army. Liu Bei hesitated, and although Kong Ming objected to this, there seemed to be no better way at the moment. So the confrontation between our army and the Wu army had to be consumed like this, Kong Ming even said that he wanted to go to Jiangdong to be a lobbyist in person, to say that Sun Quan would lower the conditions, but Liu Bei refused to let him live or die, for fear that my husband would never come back.

In October, Cao Cao's army reached Shangyong, packed up ships on the water, prepared the waterway, and marched to attack Hanzhong. At this time, Xiahou Yuan had already led the troops to Yangping Pass, Ma Chao and the battle, Xiahou Yuan singled out, according to Yang Fu's strategy, Yang Fu as a bait to lure Ma Chao to pursue away from Yangping Pass for dozens of miles, and then ambush the troops to break it, Ma Chao was defeated, tens of thousands of people only he and his younger brother Ma Dai led dozens of horsemen to break through and escape back to Yangping Pass, so far they could only hold on, and Xiahou Yuan led the army every day to attack very urgently. In addition, Cao Cao's army could attack Hanzhong from the east at any time, and the people in Hanzhong were panicked for a while. In order to stabilize Zhang Lu and prevent him from surrendering out of fear, Liu Bei could only order Huang Zhong, who was guarding Jiameng Pass, to send 3,000 troops to Hanzhong, although it was a drop in the bucket, but he had already done his best.

If Liu Bei is in a stalemate with Eastern Wu like this, Hanzhong will undoubtedly lose, and if Shu is taken away at that time, not only will it collapse, but it will be difficult for Eastern Wu to survive alone, but just let Liu Bei give up all Jingzhou to Eastern Wu, not only Liu Bei can't get over this hurdle emotionally, but many of our Wenchen generals are Jingzhou people, and it is even more difficult to accept.

Thanks to the fact that the governor of Eastern Wu was Lu Su at this time, he persuaded Sun Quan to start from the overall situation of resisting Cao, and came to Liu Bei's military camp alone, proposing that the two sides should first take the area under the actual control of both sides as the boundary, and wait for Liu Bei to help Zhang Lu repel Cao Cao, and then return the rest of Jingzhou's southern counties and Wuling counties after obtaining Liangzhou. Although this plan was better than giving all of Jingzhou to Eastern Wu, Liu Bei was still emotionally unacceptable, and inevitably asked Kong Ming to bargain with him. In the end, it was decided that the two sides would be bounded by Xiangshui, and that Nanjun plus Wuling and Lingling to the west of Xiangshui would be temporarily owned by Liu Bei, and that Jiangxia, Changsha, and Guiyang counties east of Xiangshui would be owned by Sun Quan, and that the remaining three counties of Jingzhou would be handed over to Eastern Wu when Liu Bei captured Liangzhou.

In exchange, after Liu Bei and Sun Quan signed the agreement, Eastern Wu was to send the main force to Lujiang, attack Shouchun to contain Cao Cao's forces, and attract him to help, so as to reduce the pressure on Liu Bei to fight against Cao Cao in the Hanzhong area, and then help him capture Liangzhou. In this way, because Dongwu also contributed and handed over all Jingzhou to Dongwu, our side can also feel better emotionally.

In this way, Liu Bei and Sun Quan soon signed and drew on the documents in duplicate, and the Eastern Wu naval army began to lift the blockade of the Yangtze River, and retreated the army in Lingling to Guiyang, and the main force stationed in Lukou also began to march towards the Lujiang River in batches to prepare for the attack on Shouchun. As the Wuling Taishou closest to Lingling, Liu Bei also began to transfer the army back to Shuzhong batch by batch, and on the other hand, he ordered me to send troops to Lingling to receive it first, and then hand over Lingling Taishou to the Lingling Taishou sent by him later.