PS: Finally finished a chapter at noon, hurry up and release it, and continue to code words at night! Now that I have to go to work, I must not be discovered by the leader.

Cao Cao went all the way south to Jingzhou, and everywhere he passed, he raised the city and surrendered, and his morale was greatly boosted.

And after Liu Qi learned about this, he hated Cai Mao even more, the hatred of killing his father and the hatred of rebellion, Liu Qi couldn't wait to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, but he knew that his own strength was weak, and there was only one way to rely on a deep ditch and a high base.

At this time, Xiangyang City was personally guarded by Liu Qi, the governor of the state, Wei Yan and Wen were hired as generals, and the two counties of Zhonglu and Caiyang on the periphery of Xiangyang were guarded by Liu Pan and Liu Hu, the nephews of Liu surnamed Liu, respectively.

Originally, Cai Mao wanted to dedicate the entire territory of Jingzhou to Cao Cao as a gift for his audience, but due to Liu Bei's reasons and many guest official factors, at this time, only a few counties in the north of Jingzhou surrendered to Cao Cao.

Cai Mao had always underestimated this weak son Liu Qi, who had almost never been on the battlefield, so he asked Cao Cao for his life to personally lead the army to level Jingxiang and capture the son Liu Qi under the command of Cao Gong.

Cai Mao led an army of 20,000 and set up camp outside Xiangyang to Xiangyang, while Cao Cao cooperated and ordered Zhang Liao to lead 7,000 troops between Xiangyang and Zhonglu to cut off the connection between Liu Qi and Liu Pan; At the same time, he ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 10,000 troops to block between Xiangyang and Caiyang counties to cut off the connection between Liu Qi and Liu Hu.

This is a common strategy to deal with the horn formation, Cao Cao relied on his strong strength to crush Liu Qi's formation, Cai Mao originally thought that this time it was foolproof, but the two strong attacks on Xiangyang were countless casualties.

Similarly, Liu Qi's own losses were still high, so he had no choice but to ask Mr. Kuai Yue to invite his imperial uncle Liu Bei to Jingzhou to solve his urgent needs.

Kuai Yue replied that the emperor's uncle Liu Bei would lead troops into Jingzhou to fight against Cao Cao in the near future, and Liu Qi's confidence increased greatly and he decided to defend Xiangyang to wait for reinforcements.

But what Liu Qi didn't know was that Cao Cao had personally led a large army around to Jiangxia City, which was adjacent to Jiangdong. Once Jiangxia is occupied by Cao Cao, then Liu Bei will face Cao Thief alone, and he will not be able to join hands with Liu Qi.

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Eighty percent of Liu Bei's real army was actually swallowed at the mouth of the three rivers.

Strictly speaking, Sanjiangkou is not a county at all, but a port. This port is adjacent to the Yangtze River, and it is easy to reach Jiangxia City by crossing the river.

From the moment Cao Cao led the army out, in fact, the intelligence system under Mi Zhu already knew it, and since he traveled to the late Han Dynasty, Liu Bei found more and more that communication was difficult at that time. In order to make up for such a shortcoming, Liu Bei ordered people to train a lot of carrier pigeons, and the role of carrier pigeons played at this time.

Liu Bei got the movement of Cao Cao's troops at the first time, so he hurriedly ordered Zhou Yu and Pang Tong, who were stationed at the mouth of the Sanjiang River, to lead the army north to Jiangxia City.

At this time, Jiangxia already belonged to Liu Bei, but Cao Cao didn't know it at all!

Jiangxia City was temporarily led by Wei Yan's brother Wei Lin and Huang Chuan, a descendant of the Huang family, and after Liu Bei came to Jiangxia City, he directly ordered someone to kill Huang Chuan without any reason, thus completely controlling the defenders in Jiangxia City.

Jiangxia City, above the main hall.

Liu Bei wore a golden helmet and golden armor. The sword hangs from the waist, standing on the top, and the next is a civil and military, which is also majestic and proud.

Liu Bei pressed the sword in his left hand, crossed his waist with his right hand, looked around the civil and military circles, and said: "I just got the information, Cao Cao led an army of more than 100,000 people to cross the Yangtze River and go directly to Jiangxia around noon tomorrow, what can the generals do?" ”

On the side, the corners of Zhou Yu's mouth rose slightly. Standing up, he arched his hand and said, "Lord! Although Cao's army was numerous, most of them were northern foot soldiers, and the northern foot soldiers were good at cavalry and field warfare. But he didn't practice water warfare, the method of water warfare is not a day's work, according to the last general's opinion, the reason why Cao Thief came in such a hurry this time is that he hopes to be able to cross the Yangtze River before the lord arrives in Jiangxia, and avoid his own shortcomings. ”

Liu Bei nodded as if he had realized something. I still agree with Zhou Yu's opinion.

Zhou Yu saw that Liu Bei did not object, and continued: "But the Cao thief would never have expected that the lord had already ordered us to garrison Jiangxia in advance at the moment he set off to Jiangxia. ”

All the generals were inspired by Zhou Yu's generous speech, and they all nodded in praise.

Zhou Yu took the opportunity to arch his hand and said: "Lord! The last general asked for orders and led 20,000 troops into Chibi, and if he couldn't break the thief, he was willing to apologize for his crime with death. ”

Guan Yu, who was on the other side, was a little angry, and also stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Brother! Just a Cao Cao, giving up the war horse and fighting the boat, the younger brother is willing to lead an army of 15,000, and he will definitely let the thief Cao Cao die in the belly of the fish. ”

Zhang Fei, who was behind Guan Yu, also stood up and shouted: "Second brother said well!" I, Zhang Fei, am willing to help my second brother. ”

Zhao Yun, Zhang He, and Gao Feng also flashed out and hugged their fists and said, "We are willing to help General Guan!" ”

And behind Zhou Yu, a group of generals also flashed out, seeing them as Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Lu Meng, Chen Wu and others, glaring at Guan Yu on the side angrily, clenching his fists and shouting: "Lord! We are willing to help General Zhou. ”

What was originally an exciting battle costume, but at this time, it turned into a power struggle within the group.

Liu Bei vaguely felt a hint of crisis, although the Sun-Liu Alliance won the final victory in the Battle of Chibi, but the process was arduous, and the friction was endless, and now he annexed Jiangdong, so that the two soldiers who should have been two camps forcibly softened together, then the contradictions between them will be more prominent.

This is an inevitable problem, and it is also a problem that needs to be addressed urgently.

Historically, the internal gang forces of Shu Han are the most fierce among the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, the veteran faction representative Sun Qian, the Jingzhou faction representative Zhuge Kongming, the Yizhou faction representative Huang Quan, and the Liangzhou faction representative Ma Chao, who has joined the last to join, each of them has their own struggles, intrigue for rights and interests, and finally after Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, the contradictions intensified and buried the entire Shu Han Empire.

Today's incident is a signal, Liu Bei is very keenly aware of it, no matter what, Liu Bei will never allow such a fierce internal factional struggle to happen.

"Yuzhou enters Shu, Jingchu is expensive!"

Such a historical assessment will no longer exist!

At this time!

Liu Bei's heart was quite complicated, but there was still a calm face on his face, and after a pause, Liu Bei waved his hand to signal the two sides to retreat temporarily, and said indifferently: "Yun Chang and Gong Jin have this heart, which is really my Liu Bei's blessing, but the art of war has clouds: 'Soldiers, major affairs of the country, must not be overlooked', Gong Jin lives in Jiangdong, and the water war can be said to be the first person in the world, and Gong Jin should be the lead singer in this war." ”

On the side, Zhou Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly hugged his fists and thanked him: "Yu will not live up to his mission!" ”

On the other side, Guan Yu was obviously very unconvinced, and was about to say something, Liu Bei interrupted: "But Yun Chang is also experienced in a hundred battles and proficient in the art of war, so you will act as Zhou Yu's deputy to assist Gong Jin in fighting against Cao thief!" ”

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Zhang Fei behind him was the first to be unconvinced, and directly scolded: "What is the identity of my second brother, what is the identity of Zhou Yu's boy, be his assistant"

Liu Bei glanced at Zhang Fei viciously, and dropped a sentence: "Then you can practice at home with peace of mind."

Before the word soldier could be spoken, Guan Yu hurriedly clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Brother, don't worry, my younger brother should act as General Zhou's deputy." After that, the phoenix eyes glanced at Zhou Yu slightly, quite contemptuous.

And Zhou Yu is also a proud posture, turning a blind eye to Guan Yu's contempt and not hearing it.

Since the patriarch Guan Yu has agreed to act as a subordinate, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others will also not say anything, even if they are unwilling, they will definitely not talk about it.

Liu Beiyou ordered: "Order Zhou Yu to be the governor of the navy, Guan Yu to be the deputy governor of the navy, Tian Feng to be the supervisor of the army, and lead 30,000 troops to enter Chibi, and be sure to defeat the Cao thief at noon tomorrow!" ”

The generals clasped their fists and shouted: "No! ”

Liu Bei waved his hand: "Let's get ready to go." ”

Everyone retreated, and Liu Bei gave Lu Su and Tian Feng a disgrace, and the two stayed to wait for the lord to ask. (To be continued.) )