"But the king may be able to promise Zhou Yu!" Guo Jiamu looked at Cao Cao playfully: "With the Wu army in the east to contain the Chu army, it can relieve the pressure on our Wei army to devour the land and population in Jingbei!" ”

"No matter what Wu Jun does, the king only needs to steadily turn Nanyang Zhuyi into my Great Wei County Governance!" Cheng Yu also said happily.

Listening to the words of the second minister, Cao Cao was willing to be admonished, and ordered with a smile: "Tell Zhou Yu that Gu Nan has been fighting for a long time, and the soldiers are tired, so he will temporarily retreat north to rest." The matter of working together to destroy Chu, Lone agreed, and Lone wanted to hunt with him in Xiangyang! ”

Zhou Yu's letter is not worth too much attention to Cao Cao. After a pause, Fang said: "The water army of the Chu State is heading north, and it is still cruising in the water. Looking at its movements, I am afraid that I will be unwilling to lose Nanyang! ”

"Naturally, I am unwilling!" Cheng Yu immediately said: "Nanyang County, with dozens of counties and a large population, has long recovered its prosperity under Liu Biao's governance. The king's seizure of Nanyang is tantamount to cutting a large piece of fat on the Chu State, how can it be discarded lightly! ”

"Nanyang is too big, and it is not easy to take it all, and then the king may be able to take Wancheng as the center, occupy all the counties in the north of Nanyang, and establish the rule of my Great Wei. In the south, Xinye is used as an outpost to threaten the state of Chu! Well, Xinye can abide by the rules, but can't abandon them! The monarchs and ministers of the Chu State are afraid that they will not let our army go south to threaten Xiangyang at any time! Guo Jia thought for a while and continued: "Although there are arrangements in the country, the king must not lead the Chinese army to stay outside, and the threat of Hu Xia and Yuan Zhao cannot be ignored!" ”

Cao Cao's retreat to the north, in addition to the difficulty of Xiangyang and the reason why the Chu State could not be destroyed suddenly, the threat of Xia and Zhao in the north was also a major cause. Although the gap between him and Zhao Guo has expanded, it is still within the controllable range, and Yuan Zhao is playing with Xia Modong, and he is powerless to entangle with Cao Wei in a short time.

The problem is still Liu Xia, Xia will Xu Rong out of the pass, Liu Gui out of the valley, and wantonly intrude on the south of the Wei River. In recent years, Xia every time he went east, he did not attack the city, did not steal the land, did not seize the people, but only killed and destroyed, and wreaked havoc on Henan's agricultural production.

Xia took advantage of the iron horse, and the city could be defended, but the people needed to cultivate mulberry weaving, how could they stand Hu Xia's "three-light policy". Cao Ren was guarding Luoyang, and some of them couldn't bear it, and many people had been moved east to Yanyu one after another. But the supply of the Luoyang army, the pressure is suddenly great!

For Luoyang, Cao Cao has already given up a little. This chicken rib is tasteless and a pity to abandon it.

The Wei army retreated northward, stayed for nearly a month, occupied more than ten counties in Beinanyang with Wancheng as the core, and after forcing back the army of Chu to the north, Han Hao and Yu Ban were stationed in Wancheng, and led the army to return north. to Henan, but Liu Gui, and Cao Ren joined the army, and retreated to the tiger prison. As soon as Wei gave up, the land of Henan suddenly became an ownerless and uninhabited land, and Liu Yuan, who heard about it, was not interested in it. It's just chicken ribs.

On the Chu side, after recapturing Xinye, it did not continue to advance northward, but strengthened the defense of the southern counties. The Wei State moved the people to the north, and the people of Chu also moved to the south to resettle. Xia Zhiwu's guard Hao Zhao also took the opportunity to seize the three counties of Nanyang Danshui, Xixian and Shunyang, which can be regarded as a piece of the pie.

Zhou Yu in the east received Cao Cao's reply and decisively withdrew his troops to Exian, and Sun Wu's army also fought for a long time, very tired, and urgently needed to rest. Of course, Zhou Yu wanted to reduce the pressure on Chu on the eastern front and facilitate his northward march to wrestle with the Wei army, but he didn't expect that there was no fight in the north, which made him quite depressed.

In this attack on Chu, Cao Wei won a lot of profits, and even Hu Xia, who played soy sauce, fished three or two small towns, but he was the only one in Eastern Wu, who fought hard for a long time, and even half of Jiangxia was not taken, let alone the hinterland of Jingxiang. Thinking about it, with Zhou Yu's open-mindedness, he couldn't help but feel jealous.

Forcibly suppressing negative emotions, Zhou Yu thought about it carefully, and Wu Guo was not suitable for the time being to fight with Chu Han. Over the years, under the rule of Sun Jian, Sun Ce's father and son, Eastern Wu has repeatedly fought foreign wars, coupled with several internal frictions, and the Chu State has taken advantage of the fire to rob, and the scholars have long been exhausted and the people's strength has been exhausted.

The war potential was almost exhausted, Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, and his prestige was not enough, and the Jiangdong Shi clan was still suspicious of the Sun clan. Recuperation is what Sun Wu needs most today. Zhou Yu is not a martial artist who is only committed to conquest and reckless military force, as a real commander, he has to think about things from the overall situation of Wu.

Secretly determined, Zhou Yu decided, Jingzhou is not feasible for the time being, and Hui Jianye admonished Sun Quan, south to Shanyue, and completely turned these barbarians who repeatedly invaded the rear into Wu Min. Those hundreds of thousands of Shanyue are a huge wealth for the Wu State, which lacks people's strength. Think about Liu Bei's suppression of Wulingman in Jingnan, which lasted several years, and there is today's stable Xiangzhou.

Of course, the ambition for Jingzhou is only temporarily restrained. Sun Wu has been in the past three generations, almost growing up and developing in the opposite direction with Jingzhou in the upper reaches, and there is almost no possibility of coexistence between the two sides.

Zhou Yu can also see that Liu Biao is dying of old age, and his life will not be long! When he dies, with the national conditions of Chu, it will inevitably be difficult to be peaceful, and that is Sun Wu's opportunity.

Withdrawing from Exian County, on the road to Jianye in the east, Zhou Yu thought a lot, and he had a lot of thoughts in his heart, for the future Wu State, he had a lot to say to Sun Quan, the king of Wu.

If Wu wants to expand, it is not enough to go north to Cao Wei, and it is not feasible to go west to Chu and Han, and to the south, in addition to Shanyue, there is also Najiaozhou to raid. Although it is narrow, it is also a state land, and I heard that its land can be two years old?

The carriage walked slowly on the uneven official road, extremely bumpy, and there were more than 200 Wu soldiers in front and behind the carriage, firmly guarded, walking silently. The pomp and circumstance of the Metropolitan Governor is not small after all.

Lifting the window curtain, Zhou Yu looked at the scenery outside, a little distracted. The counties and counties of Wu Guo encountered along the way were filled with a dilapidated atmosphere, and I sighed in my heart: Wu Guo, I really need to recuperate for a while.

Zhou Yu is not yet thirty years old, but he already has a little gray hair on top of his sideburns. Mei Zhoulang is transforming towards "Zhou Laoweng".

With the successive strikes of Wei, Wu, Chu and even Xia, the southern kingdom of China temporarily restored its calm and entered a period of relative balance. Families are preparing and waiting for the day when the balance of the situation will be upset. It depends on the old Liu Biao, when he will go to see the king of Hades.

And Liu Biao, after this difficulty, fell completely ill. I just want to recuperate in peace, and I don't want to have any more wars, especially when people are in the city.

Thinking of the danger of Xiangyang this time, he moved his mind to move the capital to Jiangling.

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In the summer of the eighth year of Qiande (203), Chang'an this year was a little hotter than in previous years, and it was hot early. A merchant traveling from the Western Regions, spanning seven or eight thousand miles from east to west, brought the news of Liu Hengjun, the king of Chen, and attracted the attention of Emperor Liu Yuan.

It has been a year since Liu Heng, the king of Chen, rode 4,000 fine horses to the Western Regions, and there has been no news. Now, there is finally a little bit of news.

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