Liu Bei's defeat shook the world, which was a heavy blow to Cao Cao, but it was a good thing for Sima Yi, because in this way he could realize his strategy of attacking the Japanese state, but now Cao Cao is very wary of him, and he has to keep his light for the time being, and on the other hand, he is also secretly marrying Cao Cao's heir Cao Pi.

For Liu He, this was actually expected for a long time, although he didn't know when Liu Bei would be defeated, but he had already made preparations in all aspects.

As soon as the news of Liu Bei's defeat came, Zhang Xiu, the assassin of Jingzhou, immediately ordered Xu Huang to lead his troops to seize the Jiangbei part of Fuling, Badong and Yidu and Jianping counties in accordance with Liu He's pre-arrangement.

"Gong Jin, now is not the time for us to fight a decisive battle with Liu He, once the battle starts, we will have to fight Liu Bei and Liu He at the same time, at that time, even if we have rivers and natural dangers, we will definitely be defeated in the end. Therefore, the most important thing we have to do now is to expand the results of the war, occupy the entire Jiaozhou, and try our best to seize the land of Yizhou, even if it is to occupy one more county, which is also our income, which can represent a lot of taxes and sergeants. ”

Sun Quan's purpose was obvious, to avoid war with Liu He as much as possible, and at the same time to take advantage of the great victory to quickly expand the results of the war, occupy Liu Bei's land, accumulate wealth, and lay a good foundation for the next step of expansion.

And another strategist, Zhuge Jin, strongly advised Sun Quandao: "Lord, although Liu Xuande was defeated, but there is still a considerable part of the strength in Yizhou, and the people's hearts have not been lost, if you want to completely seize Yizhou, it will cost a huge price, and this price is definitely not what we want to see, so, Xia Guan suggested, we should now try to avoid restraint, it is best to be lenient, in order to strive to turn the enemy into an ally again, the two sides form an alliance to resist Liu He, this Liu He has now seized a large area of land in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, In the whole north, only Xuzhou and Qingzhou to the south of the river remained, and in this case, it would be much more useful to win over an ally than to simply occupy the other party's land. ”

However, Zhuge Jin's golden and jade words were not listened to by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, only to see Zhou Yu sneering: "At the beginning, our tripartite alliance with Cao Cao was not enough to defeat Liu He's army, let alone a disabled Liu Bei and a half-disabled Cao Cao?" Now for us, there is only one way to confront Liu He, that is, to take the land south of the Yangtze River, rely on the danger of the river, and compete with Liu He, and at the same time slowly develop internal affairs and improve strength, hehe, don't hide from Ziyu, we have now also learned the production technology of making Quyuan ploughs and other farm tools, plus a large number of people who moved from the north because of the war, and the methods and means of assimilating barbarians that we learned from Liu He, it only takes another ten years to build the entire Jiangnan region into the granary of the world. ”

Sun Quan nodded and agreed with Zhou Yu's words, so he appointed Zhou Yu as the Taishou of Nanjun and ordered him to guard Jiangling, and at the same time ordered Cheng Pu to be the assassin of Jiaozhou and the general of Pingxi, and ordered him to lead an army of 50,000 people, under the banner of justice for Liu Zhang, take a boat from Jiangling to Wuling, and then attack Ba County in Yizhou through Wuling, and then attack Jiangyang and Qianwei, and enter Chengdu to completely eliminate Liu Bei's forces.

Sun Quan's course of action was quickly implemented, and the news was quickly transmitted to Liu He by the spies.

"Lord, now that Sun Quan has gone all out to seize Liu Bei's Yizhou land, will we continue to expand the results of the battle and attack Chengdu from Badong?" Hearing the news that Sun Quan had launched a full-scale attack, Xu Chu was even more anxious to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions because he had just returned to Shun, so he hurriedly said to Liu He.

But seeing Liu He smiled: "Don't be busy first, hehe, although Sun Quan looks like a strong soldier and has the power of victory, but it is not easy to occupy Yizhou, don't forget, there is also a Zhuge Liang there, and a Zhang Fei, as long as this article and one military cooperation, Sun Quan will not be able to break through Chengdu even if he has an army of 100,000, do you remember the stone formation laid by Zhuge Liang at the foot of Dingjun Mountain?" Not to mention anything else, just that stone henge can make Zhou Yu helpless, so this time Sun Quan can take the southern region of Yizhou at most, and even Ba County may not be able to capture it, so Liu Bei's strength is weakened very limited, and for several counties in the south of Yizhou, there is no difference between it and not, those places are all barbarian tribes, the local barbarians are barbaric and fierce, and they do not obey the king, Sun Quan wants to get those places, but it takes a lot of energy. ”

"So what are we going to do? Could it be that he watched Sun Quan's strength grow and was indifferent? Xu Chu was still a little anxious about this, and asked.

But seeing Liu He's mysterious smile, he said lightly: "It won't be long before you know that sometimes it is more useful to keep an opponent than to eliminate an opponent, and now that Sun Quan is attacking Liu Bei's Yizhou, the contradictions between them will be endless, wouldn't it be nice for us to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?" Hehe, both Zhou Yu and Sun Quan really underestimated the potential of the Shu army, and by the time they came to their senses, it was too late. ”

"But ......" Xu Chu was still confused, and couldn't help but want to speak.

But seeing Pei Yuanshao quietly pulled the corner of Xu Chu's clothes, he made a look, and whispered in his ear: "Second Brother Xu, do you know, the lord has always expected the enemy to be the first, and he likes to use those methods of killing people without seeing blood, you should still remember the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao finally defeated Yuan Shao, but in the end Hebei became the lord's bag, now since the lord is not ready to take the opportunity to seize Yizhou, then he must have other ideas, you can rest assured, under the lord's account, there is no worry about no war exploits, especially the lord's pro-barracks, Often, those tough battles are fought by us. ”

"Haha, Pei Yuanshao is right, Zhong Kang, you can rest assured, the battle merits will definitely make you soft, but not now, even if we make war merits, we must try not to damage our own strength, and now the competition between Sun Quan and Liu Bei is an opportunity, I want to design for them to fight to the death, and I just need to cheer for them." Liu He patted Xu Chu's shoulder and said mysteriously.

"Come on, what does that mean?" Xu Chu looked at Pei Yuanshao with a puzzled face.

Pei Yuanshao also spread his hands at this time and shook his head, indicating that he didn't know what was going on with this matter? However, he said with a smile: "This kind of thing is definitely not something that a big man like us can think through, the idea is the matter of the lord and those military advisors, our task is mainly to pick up the sword and kill the enemy, so I don't bother to think about it next year, as long as I follow the lord's orders, it is always right." ”