Immediately after, Liu Bei's army began to launch a fierce attack on Yufu County, and it went very smoothly, only half an hour, the defenders Zhang Ren and Yan Yan abandoned the city and fled to Jingzhou by water. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Liu Bei did not order anyone to chase after him, but ordered a large army to be assembled, and in the name of avenging Guan Yu, he set out to Jiangling.

That night, another piece of news came, so that Liu Bei was completely mad, it turned out that Sun Quan's army did not converge after getting Wuling and Jiangling, but continued to attack non-stop, and his general Cheng Pu led 8,000 soldiers to take Guiyang and Lingling with lightning speed.

Almost at the same time, Sun Quan sent the generals Chen Wu, Dong Xi, and Xu Sheng to lead the army to attack Jiaozhou, and occupied the four counties of Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, and Hepu respectively, and Liu Bei appointed Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Lai Gong was killed in battle, Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju fled, Yulin Taishou Xue Zong surrendered, and then Xue Zong personally went to Jiaozhi to persuade Jiaozhi Taishou Shixie to surrender, in just a few days, the entire Jiaozhou was left with Jiuzhen, Rinan and Zhuya, the three counties did not surrender, but these three counties were basically semi-independent counties, and were separated by Jiaozhi and other counties, Zhuya County is even more isolated overseas, and even if these three counties are still loyal to Liu Bei, they will not be able to bring Liu Bei the slightest benefit.

Liu Bei's hard work for several years to get the land was once taken away by Sun Quan, the anger in his heart towards Sun Quan had already reached its peak, and he was surprised to learn that although his second brother Guan Yu was captured by Liu Hesheng, but he was treated well, Liu He also hinted to Sun Quan, wait until the traffic is smooth to return Guan Yu, so Liu Bei immediately ordered all the armies to speed up the assembly, be sure to complete the assembly within ten days, and recapture the lost land at all costs.

At this time, Zhuge Liang bitterly persuaded Liu Bei: "Our biggest enemy at present is actually Liu He, I hope that the lord can stay calm, rebuild an alliance with Sun Quan, and fight against Liu He together, in this way, although we lose a large area of land in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, we can concentrate our forces to seize Hanzhong, and then seek to seize Guanzhong, and realize the desire to revive the Han family." ”

However, at this time, Liu Bei could no longer listen to Zhuge Liang's advice, he insisted on leading the army to attack Sun Quan, requisitioned 120,000 troops, claimed to be 300,000, except for leaving 20,000 people each on the southwest border and Baishui Pass in the north to guard, almost all the troops were mobilized.

"The lord is going to make a desperate bet, if it fails, I'm afraid Bashu will change hands......" Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh when he saw Liu Bei make up his mind, but now he had no choice but to decide to do his best to save his life, but also to help Liu Bei undefeated, or minimize losses, even if his grand strategy of uniting Sun Quan and Cao Cao to fight against Liu He could not be realized, he couldn't take care of it at this time.

However, what is surprising is that there is no Zhuge Liang in the list of expeditions this time, not even Fa Zheng, and there is only one Zhang Song with the highest resourcefulness.

In Liu Bei's words, leaving Zhuge Liang was to let him help raise grain and grass materials, and the supply of the front line must not be cut off, and the purpose of leaving Fazheng was to let Fazheng be responsible for guarding Baishui Pass and strictly guarding Huang Zhong in Hanzhong.

However, Zhuge Liang knew Liu Bei's true thoughts, that is, without him, he would still be able to fight, and he would also win a big victory.

Zhuge Liang immediately sent someone to write a letter to Fa Zheng, asking Fa Zheng to persuade Liu Bei, in Zhuge Liang's opinion, he is now not trusted by Fa Zheng, and in this case, he can only admit this reality, hoping to persuade Liu Bei to change his mind through Fa Zheng.

However, after all, Fa Zheng is still in Chengdu, not too close, and it took nearly ten days to go back and forth, at this time the grain and grass have been prepared, and the army has been assembled, Liu Bei naturally will not change his mind easily, so although he feels that what Fa Zheng said makes sense, Liu Bei still did not change his mind, and ordered the army to start setting off for Jiangling early the next morning.

In this battle, he wanted to seize Jiangling first, and then cross the river to occupy Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang, and Nanhai, so as to encircle the other counties of Jiaozhou and realize his strategy of "closing the door and fighting dogs".

At the same time, Sun Quan was also incredulous when he heard that Liu Bei had mobilized so many troops to fight for Jingnan and Jiaozhou, and muttered: "Isn't Liu Da'er crazy?" Didn't he know that the result of this would only be to make him perish faster? Although he seems to be numerous and aggressive now, there is only one state left to support him in the battle, and even one state is incomplete, because Hanzhong is still in the hands of Liu He, don't say that he can't win this battle, even if he can really win, it will inevitably hurt his vitality, so that Liu He will gradually eat him away. ”

Subsequently, Sun Quan summoned all the civil and military forces under his command to discuss the strategy of dealing with Liu Bei.

I saw Zhou Yu say: "Although Liu Bei looks fierce and unstoppable, there is no top military advisor in his army, and the strongest general is only one Zhang Fei. ”

Then Zhou Yu came to Sun Quan, and after Sun Quan retreated, he introduced it like this, and Sun Quan smiled and praised Zhou Yu's clever plan.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, in the summer and April, Liu Bei led an army of 120,000, raised troops from Yufu, went down the river to Jiangling, completed the warships between the large and small warships, almost filled the river, Sun Quan's Jiangdong army could not be defeated, so he ordered people to write a letter to ask for peace, proposed to return Jiangling, Jiaozhi and Cangwu three counties, and was willing to marry his sister Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei, hoping that Liu Bei could make peace with him.

However, Liu Bei categorically refused this, and proposed that unless the four counties of Jingnan and the entire Jiaozhou were returned, there was no possibility of peace between the two sides, and then Liu Bei ordered to intensify the attack on Jiangling.

A few days later, Sun Quan's Nanjun Taishou Zhou Yu took the initiative to lead the army to retreat, came to the opposite Gong'an Port, and Liu Bei's army across the river to confront, and used their own advantages in naval combat to confront the other party, the two sides fought on the river for more than ten days, each other won and lost, but with the passage of time, Liu Bei's army was not good at water warfare The disadvantages were gradually exposed, so on the whole, there were more defeats and fewer victories, and the number of losses increasingly exceeded that of the Jiangdong army.

"Don't be afraid, there are far more people in our army than the enemy, even if it is a competition of casualties, it must be Zhou Yu'er who can't support it first, Yide, now there are still 30,000 sailors in Liu Qi in Jingling, you go there in person, and ask him to lead the navy to come over to support, I don't believe that with these 30,000 sailors, you can't break through the Gong'an Port!" Liu Bei's eyes were full of confidence, and he clenched his fists and said with a sneer.