In fact, at the beginning, some people suggested that Zhou Yu should lead the army to pursue and kill Liu Bei, but Sun Quan did not agree to this, but appointed Zhou Yu as the Taishou of Nanjun on the grounds that Jiangling's geographical location was dangerous, and let him garrison there.

Many people do not understand this, but Zhang Zhao, the chief minister under Sun Quan, deeply understands this, when Sun Ce was about to die, he instructed Sun Quan to "ask Zhang Zhao if you don't decide on internal affairs, and ask Zhou Yu if you don't decide on foreign affairs", which has obvious meaning, it is to take Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu as ministers to help Sun Quan stabilize the order in Jiangdong.

After Sun Ce's death, the two of them did make great contributions to stabilizing Sun Quan's regime, but they also established a high enough prestige in the process, especially in this battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu's victory made his prestige skyrocket, and even faintly overshadowed Sun Quan's momentum, and Zhang Zhao also repeatedly objected to Sun Quan's decision, such as Sun Quan's proposal to move the administrative office to Moling in order to strengthen the Jiangdong Army's defense and control of the northern border, but it was fiercely opposed by Zhang Zhao. In order to prevent Zhou Yu from continuing to make meritorious contributions, he appointed Cheng Pu, a veteran who obeyed his orders, as the commander, and asked him to hunt down Liu Bei and occupy the land of Yizhou, so as to share Zhou Yu's merits and form a constraint on Zhou Yu.

But I didn't expect Cheng Pu to be defeated, not only lost the army, but also made Sun Quan's previous plan all fail, and now Liu Bei, who has only less than one state, was named the Duke of Shu, but he has the land of Yang, Jiao, and Jing, and he is still only a Wu Hou, which makes him very angry, and he no longer cares about the suspicion under his anger, mainly because he has no available handsome talents under his command, so he immediately decided to take Zhou Yu as the commander, lead the army to continue to conquer Yizhou, and teach Liu Bei a lesson.

In fact, at this time, Zhou Yu was reluctant to accept this task anymore, because the best time had been missed, but in order to realize his grand strategy of dividing the world into two parts, Zhou Yu still accepted the order without hesitation and immediately went to take office.

Although Zhuge Liang was ordered to go to Nanzhong now, this did give Zhou Yu a chance to capture Linjiang, but the people guarding Linjiang were not ordinary people, this was Huo Jun, the best general in Liu Bei's camp, and with Liu Bei's second strategist Fa Zheng as his military advisor, plus Zhang Fei, as the main general, had a powerful skill "Shaking the Sky Roar", even Zhou Yu had to be cautious about such a configuration.

In the past month, Zhou Yu planned no less than ten fire attacks, but each time he was recognized by Huo Jun, who had the skill of "defending the city", coupled with Fa Zheng's good at taking advantage of the situation, Zhou Yu not only did not break through Linjiang, but also suffered a small loss. If it weren't for his rich experience in commanding troops, he could see through the opponent's treacherous plot in time and withdraw decisively, and he might even suffer a heavy blow.

"If the lord used me when he had just won the Battle of Chibi, it is estimated that Liu Bei would have become my prisoner, but now, the other party has been prepared to deal with it, the Linjiang city has been reinforced, the grain and grass are hoarded abundantly, both Zhang Fei's bravery, but also the wisdom of the law, coupled with Huo Jun's good guard, this Linjiang is simply invulnerable, guarded like an iron bucket, I am really helpless, for today's plan, there is only to cut off the enemy's grain and grass, and compete with the enemy army to consume."

In fact, for this kind of protracted war, Zhou Yu is very reluctant to fight, but once he retreats, it is estimated that his strategy of dividing the world will be difficult to achieve, since Liu He is willing to put back Guan Yu, and protect Liu Bei as the Duke of Shu, this means that Liu He will not let himself annex Shuzhong, fortunately, Liu He has lost a lot of grass after the battle of Xudu, although he sits on half of the country, it is difficult to prepare for the supply of grain and grass for a new war for a while, so once this opportunity is lost, it will be difficult to have such an opportunity in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and decided to fight a war of attrition and a protracted war with the other party, no matter what method he could think of, he must seize Linjiang.

Fortunately, Sun Quan is still relatively enlightened, and fully supports Zhou Yu's plan, recruiting soldiers from all over the country at any cost, transporting grain and grass, and ensuring the supply of Zhou Yu's army.

At the same time, in the Nanzhong region, Zhuge Liang spent half a year to completely conquer Nanzhong through the seven captures of Meng Shu, Meng Shu sincerely admired Guan Yu's bravery and Zhuge Liang's wisdom, said that he would never rebel again, and directly led his troops to help Zhuge Liang fight against the Jiangdong army that invaded the south of Yizhou.

At this time, Tai Shici's Jiangdong Army not only won the entire Jiaozhou, but also successfully surrendered the two counties of Qiqi and Xinggu, and for a while the military power was even better than the Shu army, which made many surrounding county magistrates all shaken in their hearts and prepared to surrender.

At this time, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu seized the opportunity and led the army to attack Tai Shi Ci's camp, in fact, this kind of sneak attack could have been easily recognized by Tai Shi Ci, but he didn't expect Zhuge Liang to use the secret technique of Dun Jia, change the weather, borrow a west wind, and burn Tai Shi Ci's camp, resulting in Tai Shi Ci's defeat, so he had to give up Xinggu and return to Qi to hold on.

However, after all, the Shu army was not numerous, and although the barbarians were good at fighting, they were not strong in organization and discipline, so they were unable to continue the attack at all, so they had to take the opportunity to recruit soldiers and transport grain and grass to confront Tai Shici's army.

However, at this moment, a piece of news came, which made Zhuge Liang depressed, because more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Jiangdong Army who he had trapped through the stone formation before had actually escaped, and Lu Xun, the general of this army, was transferred to the Taishi Ci Army as a military advisor and deputy general.

Zhuge Liang deeply knew that Lu Xun was a very good military commander in the Jiangdong Army, and his comprehensive quality was second only to Zhou Yu in the Jiangdong Army, and he didn't even dare to despise himself, but Guan Yu didn't think so, and threatened to capture this junior alive to avenge the hatred of the sneak attack on Changsha.

"It's really strange, there are not many people in the world who can crack this formation, and there is no possibility of hitting it by mistake, how did Lu Xun escape? Could it be that this is Liu He's means again? Zhuge Liang also knows the art of divination, but he can't calculate how Lu Xun escaped, so he can only guess that this matter is related to Liu He, but when this matter is said, Guan Yu doesn't believe it at all, which makes Zhuge Liang very embarrassed and helpless.

"Alas, this Liu He released both Guan Yu and Lu Xun, so that our army and the Jiangdong army fought against each other and consumed national strength, but he took the opportunity to develop people's livelihood and restore vitality, this is simply playing with us in the palm of our hands, and the two lords don't know it, or even if they know, they can only oppose each other, is this God wanting us to perish?"

Zhuge Liang suddenly felt very worried, and immediately wrote a letter to Liu Bei, persuading Liu Bei to take a step back, resign from the title of Duke of Shu, or praise Sun Quan as the Duke of Wu, make peace with Sun Quan, and then take the opportunity to develop internal affairs, train sergeants, and prepare to deal with Liu He's new round of attacks. For mobile phone users, please browse and read,