Xia, Kure County.

Zhenze, now known as Taihu Lake, is one of the five major freshwater lakes, the lake is large and deep, there are many islands, its width is more than 2,000 square kilometers, and it cannot be seen to the edge.

On the side of Zhenze, Sun Ce led Zhou Yu, Lu Su and other civil and military generals, in a secret place, looking at tens of thousands of people, who were busy with something.

This place was handled by Sun Ce with heavy troops, and the people could not get close to it, and they could not fish.

"Lord, the first boat tested the water today, there should be no problem, that Yang Xizhen is a god and a man, this kind of whimsical idea is simply unprecedented, but fortunately, it took us months and hundreds of craftsmen to finally imitate it." Cheng Pu was a little excited.

Cheng Pu was the only one who spent a few times on Yang Xi's Yangtze River, and it was Sun Ce who asked his governor to build a dockyard.

Sun Ce said: "Yang Chenhe's ability, I can't reach it, but I have the help of everyone, and his ambition will become a city, and he will be able to catch up." ”

Zhou Yu said: "Yang Chenhe is five years older than the lord, and if you give the lord five years, you may not be able to achieve this achievement." Now we have tens of thousands of **** rush to work, is five times the number of people in the Chenhe dock, by the end of the year, will be able to form a large fleet, although it can not compete with it on the river, but to achieve the next plan, there is a guarantee. ”

Zhou Yu never knew the strength of the Chenhe factory, and what Yang Xiu threw out was outdated technology. On the surface of the Chenhe factory, there is only one dock, but in fact, there are three.

The Chenhe Islands and Taiwan Island have each added a dock. Yang Xi has now begun to build a large number of civilian ships, both large and small. In order to improve the development speed of the members of the Chamber of Commerce, all member units will purchase ships after this summer, which is definitely much lower than the cost of their own production.

And the warships are also producing, the difference is that the warships are all steel keels, even if Sun Ce knows, with his technology, he can't make screws, and he doesn't have a steel mill.

The Chenhe control area has begun to enter the MTR era, and Sun Ce is still entangled in wood.

Lu Su said: "The lord only needs to keep his head and show weakness to the enemy, and when he grows up, he will be able to soar to the sky." ”

Sun Ce was encouraged by Zhou Yu and Lu Suyi, and his chest suddenly opened up a lot.

"Jiaozhou Shixie, etc., have been in business for many years, and have deep roots in Jiaozhou, this preparation must be very sufficient, and they must take Jiaozhou in one fell swoop, and when Jiaozhou is stable, they can form a north-south attack on Huiji, even if it is Yang Xi, there is nothing they can do."

Zhou Yu said: "This time Yuan Shao went on an expedition, the eyes of the world are focused, and if nothing else, this strategy should be realized." ”

Yang Xi didn't know that Sun Ce was actually brewing the goal of attacking Jiaozhou, and if he really let him occupy Jiaozhou, he really couldn't be careless.

Jiaozhou has two vast areas, south to Vietnam, north to Hunan and Jiangxi, west to Yizhou, a vast area.

Zhou Yu's strategy for Sun Ce was to capture Jiaozhou, open up Huiji, and then go north from Jiaozhou to Jingzhou, occupy Lingling, Guiyang, and Changsha counties, and strategically encircle Yang Xi.

There are ancient roads between Jiaozhou and Yuzhang, and there are also ancient roads with Jingzhou, which are extremely difficult to pass, and can be attacked and defended.

But the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

If Yang Xi wanted to attack the city and seize the land, he would have unified the south long ago, and what Yang Xi wanted was the foundation.

At this time, the establishment of Chenhe District for 16 or 7 years, there are tens of thousands of college students graduating every year, and these people are high-tech talents for now.

In addition, three universities are being established in Chenhe District, namely Chaisang University, Wuhu University and Hefei University, to cope with the increasing number of students.

The earliest graduates of Chenhe University, those with excellent grades, can go to other universities to teach.

Yang Xi felt that according to reason, it should be possible to activate the intermediate technology tree, but it has not been activated yet, and it may be that the gunpowder and aerodynamics have not been solved.

The other basic inventions are basically the same.

Both of these things are very simple, but Yang Xi still wants to press it, because this is too easy to spread, and then there will be a real war.

North, Jizhou.

Yuan Shao selected 100,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 war horses to prepare to attack Xudu in the south and eliminate Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao's strategist said frustratedly: "This teacher has been out for many years, and Gongsun Zan has just been eliminated, the people are tired, the warehouse is empty, and the lord should rest with the people." ”

Strategist Guo Tu said: "Lord Shenwu, you can fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao." The lord can lead the elite troops of Ji, Qing, You, and the four states to attack Cao Cao, which is as easy as a finger and does not need to delay. ”

He said: "Cao Cao is the Son of Heaven to order the world, and now my army is on a southern expedition, and the division is unknown, and Cao Cao's decree states that the elite soldiers are not comparable to Gongsun Zhan. I'm afraid not. ”

Another strategist said: "Now that my soldiers are strong, it is a good time to eliminate Cao Cao, we should see the opportunity to see the change, and we should not be stubborn in order to seek the best strategy." ”

Yuan Shao listened to the arguments of the strategists, thought that what Guo Tu and others said was correct, and decided to attack Cao Cao immediately.

The news that Yuan Shao was preparing to lead a large army to the south reached Xudu.

Cao Cao deployed to prepare for battle.

In August, Cao Cao marched into Liyang and sent Zang Ba, who had potential influence in Qingzhou, to attack Qingzhou, preparing to occupy Qi State, Beihai and other places to consolidate the right flank and prevent Yuan Shao's army from attacking from the east.

In September, Cao Cao returned to Xudu and divided his troops to guard Guandu, the choke point north of Xudu, and prepared to meet Yuan Shao.

Yang Xi explained the recruitment of new recruits this year, set off in August, led the Yangtze River fleet, brought enough needs, went north from the Yangtze River, and arrived at Donglai Port in September.

Hearing the news of Yang Xi's arrival in Donglai County, Cao Cao was puzzled, so he ordered someone to find out what was true and false, but only found that Yang Xi had 6,000 soldiers, which was an assault regiment, and only 5,000 guards of the Yangtze River fleet, and there were not many soldiers and horses.

But Cao Cao was still worried that Yang Xi would collude with Yuan Shao, and in case of this, he would face great pressure.

At this time, Yang Xi's letter came, and when Cao Cao and the strategists opened it, they saw Yang Xi's sincere words, saying that Yuan Shao was immoral, and did not have any name, and rashly raised troops, causing the people to suffer.

Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw the letter, if Yang Xizhen had 30,000 soldiers to help, the gap between himself and Yuan Shao would be much lowered.

When Yuan Shao had 100,000 elite soldiers, 10,000 Jiama troops, a total of 110,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Cao was said to be less than 10,000 soldiers, in fact, there were more than 20,000 people who could fight, and more than 20,000 people were added to Liu Bei's two or three thousand.

20,000 against 110,000, just like Sun Ce against Yang Xi, in this form, Zhou Yu is afraid.

Now Yang Xi said that he led 30,000 troops to help, which simply made Cao Cao happy.

The generals were also overjoyed when they heard this, and Cao Cao felt that Yang Xi was really reliable.

One of them had a flash of fierceness in his eyes, and it was fleeting.

Liu Bei sighed secretly in his heart, this Yang Xi came to stir up again.

It turned out that Liu Bei had obtained the emperor's edict, and had just agreed to Dong Cheng's wooing, and was ready to seize the opportunity to attack and kill Cao Cao and seize his military power when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were fighting. Che cavalry general Dong Cheng, partial general Wang Fu, Yue cavalry lieutenant Chong Ji and Zuo general Liu Bei and several others, who had already secretly received the edict of the emperor's clothes and were the masterminds of the attack on Cao Cao.

As Liu Bei expected, Guo Jia proposed: "Now that Yang Chenhe is coming to help, the lord can ask him to lead his troops to attack Donglai, Beihai and other places in Qingzhou, so that Yuan Tan of Qingzhou cannot send troops to attack my East Road." If Yang Chenhe succeeds, he can enter the south bank of the river to join the main guild and share Yuan Shao. ”

Xun Yu said: "This can test the truth of Yang Chenhe's reinforcements, if he conspires with Yuan Shao, he will not attack Qingzhou, if he is Yuan Shao's wings, he will definitely join forces with Yuan Tan, and then the lord can also think of another strategy to resist the enemy." ”

Cao Cao laughed and said: "Feng Xiao and Wen Ruo's words won my heart, and I immediately ordered someone to write a letter and ask him to attack Qingzhou." ”