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However, it was said that Zhang He passed on the book to Cao Cao, and he came to see Yang Xi from the army, and the two sides confronted each other fifty miles east of Jiangling City.

Zhang He came out of the queue and questioned Yang Xidao: "Chenhe! I have always respected you for your chivalry, the previous Jingzhou earthquake, you donated food for disaster relief, but this time why did you provoke a war for no reason and hit my Nanjun? ”

Yang Xi said with a smile: "Jun Yi (Junyi) doesn't know anything, but today's battle is the prime minister's ignorance." From beginning to end, I, Yang Xi, have never said a bad word about the prime minister, and I have not occupied any of his land. Yuan Shao was defeated in the battles of Yuan Shu, Lu Bu, and Guandu, and the prime minister did not have the merit of my Yang Xi in any battle. The prime minister has never said anything, this time he actually took the initiative to provoke Liu Bei, Sun Quan and Gongsun Kang to embarrass me, collect tariffs from my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and want to unite several families to suppress me. ”

Zhang He thought about it, this matter is indeed not authentic for the prime minister, but after thinking about it again, you Yang Xi is weak and can be bullied? Who would dare to think so today.

Zhang He is not a stupid person, he knows that Cao Cao and Yang Xi will have a battle, but he doesn't want the big war to start from his own defense area, so he said unwillingly: "Chenhe doesn't need to use this as an excuse to requisition and take land, if Chenhe can withdraw from the army, I can say that with the prime minister, let the two families reconcile, how about communicating with each other?" ”

Yang Xi was immediately happy, it seems that this Zhang He has a really good impression of himself. This Zhang He is the tiger general of the world, if you talk about who you are afraid of, it really won't, it must be your own reputation, so that this Zhang He is impressed, and there is the previous earthquake and the pear sending episode, which made Zhang He have a good impression of himself.

Since the other party has kind words to him, Yang Xi is not embarrassed, Zhang He said: "You don't need to persuade me, I and the prime minister will eventually have a battle, but it is not at this time." Today, I came to take Gangneung, but it was only to deter the princes. It's not a secret, I sent 200,000 troops, Nanjun must take it, this is interest, Jun Yi or go back to Jiangling first, I will give you three days, if you don't retreat, I will come to take it, Jun Yi should know my strength. ”

Zhang He had no choice but to temporarily retreat to Jiangling.

On the second day, Zhang He received a letter from Cao Cao and ordered him to retreat to Xiangyang and wait for reinforcements.

But unfortunately, there was no Zhang He in Yiling, and Lü Meng was not familiar with Cai He, the defender of Yiling.

So Yiling was lost, 20,000 troops and horses, none of them escaped, Yiling City, half of it was razed to the ground, Cai He was killed on the spot on the city tower, and the rest surrendered.

Zhang He went north on the third day and withdrew to Xiangyang.

Yang Xi ordered Lü Meng to lead the army north to take Linfu, Bian County, Zhonglu and other counties, and he himself went north from the East Road, taking Dangyang, Maicheng, Yicheng to Xiangyang South.

In just a few days, Pang Tong had already taken Xiyang counties and wiped out all Cao Cao's forces south of the Huai River.

At the end of November, Yang Xi and Lü Meng's army arrived in Xiangyang, and Cao Cao's army also arrived in Fancheng at this time, and the war was about to break out.

Yang Xi entered Nanjun, and a few families were happy and a few were sad.

The Kuai family, the Cai family, the Ma family and other scholars were terrified, but some newly rising capitalists applauded.

Yang Xi's whole army was stationed outside Xiangyang, and Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong and Xiahoudun to lead 50,000 troops from Fancheng to cross the Han River, and personally led 50,000 troops in Nanyang County, in order to prevent Pang Tong from the east to attack Xudu from the north.

Cao Cao scolded Cao Hong and Xiahou Tang for testing a few battles, but Yang Xi did not fight, and Cao Cao was not in a hurry.

Anyway, Xiangyang City has a lot of high grain, and the city wall of Xiangyang is not other counties, so it is not so easy to collapse.

And now Cao Cao's army is strong and strong, once Yang Xi attacks the city, Cao Cao will cover up inside and outside, and he is not afraid of Yang Xi bargaining.

Cao Cao is not in a hurry, he is waiting, waiting for news from Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

If these two people send troops, Yang Xi will definitely be upset, and there may be an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time.

Cao Cao guessed wrong, it will not be Yang Xi who is upset at the moment, but the two groups of Jiaozhou and Yizhou.

Liu Bei discussed with everyone whether to send troops, but was opposed by everyone in Shuzhong.

This is the same as Zhuge Liang's departure from Qishan, the people in Shu want to rely on natural hazards to protect Shuzhong, and do not want to develop externally.

However, Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng and the military general Wei Yan all believed that Yang Xi was powerful, even more so Cao Cao, and if they did not take the opportunity to weaken their strength at this time, they were afraid that no one would be able to compete in the future.

So Liu Bei decided to send troops, before sending troops, it was natural to communicate with Jiaozhou first, if the two sides agreed to send troops together, then the major event could be decided, and there was no worries.

Liu Bei wrote a letter to Sun Quan, asking Sun Quan to send troops to meet each other, and they were horns for each other.

said that Zhou Yu got the letterhead sent by Yang Xi, and at first glance, he was surprised.

But then I thought about it, this matter could not be made public, this is ironclad evidence, I didn't expect Sun Quan to be such a city, more than ten years old, he was already well versed in the battle of power.

Although Zhou Yu was not angry with Sun Quan, he thought about it again, Sun Ce has been dead for many years, and today's Jiaozhou has developed rapidly, sitting on the land of two states, with several to 200,000 soldiers and horses.

Once there is a rift between himself and Sun Quan because of this matter, many veterans in the army who follow Sun Ce will fluctuate, and it may cause a mutiny.

Zhou Yu pretended to be calm, and at this time, Yang Xi sent troops to Nanjun, and Liu Bei wanted to agree to kill Yang The news reached Zhou Yu's ears.

Sun Quan summoned Zhou Yu and others to discuss the matter and asked how the plan was, and the generals were eager to try, only Lu Su and Zhou Yu were silent.

Lu Su said: "Now Yang Xi's gift of the Zhongnan railway track is under construction, once the war starts, this project will be stranded." Also, Mr. Su thought that Yang Xi was not so simple, he knew that he would be attacked, but he still dared to raise troops to commit it, there must be a purpose. ”

Sun Quan said: "No matter what conspiracy Yang Xi has, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, combining the forces of the three parties and attacking up and down, it is possible to defeat Yang Xi, otherwise within a few years, it will inevitably form a sweeping trend." ”

I don't know why, Zhou Yu suddenly had a trace of disgust for this lord, but on the surface, Zhou Yu couldn't have anything unusual.

"My lord, now I have only 200,000 soldiers and horses, and tens of thousands are in Yizhou. There are only 130,000 or 40,000 active people. If you send troops to the north, you must go to Huiji County. Yang Xi has 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers in the Wuchang Strait in the south of Zhongnan Prefecture, more than 100,000 soldiers on the Irrawaddy River, 50,000 on Nanhai Island, and 50,000 on Taiwan Island. Not to mention the 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses in the Huangzhong Theater of Tunbing Huiji, Wu County, and Danyang County. Yang Xi didn't need to move a single soldier in the north, and he had already formed an absolute suppression of our Jiaozhou, all of which was already in Yang Xi's calculations. ”

As soon as Sun Quan heard this, he knew that Zhou Yu did not approve of sending troops at this time, but Sun Quan and Zhou Yu had different mentalities.

"There are not many soldiers in the war, he Yang Xi has arranged a lot of soldiers and horses on the periphery, and it is estimated that the princes actually value the population and wealth of their hinterland. As long as he goes north to obtain Huiji, Wujun, and Danyang, he Yang Xi will be like a caged bird, and millions of people will be lost. ”

Zhou Yu, as a general, can settle for a corner, and Sun Quan, as the overlord, is unwilling to be made into meat in a meat bun by others.

Sun Quan is even more unwilling, and his desire for power is unimaginable to others.

Despite Zhou Yu's opposition, Sun Quan insisted on going his own way and insisted on sending troops north.

There are three routes to the north, the first is to take the Jingnan Xijing Ancient Road, from Jiaozhou to Guiyang County, on this road Yang Xi ordered Jingnan famous general Xing Daorong to guard. Xing Daorong is now in terms of qualifications, and he has also survived to the position of regiment commander, leading 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard this road, Sun Quan dare not think about it.

The second road is the Meiguan Ancient Road, which crosses the Nanling from Jiaozhou to Dayu County, Yuzhang County, and is guarded by Wang Cang. At this time, Yuzhang County had all been incorporated into the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and Wang Cang also received the rank of Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and he had no second thoughts, and Sun Quan was discouraged.

There is only a third way, and the possibilities are endless.

That is the place where the army leads to the east, Jiaozhou and Huiji, Sun Quan can enter Huiji by land, and he can take the waterway to land in Dongye City or Shanghai City along the coast.