Liu closed his eyes and waited for the final blow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, he didn't feel the pain, he only heard a sound properly, but he didn't have anything. He opened his eyes and didn't have time to see everything that was happening around him, but he heard the sound of "ping pong" on the side, he looked intently, but saw two generals in green robes wielding the big knives in their hands and fighting with Cao Chun and Zhang He, killing a solid one. Next, the guards around Liu Feng rushed up and protected Liu Feng, as if they were surprised by the danger of his talent, but it was impossible to let him come forward. This made Liu Feng helpless, so he had to leave here for the time being and wave his army to kill others. As for the two generals who fought against Cao Chun and Zhang He for himself, he was not very worried: "With the last law of Second Uncle Guan, even if Cao Chun and Zhang He can't be stopped, there is no problem in self-preservation." Liu Feng believes in this very much, and for his two brothers, he is relieved.

At this moment, the battle situation is a real melee. With the addition of Guan Ping and Guan Xing led two groups of people, Liu Fengjun, who was originally a little depressed by Zhang He's sudden attack, seemed to be rejuvenated and became powerful again. In the melee, they relied on their superiority in strength to equalize the opponent little by little, turning the tide of the battle back into a stalemate, returning to the original situation of one life for one life.

"Bastard, there are such changes in a row." While Cao Chun was dealing with Guan Xing's knife technique, he secretly slandered the change in the moment just now. To tell the truth, he experienced a rise and fall from earth to heaven and then from heaven to earth in the change he had just had. At this moment, he is really a little weak, the changeable situation of the battle overnight and the sharp knife technique of the still childish young general in front of him made him a little unbearable, the continuous battle has made him tired, and the recovery of the opponent's defeat in front of him makes him see no hope of winning.

"What will happen if we continue to fight like this?" Cao Chun was thinking in his heart, but he had some thoughts of retreating. He clearly knew that his own reinforcements, that is, the brigade led by General Cao Ren, would not arrive here until a day later, and Pang Tong on the opposite side controlled the naval army, and it seemed that he could transfer a large number of troops at any time as long as he wanted. “…… That's not going to work. I don't need to keep fighting over a face-saving issue. Cao Chun thought like this, the spear in his hand changed suddenly, and he saw the defect in Guan Xing's still somewhat immature knife posture and forced Guan Xing back suddenly, but he waved his hand to Zhang He, who was fighting with him: "Retreat......" and quickly rode away.

"Retreat? That's a good idea. Hearing Cao Chun say this, Zhang He also saw the fact that his own team was not suitable for fighting at the moment, so he also shook his sword, turned around and let Guan Ping's knife turn and retreat.

With the "defeat" of the two of them, Cao Bing, who was originally in a stalemate, is of course unable to continue to maintain this stalemate. So they were defeated and retreated, and then under the pursuit of Liu Feng, Guan Ping, and Guan Xing, they turned from defeat to rout, and were chased out by Liu Feng and others more than ten miles away.

It was the end of dawn, and the sky was still dark, but the presence of sunlight could be faintly seen in the east. If the pursuit continues like this, it is not in line with Pang Tong's original plan, so although they are still a little unwilling in their hearts, Liu Feng and others still follow Pang Tong's orders, and after chasing Cao Chun and Zhang He for a while, they returned to the battlefield and began to clean up the current messy situation. Perhaps because of lack of time, or because of their own hatred for the people in the Cao army, Liu Feng and the others did not collect the corpses of the Cao soldiers, they just collected the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle on their side, cleaned up and collected the victories on the field, turned around and left the battlefield, went to the river to get on the boat according to Pang Tong's order, and got up and returned to Xiangyang.

At this point, the initial battle of Fancheng was over. Li Shengjun Pang Tong sent 40,000 troops, killed more than 10,000 in battle, and almost completely annihilated Cao Cao's most elite tiger and leopard cavalry and Zhang He's infantry at an extremely tragic price. In the battle, Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry escaped safely with less than 2,000 people, and Zhang He's 20,000 infantry escaped back with less than 5,000. The result of the entire initial battle ended with a complete victory for Li Sheng's army, and this clear fact not only boosted the morale of all the soldiers and civilians on Li Sheng's side, but also greatly shocked everyone on Cao Cao's side, and they could not help but worry. Although such a loss of 10,000 or 20,000 people is nothing for them, they all know that since Li Shengjun's Pang Tong side is willing to use the same price of more than 10,000 people in exchange for a loss similar to that on his side, it also shows that Li Sheng's side has the strength to not care about such 10,000 or 20,000 people as he does.

"This ...... What is Li Sheng's strength? "It's something they've always wanted to know. Although they have continuously strengthened their intelligence reconnaissance work on Li Sheng's side in recent years, Li Sheng's side seems to have a very strong strength in intelligence protection and counter-reconnaissance of spies, and Cao Cao has sent a lot of manpower, but there is not much important news that he really brought back. What Cao Cao got here was more about the customs and customs of Li Sheng's territory. Although it was with these that Cao Cao could also estimate that Li Sheng's strength was very strong, but to what extent it was strong, and what the combat strength of his Li Sheng's army was, Cao Cao did not know.

Because I don't know, it's mysterious, so I have fear. Speaking of which, Cao Cao made up his mind to start a war with Li Sheng, but he was actually gambling - he was betting that Li Sheng's hidden army was not as strong as he imagined. However, with the results of the first battle of Fancheng, it is clear that Cao Cao's gamble was a failure. "Li Shengjun has more combat power than they think." This is what makes them a little stunned.

"It seems that we have chosen a wrong opponent." Cao Cao sighed. Cao Chun and Zhang He were actually defeated, and they were defeated so miserably, which really surprised him. When the news came, Xuchang was boiling, and in the face of the defeat that his tiger and leopard cavalry elite had never had, Cao Cao did not wait to rush up his advisers and discuss the most critical issue at the moment. At the beginning, he threw the situation that Cao Ren was carrying on the case, and after sighing, he said in a deep voice: "In the first battle of Fancheng, the 20,000 infantry of our army Zhang He's department lost 12,000 people, and Cao Chun's department lost 3,700 people. It can be said that the vanguard of this expedition to Jingxiang has been completely disabled. As for the enemy's troops in Jingzhou, we didn't fight much, they used Liu Bei's remnants to fight against us. Although the mourning soldiers will inevitably be able to burst out with amazing combat power, our army is also elite, and there will be such a situation, I think our thinking about Li Sheng's side seems to be further deepened. ”

"Does the lord regret agreeing to Sun Quan to fight Li Sheng?" Hearing Cao Cao say this, the military advisor Xun You couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Regrets? What can I Cao Cao regret? The princes of the world will eventually be broken by me one after another, and it makes no difference to me which one is broken first and which one is broken. At most, there will be some trouble in the process. However, am I still afraid of trouble? Cao Cao laughed arrogantly, this smile seemed to dissipate the gloom caused by the news of Fancheng's defeat, but everyone in the room suddenly gained confidence again.

"yes...... In any case, our strength is the best in the world. Why should we regret choosing the 'wrong' opponent? Maybe we didn't choose the wrong opponent. Most of them thought so.

“…… What is already in the past is in the past, and we don't have to think about it so much. Although I am also heartbroken for the loss of the tiger and leopard ride, what we should grasp more is the future. The things of the past life, the teacher of the future life. I'd like to hear from you what we should do next. Seeing that everyone's morale was raised, Cao Cao pointed out the topic of this meeting: in the case of a thwarted attack on a vigorous front, Cao Cao also began to consider whether he could use other methods to achieve his goals.

"My lord, I think we should stop for a moment." As Cao Cao made the issue clear, after a short period of thought, Xun Yu suggested to Cao Cao.

"How so?" Cao Cao asked, he squinted at Xun You, and there was an incomprehensible light in his eyes: "We are just a small defeat, and the current situation does not seem to be to the point where it must be stopped." The enemy's losses are greater than ours, so why should we retreat? ”

"My lord, we don't have a navy." Xun You sighed and said: "The Han water is not deep, but there is no boat to cross. Now Li Shengjun's Pang Tong continued to use the old incident of Liu Bei's seizure of boats in the past to move all the ships in the Hanshui area to Xiangyang, and blocked the port of Fancheng with the fleet of the Changsha Naval Division. Without the support of the navy, it is very difficult for us to break through the Han River and go straight to Xiangyang. Even if the attack can be successful, I am afraid that it will be a heavy loss, and I am afraid that Dongwu will take the lead. ”

"That's a problem too." Cao Cao nodded and agreed with Xun You's statement. When he went on an expedition to the south of the Yangtze River, he was also made by Liu Beijun in Fancheng, if it wasn't for Cai Mao in Xiangyang City who sent people to contact merchant ships and fishing boats to transport his soldiers, he was afraid that he would ...... I'm also going to be stuck here like this.

"Well, do you have any good advice on this?" Cao Cao looked at Xun You, expecting him to come up with a solution for himself.

"I think the lord can let General Cao Ren hold on to Fancheng before him, and while repairing his troops and horses, and preparing grain, grass, ordnance and ships, he will ask Sun Quan to attack Li Sheng. Sun Quan's army is still dominated by water troops, and it needs to be resisted by water troops when it crisscrosses the river. Li Sheng's navy is much stronger than ours, but compared with Sun Quan's navy, it is still inferior. Once Sun Quan sent troops to attack Li Sheng, Li Sheng would inevitably send his Changsha Navy Division to the Jiangxia area to rescue. In this way, the defense of the Han River is opened, and our army only needs to be ruthless, and naturally it can come to the city of Xiangyang, which will pose a real threat to the Pang Tong of Xiangyang. Xun Yu suggested to Cao Cao.

"Use Sun Quan to break Li Sheng? Gongda, aren't you afraid that Sun Quan will take advantage of the situation to attack Xiangyang and let us have a bamboo basket to draw water? As far as I know, although Li Sheng's army is not too weak, it is a heaven and earth compared to Sun Quan's army. As far as intelligence is concerned, since the 13th year of Jian'an, Li Sheng's naval army has never purchased a single ship or a ship, and its naval division is still the same as nine years ago, still 30 ships and 100 ships, how can it be compared with the thousands of warships in Jiangdong? Pang Tong does not send a naval army, but I am afraid that as soon as this naval army is dispatched, it will be destroyed under Jiangdong, and then the Jiangdong naval army will go straight to Xiangyang, and we will be miserable. Jia Xu didn't agree with Xun You's opinion, because he saw the crux of Xun You's suggestion at a glance: if you want to act according to Xun You's strategy, the strength of Li Sheng's naval army must be about the same as that of the Jiangdong naval army. But now, as far as the information Jia Xu has gotten is concerned, Li Sheng doesn't seem to pay much attention to the development of the navy. What was the scale of his naval army at the time of the Battle of Chibi, and what kind of scale is still there now. This really made Jia Xu doubt the combat power of Li Shengjun's Changsha Water Division.

"Well." Xun You twisted his beard with a smile, glanced at Jia Xu, and said leisurely: "What kind of people does Wen He think Li Sheng and Pang Tong are?" ”

"It's hard to say. But even if Li Sheng is not as good as Liu Bei in the past, he is not much different, he can be regarded as a hero, and Pang Tong is more talented than Zhang Liang, and he is also a masterpiece of the moment. "Jia Xu is the person who manages the intelligence on Cao Cao's side, and among Cao Cao's people, he knows the most about Li Sheng, and of course he will not be full of contempt for Li Sheng's fortune like others: although Li Sheng always seems to have a trick to get the current foundation, but a trick is a trick once, and a trick is a trick so many times, is it still a trick? Being able to take advantage of this is also a kind of strength. Jia Xu felt that Li Sheng had to say nothing, at least he was a person who was very good at grasping the situation.

"So Wen He thinks that with the wisdom of Li Sheng and Pang Tong, they don't know the importance of the water army? Knowing that the strength of the navy is related to the stability of their rule in Jingzhou, will they not care about the development of the navy? This is obviously not possible. Since they care about the navy and the development of the navy, they definitely have their own reasons for not building warships. Although I don't know exactly what his reason is, it is conceivable that they must have enough power in their hands to make Jiang Dong take care of it, and it is estimated that it is some kind of secret weapon or something. You must know that the thunderous thing that is tearing apart is what Li Sheng's side produces. Xun You expressed his guess and refuted Jia Xu's questioning: "Therefore, I think that the strength of Li Sheng's naval army should be roughly equivalent to that of Jiangdong. This can be seen from the peaceful coexistence between Jiangdong and Li Sheng in the past few years. Sun Quan is not a good stubble, if it weren't for Li Sheng's strength to make him scruple, how could he not go to Li Sheng's troubles. Therefore, I think that it is completely feasible to let Sun Quan contain Li Sheng, and let their naval armies fight each other to form a confrontation situation. ”

"Hmm...... In this way, there is some possibility. However, I was always a little reassured. Cao Cao pondered Xun You's words, hesitated for a moment and said, "The people of Jiangdong may not be able to see this plan of ours?" It's ...... to put your trust entirely on someone else," he said, looking a little worried.

"Lord, don't worry." After listening to Xun You's explanation, Jia Xu now changed his position and stood on Xun You's side, and he smiled to appease Cao Cao: "Although the people of Jiangdong are heroes, their people have a sense of pride. We're here to worry about them thinking they'll see what we're thinking, but it doesn't have to be that way. Even if the people of Jiangdong see that we are taking advantage of this, they will not have much objection to us. Just like the arrogance of Yelang in the past, they are very confident in their own strength, they will not see the danger, but the opportunity. This makes them completely obedient to our wishes. And I heard that Lu Su, the governor of the Jiangdong Navy Army, has been transferred back to Jianye, and it is like being scattered. Lu Su was an important figure in persuading the Jiangnan Alliance to be maintained. His scattering undoubtedly proves that Sun Quan has full ambitions for Jingzhou, and in such a situation, will Jiangdong further refuse our demands? ”

"That's ......!" Cao Cao thought for a long time, but nodded down: "Tomorrow, I will ask Your Majesty for advice." Hehe, I think Sun Quan of Jiangdong may also be looking forward to my will to give them. After all, the world still has to obey the order of the Son of Heaven. He said half emotionally, half self-deprecatingly.

"It's just a name anyway." Jia Xu smiled self-deprecatingly, but said: "But if you don't have this title, maybe ...... Jiangdong is still reluctant to send troops. They are **, at least they still need a torii. For his enemies, Jia Xu's mouth always seems to be so vicious.

"You Wenhe, ah......" Cao Cao didn't have any way to Jia Xu like this.

Cao Cao sent someone to send an urgent letter to Cao Ren and others to keep Fancheng and not mention, and on the other hand, he quickly took the holy decree from the emperor and sent it to Jiangdong quickly. In the case that their own naval army is hardly worth mentioning, it seems that only Jiangdong can solve this problem by sending troops there.

After more than ten days, the battle situation in the Xiangfan area has calmed down slightly. Because Pang Tong moved all the ships around the Han River to the south, Cao Ren, who had an expedition to Fancheng, had an army of 100,000 and was sad about the surging Han River. Although he had already received Cao Cao's order to defend wholeheartedly, he was still a little unwilling and regretted: "It's my fault that such a situation will occur." That's what Cao Ren thinks.

There is no way, things have already caused such a situation, and the general of Zhengnan can only temporarily live in Fancheng and wait for the news of Jiangdong's troops. He thought that this was a very quick thing, but he didn't know that Cao Cao's holy decree arrived in Jiangdong, but it set off another excitement among the monarchs and ministers of Jiangdong.

"Cao Cao asked the emperor to give us a decree, saying that he wanted us to crusade against Li Sheng. Hehe...... This Cao Cao had just suffered from Li Sheng, and now he was sitting in Fancheng because the ship was seized, looking at Xiangyang and not being able to get it, which was a dilemma. The strength of Li Sheng's army is a big surprise to you and me, what do you think about this matter? I always feel that Cao Cao is using us as pawns at this time. Sun Quan received the order and sent the Qincha away, and immediately brought his own ministers and generals over to discuss the matter together. Originally, there was nothing to discuss, and it was Sun Quan's policy to fight with Li Sheng and take Xiangyang, but the fact that Li Sheng could defeat Cao Chun and Zhang Jaw in one battle made Sun Quan think about this issue again.

"Originally, I thought that Li Sheng was a force with no wealth and low combat effectiveness, and if we sent troops in time, even if we couldn't exterminate him in one go, we would be able to make him suffer a big loss, but the current situation is ...... Li Shengjun's combat power does not seem to be weak. Sun Quan thought of this, which led to the above question.

"Does the lord want to be lonely in the south? Or do you want to help Cao Cao eliminate his opponents one by one, so that in the end, only a weak family like us was swept away by Cao Cao? Regarding Sun Quan's question, Lu Su, who had always disagreed with Sun Quan's fight with Li Sheng, had his eyes lit up, but he spoke out against it. Perhaps he thought this was a reason why he could convince Sun Quan to abandon his original idea of sending troops to fight Li Sheng.

"This ......" Sun Quan was a little distressed, he frowned and pondered Lu Su's words.

“…… Those who destroy the Six Kingdoms are not Qin, but the Six Kingdoms. In the past, during the Warring States period, if the Kwantung princes were willing to move forward, the Qin army would retreat, and if the Kwantung princes attacked each other, the Qin army would be invincible. Such a thing, as soon as the current dynasty crusades against Dong Zhuo, cannot but be learned by us. If it is three points today, Cao Cao occupies the northern Central Plains and has the strongest strength in the whole world, and he must resist the two of them before he can be hostile to Cao Cao. If the lord is still interested in the world, he should join forces with Li Sheng to fight against Cao Cao. If the lord only thinks about glory and wealth, fine clothes and food, then he only needs to follow behind Cao Cao and contribute to Cao Cao's sweep away the enemies of the world. The endings of the two are different, and the opportunity to make a choice is in the hands of the lord, it depends on how the lord decides. Lu Su's clear voice resounded throughout the hall, and the meaning of persuading Sun Quan not to act according to Cao Cao's intentions was already very strong. For what he thinks is right, Lu Su is also very resolute.

"What's this? Zijing is also very reasonable to say this, but if we don't take the land of Jingzhou, it is really a little uneasy for us. What our Jiangdong relies on is nothing more than the power of the navy, and what the navy can sail is only the north and south of the river. The danger of entering the Sichuan waterway, there is the danger of the Three Gorges, we will not talk about him for the time being, but the waterway east of Jingzhou is very gentle, which allows us to connect this place with Dongwu. If we don't master Jingzhou, there is no danger to the Yangtze River, which is a great disadvantage for us in Jiangdong. Sun Quan thought for a while and said the real reason why he wanted to do something to Li Sheng: "Li Sheng is based on the Jingjiang River, but he can go down the river and go straight to Wuhui, but it is the most likely to pose a threat to the Jiangdong regime." For Cao Cao, we still have the Jiangdong naval army to resist, and for Li Sheng, what army do we have to resist him? ”

"Is this...... What the lord said is also true......" Lu Su was surprised for a long time when he heard this, and finally came up with such a sentence, but although Sun Quan was quite right, Lu Su still felt that it was not suitable to do it with Li Sheng at the moment: "Although it is said to be a three-legged tripod now, this tripod may not be a real tripod." If the lord attacks Li Sheng, so that he resents the lord with Li Sheng, what will happen if he repeatedly fights with the lord. If Jingzhou can be taken quickly, then everything is naturally easy to say, if it can't be extended for a long time, I'm afraid it is giving Cao Cao an opportunity. Jingzhou is important, but an ally is also very important. I think we can hold Li Sheng as much as possible while slowing down Jingzhou. ”

"Slow picture? How to slow the map? Sun Quan asked abruptly.

"This ...... I don't know very well. It still takes time to think about it. Lu Su was stunned and told the truth.

"Alas...... Zijing, this is a dilemma. To be honest, I don't want to fight my brother-in-law, but Jingzhou is so important to us that I don't want to give up. Moreover, the current opportunity is the best opportunity......" Sun Quan sighed and looked at Lu Su and said leisurely. At this moment, his gaze is very soft, but it is also unusually firm. Obviously, he has already made a final decision.

"The lord can't wait?" Lu Sutai looked at Sun Quan.

"yes, I don't want to wait any longer. Although there are opportunities from time to time, and it is not a pity to miss one, for me, I don't want to waste such a rare opportunity. Sun Quan nodded and said calmly to Lu Su.

"Then I'll do what my lord commands." Seeing that Sun Quan was so resolute, Lu Su knew that he could no longer persuade him, so he had no choice but to shut up like this and silently retreat to a plate. After all, he still has reservations about this matter.

Since Lu Su is like this, the people in the hall will not say anything more. The people in Jiangdong are mainly interested in preserving their own strength, but except for some military generals, there are not many people who are willing to compete with Cao Cao.

As Lu Su retreated, the decision to fight Li Sheng continued without any doubts. Sun Quan straightened up, raised his head and glanced at Lu Meng, who was vaguely tired, but asked, "What does Ziming think we should do next?" How to send troops to deal with Li Sheng? ”

"I think we can deal with them with a combination of fiction and reality......" Lu Meng said with a smile after a brief mutter.

"How do you get between reality and fiction?" Sun Quan was a little curious, and couldn't help but ask such a question.

"For us, we have undoubtedly exposed our entire side to Li Sheng, and this situation is the same on Li Sheng's side. Xiangyang, Jiangling, and Changsha are all places that can be conquered by us, as long as we have the heart, then we can take advantage of the weakness of Li Sheng's army's battle line that is too broad, and use the partial division to feint and attack, Changsha and Jiangling, and take advantage of the situation that Li Sheng is extremely concerned about these two places, and use the crisis in these two places to mobilize the naval division in the hands of Pang Tong, and then we take advantage of the lack of strength of Li Sheng's army's naval army, and secretly bypass the battlefield where the two sides are fighting, and go directly to Xiangyang City. Lu Meng thought about it, but he smiled and reported to his lord what he had come up with.

"Mobilize the enemy with a feint, and take the key points we want to attack with a light army. Ziming, your strategy is really powerful. This seems to make Li Shengjun exhausted and exhausted, and then he rarely wins the field with the Thunder Army, but he quickly captures Xiangyang. And be ready to negotiate quickly. Sun Quan sighed and said.

"The lord has won the prize." Hearing Sun Quan praise himself so clearly, a slight flush surged on Lu Meng's face! Although he said modest words in his mouth, he was happy about it in his heart. After a slight humbleness in his mouth, his originally furrowed brows stretched, and a trace of pride appeared between his eyebrows.