After successfully receiving Zhou Yu's army, Liu Qi ordered Xu Shu to lead the land of Yangzhou, and led an army of 50,000 to garrison Hefei, with Tai Shici, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Lu Su, Liu Ye, Fanqin, Hua Xin, Wang Cang, Zhu Zhi, Zhu Huan, Cheng Pu, Zhang Hong, Gu Yong, Zhang Zhao, Qin Song, Chen Duan, Wei Teng, Wu Cang, Bu Jing, Sun Gao, Fu Ying and other generals.

Later, he praised Lu Xun as the general of Fubo, and ordered Lu Xun to lead an army of 30,000 to temporarily station in Moling in Wu County, build large ships, visit Yizhou and Unu and other places, seek opportunities and places, and expand the territory for the Han Dynasty.

For this reason, Liu Qi specially decided to set up a name for Lu Xun as the Assassin of Yizhou, and treated Lu Xun with the treatment of the Assassin of the Prefecture, so that he could command a Qiē territory opened up overseas, and before the conquest of Yizhou, Lu Xun also served as the Taishou of Wu County.

Originally, Lu Xun just obeyed the order, and he didn't know how vast the field was outside the Han Dynasty, but later, with the continuous expansion of the territory, Lu Xun knew what kind of vast land he had obtained? At that time, almost all the state assassins of the Han Dynasty were envious of Lu Xun, the biggest feudal official of the Han Dynasty.

Because Liu Qi knew that Lu Xun's responsibilities were very heavy, so this time he was specially equipped with generals such as Chen Wu, Du Xian, Dong Xi, Jiang Qin, Han Dang, Ling Cao, He Qi, etc., who were proficient in water warfare, and at the same time, Liu Qi solemnly told Lu Xun that the wind and waves at sea were not as big as those on the river, and they must be good at observing the stars, judging the weather, and knowing how to avoid storms in time.

Fortunately, now it is just a stage of making sea ships, trying to go to sea, and accumulating experience, the army will not go too far, and everything can be done slowly, and Liu Qi knows that Lu Xun is a steady and cautious person, so he doesn't have to worry too much.

As for the army that commanded Lu Xun, Liu Qi gave a special name: "Navy", and the supply of grain and grass for the navy, as well as the supply of military salaries, weapons, and materials, was specially supplied by the Zhennan General's Mansion, and Lu Xun, the commander of the navy, was also directly responsible to Liu Qi himself.

At the same time, Liu Qi appointed Huang Zu to lead the rest of the 20,000 naval troops, Pang Tong as a military advisor, stationed in Jingzhou's Wu County, Zigui area, and Gan Ning, who is also the head of Wu County, as a deputy general, to handle daily affairs, in fact, because Huang Zu is old and unwilling to run back and forth between Wu County and Jiangxia, this naval army is fully responsible for Gan Ning, Huang Zu is just a false name.

And Huang Zu is not dissatisfied with this at all, after all, he also knows that he is old and his ability is insufficient, if he forcibly commands this army, it can only bring drag to this army, not to mention that Liu Qi is his future son-in-law, although he is only Jiangxia Taishou, but he enjoys the respect of the generals of Jing, Yang, and Jiaozhou, and in order to make up for him, Liu Qi appointed his son Huang Jie as the commander of Xiangyang County, which is the location of the Zhennan General's Mansion, the county governance of Jingzhou, and the core of the entire Jing, Yang, and Jiaozhou regions. Although such a position is only a county order, the power position is not much worse than that of the first Taishou, and even much stronger than Liu Qi's brother-in-law Kuaizheng.

Therefore, Huang Zu directly resigned from the post of commander of the water soon after, and insisted that this position be given to Gan Ning.

Liu Qi saw that Huang Zu was sincere, so he changed his worship to Huang Zu as General Jiande, appointed Gan Ning as the general of Hengjiang, and added the governor of the naval army, and the military division under Gan Ning Pang Tongbai was the general of the right army division, joined the army, and Changshi, and worshiped the generals under his command Song Qian as the partial general, Su Fei, Deng Long, Chen and other generals will be generals, as well as the two clansmen of the Sun clan in Jiangdong, Sun Ben and Sun Jiao, these two people were originally members of the Sun clan and did not want to go out, but Liu Qi personally asked them to go out of the mountain to assist Gan Ning, and worship Sun Ben as General Zhaoyi and Sun Jiao as General Zhaoxin, these two people saw Liu Qi sincerely, had to agree to go out.

Similar to the navy commanded by Lu Xun, Ganning's navy is also directly responsible to Liu Qi, and the grain and grass weapons are directly responsible for the Zhennan General's Office, and its role is mainly used for inland river operations, and now due to the unification of Jingyang and Yangzhou, both sides of the river except Guangling are all under Liu Qi's rule, so its role is mainly to use each other's horns with Ziguichang and Dangkou General Wenpin on land, to guard against and attack Liu Zhang's Yizhou.

Now Zhao Wei of Jingzhou has been ordered to attack Qi Qi in the south, Zhao Wei was originally stationed in the Yan Yan of the trust Ba County Taishou is responsible for guarding, the situation between the two sides is tense, and it is about to break out, but the guards on both sides are still sensible and there is no direct conflict.

This is mainly because Yan Yan got Liu Zhang's order that he was only allowed to defend and not attack, while Wen Ping was because Bajun was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Yan Yan was a famous general in Sichuan, so it was difficult to deal with, and the most important thing was that the lord Liu Qi did not clearly declare war with Yizhou, so the two sides maintained such a situation.

And now Gan Ning's addition will definitely bring a new threat to Ba County, so that the relative balance of the two sides will be broken.

General Yang Lie Yu Banze still commanded Niu Zhu's more than 10,000 troops, and changed the Dantu of Danyang as the Taishou of Danyang, and temporarily Tuntian there, ready to attack Xuzhou at any time.

In addition, Liu Qi's army also had more than 30,000 people from Pei Qian's department, the general of Annan, who guarded the entire Jiaozhou, and more than 30,000 people not only maintained the stability and peace of the entire Jiaozhou, but also posed a threat to Liu Zhang's southern Yizhou, so Liu Zhang agreed to Zhao Wei's mention and led the army to conquer the two counties of Qiqi County and Lan and Wuqi guarded by Pei Qian's army.

Zhou Yu commanded Huang Gai, Kan Ze, Lü Meng and other generals, and stationed 30,000 people in the old Wanling Department to garrison Anzhong, including more than 10,000 troops of Wang Wei and Lü Fan, which made the strength of the Jingzhou army in Nanyang suddenly increased from 10,000 to nearly 40,000, which posed a great threat to Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

And especially felt the huge pressure was Cao Cao, because Liu Qi had promised that he would send someone to attack Xuchang to cooperate with Yuan Shao to fight, originally he saw that Liu Qi was busy fighting Jiangdong, so he didn't care about Liu Qi's original promise, but he didn't expect Liu Qi to pacify Sun Quan in Jiangdong in such a short time, and now it is the most tense moment of the war between the two sides, and he is powerless to guard against Liu Qi's nearly 40,000 troops.

"Bonghyo, what should we do now?" Cao Cao, who was in Guandu, asked Guo Jia anxiously.

Although the start of the war with Yuan Shao's army this year was very good, he sent his generals Xiahou Yuan, Xu Chu and others to kill the Yuan army general Yan Liang in accordance with Xun Yousheng's strategy of attacking the east and west, and later sent Xu Huang to kill the Yuan army general Wen Chou in Nansaka, which frustrated the morale of Yuan Shao's army, but Yuan Shao's army still occupies an advantage, and the situation in Guandu is still not optimistic.

And Guo Jia thought for a moment, and then said: "Now the relationship between Liu Qi and Liu Zhang in Yizhou and Liu Bei in Guanzhong is very delicate, although Liu Zhang and Pei Qian in Jiaozhou cooperate with each other to deal with the rebellious Zhao Wei, but they are worried that Pei Qian will take the opportunity to send troops north to Yizhou County, in addition, Liu Zhang doesn't even want to hand over other counties in Qiqi County to Pei Qian, so as long as you wait for a while, there will be a contradiction between Liu Zhang and Pei Qian sooner or later, and as long as the contradiction breaks out, Liu Qi will inevitably do his best to destroy Yizhou, In this way, Liu Qi will inevitably transfer troops from Anzhong to attack Yizhou, so naturally there will be no extra troops to attack us. ”

Guo Jia looked at the thoughtful Cao Cao, and continued: "And Liu Qi and Liu Bei are now also inseparable, although Liu Bei has obtained Guanzhong, but will never give up Nanyang, the prime minister can send someone to promise Liu Qi, as long as he has the strength to obtain Nanyang, we will definitely not interfere, and will also allocate a lot of food and salary to the Jingzhou army, so that Liu Qi will inevitably send troops to take Nanyang, once Liu Qi and Liu Bei are at odds, these two forces will have no time to take care of Xuchang, so Xuchang is worry-free, we can deal with Yuan Shao with all our might." ”

"But now Nanyang is only guarded by Guan Yu Pifu with the army, what a good opportunity this is, as long as we give our army half a month, we can capture Nanyang, but now we have to give it to Liu Qi, it is really a little unwilling." Cao Cao couldn't help but shake his head and said with a sigh.

Guo Jia smiled faintly and said: "The lord doesn't have to worry at all, because at that time, Liu Qi will fight on two fronts, and it will not be easy to take Nanyang, not to mention, even if Nanyang is captured by Liu Qi, as long as we defeat Yuan Shao and possess the rich land of Hebei, can't we take a small Nanyang?" ”

"But the question here is, will Liu Qi fight on two fronts, and why would Liu Qi agree to take Nanyang instead of Xudu, in case Liu Qi and Liu Bei reach an agreement to take Xuchang together, then wouldn't it be dangerous for us?" Cao Cao was still not at ease, so he couldn't help asking.

"This matter is not difficult, since Pei Qian refused our solicitation, in order to prove his loyalty to Liu Qi, he will definitely send troops to recruit Yizhou, at least to occupy the entire Qiqi County, and even attack Yizhou County is not impossible, since Pei Qian took the lead in the operation, Liu Zhang will definitely try his best to prevent it, the contradictions between the two sides will inevitably get bigger and bigger, and then we will take things from it and create contradictions between them, and a full-scale war will inevitably break out soon."

Guo Jia glanced at Cao Cao confidently, and then said with a smile: "As for Nanyang County, this is the territory that Liu Qi wants to go north, so Liu Qi obviously knows that this is the bait we throw, and he will definitely swallow it without hesitation, and if Liu Qi does not take Nanyang, he will definitely not take Xudu, because if he really does this, the connection between Xuchang and Anzhong and other places will be severed by Nanyang, and Nanyang will inevitably belong to Liu Bei in the end, so Liu Qi will never do that kind of thankless thing." ”

"Hehe, since this is the case, the prime minister will ask the imperial court to reward Liu Qi for his achievements in pacifying Jiangdong, appointing him as the right general, with a purple ribbon and gold seal, the same as Shangqing, and at the same time ordering him to pacify Nanyang, presumably he will be happy to obey his fate, as long as we defeat Yuan Shao and get Hebei, whether it is Nanyang or Guanzhong, we will definitely recapture it."

Cao Cao's eyes shot a gleam, and his words revealed a strong sense of confidence.