Jiangxia County, at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, east of Hankou and south of Hanyang, on the Jiangxia Mountain, in the beautiful and exquisite Wuchang Palace, Sun Ce is sitting on a well-made armchair, looking at the military newspaper in his hand.

This is the news from the Huainan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was jointly signed by the Metropolitan Governor Zhou Yu and the military advisor Guo Jia.

The news in the military newspaper is actually quite simple.

Liu Bei, the general of the left, led the army to garrison Huaibei, which was quite provocative.

This strange behavior that made Zhou Yu and Guo Jia puzzled couldn't be more understandable to Sun Ce, a traverser.

Liu Bei is this person, and he is also a hero! How can you be subservient to others for a long time?

Liu Bei reversed.

Compared with Yuan Shu at this time in history, who was still entrenched in Huainan, Liu Bei took the opportunity to conquer Yuan Shu and then based on Xuzhou.

This time, Liu Bei's methods were even more simple and crude.

If Sun Ce's expectations are good, Liu Bei will soon take Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao, and then return to the north, entrench in Xuzhou, and form a relationship with Yuan Shao in Hebei.

Sun Ce sighed a little helplessly, and he didn't know whether he was complaining about Liu Bei's good luck, or sighing that the people of Xuzhou were too easy to fool.

There is no way, although Liu Bei's house is considered hypocritical by many superiors. But more people think that Liu Bei is a good person who is benevolent and righteous. Liu Bei's mass base in Xuzhou was simply envied by Sun Ce.

Sun Ce got up slowly, moved his limbs, which were a little stiff after sitting for a long time, and walked out of the room.

Now there are not many maids in the palace, and there are only one or twenty people, all of whom are women from good families who have been carefully screened and selected by Ling Tong, especially those who have a deep blood feud with the Jiangxia Huang family. These maids are all more reassuring people.

Inside and outside the Wuchang Palace, it is still garrisoned by the guard battalion.

Sun Ce twisted his neck, paced, and came to a huge hall.

In this room, there is a huge sand table.

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty? There was such a record in the "Biography of Ma Yuan": "Jumi is the valley, pointing to the situation." This should be a relatively early sand table record.

However, it is said that in the eighth year of Jianwu (32 AD), when Emperor Guangwu conquered Tianshui and Wudu, Ma Yuan "gathered rice for the valley and pointed to the situation", so that Emperor Guangwu suddenly had the feeling of "being captured in my eyes".

In fact, the production of the sand table takes a huge amount of effort.

So far, the sand table in Sun Ce's hand has also taken many years to be made. The entire sand table includes all the areas under Sun Ce's rule. The sand tables of Jiangxia County and Changsha County have just been made, and it has not been long since they were assembled into the entire sand table.

Now, Sun Ce is ordering the secret saucers and scouts everywhere to collect the terrain and intelligence of the remaining counties in Jingzhou, and to make a sand table against the existing map books. This task was carried out by the Intelligence Division of the Yamen of the Three Divisions.

At this time, Sun Ce did not wear armor, but casually wore a white brocade robe. Long black hair, casually tied up, draped over the back of the head.

Sun Ce was leaning on the fence of the sand table, carefully watching the situation of the mountains and rivers.

In Jiangxia County, there are four counties in the north, next to Zhangling County, Nanyang County, Runan County and Lujiang County. In such a critical geographical location, Xiaoguo Zhonglang led Gan Ning to lead 5,000 soldiers to garrison. Sun Ce's eyes were staring at the four northern counties, where a small flag was planted with the word Gan written on it.

Sun Ce's gaze moved south, and to the north of Hanshui was Xiling County.

In Xiling County, there is a small flag with a yellow character written on it. This is the Yubayashi Zhonglang general Huang Zhong stationed there.

From the north of Xiling County to the four counties in the north of the county, there is not a single city on this vast land, which is obviously not a good phenomenon. There is no danger to defend a place that is hundreds of miles long, and from a military point of view, it is not conducive to defense.

In the western part of Jiangxia County, Yunshe County, Nanxinshi County and Anlu County are the horns of each other, forming a solid triangular defensive circle. Now it is guarded by Han Dang, the general of the forbidden army, and Chen Gong, the military advisor, is already in Han Dang's army, as a supplement.

Jingling County is located in the southwest of Jiangxia County, next to Nanjun. Near Jingling County on the sand table, there is a small flag with the word "Taishi" written on it. Obviously, this place was garrisoned by Tiger Ben Zhonglang Tai Shi Ci.

Jingling County is rich in oil resources. The center of the Jianghan Oilfield in later generations was here. However, before the full conquest of Jingzhou, Sun Ce did not intend to develop it. For the time being, the oil in Xia Pheasant County is enough for the war for the time being.

At Hankou, there is a small flag with the word "yellow". Huang Gai led the water army and set up a water village here.

The construction of the cities of Hanyang and Hankow has begun, and the foundations are now being excavated.

Gao Shun and Li Shusuo's departments, stationed in Hanyang and Hankou respectively, were regarded as the barriers of Wuchang Palace.

Shaxian County, with a small flag with the word "Xu", is naturally the headquarters of Xu Sheng, the former protector of the Forbidden Army's Guard Division. After Xu Sheng conquered Shaxian County, he was stationed here, and the Hubu battalion suffered heavy losses all the way and needed to rest. Second, after Shaxian County was burned by fire, it also needed to be repaired.

Wuchang City has also begun construction. Zhang Liao led the cavalry battalion to be stationed here, which can be regarded as protecting Sun Ce's wings.

The county soldiers of Jiangxia County are still being recruited and selected, and Captain Sun Ben is temporarily stationed in Exian County for a generation.

The deployment of troops in the entire Jiangxia County is clear at a glance.

Sun Ce didn't particularly care about Liu Bei, who was trying to rebel from Cao Cao's side and had no intention of starting a war with Eastern Wu. Even if it was a war, Sun Ce was not afraid.

On the Huainan line, Sun Ce carefully laid out, and almost ten fortresses were built alone, and tens of thousands of troops were deployed along the Huai River. Sun Ce really didn't believe that his Huaihe defense line could be broken so easily.

Even, Sun Ce believes that Cao Cao has to give himself a little sweetness and appease him.

After all, the pressure on Yuan Shao in Hebei is too great.

Everything was as Sun Ce expected, Liu Bei was based in Xuzhou, called himself Xuzhou Mu, and rebelled from Cao Cao's men. Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to guard Xiapi and lead a large army to garrison Xiaopei. Since then, the East China Sea thieves and counties have mostly followed Liu Bei.

Cao Cao learned that Che Zhou had been beheaded and Xuzhou was occupied, and he was furious, and quickly mobilized troops and horses to attack Liu Bei.

Sikong Changshi Liu Dai and Zhonglang General Wang Zhong were the main generals appointed by Cao Cao to suppress Liu, and tens of thousands of troops went straight to Xiaopei.

On the other hand, Cao Cao, who was a little anxious, had to order an envoy to come to Wuchang to appease Sun Ce.

This time, Cao Cao's appeasement is very interesting, it can be regarded as giving Sun Ce a part of the name of Chu Fighting, from a certain point of view, it can be considered that there is the support of the Han court.

Previously, Sun Ce was appointed General Anton, but the imperial court did not stipulate the authority of General Anton.

Now, after the official position of General Anton, there is another sentence.

That is, to supervise the military of Jingyang and the two states.

This is the name, that is to say, the military of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, Sun Ce has the final say.

However, in fact, this name is useless! In addition to being the pastor of Jingzhou, Liu Biao also faked the military of the three states! In other words, the entire southern military is Liu Biao's final say.

It's a pity that neither Yizhou Liu Zhang, Yangzhou Sun Ce, nor Jiaozhou Shixie will listen to Liu Biao.

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