"If there was Gongjin here, why would I have been defeated so far, I knew that I should not have ...... in the first place Ugh—"

At this time, Sun Quan only remembered Zhou Yu's goodness, so he thought about attacking Jingzhou this time, if Zhou Yu commanded the whole army, how could he be as defeated as Lu Su.

However, Sun Quan may have forgotten his original intention of being angry with Zhou Yu in the first place, if Zhou Yu is really still there, Jingzhou will be in the hands of his Sun Quan, where is it Liu Bei Guan Yu's turn to be so arrogant.

Sun Quan didn't want to mention how much regret he felt in his heart, but now that the war in the west was tight, he didn't have time to seriously reflect. Huang Gai is right, Hanchang and Nanjiang Xia must not be lost, it is the result of the struggle of the three generations of the Sun family, if it is lost in his hands, let alone facing a huge threat from Guan Yu's outside, I am afraid that the prestige that he has easily established internally will also be gone.

This battle must be fought!

Sun Quan had already made up his mind, and he was eager to immediately order the army to march west, but according to the usual practice, he was not in a hurry to show his attitude, but asked Zhang Zhao first: "Zibu, in your opinion, should Lone do the army of Jiangdong to the west as the public said?" ”

"What the public replied to is extremely true, in the current situation, Guan Yu's threat is greater than Cao Ying, now Cao Ying is still in Hebei, Hefei does not need to be vigilant for the time being, the Lord Justice can take this opportunity to start Wuzhong's army to the west, even if you can't conquer Jingzhou, at least you have to restore to the original border."

Zhang Zhao didn't talk much nonsense this time, and simply agreed to send troops, but in fact, the reason was very simple.

For example, Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and others were all from the northern Nandu scholars, including the late Zhou Yu, these people formed the Huaisi scholars, constituted the main political and military force of Sun Ce to open up Jiangdong, and in recent years, Sun Quan in order to maintain Sun's rule, more and more inclined to use the Wu Huishi people, because the Huaisi people did not have huge economic strength, so their position in the Eastern Wu ruling group is constantly weakened.

It is precisely because of this reason that the backbone of the Huaisi Group, such as Zhou Yu and Huang Gai, are inclined to use troops in Jingzhou, because they want to use the newly opened up land in Jingzhou as a foothold for their Huaisi Group.

As for the earlier Battle of Chibi, the reason why Zhang Zhao advocated surrendering Cao Ying was also because he did not have much substantial economic benefits in Jiangdong except for his political status, and after surrendering Cao Ying, if he could return to his homeland in the north, in addition to keeping his official position, he might be able to get more economic benefits.

But now, in the newly opened Jingzhou lands such as Hanchang and Nanjiangxia, Sun Quan has given Zhang Zhao a lot of land, and Jingzhou involves the vital interests of the Zhang family, so when Guan Yu poses a threat to his interests, Zhang Zhao will of course stand up and take a stand.

Sun Quan turned to ask Gu Yong: "What does Yuan sigh mean?" ”

Gu Yong also replied without hesitation: "Fang Jinguan Yu is arrogant, and has great ambitions to annex my Jiangdong, so the Lord will take revenge as a soldier of the country and recapture Jingzhou." ”

Gu Yong's approval is understandable, because Sun Quan's way of governing the country has always been to pursue balance, when he gave the land of Jingzhou to the Huaisi Group, of course, he did not forget to divide a part of it to Gu Yong and other Wu County scholars, it seems that Gu Yong himself owns more than ten granges in Nanjiangxia, and hundreds of tenant serfs and maids, so of course he is also in favor of sending troops this time.

After asking Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong, Sun Quan turned his gaze to the person in the last seat and said, "Zibu and Yuan Si are both in favor of sending troops, but I don't know what Zhong Xiang thinks?" ”

The "Zhong Xiang" in Sun Quan's mouth, surnamed Yu, is not only an outstanding talent in the Yu clan of the "Four Surnames of Huiji", but also a world-famous scholar. Although he is also a member of the Jiangdong clan, Yu Fu's official position is much lower than Gu Yong's, and he is currently only serving as a cavalry captain.

Seeing Sun Quan's question, Na Yu pondered for a long time, and said: "Although Guan Yu's army is prosperous, if our army holds the danger and cannot defend it, it will not be able to withstand us." Now the mountain is not flat, and there is the threat of Cao Ying in the north, if the lord of the country goes west, and Cao Ying attacks in the south, and the mountain rebellious inside, but it should be helpless. Therefore, I think that the only plan for today is to concentrate troops to pacify Shanyue first, and then it is not too late to map Jingzhou. ”

Yu Bian's words represent the opinion of the Hui Ji Shi people, to say that this Hui Ji Shi people, although they are also Jiangdong clans, but they are not the Huai Si Shi people such as the Sun clan veteran group, nor as Wu Jun Shi people were comforted and pulled by the Sun clan very early, so the Hui Ji Shi people were actually excluded and suppressed in the Sun group.

Because Huiji is located in the southeast, far away from the two development directions of Hefei in the north and Jingzhou in the west, it is for this reason that in each expansion of territory, the benefits obtained by the Huiji scholars are far less than those of the other two scholar groups, so the Huiji scholars are not very enthusiastic about Sun's foreign expansion policy. On the contrary, they are more inclined to pacify the Shanyue people within their own power, which is obviously more conducive to their actual family benefits.

The three Shiren groups have all expressed their opinions, and now it is Sun Quan's turn to make a decision, in fact, the result is already obvious, the two pillar forces of the Huaisi group and the Wujun group are in favor of Huang Gai's plan to send troops, and the opinions of the weak Huiji group are negligible.

So, Sun Quanteng stood up and said excitedly: "Liu Bei is treacherous, Guan Yu is too much to bully people, and now that my Jiangdong has reached the point of life and death, Gu has decided to go to Jingzhou to fight Guan Yu to the death!" ”

At the end of August, the army of Eastern Wu was assembled, thousands of warships were sent out from Jianye, and Sun Quan personally led an army of 80,000 to Chaisang.

At this time, Guan Yu's army was attacking Shaxian, when he heard that Sun Quan led an army of 80,000 and a huge naval army composed of thousands of warships marched west against the west, Guan Yu, who was in his prime, was also shocked, he decisively gave up the attack on Shaxian, and led the army back to Lukou.

And when Fang Shao heard the news, he was also taken aback, so he rushed from Baqiu to Lukou to see Guan Yu in the starry night.

After seeing Guan Yu, Fang Shao asked straight to the point: "General Guan, I heard that Sun Quan has raised a national army to come, I don't know what your plans are?" ”

"The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, even if Sun Quan comes in person." Guan Yu showed great disdain for Sun Quan, but his disdain did not match the actual action of withdrawing the soldiers and horses to Lukou.

Fang Shao said with a solemn expression: "General Guan, the current situation is very different from the beginning of the war, now there are more than 100,000 troops gathered in the front line of Chaisang in Eastern Wu, this should be almost all of Sun Quan's belongings, he is here to fight hard this time, and our soldiers and horses in Jingzhou add up to less than 60,000, and we have to leave at least 20,000 to guard against the Cao army in Xiangyang." With 40,000 versus 100,000, General Guan, is the comparison in strength too great. ”

Guan Yu was silent for a moment and said: "Although there is a huge disparity in strength, I have the danger of the upper reaches and the advantage of the divine cannon, so I may not be able to fight." ”

Guan Yu was still stiff-mouthed, but obviously his tone was already a little empty.

Fang Shao then said: "Although the Shenwei cannon is good, but the previous victory is also a sudden victory, and now if the Wu people suppress it with a strong bow and crossbow, the power of the Shenwei cannon will inevitably be greatly reduced." As for the upstream risk, on the river, the wind direction only needs to change slightly, and the upstream trend can be easily neutralized. General Guan, this is no longer a war related to Jingzhou, but a decisive battle related to the survival of Liu and Sun's families, and no one can afford to lose. At this time, in Shao's opinion, it is better to rescue Yizhou. ”

Fang Shao knew very well that the reason why Guan Yu was able to achieve a series of big victories was because of the powerful weapon of the divine cannon, but this thing was invented by him, and of course he also knew the way to crack it. At the time of the battle, the Wu people only needed to rely on the strong attack of the hard crossbow, outside the range of the Shenwei cannon, to suppress it from a long distance, and even use a large number of ships to force a surprise attack with the advantage of numbers, which could naturally resolve the advantage of the Jingzhou army.

Moreover, the reason why Fang Shao invented the Shenwei Cannon was not to use it to fight all over the world, but just to teach Dongwu a lesson, but he did not expect that the defeat of Jingzhou would instead promote the same hatred and hatred within Dongwu, which in turn triggered this unprecedented Armageddon.

Guan Yu didn't know that Sun Quan was so powerful, he was just in the limelight of victory, and he didn't have a good step to go down, at this time Fang Shao set up a ladder for him, so he also went down the ladder and said: "Since this is the case, then you can quickly prepare a letter and send it to Chengdu to your brother overnight." ”

Fang Shao persuaded Guan Yu, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, so he hurriedly repaired the book and sent people into Sichuan overnight.

Ten days later, the urgent express was placed on Liu Bei's case, when the letter for help was opened, Liu Bei was also extremely shocked, so he summoned Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others overnight into the house to discuss how to deal with such a major matter.

In the state capital, all the important ministers have gathered.

Liu Bei looked around at everyone and said with a solemn face: "Everyone, in the battle of Jingzhou, Yun Chang and they did achieve great results, but we seem to have offset Sun Quan's ambitions, and now Yun Chang has come to report that Sun Quan has led 100,000 troops to Chaisang in person, the situation is urgent, what do you think?" ”

Pang Tong disagreed: "With the momentum of the lord today, why should he be afraid of Sun Quan, according to the view of the unification, why not adjust the strategy, and use the troops of Yizhou to enter Jingzhou to fight a decisive battle with Sun Quan, and after victory, take advantage of the situation to annex Eastern Wu, and then divide the world with Cao Ying, and then Xu Tu Central Plains is not impossible." ”

Pang Tong's strategic outlook was extremely flexible, and in the blink of an eye, he drew up a new strategy for Liu Bei to destroy Wu first and then Cao.

But Fa Zheng said: "The previous defeat of Eastern Wu was only defeated by the light enemy, and now it is coming with the army of the country, even if the lord does his best to raise the army of Yizhou, he may not be able to win." Besides, even if he wins, when the time comes to lead the troops eastward, the Yangtze River will be thousands of miles, and the transportation and supply lines will be so long, and Cao Ying will use troops at any node, and our army will be threatened to be cut off. Therefore, I just thought that now is not the time to completely turn the face with Sun Quan, when we should take advantage of the momentum of victory and send people to rebuild with Sun Quan, and the grand strategy of the lord should also be placed on taking Hanzhong first, and then taking Yongliang in the north. ”

The two trusted strategists insisted on their own words, and Liu Bei couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he turned his eyes to Zhuge Liang and said, "Master Kong Ming, what is your opinion?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and said with a faint smile: "Shi Yuan's words are reasonable, and what he said is not bad, according to Liang's opinion, why don't you compare the two." ”

(To be continued)