The autumn is high and cool, in the western suburbs of Jianye, a pair of heroic men gallop on horses, stretch their bows and arrows, and shoot arrows mercilessly in the face of the wild beasts that can't escape from the woods.

"Hahaha, Gongjin, you lost again."

Sun Ce laughed and put away his bow and arrows, beckoning his entourage to carry the loot back.

Zhou Yu, who rode to Sun Ce's side, smiled bitterly, the sons and daughters of the Sun family were all brave, and they all had a hobby, that is, hunting.

Zhou Yu, who sacrificed his life to accompany the gentleman, was not here, but on business.

A pair of ministers with different surnames slowly returned to Jianye when it was falling.

"Gong Jin, you seem to have something on your mind?"

Sun Ce, who had always been cheerful, saw that Zhou Yu was absent-minded, so he asked for advice.

Zhou Yu, who was a handsome man and a beautiful man, nodded slightly, his expression slightly solemn.

"Guo Jia is building a water division in Yizhou, and he is afraid to want to go south of the Yangtze River."

The Jiangnan in the future refers to the Jiangdong today, while the Jiangnan in the contemporary era is the east and west of the Jiangdong.

Hearing this, Sun Ce put away his mentality of playing and nodded in agreement.

Cao Ying wants to fight Yuan Shu, so who will belong to Yuan Shu's territory after his death? This is a problem.

Even if Cao Ying exterminated Yuan Shu, he might not be able to garrison Shouchun, firstly, he would integrate his forces to fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shao, and secondly, the location of Shouchun would make Cao Lai sandwiched between Jingzhou and Jiangdong.

Guo Jia's intention to build a sailor at this time is very intriguing.

If Guo Jia has set his mind on Shouchun's side, then at least he must capture Jingzhou first.

Zhou Yu's biggest worry is that once Guo Jia takes Jingzhou, the pattern of the world will change dramatically!

With Guo Jia in Guanzhong, he has the capital to compete in the world.

With Guanzhong and Jingzhou, Guo Jia will have at least more than sixty percent of the chance to reunify the country!

Zhou Yu understands better than anyone that whether it is Cao Ying, Sun Ce, or Guo Jia, if you want to dominate the world, Jingzhou must take it!

Those who win Jingzhou will dominate the trend of the world.

Jiangdong is actually very similar to Yizhou, Yizhou has the Qinling Mountains, and Dongwu has the Yangtze River, which is a natural advantage for self-preservation.

But if you want to go outward, it is impossible to rely on the advantage of self-preservation.

Therefore, Guo Jia saw the opportunity to attack Guanzhong, and then repelled Cao Ying and Yuan Shao and held Guanzhong firmly in his hands.

Sun Ce, who is based in Jiangdong, wants to sweep the world, and it is difficult to directly annex the Central Plains by relying only on the territory of the six counties in Jiangdong, and because of the natural danger of the Yangtze River, it is almost imperative to swallow Jingzhou.

But Jiangdong, whether it is troops, financial resources, manpower and material resources, from the foundation to the existing hoarding, is difficult to compare with Jingzhou.

Doesn't Sun Ce want Jingzhou? Think, but he may not be able to beat Jingzhou, Liu Biao only consumes with Sun Ce, and consumes Sun Ce to death, Guo Jia has abundant grain and grass in Yizhou, his army went to besiege Jingzhou, and Guo Jia supported the ground for a year, but if Sun Ce goes out to fight, it will be as short as a month, and as long as within three months, he will definitely withdraw from the army, and the grain and grass will not be able to support it at all, such confidence and capital are Guo Jia used five years not to return to Yizhou, Sun Ce also understands, so he also began to stabilize the people's livelihood, hoping to use rest and recuperation to develop and grow.

However, Jiangdong's soldier and horse population base is the fundamental reason why they cannot easily move troops, and once they lose troops, it will take a long time to replenish them.

In fact, Sun Ce was very grateful to Guo Jia in his heart, if it weren't for Guo Jia ordering Zhou Tai to fight Jingzhou and beheading Huang Zu by mistake, Sun Ce is afraid that the most important thing at hand now is to wave his army into Jingzhou, in the name of avenging his father.

Whether Sun Ce is out of revenge for his family or further wooing the loyalty of Sun Jian's old department, he has to fight Jingzhou after he has the strength, and his name of preparing to fight Jingzhou is justified, and as long as he kills Huang Zu, Sun Ce will retreat, and he will never leave a soldier in Jingzhou, and he will do what he says, whether he is avenging his father is revenge, and he can't let outsiders think that he is plotting against Jingzhou, but Sun Ce must first weigh his own strength if he wants to fight Jingzhou, The feud between the Sun family and Jingzhou was also in the era of Sun Quan in history, and Huang Zu was stabbed.

In any case, Huang Zu died, and the head was also in the hands of Sun Ce to worship Sun Jian's spirit in the sky, in this way, Jiangdong was exempted from a loss, the soldiers and horses were not damaged, the grain and grass were not consumed in the battle, and there was no need to reward the soldiers.

"If he invades Jingzhou, he will lose his morality. I expect that Guo Jia Bacheng is just taking precautions, and he will not use troops against Jingzhou in the short term. ”

Sun Ce looked at the remnant sun from afar and sighed slightly.

As he said, Guo Jiagang made peace with Jingzhou, if he suddenly made trouble, he would indeed be unknown.

It's just that Liu Biao, as a party concerned, can't take risks, and his net worth and surname can't be pinned on Guo Jia's moral character.

"Gong Jin, in a few years, Jingzhou will be war-torn again, Jiangdong must also prepare early, I will, appoint you as the governor of Jiangdong Water Division, Jiangdong can not do without water division, no matter whether Cao Ying is now setting his sights on the north, or Liu Biao's guard is always Guo Jia, Jiangdong must first protect itself and then try to forge ahead."

Even though Zhou Yu is a young man with extraordinary talents, it is unbelievable that he was promoted to such a height by Sun Ce just after he was in his early twenties, and Zhou Yu himself was shocked.

But after thinking about it, Sun Ce himself is a young monarch, and it is understandable to promote and appoint young people, and the main generals under Guo Jia's command are all young people.

Eight years ago, Zhang Liao was twenty years old, Gan Ning was twenty-one years old, Gao Shun, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei were all less than thirty years old.

Guo Jia's every move is the focus of the world, so he built a water division, and the reactions of all parties followed.

Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, he was already going to fight Cao Ying to the death, and the only hero who could influence the situation in the Central Plains today was Guo Jia in the West.

And Cao Ying gave Guo Jia the title of marquis, promoted to official, and sent Xun Yu to contact Guo Jia in person, this series of actions made Yuan Shao feel uneasy, for fear that Guo Jia would fall to Cao Ying, even if he did not submit to the imperial court, but if Guo Jia said publicly: "I advance and retreat with Cao Ying." Yuan Shao may find it difficult to make up his mind to fight Cao Ying again.

It's just a matter of one sentence.

Guo Jia said that whoever he supports, the battle can be stopped.

It sounds like child's play, but if you don't treat Guo Jia's attitude carefully, it's really a child's play to joke about your surname.

Cao Ying was afraid that Yuan Shao and Guo Jia would join forces to attack him, and Yuan Shao was also afraid that Cao Ying and Guo Jia would form a siege on him together, Guo Jia was no longer the carefree prince who was far away in Yizhou, he went out of the Guandong and went in, the Central Plains would fall into chaos, he didn't go out of the pass, as long as he opened his mouth to say a word, the princes of the Central Plains would also tremble.

The current situation is what Yuan Shao wants to see the most, Guo Jiaxing builds a water division, then the strategic center of gravity is in the south, the situation in the Central Plains, Guo Jia does not come to make peace, and Yuan Shao does not have to be distracted to deal with Guo Jia.

Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, but Cao Ying was suspicious.

Xun Yu returned to Xu Du and gave Cao Ying a clear answer, and Guo Jia agreed to the agreement to form an alliance.

Kansai is uneven, and Guo Jia does not enter the Central Plains.

The Kanto region is uncertain, and Cao Ying will never go west.

If Guo Jia is now a strong soldier to fight Han Sui and Ma Chao, Cao Ying will definitely believe that Guo Jia will fulfill his promise.

But Guo Jia made a gesture of plotting Jingzhou in the future, which made Cao Ying suspicious.

This is obviously a deliberate move to make both him and Yuan Shao let down their guard.

So that he and Yuan Shao fought a decisive battle without reservations, and then joined the battle by surprise and plundered the fruits of victory.

Cao Ying admired Guo Jia's courage very much, and he could make such a big movement to paralyze the enemy, but he couldn't hide it from his eyes.

From beginning to end, Guo Jia never thought about Cao Ying, what Cao Ying thought of him, and whether Cao Ying would see through his intentions, it didn't matter.

Because the battle of Guandu was not provoked by Cao Ying, he was a passive responder, the choice of fighting or not fighting, in the hands of Yuan Shao, as long as Yuan Shao did not guard against Guo Jia and fought with Cao Ying wholeheartedly, then Cao Ying had no choice but to do his best to fight.

Cao Ying's scalp was numb, and after he figured it out, he sadly and indignantly found that the situation was stronger than people, and there was no way.

Guo Jia's priority now is Yuan Shao, just like when Cao Ying instigated Yuan Shao, how to make Yuan Shao happy, how to make Yuan Shao have no worries, and how to make Yuan Shao proud is the key to the matter.

Now that Guo Jia has made this move, the intention is obvious, at least Cao Ying has expected that Guo Jia will definitely appear on the battlefield of his decisive battle with Yuan Shao.

And he was powerless to distract Guo Jia at all.

This situation is very frustrating.

"Vertical deception!"

Cao Ying scolded in front of Xun Yu.

Xun Yu's face was expressionless, but he wanted to laugh in his heart.

People in the world, maybe anyone can scold Guo Jia like this, but Cao Ying can't.

Isn't this just 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter?

If you want to ask who is the most cunning in the world, Cao Ying can ask Yuan Shao and see how Yuan Shao answers.

Since returning to Yizhou with Guo Jia, Jia Xu has not been named a high-ranking official by Guo Jia, but only Houlu, and now Jia Xu is just a very idle petty official in Chengdu.

As always, he was teaching Guo Ye, and Jia Xu looked at Guo Ye thoughtfully.

This kid is really ordinary in terms of talent.

In addition to being hard and calm, it seems that he has not inherited much of an extraordinary mind from Guo Jia and Cai Yan.

Compared with his younger brother, Guo Jin, Guo Jin is like a piece of jade, which can be turned into a big tool after carving, while Guo Ye is more like a stone on the side of the road, ordinary and unpretentious.

It is easy to carve jade into a vessel, but it is difficult to turn a stone into gold.

Jia Xu likes this child, but he didn't expect Guo Ye to learn much before, but now, he was actually moved by Guo Ye's attitude, and never perfunctory orders from his elders.

However, does this thing of talent exist?

Jia Xu called Guo Ye in front of him, and Guo Ye stood very obediently, ready to listen to the teachings.

"Ye Gongzi, the lord went to inspect the water master, you should know, right?"

Guo Ye was confused, who wouldn't know about this?

After he nodded, Jia Xu continued to ask, "Then do you know what the Lord is going to do when he builds the water master?" ”

"Hit Jingzhou!"

Guo Ye blurted out, and Jia Xu closed his eyes in disappointment.

"Go home, until the lord returns, if you can't figure out why the lord wants to build a water master at this time, don't come to see me."

Jia Xu sighed and walked away.

(To be continued)