The sixth year of Jian'an, April 10.

Liu Biao took the military advisor Cai Mao as the governor of the navy, and his nephew Zhang Yun as the deputy governor, and led 30,000 sailors to go south along the Han River and go to Jiangxia to help Huang Zu fight against Jinfan.

After Jinfan got the news, the pressure doubled, but Liu Ye looked relaxed: "Cai Mao is a person with great ambition and talent, and he has always been at odds with Huang Zu, these two people are in one place, they will inevitably have different opinions and contradictions, so don't look at Cai Mao's arrival has more than doubled the strength of the Jingzhou army, but in fact, they are not necessarily more difficult to deal with now than when only Huang Zu led the army before!" ”

Everyone thought so, but two days have passed, but there has been no movement on the Jingzhou side, which can't help but make people suspect that the other party has another conspiracy, at this time, it was Liu Yedao who broke Jingzhou's thoughts: "This must be the Jingzhou army waiting for Jiangdong's actions, but it's a pity that they are going to be disappointed, the Jiangdong army is not moving, and it will be difficult to protect itself!" ”

The sixth year of Jian'an, April 13.

Liu Biao's letter for help was sent to Sun Quan's desk, and Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh after learning about it.

In fact, Jin Fan sent troops to Jiangxia, and they received the news a few days earlier, and Zhou Yu spent a lot of words and tongues to persuade Sun Quan to suppress his imminent ambition, but with the arrival of Liu Biao's letter, Zhou Yu knew that even if they were unwilling to face it, they had to make their own choice.

Jin Fan's attack on Jiangxia this time claimed to be 50,000, but according to Zhou Yu's guess, it was only 30,000 at most, and Jin Fan had 100,000 male soldiers, plus defenders from all over the country, it was enough to reach 150,000, so the rest of the army. Where did they all go?

There is no doubt that Wang Chong's target must be their Jiangdong, thinking of this. Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp.

"Gong Jin, Liu Biao has sent someone to send a letter, hoping that we can send troops to contain Jin Fan for them, before you advised me to wait and see what happens on the grounds that Liu Biao has not yet taken the initiative to ask for help, but now it is ......" Sun Quan raised the letter in his hand and said with a faint smile, "My Jiangdong and Jingzhou have reached an alliance. If we don't send troops to help, we can't say anything! ”

"But my lord, I'm Jiangdong and Jinfan. An armistice was also signed! Zhou Yu retorted indifferently, "In fact, everyone knows that between the princes, any agreement on paper has no binding force at all. What everyone is after. However, it is all in the interests of their own side, the truce with Jinfan is the same, and the alliance with Jingzhou is the same, so the lord is not convincing to talk about the covenant! ”

"You ......" Sun Quan's face instantly became gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Since Gongjin wants to talk about interests, then let's talk about interests." My Jiangdong is currently surrounded by Jinfan, and now Jinfan is at war with Jingzhou. If we don't send our troops, as the gap between the two sides widens in the future, the chances of us being able to defeat Jinfan will only become more slim, and for this reason, we will also lose Jingzhou, a powerful ally, no matter how we look at it, we will be far better than holding on to Jinfan. ”

Zhou Yu still persuaded unrelentingly: "Lord, since between Jinfan and Jingzhou, we are destined to offend one, then why don't we choose to offend Jingzhou, which is a relatively small threat to us, instead of going to fight Jinfan?" ”

Sun Quan frowned and said, "What does Gong Jin mean by this?" ”

Zhou Yu said amazingly: "Instead of fighting with Jinfan, it is better to join forces with Jinfan to attack Liu Biao, they fight Jiangxia, and we will seize Jiaozhou, so it is the most in line with our Jiangdong interests!" ”

"What is the use of the barren land of Jiaozhou?" Sun Quan sneered, "I, Jiangdong and Jinfan, will have a battle sooner or later, even if I win Jiaozhou, what can I change?" Is it used to deepen strategic depth? Nonsense, by then, Jinfan would have already won the four counties of Jingnan, and its strength would definitely be stronger than it is now, but we are still the caged bird trapped in the square inch, no matter how we fly, we can't fly out of Jinfan's palm! ”

I have to say that Sun Quan's words still sound reasonable at first glance, but Zhou Yu doesn't think so.

First of all, although Jiaozhou is barren, it has a vast territory, and even if the war on the front line is unfavorable in the future, they will have great room for maneuver.

Secondly, the roads in Jiaozhou are rugged, the mountains and rivers are treacherous, and there are many terrains that can be used, if Jinfan is marching into the army, he may not be able to rely on the geographical advantage to defeat the other party and take advantage of the situation to kill the four counties of Jingnan, and then use other princes and Jinfan to form a containment with each other, so that they can completely break away from the shackles of Jinfan, and from then on the dragon into the sea.

Therefore, Jiaozhou is undoubtedly extremely important to Jiangdong.

Perhaps, his idea is a little too idealistic, but the possibility of it being realized is definitely far greater than the odds of winning the war with Jinfan now.

"Lord ......"

"Gong Jin, you have spoken out twice to dissuade you, weren't you scared by Jinfan a year ago?" Zhou Yu was about to say something more, but was interrupted by Sun Quan's mouth, "If Gong Jin really doesn't dare to face Jinfan, I can personally lead the troops to the battle!" ”

“……”

Well, Sun Quan only used one sentence to force Zhou Yu's thousand words back into his stomach.

Let's do my best to have a clear conscience.

Zhou Yu sighed in his heart, clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Since the lord has made up his mind, the last general is willing to lead the army to defeat Jinfan in order to recover my Jiangdong homeland!" ”

Sun Quan smiled: "With Gongjin to help, I shouldn't worry!" ”

Obviously, Sun Quan knew very well how many catties and taels he had, so let him lead the troops to the expedition by himself? What's the difference between that and death?

The reason why he said this was just to provoke Zhou Yu to comply, and the answer was obvious, he succeeded.

The sixth year of Jian'an, April 16.

Jiangdong, with Zhou Yu as the commander, sent 30,000 troops, and attacked Danyang County without warning, and even went down to Jiangcheng, Jurong, and Hushu counties overnight, until it was stopped by Jiang Qin's 5,000 troops under Moling City.

In the next two days, the Jiangdong army provoked Jiang Qin with vicious words one after another, trying to provoke him to go out of the city to meet the battle, but it did not succeed, Zhou Yu had no choice but to lead the army to attack, and Moling City was suddenly in danger.

The sixth year of Jian'an, April 19.

Danyang Taishou Zhu Chun led 10,000 troops to help, Zhou Yu set up an ambush in the middle of the road, at the critical moment, was recognized by Jinfan's right army division Lu Su, a big battle between the two sides, Jiangdong lost 3,000, Jinfan lost 5,000, but the army finally successfully settled in Moling, temporarily stabilized the situation.

The sixth year of Jian'an, April 20.

Jinfan, who had been secretly planning for a long time, finally launched a full-scale offensive like wildfire against Jiangdong.

Pingyue Captain He Qi led 5,000 troops to set off from Yu Qian, and the troops came to Yuhang.

Wei Yan, the general of Yangwu Zhonglang, who had already led his army to his hometown unconsciously, also led an army of 10,000 soldiers Kou Wucheng.

At the same time, Wang Chongqin led an army of 30,000 people to cross the river from Guangling to the south, broke through the Dantu, and defrauded the Qu'a City Gate with the strategy of 'borrowing the corpse to return the soul', completely cutting off Zhou Yu's back road, making it a lone army.

After a lapse of nine months, the beacon smoke once again swept all over Jiangdong. (To be continued.) )