Sun Jian nodded thoughtfully, "Cao Cao is an old fox, of course he won't continue to attack!" ”

Lu Su said: "Cao Cao's losses in the previous battle of Luoyang were very strict, and recently in order to capture Xuanyuan Mountain, he also paid a lot of price, and the grain and grass baggage also suffered huge losses!" Cao Cao probably wants to take advantage of the current rush to seize Nanyang, but he can't do it! In addition, the Yellow Turbans are still wreaking havoc in various places, and Cao Cao also needs to solve these problems. I estimate that if Cao Cao wants to use troops again, he will have to wait at least until after the beginning of spring next year! In fact, I don't think it's very likely that Cao Cao will use troops on a large scale in the spring of next year!|"

Zhou Yu said: "What Zijing said is extremely true! With Cao Cao's character, I estimate that he will not make a big move in a few years, and he will have to accumulate strength. Once the soldiers are used, it will inevitably be the overwhelming trend of Mount Tai! ”

Sun Jian nodded sympathetically, frowned, and said, "Then will Lu Bu take this opportunity to cross the river to fight me Jiangdong?" ”

Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry about the lord at all!" Lu Bu may have such intentions, but he can't do it! Don't forget, my lord, our navy is the best in the world! Lu Bu does not have a real naval army in his hands, and it is impossible to compete with us on the river! The 100,000 sailors are the capital of our invincible position in the world! ”

Sun Jian laughed, "Gongjin's words made me suddenly brighter!" Then he thought, "How can we give full play to the advantages of our navy?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "Our goal should still be Jingzhou. But this time we must not act rashly! ”

Sun Jian couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh when he thought of the previous fiasco, and sighed: "More than 400,000 troops! Gone in an instant! ”

Lu Su hugged his fists and said: "Don't be too sad!" Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers! In fact, the defeat in this battle is not all bad, at least it allows us to see a huge gap in the combat power of Lu Bu's infantry and cavalry! ”

Zhou Yu nodded sympathetically: "Not bad!" Chao Sun Jian clenched his fists and pleaded: "I have an unshirkable responsibility for the defeat of this battle, please punish the lord!" ”

Sun Jian picked up Zhou Yu and sighed, "The defeat in this battle is not Gong Jin's fault, I don't listen to your kind words and persuasion!" If I had listened to Gong Jin's words at that time and shrunk all my military strength in Xiangyang, how could I have such a big defeat?! I'm sorry for the soldiers! ”

Zhou Yu was moved in his heart: "Lord! ”

Sun Jian shook his spirits, "The past is gone, we must seize the current opportunity!" Zhou Yu and Lu Su nodded sympathetically.

Lu Su pondered: "Now our army has a total of 250,000 or 60,000 horses, which is not enough to forge ahead. Either of these two things requires a lot of money! ”

Sun Jian pondered: "From today onwards, the expenses of my Hou Mansion will be halved!" All the money and food left over is used for military expenses! Zijing, I appoint you as the Minister of Internal Affairs and take charge of the economy, money and food for me! Lu Su bowed and said: "The subordinates will live up to the trust of the lord!" ”

Sun Jian picked up Lu Su and said to Zhou Yu: "Gong Jin, the matter of arming up for war will all fall on your shoulders!" ”

Zhou Yu clenched his fists and promised.

Sun Jian turned to face the beautiful mountains and rivers outside the city, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "What a picturesque country! Zhou Yu and Lu Su couldn't help but feel it.

Sun Jian turned around and said to the two: "I've been thinking about one thing these days, how to improve the combat effectiveness of our army? I think that no matter whether it is an infantry army or a cavalry, no matter how much strength we exert ourselves, we can't compare with Lu Bu and Cao Cao! ”

Lu Su nodded with deep pain, and said with emotion: "The northerners are brave, and they are good at riding and foot fighting, and they have been since ancient times!" In this regard, it is indeed difficult for the soldiers of Jiangnan to compete with them! ”

Sun Jian nodded, "Therefore, we have to play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses!" If the foot riders can't compete with them, why should we waste so many resources on the foot riders? ……”

Lu Su frowned and said, "The lord's idea is good!" It's just that there are no foot riders, how can you storm the city and dominate the world? ”

Zhou Yu said: "I understand what the lord means, what the lord means is not to focus on foot riding, not to pay attention to the construction of foot riding!" ”

Sun Jian nodded approvingly, "Gongjin's words are very much in line with my wishes!" After a pause, "Although the world, but almost all the cities are built on the edge of rivers, lakes and seas, my basic intention is that if I want to attack a certain place in the future, I will use the naval army to intercept its grain route and trap it to death, and when it is exhausted, I will attack it with an infantry army!" If the enemy comes to attack, our infantry will only hold the city, and the infantry will never confront the enemy head-on! The navy took advantage of the void and attacked the empty land behind it! We want to turn all the rivers, lakes and seas of the world into a battlefield for us to come and go freely! Keep the enemy under the threat of our navy at all times! ”

Lu Su's eyes lit up and he was excited: "The lord is clever, so that the strong advantage of our army's water war has been fully brought into play!" ”

Sun Jian smiled proudly.

Zhou Yu frowned and said, "I'm afraid we won't be happy for long!" ”

Sun Jian and Lu Su showed puzzlement, and Lu Su asked, "Why did Gong Jin say this?" Is there any other army in the world that can compare with us? ”

Zhou Yu said: "Not now, but I'm afraid that in a few years, there will be a more powerful water army than us!" ”

Sun Jian and Lu Su were stunned for a moment, Lu Su's expression moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Gong Jin refers to Cao Cao?" When Sun Jian heard this, his heart was shocked.

Zhou Yu asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" Cao Cao is now stepping up the training of the navy, 200,000 sailors, twice the number of our army now! According to the information obtained by Xi Zuo, Cao Cao is stepping up the construction of various warships, and the number has far exceeded ours! The largest of them is twice the size of our military's ship! Now the weakness of Cao Cao's navy is mainly the personnel of the army, after all, the people in the north are not good! But this is not insurmountable, as long as time passes, the overall combat power of Cao's army will definitely surpass our army! ”

Sun Jian frowned and muttered, "This is exactly what I'm worried about!" Although we are united with Cao Cao now, we will definitely meet each other in the future, if we sit back and watch Cao Cao's army become bigger, I am afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable! Lu Su looked solemn and depressed; Zhou Yu squinted his eyes, as if thinking about something.

……

Zhang Lang led the guards back to Luoyang.

As soon as he returned to Luoyang, various orders were issued, the first of which was that the hundreds of thousands of people's troops who had been urgently mobilized should be returned to their places and rewarded at the same time; The second thing is to pay for the families of the fallen soldiers, which is an astronomical expense; The third thing was to order Huang Yueying, the governor of Luoyang, and Chen Gong, the governor of Bingzhou, to requisition and transfer the people to build a tunnel defense system according to the actual situation of the two places; Fourth, Chang'an was ordered to prepare for the imperial examination.