After Liu Ze received Wuchang's emergency document, he only said one sentence: "If you don't die, you don't have to die!" ”

In order to ensure that the aid to Wuchang was carried out as quickly as possible, the Jing army mobilized almost all the light cavalry, the 10th Army Corps, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 7th Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division, the 3rd Cavalry Division, and the 6th Cavalry Division, totaling 100,000 light cavalry, which were unified under the command of Ma Chao, the Governor of the 10th Army Corps.

With a distance of more than 2,000 miles, Ma Chao arrived in Hankou in only four days. At this time, the Jing army and navy completely firmly controlled the channel of the Yangtze River, and Ma Chao did not choose to cross the river in Hankou, but moved eastward to Yixian and crossed the river in Exian, directly cutting off the retreat of the Wu army.

100,000 light horsemen crossed the river, which was almost overwhelming, and the Eastern Wu army attacked under the fortified city of Wuchang for seven days in a row, and was overwhelmed by the fierce artillery fire of the Jing army, and never broke through the defense of the Jing army. 100,000 light cavalry roared in, and the Wu army had no fighting spirit and collapsed on the whole line.

Zhou Yu looked at the head of Wuchang City, which was filled with gunsmoke, and gave the order to withdraw his troops gloomily, this was the last time he looked at Wuchang City, and he left here, he had no chance to return here.

The Wu army lost control of the Yangtze River waterway from the beginning, and now Ma Chao's 100,000 light cavalry has cut off the land passage of the Wu army, and the 100,000 Wu army is already in a desperate situation.

Zhou Yu had to take the Jiuling Trail again, the difficult and bumpy mountain road and the Jing army continued to pursue, the Wu army suffered heavy losses, when Zhou Yu fled back to Jianye, his subordinate army did not survive one out of ten, and this time he attacked Wuchang. The Wu army suffered the most painful defeat.

Ma Chao relieved the siege of Wuchang, and did not stop the iron hooves of the attack, and advanced with Ganning by land and water. Swing to the east, straight to Jianye. Come and don't be rude, since Sun Quan can openly tear up the covenant and brazenly send troops to attack Wuchang, it is time to settle old accounts with him.

The soldiers of the Jing army pressed the border, and there was a panic in the territory of Soochow.

The Wenchens led by Lu Su and Zhuge Jin suggested that they negotiate peace with the Jing army, and the generals led by Cheng Pu were determined to defend Jianye. The clan headed by Sun Yi advocated temporarily avoiding the edge of the Jing army and moving the capital to Huiji County. Sun Quan is in a dilemma. Don’t know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon.

Due to the crushing defeat of the Wu army in the Battle of Wuchang, the army of more than 100,000 was lost, and now in Jianye City, the defenders are only 30,000 or 20,000. How difficult it is to resist the iron hooves and sharp cannons of the Jing army and stubbornly defend Jianye, it will definitely not work; And now to negotiate peace with Liu Ze, I am afraid it is not an easy task, brazenly tearing up the Sun-Liu peace agreement, this is entirely the responsibility of the Wu side, the Jing army now occupies an absolutely dominant position, and the peace talks are completely extravagant; It seems that in front of Sun Quan, only the last trick of moving the capital is left.

Then. Cao Cao's secret envoy Zhen Mi, who was still stranded in Jianye, made a seemingly safe suggestion to abandon Jiangdong and evacuate to Yanzhou. Rendezvous with the army of the King of Wei to ensure the safety of Sun Quan, Marquis of Wu.

Now the only military force that the Wu army can rely on is only the 100,000 horses under the command of Lü Meng in Yanzhou, Zhou Yu learned from the pain and persuaded Sun Quan to abandon Jiangdong and go north to Yanzhou. Seek the support of the King of Wei.

Now, Sun Quan has made a choice helplessly. After all, although Jiangdong is good, it is no longer his place to stay for a long time.

But if you really want to abscond from Yanzhou, it is not an easy task, because this time they fled north, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu still had a lot of things to carry, such as family members, soldiers, cronies, treasures, grain and grass, all of which Sun Quan needed to consider.

Zhou Yu gave Sun Quan an idea, this time the absconding had to be carried out in secret, and in order to cover up the truth, Wu Jun had to prepare carefully.

First of all, the Wu army sent Lu Su and Zhuge Jin as special envoys to the Jingjun camp to negotiate, striving to delay a little more time; Cheng Pu wants to swear to live and die with Jianye City, then he will be fulfilled; As for Sun Yi's plan to flee south, it was vetoed by Sun Quan, the mountains south of Huiji County are completely the territory of the Shanyue people, and the Sun family has not been able to find a clever plan to deal with the Shanyue people when it was in its heyday, Sun Quan naturally cannot let the only remaining disciples of the Sun family be cannon fodder, they must stay by Sun Quan's side.

Ma Chao met with Lu Su and Zhuge Jin in the Jingjun camp, but Ma Chao was obviously not interested in their requests, since Sun Quan could launch a desperate attack, it was impossible for Ma Chao not to fight back.

The rumbling sound of artillery resounded at the head of Jianye City, and the Jing army was soon engaged in siege operations.

Cheng Pu tried his best to guard the gate of Jianye, but everything he did was in vain, because Sun Quan and Zhou Yu had quietly left Jianye City before the Jing army besieged the city, not only the two of them, but also their families. This matter is already known to everyone, but Cheng Pu is the only one who hides it.

In the end, Cheng Pu fought to the end, but still did not escape the fate of death, and died with random arrows. This way of death is the same as the way Sun Jian died in Jingzhou back then, Cheng Pu left this world with a smile, maybe he thought that under Jiuquan, he could meet his lord Sun Jian again.

With the defeat of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, Ma Chao and Ganning swept the entire Jiangdong with the method of pulling dry and decaying, and everywhere they went, the people surrendered one after another, and the situation in Jiangdong quickly stabilized.

When Ma Chao and Gan Ning swept the entire Jiangdong, Liu Ze was not idle and attacked the Lü Meng's department in Yanzhou. First, Yiye blocked the crossing of the Yellow River from Baima to Chiping, so that Cao Cao's reinforcements could not enter Yanzhou; Second, the second and third fields simultaneously carried out the entrapment of Lü Meng in Yanzhou from the east and west sides.

Without Cao Cao's reinforcements in the north and Zhou Yu in the south, Lü Meng was in a difficult situation in Yanzhou, and successively lost Chenliu, Dingtao, Taishan, and Dongping City. By the time Sun Quan Zhou Yu led the remnants of Jiangdong to Yanzhou, Lü Meng had only Puyang and Changyi left.

And what made Sun Quan's heart even more congested, Ma Chao chased after him, and the territory of Guangling and Xubei counties that he had originally agreed with Liu Ze was now cleaned up by Ma Chao, who was swept away.

It is not possible to think that Sun Quan can only rescue Cao Cao, and the difficulty of Cao Cao's crossing the river at this moment can be imagined, Cao Cao has decided to give up all the territory south of the Yellow River, and let Sun Quan lead his troops to retreat to the area of Pingyuan County. At the same time, on the north bank of the Yellow River from Hanoi to the plains, several defense areas were divided, which were guarded by his three sons, Cao Pi guarded the eastern section, Sun Quan assisted in the defense, and Cao Zhang guarded the middle section, which was estimated to be Liu Ze's main target. As for the third son, Cao Zhi, he was responsible for guarding the western section.

Cao Cao wanted to build an impregnable Yellow River defense line to prevent the Jing army from crossing the Lei Chi for half a step. (To be continued)