The mobilization of the two major forces has embroiled the whole world in turmoil.

In mid-October, the Qingzhou generals ended their audience and military discussions in Gaotang, and each returned to his station, and then the army was set out, and 100,000 soldiers went to various places with Ge to test horses.

The movements of the Qingzhou army will naturally attract the attention of all forces, and the princes will either transfer troops or accelerate the progress of the current strategy, even the rural villagers can feel that a war of unprecedented scale and rare for hundreds of years is about to be staged in the Central Plains.

The attitude towards this big war, the princes are also happy and sad, but there is no doubt that all parties are doing their best to fight a world.

In the turbulent situation, the first thing that played an important role was Qingzhou's mature and complete intelligence system. Although the Intelligence Department could not find out the military secrets at the highest level of each party one by one, it ensured to the greatest extent that the big and small events that happened in various places would converge to Qingzhou as quickly as possible, so that Wang Yu and other high-level Qingzhou officials could sit in Gaotang City and have a full view of the world.

Among the highest-priority intelligence, the movements of Gan Ning's fleet were the focus of Wang Yu's attention.

Gan Ning is a person who is very good at creating surprises, when he left Xiangyang, he shouted the heroic slogan of God blocking and killing God, and then went down the river for hundreds of miles, continuously forcibly breaking through the interception of the Jingzhou Navy, his behavior was very confusing to some people, treating him as a brave and unscrupulous general, even Sun Ce thought so.

In order to intercept Gan Ning, Sun Ce set up heavy troops in Xiakou, waiting for Gan Ning to come out of Yunmengze and throw himself into the net. He himself led the attack on Xiling City, intending to completely control Jiangxia first.

As a result, he never expected that Gan Ning would turn around soon after entering Ze, but he went all the way south to Lukou, that is, the area of Chibi.

In this era, the Yangtze River water system is still very abundant, especially in the left near Chibi, it can be said that the water network is vertical and horizontal, there are countless big rivers and lakes, the reason why Chibi is a place where soldiers must fight, is because this is the confluence of many rivers and lakes, and you can advance to the southeast at will, so when Cao Cao attacked Jiangdong in history, Zhou Yu led his troops to meet here.

Of course, Sun Ce will not be unaware of the importance of Chibi, but the Jiangxia war has reached the most critical juncture, once Cao Cao completes the strategy of Xiangyang and spreads the counties of Jingzhou in the name of Liu Biao, it can be decided without a fight. The battle of Jingzhou became the contribution of the Jiangdong family, and Cao Cao sat back and enjoyed it.

With Sun Ce's arrogance, of course he can't stand this, he has nothing to do with Jingzhou, only grudges, and he can't learn Cao Cao if he wants to, so he can only march at a faster speed, catch up with Cao Cao, and get what he should take.

In addition, he underestimated the enemy, he didn't expect that Gan Ning, who was so arrogant before, suddenly played with a spear, and instead of taking the fastest road, he took great pains to go around in circles.

As a result, Chen Wu and Zhu Huan's elite of the 3,000 sailors blew the cold wind stupidly in Xiakou for half a month, and when they finally found out that something was wrong, Exian County had already lit a beacon fire, warning that there was a fleet with brocade sails from Hejing Lake into the river, and it had gone east.

Sun Ce was furious when he heard the news, but it had been a few days since he got the news, so he had no time to chase it, so he could only pin his hopes on a few veterans who stayed in Jiangdong, and then vented his sullen anger on Huang Zu.

On October 18, Sun Ce led his army to launch a general attack on Xiling City. In this battle, he once again played the true character of the little overlord of Jiangdong, personally led the dead soldiers to climb the city, the first to climb the city wall, and killed dozens of Jiangxia generals with a sword, and finally killed half of the defenders of the city wall completely collapsed!

Huang Zu is also unlucky, Xiling City is an important town in Jiangxia, the city is high and deep, the city is rich in grain and grass, and the troops are also abundant, at least it can support for a few months. But who made Sun Ce angry, this little overlord can usually listen to some persuasion, but when he gets angry, he must ignore it, and Huang Zu naturally can't resist his outburst.

The Jiangdong army conquered Xiling on the same day, Huang Zu led the remnants of the army to break through the siege, and in the chaotic battle, he was lucky to highlight the city gate, but thirty miles outside the city, he was intercepted by Zhu Huan, who was also sullen, and cut off his head with a knife.

Huang Zu died, the main force of Jiangxia also collapsed, and there was no large-scale resistance force in the territory, and the Jiangdong Army swept Jiangxia. Coupled with the two counties of Changsha and Guiyang that had already been taken, the Jiangdong Army had gained half of Jingzhou, and its power had skyrocketed, which was basically the same as when it was the strongest in history.

Gan Ning made a false shot and escaped into Yangzhou, and the specific movement could only be taken over by the intelligence system in the Jianghuai area. However, the eyeliners on the Jingzhou side are not idle, because the dust has not yet settled on the Jingzhou side.

The western part of Jiangxia was originally Cai Mao's intended sphere of influence, but he was first disgraced by Gan Ning, who was born out of nowhere, and folded the cadre and brother-in-law Zhang Yun, and then he was caught off guard and got the news of the Xiling fiasco, only to be shocked and dizzy.

Before he could figure out what went wrong and how to explain it to Cao Cao, there was a new mess in Xiangyang - Liu Biao ran away!

Just as Lu Su said to Sun Quan in history, if others want to take the foundation, the courtiers can surrender, but Sun Ce, the monarch, cannot surrender.

Liu Biao knows this truth very well, and he is much better than his little son who has no vision and no courage. Not only did he know that he couldn't surrender, but he still didn't forget to look for an opportunity when the Cai and Kuai families had actually betrayed him and put him under house arrest in the disadvantageous situation of the mansion.

The turmoil caused by Gan Ning is the opportunity that Liu Biao has been waiting for for a long time! Taking advantage of the fact that Cai Mao was busy dispatching troops and horses to pursue Gan Ning, sending a message to Cao Cao, contacting Sun Ce to block it, and having no time to look around, Liu Biao quickly launched an action, with hundreds of guards, together with his eldest son Liu Qi, and highlighted Xiangyang City overnight.

Cai Mao and Kuai Yue brothers were shocked and hurriedly dispatched soldiers and horses to pursue. Although his two families are powerful, they are far from the point of fully controlling Jingzhou, and Liu Biao is indispensable to dedicate Jingzhou to Cao Cao in the name and minimize the resistance of Cao Cao's access.

Knowing that the matter was urgent, Kuai Liangqin led a thousand private soldiers and two thousand county soldiers to pursue, and it was said that Liu Biao dragged his family with his mouth, and it was impossible to escape from the palm of his hand. Not long after leaving the city, Kuai Liang found that Liu Biao did not run to the south, but ran along the water and to the west, although this delayed him a little, but that was all, and the result would not change.

However, Kuai Liang forgot one thing, there is an old saying that goes like this: Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not alone.

Kuai Liang chased all the way to the foot of Zhuyang City, and had already seen Liu Biao's team from a distance, and when he was about to urge the soldiers to move forward, he only heard a burst of drums and horns, and thousands of ambushes were killed!

Kuai Liang is not a brave and unscrupulous man, but the territory of Nanyang is obviously Cao Cao's territory, and he never imagined that there would be hostile forces. It was a long-distance pursuit, the physical strength and morale of the soldiers were almost to the limit, and they were ambushed, and the three thousand pursuers were all wiped out, and the result of Kuai Liang's death in the chaos was not surprising at all.

It was later discovered that this strange soldier was not a god soldier descended from heaven, but was surrounded by the remnants of the Dong army in Wuguan. This army was led by Li Ru and Niu Fu, and resisted in Wuguan for a while, and later got the help of Zhang Xiuzhi and broke out at the risk of death.

Cao Cao didn't take this remnant army seriously, anyway, they had nowhere to run, they would only come out of an encirclement, and then fall into a larger encirclement, and at the moment his attention was focused on the movement of the Qingzhou army.

What he didn't expect was that Zhang Xiu was very righteous, not only risking his life to save his former colleagues, but also keeping in touch with Liu Biao, who had lost power, so there was this ambush battle. If Liu Biao can't escape, Zhang Xiu even plans to go to Xiangyang City to save people.

The two converged, discussed a little, and immediately led the way by Liu Biao, and thousands of remnants of the army rushed all the way, through the city, and went straight to Jiangling City.

Liu Biao also has two brushes in power, and he has not been idle in the past few years, he let the Cai and Kuai families control the military and political power in Xiangyang, and entrusted Jiangxia with full power to the Huang family, at the cost of this, but in exchange for the power to adjust the personnel of those relatively remote places.

He appointed Xiang Lang as the Taishou of Jiangling, co-opted the Xiang family, who was gradually excluded from the core of Jingzhou's power, and appointed his son Liu Pan as the Taishou of Changsha to control Jingnan, which can be regarded as a reverse osmosis from the outside in.

If Liu Biao is allowed to develop step by step, the power of Jingzhou will be completely concentrated in his hands sooner or later, but unfortunately, he does not have so much time, and the general trend of the world is changing too quickly and too urgently. As a result, these arrangements became a back road, blocking Cai Mao's several pursuits, and on November 11, Liu Biao entered Jiangling City safely.

Xiang Lang led the officials of the city to greet him, but was driven away from Changsha by the Jiangdong army, and Liu Pan, who had retreated to Wuling, also sent envoys, and Liu Biao, who escaped from Xiangyang, instead integrated a considerable combat force.

Liu Biao, a person who is so proficient in the art of power, of course knows that this strength alone cannot resist Cao Cao and Sun Ce, and even Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, who are going all out. Don't look at Xiang Jia's current performance and know that Entu Bao, if he is overwhelmed by the soldiers, he will not be much stronger than Cai and Kuai.

His countermeasure was to spread the word to the world, directly denounce Cao Cao as a national thief, call on the world, follow the example of Dong, and punish him with cavalry.

In the eyes of people who don't know the situation, they will definitely think that Liu Biao has lost his mind and gone crazy, obviously Cao Cao is powerful, and his life is in the hands of others, and he dares to spread the word to the world in such a high-profile way.

But in Wang Yu's opinion, Liu Biao's move can be described as the pinnacle.

"But whenever there is a big war, there will always be an unbelievable fuse, isn't this also a law? I'm afraid this big battle that will determine the fortune of the world will be advanced. ”

"Liu Jingsheng put forward an initiative in the capacity of the clan, and our army naturally could not help but respond, and now that all the troops and horses have been deployed in key positions, the soldiers are waiting for the day, ready to go, and once they respond, the tension of the situation will naturally escalate. In contrast, Liu Jingsheng now only has one city left, Jiangling, and Lingling counties, who else can take care of him for a while? ”

Jia Xu sneered: "This person's vision and means are first-class, but he doesn't know about military affairs, otherwise according to the land of Jingxiang, why worry about not doing anything?" If the war really started here, how could it be written in the history of later generations, and it would not be in vain for his painstaking planning. ”

Wang Yuhun smiled indifferently and said, "What does he say in the future?" In short, the moment of victory in the Central Plains is just around the corner. (To be continued,