Lulin Mountain is at the intersection of Nanyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia counties - Liu Biao once analyzed it as Zhangling County in the north, and the province is still under the jurisdiction of Nanyang.

At this time, at the northern foot of the Green Forest Mountain, in the dense forest, on the bank of the spring, the main force of the Cao army of the southern expedition was stationed, and the east and west camped for dozens of miles. And near the mountainside, the scenery is deep and secluded, and a new Xuan is the summer retreat of Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

In early autumn, the weather is hot, but in the mountains and forests, there is a cool breeze from time to time, which is enough to dissipate the heat. Cao Cao's back is often informal, just take off his hat, take off his long clothes, and only wear a middle single, and even the middle single is open, revealing a thin chest hair and a bulging abdomen. He was barefoot, sitting on a nanmu couch in the Xuanzhong, shaking the pu fan in his left hand, and holding the book "Cai Zhonglang Collection" in his right hand, and he was fascinated by reading - it was like a seclusion in the forest, where are there still some Han prime ministers and the unique demeanor of the United States?

It is said that this "Cai Zhonglang Collection" is that in the past few years, Cai Yan and Cai Zhaoji silently wrote the text of his father's life, including poems, tablets, edicts, inscriptions, etc., and then his husband Wang Cang Wang Zhongxuan finished the manuscript and engraved it by Shixun's printing workshop, a total of forty-three volumes, a full six thick books - nearly four times more than the original history that has been handed down. It has always been a newly printed book, and the first part must be dedicated to Cao Cao - the Son of Heaven has to go to the back row - so this southern expedition is just right to bring it with me so that I can relieve my boredom on the way.

Cao Cao was very sullen, and originally planned to take a little rest after taking Nanyang, so he immediately crossed the Han Dynasty and took Xiangyang, Liu Biao's base, but he didn't expect that suddenly the epidemic was prevalent, and he couldn't move his nest in Nanyang County. Fortunately, Zhang Ji came to vote in time, according to what Shixun said in Changsha Zhang Xian's mansion in the past: "...... Isolation of the living. Let the breath pass and the poison gradually dissipate. Easy to heal; Clothing and utensils of the deceased and the living who were poisoned. or burning, or burying deeply, so that the living do not touch, can stop the spread of the epidemic. Eat boiling soup every day and do not drink raw water; is good to live away from people; Don't get close to filth, don't eat rotten food......" Finally, after Cao Bing died of illness and more than 30 people, the contagion trend of the epidemic was temporarily controlled. And he built yì and moved to this relatively cool foothill forest.

Not long after, Hua Tuo also rushed over from Xudu. Hua and Zhang were famous for each other in the original history, but they had never met in their lives, and now they bumped into each other, and when the truth was too late, they were sticky together all day long, and they didn't know what they were discussing.

Although the epidemic trend of the plague is to be charged, those who have already contracted the disease still need to be slowly recuperated after all, and they cannot be cured in a day. Moreover, after such a serious illness. The morale of Cao's army was also affected, and it was impossible to pull it out to fight immediately. So Cao Cao moved to the foothills of this green forest. It's been more than ten days, and I have to ask Zhang Ji and Hua Tuo almost every day: "When will the epidemic be holographic?" The two replied in unison: "It must be October." "Cao Cao said that it will take at least ten days, do you know how much food and materials I will consume if I stay here for one more day? Seeing that Nanyang County's output this year is almost exhausted for me, Xun Yu is raising food in the rear, because it is not in line with the original plan, temporary deployment, transportation, and loss are also amazing - I knew that I would wait for the autumn before sending troops, why bother to go here for vacation and recuperation?

But Hua Tuo said that you came to recuperate, and the recuperation was right. He said that Cao Cao's head wind disease, the cause of which is in the word "dry", just in the mountains to cultivate the mind, is very good for the recovery of the head wind. Cao Cao had no choice but to continue to rest with the mountains and read to escape the heat.

When reading the book to the point of refreshment, there is a part of the honeydew melon that has been calmed by deep well water, cut into small pieces, held on a lacquer plate, and handed to Cao Cao. Cao Cao threw down the pu fan, took a tooth to eat, and couldn't help sighing: "There is such a joy in the world...... "Anyway, I can't move for a while, then I'll enjoy my life here for a few more days, and when the war really starts, or return to Xudu after the war, I'm afraid I won't be able to find such a leisurely time again."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a scribe with his hands folded in front of his chest, caged in his sleeves, bowing in. Cao Cao immediately beckoned: "Zi abandoned, you can come to eat melons." ”

That person was Liu Fang Liu Ziqi, who Cao Cao received in Youzhou, and was appointed as the main bookkeeper, in charge of documents and communication, and was quite credible. At that moment, Liu Fang gave Cao Cao a deep sigh and reported: "Lord, Lujiang is too shou Lu Zijing to send Gong Cao Jiang Ji to come, and there is an urgent military situation. ”

When Cao Cao heard the words "emergency military situation", he immediately withdrew his legs, straightened his waist, swung the book in his hand to his side, and frowned: "No Huang Zu dares to offend my Lu Jiangye?!" ”

Cao Cao was previously under the construction of Shixun, and divided Yangzhou into Yang, Hong, and Fujian prefectures, and divided into Sun Ben, Zhou Yu, and Zhang Zhaozhi, but this refers to the Jiangnan territory of the original Yangzhou. Yuan Shu was once entrenched in Huainan, and then it was broken by Cao Cao, and Yangzhou belonged to Jiujiang and Lujiang counties in Jiangbei and had long been directly under the jurisdiction of the central government, so they were separated separately and designated as Luzhou. The history of Luzhou assassination was appointed by Liu Fu and Liu Yuanying, who were recommended by Shixun.

Luzhou is divided into three counties, Jiujiang County in the east, and the governor Tai Shici concurrently serves as the Taishou; Lujiang County in the west is divided into two, Anfeng County in the north, Taishou is Liu Wei, the nephew of Liu Xun, the general of Pingyu, and Lujiang is still called Lujiang in the south, and Taishou is Lusu Lu Zijing.

In this regard, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were traced up from Haikou to Pengli, and were guarded by Chen Deng, Tai Shici, and Lu Su respectively, establishing a complete line of defense to resist and monitor Sun Quan in Jiangdong. Cao Cao's southern expedition originally had a plan, if Liu Biao did not dare to cross the Han River to fight on the plains, that is, to advance with Lu Su and Tai Shici, and to fight by land and water, and first solve the Huang Zu of Jiangxia. Huang Zu's son Huang Shot was recommended by Shi Xun before entering the court as an official, Cao Cao asked Huang Shot to write letters to recruit Huang Zu many times, but unfortunately Huang Zu was stubborn and resolutely refused to turn his back on Liu Biao - since he refused to surrender, then he had to surrender you.

According to the danger of the Yangtze River, if Huang Zu can break it and collect his water army, he can curb Sun Quan in the east - even if your Sun and Liu families really give up their previous suspicions and want to join forces to fight me, they will also be cut off from it, and they will not be able to contact me at all.

So when Cao Cao was forced to move to the foothills of the green forest to recuperate, he pondered, I might as well pick some elites out first and go to fight Jiangxia. Under Huang Zu, there are only 20,000 people at most, and I will send 20,000 or 30,000, plus Lu Su and Tai Shici's subordinates, and they will attack from both sides, so is there any reason why they can't be won? So he sent people to Luzhou to inform Lu Su and Tai Shici to get ready.

But then Lu Su sent his Gong Cao over, saying that there was an "urgent military situation" report. Cao Cao is strange, does Huang Zu have the courage to offend my Luzhou? Is he trying to replace defense with offense, strike first, and break my east-west approach?

So he hurriedly sorted out his clothes, put them all on, and ordered Liu Fang to summon people in. After meeting him, this Jiang Gongcao of Lujiang gave birth to a good skin, he seemed to be less than thirty years old, with a long body and a handsome wind god. Cao Cao opened his mouth and asked, "Who dares to offend Lujiang?" Jiang Ji hurriedly submitted the official document and said: "Wuzhong Sun Quan, Chai Sang Zhou Yu, and raise troops!" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and said in his heart that Sun Quan had just sent someone to look for me, and pitifully begged me not to attack Yang after taking Jing, and the matter of sending the pledge could be discussed again, how could he dare to take the initiative to violate my boundary? Quickly opened the official document to take a look, only to see that it was clearly written:

More than ten days ago, first of all, Zhou Yu led the sailors down the river, from the territory of the spring valley into the water, into Chaohu Lake. Zhou Yu's navy was originally stationed in Peng Lize, Peng Li spanned the north and south of the river, Zhou Yu trained sailors in his Jiangnan part, and Lu Su trained sailors in his Jiangbei part. According to Lu Su's performance, he just used the conflict with Zhou Yu to accumulate experience and absorb lessons; On Zhou Yu's side, he has no intention of fighting with the Cao family, and it is enough to be able to see that Lu Su does not cross the river.

But who would have thought that with a wrong eye, Zhou Yu's army actually moved and went straight to Chaohu Lake. Chaohu Lake is located at the junction of Jiujiang and Lujiang counties, upstream in Shishui, and if you go up and up the lake to apply water, you can reach Hefei City - this is not to hit Hefei, or to cut off the connection between the two counties!

Not only that, not long after Zhou Yu's naval army made a move, Sun Quan also led his army from Wu County and went north to the south bank of the Yangtze River. When Sun Ce was still there, he tried to cross the river to enter Guangling many times, and the general location of crossing the river was between Dantu and Jiangcheng, but this time Sun Quan ran to the west of Jiangcheng, and once he crossed the Yangtze River, he just cut off the connection between Guangling and Jiujiang County......

What do you mean? Are you going to split all my three counties in Jiangbei?!

The three counties along the river have their own subordinates, and they don't have time to get together to discuss countermeasures, but they just exchange information. Therefore, on the one hand, Lu Su hurriedly reported to Cao Cao, and on the other hand, he sent his henchman Cao Jiang Ji to come and explain to Cao Cao face-to-face: The Sun family has moved, and we have to put it on hold for the time being.

As for how to deal with Zhou Yu's army, Lu Su put forward two plans and asked Cao Cao to decide. The first plan is to leave Zhou Yu's purpose to Tai Shici to solve it, and he will take the opportunity to lead the navy to cross the Yangtze River, go deep into the south of Peng Lize, and strive to attack Zhou Yu's base camp Chaisang - this is the plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao. But there is also a risk, that is, it is not clear whether Zhou Yu really emptied the main force of the water division, if this is a plan to lure the enemy, attack Tai Shi Ci and plot against Lu Su, in terms of the strength of the naval army in Lujiang, it is easy to suffer the doom of the annihilation of the whole army.

The second plan is for Lu Su to lead the naval army down the river, go to Spring Valley to block Zhou Yu's back road, and try to attack Tai Shi Ci by land and water to break Zhou Yu. The risk is that if Zhou Yu concentrates on the enemy Lu Su, Lu Zijing will not be able to defeat him, so he can only return to Peng Li. And if Zhou Yushi divides the army into two routes, when Peng Li Zenan's ships come out again, they will block Lu Su's back road.

Cao Cao pulled over a few maps and studied them for a while before he suddenly raised his head: "The name is Jiang Ji?" Who's the people? ”

"The last official is Jiang Ji, a native of Chu Guoping, who is under the command of the king of Lu Mansion."

Cao Cao nodded: "According to what Qing has seen, what is the best policy?" But you can be blunt. ”

Jiang Ji arched his hand and replied calmly: "If you think of Ji, the two strategies of the government and the monarch are not available!" (To be continued......)