Lujiang County, Xunyang County, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu practiced the naval army here, and had a stalemate with Jiangxia Huangzu across the river.

"How can this be true? Huang Zu's dog thief can really bear it, so he won't come out like this! Sun Ce said angrily in the big tent.

"yes, I really didn't expect that." Zhou Yu said with white eyes, and at the same time said in his heart: With such a shallow agitation method, Huang Zu is deceitful when he comes out!

There are only 8,000 old and weak, even if Sun Ce is brave and Zhou Yu has no last resort, he still has more defense than he can do, and his offense is insufficient.

This is also the effect that Yuan Shu wants to have, for the self-contained Sun Cebu, Yuan Shu not only wants to use it, but is also very jealous.

"Report! Jiangdong Military Intelligence ......" The voice of the messenger sounded in the barracks.

And on this day, the "variable" that Zhou Yu had been waiting for came much earlier than he expected, and this "variable" was completely different from what he expected!

This messenger was not Yuan Shu's person, but Sun Ce's old department, and Zhou Yu specially sent a team to investigate the Jianghuai military situation.

Hearing the urgency of the messenger's tone, Zhou Yu hurriedly let him in.

Originally, Zhou Yu was a gamble, expecting Zhang Xun to be unable to attack Qu'a City for a long time, resulting in the overall lack of food and grass for Yuan Shu's army - in Yuan Shu's plan, Zhang Xun needed to quickly take Wu Jun and Huiji, and be self-sufficient as soon as possible, and even feed Huainan back.

However, before Zhou Yu expected, when Yuan Shu was short of food and grass, there was already important news from Jiangdong?

This made Zhou Yu a little nervous......

I saw that the messenger came in in a hurry, and at first glance it was a day and night journey, and even seemed a little prostration.

Sun Ce hurriedly asked people to quickly roast a wild boar leg - when he was cold, he recovered his strength like this.

Of course, Zhou Yu stopped people and replaced them with boiling porridge and light food, and eating wild boar legs in the wind and cold is not something that ordinary people can learn.

"Slowly, what's going on in Koto?" Zhou Yu asked.

"Soldiers, defeated soldiers...... " said the messenger panting.

"Defeated? So fast...... Could it be that Qu'a City Lu Bu went out of the city to meet the enemy? Zhou Yu was surprised.

"Yes...... Fighting array, Zhang Xun defeated! The messenger gasped.

"Zhang Xun is defeated? He's so honest? The soldiers and horses who are several times larger than the enemy are still fighting with Chen Gong? Zhou Yu became more and more confused about the situation.

"It's four thousand against ten thousand......," added the messenger.

"10,000 and he lost? Could it be a fraud...... And really admit defeat and retire from the army? In Zhou Yu's impression, Zhang Xun is not so upright.

"It's not a towel! There was indeed fraud, Zhang Xun ambushed thousands of soldiers and horses when he was fighting, but he still lost...... And the whole army was defeated, fled all the way back to Danyang, and when he wanted to cross the river, he was robbed by the water thieves who were recruited by Bai Tu and died on the river! The messenger finally finished in one breath.

Zhou Yu: ......

What's going on? 10,000 against 4,000, he still has the face to ambush, and he didn't say anything about the ambush, but he lost it?

This ...... Is it Yuan Shu in his head except?

It is no wonder that the messengers did not know the specific situation, because the news came from the rout army that fled back to Huainan - in their impression, it was Zhang Xun who took the initiative to ambush Chen Gong.

Sun Ce, who was on the side, was also stunned when he heard it, this Zhang Xun ...... It's amazing!

"Gong Jin, has our chance arrived?" After Sun Ce was surprised, he said with some joy.

According to Zhou Yu's previous deduction, as long as Zhang Xun couldn't win quickly, they would have the opportunity to ask for orders to go to Jiangdong, and now they ...... Zhang Xun was directly defeated.

Zhou Yu said with some seriousness: "The battle with Jingzhou should end here, but I'm afraid there is no chance to go to Jiangdong for the time being." ”

"What? Then we ......" Sun Ce scratched his head.

"Wait." Zhou Yu said directly.

Sure enough, as Zhou Yu expected, news came not long after, Yuan Shu sent Han Yin to Xiangyang to meet Liu Biao, nominally to celebrate his birthday, but everyone knew it...... There is a faint meaning of peace.

Liu Biao and Yuan Shu are also old rivals, Liu Biao is Dong Zhuo's chaotic period, was named the clan of Jingzhou Mu, was originally a horse to Jingzhou, relying on his own personality charm and communication skills, plus the righteous name of the imperial court, won the support of Jingzhou, mainly the wealthy families of Nanjun.

Jingzhou spans the Yangtze River, connects the south in the west and Yangzhou in the east, and was originally seven counties, which can be divided into three counties in the north and four counties in the south, and ...... It is a state that cannot "look at the map".

Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Jingzhou had a population of more than 6 million, which is a huge area on the map, but in fact more than a third of the population was concentrated in the seemingly small Nanyang County north of the Yangtze River, which is Yuan's hometown.

As for the four southern counties, Lingling, Guiyang, and Changsha, which seem to be very large, add up to about the same population as a Nanyang, and as for the Wuling County, which looks "super big", it is also a county in the southwest of Jingzhou, with a registered population of only about 200,000, which is only one-tenth of Nanyang......

In fact, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wuling County is the "state and county on the map", whether it is the place of governance or the settlement of the Han people, they are all concentrated in the northeast corner of Wuling County, and the southwest part is close to Nanzhong, and the situation is similar to that of Nanzhong - Nanzhong is the Nanzhong Man, that is, the later Meng Shu's group, and Wuling also has Wuling Man.

When the Eastern Han Dynasty was at its peak, it didn't care much about it, and the purpose of establishing Wuling County was not so much to govern, but to guard against these Wuling barbarians uniting to do things.

And when Liu Biao first arrived, Kuai's Kuai Yue set a general tone for him to govern Jingzhou - Jiangling in the south, Xiangyang in the north, and the eight counties of Jingzhou can be passed on.

Gangneung and Yangyang are the two major places in Namsan-gun.

It seems to be very arrogant, with the momentum of surrendering without a fight, but when translated into the actual meaning, it actually means: sit firmly in Nanjun, and the other counties are nominally obedient......

Liu Biao's early Jingzhou strategy was indeed done like this, cooperating with the Nanjun family, accumulating strength, gathering soldiers, and hating Yuan Shu who occupied Nanyang, although he hated itchy, but he still expressed him as Nanyang Taishou to ease relations, and Jiangxia's Huang Zu nominally listened to his dispatch.

As for the four counties of Jingbei...... In other words, the three counties outside Wuling, until a few years later, were still separated and merged with Liu Biao.

His convenience in Jingzhou is that the enemy is not very strong, but compared to Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, he does not have any advantages.

And the most elite Nanyang County in Jingzhou, when the princes were begging for Dong, Liu Biaoyin took Yuan Shu a hand, cut off the back road and did not let him come back, and at that time, Sun Jian, also during that time, wanted to forcibly cross Jiangxia and return to Changsha's lair, but he died in the middle of the arrow.

Yuan Shu hated Liu Biao deeply because of this, and Sun Ce and Huang Zu also had a grudge against killing their father.

In fact, Liu Biao is also quite miserable, when later generations drew maps of this period, they always directly painted Jingzhou into the color of Liu Biao, and those who didn't know really thought that he was more fierce than Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei at this time, and simply hung up all the way to Cao Cao to integrate the north.

At this time, under the scourge of Dong Zhuo's old department, famine broke out in Guanzhong, and Zhang Ji did things in Nanyang in order to grab grain, so after sending Han Yin to Jingzhou to congratulate Liu Biao on his birthday, Liu Biao also took advantage of the situation to restrain Huang Zu, and the river was calm for a while.

And Sun Ce also ushered in a new appointment......