No matter what history says about the Sun-Wu regime, one thing is indisputable: congenitally, the Sun-Wu regime is deficient. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

First of all, the population is insufficient, and compared to the Central Plains, the population of Jiangdong is too sparse, which leads to a lack of reserve forces. Before the establishment of the Sun Wu regime, only the Wu and Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period carried out the initial development here, and it has always been regarded as a wild place with a left hair, and after many years, it is also a place of exile for derogatory officials, and spontaneous immigration is almost not visible, and the Yangtze River is not the so-called mother river in later generations. However, if you want to maintain power, you must have an adequate army, and if the population is insufficient and the young and strong are scarce, you can only sacrifice the people's livelihood to maintain a strong military strength.

The transfer of a large number of young and strong people has created another shortcoming -- a shortage of food. In an era of extremely low productivity, labor is mainly based on manual labor, especially young and strong. The young and strong are recruited to fight, which causes a shortage of labor, which leads to a decrease in the quantity and quality of farming, which affects grain production. Grain production is reduced, but taxes are not reduced, and this has the evil consequence that the peasants cannot survive. Since Chen Sheng Wu Guang, the peasants who could not survive had another choice, that is, rebellion, which led to instability within the regime, especially within the Sun and Wu regimes, and in order to suppress the rebellion, the number of troops had to be expanded again, which formed a vicious circle.

In addition, the Sun Wu regime was forcibly established by Sun Ce in the form of massacres, which was originally internally unstable, and later in order to maintain stability, Sun Ce was forced to compromise with the family clans. But after all, a grudge has been formed, even if the Jiangdong Shi clan has to accept such a fact for the sake of the reproduction of the family, it cannot eliminate the hidden dangers inside, and even Sun Ce's death has a lot to do with internal instability. So when Cao Cao marched south, there was almost a one-sided surrender in Jiangdong.

Since Sun Ce, there have been problems in Jiangdong, the military system of the Sun Wu regime is inherited from father to son, brother to brother, and each general's troops are their own private soldiers, which is certainly not conducive to the centralization of power. It is precisely because of this that the strength of the Shi clan gradually increased, and the later Jiangnan Gate Valve Power was formed during the Six Dynasties, and the Sun Wu regime was the beginning.

Sitting in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangdong's naval army is the strongest in the world, especially after the Battle of Chibi. But in the Three Kingdoms era, the navy was destined to only be used for defense, and it still had to rely on the army for outward expansion. However, the combat power of the Jiangnan Army is obviously inferior to that of the north, and in addition, there are still mountains and crosses in the territory of Eastern Wu, which also contain a large number of troops of the Sun Wu regime.

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For various reasons, the Sun Wu regime could only be in a weak position relative to the Cao Wei regime in the north. And the Shu Kingdom among the Three Kingdoms, in comparison, is even worse, so it was the first to perish.

What Liu Feng discussed with his subordinates was another important issue in the history of the Soochow regime.

West or north?

This is a question of route and a conflict of interests.

From the beginning of the turmoil in the late Han Dynasty, people with lofty ideals have devoted themselves to national unification, such as Cao Cao, who fought in the south and north for decades, just to eliminate local princes. As the founder of Jiangdong, Sun Ce naturally has such ambitions, and he is very aggressive. During the battle of Guandu, he had the intention to take advantage of the fact that there was no one behind Cao Cao, attacked Xu Du in the north, and welcomed back the Han Emperor, which made Cao Cao very jealous of him. But unfortunately, Sun Ce was killed by the assassins at a critical time.

Sun Ce died, the successor Sun Quan was young and lacked prestige, and immediately Jiangdong fell into turmoil, and Lujiang Taishou rebelled not long after, and the Northern Expedition was over. Since then, although the Soochow regime has also moved north, its goal has changed, no longer to unify the whole country, but to expand its power and divide Jiangdong.

Huaisi group, occupies an important position in the history of the Soochow regime, Erzhang, Buqi, Lu Su, Lu Fan, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai and a large number of important ministers, are Jiangbei people, because of war or other reasons to avoid Jiangdong, and then out of office, the biggest dream is to lay Xuzhou and Huainan, the scenery back to their hometown.

But the dream is plump, and the reality is skinny.

When Sun Ce was still there, he sent Sun Quan to lead the army to attack Xuzhou, met Chen Deng in Guangling, and broke his head; Sun Quan went north several times, the most important one was during the Hefei War, when Zhang Liao broke 100,000 by 7,000 and buried Tai Shici (novel), and achieved Zhang Liao's prestige of "Jiangdong Stop Crying" in Xiaoyaojin.

Those who agreed to go west also had different purposes.

The ambition of Sun Ce's era was to gather Jing and Yang to go on the Northern Expedition, but in the period of Sun Quan, the pattern of China had changed, and Cao Cao had the general trend in the north, which was unshakable, and it was clear from Lu Su's words that the Sun Wu group in this period was to conquer Liu Biao in the west, occupy Jingzhou, and then continue to attack Yizhou, exhausting the Yangtze River and building the emperor to map the world. At this time, the Sun Wu regime still had the ambitions of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. Therefore, although Lu Su belonged to the Huaisi group, he was in favor of the westward expedition.

But when Cao Cao unified the north and crushed him, some people in the Sun-Wu group panicked, and their own forces could not fight Cao Cao independently, so they chose to unite with Liu Bei. In the end, the three southern counties of Jingzhou were occupied by Liu Bei, and the southern counties were "borrowed" by Liu Bei.

After that, with Liu Bei's entry into Yizhou, it has become impossible to conquer Jing and Yihua River in the west, and the trend of the Three Kingdoms is becoming more and more obvious. After the northward attack was terminated by Cao Wei, the meritorious soldiers started the idea of Jingzhou again, and instigated Sun Quan's westward expedition under the pretext that Liu Bei did not return Jingzhou. At this time, the purpose of the Western Expedition had changed, and a large part of it was for personal interests, and Sun Quan also gave up the overall situation and agreed to this military plan because of interests. Then there was the famous Lü Meng crossing the river in white clothes in history, Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, and the Sun-Liu alliance collapsed instantly, and it was not restored until a few years later.

In the third year of Jian'an, in his spare time, Liu Feng discussed the next battle plan with Xun You, Bai Jian, Zhou Yu and others, and made a detailed analysis of the northward and westward advances.

There are advantages to going north in the north, after all, Yuan Shu is a live target, as long as he doesn't go to the emperor, there is no other reason at all. In comparison, Liu Biao in the West is much stronger, after all, there are no other enemies around Liu Biao. Yizhou was busy fighting himself, Zhang Ji was bent on defending the city in Nanyang, and if he was going west, Liu Biao could concentrate on dealing with Jiangdong.

But there is also a disadvantage to going north, Yuan Shu is not a person who plays cards according to common sense, if there is no cooperation of other princes, if Yuan Shu commits two, desperate to have a life-and-death battle with Jiangdong, it will be a big trouble for Jiangdong, which has just recovered.

This made Liu Feng waver all the time.

In the spring of the fourth year of Jian'an, Jiangdong, which had been repaired for a year, took action again, and the first to bear the brunt was along the river, the sea and the inland Daze.

Zhou Yu, who had been training for a year, decided to try the edge of the water army that had initially become an army.

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