Zhou Yu is very famous, and of course he is also a civil and military all-rounder in history, but when he really investigates it, his ability is still up for debate, at least his achievements in land warfare are not so obvious. Sun Ce unified Jiangdong with thousands of people, and was invincible at that time, while Zhou Yu still couldn't capture the Nanjun defended by Cao Ren with the victory of the Chibi War, and even hit the arrow, which shows that at least it can't compare to the ability of water warfare.

But Zhou Yu has a strong sense of the overall situation, it can be said that he is a hawk in Jiangdong, and he has persuaded Sun Quan to detain Liu Bei in history, and is also preparing to attack Yizhou across Liu Bei in Jingzhou, so as to achieve the goal of dividing the Yangtze River and ruling the river and even the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, but because of his premature death, he did not make the trip, and finally let Liu Bei seize Yizhou and divide the world into three parts.

Zhou Yu's attack power under command is far inferior to Bai Jian, the reason why Liu Feng took Zhou Yu as the commander this time is to give full play to his own advantages, after all, the opponent this time is the entire Jingzhou, and there are too many hidden talents in Jingzhou, and if one is not good, he will suffer a big loss.

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In August of the twentieth year of Jian'an, Zhou Yu finally broke through Jiangling City, for which Jiangdong lost four million people, you know, these soldiers and horses are not purely for training soldiers when they were trained in Jiaozhou before, a large part of them are new soldiers, and the lowest one who attacked Jiangling City is also elite, the main force is the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, and the trump card is the bloody male soldiers and special troops. The loss of four million, even if it is not a pain in the muscles and bones for Jiang Donglai, is definitely painful, after all, this is a lot of wealth, which needs to be accumulated over many years.

If it weren't for Liu Feng's follow-up to increase Zhou Yu's troops by 3 million, maybe he wouldn't be able to defeat Jiangling even if he fought it out. Just like the attack and defense of Wancheng, it has not ended until now.

This battle captured Dong Yun, Liu Ba, Wang Lian, Zhang Nan, Xiang Chong, Liu Min and several historical generals, although they are not too famous, but they are also considered results. The rest of the historical generals were all killed in battle and returned to Xiangyang to recuperate.

Liu Feng did not immediately go north to attack Xiangyang, but continued to increase his troops in Jiangling, preparing to occupy the entire southern county first, and then attack Xiangyang in the north.

The loss of Nanjun made Liu Biao greatly frightened, and as the counties of Nanjun continued to be occupied, Liu Biao could no longer hesitate, and immediately ordered all counties of Nanjun to abandon and lead the army back to Xiangyang. At the same time, he gave orders to Han Xuan, Liu Pan and others in Jingnan, also asking them to abandon Jingnan and lead their troops back to Xiangyang while the Jiangdong Army had not yet severed its connection with Xiangyang.

After more than ten years of fighting and the loss of tens of millions of people, it seemed that there was something to be gained, but because of an order, many years of hard work were ruined, which made Han Xuan and others very dissatisfied, and the morale of the Changsha army dropped greatly.

In September of the twentieth year of Jian'an, the Changsha army withdrew from Guiyang, and Zhang Yi regained the old land, but was attacked by Yunshui City, and the two sides fought fiercely again. In October, the Changsha army had just left, and Liu Dan of Wuling in the west began to occupy the counties, and Lu Su, who had been prepared, sent troops from Luling, and as soon as Han Xuancai left, he took Changsha City without blood, and soon after, he clashed with Liu Dan of Wuling, and started a war in Changsha County.

In May of the 21st year of Jian'an, the Jiangdong Army completely occupied Nanjun, although there were still many internal problems, but Liu Feng did not have time to clean up a little bit, and after appointing a group of official positions to deal with the problems on the spot, he began to march north to Xiangyang.

If the previous loss of 4 million troops was painful, this time the mobilization of tens of millions of troops has reached the point of breaking the muscles and bones. In addition, Xu Changjie of Qichun County and Wu Yin, the Taishou of Lujiang, also prepared for war, and once Jiangxia Huangzu made a move, he immediately sent troops to seize Jiangxia. Although this is to be given to Sun Jian in the agreement, Liu Feng can return it to Sun Jian, although there will be a fee for the cost of sending troops.

In June of the 21st year of Jian'an, the offensive and defensive battle of Xiangyang officially began.

At the same time, the princes from all walks of life, who had been watching coldly for two years, were no longer silent and began to take action one after another.

Cao Cao began to catch Yuan Shu again, he didn't want to fight Sun Jian to recapture Chen Liu, but Sun Jian was very defensive about this, even if he was fighting in Nanyang, he also left enough troops to defend, so that Cao Cao was unwilling to start the war lightly, so he could only continue to wait for Sun Jian and Liu Biao to consume each other; Yuan Shao originally wanted to attack Youzhou, and even started to contact the disabled grassland departments, preparing to attack Liu Bei back and forth, but before he could start to act, Liu Bei and Lu Bu reached an agreement to attack Jizhou from the north and west respectively, Yuan Shao could only stop acting and concentrate on coping, and it was also at this time that Zhang Yan was unwilling to sink and came out of the mountains to harass Jizhou, which made Yuan Shao very difficult, and could only continue to mobilize troops and horses from Qingzhou to help; The war in Xiliang broke out again, and the princes of the four roads formed two alliances, Ma Teng faced Song Jian, and the Iron Cavalry Club fought with Han Sui, during which it was mixed with the tendencies of the Qiang people, and Liangzhou fell into a melee again; The war between Liu Zhang of Yizhou and Zhang Lu of Hanzhong expanded again, and the fighting became more intense; The Tiance Mansion in Guanzhong was silent for many years, and did not dare to be lonely, so it began to infiltrate Hanzhong, and attacked Hanzhong while Zhang Lu was unprepared, but in order to achieve all the success, he started a war with Zhang Lu and fought with the ghost pawns in Hanzhong......

Because of the stimulation of Liu Feng and Sun Jian's joint action, the Han Dynasty once again set off a full-scale war.

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Xiangyang was not well-known in the Han Dynasty, until Liu Biao was forced to move here, it gradually developed and became the center of Jingzhou, and until now, under Liu Biao's management, Xiangyang has developed for nearly thirty years, enough to become a solid city. Especially with the experience of almost being killed by his in-laws before, Liu Biao's investment in city defense is even greater, comparable to any city under the imperial city, including Wancheng, which has experienced several major wars.

The area around Xiangyang is rich in products, sufficient manpower, no shortage of soldiers, no shortage of food, even if it is besieged, it will not affect the people's livelihood in the short term, and it can persist for a long time. Therefore, even if Liu Feng would attack Xiangyang after Nanjun was captured by the Jiangdong Army, Liu Biao still did not make up his mind to abandon it, but recalled all the soldiers and horses of the counties and counties that could be summoned to defend Xiangyang.

The place where he started, the beginning of his glory, he was reluctant to give up.

Liu Feng is ready for a long time, Liu Biao is the same, at the moment of crisis, but it inspired Liu Biao's arrogance as a "eight jun", he is conceited not to lose to anyone, but bad luck, if it was not too bad luck to pocket the four counties in Jiangnan to support his external expansion, maybe the recent situation is completely different.

But time will not turn back, the past will not change, he can only accept the facts and devote himself to the defensive battle. He also specially sent a letter to Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others in Wancheng, asking them to rely on the city to hold on and delay the war.

If it drags on for a long time, there may be changes, such as Cao Cao's revenge to capture Chen Liu, Lü Bu crossing the river into Henan, Guanzhong Yiren going east to Hangu, and Yuan Shu fighting Huainan again......

Maybe the odds are not big, but there is always a chance that it is not, and you can't be stupid to go out of the city and be defeated by someone. The successive wars were unfavorable, so that Liu Biao lost confidence in the army. Most of the well-trained soldiers and horses in Xiangyang went to Nanyang, and now the soldiers and horses that have been assembled, except for the soldiers of Changsha County, are not strong in battle, which makes him not hopeful about the decisive battle out of the city.

When Zhou Yu organized the army to attack Xiangyang, Liu Feng also went to the front line.

Perhaps, this is the biggest battle in Jiangdong in the near future, and it is related to the Yangtze River, and he doesn't want to miss it.