Sun Jian was defeated, and his strategic intention to break the blockade on all sides failed, and he could only take a defensive position in the short term, unable to continue the war.

Liu Biao won, but the luck of the victory, the phoenix chick was hidden, Wolong did not come out, a Guo Jia pressed Jingzhou to fight, and the horror of high-level scribes, especially scribes who were proficient in military strategy, was visible. The battle of Jiangxia has ended, Huang Zu failed, and Wancheng could not tolerate Liu Biao's defeat again.

So Liu Biao made a desperate bet, and fortunately, he won the bet.

But what is heartwarming is that Sun Jian's injuries that have been tormented for more than ten years have actually healed, and he even broke through to the eighth order in one fell swoop, not only blocking Huang Zhong on the battlefield, but also pressing Huang Zhong to fight. If it weren't for the critical situation, Sun Jian hadn't used force for more than ten years, and he was not unfamiliar with this power, which was enough to kill a 7th-order general on the battlefield.

Because of his injury, for many years, Sun Jian lived in seclusion, gradually wiped out his irascible temper little by little, and successfully turned into a qualified lord. This appearance on the battlefield can only be said to be a coincidence, he came to inspect the army to see if the war can be ended. If it weren't for this, Sun Ce would probably not have been able to escape the fate of his last death.

For Liu Biao, Sun Jian's recovery from injury is definitely bad news. You must know that although Sun Ce attacked sharply, the Yuzhou Army was established with Sun Jian as the core. From the beginning of recruiting Huaisi's people to quell the rebellion, to going north from Changsha to fight Dong, Sun Jian can be said to have a lot of achievements and is the spiritual core of this army. Although the Jiangdong Tigers have not seen the battlefield for more than ten years, their prestige has not weakened. And many years of combat experience are not comparable to the young Sun Ce. Once the Jiangdong Tigers personally led the troops to fight again, the morale of the Yuzhou army decided to reach its peak.

Although Sun Jian said that the war that lasted for more than a year was defeated, although the losses were greater, Sun Jian would not suffer too much when he returned intact.

For Liu Biao, one win and one loss, I don't know whether to lose or earn.

To Liu Biao's relief, after the war, Huang Zhong also advanced to the eighth order, which can be regarded as a match for Sun Jian.

Huang Zhong's advancement was not without reason, just when he returned from the end of the war, Huang Zhong received news that his only son Huang Xu died of illness. Huang Zhong inquired, hurriedly returned home, and lost his head overnight, but he advanced because of this.

Since his first appearance, Huang Zhong has been a seventh-order peak general, famous for defeating Sun Jian in the Battle of Xiangyang and making him unable to use force for more than ten years, and was awarded the post of Zhonglang General by Liu Biao. But Liu Biaoqi, as commented by the contemporaries: the discussion is suspicious and indecisive...... For Huang Zhong, he wanted to rely on it but didn't dare to reuse it, which has always led to Huang Zhong being useless. Fortunately, Huang Zhong didn't care, his mind had always been on his sick son, and he sought medical treatment everywhere to heal his son's soldiers, but unfortunately he never got his wish. Up to now, none of the three famous doctors in the late Han Dynasty has appeared, and even Zhang Ji, who once served as the Taishou of Changsha, is nowhere to be found.

In Liu Feng's view, Huang Jie's illness is that Zhi Brain gives players a chance to subdue Huang Zhong. At this moment, Huang Zhong has no loyalty to Liu Biao, as long as someone can cure Huang Zhong, there is a great possibility to subdue Huang Zhong, and if it is not good, he can also get something from Huang Zhong. In the past, Liu Feng, after getting the Huitian Pill added by Yu Ji, once beat Huang Zhong's idea, and also tried, but it was not successful after all. The hostile relationship between Jiangdong and Jingzhou determined that Liu Feng could not send medicine to Huang Zhong openly, and with the preciousness of the Hui Tiandan, he could not fake his hands to others, and Huang Zhong could not come to Jiangdong with his son, so he delayed it.

Naturally, this matter could not be concealed from Liu Biao, and even Liu Feng had thought about whether he would give it if Liu Biao sent someone to ask for medicine, but in the end, Liu Biao regarded it as no such thing, thus losing the last possibility of making Huang Zhong return to his heart.

Until now, Huang Xu died of illness, Huang Zhong advanced, and Liu Biao promoted him to a partial general.

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In this world, it is the same for anyone to leave, no matter how great his merits are. Huang Zhong's choice of Liu Feng in the future is unknown, but his next goal has been set.

For at least a year, Jiangdong is not suitable for the use of troops, and can only rest and recuperate.

In the first battle of Jiangxia, Jiangdong's losses were too great, and although half of Jiangxia was captured, it was not much. The battle record was badly damaged, and the gains had to be returned to the dockyard for repairs. Huang Zu retreated calmly, and most of the belongings in Xiling City were taken away. If we talk about the harvest, it is about the population, but most of them are old and weak, women and children.

However, this is not a problem, the population growth rate of the territory under Liu Feng's rule is much higher than that of ordinary players, and it will not take a few years to regain prosperity again. What he has to do now is to ensure that Liu Biao will not attack Jiangxia out of anger.

Fortunately, Liu Biao was not carried away by anger, and after driving Sun Jian out of Nanyang, he stopped the attack and began to rectify the people's livelihood. On the one hand, let people strengthen the defense of Wuguan, on the other hand, they tried their best to repair Wancheng, and with the general Wang Wei as the guard, Wen hired to assist him, stationed here, and added troops to Huang Zu stationed in Anlu to prevent Jiangxia from recurring.

Now Liu Biao has many enemies, but there is not much territory. Jingnan was basically unable to help, Nanxiang, Nanyang and Jiangxia were destroyed by the war, and the remaining Xiangyang, Nanjun and Xincai were also withered due to the war, and they had reached the weakest time. For this reason, Liu Biao had to place a group of seventh-order figures who emerged during the war to serve in various counties, and even if they stayed in Xiangyang, they only held inconsequential positions in the Jingzhou Pastoral Mansion or the Zhengnan General's Mansion. There may be ranks, but the power is small. The real power is still the Jingzhou family.

Except for Liu Biao and Sun Jian, the rest of the princes also entered recuperation in this winter, and there was no big war.

However, the players who have grown up are gradually becoming active regardless of winter and summer.

The aborigines are inconvenient to march in the winter because there are too many things to carry, but the player has no restrictions on this, and some are even used to moving in low temperatures.

As the player grows, the aborigines become less and less binding.

At the village level, a small town can intimidate the territory of the village from trespassing. However, when the player's territory is upgraded to a medium-sized city, and when the player's strength generally reaches the fifth or sixth order, the county seat is basically unable to restrain it, and even if it is too guarded, it cannot be too tight. Therefore, the princes who woke up early will not let too many powerful player territories appear under their rule, and there is no way to dissolve them at will in the early stage, but the follow-up ones often find excuses to destroy them to ensure their dominance.

But there is always someone who can see the stitches and find a way to survive.

For example, always standing in the position of the princes, in all aspects of the full support of the local princes, Yunshui City is like this, in Jiangling, in the war between Liu Biao and Sun Jian, the orders handed down by Liu Biao were completed without discount, not only providing a large number of troops, but also supporting in materials. Although it is not much, it has won Liu Biao's trust. Let the development of Yunshui City not be troubled, and become the strongest territory in Jingzhou.

In Yuan Shu's territory, the Proud World Guild is a dominant one, because they have money, they can continue to bribe to the top and develop calmly.

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When development falls into a bottleneck, it is necessary to choose other ways to promote further development.

As a result, the annexation wars between the lords became more intense, although the scale was not as large as the war of the princes, but the tragedy was even more severe.