But these are no longer important, because after this battle, the three forces were greatly damaged, and they had no power to resist, within a year, Li Xing took advantage of the situation to annex Cao Cao's Gunzhou and Yuzhou, and then sent troops south to destroy Yuan Shu, and put the land of Huainan under control.

After the defeat, Sun Jian retreated to Jiangdong and began to conquer the counties of Jiangdong, Liu Bei defected to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Cao Cao directly took the 50,000 remnants of the army to take Tongguan before complete defeat and occupied a piece of territory in the pass. Then he united with Li and Guo Yan to expel Lu Bu, who occupied Chang'an, and drove Lu Bu out of Wuguan from Guanzhong, at this time Lu Bu was unwilling to defect to Li Xing, so he could only go to Yuan Shao and became Yuan Shao's guest general.

Li Xing looked at the information, taking advantage of the opportunity of his annexation of Gunzhou and Yuzhou and stabilizing the place, Sun Jian stabilized the chassis and further occupied most of Jiangdong, Liu was supported by Liu Biao to occupy Wancheng, Cao Cao drove away Lu Bu and occupied a corner of Guanzhong, and sighed in his heart: "These three people are really not easy to get along, all three of them have dragon python luck, and they may turn into real dragons at any time, it seems that they still have to fight." ”

It's just that although Li Xing is afraid of these three forces that created the Three Kingdoms, he is not able to crusade for the time being, after all, Li Xing has just swallowed a territory that is not smaller than his own Qingxu Erzhou, which is different from the Qingxu Erzhou that Li Xing has cleaned up, among which there are many families, and Li Xing's rule has not yet deepened, especially these families are dissatisfied with Li Xing's various policies, although they dare not pull the flag and rebel openly, but the small actions in the secret involve Li Xing's more energy.

So in the next two years, Li Xing stopped his large-scale expansion, but stabilized himself, which also relieved Liu Biao, Yuan Shao and others who were worried about Li Xing's crusade against them.

In the north, taking advantage of this time, Yuan Shao pacified the Montenegrin Army, which claimed to be one million, with the help of Lu Bu, and at the same time, under the power of the elite euphorbia trained by the general Ju Yi, he broke Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, achieved a decisive victory, and occupied an absolute advantage in the battle with Gongsun Zhan.

Cao Cao also used various strategies to eliminate and annex the remnants of the Western Liang army, occupy most of Guanzhong, and seize Chang'an, welcome back Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and began to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

In the south, Liu Bei has been fighting hard in Wancheng in the past two years, relying on the materials supported by Liu Biao, the military strength has increased a lot, and Sun Jian also led the army to pacify Jiangdong, suppressed the Shanyue people, and began to confront Li Xing across the Yangtze River.

After two years of preparation, Li Xing couldn't bear it anymore, and the target he wanted to attack was not Yuan Shao in the north, but Liu Bei in Wancheng in the south, Wancheng is on the north bank of Jingzhou, which is the bridgehead of Jingzhou to the north, and it can also become the vanguard of Jingzhou in the south, Liu Biao let Liu Bei be in Wancheng to resist Li Xing, but Li Xing knew that Liu Bei was obviously unwilling to be lonely, if he didn't get rid of it earlier, it would definitely be a trouble for Li Xing.

Li Xing planned to take advantage of the fact that Yuan Shao had not completely eliminated Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian was still not completely settled in Jiangdong because of the attack of the Shanyue people, and Cao Cao still had to fight against the Xiliang army, so he would first pull out the nail on his side.

Therefore, Li Xing went out this time, but he personally went out, and he also brought Tai Shici and Yu Ban, two first-class peerless generals who were surrendered by himself, plus Zang Ba, Sun Guan, and Zhang Qing, three second-rate peerless generals, and Chen Deng as a strategist, this expedition can be regarded as a gorgeous camp, and before the expedition, Zhidai arranged Diao Chan and Cai Yan to accompany Li Xing together.

On this expedition, Li Xing brought a total of 90,000 infantry troops and 30,000 cavalry, and Liu Bei, after years of development and Liu Biao's support, also pulled out 60,000 troops.

Li Xing's army was encamped under Wancheng, and Liu Bei also sent troops to attack and harass, but because Li Xing's cavalry had been eyeing him from the side, he was not able to succeed, to say that Liu Bei also surrendered Zhang Xiu, who fled to Wancheng because of the chaos in Guanzhong, and controlled his 10,000 cavalry, but this cavalry and the Bai'er army around him were Liu Bei's baby bumps, and he was unwilling to use them to consume Li Xing's cavalry.

After the camp was set up, Li Xing asked Yu Bantai Shici and others to take turns to challenge the city, and Li Xing found that for several days, no matter how he provoked and scolded, Liu Bei did not send his generals to fight, and Li Xing tentatively attacked the city several times, but found that Liu Bei was well guarded and the morale of the army was also very high, which made Li Xing have a headache and said: "This Liu Bei is in such a posture, we want to conquer Wancheng, I'm afraid it will be difficult!" ”

"Hmph, as the so-called lonely city cannot be defended, no matter how tightly Liu Bei's garrison is and how many materials are reserved, there will always be a day when this city will be conquered, I don't believe that he can be a shrinking turtle for a lifetime!" Xiao Yun stood beside Li Xing and said with some annoyance.

"It's just that in this way, if we want to conquer Wancheng, the time it takes and the troops consumed will increase, which is really not cost-effective!" Li Xing groaned: "Why don't I use the Dao method to destroy the city of this Wancheng?" ”

"My lord!" As soon as Li Xing said wow, Chen Deng next to him dissuaded: "As far as I know, the Taoist method and the military division skills are quite different, directly use the Taoist method to attack the city, although the effect is strong, but there is a dry heavenly harmony, it is very easy to suffer from the Heavenly Dao backlash, the Taiping Dao Zhang Jiao held the Taoist method, and repeatedly used the Taoist method to break through the city or affect the confrontation between the two armies, so he will be seriously ill at the time of the decisive battle in Jizhou, the lord is the body of a daughter, since Deng is a military division, this strategy to break through Wancheng is wrapped in Deng's body!" ”

"Oh, so what's your plan?" Li Xing looked at Chen Deng as if he was holding Zhizhu and asked.

"Lord, you think, this Liu Bei has been on the battlefield for many years, and he doesn't understand the truth that the lonely city cannot be defended, but he has put on a posture of defending Wancheng, and he must have something to rely on, and don't forget, lord, this Wancheng is still nominally under the rule of Jingzhou!" Chen Deng shook the feather fan in his hand and said.

"What do you mean......" Li Xing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked south at the same time.

"Yes, although this Liu Biao has been dazzled by the wind and snow in Jingzhou in recent years, but after all, he was also a master when he pacified Jingzhou, and naturally he will understand the truth of cold lips and teeth, at this time, the lord attacked Wancheng, but he did not move, and he didn't even denounce it, this is absolutely unreasonable, I expect that there must be fraud in it." Chen Deng looked at Wancheng and continued: "I'm afraid Liu Bei is just waiting for reinforcements from Jingzhou!" (To be continued.) )