Chapter 245: Helpless

Liu Hou is not very worried about the madness of the Dongwu people, the relevant duke is sitting in Jingzhou, which is enough to ensure that Jingzhou is worry-free, and the name of this veteran is not blown out, but accumulated little by little after decades of war career. He has fought with the Eastern Wu and Wei States for so many years, and he is extremely experienced, as long as he does not attack impulsively and rashly, even if he cannot repel the Eastern Wu people for a while, it is still no problem to protect himself.

After Guan Gong suffered a big loss from the Wei State and the Eastern Wu people last time, his personality became a lot calmer, and that extreme pride and complacency were no longer gone, and now he has become cautious, and he will no longer underestimate the people of the world, and he has paid enough attention to any enemy, especially an old enemy like Lu Xun.

Liu Hou believed that he would have no problem holding Jingzhou, but there would be some trouble in water transportation. In order to completely relieve his worries, he still had to find a way to help Guan Gong deal with the Eastern Wu people, so Liu Hou summoned Sima Yi and three stinkers, informed them of the situation in Jingzhou, and asked them for countermeasures.

Guo Youzhi said: "The treachery of the people of Eastern Wu is really hateful, His Majesty should announce it to the world, condemn it, and send a letter of state to Sun Quan for solemn representations, protest against it, and ask them to stop continuing to harass China's transportation channels, otherwise they will bear the consequences." ”

"Well, Guo Aiqing's words are good, and it should be so, so please ask Guo Aiqing to draft these two edicts and condemn and negotiate with Soochow as much as possible. It's just that I'm afraid this is not enough, it seems that the people of Dongwu are determined to go against us this time. I wonder if you have any other way to get the Soochow people to withdraw from the army? Liu Houdao. Guo Youzhi often helped Liu Hou draft the edict, and since he proposed this matter, Liu Hou simply handed over the edict to him to write.

Previously, Eastern Wu and Shu Han signed a peace treaty, agreeing that the two countries would be good-neighborly and friendly, and that they would jointly crusade against Wei. Of course, the signing of this peace treaty is actually both sides have their own ghosts, from the shape of the time shì, the small emperor of Shu first attacked Wu and then attacked Wei is very likely, the Eastern Wu people hope that Shu will not attack them first, in order to win some respite, so they have to promise Shu harsh conditions to reach a reconciliation between the two countries.

In addition, they also want to wait for Shu and Wei to fight for both sides, and then they can profit from it. The snipe and the clam compete, and the allusion of the fisherman profiting they want to relive it again. On the one hand, they wanted to have a stable rear when attacking Wei, so that when they were fighting the enemy with all their might, someone would pull back their legs; Second, he also wanted to obtain a large amount of grain, grass and property from Soochow to supplement the consumption of the war.

In this way, the two sides with their own ghosts, together with the dream of the bed, will not surprise the other party by betraying the other at any time, both sides are saying a bunch of high-sounding words on the surface, but in fact they are always on guard against each other.

However, although everyone knows about the betrayal of the other party, the article on the surface still has to be done. After all, the two countries have signed an alliance, and this kind of alliance between countries is to be released to the people of the world, and some people believe in this kind of alliance very much. At least, in the eyes of the majority of people who don't #Ming# the truth, the two countries are allies, so now Soochow's behavior is a blatant violation of the covenant, that is, dishonesty, and an act that is despised by the world.

At this time, Shu could condemn Eastern Wu from the perspective of righteousness and win the sympathy of fools and fools in the world, so Liu Hou immediately agreed to Guo Youzhi's suggestion, issued an edict, announced to the world, and strongly condemned the treacherous behavior of Eastern Wu. This is a good opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people, and also to gain an advantage in public opinion for his own attack on Wu in the future.

And sending a letter to Sun Quan to protest, negotiate, or threaten, Liu Hou thinks that it is completely useless, if there is, it is just disgusting Sun Quan. In later generations, he has seen a lot of news about this kind of solemn protest from the victim country after an international incident, which is really useless. The loss has already been eaten, what's the use of just verbally begging for some cheapness?

Besides, your country has no strength, and people will not negotiate and protest against you at all, and they will continue to do their own thing, and they will continue to harm your interests. At this time, it's useless to rely on lip service, in Liu Hou's opinion, the most reliable way is to fight back, just a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye, what's the use of saying so much nonsense?

In view of this, after Liu Hou agreed to Guo Youzhi's method, he immediately asked everyone to think about whether there was a better way to deal with it. Hearing Liu Hou's request, the strategists fell into contemplation for a while, this matter is really difficult to do, now that the Shu army is in the Northern Expedition with all its might, how can it take care of things so far away from Jingzhou?

Although the Hong army temporarily rested in Xiangyang, it was not idle for a long time, and after a while, when the supplies were almost replenished, they would also continue the Northern Expedition. Jingzhou is so far away, it is obviously unrealistic for them to run back to help teach Dongwu a lesson. Furthermore, Shu and Dongwu are separated by a moat Yangtze River, and now the Dongwu Navy is exhausted, blocking the Yangtze River, the Hong Army is an army after all, even if it returns to Jingzhou, it can't help other people's water army.

But apart from the Hong army, which other troops and horses can be mobilized to deal with Eastern Wu? After a moment of silence, Bu Qi spoke: "You can order the 9th and 10th Brigades to step up the protection of the baggage team. Let them accompany the ship to protect the transport, and let them repel it in case of an attack by the Soochow navy. ”

Originally, when it came to the affairs of Eastern Wu, Bu Qi would not express his opinion, but it had been a long time since he surrendered to Shu Han, and his sense of belonging to Shu Han was gradually established, and he was no longer silent. What's more, the idea he said didn't hurt Dongwu too much.

The 9th and 10th Brigades were originally responsible for protecting the baggage brigades and ensuring that the entire transportation channel was unblocked, and it was their duty to resist the attack of the Soochow Navy on the transport ships. The idea he put forward to protect the ship may have been done a long time ago.

"However, the 9th and 10th Brigades have just been established, and their training is insufficient, and their weapons and equipment are poor, so it is estimated that the effect will not be great." Liu Hou said disappointedly.

"This is not necessarily, the ninth and tenth brigades are composed of veterans of the Wei army, and their combat effectiveness should not be weak, so they can be allowed to carry more rockets and thunderbolts on board, so that they may not have the power to protect themselves." Deng Zhi added.

"No, most of the Wei army are northerners, northerners are good at riding horses, southerners are good at boats, I believe that they are very sad just because of seasickness, and their combat effectiveness on the ship is at least fifty percent." Sima Yi frowned and was thinking about ideas, and when he heard Deng Zhi and Bu Qi's words, he couldn't help but interject.

His words brought a silence again, obviously everyone agreed with his statement, and felt that Bu Qi and Deng Zhiti's ideas just now were indeed not feasible.