Since Sima Yi retired from the Eastern Wu Naval Army, Liu Hou has been waiting for the further development of the situation, and in waiting, he spent the Spring Festival in the second year of Jianxing (225 AD), during which Guan Yinhua and Zhang Xingcai both went to Xiangyang to accompany him for the New Year.

During the period, there was naturally a reunion after a long absence, a long drought and nectar, and even a reversal ~ Luan ~ pour ~ phoenix, night and night sheng song and other romantic affairs, because of the relationship between river crabs, 10,000 words were omitted here again. After the New Year, both of them had important things to do, so they both said goodbye to Liu Hou and returned to Chengdu.

However, Liu Hou was not lonely, because Zhou Xue stayed by his side from beginning to end. Later, Liu Hou moved to Wancheng, and Zhou Xue also accompanied him all the way. Liu Hou, who is accompanied by beauty, lives happily, but waiting for the war reports from all over the world is a little anxious.

Especially later, the war against Soochow had been completely won, but the supply ammunition was also consumed by Guan Gong, and Liu Hou had to wait stupidly with hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Wancheng for the "Ministry of Industry" to slowly produce supplementary ammunition. Fortunately, Guan Gong did not withhold the grain and grass sent to the northern front, otherwise once Liu Hou's hundreds of thousands of horses ran out of food, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

During this time, hundreds of thousands of troops had nothing to do, and Liu Hou strengthened the training of various troops on the one hand, and on the other hand, he let people take his holy decree and go around to absorb the surrounding counties. In addition to carrying the holy decree, these messengers often brought with them an army of no small number.

These troops who followed the envoys around to collect territory could protect the envoys, and secondly, they could also give those magistrates a kind of coercion, which is the so-called coercion and temptation. When most of the magistrates saw that the army of heavenly soldiers and generals was pressing the border, and they looked like they were strong soldiers and horses, they naturally had to weigh in their hearts whether they could hold the city if they did not surrender.

In fact, these men and horses who followed the Qin mission have a third role, once these magistrates do not know what to do and refuse to surrender anyway, then these people and horses will no longer be the role of Qin Cha's bodyguards, they will quickly transform into a strong army attacking the city and plundering the land, and easily knock down these stubborn cities, and strip the county officials or county guards to the bones.

Although the Shu army is short of ammunition, there are still many troops that use cold weapons, such as the rattan armor soldiers, and the legions of Zhang Fei and Pang Tong. It is only fitting that these people should be engaged in such a low-intensity war. This is also one of the subjects for their actual combat training.

Another combat training program is the suppression of bandits. The world has been in turmoil for so many years, and in addition to the large and small warlords, there are also all kinds of bandits large and small among the people. Some of these bandits are poor people who really can't survive and have to fall into the grass, some are really vicious, and some are even the remnants of the original Yellow Turban thieves.

Either way, it has a great impact on local law and order and must be eliminated. The bandits in Shu have naturally been cleared out a long time ago, but Liu Hou has not had time to deal with these newly occupied places, and now that he is free, Liu Hou naturally wants to send a group of bandit troops to eliminate these bandits everywhere.

Suppressing bandits is also a low-intensity battle, which is suitable for military training. That's it, in three months, the area from the north bank of the Yangtze River to Wancheng gradually restored peace. But Liu Hou couldn't laugh, he didn't feel much happy because of these frequent good news, but felt very worried because of one thing.

What worries him is that Jingzhou has only sent a small amount of ammunition in the past three months. The army now has to train on the one hand, suppress bandits and attack some cities that refuse to surrender, and although they have tried to use cold weapons as much as possible, some places still inevitably need to use some ammunition.

However, the small amount of ammunition sent by Jingzhou in the past three months was simply not enough to meet the needs of these low-intensity operations, and the ammunition has been struggling to make ends meet, and not only has it not been replenished, but it has almost run out of stocks.

Liu Hou was furious and immediately sent someone to find out the reason, and soon he learned that it was Guan Gong who had withheld most of the ammunition and was preparing to use it to attack Eastern Wu.

This time, Liu Hou also lost his temper, it would be easy to say if it was someone else's hands and feet, but Guan Gong is different, his identity is too special, and he is very stubborn, although he is not as good-tempered as Zhang Fei, but few people can persuade him to be stubborn.

He could feel Guan Gong's hatred of Dongwu, and he also understood his hatred, because the humiliation he suffered back then was indeed an unforgettable thing for him to forget, Liu Hou understood that with his character, if he couldn't wash away this humiliation, he would not be able to die.

It's actually not easy for him to endure the seizure until now, but understanding is understanding, Liu Hou absolutely can't allow this old angry young man to affect the overall situation because of his own personal anger, so he personally wrote a letter to dissuade Guan Yu.

In the letter, he advised Guan Gong that it was not yet the time for a full-scale attack on Soochow. The water network of Dongwu is dense, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and there is the vast Yunmengze, that is to say, Dongwu has a strategic depth on the water, if there is no strong water army, now rashly attack Dongwu, not only can not completely destroy Dongwu, but also create countless water bandits.

In fact, Liu Hou also missed a place, that is, islands in the East China Sea, such as Yizhou (Taiwan), the Eastern Wu court has long discussed and planned how to preserve its strength once it is defeated by the Shu army in the future. In addition to hiding in Yunmengze, another option they had at that time was to move to Yizhou.

Therefore, before the navy is really strong, Dongwu is not said to be extinguished. Liu Hou explained the truth to Guan Gong in detail in the letter, and he was afraid that Guan Gong would still refuse to listen to his advice, so he sent Bu Qi to go to Jingzhou to deliver the letter in person.

The reason why Bu Qi was sent was because Bu Qi was once an important minister of Eastern Wu, although he is now dead to Shu Han and Liu Hou, but he is a person who misses the old love after all, even if he knows that the fall of Eastern Wu is inevitable in the end, but if there is a way to delay this time, he must be willing to work hard for it, of course, provided that it does not harm the interests of Shu Han.

That is to say, after Bu Qi arrived in Jingzhou, he would definitely do his best to persuade Guan Gong to temporarily give up attacking Eastern Wu, in this matter, he would definitely not slack off, as for what method he would use to persuade Guan Gong, this is not Liu Hou's concern, he only needs the result, the process is not important. Bu Qi is also a smart person, and Liu Hou believes that he will be able to handle this matter well.

Bu Qi really didn't disappoint Liu Hou, and handled this matter neatly. After he arrived in Jingzhou, he presented Liu Hou's letter to Guan Gong, who really refused to listen to Liu Hou's persuasion, and still insisted on going his own way, and wanted to launch a war of annihilation against Eastern Wu. If Liu Hou was here, he would definitely feel very shameless, Guan Gong did not obey his holy decree.

However, he had already had this realization, so this time he wrote a private letter to Guan Gong instead of a holy decree. If Guan Gong is given a righteous holy decree, if Guan Gong refuses to follow the decree, he will lose face even more. Knowing that this was the result, Liu Hou simply did not issue a holy decree, but gave him a private letter to dissuade him with his personal reputation.