Compared with Sima Yi's coping with ease. Jiangdong Sun Jian's performance is somewhat intriguing.

When Sun Quan sent troops from Yichun to Changsha, although he was unanimously approved by Jiangdong, many civil and military subordinates only retained their personal opinions and did not fully support Sun Quan's expansion strategy. Now that Sun Quan was defeated under the combined siege of Li Yan and Huo Jun, the debate within Jiangdong about whether to fight or make peace became fierce again.

Xiong Zhen's army, which was originally stationed in Youzhou, was suddenly transferred from the northeast to Xuzhou, which caused the surrounding areas that had maintained a balance of forces to suddenly fall into speculation and doubt, and even Sun Jian, who was south of the Yangtze River, could not be indifferent. After all, Xiong Zhen's army made all opponents deflated one after another in the battle to defend the state in the past, and later killed all sides in the battle to quell the Youzhou Rebellion, which attracted the attention of the world. Xiong Zhenjun is a very offensive infantry division, and no one dares to take it lightly.

Xiong Zhenjun's arrival in Xuzhou is still secondary, and the key is that Zhao Xing's attitude is incomprehensible.

Until now, Zhao Xing seems to be only interested in holding the "National Games" and parading around, and does not care about other things. If it weren't for Yizhou Sima Yi provoking Liangguo very much, it is estimated that Zhao Xing would not even have the time to make a statement in the newspaper, let alone expect him to express some personal opinions on the dirtiness between Jingzhou and Eastern Wu.

Sun Jian wanted to take advantage of Zhao Xing's arrival in Xuzhou to send a secret envoy to test Zhao Xing's attitude, but after Zhao Xing caught Xiong Zhenjun ashore in Donghai County, he took a boat to Qingzhou without looking back, and now he doesn't know where he drifted to the sea.

From the news sent back by the spies sent to Jingzhou, the people in Jiangdong could feel that Zhao Xing supported Liu Biao against Yizhou, but it is unknown whether Zhao Xing supported Liu Biao against Wuzhou. At least when Li Yan and Huo Jun's troops were besieging Sun Quan, they didn't use gunpowder against Wu Yi and Jia Long in Yiling like Huang Zhong did.

Sun Jian is really in a dilemma now, he wants to personally lead his troops to attack Liu Biao and get back Sun Quan's lost face, but he is worried that Wuzhou will only raise a large army to attack Jingzhou, and Xiong Zhenjun, who arrived in Xuzhou, took the opportunity to cross the river and dig his lair. Although Wuzhou and the Jin State secretly maintained an ally relationship, in case Zhao Xing detained the basin of the unauthorized troops on the head of Mu Taoqian in Xuzhou, he Sun Jian would have nowhere to find someone to reason.

Wuzhou has accumulated over the years, and there are still 100,000 troops to dispatch. However, in recent years, in order to attack Jiaozhou and suppress the Shanyue rebellion, a part of the troops were sent, and now there are only 50,000 troops left in Wu County. The 30,000 troops that Sun Quan took away were recruited by him in Yuzhang County, although he did not use the main force of Eastern Wu, but he hollowed out the reserve troops of Yuzhang County in disguise. If Sun Quan still wanted to rely on himself to find a way back, he could only hit the idea of recruiting troops to Nanhai County and Huiji County.

Now the biggest controversy within Jiangdong is whether to continue to attack Jiaozhou in the south or to take revenge on Jingzhou in the west. The opinion of Lu Su and others was to endure the losses they suffered in Jingzhou this time and to develop southward in an honest manner; after all, Wuzhou was in the front, Jingzhou was the last, and it was Wuzhou who was responsible for the loss; Sun Quan's idea was to temporarily stop attacking Jingzhou, first send troops to capture Cangwu County in Jiaozhou, and then make a detour from Cangwu to Fengcheng and then fight in Guiyang.

After some deliberation, Sun Jian adopted a more compromise strategy this time. He submitted a table to the imperial court to ask for the title of general of Zhengnan for his eldest son Sun Ce, and then allocated 30,000 troops in the south of Wuzhou to Sun Ce, and asked Zhou Yu, Zhu Heng, Ding Feng and other generals to obey Sun Ce's orders, and let Sun Ce replace Sun Quan to go to Nanhai County and its surrounding areas in Jiaozhou.

In order to prevent Sun Quan from continuing to go out and cause trouble for himself, Sun Jian took Sun Quan's military power, caged him by his side, taught and admonished him in the morning and evening, and took him with him when he went in and out, hoping that through the edification of Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Zhu Zhi and other old ministers, Sun Quan's excessively sharp aura could be wiped out.

For these changes that occurred in Jiangdong, people with good intentions naturally paid silent attention, and even secretly did something, hoping that there would be a rift between Sun Jian's father and son and brothers, and they would completely fall into civil strife.

In order to alleviate Sun Jian's doubts, Zhang Liao of Xuzhou deployed the newly arrived Xiong Zhen army in the Wuyuan area of Xuzhou, which is close to Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and transferred the dragoon army originally stationed here to Huailing City, while the Qinghuai army originally stationed in Huailing suddenly disappeared without a trace. Judging from the news sent by Sun Jian to the sentinel on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Qinghuai Army did not haunt Guangling County, obviously not aimed at Jiangdong, which made Sun Jian feel a little more stable in his heart.

Zhuge Liang, who was in Yangzhou, found that Sun Jian did not want to entangle with Jingzhou anymore, while Liu Biao easily resolved the threat from Eastern Wu, and then it was very likely that he would gather troops to deal with the Yizhou invasion force in Yiling, which exceeded his and Liu Bei's expectations, so he offered Liu Bei another strategy.

Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei come forward to mediate the relationship between Liu Biao and Sun Jian, and at the same time sell his personal favor to Liu Biao and Sun Jian, find a way to separate the relationship between Liu Biao and the Jin Kingdom, so that Liu Biao would be wary of Zhao Xing. At the same time, it undermined the alliance between Eastern Wu and the Jin State, and drew Wuzhou into the camp of the imperial court.

After Liu Bei received Zhuge Liang's letter, he thought about it repeatedly, and finally came up with a strategy that could separate Liu Biao and the Jin State at the same time, and Sun Jian and the Jin State at the same time. It's just that this plan is too inferior, and once it is discovered that it was him, it will have a great adverse impact on Liu Bei's reputation.

Liu Bei then came to Cao Cao to discuss the matter, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei had a strikingly similar opinion. Cao Cao also felt that it was imperative to destroy the alliance between Sun Jian and Zhao Xing, and finally to make Eastern Wu and Jin turn against each other from now on, so that the imperial court could concentrate on cleaning up Liu Biao in Jingzhou.

Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's advisor, suggested that a peace conference led by the imperial court should be held in Shouchun, Yangzhou, and that Liu Biao and Sun Jian send special envoys to attend at the same time to mediate the relationship between the two families. Then he secretly ambushed the troops, secretly assassinated the envoys of the two sides when they returned to the station, and finally blamed the Jin State. In this way, as long as one side of Jingzhou and Wuzhou turns against the Jin State, it will be considered a great success.

In the absence of the truth, according to the principle of "who benefits, who instigates", the Jin State is the last party that wants to see Jingzhou, Wuzhou, and Yangzhou reach a non-aggression pact. Because in this way, it is equivalent to Jingzhou and Wuzhou courting the imperial court at the same time, leaving the Jin State aside.

Of course, Sun Jian and Liu Biao are not stupid, if the imperial court can't show enough sincerity to convince Liu Biao and Sun Jian to go to Shouchun for peace talks, it will be very difficult.

However, this is not difficult for Cao Cao and Liu Bei, they don't have anything else in their hands now, but all kinds of official hats are grabbed and a handful, as long as they pick out two of the larger ones and throw them to Sun Jian and Liu Biao, they can still have a certain effect.