A heavy snowfall made the beacon fire all day long, and most of China, which had been on the iron horse for almost three months, temporarily stopped.

In the Guanzhong area, the temperature began to drop from the beginning of December, and the snow fell intermittently until the New Year's Day of the third year of Zhangwu of the Great Han Dynasty.

In the Nanyang area, it began to snow from mid-December, and it also fell on New Year's Day of the next year, which caused the Jingzhou army to be blocked from moving north, and Sima Yi, the defender of Wancheng City of Great Wei, had enough time to sort out the city defense and gather the morale of the defeated army.

The same is true for Qingxu, under the heavy snowfall, the Jiangbei Advance Army led by Zhou Yu could not conquer Pengcheng in a short period of time, all under Qingxu.

Not to mention, Zhou Yu at this time already wanted to retreat.

Yes, it's an amazing thing.

When the battle is fought to this extent, Jiangdong has an overall advantage, and it will be able to take all of it. Sun Shiwan didn't mean to retreat, but Zhou Yu thought about retreating.

It looks very incredible, but Zhou Yu really has his own reasons.

A few years ago, when Lü Meng was still alive, he once persuaded Sun Quan, saying that the land of Qingxu was mainly cavalry combat, and Jiangdong soldiers were mostly good at water warfare, not land warfare, so even if Qingxu was occupied for a while, it would be impossible to hold it.

Based on this, Lü Meng persuaded Sun Quan to capture Jingzhou, based on the Yangtze River defense line, and with the combat strength of the Jiangdong naval army, even if he could not enter the world, it was still easy to divide the southeast.

This was the strategic plan that Lü Meng had formulated for Sun Quan.

This plan was scoffed at by Zhou Yu at the beginning.

It's not for the so-called Sun-Liu alliance to be honest, this alliance did have a need to exist in the environment at that time, but when Liu Bei captured Hanzhong and went out of Yongliang, the significance of this alliance was not much.

What Zhou Yu scoffed at was that Lü Meng, as a figure who replaced Lu Su in charge of military power, actually took refuge in such a way that he persuaded the lord Sun Quan to be in a safe corner.

To put it mildly, this is called a lack of strategic vision, and to put it mildly, Lü Meng's pattern only stays at the level of leading the army to protect itself.

At that time, Zhou Yu felt that as the commander of the first army, Lu Meng could clearly see the shortcomings of the Jiangdong Army, but he didn't want to change it, but chose to avoid himself, which was not what a first-class commander should do, and also lived up to the expectations of the lord Sun Quan.

But now, Zhou Yu understands Lu Meng a little.

Since returning to the mountains to take charge of the troops, Zhou Yu has indeed carried out targeted training on the land combat ability of the Eastern Wu Army, and increased the mobility and land combat ability of the Eastern Wu Army as much as possible, which led to the last sneak attack on Qingxu by water, and this time after the thousands of miles of troops from Huainan, the Wei army in the land of Qingxu was trapped in Pengchengguo.

However, I'm afraid this is also the limit of what Zhou Yu can do now.

Especially after entering the winter, Zhou Yu found that many things were one thing for himself, but he actually encountered them, but it was another thing.

Not to mention anything else, the winter in the land of Huainan is not the same as the winter in Jiangdong, and the winter in the land of Qingxu is very different from the winter in the land of Huainan.

Zhou Yu didn't take into account the weather factors, but after actual experience, he found that the weather factors he thought were still very different from the actual weather factors.

In the Jiangdong area, there are basically only a few sleet in December, even in the Huainan area, it is only a light snow but it can reach the land of Qingxu, this heavy snow is flying, and it is possible to see the figure of the person on the opposite side.

Zhou Yu did take into account the hardships of winter warfare, and also prepared some winter clothes - but the Jiangdong soldiers' definition of winter is too different from the actual winter in the land of Qingxu.

During this period, the greatest battle losses of Zhou Yu's soldiers were not casualties during the siege at all, but non-combat attrition after the cold weather.

The medical conditions in these years are like that, and the conditions in the army are even more difficult, if you get sick in winter, those with better physical fitness can resist it, and those who are slightly worse are basically waiting for death.

This is the first problem that Zhou Yu needs to solve.

The second problem that Zhou Yu needed to solve was to fight in the plains, and in the face of Cao Wei's cavalry and infantry combat capabilities, how to deal with the soldiers of Eastern Wu, who had always been famous for water warfare.

When fighting in the Huainan region, the disadvantages in this regard are not too obvious, after all, the Huainan region is also quite densely covered with water networks, even if there is a gap in individual combat strength, Zhou Yu can also take advantage of various geographical conditions to quickly transport troops, and use the method of troop transfer and command to create a situation in which there are more local battles and fewer fights, so as to make up for the lack of combat strength.

At the beginning of Shiting, he lured the enemy to Cao Xiu and annihilated the enemy in one fell swoop, which is how he came.

But when it comes to the land of Qingxu, these advantages are gone.

Therefore, in the land of Qingxu, we can only rely on some virtual and real routines to fight the enemy unprepared, and seize the strategic initiative first, so that we can have the power to fight.

At the beginning, Lu Xunbing and Zhou Yu led the troops to jump out of Cao Xiu, and Jia Kui's encirclement used this method.

But even so, when Zhou Yu advanced in multiple ways and seized the strategic initiative, when the enemy army was no longer careless and held on, with the siege field ability of the Jiangdong Army, he couldn't take a small Pengcheng country.

This made Zhou Yu realize once again that the combat strength of the Eastern Wu Army, even after his own training and adjustment, was still not enough to compete with Cao Wei's infantry on the plain.

Not to mention that the Wei army and the northern cavalry were not requisitioned to the south. Once the northern cavalry that was guarding against aliens in the north chose to go south, in an open area like the Central Plains, Zhou Yu did not think that the Eastern Wu Army could be the opponent of cavalry.

Based on the above reasons, Zhou Yu is indeed considering the possibility of temporarily withdrawing troops.

Of course, Zhou Yu did not say that he wanted to give up the hard-won Huainan and Qingxu land and temporarily withdraw his troops, but he was temporarily retreating and recuperating.

According to Zhou Yu's ideas and plans, he withdrew his troops and returned to Huainan first, leaving Lu Xun's troops to go down to Pi, and Zhuge Jin's troops to Langya State, surround Pengchengguo on three sides, and turn to strategic defense, not giving the Wei army a chance to counterattack.

After withdrawing the troops, it is not that they will do nothing, they must find a way to let the soldiers adapt to the weather in the north as soon as possible, continue to train and strengthen the land combat ability of the Jiangdong soldiers, and finally, and most importantly, we must find a way to get horses from other places to form Jiangdong's own cavalry troops.

If you want to go north to fight for the world, if you don't have enough cavalry, you will definitely not work.

Just taking advantage of the sudden fall of heavy snow in the past few days and the inability to fight, Zhou Yu sorted out his thoughts and gave a letter to Sun Quan, the emperor of Eastern Wu, hoping to get Sun Quan's permission to withdraw from Pengcheng at the right time and temporarily truce with Cao Wei.

It's not ten years ago now, or rather, in the past ten years or so, Sun Quan has slowly changed, and he is no longer like the previous "lord".

Zhou Gongjin is elegant and elegant, and obviously can't be the kind of person with low emotional intelligence. There are some things that Zhou Yu began to pay attention to very early.

But the problem is that even if Zhou Yu pays so much attention, this letter is still very unhappy when it is sent to Sun Quan in Shouchun City, Huainan.

Retire?!

Why retreat?!

Now that Cao Thief is trapped in the war on the Western Front, Cao Xiu has retreated, and Xu Huang can only be trapped in Pengcheng, unable to counterattack at all, and unable to reinforce Qingxu.

At this time, don't take the opportunity to level Qingxu in one fell swoop, and connect Huainan and Qingxu together. Retire at this time, will you have such a good opportunity next time?!

Another one, when he ascended the throne and became the emperor, Cao Pi once wrote a special article to announce to the world, reprimanding himself for usurpation. Especially Liu Bei, who claims to inherit the Han family, has never treated me like this, okay.

What's even worse is that Cao Pi directly issued an edict two years ago, informing the world that Cao Wei was going to crusade against Eastern Wu.

sent troops to crusade against one party's forces, and actually informed the world two years in advance. This simply doesn't take me Dongwu in his eyes, let alone me, the Emperor of Dongwu.

Now that Dongwu is progressing smoothly, one side is as fierce as a tiger, but it only takes down one Xiapi County, and it has been almost three months since he besieged Pengchengguo, and he has never been able to capture the retreat in this situation, where is Sun Quan, the emperor of Eastern Wu, to put his face? !

Therefore, Sun Quan very much disagreed with Zhou Yu's suggestion to withdraw from the army.

But what. There are some things, Sun Quan is also a little muttering.

First, Zhou Yu wrote very clearly in the recital, writing clearly about the current difficulties and the difficulties that may be encountered in the future.

Although Sun Quan said that the desire for power is getting heavier and heavier, his brain is not confused, and it is not the time when he needs to use the means of Gong Dou to balance the internal forces. Sun Quan still has to admit that what Zhou Yu said makes sense.

Second, with Zhou Yu's status in the Jiangdong martial arts, and the army that Zhou Yu now controls. Zhou Yu's opinion, Sun Quan can't be ignored as easily as deflated.

At this time, although Sun Quan still trusted Zhou Yu, out of the natural sensitivity and vigilance of politicians, so many troops were in the hands of Zhou Yu, and Sun Quan was always a little uneasy.

After returning from this retreat, Sun Quan could take this opportunity to split the military power in Zhou Yu's hands, and at the same time, he could collect the military power in Qingxu and Huainan regions into his own hands again. For Sun Quan, retiring from the army is actually very beneficial to himself.

Third, after fighting for so long, there has never been a good harvest, so it is better to take this as an opportunity to fight for enough benefits from Cao Wei from the negotiation table, which is also a way out.

In Zhou Yu's recital, there is one thing that can be said to be very appetizing for Sun Quan.

Cavalry, Dongwu must have its own cavalry, and this cavalry must be directly in the hands of Sun Quan himself.

Really, it doesn't take much, in this part of Jiangdong, as long as there are 3,000 armored horses in your hand, then the Sun family is completely stable.

This cavalryman, you have to find a way to get it!

(End of chapter)