Actually, what Dongwu is thinking, he doesn't need Liu Ye, Jiang Ji helps Cao Pi analyze, and Cao Pi can think of it himself.

Eastern Wu was not stupid, and they didn't want to risk possibly making a wedding dress for Cao Wei and attack Jingzhou.

You must know that attacking Jingzhou means that the alliance with Shu Han has broken down, not to mention that you have one less external ally, and if you fail to achieve your strategic goal again, the loss will be great.

Therefore, it is actually understandable that the Eastern Wu side proposed that Cao Wei send troops first to attract the attention of the main force of the Jingzhou army.

On the one hand, this can indeed improve the success rate of backstabbing Jingzhou, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as forcing Cao Wei to express his position, so that Shu Han is afraid of the Wei-Wu alliance, even if Dongwu can't capture Jingzhou, he will not completely turn his face with Dongwu.

Anyway, just one sentence - Jingzhou Dongwu also wants it, and Shu Han, Dongwu doesn't want to be completely offended.

This is where Cao Pi looked down on Soochow. The pattern is too small.

In this pattern, you still want to stand on three legs, and even go north to compete for the world? !

Being able to keep your one-acre and one-third of Jiangdong land can be regarded as God's blessing.

Therefore, Cao Pi actually looked down on Sun Quan.

can look down on it, and instigate the Eastern Wu to betray the alliance to attack Jingzhou, for the Great Wei, after all, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Therefore, Cao Pi summoned Liu Ye and Jiang Ji to ask if there was any good way to attract the attention of the Jingzhou army in Xiangyang and complete the agreement on Eastern Wu without using too many troops and without consuming himself.

Well, it's not that difficult.

Liu Ye suggested that Cao Pi could order Sima Yi to lead Wancheng's troops south and attack Deng County, which was occupied by Shu thieves.

If it can be defeated, it is equivalent to rebuilding a barrier before Wancheng, and then rebuilding three defenses according to the defense system of Wancheng left by the late General Zhang Liao, at least it is a good thing to defend the gate of Wancheng.

It doesn't matter if it can't be defeated, the importance of Deng County, it is impossible for the Shu thieves not to know, so they will inevitably lead troops to the rescue, which objectively achieves the strategy of attracting Jingzhou soldiers to the north.

If it's not enough, you can also let Xuchang Wang Ling lead troops to attack Xinye from the flank, cut off the connection between Nanyang County and Xiangyang County, and if you are worried about the lack of troops, you can also urge Cao Xiu, who has pretended to be sick in Runan for more than a year, and the mood should be almost troublesome, and it is time to come out and move your muscles.

This idea is not bad, but Cao Pi sounds a little unpleasant.

In order to deal with Jiangdong, do you still have to work on both sides of the army, attacking Deng County and Xinye. If the situation is not controlled, there is really a big battle in Jingbei, won't it be worth the loss?!

To put it bluntly, although Cao Pi wanted Dongwu to backstab Jingzhou, he didn't want to exert too much force, and his strategic goal was always to put it on the Guanzhong Plain.

Recapturing Guanzhong is much more tempting than capturing Xiangyang.

Therefore, Cao Pi has been hesitant and does not make a decision.

When Liu Ye saw this situation, he also shut up, and gestured to Jiang Ji with his eyes by the way.

Liu Ye came up with his own idea, and he overturned it by himself because he didn't turn around, and he wanted to save face after all. Jiang Ji has to come to this matter.

And Jiang Ji also understood Liu Ye's intentions, and immediately came forward and suggested - if you don't want to mobilize the people, then let's make a show and put on a posture of attacking in Wancheng and Xuchang.

In this way, we don't need to send troops, but we also achieve the goal of containing the Jingzhou army, the best of both worlds.

Cao Pi was immediately overjoyed, and immediately made a decision to do so.

Of course, regarding the statement of the Eastern Wu side, Cao Pi said that he would send troops from Wancheng and Xuchang to attack Jingbei and contain the Shu army. It doesn't matter whether the troops are actually sent or not, as long as the Eastern Wu sends troops.

But the problem is, Soochow is not stupid. You don't need to see if you Cao Wei sent troops, the news was transmitted back to Eastern Wu, and Sun Quan began to suspect it at the first time.

This Cao Pi, when did he become so easy to speak, and he was still fighting in two ways. If you have this ability, you would have already entered Xiangfan, and you would have formed an alliance with me and recognized the belonging of Qingxu and Xu in exchange for me attacking Jingzhou?!

This promise is too fast, and it really can't make people not mutter.

For this reason, Sun Quan secretly summoned Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao again to discuss the feasibility of entering the army.

But at this time, the deployment of troops has been completed, and the preparation of military rations and ordnance has been completed. You're struggling now, what's the point?!

According to Zhou Yu, it is the arrow on the string and has to be sent.

Regardless of whether Cao Wei really sent troops to respond, Dongwu must send troops immediately, otherwise once Jingzhou is prepared and adjusts the deployment of troops, I am afraid that we will not get any benefits by relying on our troops to play a sneak attack.

At this point, Zhang Zhao did not contradict Zhou Yu and anyone with a discerning eye could see the situation, although Zhang Zhao was old, he was not old and confused.

The leaders of Wenwu under his command all said so, and Sun Quan immediately made up his mind to attack Jingzhou in the west.

The soldiers were divided into two routes, one was to personally lead the troops, with Zhu Ran, Ding Feng, Lu Fan, and Zhou Yi, and the four generals together, along the Yangtze River waterway, to invade Jiangxia.

The second way is led by Sun Sheng, cooperating with Changsha Taishou Quancong and Guiyang Taishou Lu Dai to attack the two counties of Jingnan.

Zhang Zhao stayed in Jianye, assisted the crown prince Sun Deng, and Zhou Yu. Continuing to recuperate at home is a priority.

The two roads of soldiers and horses, both of which are veterans and the configuration of the Mesozoic, can be said to have achieved both hard work and no lack of experience, and it can be said that there is no problem in the configuration of generals.

The only problem is, presumably. Sun Quan had to personally lead his troops to attack Jiangxia.

Seriously, there are some words, whether it is Zhou Yu or Zhang Zhao, because of his status and status, it is really difficult to say it clearly - with Sun 100,000's ability to command troops, he still expects to lead troops to fight? !

Really, this is the truth, but neither Zhou Yu nor Zhang Zhao dared to say this in front of Sun Quan, so they could only persuade Sun Quan more tactfully, it is important to attack Jiangxia, but it is only necessary to send a general to lead the army to the expedition, and there is no need to let Sun Quan drive the expedition in person.

Even the candidates were selected by Sun Quan, whether it was Lu Fan's qualifications or Zhu Ran's ability, they were enough to be the commander-in-chief of the First Army, and Emperor Wu only needed to select one person to appoint.

But Sun Quan didn't have this consciousness.

In Sun Quan's opinion, there is nothing wrong with his ability to command troops.

Ten years ago, I fought a battle with Cao Cao, and in the face of Cao Cao's absolutely superior troops, didn't I also command the soldiers, guard the mouth of the beard, and thwart Cao Cao's conspiracy to go south again after the red cliff? !

After a little more time, he personally conquered Hefei, although he experienced some dangers, and was forced to be a little embarrassed by Zhang Liao, but in the end he did not capture Hefei but Cao Cao's reinforcements came too quickly, so he had to give up Hefei and retreat to Jiangdong.

Where is the ability to lead the troops?!

Again, if you are divided into three points today, the founder of the Three Kingdoms, whether it is Liu Bei or Cao Cao, is a monarch immediately, and he has the experience of leading troops to fight, and as the actual founder of Wu State, he can't be a head lower than others.

His father, Emperor Wulie, and his brother King Changsha Huan, are all the kind of lords who immediately fight the world, and when they come here, they can't embarrass the old Sun family, right? !

Finally, and most importantly. According to Zhou Yu's plan, this attack on Jiangxia was a plan to attack the east and the west, and the purpose was to attract the attention of the Jingzhou army to Jiangxia.

If you don't drive the expedition yourself, how can you make Wang Ji, Xu Shu, and even Guan Yu in Jingzhou believe that Jiangxia's way is the main direction of attack? !

If he just sent Lu Fan or Zhu Ran as the commander, even if there were many troops along the way, with Guan Yu's experience in battle, Xu Shu and Wang Ji's resourcefulness, they would not necessarily relax their defense against the two counties of Jingnan.

In this way, isn't there a possibility that the success will fall short?!

And his own royal drive is different, no one would have thought that the monarch of a country would actually be a disguise.

It will be more confusing to drive the expedition by yourself, and it can also allow Jingzhou Group to fully support Jiangxia without scruples, and pave the way for the two counties of Jingnan to open up the situation.

In this way, Sun Quan used his own reasons to persuade Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao that in April of the second year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty, after the end of spring ploughing, he suddenly sent troops from Chaisang and led his troops north to attack Jiangxia.

Because it was an undeclared war, Sun Quan's march was very smooth, and he defeated the pheasant in the first battle, Jin Chun and the two counties, and went up the river to Xiling County, Jiangxia County.

Jiang Xia was too shou wen to hear the news, and his face was gloomy.

On the one hand, he sent an envoy to Xiangyang to ask for urgent help, and on the other hand, Wen Ping was also thinking hard about how to retreat from the enemy.

But, it's not easy.

(End of chapter)