In fact, when Zhou Yu came forward and reached a private agreement with Ji Han, Sun Quan actually thought about the two strategies of attacking Cao Wei in the north and attacking Jiangling in the water, and also made two preparations.

But at that time, Sun Quan's thinking tended to be more superficial, after all, at that time, Shu Han had not officially "handed over" Jiangxia, and the troops had not been assembled in Xiangyang, and Cao Wei in the north did not have obvious loopholes in the defense of Pengcheng and Runan.

Therefore, Sun Quan only tends to "think" about these two strategies, but has no intention of making specific choices to implement them.

But even so, Sun Quan is still doing some preparations in advance.

On the Jiangxia side, with Zhou Yu fully presiding, Sun Quan was more assured, what he had to do was to do a good job of mobilizing the battle array, in case Zhou Yu wanted to use troops, he did not have enough support to Zhou Yu.

On the Jiangbei side, although the strategic arrangement was also handed over to Lu Xun to do, Sun Quan was a little uneasy, and he also arranged some manpower to go to Jiangbei to guard and help.

One of the most important chess pieces is to arrange his henchman Zhou Yi to garrison as Tu, send Quancong to garrison Danyang, and guard Sun Sheng stationed in Shouchun.

On the surface, these three troops are all strengthening the defense of Shouchun, and there is nothing special about it, but if Lu Xun needs to use troops against Runan or Pengcheng, these three troops are ready-made support forces.

Lu Xun's so-called strategy of "being desirable in Runan" was based on these three troops.

In the direction of Pengcheng, Lu Xun doesn't have too many extravagant hopes. At least before that Jia Kui was transferred out of Pengcheng, Lu Xun really didn't have complete confidence that he could break through Pengcheng.

That Jia Kui, don't look at it as just a scribe, but the strategy with the army is quite good, the defense of Pengcheng can be said to be leaky, and even he took advantage of Cao Wei's cavalry in the plain area, and used the cavalry to respond back and forth, not only defending the defense of Pengcheng County, but even faintly advancing into the two counties of Xiapi and Langya.

If it weren't for Cao Wei's lack of troops in the Yanzhou area, and he had to support Pengchengguo and Runan County on two fronts, maybe Lu Xun wouldn't have the heart to think of any plan to counterattack Runan now, and it would have been not easy to hold the current territory.

This is not to say that Lu Xun is really worse than Jia Kui, it is purely the gap in the national strength of the two sides, as well as the gap in the military system of the armed forces, which is not something that Lu Xun can easily erase by relying on his own strategy.

But the direction of Runan is different.

Pengchengguo is located in the Xuzhou Plain, this place is relatively flat, suitable for Cao Wei's cavalry large-scale operations, and Jiangdong has not yet had a decent cavalry troops, in Pengchengguo, Xiapi County, Langya County and other places to fight, can only rely on the city defense to defend the city, in strategic passivity is normal.

But Runan is different, although this place is also a plain area as a whole, but there are also a lot of mountains, which is not completely suitable for cavalry raids and attacks, using mountains to fight, Lu Xun is still confident that he will have a hard time with Cao Wei in Runan County.

Plus. The commander of Runan County is Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu is actually not bad at all, but his heart is really flawed.

This person thinks too highly of himself and is quite uncomplacent.

This can be very clearly reflected in Cao Xiu's life, as well as his previous two defeats.

When Cao Xiu was young, he was praised by Cao Cao as Cao's Qianliju, which was originally a compliment, or an expectation, but Cao Xiu took it seriously.

In the early years, when Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, and Xiahou brothers were all there, the generals of the Cao Wei clan were full of talents, and Cao Xiu was quite low-key at that time, and he knew that he could not be compared with these elders.

But since these older generation of Cao clan generals have passed away, the Cao Wei clan has only Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, and Xiahou Shang left, and they can barely support the situation.

At this time, Cao Xiu has always regarded himself as the first general of the clan.

Then, Cao Xiu was lured deep by Zhou Yu's change of law, and was beaten wildly, not only lost Shouchun, but was almost surrounded to death in Huainan, and had to rely on Jia Kui, who had always been at odds with him, to desperately save him before he was able to withdraw to Yuzhou.

After the Northern Expedition of Eastern Wu and the attack on Qingxu, Cao Xiu was once again played by Zhou Yu, taking advantage of his disagreement with Jia Kui, jumping out of the encirclement of Huainan and going north to Qingxu to help in the war.

Although Cao Xiu tried to save face and led his troops to attack Shouchun, he tried to complete the change of family and completely cut off the connection between Qingxu and Huainan. There is one thing to say, the tactics are actually good, but the strategic timing is not appropriate, and Cao Xiu himself is too eager to use troops, which led to the attack on Shouchun for three months, until the sharp spirit is lost, and the situation in the land of Qingxu is basically stable, and he did not capture Shouchun.

On the contrary, Sun Shao's prestige was achieved.

These two incidents were cited by Cao Xiu as a great shame, but at the same time, they also somewhat suppressed Cao Xiu's arrogance.

After all, the loss was so miserable that Cao Xiu himself couldn't find any excuse, and once never mentioned the so-called first general of the clan.

If at this time, Cao Xiu can learn from the pain, seriously reflect on himself, and correct his mistake of being impatient in using soldiers, then he may really be able to become the first general of the clan.

But the problem is that in less than half a year, Cao Zhen, another clan general, was beaten by the Second Northern Expedition army commanded by Liu Bei and fled from Guanzhong in embarrassment.

Not only did he lose the city and land, but he was also embarrassed, and he was beaten much more ruthlessly than Cao Xiu's two defeats combined.

No matter how Cao Xiu was, he was defeated by Zhou Yu, a famous general recognized in the world, but he, Cao Zhen, lost to Liu Bei when he had an advantage in troops.

Liu Bei is a hero, this is recognized by the world, but Liu Bei's ability to use troops is really mixed by the people of the world.

There is no way, Liu Bei lost too much in his early years, except for a few people who are as wise as a torch and like Cao Cao, few people can look down on Liu Bei's ability to use soldiers.

But no matter what, no matter how much people who recognize Liu Bei's ability to use soldiers, they will not think that Liu Bei can compare to Zhou Yu in leading troops to fight. Not to mention anything else, in the battle of Chibi, if you let Liu Bei fight, he will definitely not be able to fight Zhou Yu's achievements.

After such a comparison, Cao Xiu suddenly felt that he was good again!!

Over the years, Cao Xiu has been tossing a lot in Runan, not only did he start to claim to be the first military general of the clan in a high-profile manner again, but he even played the Son of Heaven and impeached his boss Sima Yi. In fact, it can be seen from these actions that Cao Xiu's old mistakes have been committed again.

There is really no need for Lu Xun to know too much about Cao Xiu, just the things that Cao Xiu did in Runan, you can know a rough idea by asking a little about it, and it is not difficult for Lu Xun to analyze Cao Xiu's mentality from it.

What's more, Cao Xiu's lessons from the past are there, and it is difficult for Lu Xun to think about it.

In the face of such an impatient opponent who thinks highly of himself, Lu Xun obviously doesn't think that Cao Xiu will be more difficult to deal with than Jia Kui.

Therefore, Lu Xun planned to repeat the old trick and proposed a set of battle plans to Sun Quan to lure the enemy into depth.

sent people to surrender to lure Cao Xiu to take the initiative to send troops to leave Runan, go deep into the land of Huainan, weaken Cao Wei's cavalry advantage, and then surround Cao Xiu with superior forces, encircle and annihilate him, and finally counterattack Runan.

This is Zhou Yu's old wisdom back then, but. Lu Xun thinks that the trick is not new or old, it just works.

The matter of fraudulent surrender is easy to handle, and even Lu Xun has already arranged a candidate. Zhou bream.

Zhou Yi, as Sun Quan's recently promoted confidant, a native of Wu County who was not an official in Jiangdong territory, was sent by Sun Quan to garrison Dangtu. That's a bit weird.

The insider knew that Zhou Yi belonged to the commander-in-chief, but in the eyes of those who didn't know, Zhou Yi must have been deposed by Sun Quan.

After all, three years ago, Zhou Yi was too guarded in Poyang, but now he has been reduced to being able to only garrison one county, which doesn't look like a promotion.

Therefore, Lu Xun's suggestion was to spread rumors to the outside world, saying that when Zhou Yi followed Sun Quan to attack Jiangxia three years ago, because of his efforts and disrespectful words, he was disgusted and deposed by Sun Quan, and was demoted from the position of Poyang Taishou, and was assigned to guard the town.

Then let Zhou Yi send people to Runan, surrender to Cao Xiu, express his willingness to submit to the Great Wei, sacrifice Dangtu, and open the offensive channel to Shouchun.

The geographical location of Dangtu can be said to be very important, it is located in the northwest direction of Shouchun, if you want to attack Shouchun, you must first conquer Dangtu.

And when Tu County, during Yuan Shu's occupation of Huainan, has been operating as a military fortress, so many years, when Tu's geographical location is still important, the defense is also quite tight, if there is no internal response, Cao Xiu wants to break through Dangtu, coercing Shouchun, almost impossible.

Therefore, in Lu Xun's view, being Tu County is enough for Cao Xiu to take a risk.

As for whether Cao Xiu will believe in Zhou Yi's surrender. In fact, in Lu Xun's view, it is not so important.

Cao Xiu is willing to believe in Zhou Yi's surrender, which is naturally the best, but even if he doesn't believe it, Lu Xun judged that with Cao Xiu's character and the environment Cao Xiu is in now, he will still choose to enter the army as Tu County.

There is no other reason, just because Cao Zhen is now leading the Sili Legion to counterattack the attack, and it is going quite smoothly.

For a long time, Cao Xiu's biggest competitor who wanted to become the number one general of the clan was Cao Zhen.

In the past, not to mention the difficult brother, both of them have suffered defeats like great shame, and even from the perspective of the world's comments, Cao Zhen lost much worse than Cao Xiu.

But now it's different, Cao Zhen led the army to counterattack and attack the fortified positions smoothly, and he was even about to push to Chang'an along the way, he Cao Zhen can wash away his shame when he sees it, what do you make Cao Xiu think? !

Therefore, Lu Xun judged that even if Cao Xiu knew that Zhou Yi was a fraudulent surrender, he might take the risk of choosing to take the plan and march into Huainan with the superior strength of the Wei army, so as to win in a dangerous situation.

Others may not choose such a risky battle, but for Cao Xiu, it is entirely possible to do so.

He was not only anxious to prove himself, but also full of conceit about himself, anyway, this time Zhou Yu was far away in Jiangxia, how could he not rush to Huainan to command the battle in a short time, so what else did he Cao Xiu have to be afraid of?!

Are you afraid of Sun Sheng, or Quan Cong, or what kind of Zhou Yi is?!

Cao Xiu is not so unproductive as this!!

(End of chapter)