As to whether to sneak attack Jingzhou, there is still some disagreement within Dongwu.

Although Zhou Yu has prepared the necessary moments to give up his reputation and strive for the greatest interests of Soochow, Zhou Yu is from a family after all, and he is a famous general all over the world.

If you don't ruin the reputation you have accumulated for most of your life, it's better not to ruin it.

Besides, although there is no nominal alliance this time, there are many discerning people in the world, and this time the combination of Han and Wu is so beautiful, if you want to say that there is no deal or agreement in private, no one can believe it.

So Ah has already betrayed the alliance twice, and then play the betrayal alliance, by the way, I have to take advantage of Zhou Yu's own reputation, Zhou Yu is still a little entangled, I hope to avoid it as much as possible.

However, Sun Quan disagreed!!

It's really not that Sun Quan is completely shameless, but the current development of the situation, although it is very beneficial to Eastern Wu, but the most beneficial is still his Liu family's big man.

After Lu Xun invaded Runan, it was originally a good situation, but because the terrain was unfamiliar, and the counties in Runan did not surrender as Lu Xun expected, Lu Xun did not capture Shangcai before Cao Xiu, so that Cao Xiu led more than 10,000 soldiers to return in time to help.

Although Lu Xun had the advantage of troops, in the face of Shangcai's fortified city, he had to fight a siege battle, which was also a very big test for the Eastern Wu army.

Even though the land combat capability of the Soochow Army has been greatly improved, the fierceness of the siege battle is far beyond that of ordinary field battles, and it is also a big test for the Soochow Army.

Again, Lu Xun also didn't know how to report to Sun Quan.

After breaking the main force of the Wei army on the line from Ruyin to Yingyang, Lu Xun did not take advantage of the situation to capture Yingyang, because in Lu Xun's view, Yingyang is not a strategic place, and it is okay to attack or not.

As long as Shangcai is captured, Yingyang, which has no back road, will definitely be self-defeating.

Therefore, Lu Xun left Zhou Yu's eldest son, Zhou Xun, to lead 3,000 troops to watch the Wei army in Yingyang, and he himself led the main force to attack Shangcai in the north.

This arrangement, Lu Xun is somewhat based on Zhou Yu's face, and the meaning of promoting Zhou Xun.

After all, judging by the intelligence, there are not many defenders in Yingyang, and although Gao Tanglong, who is guarding the city, is too guarded, he is not good at military affairs. As long as Zhou Xun watches Yingyang, when he is fully occupied by Runan in the future, he will also have a lot of credit.

However, Lu Xun couldn't figure out how Zhou Xun looked at Yingyang, how could he let Gao Tanglong gather the remnants of the retreating Wei army under his nose, and send three thousand, five thousand to Cai.

Really, at Zhou Xun's level, Lu Xun was a little skeptical, how did the general educate the next generation!!

Lu Xun's side is attacking Yingyang, which is guarded by Cao Xiu, although it is also very difficult, but relying on the advantage of troops, Cao Xiu has been forced to jump off the wall.

But when Cao Xiu survived the first five days of hard defense of the city, every three or five days, there were one or two thousand, or even three or four thousand reinforcements from Yingyang to help Shangcai. Who can stand this?!

It's not that the combat effectiveness of these defeated soldiers is strong, the key is that when they were passively beaten and were defending the city, reinforcements suddenly arrived every three or five days, which greatly improved the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

It gives people a sense that Lao Tzu still has reinforcements, and he doesn't have to die.

In this way, Shang Cai's defense is becoming more and more tenacious, and the morale of the defenders is getting higher and higher, and the Eastern Wu Army, after attacking for more than ten days, still can't see the hope of breaking Shang Cai, and the military spirit has been affected somewhat.

After all, the Eastern Wu Army is a world soldier system, and when fighting a tailwind battle, the generals of all departments want to take credit, reap benefits, and increase the number of world soldiers for themselves, but once they fight against the wind, there are few people who are willing to really fight for their lives.

This is not Lu Xun's ability to recover, unless it is Sun Quan who personally went to the front line to command the battle, but Sun Quan's command ability, although Lu Xun didn't dare to say it, he hoped in his heart that he would not come.

Therefore, Lu Xun could only send a battle report to Sun Quan, seeking the possibility of a truce.

Attacking Runan, in fact, for the Eastern Wu Army, the strategic goal has been achieved.

Conquered most of Runan, although it was not able to achieve the goal of obtaining access to the Central Plains, it also basically eliminated the flank threat of Huainan and completely included Pengchengguo in the encirclement. If you want to attack Pengchengguo in the future, you don't have to worry about the threat of the Wei army in Runan.

As long as Pengchengguo is taken, Qingxu and Huainan can be connected as one, and in the future, whether it is self-defense or fighting in the north, Eastern Wu will be able to grasp enough initiative.

Therefore, it is not an unacceptable thing to suspend troops, defend on the spot, and consolidate the occupied areas now.

Lu Xun's style of using troops is like this, instead of taking risks to fight for uncertain strategic places, it is better to digest what you eat in your stomach first, and then consider whether you can have greater gains when you are done.

This is a bit conservative, but it doesn't make sense.

But after Sun Quan received this report, his heart suddenly became a little unbalanced.

Don't look at Sun Quan staying in Chaisang, it seems to be the rear, but in fact, the Nanyang War, and even the Tongguan War, Sun Quan knew earlier and more detailed than Lu Xun.

Tongguan side not to talk about him for the time being, the Han army and the Wei army fought a defeat and injury, although now it seems that the Han army is besieging Tongguan, but in fact, if you want to take Tongguan, there is no siege for half a year and a year, there will be no results.

Sun Quan still has this strategic vision.

From this point of view alone, Lu Xun's victory in occupying most of Runan and completely besieging Pengchengguo is not unacceptable in Sun Quan's view.

But the problem is that on the Nanyang side, Wancheng, which Guan Yu led his troops to conquer, is now attacking in the direction of Yingchuan County, and this result makes Sun Quan very uncomfortable.

Once the Jingzhou army conquered Yingchuan and marched into Henan, echoing the Han army of Tongguan in the west, the Wei army in the Sili area would fall into a complete passivity. Even if you want to fight the defense of Luoyang, I'm afraid you don't have so many troops.

In addition, judging from the summary of intelligence from all over the country, the Han army's northern expedition this time dispatched a total of more than 200,000 troops. With such a large mobilization ability, Sun Quan didn't believe that they would be satisfied with the next Wancheng.

Thinking along this line of thought, in case the Han army really regained Luoyang, with two capitals in hand. In this world, I am afraid that there will be drastic changes.

Since ancient times, those who have won Yongzhou have won the world, but during the two Han Dynasty, Yongzhou was decadent, and the late Han Dynasty experienced several major chaos, so the Han Dynasty recaptured Yongzhou, and Sun Quan could still accept it.

But if his side is blocked in Runan, and the Han army captures Sili, it sits on the most elite Sili area in the world. In the future, it will be a situation where Han is strong and Wu Wei is weak.

In this case, who will continue to maintain an alliance with the Han Dynasty, Sun Quan finally became the Emperor of Wu, but he didn't want to be the King of Wu again!!

Therefore, Sun Quan decided to dispatch his own rear hand, ordered Zhu Ran to be the commander, stationed in Lukou, stationed troops to prepare for war, and prepared to attack Jingzhou at any time.

At the same time, Sun Quan ordered a messenger to Zhou Yu, telling him to prepare to go north along the Han River and threaten Xiangyang.

This time, the purpose is not necessarily to capture Jingzhou, as long as it can force the Jingzhou army to come back and prevent them from continuing to march to Sili.

Of course, if you can. Capturing Jiangling and taking the Yangtze River defense line is of course the best result.

Sun Quan thought that his decision was still relatively rational, for example, he at least did not ask Zhou Yu to take 20,000 men to storm Xiangyang and completely capture Jingzhou. But when the letter was delivered to Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu still had a headache.

It's not that there is anything wrong with Sun Quan's strategy, it's a headache, and his reputation for most of his life is most likely not to be saved.

But the problem is that Sun Quan explained very clearly in his letter, Zhou Yu is not a person who cannot see the general trend of the world, of course he also knows what kind of chain reaction will be triggered once the Han army occupies Luoyang.

Lu Xun couldn't capture Runan, but the Han army occupied Luoyang, so the next Yuzhou and Yanzhou would definitely be captured by the Han army one by one.

And if the situation is a little worse, if Cao Wei's side really has the freedom to choose to preserve its strength, withdraw from the Central Plains, and defend Hebei according to the Yellow River, the problem will be even more serious.

Whether it is Dahan or Dawu, they will not give up the fat of the Central Plains, and at that time, even Zhou Yu will advocate turning his face with Dahan and fighting for as much territory and interests as possible, and it is inevitable that the two sides will fight.

Although Cao Wei seems to have lost a piece of the most elite area, he has gained valuable respite to get rid of the risk of being attacked by Han and Wu from both sides, and can completely rely on the natural danger of the Yellow River, recuperate and develop people's livelihood, while sitting and watching the Han and Wu fight.

When the Han and Wu families were exhausted, it was not impossible for Cao Wei to send troops in one fell swoop to regain the Central Plains, and even the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yong, and Liang.

Therefore, when Lu Xun couldn't make a bigger breakthrough in Runan, it was normal to not let the Han monopolize the division.

Under these circumstances, it was impossible for Zhou Yu to oppose Sun Quan's strategy of attacking Jingzhou. Therefore, Zhou Yu can be sure that after this battle, his reputation will definitely not be saved.

At least the little sister who married a woman will definitely write a letter to scold herself.

But. There's no way, it's all for Soochow, for Bofu.

(End of chapter)