Jiangdong Jianye, the capital of Eastern Wu.

In late October, the land of Jiangdong began to enter winter, although there was no snow, but the light rain was drizzling, and it was almost half a month after three or five days.

This winter, for Jiangdong, there is a high probability that it will be a warm winter weather, but Sun Quan, who is now in the palace, is not warm at all.

Shu Han sent troops to the Northern Expedition again, and Bingfeng pointed directly at Luoyang, which made Sun Quan a little unable to sit still.

In recent years, with the successive Northern Expeditions of Shu Han, it has been difficult to control Shu Han by continuously acquiring the land that originally belonged to Cao Wei.

After the end of the war last year, Sun Quan adopted Zhang Zhao's strategy, putting on a high posture, ready to wait for Cao Wei or Shu Han to take the initiative to come to the door and beg for an alliance with him, in order to achieve the goal of balancing the world, but the result was not satisfactory at all.

Those two forces didn't care too much about Sun Quan's attitude at all.

As for the talks, they came to talk, but after the negotiations were not completed once, Wei and Shu had no intention of sending envoys again, and it seemed that Dongwu was put aside.

This fall, the two began to fight again, completely ignoring their own attitudes. Sun Quan felt that his sense of existence seemed to be ignored.

Anyway, Sun Quan felt very shameless.

Of course, if it was just faceless, Sun Quan would not be in such a hurry as he is now. Staying in Jiangdong to be the emperor, embracing the beauty, and watching the world change, is actually not a bad day.

But the problem is that Sun Quan is not the kind of second-generation hedonistic emperor, although his character is not very good, and the level of leading troops to fight is too low, but his own strategic vision is still a little.

It's not much, but there really is.

Sun Quan knew very well that once Shu Han really captured Luoyang, then the situation in the world would become extremely favorable to Shu Han, and at that time, Cao Wei would no longer have a way to stop the rise of Shu Han.

And once Shu Han freed up his hands in the north and turned to seek development in the southeast direction, as far as the current situation between the two countries is concerned, a war between Shu and Wu is almost a sure thing.

Of course, now that the fight starts, Sun Quan is not afraid, after all, although the naval army of Shu Han is stronger than Cao Wei, compared with the naval army of Eastern Wu, the combat effectiveness is not at the same level, at most it is just a tug of war back and forth in Jingzhou, so as not to threaten the foundation of Jiangdong.

However, in the past two years, the dock on the Jiangling side has been building warships, and the Jingzhou Navy has also been practicing endlessly, which shows that the Shuhan side has not started to prepare in advance.

Once the Shu thieves had enough warships and naval troops, they recaptured Jingnan and Jiangxia. The initiative of the war is not in the hands of Soochow.

Therefore, Sun Quan definitely does not want to see Shu Han easily capture Luoyang and even the Central Plains now.

In other words, Sun Quan now wants to backstab again.

Or, at this time, Sun Quan's behavior can no longer be regarded as a backstab, and now there is no alliance between Shu and Wu, and Sun Quan's current thinking is completely based on the interests of Eastern Wu and a reasonable and well-founded strategic action.

So. Sun Quan wanted to send troops to attack Jingzhou, follow the example of the last time, attract Shu Han to return to defend Jingzhou, so that Luoyang would not fall into the hands of Shu Han so quickly.

For this reason, Sun Quan directly recalled Zhou Yu, who was stationed in Jiangxia, and joined Zhang Zhao to discuss countermeasures.

At this time, Zhang Zhao was almost eighty years old, and he had lived for two more years, and Zhang Zhao himself felt very lucky, his energy was really not as good as before.

And Zhou Yu's winter is not very wonderful.

Zhou Yu's health has always been not good, and he is prone to fever and cold in winter, and as he gets older, Zhou Yu's physical condition is indeed worse year by year. This is not something that Zhou Yu can decide, this is the root of the disease left after Baqiu's serious illness back then.

To put it simply, the body's immunity is getting worse and worse.

Therefore, the state of the two people is actually not too good.

But there is no way, Sun Quan summoned him, and these two people can't help but come. One is getting older and older, and the other is weak and has a little cold, but he still came to Jianye to give advice to Sun Quan.

But fortunately, the brains of these two people at this time are still sober and sufficient.

As soon as they heard that Sun Quan was going to attack Jingzhou again, the two of them were stunned in their hearts, and they all fell into silence.

Actually, neither of them actually agreed with Sun Quan doing this, but over the years, the supreme power of Eastern Wu has become more and more powerful, and Sun Zhongmou, who sat in the southeast back then, has almost become two people.

When you don't agree, try not to speak, refute or something, and do less.

Even a hot-tempered old minister like Zhang Zhao began to slowly become silent, not to mention a smart person like Zhou Yu who held military power.

Sun Quan saw that the two of them didn't speak, and immediately understood what the two people meant. But this matter, Sun Quan doesn't want these two people to be silent and silent, what he needs is the support of two people.

When he became an emperor, he had more thoughts, and Sun Quan also understood that there were some things that he could definitely do if he didn't want to do it as an emperor.

Without the support of his subordinates, he would not be able to do many things.

And this time to send troops to Jingzhou, Sun Quan really has his own suitable reasons. You can't continue to sit back and watch Shu Han grow like this, right?!

At the beginning, the State of Qi sat back and watched the State of Qin annex the other five countries, and finally when it was his turn, he was defeated and surrendered almost without a battle. Sun Quan didn't want to follow in the footsteps of the country and become a king of the country.

Because it was a military affair, Sun Quan first asked Zhou Yu's opinion. repeatedly emphasized his concerns, and then sought Zhou Yu's support.

But what can Zhou Yu say. The timing is really not right now, although the Soochow naval army has the advantage, the infantry combat power is insufficient.

Again, the focus of Eastern Wu's use of troops is still in Qingxu, Huainan and other places, and the little troops hoarded in Jiangxia and Jingnan are not enough to shake the defense line set up by Shu Han in Jingzhou.

Shu Han is not stupid, you have backstabbed others so many times, can people be defenseless when they go on the expedition?!

This time, whether it is Jiangling or Xiangyang, there are enough water and land forces left to prevent us from rashly sending troops to attack Jingzhou, isn't that directly hitting the muzzle of someone's gun!!

You said that if you can beat it, forget it, just rely on the troops we deployed in Jiangxia and Jingnan, and I am really not sure that we can defeat it.

Last time, we were in a hurry, and we happened to meet the Shu Han general Guan Yu who died of illness, and people took the initiative to withdraw the army, don't you really think that it is the credit of Zhu Ran's defeat, right?!

Really, Zhou Yu really wanted to be honest with Sun Quan like this, but. Today's Sun Quan, it is not okay to say this, he can't listen to it.

Not to mention, now that Sun Quan is making every effort to cultivate Zhu Ran and build momentum for Zhu Ran, he is ready to let Zhu Ran and Lu Xun share his position after he retires.

So. Zhou Yu thought about it for a while and decided to persuade Zhou Yu in another direction.

"If the Supreme is worried about the strength of Shu Han's family, why not let Lu Boyan and Zhuge Ziyu send troops to Pengcheng, march into Yanzhou, and share the Central Plains with Shu Han?!" Zhou Yu said.

Zhou Yu's meaning was to tell Sun Quan that if he wanted to balance Shu Han, it was not only the trick of dragging Shu Han back.

We can completely rush to Yanzhou before Shu Han, swallow Yanzhou's important land, and occupy the three states in the eastern part of the Central Plains.

On the one hand, to avoid a direct face-to-face with Shu Han, the two sides can still maintain a superficial peace, on the other hand, if the Shu thieves attack Luoyang, Cao Wei will inevitably fully support Heluo, Yanzhou will inevitably be unprepared, and the risk of us attacking Yanzhou will be much smaller.

As for Cao Wei, if we really capture Yanzhou and Shu Han also captures Heluo, Cao Wei can only retreat to Hebei and become the weakest of the three forces. When the time comes, we Dongwu will take the initiative to form an alliance with Cao Wei, and I believe that Cao Wei will not refuse.

After all, if he refuses, Cao Wei may really face the danger of losing his country.

Isn't this the same way to balance Shu Han?!

I have to say that Zhou Yu's suggestion has a certain amount of truth.

But Sun Quan did not accept it.

Yes, it's a good idea to occupy Yanzhou, but the question is, even if we occupy Yanzhou, what can we do?!

Once Shu Han occupied Sili, we occupied Yanzhou, and Cao Wei retreated to Hebei. Isn't there a fight between Dongwu and Shu Han? !

Who can sit back and watch the other party control the Central Plains, there must be a winner and a loser.

Since there is going to be a fight sooner or later, why should you fight it out in that flat place in the Central Plains?!

Shuhan has a Liangzhou war horse base, occupying more essence of land than us, there is no shortage of money and food, and the cavalry can be exploded at any time, and the advantage of our Dongwu is the naval army, and the land battle is not the opponent of others at all.

Don't put the preset battlefield in Jingzhou, a place where the naval army has a lot of use, and choose to fight Shu Han in the Central Plains to draw your brains, right?!

Therefore, Sun Quan still disagreed, and still hoped to convince Zhou Yu. So far, what can Zhou Yu say?!

Just, let's fight, but try not to fight this year.

If you want to fight, wait until after the spring of next year, and then fight.

This winter, I'm afraid it will be a warm winter, look at this posture, the light rain will not stop, don't forget the second battle of the mustache, we fought with Cao Wei in the Huainan area.

He didn't lose much manpower in the battle, but the typhoid plague caused by continuous rain almost killed the soldiers.

But Sun Quan still disagreed.

By the beginning of spring next year, I'm afraid that Shu Han would have already captured Luoyang, and even harvested Yanzhou.

If you want to fight, start preparing now, start fighting before the year, and finish before spring ploughing, which is the most in line with the interests of Soochow.

Sun Quan asked again and again, and Zhou Yu looked at Zhang Zhao who closed his eyes and didn't speak, pretending to be asleep, and could only sigh.

What can you say?!

That's it!!

(End of chapter)