Cao Rong's mind is still very clear, he knows Liu Fang's idea, although it sounds good, but it is a little too detached from reality.

Not to mention anything else, to gather the people of Tuntian as soldiers, and to call 100,000 people. Let's not talk about how much grain it will cost, but in terms of time, it will take at least half a year from the gathering of the people of Tuntian to the completion of the exercise, and the initial possession of combat effectiveness.

In this way, whether it can play a key role in Sima Yi's hands has to be said.

Pure far water can not dissolve near fire.

This matter can be prepared in advance in the future, but for now, it is better to step down this step according to the advice given by Chen Qun to avoid greater losses.

After chatting about this, Cao Rong mentioned another thing - about Dongwu's sneaky robbery in the southeast of Yanzhou.

Seriously, compared to Sima Yi's inability to capture Luoyang, this matter made Cao Yi feel disgusting.

Doing it head-on, I can't do it, that's what I don't have the ability to do.

But you, Sun Quan, are somewhat immoral in doing this thing while occupying the cities and lands of your allies under the banner of the alliance, right?!

And the disgusting part is. In today's situation, you really can't directly turn your face with Soochow and maintain a good relationship, which is very necessary for both sides at this stage.

Cao Rong can now understand the grievances of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang at the beginning.

After serious deliberation, in the end, he could only send an envoy to Jiangdong, on the one hand, to hold him accountable, and on the other hand, to ask for as much as possible the land of the city that had been invaded by Dongwu.

There is no other way.

In this way, the unlucky Jiang Ji was once again sent to Jiangdong by Cao Rong's will to Jianye to see Sun Quan.

And what about Sun Quan at this time. Sun Quan received a letter from Zhou Yu requesting the withdrawal of troops from Jiangling.

To be honest, Sun Quan actually didn't agree with Zhou Yu doing this.

Now Sun Quan no longer has much ambition to dominate the world, and his biggest goal now is to maintain the current foundation of Eastern Wu and realize the smooth transition of the great cause of Wu.

And to achieve the stability of the great cause of Wu, then Jingzhou is the most important link. The Yangtze River natural insurance, you can't not have half of it in your own hands.

And it is the most deadly, located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Even if you can't take the whole of Jingzhou, at least, the Jiangling piece will still try your best to take it.

Therefore, from the perspective of his heart, Sun Quan did not want Zhou Yu to withdraw from the army in the current situation.

After all, Eastern Wu attacked Jingzhou several times, except for Lü Meng's sneak attack, this one was the most likely to succeed.

Most of Shu Han's energy was concentrated in the Heluo area on the north side, and Jingzhou was only guarded by soldiers and horses, and this time, the Eastern Wu side learned the lesson of Lü Meng's sneak attack on Jingzhou, mobilized 150,000 soldiers and horses to attack at one time, and temporarily cut off the connection between Xiangyang and Jiangling. If he can't capture Jiangling again, then Sun Quan really doesn't know if he will have a chance to take this place in the future.

But this battle, when it was actually fought, Sun Quan found out that Jiangling was really not so easy to fight.

With Zhou Yu's ability, he fought wits and courage with his cheap brother-in-law, but he still failed to achieve the purpose of dividing and mobilizing Jiangling's troops, and what was even worse was that Zhou Yu besieged the city in front and attacked it, and the gang in the rear stabbed Lou Zi one by two.

In the matter of Zhu Huan, although Sun Quan gave the decision of "not to pursue", Zhu Huan and Quan Cong, one did not complete the suspicious military plan to contain the Shu army in Xiangyang, and the other failed to block the strong attack of Shu County at Hulukou, these two are reckless men and fools, and no one should dislike anyone.

As for Lu Yi and Lu Dai, Sun Quan didn't know what to say.

Let a womanizer play around, resulting in unfavorable logistics grain and grass transportation, and the supply of grain and grass for nearly 100,000 troops has to be transported from Jiangdong by water to supply. The logistical pressure is simply too great.

These two places, as long as there is no problem in one place, Zhou Yu's life under Jiangling City can be a little better now, and if he attacks it, he may not have a chance to capture Jiangling.

Well, at least that's what Sun Quan thinks.

But. The reality is so, and Sun Quan has to face it.

If at this time, Sun Quan was only hesitating back and forth between continuing to attack and retreating. The arrival of Cao Wei's accountability document strengthened Sun Quan's idea of retiring from the army.

To tell the truth, what happened in Huainan was really not directly instructed by Sun Quan, and he really didn't know about his Huainan Corps taking advantage of the fire in the southeast of Yanzhou.

However, even if Sun Quan knew, he didn't feel that his soldiers had done anything wrong.

Taking advantage of this tradition is not enough, it is originally the traditional characteristic of Dongwu, and the source is his Great Wu Supreme.

What's more, this time taking advantage of the fire to rob, Soochow took the opportunity to occupy a total of five counties in Yanzhou. Adding up, it's almost enough for half of the county, which is not a small harvest.

Therefore, this is cheap, Sun Quan has eaten it in his stomach, so don't expect him to vomit it.

As for Cao Wei's accountability, Sun Quan didn't take it too seriously, he didn't need to come forward in person for this kind of thing, just hand it over to Gu Yong, and Bu Qi and these people can talk nonsense to Jiang Ji.

What Sun Quan really cared about was that Cao Wei sent Jiang Ji as an envoy at this time. Cao Wei still has this leisure now?!

Don't plan to fight Luoyang?!

If this is the case, then the general Shangda in Gangneung, as well as the nearly 120,000 waterway coalition troops in Soochow, should indeed withdraw early.

He can take advantage of the fire to rob Cao Wei, how can Cao Wei not be able to sell Soochow back?!

In case Cao Wei directly collected his troops and retreated to the Tiger Pass, withdrew from Luoyang, let Luoyang free his hands, and divided his troops south to rescue Jiangling, that is, he would let Dongwu and Shu Han fight a big battle in the Jiangling territory.

This kind of loss-making trading is not possible.

Based on the comprehensive consideration of these two aspects, Sun Quan still agreed to Zhou Yu's request to withdraw from the army.

But at the same time, Sun Quan still hopes that Zhou Yu can stay in Jingzhou for the time being, and maintain the pressure on Jiangling This attack will not succeed, so we can wait for the next opportunity.

Zhou Yu is not in good health, and it is inconvenient to run back and forth, so it is better to stay in Jingnan, on the one hand, to guard against a possible counterattack by Shu Han, and on the other hand, next time Zhou Yu leads the troops to the expedition, there is no need to be so troublesome.

Sun Quan's will was transmitted to the army on the front line, and Zhou Yu didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so he began to arrange the withdrawal of troops in accordance with Sun Quan's will.

Lu Xun was called back by Zhou Yu from Yidu County, and together with Zhuge Ke, he led the troops to retreat to Jiangxia by land.

After withdrawing to Jiangxia, Lu Xun left 30,000 soldiers to Zhuge Ke, and at the same time contacted Zhang Cheng's naval army to withdraw troops back to defend Xiakou, which belonged to Zhuge Ke's moderation and defense of Jiangxia County.

And Lu Xun himself led the remaining more than 30,000 soldiers of Huainan County to return to Huainan to deploy according to Sun Quan's arrangement.

And Zhou Yu himself, with the help of Zhu Ran's navy, led more than 20,000 Jingnan soldiers, and the last group evacuated from Jiangling City and returned to Jingnan to encircle and suppress the slippery stone bud.

Well, the most important thing is to let the county soldiers of the four counties of Jingnan return to their respective states and counties to strengthen their defense.

After returning to the army, it was not so easy for the rabble of Wuxi barbarians led by Shi Bao to go around and loot like before.

And things were indeed as Zhou Yu expected, when Zhou Yu led the troops back to defend Wuling County, Shi Bao realized that he had no chance to make trouble anymore.

But it doesn't matter, Shi Bao's goal has been achieved, since Dongwu has withdrawn, there is no need for him to continue to stay in Jingnan, find another way out from the mountains in the west of Wuling County, come to the place where Wuling County and Yidu County are across the river, send his own guards to cross the river, and contact the Zongzhu of Yidu County, and ask him to send a ferry to pick him up and the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers back to Jiangling.

As long as he returns to Jiangling smoothly, then waiting for Shibao, in addition to his own wife and concubine, there will inevitably be glory and wealth.

Shi Bao's luck has always been good, and he had expected to stay on the Yangtze River for a few days, waiting for Zong to raise a boat to pick him up. But coincidentally, when Shi Bao was camping and waiting by the river, he happened to meet the Gangneung Navy Army who had returned to Gangneung from Padang County.

After some explanation, Shi Bao and his party took the downwind boat of Yangqi and withdrew all the way to Jiangling.

As for Zhou Yu, he was not in a hurry to deal with a stone bud. If you can't block it, you can't block it, and there are more important things to do.

After returning to Wuling County, Zhou Yu began to arrange the defense of each county.

Left Lü Dai in Wuling County and replaced Lü Ju as the Taishou of Wuling County, and Lü Ju was transferred to Guiyang Taishou. There is no one in Wuling County who is good at suppressing foreign races to guard this place, and Zhou Yu is not at ease.

On the Lingling County side, Zhou Yu exceptionally promoted Lu Kai, who performed well in this war, and made him the Taishou of Lingling County.

As for Changsha County, the last of the four counties in Jingnan. In this place, Zhou Yu did not appoint any guards.

Because, Zhou Yu was ready to personally lead the army and garrison Changsha.

And the location of the troops, Zhou Yu has also been chosen. It's right in Bachu.

Sometimes, fate is really amazing. Less than half a month after Zhou Yu led the troops back to Baqiu, Zhou Yu was in Baqiu again and fell ill.

(End of chapter)