At the end of the seventh year of Jian'an, the strength of the Jiangxia Navy began to skyrocket.

Liu Biao's army was divided into three parts, one part was the Xiangyang army, which was distributed in Nanyang, Zhangling, Nanjun and other places.

The second part is the Yangtze River Naval Division, which has fewer soldiers and horses, and cruises in the Jiangling and Zigui areas, mainly to prevent Liu Zhang from attacking from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The third part is the Jiangxia Water Division, Huang Zu and the Sun family father and son are all old friends, and they have been fighting with them for more than ten years, not only repeatedly resisting Sun Ce and Sun Quan's attacks, but also occasionally counterattacking into Yuzhang County.

The Nanren were already good at water warfare and not good at foot warfare, Liu Biao increased the army for Huang Zu, and the number of supporters had reached 60,000, so he trained the sailors as soon as possible and prepared for the crusade against Sun Quan.

Although Jia Xu's customized strategy for him is to dominate the south, there is also a sequence.

Jiangdong is in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is obviously stronger to attack down the river than to attack upstream, so Liu Biao decided to attack Sun Quan with the main force, and let Cai Mao lead the Yangtze River Naval Division to guard against Liu Zhang, adopting the strategy of first east and then west.

Not only Huang Zu in Jiangxia, but also Liu Pan in Changsha also increased his troops to 20,000.

Under the influence of the strategy of defending the west and attacking the east, Jiangxia, Changsha and even Guiyang in the east have nearly 100,000 soldiers. There are only 20,000 people in Zigui, Wushan and other places, after all, these places are very dangerous, and 20,000 people are enough to block Liu Zhang's tens of thousands of troops.

At this time, the south seemed to be caught in an arms race, and under the strategic influence of all three parties wanting to seize the south in two, everyone was quickly reorganizing their troops and horses, training soldiers, and preparing for the next year's war.

On the contrary, the north was quiet and peaceful, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao confronted each other across the north and south of the Yellow River, and the two sides seemed to have begun a bumper harvest of grains, and both entered the stage of recuperation.

Although Yuan Shao's family has a big business, it is impossible to lose so much no matter how big his family is, he lost twice, the loss of soldiers and horses reached 100,000, and the black nest was on fire, and the grain and grass accumulated for many years were destroyed.

And the same is true of Cao Cao, although he won, but Henan is already dilapidated, a large number of people migrated out, resulting in a sparse population under his rule, and Guanzhong often rebelled, and now he barely occupies Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places.

Under these circumstances, Cao Cao had to stay away from the quagmire of war in the south and concentrate on production and the development of agriculture. So after returning to Xudu in April of the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao and Xun Yu discussed moving the capital.

As one of the top strategists in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xun Yu also believed that the capital should indeed be moved, and the strategic direction should be to eliminate Yuan Shao in the north to avoid being entangled with Liu Biao too deeply.

The only question is where to move.

Luoyang?

Dong Zhuo burned the fire, it was broken, and now it was leaking on all sides.

Hanoi?

There are indeed a lot of fields in Hanoi, and there is a Black Mountain Army, Zhang Yan once wrote to the imperial court and was willing to take refuge, if Zhang Yan joined, Cao Cao's strength would rise sharply.

But Hanoi County is too close to Jizhou, a bit like the Warring States Period, the distance between Yangzhai, the capital of South Korea, and Daliang, the capital of Wei, can be said to be close at hand.

Once the two sides go to war, just as Nanyang can attack Xu Du at any time, Yuan's army will fight Cao's army near the new capital, destroying the surrounding fields to the detriment of Tuntian.

Then the only places left to choose are Kaifeng, Suiyang, and Changyi.

The geographical advantages of these three places are relatively obvious, one is that it is far away from Nanyang, and the average distance from the three places to Xiangyang is more than 400 kilometers, and Liu Biao wants to attack Cao Cao in the north, so he must travel thousands of miles, which is not conducive to attacking.

Second, the distance from Yecheng is relatively moderate, the average from the three places to Yecheng is about more than 200 kilometers, if Cao Cao wants to fight with Yuan Shao, the supply line will not be too long, and it is easier to use the Yellow River to block the enemy.

Third, there are a large number of plains around the three places, and there are countless fields that can be cultivated, and they are located in the hinterland of Henan, with many rivers and lakes, and even Changyi is close to Dayozawa, so they will definitely not be afraid of drought and waterless watering of the fields.

Therefore, the conditions in these three places are more suitable.

But first of all, Liang Guo Suiyang was excluded.

Because Cao Cao had the Yingchuan faction to support Kaifeng, and the Yanzhou faction to support Changyi.

At the beginning, Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang, it was because of the support of the Yingchuan family, so that the capital was moved to Xuchang in exchange for interests, and now although the capital is relocated because of strategic needs, the interests of the Yingchuan faction must also be taken care of.

Kaifeng is not in Yingchuan, in Henan, but very close to Yingchuan, and the Yingchuan faction family does not want to leave the mainland so far, so they naturally want to put the new capital closer to it.

And the Yanzhou faction like Cheng Yu, Mao Jue, Li Dian, Yu Ban and others definitely want to take care of the interests of their hometown, which is human nature and inevitable.

In the end, Cao Cao weighed the pros and cons, and after discussing with Xun Yu, he decided to move the new capital to Chenliu instead of Kaifeng or Changyi.

The geographical environment of Chenliu is not as good as Kaifeng and Changyi, and the surrounding land will be relatively small, it is between two rivers, like a corner at the upper end of a triangle, and the land is basically under the triangle.

But there is an advantage that it is located in Yanzhou and close to Yingchuan, which can not only balance the interests of the Yingchuan faction, but also ensure the interests of the Yanzhou faction, which can be regarded as a second-best choice.

So in May of the seventh year of Jian'an, after harvesting the new wheat in Yingchuan, the Xudu Imperial Court moved the capital to the north again and moved to Chenliu County, which was more than 100 kilometers away.

In this way, the new imperial court Chen Capital reached more than 200 kilometers away from the gateway of Nanyang and more than 400 kilometers away from Xiangyang, and only needed to set up more beacon towers and sentry posts in Yingchuan and Runan. It would be difficult for the southerners to be like Shen Chen, who killed Xu Capital City within two days with a pair of iron feet.

Cao Cao sent people to move a large number of people from Peiguo, Runan, and Yingchuan to the north, concentrated in Liangguo, Chenguo, Peiguo, northern Runan, and northern Yingchuan, plus Henan County, gathering more than 2 million people around Chenliu.

At the same time, only a small number of soldiers and horses were deployed around Runan and Yingchuan, and the main force was stationed along the Yellow River in Dongjun in the north. In this way, because the direction of Nanyang is far away from Chenliu, and the Yellow River is very close, even if the south attacks him again, it only takes one day to quickly return to the defense.

The seven years of Jian'an were spent in this kind of preparation for war in the south and recuperation in the north.

The eighth year of Jian'an has officially arrived.

In February, while Sun Quan was still preparing for war, Huang Zu sent 15,000 people including Deng Shuo, Zhang Hu, and Chen Sheng to raid Chaisang.

Before they were in the future, Zhou Yu knew the news and immediately defended.

Hundreds of boats traveled on the river, and the Jiangdong Naval Division also met at the same time, and in Peng Lize, the two sides fought fiercely together, and the battle lasted for a day, and then they each withdrew their troops.

At that time, Zhou Yu had 20,000 soldiers, and Jiangdong's troops at this time were not sufficient, about 50,000 or 60,000 horses, and Sun Quan urgently needed time to replenish his troops and train soldiers.

After all, unlike Liu Biao, who has hundreds of thousands of tuntian households in the Nanyang Basin to help him grow grain, and a large number of northern displaced people living in Nanyang, he can recruit new soldiers anytime and anywhere, and every soldier in Jiangdong is very precious.

By May, Huang Zu had launched several tentative attacks on Jiangdong.

His family background is too thick, in fact, he only had 10,000 or 20,000 before, and Liu Biao directly increased his troops to 60,000. The recruits have been training for more than a year and need to fight, so they start to bring the old and the new.

You must know that as the first general in Jingzhou, the strength of Huang Zu's naval army is not weaker than that of Jiangdong. In the past, he was almost defeated by Sun Ce several times, all because his troops were far less than Sun Ce.

Liu Biao gave him very little support because he had to guard against Cao Cao in the north and Liu Zhang in the west, so Huang Zu almost resisted the six counties of Jiangdong with the strength of one county.

Now that his strength has increased greatly, he naturally decided to start looking for the initiative.

In the course of more than three months, several battles took place between the two sides in the area of Peng Lize in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the losses on both sides were almost the same.

By July, all-out war had finally broken out.

Sun Quan personally sat in Pengli County, with Zhou Yu as the governor and Lu Su as the military captain, and ordered Zhou Tai, Cheng Pu, Ling Cao, Ling Tong, Lu Meng, Han Dang, Dong Xi, Xu Sheng, Hu Zong and others as generals, led 40,000 troops, and killed Chaisang.

At the same time, he ordered Huang Gai, Sun Ben, and Zhu Zhi to lead 10,000 troops south to Yichun, and confronted Liu Pan and Huang Zhong's armies who went north from Youxian County to Liling in the area of Pingxiang City in later generations.

Huang Zu retreated as an advance, and began to shrink the army back to Qichun in an all-round way, and fought in Qichun, Xiapheasant, Yixian, Exian and other places.

The war continued, Huang Zu's plan to lure the enemy into an ambush was broken by Zhou Yu Lusu, but was ambushed in the process of pursuit, and fell into a disadvantage in the early stage, so he retreated back to Shaxian, and with Shaxian's superior geographical location, he used the cliff to launch catapults and arrow rain on the north bank of the Yangtze River to repel the Jiangdong army.

In Quren County, Ba County, Liu Zhang sent the general Wu Yi to also garrison troops here.

In fact, at this time, Liu Zhang and Sun Quan were not as strong as imagined, Sun Quan had just pacified Jiangdong, Shanyue also occasionally rebelled, Liu Zhang had just quelled Zhao Wei's rebellion, and the current total strength was about the same as Sun Quan, only fifty or sixty thousand, and it would not be until ten years later that there were more than 100,000 people.

Therefore, at this time, Liu Zhang's Zhonglang general Wu Yi, Bajun Taishou Yan Yan, and the generals Liu Bi, Ling Bao, Deng Xian and others led the army of 30,000 soldiers out of Yufu and marched towards Zigui.

Cai Mao strictly implemented the defensive tasks assigned by Liu Biao and stationed troops in Yiling.

There is no water army in Yizhou.

Because the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are too narrow and turbulent, they are not suitable for the navy, so Yizhou is the army's advance.

And Cai Mao occupied Yiling, holding on to the left and right mountainous areas, so that the Shu soldiers could not advance an inch.

The two sides were deadlocked for more than a month, no matter how Wu Yi sent people to provoke, Cai Mao just couldn't hold out, which was quite a bit like Lu Xun in the Battle of Yiling.

However, this strategy was proposed by Jia Xu.

What makes Jia Xu awesome is that the strategy he proposed is actually very pertinent, and there are almost no loopholes.

Liu Biao is a smart man, and if you really give him a stupid suggestion, he won't be surprised, so if you want to gain his trust, you must put forward a perfect strategy.

Of course.

It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen.

If there is an accident in the implementation of the strategy, it is naturally none of his business.

In October, Huang Zu attacked again, recovered the counties, personally led the troops into Chaisang, and fought a bloody battle with Jiangdong. Because Huang Zu's new army had greatly increased in strength after nearly two years of training and actual combat, Sun Quan was defeated and retreated to Peng Li.

At the same time, Jiaozhou Mu Zhang Jin was killed by his subordinates, and Liu Biao, who was strong and strong at this time, would certainly not give up this opportunity, and immediately sent Lai Gong as the assassin of Jiaozhou in the name of the king of Chu, and Wu Ju as the Taishou of Cangwu.

In this way, from the perspective of the territory, Liu Ben occupies a very large territory, extending to Guangzhou, Guangxi and part of Vietnam in the south. In the north, the whole territory of Hunan and Hubei and part of Guizhou and Nanyang Basin are under the rule of 10 million, with 1780,000 soldiers and horses.

At the beginning of the ninth year of Jian'an, Huang Zu and Jiangdong Sailors launched a decisive battle in Peng Lize, which was called the Peng Lishui Battle in history.

Huang Zu took advantage of the large number of soldiers and horses and the accumulation of grain and grass, and has been fighting a war of attrition with Jiangdong since last year, and the two sides have continued to attack back and forth.

Because Liu Biao holds the Nanyang Basin in his hands, there are more than 2 million Dingkou in the basin, and he continuously provides grain and grass to Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is connected to the Yangtze River through the Han River, so Liu Biao sent more than 5 million grains and grass to Jiangxia last year, and countless weapons and baggage of various weapons increased the chances of victory for Huang Zu to attack Jiangdong.

After half a year of war, Jiangdong became increasingly scarce, and was defeated in the Battle of Penglishui, losing troops and losing generals, so he could only choose to retreat to the area of Anqing in Zongyang and hold its entrance to Jiangdong.

However, although Jiangdong's losses were not small, Huang Zu did not take much advantage, the battle losses of the two sides were almost one to one, and even Huang Zu killed more people than Jiangdong, but Jiangdong had fewer soldiers, and Peng Lishui suffered seven or eight thousand casualties in the water battle, and the food and grass were also very scarce, so he had to retreat.

Therefore, Huang Zu did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but chose to garrison Chaisang and Peng Ze, and sent generals Su Fei and Deng Long to the south along the Gan River, and cooperated with Liu Pan in Youxian County to defeat Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Zhu Zhi and others.

Huang Gai and others received the order to retreat as early as when Zhou Yu retreated, and before Su Fei and Deng Long and others came, they went south from Yushui to Yuhan County, and then returned to Qiantang along the route of Yingtan City, Shangrao City, Quzhou City, Jiande City, Tonglu County, and Hangzhou City.

Since then, almost all the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong have withdrawn from Yuzhang County, and after this battle, the entire county of Yuzhang has been taken over by Huang Zu.

In February of the ninth year of Jian'an, Liu Biao and Jian'an sent people to contact the Shanyue tribes in the area of Le'an and Linru, intending to order Liu Pan and his allied forces to go north along the Ganjiang River, and then go south from Yushui in Wuyang County, and divide the troops to attack Jiangdong by two routes.

By March, Huang Zu continued to march and stalemate with the Jiangdong Army in Anqing and other places.

The reason for the stalemate here is that the Yangtze River in Anqing is a little narrower, and there is a huge Jiangxinzhou in the center of the river, making the widest point 1.5 kilometers, the narrowest point is about 1 kilometer, and there are many mountainous areas on both sides, such as Catfish Mountain, Mashi Mountain, Yanglin Mountain and other places.

Although the width of one kilometer is already very exaggerated, it is still a little reluctant for Jiangxia sailors. After Liu Biao increased his troops, thousands of large and small ships searched and stopped on the river.

The Jiangdong Navy Division also blocked the river with a large number of ships, and if it rushed directly, it could only collide with the boats, or go ashore to fight the Jiangdong army.

It's just that Huang Zu is confident on the water, and after he goes ashore, he doesn't dare to guarantee it.

As a result, the two sides entered a brief stalemate.

Liu Pan's side was much smoother, from Wuyang to the south to Yuhan, and then through Geyang, Shangrao, Dingyang, Xin'an, Xinchang, Jiande to Fuchun, and confronted Huang Gaijun.

The reason why they are so successful is because of the alliance with the local Yamagoe.

In fact, the instability of the Sun family in Jiangdong did not come from the four counties north of Yangzhou, but from the two counties of Yuzhang and Huiji in the south, which were later Jiangxi, Fujian and southern Zhejiang, all of which were mountainous and occupied by the Shanyue people.

Since Sun Ce fought Jiangdong, and even until Sun Quan established the state of Wu, Shanyue's rebellion has not stopped, and the two sides have been grudging for a long time, and they naturally want to beat the water dogs at this moment.

So under the leadership of the locals, Liu Pan continued to advance and killed to the rear of Jiangdong.

For a time, Jiangdong was in danger.

Liu Biao.

It has also reached its peak!

(End of chapter)