Sun Quan held a meeting in the rear, completely exposing his purpose to the Jiangdong Shi clan, of course, not wanting to rely on his own strength.

He wanted to unite the entire Jiangdong family and send troops together to jointly conquer Jingzhou.

Liu Bei suppressed the family in Jingyi, which seriously damaged the interests of the family, so that the Jiangdong family did not dare to take refuge in Liu Bei, and was also afraid that Liu Bei would annex Jiangdong.

Sun Quan took advantage of this to induce the Jiangdong Shi clan to contribute money, people, and grain and grass to form an interest group to resist Liu Bei's army.

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So after deciding to send troops, Jiangdong quickly began to actively prepare, the soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

As a result, the major families in Jiangdong bled and sent their private armed forces, led by the generals, to transport grain, grass and supplies to the mouth of the beard.

Historically, Sun Quan and Guan Yu crossed the river and ruled, mainly strategically in Lukou, that is, the area of Chibi.

But now he stretched out his claws several times to try to plot Jingzhou, but Shen Chen cut off his claws, and even lost the strategic place of Lujiang County in Jiangbei, so his defense points are only two now.

One is in the mouth of the water, mainly to guard against the Cao army in Huainan.

The other is in Chaisang, guarding against the Jiangxia Navy and the Xiling Zhao Yunjun in Jiangbei.

After Lu Su's death, he sternly refused to take over as the governor of the capital, so Sun Quan took Lü Meng as the governor and stationed in Chaisang, across the river from Zhao Yunjun, who was stationed in Xunyang.

After Lü Meng took office, he immediately sent letters to Huang Jie and Zhao Yun with a humble attitude to express his willingness to make friends, and from time to time he often went to Xunyang and Xiakou to visit Zhao Yun and Huang Jie on the grounds that Liu Bei and Sun Quan were their relatives and that the two families had a good relationship.

His ostensible purpose was to visit his home and make friends forever, but his actual purpose was not to personally investigate the deployment of Huang Jie and Zhao Yunjun.

So now the true arrangement of the Jiangxia Navy and the Xiling garrison has long been figured out by him.

In addition to Susukou and Chaisang, Sun Quan also sent Bu Qi to assassinate the history of Jiaozhou, and sent Sun Jiao to guard Guiyang, nominally to garrison Guiyang, Jiaozhou, to ensure his rule in Jiaozhou, but in fact, he was watching Jingnan in order to take Jingzhou.

After Sun Quan arrived at the mouth of the river, he sat in the rear and constantly dispatched troops and generals, with Pan Zhang, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Ding Feng, Zhu Ran and others as generals, and crossed the southeast hills by land to increase the troops of Chaisang.

At the same time, he ordered Xu Shengyu to lead 8,000 troops from Yuzhang south to reinforce Guiyang, so that Guiyang's total strength reached 20,000, so that he could annex Jingnan by taking advantage of the situation.

All his plans did not dare to act on the Yangtze River.

Because the Xiling County occupied by Liu Bei was just north of the Yangtze River, all their actions on the Yangtze River would be detected by Liu Beijun on the north bank, so he could only transport troops and grain from the hills and mountains in the southeast, such as Yixian, which flooded the Jiangdong Army in the early morning.

It's all going on in secret.

However, due to the inability to use the Yangtze River to transport grain, his grain, grass, soldiers and horses were dispatched relatively slowly, and it took several months to reluctantly hoard some grain and grass, and there was still a large amount of ordnance and materials to be deployed.

Of course, the ancient war was not achieved overnight, and in order to win the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty relied on the forty years of Wenjing's rule and his accumulation of the first twenty years.

In the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao relied on Wang Fen, Han Fu and later Yuan Shao's efforts for more than ten years in order to win Cao Cao.

In addition to the accumulation of their own heritage, they spent a year or even several years in stockpiling up troops and horses, transporting grain and grass, raising materials, and so on.

Now it is also a battle of national fortunes for Koto.

If he wins, he can annex Jingzhou, like Cao Cao's King of Wei and Liu Bei's King of Hanzhong, and establish his own kingdom.

I lost the fight and sent it.

Therefore, Sun Quan had to be extremely careful, and he had to prepare for a long time just in the early stage.

And while he was in the preparation stage, he was not idle, and he has been doing intelligence work.

Now Sun Quan has installed a large number of internal responses in Jingyi, and there are countless spies at the bottom who pretend to be ordinary people, and there are also high-level Han princesses Sun Shangxiang who is forced to obey Liu Bei in everything and pretend to be virtuous and virtuous.

The queen of the princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the princess, but Liu Bei is called the king according to the specifications of the Western Han Dynasty, the ancients paid attention to the right family, Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi could not be the queen because of identity problems, so Liu Bei married the daughter of the Wu family of Yizhou as the queen, and the princess was Sun Shangxiang, whose status was second only to the queen.

This also means that only in terms of identity and status, Sun Shangxiang is the number three person in the entire Liu Bei group, only lower than Liu Bei and Queen Wu, and the information that can be stolen can be imagined how important it is.

Like the real situation of Liu Bei's several troop transfers, it is the news delivered by her, although it is fake news that Liu Bei "accidentally" gave her......

However, due to Liu Bei's several transfers of troops in Jingzhou, they were all false and real, and they were covert and covert, and it seemed that there were at least 10,000 or 20,000 guards in Nanjun and Jingnan from the outside, but in fact they were all transferred, so this false plan was regarded as an illusion by Sun Quan, and what Sun Shangxiang detected was the truth.

It was not until October of the 23rd year of Jian'an, after the Huangmen soldiers and the Xiliang cavalry returned, that Shen Chen slowly withdrew his troops to Ye County, camped outside Ye County, and used each other as horns with the city, forming a confrontation with Cao Hong's army on the opposite side.

Cao Hong didn't dare to chase after him, so he could only choose to continue to camp in Taiting. And because Shen Chen withdrew his troops, he was relieved, and hurriedly prepared grain and grass to send to the front line again.

In November of the 23rd year of Jian'an, Cao Cao took the initiative to launch an attack on Guanzhong and personally led the army to Yixian.

Guan Yu retreated and returned to the slope.

In December, Cao Cao ordered Xiahoudun and Yu Ban to continue to be stationed in Wuzhangyuan, leaving Dong Zhao as a military advisor, and he himself led the main force with Zhang He as the vanguard to take Xiliang.

Liu Bei migrated the people of Xiliang to Hanzhong, but in fact, only the Han people were moved, and a large number of Qiang people still inhabited Liangzhou.

This was too fatal for Cao Cao.

Because of Ma Chao's relationship, the Qiang people in Liangzhou basically supported Liu Bei, and it was easy for Liu Bei to get war horses from them.

Once Liu Bei is allowed to train a large number of cavalry who come and go freely, then the Guanzhong Basin will be greatly threatened.

Although the main force of Cao Cao's army is still mainly infantry, the number of cavalry is also very large.

Like his son Huang Xu'er Cao Zhang, who is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, is now a cavalry general, with tens of thousands of elite cavalry under his command, and has also conquered the rebels Wuhuan and Xianbei.

The Guanzhong Plain has an unobstructed view, and the mobility of the cavalry is particularly important. Now Cao Cao regards Zuo Fengyi and Hedong County as the rear grain and grass base.

If Liu Bei is equipped with cavalry, attack Zuo Feng Yi from Xiaoguan Road and harass the rear.

Then Cao Cao would lose an important source of grain and grass and be forced to transport grain from Guandong, which was obviously a fatal thing, and he could lose Guanzhong if he was not careful.

Therefore, Cao Cao must snatch Xiliang back and completely cut off Liu Bei's source of horses.

At the beginning of the 24th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, who was already 65 years old, marched to Jieting, and from Jieting to Longxian, Luoyang, Xianqin, Jixian, Wangyuan and other places along Tianshui, he was garrisoned by Liu Bei's troops such as Wu Lan, Yang Huai, Gao Pei, Deng Xian, Leng Bao, Zhang Ren, Liu Bi, Fu Ban, and Xiang Cun.

Cao Cao sent Zhang He as the vanguard, broke through the generals, killed several Liu Bei's generals, shocked Xiliang, and the soldiers came to Tianshui City.

Liu Bei was still in Hanzhong at the time, and when he heard the news, he immediately went in person.

Under the siege of Cao's army, the defenders of Tianshui had no choice but to retreat to Lucheng and defend themselves in Lucheng and the surrounding mountains and forests.

Liu Bei led Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Wei Yan three generals, and the rest of Pang De, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Huang Quan, Lei Tong, Yang Ren, Kou Feng, Meng Da, Dong Ju, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Gao Xiang, Yang Bai, Yang Ang and other generals dozens of people, with an army of 50,000 to Lucheng to confront Cao's army.

At this time, the lineups of both sides can be described as very luxurious, and there are many famous players.

Among the five tiger generals on Liu Bei's side, in addition to Zhao Yun in Xiling and Huang Zhong in Yandao, Guan Yu and Zhang Feima Chaoju participated in the war caused by Cao Cao for Xiliang.

In terms of strategists, in addition to Xiangguo Zhuge Liang sitting in Jiangzhou and delivering grain and grass to the front line, the middle prime minister Pang Tong, the right prime minister Fa Zheng, the left prime minister Xu Shu, the imperial historian Jia Xu, the Shangshu Yang Yi Deng Zhi, the servant Ma Liang, and the Xingye general Li Yan are all already in the army.

For example, Zuo Prime Minister Xu Shu is currently following Guan Yu to hold a ban with Xiahou in Xieyu Pass, Pang Tong and Li Yan are in charge of grain and grass in Hanzhong, and Liu Bei has gathered Fa Zheng, Jia Xu and others as front-line military staff officers.

In terms of the number of soldiers and horses, plus the soldiers and horses and Guan Yu's army who were defeated from the front, the total strength of Liu Bei's army was about 120,000.

Cao Cao's side is not far behind.

The eight tigers of the clan rode on, the one-eyed general Xiahou Xuan, the right Xiahou Yuan of the Tiger Buguan, the famous general Cao Zhen of the anti-Shu Dynasty, Cao Xiu of the Qianli Horse, and Xiahou Shang were here as the minions of the heart.

Among the five tiger generals, Yu Ban, Zhang He, and Xu Huang all participated in this battle.

The rest also have Huang Xu'er Cao Zhang, Tiger idiot Xu Chu, Cao Wei late Metropolitan Governor Guo Huai, Yizhou Thorn Shi Zhao Hao, Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Hu Chuquan and so on.

On the Wenchen side, there are Zhong Xuan, Dong Zhao, Sima Yi, Jiang Ji, Liu Ye, Du Xi, Yang Fu and others.

There are about 100,000 soldiers and horses in the main force of Cao's army, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xiliang led by Yang Fu of Yanxing in Xiliang, some Karasuma Xianbei Hu cavalry brought from the north, and the generals of Guanzhong who defected to Cao Cao, totaling 170,000 troops.

In terms of grain and grass, Cao Cao actually has to take advantage of it.

Because since he moved a large number of people from Liangzhou to Guanzhong, Zuo Fengyi and Hedong County have become granaries behind him, and he can grow grain in the field.

The harvested grain and grass were sent to Chang'an, and Zhong Xuan, the lieutenant of Sili who was sitting in Chang'an, sent people to transport the grain and grass to the front line.

On the other hand, Liu Bei could not afford to support so many people in the Hanzhong Basin, so he could only transport grain from the rear.

However, the grain and grass transportation routes in the rear were long and poor, and they needed to be sent from Jiangzhou, Chengdu and other places to Hanzhong from Jinniu Road and Micang Road, and then from Hanzhong to the front line of Wudu County, and the loss was much greater than that of Cao Cao.

Therefore, in the battle with Xiliang in Guanzhong, Cao Cao was far more advantageous than Liu Bei.

Soon Cao's army attacked Lucheng.

The wind blows fiercely in the northwest, and the mountains on both sides are densely forested, and it is the early spring, and the mountains are full of verdant green.

In the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou was not as pale as the Loess Plateau in Gansu in later generations, and the miracle of life bloomed here, with undulating hills and vast grasslands, which raised countless Han and Qiang children.

On the afternoon of January 16, the 24th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao rode on horseback and looked out at the endless hills in the distance.

What he saw was that the mountains and mountains seemed to be endless, the grass and trees all over the mountains swayed with the wind, and the mountains and forests were carved with knives and axes, just like the magic of nature, revealing a kind of rough beauty everywhere.

This is a natural miracle that is not found in the south of the Yangtze River.

Cao Cao looked around, looked at the vast mountains and forests in the distance, and asked left and right, "Where is this?" ”

Yang Fu, who joined the army, was the guide and said: "King Wei, this is Rongqiu Mountain. ”

Rongqiu Mountain is just south of Lucheng.

After all, Lucheng is only a small city, which cannot accommodate tens of thousands of troops, so Liu Bei only arranged thousands of men and horses in the city, and the main force was arranged in the mountains in the rear, and the camp stretched for more than ten miles.

The Cao army was north of Lucheng, occupying the entire Qishan Road, and a large number of Cao Wei soldiers were looking for a place to camp in the rear.

As a pioneer general, Zhang He had already killed outside the city of Lucheng and stationed in a plain open space in the north of the city.

At this time, seeing Cao Cao in person, he hurriedly came to pay tribute.

"King Wei."

Zhang He galloped over and knelt down on one knee in front of Cao Cao.

The army behind Cao Cao was still walking on the road, and the dense army began to seize the mountains and flatlands on his side according to the deployment.

And they were able to arrive here so smoothly, Zhang He's credit can be said to be very great.

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Stand up, is there a high place here?" ”

Zhang He got up, pointed to a mountain in the east and said, "That mountain is quite high, and you can see some of Liu Beijun's deployments on the mountain in the rear. ”

"Invite the widow to see."

Cao Cao Lerma.

When the group went up the hill.

When I arrived on the mountain, I was condescending, and my vision suddenly became clear.

I saw that the mountains in the far south were lined up, a large number of camps were built, flags covered the sky and the sun, the flags of all kinds of Liu, Zhang, Ma and Wei were fluttering, and the soldiers wearing orange-red Han army uniforms were all over the mountains, and the momentum was shocking.

And farther away, Cao Cao also saw the cliff on the top of the mountain, and some people were also looking into the distance, surrounded by countless people and horses behind him, and they were wearing umbrellas, and their identity seemed to be extremely noble.

"That must be a!"

Cao Cao said to the left and right: "This guy is just from a mustard background, and he dares to call the number of days!" ”

Zhang He pointed to the distance and said, "King Wei, that is Qishan." ”

Qishan is a mountain range and a high mountain.

It is located in the north of Qishan Road, geographically closer to Tianshui County.

Therefore, every time Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan, he passed by here and attacked Cao Weixi Liangtianshui.

When Cao Cao looked at it, he saw that the mountain was majestic, much higher than the mountain he occupied, but Liu Bei seemed to be overlooking him from that mountain, which made him very unhappy.

However, standing on the top of this mountain and looking at the situation below the mountain, it is indeed extremely clear.

At this time, Zhang He's vanguard army was stationed outside the city of Lucheng, and Cao Cao's main army had also arrived, with Xu Chu and Cao Zhang on the left and right.

Xiahou Yuan, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, and Xiahou Shang arrived with their soldiers and arranged several camps.

As a result, the entire mountains and arteries around Lucheng, including the city of Lucheng, were divided by the armies of Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

The famous generals are like clouds, occupying some hills, forming a pattern of confrontation between the north and the south.

If you add Guan Yu, Xu Shu, Guan Ping, Xiahoudun, Yu Ban and others who are facing each other in the area of Wuzhang Plain.

Most of the first-class generals of Cao Wei and Shu Han gathered here.

For a time, the stars of the late Han Dynasty were shining brightly.