Liu Jian recruited Ma Teng and Han Sui.

The war in Liangzhou was settled, and everything was on the right track.

Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, also submitted a note, assuring Liu Jian that he would definitely run Liangzhou well during this time, so that the Liangzhou area, which is no longer war-torn, will implement the same system as the Central Plains.

After Liu Jian learned the news, he was very happy.

He still believes in Liu Biao's ability to govern very much, after all, Liu Biao's performance in Jingzhou in history is still remarkable.

Of course, Liu Biao also has his shortcomings in Jingzhou.

However, in this era, there are still Zhang Fei, Zhang He and others in Liangzhou who complement him.

Therefore, Liu Jian believes that the combination he set up will definitely make a complete change in the situation in Liangzhou.

From this moment on, Liangzhou was no longer special, and it would become an inseparable part of the Han Dynasty in addition to other states and counties.

The matter in Liangzhou has come to an end for the time being, and news has also come from Hanzhou.

The new Hanzhou Assassin has arrived in Xiangping and handed over to Guan Yu.

And Guan Yu, the former Hanzhou pastor, led the elite soldiers of Liaodong to rush to the hinterland of Hebei on a large ship.

The number of Liaodong soldiers under Guan Yu was not too much, because he still had to leave enough soldiers and horses for Hanzhou to deal with sudden battles in the north.

At the same time, he also left Zhao Jun and Zhou Cang, who were strong generals who fought in the northeast all the year round, to command the troops.

But even so, the elite of Liaodong led by him was extremely strong compared to the elite soldiers in the Han Dynasty.

After all, there are not many soldiers, but the essence.

Guan Yu's troops and horses were not all Han Chinese, most of them were Liaodong warriors, Xianbei people, and Wuhuan people, and their combat methods were also relatively wild, quite very strong, and most of the troops in the Central Plains were different.

It can be said that this can be regarded as a strong army in Liu Jian's hands to fight against the south in the future.

After Guan Yu's army arrived in Jizhou, he immediately set up camp under the arrangement of the local Bohai Taishou!

While setting up camp, Guan Yu sent people to fly to Liu Jian for instructions, asking him where he should go to fight.

Liu Jian's instruction to Guan Yu was to let him go to Yanzhou Tunza!

At the same time, Liu Jian asked Zhang Yan to lead the main force of his Montenegrin army to Yanzhou as well, and ordered Gongsun Zhan, who was already in Yanzhou, to join Guan Yu.

These three armies were all handed over to the commander of Guan Yu, and they became an army.

The reason why Liu Jian asked Guan Yu and others to meet in Yanzhou was to hope that Guan Yu would then start to attack Huainan as the commander of the first army.

As the saying goes, defending the river must defend Huai, Cao Cao is now stationed in Shouchun, for him, the key to the offensive and defensive relationship between Jiangdong and the Central Plains lies in whose hands Huaidi is focused on.

The land of Huainan is in the hands of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao can form a deterrent to the land of the Central Plains.

But if the land of Huainan is in Liu Jian's hands, then Liu Jian can press and fight the Jiangdong side, and the Xuzhou side can also send troops to form a flank and sweep along the Jiangdong coast.

Originally, Cao Cao had just started the maritime trade with the north, so Liu Jian did not kill Cao Cao.

But now, Jiangdong's trade with the north, as well as maritime transport, have gradually become on the right track and on a large scale, and the two sides have reached a consensus that the war will not affect the bilateral trade relationship.

Then, since this is the case, Liu Jian decided to start killing Cao Cao.

Of course, Cao Cao is now sitting in Jiangdong and Huainan, and his strength is relatively strong.

Since Liu Jian wants to deal with Cao Cao, he needs to use his elite soldiers.

First of all, Liu Bei has been raising troops in Xuzhou for a long time, and when it comes to combat experience, Liu Bei can be said to be much stronger than the same period in his history, after all, he was also influenced and influenced by Liu Jian.

In addition, Cheng Pu, Tai Shici, Han Dang and others are all under Liu Bei, and big guys like Lu Su and Zhuge Liang are also there, and the strength of the Xuzhou army is strong.

But Liu Jian thought about it and felt that it was still not enough, so he arranged Zhang Yan, Gongsun Zan and others in the Central Plains, and formed a cooperation with Liu Bei in Xuzhou after joining Guan Yu.

With such a luxurious lineup and so many elite soldiers, it can be said that Liu Jian really gave Cao Cao a very high standard treatment.

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The matter of Guan Yu leading his troops to Yanzhou was not a secret in the entire Han Dynasty, on the contrary, the matter spread quickly in various states and counties.

The first battle of the perennial mighty Hulu will return to the Central Plains and make peace with Gongsun Zhan and Zhang Yan and others, but anyone who is not a fool can guess what he is going to do.

After Cao Cao learned that Guan Yu's garrison was in Yanzhou, he immediately said to his subordinates:

"Yu is coming from the north, and I have no peace!"

Subsequently, Cao Cao began to recruit a large number of people and soldiers, people, cattle and horses to Jiujiang County, and ordered people to build strong fortifications in Jiujiang County, intending to block Guan Yu's footsteps southward in the future.

Cao Cao's movements naturally could not be concealed from Guan Yu and Liu Bei, so Liu Bei and Guan Yu played together, sent people to Chang'an to hand over to Liu Jian, and requested that before Cao Cao made full preparations, the Xuzhou army and Guan Yu, who was stationed in Chen State, launched an attack on Jiujiang and took the other party by surprise.

But what he didn't expect was that Liu Jian's order to Liu Bei and Guan Yu was to let them delay until the summer before sending troops.

This was really unexpected by the two.

Liu Bei was puzzled by Liu Jian's strategic instructions, so he immediately found Zhuge Liang and Lu Su to discuss the matter with them.

After Zhuge Liang listened to Liu Jian's order, he immediately smiled.

"Envoy, the prime minister's consideration is quite far-reaching, please don't be suspicious, although you can follow the prime minister's orders."

After hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Liu Bei immediately said strangely: "As the so-called soldiers are fast, Cao Cao has begun to gather heavy troops in Jianghuai in order to fight against the imperial court, and his soldiers and horses have not all been assembled. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "On the surface, things are true. ”

"But in fact, if we fight with the army of Jiangdong, the most favorable battlefield is actually in Huainan!"

"The prime minister is now placing General Guan in Chen State, in addition to using troops against Cao Cao in the future, the key is also to let Cao Cao mobilize all the main soldiers and horses in his jurisdiction to Jianghuai, after all, although our northern army is good at conquest, it is not good at water warfare!"

"Even if Jianghuai has won, if you want to enter Jiangdong and cross the Yangtze River in the future, you have to be based on water warfare!"

"But the soldiers of Jiangdong are good at water battles, and once the two armies clash in a water battle, I am afraid that our army may not be able to win."

"Therefore, if Cao Cao's main forces can be gathered in Jianghuai and his vitality can be injured in the battle of Jianghuai, then crossing the Jiangdong and Jiangdong in the future will inevitably reduce the resistance of our northern army a lot."

"In addition, Nanyang and Runan, the land of Yingchuan has not been stable for a long time, and it will take time to consolidate, at least wait for the government decree to be reached, before the army can be used, which is also the prime minister's true intention to delay the time of sending troops."

When Liu Bei heard this, he suddenly realized.

He stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Although Kong Ming and Prime Minister are thousands of miles apart, they can know Prime Minister's thoughts, it seems that Prime Minister is really not wrong about you!" ”

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So, under Zhuge Liang's advice, Liu Bei began to recruit troops and horses in Xuzhou, build ordnance, and hoard grain and grass, and Guan Yu was the same in Chen.

In a blink of an eye, it was already June of the fourth year of Jian'an, and midsummer was approaching, and Liu Jian, who had been preparing for eight months, finally decided to use troops on a large scale again.

Jingzhou, Yizhou, Jiangdong, Liu Jian, after half a year, has formulated countless strategies to deal with these enemies.

In his opinion, the use of troops against the three states cannot be focused, and the strength of the whole country must be used to defeat them!

Otherwise, once the focus is too much on one place, it will make other states and counties raise troops as foreign aid and come to attack their own side, forming an east-west containment and greatly messing up their own combat deployment.

After so many years of development and accumulation, Liu Jian is confident that the current Han Dynasty has enough military strength to directly use troops against the three states at the same time.

However, there is still a starting point.

On the eighth day of June in the fourth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu suddenly raised troops in Chen State!

With Gongsun Chan as the vanguard of the front, he led his troops to take Peiguo directly, and it took less than ten days to occupy the territory of Peiguo.

Peiguo was originally in the hands of Pei Xiang Yuan Zhong, but now that Yuan Zhong is dead, Pei Guo has always been equivalent to a buffer zone between the north and the south, and no one directly sent troops to occupy this place, but now Guan Yu directly sent troops to occupy Pei Guo, which is self-explanatory.

To the south of Peiguo is Jiujiang County, and to the east is Pengcheng and Xiapi Kingdom.

Half of the territory of Xiapi is now Cao Cao's, but since Guan Yu arrived in Chen, Cao Cao has cleverly withdrawn all his elites in Guangling and Xiapi to Jianghuai, in his opinion, once the two sides go to war, he will not be able to keep Xiapi and Guangling at all, but will lose a lot of troops here.

The promises made by Liu Bei and Liu Jian to themselves back then were all nonsense, when everyone negotiated peace, you and I were willing to cede the land, but once it was to be recovered, I was afraid that no one could stop it.

Cao Cao also understands this.

However, Cao Cao withdrew the soldiers and horses of Guangling and Xiapi, but there was an advantage, that is, it did not delay the border trade between the north and the south.

Of course, it is impossible to say that there is no impact at all, but the impact is not that great.

After Guan Yu gained a foothold in Peiguo, he did not hesitate, and immediately sent Gongsun Zhan as the vanguard, leading his Baima Yi to send troops from the first place and go straight to Jianghuai.

At the same time, Liu Bei also began to act, he commanded the elite soldiers to go south, and directly settled in Xiapi and Guangling.

To the southeast, the war broke out!

Under the command of Guan Yu, Gongsun Zhan went south along the muddy water and along the river, Liankegu County and Zhongli County, and the soldiers were close to Shouchun.

At the same time, Cheng Pu was also under the command of Liu Bei, sweeping the northern regions and conquering the Huaiyin land in one fell swoop.

Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were constantly shrinking backwards, showing an invincible trend.

In the concept of the northern generals, Cao Cao's Jiangdong army was not the opponent of his own northern army in the first place, and now it is common sense that he has been defeated again and again.

But Zhuge Liang and Lu Su keenly saw that the problem was not quite right.

Zhuge Liang hurriedly admonished Liu Bei, asking him to restrain Cheng Pu's actions and not to attack too deeply, so as not to be arrogant and regret it when the time comes.

Liu Bei respected Zhuge Liang's opinion very much, and immediately sent three envoys in his capacity as Xuzhou Mu to forcibly order Cheng Pu to slow down the pace of his troops.

But the situation on Gongsun Zhan's side is a little unbearable.

Gongsun Zhan fought and won successes, conquering a large area of territory along the way, arrogant and complacent, especially since he was originally born in Youzhou, he was good at driving, and he used soldiers quickly.

But because of this, he also received a big blow.

In fact, near the Yin Tomb, there has always been a heavy army, waiting to ambush Gongsun Zhan, and the leader of this army is also Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu's vision is very poisonous, from Qian County to Zhongli County, the depth of the area is hundreds of miles, once the northern army is invincible, deep into the hinterland of Jiujiang, it will be proud, especially that Guan Yu is a famous general of the Han Dynasty, he may not be able to afford himself.

However, in fact, Zhou Yu really thought wrong.

Guan Yu was really arrogant before, but over the years, Liu Jian has always suppressed rebellion against his arrogance and educated him deeply.

Therefore, although Guan Yu's temperament has not changed much, he will pay special attention to his weaknesses when using soldiers.

And because of this, over the years, he has received a lot of benefits and avoided many crises when he was at war with Fuyu in Liaodong.

Whenever his arrogance rises, he pays special attention.

This also allows him to reflect on his actions and remain calm at critical moments.

And this time, Gongsun Zhan forcibly drove the troops, marched hundreds of miles and won every battle, although the battle report made Guan Yu happy, but at the same time it also made his heart vigilant.

He felt that Gongsun Chan was a little too smooth!

It's just that Gongsun Zhan's speed of entering the army is too fast, which causes Guan Yu to want to restrain him, and it seems to be a little late.

So, Guan Yu had no choice, so he immediately drove his troops to pick up Gongsun Zhan.

And Gongsun Zhan has also driven his soldiers and horses to the vicinity of Yinling.

Yinling, like Shouchun, is an important town in Huainan, one in the west and the other in the east.

As a general, Gongsun Zan knew that Yinling was an important place connecting Shouchun and Jiangdong from east to west, and if Yinling was defeated, it would be able to cut off more than fifty percent of Shouchun's connection with Jiangdong and Guangling, causing huge losses to Cao Cao's army in Shouchun.

After figuring this out, Gongsun Chan was overjoyed in his heart, he didn't even make his thoughts clear to Guan Yu, the coach in the rear, but decided to do it without permission.

Because he felt that if he was like Guan Yu and made his intention to attack Yinling clear, then if Cao Cao noticed it and sent more troops to Yinling, then his plan would be frustrated.

The problem is that what Gongsun Chan is thinking about now is all designed for him by Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu wanted to use the Yin Spirit as bait from the beginning, and then use the arrogant tactics to defeat Guan Yu in one fell swoop.

But Guan Yu didn't arrive, but waited for Gongsun Zhan, which made Zhou Yu's heart quite depressed.

But then if you think about it carefully, forget it, you can't defeat Guan Yu, if you can defeat Gongsun Zhan, it will also be a great boost to his Zhou Yu's reputation.

Who is not fighting to win?

Jiangdong, like Yuan Shao, has been vigorously developing naval forces and strong bows and crossbows in recent years, so Zhou Yu's heavy troops in Yinling are mainly bows and crossbows, and they are specially restrained by Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteousness.

He believed that with his own strength, he would definitely be able to defeat Gongsun Zhan.

In addition, this time he has three generals by his side: Yu Ban, Le Jin, and Dong Xi.

These three generals, with Zhou Yu pacifying Shanyue over the years, made Zhou Yu deeply aware of their abilities.

With the help of these three people, Zhou Yu believed that even if Gongsun Zhan was famous in Northern Xinjiang, he would be able to completely defeat him this time.

But although Gongsun Chan was reckless this time, Guan Yu was not an idle person, he was on the way to rescue Gongsun Chan with his troops, and he thought about it carefully, feeling that the other party had the greatest chance of using Yin Ling as a bait to ambush Gongsun Chan.

So Guan Yu also led the elite soldiers and strong generals and hurried towards the direction of Yinling.

(End of chapter)