Soon, Liu Jian's army began to move in Yizhou.

The two generals, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan, were familiar with the situation in Yizhou, and they respectively led their elite troops in the direction of Nanzhong to prevent Sun Ce from entering the boundary of Nanzhong.

In other words, they are not trying to stop Sun Ce, but they want to do their best to find a way to minimize Sun Cejun's living force.

If it was replaced by the original Yan Yan and Zhang Ren, it would not pose a huge threat to Sun Ce at all, with Sun Ce's ability and his original military appearance, he would not be afraid of them at all, but now Sun Ce has no ability and means to deal with them at all.

Although Sun Ce's soldiers and horses were relatively elite, this army had experienced too many defeats, and its morale had fallen to its lowest point.

Second, when Sun Ce's sergeants knew that Sun Ce was going to lead them to the barren land in Nanzhong, many people began to make small calculations.

Nearly half of the soldiers were reluctant to go with Sun Ce to Nanzhong.

Most of the sergeants under Sun Ce were elite sergeants who started in Jiangdong with his father, and the other part were elite sergeants recruited in Yuzhou.

These soldiers were all from the Central Plains or the Yangtze River Valley.

Regardless of their original family background, their ancestors have regarded themselves as Han Chinese for generations.

They were proud to be subjects of the Han Dynasty.

The internal affairs of the Han Dynasty were originally very chaotic, and the people also suffered a lot because of more than 100 years of land annexation.

However, no matter what, the Han Dynasty is still the most powerful country in the world after all, and the people's lives of the Han Dynasty are not known to be many times stronger than those barbarians in the south or north.

Now, Sun Ce wants to lead them out of their familiar hometown, take them to the kind of place in southern Xinjiang where birds don't, and let them become savages, just think, how can these people be willing?

Soon, on the way to Sun Cejun's transfer, the number of his soldiers and horses began to decrease.

Most of the soldiers were reluctant to follow him to southern Xinjiang, so more and more soldiers fled.

And in this case, this matter cannot be solved by military orders alone.

Sun Ce has no prestige now.

He could only forcibly take those soldiers who were still hesitant to continue to the land of the south.

As time went on, there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and in just five days they were almost halved.

It was at this time that Zhang Ren and Yan Yan's army also arrived in his rear.

Many of the soldiers who fled under Sun Ce were stopped by Yan Yan and Zhang Ren.

Then Yan Yan and Zhang Ren let them serve as guides and bring their own troops to pursue Sun Ce!

After catching up with Sun Ce's army, the two generals Zhang and Yan began to attack Sun Ce's army in turn, their main purpose was to recruit Sun Ce's soldiers, or kill his living forces, but they never launched a general attack, allowing Sun Ce to continue to withdraw to the south, they just kept attacking from the side.

Sun Ce was extremely helpless in this situation, he had no way to fight against Zhang Ren and Yan Yan, and he couldn't even organize a decent counterattack, so he could only desperately flee to the south.

However, in the end, Sun Ce, Lu Meng, Sun Quan and others broke out of the encirclement and entered the Nanzhong realm.

When he approached the realm of Nanzhong, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan's soldiers and horses no longer pursued.

After Sun Ce entered Nanzhong, he began to count the soldiers in his hands.

There were less than 600 people left.

Most of the 600 were wounded.

Looking at the six hundred people who had fled to Nanzhong after him, Sun Ce's face showed grief.

"I have been dominating the world for several years, and I can't imagine that even the Han people can't do it! If you want to abandon your own country and flee to a wild land to be a savage, and there are only hundreds of relatives left around you, where should you go from now on? ”

Sun Quan stepped forward, arched his hand towards Sun Ce and said:

"Brother, don't worry too much, we will unite with the major tribes in Nanzhong, try to gain their trust, if we can gain their trust, when the time is ripe, we will unite the major tribes in Nanzhong to march towards Yizhou! Seize Chengdu and re-establish the foundation in Yizhou, and then the Sun family will inevitably rise again! ”

Although Sun Quan's words were relatively good, they could not soothe Sun Ce's heart.

He could only nod and said: "It's just that we don't know about the place in Nanzhong, and we have never crossed paths with these barbarians, so now let me make friends with them, how easy is it?" ”

Sun Quan hurriedly said: "Brother, don't worry, this matter is on me!" ”

"In foreign wars, although my younger brother is far inferior to my brother! But communicate these things with the Gentiles...... The younger brother thinks he can still do it. ”

"As for the local barbarian dialect, we may not be able to learn it for a while, but over time, we will definitely be able to understand and understand it."

"Leave these matters of communication with foreigners to me."

Sun Ce sighed and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you!" ”

……

After Zhang Ren and Yan Yan defeated Sun Ce's soldiers and horses, they immediately sent people back to Chengdu to report the matter to Liu Jianyu.

Liu Jian appointed officials at all levels in Yizhou, and at the same time placed his descendants in the major counties as county guards, in charge of local affairs, and then began to prepare to concentrate troops and horses to launch an attack on Jingzhou.

Before the Eastern Crusade, he gave military orders to Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and others, so that they could also start preparations and start a war with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

This time, no matter what, we must go down to Jingzhou first and then Jiangdong to unify China.

Liu Jian's strength in Jingzhou this time can be described as extremely strong.

He requisitioned the strongest troops in all parts of the Han Dynasty and assembled at various military points to launch a general assault on Jingzhou.

Moreover, he also reported the matter to the imperial court, informing the emperor Liu Xie that this was a battle of national fortune.

Please Liu Xie, no matter what, you have to support yourself.

Liu Jian did this, in fact, it was mainly for the world to see, how could Liu Xie not support him?

The emperor knew very well what the significance of Liu Jian's move was, so he issued an edict in the name of the imperial court, spread it throughout the country, launched a battle of national fortunes, and let the world be dominated.

The Great Han began to concentrate his forces and prepare for this battle of unification.

This move showed Liu Jian's determination to dominate the world, and also showed the attitude of the imperial court towards Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

It's an ultimatum.

Liu Jian also wrote a letter to Liu Bei in Xuzhou, telling him to start preparing for attacks on coastal ports across Jiangdong.

After Yuan Shao learned of Liu Jian's actions, he immediately began to send people to Jiangdong to discuss with Cao Cao, hoping that Cao Cao could join forces with him and start a big war with Liu Jian.

Yuan Shao told Cao Cao that if he could win this battle, then Jingzhou and Jiangdong would have ten years of stable development.

Cao Cao, after receiving Yuan Shao's letter, immediately fell into deep thought, and he also knew that the war with the north had reached a critical juncture for him.

Liu Jian mustered up the strength of the whole country to fight against himself and Yuan Shao, if he could defeat Liu Jian and block his attack...... Then his forces and Yuan Shao's forces will be able to get a lot of respite.

But the key problem now is that he has been beaten by Guan Yu and can't hold his head up.

The land of Jianghuai is about to be undefended.

After all, the horse army system in the north is extremely sound, and on the plains of Jianghuai, it is impossible for him to defeat Guan Yu.

Cao Cao could only withdraw his troops to Jiangdong and cede the land of Jianghuai to Guan Yu and Liu Bei.

It's just that the area around Shouchun is, after all, the boundary that he has been operating for many years, and now he has given Guan Yu like this, Cao Cao is really unwilling in his heart.

But in the battle against Guan Yu's army on this acre of three-point land in Jiujiang County, Shouchun, Cao Zhiran's means of using troops were strong, but one force was better than ten meetings.

The fact that the soldiers of the north are super capable of fighting on the plains is ironclad.

They had a large cavalry and the most elite infantry armor, which Cao Cao's southern soldiers could not match in any way.

After several discussions and discussions, in the end, Cao Cao made a decision that no one expected.

That is to abandon Jiujiang, collect the soldiers and horses to Jiangdong, along the Yangtze River moat on the river bank, and use the powerful naval army to deal with the northern soldier army.

Cao Cao's resolution, many people uphold the attitude of opposition, especially some local officials from Jiujiang County, they are all local noble families, previously suppressed by Cao Cao, they are actually dissatisfied with Cao Cao in their hearts, but under Cao Cao's iron-fisted policy, they also have to give in, and now seeing that Cao Cao is going to send troops to withdraw to Jiangdong, their feelings are very contradictory and complicated.

They not only wanted Cao Cao to get out, but also didn't want Liu Jian to come here to rule them.

Although they don't know how to choose between these two people, it is still extremely disadvantageous for them to let Cao Cao immediately withdraw his troops to Jiangdong now.

Because once Liu Jian's army is stationed in Jianghuai, for them, they are not heroes, but subordinate ministers.

When the time comes, what their family will ask Liu Jian to do with it will all depend on Liu Jian's mood.

In the hearts of these wang people, it is still Yuan Shao who is the most suitable person to rule them.

But it's a pity that Yuan Shao is now in Jingzhou, and it is difficult to protect himself, and it is impossible for him to come to Jianghuai.

(End of chapter)