Looking at Zhuge Liang's curious expression, Liu Bei added in a low voice: "Gan Xingba was originally under Huang Yuanyang, and now he has abandoned Jiangxia to vote for me, for fear of being attacked by Cai Kuo and others."

"That's it?"

Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and laughed loudly: "How cautious is the lord, have you forgotten that General Gan is here to vote for the eldest prince?" So what does it have to do with you? ”

"Well, yes." Liu Bei swallowed.

Zhuge Liang added: "Before we are in the middle of the customs, we have the tree of the eldest prince to shelter from the wind and rain, and we can rest assured that we can do a lot of things boldly, Liu Jingzhou will not have mustard at all, but now the four counties of Handong have been decided, and the Hanzhong Governance Office has been moved to Xicheng, and the follow-up support of Xiangyang is estimated to be gone, and the recall of Wenpin is proof of this." ”

Liu Bei echoed: "As the military advisor said, we can only rely on ourselves in the back, Yunchang's side is not good to move, except for the three thousand Huainan soldiers brought by Yide from Hefei, the rest need to be newly recruited in Xicheng and Shangyong, but I don't know how many troops to fight Chang'an." ”

"The soldiers are fine, not many, Yide's 3,000 elite soldiers are stronger than Jingzhou's 10,000 or 20,000." After Zhuge Liang praised Zhang Fei, he smiled slightly: "The people of the four counties of Handong are enough, and the lord has as much courage as he has, and Liang has as much strategy." ”

Liu Bei nodded straightly: "Okay, if you start from scratch, you lack everything, but you don't lack courage."

"Well, there will be some in the future, and now General Gan is here to vote halfway, and I think Tai Shici will join soon." Zhuge Liang smiled mysteriously.

Liu Bei asked curiously: "Why did the military advisor say this?" ”

Zhuge Liang replied: "Didn't you find out that you are a member of the same fortune as Long Yunqi?" Yide's 3,000 Huainan soldiers were recruited by him, and Liu Ziyang was also recommended to the lord by his strategy, so it can be said that we can easily win Handong, and General Long will take most of the credit, he now takes a fancy to Tai Shici, and the hope of surrender is quite large. ”

"Makes sense."

Liu Bei bowed slightly, he remembered that Zhuge Liang planned to let Zhuge Jin help secretly, so he couldn't help but admonish: "A few years ago, Sun Ce slaughtered in Jiangdong, Sun Quan is the age of blood and strength at this time, and the military advisor should warn Ziyu to be careful and don't cause trouble for himself."

"The lord doesn't have to worry about his brother, Liang won't let him directly separate Taishi Ziyi, nor will he let him do anything to betray Jiangdong, there won't be any problems with his personal safety, and Sun Quan is quite different from Sun Ce, this person is not good at using soldiers but is good at scheming, and he shouldn't kill lightly." Zhuge Liang replied seriously.

Liu Bei frowned after hearing this, and asked with a little worry: "Since Sun Quan is good at scheming, I don't know what the military advisor wants to do."

Zhuge Liang wiped the white feather fan, and said solemnly: "Sun Ce himself was originally a martial artist, but his choice before his death was contrary to himself, neither the old and serious Sun Ben, nor the Sun Yi recommended by Zhang Zhao and others, should have found that he killed too much, if he chose an heir similar to himself, it would make the Sun family's quick inheritance quickly lost, so he chose Sun Quan, who was calm and good at internal affairs;

Sun Quan's succession to the throne in the past three years was not peaceful, originally through Wu Jing and Xu Kun to control part of the military power, but after two battles of Huainan and Yuzhang, he completely lost control of the Jiangdong army, so he shifted his energy to internal affairs, using his brother, Buqi and other Jianghuai newcomers to develop internal affairs;

As the lord said, Sun Quan's blood and strength have just had the power to scheming, how could he be willing to let the military power go by for a long time? He boldly used newcomers such as Lu Meng, Ling Tong, and He Qi, intending to cultivate forces loyal to himself and replace Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Sun Ben, Tai Shici and other generals stationed abroad in the future. ”

"What the hell is the military advisor?" Liu Bei wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhuge Liang observed that there was no one left and right, and then explained in a low voice: "Although Tai Shi Ci leads an army alone, his strength is weaker than Zhou Yu and Sun Ben, I plan to communicate with my brother about the dangers of military power, as for whether he will tell Sun Quan is not yet known, but as long as Sun Quan takes corresponding countermeasures, Tai Shi Ci should be sad to death." ”

Liu Bei muttered to himself: "Listening to what the military advisor said just now, there seems to be a tendency to ignite Zhou Yu and Sun Ben, but Zhou Lang is the governor of Jiangdong, and Sun Ben is the patriarch of the Sun family, these two have a high status in Jiangdong, and Sun Quan should not touch Jiangdong."

"Looking at what Sun Quan has done in the past few years, he is not a person who is at the mercy of memoralism, if he doesn't dare to move the roots, he will inevitably start from the side branches, Tai Shici and the Sun family are not deep, isn't it just the intention of Long Yunqi?"

After listening to Zhuge Liang's explanation, Liu Bei suddenly brightened up, and nodded and added: "Then I have to remind Yunqi and let him be prepared." ”

"Don't worry, the lord has this plan, General Long must be fully prepared, don't forget that Lu Zijing is also there, he knows to mention it from the side, you pay attention to Guanzhong, wait a few days to return to the Xicheng station, and Liang will send a letter to Jiangdong."

"It's fine."

Zhuge Liang planned to use Zhuge Jin's mouth to intensify the contradiction between Sun Quan and the generals, but he did not know that this contradiction had already intensified.

Soon after Sun Quan and Zhou Yu withdrew from Jiangxia, Huang Zu inquired about the reason for the withdrawal of troops from Jiangdong, and soon sent people to Xiangyang to find Liu Biao for help.

Huang Zu planned to take advantage of the chaos to invade Jiangdong again, and even if he was a head-on enemy, he could not stop harassing him.

He believes that it is necessary to keep fighting and not give Jiangdong a chance to breathe and develop, otherwise when the other party makes a comeback, Jiangxia will be in danger.

At this time, Jiangxia had soldiers and no ships, and because it was necessary to repair the damaged city wall of Shaxian, it was necessary for Xiangyang to allocate money and food support.

Although Huang Zu's strategic thinking is correct, it is difficult for Liu Biaoqiao's wife to cook without rice, and she cannot get the support of Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and other powerful people, and no matter how much money and food can be allocated for warships, not to mention that Xiangyang has already supported a warship.

Liu Biao did not directly veto Huang Zu, replied that he needed time to raise money and food, and would let Liu Pan continue to harass Jianchang and other places, and promised to wait until Wenpin's return from the Western Expedition, that is, let his navy rush to help the war.

Although Liu Biao is proficient in procrastination, when Liu Qi and Liu Bei pacified Handong and Wenpin led his troops to withdraw to Xiangyang, because of Kuai Yue's face-to-face reminder and Cai's blowing pillow wind at the bedside, Liu Biao not only did not allocate more money and food in the end, but even Wenpin stayed in Xiangyang as a precaution.

In the end, Xiangyang's support for Huang Zu was left with only Liu Pan to contain militarily.

Huang Zu waited in Jiangxia for several months, neither waiting for the Wen's hired sailors to come to support, nor waiting for the money and food for the warships, he could only send the army and civilians to repair and strengthen Shaxian City, and lost the opportunity to go to Jiangdong to take advantage of the fire and rob.

Due to Liu Pan's harassment again, Cheng Pu, who was originally going to Pingyang Shanyue, could not cope with it, so Zhou Yu led Chaisang's main force to Poyang to quell the rebellion.

Zhou Yu spent half a year before and after, not only pacifying Shanyue near Poyang, but also destroying Ma and Baoertun located at the junction of Yuzhang and Danyang.

Ma and Bao Ertun gathered tens of thousands of people to disobey Wang Hua, and a few years ago, Sun Ce and Tai Shici had conscripted against him.

This time, Zhou Yu was not only the head of the commander, but also completely broke through the walled city and captured the people, so that Ertun was completely included in the jurisdiction of Jiangdong.

After half a year of quelling the chaos and suppressing the bandits, Zhou Yu harvested and reorganized more than 10,000 soldiers, captured tens of thousands of Han people and Shanyue people, and his strength increased greatly.

(End of chapter)