Sun Quan had the grace of knowing Lü Meng, and Lü Meng reported the death of the person who took the scholar as his confidant.

Although Lu Meng was 'foolish and loyal' to Sun Quan, through Sun Quan's attitude towards Han Dang and Jiang Qin, he could also feel the cold side of the lord.

Regarding the rumors of Zhou Yu and Sun Yi, Lu Meng also had vague suspicions, but he was a direct beneficiary, so he would resolutely safeguard Sun Quan's interests.

Lü Meng understood that he would deploy the battle matters, and Sun Quan sent people to summon Zhu Ran and He Qi back to defend Yuzhang.

Yangzhou's economic center of gravity is mainly in Wu County, and the vast mountainous areas in the south are mostly gathered by Yue people.

After Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, he frequently conquered and suppressed, and he was never able to completely control the entire region, especially the large area in the south of Huiji, which was completely in a state of barbaric autonomy.

Long Xiang attacked Wu County to replace Sun Quan, and it took nearly two years to pacify Wu County and Danyang.

Sun Quan didn't believe that he could quickly deal with Shanyue's troubles, and thought that raising Kou to defeat the enemy would be able to hold Long Xiang back.

Considering that Long Xiang did not have a naval army, even if he got the information to sneak attack Yuzhang, he would definitely march along the Yangtze River.

Back then, Sun Ce used Sun Ben to guard Peng Ze, trapped Liu Xun in Yuzhang and couldn't return to Lujiang, so Sun Quan planned to draw a scoop based on the gourd.

Preparing to transfer Zhu Ran and He Qi back to Pengze, hold the key area of Peng Lize Lake, and then supplement it with a small number of naval troops to attack its grain route, it is useless for Ren Longxiang's troops to fight.

Sun Quan's impression of Long Xiang's lack of a navy was still two years ago.

Wet Whisker and Shouchun are like two doors, closing the entire Huainan and isolating it from the world, and neither Sun Quan nor Cao Cao knows the details.

And Long Xiang has been very low-key in the past two years, and the impression created by the outside world is just to carefully consolidate his territory in Danyang and Wu County.

It seems that all the focus has been shifted to Wu Di, but all this is an appearance.

When Long Xiang was showing his strength in Jiangdong, he was also building warships in Huainan.

Previously, relations with Xu Du were 'relaxed', and intelligence from the north could be obtained in time.

When he learned that Cao Cao was unstoppable in Hebei, Long Xiang could only speed up the shipbuilding to buy time.

At first, it only built a shipyard in Chaohu Lake, and later built a dock in Shaobi.

In the past two years of occupying Wu, Pingshan Yue and the remnants of the Sun clan have been purged, and many soldiers and prisoners have been captured.

Long Xiang drew 30,000 prisoners and threw them all into the shipbuilding industry in Huainan.

As of the spring of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, the two docks of Chaohu and Shaobi had a total of more than 1,000 large and small warships and 6 or 700 large cargo ships, and they had the strength to wrestle with Sun Quan.

In addition, Long Xiang formed a naval army of 20,000 people, including three combat troops and one logistics army.

Long Xiang appointed Lu Su as the commander of the navy, and the decisive battle of the navy was carried out against Lü Meng in the future, but due to the military and political affairs of Wu County, the training of the navy was in charge of Tai Shici and Liu Fu.

Using the Metropolitan Governor to deal with the Metropolitan Governor, Long Xiang is looking forward to this dragon fight.

As for Lu Xun, who had the highest achievement, he was stationed in Dantu to defend Guangling at this time.

Talents need to be honed slowly, even if Long Xiang admires Lu Xun very much, he will not pull out the seedlings at this time.

In mid-June, Yuan's daughter gave birth to a son for Lu Su.

Long Xiang specially brought gifts to Wu County, and Lu Su was a little embarrassed when he saw his old friend come to congratulate him.

At the beginning of the capture of Wu County two years ago, Long Xiang suggested that Lu Su choose one of Sun Quan's wives and concubines as a concubine.

Lu Su had verbally refused at that time, but he was very honest with his hard mouth and body.

Soon after he went to Wu County, he accepted Yuan as a concubine, which was considered to enhance Yuan's political energy, and more importantly, Lu Su had a relationship with Yuan, and he couldn't bear to be under house arrest in Wuhou's mansion.

At the beginning, Liu Xun was attacked by Sun Ce, and Yuan Shu's orphans and retainers lived in Hefei for a short time.

Lu Su, as the chief secretary of Long Xiang, was responsible for the settlement of the Yuan family, and the two became familiar at that time.

Yuan was born in a large family, with dignified manners and virtuous character, which once left a deep impression on Lu Su.

After a short period of embarrassment, Lu Su turned the topic to business.

"Yunqi, Zhu Ran and He Qi suddenly withdrew, do you guess it's Sun Quan's plan?"

"Sun Quan is not what it used to be, even if he uses a plan, what does it matter, plus Zhu Ran and He Qi have been defeated in successive battles, it is meaningless to spend all the time in Huiji, if they directly withdraw Yuzhang, it means that Sun Quan wants to concentrate his forces, and there may be a big move."

Long Xiang spoke as he found a place to sit down.

Lu Su frowned and shook his head slightly: "Since Guangling is out of control, Sun Quan's strength has been seriously damaged, Wu County and Danyang have worked hard for two years, and the military and civilians everywhere are not nostalgic for the Sun family, if Sun Quan didn't have a mature navy, we should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat Yuzhang and Luling all according to Yangzhou, and the big move should not be aimed at us." ”

"General Guan threatened Xiangyang in Fancheng, I heard that Cai Mao transferred most of the soldiers and horses from all over Jingzhou to the front line of Hanshui for defense, does Sun Quan want to take advantage of the fire to rob Tujiangling?"

Seeing Long Xiang's guess, Lu Su still shook his head: "There is a general Wen hired in Jiangling, Sun Quan is only afraid that he will not be able to take advantage, but Liu Pan returned from sending troops last time, and died of illness in Changsha soon after, Jingnan is now unmanned, and borders Jiangxia and Yuzhang, and Sun Quan has a greater probability of invading Jingnan."

"He can do whatever he wants, don't forget that our enemy is Cao Cao, but I didn't expect to unify Hebei."

Long Xiang secretly thought that he was making such trouble, but Cao Cao still restored history.

He didn't take into account Lu Su's presence and his mouth was about to leak, which immediately attracted the other party's doubts.

"Or?"

"Uh" Long Xiang smiled awkwardly, smiling and prevaricating: "I thought that the Yuan brothers could drag on for a few years, but I didn't expect them to be cut down so quickly. ”

Lu Su didn't delve into it, but frowned and asked: "It is said that Cao Cao recruited a rebel, and now he has millions of soldiers, and he also dug a Xuanwu Pond to train the navy, is the next step to attack Huainan?" ”

"Millions? I'm afraid that I don't count the conscription and miscellaneous soldiers? “

Long Xiang shook his head disdainfully, "It is best for him to attack Huainan, as the so-called South Boat and North Horse, our naval army has been trained, although the number is relatively small, but it can also rely on the river to block, if the Shouchun line can't be defended, directly retreat to Hefei." ”

"Retreat to Hefei?"

After Lu Su repeated these four words, he still stared at his brows and couldn't relax.

"Cao Cao's use of troops is not Sun Quan, if he sends one or two hundred thousand people to attack Hefei, I am afraid that we may not be able to hold it, maybe we can only hold it for a few months? Or maybe a year or two? ”

Long Xiang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and laughed: "If you can really hold on for a year or two, do you guess how much food Cao Jun will consume?" Moreover, Liu Yuanjun will not sit idly by, even if he can't send troops at the first time, we can still retreat to Jiangdong and use the Yangtze River to hold out for a few more years. ”

"Uncle Huang returned from Jingzhou last year, not only successfully retreated from the four enemies, but also surprisingly difficult to get Hanzhong, Zhuge military division is really full of wisdom, Cao Cao will not be willing to go far, maybe directly attack Guanzhong or Nanyang?"

Lu Suyan looked at Long Xiang in surprise, as if to say that Guanzhong and Nanyang seemed to be more dangerous.

Seeing this, Long Xiang smiled indifferently, "Now that there are fewer and fewer princes, and the situation is becoming clearer and clearer, we don't need to hide it anymore, if Cao Cao attacks Guanzhong and Nanyang, I will send troops to help Xu Du!" ”

(End of chapter)