"Can it help?"

Lu Su showed a questioning expression, and crossed his fingers to settle the account for Long Xiang.

"At present, we have 20,000 naval troops and 1,000 warships, and although the infantry cavalry has expanded to 50,000 or 60,000, Guangling and Yuzhang Sun are in the neighborhood, and Huiji, Danyang, Dantu, and Weixuwu must stay in these places, and they can use 50,000 when they are full.

"Ants bite people and they hurt."

Long Xiang smiled after the analogy, and comforted Lu Su and said: "Besides, Cao Cao definitely doesn't have a million soldiers, if he dares to look down on us, don't blame me for 'misbehaving' in Yingchuan and cutting off his millions of rations."

"Cao Cao will definitely take care of it, but Xu Du must be heavily guarded, I'm worried that the strong attack will not be able to take it down, and it will not affect the Cao army on the front line at all."

Seeing that Lu Su's words were quite pessimistic, Long Xiang showed an open-minded smile again.

"It doesn't matter if we can't attack, our warships come and go freely, and they will definitely turn the Central Plains upside down, I promise to surprise Cao Cao."

"Yes, we have a water army, no, Sun Quan at that time."

Lu Su stopped abruptly halfway through his words, and suddenly remembered that he also offered advice to Sun Quan, but the other party was incompetent at that time and did not take Shouchun, let alone use the warship to the Central Plains to stir up the situation.

Lu Su sighed that no matter how good the plan is, it also needs to be able to execute it, and Long Xiang is obviously stronger than Sun Quan.

The two immediately planned the Northern Expedition, planning to join forces to attack Jiangdong as they had done two years ago, and once again join forces on land and water to attack the Central Plains.

Jiangdong's original 'leading brother' Zhang Zhao, whose son Zhang Cheng did his best to build ships in Huainan, has been appointed by Long Xiang as a lieutenant and is highly used.

Zhang Hong, Qin Song and other sons and nephews of important ministers of Huaisi are all officials in Lujiang and Jiujiang counties, and their futures are very good.

Zhu Huan, Lu Xun, Gu Yong, Yu Fu and other Jiangdong scholars all received more respect and rights under Long Xiang, and compared with Sun Quan and Sun Ce, they made judgments.

Long Xiang believed that neither he nor Lu Su were there, and it was unlikely that these people would betray him and vote for the Sun family.

After all, Sun Quan's reputation now has fallen to the bottom of the sewage ditch, and Sun Kuang's personal ability is relatively mediocre, and the resources he obtains can only protect himself in Guangling.

The day after the congratulatory gifts, several heralds hurried out of Wu County.

Zhu Huan, Lu Xun, and Lü Dai soon received military orders, and Long Xiang asked them to transfer excess garrisons and secretly send them to Hefei in batches to assemble.

Long Xiang did not explain that he was dealing with Cao Cao, and Huainan shipbuilding was not a secret to everyone, so they all thought that they were going to prepare for a decisive battle with Sun Quan, while Lu Su was actively preparing to go out to fight for money and food.

The time soon came to August, and on the eve of Long Xiang and Lu Su completing their preparations for war, Xu Du's urgent military information was transmitted to Hefei, and the result was not as expected by the two.

Cao Cao, who had just become prime minister, played Cao Ren as the general of the expedition to the south, and dozens of generals such as Xu Huang, Zhang Xiu, Lü Xiang, Ma Yan, and Zhang Yi, and commanded 100,000 Ma Bujun as the vanguard.

Cao Cao did not personally lead the army south, first of all, the problem of grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of troops, and it was necessary to recruit millions of people to transport grain, which was a disaster for Hebei and Henan, which had just ended the war;

The second is psychological factors, Cao Cao thinks that he led hundreds of thousands of people to 'bully' Guan Yu, and Cai Mao, Sun Quan and others helped contain it, which is an insult to Cao Cao, who is good at using soldiers;

In the end, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and other main forces did not return to Qingzhou, and at the same time, they also had to prevent Liu Bei's soldiers from leaving Tongguan.

In addition, the political environment in Xudu at this time was very delicate.

Cao Cao attached too much importance to Wei County, especially Cao Pi's marriage to Zhen Mi, which aroused the vigilance of the Henan scholars, so he secretly instigated Kong Rong to ridicule and beat.

Kong Rong is famous all over the world and is admired, and Cao Cao has to be patient even if he breaks his teeth, but he uses practical actions to make a powerful counterattack and move half of his family to Yecheng.

Seeing Cao Cao doing his own thing, Kong Rong found an opportunity to speak disrespectfully, and sometimes even confronted him in public, which made Cao Cao very embarrassed.

There was a big troll You Heng before, but now it has been replaced by Kong Rong.

Cao Cao thought that if he didn't use the means, the celebrities would dare to follow suit in the future, so he had murderous intentions towards Kong Rong and stayed in the rear to solve the matter.

Long Xiang got the military information of Xu Du, and immediately summoned Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Zhuge Jin and others to Hefei, because Lu Su was also going to go on the expedition, he needed someone to help dispatch logistics.

Cao Ren's 100,000 army went down to Jingzhou, Lu Su couldn't help but sweat for Guan Yu, at this time the total strength of Nanyang was less than 30,000, and he had to beware of Cai Mao's Xiangyang army.

Long Xiang was full of confidence in Guan Yu, the man who was powerful in Huaxia was too strong, and he thought that Cao Renbing was not an opponent, not to mention that Guanzhong and Hanzhong could support him at any time.

Before Cao Cao's main force was dispatched, Long Xiang did not plan to send troops to Xudu.

His 50,000 people can't fight head-on, so they can only make small moves to help Liu Bei contain them, even if they call Zhang Zhao and a few people, they will have to wait until Xu Du is empty before they can send troops.

In late August, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and Zhuge Jin went to Hefei together and gathered with Lu Su in the General Mansion.

Before Long Xiang had time to spread the military information, Liu Fu's scouts sent an urgent report from Chaisang, saying that Lü Meng led the main force of the navy to the west.

Lu Su's eyes widened, and he reminded Long Xiang loudly.

"Yunqi, Lu Meng may want to go to Fancheng."

"Hmm."

Long Xiang nodded with a serious face: "I think so too, this is in line with Sun Quan's character"

Lu Su asked, "What should we do?" ”

"How?"

Zhang Zhao saw Long Xiang frowning and pondering, and looked at Lu Su in surprise.

"Zijing and the general have been preparing for so long, isn't it just to fight Yuzhang? At present, Lu Meng led the naval army to flee. No, the navy is Sun Zhongmou's last reliance, how could he take it to Fancheng for no reason? He is not afraid that we will take advantage of the situation, this must be Lu Meng's plan."

Lu Su shook his head and sighed: "Cao Cao has ordered Cao Ren to be the vanguard, leading 100,000 troops to Nanyang to crusade against Guan Yunchang, Lu Meng may go to Fancheng to take advantage of the fire to rob, maybe he will take advantage of the chaos to capture the territory of Jingzhou, in short, it is unlikely for us." ”

"Isn't that right?"

Zhang Zhao spread his hands in front of everyone, and said in his heart that he was sleepy, Lu Meng sent a pillow, why don't you hurry up and catch it with both hands?

But seeing that Long Xiang was still worried, Zhang Zhao gave up his hand and said:

"General Yunqi, Danyang, Wujun, and Huiji are now stable, and it should be no big problem for Guangling to have Lu Boyan to guard against it;

At this time, Sun Zhong should be destroyed as soon as possible to occupy Yangzhou, and then take advantage of the opportunity of Liu Bei and Cao Cao's battle in Nanyang to send troops to seize the four counties of Jingnan and Jiaozhou, and then rely on the Yangtze River moat and the advantages of the water army;

Maybe you can divide the world with Liu Bei and Cao Cao, and if Liu Bei is finally destroyed by Cao Cao, you can also divide the world with Cao Cao and divide the world in two."

Long Xiang has been good to Zhang Cheng in the past two years, and Zhang Zhao reciprocated Li for planning the future for Long Xiang.

It's a pity that he didn't know Long Xiang's ambition, and his kindness was used in the wrong place.

"Zibu, everyone."

Long Xiang solemnly saluted everyone with a fist, and said with a serious face: "Long is from a humble background, and he has no ambition to swallow the sky, and he is still interested in the Han family at this time, so he will not take advantage of the chaos to expand." ”

"Heart to the Han Chamber?"

Zhang Zhao squinted his eyes and asked in a low voice: "The Son of Heaven is in Xu, could it be that General Fei wants to vote for Cao Cao?" ”

Long Xiang was stunned at first, and then asked rhetorically: "Cao Cao bullied the master, his name is Han Xiang, but he is actually a thief, and I have a father's enmity with him?" You tell me? ”

(End of chapter)