Obviously, Ma Tan's last thoughtful advice to Sun Quan was very effective. After some hesitation, Ma Tong said that he would dissuade Wu Hou when he went back.

The task in the north is still very heavy, so you should stay in the north and fight. Xiangfan doesn't seem to be so difficult, there is no need to go to the south to delay time for this little thing.

In addition to this matter, the discussion between Ma Jian and Ma Tong went quite smoothly. Ma Tan agreed that if he could, he would send troops to attack Runan, and even his troops would attack Cao Wei in Lujiang.

And Ma Tong also said that the main force of Soochow would soon be exhausted and launch the Northern Expedition from the northeast of the Yangtze River. The soldiers and horses of the two sides joined forces to deal with each other, and together they dealt with the big hooligan Cao Wei in the north.

This temporary combat alliance was temporarily decided, but Ma Jian also sent someone to Shu Han to ask for instructions. As for Ma Tong, after discussing with Ma Tan, he immediately went back to report to him.

For Sun Quan, this is basically his distance from Hefei...... In other words, this is the closest he has come to the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

At this time, it is worth mentioning why Sun Quan kept knocking Hefei to death.

In fact, after Sun Quan took possession of Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, he had a total of three routes of the Northern Expedition.

One is to start from Jiangling and send the main force from Jingxiang North Province to advance along with Hanshui by water, and go north to attack Xiangfan.

But this road only needs to look at the map, and basically it is no. From Shinno to the north, it is basically all land, and there are dangerous passes along the way.

Not to mention Xiangfan, who blocked Guan Erye back then, Xinye and Wancheng to the north were enough to make Dongwu return in vain. And even if Nanyang is defeated, the military strength of Dongwu cannot be consolidated, or it will not be long before Cao Wei's counterattack will basically have to be spit out again.

Only Shu Han's side, for the sake of the overall situation in Guanzhong, had to use his main force to smash Nanyang.

The other is from the direction of Jianye, going north to Guangling from Danyang County, and directly attacking the boundary of Xuzhou. However, the roads here are rugged, the swamps are dense, the navy cannot pass, the army is difficult to move forward, and the logistics are extremely difficult to guarantee.

From Danyang to Guangling, it is only in the dry season that there is the possibility of a large army marching north. However, this window period is very short, only two or three months, which is not enough to support the Northern Expedition of Eastern Wu.

To the north of Jiangxia and Lujiang is the Turtle Mountain (now known as Dabie Mountain), which stretches for thousands of miles, and it is impossible for the army to pass through it.

So what is really left for Dongwu is actually the only way to take Jiujiang County to attack Shouchun, and Hefei is the only way for him!

After conquering Hefei, the army of Soochow could reach Shouchun directly. Since then, their invincible naval army has officially entered Huai, and with the help of the naval force, Dongwu can quickly pry the entire Huainan.

But if Hefei can't be defeated, Dongwu is basically in a state where it can't be used, and it is suffocated to death in the southeast.

It is precisely because of this that since Cao Wei's side attacked Zhang Liao, basically the strategic focus of the Eastern Front has been on Hefei.

It turned out that there was nothing wrong with such a strategy, and even at the beginning they had a very large military redundancy in their defenses. More than 100,000 people from Dongwu came over to look quite bluffing, but in fact, there was no threat to Hefei at all.

This time, after Manzhong led the main force of Huainan to the west, he was shot to death by the Shu army under the city of Kunyang. The entire Huainan defense line is no longer airtight, and Sun Quan naturally has an idea again.

Of course, he actually has thoughts about Shu Han, but Wuling is on guard, so he has no choice but to continue to calculate Hefei.

After Ma Tong went back to report to Sun Quan, Ma Jian also began a new round of strategic deployment.

It is unlikely that it will continue to defend Kunyang, and when the Wei army recovers and begins to smash Kunyang steadily, the fall of Kunyang will enter the countdown. If you really fight for your family, Shu Han will definitely lose the game.

Especially Wancheng's side doesn't know when it will be captured, and the Guanzhong Wei army in Wuguan may attack at any time.

All of this made Ma Jian have to make new deployments and fight more flexibly with the Wei army.

"Go and call Wang Ping, Ma Zhong and others are coming, I have something important to discuss!" Ma Tan groaned, called his personal guards, and went to summon the generals of Kunyang to come and discuss important matters.

Wang Ping and Ma Zhong were all ordered to come, and after seeing Ma Tan, Ma Jian also explained the people sent by Dongwu and their intentions.

"Now Dongwu will do its best to besiege Hefei with all its might, trying to open up the lead road to Shouchun." Ma Tan spread his hands and said to the two,

"Although their combat strength is not very good, it is not bad to use it to contain the Wei army. So I agreed to their alliance and was sent to Chengdu for instructions. ”

"These generals are responsible, and we have no objection!" Wang Ping arched his hand and said very calmly.

"I don't have any problems, just don't let me go to fight side by side with soldiers and horses in Dongwu." Ma Zhong scratched his head and replied as well.

He was originally a general of Eastern Wu, but now he has become a general of Shu Han, and it always feels strange and embarrassing to meet the previous soldiers and horses.

"However, I obviously can't continue to sit in Kunyang in the future, I need to lead some troops and horses to the east to contain the movement of the Wei army in Runan." Ma Tan continued,

"I need to take some soldiers and horses out of the east, and Kunyang needs you to take over the change of defense. In this way, the forces will be apportioned, if the Wei army rushes to Kunyang......"

"Rest assured to lead the troops into battle, general, just leave Kunyang to me." Wang Ping immediately arched his hand and opened his mouth to reassure Ma Yan,

"As long as so-and-so is still there, Wei Jun won't want to climb to the top of Kunyang City!"

"There is so-and-so, make sure that the generals of the pseudo-Wei will die one by one!" Ma Zhong also patted his badge and reassured.

just shot a Cao Wei governor, and Ma Zhong is now full of confidence. It is said that the new Wang Ling is the assassin of Yanzhou and is also a big official, and Ma Zhong has already calculated how to shoot him.

"That's good." Ma Jian nodded slightly, since Wang Ping and everyone agreed, then he could rest assured that he would attack Runan.

"But if the Wei army in Wuguan makes any moves, you must send someone to tell me. At that time, I will come back quickly and personally deal with the Wei army that came to attack in Guanzhong! ”

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In November, when Wang Ling, the assassin of Yanzhou in Cao Wei, arrived in Dingling and began to gather the Huainan Wei army with all his might, preparing to attack Kunyang again, an urgent war report suddenly arrived in Dingling.

After the defeat in Hefei at the beginning of the year, the Dongwu direction crossed the Yangtze River again in less than half a year.

This time, Soochow dispatched the largest number of troops in history, a total of 150,000 troops, and the soldiers came by two routes.

Lu Xun, the governor of the capital, led 50,000 troops from Shicheng to the north and went straight to the counties of Lujiang. And the Han Dynasty Wu Marquis Sun Quan led 100,000 troops out of Dongguan and went straight to Hefei.

The Huainan battlefield suddenly became urgent on all fronts, which Cao Wei did not expect. However, a piece of information that made Cao Wei panic even more appeared,

Ma Tan of Kunyang suddenly divided his troops and led the Shu army to take advantage of the inability of the Huainan Wei army to attack, and suddenly led his troops south. With the help of the power of the Eight Ox Crossbows, the Shu army quickly conquered Wuyang and went south to Runan County.

Shu and Wu have cooperated!

(End of chapter)