?Compared with Sima Yi's easy response, Sun Jian's performance in Jiangdong is a bit intriguing.-.

Although Sun Quan sent troops from Yichun to Changsha, although he was unanimously recognized by Jiangdong, many civil and military subordinates only retained their personal opinions and did not fully support Sun Quan's expansion strategy. Now Sun Quan was defeated under the joint siege of Li Yan and Huo Jun, and the debate within Jiangdong on whether to fight or to be harmonious has become fierce again.

The Xiong Ju army, who was originally stationed in Youzhou, was suddenly transferred from the northeast region to Xuzhou, which caused the surrounding areas that had originally maintained balanced forces to fall into speculation and doubts. Even Sun Jian, who was south of the Yangtze River, could not remain indifferent. After all, the Xiong Ju army defeated the opponents of all sides one after another in the battle to defend Bingzhou. Later, the Xiong Ju army killed all sides in the battle to quell the Youzhou Rebellion, which attracted people from all over the world. The Xiong Ju army was a highly offensive infantry army, and no one dared to take it lightly.

The arrival of Xiong Ju army in Xuzhou is still secondary. The key is that Zhao Xing's attitude is hard to understand.

Until now, Zhao Xing seemed to be only interested in hosting the National Games and parades everywhere, and ignored any other matters. If Sima Yi of Yizhou had not provoked Liang Kingdom very much, Zhao Xing would probably not have even made any effort to make a statement in the newspaper, let alone expect him to express some personal opinions on the filth between Jingzhou and the Eastern Wu.

Sun Jian wanted to take advantage of Zhao Xing's arrival in Xuzhou to send a secret envoy to test Zhao Xing's attitude. As a result, after Zhao Xing caught Xiong Ju's army in Donghai County, he took a boat to Qingzhou without looking back. Now he doesn't know where he was floating on the sea.

From the news sent back by the spies sent to Jingzhou, the people in Jiangdong could feel that Zhao Xing supported Liu Biao in confronting Yizhou, but it is unknown whether Zhao Xing supported Liu Biao in confronting Wuzhou. At least when Li Yan and Huo Jun's troops were besieging Sun Quan, they did not use gunpowder to deal with Wu Yi and Jia Long in Yiling like Huang Zhong.

Sun Jian is in a dilemma now. He wants to lead his troops to attack Liu Biao and get the face lost by Sun Quan, but he is also worried that Wuzhou has just set up a large army to attack Jingzhou. Xiong Jujun, who arrived in Xuzhou, will take the opportunity to cross the river and dig out his own nest. Although Wuzhou and Jin have secretly maintained an ally relationship, if Zhao Xing put the shit pot that sent troops without authorization on the head of Tao Qian, the Muslim Mu, Sun Jian has no place to ask for advice.

Wuzhou has accumulated over the years and still has a force of dispatching 100,000 troops, but in recent years, in order to conquer Jiaozhou and suppress Shanyue's resistance, some of the forces have been sent out. Now the forces left to Wu County are only 50,000. The 30,000 troops taken away by Sun Quan were recruited by him in Yuzhang County. Although he did not use the main force of the Eastern Wu, he emptied the reserve forces of Yuzhang County in disguise. If Sun Quan still wanted to regain the place by himself, he could only attack the idea of ​​recruiting troops to Nanhai County and Kuaiji County.

The biggest controversy within Jiangdong is whether to continue to attack Jiaozhou south or to retaliate against Jingzhou west. Lu Su and others' opinions were to endure the losses suffered in Jingzhou this time and develop honestly to the south. After all, Wuzhou was in the front and Jingzhou turned against him later, and Wuzhou was the one who was in the disadvantage. Sun Quan's idea was to temporarily stop attacking Jingzhou, first send troops to capture Jiaozhou Cangwu County, and then detour from Cangwu to Feng Cheng and then fight Guiyang.

After some discussion, Sun Jian adopted a relatively compromise strategy this time. He submitted a statement to the court to ask the title of General of the Southern Conquest for his eldest son Sun Ce, and then allocated 30,000 troops from southern Wuzhou to Sun Ce, and asked generals such as Zhou Yu, Zhu Heng, Ding Feng to obey Sun Ce, and asked Sun Ce to replace Sun Quan to manage Nanhai County and its surrounding areas in Jiaozhou.

In order to prevent Sun Quan from continuing to go out to cause trouble for himself, Sun Jian took Sun Quan's military power and kept him by his side, taught him sooner or later, and often admonished him, and kept him by his side when he entered and left, hoping that through the influence of old ministers such as Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and Zhu Zhi, Sun Quan's overly sharp aura could be wiped away.

People with a heart will naturally pay attention to these changes that have occurred within Jiangdong, and even secretly make trouble, hoping that a rift between Sun Jian and his son and brothers will be completely involved in civil strife.

In order to alleviate Sun Jian's doubts, Zhang Liao of Xuzhou arranged the new Xiong Ju Army in the Wuyuan area near Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and transferred the Dragon Cavalry Army that was originally stationed here to Huailing City. The Qinghua Army that was originally stationed in Huailing suddenly disappeared without a trace. Judging from the news sent by Sun Jian to the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Qinghua Army did not appear in Guangling County, and it was obviously not targeting Jiangdong, which made Sun Jian feel a little more stable.

Zhuge Liang, who was in Yangzhou, found that Sun Jian did not want to get entangled with Jingzhou anymore, while Liu Biao easily resolved the threat from the Eastern Wu. He was likely to gather troops to deal with the Yizhou invading troops in Yiling. This result exceeded his expectations and Liu Bei, so he offered another plan to Liu Bei.

Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei mediate the relationship between Liu Biao and Sun Jian, and at the same time sell personal favors to Liu Biao and Sun Jian, find ways to alienate the relationship between Liu Biao and Jin, so that Liu Biao will be vigilant against Zhao Xing, and at the same time, it will destroy the alliance between Eastern Wu and Jin, and win Wuzhou into the imperial camp.

After receiving Zhuge Liang's letter, Liu Bei thought about it repeatedly and finally thought of a plan to disagree with Liu Biao and Jin State and Sun Jian State at the same time. However, this plan was too despicable. Once it was discovered that it was his work, it would have a great adverse impact on Liu Bei's reputation.

Liu Bei then came to Cao Cao to discuss the matter, but Cao Cao and Liu Bei had a surprisingly similar view. Cao Cao also felt that the most urgent task was to destroy the alliance between Sun Jian and Zhao Xing, and finally make the Eastern Wu and Jin rebelled from then on, so that the court could concentrate on dealing with Liu Biao in Jingzhou.

Cheng Yu, a counselor under Cao Cao, suggested that a court-led peace talks might as well be held in Shouchun, Yangzhou, and asked Liu Biao and Sun Jian to send special envoys to attend at the same time to mediate the relationship between the two families, then secretly ambush the troops, secretly assassinate when the envoys from both sides return to their garrisons, and finally blame Jin. In this way, as long as one of Jingzhou and Wuzhou turns against Jin, it will be considered a great achievement.

In the event that the truth cannot be found, according to the principle of "who benefits, who is in charge", Jin State is the party who least wants to see Jingzhou, Wuzhou and Yangzhou reach a non-aggression agreement, because in this way, it is equivalent to Jingzhou and Wuzhou showing goodwill to the court at the same time and leaving Jin aside.

Of course, Sun Jian and Liu Biao are not stupid either. If the court cannot show enough sincerity, it will be very difficult to impress Liu Biao and Sun Jian to go to Shouchun for a peace talk.

However, this is not a problem for Cao Cao and Liu Bei. They don’t have anything else in their hands now, but they can grab all kinds of official hats at a large hand. As long as they pick out two of the larger ones and throw them to Sun Jian and Liu Biao, they can still have a certain effect. Please see if there is no advertisement in the first release--.

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