Sun Quan's original plan was to first make things difficult and then make things easier. As long as Jiangling is captured, the foundation of the Li Qi Group will be shaken. Not only will the morale of the Li Qi Group be greatly disturbed, but the four counties in Jingnan will also be able to attack in one go because they cannot get reinforcements.

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Now that Jiangling has not been able to chew it down, it can only eat it one bite at a time from Guiyang, Changsha and other counties.

Fortunately, Lu Su's loss in the Public Security City was not too great, and the Public Security City basically lost its defensive capabilities. He only needed to station an army outside the Public Security City, so the troops of the Li Qi Group would not dare to leave the city easily, and they could also

As a result, the four counties in Jingnan were unable to receive reinforcements.

At the same time, Lu Su attacked from north to south and Sun Quan from east to west, attacking the four counties of Jingnan from two directions. This also forced the four counties of Jingnan to divide their forces to respond, thus weakening the resistance of the four counties of Jingnan.

However, when the public security situation was in danger and Jiangling could not send reinforcements, the four counties in Jingnan still did not go north to provide support, and the only defense was Sun Quan's hand.

Now, Pan Rui led Shamoko and Fan Zhou sent 30,000 Wuxi barbarians to Xiaoling to defend the enemy. In Jin, Zulang also gathered 20,000 horses and waited in Ancheng for Sun Quan's personal expedition.

But he said that Yu Jin had been placed in Guiyang County since he surrendered to Li Qi. Even though Li Qi was fighting fiercely with Cao Cao in the north, Yu Jin was not used.

Yu Jin once thought that this was Li Qi's distrust of him and his mentality was quite negative.

However, Li Qi thought that Yu Jin could be regarded as a good general among the Five Sons, and sent many private messages to comfort Yu Jin.

Li Qi said that Cao Cao was your old master no matter what. Although Wen Ze (Yu Jinzi) abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, he didn't know how the history books of later generations would discuss Wen Ze. If Wen Ze was given up again, he would be waving his arms to his old master, fearing that Wen Ze would be unjust.

.Although I have an alliance with Sun Quan, Wen Ze must not think that the four counties of Jingnan are as safe as Mount Tai. Sun Quan is a capricious person, so we should always be vigilant. This is an important task, and Wen Ze must not be careless.

When Yu Jin saw the letter, although he felt that Li Qi's handwriting was a bit ugly, it was enough to show that Li Qi regarded himself as his own, so he wrote this ugly letter to himself.

Later, after Jia Xu surrendered to Li Qi, he was also left in Jiangling. For such an important matter as the attack on Chang'an, Li Qi did not let Jia Xu accompany him, which allowed Yu Jin's psychology to be completely balanced.

When Lu Su attacked the Public Security Bureau, Zu Lang asked whether he wanted to send troops north to assist the Public Security Bureau.

Due to Li Qi's reminder and his own work, Yu Jin rejected Zu Lang's proposal and insisted on sticking to Guiyang. At the same time, he strengthened his troops and asked Liu Min to rectify the logistics and be ready at all times.

Now Sun Quan personally brought an army of 50,000 and led Zhou Tai, Lu Dai, Jiang Qin and others to attack Guiyang. It can be said that Yu Jin's sword was already hungry and thirsty.

Yu Jin believed that Zhang Liao could resist Sun Quan at Hefei and prevent him from taking a step north. So it was natural for him to block Sun Quan by himself and prevent him from taking a step west.

At the same time, Deng Ai and Liao Hua were also thinking about whether to send troops to support the war in Jingnan, but before doing so, they must first get rid of Xu Sheng's troops outside the Public Security City.

Liao Hua said: "Now that Lu Su is going south, only Xu Sheng's 10,000 soldiers and horses are left here. If Shizai leads 8,000 Yizhou soldiers to the south for reinforcements and leaves 7,000 Yizhou soldiers in Gong'an City, Hua will be able to keep Gong'an City safe."

Deng Ai said: "Xu Sheng stationed troops outside the city just to threaten the public security and prevent our army from going south for reinforcements. Now that I am leading a group of troops to go south, Xu Sheng will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to attack the public security. When the time comes, I will return to attack Yuan Jian from both inside and outside. Xu Sheng will

Sheng can be captured. After Xu Sheng is destroyed, it will not be too late to send reinforcements southward."

Liao Hua said: "Shizai is young and has many strange plans. He is really a role model for our generation."

If the original historical trajectory were followed, both Liao Hua and Deng Ai would have lived to the end of the Three Kingdoms period.

However, Deng Ai was able to live to the end of the Three Kingdoms because he came into being very late, while Liao Hua witnessed the entire process of the Three Kingdoms from birth to destruction.

Liao Hua's ability to live for such a long time is inseparable from his ability to learn and accumulate experience. The most important thing is that Liao Hua is obedient and low-key, so it is not easy to attract the attention of both the enemy and ourselves.

Deng Ai was the complete opposite. Deng Ai was extremely talented and showed his talents in the battle with Jiang Wei. He also sneaked into Yinping, destroyed the Shu Kingdom, and achieved unparalleled achievements.

Deng Ai's series of operations were too dazzling. Not only was he envied and hated by his colleague Zhong Hui, but his master was Sima Zhao, an old yin. It was really not easy to live for a long time.

Just now, when Liao Hua, who was Li Qi's direct descendant and had followed Li Qi through life and death for a long time, praised Deng Ai, Deng Ai did not mean to be modest. Instead, he said: "Then do as I say."

Fortunately, Liao Hua is a low-key and down-to-earth person and does not care about these details.

In Liao Hua's view, Deng Ai did have more clever ideas than he did, and he should learn from him.

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Considering that both Wei Yan and Ma Chao were relatively strong, and Ma Chao was superior to Wei Yan in terms of military power, and was regarded as the "Mighty General" in the hearts of Qiang Qi, Li Qi was afraid that it would be difficult for them to check and balance each other, so he asked Ma Chao to

, Ma Dai stationed the Qiang cavalry in Linjin, supporting each other with Huayin and Wei Yan, but they did not stay together every day.

At the same time, Li Qi's original attack on Huayin was based on siege, so how could he dare to put all his troops in one city of Huayin without fearing that Cao Cao would do what he did to others?

Just as Li Qi was returning home, Cao Cao summoned the generals to discuss whether to take advantage of Li Qi's return to the south to recapture Huayin.

Cao Pi said: "I heard that the war in Jiangling was tense, and Li Qinan returned to frighten Sun Quan. Therefore, I think this is indeed a good opportunity to recapture Huayin."

Hua Xin said: "Otherwise. Li Qi clearly knew that we were stationing troops at Tongguan, but he acted as if we didn't exist and went south on his own. Could it be a ploy to lure the enemy?"

Cao Cao nodded: "Because we burned his fodder, Li Qi was forced to return 20,000 Qiang cavalry. He doesn't have many men in Huayin, and it is indeed abnormal to divide his troops and go south. Send an order to follow Li Qi closely.

Due to the whereabouts of Qi’s group of troops, troops are not allowed to attack Huayin for the time being.”

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just when Cao Cao was doubting, he had actually missed the best opportunity to capture Huayin.

Zhuge Liang has sent the first batch of fodder to Linjin, allowing the Qiang cavalry under Ma Chao to resume supply. At the same time, Zhuge Liang ordered Pang De to lead newly trained troops to Huayin to help Wei Yan defend the city. The Golden Triangle in Hanzhong was then defended.

(Wei Yan was the general, Pang De was the vanguard, and Xu Shu was the military advisor) they got together again, and even served as Ma Chao, Ma Dai in Linjin as reinforcement, and Zhuge Liang as the governor of logistics, which made it more difficult for Cao Cao to attack Huayin.

On Li Qi's way back to Jiangling, Zhao Yun asked: "We have worked so hard to capture Chang'an and Sanfu, aren't we afraid that Cao Cao will come and capture it again while we are away?"

Li Qidao: "It is not an easy task for us to capture Tongguan; similarly, it is also very difficult for Cao Cao to capture Huayin and further advance towards Chang'an Sanfu. In this Northern Expedition to Guanzhong, Cao Cao lost

After defeating Xu Huang, Xiahou Dun and other generals, it is estimated that he has no strength left. We are not aggressive enough and are too conservative. The most important thing now is to ask Sun Quan for an explanation."

Pang Tong echoed: "Yes, we agreed to marry the girl to the lord, but she was deceived back again."

Li Qi: "..."

It seems that when he is not fighting, Pang Tong's thinking becomes more out-of-the-box.

During the march, another envoy from Jingzhou came to report: "My lord, Deng Ai used Gan Ning's seal and ribbon, claiming to be General Yamen, defrauding Meng Da of his military power, and beheaded Meng Da and Deng Xian. Now he has recaptured the public security."

Pang Tong: "This stammer..."

Li Qi calmed down and said to the messenger who reported the news: "Go back to Jingzhou first and tell everyone that it is not Deng Shizai who claims to be General Yamen, but that I have secretly appointed Deng Shizai as General Yamen and act according to the opportunity."

The messenger was stunned for a moment. Although he could not understand it for a while, as a messenger, he just reported the news truthfully. Analysis of the information was a matter for the superstructure.

Zhou Cang was confused and asked: "I always accompany the lord, but I have never heard that the lord has such an appointment?"

Pang Tong smiled and said: "You don't understand. Deng Ai responded to the crisis and saved the situation in Jingzhou. It's not a big deal to appoint him as a Yamen general. But this kind of thing cannot happen again and again. So my lord said so

, has taken the initiative. If anyone dares to follow Deng Shizai's example in the future, it will all be decided by the lord's whim. If he wants to deal with you, he will say that you have acted beyond his authority or even had the intention of rebellion. If he doesn't want to deal with you, then I secretly appointed him in advance.

.You can’t say why Deng Ai wasn’t punished last time. Do you understand?”

Zhou Cang sighed: "Deng Shizai is young and has achieved such great success not long after he followed his lord. He deserves to be promoted faster than us."

Li Qi looked back at Zhou Cang and recalled that when he first came to this era, it was all thanks to Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao for taking him in, and it was also thanks to these two men and their men who captured the ancient city that he had a place to stay.

Although these two men have no knowledge or skills and do not have the ability to lead an army, they have been by his side for many years and have kept him safe, which is equally indispensable.

Over the years, you have gathered powerful counselors under your command. Isn’t it a bit embarrassing for these two people?

Thinking of this, Li Qidao said: "Why have you forgotten? I appointed you and Yuan Shao as the Military Guard Zhonglang General. Although the responsibilities are different from Deng Ai, the official position is not low."

General Wu Wei Zhonglang is similar to Xu Chu who is by Cao Cao's side today, except that when Cao Cao relied on himself as the prime minister, he gave Xu Chu a title within the Pass. However, the whole Pass was now occupied by Li Qi.

Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao looked at each other: "Is there any?"

Li Qidao: "Yes, I will issue you a formal appointment document when I return to Jiangling this time."

"Cough, cough." Pang Tong choked on the wind and sand, causing Li Qi to look back.

When Pang Tong saw Li Qi looking at him, he quickly waved his hand and said, "That's not what Tong meant. I really didn't mean that."

Li Qidao: "Hey, after Cao Cao sets a precedent for arrogance, it will be inevitable for everyone to have people from all over the country become marquises."

Pang Tong said anxiously: "Tong really doesn't mean that."

One day later, the southbound team arrived at Wuguan.

The guard of Wuguan at this time will be Yang Feng.

When Cao Zhang entered Tongguan, he did not expect to block Wuguan. However, Yang Feng blocked all the generals sent by Cao Zhang outside Wuguan, so Li Qi highly praised Yang Feng for guarding Wuguan.

Confirmed, he allocated another troop of troops to Yang Feng and ordered him to strengthen the defense of Wuguan.

At this time, another report came from Jingzhoutang: "Lu Su and Sun Quan attacked the four counties of Jingnan from the east and north. Pan Rui and Shamoke led the Wuxi barbarians to meet the enemy in the north, and Yu Jin, Zu Lang led the Jingzhou soldiers.

To meet the enemy from the east, Deng Ai and Liao Hua used a trick to defeat Xu Sheng's troops outside Gong'an City, and Deng Ai led an army of 8,000 to reinforce Jingnan."

Li Qi read the Tang newspaper and urged the three armies to move forward faster.

Pang Tong said: "Now that Sun Quan's main army is concentrated in Jingnan, why don't my lord write a letter to Cao Cao and order him to send troops from Xuzhou to attack Lujiang?"

Li Qi grasped the straw. How thick-skinned do you have to be to come up with such an idea?

You just fought to the death with Cao Cao, and even beheaded his Xiahou Dun. Now you turn around and ask for cooperation. Do you really think that he is a tool?

Li Qidao: "Sun Quan is capricious, and Cao Cao has no choice but to cooperate with him. Now that the opportunity has arisen, it depends on whether Cao Cao will seize it. If we revise the book for him, it will be a sign of weakness."

Li Qi's guess was correct. Cao Cao was not a vegetarian in his intelligence work. Cao Cao already knew the current situation in Jingzhou very well.

The question now is: take advantage of the opportunity to attack Sun Quan's Lujiang River? Or take advantage of Li Qi's absence to attack Huayin? Or return to Wancheng, kill Li Yan and Fa Zheng's troops first, and then take advantage of the opportunity to go south and share it equally with Sun Quan

Jingzhou.

Once there are so many choices, it becomes difficult to weigh the pros and cons.

Just like an exam essay, you are given a proposition composition and you can finish it in just two strokes. If you are not given a proposition, you are free to express yourself. You always want to find what you are best at. As a result, most of the time is spent just choosing the topic.

time.

Sima Yi analyzed: "In terms of the difficulty of forming defense facilities and troop deployment in the three places of Huayin, Jingbei and Lujiang, Huayin is the most difficult, Lujiang does not have many troops but has the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, followed by Jingbei.

Easiest; in terms of the threats that Li Qi and Sun Quan pose to us, Li Qi poses the greatest threat, followed by Sun Quan."

Zhong Yao originally supported fighting back to his hometown in Chang'an, but after Sima Yi said this, he planned to listen to other people's opinions.

At least judging from Sima Yi's analysis, he still tends to attack Li Qi. The only difference is whether to attack Huayin or Jingbei.

Hua Xin said: "What Zhongda said is true. Sun Quan and us are separated by the natural danger of the Yangtze River. We are not good at water warfare and our attack is at a disadvantage. Similarly, it is not easy for Sun Quan's southern soldiers to break away from the advantage of the navy and invade Xuzhou northward.

.The most urgent task is to unite with Sun Quan and kill Li Qi first. Then it will be much easier to deal with Sun Quan."

Cao Cao said: "You are right. But once Li Qi becomes weak, Sun Quan will turn around and attack us."

Cao Pi asked: "So what does father mean...to attack the Lujiang River?"

Cao Cao smiled and said: "Why must we fight? Now that Li Qi and Sun Quan are consuming each other, wouldn't it be better for us to watch the fire from the other side? One of the three forces must be destroyed first to break the balance. So I think that between Li Qi and Sun Quan,

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