The Three Kingdoms are invincible

The stars move, the years change, and now it is the first month of the tenth year of Han Jian'an (205 A.D.).

The people of Xudu are immersed in the joy of the New Year. Thanks to Cao Cao's clear and bright administration, at least the people in Xuchang City can still live and work in peace and contentment in this troubled world, and they can also enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of the New Year.

Two years have passed since the third-front war. In the first year, Cao Cao thoroughly implemented the policy of rest and recuperation. Apart from dealing with a few internal political enemies, he did not take any external actions.

But in the second year, that is, the ninth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao resolutely launched a full-scale attack on Jingzhou.

In that three-front battle, although Cao Cao suffered considerable losses, Ma Teng, Liu Biao, and Sun Jian also suffered losses.

Cao Cao sits on the entire north and has a profound foundation. Naturally, his vitality recovers faster than other princes.A year has passed, and Cao Cao's army has been replenished seven to eighty-eight. In addition, Cao's army has a lot of generals who are good at training. Even the newly recruited soldiers have a good combat power after a period of time.As for Jingzhou and other places, it is not so optimistic. Not to mention the small number of troops replenished, the combat power of the new army is not high.Cao Cao, Guo Jia and other counselors decided after discussion that they should take advantage of the opportunity when their own strength had recovered slightly while the strength of the other princes had not yet recovered, to launch an offensive and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Cao Cao's primary goal is Jingzhou, because Jingzhou is the one that recovers the slowest among the princes of the three parties.

Before the three-front war, Jingzhou had 20 troops, but [-] of them were sailors.

Of the remaining [-] troops, Liu Biao sent [-] to attack Wancheng. As a result, the entire army was wiped out.

Within a year, Liu Biao recruited only 2 new troops, and the combat power of these 2 people was extremely low.

Now is the best time to attack Jingzhou. Although Jingzhou has a total army strength of 15, the [-] navy can only move across the Yangtze River. Wan Xinjun.

In other words, if Cao Cao attacked Jingzhou at this time, he would mainly face only [-] infantry.

Cao Cao personally led an army of [-], and with Xiahou Dun, Zhao Yun, Zhang Yun, Yu Jin and others as generals, he went south to attack Jingzhou.

In the previous three-front war, although the situation was very urgent for Cao Cao, after all, his subordinates were full of talents, and there would be generals who failed to make meritorious service on the battlefield.Furthermore, during the third front war, the situation in Xuchang was also very unclear. Seeing that Cao Cao was in crisis, various forces were ready to move, and they were all looking for opportunities to make trouble.These forces more or less have their own power, if they cause chaos together, the consequences will be unimaginable, Cao Cao needs to have sufficient force around him, enough to deal with all disturbances, and ensure that Xuchang will not fall into chaos.

And this time when he attacked Jingzhou, Cao Cao brought the generals who had not participated in the war in the previous war, so that they had the opportunity to make meritorious deeds and be promoted.

The attack on Jingzhou was very smooth at the beginning. The only [-] infantry troops in Jingzhou that could be relied on were easily wiped out by Zhang Ying's euphorbia soldiers, Xiahou Dun, Zhao Yun and other troops. overwhelmed.The flustered Liu Biao added to the confusion in his haste, and transferred half of the navy guarding Jiangxia to the north of Jingzhou. As a result, this group of navy troops was too weak in land combat. Defeat the [-] navy.

Xinye fell, Fancheng fell, and even Xiangyang couldn't hold it in the end, and fell into the hands of Cao Jun. Liu Biao fled to Jiangling under the desperate protection of a group of guards.

But there were only [-] Jiangling defenders left in total. Cao Cao's army attacked, and not only the city was destroyed.

At this time, Liu Biao fell into complete despair. He had owned Jingzhou for so many years, but he still couldn't keep it, and eventually changed hands.

However, just when Cao Cao thought he could take all of Jingzhou into his pocket, Sun Jian suddenly stepped in.

Thanks to Liu Biao, he transferred half of the navy, which greatly reduced Jiangxia's defensive capabilities.Naturally, Zhou Yu would not let go of this opportunity, and immediately led a heavy army to take down Jiang Xia in one go.

After occupying Jiangxia, Zhou Yu was not satisfied, and soon turned his attention to the four counties in southern Jing-Changsha, Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang.

Jingzhou's military strength has long been dwarfed by comparison, and almost all the soldiers who could be pulled to the front line from the rear have been transferred away, leaving only 4000 to [-] people in each city to deal with possible barbarian riots.Under such circumstances, the four counties in Jingnan were naturally unable to deal with the invasion of Sun Jian's army and fell one by one.

And it was Zhang Fei and Chen Dao who captured the four counties in Jingnan!Although they are unwilling to be Zhou Yu's pawns, as long as Liu Bei is still in Jiangdong, they have no choice.

After Cao Cao captured Jiangling, captured Liu Biao and a group of important officials in Jingzhou, he also learned that Sun Jian's army had captured the four counties of Jiangxia and Jingnan, and he was of course furious about this.

After fighting so hard by himself, Sun Jian actually took the opportunity to pick the fruits of victory, which is tolerable or unbearable!

However, Zhou Yu's defenses in Jiangxia were very tight. Originally, in the third-line war, Jiangdong suffered the least loss.After the food and grass were burned, the Jiangdong army retreated without hesitation. Compared with the annihilated Jingzhou army, the Jiangdong army was able to preserve a lot of strength, so it is not afraid to face Cao Cao now.

Although Cao Cao's strength at this time was still much stronger than Sun Jian's, but his goal for this trip was only on Liu Biao's Jingzhou, and he didn't expect Jiangdong to make a move, so he only brought an army of 10.If it is to fight against Jiangdong with all its strength, then Sun Jian is naturally not Cao Cao's opponent, but now Cao Cao has only [-] troops around him. It is not that simple to get cheap in front of Jiangdong's army.

You must know that Zhou Yu also brought almost [-] troops with him on this expedition, and there are many generals around him.Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai, Tai Shici and other Jiangdong famous generals should all appear on the battlefield, plus Zhang Fei and Chen Dao, it can be said that there are many generals.In terms of military strength, the Cao and Sun armies are similar, and the strength of the generals of the two sides is not much different, and the combat power of the two sides on the battlefield is almost equal.Cao Cao attacked Jiangxia several times, but in the end he returned in vain and lost two generals.

Cao Cao knew that the troops he brought during this trip would not be able to defeat Sun Jian's army and swallow the entire Jingzhou. He could only withdraw his troops first after deploying defensive forces in Jiangling and Nanjun.

Cao Cao couldn't attack Jiangxia, but Zhou Yu couldn't further attack Nanjun, so the huge Jingzhou was divided equally between Cao Cao and Sun Jian.