Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 522 Preparations
Time is like flowing water, the cold winter is getting deeper, and it is snowing heavily in a blink of an eye.

Outside Shouchun City, there is a vast expanse of green, the mountains are covered with silver, and the earth has been replaced with a white blanket.It's really white and clean!

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, it is not suitable to use troops, but Liu Yu is still actively preparing for the war.Of course, Huainan and Jiangdong do not need to be described in detail. The soldiers are all sharpening their swords and waiting for the next spring to leave for Jingzhou.They practice hard every day, sweating all over the place, the big steamed buns they gnaw, and the large pieces of meat they eat are all consumed, which shows how much they hate training.

Sometimes, they also fought in actual combat, and batch after batch went to the front to fight a battle.The soldiers from Jiangdong went to Jingnan and fought with Liu Pan a few times; or went to the Jiaozhou border to fight a few times with Jiaozhou soldiers.As for other methods, there is no other way, the bandits have already been exterminated, and Shanyue has almost surrendered.Jiangdong is full of vitality.

The Huainan soldiers naturally went to Shangcai for actual combat, the distance was close, and they could be trained.Of course, he also pretended to fight against Jingzhou soldiers.

The soldiers practiced hard, and the logistics team also worked hard.The craftsmen in the weapons workshop worked almost day and night in order to manufacture weapons as soon as possible.Bows and arrows, knives and guns, and catapults for siege, there are too many weapons to be made, and the quantity is required, so they have to hurry up.There are naturally some stocks, but those that cannot be moved, even in the battle of Xuzhou, Liu Yu did not embezzle too much.

Those weapons were used for the Northern Expedition, and they will never be used now.

In addition to weapons, there are food, horses, etc. There are too many things to prepare for a war.

Of course, in addition to those war materials, Liu Yu also needs to discuss with Zhuge Liang in order to better cooperate.If they don't cooperate well, there may be troubles in Jingzhou.This is absolutely not allowed by Liu Yu. He will not allow the Xuzhou Rebellion to recur, let alone Liu Pan's accident.

So, he sent Jia Xu to talk to Zhuge Liang.

It feels absolutely cool to control a state alone, so Zhuge Liang doesn't quite agree with Liu Yu's capture of Jingzhou first.Of course, that was just a subconscious thought. He still had his own reasons why he didn't want Liu Yu to take Jingzhou first.

In his plan, he led his army to attack Yizhou in the coming year, attracted Yizhou's troops, and then let Liu Ye take the opportunity to capture Yizhou.In this way, both Jingzhou and Yizhou came under Liu Yu's command, and they were still secretly, so it can be said to be an ambush.At that time, the Northern Expedition will definitely be enough for Yuan Shang and even Cao Cao to drink a pot.

The plan was good, really good, but Liu Yu refused.Because he suddenly realized that power can corrode a person and change the heart.Jingzhou and Yizhou, these are two states, God knows if Zhuge Liang will rebel at that time.

Yes, in history, Zhuge Liang is a representative term for loyal ministers. He dedicated himself to death, so loyal.But Liu Yu was still worried. He would rather spend more effort on his own, kill more people and confront Cao Cao head-on, rather than hand over his fate to others.

It is better for me to bear others than for others to bear me.

Cao Cao's words are not wrong, as it should be for a hero.

In this way, Zhuge Liang gave up his plan at most and fully cooperated with Liu Yu's plan.But he added a lot of details. After all, he has controlled Jingzhou for many years and knows a lot better than others.

Finally, the strategy of defeating Jingzhou was finally determined.

Of course, before the arrival of spring, neither Liu Yu nor Zhuge Liang could make any big moves. It would be bad to be discovered.But in private, they are constantly making small moves, constantly preparing for the war in the coming year.

Liu Yu, for example, secretly ordered Zhang Liao to make preparations and keep an eye on Jushou when the war started next year.Liu Yu was very sure that if there was chaos in Jingzhou, Jushou would definitely take action, and even asked Yuan Shang to send troops.Therefore, he must take precautions before they happen, so as not to be in a hurry at that time.

For another example, Zhuge Liang kept dispatching troops and generals, seemingly defending Liu Yu, but in fact he had already aimed his troops at Jingnan.In addition, he secretly contacted some gentry in Jingnan.Not all the gentry in Jingnan took refuge in the Kuai family.

While these things were going on in secret, Liu Yu also sent people to Yizhou, and the people he sent were not ordinary people, but Zhuge Jin.

When Zhuge Jin entered Shu, he talked about two things, one in a stately way, the person who talked about it was Liu Zhang, and the thing he talked about was the matter of sharing food in Jingzhou.However, this matter did not go well. Liu Zhang really had no ambitions at all, and he only wanted to guard Yizhou.

At that time, Zhuge Jin was dumbfounded in front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. There is such a state shepherd, really...

Fortunately, it was Zhuge Jin who came to Yizhou. If it was someone else, I'm afraid I don't know what to do.But Zhuge Jin was not in a mess. After returning to the post house, he immediately visited several important officials of Liu Zhang, understood them with reason, moved them with emotion, and persuaded them all overnight.

Ever since, in the early morning of the next day, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty persuaded Liu Zhang to send troops. Can Liu Zhang not send troops?
Zhuge Jin completed the first thing without any risk.The second thing is much simpler.He found an opportunity to visit Fazheng secretly, and then told Fazheng Liu Yu's order, and the matter was successfully completed.

After Fazheng sent Zhuge Jin away, his whole body became excited.This incident has twists and turns, and it is finally coming to an end. His Fazheng is finally going to make a contribution!
All winter, Liu Yu was preparing.

In fact, apart from the two wonderful princes of Yizhou and Jiaozhou, which other princes are not preparing for war?

Yuan Shang is actively preparing for the battle, in order to deal with Cao Cao in the coming year.Cao Cao is also preparing for the battle, while fighting Ke Bi Neng, while preparing for the battle urgently.Cao Cao was really urgent, his eyes were not only on Yuan Shang, but also on Liu Yu.

As if they had a tacit understanding, both Cao Cao and Liu Yu smelled each other's ambitions and felt each other's heartbeat.

Therefore, Cao Cao is also preparing for war, in order to deal with Yuan Shang, and even more to deal with Liu Yu.

The heavy snow went from shallow to deep, and then from deep to shallow, burying a winter in a blink of an eye.

After the winter snow disappears, early spring is coming.

Liu Yu started to prepare, and he was not idle this winter. Although he was in Shouchun, he did not enjoy himself, but kept training himself, and dealt with political affairs every day.

On this day, before people got busy, Liu Yu had already summoned civil and military officials, obviously making a big move.Those civil and military groups, such as Lu Xun and Xu Chu, immediately became happy when they received Liu Yu's order, knowing that war was coming.

These guys are born for war, let them shuttle in the smoke of war, they will be full of energy; let them lie at home and enjoy the blessings, but they will be listless.Not only them, but also Liu Yu.

In the afternoon, the sky was gray, and there was still some winter cold, it should be called spring cold.And in such weather, Shouchun's group of civil and military personnel came to the palace one after another in twos and threes.

The wind is cold, but their hearts are warm.

(End of this chapter)