The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 497
Although the situation in Jiangdong is very good now, because Liu Bei and Cao Cao are desperately fighting, Jiangdong has also gained a lot of benefits. At least Jiangdong has not lost much in this war. Compared with Cao Cao and Liu Bei, it can even be ignored.

After all, Cao Cao and Liu Bei lost countless soldiers in this battle, and consumed an astronomical amount of food and grass. It is foreseeable that Cao Cao and Liu Bei will not be able to conduct large-scale battles for a long time in the future because they have no food and grass. .

Especially Cao Cao, almost hurt his vitality. After all, Cao Cao was a real soldier, and the daily consumption of several armies was terrible.

Not to mention the loss of family background, there is no gain at all, but the loss of hundreds of thousands of elites. What makes Cao Cao even more uncomfortable is that his best heir, the eldest son who was cultivated with great difficulty, died in order to give up his heir. Save him, but also died, Cao Cao is heartbroken now.

Liu Bei didn't dare to provoke Cao Cao in this mood. If he was not careful and forced Cao Cao to turn his grief and anger into strength and fight Liu Bei desperately to the death, the consequences would not be acceptable to Liu Bei.

So under such circumstances, Chen Ziming sent a letter to persuade Liu Bei to stand still and not to provoke the current Cao Cao, and Liu Bei did not have much strength to start a full-scale war with Cao Cao.

Don't look at Liu Bei's army of millions, but the lack of food and grass. Although it has been alleviated now, it can barely maintain the daily consumption of the army. As for the battle, it may take a long time to prepare.

As for Yizhou, Chen Ziming felt that it was still necessary to intervene, at least not to fall into the hands of Sun Quan, but it is not appropriate for Liu Bei to mobilize the army now, so as not to cause another war.

"Damn it, Cao Cao is incompetent!"

Outside Lujin Pass, in the Jiangdong camp, there was a roar of anger in Sun Quan's big tent. The news of Cao Cao's defeat finally came. At the same time, there was news of Cao Cao's complete retreat. In other words, the battle between Cao Cao and Liu Bei was over. .

Cao Cao not only withdrew from Liangzhou, but also ordered Cao Ren in Yanzhou and Lejin in Yuzhou to retreat and stand firm, without messing with Liu Bei again.

As for the Hanzhong Pin Corps, there has been no movement yet. After all, the Yizhou soldiers and horses who attacked Hanzhong did not retreat, and the Liu Bei soldiers and horses in Liangzhou did not reinforce Hanzhong. It is not that Wenpin has no chance to take Hanzhong.

The Wenpin Legion just dragged on like this. Anyway, he can attack now, retreat or defend, and no one can stop him if he wants to leave. It doesn't matter if he wastes a little time. Wenpin is not in a hurry, it should be Liu Zhang and Sun Quan who are in a hurry.

The whole big man, only the two of them were still fighting, and the army that came to attack Yizhou began to pack up and wait for Liu Zhang's order.

"Is there any news from Yuan Tan?"

Calculating the time, it has been almost a month since Gu Yong went to Nanman, and there should be news of success or failure. Sun Quan has to wait anxiously, especially after learning that Cao Cao and Liu Bei stopped, Sun Quan is even more restless.

"My lord, Mr. Yuan Tan hasn't sent anyone to send the news yet, but with Mr. Yuan Tan's ability, he will definitely be able to persuade the Nanman to raise troops." Luo Tong hurriedly replied to Sun Quan, and at the same time comforted the furious Sun Quan.

"Don't wait any longer. If there is no news tomorrow, the army will storm Lujin Pass!" Sun Quan felt the pressure, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei ceased fighting. In other words, both Cao Cao and Liu Bei could send troops to contain Jiangdong. At that time, Jiangdong had no choice but to withdraw. The chance of capturing Yizhou will be broken.

"Report...!"

"My lord, there is news from Nanban."

Finally, Gu Yong's messenger arrived, and Sun Quan watched impatiently.

"Hahahaha, God bless Jiangdong!"

After Sun Quan read it, he laughed excitedly. Seeing this, everyone knew that the matter was over, and Nanman would definitely agree to send troops.

"Yuan Tan said in the letter that the Nanman agreed to send troops." Sure enough, Sun Quan gave everyone a clear answer, "The eighteen villages of the Nanman agreed to raise troops together to rebel against Liu Zhang. Yuan Tan estimated that the Nanman will send more than [-] troops, and they will attack the important town of Yizhou by surprise. , the Nanban army is approaching Chengdu."

"Very good!" Zhuge Jin said excitedly: "The Southern Barbarians' rebellion will definitely cause chaos in Yizhou. Once the Southern Barbarians approach Chengdu, Liu Zhang will desperately send troops back to help. But we can go all the way to Chengdu and win Yizhou, just around the corner!"

"Yuan Tan said in the letter that he promised the southern barbarians half of the land of Yizhou, what do you think?" Sun Quan sighed and asked everyone with a frown how to divide up the spoils after the war.

"Foreigners who are not educated, who refuse to obey the king's orders, are not allowed to stay. After the war, when all the soldiers and horses of the southern barbarians are out, destroy them..." Zhang Hong spoke for the first time, and did not mention anything about Yizhou. matter.

No one took it seriously, and no one blamed Gu Yong for giving Nanman half of Yizhou. In the eyes of everyone, Gu Yong was just joking with the barbarians. They really thought that a group of barbarians were qualified to negotiate terms with Jiangdong.

Yizhou Nanman and Jiangdong Shanyue have the same nature, and the treatment is the same. Either surrender obediently and listen to Jiangdong's words, or perish. It is impossible for Jiangdong to leave such a large unstable factor behind.

"Yes." Sun Quan said coldly: "Wait for my Jiangdong army to break through Chengdu and kill all the Nanman troops!"

"My lord, you can give Nanman enough food and grass, and say more territory, and urge Nanman to invest more soldiers and horses and Liu Zhang to fight to the death, depleting the strength of both sides." Lu Su hurriedly offered advice. Come on, the Nanman really can't stay. It's fine if Jiangdong didn't capture Yizhou. If Yizhou is captured, the Nanman must be resolved.

"Very good. After our army is like Yizhou, we will reward the Nanmans with millions of grain and grass, and at the same time promise to give them more fertile land, but they need to invest more troops." Sun Quan's eyes lit up, this is free cannon fodder, The more Southern barbarians died, the better.

As for food and grass, there is no shortage of land in the east of the Yangtze River. If it weren't for Sun Quan's fear that the Nanman would be suspicious if he said too much, or Sun Quan could even say that he would give the whole man to the Nanman.

The Jiangdong army waited patiently. Half a month later, the Nanman rebelled, and the whole Yizhou was terrified. Liu Zhang was even more anxious. Regardless of the objections of the court ministers, he not only returned all the soldiers and horses who attacked Hanzhong, but also mobilized many Jiameng Pass and Yangping Pass Guards.

The most important thing is that Liu Zhang didn't know whose attention he had heard, so he transferred back all the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who were defending Lujin Pass and the south.

"Hahaha..." He took down Lujin Pass without any effort, and standing on the majestic Lujin Pass, Sun Quan laughed excitedly as he watched the Jiangdong army continuously marching into Lujin Pass.

At this time, Chen Ziming, who was still in Liangzhou, didn't know that Nanman had rebelled, and he didn't know that Sun Quan's army had entered Yizhou. He held the urgent report from Liu Bei in his hand, summoning him to Linzi, and at the same time sent the appointment of Liangzhou officials. , as well as the transfer orders of various legions.

(End of this chapter)