At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

If he didn't leave, Liu Biao couldn't even eat anymore.

I want to fight, but you don't let me fight, so good, let's go, choose one of the two.

Liu Biao left this option to his subordinates, let them think for themselves, and let them negotiate on their own.

Anyway, the situation is like this, and Liu Biao himself has a deep understanding of it. He knows exactly what he can and cannot do.

Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others also knew very well that although it was not in their interest to move the government office to Jiangling, it seemed to be a helpless move.

They are all from Xiangyang, and their family businesses are all near Xiangyang. The political center is in Xiangyang, which is convenient for them to hold official positions and power on the spot to control Jingzhou politics.

But if the political center is shifted to Jiangling in South County, according to political rules, it will definitely not be a good thing for the Cai family and the Kuai family based in Xiangyang.

But having said that, everyone knows that what Liu Biao thinks now is nothing more than giving everyone a choice between the two.

I let you choose, whatever you say, you can either fight or leave, anyway, I can't stay in Xiangyang anymore, if I stay any longer, I may be killed at any time, you choose, I don't care.

Liu Biao also started to snark, but the key is that everyone can't avoid this sloppy.

Guo Peng's pincer-shaped offensive allowed him to take the initiative, but Xiangyang had lost its former depth, and was suddenly exposed to the front of Wei Jun's soldiers. He had to either seize Shangyong to gain depth, or leave.

Anyway, Liu Biao felt very unsafe. If it continued to be unsafe, he couldn't accept it and had to choose.

A group of people look at me and I look at you, and they feel a little embarrassed after all.

As a result, Huang Zu learned about this, and he actually asked Liu Biao to go to Jiangxia. He was willing to use Jiangxia as the capital of Jingzhou to protect Liu Biao.

The reason is that Jiangdong is in chaos, Sun Ce is dead, the threat no longer exists, Jiangxia is now very safe.

Huang Zu is a descendant of Huang Xiang, a famous official in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His family power is very large in Jiangxia, and his reputation is also great. Moreover, he has a different political standpoint from Cai Mao Kuaiyue and others.

Both Cai Mao and Kuai Yue were loyal to Guo Peng and were pro-Guo faction. Huang Zu was different. Huang Zu firmly advocated resisting Guo Peng. He also invited Ying to fight during the Northern Expedition. He was an anti-Guo faction.

For a long time, Liu Biao lacked a direct line, so he has been using Huang Zu's power to counter the strength of the pro-Guo faction such as Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, and to achieve a certain sense of balance in order to maintain his position.

Now at this time, Sun Ce died, Jiangdong was in chaos, and the Sun family's threat was lifted, Huang Zu was greatly relieved.

Don't say that once the agreement is signed, it will be safe. Huang Zu doesn't believe it. The deep blood feud between the Sun family and him is absolutely impossible to change. He knows it very well, so he will never believe in the agreement.

Now that Sun Ce is dead, Jiangdong is in chaos, the mountains are full of tyrants and bandits, and the Sun regime can't take care of itself, how can there be any way to think about Jiang Xia?

Huang Zu was relieved, and began to intervene in Xiangyang politics repeatedly, and did not deal with Cai Mao, Kuaiyue and others, forming a political balance in a considerable sense, which was used by Liu Biao.

Now that Liu Biao said he was going to Jiangling, everyone was skeptical, but now that Huang Zu simply said he was going to Jiangxia, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue were even more surprised.

Even if they went to Jiangling, they could still play politics within the scope of Jiangling. If they went to Jiangxia, wouldn't Liu Biao and the central power completely fall into Huang Zu's hands?

How can this work?

Chapter 627 The status of the six emperors will never give up

Faced with Liu Biao's threat and Huang Zu's intervention, Cai Mao and others were very embarrassed.

But they really didn't want to send troops to cause Guo Peng's anger, so they had to compromise and compromise with Liu Biao.

They chose to support Liu Biao, chose to move the Jingzhou government to Jiangling, and established a new capital in Jiangling.

Liu Biao was overjoyed, feeling that he had finally won once, and decided to make persistent efforts to reduce some of the constraints around him, so he appointed Cai Mao to guard Xiangyang as the military advisor of General Zhennan.

"Xiangyang is an important town, and its terrain is important. It must not be lost. Once Xiangyang is lost, the north of Xiangyang will no longer be owned by Jingzhou."

Liu Biao held Cai Mao's hand emotionally, handed over this arduous task to Cai Mao, and then brought Huang Zhong to Jiangling.

He asked Huang Zhong to deploy defenses in the Jiangling area, and employed Gan Ning, a general from Yizhou who had been suppressed and depressed before, and appointed him as the county magistrate of Yicheng, and also as the captain of the school, to lead the troops to guard Yicheng.

After many years of silence and depression, Gan Ning finally found a place to use his skills and was very happy.

And Cai Hao was not happy.

On the surface, he gave himself military power and asked him to guard Xiangyang.

Putting himself in Xiangyang, Liu Biao took the center of power to Jiangling. From then on, if something happened in Jiangling, he was no longer the first to know and could discuss with Liu Biao. His decision-making power was thus taken away. An understatement.

This is the most obvious political exile. Even a fool can see it. Can Cai Mao not see it?

Although Kuai Yue was left behind, it seemed that Liu Biao didn't have any complaints about their many times of dragging their feet.

No, he took revenge when he got the chance.

Cai Hao is also helpless, but there is no way, who will let Liu Biao still be the master?

You really can't do anything about this being done in an open and aboveboard manner, is it possible that you still have to resist, and then let Jiangxia Huangzu benefit?

Liu Biao slipped away and pushed Cai Mao out of the core of power, leaving Cai Mao in Xiangyang to continue to fight against Huang Zu, then settled down in Jiangling, recruited a group of available people, and finally could sleep peacefully and rest.

And Cai Mao was very depressed.

It is hard not to be able to follow Liu Biao to Jiangling, and to continue to manipulate the politics of Jingzhou.

But having said that, he didn't think it was a pity. Although he lost the power of the central government, once Guo Peng went south, he and Zhang Yun could directly dedicate both Nanyang and Xiangyang to Guo Peng, so that Guo Peng would have no trouble He went south to Jiangling to attack Nanjun.

But Jingzhou is not without obstacles, Huang Zu is a big obstacle.

This family is well-known, relying on the fact that some members of the family have held important positions in the court for decades. despise.

Cai Mao thought it was very interesting, and thought that if Guo Peng's army came to the city, he wondered whether Huang Zu could maintain his "high moral integrity".

The family backgrounds of Cai and Kuai are no worse than those of Huang, but they still try their best to serve Guo Peng and surrender to Guo Peng. There are so many families in the Central Plains who are better than Guo Peng. You can see that they resisted because they looked down on Guo Peng’s background. he?

Yes, but they were all wiped out by Guo Peng.

A mere Jiang Xia wants to compete with the entire Guo Wei regime?

Huang Zu, are you stupid?

Anyway, Cai Mao didn't understand what Huang Zu was thinking, but Huang Zu was really upset now, because his biggest heart disease, Sun Ce, died, and he was really happy.

Sun Ce was really fierce, and he leveled Jiangdong in a short period of time, and his reputation was great. If Guo Peng was not too powerful, the emperor died again, and the situation in the world changed so much that the three major forces in the south of the Yangtze River had to join hands to fight against the enemy, otherwise Huang Zu felt that My biggest enemy now must be Sun Ce.

Sun Ce will definitely lead troops to attack Jiang Xia.

Now that Sun Ce is dead, and his younger brother Sun Quan is in charge, that's what he said, but Huang Zu's scalp felt numb after seeing the raging tide of rebellion in Jiangdong, and he didn't know how Sun Quan, a young boy, would deal with it.

Oh, it is said that Zhou Yu, the governor of the State of Wu, is dealing with it.

Zhou Yu is also a fierce person. Under such a situation, he is supporting Jiangdong's crisis, making up for the gaps, and going to put out the fire wherever there is a fire.

Without Zhou Yu, Huang Zu can guarantee that the Sun Wu regime will collapse within three months.

Now Zhou Yu is filling in vacancies and putting out fires everywhere, so he probably can last a while.

Huang Zu was thinking, should such a good opportunity be let go?

Guo Peng's strength is strong, relying on Jingzhou alone, relying on a Jingzhou where both civil and military personnel have ghosts, obviously it will not end well. If he can't expand the territory as soon as possible to increase his strength, won't it be over when Guo Peng really goes south?

Huang Zu then wrote a letter to Liu Biao before, admonishing Liu Biao to implement the strategy of going south, that is, to open up living space to the south, and crusade against Shanyue, bandits and Wuxi barbarians to obtain soldiers, population and resources.

This strategy is similar to the ongoing strategy of Yizhou Town. After Liu Biao learned about it, he hesitated until Hanzhong was conquered, the Jiangnan defense line was no longer complete, and Guo Peng completely took the initiative. Liu Biao realized that perhaps Jianghan Plains are not so easy to guard.

It is necessary to start operating Jingzhou in the south and leave a way out for myself.

When necessary, it is a very effective strategy to retreat to the south of the big river, rely on the Yangtze River for defense, abandon the Jiangbei part of Jingzhou, and retreat to the four counties of Wuling, Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang.

However, the population of the four counties is small, poor and weak, and cannot support Liu Biao's strategy. Liu Biao is having a headache, and Huang Zu's suggestion coincides with him.

Although what Huang Zu wanted to do was to take advantage of the chaos in the east of the Yangtze River and send troops south to capture Yuzhang County and Luling County, it was not a wrong decision for Liu Biao to go south to open up the four Jingnan counties.

After comprehensively considering his own thoughts and Huang Zu's suggestion, Liu Biao ordered Huang She, Huang Zu's son, to be the general of Pingnan Zhonglang, and lead his troops to Jiangling to join Liu Biao, and then Liu Biao assembled an army here. Go south to the four counties of Jingnan, crusade against barbarians, Shanyue bandits, etc., in order to obtain more population resources.

Under the coercion from the northern powers, both Yizhou and Jingzhou made the same decision.

Now that the road to the north is basically impassable, we should turn around and attack the south to attack the barbarians and thieves to obtain more resources to make up for the losses of the previous wars, and to accumulate additional resources in case of emergency. needs.

Anyway, neither Liu Zhang nor Liu Biao intends to surrender to Guo Peng at all, that is impossible.

Although I dare not say that I am the emperor, but the status of the emperor will never give up!

Compared with Jingzhou and Yizhou, which are still in a relatively stable state, Jiangdong is really a place of purgatory.

There are battles every day, people die every day, refugees and refugees are everywhere, and the stable order does not exist at the beginning. Except for Wu County, there are not many stable places.

Zhou Yu tried his best to keep Wu County as the base camp of Wu State. Then Wu Jing and Sun Jing fought against the rebels in Kuaiji County and Danyang County respectively. Zhou Yu himself sat in the center to ensure the safety of the center. The centrifugal forces are removed one by one.

Zhou Yu did not hesitate to send troops to attack those who had connections with the outside world and tried to unite with outsiders to attack the Sun Wu regime, and wiped out his family.

Under such iron and blood blows, Wu Jun barely settled down.

Chapter 628 Zhou Yu, who is struggling to support 630

Zhou Yu put the population and supplies he had taken from the local tyrants of Wu County into the army, and gradually gathered [-] troops in Wu County.

Then send people to step up training, intending to train a team that can fight as soon as possible, and put these troops to use, even at the expense of a certain degree of production.

In order to obtain food and fodder as soon as possible, Zhou Yu also began to learn from Guo Peng in farming.

In the past, I didn’t dare to farm the land because of the reason to win over the powerful and the gentry, but now I’m not afraid, you want me to die, and I want you to die, let’s see who dies first.

As soon as the order was given, the villages began to be farmed in Wujun. The military villages and the civilian villages were launched together. Because all men were required to serve as soldiers, the civilian villages were the main force, even the old and the weak, women and children.

One can imagine how difficult it is here.

But there is no way, Zhou Yu has already spared no effort to obtain food and fodder and maintain the army.

Relying on farming, as long as you can persist for one to two years, you will be able to accumulate enough food, and you will be able to at least compete head-on with the powerful Shanyue coalition forces, or even go out at a longer distance, so that you will not be unable to send troops on expeditions like now, because the food and the not on.

The powerful Shanyue United Army, which united to elect a leader to fight together, has developed to the next stage and started joint operations.

They concentrated their forces to fight a strategic decisive battle with the Wu army, confronted face to face, and learned to use the army formation.

After the experience of large-scale wars, their combat effectiveness is also improving. The Wu army is gradually unable to defeat these rebels with the advantage of the coordination of large-scale military formations. The battles of the veterans are getting harder and harder.

Jia Xu was also ordered to send some weapons used by the Wei army to the south of the Yangtze River and hand them over to these guys, such as various crossbows, to strengthen their attack power.

With the support of part of the Wei army's equipment, the rebel army repeatedly fought on par with the Wu army on the battlefield. A group of Wu army's meritorious veterans had suffered enough, and the battle situation did not improve.

In the past, these rebels fought independently and were easily defeated individually. Once united, the number of rebels exceeded Wu Jun's imagination, and their combat effectiveness also exceeded Wu Jun's imagination.

Zhou Yu has no way to come to the front to help. He is still rectifying internal affairs, and at the same time is responsible for teaching Sun Quan how to deal with internal affairs and cultivating Sun Quan's ability. I think that if Sun Quan grows up, he will be much more relaxed and not so tired.

In Zhou Yu's view, Sun Quan is very smart.

At the age of 15, Sun Ce was appointed as the county magistrate. With the help of his staff, he did a good job, showing his ability to govern the country.

Therefore, Sun Quan was favored by Sun Ce, and he promoted Sun Quan everywhere.

Sun Ce thought about supporting his younger brother as an important minister of the clan, so that in the future he could support his son to stabilize the situation and pass on the foundation of Wu State.

Because his son was born relatively late, it took time to grow up, and if he couldn't live that long, Sun Quan could spend this time well by relying on Sun Quan.

Who would have thought that his lifespan would be far shorter than he thought, his son was born less than two years ago, he would have no future, and the future political structure conceived would be difficult to implement. The one-year-old son became the Lord of Wu?

It can only be said that Sun Ce's head is broken.

So Sun Ce can only entrust the dilapidated country to his 16-year-old brother Sun Quan, hoping that Sun Quan can support the sky, and this foundation will be handed over to Sun Quan.

But in Sun Ce's heart, he probably didn't believe that Sun Quan could hold up the sky.

Sun Quan is only 16 years old, the pressure is too great for him, and Sun Ce knows it, but he has no choice.

Among the direct blood relatives, Sun Quan is the only choice. If his beloved biological brother is not given to him, who else will he give it to?

Those other relatives?

No one has the ability of Sun Quan.

Those people are either reckless or too unambitious. The reckless will lead to the destruction of the country, and the unambitious ones will surrender directly when Guo Peng comes.

Sun Ce had no choice.

So in Zhou Yu's view, if the situation is changed, Sun Quan can really maintain the situation, can really stabilize the country, and then consolidate it step by step.

But the current situation seems to have prevented Sun Quan from having this possibility, and it is also very difficult for Zhou Yu to have this possibility.

The strong enemy is in the north. The reason why they don't go south is because they are not ready yet.

If the state of Wu cannot continue to develop, it cannot be done at all. Even if Zhou Yu can wipe out all the Shanyue rebels and rebels, it is impossible for the state of Wu to develop.