Sun Ce received a letter from Sun Jian, and then suddenly woke up. So he hurriedly abandoned Yicheng and rushed all the way to Jiangling. The Jiangling town guard was originally Liu Pan, a general under Liu Biao, but now Liu Pan is dead, and only civil officials remain. Seeing the arrival of Jiangdong troops, he immediately led the crowd to surrender. Sun Ce's soldiers won Jiangling without blood.

Hearing that Sun Ce took Jiangling in the south, Cao Cao was furious. He made the most efforts to beat Liu Biao, but he tossed several times, risking a fire in the backyard, and finally beat Liu Biao away, and then he only got Nanyang County and Xiangyang County. Yangzhou almost effortlessly won Jiangxia, and now occupies Jiangling, the four counties of Jingnan, it seems that they are only afraid that they will fall into Yangzhou's belly. Who can endure this?

Cao Cao wanted to raise troops and go to Sun Ce. Next to him, Guo Jia persuaded: "Lord, for the sake of today's plan, it is not appropriate to have a grudge with the Sun family." It is better to salute first and then send an envoy to say, if he can return my southern county, I will follow him, not the four counties of Jingnan. ”

The four counties of Changsha, Guiyang, Lingling, and Wuling also have a combined population of nearly 3 million. Cao Cao sighed, then looked at Guo Jia and waited for his next words.

Guo Jia opened the map and said, "My lord, please see, the seven counties of Jingzhou, the Sun family has obtained Jiangxia, and Jiangling is based." The four counties of Jingnan, Sun Wentai was once the Taishou of Changsha, and he has a deep foundation here. If we attack it with troops, we will work for a long time, and we don't know when we will be able to do it. And if the two tigers fight, there will be an injury. If the battle with Sun Wentai hurts his vitality, how can the lord resist the north? ”

Seeing Cao Cao nodding unconsciously, Guo Jia raised his voice and said, "If we discuss with the Sun family, as long as Nanjun, Jingnan and Jiangxia are no longer involved, the Sun family will definitely agree." In this way, the two families can not only preserve their strength, but also form an alliance to resist Liu Beiye. ”

Although Cao Cao felt that it was very reasonable, he still asked: "However, if you use troops for days and days, you only have to Nanyang and Nanjun, isn't it worth the loss?" ”

Guo Jia laughed and said to Cao Cao: "What the lord said is wrong. Then he put his finger somewhere, Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia's finger, and his heart suddenly jumped.

I saw Guo Jiadao: "If the lord has Nanyang and Nanjun, he can train the sailors here, and send the generals to guard the line of Wan, Xiangyang, and Jiangling." In this way, Liu Bei came to attack, and it was easy to insist on it for several years. If Liu Bei doesn't come, the lord can raise a large army and trace the water from the Han River and the Great River, hehe, like Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang and others, how can they be the opponents of the lord? If Xichuan is the foundation again, the lord and the king have already succeeded, so why be afraid of Liu Beizai? ”

After Cao Cao listened, his heart was like a drum, blood gushed up his head, and when he looked at Guo Jia again, he felt that his mind was so clear. I couldn't help but sigh: "I have to be filial, and Juhan Gao meets Liuhou!" ”

So he sent Cheng Yu to talk about it. Cheng Yu arrived in Jiangling and asked to see Sun Ce. Sun Ce said in his heart, what does Cao Cao want to do? So I saw Cheng Yu. As soon as Cheng Yu revealed his intentions, Sun Ce was furious.

What the? Want South County? Get it yourself! What else did you say, if you want Nanjun, you don't want Jingnan Four Counties. Don't look at it, can you take away the four counties of Jingnan Cao Cao?

Indeed, Gu Yong has already arrived in Changsha. At present, he is lobbying around with Huanjie, and the progress is very good. So in this kind of situation where the four counties of Jingnan have basically been in his hands, he still has to let Sun Ce give up the entire Nanjun, if he is young and vigorous, if he is willing to do it?

It's already very face-saving if you don't turn your face right away.

The two broke up unhappily, and Sun Ce didn't leave Cheng Yu for a meal. Cheng Yu sighed, when he encountered Sun Ce's violent temper, he really didn't have a good time. If Sun Jian is here, Cheng Yu will have eight or nine points of confidence to convince Sun Jian. This made it clear that cooperation is beneficial to both sides, and division is harmful to both things, but it was rejected by Sun Ce.

Cheng Yu went north to Xiangyang and reported to Cao Cao. Cheng Pu was also worried here, and he persuaded Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, Cao Cao's words are quite reasonable. Wouldn't it be nice if we could prevent the two families from fighting each other? If the two families have a feud, as soon as the autumn grain is harvested next year, Liu Bei will go south, how is it good? ”

Yu flipped over to the side and said, "Even if you really want to let Nanjun, you can't let Cao Cao go easily." ”

Sun Ce smiled: "That's it! Isn't it funny that I let Nanjun with empty white teeth? ”

Seeing that Cheng Pu was worried and worried, he smiled and said: "Cheng Gong, don't worry, since Cao Cao has no intention of fighting the army, he must be interested in forming an alliance with our two families to fight against Liu Bei." I expect that he will send him again soon. ”

Cheng Yu went back to Cao Cao and said, I thought Cao Cao would be angry, but who knew that Cao Cao laughed and said: "Zhongde is hard, I thought I could move Sun Ce with words, who would have thought that this was also treacherous." Don't let go if you don't see the benefits! ”

The importance of Nanjun, Cao Cao knew that even if Sun Ce couldn't see it, how could his father Sun Jian, who had fought all his life, not see it? Seeing Sun Ce turn around and go south to occupy Jiangling, if he said that there was no Sun Jian's handwriting, he would be the first to not believe it. So Cao Cao didn't expect to be able to coax Nanjun over with just a few words. This is just a test first. As long as you are willing to talk, then you can say anything.

Sun Ce's side, after Cheng Yu left, he flew to Xunyang again, Sun Jian got the letter, thought for a while, and replied: "According to Mengde's wishes, the four counties of Jiangxia and Jingnan will be returned to me; Nanyang and Nanjun belong to Mengde. The two families have made an alliance, and if Xuande comes south, they need to fight together. As for the details here, you can grasp them. Don't delay too long in Jingzhou, after the negotiation is completed, return to the state as soon as possible, and take this opportunity to hand over to the state. ”

Sun Ce got the letter, so he said to Cheng Pu: "Cheng Gong, my father has a letter, and we have something to do." Then he showed the letter to Cheng Pu. When Cheng Pu saw it, his heart was also moved.

If you negotiate with Cao Cao here, you can leave an army to garrison. I think that when there is still a strong enemy in the north, the two families should not be at odds with each other.

Since Jingzhou is fine, then it is the best policy to quickly pacify Jiaozhou. If you can hand it over to the state again. This own territory is a few points larger. At that time, manpower, material resources, and depth will be improved. When the war starts, it will have a little more power to resist.

Liu Bei was in the north, stretching his neck with Liu Biao and waiting for Cao Cao and Sun Jian to fight. Liu Biao sneered in his heart, the two families attacked me, I have left now, see how you and the others fight.

As a result, they waited left and right, and waited for the news that Cao Cao and Sun Jian were negotiating to divide Jingzhou. Liu Biao was so angry that a mouthful of old blood spurted out. He didn't see two enemies fighting to the death, so he was disappointed. I didn't participate in the banquet these days, and I only sat at home.

Liu Bei saw that the two families sat down to talk, and he was thoughtful. It seems that Meng De and Wentai have reached a tacit understanding that they will join forces to deal with themselves. Isn't this a copy of history?

But this time, he can't let the three kingdoms in this world stand again.