"May your Majesty suppress your authority and let your plans be in control, temporarily calm down the Sixth Division, hide your mind and ambition, and wait for your Majesty to achieve great success in time, and the rats will not surrender."

These words, taking Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty as an example, and also intending to compare Sun Quan with Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, finally made Sun Quan's face look a little better.

 In his excitement, someone finally gave him a step, and Sun Quan naturally walked down the slope:

"My anger is not for myself, but for the sake of many soldiers in Liaodong! Since we want to punish Yuan, we must first pacify Zhongxia. I heard that the Wei thieves built a new city in Hefei, and it is the right time to attack..."

 When the ministers heard that the emperor no longer wanted to attack Liaodong, but wanted to attack Hefei, they breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s fine to attack Hefei, but as long as we don’t attack Liaodong, everything will be easy.

Hefei is close to the river and has Chaohu Lake. If you can't defeat it, you can always run back...

"Your Majesty is wise! If the Wu Dynasty wants to advance northward to the Central Plains, it must attack Hefei. It is the right time to attack."

Gu Yong was afraid that Sun Quan would change his mind, so he quickly decided to make a decision.

Although Hefei is not easy to fight, it is still much better than crossing the sea to fight Liaodong.

 The most important thing is that given the current situation in Dawu, both the east and south are surrounded by the sea.

 The breakthrough directions are only west and north.

To the west is Yongan.

 Regardless of the fact that Shu is an ally of Wu, even if the two sides are still enemies, Yong'an is the most difficult to fight.

Otherwise when Liu Bei was defeated at Yiling, wouldn't General Shang want to take the opportunity to invade Shu?

Without the internal changes in the Shu Kingdom, with the current national strength of the Shu Kingdom, it would be difficult for Wu to invade Shu from Yong'an even with the strength of the whole country.

Not to mention that to the northeast of Yong'an, there is Xiangyang where the Wei thieves have deployed a heavy army.

If they raise their troops to attack Yong'an, who knows what the Wei thieves in Xiangyang will do?

On the other hand, if we march north to Xiangyang, who can guarantee that the Shu people in Yong'an have no other ideas?

This is the reason why when the Shu people promised the benefits of sugar cane, the Wu army just showed up and immediately withdrew their troops after attacking Xiangyang at will.

If the world is said to be a tripod of tripods, then Nanjun Yong'an and Xiangyang are also a smaller version of the tripartite tripartite.

Therefore, Yongan cannot be attacked and Xiangyang cannot be conquered. The best breakthrough point for Dawu is Hefei.

 This is also the reason why Wu has to conquer Hefei every year.

 Some aristocratic families in Jiangdong may be satisfied with separatist control of the land south of the Yangtze River.

But Sun Quan was an emperor after all, and he was definitely not willing to do nothing and die trapped in the south of the Yangtze River.

It’s just that the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty saw it clearly:

“His intelligence is not strong, so he limits himself to the river to protect himself. He cannot cross the river, just like the Wei thieves cannot cross the Han. Unless they have more than enough strength, they will not gain any benefit.”

Wu Guo is not saying that no one can see this reality.

 But so what if you see it?

Emperor Sun said, since you Shu people can break through Qishan Mountain, why do you say that I "can't cross the river"?

 If I don’t accept it, I will definitely defeat Hefei!

Now that he has the support of his ministers, Emperor Sun became very proud and said:

“I have been unable to attack Hefei many times, which shows that the Wei thieves have really secured the city. Now the thieves have abandoned the city even though it was fortified. This can be said to have been captured without attacking!”

"When I lead the army to the city, the thieves will definitely be timid. How can they not be defeated?"

So in December of the eleventh year of Jianxing, Emperor Sun once again led an army of 100,000 troops and marched north.

Although Lu Xun's attack on Lu'an City in Lujiang County failed last year, it also exposed that mutual rescue between Lu'an City, Shouchun City and Hefei City was not easy.

So Sun Quan followed suit and sent another guard general Quan Cong to supervise 50,000 troops to attack Liu'an.

 And he took 50,000 troops and marched to Hefei.

 Enter Chao Lake from Juchao County and reach the north bank of Chao Lake, which is Xiaoyaojin.

Sun Quanli watched from the boat and saw that the old city of Hefei, which was built on the lake in the past, had been destroyed.

 The city gates have long been demolished and the moat has been filled in.

Only the city wall covered with various scars is still there, but many dangerous places have been deliberately demolished and become dilapidated.

Many places are completely like a barren hillock of loess, because no one maintains it, and dry weeds and withered vines can be seen everywhere on the city walls.

Seeing that the fortified city that had been invincible in the past could now be freely entered and exited without any defense, Sun Quan couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion.

"Your Majesty, the army has been here for more than twenty days. Do you want to go ashore?"

 Someone asked in a low voice for instructions.

 “Go ashore?”

When Sun Quan heard this, the expression on his face was stagnant.

For some reason, he looked at the shore in front of him, and there seemed to be a general wearing armor and holding a halberd, shouting: "I am Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan!"

 While taking the lead in the battle.

Behind him, there were only a few hundred soldiers, but they dared to charge towards the camp of a hundred thousand troops.

 Before reaching the camp, the advance army had already gone out to greet the general, but the general beheaded two generals and killed dozens of people...

 This is a nightmare!

It was after this battle that Sun Quan knew that he was really afraid in his heart.

From then on, even though he led troops to attack Hefei many times, he never set foot on the shore easily.

 But in order to eliminate this nightmare in his heart, he always thought of leading the army to capture Hefei himself.

But when the Wei people gave up Hefei and the Wu army could enter the city of Hefei without spending a single soldier, Sun Quan began to hesitate again.

  Or maybe he suddenly discovered that he did not have enough courage to face the nightmare in his heart.

Hearing the general’s reminder that he had been wandering here for more than twenty days, Sun Quan’s face became hot. He gritted his teeth, held his whip and shouted at the old city of Hefei:

 “Ashore!”

As an emperor, if you don’t dare to face the nightmare in your heart, how can you bring peace to the world?

Today, he will not only enter the old city of Hefei, but also attack the new city of Hefei!

 When he learned that Sun Quan had led his army to abandon the ship and land on the shore, Man Chong, who was standing in Hefei New City, laughed:

“When Sun Quan learned that we were moving the city, he came with a large army. He must have wanted to gain some temporary success. However, if he stayed there for more than twenty days without daring to land, could he be afraid?”
Chapter completed!