actions, and adjust one's strategy according to the other party's behavior.

But the problem is that it's hard to find scouts that can run that far.

Before Cao Cao came to Hefei, the Jianghuai area was like a ghost. Not to mention having outstanding survival ability in the wild. Although you can't be like Mr. Bei, everything you see smells like chicken and crispy, but you must at least ensure that you can survive through the deserted area.

area, and we have to fight back and forth.

The second condition is that you must have at least a certain amount of force. After all, in troubled times, you can wander hundreds of miles alone or with a few people. Even if you don't encounter the other party's scouts, there are still many bandits and refugees hiding in the mountains.

, there may even be wolves, tigers and leopards...

At the same time, a third condition is needed, which is to have a certain knowledge of geography and to identify the direction. Otherwise, even if you have first-hand information, you will suddenly not know which way to go when you want to go back.

, that is quite sad.

Sun Quan is not like Fei Qian. He began to cultivate multiple modes of detection very early, from caravans to insiders, from civilians to the army. Only by complementing each other can he have a clearer information source channel.

Sun Quan did not have sufficient, powerful, and experienced scout troops, so when Sun Quan started fighting, his control over the surrounding situation was full of loopholes.

This is very dangerous.

Everyone knows that this is a big problem, but humans are very strange creatures. When a problem is difficult to solve, or cannot be solved in the short term, they will often selectively ignore or even ignore it. Just like in later generations.

Banks have been a vulnerable group for many years, and still no one has taken the initiative to solve this problem.

When Cao Cao was in Hefei, lurking in the grass like a ferocious beast, Sun Shiwan still opened his cute big emerald eyes and happily gnawed on the grass in Jiangxia.

Therefore, in this shortened version of the Battle of Hefei, or the Battle of Jiangxia, Sun Quan suffered a hidden loss at the beginning.

Cao Cao joined the Wuhuan cavalry, boasting a hundred thousand troops. Taking advantage of Sun Quan's main force to attack Jiangling, he detoured from Hefei and attacked Jiangxia.

This time, it was Cao Shiwan.

Sun Quan also knew that although Cao Cao claimed to have one hundred thousand soldiers, after several years of fighting, from Yuzhou to Jizhou, and then fighting against General Hussar, even the original one hundred thousand soldiers were not enough now. In addition,

There may not be enough food and grass, and the soldiers must be tired, and their combat effectiveness must not be as good as that of Cao Cao in his heyday...

Otherwise, he and Fei Qian would not have broken up peacefully under Xu County and each would find his own mother.

As for the Wuhuan cavalry, although there are quite a few in number, if we talk about the ranking of the Hu cavalry outside the Great Wall, the Xianbei platoon is still the eldest, the Xiqiang platoon is the second, and the Wuhuan can barely be considered a junior, so their combat effectiveness is about the same.

, not a very formidable opponent.

Therefore, after Sun Quan learned about Cao Cao's attack, after the initial panic, the blood and courage factor in the Sun family's bloodline began to surge, and he summoned his subordinates to discuss and prepare to confront Cao Cao head-on!

After all, the hussar general with less than 10,000 soldiers can defeat Cao Cao. He has been training and preparing in Jiangdong for so long, and he still refuses to defend the city. Is he afraid that he will not be able to stop the rabble of Cao Cao?

Now if we look at it as a whole, it is like two greedy snakes, one is Sun Quan and the other is Cao Cao. From Jingzhou Jiangling, it was Sun Quan who tried to pounce on Xu County through Jingzhou, the gateway to the Central Plains, while Cao Cao bypassed it through the Jianghuai Hefei line.

Sun Quan's only foothold in Jiangbei is Jiangxia. Xiangyang is a revolving door in the Central Plains of China. Whether you go to Guanzhong, Xu County, Sichuan, or Jiangdong, you can do it. Jiangxia is Sun Quan's foothold. Once you lose your foothold, you can go north.

The troops and Jiangdong's base are threatened at the same time, so neither side is willing to let the other succeed. Therefore, the key now is of course who can break through first, and whoever can take it all in one go.

Therefore, as soon as the battle began, it entered a very fierce stage. On the one hand, Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu to quickly open the Jiangling Pass and attack Cao Cao's retreat. On the other hand, Cao Cao also wanted to capture Jiangxia, which had not been completely repaired.

Cut the Jiangdong soldiers into two ends where the north and the south cannot be considered at the same time.

Even though the quality of Jiangxia's original anti-theft doors was high and the equipment was passable, it was now the third time that the door was broken open, so it was somewhat difficult to deal with it. Fortunately, Lu Su came up with a plan and deliberately exposed Watergate's flaws.

Lure Cao Jun to attack, and then severely dealt with Cao Jun's vanguard, which also boosted his own morale.

But as Cao Cao arrived in Jiangxia in person, the overall situation gradually tilted towards Cao Cao's side.

Cao Cao, who had been on the battlefield for many years and had long-term confrontation experience with Yuan Shao in Baima Guandu, was naturally not afraid of confronting Sun Quan. As soon as he got started, he established a multi-level alliance to surround Jiangxia, even without

The large-scale attack was just a methodical encirclement, and there were many tunnels and trebuchets built. They continued to put pressure on Jiangxia City, and it seemed that they were going to win head-on with majestic troops.

Although Cao Cao didn't seem anxious at all on the surface, he was actually extremely anxious. After all, from his expedition to Jizhou to now, his soldiers had been mobilized from north to south and had been fighting in the wild for two or three years. This had no impact on morale.

Even ghosts don’t believe it. Now the overall situation is favorable, so it’s hard to see it for now.

If Jiangxia cannot be captured for a long time, morale will gradually collapse. At that time, Cao Cao himself will find it difficult to gather the morale of the army and regain his will.

Ever since, Cao Cao looked at the Wuhuan cavalry who seemed to be doing nothing during the siege battle, and began to make calculations in his mind...

"Tadun Shanyu..." Cao Cao said with a smile, "Jiangdong is so rich. It is said that there is so much grain and grass that even the warehouse cannot fit in it, and there is so much gold and silver brocade that even the warehouse door cannot be locked... Tadun Shanyu is here.

Idleness is idleness, what if... I have recently collected some ships, which can just help Tadun Shanyu's troops march into Jiangdong... I don't want too much, so what if I divide the gains in half? And I don't know Tadun.
Chapter completed!