As the enemy, Li Su was certainly not satisfied with Sun Quan's betrayal of dignity, which was just relying on Cao Cao's betrayal, and he temporarily stabilized the situation and saved the situation in the three counties of Wuhui.

But he was suffering from the lack of choice for the time being. He had to wait until other external conditions were ripe before he could give the enemy a final blow.

According to Li Su's expectations, he had to pursue Jiangdong after annihilation of Sun Ce's main force and the unstoppable pursuit of Jiangdong's forces, so he would have to do everything in Jiangnan. Otherwise, he would always feel that his bones were stuck in his throat.

As for the three counties in Jiangbei and Huainan, if Sun Quan really becomes a good son-in-law for Cao Cao, Cao Cao will work hard to protect him and cannot get it within one or two years, Li Su can accept it, so there is no need to hurry.

After all, in the future, Liu Bei's camp will start a full war against Yuan and Cao, and there are many ways to go, and it is not necessary to detour from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to cross the river and the northward expedition.

It can even be said that later historical experiences repeatedly tell the world that the difficulty of expedition from the eastern part was very high. Except for Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, which "sends troops to Huaiyang, first to take Qingxu, then Henan, and then to Guanzhong", no one attacked Lianghuai from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and Shandong fought like this.

Based on the actual situation of the Han Dynasty today, even if the land of Yangzhou was occupied by Liu Bei's camp, it would definitely be damaged by war, and the time for rest and farming was short.

To make an expedition from Yangzhou, you have to prepare for two additional years. If you transport materials from Jingyi to Yangzhou and then make an expedition in the north, it would be better to find another way. The loss and waste of transporting large army and military supplies from thousands of miles away is too great.

Therefore, in Li Su's plan, Yangzhou, in the future war of comprehensive unification of the world, only the role of "anvil" can be played, and the "hammer" will be handed over to other states to play.

The situation of confrontation between Yangzhou across the river and the benefits of the Southern Army's navy have created a momentum of "I can cross the river at any point in the Yangtze River for a thousand miles", and forced the Cao army to stay on the north bank of the Yangtze River and not be placed on other battlefields. This harvest is already great enough.

After reading the above analysis, some people may wonder: Since Yangzhou only plays the role of restrained "anvil" and pulls enemy troops, will it be that impact if all Wu Hui is taken over?

Liu Bei and Li Su, are there less than two million people and productivity in the Taihu Plain?

The answer is: population and productivity may not be very important. Even if the population belongs to Liu Bei, the loss of Wu Hui will be relatively large.

But the most important thing about winning the Wuhui is to get the importance of getting the estuary of the Yangtze River. Now all the warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty did not notice it, including Liu Bei, and only Li Su helped him notice it.

After all, the princes in the world do not think that the smooth shipping route is of great value. Even Cao Cao, who had already colonized Sanhan and Jeju Island and plundered the Dongyi people, did not fully realize the value of the Yangtze River Estuary.

Only after taking over the estuary of the Yangtze River, Li Su built so many large ships suitable for long-distance voyages and low-cost shipping in Jingnan and Jiaozhou, can the farming achievements of Liu Bei's camp on the voyage be fully realized, and the southern states are completely connected, resource integration and optimization, and the transformation of farming results in the entire south are improved.

In the future, we may be able to counter Cao Cao's small actions in Sanhan and even Jiuzhou Island in Japan in unexpected ways. During the Central Plains War, Cao Cao's overseas population and material plunder channels were cut off in advance.

If Yuan Shao repents one day, he is dissatisfied with Mi Zhu's previous promise that "the land of Liaodong gives Yuan Shao a 50 million yuan worth of material attack every year, and as a tax payment for Liaodong's surrender", he wanted to command Cao Cao's navy to completely destroy Mi Zhu at a cost.

As long as the estuary of the Yangtze River is in Li Su's hands, the sea will have no boundaries. Li Su can save whoever he wants, and it is no problem to save Mi Zhu. It is even possible to deal with pirate counterattacks on the coastal areas of North China.

Unfortunately, the plan was very good, but Li Su didn't have many troops to call. He pulled the troops on the front line of Chaisang, with more than 30,000 people in total. He had already counted all the prisoners of war that could be absorbed and converted along the way, transformed about thousands of people, and some soldiers temporarily recruited him by Lusu, Changsha County.

There were more than 20,000 prisoners in Jiangdong who had not had time to transform, but those people's loyalty was obviously unreliable. They were still working for the Sun family a month ago. If Li Su were sent directly to the battlefield, he might become a time bomb. He would have to be influenced for a year or two, and a complaint meeting was held to wash away their loyalty to the Sun family first.

As for other troops in Jingzhou, they cannot move. Gao Shun is in full defense in Nanyang-Xiangyang, and he has to carry both Luoyang and Yingchuan Xuchang. The pressure is also quite large. Moreover, Gao Shun is not a wise man, and it is quite dangerous if he is plotted by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

In order to eliminate this potential threat, Li Su also sent Xu Shu, who had previously sent to Baqiu to provide advice for the Jingnan Guard, to help him find out the shortcomings in military strategy.

At the same time, Lu Su was also asked to continue to go north and move the capital from Changsha to Jiangling, which was revived soon. Lu Su was in the center to coordinate the war mobilization in the rear of Jingzhou, and dispatch resources to support Gaoshun, the northern line and Li Su on the eastern line, and establish a strategic support point that responded more comprehensively and quickly.

In this case, the result was that Li Su always had only more than 30,000 elite mobile troops on the front line. The enemy opposite was 80,000 in Jiangbei and 30,000 in Jiangnan, and the total was 110,000.

Li Suquan relies on warship technology to lead the way. Most of the main warships in the Eastern Wu side suffered losses to maintain the front line. Otherwise, Li Su would not even be able to do a tie-up in just land battles.

His current plan is to move into stalemate again and continue to confront each other. When Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shao on the northern front, he would win a victory that could at least weaken the enemy's living power.

As mentioned earlier, during the autumn harvest last year, the regular army and mobile troops of Liu Bei's camp were about 320,000, which was not counted as the auxiliary peasant soldiers who could only defend the city and carry out transportation.

The southern line is divided into 120,000 people, and many states need to be managed. The northern line has 200,000.

If the war on the northern front goes smoothly, if the garrison is weakened by a small half, it may be able to separate famous generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao and replace Gao Shun in Nanyang.

If you even fight well, you can chew off the Luoyang protruding troops that you had not taken before, and then rely on Hulao Pass to connect Liu Bei's camp in Hedong and Nanyang's territory, which can greatly save the defensive forces on the Northern Line.

Gao Shun won tens of thousands of people as long as he didn't have to take on defensive tasks, he would support Li Su's attack. Then there would be some hope to separate Cao Cao from all over Wu and control the estuary of the Yangtze River.

This step may take another two months to stalemate, or four months, and it depends on when the North Line will be free.

It can be said that it is a game of chess in the north and south of the country, with all the troops one carrot and one pit, and one moves the whole body.

Oh, to be off-topic, although Li Su had nothing to do in military affairs, there were still many things to deal with in the internal affairs.

The personnel arrangements and local comfort brought by the first autumn examination of the imperial examination last year in the southern court were always necessary to continue to work hard.

In addition, after entering the stalemate stage, Li Su finally had time to deal with the traitors, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others who had not been sentenced during the previous mobile war were captured by Zhao Yun after Zhao Yun and Han Dang made a peace and Xiancheng retreat transaction.

But Li Su didn't want to remotely control Zhao Yun and cut it off directly. He had to make public trials so that the aristocratic families and tyrants in all counties in Jingzhou recognized Cai Mao's crimes and maximized the publicity value of Cai Mao's negative teaching materials.

Then I made an appointment to make a statement to Ming Zhengdian, and invited representatives of all the great families in Jingzhou to watch and kill them, and went back to write their thoughts after watching them.

On February 20, Li Su officially moved the capital of Jingzhou from Xiangyang to Jiangxia, to be precise, Xiakou County of Jiangxia, and merged with Hanyang County built by Li Su himself and renamed it Wuhan.

Xiakou, not to mention the low status in the entire Jingzhou, it was not even in Jiangxia County. It was just an ordinary county town and a military fortress. The original county seat of Jiangxia was in the area of ​​E County.

(Note: This place was renamed Wuchang during the Wu Kingdom period in history, but it has nothing to do with the modern Wuhan Wuchang, it is E County. Modern Wuchang was still a rural countryside and a swamp by Liangzi Lake)

Li Su made this arrangement and felt that this place was more suitable as the future political and economic center of Jingzhou. After all, under the construction of Li Su's farming, Jingzhou will definitely rely more on the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the future, compared with the economic and population pattern of the old era.

Later generations, Wuhan was located at the intersection of the Jianghan waterways, and its development potential was definitely greater than that of Xiangyang.

At the end of February, Li Su, in the style of being frugal but being frugal, slightly expanded the cities of Xiakou and Hanyang, repaired some government offices in the county town with a cover, and moved his own Governor's Mansion over.

Then, he asked Zhang Song, Wang Lei and other staff members in charge of personnel rewards and punishments to advance Cai Mao's trial work.

Li Su didn't want to mess with cruel officials like Zhang Tanglai Junchen, but Zhang Song over-specified the leader's intentions, and ended up prying out some "comrades" from Cai Mao's mouth.

Li Su looked at the list and he also knew who was wronged and who might be suspected. Li Su naturally made full use of this chip, pulling and hitting all representatives of the Jingzhou family and treating them differently.

There is nothing to say about some conclusive ones. Li Su gave them the mouth to see those bitten by Cai Mao, and then when they kowtowed and begged for mercy to explain, he burned the false confession in front of him, indicating that he would not believe it at all and hoped to do it himself.

On March 15, the Cai Mao family was taken to the entrance of Caishikou, Wuhan. Together with several accomplices, Cai Mao himself was cracked by a car, and the rest of Cai Xun, Cai Zhong and Cai He... were all beheaded, and their heads were worn on pointed wooden stakes in the city center for a month.

During this period, Li Su was always concerned about Hedong and Bingzhou battlefield, which he had been keen on in a long and concerned manner, finally made some progress.

Of course, the twists and turns here are a long story for the time being.

PS: This chapter is a bit of a turnkey account. Scan the southern line and take a look at the last check for what has not been explained before. Check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Start tomorrow and cut back to the northern line first.

It's also a hard work, but in fact I'm digging a big hole... I haven't figured out yet what outstanding strategy Zhuge Liang would use to defeat Yuan Shaojun in the end, so that he deserves Zhuge Liang's IQ.

This kind of card is really fatal. It depends entirely on your own adapting to local conditions and timeliness to think of a trick. It is not enough to open the halo of mental retardation, which is more brain-burning than writing a few ordinary chapters.
Chapter completed!