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Chapter 1902 is beginning to take shape

What happened to Shu Kingdom is naturally impossible to hide the purpose of the Wei army. The Jianjun Office has now carried out a comprehensive infiltration into Shu Kingdom, and its tentacles have almost extended to all classes of Shu Kingdom. Once there is any disturbance, the Jianjun Office can grasp it as soon as possible and transmit the information in time.

In the past, the imaginary enemy of the Military Office was the Sima family, so their activity area was mainly the Central Plains. Although it involved the two countries of Wu and Shu, it was relatively weak. However, with the defeat of the Sima family and the unification of the Wei State, the focus of the spy on the Wei State also changed. A large number of detailed works sneaked into the territory of Wu and Shu, and carried out a large-scale infiltration of Wu and Shu. In just about two years, the Military Office had built two quite complete intelligence networks in Wu and Shu.

Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one never be defeated in a battle. When two armies fight, food and grass will take the lead. But what is more important than food and grass is intelligence. Only by grasping the enemy's intelligence can one gain the initiative on the battlefield.

Jiang Wei was transferred to Yong'an, and Shu's strategic defense moved eastward, which also showed Jiang Wei's military wisdom.

This would not affect Cao Liang's established strategic goal back then. Cao Liang's plan to destroy Wu had entered a substantial stage. Even if Jiang Wei sent troops to help Wu, it would not be possible to change Cao Liang's strategic plan.

What's more, even if Jiang Wei arrived in Yong'an, he would only strengthen the defense system of Shu's east route. If he sent troops to Wu, he would have to agree to the people of Wu.

Now the Wu Kingdom is still immersed in the worry-free state of living with the natural danger of the Yangtze River. No one in the Wu Kingdom government and the country seemed to believe that the Wei army had the ability to break through the Yangtze River barrier. In order to fight against the Wei army, the Wu Kingdom had made a comprehensive war mobilization, mobilized all reserve troops, and devoted them to the Yangtze River defense line. They believed that this line of defense was solid. As long as they defended this line of defense, half of the Yangtze River's territory would always be safe.

Therefore, the Wu people were not afraid of the Wei army's attack at all. Even if the Wei army was building a naval army in Chaohu, it was extremely contemptuous in the eyes of the Wu people. The naval army of the Wu Kingdom had existed for many years. Can the combat power they had been surpassed by a newly formed water army? Not to mention giving the Wei army two or three years, even if they were given twenty-three years, they wanted to defeat the Wu army on the water and be their dream of Qingqiu.

Most of the Wei army came from the north. These landslides were not water-free and did not understand the control methods of warships. Even if they formed a naval army of a large scale, they were quite obvious. Once they fought with the naval army of Wu on the river, they would definitely be defeated.

Their confidence comes from the Battle of Red Cliff back then. How powerful Cao Cao was back then. He used the emperor to command the princes. In addition, he had just destroyed Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, which made Liu Bei run away with his head and his troops were invincible.

At that time, Jiangdong had few soldiers and generals, so they could not compete with Cao Cao at all. At that time, Jiangdong was full of news, but under the leadership of Zhou Yu, the Red Cliff was burned, which not only defeated Cao Cao's attack and shattered Cao Cao's dream of unifying the world, but also directly led to the formation of a situation of the Three Kingdoms.

More importantly, the Battle of Chibi gave the people of the Eastern Wu to believe that as long as they rely on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, they could be invincible.

Indeed, for half a century, the State of Wu never allowed Wei to cross the east of the Yangtze River. The natural danger of the Yangtze River really became a nightmare for the Wei people. They launched a large number of troops and countless conquests all stopped on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The people of Wu people did not believe that this time would be exceptions.

So even if Jiang Wei wanted to send troops to Wu, the people of Wu would flatly refuse. One is that they were confident that they were fully capable of dealing with the attack of the Wei army. The second is that the so-called Wushu Alliance was just a loose alliance with different appearances. In order to compete for Jingzhou, the Sun and Liu families fought hard. Sun Quan killed Guan Yu and seized Jingzhou. Liu Bei raised troops to take revenge, which led to the defeat of Yiling, and the Sun and Liu alliance was completely broken.

Although the Wu-Shu Alliance was reconstructed after Zhuge Liang's mediation, this was also a strategy that had to be adopted based on the fact that both sides had a common enemy. In essence, the deep resentment between the two sides was simply unresolvable. Over the years, although the cooperation between the two sides was quite pleasant, they were still very cautious about each other.

There is Yong'an on the Shu Kingdom and Xiling on the Wu Kingdom. Both of them are gateway fortresses of the two countries, and they both stationed heavy troops to guard the enemy. Just as the Shu Kingdom could not allow the Wu army to cross Yong'an, the Wu Kingdom could not allow the Shu army to arrive in Xiling. So even if Jiang Wei was transferred to Yong'an and he wanted to enter Jingzhou, the Xiling Fortress was still a hurdle that he could not get by.

This is still a relatively good thing for Cao Liang. After all, in the process of destroying Wu, the Wei army would not be disturbed by the Shu army.

In a flash, it was the autumn of the third year of Xing'an. It was already a year since the end of the Huainan Battle. After this year's construction, as Wang Jun promised Cao Liang, it would take half a year to take shape and can form initial combat effectiveness within one year. Today, the Wei navy is lined with thousands of ships, with a huge scale, and is rampant on Chaohu Lake, with extraordinary momentum.

Wang Jun was basically handed over to Sun Yi. Sun Yi served as the governor of Xiakou and commanded the naval fleet in the Wu army. He had rich experience in dispatching and commanding the naval ships, so he was basically responsible for the naval army's training.

The organization of 75,000 people is now full. One third of the surrendered soldiers of the Wu army, that is, 25,000, were put on the military uniforms and armor of the Wei army and became a member of the Wei naval army. These people were carefully selected by Wang Jun from the prisoner-of-war camp. They were all from the navy camp before, and were familiar with the tactics and tactics of the navy and the techniques of driving warships. With the gang leader of these prisoners of war, the other 50,000 Wei navy sailors were very fast to get started. In just one year, they could already skillfully control warships and engage in water battles.

But even if the Wei navy is now decent, many people still don’t believe that the Wei navy can defeat the Wu navy, cross the Yangtze River, and conquer Jianye. After all, compared with the Wu navy, the Wei navy is still very immature. When it is time to confront the Wu army on the water, they are not sure of winning at all.

Not to mention a year, even if they are given three or five years, the combat effectiveness of the Wei Navy will be extremely limited, and no one is sure to defeat the Wu army.

For Cao Liang, he also understood this fact, but from the beginning, Cao Liang did not regard this navy army as the main force to destroy Wu. He crossed the river and defeated Wu, and he had another killer weapon.
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