Chapter 325: Sun Zhongmou, a powerful minister not seen in four hundred years.

Chapter 325: Sun Zhongmou, the most powerful minister in four hundred years.

The river turns nine times, carrying a lot of mud and sand, pouring down.

Like a giant yellow dragon, it hovers over the land of China.

Hexi,

Hedong,

Henan,

The largest area is still Jizhou, Hebei.

In the south of Jizhou, not far from the river, there stands a majestic city.

Yecheng.

once,

Yuan Benchu, the number one prince in the world, dominated this place and marched south with an army of 600,000, crossing the Yellow River, intending to defeat Cao Mengde, take over the Central Plains, and achieve his great cause.

A fire broke out at Guandu, and all the ambitions and dreams were wiped out.

Cao Cao, who defeated Yuan Shao back then, has now come to Hebei.

The army was so powerful, with the retreating troops from Huainan, the retreating troops from Xuzhou, the retreating troops gathered from Kunyang, and tens of thousands of troops in Xuchang...

In total,

There were as many as 130,000 people, not to mention their families and officials who followed them north.

All together, it's a huge amount of one million.

Fortunately, Liu Wu was not a villain and did not take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, otherwise, there would have been countless casualties just from crossing the river.

The densely packed team was like an ant colony, line after line, row after row...

If you look down from the sky, Yecheng looks like an ant nest, with countless ants moving towards it.

"The Lord is coming."

On top of Yecheng City,
A general stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the various troops that were converging together with a complicated expression.

Cao Ren.

This most capable general under Cao Mengde, even though he was defeated again and again by Liu Wu and captured again and again, it still cannot conceal the fact that he is one of the most outstanding generals under Cao Cao.

Liu Wu and Liu Zilie were invincible. Among all his defeated generals, Cao Ren was number one and no one dared to be second.

No one would look down on Cao Ren, and most people respected him. After all, not everyone had the courage to face the King of Chu. Cao Ren, who was repeatedly treated with courtesy by the King of Chu, was a legend in itself.

Facing Liu Wu's eastward advance, people everywhere were terrified and the Yinluo defense line was directly turned into a sieve. Cao Ren did his best to gather most of the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Yinluo defense line.

In the subsequent breakout from Hangu Pass, five to six thousand soldiers were killed, but Cao Ren brought out almost all of his troops, preserving more than one-third of the military force.

In Cao Cao's camp, this was seen as a victory, an unprecedented victory, and Cao Ren's reputation became even greater.

In the eyes of many people, the famous general Liu Zilie is the undisputed number one and invincible.

Cao Ren and Cao Zixiao are undoubtedly second.

Because no one could withstand so many moves from Liu Wu, every battle starting from Xiling became Cao Ren's popular legendary deeds.

"Ugh……"

Cao Ren couldn't help but sigh: "How could that Xiling thief general become such a giant? It really makes people despair..."

Having said this,
Cao Ren went down from the city wall and led hundreds of cavalry south to meet Cao Mengde.

On the bank of the Yellow River,

Cao Cao just came ashore.

He took the bamboo slips sent by the scout,

Already seen it.

Plop! ~
The bamboo slips were thrown into the Yellow River.

Follow the water eastward.

"Liu Wu is now the crown prince and the heir apparent of the Han Dynasty. He will ascend the throne soon..."

"Oh, I still have to write him a congratulatory letter."

"He will ascend the throne in Xudu, which I built with my own hands."

"I will also bring along the Xianbei, Goguryeo, and Wuhuan to pay tribute to him..."

He looked even older at this time. He squatted down and touched the river water: "Benchu, you crossed the Yellow River to the south with great ambition, but now, I have no choice but to cross the Yellow River to the north." "If you had won the battle at Guandu, how great would it have been?"

"In this way, I can teach you how powerful Liu Wu and Liu Zilie are..."

"Thank goodness,"

"Fortunately!"

"Fortunately, there is Liu Xuande from Shu, so I am not completely humiliated. There are still people who are more ashamed than me, haha..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The autumn wind on the Yellow River is getting stronger.
Cao Mengde, who was not too old but already very old, laughed loudly, his gray hair floating by the river.

Cao Mengde laughed very happily.
He laughed at Liu Xuande for being blind and missing out on the Qilin child...

He laughed at the cowardly Jiangdong people. After all, they had fought at Red Cliff, but they just followed Liu Wu step by step...

He laughed at the Qiang leaders like Ma Teng and Han Sui, who were slaughtered by Liu Wu and had their subordinates cleared out of Liang Province, but they didn't even dare to fart.

He laughed at himself for having spent half his life fighting and defeating many heroes, but in the end he was just making things easier for Liu Wu and Liu Zilie.

……

……

Cao Mengde retreated directly to Hebei, leaving four states vacant at once.

As a result, Liu Wu was unable to occupy all the positions at once.

Although Liu Wu now has enough troops, he still has to be on guard against Hebei, after all, Cao Mengde still has an army of 200,000 in his hands.

The new Yinluo defense line has been set up to guard against troops from Hebei.

The Xiling Group has never relaxed its vigilance against Jiangdong. Both Xiling and Jiangxia are heavily guarded.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were also stationed in Hanzhong to prevent Liu Bei from suddenly leaving Shu.

The Western Regions had just been conquered and were not yet stable. In order to prepare for any eventuality, Han Sui also stationed tens of thousands of troops in Liang Province to prevent any changes in the Western Regions and to be ready to support Zhou Gongjin's Protectorate of the Western Regions at any time.

Maybe there is no way.

Maybe it was done intentionally to make Jiang Dong feel a sense of participation.

Hefei,

On the Fei River, boats and ships are densely packed.
The Jiangdong navy was fully mobilized, marching north in a mighty force.

Sun Zhongmou, who was sitting on the main ship, looked at the city of Hefei getting farther and farther away, and the Central Plains getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but sigh: "The journey is smooth, smooth..."

"Our Jiangdong navy finally advanced into the Central Plains."

Liu Wu asked Sun Zhongmou to lead his troops north, firstly to garrison Qingxu, and secondly because the new king was about to ascend the throne and Sun Quan also had to go to the court to express his support and accept corresponding rewards.

"My lord." Lu Su walked out of the cabin.

Sun Quan turned around and said, "Zijing, I am filled with emotion today."

"Liu Wu is now the crown prince of the Han Dynasty. He will ascend the throne soon. My sister will become the empress of the Han Dynasty. My nephew will be the crown prince and the future emperor..."

"I am now leading the Jiangdong Navy and roaming across the Central Plains. Is this what I have been hoping for for many years?"

"Zijing, did you know that Liu Wu said he wanted me to take charge of the military and political affairs of the four states of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou?!"

"All the military and political affairs of the four states!"

"This is something my father and brother never dared to think of..."

In other words, the coastal area from Shandong to Vietnam belonged to Sun Quan.

However, Lu Su beside him showed no emotion. He just said, "It seems that the lord is still ambitious."

"My lord, have you ever thought about how to face the Han Dynasty next?"

"How about facing the former brother-in-law and the future emperor?"

"This time, the King of Chu fought a great battle and defeated Cao Mengde, and finally took over the four states of Qing, Xu, Yan and Yu, but he gave Qing and Xu to the lord..."

"My lord, you now control the four states of Qing, Xu, Jiao and Yang. Your sister is the queen, and your nephew is the crown prince."

"My lord is truly the emperor's uncle, just like the great general He Jin."

"My lord is the King of Wu, a king of a different surname who commands an army of hundreds of thousands. In terms of power, he is far inferior to the King of Wu who led the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion..."

"My lord, someone like you, whether you are a prince or a vassal king, can be considered a foreign relative. In short, this is rare in the past four hundred years of the Han Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)