Chapter 3224 A doomed betrayal

Jiangling, Jiangdong Navy Camp.

"Are you wrong?" Zhu Zhi felt quite depressed.

If the layout is not perfect, failure is common, after all, from the beginning, there is little chance.

Zhu Zhi comforted himself, feeling that it was not his own fault.

He thinks he's done his best...

That's right? Even Zhu Ran got involved. I don't know if the Sichuan and Shu army can save Zhu Ran's life?

Although Zhu Ran is not a biological child, so many years have passed, it is even better than his biological child. If Zhu Zhi grits his teeth and stomps his feet, he really can't do it.

This time, Jiangdong lost, but it was not considered much.

After all, Jiangdong lost only an optional opportunity, but Zhu Zhi lost his love... Cough cough, beloved son!

As time goes by, Zhu Zhi's psychological construction gradually improved.

It is all the fault of others to say a thousand words.

But it would be wrong to say that Zhu Zhi had no regrets about this war.

But he is already old and his mind is more focused on inheriting his family's foundation. He naturally gradually faded into struggle. Taking advantage of the chaos in the world, he pulled his lintel upwards, and when the world is in a state of great stability, he can also be on par with other aristocratic families.

This is the ultimate goal in Zhu Zhi’s heart.

As for Jiangdong or the world, it is a gift. Of course, it is best to have it, but it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t.

Since accepting the Jiangdong Governor from the beginning, although he has shown strength, Zhu Zhi actually knew that Jiangdong was not as good as the weather. Even if Zhu Zhi’s whole family was involved, what’s the use? Jiangdong is not a surname Zhu, only the Zhu family in Wujun has the surname Zhu!

Logically speaking, the Jiangdong Army retreated in Yufu, and there were many key points of retreat, such as Zigui, which could become a base for regaining its foothold and organizing counterattacks, but Zhu Zhi still chose to retreat directly to Jiangling.

Zhu Zhi didn't even have the idea of ​​cooperating with Zhou Tai, so he threw Zigui and some of the remaining soldiers to Zhou Tai and returned straight to Jiangling.

Although it was claimed to be that Zhu Zhi was injured, Zhu Zhi has no longer focused on Sichuan and Shu in the west, but has set his sights on Jiangling.

Because Jiangling is the foundation that Jiangdong seeks.

To be precise, it is the greatest interest of the Jiangdong gentry at present.

Zhu Zhi did not understand what the marginal utility meant to decrease, but he knew that the current rate of return to obtaining Jiangling land was obviously greater than that of obtaining Sichuan and Shu.

The capture of Jiangling consumes a small amount of money and gains a lot, but the journey to Sichuan and Shu is long, so you may not be able to obtain any great benefits.

Of course, it would be excellent if it could really obtain east and west Sichuan and encompass Jiangling and east Jiangling as Zhou Yu planned. In this way, Jiangdong would completely control the upstream and downstream, and could use the advantages of the ship to form a complete Yangtze River defense line...

Ahem.

Yangtze River Defense Line.

Well, that's right, Jiangdong actually never thought about fighting for power from the beginning.

Even fish sauce stops in the world, and you don’t dare to think about further unification of the country.

Of course, it is also possible that Yu Jiang died too early in history, so he was incomplete in strategy.

Even the idea of ​​building such a defensive line was not happy in the hearts of the Jiangdong gentry. For these Jiangdong gentry, their greatest interest was not Sichuan, Shu, but Jiangling.

Sichuan and Shu are too far away, while Jiangling is very close.

In history, the battle between Liu Bei and Yiling was actually not Yiling, but Jiangling. Because Jiangling was the upper reaches of Jiangdong, it directly affected the local defense line of Sun Quan and the Jiangdong gentry, so the area in this area is quite important.

In other words, if Sun Ce was still there, he might choose to attack the Huainan area, control the Huainan waters, rule between the Jianghuai River, and then threaten the Central Plains areas such as Xu and Luo, and Jiangling would not affect the fate of Jiangdong.

It’s a pity that Sun Ce died early, so the Jiangdong gentry would never allow the Sun family to expand their influence in Jianghuai.

Now Zhu Zhi chose to retreat directly to Jiangling, which is very easy to understand.

This is the bottom line of Jiangdong.

It is also Zhu Zhi’s bottom line.

So why did Jiangdong not want to open up a second battlefield in the Huai and Si area in history? On the one hand, the Huai and Si area is indeed not as rich as Jiangling, and its terrain is not as wide and flat as it was later generations. Instead, it is mostly swamped and mudflats. On the other hand, the Sun family was born in the Huai and Si area. Therefore, as long as Sun Quan achieved a little success in Huai and Si, it would immediately start to ruin the situation and cut off the opportunity for Sun family to grow again from the root.

Zhu Zhi retreated back to Jiangling, but there were still some people left in Yiling to guard Jiangling's portal. However, he knew that Yiling could not resist for long. The key was that these were not the key points, the key was that he was defeated!

When the news is transmitted to Jiangdong, it will inevitably cause huge waves!

Zhu Zhi could even imagine that Sun Quan was getting redder and purple in Jiangdong.

He is different from Huang Gai.

Huang Gai has no territory, only soldiers, so Huang Gai needs the privileges given by Jiangdong to raise soldiers, and these powers are all held in Sun Quan's hands. Therefore, even if Huang Gai is defeated, Sun Quan will not deliberately target him, and will even encourage and appease him, and will not suppress him.

Zhu Zhi is different. He not only has soldiers, but also has real territory...

Sun Quan would 100% take advantage of this opportunity to suppress Zhu, invade his land, and deprive him of his authority.

Therefore, Zhu Zhi must find a way to deal with these measures before Sun Quan was cut down.

The "shield" that Zhu Zhi found is Jiangling.

He can retreat, but he cannot retreat again and again.

Zhu Zhi knew very well that he was defeated and was only ashamed of Sun Quan alone. For the Jiangdong gentry, they valued Jiangling more, Jingzhou. Therefore, if Zhu Zhi could protect Jiangling, or even go further and take Jingzhou, then he would not dare to say that he had no mistakes, but he also made contributions!

『Come!』 Zhu Zhi greeted and asked, 『Xiangyang has not yet responded?』

The subordinates reported: "No reply yet."

Zhu Zhi nodded, "Very good."

Zhu Zhi stood up, raised his head, "Send the order! Beat the drum and gather the generals!"

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『What's going on?!"

Kuai Liang stared at the chaos that suddenly broke out, and his heart felt like someone was suddenly pulled by him, and he felt a little black in front of him.

He seemed a little restless when he came together today, but he didn't know where something was wrong. He took some guards out and walked along the street. As soon as he walked near the city gate, he suddenly heard a shocking noise outside the city gate!

Kuai Liang immediately felt that the most unfavorable thing seemed to have happened.

Kuai Liang sent someone to check forward quickly. After a while, the Kuai guard who went to investigate the situation replied, his face pale.

『Someone attacked the city!』

Almost at the same time, there seemed to be riots in Jiangling City, and the whole city seemed to boil in an instant.

The fire ignited from the shanty town in Xiacheng District, south of Jiangling City, and black smoke rose into the sky!

In a blink of an eye, Kuai Liang thought clearly about the whole story.

『Jiangdong Army!』

Kuai Liang gritted his teeth.

"There are spies from Jiangdong in the city!"

This is the second question that Kuai Liang figured out.

But afterwards, it was nothing strange. The key is whether it could be prevented in advance...

Unfortunately, Kuai Liang might have already vaguely realized this problem in his heart, but he did not take any preventive measures before.

Because when the Jiangdong Army first came to Jiangling, they were very polite.

Not only will it not invade the villages and houses around Jiangling, but it will sometimes help the Jiangling defenders to clear out some surrounding water thieves.

In any era, there are always some people who will become thieves for one reason or another.

Perhaps it was this measure that made Kuai Liang and some people in Jiangling City relaxed their vigilance...

The original alliance in Jiangdong was just to borrow the land of Jiangling to build a naval camp on the edge of the river to facilitate the march into Sichuan and Sichuan.

If you need some materials, you can also purchase them through trade with Jiangling City.

There are many people in the military camp, and sometimes it is normal to lack some salt and vinegar.

But who would have thought that Zhu Zhi took advantage of this opportunity to send people to infiltrate Jiangling City early, and now he suddenly attacked!

Long before forming an alliance with Cao's army, Kuai Liang was unwilling to lend a message to Jiangdong, expressing Jiangdong's wolfish ambitions, and now it's a prophecy!

Once Zhu Zhi took down Jiangling City, he could be said to have gained a foothold in Jiangling. There is a naval camp in the south as a support and Jiangling City in the north as a stronghold. Even if there is no other move in Jiangdong in the future, it is not necessarily an easy task for Cao's army to drive the Jiangdong army away from the Jiangling area!

If there are soldiers following Jiangdong, their troops will directly threaten the battlefield in Jingzhou, and may even cross Xiangyang and point directly to Xu County!

If the situation really becomes so corrupt...

Kuai Liang stood on the city wall, and his hands and feet were cold when he saw the scene in front of him.

The sudden attack of the Jiangdong Army in front of us is really a bit...

shameless.

Nowadays, the battlefield of the entire Han Dynasty is undoubtedly the battle between Cao Cao and Fei Qian, and Jiangdong is just a small prince who is in the corner and Nanman Shanyue. Cao Cao is willing to bring Jiangdong with him, which is already a special kindness to Jiangdong. Unexpectedly, Jiangdong's little brother took advantage of the absence of his classmate Cao to come and steal the house...

Thinking about the fact that Jiangdong is not the king?
To be continued...