There were already many scoundrels, and they even threatened to surrender Xiangyang City to the Han army to make Cao Rui submit.
The reason why he was so shameless was because after Zheng Pu and Guan Xing set up camp on Bashan North Road, Jiangdong's request for the Wei army to join forces to attack was rejected. Even Lu Xun and Zhu Ran wanted to take the next best option and planned to use Wudang. County and the request to go to the south of the Qinling Mountains to rescue the Shangyong Tang Counseling Department were also sternly rejected.
Of course Sun Quan couldn't accept this.
The Jingxiang Front and the Three East Counties were obtained by exchanging territory from Jiangdong, not as a charity from the Wei State!
Moreover, the previous consensus reached by both parties was that the Han army should not be allowed to enter Guanzhong and return to the old capital. Now Jiangdong has attracted 70,000 Han troops out!
Half of the Han army was restrained by Wu!
And the Wei State didn't take the opportunity to send troops to the east to expel the Han army from Guanzhong?
Are you actually thinking of letting the Han and Wu countries continue to suffer losses for a longer period of time so that you can reap the benefits?
I really don’t think Jiangdong can be fooled at will!
Therefore, in his letters, he threatened to abandon Xiangyang City.
Because it was impossible to rescue Shangyong's Tang Dynasty, Jiangdong occupied Xiangyang City, and it was no longer profitable to defend Wei against the Han army. It would be better to abandon it, go back and recuperate, and let the Han army continue to attack. Go and conquer Wei.
Anyway, with the elite navy here, the Han army will not invade Jingnan in a short time!
Jiangdong can be safe and secure!
Moreover, once Wu State abandoned Xiangyang, it also meant that the war ended with Wu State's defeat. The Han army was already angry and would naturally turn its troops to attack Chang'an.
In any case, returning the old capital is what the whole country hopes for the Han army!
Cao Wei, who took over the crown of emperor from Emperor Xian of Han, is the mortal enemy of the Han army!
Since the Wei State, which bore the brunt of the attack, did not want to make any effort, the Wu State also had no intention of resisting. Let's just sit back and wait for the Han army to return to the old capital, so that the destiny theory of "the Han Dynasty will continue to rise, and the Han Dynasty will prosper three times" will sweep the world.
At that time, the Wu Kingdom will inevitably experience internal dissent and turmoil in the counties.
However, there were people from Wei State buried with him
sufficient!
One can imagine how Cao Rui of Luoyang felt after reading the letter.
He could never have expected that the man who was lamented by Wei Wu Cao Cao in the past as "giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou" would actually use this villain mentality as a means of blackmail.
It’s really incredible~
But after the surprise, he quickly summoned his ministers to make plans on how to cooperate with Jiangdong's military deployment.
Yes, Sun Quan's blackmail was very effective.
Because everyone in the Wei Kingdom knows that Sun Quan's actions cannot be inferred based on common sense. For example, he can definitely do something like this that will hurt both sides.
In fact, there is nothing good to group test.
Although Wei and Wu temporarily made peace due to the situation, they still lacked a basis for mutual trust.
It is impossible to join forces and fight together!
In other words, if he wanted to resolve Sun Quan's grievances, Cao Rui had no choice but to agree to their intention to use the South Qinling Road to rescue Shangyong County.
But Cao Rui was not reconciled to such a result.
Despite the verbal criticism from the domestic scholars and the Qing Dynasty, he transferred the Jiangxia County and Jingxiang battle lines to Jiangdong. He wanted the Wu State to continue to consume the national power of Bashu and give the Wei State a chance to regain Guanzhong.
Even a chance to fully restore Yongliang!
But now, the war has only lasted for a few months, and Jiangdong is already exhausted?
What meaning does his previous actions have?
Moreover, he did not think that if Hu Zhi, the governor of Jingzhou, gave way, Wu would be able to reverse the war in the three eastern counties. He no longer wanted to compete with Ni Shu for the three eastern counties. Just come out.
What Cao Rui couldn't accept the most was that this time he sent troops against Shu to attack Jiangdong, which did not give Wei a chance to fight Guanzhong again.
Indeed, the war went as Sun Quan said, with more than 70,000 troops used against Shu, half of the country's troops!
But in the war on the southern front, the nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses who entered Jiaozhou were soldiers and horses guarding Nanzhong, not soldiers and horses stationed in Guanzhong to fight fiercely with Wei!
As for the 50,000 troops besieging Shangyong City and guarding the North Road of Saiba Mountain,
Is it difficult to go against Shu and enter Guanzhong from Dongsanjun?
Even if the Wei State used the whole country to attack Wei Yan's troops stationed in Qishan and Jiang Wei's troops in Wuzhangyuan, could they defeat Shu before they could rush to help from the three eastern counties in the pass?
The answer requires no elaboration.
After all, Cao Rui could not hope that the Wu army would be able to contain Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's and Zheng Pu's troops in the Three East Counties, or attack Hanzhong County so that they would not be able to rush to the aid of Guanzhong.
Therefore, after much thought, he decided to lend a helping hand to Jiangdong.
With Xiahou Ba, who is currently stationed in Jingzhao County, as the main general, and Puzhong, who had entered Guanzhong from Jingzhou in the past, as his deputy, a combined force of about 15,000 people came from Ziwu Valley to the three eastern counties to assist in the battle.
To be precise, it was to contain some of the Shu troops in Jiangdong.
Ziwu Valley is at the exit of the southern foothills of the Qinling Mountains, between Huangjin garrison and Xicheng.
After Xiahou Ba led his army to enter, he did not need to attack. He only needed to rein in his troops at the mouth of the valley, which was to force Ni Shu to transfer grain and baggage from Hanzhong County to the grain road of the three eastern counties.
So Ni Shu had to send troops to guard it!
This will also make it easier for Jiangdong to rescue Shangyong.
Naturally, it also made the war between Bashu and Jiangdong more fierce and changed the situation in the direction that Wei expected.
As for whether this move will lead Shu to invade Ziwu Valley and attack Xiahou Ba's tribe~~
No need to worry.
I would like to ask, Ni Shu has mobilized more than 50,000 troops to fight fiercely with Jiangdong in Dongsan County. How many troops can still be garrisoned in Hanzhong County?
How to squeeze out enough troops to attack Xiahou Ba's tribe?
Is it possible to send troops back from Guanzhong?
If so, Cao Rui couldn't ask for more!
After Cao Rui's edict was passed to Hu Zhi and Xiahou Ba respectively, Sima Yi, the governor of Yongliang, also went to Luoyang to make supplements to this arrangement.
He claimed that even if the Wei State borrowed a road to connect with Jiangdong, the war would not become protracted.
Therefore, he wanted to ask Cao Rui to ask the southern conquering general Wang Changbu, who was currently stationed in Xuchang, Yuzhou, and the Jingzhou governor Hu Zhibu, who was stationed in Wancheng, Nanyang, to prepare for war. After Jiangdong failed to rescue Shangyong on the southern road of the Qinling Mountains, he would return to Jiangdong's troops and horses. Attacking Bashan North Road, and Wei's soldiers and horses attacking Qinling North Road, the two countries' collaborative fighting style made this war more protracted!
Order Ni Shu not to return these troops to Guanzhong!
It also prevented Jiangdong from leaving, and continued to consume Ni Shu's war heritage with Wei!
As long as this war lasts for a year and a half, Wei will have the opportunity to recapture Youfufeng in Guanzhong and Anding County in Longdong.
At the expense of the Jingxiang Front and Jiangxia County, they negotiated peace with Jiangdong through humiliation, and finally started a war between Nishu and Wu. How could Nishu be allowed to come and go freely?
When Cao Rui heard about it, he naturally followed the good advice.
Therefore, in early winter and early October, the three counties in the east were faced with clouds of war.
Jiangdong, led by Lu Xun and Quan Cong, commanded about 30,000 soldiers, and attacked the Bashan North Road guarded by Guan Xing; Zhu Ran and Maozhong Governor Zhang Liang led 20,000 soldiers and marched from the south road of the Qinling Mountains, looking at the water-blocking valley.
Xiahou Ba and Puzhong also marched into Ziwu Valley.
