After Meng Huo brought about 40,000 Yi soldiers to the territory of Yunnan, he summoned 70,000 to 80,000 Yi soldiers and other barbarians, and now there are 120,000 troops. He heard that the three counties of Yueli, Jianning and Yongchang had been recovered by the Qin army.

What he thought of was not the Qin army's strength, but the incompetent people who stayed in the three counties. The governor of Yueli County, Gao Kai, failed to ambush out of the city, and was killed instead. As a result, Yueli County City opened the city gate and surrendered. The governor of Jianning County, Zhu Kang, became even worse. Without a fight, he directly killed the Yi people in the city and opened the city to surrender, and helped the Qin army to open the city gate of Yongchang County. The fall of the three counties so quickly was due to the treacherous Qin army.

Meng Huo gathered the Yi generals to discuss, among which three marshals, all of which were Meng Huo's right-hand arm. The marshal was named Jinhuan Sanjie, the second marshal was named Dong Tuna, and the third marshal was named Ah Huilan.

Meng Huo said to the three marshals: "The Qin army is not familiar with geography. If they dare to break into our Yi land, they will definitely be without a return!"

The three marshals also said: "What the king said is right. My Yi land is dangerous and dense. If the Qin army dares to come, there will be no return!" This is a unity and everyone has full confidence.

After two days of rest in Yongchang County, Liu Yu ordered the Qin army to set sail and continue the southern expedition and bravely entered the Yi land.

Meng was furious when he obtained the news and ordered the three marshals to lead 30,000 troops to go down the camp in three directions to block the Qin army.

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Just when Liu Yu recovered the three counties, he continued to advance southward and entered the Yi land, and it was difficult to get out of his way in the battle with the Yi people.

Jiangling and Xu Du, Liu Bei and Cao Cao all acted together.

Liu Bei personally led 100,000 Chu troops to take charge of Xiangyang and Yidu County. At the same time, Zhuge Liang also led 100,000 elite Chu troops from Jiangling to vow to the east. Cao Cao also ordered Sima Yi to be the commander and led 130,000 Wei County to attack Pingyuan County in the north, as if he wanted to fǎn      gōng Hebei Ji, You, and the three states.

In order to destroy Wu, it is unknown whether Cao Cao did his best. Liu Bei used all his strength. In order to obtain more troops, Liu Bei even ignored farming production and recruited about 40,000 soldiers, almost all the male men under his rule who could go to the battlefield. A total of nearly 270,000 soldiers were recruited. Apart from defending Xiangyang, the Yidu front line and Zhuge Liang to the east to destroy Wu, there were only less than 70,000 soldiers left to guard Jingzhou and Jiaozhou counties. At the same time, all the generals, except for Wei Yan, who followed Liu Bei to Xiangyang and Yidu front line, the rest were like the fierce generals Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, the general Zhang Ren, and other generals who rose later, such as Liu Feng, Chen Dao, Zhang Bao, Li Yan, etc., who all followed Zhuge Liang to the east. It was not an exaggeration to say that Liu Bei's camp was full of action.

The news of Zhuge Liang leading 100,000 Chu troops to the Eastern Expedition reached the Wu Kingdom, and the whole country was shocked!

Sun Quan's face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth with trembling and said, "Liu Bei is trying to destroy my Wu Kingdom!"

"He is a delusion!" Sun Quan was still a little confident about this.

Although the battle of Jiaozhou was defeated too quickly and was too miserable, even Taishici and Zhang Zhao were killed. However, the battle of Jiaozhou was a battle for territory, and this time Zhuge Liang's eastern expedition to Wu was a battle to destroy the country. The nature and situation were different. We could not use the battle for Jiaozhou.

"Cao Cao's army of more than 700,000 was unable to destroy our Eastern Wu, and Zhuge Liang's army of only 100,000 Chu troops, why?" Sun Quan gritted his teeth and ordered: "Let Lu Su, Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and others defend Sanjiangkou and prevent Zhuge Liang's troops from entering Jiujiang County."

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In the past, when Sanjiangkou and Chibi were blocked by Cao Cao's 730,000 troops, Sun Quan thought he could block Zhuge Liang and other Chu troops now.

Ranran, Zhuge Liang, as one of the three major military advisors of the three anti-Cao Alliance in the past, and Zhou Yu and Guo Jia stayed in the Sanjiangkou and Chibi areas for a long time. He had already known the terrain and water conditions here. Moreover, the Cao army was not good at water battles, but the Chu army led by Zhuge Liang was different. It was destined that Sun Quan hoped to block Zhuge Liang in the Sanjiangkou and Chibi areas.

Zhuge Liang ordered Li Yan to lead a team of sailors to take the night, take a small boat and walk a shallow road to penetrate into the Sanjiangkou and hide it.

The next day.

Tens of thousands of Chu troops officially entered the area of ​​Sanjiangkou from Jiangxia County. Once the Chu army broke through Sanjiangkou, then Chaisang would be the only thing in the Chu army's pocket, and Jiujiang County would also face the Chu army's troops.

Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and other Wu army generals led 50,000 Wu troops to intercept Zhuge Liang and other Chu troops on the river.

The two armies encountered each other on the river and fought!

The 50,000 Wu troops were all naval troops, skilled in water battles, and had the experience of fighting against Cao's army back then. Although the number of people was smaller than that of the Chu army, the combat effectiveness of fighting on this river was not inferior to that of the Chu army.

Huang Gai and Jiang Qin are also fighting each other.

"Swish! Puff!" Huang Gai shot and killed a middle-level general of the Chu army with an arrow, boosting the morale of the Wu army.

Zhuge Liang stood at the bow of one of the ships and witnessed this scene with his own eyes, but he still swayed the feather fan with a calm expression, as if he was sure to win.

Just as the two armies were in a stalemate, the day before yesterday, Zhuge Liang deployed a small waterway to sneak to the rear of the Wu army, and three thousand elite Chu troops suddenly emerged from the rear of the Wu army, causing trouble in an instant.

Zhuge Liang ordered the main force of the Chu army to take the opportunity to advance and cut off the Wu army, which immediately caused chaos in the Wu army.

After more than an hour of battle, the Wu army was defeated and fled to Chaisang. At the same time, the Chu army won a great victory in the first battle and its morale was as bright as a rainbow!

"If this great defeat is lost, Chaisang cannot defend himself, so he has to abandon Chaisang and retreat into Jiujiang County." Huang Gai sighed.

Sui Lusu, Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and other three men, led the remaining defeated Wu army, gave up Chaisang and retreated to Jiujiang County.

The news of the crushing defeat at Sanjiangkou reached Jianye. Sun Quan was shocked and acted in a dire way, feeling powerless all over.

The other soldiers and civilians of the Eastern Wu were also frightened, and some even cried day and night. It can be seen that the Eastern Wu was extremely popular in Jiangdong. Most people were panicked and sad about it when the country was in danger.

One day later, Zhuge Liang led the Chu army to occupy Chaisang and pointed his sword at Jiujiang County.

Behind Jiujiang County are Danyang County and Jianye City. Basically, if Jiujiang County and Danyang County cannot be defended, then the demise of the Eastern Wu will be in front of you.

While Sun Quan ordered Lu Su, Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and others to defend Jiujiang County to the death and not to fight, he recruited soldiers crazily and discussed countermeasures with civil and military officials.

However, any countermeasures can be found are nothing more than resisting or seeking help.

In terms of resistance, Lu Su, Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and others can only support it first, while in terms of seeking help, the surrounding areas of Eastern Wu were Cao Cao. Some people asked to ask Cao Cao for help, but unfortunately, Sun Quan and more people knew that this was unrealistic at all.

There has been news that Cao Cao ordered Sima Yi to lead 130,000 Wei troops fǎn     gōng Hebei, and there was no force to help Eastern Wu. Besides, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were allies. Cao Cao went to fǎn     gōng Hebei during Zhuge Liang's Eastern Expedition, which may not be the intention of Liu Bei to restrain the Qin army.

The rest was to ask King Liu Yu of Qin for help.
Chapter completed!