Everyone already understands what it means to persuade this and has a deep understanding of it.

Isn’t this physical persuasion of the stability and prosperity under Liu Bei’s rule now?

But Sun Ce is not a soft persimmon that can dominate Jiangdong. His strength is not bad, especially Sun Ce's Yangtze River Navy. Although he is definitely unable to challenge himself at the sea, he is really not worth it on the Yangtze River.

"I have no objection to whether I can physically persuade Sun Ce, but the question is whether time comes?"

Guo Jia frowned and looked at Wang Xuan and continued to ask: "It's not as usual now. We can't wait for such a long time. These three million people seem to be refugees, but they are not completely without any organization. Although they were deceived and driven out, there are also a large number of people from the Central Plains family lurking in it."

"There are these people who incite the sentiment of refugees in it, which has caused great damage to the local area. Our troops are limited, and we have to deploy defenses on the border and gather refugees. Now we are already in a difficult position, and the speed of gathering refugees is very slow. If we mobilize our troops to deal with Sun Ce..."

Guo Jia shook his head with a serious expression. Everyone understood what he meant. It was obviously not optimistic about Wang Xuan's method. This was also one of the shortcomings of Liu Bei's military strategy. Its military strength was too small.

The territory that expanded in a short period of time was too huge. Guanzhong, Xiliang, Hanzhong, Yizhou, Jingzhou, and southern Xuzhou, the overall area expanded by more than twice in just over a year.

Although Xiliang and Yizhou are vast and sparsely populated, the hidden dangers of Qiang people and mountain barbarians are huge, and there are a lot of troops required to garrison the area.

This led to a large gap in the originally sufficient troops. Take Sun Ce's attack this time for example. The news I have obtained is that Sun Ce's advance along the river and successively defeated the four counties including Xiazhi, E County, and Zhu County.

Although this is because the four counties are all built by Linjiang River and there are no generals stationed in it, it is difficult to resist the full attack of Sun Ce's naval army, but in the final analysis, it is still because of insufficient troops.

In fact, except for the already occupied Nanyang County and the newly captured Nanjun, Jingzhou, including Jiangxia and the entire Jingnan County, there was a huge gap in the officials sent out, not to mention the garrison issue, most of the people used were the originally surrendered Jingzhou soldiers, and they were not even too late to re-train.

You should know that the Han army is not like the Cao army. They can be recruited at will. After joining the army, they will dare to use it with a little training.

The Han army is now extremely strict in military system, and the soldiers' welfare benefits are very high. The soldiers themselves also have a strong sense of honor. This is formed by long-term and rigorous training and ideological education. It is commendable and of great significance. It is impossible to destroy the good atmosphere that has been formed in order to replenish troops in the short term.

No one would agree to this kind of business that was not worth the loss under Liu Bei's rule.

"No need for a large army!" Wang Xuan said with a confident look on his face: "There are more soldiers and more soldiers, and the more soldiers there are few soldiers. There are no soldiers and no soldiers. Use my strengths to attack the other's shortcomings!"

How to fight without soldiers?

...

In the Xiling of Jiangxia County, Sun Ce, sitting in the lobby of the county magistrate's mansion, was full of pride. He was playing with Jiangxia County's household registration in his hand, and said to Zhou Yu who was beside him with a smile: "It seems that the Han army is not as strong as imagined. It is unstoppable along the way. The Han army's resistance is really weak, and there is no need to exaggerate the evaluation of the Han army."

Zhou Yu smiled but said nothing. He knew that Sun Ce was venting his resentment for the defeat at Xiquyang City.

Of course, it is impossible for an inhuman guy like Dian Wei to be stationed in every place, especially a city that has just been captured by the Han army, so it is normal to easily change ownership.

But it would be better to make Sun Ce happy and restore his confidence. Xiquyang's blow to Sun Ce was a bit too big.

"Where will we fight next?" Sun Ce came to the front of the map excitedly, and his fingers slid on the map. "Will we go north to take Anlu or turn to Hanshui to take Jingling, or continue to go up the river to take Shaxian troops into Nanjun?"

Zhou Yu also stood up and walked to the map with a smile and stood side by side with Sun Ce. He stood there randomly, and was spreading hormones around him. He waved his feather fan gently and said in a confident voice: "If it were normal, he would definitely enter the Han River to take Jingling and the inner side, cut off the passage of Xiangyang to attack along the Han River, and then go north along the Jian River to take Anlu and cut off the road to Nanyang to the south."

"But now it's different. Cao Cao drove three million people into Liu Bei's rule at one time, and followed the army of less than 300,000. The Han army was too busy to take care of themselves, so there was no time to take care of us. Especially the four counties of Jiangxia and Jingnan were completely occupied by the Han army, and there was no time to rectify them, so we must continue to go down the river."

As he said that, Zhou Yu gently paddled along the Yangtze River on the map with a feather fan, passing through Shaxian and Zhouling, and stopped until Yueyang. "Our goal is here. The Cui family in Qinghe built a city called Yueyang here. While firmly guarding the Yangtze River waterway, it can stay in a large number of naval forces, which is the most important node for controlling the river water."

"The Cui clan in Qinghe has a close relationship with the King of Han. If we want to firmly occupy the four counties and Jiangxia in Jiangnan, we must take it down here and cut off the tentacles of the Han army extending to Jiangnan. Only by firmly occupying this place can we ensure that we can complete the goal of occupying the four counties and Jiangxia in Jingnan this time."

"Okay!" Sun Ce put his arm on Zhou Yu's shoulder and said enthusiastically: "Then we will send troops to Sha Xian after three days of rest!"

...

"Is this Yueyang?" Wang Xuan walked around the streets of Yueyangcheng in an ordinary gray cotton jacket.

This cotton began to be tried to plant in Qingzhou. Over the years, it has been spread out on a large scale and is very popular. Compared with the things like filling the cherry clothes in this era, big cotton jackets and two cotton pants are simply magical tools, greatly reducing the mortality rate of northern people in winter.

Moreover, the cotton cloth woven from cotton was also purchased in large quantities by the people, and it was much better than Ma Yi. Under the rule of Wang Xuan's policy of encouraging industry and commerce, it quickly spread to the entire Han Dynasty.

"What Yueyang is doing is really good. The only thing you lack is a Yueyang Tower!" Wang Xuan looked around while muttering.

"What is Yueyang Tower?" Zhang Fei, who had a black face and a big beard on his face, stretched his head and asked, asking.

"It's obviously a building, why are you so stupid!" Before Wang Xuan could answer, Hua Xiong's bold voice penetrated.

"Damn, you're so itchy, right?" Zhang Fei looked at Hua Xiong with his fingers. He hadn't beaten Hua Xiong for a long time since everyone guarded the whole ground. Obviously, Hua Xiong is floating!

"You two are so stupid to calm me down." Wang Xuan's cold voice came over. The two of them shook for a moment and immediately smiled dryly and shut up.

Behind him, Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong, Zhang Xiu, Ma Chao, Zhang Ren, Zhao Yun, Yang Ren, Pang De, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, and Wu'anguo, a group of people pursed their lips and watched them quarrel.

This group of people is very attractive when walking on the street. After all, even handsome men like Zhao Yun and Ma Chao are tall and big, let alone Zhang Fei and Hua Xiong, who are full of evil spirits, you can tell at a glance that they are not good people.
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