When Cao Cao's request for grain was sent to Jiangdong, Sun Ce looked at Cao Cao's envoy with a confused look. Although he had a cooperative relationship with Cao Cao, he was not as good as providing food and grass to Cao Cao for free. Cao Cao asked Sun Ce to provide money and food in the name of contributing to the emperor, but even if ordinary people knew that Cao Cao was short of food now, it was still a question whether Liu Xie could get it if he sent it. Moreover, Sun Ce did not take Emperor Jian'an seriously at all.

Since the Xuzhou Jiangdong Army had not made any breakthroughs, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun could not break through Guangling County. Zhou Yu was worried about Sun Ce's injuries, so he returned to Jiangdong after handing over the military affairs to Taishi Ci. He happened to meet the envoy Cao Cao asked for food.

"Please wait for a while, I need to discuss it!" Zhou Yu said with extraordinary demeanor.

Of course, the messenger had no problem. He turned around and left after accusing him of guilt.

Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu, "How do you think about Cao Cao's request for food?"

"Cao Mengde is almost at the end of his life before he will ask our army for food." Zhou Yu said with a smile.

When Sun Ce heard Zhou Yu's analysis, he immediately said excitedly: "Since Cao Cao is overwhelmed, then I can't give him food and grass. I might as well send troops from Lujiang to occupy Shouchun and then negotiate with Liu Yu. Isn't that better?"

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were both frightened by Sun Ce's idea. They were too bold. If it was not good, Jiangdong would be in danger of being destroyed.

"No!" Zhou Yu refuted Sun Ce's proposal. "We not only need to provide food and grass to Cao Cao, but also send troops to help Cao Cao."

"Why is this?" Sun Ce was a little puzzled.

Zhou Yu came to the map and said to Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, Cao Cao's power has been constantly eroded by Liu Yu. Now only Yuzhou and Yanzhou are left. Yanzhou is in danger under Liu Yu's offensive. Once Liu Yu breaks through Yanzhou, then Cao Cao will only have one Yuzhou left, and he will have to be defeated or fled. If Cao Cao fails, then Liu Yu will not have any checks and balances in the Central Plains, and he will be very likely to go south. The direction of the southward direction will probably be Jingzhou. With the virtues of those people in Jingzhou, they will definitely surrender. Then I, Jiangdong, will be trapped in Liu Yu's two-sided attack. Jiangdong will be in danger at that time."

Sun Ce was stunned by Zhou Yu's words, staring at the map for a long time, and finally said, "Gongjin, if I sent troops from Lujiang in Jiangdong and then borrowed the way from Cao Cao and rushed to the Yingchuan land occupied by Liu Yuxin, what is your chance of winning?"

"Lord, no! If you go deeper alone, if the support is not good, you will probably be wiped out!" Zhang Zhao could no longer remain silent. Sun Ce's thoughts were bolder and risky. He was older and his heart would not be able to stand it.

"Zibu, don't say too much!" Sun Ce did not listen to Zhang Zhao. He was just staring at Zhou Yu now, hoping that Zhou Yu could give a good answer.

Zhang Zhao was stimulated by Sun Ce's words. If Zhang Hong hadn't stopped him, he might have been angry.

Zhou Yu's head moved for a long time, and finally turned around and looked at the map, constantly analyzing the gains and losses in his mind, and finally shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work!"

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong both breathed a sigh of relief. They were so worried that Zhou Yu said yes.

"I'm really unwilling to give up!" Sun Ce hammered the table in anger.

Zhou Yu did smile and said, "Bo Fu, what we need now is to support Cao Cao and let him fight Liu Yu to the death. We can go west!"

"You mean to attack Jingzhou?" Sun Ce restored his fighting spirit.

"That's right, let Liu Yu and Cao Cao continue fighting in the north. In Jingzhou, west, Liu Biao was seriously ill recently. Cai Mao and others competed for power and profit, and internal unstable. As long as we attack Jingzhou, perhaps Liu Biao was stimulated and died on the spot, we might not be able to avenge the old general!" Zhou Yu said.

"Okay, that's it! Send troops to Jingzhou to avenge my father!" Sun Ce immediately made the decision. He had wanted to deal with Jingzhou for a long time. Now that Liu Biao is seriously ill, he just responded to the words that took his life while he was sick.

"More importantly, the money and food we gave Cao Cao can be collected from Jingzhou!" Zhou Yu said with a wicked smile.

"Gongjin, you are so bad!" Sun Ce patted Zhou Yu's shoulder and smiled.

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong felt that they could not keep up with Zhou Yu and Sun Ce's ideas. However, Zhou Yu proposed the righteousness of avenging Sun Jian, and they did not dare to refute it, so they could only choose to agree.

So Sun Ce generously gave Cao Cao a large sum of food and grass, and gave Cao Cao a free gift of 1,000 troops.

After Cao Cao received it, he couldn't believe his ears. Could it be that Sun Ce's boy changed his nature? No one under Cao Cao's command came up with the intention of Sun Ce's move.

Based on the principle that if it comes in vain and not accepting it is a waste, Cao Cao accepted all the troops and money and grain sent by Sun Ce.

At the same time, in Jingzhou, Cai Mao took the initiative and gave Cao Cao a considerable amount of food and grass. Cao Cao's food and grass problem was alleviated and he could make great efforts to deal with Liu Yu's possible attack.

A few days later, Cao Cao finally knew why Sun Ce was so generous.

Sun Ce led a total of 50,000 naval and land armies, and 200 warships. He held high the banner of revenge for his father and rushed straight to Jiangxia, and several cities were planted.

When the news spread, all the princes in the world were shocked by Sun Ce's actions.

Jiangxia's garrison Huang Zu hurriedly asked for help from Xiangyang, but no one in Jingzhou expected that Sun Ce would send troops at this time, but he could not react for a while.

Sun Ce attacked Jiangxia City frantically, and finally broke through Huang Zu's defense and killed Huang Zu.

Jiangxia City was trapped in Sun Ce's hands, and Sun Ce even got a powerful general, Gan Ning, who was born in a water thief. This time the capture of Jiangxia was also related to Gan Ning. Gan Ning did not receive much attention from Huang Zu, and had long been rebellious. So when Sun Ce attacked Jiangxia, Gan Ning immediately led his troops to open the city gate and rebel.

After Sun Ce stabilized in Jiangxia City, he did not start the army to fight to other cities like before, but instead kept his troops and built fortifications.

The civil and military officials in Jingzhou led by Cai Mao could not deal with it. The governor of Jingzhou Liu Biao could not pretend to be sick. He immediately got out of bed and then took over the power of Jingzhou again. Only now do everyone in Jingzhou know that Liu Biao was pretending to be sick before. Cai Mao was even more wary of Liu Biao and secretly warned himself that he must not be fooled by this old fox in the future.

With Liu Biao in the middle of the army, Jingzhou quickly returned to its unity.

Unfortunately, all this was a little late. Sun Ce had almost digested and absorbed Jiang Xia's territory and was planning to attack in other directions.

At this time, Liu Biao regretted it to death. If he hadn't pretended to be sick, there would have been no situation where Sun Ce would have succeeded in attacking Jiang Xia. What's more, Sun Ce seemed to be enlightened, which was completely different from his previous style. Liu showed that it was too difficult to recover the lost territory.
Chapter completed!