At this stage of the war, Liu Chan actually no longer planned to rely on force to defeat the police.
He now has the capital to achieve his goals without resorting to force, and any further use of force would do more harm than good.
First, there are still more than 20,000 Wu troops in the public security force, and the elite navy troops are also still there, so the losses in the forceful attack will be too great.
But this is not the most important thing. Jiang Qin's troops were deceived by his own design, not destroyed. After being discovered by them, their combat power can be replenished.
Moreover, after Jingzhou has been mobilized for war, recruiting new soldiers will inevitably cause damage to the people's livelihood and economy, and most of the new soldiers are still untrained.
Yizhou was not much better. The Battle of Hanzhong lasted for two years, and the people needed enough time to recuperate. If the Battle of Jingzhou got into trouble, the price would be huge.
A large amount of land is in arrears, which means that when taxes are collected next year, income will also drop. Will we need to increase taxes then?
If we add more, we will fall into a vicious cycle, which is what is called militarism.
It was planned for Liu Chan to crush the Wu Kingdom, but now is not a good time.
At this time, the opponent is locked in a never-ending war of attrition to compete for national power. Cao Cao will be happiest.
Of course, although the goal was to achieve the goal by not fighting, Liu Chan still ordered the cavalry, infantry, and navy to practice every day.
Especially the naval forces, who go to the police station every day to conduct military exercises, with the attitude of "I'm just taking a break, and when I'm done, I'll kill you from top to bottom."
Wu Jun, who had suffered consecutive defeats, was frightened.
There are many people and they have never fought before. Now they can't even compare with the strength of the troops. You can imagine how serious the pessimism of the Wu army officers and soldiers is.
Zhu Ran had no choice but to patrol around every day, appease the sergeants, eat and live with the soldiers, and engage in performance art.
Unfortunately, the effect is still not good.
Sun Quan had no choice but to be impatient. Now that the two armies of the two sides were facing each other, it would be difficult for him to leave.
Leading the army to advance can easily turn into a rout, and going first yourself can easily lead to loss of morale.
As far as the current morale of the army is concerned, if it falls again, it will fall into the mud.
But if he didn't leave, if the Shu army attacked, he would be trapped in the police station.
This is bound to cause a great shock in Jiangdong. Many people who dared not move before may take the initiative, and there may even be many vicious rebellions similar to Cao Wei's base camp.
After all, under the surface unity of Jiangdong, there are many jackals, tigers and leopards waiting for his Sun family to pounce and bite them when they are weak.
Sun Quan now has a lot of resentment towards Zhuge Jin, and it was only after he listened to his words that he went on a personal expedition again.
Conscript yourself! It's a good thing now, it's hard to get off the tiger.
From the beginning of the Battle of Jingzhou, I had followed his strategy. What was the result?
He and his brother were both born in the same family, so how could the gap be so big?
On the third day, Sun Quan could no longer bear it. He ignored Zhuge Jin who advocated continuing the confrontation and sent invitations to Liu Chan and Guan Yu.
After a fierce operation, Sun Quan, who had not achieved any strategic goals, was knocked back to the negotiating table.
Naturally, he would not set up the negotiation venue in the Public Security City. That would appear to be a lack of sincerity, and no one would be stupid enough to do so.
But to ask him to cross the river...he doesn't have the guts.
So the negotiation location was magically located near the last beacon tower to the north of the Public Security Bureau and close to Jiangling.
After receiving the invitation, Liu Chan and Guan Yu would naturally go. The question was who else to take with them.
At first, Liu Chan thought that he and Guan Yu could just go together. The view along the river in winter was good, and he could tell whether there was an ambush without getting off the boat. There was nothing to fear at all.
Even if Sun Quan went crazy and wanted to fight to the death, he would not have the environment to set up an ambush.
However, it was strongly opposed by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.
"Second uncle can go, why can't third uncle go? So and so is going too."
Zhao Yun rarely stood in the same position as Mr. Zhang on this matter: "My lord ordered me to protect the prince, how can I stay alone in Jiangbei?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and waved his hands and said, "It doesn't matter. I'll just wait for the five of us to go with you. But the three generals must not insult Sun Quan."
Liu Chan was dumbfounded, no, why are you going too, Uncle Zhuge?
You have thin arms and legs. If something happens to you, where can I find a hexagonal prime minister in the future?
However, when I thought about it carefully, I was still young when negotiating such an important matter with Jiang Dong, so I really needed a representative of Lao Liu to be present. Zhuge Liang naturally played this role, so he didn't object anymore.
At noon on the appointed day, a group of five people crossed the river in a small boat, talking and laughing all the way.
When the boat stopped and landed, Liu Chan immediately became solemn, and he had an air of demeanor when walking, not at all as casual as when he was getting along with people close to him.
With the help of a waiter, Sun Quan stood in front of the temporary wooden platform set up by the river. He saw a young man among the people wearing a black brocade robe and dark clothes, with a gold silk jade sword on his waist, walking towards him slowly and unhurriedly. Revealing heroism and solemnity.
Even though he was one of the culprits who shattered his plan to attack Jingzhou, Sun Quan, who was filled with hatred, couldn't help but secretly praise Liu Bei in his heart at this time. Liu Bei gave birth to a good son.
Liu Chan's outfit was brought from Shu by Zhuge Liang.
After experiencing the initial panic, who had the most confidence in Liu Chan in Jingzhou was undoubtedly Zhuge Kongming.
But even he didn't expect that it would be used so quickly.
This was the first time Liu Chan saw the legendary green-eyed man with his own eyes. He was different from the imagined alien-like appearance with a high nose and deep eyes. Regardless of the color of his hair and eyes, he actually looked very "Chinese".
Not like a string.
"Ah... ah, Gong Si is such a talented person. My father and I have been separated for many years. I never thought you would be so old, haha." Sun Quan's enthusiastic face was filled with kindness.
However, both inside and outside the words, Liu Chan was treated as a junior. It seemed that he was just trying to break the awkwardness of the confrontation between the two armies and draw closer to each other. In fact, he did not put each other on an equal footing at all.
If you don't notice this pitfall and follow his words, you will be constrained in the subsequent negotiations.
You just want to act like a senior, right?
Liu Chan narrowed his eyes, and judging from the meaning just now, were you planning to call Adou directly at first?
Fortunately, Sun Quan changed his tune in time, otherwise it would be impossible to continue talking today.
Hearing this, Liu Chan stopped moving forward, stood with his hands behind his back, raised his head and said, "I am the crown prince of Hanzhong. Since you are a subject of my Liu family, why don't you be polite when you see me? Are you and other Jiangdong people ignorant of etiquette?"
Sun Quan was just an acting general of chariots and cavalry, and had not been promoted to full rank. When meeting him, the crown prince of Hanzhong, he should bow to him first.
Since you don't want to have a good conversation and are only thinking about digging a hole, let's compete with each other to see who dug the bigger hole.
Either you deny your identity as a subject of the Liu family, or you admit that you are ignorant of etiquette.
Otherwise, just bow to me obediently and then we can talk.
The problem is that this bow of the head and a single line of courtesy are all nonsense?
In fact, if Sun Quan hadn't suffered a defeat and was now stuck in the police, this problem would have been easy to resolve.
All he had to do was catch Liu Bei as the King of Hanzhong and not acknowledge it because he was not the emperor.
But now that Jingzhou was defeated and was being held in police custody, Sun Quan did not dare to say such insulting words.
For a moment he was in a dilemma.
What a difficult boy!
Zhuge Jin, who was behind Sun Quan, stood up with his hands raised: "Uh..."
"Shut up!" Liu Chan frowned coldly, "I am alone in a conversation with your lord. Who do you think you are to interrupt? Are the people from Jiangdong ignorant of etiquette?"
Zhuge Jin, who was interrupted just after he made a sound, was stunned.
Hiss... Zhuge Jin bit his molars and stepped back, what a domineering boy!
His current official position is only the lieutenant commander of Sun Quan's chariot and cavalry general, but he has no way to refute Liu Chan's words.
The inferiority of the boss official became apparent.
This is also one of the important reasons why Liu Bei must become king after the Battle of Hanzhong.
Zhuge Jin looked bitterly and looked to his brother Zhuge Liang for help, but Zhuge Liang stared at Sun Quan's face, as if there were flowers on his face, pretending not to see his brother's expression.
If you want Prime Minister Zhuge, who has dedicated his whole life in history, to abolish public service for personal reasons, there is no way.
But thanks to Zhuge Jin's intervention, Sun Quan thought of a way to deal with it: "Uh... I've been injured by an arrow in my leg recently, so it's been a lot of inconvenience, haha. Come on, let's sit down and talk about it. Come on, serve the wine!"
He only excused it because of the injury, but did not directly admit that he should salute, so he avoided this pitfall.
But Zhang Fei behind Liu Chan was staring at his knees, with a sneer on his face that made him want to kill someone.
It was still embarrassing to mention the arrow wound, but it was better than admitting that his status was inferior.
I wanted to take advantage of Liu Chan's young age and lack of knowledge to get some bargains during the negotiation, but I didn't expect that I didn't get the bargains and I was embarrassed...
In the first confrontation, Sun Quan was defeated first.
Thank you to the boss of "Shenghuang" for 1500 points and the boss of "Qingxianren 2022" for 100 points to once again inject money into the Jihan Armed Group. Their points will be used to reward the meritorious soldiers in the Battle of Jingzhou. Thank you for your support~
(End of chapter)
