Three Kingdoms: Liu Daer Was Forced Out of the Mountain at the Beginning

After much dissuasion, Liu Bei had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to defend Jiaozhou.

In fact, the territory of Jiaozhou is not small.

There are seven counties in total, including Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen and Rinan.

Among them, Jiaozhi County has the governor's office.

However, due to the terrain, Jiaozhou has never been a battleground for military strategists.

After all, facing the foreign races in the south, Jiaozhou was almost completely defenseless. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

However, these are only secondary.

The most important thing is that almost all areas in Jiaozhou have not been developed much, unlike later generations.

Today's Jiaozhou can be said to be a barren land in the true sense.

Even though Shi Xie at that time was more polite and virtuous, every famous person who came to Jiaozhou would be treated with courtesy by Shi Xie.

But even so, not many people stayed.

In Jiaozhou, basically no famous person has appeared.

All the princes did not care about this place at all, mainly because it was too remote and the income was not proportional to the effort.

Generally speaking, if Jingzhou can be basically completely occupied, then Jiaozhou can basically be won.

However, Shi Xie didn't have much ambition. When he saw that Sun Quan was coming to attack, he directly chose to surrender.

Therefore, Sun Quan captured the entire Jiaozhou almost effortlessly.

But this does not affect the situation of the battle.

The biggest gap between Jiaozhou and Jiangdong is the territory where Shanyue is located.

The mountains are high and the roads are long and extremely difficult to walk.

However, Shanyue cannot be captured now, and Jiaozhou is almost a wasteland.

After Sun Quan occupied Jiaozhou, he sent Bu Zhi and Lu Dai to garrison.

Originally, they had quite a lot of soldiers and horses in their hands, but due to the current difficulties in Jiangdong, most of their soldiers and horses were transferred back, leaving only ten to twenty thousand defenders.

How could these city defense troops be able to hold such a large territory?

However, the current Jiaozhou is pretty good. After all, it can become the Central Plains region and the barbarian land in the south that Sun Quan and Liu Bei captured during this period, which can be considered useful.

But even so, losing Jiaozhou would have almost no impact.

Therefore, both Liu Bei and Sun Quan basically did not value Jiaozhou.

But now it's completely different.

Liu Bei lost Jingzhou and Jiangdong was besieged by Cao Cao.

Nowadays, the only place Liu Bei can go to is Jiaozhou.

Originally, Liu Bei thought of taking a gamble first and using his abundant troops to capture Shanyue directly.

Connect Jiaozhou with Jiangdong and other places, so that we can still unite vertically and horizontally to resist Cao's army.

Even though most of Shankoshi is a mountain range, which is not conducive to traffic, at least there is a road.

However, he never expected that Shanyue today would be such a hard nut to crack, and even hundreds of thousands of people continued to attack for such a long time, but to no avail.

The soldiers under his command suffered repeated setbacks and their morale dropped significantly.

Coupled with the sudden and inexplicable attack by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Liu Bei was now unable to resist.

Therefore, Liu Bei could only choose to return to Jiaozhou.

As for Jiangdong, he can only be left to fend for himself.

If Jiangdong was destroyed, Sun Quan would have no choice but to leave Jiangdong and go to Jiaozhou, no matter what the cost.

But Jiaozhou alone was completely unable to resist Cao Cao's footsteps.

After all, Jingzhou, which was a hundred times better than Jiaozhou, was lost. Jiaozhou, a barren place with almost no food, could not be defended at all.

Therefore, Liu Bei and Sun Quan can only follow the path paved in advance.

Head directly to the barbarian lands in the south.

Although this barbarian land is full of barbarians, they will be harassed and attacked from time to time.

However, this is much better than being unable to resist Cao Cao's attack.

Liu Bei spent his life wandering around, escaping from the north to the present-day south.

Now, Liu Bei doesn't want to run away anymore.

If we can settle down in the barbarian lands in the south, it is not impossible to fight back to the Central Plains.

Therefore, now that Liu Bei has returned to Jiaozhou, he can only use all the resources at hand to make plans for the future.

After all, it is almost impossible for Jiangdong to successfully resist Cao Cao's current offensive pace.

However, after Liu Bei returned to Jiaozhou, he discovered that Jiaozhou was not lost at all.

According to what Bu Zhi said, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had never been here at all.

But Liu Bei had already expected that this might be the case.

However, since he had given up attacking Shanyue, Liu Bei was determined not to go again.

After all, Hubaoqi has begun to monitor his movements.

It would be very irrational to attack Shanyue now.

"Yide, together with Yun Chang, lead 50,000 troops to garrison at the position closest to Jiangdong."

"Remember, if you encounter Cao Jun, don't fight with him. Try to avoid it."

"If there is a loss in Jiangdong, you two will definitely pick up Wu Hou and the people he led."

Liu Bei had no choice but to issue this order.

Zhang Fei's eyes suddenly widened when he heard this:

"What?"

"Brother, there is still a bloody battle in Jiangdong now, why does the eldest brother do this?"

"If Jiangdong makes a mistake, we will definitely not be able to escape either!"

Before Liu Bei could speak, Guan Yu said:

"Third brother! Do you think my eldest brother wants to give up rescuing Jiang Dong?"

"It is simply impossible for us and Jiangdong to resist Cao's army now."

"Right now, it's all over!"

"Wait until we head to the south to recharge our batteries and fight again before it's too late!"

Hearing what Guan Yu said, Zhang Fei could only nod his head and followed Guan Yu to lead the troops.

The only thing Liu Bei can do now is to guard and defend every inch of Jiaozhou.

Otherwise, if Jiaozhou is also lost, it will be basically impossible for the remaining Jiangdong troops to evacuate and go south together.

As long as Cao Cao intends to pursue, it won't be long before Sun Quan fails and will be unable to escape Jiangdong. It can be said that he will perish.

"Two military advisors, in the next few days, you two need to go to the barbarian land in the south to lead the remaining soldiers."

"We must stabilize this southern tribe."

"I have a hunch that Jiangdong may not be able to hold on for a few more days."

After Guan and Zhang left, Liu Bei sighed.

Zhuge Liang suddenly frowned:

"Could it be that Cao Cao has already crossed the river?"

Liu Bei nodded heavily:

"The nearest Lujiang County is almost falling. Cao Cao's navy has improved so quickly during this period."

"Without Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, how could he have cultivated the navy to such an extent? Cao Cao's rest during this time is really not in vain."

After hearing this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh quietly:

"My lord, I must do my best to pacify the south!"