Sun Jian nodded thinking, "Cao Cao is an old fox, of course he will not continue to attack!"

Lu Su said: "Cao Cao suffered a serious loss in the previous battle in Luoyang. Recently, he paid a considerable price to capture Xuanyuan Mountain, and his food and supplies also suffered huge losses! Cao Cao probably wanted to seize Nanyang in one go, but he was not strong enough! In addition, the Yellow Turban Scattered Scattered Savages are still in trouble everywhere, and Cao Cao also needs to solve these problems. I estimate that if Cao Cao wants to use troops again, at least after the beginning of next spring! In fact, I think the possibility of Cao Cao using troops in large numbers is not high! |"

Zhou Yu said: "What Zijing said is extremely true! With Cao Cao's personality, I guess he will not make any big moves within a few years. He needs to accumulate strength. Once he uses troops, it will be a force that will be under the pressure of Mount Tai!"

Sun Jian nodded in agreement and frowned: "So will Lu Bu take this opportunity to cross the river and attack me in Jiangdong?"

Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Lord, don't worry at all! Lu Bu may have such an intention, but he can't do it! Lord, don't forget that our navy is the best in the world! Without a real navy in Lu Bu, it is impossible to compete with us on the river! Those 100,000 navy troops are our capital to be invincible in the world!"

Sun Jian laughed loudly, "Gongjin's words made me suddenly enlightened!" Then he thought, "How should we play to the advantages of our navy?"

Zhou Yu said: "Our goal should be Jingzhou. But this time, we must not act rashly!"

Thinking of the previous defeat, Sun Jian couldn't help but feel ache and sighed: "More than 400,000 troops! They were destroyed in an instant!"

Lu Su clasped his fists and said, "My lord, don't be too sad! Victory and defeat are common things for military strategists! In fact, the defeat in this battle is not all bad. At least it allows us to see the huge gap between the infantry and cavalry fighting power of Lu Bu!"

Zhou Yu nodded with a deep sense of the same feeling: "Not bad!" He clasped his fists at Sun Jian and apologized: "I have an unshirkable responsibility for the defeat in this battle. Please punish the lord!"

Sun Jian helped Zhou Yu up and sighed, "The defeat in this battle is not Gongjin's fault. I don't listen to your kind words and advice! If I followed Gongjin's words at that time, the general's strength was all reduced in Xiangyang, how could such a great defeat be achieved? I'm sorry to the soldiers!"

Zhou Yu was moved: "Lord!"

Sun Jian cheered up his spirits, "The past is gone, we must seize the current opportunity!" Zhou Yu and Lu Su nodded in agreement.

Lu Su thought, "Now our army has a total of 250,000 troops, which is not enough to make progress. The most urgent task is to provide pensions to the families of the fallen families, and to expand its military strength as soon as possible! No matter which of these two things, it requires a lot of money and food!"

Sun Jian thought, "From today on, the expenses of my marquis' mansion will be reduced by half! All the remaining money and grains are used as military expenses! Zijing, I appoint you as the Minister of the Interior to take charge of the economy and grains for me!" Lu Su said, "I will live up to my lord's trust!"

Sun Jian helped Lu Su up and said to Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, all the things about preparing for the army and preparation for war will fall on your shoulders!"

Zhou Yu held his fists and agreed.

Sun Jian turned around and faced the beautiful mountains and rivers outside the city, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's like a painting!" Zhou Yu, Lu Su couldn't help feeling it.

Sun Jian turned around and said to the two: "I have been thinking about one thing these days, how to improve the combat effectiveness of our army? I think no matter whether it is infantry or cavalry, no matter how much we put in, we cannot compare with Lu Bu and Cao Cao!"

Lu Su nodded in deep pain and sighed: "The people in the north are brave and good at cavalry and infantry fighting, which has been around since ancient times! In this regard, it is indeed difficult for the soldiers of Jiangnan to compete with them!"

Sun Jian nodded, "So we must play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses! Since the infantry and cavalry cannot compete with them, why should we waste so much resources on the infantry and cavalry?..."

Lu Su frowned and said, "The lord's idea is good! But how can you attack cities and villages without infantry cavalry to unify the world?"

Zhou Yu said: "I understand what the lord means. What the lord means is that not focusing on the main energy of the infantry and cavalry is not that it does not pay attention to the construction of infantry and cavalry!"

Sun Jian nodded with praise, "Gongjin's words are very suitable for me!" He paused, "Although the world is, almost all cities are built on the edge of rivers, lakes and seas. My basic intention is that if you want to attack a certain place in the future, you will use the navy to intercept its food supply and trap it to death. When it is exhausted, you will attack with the infantry! If the enemy comes to attack, our infantry will only defend the city, and the infantry will never confront the enemy head-on! The navy will take advantage of the opportunity to attack the empty land behind it! We must turn the rivers, lakes and seas in the world into a battlefield where we come and go freely! Let the enemy be under the threat of our navy at all times!"

Lu Su's eyes shone brightly and excitedly: "My lord is so smart that our army's powerful advantages in water warfare have been fully utilized!"

Sun Jian smiled proudly.

Zhou Yu frowned and said, "I'm afraid we won't be happy for long!"

Sun Jian and Lu Su showed confusion, and Lu Su asked, "Why did Gongjin say this? Is there any other naval army in the world that can be compared with us?"

Zhou Yu said: "Not now, but I'm afraid there will be a more powerful navy army than us in less than a few years!"

Sun Jian, Lu Su was stunned. Lu Su's expression moved and asked quickly: "Does Gongjin refer to Cao Cao?" Sun Jian was shocked when he heard this.

Zhou Yu asked back, "Isn't it? Cao Cao is now stepping up training the navy, with 200,000 navy troops, twice the number of our army now! According to the detailed information, Cao Cao is stepping up building various warships, and the number has far exceeded ours! The largest tower ship giant ship is twice the size of our tower ship! Now the weakness of Cao Cao's navy is mainly the quality of personnel, after all, the people in the north are not good at water! But this is not insurmountable. As long as time goes by, the overall combat power of the Cao army's navy will definitely surpass our army!"

Sun Jian frowned and murmured, "This is exactly what I am worried about! Although we are united with Cao Cao, we will definitely fight each other in the future. If we sit down and watch Cao Cao's naval army grow bigger, we are afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable!" Lu Su looked solemn and was depressed; Zhou Yu squinted his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.

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Zhang Lang led the guard back to Luoyang.
Chapter completed!