After many persuasion, Liu Bei had to choose to withdraw his troops and return to Jiaozhou.

In fact, Jiaozhou's territory is not small.

There are seven prefectures and cities in total, Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Nichinan.

Among them, Jiaozhi County has the Cishi Mansion.

However, due to the terrain, Jiaozhou has not always been a battleground for military strategists.

After all, facing the alien races in the south, Jiaozhou is almost completely defenseless, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is enemy from all sides.

However, these are only secondary.

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

Today's Jiaozhou can be said to be a real poverty.

Even if Shixie was more courteous and corporal, every famous celebrity who came to Jiaozhou, Shixie would treat each other with courtesy.

But even so, not many people stayed.

In Jiaozhou, basically a famous person has never 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 completely occupied, Jiaozhou can basically be taken.

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

Therefore, Sun Quan took the entire Jiaozhou almost effortlessly.

But this does not affect the situation of the battle.

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

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

But now that Shanyue can't get it, Jiaozhou is almost a wasteland.

After Sun Quan occupied Jiaozhou, Buzhe and Lu Dai were sent to garrison.

Originally, they had a lot of soldiers and horses in their hands, but due to the difficulties in Jiangdong, most of their soldiers and horses were transferred back, leaving only 10,000 to 20,000 defenders.

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

However, the current Jiaozhou is not bad. After all, it can be regarded as a land of barbarians in the south that the Central Plains region and Sun Quan and Liu Bei have won during this period.

But even so, the loss of Jiaozhou has almost no impact.

Therefore, both Liu Bei and Sun Quan basically disregard Jiaozhou.

But now it's completely different.

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

Nowadays, there is only Jiaozhou where Liu Bei can go.

Originally, Liu Bei wanted to take a gamble first, using his generous soldiers and horses to directly capture the mountain.

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

Even though most of the mountains are mountains, which is not conducive to traffic, at least there is a road.

However, he did not expect that Shanyue today is such a hard-to-bite bone, and even hundreds of thousands of people have been attacking for such a long time, but they have been unsuccessful.

The soldiers under his command were repeatedly frustrated and their morale dropped drastically.

Coupled with the inexplicable surprise attack of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry now, this made it difficult for Liu Bei to resist.

Therefore, Liu Bei can only choose to return to the state.

As for Jiangdong, he can only let him fend for himself.

If Jiangdong was destroyed, Sun Quan could only choose to leave Jiangdong for Jiaozhou at all costs.

However, a Jiaozhou alone cannot resist Cao Cao's footsteps.

After all, Jingzhou, which is a hundred times better than Jiaozhou, was lost. In Jiaozhou, a barren place where almost no food exists, it can't be held at all.

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

Go directly to the barbarian land in the south.

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

However, this is also much better than having no resistance under Cao Cao's attack.

Liu Bei was displaced throughout his life, and fled from the north to the present-day south.

Now, Liu Bei didn't want to run anymore.

If it could be settled in the barbarian land in the south, it would not be impossible to fight back to the Central Plains.

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

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

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

According to Bu Jia, the Tiger Leopard Rider has never been here.

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

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

After all, Tiger Leopard Cavalier has already begun to monitor his movements.

It is very irrational to attack Shanyue now.

"Yide, you and Yun Chang will bring 50,000 horses to garrison at the position closest to Jiangdong."

"Remember, don't confront Cao Jun, try to avoid it."

"If Jiang Dong has lost, you two will definitely take Wuhou and the people he leads together."

Liu Bei had no choice but to give this order.

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

"what?"

"Big brother~lightnovelpub.net~ Now Jiangdong is still in a **** battle, why would big brother do this?"

"If Jiangdong has lost, I will inevitably not escape!"

Before Liu Bei could speak, Guan Yu said:

"Third brother! Do you think Big Brother wants to give up helping Jiangdong?"

"Only with the current me and Jiangdong, it is impossible to resist Cao Jun."

"At the moment, the general situation is gone!"

"When I wait to go to the south, I will replenish my energy, and it will not be too late to fight again!"

Hearing Guan Yu saying the same, Zhang Fei nodded heavily, and followed Guan Yu to lead the troops.

The only thing Liu Bei can do now is to take precautions and hold onto this Jiaozhou inch.

Otherwise, if Jiaozhou was also lost, it would be basically impossible for the remaining forces in Jiangdong to withdraw and head south together.

As long as Cao Cao deliberately pursued it, it won't take long for Sun Quan to fail to escape Jiangdong, which can be said to be dead.

"Two military divisions, in the next few days, you will need to go to the barbarian land in the south and take the remaining soldiers."

"We must stabilize this southern tribe."

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

After Guan and Zhang left, Liu Bei sighed.

Zhuge Liang frowned suddenly:

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

Liu Bei nodded heavily:

"The nearest county, Lujiang County, almost fell. This Cao thief's navy has risen so quickly during this time."

"Without the two of Cai Tao and Zhang Yun, they can actually repair the navy to this level. Cao Cao really didn't rest in vain during this period."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sighed quietly:

"Lord, the ministers must do their best to pacify the south!"