On Chaisang's side, after Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and others received Liu Yu's holy decree, their worries were finally relieved.

Liu Yu did not take Zhang Fei into custody, nor did he ask for Zhang Fei's life, but only dismissed the official and dismissed him, and rewarded him with a hundred military sticks. To be honest, this is the grace given by Liu Yu. Although they were punished even with Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, they didn't pay attention to that little bit of money.

The happiest person was Guan Yu, who was worried about whether Zhang Fei would be executed by Liu Yu. Guan Yu even thought about whether to rescue Zhang Fei like before. But Zhuge Liang told him not to be impatient. Zhuge Liang thought that Liu Yu would not have too severe a punishment for Zhang Fei, and there was no problem in saving his life.

Zhuge Liang gave others the impression that he had no last resort, and since he said it with such certainty, Guan Yu believed him.

And Zhuge Liang didn't have much confidence in his heart. In the past, all the princes in the world thought that they had figured out His Majesty's thoughts, and in the end, they were all calculated by His Majesty, and those who died could not die again. Zhuge Liang dared to be so sure in front of Guan Yu, it was because Zhuge Liang was worried that Guan Yu would be impulsive, so he came to act like Xiangyang's time. As the coach, Zhuge Liang had to stabilize Guan Yu.

Fortunately, the final result was really as Zhuge Liang guessed.

With such a result, everyone is already happy.

Isn't it just a little bit of a lush, let's get out.

Of course, Liu Yu rewarded Zhang Fei with a hundred military sticks, and the big guys did not forget it. With Zhang Fei's strong body and the high mountain and the emperor's distance, it is unknown how many hundred military sticks can hit Zhang Fei's body.

Even Guan Yu thought so.

And the news that Zhang Fei was beaten so much that he couldn't get out of bed for two days reached Chaisang, and he deeply slapped everyone's faces. They didn't expect that their majesty would actually think of this and send the imperial guards to carry out a hundred military sticks!

The only good news is that Zhang Fei is fine, but the pain is unbearable, which is what everyone is relieved of.

Zhang Fei's matter is over for the time being, and when he will no longer be a soldier at the city gate depends on Liu Yu's meaning. The big guys can be regarded as understanding Liu Yu's determination.

The other side.

The reinforcements of Liu's army led by Zhang Xiu have always been blocked in the road to Lujiang, and the Jiangdong defenders sandwiched between Lujiang and Zhang Xiu have resisted desperately.

But those are fast to pass.

As Zhang Fei led tens of thousands of troops to Lujiang, he defeated the two main forces of Cao Jun and Jiangdong Army led by Xiahou Yuan and Tai Shici, and kept Lujiang River, making it an important stronghold of Liu's army. As soon as such a thing happened, not only Sun Ce, who had already evacuated to Poyang County, was dumbfounded, but Cao Cao hurriedly sent an army to rescue Xiahou Yuan. And the Jiangdong defenders sandwiched between Zhang Xiu and Lujiang became very dangerous.

Between offense and defense, the most common tactic is to attack from both sides, which often has a very high success rate. Now the Jiangdong defenders who are caught in the middle are in a state of being attacked from both sides. It can be predicted that Zhang Liao and others in Lujiang City will definitely send troops to get in touch with Zhang Xiu. Even if Zhang Liao didn't expect it, Zhuge Liang would have thought of it. The defenders of Koto also thought of it.

The current Jiangdong defenders are like abandoned children, without any support, and can only rely on their own strength to resist the possible flanking attack of Liu Jun.

The general trend of Jiangdong has gone, and the situation of being recovered by the imperial court cannot be changed. Under such circumstances, the generals of the Jiangdong defenders, who were sandwiched in the middle, began to calculate the gains and losses in their hearts.

Now that it has reached this point, there are only two ways to survive. One is to break through. If you continue to stay here, sooner or later it will be surrounded and eventually destroyed. The generals all know that in terms of various strength comparisons, they cannot be compared with Liu Jun, as long as they are surrounded, Liu Jun does not have to do anything, and the consumption consumes them to death. After a long time, the defenders will run out of food and grass. When that day really came, the hungry Jiangdong Army would not be able to fight Liu Jun. Breakout is a good way to do it. But the generals did not dare to guarantee that they would be able to break through.

The other way, that is, surrender. This signal has already been generated within the remaining Jiangdong defenders. Moreover, after the soldiers learned of the failure to recapture Lujiang, their morale plummeted, and they were lifeless every day, with no combat effectiveness at all. The generals all heard that the imperial court was very good to the surrendered troops, not only could they keep their original positions, but if they were able, they could even go further. In the past, after Jingzhou's army surrendered to the imperial court, the whole army did not move except for some very incompetent ones. If you don't want to continue to serve in the army after surrendering, the court will also give you travel expenses to let you go home. Such a good thing is not out of nowhere, and there is a precedent for the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army who were captured before to be released. And a large part of the Jiangdong soldiers who were released back that time were among the remaining Jiangdong Army. In other words, surrender can be of great benefit.

There is no good fruit to eat in the breakthrough, and success is not guaranteed. If you surrender, even if you don't keep your power, at least your life is not to be worried.

It's just that the remaining generals of the Jiangdong Army can't reach a consensus, after all, there are still generals who are loyal to Sun Ce. Of course, these die-hard loyalists understand the current situation, and they can all die for Sun Ce and continue to resist Liu Jun for Jiangdong. The voices of surrender in the army were the most hated by these die-hard loyalists. What is needed to resist Liu Jun is the concerted efforts of the top and bottom, so that these die-hard loyalists do not dare to use tough means to make those generals who are moved to surrender die for Sun Ce.

The rest of the Jiangdong army was hesitating, and Zhang Liao of Lujiang learned that Zhang Xiu was blocked and made a decisive choice. Zhang Liao was waiting for Zhang Xiu's reinforcements before, but due to the lack of troops, Zhang Liao could only defend Lujiang City and passively wait for Zhang Xiu's arrival. Now the situation is different, Lujiang City has the 30,000 soldiers and horses brought by Zhang Fei, and he can already take the initiative to pick up Zhang Xiu. By the way, the soldiers and horses left by Zhang Fei to secretly assist Zhang Yun also arrived in Lujiang City. The Jiangdong Navy has never appeared, so that the Liu Army led by Zhang Yun can hold the port unharmed, ensuring the waterway connection with Chaisang City.

After Zhang Liao took over Zhang Fei's military power, he left 10,000 troops in Lujiang, and then led 20,000 soldiers and horses to run to Zhang Xiu's location with murderous spirits.

Zhang Xiu on the other side seemed to have a good heart, and he also launched an attack on the Jiangdong defenders who blocked him.

This move made the remaining Jiangdong Army generals tremble, and the last thing they wanted to see finally happened. Caught on both sides, they were caught on both sides!

So the surrendering generals who didn't want to die openly called for returning to the arms of the imperial court to avoid indifferent casualties, which caused a large number of soldiers to echo.

The die-hard generals never expected such a thing to happen, and immediately reprimanded the capitulation faction.

The generals of the surrender faction had actually reached a consensus a long time ago, and before the die-hard faction could react, they directly pulled out the knife and stabbed it into the opponent's body to track, and on the spot, the white knife went in and the red knife came out.

It's a pity that even if they planned it in advance, their execution was still lacking, and they were run away by two die-hard generals.

Things are getting bigger.

The two surviving die-hard generals returned to their camp and led their men and horses in a crusade against the surrenderers. Although everyone is from Jiangdong, if the surrender faction wants to surrender Liu Yu, then they will become the enemy of Jiangdong, and even become the vanguard and leading party in attacking Jiangdong. The die-hards, with the idea of killing one and reducing one, attacked the camp of the surrender faction on a large scale.

The Jiangdong generals who have the idea of surrender are relatively mediocre in their abilities, otherwise they would not have thought of surrendering all of a sudden, and they were undeniably pressed and beaten by the die-hard faction.

Before the enemy could fight, the Jiangdong Army itself began to be in chaos.

Neither Zhang Liao nor Zhang Xiu could have imagined that there would be such a big gift as civil strife in the Jiangdong Army. This time, they had the same heart, or the heroes saw the same thing, and they all stopped attacking, waiting for the Jiangdong army to kill each other, and only went to pick peaches at the last moment.

After a while, the internal turmoil in the Jiangdong Army stopped. The outnumbered surrender faction was victorious, and the die-hard faction fully matched their die-hard attributes, and one by one they went to another world to pay allegiance to Koto.

Due to the civil strife in the Jiangdong Army, there was no resistance to Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu at all, and finally Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao successfully joined forces.

Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao shuddered at each other as soon as they met, complimenting each other.

Without waiting for them to say a few more nonsense, the surrender faction of the Jiangdong Army came to surrender with the Jiangdong soldiers.

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu naturally wanted to ask why they surrendered.

These Jiangdong Army generals said that they were very lofty, and they told them what they could find for their loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, and so on. He also said that the Jiangdong generals who were loyal to Sun Ce were the rebellion of the Han Dynasty, and everyone killed them quickly, and by the way, he said that he and others had eliminated thieves for the country.

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu will have ghosts if they believe it. But the Jiangdong Army was able to surrender, and they were happy to see it. As for what these generals say about getting rid of thieves for the country, of course, it is nonsense.

Liu Jun has always had a precedent of not killing the surrendered troops, Jiangdong has not yet taken all of them, and these Jiangdong armies are of great use. So Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu quickly reached a consensus and accepted their surrender.

The Jiangdong Army that surrendered was naturally happy, and it was the greatest benefit that they could survive.

In order to prevent the Jiangdong army from surrendering, Zhang Liao ordered the soldiers of the Liu army to confiscate all their weapons to avoid any accidents.

In response to such a request, the Jiangdong Army, which had surrendered, did not hesitate at all, and threw away the weapons in their hands very happily. Its decisiveness and swiftness made Zhang Liao's eyes widen, and at the same time, he believed in the sincerity of their surrender.

The two armies of Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu converged, plus the Jiangdong Army that accepted the surrender, and the entire Lujiang City now added up to almost 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the entire Jiangdong was shaken for a while.

Sun Ce, who was stationed in Poyang, was heartbroken, and scolded the generals who surrendered that they were not sons of man, and they were actually greedy for life and afraid of death to this point, killing the talents who were loyal to Jiangdong and loyal to him Sun Ce.

Enraged, Sun Ce put all the families of the surrendered generals on death row to relieve the anger in his heart. At the same time, the generals who were loyal to him Sun Ce at the last moment, but Sun Ce personally came to their homes to offer condolences to their families.

Zhou Yu did not stop Sun Ce's actions, and the current situation is not favorable to Jiangdong, and it is easy for people in Jiangdong to be not optimistic about Sun Ce. Now that some generals have publicly surrendered to Liu Jun, if Sun Ce does not make a serious move, I am afraid that others will be left to chance. As for whether the families of those who surrendered were innocent, Zhou Yu didn't care. Before Sun Ce's great cause, anyone's sacrifice was worth it. Of course, including him Zhou Yu.

Liu Jun's morale was high. Now Liu Jun is a strong presence in Jiangdong, and they think they can win the final victory.

Zhuge Liang felt that the opportunity could not be missed, so he ordered Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu of Lujiang City to attack Poyang, and he also led the naval army to attack Poyang.

But Zhuge Liang saw a scene on the river that shocked him. On the surface of the river, there are countless iron cables the thickness of three fingers, and the two ends of the iron cables are nailed to the cliffs on both sides of the Yangtze River.

"Iron rope across the river!" Zhuge Liang's face sank, and he scolded: "Which bastard thing came up with such a defense!?" ”

The thick iron cable stretched across the Yangtze River, and no ship could pass through. Liu Jun's side couldn't attack, and Jiangdong Army couldn't beat it. This was of great benefit to the Jiangdong Army, which was on the defensive. For Liu Jun, it was disgusting.

Zhuge Liang scolded the lack of morality, because the iron cable crossed the river, and the lives of the people were also affected, Sun Ce did this, the fishermen who begged for a living on the Yangtze River would have no way to live, and the merchants who relied on the waterway to trade would also go bankrupt.

And Liu Jun wanted to attack the remaining counties in Jiangdong, and attacking from the river was the fastest. Otherwise, they would have to go south and bypass Poyang Lake and attack again. But that section of the road was very difficult, and the Jiangdong Army would not let Liu Jun achieve his goal easily, and I don't know how much time and casualties it would take.

Zhuge Liang wanted to rush over. But behind the iron cable, there are countless Jiangdong ships. Zhuge Liang could see from a distance that there were not many troops on the ship, but they were set up with sharp weapons like strong crossbows.

It's not okay to rush through. The Jiangdong Army's strong crossbow is an extremely lethal existence.

Zhuge Liang thought about it, and finally gave the order to retreat. He needed time to figure out how to crack it.

And Zhang Liao on the other side also encountered this problem. When he couldn't move forward, Zhang Liao also chose to retreat, reported his encounter to Zhuge Liang, and asked Zhuge Liang to give tactical guidance.

Zhou Yu's calculations finally succeeded in blocking the advance of Liu's army and bought precious time for the Jiangdong army.