"Most of the Jiangdong soldiers and horses are foot armor, plus they still need to bypass Zhenze, so it will take at least three to four days for the Jiangdong army to reach Wuhu, but we can take a small boat to cross Zhenze, and then ride a fast horse to Wuhu, at most it will only take one day and one night to arrive, so in this conversion, we will arrive in Wuhu two to three days faster than the Jiangdong army!"

Lu Su said this, smiled confidently, and continued: "As long as we can use these two days to make a little arrangement, we will definitely be able to force Sun Ce to withdraw the army, I have a plan in my heart for this matter, and I am ninety percent sure that this trip can be successful, you just need to act according to my orders, and I am willing to share this merit with you!" ”

When everyone heard that Lu Su was ninety percent sure of this merit, and was willing to share the credit of this merit with them, they were immediately overjoyed, and bowed their hands again and again: "Mr. is polite, I will thank Mr. for his great kindness in advance!" ”

"Good! Everyone listened to the order and returned to Wuhu with me! ”

Lu Su led the guards to retreat slowly, and then found a small boat on the edge of Zhenze to cross the big lake, and then everyone went straight to Wuhu along the light horse of Lishui and the starry night!

However, in one day and one night, Lu Su led everyone to the vicinity of Wuhu, Lu Su ordered two people to cross the Yangtze River, one person went south and one person went north to report to Liu Ye and Yuan Yao respectively, and he took the remaining guards to go straight to Wuhu City with great fanfare.

Lu Su exchanged the treasures he was supposed to give to Sun Ce for gold and silver, and then bought a hundred jars of wine and dozens of pigs and sheep in the city, and then hired some people to escort these wines, cattle and sheep to the post house outside the city.

Seeing that the people who came to the post house came with so much wine, cattle and sheep, he hurriedly came over and asked: "Who are you, why do you come to the post house with so many goods, is it because you can't treat this place as a warehouse!" ”

Lu Su stroked his beard and smiled, and replied: "A certain is the messenger of the general, and the pig and sheep wine is for the sake of the army, you don't need to ask so much, just arrange for me to stay!" ”

Yi Cheng heard that the person who came was actually the messenger of the Later General Yuan Yao, and he was stunned for a moment, you are the person of the Later General, why did you come to my Jiangdong Army, this is too special and too deceitful, right?

Yi Cheng asked coldly: "Since the distinguished guest is the envoy of General Hou, why did you come to my Wuhu to reward the army, is it because General Hou wants to send troops and horses to attack my Jiangdong?" ”

Lu Su smiled slightly, and said: "Hahahaha, Yi Cheng said that he laughed, although he is the messenger of the rear general, this trip is indeed to reward Wu Hou's army!" ”

Yi Cheng was stunned again, and said, "Wu Hou wants to lead the army to Wuhu?" Isn't your envoy joking, I haven't even received an order, why do you know about this? ”

Lu Su shook his head and said, "Knowing too much is not a good thing for you, you just have to arrange for me to stay and then go to the city to report to Shangguan!" ”

Seeing that Lu Su's words were not like a joke, Yi Cheng replied: "Since this is the case, then let you see it!" ”

After Yi Cheng arranged for Lu Su and others to stay, he hurriedly went to the city to report the matter to the officials, and at this time it was Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing who was sitting in Wuhu in order to secretly order Wu Jing to sit in Wuhu, collect grain and grass for the army here, and prepare all the materials for the army to cross the river to fight.

Wu Jing learned from Yi Cheng that Yuan Yao had actually sent an envoy to Wuhu to reward Sun Ce's army, and he was immediately shocked, could it be that Yuan Yao had already learned that Sun Ce was going to attack the three counties of Lujiang? Yuan Yao's soldiers are brave and brave, and his people also have the ability to use soldiers, if Yuan Yao is prepared, this battle is really difficult to say!

Wu Jing didn't dare to make a decision on his own, so he hurriedly ordered Yi Cheng Haosheng to call Yuan Yao's envoy to stay, and sent a fast horse to inform Sun Ce of this overnight.

When Sun Ce learned of this, he had just led his army to reach Yangxian by bypassing Zhenze, and at this time the garrison was outside Yangxian City, and the Jiangdong army was still about two days away from Wuhu!

Sun Ce quickly reported that Yuan Yao had sent an envoy to Wuhu to treat his army, and he was shocked and angry in his heart, and he was shocked that Yuan Yao had already learned the news that he was going to use troops, and he also sent a messenger to come; The angry thing is that I don't know where the news leaked, Yuan Yao's envoy actually arrived in Wuhu one step ahead of him, which almost made his use of troops a joke, so how could he continue to attack the three counties of Lujiang?

"Send a message to your uncle, let him take care of Yuan Yao's envoy, you go down first!" After Sun Ce ordered the fast ride to leave, he ordered repeatedly: "Quickly let Gong Jin come to see me, and don't leak the news of Yuan Yao's envoy first!" ”

"No, my subordinates take orders!"

The general stationed near the tent hurriedly issued a ban order, and asked a sergeant to go and find Zhou Yu, after Zhou Yu entered the tent, he saw Sun Ce's face was pale, and asked suspiciously: "Lord, I don't know what happened, I actually provoked the lord to be angry so much!" ”

Zhou Yu put the letter sent by Wu Jing on the table and said, "See for yourself, Yuan Yao's envoy has arrived in Wuhu, and they even brought a hundred jars of wine and dozens of pigs and sheep to reward my Jiangdong army!" How dare you insult me like this!! ”

Zhou Yu heard Sun Ce's words, his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly walked a few steps forward to pick up the letter on the table and read it, the more Zhou Yu looked at it, the more pale his face became, and finally even cold sweat flowed down.

Sun Ce saw that Zhou Yu had finished reading the letter, and asked angrily: "Where did you say that the news leaked, why did Yuan Yao's envoy come so quickly, could it be that my Jiangdong has been infiltrated into a sieve by Yuan Yao?" ”

Zhou Yu took a few deep breaths, then lowered the letter and groaned for a moment, then replied: "The lord is angry for the time being, most of the martial arts under the lord are loyal and righteous people recruited by the lord himself, these people will never turn their backs on the lord, and the last general thinks that this may not be the news leaked from our side!" And I don't know if the lord has heard of the allusion to the retreat of the Qin army from the Warring States period? ”

"The string high labor army retreats from the Qin army?"

Sun Ce has naturally heard of this allusion, and it is said that when the Zheng State merchant in the Warring States Period was traveling business, he accidentally learned that the Qin army wanted to sneak attack his own country Zheng Guo, so he pretended to be a Zheng State envoy with the wine and twelve cows used in his business to go to the Qin army camp to work the army, after the Qin army learned about this, he thought that Zheng Guo had known their movements, so he gave up the idea of continuing to attack Zheng Guo.

Sun Ce pondered for a moment and said, "Are you saying that it was not the envoy sent by Yuan Yao who was waiting for the labor army in Wuhu at this time, but Yuan Yao's meticulous work who inadvertently got the movement of my army, or the person who had his heart towards Yuan Yao?" ”

Zhou Yu replied solemnly: "Lord, it's not that there is no such possibility! ”