The short calm between the Xiliang army and Sun Quan's army passed quickly, but unexpectedly, the first party to break the calm was actually the weak Sun Quanjun, on July 18 of the fifth year of the first peace, Zhou Yu personally led a fleet of Sun Quan's army, and raided the Yangtze River strategic Jinxiakou at night, at the critical moment, Dong Zhuo's army guards Fan Chou and Zhang Ji came to the front line in person, led the defenders to fight bloodily for a day and a night, and finally insisted on Xiangyang to rescue reinforcements, killed Zhou Yu's troops, and kept Dong Zhuo's army at the mouth of the river, but Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's troops lost most of them, The two veterans of Dong Zhuojun were also seriously injured, and Fan Chou finally died due to his injuries and ineffective rescue.

Flying pigeon sent the situation to Chang'an a few days later, Kang Peng did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered to reward the defenders of Xiakou, from the sorrow to compensate the sacrificed Dong Zhuojun soldiers, posthumously named Fan Chou as the general of Zhenjiang and the Marquis of Hanyang Pavilion, and let Fan Chou's son inherit the title of Fan Chou, and urgently convened civil and military consultations.

"Zhou Yu's little move." In the official hall, Jia Xu analyzed: "In order to preemptively disrupt the strategic deployment of our army, the time he chose was very vicious, and it was the autumn harvest time soon. If he does not go to war, Zhou Yu can calmly attack the strategic points of our army along the Yangtze River, hit the morale and tactical deployment of our army, and make our army's navy exhausted. “

"King, Master Jia is right." Xu Shu also agreed with Jia Xu's opinion, hugged his fists and said: "Our army can't be led by Zhou Yu'er, we should immediately launch a campaign to attack Jiangnan and regain the initiative in the campaign." ”

Kang Peng was silent, he also knew that Jia Xu and Xu Shu were reasonable, but the autumn harvest was coming soon, and Chang'an, which was developing rapidly in industry and commerce, was already short of manpower, and then it was necessary to transfer troops to wage war, and more people had to be mobilized to maintain logistics, and there were not enough people to harvest grain from 40 million mu of grain.

At this time, Li Ru, who was already skinny and skinny, stood up, knelt down on his knees in front of Kang Peng, kowtowed, and said: "King, the war cannot be delayed, please go out immediately, the matter of the rear, even if the minister fights for his life, he must ensure that all 40 million mu of grain is harvested and put into storage, and the logistics of the army are not bad." ”

"Xianjia, our army is already short of manpower in Yongzhou, and if we take away the troops and people, there will be less manpower left, how can you ensure that all the grain is harvested?" Kang Peng asked worriedly. The grain producing areas of Chengdu and Jingzhou are better, the population of the two states is large, and it is relatively easy to ensure that the grain is harvested in full, but the grain producing areas of Hanzhong and Yongzhou are very dangerous, especially the largest rear Yongzhou, which has to maintain daily production and produce ordnance and weapons, and the developed industry and commerce of the people also need a large number of manpower, which makes the manpower even more stretched.

Li Ru raised his head and said loudly: "I can guarantee that the minister intends to mobilize the people of Yongzhou to harvest grain by hand during the autumn harvest, including the elderly and children, as well as the families of officials at all levels, and also go down to the fields to harvest." He also proposed a reward policy for the Qiang Xiongnu subordinates, as long as a certain amount of grain was harvested according to the regulations, they would be pardoned as slaves, and I believe that it would definitely arouse their enthusiasm. ”

Kang Peng stared at Li Ru for a long time, and finally nodded: "There are also Lone's family members and family servants, Lone gives you a warrant, and you also mobilize them, and those who violate the order will be punished according to the army." ”

On July 26 of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's army, which had been lurking for half a year, was finally dispatched, and the 250,000 troops of the Lusu Army in Jingzhou were fully alerted, and assembled to Jiangxia, Kang Peng left Li Ru to sit in the rear, and led the 120,000 army from Chang'an, Jia Xu, Xu Shu, Fa Zheng, Lu Bu and Zhang Ren and other civil and military troops accompanied the army, Sima Yi, Sun Shangxiang and Wen Lu and others were also taken by Kang Peng in the army, with Pang De leading 3,000 iron cavalry as the front vanguard, and rushed to Jingzhou via Nanyang. While Xu Rong, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao would still guard strategic points such as Tongguan, Qingni Pass, and Taiyuan, in case Yuan Shao suddenly turned his face and Luoyang changed, Kang Peng also left Zhang Liao a bag of advice, instructing Zhang Liao to open it after the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

On August 21 of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Kangpeng's army arrived in Jiangxia, and the Lusu army had already set up a water village in Jiangxia, and the 200,000 troops led by Sun Quan himself also set up a water village in Wuchang. After Kang Peng arrived in Jiangxia, he immediately took over the command of the whole army and convened the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the strategy of the march.

After more than half a year of frantic preparations, the scale of Dong Zhuo's navy is far from what it used to be, and the number of warships that can transport troops and grain has reached more than 200, the Wuya warship is the most difficult to build, only more than 80 ships, and the rest of the large and small warships are nearly 10,000, and more than 100,000 skilled sailors have been collected in the Jingzhou Campaign, and the combat strength of the navy has greatly increased. And Sun Quan's armament war is even more crazy, in just half a year, the total strength of the army has increased from more than 60,000 to more than 200,000, more than 6,000 large and small warships, imitation of more than 50 Wuya warships built by Dong Zhuojun, although the total strength and equipment of Sun Quanjun's army are not as good as Dong Zhuojun's, but the soldiers are all local skilled sailors, compared with Dong Zhuojun's new sailors who have only been trained for more than a year, they have some advantages.

"The King." Sun Ce, whose eyes were red, was the first to jump out, kowtowed, and said: "Please order Sun Ce to be the vanguard of the front and lead the army to fight a decisive battle with Zhou Yu'er, even if Sun Ce throws his head and spills blood, he will also eliminate Zhou Yu for the king, and avenge Sun Ce's father." After Huang Gai was rescued, when he proved Kang Peng's innocence, Sun Ce began to believe it and asked Huang Gai rhetorically. How could Zhou Yu know in advance that Kang Peng would reward Zhou Yu with a ghost head knife? Huang Gai, including Kang Peng himself, was also very strange about this matter, was asked speechless, and finally Pang Tong came out to analyze Zhou Yu's tricks, Kang Peng raped Xiao Qiao drunk, and felt guilty about Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu took Huang Gai to see Kang Peng and Sun Jian that day, just to pretend that he didn't care about deceiving Kang Peng's trust, and then find an excuse to ask for Kang Peng's token, in order to achieve the purpose of assassinating Sun Jian and marrying Kang Peng, Kang Peng definitely agreed in guilt, but he didn't expect Kang Peng to give the ghost head knife directly to Zhou Yu, which greatly facilitated Zhou Yu's actions, Kang Peng and Huang Gai suddenly realized that they each admired Zhou Yu's ruthless intentions. Pang Tong's analysis coupled with the evidence of his loyal retainers, as well as Sun Quan's letter of deceiving Lu Bu and trying to use Lu Bu to kill Sun Ce, Sun Ce finally understood the fact that Zhou Yu killed his father, and cried to go to his younger brother and Zhou Yu alone to take revenge, but was stopped by Pang Tong and Huang Gai and others. Kang Peng may have promised to let Sun Ce avenge his father with his own hands in the battle to pacify Jiangnan, which made Sun Ce's impulse suppressed.

"Ce'er, don't panic." Kang Peng waved his fat hand and said: "It's not that my father-in-law doesn't believe you, it's just that marching and fighting are very important, and you must plan before you act, you can't just rely on the courage of a horseman, this is what a mediocre general does." When he first arrived in the Three Kingdoms, the strategy and tactics Kang Peng relied almost entirely on Jia Xu and Li Ru for advice, and the only strategy formulated against the captured princes of the Eighteenth Route was also full of mistakes and omissions, causing Cao Cao and Liu Bei to flee one after another, thanks to Jia Xu's full remedy. With the growth of experience, Kang Peng is becoming more and more mature, many major things are Kang Peng's dictatorship, and there are no major mistakes or omissions, at this moment in Kang Peng's heart, a plan is brewing - a plan to wipe out Sun Quan's army!

Kang Peng was about to speak, a herald rushed outside the tent, hugged his fists and said: "Tell the king, there is a fisherman in the direction of Wuchang who drove a boat to Jiangxia outside the water village of our army, and was taken by our army. ”

"Bring him in." Kang Peng secretly recalled history in his heart, and an imperceptible treacherous smile quietly crept up the corner of Kang Peng's toad mouth.

In a moment, Kan Ze, dressed as a fisherman, was escorted into the big tent, Kan Ze was a wise man recruited by Sun Jian after returning to Jiujiang from Luoyang, and he did not know Sun Ce, but he was quite courageous, and he still stood upright and did not kneel in the face of Dong Zhuojun's civil and military affairs full of tents. Kang Peng knocked on Erlang's leg, hugged his chest and asked, "Since you are Sun Quan's staff officer, what are you doing here?" ”

Kan Ze raised his head and said: "I have heard for a long time that the king is recruiting talents, and I can see it today, and it is very incompatible, but it is ridiculous that Han Yigong is really wrong." "Han Yigong refers to Han Dang, and Yi Gong is the word for Han Dang. After Zhou Yu's conspiracy was revealed, Sun Quan, in order to retain Sun Jian's original lineage, resolutely denied the fact that Zhou Yu killed the master, and accused the eldest brother Sun Ce of not hesitating to recognize the thief as his father for the beauty of Dong Boss's daughter, colluding with the traitor Huang Gai to deceive the world, covering up the fact that Dong Boss killed Sun Jian, and when he learned that Huang Gai had been rescued by Dong Zhuojun, he preemptively made the world clear, Liu Bei and Cao Cao and others in order to fight Dong Zhuojun, all expressed their belief in Sun Quan, and the words of Dong Zhuojun's family naturally could not fight the three to work together to publicize, In addition, Zhang Hong, the only one who supported Sun Ce to go back and take over the marquis of Wucheng, had been killed by Sun Quan, which made Sun Quan successfully deceive the trust of his subordinates, and Han Dangcheng Pu and other veterans of Sun Jian's army hated Sun Ce for 'selling his father for glory'.

Kang Peng sneered: "As a staff officer of the enemy army, Lone is about to set foot in the south of the Yangtze River, you came here rashly, why didn't Lone ask?" ”

Kan Ze grabbed a few steps forward, and then knelt down and said: "Han Dang Han Yigong, is an old minister of Jiujiang and the second generation, after the first lord was killed, he is still loyal to assist the current lord, but that Zhou Yu is jealous of the virtuous and jealous, and the ambition is rampant. ”

"Where's the book?" Kang Peng remained silent and asked lightly, and the soldiers took out Han Dang's surrender letter from Kan Ze's arms and handed it to Kang Peng, Kang Peng opened it and took a look, the letter was nothing more than Han Dang's heart was unjust because he was beaten for no reason, and he suspected the real cause of Sun Jian's death, so he came to surrender to Kang Peng, and expressed his willingness to lead his headquarters and Sun Quanjun's grain and grass to surrender together, hoping that Kang Peng would accept it.

Kang Peng was overjoyed after reading the book, and personally got up to untie Kan Ze, and said happily: "General Han and Mr. came to vote, it is really like Han Xin returning to Han, Li Si entering Qin, lonely heart is very relieved, lonely heart is very relieved." In the future, Jiangnan will be pacified, and the two will be crowned, and they will be above others. ”

Kang Peng believed Kan Ze so quickly, and a lot of words prepared by Kan Ze were useless, Kan Ze laughed secretly in his heart, and explained: "King, General Han did not specify the date of surrender in the letter, just because people are not as good as heaven, and he is afraid of making a mistake. ”

"Can it be regular to steal from the Lord? This truth is still understood. Kang Peng laughed, ordered a large banquet, entertained Kan Ze, during the banquet the guests and hosts talked very happily, as Kang Peng expected, soon the Dark Moon Group lurking in Wuchang sent information, saying that Han Dang was beaten by Zhou Yu with eighty canes because of the late arrival of a pillar of incense because of the food charge the day before, Kang Peng deliberately read the information of the Dark Moon Group to his subordinates - also read it to Kan Ze, and laughed and drank three glasses.

After the banquet, Kan Ze said again: "King, Kan Ze can't stay here for a long time, you need to rush back to Wuchang immediately, so as not to make Zhou Yu suspicious, and I hope that Dawangen will allow Kan Ze to return immediately." Kang Peng didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately took Jia Xu, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and Lu Su to the dock to personally send Kan Ze onto the ship.

Seeing Kan Ze's boat disappear into the distance of the Yangtze River, Jia Xu and Pang Tong took a step forward together, clasping their fists to say something to Kang Peng, but Kang Peng waved his hand to stop it, Kang Peng smiled and said: "Han Dang used bitter meat tricks, Kan Ze sent a book of fraud, how could Lone not know?" ”

Jia Xu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, they almost suspected that Kang Peng had been tricked at first, but who knew that Kang Peng smiled again: "Do you dare to gamble with Lone?" Within a few days, some Jiangdong celebrities took the initiative to defect to our army, and offered a chain of iron ropes to Lone to solve the suffering of the northern army not accustomed to wind and waves! Zhou Yu'er turned over and over these little tricks, and he couldn't come up with any new tricks. ”

Jia Xu was stunned for a rare time, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and Lu Su almost fell to the ground with their jaws, but Kang Peng waved his hand and told them to go back to the camp, and said as he walked: "If Zhou Yu doesn't want to use serial tricks to lure Gu into being fooled, Gu really can't get him into Poyang Lake, and then annihilate him in one fell swoop, let's go, let's go back and study Gu's strategy again, and see if we can wipe out Sun Quan's army in Poyang Lake!" ”