After Shi Yue saw the letter, he immediately rushed back to Xiangyang.

What is this for? Although Cao Jun is weak now, it is the best opportunity for us to develop, but did he tear his face directly with Sun Quan? Will it be too early.

Xiangyang

When Liu Bei returned here, he was welcomed by the people of Xiangyang City, and the people were happy and went out of the city to welcome him. The news of Liu Qi's death brought back by Liu Bei, the people don't seem to care anymore. Liu Bei then held a big funeral for Liu Qi, and dealt with the matter of Xiangyang by the way.

Shi Yue returned here and hurriedly looked for Liu Bei, intending to persuade him not to be impulsive, although there are now five counties in Jingzhou plus half of the southern county, but it is still not enough.

"Lord!" Shi Yue and Zhang Fei walked in quickly, and at this time, Kong Ming, Jian Yong, Sun Qian and others were all there, as if they were discussing something.

Liu Bei saw it, "The third brother and the military advisor are back, and I have something important to tell you." ”

Shi Yue said: "Does the lord want to dissolve the alliance with Sun Quan?" No, now is not the time. ”

Kong Ming smiled, "I know that the guild said this, you just arrived here, I'm afraid you don't know the specific situation, and listen to me." ”

"Now that Cao's army is weak, the strongest force in the world is none other than Jiangdong Sun Quan, and the guild thinks that breaking the alliance with them is a big disadvantage, but in fact, it is not. If you take the remaining half of Nanjun, you can block Jiangdong with the power of Jingzhou. ”

Shi Yue said: "This half of Nanjun is not easy to say, Zhou Yu leads the army here, Sun Quan will send troops to help at any time, and now it is difficult for Yun Chang to hold on, let alone attack." ”

Kong Ming said: "If there are not enough soldiers, we can go, but Zhou Yu will not have soldiers to support." I learned that Zhou Yu led the army to Nanjun to attack Jiangling without authorization, but Sun Quan didn't know it at that time, and Sun Quan is now attacking Zhang Liao, so he will not send troops to help Zhou Yu at all. ”

"Zhou Yu is now famous and prestigious in Jiangdong, and no one can match it. Sun Quan was already a little jealous, and if such a thing happened, Sun Quan, half of Nanjun, could not do it, and he also wanted Zhou Yu to lose a game because of his unauthorized actions, and reduce his prestige, thinking that he was deterred. ”

Shi Yue heard it, but there was some truth, but there were still a lot of unknowns, just wanted to ask, Liu Bei said: "The envoy from Xudu has already named me the pastor of Jingzhou, so our trip is to recover Jingzhou, and the name is justified, and the military adviser does not have to worry about it." ”

"What? There is such a thing! Shi Yue was surprised, isn't this God helping me to wait? No, this is obviously beneficial to us, but in fact it is for us to start a war with the Sun army, so that we have a reason to take back Nanjun, and the Sun-Liu alliance will be broken.

Kong Ming said, "It must have been Shi Yuan's doing, now Cao Jun needs to recuperate, and he is worried that we will attack together, so he sabotaged it, he succeeded, and Cao Jun did get a respite from it." However, for our army, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. ”

Kong Ming took out a map, "This is just recently sent by someone, everyone look at it." ”

Shi Yue stepped forward and looked at the drawing of the open map, "This is!" ”

Sun Qian exclaimed: "This is a map of the main road in Xichuan, with this map, God really helps our army." ”

Kong Mingyan: "I don't know who sent it, but with this picture, it is easy for me to take Xichuan." ”

"No wonder you want to start a war with the Sun army, and you really want to take the southern county as soon as possible, use the way of the southern county, lead troops into Shu, and use the soldiers of each county to defend against the attack of the Sun army." Shi Yue sighed.

Liu Bei Shen said: "The two military divisions led the army by the two of you to march to Jiangling, help Yunchang, take Nanjun, and retreat from the enemy Zhou Yu. ”

"Command!"

Together

Although Sun Quan was helped by Cheng Pujun, it was still difficult to find the invincible Zhang Liao. When Sun Quan was troubled, Lu Su came from Chaisang.

"What happened to Zijing?" Sun Quan asked.

Lu Su said: "The governor led the troops to attack Jiangling without authorization, although he will take it, but he also asks the lord to forgive his sins, and the governor has nothing else to do." ”

Sun Quan smiled, "Zijing, you are too worried, what Gongjin did was for Jiangdong, the soldiers were fast, and there was a reason for it, how could I blame it." ”

Lu Su heard his words, and said: "Xu Du has already named Liu Bei as the pastor of Jingzhou, he will definitely send troops to retreat from the governor, Zijing dares to ask the lord to withdraw the army here, and the reinforcements will go to help the governor." ”

Sun Quan's face sank, "I will also attack here, and now I can't retreat." This Jiangling, Liu Bei must go to the army, although Gongjin is resourceful, but it is also difficult to take it, my reinforcements are useless, the loss of troops is only, even if the southern county is taken, the southern county is still surrounded by Changsha, Wuling, Jiangxia, Nanyang four counties, my Jiangdong army back and forth, it is difficult to defend it. ”

"But if I attack this and take the land of Hexi, I can take advantage of the situation to attack Xudu, and now the Jiangdong Army is the most prosperous army in the world, if I don't take advantage of the weakness of the Cao Army, when will I do it again?"

Lu Su didn't dare to say it, Sun Quan's meaning was already obvious. Lu Su said: "What the lord said is very true, and I will repay the governor." ”

South County

Cao Hong learned of Cao Ren's order, has withdrawn troops and retreated from Yiling, and joined with it, after which Cao Jun evacuated Nanjun Hui Runan, Zhou Yu did not spend troops, let Ding Feng take Yiling, and let him go to Dangyang, capture Dangyang.

Zhou Yu Barracks

After Zhou Yu learned that Sun Quan would not come to help the soldiers, he was quite emotional.

specially asked Lu Su to go, hoping that Lu Su, who was the most eloquent, could persuade him, but he didn't expect the situation to have developed so badly.

Lu Meng asked, "Governor, why didn't the lord send an army?" If we take Jiangling, we can take Nanjun, and use it as an important place to unite Jiangdong to annex Jingzhou, is this matter unclear? ”

Zhou Yu smiled, "The lord naturally understands, and there is only one thing that the lord doesn't know." ”

This Jiangdong belongs to Sun Quan or Zhou Yu.

"I'm going to take this Gangneung, no matter what! If not, I would have done that. Saying that, he looked at Lu Meng with deep eyes, "Ziming, the future of Jiangdong will be handed over to you at that time." ”

When Lu Meng heard this, his heart trembled, "What does the governor mean?" ”

Zhou Yu changed his words and said: "Prepare to attack Jiangling City, take it as soon as possible before Liu Bei's army arrives." We're running out of time. ”

"Command!"

Inside Gangneung Fortress

Guan Yu was in the city, looking at the mighty Sun Jun, Zhou Yu came.

"Attack!" The soldiers of the Sun army shouted, and the soldiers of the Sun army rushed forward by ladder, and the shield soldiers in the rear rushed forward, and the car rushed forward. Gangneung Fortress was attacked on three sides.

The soldiers in the city were limited, and Guan Yu did not dare to go out of the city to retreat from the enemy, for fear that Zhou Yu would turn the corner and attack the city.

"Zhuge crossbow, hair!" "Tubu!" The continuous crossbow attack blocked part of the Sun army, but the shield soldiers blocked part of the strong attack. When Liu Jun saw this, he was helpless and shouted: "Go on!" Don't let them come to the front! Don't stop attacking! ”

"Now that we are surrounded, it is said that Sun Jun has also gone to Dangyang." Guan Yu said.

Chen Zhiyan on the side: "It doesn't matter, the lord of this battle will definitely have a large army here, and the two military advisors will come in person, and everyone knows the weight of Jiangling." If Zhou Yu has no Sun Quan's reinforcements, he will definitely be defeated, and I have heard the report that there is no ship of Sun Jun on the waterway. And Xiangyang has already begun to march. ”

Guan Yu said: "Then let's just hold on, right?" ”

Chen Zhi replied: "Exactly! ”

Zhou Yu looked at the two of them in Jiangling City and smiled, "Can you hold on?" ”