Sun Ce sent someone to invite Jiao Zhongqing in, and as soon as he entered the door, Jiao Zhongqing fell to the ground, crying silently.

Sun Ce hurriedly helped him up. Jiao Zhongqing's face was covered with dirt, his hair was messy like a chicken nest, and his body was dirty, and he was like the handsome little official Sun Ce saw before.

"How did you do this? What's wrong? ”

Jiao Zhongqing wiped his tears with his sleeve. "Lu Gong is ashamed, Lujiang is ashamed, dare to follow the righteousness of Shen Baoxu, please ask the general to rescue Lujiang."

Sun Ce laughed and laughed. This analogy is a bit inappropriate, how did I become the Qin of the tiger and wolf? "Don't worry, don't worry, speak slowly."

Jiao Zhongqing sat down, stabilized his mood, and told Chen Deng about forcibly seizing Lujiang and expelling Lu Kang.

When Guo Jia determined that Chen Deng was going south, Sun Ce estimated this result, but he didn't expect Chen Deng to take Lujiang so easily. A gentleman can be bullied, Lu Kang is only suitable for governing the world, and he can't be a hero in troubled times. That's fine, he won't die because of me. In the future, there will always be less resistance.

Sun Ce arranged for Jiao Zhongqing to be taken to the bath and wash, and then to change into clean clothes. He said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, how is this Chen Deng?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Plan and move, act decisively, but very restrained, and can be regarded as the leader of the children of the family." Compared with him, the Zhou Ang brothers are simply stupid pigs. ”

"What do we do now?"

"Don't worry, Chen Deng won't send troops immediately. Now is the time for spring ploughing, and the troops will be sent to recruit the people, which will interfere with the agricultural season, and the autumn harvest will be greatly affected. Liu Bei doesn't care, Chen Deng won't care, let's send more scouts, just be careful. The top priority is to defeat Liu Bei first. ”

Sun Ce felt that Guo Jia was too confident. With such a good opportunity to attack, will Chen Deng give up because of spring ploughing?

Guo Jia smiled. "General, if Chen Deng is appointed by the imperial court and takes over Lujiang in a bright and bright manner, then he doesn't have any scruples, even if it affects a little harvest, it doesn't matter, the division is famous." But now it's different, he is forcibly seizing Lujiang, and the Lujiang family doesn't speak, which doesn't mean that there is no opinion at all. Chen Deng would rather miss the fighter than act in a hurry, pressing too hard and harming the interests of the family, which will not benefit him at all. Liu Bei is the pastor of Yuzhou, he is just planning Liu Bei, there is no need to take such a big risk, he can watch from the wall and wait to move. ”

Sun Ce suddenly realized. No wonder, others are just that, why is the Zhou family so cowardly? It turned out to be a two-headed bet and wait and see the situation. Those people don't care if Lu Kang stays or not, but they will look at Chen Deng's performance. If Chen Deng did too much, they would rebel and expel Chen Deng in the name of seeking justice for Lu Kang. Chen Deng only has more than a thousand parts, and a few random families in Shu County are thousands of people, and Chen Deng can't control Lujiang by force alone.

Liu Bei is known for his bravery, and he has enough troops, coupled with Chen Deng staring at him from behind, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for Sun Ce to eat Liu Bei in one bite, even if he wins, he will have a period of rest and recuperation, and it is more likely that he will be in a stalemate or lose both. At that time, Chen Deng came out from behind again, helped Liu Bei, and saved Liu Bei from fire and water, Liu Bei not only couldn't blame him, but also owed him a big favor. If Liu Bei wins the battle by himself, it will be even better, Chen Deng doesn't have to move at all, and he will sit back and contain the work. Liu Bei had no foundation in Yuzhou, and he couldn't speak in front of Yuan Shao, so he really didn't dare to provoke him.

These children of the family are all monkeys, one is more shrewd than the other, and the little abacus is crackling. Only Liu Bei, the two hundred and five, took a letter of appointment and willingly let people be used as gunmen.

But the most difficult thing is not Liu Bei, but his Sun Ce. Liu Bei can also wait, but he can't wait. As soon as the spring ploughing passed, Chen Deng sent troops from Lujiang, and he suffered from the enemy on his back, and the battle was even more difficult to fight.

"If possible, lure Liu Bei to attack the city." Guo Jia knocked on the table. "The general planted the seeds, and if I water them a little more, maybe there will be an accident."

Sun Ce agreed, and asked Jiang Gan to be invited. After a few days of rest, Jiang Gan's injuries had healed. It was unfavorable to go out of the school, and he was pitted by Zhou Ang once, Jiang Gan was very faceless, and he was bent on reviving his strength. Sun Ce gave him this opportunity, explained the previous arrangements in detail, and asked him to meet Liu Bei.

As soon as Jiang Gan left, Zhu Zhi returned from Pengcheng. On Sun Ce's orders, he negotiated a series of conditions with Tao Qian. Except for some dissatisfaction with Lu Fang's general recruitment as Sun Ce's subordinate, Tao Qian was generally very satisfied. Of course, it's useless for him to be dissatisfied, the Elk family doesn't want to support him, and he can't grab it, otherwise even Elk Zhu will run away.

Zhu Zhi's losses were not small before, and Sun Ce allocated 2,000 soldiers from Peiguo to him. Zhu Zhi was overjoyed and thanked him again and again. Sun Ce treated him politely, regarded himself as a disciple, and said that he would be called Zhu Gong. But Zhu Zhi was very conscious, respectful to everyone before and after, spared no effort to maintain Sun Ce's dignity, and did not dare to have the slightest pampering and arrogance.

Sun Ce explained the battle plan to Zhu Zhi, and Zhu Zhi agreed. The reason why he led his troops to hide in Dangshan was because the water around Dangshan was criss-crossed, and it was inconvenient to march, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Sun Ce rushed over to fight Liu Bei, the battlefield would not be spread out at all. If Liu Bei was lured to attack the city, the benefits would outweigh the disadvantages for Sun Ce.

Soon, Tao Ying also led 10,000 soldiers from Pengcheng to join Sun Ce.

At this point, Sun Ce had more than 20,000 troops and was ready to face Liu Bei, and it was up to Jiang Gan to fool Liu Bei.

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Jiang Gan got out of the car, flicked his sleeves and came to Liu Bei, didn't talk to Liu Bei, and first glanced at Guan Yu behind Liu Bei.

"You are Guan Yunchang?"

Guan Yu didn't look at him squarely, stroked his beard, and snorted.

Jiang Gan was not embarrassed at all, and nodded again and again. "General Sun said that you are a hero in the world, and you have the courage of ten thousand people, but I didn't believe it very much. Seeing you, I was a little convinced. Don't lose your strength, such a tall person, at least have strength. ”

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, his silkworm eyebrows trembled twice, and he was even less interested in talking to Jiang Gan. What does it mean to have strength, do you think I have a lot of strength?

"I said, can you drag the cow upside down?" The more indifferent Guan Yu became, the more energetic Jiang Gan became. "There is a military guard captain next to my general, named Xu Chu, who also has great strength and can drag the ox to run. If you play against him, you don't know who will win. ”

Guan Yu simply turned his face, not wanting to talk to Jiang Gan. This scholar is really cheap, what kind of is he talking about, he is too lazy to pay attention to you. How could Sun Ce use such a person as a messenger, it's really disappointing.

Zhang Fei looked unhappy, and shouted: "You are so unreasonable, my family envoy is here, you don't talk to my family envoy, but what kind of reckless man Xu Chu is nonsense?" ”

Jiang Gan grinned. "Are you Zhang Yide?"

"Exactly."

"I heard that you are good at drawing beautiful women, but seriously?"

Zhang Fei was stunned. "Will I draw beauties, what are you doing?"

"My general said, when I defeat you, Guan Yunchang can be a general, and you can be a painter."

Liu Bei couldn't help it and coughed: "What about me?" ”

Jiang Gan stared at Liu Bei for a while and smiled slightly. "Of course, I will send you to see your senior brother Gongsun Zhan."