Chapter Fifty-Nine: Red Cliffs

Jiangxia, Xiakou.

Zhuge Liang sat silently in the gazebo and watched the clouds rolling in the sky, and his mood was as unpredictable as the clouds in the sky.

It is a dangerous signal that the scholars in Jingzhou led by Cai Mao made a compromise with Ye Zhao, although it is not all, but the surrender of the Cai family and the Kuai family, the largest in Jingzhou, represents not only the forces led by the Cai family and the Kuai family, but the entire scholar class has begun to choose to compromise under Ye Zhao's brilliant general trend.

Is Ye Zhao's new deal good?

Speaking from the heart, it's good.

In fact, what Ye Zhao did was just to do what Wang Mang did two hundred years ago, the difference is that Wang Mang was the enemy of the entire Shi clan in the world at once, and was targeted by the Shi clan of the whole world, and finally defeated, but Ye Zhao took the opportunity of the chaos in the world, with his strong military strength, step by step from Shuzhong to continuously suppress the scholar class, and implement his new policy step by step.

At the beginning, no one was optimistic about Ye Zhao, but the world was in turmoil, such as Li Dao, Guo Yan, Lu Bu, these unpopular princes could only use Ye Zhao's methods to govern the place, and they became the gun in Ye Zhao's hands, this person was too good at borrowing strength, and when the corporal people in the world reacted, not only Ye Zhao had become a general trend, but the princes had also seen the advantages of Ye Zhao's new policy, and more or less began to follow suit.

Zhuge Liang is not really completely on the side of the scholars, but at the moment, if he wants to compete with Ye Zhao, he can only rely on the strength of the world's corporals, and he must defeat Ye Zhao once as soon as possible, otherwise, wait any longer, when Ye Zhao completely stabilizes the land of Jingxiang, let alone counterattack, with Liu Bei's current people in Jiangxia, a sneeze can destroy Liu Bei.

The surrender of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the shortcomings of Ye Zhao's army have also been filled, and to defeat Ye Zhao, Liu Bei alone is not enough.

Zhuge Liang looked at the other side, and now if he wants to be right with Ye Zhao, he can only rely on Jiangdong, but Ye Zhao is too steady, even if he is in control of the overall situation, he still chooses to fight steadily and steadily, and is not in a hurry to go to Jiangdong at all, but begins to train and integrate the naval army, which makes Zhuge Liang feel an indescribable sense of powerlessness.

But in any case, this battle ...... Must be played!

"Kong Ming." Liu Bei took Zhang Fei to the pavilion where Zhuge Liang was, looked at Zhuge Liang with a worried face and said with a smile: "Don't worry, if it's really hard to change, forget it." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bei sighed and said with a smile, he could also feel the suffocating pressure brought by Ye Zhao now, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan were now stationed on the side, and Liu Bei only dared to refuse to defend the city, as for sending troops, it was not that he didn't want to, but he didn't dare.

In the end, Liu Bei really can't afford to fight for this bit of family background.

"Lord, Liang wants to go to Jiangdong." Zhuge Liang turned his head to look at Liu Bei, bowed with a solemn expression and said: "Although Ye Zhao is powerful, he is not without weaknesses, if Jiang Dong is willing to join forces with our army, he may not have no chance of winning." ”

Joining forces is a bit of a gold sticker on his face, in fact, Liu Bei's strength of less than 10,000 soldiers is not a little worse than Sun Ce, who has just moved away a large number of people in Qingxu and Xu, and is in the six counties of Jiangdong.

But at the moment, Sun Ce is also the only person who is likely to compete with Ye Zhao, and in this regard, the two families actually have the possibility of cooperating.

Liu Bei smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Then the Jiangdong Sun clan will unite with us?" ”

"As long as they are unwilling to surrender, an alliance with us is the best option!" Zhuge Liang nodded, and said silently in his heart: It is also the only choice.

"It's good!" Liu Bei nodded and said, "I don't know when Kong Ming will leave?" ”

"Tomorrow."

……

Compared with the gloomy clouds of Liu Bei in Jiangxia, Ye Zhao was quite idle after occupying Jingxiang with the help of Cai Mao, and after roughly delineating the management strategy of Jingzhou, he spent most of his time with Gan Ning, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Wen Ping and others to study the tactics of the navy.

He doesn't have to become a famous general of the navy, but at least the attempt of the water war, the way the navy fights, Ye Zhao has to know, on this day, Ye Zhao is very happy, this time to win Jingxiang, not only let almost the entire world territory under his rule, but also see old friends who have not seen each other for many years.

"Brother Hansheng, count it up, since Nanyang parted, you and I haven't seen each other for twenty years." In the Jiangling Water Village, looking at Huang Zhong, whose hair had turned gray, Ye Zhao said with some emotion.

"Twenty-two years." Huang Zhong saluted Ye Zhao.

Feeling that there are a lot of students, Huang Zhong at this moment is very well-behaved to Ye Zhao, but he lacks a sense of closeness.

Ye Zhao motioned for Huang Zhong to sit down, and said with a smile: "After Zhao was pacified in Shuzhong, he invited Han Sheng to come several times, but Han Sheng was unwilling to stay away from his homeland. ”

"The last general is unwilling." When Huang Zhong heard this, a trace of bitterness flashed in his eyes: "It's just that the dog died young, and I really have no intention of pursuing a career." ”

It's a pity to think about it, Huang Zhong also made a lot of contributions in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, put it in the place, it is more than enough to be a Taishou, with Huang Zhong's ability, in the troubled times after that, there should have been great achievements, but the year of confusion has to experience the pain of losing a child, the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, that kind of pain, it is really difficult to experience if you are not a father, but unfortunately, Huang Zhong also lost the good years of courage and diligence in his career.

Today's Huang Zhong, although his spirit is still good, in Ye Zhao's opinion, is a little less fierce than back then, but a little more vicissitudes.

"Why don't you marry one more?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile.

"Whoever puts one foot in the coffin, let not do any evil." Huang Zhong smiled abruptly, in fact, why didn't he want to continue the string? just gave up a great opportunity, and when he wanted to be a leader again, Jingzhou Mudu changed, some of his acquaintances were gone, and he himself was not young, Liu Biao was Wenzhi Jingxiang, a military general like him who was not from a high background, was not welcomed, as for defecting to Ye Zhao...... It's not that Huang Zhong didn't think about it, but Ye Zhao didn't go to recruit him before, and then Ye Zhao gradually became a trend and he went again, which inevitably made people look down on him.

If you want an official or not, if you want money or not, and you are a lot older, whose woman is willing to marry him?

"And now? Back then, Han Sheng was invited alone, but Han Sheng did not respond because of Ling Lang's matter, and now the old thing is brought up again, I don't know if Han Sheng is willing to go out? Ye Zhao looked at Huang Zhongdao.

Before, in order to make a living, Huang Zhong was a nominal general under Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha, saying that he was a general, but he had no military power, but Han Xuan valued Huang Zhong's bravery, and helped Han Xuan charge into battle during the war, and now the four counties of Jingnan were persuaded by Cai Mao to vote for Ye Zhao, and the four counties were transferred to Xiangyang, including Han Xuan, who was transferred to Xiangyang by Ye Zhao to listen to the tune, and re-elected the Taishou, and Huang Zhong was also recruited by Ye Zhao.

"I'm over sixty this year, and the prime minister still wants to use me?" Huang Zhong looked at Ye Zhao and said astringently.

"Lian Po is still able to eat and fight food in his seventies, and Hansheng is only sixty years old now, only twenty years older than Gu, and he is still very young!" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"Prime Minister!" Huang Zhong looked at Ye Zhao and was speechless with emotion.

"If you want, you should be a partial general first, Jiangdong has been dishonest recently, it is the time to use troops, this battle will be a battle to dominate the world, and it is necessary for talents like Hansheng to be used by Lonely." Ye Zhao patted Huang Zhong on the shoulder, helped him up and smiled.

"The last general is willing to die for the prime minister!" Huang Zhong bowed to Ye Zhao.

"Alive, in your lifetime, you will be a marquis, and when the time comes, you will be asked for a wife like a flower and jade, and give birth to a litter of cubs, a hundred years later, this body has the ability to have a successor." Ye Zhao said with a smile: "In the future, we will fight the Western Regions and Wusun, and some of them are places to show their skills." ”

"Whoa!" Huang Zhong bowed.

Huang Zhong's effectiveness also made Ye Zhao have another general who is good at water warfare, Huang Zhong is a person from Jingzhou, he grew up by this river since he was a child, and the sword technique is comprehended from the Yangtze River, and the ability of water warfare has gradually been shown in the subsequent training, and the end is not weak, with Huang Zhong joining, the combat power of the Jingxiang Navy can be improved again.

Coupled with Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Wen Ping, these Jingzhou generals and Gan Ning, Ye Zhao's naval army lineup is not stronger than Jiangdong, but it is definitely not weak.

In July, after Ye Zhao stayed in Jingzhou for two months, news finally came from Jiangdong that Sun Ce, under the persuasion of Zhuge Liang, finally decided to send troops, stationed troops in Chaisang, echoed with Liu Bei of Jiangxia, gathered 50,000 sailors to go upstream, established water villages in the Chibi area, and frequently attacked Jingxiang counties along the river.

In mid-July, the Jingzhou Navy Division of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun and the Shuzhong Navy of Ganning were mobilized to go down the river in total, establish a water village in Yunmengze, and confront Sun Ce across the river, which is also a battle that determines the general trend of the world, if Ye Zhao wins, the world will be unified after 20 years of chaos, and if Jiangdong wins, it will be close to a stable world, and it will be turbulent again.

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