The crooked arrow earned Zhuge Song enough power, and Shana also looked incredulous when she saw him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhuge Song thought to himself: "You wait and see! Even more incredible is yet to come! ”

Zhuge Song brought 500 of his own soldiers back to Shana's array and told her that she could order someone to set up camp and wait for the Wu soldiers to withdraw. Shana saw Zhuge Song's hand before, although she still didn't believe what he said this time, she didn't refute him directly like before. Just asked Zhuge Song: "When will it be?" ”

Zhuge Song looked at the sun and told her very frankly: "Before the sun sets." ”

At this time, in the Wu army camp, Lu Meng was sitting in the position of the commander, looking at the letter that Zhuge Song shot into Wu Village with an arrow, and the arrow that had hit a Wu army general not long ago was lying horizontally on the bookcase in front of him.

After a long time, Lu Mengcai sighed deeply and said: "When the governor of Zhou was alive, he thought that Kong Ming was the trouble of Jiangdong, and he always wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of it. Zhuge Songqi was a scholar, only a scholar by Kong Ming's side since he was a child, and he often disregarded his safety with his blood, fought the Wuxi barbarians twice, and his soldiers were often less than ten of the enemy. He also guarded Changsha, left his post without permission and burned several camps of our army, and even followed Liu Bei into Sichuan, and even risked trapping Liu Zhang in front of Jiameng Pass, regardless of the fact that if there was a mistake, he would immediately fall into a desperate situation. ”

Pan Zhang, who was sitting on the side seat, continued at this time: "It is because of this that the general hid the army in the dense forest outside Hanshou, and ordered me to lead only 3,000 troops to surround Hanshou, in order to lead Zhuge Song out of the city to fight, who knows that when the enemy army is long, he always dares to come out to take risks, at this time, the number of barbarian reinforcements in Wuling City is ten times that of me, but he is so cautious, it is really unbelievable!" ”

Lu Meng put down the letter, picked up the arrow on the bookcase, and said while looking at it: "I thought that Zhuge Song was just a weak scholar, but I thought that Lu Buyuanmen shot a halberd back then, but I only heard that I couldn't see it with my own eyes, I heard that he was able to shoot the red cherry blossom on the helmet one hundred and fifty steps away with one arrow, and the soldiers of the two armies saw it with their own eyes, and directly wrote my strategy and ridiculed me, such a thing, to say that it actually happened to a scholar of Kong Ming, it is really not my Jiangdong blessing!" ”

"So-General, what are we going to do next?" Pan Zhang asked.

"What else can I do? Now that the plan has been broken, there is no point in staying any longer. Lu Meng sighed: "Wait a minute, I will lead the army to Dongting to get on the boat and go to Yiyang to help the governor, after your three thousand men and horses are broken, you will be separated from me by thirty miles, and finally get on the boat!" ”

"However, in this letter, the general and me were so ridiculed, and we withdrew like this, and I really can't swallow this breath!" Although Lu Meng had made up his mind, Pan Zhang was still a little unwilling.

"If you can't swallow it, you have to swallow it!" Lu Meng was a little angry and said: "Didn't you read what Zhuge Song said in the letter, saying that I want to lure him to attack your camp, and then hope to take Wuling and go north to attack Nanjun, he knows it, if I don't retreat again, he will just spend it with me, don't fight or retreat, and if you are in a bad mood, you won't let us retreat so easily!" ”

For a while, there was silence in the big tent, and everyone in the tent knew that Lu Meng was not in a very good mood at this time, so no one said anything more, and they scattered to prepare for the withdrawal of the army.

In less than two hours, Zhuge Song received the news that the Wu army began to withdraw its troops, Shana could only be described as stunned in the face of this situation, she asked Zhuge Song what he wrote in the letter, Zhuge Song pretended to be relaxed and told her: "It's nothing? I just wrote their military plan to them, and when they saw that there was no more drama, they had to withdraw in disgrace! He made it a point of not being worth mentioning, but he didn't know what kind of earth-shaking changes Shana's heart was going through at this time.

After the Wu army withdrew, Zhuge Song also led the troops back to Wuling, of course, before returning to the army, he did not forget to bring Xie Xian back to Wuling, saying that he had important matters to discuss, but after returning to Wuling, he had to eat and drink for him, and only sent people to continue to listen to the movements of the Wu army.

Sure enough, not long after Pan Zhang left Hanshou, news came from the direction of Dongting Port that Lü Meng's troops began to appear in Dongting in large numbers, and boarded the Wu army ships that had been waiting there for a long time and headed for Yiyang. Lu Su, who received reinforcements, began to counterattack Guan Yu, and after several victories and defeats between the two sides, Guan Yu, who was short of troops, turned to the defensive, tightly held the pass to Nanjun, and waited for reinforcements from the Sichuan army.

In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, in May 213 AD, Liu Bei's military preparations in Shuzhong were all completed, and Huang Zhong was ordered to guard Jiameng Pass, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong stayed in Chengdu, and he personally led an army of 50,000 with Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and other generals out of Chuankou to aid Nanjun.

Soon after Liu Bei's army arrived in Yiyang, the two armies of Wu and Shu had a frontal battle in Yiyang, and the Wu army, which was weak in land warfare, was defeated, retreated to Lukou, and blocked the Yangtze River with the army, opposite Liu Bei's army across the river.

Because the reinforcements from Sichuan were all land forces, and the Jingzhou naval army was newly built not long ago, it was impossible to fight with the Wu army on the water, so the two sides fell into a state of confrontation across the Yangtze River, Liu Bei was unable to attack Lukou on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of the containment of the Wu army in Yiyang, he could not send a large number of troops to Wuling through the Yangtze River, and first recovered Guiyang, Lingling and Changsha by land.

In September 213 (the eighteenth year of Jian'an), Wei Kang's subordinates Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others conspired to defeat Ma Chao, occupy Jicheng, and kill Ma Chao's entire family. Ma Chao was furious, but he couldn't return to Jicheng, so he attacked Licheng and killed Jiang Xu's mother. Yang Fu and seven of his brothers came to fight Ma Chao, except for himself who was seriously injured, the rest of the brothers were killed by Ma Chao. Ma Chao had no home to return to, and when he heard that Xiahou Yuan's reinforcements were coming, he had to defect to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.

Cao Cao took advantage of the fact that Liu Bei and Sun Quan's armies were gathered in Jingzhou, and ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 100,000 troops out of Chang'an, as the front to join Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others to attack Hanzhong, and the 300,000 self-unified army set out from Xuchang to Wancheng, intending to attack Hanzhong from the east through the Shangyong counties.

Zhang Lu urgently prepared for war, and sent an urgent letter to Liu Bei for help. Although Zhang Fei and Pang Tong were in charge of Shuzhong at this time, because Liu Bei took most of the troops to Jingzhou to fight against Sun Quan, Shuzhong had just been settled, and the remaining troops were only enough to barely maintain the stability of Shuzhong, and they were unable to send troops to rescue Zhang Lu.

In this way, Liu Bei was forced to send an envoy across the river to negotiate peace with Sun Quan, but Cao Cao's conquest of Hanzhong was not the only one Liu Bei knew about at this time. Liu Bei thought about it, what else to discuss? If he directly gave up the whole army of Jingzhou and withdrew to Shuzhong, he was furious and no longer proposed peace, but he couldn't advance or retreat.

If you don't negotiate peace, you won't be able to rescue Zhang Lu, and if you don't rescue Zhang Lu, you will lose Hanzhong, and then Shuzhong, a base camp that is just not easy to get, will be in danger. Dongwu also happened to grasp Liu Bei's thoughts, and said that he wanted to take back all Jingzhou.

Guan Yu proposed that Liu Bei return to the army to rescue Zhang Lu first, and he would lead the Jingzhou army to defend Nanjun to the death, maintain the status quo, and wait for Liu Bei to help Zhang Lu repel Cao Cao and then come to a decisive battle with the Wu army. Liu Bei hesitated, although Kong Ming objected to this, saying that he would go to Jiangdong to be a lobbyist and say that Sun Quan would lower the conditions, but Liu Bei would not let him live or die, for fear that Dongwu would still remember Zhou Yu's old hatred, and Kong Ming would never come back.

In October, Cao Cao's army reached Shangyong, packed up ships on the water, prepared the waterway, and marched to attack Hanzhong. At this time, Xiahou Yuan had already led the troops to Yangping Pass, Ma Chao and the battle, Xiahou Yuan singled out, according to Yang Fu's strategy, Yang Fu as a bait to lure Ma Chao to pursue away from Yangping Pass for dozens of miles, and then ambush the troops to break it, Ma Chao was defeated, tens of thousands of people only he and his younger brother Ma Dai led dozens of horsemen to break through and escape back to Yangping Pass, so far they could only hold on, and Xiahou Yuan led the army every day to attack very urgently. In addition, Cao Cao's army could attack Hanzhong from the east at any time, and the people in Hanzhong were panicked for a while.

In order to stabilize Zhang Lu and prevent him from surrendering out of fear, Liu Bei could only order Huang Zhong, who was guarding Jiameng Pass, to send 3,000 troops to Hanzhong, although it was a drop in the bucket, but he had already done his best.

If Liu Bei is in a stalemate with Eastern Wu like this, Hanzhong will undoubtedly lose, and if Shu is taken away, not only will Liu Bei collapse, but it will be difficult for Eastern Wu to survive alone, but just let Liu Bei give up all Jingzhou to Eastern Wu, not only Liu Bei can't get over this hurdle emotionally, but many of the generals under his account are also Jingzhou people, which is even more difficult to accept.

Fortunately, Lu Su also knew that if this continued, it would only be harmful to Eastern Wu, so he persuaded Sun Quan to go on the overall situation of resisting Cao, and came to Liu Bei's military camp alone, proposing that the two sides should first take the area under the actual control of both sides as the boundary, and wait for Liu Bei to help Zhang Lu repel Cao Cao, and then return the rest of Jingzhou's Nanjun and Wuling County after obtaining Liangzhou. Although this plan was better than giving all of Jingzhou to Eastern Wu, Liu Bei was still emotionally unacceptable, and inevitably made Kong Ming bargain with Lu Su. After several rounds of negotiations, the two sides finally decided to take Xiangshui as the boundary, Nanjun plus Wuling and Lingling to the west of Xiangshui to temporarily belong to Liu Bei, Jiangxia, Changsha and Guiyang counties to the east of Xiangshui to Sun Quan, and when Liu Bei captured Liangzhou, the remaining three counties of Jingzhou would be handed over to Eastern Wu.

In exchange, after Liu Bei and Sun Quan signed the agreement, Eastern Wu also sent the main force to Lujiang, attacked Shouchun to contain Cao Cao's forces, and brought him back to help, so as to reduce the pressure on Liu Bei to fight against Cao Cao in the Hanzhong area, and then help him capture Liangzhou. In this way, because Dongwu also contributed and handed over all Jingzhou to Dongwu, Liu Bei could feel better emotionally.

In this way, Liu Bei and Sun Quan soon signed and drew on the documents in duplicate, and the Eastern Wu naval army began to lift the blockade of the Yangtze River, and retreated the army in Lingling to Guiyang, and the main force stationed in Lukou also began to march towards the Lujiang River in batches to prepare for the attack on Shouchun. As the Wuling Taishou closest to Lingling, Liu Bei also began to transfer the army back to Shuzhong batch by batch, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhuge Song to send troops to Lingling to receive it first, and then hand over Lingling Taishou to Lingling sent by him.