With these soldiers with good combat effectiveness, Liu Feng is confident that in the future, whether facing Cao Zhi's tiger and leopard cavalry and a large number of foot soldiers, or Zhuge Liang's naval army developed in Jiangdong, he will be able to have the confidence and strength to win the battle.

Although there is such a lofty idea, Liu Feng is well aware that there are still some very important parts missing in his puzzle, an important part of which is the arrival of Zhou Yu, although at the invitation of Liu Feng personally to Jingzhou, Zhou Yu led his wife to Jingzhou to be Lu Su's staff, and helped Lu Su to take down Jiangxia County, the last important place in Jingzhou, at a very small price, but afterwards Liu Feng also learned that Zhou Yu only fulfilled the duty of a staff member. helped Lu Su analyze the situation in Jingzhou and Jiangdong very thoroughly, but the real decision was made by Lu Su himself, and in the process of making the decision, Zhou Yu did not give any directional inducement.

As a result, to Liu Feng's ears, Zhou Yu did not regard himself as Lu Su's colleague at this time, but really gave advice in Jingzhou as a guest secretary, which also shows that Zhou Yu has not decided to join Liu Feng's command in his heart from another angle.

Liu Feng knew that if Zhou Yu's puzzle piece could be perfectly integrated into the generals under his command, it would definitely be a great help for him to fight on the Central Plains in the future, so he didn't want to give up Zhou Yu, and the period after the end of the Jiangdong War was the time when Zhou Yu had to decide where he was going, and what Liu Feng could do was already done when he led Sun Shangxiang to Zhou Yu's retreat, and all he had to do now was naturally wait.

Soon, five days passed in Liu Feng's waiting, unfortunately, there was no news of Zhou Yu in Yizhou, but another thing quickly diluted Liu Feng's expectations for Zhou Yu, that is, Ma Chao, who had been going to almost a month, returned to Yizhou from the direction of Shangyong without warning, and did not let Liu Feng know until he arrived outside the gate of Chengdu.

According to Liu Feng's original deployment, Ma Chao went here to rely on the benefits of the cavalry to see if he could rescue Sun Shangxiang's mother in Jianye City during the war, and send it back to Chengdu safely, once Ma Chao successfully took Sun Shangxiang's mother to his side and got rid of Jiangdong and Zhuge Liang, he could return slowly, and send the news back to Yizhou or Jingzhou, Liu Feng sent capable people to answer, but obviously, although Ma Chao has arrived in the city, he has not acted according to Liu Feng's previous instructions.

Ma Chao's temperament Liu Feng is very well understood, if there is no last resort, he will never follow Liu Feng's instructions, so Liu Feng heard the news that Ma Chao suddenly arrived in the city, and was shocked at the moment, and after thinking about it, he knew that Ma Chao was most likely in this trip to gain something else, so he did not act in accordance with the previous instructions, so Liu Feng didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly put on his clothes and went out from the house, leading a cadre of guards to go straight to the direction of the city gate.

When Liu Feng arrived at the east gate of Chengdu City, he saw Ma Chao waiting for Liu Feng at the inner gate from a distance, his robe was full of dust, his body was also a lot thinner, and his face was full of stubble.

And when Liu Feng looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but show a burst of joy on his face, he knew that the reason why Ma Chao looked like this was mostly because of the two sedan chairs behind him, behind Ma Chao, a cadre of elite cavalry and Feiyu Guards were all dressed in short shirts, and there were no long weapons in their hands.

But from the other side, the bandits in the deep mountains and old forests will treat such a team as a lamb to be slaughtered, from the murderous spirit in the eyes of everyone, Liu Feng knows that there will be no less bandits lost in their hands along the way, after all, Fei Yuwei who went to pick up did not get the news of Ma Chao's return, which can only show that Ma Chao and others chose a very uncommon path, and then arrived at the east gate of Chengdu.

Seeing Liu Feng walking quickly, Ma Chao stepped forward a few steps at the moment, and was about to bow down, but Liu Feng was still half a step faster, stretched out his hand to help Ma Chao up directly, and at the beginning, Liu Feng only felt that Ma Chao's clothes were full of dust, and he knew that his guess would hardly be wrong, so Liu Feng whispered a few words in Ma Chao's ear, and walked to his house first.

When he arrived at the gate of Liu Feng's mansion, Ma Chao finally stopped being silent, and said to Liu Feng with an excited face: "Chao went to Jiangdong this time, fortunately, he was not dishonored!" ”

Then Ma Chao personally walked to the side of the carriage in front of him, stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the sedan chair, and whispered a few words, stretched out his hand, and helped an old woman who was already a little gray-haired.

When Liu Feng saw the old lady at first glance, his face was happy, when he was in Jiangdong, Liu Feng had seen Sun Shangxiang's mother, but it was not the old man in front of him, although his face was a little older than a few years ago, and his energy was a little poor after this long journey, but overall, her body was quite tough.

Liu Feng hurriedly gave a deep salute to the old lady, and was about to call Sun Shangxiang, but saw that Sun Shangxiang, who heard the movement, had already rushed out with tears in his eyes, as if a milk swallow had returned to the nest and pounced on his own mother who had not seen him for several years.

Seeing this situation, Liu Feng naturally couldn't bear to interrupt, and seeing Ma Chao's expression that seemed to be about to speak, he directly sent Sun Shangxiang and his mother to the inner courtyard to rest, and then returned here.

"Meng Qi went to Jiangdong this time, there must be a surprise to bring back, otherwise how could he have been without news for all these days, and returned from the path."

Ma Chao couldn't suppress the smile in his heart anymore after hearing this, and said in his mouth: "The lord is really clever, when he tried to rescue the old lady in Jiangdong these days, it was the last moment of the decisive battle between Sun Quan and Zhuge Liang, and it was not until Sun Quan was defeated and the chaos in Jianye City that the old lady was rescued. ”