Chapter 146: Attack
Although Liu Feng was placed under house arrest by Sun Quan in Jiangdong in the later period, he brought it back after marrying the lord of Jiangdong, which had already made Sun Quan lose face, and when he returned, he almost killed Cao Cao in Huarong Dao and captured Cao Zhi, and then led 2,000 men and horses to seize the land of the four counties in a few days, and took Xiangyang without blood.
And Liu Feng seemed to fail to see those eyes at this time, but looked at Liu Bei as usual, Liu Bei also glanced at Liu Feng's demeanor, and then said: "This time I was able to retreat Cao Cao's army, thanks to Zhuge Army's advice in Zhou Yu's camp, put forward a counter-strategy and attack it with fire, which broke Cao's army and killed its more than 300,000 water army, forcing Cao Cao to retreat the defense line, which is why there is a good situation now, so Zhuge Cheng is quite the first merit!" ”
Everyone listened to it, they were stunned for a while, everyone knew that the plan of the fire attack was proposed by Zhou Yu, and the veteran Huang Gai under his account asked for an order to go to Cao Cao's camp to surrender, which led Cao Cao to connect the warship with iron cables to facilitate the fire attack.
Chibi won a big victory, Zhou Yu was the first to make the merit, and the main force was also the Jiangdong Navy, Liu Bei put this merit on Zhuge Liang, which made everyone a little unconvinced.
But Liu Bei is the lord, all matters under his command can be decided by him, although everyone is shocked, but there is nothing to say, Zhuge Liang as a military advisor, his status in the army is higher than that of Guan Zhang and the two, not to mention Liu Feng's righteous son, so they were all full of smiles, and congratulated Zhuge Liang, Liu Feng is the same, and there is nothing abnormal.
After Zhuge Liang bowed his hand to everyone one by one, he just had a slight smile on his face, and he didn't see how he was happy, just because he knew that Liu Bei said that it was the first merit, but he would not reward him, Zhuge Liang, as Liu Bei's military teacher, had to follow Liu Bei's side from time to time, and he would definitely not lead an army to manage the county, so the words of this first merit were mostly empty words.
After these words, Liu Bei spoke again: "This time I can have such an achievement after Cao Cao retreated, and in less than half a month, I will pocket all the important towns such as the four southern counties and Xiangyang without spending a single soldier, so that we can now sit on Jingzhou when Zhou Yu is still fighting with Zhang Liao, and they are all powerful!" Therefore, Ziwei's contribution is not small, and now Ziwei is the general of Zuo Zhonglang, and there is another reward, which will be discussed later! ”
Liu Bei's second mention is Liu Feng, put it behind Zhuge Liang, the meaning is very obvious, that is, Zhuge Liang is still Liu Bei's most trusted person, even if Liu Feng competes with Zhuge Liang, it can't be too much, these Liu Feng naturally knew, and immediately knelt on the ground and thanked Liu Bei.
Then, Liu Bei rewarded Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others with some official positions, because the Son of Heaven was in the hands of Cao Cao at this time, Liu Bei's official positions were naturally innumerable, but with these official positions, it can be explained that his status in Liu Bei's army, so after the separation, it will definitely arouse the greater ambition of those who have made meritorious contributions in this battle, because of this, Liu Bei decided after consulting with Zhuge Liang that even if it is a false name, it is necessary to divide the official position.
Liu Feng was a partial general before, and this title is actually a miscellaneous general, and this Zuo Zhonglang general is second only to the regular general in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It took Liu Bei nearly half an hour to reward his ministers, but there was no joy on everyone's faces, just because everyone knew that the real highlight had not yet begun, and the position of the county was the beginning of the distribution of rights in Jingzhou.
If you can take charge of a county, it is better than being on Liu Bei's side, and being suppressed by Zhuge Liang Guan Zhang day by day, looking at his face and acting, because the four counties of Jingnan are all temporarily replaced by the original people, so everyone believes that Liu Bei will definitely replace those people with cronies, at this time, many people are already gearing up and can't wait.
Finally, Liu Bei seemed to notice the anxiety on everyone's faces, and said in a low voice: "I waited for many people to go under the fence before, but this time I got Jingzhou, and I became the lord of Jingzhou, the land of Jingzhou counties is not like a city and a county, and our army is only 50,000, and the original defenders in those counties are only 70,000 or 80,000, and the navy is scarce, so I want to send competent people to the counties after consulting with the military advisor, recruit troops and horses in the army, recruit virtuous people, and hoard grain and grass for emergencies!" ”
First got Jingzhou, and then went west to conquer Yizhou, Zhuge Liang's strategy in Nanyang has become half, which naturally has a lot of credit to Liu Feng, if Liu Feng didn't take these counties and Xiangyang so quickly, when Zhou Yu and Zhang Liao ward, they would fall into endless disputes with Jiangdong, but Liu Bei did not mention this matter.
Liu Bei looked around at everyone and continued: "Xiangyang is the gateway to Jingzhou, and there is still a county north of Xiangyang in the hands of Cao Cao, so I and the military division will sit in the city of Xiangyang, and Yide will bring 20,000 military horses to protect the city. Xiakou is adjacent to Jiangdong, and Yun Chang garrisoned Xiakou after this battle, leading 10,000 infantry and 5,000 naval troops to resist the Jiangdong change. ”
Liu Bei's words finished arranging the two important towns in Jingzhou, Xiangyang and Xiakou are the most important places in Jingzhou, followed by Jiangling, and then, Liu Bei finally looked at Liu Feng and asked: "The rest of the counties are all taken by Ziwei, although Ziwei is still young, but I also want to send you to a county to see the after-effects, I don't know if Ziwei has an ideal place to go?" ”
At this moment, Zhuge Liang, who had been silent, really spoke up again: "Has the lord forgotten that General Ziwei should have dedicated Cao Zhi to the lord, but for some reason he was returned to Cao Cao's army?" ”
Liu Feng listened, and there was no sense of surprise, Zhuge Liang's trouble in this matter was something he had thought of a long time ago, if Zhuge Liang could see that he calmly won the reward, then it would not be Zhuge Liang.
"I don't know what the military advisor thinks, if I hand over Cao Zhi to the military advisor, what will the military advisor want? Kill it to shock the hearts of the army, or do you want to live in the army, or do you exchange it for the land of Xiangyang? Before Liu Bei could speak, Liu Feng looked at Zhuge Liang first and asked sharply.
"No matter how you deal with it, General Ziwei shouldn't make his own decisions!"
Zhuge Liang is obviously very dissatisfied with Liu Feng's tough attitude, in his opinion, Liu Bei has given the first credit to Zhuge Liang, which is to deter Liu Feng, Liu Feng should have retreated from the difficulty, and apologized in this matter to reduce his status in the army, but obviously, Liu Feng did not let his wishful thinking start, after these several tempering, Liu Feng's temperament is still as he was in Xinye, and has not been restrained.