After getting Liu Bei's approval, Deng Zhi successfully completed the task, and then returned to Xudu and returned to Liu He.

"Lord, it is indeed as you expected, Liu Bei was very happy about the sincerity of the lord, regardless of Zhuge Liang's dissuasion, accepted the canonization, and at the same time promised to form an alliance with the lord, this is the letter of alliance, with Liu Bei's personal signature and official seal, and please take a look at the lord."

Liu He took the alliance book and looked at it, and found that there was no problem, so he nodded with satisfaction, this alliance book was drafted by Liu He a long time ago, and Liu Bei confirmed that there was no problem to sign it, it was in duplicate, one in Liu Bei's hand, and one in Liu He's hand.

Next, Liu He put away the alliance book, and then asked: "After Liu Bei accepted the canonization and signed the alliance book, what was Shuzhong's reaction?" ”

I saw Deng Zhi smile and said: "As the lord expected before, the soldiers and civilians in Shu heard that Liu Bei had formed an alliance with the lord, and they were all overjoyed, saying that the two Han clan relatives finally became a family, and the revival of the Han family and the peace of the world are expected, and Liu Bei was canonized as the Duke of Shu, and the civil and military officials were also very happy, which made Liu Bei's prestige in Shu greatly increased, at least some of the chaotic people in the north of Yizhou have settled down, which is definitely good news for the current Yizhou, but at this time Sun Quan is leading his troops to launch an attack on the south of Yizhou, In order to stabilize the situation in Nanzhong, and also to regain the lost territory occupied by Liu Bei, he appointed Guan Yu as the main general and Zhuge Liang as the military advisor, leading the army to conquer the rebellion in Nanzhong. ”

"Reacted so quickly? It seems that Liu Bei's ambition has really been aroused by me, haha, this is a good thing, the war between Liu Bei and Sun Quan resumes, I can take the opportunity to resume economic development, at least Yuzhou and Yanzhou can rest assured, of course, during this period, I will also find a way to promote the direction of the situation. After listening to Deng Zhi's reply, Liu He was very proud in his heart, first ordered Deng Zhi to go down to rest, and then began to make intensive arrangements.

At this time, Sun Quan was full of ambition in Wu County, he had won more with less in the Battle of Chibi, and severely damaged Liu Bei, which can be said to be famous in a battle, and the world was shocked, and then he ordered Cheng Pu to lead an army of 30,000 to chase and kill the defeated enemy, at the same time, Sun Quan also ordered Tai Shici to lead the army from Jiaozhou to attack the south of Yizhou, intending to let the two troops attack from the north and south, and finally join Chengdu to completely eliminate Liu Bei's forces.

However, I didn't expect Cheng Pu to suffer a defeat in Linjiang, the news came, Sun Quan couldn't believe it, because Cheng Pu led 30,000 elite soldiers, and Liu Bei only had 30,000 defeated soldiers around him, after being chased by Cheng Pu from Jiangling to Linjiang, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 people at most, so many victorious soldiers against more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, no matter what, it is impossible to be defeated, but he was defeated, how can he believe it? And how dare you believe it?

"What the hell is going on?" Looking at Cheng Pu, who came to ask for guilt, Sun Quan gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Cheng Demou, you are a veteran of our army, and this time you have an absolute advantage, why is there such a big defeat?" ”

I saw Cheng Pu's face full of shame, and he bowed to Sun Quan and said: "Everything is Pu's mistake, and please ask the lord to surrender." ”

At this time, he saw Cheng Pu's military advisor Yu turning his hand and said: "Lord, this matter cannot be completely blamed on General Demou, this time there would be no fallacy, but in the process of chasing and killing Liu Bei's defeated army, there was an accident, first of all, General Lu Xun, he and his five thousand soldiers were trapped in the stone formation, and they have not been able to get out until now." In addition, in the process of our pursuit, Liu Bei's general Zhang Fei suddenly let out a shocking roar for some reason, this time he killed ten commanders of our army, a military marquis, tens of thousands of soldiers fled, General Demou finally gathered the deserters, and successfully mobilized morale, besieged Linjiang City, and was about to succeed, but unexpectedly Liu Bei's general Guan Yu, who was captured by Qin Gong before, suddenly led the army to kill from behind, and killed Zhu Ran and He Qi two generals with lightning speed, at this time Liu Bei personally led the army, Opened the city with Zhang Fei to respond, in the process Zhang Fei yelled again, and tens of thousands of soldiers in our army fled, and General Demou had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops......"

"What? Lu Xun was trapped, Zhu Ran and He Qi were killed? This, this, how can this be? Also, how could Guan Yu's gang escape from Liu He's camp? After so many years, have you ever seen someone who was able to escape from Liu He? ”

Sun Quan looked incredulous and said with a low roar.

But seeing Yu shook his head, he said with a wry smile: "Although Xia Guan is also proficient in Zhou Yi's divination technique, he can't deduce the reason, it seems that the heavenly machine has been blinded, the lord should know that this era is different from any previous era, as long as the other party's intelligence is higher than ours, even divination is difficult to deduce." ”

"Humph! Does this need to be extrapolated? It is clear that Liu He deliberately put Guan Yu back, this guy was afraid that we would annex Shuzhong and rule the river with him, so he secretly tried to destroy it, but he was willing to let Guan Yu go, and this determination was really big enough. ”

Sun Quan's face was full of iron, and he said hatefully.

As soon as Sun Quan said this, everyone around nodded silently, and some people even couldn't help but scold angrily: "This Liu He is really hateful, he can stop us from occupying Yizhou without spending a single soldier." ”

"Hmph, the sinister and cunning thief, he will definitely have to pay it back ten times in the future!"

"Alas, how can there be such shameless people in the world? He is still a member of the Han family, where is the style of the children of the ancestors? ”

"That's not right, Gaozu was also this kind of scoundrel back then......"

It was a military general who said this, and he only said it open-mouthed at the time, but as soon as he said it, he realized that he was wrong, and he stopped talking halfway through.

However, Sun Quan didn't hear it, and even agreed with this in his heart, and at the same time he was a little worried in his heart, this Liu He is indeed a bit like Gaozu Liu Bang in some aspects, but the more people like this, the more they can achieve great things, and the more they are their rivals.

And at this moment, I saw Jia Hua, the general of the personal army, come to the tent and say to Sun Quan: "My lord, according to our report of ears and eyes, Liu Bei was canonized as the Duke of Shu by the imperial court not long ago, and for a while, the morale of the entire northern Yizhou was high and the residents were happy, which caused the original thieves who were ready to move all to let go of their actions, and the people we went to infiltrate escaped alive, or were captured and sacrificed to Liu Bei's account, and even the barbarian leader Meng Shu, who had done something in Nanzhong a few days ago, is now a little undecided. ”

"What? What qualifications does Liu Bei Lao'er have to be a duke? I have been stubborn, fought so many victories, opened up such a vast territory, and I have not been canonized, but now he is canonized, this is really hateful, hmph, since this is the case, then I want to defeat you, the new Duke of Shu, and let the world know that you know, don't say that you are a prince, even if it is a king, it is useless! ”

Sun Quan was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered Zhou Yu to be transferred to Jingzhou as the assassin of Jingzhou, and the capital supervised the military of Jingzhou, and led the army to set out from Wuling and attack Linjiang again.