"Smack!"

Returning from the outside, Zhou Yu, who had just stepped into the gate of the Sun Mansion, heard the sound of a slap from the inside.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yu asked the steward beside him.

"When the lord returned home, his face was full of anger, and he was waiting for the prince in the hall."

Zhou Yu didn't ask much and hurriedly entered the lobby, and when he saw Sun Ce's gloomy face, he suddenly felt bad, and even asked, "What is the matter with my brother, but something has changed?" ”

Seeing Zhou Yu, Sun Ce breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Gongjin, you are back, things have changed!" Yuan Shu suddenly added an order, appointing Yuan Yao as the general of Zhengdong and letting me be the deputy general of the army to march into Jiangdong. With that, Sun Ce handed Zhou Yu a military order.

Zhou Yu was stunned, and immediately took the military order to take a closer look......

Sun Ce saw Zhou Yu's frowns and said: "It's fine at noon, but he suddenly issued a military order at night, and he also said that he was worried that I would not be able to catch it, so he sent a large army to help me cross the river, which really annoyed me!" ”

“……”

Seeing that Zhou Yu had been silent, Sun Ce couldn't help but be more anxious: "Gong Jin is talking!" Why did Yuan Shu change his order day and night, did he find something, and what should we do? ”

Zhou Yu put down the military order, raised his head and smiled: "Brother, don't be in a hurry......"

Seeing Zhou Yu's smile, Sun Ce couldn't help but secretly sigh of relief and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"How can it be okay?" Zhou Yu smiled self-deprecatingly, "This is the last thing I want to see." ”

Sun Ce was shocked when he heard this: "Gong Jin is worried that Yuan Shu has seen through our attempt to plot Jiangdong?" ”

"Hehe, it's not worry, it's sure."

Seeing that Sun Ce was puzzled, Zhou Yu continued to explain: "Sending Yuan Yao, the prince, as the main general, and also fake festivals, this is no different from Yuan Shu's personal expedition; appoint the elder brother as the adjutant general of the army, rather than the partial general who leads the first department; And the other deputy general, the foolish brother guessed that he was at least a general with 10,000 soldiers, so the soldiers and horses were all handed over to him to command, and there was no more brother and one soldier, right? ”

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded solemnly and said, "Zhang Xun is the general of the town army. ”

In Yuan Shu's army, as long as he reaches the general position, and he is just a miscellaneous general, he can command a battalion of 10,000 soldiers and horses, while Sun Ce is only a captain of Huaiyi, and he can only command a school of 5,000 soldiers and horses at most.

After the division of the late Han Dynasty, all the princes would adjust the military system according to their official positions and the number of soldiers and horses at their disposal, and they were no longer all based on the Han system.

And this is just the beginning, and even the official position will be adjusted by itself in the future. For example, the four generals in the front, rear, left and right, in Shu Han were the five tiger generals, second only to the generals of the hussar level, but when they arrived in Cao Wei, they became under the four expeditions and four towns.

When Zhou Yu heard that a general had been sent to suppress Sun Ce, he nodded and laughed at himself: "Hey, it's really a jade seal for success, and a jade seal for defeat." The ancients did not deceive me! ”

"Defeat?" Sun Ce said in disbelief, "How could you lose!" The foolish brother thought that as long as he first talked to Yuan Yaoxu and the snake, when he arrived at the Lujiang River, he would lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to smuggle across the river overnight on the grounds of worrying about his mother, and the boats crossing the river had already been contacted by the brothers. ”

"Haha, it turns out that my brother has already made up his mind! But I'm afraid my brother will be disappointed, then Yuan Yao will never let my brother lead the army alone. Zhou Yu said with a smile.

"What, how is that good?" Sun Ce nervously walked back and forth, "Could it be that our great plan is going to be harmed by this incompetent child?" ”

Seeing Sun Ce's anxious appearance, Zhou Yu smiled and hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Brother, don't worry, my brother misunderstood, the defeat of the foolish brother who said 'defeat is also the jade seal', not refers to the defeat of us and other things, but refers to the sacrifice of the jade seal, but let Yuan Shu realize that his brother has great ambitions and reveals his heart." But this doesn't matter anymore, I just said 'Chengye Jade Seal', because as long as the elder brother sacrifices the jade seal, the general trend will be unstoppable, Jiangdong is destined to belong to the elder brother, and the elder brother is at ease. As for that Yuan Shu, hehe......"

Zhou Yu paused a little at this point, and then changed his tone and continued: "So brother doesn't have to worry about the result, it's just that the process has changed." And as long as there is a little planning, it will definitely be able to turn the disadvantage into an advantage, so that the elder brother will enter Jiangdong faster than the previous plan. ”

"Seriously!" Sun Ce's eyes lit up, "Haha, I know that nothing is difficult for Gong Jin, tell me how we should act?" ”

"Let's listen to the foolish brother slowly......" Zhou Yu was not polite, pulled Sun Ce to sit down and talked, and from time to time he made a gesture to the table. And Sun Ce listened with a look of surprise at times, and a sudden look at him at times. By the time the two had finished their discussions, it was already dark......

"So, Gong Jin still has to act separately from Brother Wei?" Sun Ce said with some reluctance on his face, "You and my brother have been separated for many years, and the virtuous brother has been working hard, but I have been enjoying the success." I thought that I would be able to participate in the grand event this time, and I would be the heroes of the world for a while, but I didn't think that I would drag the virtuous brother to work everywhere, and I was very guilty for my brother's incompetence! ”

"Brother, why did you say that!" Zhou Yu pretended to be unhappy and said, "It's just a little bit of a little gossip to make plans, so why worry about it!" Elder brothers, the elders, are fighting the world, so why should they be vain? Besides, as long as the elder brother acts according to the plan, you and my brother will soon be able to work together to create a great achievement, so why should the elder brother be in a hurry. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu seemed to think of something and said: "By the way, my brother must find a way to find out who made Yuan Shu change his mind and change the military order." Yuan Highway is not a visionary, someone must be behind the scenes. This person is extraordinary, far-sighted, and may become a great enemy of us, and we must not guard against it. ”

Sun Ce nodded and responded: "Okay, my brother knows, Gong Jin doesn't have to worry, just act boldly!" ”

……

Left General's Mansion.

It is said that Yuan Yao tried his best to persuade Yuan after the operation, and began to prepare for the expedition wholeheartedly.

Yuan Shu gave him an official position and 10,000 soldiers and horses, and also gave him 500 iron-clad Xuanjia Iron Guards as personal soldiers. All of these Xuanjia Iron Guards are from the Yuan family, either from the end of the side branch or from the in-laws, in short, they all have various relatives with Yuan Shu.

These people don't like to read but like to dance with guns and sticks, or to put it mildly, they are all people who have been eliminated by the Yuan clan and are not qualified to become scholars.

However, although these people are not good at reading, they are all literate and hyphenated, and most of them are well-off and strong. Therefore, the Yuan family arranged another way out for them, that is, to abandon the pen and follow Rong, and arrange to act as a personal guard next to the officials of the Yuan family.

Yuan Shu now has a thousand Xuanjia Iron Guards around him, and this is not all of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao, the current patriarch, has more around him than him, which shows that the energy possessed by the Yuan family can be called terrifying.

These Xuanjia Iron Guards are all wearing iron armor and sitting on war horses, and they are all brought from home by themselves, which belong to private property, or the property of the Yuan clan, Yuan Shu only needs to bear the burden of support, and he also trusts them, after all, they are all a family, with a common interest base, and they are more assured than others. Moreover, these people have also undergone systematic study and training, and they are all good seedlings of grassroots officers, so they are very loved by Yuan Shu. This time, half of it was given to Yuan Yao, which shows that he is very concerned about his personal safety.

To say that Yuan Yao is now also a large number of generals, there are 30,000 soldiers and horses that can be mobilized, in addition to Zhang Xun sent to him by Yuan Shu, there are also fierce generals Sun Ce, as well as Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zhu Zhi and others who he just exchanged for the jade seal.

Such a configuration would seem to be very good for any later generation, but in fact, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others belonged to Sun Ce's subordinate generals, and they were not directly dispatched by Yuan Yao. And Yuan Yao's direct generals are only Zhang Xun and Sun Ce on the military order, and Sun Ce is still an unstable factor.

But fortunately, Yuan Yao was prepared. Anyone who has played the Three Kingdoms series of games, most of the first things they do at the beginning is to search for generals in the field, and Yuan Yao has already started to do this.

In his memory, there were four famous generals in the opposition near Shouchun in Jiujiang during this period, including Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin in Wu, and Liu Ye and Buqi in Wen. A month ago, Yuan Yao had already sent people in the palace to look for people everywhere with their names.

Liu Ye is a relative of the Han family, and the Bu family is a big family of Huaiyin, both of which are already famous, and they have all been found after a little inquiry. It's just that everyone is from a big family, and Yuan Yao didn't have an official status before, so he couldn't let such a big bowl be a guest, so he just gave some gifts and left a name thorn to get to know.

Now that he has an order, Yuan Yao can't wait to start recruiting.

However, Yuan Yao remembered that these celebrities liked to play the game of "slapping their faces and becoming famous", and they couldn't be sure whether people would give face, so in order to be cautious, he prepared two edicts, one was a recruitment order, which was to invite them to come with courtesy; The second is the conscription order, which is forcibly requisitioned, and if the recruitment order is not good, it will be presented, and if it does not come, it will be forced.

Therefore, Yuan Yao sent to invite people with fifty Xuanjia guards led by a team, and Yuan Yao's order to them was: salute first and then soldiers, and be sure to bring people.

As for Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, it is rumored that the two are heroic on the surface, but in fact they are from water thieves, and they are not very popular, so they are not easy to find. However, Yuan Yao gave a death order, and someone must be found. Just a few days ago, the people sent by Yuan Yao finally found their mansion on the surface, but the owner was not there, so they had to leave a post to look forward to a return visit.

Now that the army was about to start, Yuan Yao decided to try his luck and sent two teams of guards to recruit Zhou and Jiang again. Even if they return empty-handed again, going twice in a row is enough to show sincerity, and maybe next time they will come to the door themselves.

As for the famous generals in the opposition outside Jiujiang, it is not the subordinates of General Zuo's Mansion who can handle it. In this era, if you can still live in this era, you can be considered a capable person, and it is rare to get mixed up to run to others and sell yourself as a slave, so Yuan Yao has to find another way.