After more than ten days of confrontation between the two sides, Liu Ye suddenly came to Lujiang from Danyang County......

"Ziyang came, but because of Hua Xin's matter?" Seeing Liu Ye, Yuan Yao asked a little mysteriously.

Liu Ye was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise: "How did the lord know? ”

"Haha, guess!" Yuan Yao's face was full of pride.

“……”

Yuan Yao is only a sub-battlefield of the Battle of Yuzhang, and the person in charge of the central dispatch is Lu Su who is in Wanling, so the information is collected to Lu Su first, and then sent to various departments.

Liu Ye came to Lujiang this time with the latest information, and he never thought that Yuan Yao would know about it in advance, so he was surprised.

And the reason why Yuan Yao knew that Liu Ye came to deal with Huaxin was because he had received a system prompt - Nanchang, the seat of Yuzhang County, had become his own territory. And Nanchang is the location of Huaxin Huaziyu, which is one of the "Yuzhang Taishou", so Yuan Yao has this judgment, but he doesn't know the details.

Seeing Liu Ye, who was slightly tired in front of him and hadn't seen him for many days, Yuan Yao couldn't help but tease to show his closeness, after all, Liu Ye was the first subordinate to follow him, and his feelings were extraordinary.

"No news from Zishan?" Seeing Liu Ye, Yuan Yao naturally remembered Buqi, and his face showed a look of worry that he couldn't hide.

Buqi previously served as a recruitment order, and the most important job was to recruit talents. Two months ago, he got a long-awaited news from Yuan Yao, so he went to recruit in person, and at first there was news back, but there was no news for nearly a month, which made Yuan Yao always can't help but think crankily.

After all, these are troubled times, and anything can happen.

"The lord doesn't have to worry, Zishan will be able to take care of himself." Seeing that Yuan Yao's face was not good, Liu Ye comforted him.

"Well, I think so too, hehe......" Yuan Yao smiled reluctantly, but he could feel how ugly the smile was, so he awkwardly diverted the topic and said, "What's going on over there Hua Xin?" ”

Seeing Yuan Yao talking about business, Liu Ye also restrained his thoughts, and then replied: "As we expected, Zhuge Xuan did not fuse with Zhen, but led his troops and horses to attack Nanchang in the rear, wanting to take the lead in seizing Huaxin's territory when we have no time to take care of it."

It's a pity that his plan to divert the tiger from the mountain was seen through by us. After receiving the warning, General Taishi directly divided his troops and ordered General Zhang Xun to lead his headquarters to Nanchang and send an envoy to contact Huaxin.

After Hua Xin determined that Zhuge Xuan was coming, he announced that he would return to the East General's Mansion, and then gathered the people to defend Nanchang City.

Now Hua Xin is cooperating with Zhang Xun to recover the remaining thirteen counties of his territory.

And General Taishi, after determining that Zhuge Xuan was not with the Zhen fusion army, has already led his troops to attack Zhen Rong, and the battle situation is now favorable to our side. ”

"......Huh" Yuan Yao exhaled a big breath of turbidity, hearing that Liu Ye's report was all good news, and his depressed mood because he was worried about Bu Qi finally got better, but after a while, he wondered again, "Since everything is going well, sending a letter is a trivial matter, why should Ziyang go on a trip in person?" ”

When Liu Ye heard this, a complaining expression suddenly appeared on his face and said: "I heard that the lord was in danger a few days ago, and his subordinates had to temporarily put everything down to give advice to the lord and save ...... accidents."

"This, hehe, Ziyang has a heart!" Liu Ye said politely, but the tone still had a lesson, which made Yuan Yao a little embarrassed, so he had to reluctantly perfunctory, but Liu Ye didn't seem to plan to just forget it......

"The lord has appointed Yuan Hong and Yuan Zishan as captains to train battleship sailors with full authority, why do you have to personally take risks?"

"This, isn't Zishan still taught by me......," Yuan Yaoqiang argued.

Liu Ye said with a puzzled face: "The lord has always known the way of employing people, why does he only not believe in Captain Yuan, doesn't this move make him feel cold?" ”

"It's not that exaggerated!" Yuan Yao hurriedly explained, "It's not that I don't trust Zishan, but because the battleship is a new type of warship designed by me, and it is still in the water trial stage, if I don't experience it myself, I can't make the most effective improvements and upgrades, so it is only suitable for me to lead it for the time being." ”

Yuan Yao's words were not perfunctory, but true. Through the confrontation with the Jingzhou Navy during this time, especially the situation when he was almost surrounded and annihilated by Chima last time, Yuan Yao had already discussed with Sun Lu how to improve the Ship-class catapult battleship. The point is to try to add the theory of the three-oars to increase its speed again, and add some melee defense, such as opening some crossbows, equipping some crossbows, adding more spare oars, etc.

Liu Ye had participated in the manufacture of battleships and knew that what Yuan Yao said was the truth, but he still couldn't agree in his heart: "In this way, it is not worth the risk of the lord himself......"

Yuan Yao said with a smile: "The battleship has changed the mode of water warfare, making the powerful fighting ships and building ships of the Jingzhou Navy useless, otherwise our Navy will not even be able to get out, and it may not be possible to keep it, do you say it is worth it?" ”

Liu Ye frowned, and was about to refute it, but Yuan Yao continued to be relieved: "Last time, it was because I was careless and proud that I almost had an accident, and I have already paid the price of making me pay enough attention, so Ziyang, you can rest assured, I will never be easy to take risks in the future." ”

“……”

"Hey......" Seeing that Yuan Yao said this, Ziyang, who was a minister, was not easy to persecute anymore, so he had to reluctantly expose the matter, and then he put on a cautious face again, in other words: "The subordinates have other important matters to come this time, and they need to be decided by the lord himself!" ”

"Oh! What's the matter? Yuan Yao was surprised by Liu Ye's serious expression, and couldn't help but become serious as well.

Liu Ye solemnly recounted: "Now there is a general named Chen Heng in the Jingzhou Navy, which is Liu Xuan's old department, after Zhang Ying's defeat in attacking Lujiang, the remaining naval army was handed over to Chen Heng by Liu Xuan, and was later incorporated by Zhenrong, and now he is in a joint position with the Jingzhou Naval Army, and obeys Cai Mao's dispatch.

A few days ago, the Jingzhou Navy and the Lord lost the water battle, and Cai Mao attributed the blame to Chen Heng and beat him with fifty military sticks. This matter was carefully investigated by our army and reported to General Taishi. Changshi Zhang Hong proposed that General Taishi rebel against this person as a former colleague, and the result was very smooth.

Chen Heng now has a troop of 10,000 people, all of whom are the old Danyang troops, and there are still 30 warships. This person has promised that as long as the lord and the Jingzhou naval army confront each other, he will lead the people to defect and submit to our army, but he needs our army to respond.

The stakes are so high that we dare not make the decision, so we have come to ask the Lord to decide. ”

“……”

Liu Ye finished telling the incident as briefly as possible, and Yuan Yao also heard it clearly, but his heart was full of doubts......

"Sounds so much like a bitter meat trick!" Yuan Yao sighed in his heart, and then couldn't help asking, "What kind of wind is blowing now?" ”

Liu Ye was stunned when he heard this, but still replied: "Back to the lord, it's the northwest wind." ”

"Sure enough!" Yuan Yao sighed, just like the wind direction in the early stage of the Battle of Chibi in history, if you borrow the east wind again, you can attack with fire.

Yuan Yao didn't ask when the east wind would change, because there were many factors for the success of the fire attack in the Battle of Chibi in history, in addition to the wind direction and bitter meat plan, there was also an important factor that was the chain plan.

Cao Cao's soldiers were not good at water warfare, and they connected the warships with iron locks and sampans, which caused the fire attack to be a great success, and Yuan Yao did not have such worries now, so it was unlikely that the Battle of Chibi would happen.

But Yuan Yao's mind was full of the Battle of Chibi at this time, so he couldn't help but be full of doubts about Chen Heng's surrender......