Let's say that after Lu Ren settled Murong Zi and Tuoba Yu and explained some things, several days passed at once. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and on this day......

"Lord, Liu Xian, Keelung Wharf has just sent back the news that Wu Hou Sun Quan sent Sun Shangxiang, the lord of Jiangdong County, as an envoy, and the ship he is on has now landed."

Puff--puff-puff

Lu Ren and Liu Ye, who were sitting opposite, each sprayed each other's faces, and after coughing violently for a while, they wiped the tea on their faces, and Lu Ren said dumbly: "Sun Shangxiang? Why is this little girl running here again? ”

Sun Shangxiang and Lu Xun came to Yizhou in the spring before, and at that time, Sun Quan secretly came to Yizhou to personally engage in a "secret investigation", but he didn't expect to be bumped into by Lu Ren. Later, Lu Ren let Sun Quan go, Lu Xun took a boat back to Jiangdong a few days later, and Sun Shangxiang stayed in Yizhou to play for two months and then went back, after all, Sun Shangxiang didn't dare to go too far. It's just that now that the time is calculated, Sun Shangxiang came to Yizhou less than half a year after he went back, and he also hung up the name of Sun Quan's official envoy, so this matter is ......

Liu Ye here was also dumbfounded for a moment, and then muttered: "This is a trick and Sun Quan doesn't want to have any friction with us when he wants to resist Cao with all his might, so he gave Sun Shangxiang a chance to come to us to play justifiably, right?" What is the general going to do now? ”

Lu Ren shrugged: "Then you need to say?" Prepare the car and prepare the horse to meet it! ”

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More than 30 kilometers of road, if you ride a fast horse, it won't take an hour to arrive, not to mention that Lu Ren still has the "artifact" of railways and steam locomotives on hand? When Lu Ren and Liu Ye arrived at the Keelung Mansion, Sun Shangxiang, who had been waiting in the Mansion for a long time, greeted him with a smile. However, at this time, Sun Shangxiang did not bow his hand casually as he did when he met Lu Ren in the past, but solemnly made a standard women's gift, and said: "The county lord of Jiangdong, Sun Shangxiang, the sister of Wu Hou, came to Yizhou with gifts on behalf of his brother, and wanted to make friends with Lu Yizhou." ”

This is formal officialdom etiquette, and there are so many people watching on the side, this façade always has to be done, so Lu Ren and Liu Ye did not dare to slack off, and after returning the salute, they solemnly took over Sun Quan's letter and gift list from Sun Shangxiang's hands. After a few more polite words on the scene, Lu Ren ordered someone to set up a banquet to entertain Sun Shangxiang.

The wine banquet is said to be a wine banquet, but in fact, it is just that Lu Ren, Liu Ye, and Sun Shangxiang are just three people getting together, after all, there are many words that are inconvenient for other people to hear. As for the few people who have a good relationship with Sun Shangxiang, because they have their own things on their hands, like Lu Lingqi, they are still busy in Mangjia, so they didn't rush to Keelung immediately.

After a few glasses of wine, Lu Ren smiled at Sun Shangxiang and asked, "Lord Sun, why did you come here this time?" Although you came to Yizhou to mean that Brother Wu Hou would not be our enemy, I thought that Wu Hou would send other officials to come. ”

Sun Shangxiang said with a smile: "It's rare to have such a formal opportunity, and besides, I am the only one who knows Yizhou better in Jiangdong, and the relationship with you is so good, I won't mess things up, so who will come if I don't come?" As far as the team under my brother's account is concerned, after they really come back and go back, they may have to make some trouble! ”

Lu Ren smiled: "That's what you said, but you're not afraid that we will take you hostage?" ”

Sun Shangxiang smiled wickedly: "Buckle it, buckle it, I don't care anyway, besides, if I have an excuse to live here in Yizhou for a few more days, I can't ask for it!" ”

"......" Lu Ren said speechless.

Sun Shangxiang straightened up at this time: "But seriously, brother, he will let me come to Yizhou as this envoy, and he also has his own considerations." Cao Gong is powerful, and now nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses are stationed on the north bank of Chibi, and my Jiangdong and Liu Yuzhou coalition army is only about 60,000 soldiers. The enemy is outnumbered, and the strength is very different, although the elder brother has made up his mind to fight a decisive battle with Cao Gong, he is not sure of victory in his heart. Now that I'm here, I'm actually leaving a way out for my Sun family's children, in case the army is defeated, my Sun family's children will have a place to defect, and Sun's incense can also be continued. ”

"Oh...... I see. ”

Lu Ren nodded: "That's right, if Wu Hou is defeated in the Battle of Chibi, and the children of the Sun family flee to my Yizhou territory, no matter what I say, I will definitely take it in." Lao Cao, even if he uses troops against me in Yizhou, he will still have nothing to do with me, who let me run away so many places? It's weird he can catch me. ”

Sun Shangxiang smiled and nodded, but immediately asked without worry: "Mr. Lu, although you sent me a letter before, and in the letter, you did all the taboos committed by Cao Gong, but after all, Cao Gong has many soldiers and horses, and this battle is ......."

Lu Ren wanted to correct the direction of the process, but he couldn't directly intervene in it, and after thinking about it, it seemed that it was more appropriate to intervene only from Sun Shangxiang, so he sent someone to send a letter to Sun Shangxiang some time ago. You must know that Lu Ren still has a group of people headed by Zhang Fang in Jingzhou, and there are telegraph machines to transmit information, so Lu Ren has a lot of information on hand:

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. To tell the truth, if Lao Cao was not in a hurry to conquer Wu after occupying Jingxiang, but recuperated in the land of Jingxiang for three to four years, then you Jiangdong would not have to fight this battle, and it would definitely not be able to be defeated. But now he has made so many mistakes, and the opponents he has encountered are your middle brothers Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang...... I wouldn't dare to say if it would definitely win, but I would say that there was a 70% chance of winning. The real key is whether Zhou Gongjin can grasp the opportunity. ”

Sun Shangxiang frowned, and he didn't know how to ask at this time. After thinking about it again, Sun Shangxiang sighed lightly: "As a child of the Sun family, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and now the enemy is now, but I can't go into battle to kill the enemy...... Alas! But now that I have come to Yizhou as an envoy, I have done something for my Sun clan before the catastrophe...... Mr. Lu, your fleet is extremely sophisticated, can you send ships to help my eldest brother in the event of a big war? ”

Lu Ren and Liu Ye glanced at each other, then shook their heads, and Lu Ren explained to Sun Shangxiang: "Forgive me, county lord, it's not that I don't want to help, but I can't help." I admit that I have some selfish things, for example, for the sake of the trade in the northern region, I dare not offend Cao Gong, and as far as the truth is concerned, one is that I do not have a suitable fleet for war now, and the other is that I have no generals here who can lead the naval army. ”

Sun Shangxiang said strangely: "Won't it? Didn't the fleet you sent ...... there on the northern coast"

Lu Ren laughed and said, "You also believe that kind of rumor about the county lord?" The fleet I sent to the north at the beginning was obviously to do business, right? You won't take all the words that Lao Cao wrote in the text seriously, right? The fleet we sent out to put it mildly is that it is okay to take advantage of the chaos of war to capture some civilians, or to bully and bully backward places such as Samhan and Wajima, but if you really go to the battlefield, I am afraid it will not be enough. The things that Cao Gong wrote, to put it bluntly, are bluffs and scare people. ”

Sun Shangxiang said abruptly: "That's the same...... He said that he had 800,000 troops in the surrender line, but according to the detailed comparison between Brother Zhong and Mr. Zhuge , it was actually only about 300,000. ”

Lu Ren said: "This is to attack the heart before attacking the city." It has always been a common method for Lao Cao to scare and scare the opponent before fighting, so as to reduce the morale and fighting spirit of the opponent. Oh, following on with what I said just now, I can't send troops to help Wu Hou at this time, in fact, I am helping Wu Hou myself. ”

Sun Shangxiang said: "How do you say this? ”

Lu Ren said: "Since Lao Cao wants to scare people, of course, the more thoroughly he scares, the better, so he will pull me out, with the intention of distracting Jiangdong's military forces." We also said before that Lao Cao is now winning one after another, and he has already been paralyzed in his heart, and at the same time, he will definitely think that I will obey the edict and invade Jiangdong. If the Sun-Liu coalition army wants to win this battle, it is largely due to the paralysis and carelessness in Lao Cao's heart, and at this time, I sent troops to help Jiangdong, which is tantamount to giving Lao Cao a big mouth, and it is very likely that he will be woken up at that time. If he comes to his senses and becomes cautious because of my actions here, then Zhou Gongjin and Zhuge Kongming will not have a chance to drill. ”

Sun Shangxiang came to his senses, nodded vigorously and said, "So that's the case." In fact, Lu Boyan had told my brother about these things back then, but I was only thinking about my own thoughts here at the time, and I didn't fully understand it...... Hey, Mr. Lu, but if you don't help at both ends, won't Cao Gong be suspicious? ”

Lu Ren and Liu Ye looked at each other again, and then Lu Ren muttered: "It's not that I haven't thought about this matter, and I have also discussed it with Ziye and them. The main reason is that Wu Hou was suspicious at that time, and it was inconvenient for me to act here. But now that you've arrived in Yizhou, the plan I had previously thought of might be able to be implemented. ”

"What's the plan?"

Lu Ren said: "That's right. According to our calculations, Lao Cao actually didn't care whether our Yizhou would send a fleet to help him, because he had dealt with our fleet when he was fighting against the Yuan clan a few years ago, and knew that the combat power of our fleet was actually not on the table, and going to Chibi would not help him at all, so he pulled our Yizhou out of the edict, just to use us to scare Wu Hou. So whether we send troops or not, he won't care. But if we do what we can at this time, he will decide that we are indeed helping him, and the deterrence of Jiangdong will be heavier, but in the same way, his paralysis will be heavier. ”

Sun Shangxiang heard it in a fog: "Then what do you want to do?" Oops, I said Mr. Lu! I'm far inferior to you in these scheming schemes, and I can't guess what you're trying to do, so it's okay for you to bother me to tell me? (To be continued.) )