Zhou Yu led the clippers in pursuit of the Jingzhou army, and met Sun Quan and Wu Jing on the way. Zhu Zhi saw Sun Quan and Wu Jingwu, but Zhu Ran was nowhere to be seen. Zhu Zhi asked Sun Quan about Zhu Ran's whereabouts, and Sun Quan said that when the Jingzhou army arrived in Shaxian, Zhu Ran would be released.

Zhu Zhi's body trembled and looked at Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu didn't look at Zhu Zhi's eyes, but just looked at the vast river and said only two words: "Pursuit." ”

Sun Quan asked puzzledly, "Brother, why are you pursuing?" Now even if you chase it, you can't catch up, not to mention that Zhu Ran is also on the boat. ”

Zhu Zhi patted the railing of the boat with his hand and said bitterly: "It must be able to catch up, and the Jingzhou Military Tower ship will sink, but it's just pitiful." ”

Sun Quan instantly understood, and the fist hidden in his sleeve clenched. Then helped Zhu Zhi into the cabin, and Han Dang also followed Sun Quan into the cabin without saying a word.

"General Zhou, it seems that you have offended Zhu Zhi and Sun Quan." Lu Fan sighed on the side.

Zhou Yu smiled faintly and said: "I also offended Wu Jing, they didn't know my plan, if they were allowed to leave without any negotiation at that time, with Ma Hong and Liu Ye's temperament, they would definitely doubt whether we would be ambushed halfway, if they checked carefully, they would not fall for the trick, but I didn't expect that Wu Jing would lose an ear and Zhu Zhi lose his son." ”

Lu Fan sighed and said: "It is worth exchanging the lives of thousands of Jingzhou troops for this loss, and it will be even more humiliating if the Jingzhou army is allowed to evacuate safely." ”

"In just a few years, the scattered Jiangdong was pieced together by Bo Fu and held it tightly in his hands, and while holding this land, he also wet this land, and the blood sprinkled on this land is not lacking in the family of Jiangdong. Now on the surface, it seems that the Jiangdong clan bowed their heads to Bofu, but secretly it was turbulent, and the big tree we served did not take root in this land, but wanted to extend its roots to the land of Jingzhou, which was extremely dangerous. ”

Zhou Yu kept holding a handful of sand in his hand, the sand he grabbed from the shore of Zhangdu Lake, and at this moment the sand had dried up, and the fine sand flowed out along Zhou Yu's fingers.

"What General Zhou said is very true, Jingzhou is a difficult bone to gnaw, and Liu Biao is not comparable to those mediocre talents in Jiangdong, and it is not wise for us to start a full-scale war with Liu Biao now." After listening carefully to Zhou Yu's words, Lu Fan thought for a moment and said.

Zhou Yu looked at the remaining sand in his hand and clapped his hand to bounce the sand into the river, he clapped his hands and stretched out his hand to Lu Fan to see, and then said: "Look, when you grab the sand, the sand is also stuck to your hand, if the sand is soaked in blood, it will be even more difficult to bounce off, and now Bo Fu has seriously damaged the interests of the Jiangdong clan, which must have intensified the contradiction between us and the Jiangdong clan." Yu also thinks that we need time to further control Jiangdong now, and even if we want to start a war now, we should not start a war with Liu Biao, but should move to the Central Plains. Since ancient times, those who won the Central Plains won the world, and now the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao is about to break out, we can wait and see what happens, and then we can take advantage of the time when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought to take Xudu. ”

Lu Fan very much agreed with Zhou Yu's idea, but Huang Zu had shot and killed the lord's father, Sun Jian, and the lord and Huang Zu had a common enmity, no matter what, the lord would definitely lead his troops to attack Jiangxia in the near future. Lu Fan shook his head helplessly and said: "It's a pity that Jiangdong has not heard of it, the lord has already set his sights on Jingzhou, Jingzhou is indeed not comparable to some mediocre people in Jiangdong, only the five thousand Jingzhou army actually defeated our army, even the generals were broken, and even General Cheng was killed, Huang Gai and Han Dang are afraid that they also hate Huang Zu now, and they will definitely fully support the lord to attack Jiangxia." ”

"What General Lu said Yu understands, Yu just wants to listen to some General Lu's opinions, if it is not good for us to capture Jiangxia at that time, please also ask the general to join Yu to persuade the lord to withdraw his troops."

"Even if the lord attacks Jiangxia Deli, we have to withdraw, now Jingzhou's strength is too far behind us, if we insist on a full-scale war with Jingzhou, Jiangdong will be chaotic."

Zhou Yu sighed after listening to Lu Fan's words, his fleet had rushed to the place where the Jingzhou army was wrecked, and the water was soaked in the corpses of the Jingzhou navy. When Zhou Yu got the news, he once again lowered the soldier into the river, and then ordered all the archers on the ship to shoot all the Jingzhou soldiers who saw them alive.

Three days later, Shaxian City.

As soon as Liu Ye arrived in Shaxian, he said goodbye to Ma Hong and said that he wanted to go back to Shuijing Villa to meet the teacher, Ma Hong naturally promised, after all, Liu Ye was not Liu Biao's person, and it was not appropriate to be in the Jingzhou army for a long time. After arriving in Shaxian, Ma Hong let Zhu Ran go and told him that he could leave on his own, but Zhu Ran said that he was not in a hurry to return to Yangzhou first, but would follow Liu Ye to Xiangyang. Zhu Ran and Liu Ye are both from Yangzhou, and Chengde in Jiujiang County is not far from the hometown of Danyang County.

Ma Hong would never believe that Zhu Ran just wanted to go to Xiangyang to have a look, so he asked Zhu Ran again and again, because he was afraid that as soon as Zhu Ran arrived in Xiangyang, he would be arrested and cut down by Liu Biao as a trainee. Zhu Ran couldn't stand Ma Hong's repeated inquiries, and finally told the truth, it turned out that Zhu Ran said that he was going to Xiangyang, but he was actually going to Shuijing Villa. To put it simply, he wanted to learn art, because Zhu Ran felt that he was a person forgotten by Zhou Yu, just because he was forgotten, or because his ability was too weak, so he wanted to go to Shuijing Villa.

"Do you want to go to the apprenticeship? Then after doing something in the future, you can go back and tell Zhou Yu, you see, the person you forgot at the beginning is also very powerful, right? After hearing Zhu Ran's reason, Ma Hong couldn't help but laugh.

Zhu Ran looked at Ma Hong's smiling face, bit his lip and said, "Don't laugh at the poor young man, I will definitely surpass Zhou Yu." Didn't you also ask me yesterday if you could be better than Zhou Yu in the future? Now I answer you, I think you can, and I, Zhu Ran, can. ”

Ma Hong was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhu Ran's firm eyes, this kid, did you choose to go to Shuijing Villa because of my words? Although Zhu Ran in history is indeed a famous general in Eastern Wu, he is weaker than Zhou Yu in terms of influence and combat performance, and his popularity is not as good as Lu Xun's son Lu Kang, but Ma Hong knows that Zhu Ran in history is capable, and the young man in front of him also has potential. Ay! accidentally changed the trajectory of a person's life, and this guy is very likely to become my junior brother.

Zhu Ran looked at Ma Hong in a daze, feeling a little uncomfortable, could it be that he also looked down on me? Do you think that Zhou Yu and I are fools? Do you still think that I am not worthy of being with him? Damn it......

Ma Hong's next sentence broke Zhu Ran's thoughts, and Ma Hong suddenly stretched out his hand and patted Zhu Ran's shoulder and said, "It's a good sentence to laugh at the poor young man, and you will become my junior brother soon." Let's work together! As long as you have a goal, the road will go faster. ”

Or is it just a polite remark? Comforting words for me? No, absolutely not, he didn't have to say anything like that to me, there was no hint of falsehood in his eyes, he believed that I would succeed, yes, he believed that I would succeed.

"There's another reason why I went to Water Mirror Villa."

"If it's a hard reason to say, don't say it, everyone should have secrets."

"I am my father's righteous son, although we are related by blood, we cannot inherit the Zhu family." [This point popularizes the relationship between Zhu Zhi and Zhu Ran, Zhu Ran is Zhu Zhi's adopted son, Zhu Zhi was originally Zhu Ran's uncle, and later became his adoptive father, Zhu Ran's surname is Shi. 】

Ma Hong understood, understood in an instant, Zhu Ran wanted to show himself in front of Zhu Zhi, he wanted to prove to Zhu Zhi that although he was not his own son, he must be the strongest among the brothers. But Ma Hong thought crookedly in the next second, his nephew can recognize his uncle as his father-in-law, so will Zhu Zhi have any ulterior secrets with Zhu Ran's mother and his own sister?

Hey, in front of Zhu Ran, I think such a dirty thing, isn't it bad, don't think about it, no, my brain has to think about it again. Well, at this moment, I suddenly remembered the two brothers and sisters, Qi Xianggong and Wen Jiang, forgive me, Zhu Ran, my brain is different from yours.

Before leaving, Zhu Ran gave Ma Hong two letters and asked him to transfer them to Zhu Zhi and Sun Quan, and then left with Liu Ye.