Night, Xiangyang.

Zhuge Liang had just received Ma Hong's order and appointed him as the marshal, leading 80,000 troops from Yangzhou to attack Guangling. Deng Ai was Zhuge Liang's deputy general, and the entourage of generals included Xu Sheng, Lü Fan, Zhuge Ke, Zhang Cheng, Zhang Xiu [Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xiu were Zhang Zhao's eldest and second sons], Liu Feng and other generals, among which Eastern Wu was the general.

"Uncle, why is the king's order so sudden?" Zhuge Ke walked beside Zhuge Liang and asked Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang patted his young nephew on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much, go pack your bags and follow me to Jiangdong in an hour." ”

"You all get it." Zhuge Liang said to Deng Ai, Xu Sheng and a group of other generals.

Although these generals were recruited to the palace by Ma Hong in the middle of the night, they were told to attack Guangling, saying that they were going to surprise the troops to fight Guangling by surprise, and now they are still a little stunned, their group of people have never cooperated in the war together, not to mention that although the commander Zhuge Liang is the right prime minister, he has always fought as a military division, and has never been the main general, and now as the commander of the first army, it really makes these Dongwu generals a little worried.

"No." Then the crowd dispersed.

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xiu got into the carriage and headed towards the house.

Let's talk a little bit about the two brothers Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xiu! These two brothers are generally easy to be ignored in the history of the Three Kingdoms, their father is Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao's status in Wu is very high, but Sun Quan doesn't like Zhang Zhao very much, the specific reason is related to Zhang Zhao. Zhang Cheng is the eldest son of Zhang Zhao, and his wife is the daughter of Zhuge Jin. He successively served as the hussar general Xi Cao Peng, the governor of the western part of Changsha, and later served as the governor of the city of Wei and the general of Fenwei, and the marquis of the capital and Gu Shao, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, and Yan Jian were called the "five monarchs". Gu Shao, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, Yan Jian are all very high-status people in Wu State, Zhang Chengneng is side by side with them, the ability is not weak, it is considered to be both civil and military, in the military has pacified Shanyue, followed Sun Quan to attack Wei, of course, Sun Quan is to send 100,000 troops, at that time Cao Pi has died, Cao Rui is in power, Sun 100,000 was repelled by Cao Rui. Zhang Cheng is not too high in martial arts, but he is not weak, this ability is easily covered by the dazzling light of Wu State, plus Zhang Cheng is Zhang Zhao's eldest son, and he is relatively old, older than Lu Xun and Zhu Ran, and he is living in the period when these people are active, so he is not very conspicuous.

In contrast, Zhang Cheng's brother Zhang Xiu, although not too conspicuous, has a higher sense of presence than his brother Zhang Cheng. When Zhang Xiu became an adult, it was when those famous generals of Eastern Wu fell, his age and Zhuge Ke of Eastern Wu were the same age group, Zhang Xiu was just an adult and Zhuge Ke, Gu Tan and Chen Biao were the wingmen of the crown prince Sun Deng, and taught the prince with the "Book of Han", it can be seen that as the son of Zhang Zhao, Zhang Xiu is also a cultural person, Zhuge Ke is quite smart, of course, he is also quite smart, and he can teach the prince Sun Deng with Zhuge Ke, which is quite powerful. In terms of martial arts, Zhang Xiu and Gu Tan's younger brother Gu Cheng followed Quan Cong and Wei general Wang Wei to fight in Shaobi, fought hard to contain the Wei army, and repelled Wang Wei with Quan Cong. Therefore, it is okay to lead troops to fight, he is an all-round civil and military talent like his brother, but he is not top in both aspects, but Zhang Xiu is more miserable in history than his brother Zhang Cheng. Repelled Wang Ling, and because Zhang Xiu and others played a role in containing the enemy army, they obtained a greater official position than the Quan brothers, thus incurring Quan Cong's resentment. At that time, the battle between the crown prince and Sun Ba, the king of Lu, was fierce, the Gu Tan family was the crown prince and the party, and the Quan Cong family belonged to the party of the king of Lu and Sun Ba, and Zhang Xiu, who had a close relationship with the Gu family, naturally could not escape the attack of the whole family. So Quan Cong took the opportunity to slander Sun Quan, saying that Zhang Xiu, Gu Cheng and Dianjun Chen Sui had private dealings, and later Sun He fell from the position of the prince, Zhang Xiu was tragic, and he was sent to Jiaozhou with his friends Gu Cheng and Gu Tan. The book made Sun Hong and Zhang Xiu have a bad relationship, and Zhang Xiu was tragic, Sun Hong slandered Sun Quan, who was mediocre in his later years, and Zhang Xiu was given to death. Although he has a higher sense of existence than his brother, he has been framed all his life. So it's not a good thing to have a lot of friends, especially those who like to get involved in politics.

"Brother, why did the king mainly use my Jiangdong generals this time?" Zhang Xiu asked at Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng shook his head, looked at his young brother and said, "Don't ask too much about these things, just talk about it together, don't talk nonsense, beware of misfortune." ”

Zhang Xiu smiled and said, "Brother, you are too cautious. ”

"It's better to be cautious, how to say that you and my brother are generals, the king dares to use us, if we talk nonsense, in case it reaches the ears of the king, the words will change the taste, but it will not be good." Zhang Cheng said.

Zhang Xiu shook his head and said: "Brother, I don't think the king is a cautious person like Wu Hou, how can we be ...... if we talk about this kind of thing in private?"

"Little brother, you are too presumptuous, how can you speak ill of the old master!!"

"Brother, Wu Hou has a problem with his personality, his father assists him, if he doesn't have a father, where can he stand firm in Jiangdong, but how does he treat his father, and if there is no Zhou Yu Governor, can he sit firmly? supported Zhu Ran and Zhou Yu to contend with him, if it weren't for his series of rights to divide Zhou Yu's governorship, Jiangdong would not have been defeated so quickly. ”

"Little brother, that's enough, you can't control your mouth, sooner or later something will happen."

Zhang Xiu was reprimanded by his brother three times, sighed, and stopped talking.

Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, a group of people who followed Sun Ce, were used by Sun Ce to assist Sun Quan, Sun Quan did have a wary heart for Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, the two of them were one and one martial arts, if they were not satisfied with Sun Quan, it was also possible to abolish Sun Quan and set up Sun Ce's son as Wu Hou, which was not impossible, so Sun Quan was defensive against Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao, which made Zhang Xiu look at it in his eyes, and he was not too satisfied with Sun Quan, but after seeing the current Chu King Ma Hong, who did not care about his past suspicions, he compared Sun Quan and Ma Hong, Zhang Xiu prefers Ma Hong. Although his old father Zhang Zhao helped Sun Quan hide his children after Sun Quan's defeat, he was also found out by Ma Shuang and killed Sun Quan's crown prince Sun Dengdu. Even if Ma Hong knew that Zhang Zhao had secretly hidden Sun Quan's children, Ma Hong was respectful to Zhang Zhao and wanted to invite Zhang Zhao to come out to be an official, but Zhang Zhao was unwilling to come out to be an official, but he did not restrict his sons from coming out to be officials. Zhang Zhao once told Zhang Xiu his opinion of Ma Hong, and Ma Hong would never hold a grudge against Zhang Zhao because Zhang Zhao secretly hid Sun Quan's son. Because in Zhang Zhao's view, Ma Hong did not plan to solve Sun Quan's descendants from the beginning, but Ma Shuang made his own opinions. (To be continued.) )