After Liu Qi came to Yangzhou, he first entered Niu Zhu, who was stationed in the ban, and he had some things to explain to the ban, and at the same time, he also wanted to meet the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the battle of Hefei before.

A personal soldier had already galloped to Niuzhu and informed Yu Ban of the news of Liu Qi's arrival, so Yu Ban led Lu Su, Lu Xun, Chen Zhen, Lu Ji and others under his command out of the camp to greet him.

"See the lord." Yu Ban and the others saw him for the first time after Liu Qi took charge of Jingzhou, so they all felt very excited in their hearts, although this "lord" had never been called before, but now they all called it very naturally.

In their hearts, Liu Biao, the nominal lord before, did not have the qualifications of a hero, and he did not have the ability and qualification to be the lord of their people, and in their hearts, the only lord was Liu Qi.

Liu Qi naturally knows this, but from the perspective of Liu Qi's own feelings, he would rather not let others call him "lord", rather than his father Liu Biao suffer a catastrophe.

Although Liu Biao does not have the qualifications of a hero in this troubled era, he can only be a mediocre talent who is called a "self-guarding thief" by others, but it is undeniable that he is a good official and a good father, and the kind of strong family affection and love he treats Liu Qi will never forget, although he just crossed over, he has long regarded Liu Biao as his own father in his heart.

So every time I hear someone call himself the lord, especially those old generals who surrendered to Liu Biao before his death, especially those talents recruited by Liu Biao, Liu Qi can't help but think of his father Liu Biao.

However, this kind of sadness can only be kept in his heart, Liu Qi suppressed that kind of sadness, hurriedly helped Yu Ban up, and said with a smile: "Wen Ze is welcome, you have really worked hard these days, Cao Ren is a fierce general under Cao Cao, and there are generals like Zhang Liao and Zhu Ling, it is not easy to defeat them." Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be polite. ”

"No." Yu Ban took the lead in standing up and said to Liu Qi: "Lord, the reason why the last general can win this time is mainly due to everyone's credit, if there is no thunderbolt made by Ziyang's military division, the last general will not be able to deal with Cao Ren's well and the soldiers on the earth mountain, if there is no Taishi Ziyi, Lu Ziming and Chen Zilie's bravery, we have no way to attack Cao Ying at night and defeat Cao Ren, if there is no Lu Zijing and Liu Ziyang at the same time to divide troops to attack Junyu and Hefei, we can't force Cao Ren to surrender to Chengde." ”

Just as Liu Qi nodded frequently, Yu Ban pointed to a young general and said: "The most important thing is that the reason why the last general was able to win this time completely depends on Lu Boyan's plan. ”

"Well, what? Who do you say? Liu Qi was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly looked at the young general, and then asked solemnly: "You say it again, what is his name?" ”

"Lord Qiyu, this person's surname is Lu, a single name, a word Boyan, is the ......grandson of Lu Kang who is the old Lujiang Taishou Lu Kang."

"Sure enough, it's Lu Boyan? Ha ha. Liu Qi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward, pulled Lu Xun and said, "I really didn't expect that I would have a talent like you under my command, it's really a blessing for me." ”

How can this make Liu Qi unhappy? Because Lu Xun is one of the top handsome talents in the Three Kingdoms period, in history, the battle of Yiling he commanded is one of the three famous battles that determined the direction of history in the Three Kingdoms period.

It is precisely because of such merits that Lu Xun, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lu Meng are collectively known as the four heroic generals of Wuzhong!

Now that Liu Qi, the fourth general of Wuzhong, has already gotten three, how can he be unhappy in his heart?

After Liu Qi finished laughing, he suddenly made a decision in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Lu Boyan listens to the order, and the general intends to promote you as a rebellious general, a former military division, and the Taishou of Wu County, and orders you to select elite soldiers and fierce generals, attack Wu County through the Guò Sea Road, kidnap Sun Shao, the son of Sun Ce, and announce Sun Quan's crime of killing his brother, I don't know if Boyan is willing to go?" ”

Lu Xun listened to Liu Qi's order, and immediately felt that the blood was boiling, at the age of his teens, he had won such the trust of the lord and was directly appointed as a general, such a bold decision was unbelievable even to him. Therefore, looking at the envious eyes of those colleagues around him, Lu Xun did not hesitate at all, and immediately bowed: "Thank you for the love of the lord, the lord's order, dare not obey?" It's just that the last general wants to ask the lord, if our army encounters the Guangling Taishou Chen Deng's army, how to deal with it? Please also give the lord a tone. ”

But I heard Liu Qi say slowly: "Don't worry about this, you just need to report the name of our army, and then say that it is a borrowed road, and the Guangling Navy will not be embarrassed by us." ”

"No, the last general knows. Please rest assured that the Lord will definitely complete the Lord's task. As soon as Lu Xun heard Liu Qi's words, he knew that Liu Qi must have reached a tacit understanding with Chen Deng, the Taishou of Guangling, in some aspects, and his army could directly pass through the defense area of the Guangling Navy on the north side of the river, but he did not ask Liu Qi what agreement he had reached, as a wise man, what should be asked and what should not be asked, he is still measured.

Liu Qi nodded, and then ordered the appointment of Tai Shi Ci as the Jiujiang Taishou, General Huwei, and the military governor of Jiujiang, commanding the soldiers and horses of the five counties in Jiujiang County, and Lu Su as the Jiujiang general, the partial general, joining the army, and the right army division of General Huwei, and ordered Liu Ye, the Taishou of Lujiang, to concurrently serve as the general of Jianwu, to supervise the military of Lujiang, and to defend Zhang Liao of Chengde with Tai Shici and Lu Su.

Later, Liu Qi expressed Yu Ban as the general of Fenwu, led more than 10,000 elite soldiers of Niu Zhu, went to Spring Valley to join Huang Zu's army, and besieged the Wanling City of Danyang County, which was guarded by Zhou Yu.

Liu Qi promoted Chen Wu to general Pei, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and others who had just surrendered were Zhonglang generals, and sent Lu Xun's father, Lu Ji, who was three years younger than Lu Xun, to Jingzhou to study, and also awarded a vacant position of Guannei Hou.

Liu Qi met with Tai Shici, Liu Ye and others who came from the front line after hearing the news, and comforted them well, and then drove to Spring Valley with Yu Ban's army, and then quietly returned to Lingyang by water.

At this time, Xu Shu had already deployed a large army, but waited for Liu Qi to order a siege.

Liu Qi told Xu Shu the news that the forbidden army had come to Spring Valley, and then ordered Xu Shu, Wei Yan, Quan Rou and his sons, Huang Zu, Gan Ning, Yu Ban and other generals, as well as Huo Jun, Zhang Xiu, Liu Shi, Zhang Tong and other generals under his command to lead the troops together, and the 60,000 army surrounded the entire Wanling City like an iron bucket.

"It's finally here." Seeing Liu Qi's army under the city, Zhou Yu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he immediately ordered the whole army to immediately enter a state of high combat readiness, and all the manpower took full action to defend according to their respective posts.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also ordered someone to write a letter, asking Wu Jing, the Taishou of Danyang, and Zhu Zhi, the Taishou of Wujun, who were temporarily stationed in Moling, to send troops to help quickly.

In order to ensure that the warriors who delivered the letter successfully broke through, Zhou Yu deliberately led his troops out of the city to fight against the enemy, but was surprised to find that this time the warriors under his command were extremely easy to break out of the encirclement!

Zhou Yu immediately felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it for a while, his face couldn't help but change greatly: "Oh no, I fell for Liu Qi's trick, this hateful thief must have deliberately asked me to send the distress letter, and then take the opportunity to wipe out our reinforcements one by one, so that we can completely cut off hope." ”

"Damn Liu Qi, he has such a big ambition, not only to annex my Wanling, but also to eliminate the military forces in Danyang and Wu County, so as to take advantage of the situation to occupy the entire Danyang and Wu County after capturing my Wanling, if this is the case, I'm afraid my Jiangdong will be completely finished."

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel anxious, and immediately wrote dozens of letters, asking Wu Jing, Zhu Zhi and others not to send rescue troops, just to protect their own territory, and then ordered the most elite soldiers under his command to break out of the siege with letters and be sure to send those letters out.

But this time, he was depressed to find that none of the soldiers under his command broke out, all of them were killed by Liu Qi's army, and even those letters were shot back into the city by Liu Qi's army with bows and arrows.

Zhou Yu looked at the sixty-nine letters, all of which were written by himself, and many of them were placed on his desk, and his heart was suddenly filled with a trace of despair: "It seems that this time, my Jiangdong is really difficult to protect, but I hate that the sky doesn't give me enough strength to give me a fair chance to have a fair duel with Liu Qi's thief, otherwise, I really want to know, which is better or worse between me and Liu Qi's thief?" ”

Just when Zhou Yu gradually felt desperate, Sun Quan, who was in Huiji, was actively instructing his cronies Zhu Zhi and uncle Wu Jing to help Zhou Yu at any cost, and they must help him keep Wanling.

This is not to say that Sun Quan himself is stupid, but he was led by Liu Qi, but the main thing is that Liu Qi grasped the character characteristics of Sun Quan.

Sun Quan can be called an ancestor-level figure in terms of knowing and employing people, but he also knows how to use power to scheming and buy people's hearts, but this person also has a suspicious side.

It is precisely because of this that when Jia Xu created rumors at the beginning, he suspected that Zhou Yu was not of the same mind as himself, so he tried to weaken Zhou Yu's strength so that he could not pose a threat to himself.

But later, Zhou Yu's deception plan was discovered by Pang Tong, and the army was defeated, Sun Quan instead sent people to comfort him, trying to take the opportunity to buy people's hearts, so that this Jiangdong Di has always been completely loyal to himself.

Now seeing that Zhou Yu has been completely subordinated, and at the same time, in order to protect Danyang County, Sun Quan naturally wants to do his best to help Zhou Yu.

Therefore, under the personal intervention of Sun Quan, Zhu Zhi, the Taishou of Wujun and Wu Jing, the Taishou of Danyang, mobilized a large army and drove towards Wanling City in waves, with only one purpose, to help Zhou Yu resist the invading Liu Qi army, they believed, relying on

Zhou Yu's ability, coupled with this army of thirty or forty thousand, is enough to hold Wanling, and it is not impossible to even defeat Liu Qi and regain the lost ground.