Sun Quan issued his declaration of war. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this declaration was not aimed at Cao Cao, the original enemy of the three families in Jiangnan, but at Liu Bei, the weakest ally of the three. With the decision of where to go, the entire war machine of Eastern Wu began to operate, and the troops and horses of all parties were frequently mobilized, and everything was carried out under the guise that the men and horses of Eastern Wu were preparing to attack Xuzhou.

Regarding this series of changes in Sun Quan's territory, Guan Yu in Huainan was also aware of it. Because of the unpleasant things that had just happened, Guan Yu was still very vigilant about Sun Quan's side, and he asked Zhou Cang and Liao Hua to cooperate in building a beacon tower on the line from Hefei to Shouchun, trying to deal with Sun Quan's very likely attack by early warning and rapid response.

Just when Sun Quan had not yet completed complete preparations for war, Guan Yu's beacon tower was completed first. This advance defense made Sun Quan frown involuntarily. The navy of Jiangdong is no longer as strong as it was in its heyday. Although Sun Quan's desperate expansion of the army and continuous shipbuilding in recent years have slightly restored the scale of the navy, most of them are novices, and the fact that their combat power is extremely weak still gives Sun Quan a headache. In this way, can the navy attack Guan Yu and break Guan Yu while responding to it? Sun Quan did not report much hope for this. He thought he needed to do something to put Guan Yu at ease.

Once again, the messenger was sent. This time, they went to see Liu Bei, but not for any more disputes, but for a family matter: Sun Quan's son wanted to marry Guan Yu's daughter. Although the two parties are still young at the moment, in Sun Quan's statement, it is okay to get engaged first.

For Sun Quan's proposal, Liu Bei welcomed it very much. After all, it was so unpleasant a few days ago, and the person who was most worried about problems on the southern front was Liu Bei. It was already very hard for him to resist Cao Cao in the north right now, but he didn't want someone to stick such a knife in his rear. Since Sun Quan made such a request, it proved that Sun Quan still had plans to ally with him, and Liu Bei was happy about this. He received the envoy sent by Sun Quan with a very high standard, and agreed to such a marriage. This does not need Guan Yu's consent, because he Liu Bei is not only the lord, but also Guan Yu's eldest brother.

The engagement went smoothly. And the envoy in charge of the engagement intentionally or unintentionally proposed to let Guan Yu remove the beacon tower along the river in his spare time, which was naturally recognized by Liu Bei. Liu Bei personally wrote a letter to the envoy of Eastern Wu and sent it to Guan Yu, which explained the importance of such a family affair and the suggestion to remove the defense against Eastern Wu.

Guan Yu is arrogant and not easily persuaded by others. If there is such a person in this world who can convince Guan Yu, then this person is definitely Liu Bei.

After receiving Liu Bei's letter, Guan Yu's brows were entangled. As a father, he didn't want his daughter to marry into Soochow, in his opinion, Jianye, which had just been built for a few years, was undoubtedly a wild place, but the necessity of what his brother said in his letter made him have to agree with some of these views, and now is definitely not the time to fall out with Sun Quan.

"Okay......!" In front of the messenger, Guan Yu pondered for half an hour and finally nodded, but although he agreed, he still had his own requirements: "My daughter is not going to be a hostage. Therefore, I will not let my daughter go to Soochow until she is in charge. It is okay to be engaged, but people are different in the past. ”

"Okay." For Guan Yu's request, he originally got a letter saying that this marriage contract was just to make Liu Bei feel at ease and vigilant, but the messenger of a deception activity agreed to it, after all, as long as he was not officially married, it didn't matter how he turned his face.

So after the representatives of the two sides exchanged their respective documents and tokens, the marriage contract between the two young children was thus finalized - without any knowledge to each other.

Jiangdong's envoy returned, and Guan Yu also transferred most of the soldiers who guarded the beacon tower by the river to the north. I don't know if it's because Guan Yu is still not at ease with Sun Quan after all, even if the soldiers are transferred to the north, Guan Yu still leaves the minimum number on the beacon tower, but he is a soldier who can ensure the normal operation of the beacon tower.

"Why?" Zhou Cang asked his general puzzled.

"Because I'm not at ease?" Guan Yu said with a frown.

"Not sure?" Zhou Cang's eyes widened.

"Well, don't worry." Guan Yu twisted his beard and nodded: "Jiangdong Sun Quan has always been a strong person, how could he think of showing weakness when he was in danger?" Especially at such a moment, it is normal for Jiangdong's gang of villains to behave toughly, as it is now, the whole thing is abnormal to the extreme. I'm not a fool of such an anomaly, so how could I not see it. If I neglect to take precautions against Soochow because of marriage, so that my brother's great cause has problems, I will die and die. ”

"I see!" Zhou Cang finally came to his senses.

Guan Yu's vigilance was only slightly relaxed, and he was not really completely open to Sun Quan, which made Sun Quan still have a headache.

"What should I do?" He summoned his men again and asked them for a solution to the problem.

Because the general ****** had been issued, there was no room for change in Liu Bei's battle, so Lu Su and other generals of the Jiangxia army, who had always opposed the war with Liu Bei, also appeared in the seats of the combat meeting. At the request of the lord, they made plans to eliminate Liu Bei, which was also what they had to do now.

At this moment, although Sun Quan's question was raised, his eyes were aimed at Lu Su and Lu Meng intentionally or unintentionally. Obviously, as far as Sun Quan himself is concerned, it seems that only these two people can provide him with corresponding strategies.

Although there is a saying that "Shibei is three days, you should be impressed", but simply compared to the flexibility of the head and the degree of scheming, Lu Meng's ability in this regard is not as good as Lu Su. Just when he was still thinking about it, Lu Su had already made a suggestion to Sun Quan: "Is it possible to deceive Guan Yu by some means?" ”

"Use some means to deceive Guan Yu?" Sun Quan became interested in this when he heard this, "What exactly should be done, please try it." ”

"Jiangdong's current war preparations are carried out on the grounds of attacking Cao Cao. In other words, there was no tearing between us and Liu Bei. In such a situation, the shipping between Lujiang and Shouchun is still going on normally, and I think this is an opportunity that we can take advantage of. As a merchant, use a large-scale cargo ship to transport our soldiers directly to Shouchun to carry out a surprise attack on Guan Yu. Lu Su said with a smile. Although he was really reluctant to attack Liu Bei, as Sun Quan's courtier, he had to do his best to attack Liu Bei at the request of his lord.

"Use a hidden identity to raid Shouchun? Is this a feasible strategy? Guan Yu is not only a few hundred or thousands of people in Shouchun. Sun Quan was excited at first when he heard Lu Su say this, and then he thought of such a question and was lonely again.

"That's no problem, if we can work well with everything else." Lu Su said with a smile: "This is a key battle, and we need the cooperation of all parties. ”

"How do you cooperate?" Sun Quan asked, "What else does Zijing need, can you say it directly?"

"We need to let Liu Bei and Cao Cao fight in Huainan." Lu Su said his request: "Our navy has been greatly traumatized, and although it is now trying its best to recover, its true combat strength can only be doubted. Not to mention the combat strength of our army, we are not at all comparable to these people of Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Therefore, when we fight against them, we must see the right time to fight, and we can't just rush up and fight with them stupidly. As the lord said, Guan Yu has deployed heavy troops in Shouchun, so if we want to take Shouchun, in addition to using the means of surprise attack, we must also let Guan Yu transfer Shouchun's troops to other places. In this way, we can take advantage of the chaos to attack, and only then can we get the greatest results. ”

"How do you get Guan Yu and Zhang Liao to fight?" Sun Quan asked again.

"The lord can write to Liu Bei and Cao Cao respectively. He told Liu Bei that we were about to attack Cao Cao's Xuzhou, and asked Liu Beijun to cooperate with our army's attack. Liu Bei is already in a stalemate with Cao Cao at the moment and it is difficult to support him, if we make such a request, he will definitely agree to it if he is eager to open up this situation. As for Cao Cao's side, the lord can generously tell Cao Cao that we ask him to attack Liu Bei first, and if Cao Cao does not allow it, then we will not attack Liu Bei. Lu Su said calmly.

"It's okay to deceive Liu Bei, Liu Bei, who is already in a state of anxiety, will agree to whatever we say, but what about Cao Cao? Will Cao Cao, who is in a strong position, agree to our request? Sun Quan asked again.

"I can't tolerate him not agreeing, because Liu Bei will attack Cao Cao first. As long as we are in Zhang Liao's Xuzhou, add a fire to his backyard, let the whole Xuzhou chaos first, and put Zhang Liao's guy in a dangerous situation, can Cao Cao not rush to the rescue for the safety of the Western Front? Lu Su said with a smile: "We want to help Cao Cao defeat Liu Bei, which is not wrong, but in the process of helping him, weakening Cao Cao's strength as much as possible is also a problem we have to consider." Cao Cao couldn't let him be too strong. ”

"Well, that makes a lot of sense." Sun Quan nodded approvingly: "Then who can be the messenger?" ”

"Lu Ji and Yu can do it." Lu Su suggested to Sun Quan.

"Alright, just the two of them." Sun Quan agreed, and then ordered Lu Ji to be the envoy to Cao Cao, and Yu to be the envoy to Liu Bei, and set off immediately, and at the same time ordered all the departments in Jiangdong to prepare, and when the two envoys had the result, they would obey the order. "Hmm...... That should be about the same time. Sun Quan said with his hand on his chin. He was about to announce the dismissal of the meeting, but suddenly thought of a question, so he swallowed the words back, and asked the people below: "Can you also make some trouble for Li Sheng's side?" We're fighting with Cao Cao, so we can't let him be leisurely over there. ”

"Well...... Lu Su groaned slightly, and quickly gave Sun Quan a suggestion: "The lord can let Li Sheng attack Cao Cao's Guanzhong." ”

"Why did you let Li Sheng attack where? Can't you convince him that he and we will attack Liu Bei together? Sun Quan asked strangely.

"Can't ......" Lu Su shook his head heavily, Lu Su's words were very firm: "No." Once we attack Liu Bei, Liu Bei will become meat on the iron plate and can only be slaughtered by us, in such a situation, why should we share what we get to Li Sheng? The three divisions of the world must be one. If we want to compete for hegemony, we must choose the right opponent. Once Liu Bei is eliminated, then our next opponent can only be Li Sheng. In such a situation, I think we need an excuse -- we are allies with Cao Cao, so Li Sheng and Cao Cao are hostile, and naturally they are our enemies, and that's it. And Cao Cao is the most powerful party, don't let him and Li Sheng rub each other and consume each other, who else do we go to? ”

"This ...... That's right. Sun Quan thought about it and nodded, but he instructed Lu Su: "Zijing, you are familiar with Li Sheng." I'll trouble you with the affairs of Yizhou. While persuading Li Sheng and Cao Cao, he also took a look at Li Shengjun's situation by the way. Since Li Sheng took Nanzhong and conquered Qiang a year ago, there has been no more news from Shudi. Li Sheng seems to be very strict with his territory, so he ...... It's hard to get relevant information. I need to have a more precise understanding of Li Sheng. ”

"I understand." Lu Su nodded, as the commander of one side, he naturally knew the truth of "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible in a hundred battles." ”

So another rush began on the Jiangdong side: Lu Ji went to Xuchang, Yu went to Runan, and Lu Su came to Yizhou. He entered Shu from Jiangling, went up the Yangtze River by boat, turned overland to Chengdu in Jiangzhou, and finally arrived at Jinguancheng in September of the 21st year of Jian'an, where Li Sheng and his colleagues had been waiting for a long time.

Li Sheng knew everything that was going on in Soochow. After several years of development, the white clothes under his command have become larger and more perfect, although they still cannot reach the national scope, but in the entire Guanzhong, the entire Central Plains, and the entire Yangtze River basin Li Sheng's white clothes can be said to be pervasive. Sun Quan's actions that he thought he could deceive everyone were clear to Li Sheng. He fully understood what kind of idea Lu Su had come to fight at this moment.

"Do you want me to fight with Cao Cao, and then you Jiangdong and Cao Cao will join forces to destroy me, so as to form a situation of confrontation between the north and the south? Hehe, this abacus is a good game, but now that I know it, how can I make it happen to you. Actually, even without me, it would be very difficult for you to achieve this. Who is Cao Cao? Among so many princes, his ability can be regarded as the first, although your Sun Quan is not bad, but it is still a little worse than Cao Cao. Li Sheng thought so, but he greeted Lu Su with a smile on his face, and he had learned the hypocrisy in his heart and face. Zijing hasn't seen him for a long time, and he has to stay a few more days this time. Li Sheng held Lu Su's arm with one hand and gently patted Lu Su's back with the other, making love to him.

"Heh, yes, yes." Lu Su smiled, but it was a little painful and bitter, obviously the few blows that Li Sheng slapped him on the back just now were really a little heavy, which made him ache.

"This time, you don't want to be a post house, just live in my house. After all, Zijing is also our friend, and the treatment is naturally different from others. Li Sheng smiled and arranged Lu Su's residence.

"This ...... Not quite right? Lu Su's eyes widened. He felt embarrassed, if he lived in Li Sheng's mansion, it would be inconvenient to enter and exit.

"What's so bad. Who are we and Zijing? Li Sheng was very aggressive, but he persevered. He knew that Lu Su was tasked with reconnoitring his military situation, and he still didn't dare to relax on this task. After all, after more than two years of development, the inside and outside of Chengdu are very different from previous years. In Chengdu now, there are some things that can be shown to others, and some things that cannot be seen at all, and some of these things belong to the military and are easy to control, while some belong to the civilian use and are difficult to master. Li Sheng really couldn't sort out and grasp these things one by one, so he planned to deal with Lu Su directly from the root, and he planned to "monitor" Lu Su.

After arranging Lu Su's problem, Li Sheng asked Lu Su to go down to rest first, and prepared a banquet on his side. Regular things will be talked about tomorrow, but tonight is to have a good reception first, as far as politeness is concerned, this is a must.

It was a good feast that night, but it was a good meal for the guests and hosts. After noon the next day, the hangover people woke up one by one, and this was the first meeting of Lu Su as the messenger.

"Your lord is okay with Wu Hou?" At the beginning of the meeting, it was a very formal greeting.

"Alright. My father-in-law also asked me to say hello to Shu Hou. Lu Su replied to Li Sheng with a smile.

After the two exchanged polite greetings for a while, Li Sheng asked Lu Su: "What is Zijing doing here?" ”

"Cao Cao is ****, but his potential is the strongest in the world. It has been three years since Uncle Liu and Cao Cao fought in the Central Plains, but they are still eager to get rid of the thief. My father-in-law has the heart to respond to Uncle Liu's call, but he is worried that his family's strength is not enough. After all, the water war a few years ago hurt us too much. Therefore, my lord would like to implore Lord Shu Hou to send troops together to support Uncle Liu's attack - my lord of my family will go out to the front line of Xu Huai to support Liu Bei; And Shu waited for Cao Cao, who sent troops to Guanzhong and attacked from the west. In this way, it is entirely possible that Cao Cao will not be at peace, and it is difficult to take care of both the head and the tail, which is a good strategy to get rid of the thief. Lu Su calmly said that he had been thinking about the rhetoric for a long time.

"Oh? This is quite true. It's just ......" Li Sheng hesitated, but he looked a little speechless and stopped.

"What's wrong?" When Lu Su saw Li Sheng's appearance, he was a little strange: "Is there anything embarrassing about Shu Hou?" ”

"I'm just a little worried. What if I fight in front of me, but I have an ally of my own, like the territory I want? Do I give or don't give? Li Sheng said distressedly.

"This ......" Lu Su's face turned red, but he didn't know what to say. In this matter in Huainan, Liu Bei initially did something that was not authentic enough, but it was somewhat reasonable. But now Sun Quan is also not very authentic in the matter of asking for Huainan, but he can't say anything. Although it is said that in this troubled world, in order to achieve one's own interests, any faith, kindness, etc. can be easily discarded, but ...... This kind of unrighteous behavior can be done, but it really has to be explained, and it seems that Cao Cao does not have the courage to shout, "I would rather bear the people of the world than teach the people of the world to bear me", but not to say it - Lu Su did not have this kind of courage, and he couldn't think of a grandiose reason for a while, but he was involuntarily embarrassed. But he was a witty person in the end, so he was slightly embarrassed, and he finally laughed: "In the past, my lord and Uncle Liu Huang fought together in Huainan. My family laborers went on an expedition, consuming countless grains and grass, and they were about to take the city and return it, but they were attacked by Uncle Liu's men and horses, and they took advantage of the situation to capture the city that they were about to get it. Such a method of seizing the city is not authentic enough. However, my father-in-law was merciful after all, and promised Uncle Liu Huang to stay in Huainan for so many years, and he could have allowed Uncle Liu Huang to continue to stay. If that hadn't happened...... Lu Su's words were muffled here, and he had sold a pass here.

"Oh? What happened between you and Uncle Liu? Li Sheng was slightly stunned, and he already understood what Lu Su was going to say next, but he was not here, but he was also happy to pretend to be confused, and pretended not to know what Lu Su said.

"Shu Hou must also know about the series of turmoil that happened in our Jiangdong a few years ago." Lu Su asked.

"That's unfortunate indeed." Li Sheng nodded, smiling secretly in his heart, but his face was serious: "That doesn't seem to be a normal mess, there must be some black hand behind it." ”

"Exactly. According to the final results obtained by my lord's many investigations, it was Liu Bei who caused the final result of all this. Maybe he did this to provoke conflict between us and Cao Cao, but this did hurt our Jiangdong itself. My lord is a benevolent person after all, and he doesn't want to turn his face with Liu Bei, but under the new hatred and old hatred, there is nothing wrong with asking Liu Bei for Huainan. What's more, with Liu Bei's current situation, the battle line is too long, and it will inevitably be undefensible everywhere. It is already tight in the direction of Wancheng in Runan, so it is better to give up the land of Huainan and transfer tens of thousands of Guan Yu's tens of thousands of people to those two places for support. Lu Su said very seriously. Without knowing more and more deeply, this is a plausible reason - at least for the ignorant.

"I see. I thought that my wife and brother should not be such a ruthless person. In that case, I am relieved. Li Sheng smiled and nodded, but a sentence suddenly came out of his mouth: "Actually, I hope that my Jing Yijiao, Wu Hou's Jianghuai, and Uncle Huang's Jingbei can help each other and cooperate with each other." After all, under the threat of Cao Cao's dominance in Jiangbei, we in Jiangnan can only compete with Cao Cao by working together. This is a seemingly ordinary sentence but a hidden edge, and it is secretly clear, Li Sheng's territory is the land of Jing Yijiao for three weeks.

"Well, that's right." Lu Su nodded in approval with a calm face. As a wise man, it is impossible for him not to hear the meaning of Li Sheng's words, but he himself doesn't care much: for what Li Sheng wants to admit, even if he admits it, it doesn't matter, after all, this is only a matter of verbal promise. If he can successfully annex Liu Bei, then it will take a few years for his side to digest this newly acquired territory, and it doesn't hurt to give Li Sheng a promise; If you can't annex Liu Bei on your side, then don't talk about everything.

"Huh...... I will consider my brother-in-law's suggestion that I attack Guanzhong. However, it will take some time, after all, I have such a large territory, and it always takes time to mobilize troops and prepare for war. I can only say that I will cooperate with Wu Hou to attack Cao Cao's army as soon as possible after making all preparations, but the time for this attack cannot be immediate. Li Sheng said in a deep voice and very sincerely.

"It's also normal." Lu Su nodded. Although he understood that this was likely to be Li Sheng's shirk, Li Sheng did not directly oppose it, and he did not know more inside stories and so on. Therefore, there is nothing I can do about it. Passive reception, this is Lu Su's only choice at the moment.

At this point, the matter is over, and the rest of the matter is not discussed by Lu Su and Li Sheng, but by Lu Su and Li Sheng's staff in charge of this aspect, such as Kong Ming, Fa Zheng and others, to discuss related issues. Perhaps because Li Sheng had the idea of sending troops to Guanzhong, Lu Su talked with them very quickly, and there was almost no room for bargaining, so he agreed on many issues such as the framework, such as how to divide the theater of operations against Cao Cao, how to communicate and cooperate with each other, and so on. Through this meeting, Li Sheng and Sun Quan determined the future national boundary between the two sides, that is, the border between the two sides, which was to the west of the state, Sili, and Wancheng, and the west belonged to Li Sheng, and all of them belonged to Sun Quan.

"It's a really funny paperwork." Looking at the report that Kong Ming presented to himself, Li Sheng felt so: "We haven't taken Cao Cao's territory yet, wouldn't it be too early to say this?" ”

"Why should the lord think so much about this. Think of this as a beautiful fantasy. Hearing this, Kong Ming chuckled and dissuaded Li Sheng.

"That's all there is to it." Li Sheng smiled bitterly.

"By the way, Lu Su has been thinking about our casual visit to the city these days. What do you think, my lord? Kong Ming was also very helpless about Li Sheng's wry smile, he didn't want to dwell on this issue, and casually asked another question.

"Let's talk about it in a few days. There are many important things in the city, and I don't dare to let them be displayed in front of Lu Su. Li Sheng thought about it and replied, he instructed Zhuge Liang: "You can just look at this matter." But I can't come forward. You just said that I went to Hanzhong to inspect it. Where you can't go, you just push me away. ”

"I see." Kong Ming nodded, and this matter was naturally decided.

After that, the matter was naturally handled by Kong Ming and them, but Li Sheng moved directly to the military camp outside the city and thought about the strategy of fighting in Guanzhong. He didn't know much about the matter between Kong Ming and Lu Su, but he only understood that Lu Su was gray with surprise when he finally went back.

"What did you show him?" After Lu Su left, Li Sheng asked Zhuge Liang like this.

"It's just a show of the strength of our army." Zhuge Liang replied with a smile: "Didn't the lord say it?" Sometimes it's much better to show your combat power properly than to bury everything at home as a secret weapon. ”

"That's right. But......" Li Sheng said with a smile, and his voice suddenly became smaller, "To be honest, what did you show him?" How could he be so out of shape? ”

"It's not much, it's just to show him the posture of the twenty-four fire and thunder arrow carts that we put on on the southern expedition a few years ago. That's an old antique thing. Zhuge Liang pursed his lips and said indifferently.

"Antique?" Li Sheng's eyes widened, "This old antique you said, we only installed it this year." Li Sheng was speechless, and he clearly saw a hint of a worried smile on Kong Ming's face: "This guy definitely did it on purpose." He's going to make my heart ache. Poor my money......" Li Sheng had the urge to cry.

Starting Point Chinese www.qidian.com welcome book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest and most popular serialized works are all original at Starting Point!