Zhuge Liang's meeting with Zhou Yu was after the Jiangdong Army moved the team to Fankou and merged with Liu Beijun. www.biquge.info Although Zhuge Liang performed a good show of tongue warfare with Sun Quan in Chaisang, and he himself had a good reputation, all this did not attract Zhou Yu's attention to Zhuge Liang. In Zhou Yu's view, Zhuge Liang, the famous Wolong in Jingzhou, is just a very eloquent lobbyist. Although the lobbyist cannot be said to be completely useless, now is not the time to make small talk with him. However, Zhou Yu always hung Kong Ming there and never bothered him much. As the Grand Governor, Zhou Yu still has a lot of things to complete in his hands.

Because Zhou Yu did not have the will to discuss military affairs with him, Zhuge Liang was naturally happy to be idle. Although he had completed the task of forming an alliance, he could return to his lord's side, but he chose to stay. “…… Stay in the army in Jiangdong, observe the situation of the generals in Jiangdong, and try to penetrate into the high-level of the allied forces as much as possible, so as to achieve a higher prestige for our army in this war. This is the reason why Kong Ming decided to stay. In his opinion, what his lord who already has a certain strength needs most is his reputation among various forces and even in the world - "Only by making the lord's reputation high can more people come to the lord." Now that we have decided to go it alone, it is not enough to rely on the current number of talents in our army to dominate the world. We need more talent. In his second letter to Li Sheng, he pointed out this point very directly.

"Staying here will help the lord even more." Kong Ming thought so firmly in his heart.

Although Zhou Yu did not come to find him, there was no shortage of guests in Kong Ming's small tent. Ma Tan and Lu Su, who already knew Kong Ming's talents, visited him from time to time, telling him some of the latest information and consulting his opinions. These situations told by the two of them, combined with the intelligence collection system in Kong Ming's own hands, made the news on Kong Ming's side not closed, and he clearly understood every move of the two sides at any time.

The news that Liu Bei was going to visit Zhou Yu, Kong Ming had already known. Not through others, but from what he saw with his own eyes that Zhou Yu sent someone to reject Liu Bei****, after some calculations. Through the observation of Zhou Yu these days, he knew that Zhou Yu was a person with a little arrogance in his elegance, and he had a different opinion from Lu Su, believing that the strength of Jiangdong alone could resist Cao Cao's army, and he was mostly indifferent to the formation of alliances. It's like giving Liu Bei's people a closed door this time. He thought that Liu Bei's people would retreat, after all, the conditions he gave Liu Bei were really harsh, and he actually asked Liu Bei, a person of the same level as his own lord, to visit his governor. This is really a bit unimaginable, but Kong Ming knows that Liu Bei will really come. Because with Liu Bei's personality, as long as he has never touched his final bottom line, he will be able to endure it, no matter how difficult that patience is.

It seems that Liu Bei and Zhou Yu are going to meet alone. Although judging from the current situation, the relationship between Liu Bei and Zhou Yu will not improve much, but this does not rule out what ...... be in it. If only I could hear about this kind of secret negotiation. Kong Ming hugged his knees on the couch and occasionally made some so-called whimsical ideas.

It was precisely because he had such thoughts in his heart that it was not surprising that Kong Ming mentioned this matter when Ma Jian came. While listening quietly to Ma Yan's words, he gently shook the goose feather fan he carried with him.

"You often want me to think of a way to persuade Uncle Huang not to meet with Gong Jin, right? Are you worried that Zhou Yu will be bad for Uncle Huang? In the end, Ma Jian finished speaking, and Kong Ming smiled faintly and said his guess about Ma Jian mentioning this matter.

"Alas...... I also don't want to say anything more about my allies. But the thing in front of us is that Zhou Dudu is really unfriendly to us, not only himself, but also everyone in the military tent is like this to us. Except for Mr. Zijing, everyone sees us as asking for food. "Ma Tan is a young man, and his personality is not as youthful and mature as Kong Ming, so he always seems a little excited when he speaks. When he got along with those people in Jiangdong, he had already suffered too much white eyes and accumulated too much depression, and he urgently needed to vent, especially when Lu Su was not here.

"So you think Gong Jin will be bad for us based on your feelings?" Kong Ming looked at Ma Jian with a smile, and the calmness in it slowly calmed Ma Tan's originally excited heart.

"Isn't it?" Although he was calm, Ma Jian was still unwilling to Zhou Yu.

"Of course it's impossible, do you really dare to do this when Zhou Yu? Jiangdong doesn't have that strength. Kong Ming shook his head with a smile: "Although Zhou Yu is a bit more impulsive, he is very sensible, he will naturally understand that in this situation, it will not be beneficial to them Jiangdong at all, and he will even push us to Cao Cao's side, so as to set up one more enemy for himself." So he wouldn't do it at all. ”

"Jiangdong doesn't have that strength? This...... In that way? Ma Jian didn't believe what Kong Ming said: "There are six counties in Jiangdong. ”

"Although there are six counties in Koto, the population is small and many places are barren. A small population means that the army is small, this time Zhou Yu came to Fankou to bring these 30,000 soldiers is already the limit of Jiangdong, in the south of Jiangdong, Shanyue's soldiers and horses are still making noise there, and naturally they still need soldiers and horses to suppress it. Therefore, Jiang Dong can only be said to be in the middle of the outer wall at the moment, and the reason why he has been hiding the number of his army is actually so that outsiders do not know his reality. Kong Ming explained with a smile.

"That means I don't have to do anything, just let the lord go to see Zhou Yu? Will there be any contingencies in this? Ma Jian was still worried.

"Not really. Although Zhou Yu is a person who knows a lot of things, it is unlikely that he will do such a stupid thing, but as long as he is a person, he will have his own temper, and if he is pressed too hard, there may be some accidents. Kong Ming said with a frown. He meant something.

"Too tight with him? It is unlikely that my lord's temper would do such a thing, is it ......" Ma Tan muttered to himself, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Can't General Guan and General Zhang go to see Zhou Yu with the lord?" ”

"That's right." Kong Ming nodded heavily. Although from his point of view, he wished that Liu Bei and Zhou Yu would have some contradictions, but the timing of this contradiction was definitely not now. Now is the moment of the decisive battle with Cao Cao, and there can be no trouble on his side no matter what. "The second and third generals have a deep relationship with the imperial uncle, and they do not allow the existence of contempt for the imperial uncle. Such a personality is usually very good, but at the moment, it is possible to offend Zhou Yu and cause trouble because he can't bear it. Kong Ming added with a smile.

"Well, exactly." Ma Tan nodded understandingly: "It seems that I have to report the matter here to the lord to know." Hearing Kong Ming's reasoning, Ma Jian suddenly became anxious. He hurriedly confessed to Kong Ming, and then quickly left Kong Ming's military tent - Kong Ming knew that he was going to quickly write a letter to report this opinion from his side to his lord Liu Bei. Although Liu Beijun and Zhou Yujun are in the same place as Fankou at the moment, Zhou Yu seems to be very distrustful of even his allies, and always restricts the actions of his people as much as possible. As a result, Ma Jian could not see each other even if he was close to his lord, so he could only communicate in this troublesome way of letters. This is something that Zhou Yu can't prohibit, after all, he is still an ally, and he can't do things too much.

The letter was soon passed to Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei was eating dinner in his own room. As soon as he heard that his military advisor had an urgent message, he couldn't help but reflexively stand up. "Isn't something big happening?" He was about to ask, but he found that what he had just swallowed had not had time to swallow and was stuck in his throat, making him uncomfortable. However, no matter how uncomfortable it is, it is not as important as the situation sent by his own military advisor. At the moment, he didn't do more to deal with the foreign object in his throat, but forced himself to endure the uncomfortable feeling, took the letter directly from the guard's hand and read it like this.

"So that's it? I thought something had changed. Finally, Liu Bei read the letter and found that it was not a big deal, so he finally quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Only then was he able to take out the thing that was choking in his throat, and complained with some annoyance: "This childish, nagging and nagging just treats me like a child." He was a little upset about this, and felt as if he was being underestimated. But he forgot that no one would make such a nagging suggestion to him until he found him as his military advisor.

But that's true. If you just bring Yun Chang and Yide over, I'm afraid there will be trouble. Well, in that case, then don't take them. Although Liu Bei complained, he recognized Ma Tan's suggestion to him in his heart. In fact, no one needs to tell him about this, as a wise man and a lord, Liu Bei himself also understands that when he needs to pretend to be a grandson, it is a disaster for him to take his subordinates with a more intense temperament.

"They're going to make a mistake." Liu Bei understands this. So, he only brought his guard Chen Zhi and dozens of soldiers to go.

Liu Bei's meeting with Zhou Yu was held in Zhou Yu's big tent. This time, Zhou Yu continued the arrogance of the last time in front of the consolation personnel sent by Liu Bei, not only did he come out to greet Liu Bei's arrival in person, but even when he asked someone to accompany him, he also excluded Liu Bei's military division Ma Jian who was still in his own camp. In addition to some extremely deep sword and axe hands hidden in the huge camp, there are only four people: Liu Bei, Zhou Yu, Chen Dao, and Kong Ming.

Kong Ming was brought in by Zhou Yu to accompany him, and when he couldn't even see Lu Su, Kong Ming already knew a little bit about what Zhou Yu had about Liu Bei. Of course, he didn't clear out Zhou Yu's hidden knife and axe hand behind the tent, but he saw Zhou Yu's ill-intentioned intentions from the fact that Zhou Yu only called himself to accompany him and persuaded everyone who was familiar with Liu Bei to retreat.

Perhaps, Zhou Yu is very confident in Jiangdong's strength, and regards Jiangdong's interests more than anyone else. Well, he has the idea of killing Liu Bei here. Kong Ming could see that his opinion of Zhou Yu had changed a little in his heart. At this moment, if he wants to say that the person he is most unwilling to face in Jiangdong, I am afraid it is this personable Mei Zhoulang.

Because he could fully see that Zhou Yu not only counted the chaos that might arise after Liu Bei's death this time, but even counted himself, another ally belonging to Jingzhou: if Liu Bei died here, because there was only Zhou Yu and himself in the tent, I was afraid that Liu Bei's army would think that he had colluded with Zhou Yu to kill Liu Bei. Well, in this way, they will also hate themselves, and thus turn their anger on the side of the lord. If the lord wants to take them, he will inevitably give up himself; And if the lord doesn't want to give up on himself, then they are likely to go to Cao Cao. Although this may also benefit Cao Cao in the end, such a benefit may be a small benefit in Zhou Yu's opinion. Zhou Yu only took a fancy to Liu Bei and not the rest of Liu Bei's army, so naturally he would not take Liu Bei's generals seriously.

"However, did he think that he could kill Liu Bei in this way?" Kong Ming was secretly amused in his heart, he saw Chen Dao, who was also getting closer and tighter, and he understood that it was obviously impossible for Zhou Yu to kill Liu Bei today. Others don't know what kind of ability Chen Zhi has, but he Kong Ming learned about Chen Zhi's skills through his lord and General Zhao Yun, and knew that this general who didn't talk much, his martial arts were only under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and he was generally not much different from Gan Ning and Wei Yan in his army, and he could be regarded as a first-class general. Maybe there are people in Dongwu who can be compared to him, but at the moment, around this big tent, it is obviously a whimsical thing for Zhou Yu to settle him with dozens of swords and axes.

"Liu Bei'an!" Kong Ming smiled, thinking that it was necessary for him to let Zhou Yu know about this matter, so that he had some scruples about it and could not finally give the order. So, after he accompanied Zhou Yu and Liu Bei to salute, he deliberately mentioned Chen Zhi behind Liu Bei, so that everyone turned their attention to this side: "Isn't this General Chen Zhi behind Uncle Huang?" I often hear my lord mention your ability, saying that you are a warrior only under General Guan Yu and General Zhang Fei. As if it was the first time he saw Chen Dao, Kong Ming smiled and arched his hand to him: "When I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation." ”

Zhuge Liang's obvious style naturally attracted the attention of Liu Bei and Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu wasn't sure why Kong Ming did this, he didn't know that Kong Ming and Liu Bei had met before this. Therefore, although he felt strange, he also put it in his heart, and did not reveal it on the surface, but followed Kong Ming's greeting and turned his gaze towards Chen Dao. He began to look at this general, who was known in Kong Ming's language as only under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

As for Liu Bei, he is even more suspicious at the moment. He naturally knew that he had met Kong Ming a few times, and although he had never interacted, he also knew more or less what kind of person Kong Ming was from Li Sheng's words and the letter from his military advisor Ma Yan, and he also knew more clearly that Kong Ming was suddenly acting like this at the moment.

Could it be that he told Chen Zhi's prestige for Zhou Yu? Why did he say that? Could it be that he already understands that Zhou Yu may be unfavorable to me? Liu Bei quickly thought of this, he listened intently, and quickly heard from some extremely subtle movements inside and outside the tent that there were many heavily armed armor soldiers hidden here. It's really dangerous. Liu Bei understood this, and couldn't help but become more vigilant in his heart. Of course, his vigilance is also in his heart, and on the surface he still looks like a smile.

At this time, Zhou Yu, who had been looking at Chen Zhi, suddenly spoke, and he asked as if he was a little tentative: "This general, could it be that Chen Zhi, the general who broke Cao Cao's elite tiger and leopard cavalry some time ago and rescued the emperor's young son, Chen Shuzhi?" ”

"Exactly!" Since he knew that Zhou Yu had laid down someone outside the tent with bad intentions, Liu Bei naturally would not expose Kong Ming's words, and he heard that Zhou Yu seemed to remember the big things that Chen Zhi had done recently, so he happily admitted it.

"Is it really him?" Zhou Yu was taken aback and couldn't help but take a small step back, and then he barely regained his composure. He laughed, stepped forward very enthusiastically and grabbed Chen Zhi's hand, as if he was very moved, and said, "What a loyal and upright general." Uncle Huang has a general like you, what great cause can you not succeed? So saying, he invited them to sit down, and after a little chatter with each other, he began to talk about the matter.

"I don't know how many troops Zhou Dudu brought this time?" First, Liu Bei opened his mouth and asked such a question.

"Thirty thousand!" Zhou Yu smiled and gave such a number.

"Less, too little? Did Zhou Dudu think that with such a force, he could eliminate Cao Cao's army? I think some more people should be added? Liu Bei looked surprised, and waved his hand again and again to persuade Zhou Yu.

"Too little?" The smile on Zhou Yu's handsome face still did not fade, but became more confident: "I thought that such a force was enough. It didn't take much to defeat Cao Cao's empty shell troops. His Excellency Liu Yuzhou just needs to watch it leisurely. In front of His Excellency Yuzhou, I will personally twist off the head of Cao Cao's old thief and show it to His Excellency Yuzhou. Zhou Yu's simple words would completely exclude Liu Bei from this war, and he didn't need Liu Bei's strength, because he thought that he would be enough to defeat Cao Cao's army by himself.

"Really? Then there is the Governor of Laodu. The more Liu Bei listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't refute Zhou Yu, so he could only respond sullenly. By the way, is Mr. Zijing here? I want to meet him. Liu Bei was really depressed when he came here, so he had to propose to meet Lu Su. He felt that it was too difficult to get along with Zhou Yu.

"I'm afraid not. Zijing now has military affairs in his body, and he may not have time. Since Cao Cao sent troops from Jiangling, Zijing, who is the captain of the Zanjun Academy, is very busy, and he can't sleep peacefully every day. Well, if Uncle Huang wants to see him, can you change the time? Zhou Yu smiled and rejected Liu Bei's proposal with a bit of embarrassment.

"Oh? That's right! Liu Bei nodded as if understanding, then stood up and said with a smile: "In that case, I don't want to disturb the capital too much." As a matter of fact, our military affairs are also very busy, and when I get back, I plan to rush to the west immediately. ”

"Uncle Huang is going west? Is it to follow behind our fleet? Zhou Yu also stood up with a smile.

"No, we're going to be pioneers." Liu Bei said resolutely, putting away his smiling face, which looked a little majestic at the moment.

"Huh? Pioneer! Zhou Yu was a little stunned when Liu Bei said this. Facing Liu Bei resolutely, the smile on his face also retracted. The two stood in place, staring at each other, and a series of fierce fire words met at the docking of the eyes between the two. The discord between the two sides seems to have reached its peak in a moment.

Liu Bei was unprecedentedly disgusted with Zhou Yu, and he felt that it was really a mistake for a person like Zhou Yu to come to discuss with him with his eyes. Originally, since the alliance between the two sides was established, the two armies should fight together: Liu Bei specially ignored Zhou Yu's unreasonableness towards his **** people in front of him, and came here to visit Zhou Yu under Sun Quan, who originally came to discuss how the two sides could fight together. Although Liu Beijun's naval army was not considered to have any combat effectiveness at all, Liu Beijun's army was very strong, enough to make up for the shortcomings of the Jiangdong Army. This would have been a good thing, but Zhou Yu decided to fight independently and let Liu Bei stand by.

"It's a bastard. Since you, Zhou Yu, have decided to do so without authorization, then I, Liu Bei, can also make my own decision. Liu Bei also has his own self-esteem, and he doesn't think that Zhou Yu under Sun Quan can do anything in front of him.

"Oh?" Zhou Yu didn't expect Liu Bei to react so much to his words, and he actually planned to get rid of himself and do it alone: "This ...... Is it a momentary anger or a ......? Zhou Yu carefully assessed Liu Bei's words.

Since Cao Cao went south, Sun Quan's camp was divided into two factions, the main peace and the main battle, the main peace was led by Zhang Zhao, and the main battle was led by Lu Su and Zhou Yu. However, Zhou Yu was different from Lu Su, who emphasized the need to unite all forces that could resist Cao Cao - he was a so-called individual war fighter.

Although Cao Cao's army claimed to be 800,000, of course there were not so many, but the soldiers and horses he brought from the Central Plains plus the troops from Jingzhou were about 350,000, which was an absolute army. In the face of such a huge enemy, even Zhou Yu, who always thought that he could succeed in the war of resistance alone, knew that the only 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands were too few. Zhou Yu also wanted to get more soldiers and horses, but the situation in Jiangdong was like that, and it was obviously impossible to get more. Therefore, for Zhou Yu, Liu Beijun, whose total strength is estimated at about 120,000 (including Li Sheng's soldiers and horses, in Zhou Yu's thoughts, Li Sheng is also a part of Liu Beijun) naturally has its own weight. Zhou Yu needed this force, but out of responsibility for his lord Sun Quan, he was unwilling to let this force become the main force in this big war. Because, the result of becoming the main force also means that the bulk of the spoils of war is finally divided. This is not in Jiangdong's interests -- Zhou Yu therefore tried his best to belittle Liu Beijun's weight.

Needing Liu Beijun's troops, but not wanting Liu Bei to grow, this is something that makes Zhou Yu feel very contradictory. So, he said something like that. He originally thought about how Liu Bei would react to this, and thought that Liu Bei would be angry like this, but he never thought about the fact that the alliance would break down because of this. Because he knew deeply that Liu Bei needed this alliance, if he didn't want to really go to Cangwu.

The two looked at each other like this, and neither of them spoke. It wasn't until a long time later that Liu Bei himself broke the peace: "I'm not sure about the palace army." He laughed, but in Zhou Yu's eyes, such a smile looked like a kind of indifference that didn't smile.

"Is that so? Why did I hear that Liu Yuzhou's battle was a model for the palace army? Like this time, you played very well in Dangyang. Seeing Liu Bei speak, Zhou Yu confirmed that Liu Bei didn't dare to really let the alliance collapse, so he also laughed, and smiled a little proudly.

"Although my army is good at the temple army, that's all. If it had been in the past, it would have been easy for me to give an order, but now...... It's not just my old soldiers and horses who have joined the battle this time. Liu Bei sighed and said helplessly.

"Lord Yuzhou is talking about Liu Qi's troops? Doesn't he and you belong to the same Jingzhou soldiers? It's unlikely that the command will not move, right? Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows disappreciably.

"Of course, they have been in contact with them in the past. Generally speaking, as long as the command is moved, this is not something to be careful about. But what I'm afraid of is that if they move when they don't know it, that's bad. Liu Bei seemed to be very careful that such a situation would occur, so he frowned.

"How?" Hearing Liu Bei say this, Zhou Yu seemed very puzzled.

"It's simple. Liu Qigongzi's troops, the main force of which was the remnants of Jiangxia Huangzu, and at the beginning of the year, Huangzu was killed by your Jiangdong army. Liu Bei said lightly. He was just explaining a fact, but this fact sounded so meaningful to Zhou Yu's ears: Liu Qijun, who had a large number of Huang Zujun's army, must have a grudge against the Jiangdong Army as an ally in his heart, and it was very likely that he would attack the Jiangdong Army from behind when he was taking over the Guts Palace's army-these were the most terrifying words in Zhou Yu's ears.

After attacking the Jiangdong Army, he surrendered to Cao Cao's army as a merit, presumably Cao Cao will treat us favorably because of this. It's going to lose anyway, so it's good to lose decently. Liu Bei quietly hinted at this to Zhou Yu. Of course, with his temperament, it would never be possible to do this, but the shocking thing is that Zhou Yu is not clear about this.

He listened to Liu Bei's words, and when he thought of this terrifying possibility, he was a little frightened and speechless. He could more or less guess that this was Liu Bei's threatening words, but he didn't dare to judge very clearly whether Liu Bei really had such thoughts.

"Did you push Liu Bei too quickly?" Zhou Yu reviewed herself. He looked at Liu Bei's expressionless face, and just as he wanted to say something, he saw Liu Bei open his mouth again.

"That's right." Liu Bei seemed to think of something again, "Zhou Dudu and Cheng Pudu are okay." ”

"This ......" Zhou Yu was stuck again. It is already a well-known thing that he and Cheng Pu do not agree, and Sun Quan sent them together, not only to let them control each other and not make their subordinates dominant, but also to let them compete with each other and do their best in the next battle. Such an arrangement is best for the monarch, but it is somewhat unpleasant for the courtiers. Of course, this is also impossible, after all, with the strength required for the current battle, no matter whether there is harmony between colleagues in the Jiangdong Army, they must participate together, even those who advocate surrender in advance.

"This is a troubled time...... Zhou Yu didn't answer, but Liu Bei said to himself: "When I just came in, I found that your soldiers were greeting my men, I think they knew each other before." This was the case with the Jiangdong army, and so was the Cao Cao army. Because of the war, people who have known each other, or even friends, have to fight each other, this is really ......" Liu Bei sighed, he secretly looked at Zhou Yu, and found that his handsome face was gloomy.