The river wind came from the north, blowing up a bamboo canopy on a black canopy, pushing it far away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info boat left leisurely, carrying away the three people on board, and also taking away the wishes in everyone's hearts. Although the alliance between Liu Bei, Li Sheng, and Jiangdong has not yet been finalized at this moment, everything is developing in the direction that Liu Bei's side expects.

"It's going to happen." Both Liu Bei and Li Sheng had great confidence in the people they sent. They all believed that their military advisors would be able to help Lu Su play a part in the alliance, so that the alliance between the three parties could succeed. In the alliance against Cao Cao, there can be no Liu Bei or Li Sheng, but there must be no Sun Quan - this is already known to Liu Bei and Li Sheng. Both Liu Bei and Li Sheng knew that the key to defeating Cao Cao lay in the water battle of the Yangtze River. And the strongest naval army today is only Sun Quan's Jiangdong Army.

"Success or failure is here. Although the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, but at this moment, people can't help but have no hope for it. Looking at the detergent Wupeng, Liu Bei said as if sighing and laughing at himself.

"Cao Cao is powerful, even if he loses in his hands, it can't be said to be a sin, not to mention that at this time, we may not have the ability to fight him? I don't agree with the saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and it seems to me that there is hope, but you can't wait for hope to come. Hope is just a prospect, a direction for us to work towards. If we see hope, but we don't put in our own effort for it, then disappointment is not a pity. Li Sheng listened to Liu Bei's words and retorted lightly, he pointed to the red sun that had just risen in the sky, and smiled confidently: "I think Cao Cao is like the sun that has risen to the middle of the sky, although it is high enough, but it is difficult to go further." Although we are weak, we are like the rising sun, with unlimited potential. ”

"Oh? Is that so? Looking at Li Sheng's young face, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh: "Being young is good." When has it been like this, I have not been afraid of heaven and earth. Infected by Li Sheng's self-confidence, Liu Bei's thoughts were raised, and the river in front of him seemed to transform into a battlefield of the past, presenting his past struggles. Liu Bei is not a person who likes to remember, but in this situation, he has to recall. Compared with the young and energetic Li Sheng, he does look a little old. Although he could not have been more willing to admit it.

Liu Bei and Li Sheng's team went west along the Han River into Fankou. These days, Li Sheng had issued his own order to call up his troops, so that new troops were constantly joining Li Sheng's fleet on the way to Fankou. This made Liu Bei, who was already shocked by Li Sheng's strength, take a much fancy to Li Sheng. He had to admit that Li Sheng already had the ability to be equal to himself.

A few days after the fleet arrived at Fankou, the ordinary city had completely changed its appearance. According to the agreement with Li Sheng, Liu Bei transported all the people of Fankou and the people he brought to the south by the merchant ships that followed Li Sheng to the south. These so-called merchant ships were actually controlled by Li Sheng independently, and they constantly transported the people from this side and at the same time transported supplies from the south. With the joint efforts of nearly 100,000 troops, a small Fankou has become a military camp full of people. It can be said that Liu Bei and Li Sheng's combat preparations are generally ready, and they are far away from facing the Wulin Cao Cao army, which has also completed the integration of troops, on the Yangtze River.

The news from Jiangdong has not yet come, but the news of Cao Cao's army advancing eastward has come first, which makes Liu Bei and Li Sheng's hearts more and more heavy, and at the same time, they have to send out the only naval forces on their side. Liu Bei's 20,000 sailors plus Li Sheng's 30,000 sailors, about 50,000 troops, carried nearly 2,000 warships on the river, and the boats that came and went back and forth were like swimming fish in the river, shuttling back and forth, constantly reporting information about Cao Cao and Jiangdong little by little.

Although Guan Yu, the general of the navy on Liu Beijun's side, said that he was not specialized in water warfare, he was extremely good at learning. He knew that he was not as good as Gan Ning on Li Sheng's side in the water war, so he completely helped Gan Ning's side with the layout photos, but he didn't make any mistakes. Behind this, perhaps the reason why Liu Bei, the brother of this arrogant general, is promoting. In front of Cao Cao's army, everyone looked nervous as if they were facing a great enemy.

However, to everyone's surprise, at the moment before the big war, Liu Bei and Li Sheng looked so nervous, and Cao Cao was also in a situation where there was no movement. Since arriving in Wulin, Cao Cao's army has not made any more moves, and it seems that while waiting for the arrival of follow-up soldiers and horses, he is constantly training his most vulnerable naval forces.

Could it be that Cao Cao wanted to fight himself step by step? Faced with Cao Cao's calmness, Liu Bei had to make such a conjecture.

"Zixu, what do you think ......?" Liu Bei found Li Sheng and told him about the situation. He knew that Li Sheng was much better than himself in this regard, and he also had military advisors like Pang Tong and intelligence masters like Luo Zhao under him. People will always compare, and after seeing Li Sheng's strength in real life, Liu Bei realized that he was not as good as Li Sheng: he was too poor in intelligence gathering, and there was no one who was specifically responsible, which was a weakness. Of course, this is something that cannot be improved for a while, and all Liu Bei can rely on now is to use Li Sheng's intelligence agency to serve himself - this is also allowed by Li Sheng.

"This may be Cao Cao accumulating strength." Li Sheng was not much surprised by what Liu Bei said, because the information he got from his side was much more than that of Liu Bei's side.

As early as when he had just taken Changsha, Li Sheng set out to establish his own intelligence system. He divided his intelligence officers into three levels: for officials, for middle-level subordinates, and for low-level civilians. Because his current status is not high, he has not developed much at this level of officials. Most of the information he had at the moment was collected by two levels: the middle-level subordinate and the low-level civilian. Although the information brought by the people at these two levels is not enough to bring very complete information because of the lack of level, from some details and some rumors, it is still possible to grasp Cao Cao's current intentions relatively clearly.

"Cao Cao's current southern expedition is planning to go all at once. It's like a stone rolling down a hillside. The reason why he didn't start it right now was because it hadn't reached its peak. Once reached, his attacks unfolded like a stream of silver, crushing all the forces that stood in his way. Li Sheng told Liu Bei Cao Cao's intentions bluntly. In this regard, he didn't want to hide anything, because he knew that he and Liu Bei were already in the same boat at the moment, and they should work together to lose both losses and prosperity.

"I see." Liu Bei listened to Li Sheng's explanation and came to his senses, and then he asked Li Sheng: "So what is our current countermeasure?" ”

"Points!" Li Sheng said a word heavily.

"Why divide?" Liu Bei was very puzzled by this.

"Cao Cao's approach is to finish the battle and solve all the problems in one go. And by concentrating our troops together, we undoubtedly fulfilled his wishes. Although the concentration of troops is conducive to the increase of our current strength. But the current fact is that no matter how much our troops increase, we can't compare with Cao Cao's army. Therefore, we should divide our forces appropriately. Cao Cao is trying to make a move, and we just want to make his momentum unworkable. Once the division of troops was completed, Cao Cao would undoubtedly need several battles if he wanted to attack like this. This was a problem for Cao Cao. Because most of his troops were northerners, it was difficult for them to adapt to the continuous fighting of our southern climate. Li Sheng explained with a smile.

"Does this do us any good in defeating Cao Cao?" Liu Bei asked suspiciously.

"We don't need to do ourselves any good, we just need Cao Cao to be more difficult than us. There aren't so many perfect tactics for fighting. Li Sheng said with a smile.

"That's what I said." Liu Bei, who has rich combat experience, agrees with Li Sheng's words. "Everything will be done according to what Zixu said." Liu Bei quickly made a decision.

The division of troops, of course, is to separate Li Sheng's soldiers and horses from Liu Bei's. This is the safest thing to do. After all, the two are not one, although they are alliances, but under the harmony of the sovereign, the generals below are not very convinced, and they all have their own arrogance. If they are separated like this, I am afraid that in the absence of a lord to suppress them, there will be many contradictions between them. This is also something that Li Sheng and the others do not want to see. So, Li Sheng led his troops to Hanyang in the south of the Yangtze River, Guan Yu led the army to be stationed in Xiakou as Liu Bei's vanguard, and Liu Bei led the army to Fankou from himself, and let Liu Qi stay in Jiangxia City. Except for Li Sheng, who was an independent force of 70,000 horses, all the troops were generally divided into 10,000 or 20,000 troops, and they tightly choked Cao Cao's eastward march like a checkpoint in a key place, as if they were stuck in Cao Cao's throat, which gave Cao Cao a headache.

"Liu Bei actually put on such a stand? Who taught him? "Cao Cao did not receive news that Li Sheng had allied himself with Liu Bei as an independent force. He only knew a little in general, and Li Sheng, the Taishou of Changsha under Liu Qi, refused to surrender and led his troops to join Liu Qi's command.

"I heard that the Changsha Taishou is called Li Sheng." His subordinates informed Liu Bei of such information.

"Changsha is too guarded by Li Sheng? I remember that a few years ago, he was the one who planned the battle to capture our Wancheng? "Although Cao Cao is old, his memory is still very good. He still has some impressions of the "unfamiliar" name reported by his subordinates. "I heard that this Taishou is only twenty-seven, and he is still very young. It's amazing to be able to come up with such a headache arrangement. Cao Cao said as if appreciative and sighing: "I wonder if he can get a favor in front of my current army?" Although Cao Cao's arrangement was tricky, Cao Cao still believed in the strength of his army. He still insisted that any resistance to himself would be futile under his absolute strength.

"Prime Minister, Sun Quan of Jiangdong has moved his base camp to Chaisang yesterday." While Cao Cao was intoxicated by the strength of his army, Jia Xu hurriedly ran in and informed him of the news.

"Did you move west?" When Cao Cao heard the news, the original smile on his face suddenly retracted, and his enthusiasm cooled down suddenly: "It seems that our persuasion book has the opposite effect." The enemy in the east has united. ”

"Then we ......" Jia Xu was still a little scared in the face of Cao Cao, who looked uncertain, and he cautiously probed.

"Let's go east. Camp in the red clay to the north. Cao Cao quickly issued this order. Originally, he was in Ulin just waiting for the results of his letter of surrender. Now that Sun Quan has decided to go west, he must have decided to fight with himself, and for this kind of frontal challenge, Cao Cao naturally thinks that he must bravely meet it.

"Yes......" Jia Xu took the order awe-inspiringly.

The news of the alliance successfully reached Cao Cao's side, and also reached Liu Bei and Li Sheng's side. The one who brought back the news was Liu Bei's military advisor Ma Yan. He came to Fankou with great interest and reported the news to him with great excitement. He returned alone. He didn't see Zhuge Liang's tall figure beside him.

"Sun Quan is coming? How many soldiers and horses did they order? Liu Bei first focused on this issue.

"There are 30,000 sailors and more than 1,000 warships. Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to be the governor of the navy, and Cheng Pu to be the deputy governor of the capital, commanding the soldiers and horses along the way. Ma Yan's face was full of excitement and replied loudly.

"Only 30,000? is not as much as led by Zixu, and this Sun Quan is really stingy. Liu Bei said dissatisfiedly. He felt that 30,000 troops were too few, and that there should never be only such a number of soldiers and horses in a huge Jiangdong.

"There's no way around that. Although the territory of Jiangdong is large, the population is too small, and it always imposes heavy taxes on the people, causing the people to rebel from time to time. This greatly affected the arrangement of Jiangdong's troops, Sun Quan now entrusted all 30,000 soldiers and horses to Zhou Yu, and he also brought another 20,000 people as backup, which is already where all the elites of Jiangdong are. Once he loses on this side, Jiangdong is afraid that it will be over. Ma Jian calmly explained this problem to Liu Bei.

"Well, that's true......" Liu Bei nodded and looked at Ma Jian quietly: "Young people often grow!" But is that really your opinion? He asked.

"Not exactly...... Many of these were also told to me by Kong Ming. Li Taishou's military advisor is an outstanding person in our generation. Ma Tan was very honest and revealed the inside story.

"Is that so?" The excitement on Liu Bei's face dimmed suddenly, and he felt Li Sheng's threat to him from Ma Tan's admiration for Zhuge Liang. "These capable young people in Jingzhou have all run to Li Sheng's side. There's a good chance they'll be a problem for me in the future. Liu Bei felt choked, as if he saw something that was about to fly like this.

"I'm going to go to Kyoguchi." Liu Bei, who was silent for a while, frowned and asked Ma Yan: "How about you see me going to meet Zhou Yu like this?" ”

"What?" Ma Tan was very surprised by Liu Bei's decision, "Why do you want to do this? He was puzzled.

"Well, now we've formed an alliance with Koto. Zhou Yu was appointed commander of the Jiangdong side and became the object of our cooperation for a period of time to come. In order to make the relationship between the two sides more harmonious, it is indeed necessary for me to go to Jingkou to meet Zhou Yu directly. Liu Bei explained to Ma Yan: "Having a good relationship with Jiangdong is our top priority at the moment. ”

"Does the lord want to strengthen the power of his side through friendship with the Jiangdong side, so as to plan for his future inheritance?" Ma Jian easily guessed Liu Bei's thoughts.

"Master Liu Biao is dead. Liu Qi's prestige was not enough to rule the whole state. Now that I'm not planning for myself, how many more years will I have to wait for my dream to come true? Liu Bei sighed: "This is also for the Han family." "Things have come to this point, Liu Bei's heart has already made a decision.

"The only remaining Han princes in the world besides himself is Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang's ability is not enough to revive the Han family, so only his continuous strength can make the world not owned by people other than the surname Liu. Under such righteousness, attacking the same sect is also a last resort. As things changed little by little, Liu Bei, who deeply hated his weakness, gradually understood what Ma Tan often said in his ear at this moment.

"If you want to dominate the world, you must have your own strength. For example, today, both the north and the east already have strong enough masters, then you can only put your experience in the west and south where the strength is not very good. Liu Bei thought about it, and he thought that there was only one way for him to go now: "That is to have Jingzhou and Yizhou." ”

"Only by making the world score three points, I will have a chance." Liu Bei finally understood this: "Anyone who obstructs me from obtaining this third of the world is my enemy. Including Li Sheng...... Including Liu Zhang....... There can be no mercy for others except those who have become their own people. Because as long as you give up because of mercy, you will never be able to get what you lose. Liu Bei figured out this, his originally peaceful gaze gradually became a little indifferent, and a senran smell emanated from his body, which made Ma Yan, who was standing on the side, feel a chill in his heart.

The young military advisor met the gaze of his lord and suddenly understood a lot. He knew that his lord had made up his mind to give up something. Although he had always known that those things that were abandoned were definitely a good thing for the great cause of his lord, he didn't understand what it would be like for his courtiers after he gave up those lords and completed the transformation.

"The lord won't become a terrible person like Cao Cao, right?" Ma Jian is not very sure about this. He left. At the moment when he went out, he suddenly remembered something: "Kong Ming's letter is still with me." Perhaps, I should send someone to Hanyang. ”

Kong Ming Toma brought a letter to his lord, but Ma Tan only talked to Liu Bei a little, and did not attract Liu Bei's attention. Maybe in Liu Bei's opinion, this is also an ordinary thing. Although Liu Bei had now made up his mind to sweep away all the enemies that were blocked in front of him by his courage, it was difficult for him to change his specific methods for a while. This may be that the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.

Hanyang is located on the opposite bank of Xiakou and belongs to the city of Jiangnan. Although it is under the jurisdiction of Jiangxia County, it is closer to Changsha. Like Xiakou, it is directly facing the front line of Cao's army, but because it is in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a little safer than Xiakou. As far as the current situation is concerned, it is impossible for Cao Cao to attack Hanyang easily before he completely clears the water forces on the river.

"It seems to be a stormy sea, but I am safe in it. It's a peaceful day, but it's a bit boring. After coming to Hanyang, Li Sheng has been much freer, and it has become one of his daily compulsory classes to lie on the swinging chair he invented and look up at the sky and watch the wind and moon like now. Although the weather is getting cooler, this small Hanyang Fortress is somewhat comfortable compared to the cold wind on the river.

"Lord, Jiangbei Liu Bei sent someone to send a letter to the lord." When I was worrying about myself, someone suddenly came in and reported like this.

"Lord Liu Bei's letter?" Li Sheng raised his eyebrows and felt a little strange: "How could Liu Bei send a letter to himself at this time?" He ordered someone to bring the messenger here and took the letter from the other party's hand, only to find out that it was not the letter that Liu Bei gave him, but the letter brought back from Jiangdong by his military advisor Kong Mingtuo Liu Bei's military advisor Ma Tan. Li Sheng carefully looked at the fire paint on the letter, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that everything was still in good condition. Although he could guess at once that it was unlikely that Yi Kongming's Jin Shen would write anything important in such a letter that he didn't know who would get his hands on, it was his own thing anyway, and not many people wanted to be looked at casually without his consent. It's selfish, but it's also common sense.

After politely chatting with the messenger, and after asking Liu Bei about the situation, Li Sheng sent the messenger away. At present, he is the only one in the independent courtyard of Hanyang City County, so he can naturally watch the content of the letter generously. In the days when Kong Ming went to Jiangdong, he had no conscience to pay attention to Kong Ming's every move, which sounded good was a kind of calm and self-promise, but it was a heartless feeling to say it badly. Of course, this is just an outsider's opinion, and the fact is that before the news officially came, even Li Sheng, who was very sure that Kong Ming could make all this, was always apprehensive about the existence of nothing in his heart. He didn't know if the matter of uniting Sun Quan would change due to the arrival of himself, an outsider.

But all this disappeared with this letter from Kong Ming.

“…… Fortunately, he did not disgrace the Lord's order and formed an alliance with Jiangdong......" The matter is clear in one sentence on this letter. Because the news of Jiangdong's alliance with himself and Liu Bei would definitely be announced to the world, Kong Ming thought that there was not much need to keep this matter secret, so he wrote it directly.

Li Sheng carefully looked at Kong Ming's letter. Although Kong Ming said many things in the letter in vague terms, Li Sheng still roughly understood Kong Ming's experience in Jiangdong from the seemingly commonplace words: everything is as similar as what is known in history, what "tongue wars and group Confucianism", what "one sword breaks" all happened. Kong Ming became the leader and promoter of this series of events. It's just that Sun Quan, the lord of Wu at this time, is different from the description in history, and he is not still hesitating at this moment. He wanted to fight Cao Cao, and that was the one that had been decided before Kong Ming and Lu Su arrived. The so-called hesitation is just a role that Sun Quan plays in front of his ministers.

“…… General Sun likes acting, so we sang a ......" in Jiangdong, which is what the letter says.

There is no doubt that Kong Ming is a smart man, he guessed that Li Sheng would be worried about his safety, so he told Li Sheng in the letter: My Jiangdong side is conducive to our alliance with Sun Quan, please don't worry too much about my safety. All you have to do is line up to pick me up in Koto when the east wind rises. As for what the lord wants to do, he can do it now, after all, compared to Liu Bei, the lord is still much worse in reputation.

Li Sheng was extremely happy to receive Kong Ming's letter, especially in the letter, Kong Ming completely recognized his idea, which made him even more happy. Although he grew up with Kong Ming, Li Sheng, who has more than 20 years of experience in the afterlife, is still swayed by past emotions and values Kong Ming more than ordinary people. After all, in the legends of later generations, Kong Ming Yiran completely became the embodiment of wisdom. In Li Sheng's opinion, he is inferior to Kong Ming, especially in some details of the matter at that time, he and Kong Ming are not half a little different. Because he is aware of the gap, he will have respect and recognition, so he will regard Kong Ming's affirmation of himself as a thing to be happy about. To outsiders, it seems that Kong Ming regards Li Sheng as his brother, but in Li Sheng's own heart, he regards Kong Ming as his brother.

Since even Kong Ming thought that his idea was feasible and agreed with his decision, Li Sheng naturally had no more scruples in his heart. He ordered someone to summon Pang Tong and Liao Li, but he immediately wanted to discuss the matter with them.

"I'm going to ask you to write an essay for me." Suddenly, Pang Tong and Liao Li came, and Li Sheng invited them to sit down and said their requirements straight to the point.

"Text?" Listening to Li Sheng's words, the two were quite surprised, and their eyes widened for a while.

"Isn't it a text against Cao Cao?" The two asked tentatively. This is already a very obvious thing, after all, the enemy he is facing on his side at the moment is Cao Cao.

"Exactly. Now that the alliance with Koto has been formed and the war is imminent, we really need such a document to boost the morale of our army and make the soldiers more courageous in fighting the enemy. Li Sheng nodded in recognition of this, and he looked at the two of them with burning eyes: "What's the matter?" Can you help me with this? ”

"Alas...... Lord, you have found the wrong person, let me, a young phoenix, do something else, but let me think about how to write this kind of flowery article, but it will cost my old Pang his life. I'm not good at that. Seeing that Li Sheng seemed to have the intention of handing over the text to the two of them, Pang Tong hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head, he squinted at Liao Li: "Maybe Gongyuan is good at this matter." ”

"Is that so?" Li Sheng turned his face and looked at Liao Li.

"Lord, please rest assured, although the writing below is not as good as Chen Lin, it is not much worse than the time. If there is Shi Yuan's help, it is not too difficult to scare Cao Cao out of a cold sweat again. Liao Li smiled and agreed. He seems to be confident, although he has been under Li Sheng's hands for so many years and has faintly learned some methods of communicating with others, but in actual performance, he still has not given up his original arrogance.

"Then please two of you. Cao Cao has done a lot of things this year. It's good to write it down as well. Li Sheng reminded.

"Good!" Pang Tong and Liao Li bowed down together and went down to prepare.