The so-called interlacing is like a mountain, although Zhou Yu can also be regarded as a witty and proficient figure in mathematical arts, but his skills are biased towards poetry, poetry and music. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info At this moment, since the "expert" has words, he doesn't dare to slack off, although he still has doubts in his heart, but at this moment he still quickly left the arrangement.

At the moment, Zhou Yu waited in the camp for Cheng Pu, Lu Su and other generals, and the orders of each general were ready, and he quickly ordered the troops to be sent when the southeast wind rose, and on the other hand, he informed the lord Sun Quan, who was pressing behind the battle, the news that he might send troops in the near future, and asked him to count the people who were ready to respond. At the same time, Zhou Yu also asked Huang Gai to inform Huang Gai that the old "protagonist" who was about to appear on the stage prepared twenty fireboats by himself, and the bow of the ship was densely covered with big nails; The ship was loaded with reeds and dry firewood, filled with fish oil, and covered with sulfur and flame nitrate, each covered with a green cloth of oil; The bow of the ship is planted with a green dragon tooth flag, and the stern of the ship is all sized: wait under the tent, just wait for the order to be issued.

The so-called "everything is available, only the east wind is owed!" Although the busyness of this faction always makes people feel a little busy, even the dinner of the generals in the camp is only a hastily misused side, which can only be regarded as filling in the stomach, but it can never be regarded as good food, but as long as they think of the preparations and plans for many days will be revealed in the near future, the life and death of their own side will be separated at the moment, and they can't help but forget other details in addition to being nervous, and wait vigorously.

It's nightfall. At this moment, the black clouds in the east are slowly pressing here, and there is still no breeze in the sky. The whole world is filled with a dull sense of depression, which makes people always feel a little depressed who want to go crazy.

As time passed, there was movement in the heavens. It's just that the long-awaited east wind didn't see it, but an unexpected muffled sound came down with a heavy rain.

"There's no way to fight this battle." When Zhou Yu lifted the curtain of the big tent and looked up at the rain line falling outside like a falling bead plate, Cheng Pu, the deputy governor who followed him, let out such a sigh inadvertently. This is a complaint, and it is also a scoundrel, for such a heavy rain, I am afraid that no one else in the whole army except Kong Ming will expect it.

"Don't talk nonsense." Although Zhou Yu said this, he waved his hand gently, but the brows on his forehead were still furrowed, and he also felt very embarrassed in the face of this heavy rain. "Are our fuelwood covered with a veil?" Zhou Yu turned around and asked Huang Gai, the protagonist in charge of this matter.

"Who would have expected this rain to come so suddenly? Winter Japan is dry ......," Huang Gai replied, his face full of depression.

"When the rain comes, we don't know if the wind will come. However, according to the agreement between the implementation and Kong Ming, we should have prepared everything. Publicly, this dry fuelwood, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you. Zhou Yu looked at Huang Gai's old face and said in a harmonious voice.

"I'll try my best." Huang Gai didn't dare to be full of guarantees. In the face of this inky night and pouring rain, his confidence is always not very sufficient. Unlike Zhou Yu, who only talked to Kong Ming once and believed in Kong Ming, in this big tent, in addition to Zhou Yu, the governor of the capital, only Lu Su, the captain of the military academy, was full of confidence in Kong Ming.

It's raining so hard outside, where are you going to find the right firewood? Huang Gai had a headache about this. But as a subordinate official, it is always difficult for him to say his headache so clearly. Although his official rank is especially below that of young people like Zhou Yu and Lu Su, his qualifications are much older than Zhou Yu, and he naturally has his own self-esteem.

The matter seemed urgent at this moment. Although he still didn't quite believe what the young Kong Ming said that the southeast wind would blow tonight, he still planned to solve that troublesome problem now. At that moment, he opened the curtain and was about to stride out. But as soon as he took a step, he shivered unnaturally. The wind rose, and the wind that didn't know when it got up was still quite strong, mixed with the cold rain that shook down on him, making him feel cold. He is fifty years old, and his body is still strong, but in the face of such a heavy rain and cool breeze, even a young man in his twenties and thirties really can't stand it, not to mention that he was so caught off guard by inadvertently.

"This damn broken wind ......" Huang Gai scolded, but before he could scold, he felt that something was wrong: "Wind ...... When did this get up? Huang Gai became alert, he looked up at the sky, and saw the military flag standing in front of the camp tent rattling in the wind. The flag was blowing in the wind, but the horns of the flag were facing northwest, which was when the southeast wind rose.

"It's windy, it's a big southeast wind!" Huang Gai exclaimed, which caused a group of people in the military tent to turn over on their backs.

At this moment, the rain is still pouring down, but the wind comes suddenly, although the wind and rain of this night make people feel a little cold, but the news of the southeast wind fluttering makes everyone excited.

"Everything is in place, only the east wind is owed, and now that even the east wind is there, what are we afraid of? Po Cao is only tonight. Zhou Yu muttered to himself and climbed the big seat in the military tent, and picked up the general order in front of the case with an excited face, which was about to be issued immediately.

Zhou Yu first summoned Jiang Qin and Ding Feng, and ordered them to take Cai Zhong and his soldiers along the south bank, only playing the banner of the Northern Army, and directly taking the ground of Wulin. But only Cai He was left with other uses.

This Cai Zhong, Cai and the two were originally Cai Mao's younger brothers, although they also have some ability, but they are all forgetful people like their brother Cai Mao. After Cai Mao's death, they came to Jiangdong with only a few soldiers, apparently because they were dissatisfied with Cao Cao for killing their brother, and came to take refuge. But Zhou Yu saw at a glance that they were here to deceive. Originally, it was best for people like them to kill them with a knife and leave no trouble, but in Zhou Yu's opinion, the two of them seemed to have something to use, so he left them for now. In fact, they really helped Zhou Yu a lot, such as the news of Huang Gai's torture, which had already spread to Jiangbei through their mouths, but that was exactly what Zhou Yu wanted.

"Yes!" Listening to his governor's orders, Jiang Qin and Ding Feng bowed down to receive the order.

"General Tai Shi Ci!" Zhou Yu then ordered: "You can lead 3,000 soldiers, go straight to the border of Huangzhou, cut off Cao Cao's troops to meet the army, and force Cao Bing to set fire to it; Just look at the red flag, it is Wu Hou who receives the soldiers. ”

"No!" Tai Shi Ci clenched his fists and arched his hand.

Right now, the rain outside the tent has been falling non-stop, and it doesn't seem to stop for a moment, but Zhou Yu can't care about it anymore. He had already decided to go on the expedition. The whole army will march either tonight or tomorrow. Because Jiang Qin, Ding Feng, and Tai Shici were the farthest places to go, he gave the order first.

Next, it was aimed at the response of these two military horses: Zhou Yu and Lu Meng led 3,000 soldiers to Wulin to meet Jiang Qin and burn Cao Cao's zhaizha; Let Ling lead 3,000 soldiers, cut the head of the Yiling realm, and only see the fire in Wulin, so he will respond with soldiers; He also asked Dong to lead 3,000 soldiers, take Hanyang directly, and kill Cao Cao from Hanchuan. Look at the white flag to respond; In the end, Pan Zhang led 3,000 soldiers, waved the white flag, and went to Hanyang to meet Dong's attack.

After arranging the military horses that copied Cao Cao's back road, looking at the majestic generals who did their best to lift the curtain and disappear into the wind and rain, a faint smile flashed on Zhou Yu's face. He was happy, happy that he had such a colleague. He had planned a lot about the war that was going to take place tonight, and although he could not guarantee that it would be won, he was sure that he had done his best.

The assignment of the task continued, and after finishing the several deviant divisions that rushed out, Zhou Yu's eyes were on the frontal battlefield with Huang Gai as the protagonist. Although Huang Gai is no longer in the tent at the moment, but is looking for those dry wood, Zhou Yu still issued a military order on time: "General Huang Gai is the protagonist of today, and he needs to arrange a fireboat to inform Cao Cao's side." Although he is not here at the moment, Tingyuan, you have to convey this order to the public. Well, I want to tell Cao Cao that the fleet that came to land was from the blue flag and covered with red cloth. ”

"Understood." Huang Zhen nodded vigorously. He is the nephew of Huang Gai Huang Gongfu, the word Tingyuan, and seems to be a young man under twenty. There is no special position at the moment, since he is an official of a lieutenant under the Huang Gai tent, if Huang Gai does not leave the big tent at this moment, he is absolutely not qualified to stand here.

instructed about the protagonist Huang Gai, but Zhou Yu just sent the people who initiated the response to Huang Gai. He took Han Dang, the leading officer of the first team, Zhou Tai, the leading officer of the second team, Xu Sheng, the leading officer of the third team, and Chen Wu, the leading officer of the fourth team: the four teams each led 300 warships, and each lined up 20 fireboats in front. And Zhou Yu himself led the remaining generals such as Quan Cong and Zhu Zhi to watch from the fighting ship with Na Cheng Pu, leaving only Na Lu Su to lead a group of civil servants to guard in the camp. The so-called keep, in fact, is just a show. Because of the small number of troops in Jiangdong, this battle was so important that Zhou Yu almost marched with a large army. Except for the hundred ships that remained in the water village and still had some combat strength, the rest could only be regarded as old, weak, sick and disabled. For Zhou Yu, this is a crucial gamble, if he wins, everything is easy to say, if he loses, there is no need to talk about it anymore.

The wind is still blowing, and the rain is still falling. This wind and rain diagonally to the northwest shrouded everything where the Jiangdong Army was. In the inky darkness, in the haze like smoke, everything is tense and orderly. Zhou Yu has already done everything he can do, waiting below, in addition to the stop of this rain, the rest is to see when Huang Gai will find the most critical dry fuelwood.

Time passed in waiting, it was already more than the second half of the night, and although Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others, who had not slept all night, felt tired, they still sat quietly in the tent and waited. They still look so composed, at least on the surface. As commanders in the army, they have to pay attention to their words and deeds at all times. At the moment when the great war was about to begin, even though their hearts were very anxious, their faces were still calm.

The storm outside shows no sign of abating. The crackling sound completely drowned out the movement that continued throughout the camp. Under this noise, no one knew what was going on, except for the general who had already received the order.

At this moment, I don't know how many times have passed, and a thunderous voice sounded outside the tent. It was a laugh, and there was a joy in the voice. Although the volume and clarity of the sound were obviously affected in the sound of the rain, with the familiarity of working together in the past, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others could hear at once that the person who laughed was the protagonist of tonight - Huang Gai Huang Gongfu.

"Isn't there something glamorous? Could it be ......" Zhou Yu and Lu Su glanced at each other and then turned their heads separately. They both knew what each other wanted in their hearts, but they both felt that such a thing was really difficult. It's raining so hard outside that it's hard to find the dry wood. Unless someone had anticipated all of this earlier, this would simply be an impossible time. "Forget it...... Let's wait for the public to come in. Zhou Yu and Lu Su thought so, but saw that the curtain of the big tent was lifted all of a sudden, and a person in iron armor but covered in water crashed in.

Zhou Yu and Lu Su were looking at Huang Gai, only to see that the old general's body was already drenched in rain. Bit by bit, he slipped from the gap in the armor, and the inner lining under the armor slipped down, and he just stood on the spot and took a few breaths, and the place he was was already covered with water. He seemed to be a little tired, and although his face was full of genuine excitement when he took off his helmet, his slightly narrowed eyes and undulating body revealed the tiredness of his excitement. It's no wonder that it's really a bit embarrassing for such an old man in his fifties to run for a long time without any shelter in such a heavy rain.

"It's been a hard job, so please sit down first." Seeing Huang Gai so embarrassed, Zhou Yu couldn't help but comfort him. He ordered someone to take a cup of ginger soup and handed it to Huang Gai's hand, and when he drank it steamingly, he warmed up a little before he asked, "What about the unknown firewood?" ”

"Found it, of course it was found, and a lot." Huang Gai's excited hair was opened, his hands danced, and the smile on his face was needless to say: "Firewood...... Those dry firewood, near Kong Ming's military tent, were covered with curtains, and there were dozens of tents! ”

"Ah......" Zhou Yu and Lu Su were taken aback when they heard Huang Gai say this, and they looked at each other, and the smile on their faces bloomed: "That's a good feeling." Everything is in place at this point, and when the rain is light, we can go north. ”

"That's true." Lu Su clapped his hands and laughed. He smiled very happily, but he didn't pay attention to the sadness that flashed on Zhou Yu's smile.

As the governor of the Jiangdong Army, Zhou Yu did see things more comprehensively and more vigilantly than the people around him. When everyone was happy at the moment, he thought of the fact that he might have to face off against Liu Bei and Li Sheng in the future. "Liu Bei has Ma Yan, Li Sheng has a dragon and phoenix, these are the pairs of Ying Zhujie, I'm afraid that it will be troublesome for us in the future." He was helpless, but there was nothing he could do at the moment. After all, we can talk about the future later, but at this moment, the most critical thing is the battle that is about to break out. ”

It was almost dawn and the rain had not stopped all night. The sky outside was still very heavy, and there was no sign that it was about to dawn, but listening to the gradually faint voice outside the tent, Zhou Yu knew that he could definitely complete the preparations he had made in the past few months today.

"Everything is going well." He smiled and picked up a scroll and looked at it, as if he was waiting more and more patiently.

The rain that had been falling all night finally stopped just as the sun was supposed to be rising. The sky was already pale and brightened, and a layer of mist like a light veil permeated the river, adding a bit of hazy beauty to the river. This is indeed a very beautiful river view, but not many people appreciate such a river view. The Jiangdong Army, which was already preparing for a decisive battle with Cao Cao today, came out of the water army's village shortly after the rain stopped, and divided into two invisible parts of the road, and went up the river to Cao Cao's Chibi camp.

The wind was still blowing, although it was going against the river, but because of the tailwind, the speed of the Jiangdong army that attacked was not very slow, and it was less than half an hour after coming out of the camp that Cao Cao was observing from the lookout outside the Chibi camp on the opposite side.

"Huang Gailai has surrendered." Seeing the boat covered with red curtains, the soldiers on the lookout couldn't help but shout excitedly.

The news that someone in Jiangdong was coming to surrender was not a secret in Cao Cao's army, and Cao Cao even consciously spread such news in order to improve the morale of his soldiers. Of course, this kind of spread can only be half and half, Cao Cao will tell the news that someone in the Jiangdong Army is coming to surrender, but he will not completely announce the name of the general who came to surrender. For the sake of secrecy, he will definitely have reservations. However, at the moment, even the most ordinary creep can simply call out the name of the descender. This can only be said that Cao Cao's secrecy is really not in place. At present, under the current strength, he is really underestimated.

"The red ship is coming." The soldiers at the lookout shouted the news to Cao Cao.

"Oh? Coming out early in the morning? Cao Cao's face was overjoyed. He only received news last night that Huang Gai would come to take refuge in the next few days. He originally thought that it would take some time, but after only one night, Huang Gai actually appeared with a swagger. "That's a good thing." Cao Cao grinned rarely.

"But is that man really coming to surrender?" Xiahou beside him asked, with a hint of reminder in his words.

"I guess that's right, the red veil boat, with the green tooth flag on it, is the same as originally agreed. Moreover, according to the information reported below, these warships are all in the style of the main force of Jiangdong, and although this kind of ship is much stronger than the walker, it is impossible for it to pose any threat to our army. It would be foolish if the other side wanted to manipulate these ships. Cao Cao retorted.

"I'm afraid that if something happens...... Xiahou Xi is still a little uneasy: "Right now, this wind is not good for us." ”

"What if? What's in case? The only case is that the other side may want to burn our fleet. However, yesterday's rain did not stop until the front, and even if the Jiangdong Army had already prepared the wood, it must have been all wet. If you have to dry it all, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until noon. The current batch of ships came out early in the morning, and it was reported that they did not have anything piled up on them...... Moreover, Huang Gai has indeed suffered a lot of grievances on the side of Soochow, and it seems that there is no place for him now. Cao Cao thought about it, and still shook his head firmly in denial.

"I hope it will be as the prime minister said." Xiahou Xi was obviously persuaded by Cao Cao, and his face showed an expression of understanding.

However, it is also possible that it was deliberately made for us to see. There were not a few dozen boats coming, and there was fog on the river, so they could have walked slowly and took turns to go back to transport firewood. After all, we are very far away from them, and it is impossible to easily tell whether they have gone back or not. At this time, the young Cao Pi re-raised a different opinion.

"Well, that's possible." As soon as he was reminded by his son, Cao Cao couldn't help but be a little worried, and he quickly ordered: "Keep an eye on these boats on the river." If they have a boat back, they will report to me quickly. This is a very important matter, not only the sentinels on the lookout, but also the sentinels sent out must be carefully watched by me, and there must be no negligence. From now on, every fifteen minutes, the situation will be summarized. ”

"Yes! Lord. The herald went down quickly. He also seemed to understand the importance of this matter, so he trotted all the way.

Looking at the figure of the herald running out, Cao Cao, who should be relieved by reason, couldn't rest assured, he always felt that something bad was going to happen. To be honest, this southern expedition brought him too many surprises, first of all, he never expected that Liu Bei would become so ruthless tactically after he had a military advisor, and secondly, he didn't expect that there was such a person in the place called Changsha south of the Yangtze River: he had always been unknown, even if his reputation was exposed, it was all said that he loved the art of immortals, and he only wanted to seek Taoism and the like. Cao Cao originally regarded him as Zhao Fan and Han Xuan, thinking that he could pass on the order, but he didn't want him to be able to give Zhao Fan and Han Xuan in one breath in a few days, and at the same time send 70,000 troops to ally with Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

"It's really surprising, I don't know what will happen to him." When he first heard the news, Cao Cao was still in Wancheng. At that time, he was having a headache for Liu Bei's act of burning Xinye, and although he was a little surprised by the news he had just received, he didn't take it to heart. However, even more shocking news happened one after another.

“…… Actually...... Actually defeated my tiger and leopard rider? When did this Li Sheng's subordinates have such powerful cavalry? After reading the battle report from Nagasaka that had just been delivered to him, the shock on Cao Cao's face that could not be concealed could not be dissipated for a long time. Although the tiger and leopard rider was defeated by the opponent's sneak attack, for Cao Cao, who always pinned high hopes on the tiger and leopard rider, defeat is defeat, no matter what the situation, for those who can defeat themselves, always have to pay great attention. He immediately asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence, to focus on investigating all kinds of things about Li Sheng, and learned about the past and "present" of the youngest Taishou in Jingzhou.

"So he's the man. How old was he fourteen years ago? It's funny that you have such a grudge against me. Cao Cao looked at the information about Li Sheng sent by Jia Xu, and after learning about Li Sheng's situation and the people around him from Cai Mao, he became more and more interested in Li Sheng, a young man, and became more and more vigilant.

"Wenhe, it seems that our intelligence work needs to be strengthened. If we wait until something goes wrong, we're going to lose a lot. It's good to say that we're going to make amends, but do we have to wait for the sheep to die before we make up for it? That's not something really smart people do. Cao Cao narrowed his eyes as if he sighed, and said to Jia Xu as if admonishing: "If it weren't for this incident, I wouldn't have paid attention to a little Taishou in the border area, and if I didn't pay attention to him, I wouldn't have found that we actually have an enemy whose strength is not below Liu Bei." Although Lian Cai Mao doesn't know how many soldiers and horses Changsha can have, judging from the strength of Changsha in the past and the development of Changsha now, there are at least 30,000 soldiers and horses in Changsha. If we were to confront Jiangdong on the Yangtze River, and a force of this kind suddenly ran out of the Yangtze River, it would probably change the whole situation of the war. ”

"I understand." Jia Xu nodded heavily. He is also a wise man, and even if Cao Cao doesn't say it, he can see it. Although he was a little surprised that Cao Cao took Li Sheng so seriously, he understood that Cao Cao was really not wrong at all when he reminded him. "I will do these things well, please rest assured." It is rare that Jia Xu made a solemn guarantee. He quickly turned away and arranged this matter with great vigour. As a wise man, a wise man who thinks first of all, he naturally knows when to do what to do.

Time passed inadvertently in the interval between Cao Cao's busy other things. As a commander, the army led by Cao Cao is much larger than Zhou Yu's, although there is already a complete system to share his worries from him, but he always has so many things to do every day because he likes power. He is a suspicious person, and in his opinion, it is best to hold power in his own hands, and even if it makes him feel a little tired, the sense of fulfillment that comes with it is amazing.

The information about Li Sheng has naturally been discovered little by little in the collection of Jia Xu's efforts in the past few days. Although Jia Xu couldn't find out more because of Li Sheng's close arrangement in Changsha, from those bits and pieces of clues and some of the situations exposed by Li Sheng because he was already planning to come to the forefront, Jia Xu was still able to get some things that he hadn't noticed before. He felt that he had really underestimated Li Sheng—no one knew that Li Sheng had such military strength in a few years of silence.

"The estimated strength is between 100,000 and 150,000?" Cao Cao's eyes couldn't help but widen, and his slender eyebrows were raised obliquely upward, revealing the surprise in his heart: "He, Li Sheng, is only a county in Changsha, how can he have so many soldiers and horses?" Between 100,000 and 150,000, the total number of troops in the entire six counties of Jiangdong may not be so much. ”

"We estimate that the number of people in Jiangdong is about 100,000, only maybe less than this, not more than this." Jia Xu added such a sentence later.

"Then what do you think ......" Cao Cao looked at Jia Xu, as if he wanted to get angry, but suddenly took it back, "It's not impossible, after all, Liu Bei has 60,000 horses and horses relying on such a small place as Xinye, and Changsha is compared with Xinye, one is heaven and the other is earth." ”

"That's true, the official information I just received is that Li Sheng led 70,000 troops, claiming to be 100,000 troops, to move to Hanyang." Jia Xu nodded, and then handed the silk paper with the information written on it to Cao Cao.

"Hanyang? What is he doing in that place? Cao Cao was puzzled: "If it was Jiangdong Army going to Hanyang, I thought they were going to fight with us, but Li Shengjun went to Hanyang?" I don't think they have the level to cross the river to hit me. Could it be that he just wants to protect himself? ”

"This ...... I don't know. Jia Xu also thought that Li Sheng's reason for wanting to protect himself was the biggest, but now that his lord had guessed this reason, he was happy to pretend to be confused.

"Keep keeping an eye on him. For such a sudden person, we can't underestimate it in the slightest. Because of the unclear reason in his heart, Cao Cao was very concerned about Li Sheng, and he further gave Jia Xu an order.

"I see." Jia Xu nodded heavily.