The meeting between Zhou Yu and Yuan Yu seemed to be fruitless, but it was not.

With the help of this meeting, Zhou Yu conveyed three important messages to the scholars of Lujiang County.

First, Zhou Yu is actually not dead, since Zhou Yu is not dead, Sun Ce's slaughter of the city has room to turn around, after all, the reason why Sun Ce sacrificed the butcher's knife to slaughter the city is to avenge Zhou Yu.

Second, Sun Ce couldn't hold on anymore and moved the idea of peace.

This situation is very important, if Sun Ce does not have the idea of peace, the scholars of Lujiang will never dare to take the initiative to negotiate peace, because the battle has been fought so far, the Jiangdong Army's losses can no longer be simply described as heavy, at this time, if the scholars of Lujiang Haoqiang come together to negotiate peace with the Jiangdong Army, they will definitely be bloodied by Sun Ce.

Third, listening to Zhou Yu's meaning, as long as Yuan Que is the main one of the Sun family, Sun Ce seems to be willing to let Yuan Que stay as the Taishou of Lujiang, which gives the scholars of Lujiang a strong confidence, and they also have an excuse to put pressure on Yuan Nor to force Yuan Nor to agree to the peace: If you Yuan Nuo really consider the people of Lujiang, then you should negotiate peace with the Sun family, after all, after the peace negotiation, you are still the Taishou of Lujiang, and your actual interests have not been damaged at all, but you are only nominally serving the Sun family.

After the news spread, the undercurrent in Juchao City immediately became turbulent, not only the scholars of Lujiang, but also the civil and military officials of Lujiang and the former ministers of the Yuan family also visited each other frequently.

A strange atmosphere began to brew rapidly in Juchao City.

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Yuan Wei was lazily leaning on the soft couch, and Xiao Ruoliu was holding a delicate spoon and carefully feeding him medicine.

I saw Zhou Yu outside the gap the day before yesterday. As soon as Yuan Wei returned to Xingyuan, he fell ill. Actually, it's not a disease either. It's really because Yuan Nuo has hardly rested in the past half a month, and he has already exhausted his energy to the extreme, when the Jiangdong Army is attacking the city, Yuan Nuo can still support it with a breath, and the Jiangdong Army slows down, and Yuan Nuo's spirit immediately collapses.

After all, Yuan Wei is still flesh and blood, not iron-beaten steel, not to mention. Yuan No's body was not strong in the first place, although he had practiced martial arts with Ji Ling for a few months, but because he had not yet exercised his body, the improvement of his physique was also limited, and practicing martial arts could indeed strengthen his body, but it also took time.

Seeing Yuan Wei lying crookedly on the couch, Xiao Ruoliu was distressed.

"Childe, don't you go to politics today, right?" Xiao Ruoliu took a towel and carefully wiped the medicinal juice that overflowed from the corner of Yuan Fu's mouth, and said with some distress, "You are already sick like this." Rest for a few more days. ”

"How's that going to work?" Yuan Fu struggled to sit up and said. "Hurry up and help Childe up."

Xiao Ruoliu didn't dare to disobey, so she had to pout her mouth to help Yuan Nuo sit up, and when Yuan Nuo was about to put on her socks, she heard hurried footsteps outside the living room.

As soon as he heard the footsteps, Yuan Wei knew that it was Liu Ye who came.

In the entire line, only Liu Ye could enter Yuan No's living room without notification.

Sure enough, when the footsteps reached the door of the living room, Xu Sheng's greeting immediately sounded: "Mr. Ziyang." ”

Ji Ling is now guarding Juchao Nanguan all day long, so naturally he can no longer serve as Yuan No's guard general, and Yuan No is a lord who cherishes his own life very much, so he asked Xu Sheng to temporarily make a cameo appearance as his guard general.

To be honest, Xu Sheng is not a suitable candidate for the general of the guard, but what can be done? Dian Wei and Xu Chu are the most suitable candidates for the guard, but it's a pity that Dian Wei is dead, and Xu Chu has also returned to Cao Cao, if he Yuan has great ability, it is impossible to dig Xu Chu from Cao Boss.

Liu Ye asked Xu Sheng: "Wen Xiang, is the son better?" ”

Xu Sheng replied: "Doctor Hua has been here and prescribed a few patches of medicine, and Xiao Ruoliu is serving Gongzi to take medicine." ”

While the two were talking, Yuan Nuo had already asked Xiao Ruoliu to put on cloth socks for him, and before he could put on his shoes, Yuan Nuo pushed open the door and walked outside, and Xu Sheng and Liu Ye, who were talking outside, hurriedly saluted.

Yuan motioned for the two to get up, and asked Liu Ye again: "Ziyang, what's wrong?" ”

Liu Ye said in a low voice: "Childe, the scholars of Lujiang, the civil and military officials, as well as Yuan Lian, Han Yin, Huang Yi and other former ministers of the Yuan clan want to jointly admonish, at this time, it is almost time for the prince to act." ”

"Joint advice?" Yuan Wei smiled and said, "Finally, you can't hold it anymore?" ”

After meeting with Zhou Yu the day before yesterday, Yuan Wei knew that the scholars and civil and military officials of Lujiang County would definitely not be able to hold back, and came forward to put pressure on him to force him to negotiate peace with the Sun family.

Liu Ye also smiled and said: "The process of joint signing does not seem to be smooth, many Lujiang officials and scholars are unwilling to fall into the well for the son, until Qiao Ying expressed his attitude, Lujiang's civil and military officials and scholars have followed to express their attitudes, and then there is today's joint advice." ”

Although Qiao Ying is young, the one standing behind him is the Haoqiang Qiao clan, the largest scholar clan in Lujiang, so Qiao Ting's statement will inevitably affect many people.

"It's good to give a joint advice." Yuan Wei said hesitantly, "It's good to come, I'm afraid they won't come." ”

Indeed, the heroes of the Lujiang clan and the civil and military officials jointly gave advice, but it was in Yuan's arms.

At this time, if Yuan Wei takes "Lujiang as the people" and gives up Lujiang painfully, he will greatly win the hearts of the people, and also greatly gain the gratitude of Lujiang officials and scholars.

From then on, Yuan Wei's great description of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people will be established.

At that moment, Yuan Wei said to Liu Ye again: "Ziyang, you go first, and I will arrive later." ”

"No." Liu Ye waved at Yuan Wei and turned around.

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Yuan No's lobby was already noisy.

It was rumored that the Lujiang officials headed by Qiao Ying and the scholars gathered Gongzi Xingyuan, intending to force Gongzi to negotiate peace, and the generals in the army led by Xu Gan and Zhang Duo immediately couldn't sit still, and they all followed Yuan Xingyuan, if Ji Ling didn't want to sit in Nanguan and beware of the sneak attack of the Jiangdong Army, I was afraid that he would also rush over.

But even if only Xu Gan and Zhang Duo came, they were also very noisy.

"I firmly oppose peace!" Zhang Duo, the captain of the infantry army, was extremely resolute, and said sharply, "At the moment, it is clearly our army that has the upper hand, but it is the Jiangdong Army that is tired of coping, and our army is already victorious, why negotiate peace?" ”

Xu Gan also said: "That is, we have a sharp weapon to defend the city such as a thunderbolt car, and the Jiangdong army will die as many as they come, and when their army is depressed and has to retreat, our army will send cavalry to pursue, and it will definitely win a complete victory, a big victory!" ”

A martial artist is a martial artist, and what he sees with his eyes is always only fighting, and there is always only military exploits.

But the scholars are different, in the eyes of the scholars, there will always be only interests, the difference is that sometimes they want to grab greater benefits, for example, before they helped Yuan Nuo to implement Tuntian, that is, they hoped to grab greater benefits from Yuan Nuo, but sometimes they want to protect the current interests, such as now.

"A big win?" Xu Liu said coldly, "It's light, the old man wants to ask, although the Jiangdong army is defeated, there are still 20,000 elite soldiers, and the four counties of Jiangdong can provide a steady stream of grain, grass and ordnance, although our army won a small victory, but now the number of soldiers who can fight is less than 3,000, and the grain and grass ordnance is about to run out. Could it be that you expect those people who can't walk in line to carry wooden spears to kill the enemy? It's ridiculous. ”

Zhang Duo and Xu Gan were called dumb after a while.

Although Xu Liu's words were harsh, what he said was the truth.

After half a month of fierce fighting, although the Jiangdong Army suffered heavy losses, the losses of the Yuan Army were even heavier!

In terms of troops, the Yuan army originally had 4,000 old Yuan troops plus 5,000 Lujiang soldiers, but now, there are less than 3,000 soldiers who can fight, and the remaining 6,000 soldiers are either killed or seriously injured, and among the more than 4,000 soldiers who are seriously injured, a considerable part will eventually die.

Among the remaining 3,000 soldiers who were able to fight, many were also wounded, but the injuries were mild.

Of course, the biggest difficulty is not this, but the consumption of ordnance.

War, as long as it is not fought to the final stage, the consumption of ordnance is generally far more than the loss of personnel, of which the most huge consumption is arrows, and then the bow and crossbow are fragile goods, but if the war is fierce, the damage to weapons such as spears, halberds, shields and ring-headed knives is also quite huge.

The Battle of Juchao has been fought so far, and the bows and arrows of the Yuan army have long been exhausted.

Weapons such as spears, halberds, shields, and ring-headed knives were also heavily damaged.

Even Xu Sheng's eight hundred horsemen are now fighting with a ring-headed knife that has been broken or seriously curled, and although the blacksmith of the workshop is working day and night, where can the speed of repair be as fast as the speed of damage?

Seeing that Xu Gan and Zhang Duo were speechless, Xu Liu was inevitably a little proud, and said, "Now you know, right?" It's not just you warriors who fight, it's just food, grass and ordnance, and money and food! At present, the treasury of Juchao has already been empty, and even the grain and grass support is almost unable to help, so what should we do with the Jiangdong Army? ”

Zhang Duo held back for a long time, and said sullenly: "Don't we still have a thunderbolt?" ”

Xu Liu nodded and said: "Yes, the thunderbolt is very powerful, it can be called a god weapon for defending the city, but the thunderbolt is not without weaknesses, its biggest weakness is that it is too bulky, it can only be used to defend the city, but it cannot be used in field battles, in short, that is, the defense is more than enough, the offense is insufficient, and it is a fool's dream to expect the thunderbolt to kill the enemy in the field." ”

Zhang Duo was silent again, the thunderbolt car is indeed very cumbersome, and it has to be carried by dozens or hundreds of people to move, and it is indeed whimsical for such a big guy to use it in field combat. (To be continued......)