Sun Quan vented all his anger on Liu Bei, and seemed to forget that it was he who was jealous of Zhou Yu.

He thought that Zhou Yu's death had made his decision a laughing stock in the eyes of people of insight in Eastern Wu, but he didn't want to, the trick he played to Liu Bei was also strange Lu Qi, if people laughed. Because in addition to short-term people like Mi Zhu, there are many people who have seen through his plan.

At the end of the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei was divided into Jiangnan land, and in the fifteenth year of Jian'an, he borrowed Jingzhou, and only after Jian'an got Jiaozhou in the sixteenth year, he tried to recapture Jingzhou, isn't this another laughing stock, but Sun Quan didn't think so.

Liu Bei refused to enter the net, but made Sun Quan even more angry, so on the day he received Liu Bei's reply, he immediately ordered Sun Yu to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Lukou, and led the troops and horses of the original Zhou Yu, which should have been led by Lu Su, to prepare to cut down Shu alone, and put forward a transit request to Liu Bei, asking him to supply grain and grass along the way for military needs.

When the news reached Jiangling, Liu Bei realized the seriousness of the situation, and hurriedly convened Pang Tong and others to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Bei handed over Sun Quan's strongly-worded handwritten letter to everyone for circulation, and said worriedly: "The military advisor has seen through Sun Quan's conspiracy, he is annoyed and angry this time, looking at this situation, most of them are planning to meet us and forcibly seize Jingzhou." Now that he wants to forcibly cross the border, I have to agree if I agree, and I have to agree if I don't. ”

Pang Tong threw Sun Quan's letter on the case, sneered, and said: "When Jingnan was not obtained, the lord still had to be afraid of him, with the current situation of the lord, why be afraid of him anymore, it's time to give Sun Quan some color." ”

Liu Bei's expression was shocked, and he said: "What does the military advisor mean, is it to meet with the soldiers of Eastern Wu?" ”

Pang Tong said: "Jingzhou is the foundation of the lord's foothold, and Yizhou is the lord's capital to compete for the world, in these two places, whoever covets it is the lord's mortal enemy, even Sun Quan is no exception!" If the lord is just blindly playing tricks with Sun Quan, he can't let him see the lord's determination to occupy Jingyi Erzhou, now is the right time, the lord might as well fight a battle to make Sun Quan suffer a little, so that he doesn't dare to think about Jingzhou again. ”

In fact, Liu Bei was originally a debtor in the case of Jingzhou, but when he said this to Pang Tong, it was a natural thing like Sun Quan, a creditor, to collect debts, which became a "crooked idea of Jingzhou".

Moreover, this Pang unified exit abandoned the idea of using foreign transportation routes to resolve disputes, and asked Liu Bei to defend his territory by force, and I don't know if he trusts Liu Bei in the number of soldiers and horses in his current hands, or is confident in his way of using troops.

In short, this Pang Tong's strategic style is very different from Zhuge Liang, if Zhuge Liang is compared to water, it looks weak, and boiled frogs in warm water can kill people invisibly, then Pang Tong is a sharp needle, extremely sharp, straight to the point.

"Wolong, phoenix chick, sure enough, the style is completely different." Fang Shao secretly sighed in his heart.

Pang Tong's words of slaughter seemed to impress Liu Bei very easily, and he counted secretly with his fingers, at the beginning, Guan Yu's original naval army, plus the old Liu Qi army received, there were about 20,000 people. The infantry cavalry led by Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and others, after some expansion, now has more than 10,000 people, plus Liu Biao's old department, as well as Huang Zhong, Lei Xu and other people and horses with new troops, adding up to almost 50,000 or 60,000 horses.

It's not that I don't know, this calculation Liu Bei is really surprised by his current strength.

In troubled times, only strong soldiers and strong horses can have the confidence to stand up and be a man.

"Now I have fifty or sixty thousand capable warriors, Sun Quan is only 30,000 horses in Lukou, if you really want to come to fight with me to seize Jingzhou, only the army of the country, I'm afraid that Sun Quan's kid doesn't have the courage, well, this battle can be fought."

Liu Bei is not an unassertive person, he analyzed it privately, and coupled with Pang Tong's words, he gradually gained confidence at this time. recalled all the bad luck he received from Sun Quan earlier, this will hold tens of thousands of male soldiers and sit on the six counties of Jingzhou, this evil breath, it is time to take a breath.

So, Liu Bei thought about it for a long time, and then made up his mind, and said: "Okay, it's time to let Sun Quan know that I, Liu Bei, am not easy to mess with, according to what the military advisor said, if Sun Quan dares to go west, let's fight to the death with him!" ”

Liu Bei decisively adopted Pang Tong's strategy and prepared to turn the policy of Eastern Wu to a tough one. He has only been here for a few days, and Liu Bei has obeyed his words, which can be regarded as out of the limelight.

At this time, Zhuge Liang was not there, Fang Shao, as a student of Zhuge Liang, felt that he should fight for Zhuge Liang, who was also a military advisor, and immediately said: "Pang Junshi's strategy Shao Shen thinks so, but Shao thinks that our primary enemy at the moment is Cao Ying in the north after all. ”

Of course, Liu Bei is not the kind of person who is dead-eyed to obey someone's words and can't listen to other people's suggestions at all, as soon as Fang Shao opened his mouth, he asked: "What Zhongzheng said is certainly reasonable, but now that the situation is forced, whether the Liu-Sun alliance is broken or not, whether the two families fight or not, we can't help it." ”

Fang Shao said with a smile: "If Sun Quan wants to forcibly cross the border, then this battle will naturally be fought." However, Shao means that the lord should first find a reasonable excuse and try to make Sun Quan give up the war on Shu, if Sun Quan doesn't listen, then even if there is a war, Li is on our side. ”

Liu Bei pondered again, so he nodded and said: "Yes, even if you want to turn your face, you should let Sun Quan turn it first, this treacherous name is still better to let Sun Quan carry it, but I don't know if Zhongzheng has any good excuses?" ”

"It's an excuse again, I just thought of an excuse a few days ago, and now I want to think of an excuse again, it seems that I have a lot of fate with excuses."

As a modern person, excuses are not easy for Fang Shao to grasp, since he said this, of course, it was an excuse that Liu Bei had thought of a long time ago, so he smiled and said: "The lord can say to Sun Quan like this, just say that the lord and Liu Zhang are both members of the royal family surnamed Liu, and all they have to do is to help the Han family, if Liu Zhang accidentally offended Wu Hou, please ask Wu Hou to look at the thin face of the lord and let Liu Zhang go magnanimously this time." I wonder what the lord thinks of this excuse? ”

Liu Bei couldn't help but praise when he heard it: "Well, yes, yes, this excuse is very good, just according to Zhongzheng's words." ”

Poor Liu Zhang, one minute he was still the fish in the mouth of this brother of the same clan, and the next minute the brother of the same clan was going to stick a knife in his ribs, and even did not hesitate to tear his face with his former allies.

So, Liu Bei wrote a handwritten letter to Sun Quan, and at the same time, he also passed down an order to order Guan Yu, the general of Xiangyang Taishou and Dangkou stationed in Jiangbei, to lead the main force of the water division to be stationed in Jiangling. With the capture of the general Zhang Fei reappointed Yidu too much, he led his troops to be stationed in Zigui. Wei Yan and Xu Shu were stationed in Xiakou, and Zhuge Liang, who was still in Xiakou, was urgently dispatched south to inspect the four southern counties, check and fill in the gaps, and assist Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others to guard the four counties, while he sat in the public security.

When the tension between Sun and Liu in Jingzhou in the east, in a small black house in Chengdu, Yizhou, thousands of miles away, three people with evil intentions were plotting a big thing.

The door was closed, and the dim light reflected the same excitement on the three faces that looked very different.

"Ziqiao, how is this trip to Xudu, is Cao Gong as the Corporal Lixian as people say?" The person who spoke first was dignified, with a graceful and elegant appearance between his eyebrows, and he was a beautiful man.

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint the two, in my opinion, Cao Ying's current unification of the north, and the new half of Jingzhou, has become quite arrogant, this trip to Xudu, I have suffered his cold reception, such a person, how can Yizhou be dedicated to him."

The person who answered was short, his eyes were as thin as a crack in the door, but he showed a certain shrewdness, this person was Zhang Song, Liu Zhang's subordinate in Yizhou, and the beautiful man who asked was surnamed Meng Mingda and Zijing, who was an inconspicuous person under Liu Zhang.

Meng Da heard Zhang Song's evaluation of Cao Ying, and couldn't help but show disgust, stroked his hair and said: "We are looking for a new master for Yizhou, in order to show our strengths and build a grand cause. ”

Over there, Zhang Song nodded again and again, and counted Cao Ying all over again.

Meng Danai listened to him complain with his surname, but sighed again: "Although this is the case, but with Cao Ying's ambition, sooner or later he will come to encroach on Bashu, Liu Zhang's waste can't even be dealt with by Zhang Lu, not to mention Cao Ying, when the time comes, we don't have to live under Cao Ying's hands, rather than this, it is better to support Liu Zhang, the lord of mediocrity, to be at ease." ”

Zhang Song also sighed, but saw that the other person was still silent, so he said: "Filial piety, you are also strongly in favor of sending Yizhou to Cao Ying, now that the matter has fallen through, don't just keep quiet, but also come up with an idea." ”

The silent person, with a cold expression, is not as handsome as Meng Da, but it is not as short as Zhang Song, but he has been frowning, giving people a feeling of bitterness and hatred.

Nafa Zheng was silent for a moment, coughed heavily, as if there was a lot of something brewing in his heart, he looked up at the two of them, and said solemnly: "Now there are strong enemies outside Yizhou, and the forces inside are full of rifts, and Liu Zhang is weak, he can neither use talents and talents, open up territory, but also can not unify all forces, divide the land and defend himself, such a crisis, not to be swallowed up by a strong enemy or to cause trouble, we are not mediocre people, even if we don't show our ambitions for ourselves, we should also find a male lord who can be relied on for the family and peers, Even if it's not Cao Ying, he must not sit still. ”

When the two of them heard Fa Zheng's words, their expressions became solemn, and Zhang Song said: "In the heart of filial piety, is there another candidate?" ”

Fa Zheng smiled secretly, showing a slight smugness, paused, and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I feel that for today's plan, the person who can be in charge of Yizhou is none other than Liu Xuande in Jingzhou." ”

(To be continued)