"Feng Xian still knows the severity." Sun Quan put the book he had just received on the case, and nodded with satisfaction: "Guan Yu really doesn't know how thick the sky is, he still wants to fight with me for territory at this time, and he doesn't want to think about it, as long as I cut off his food, he will have to collapse in half a month at most, and Jingzhou will not be all mine by then?" Liu Bei Junchen is really short-sighted. He turned his head to look at Sun Shao, and said in an accentuated tone: "Feng Xian has done a good job. ”

"Although General Sun is a bit arrogant, he is a relative of the Sun clan after all, so this bit of proportion must not be wrong." Sun Shao responded with a smile. He could see that Sun Quan was very satisfied with Sun Shao's move, and he was in a good mood, this was the first time he had shown such a smile in so many days.

"Domineering? Says who? Sun Quan glanced at Sun Shao with a smile.

"He crushed the generals to death, isn't this a big deal?" Sun Shao also replied with a smile. He knew that Sun Quan was in a good mood now, and he had some sensitive words to say, but when he changed to another time, he was afraid that Sun Quan would get angry at the mention of this word.

"That's right, this guy does something out of the ordinary." Sun Quan stood up and walked back and forth in the room, "But then again, if it weren't for his unreasonableness and don't take Jiaozhou, how could I be so stable now?" Jiaozhou is now the granary of my Jiangdong. ”

Sun Shao also smiled, smiling very comfortably. Yes, thanks to Sun Shao and Bu Qi, they won Jiaozhou last year, otherwise it is really difficult to say whether they can stop Cao Ying's all-out attack this time. Jiangdong is not short of food, but it is only not lacking, it is impossible to support Liu Bei in large quantities, and now with the thirty years of savings of the Jiaozhou Shijia, Sun Quan's pocket is very bulging, not only the food of the Jiangdong army is not lacking, but also a large amount of support for Liu Bei, of course, this time the price of grain is enough to bite off a large piece of Liu Bei's meat. With sufficient grain, Jiangdong could not only sell grain, but also alcohol, and the widespread use of alcohol not only greatly reduced the casualties of the soldiers, but also could be exchanged for money. If Liu Bei is only temporarily short of food, then he has no second place to get alcohol, Sun Quan said how much is a stone, he has to give as much as a stone, or you don't buy it.

After this battle, Liu Bei's disaster is far from over, and he will have to face the next currency problem, which will make Liu Bei unable to recover for several years. In this case, Guan Yu dared to compete with Sun Quan, and basically could only be attributed to ignorance.

So Sun Quan was very satisfied with Sun Shao's actions, he didn't forget what his surname was, and he didn't ignore the principles because he was Guan Yu's son-in-law.

"How is Jiang Gongyi's side?" Sun Quan asked again.

"It is said that it is going well, although Su Thick Leg has some opinions, but there is no trouble."

"Well, that's fine." Sun Quan sighed and said with some regret: "I really didn't expect that Yu Ban was listed as a good general of the fifth son, and he was so unfamiliar with military affairs. For generals, astronomy and geography should be well understood, there is a flood season in Hanshui, and he is not prepared at all? The battalion of 30,000 people was washed away, alas, what a good general, flashy. ”

Sun Shao opened his mouth and didn't say a word, if the five good generals were flashy, then Zhang Liao beat you to the point where he almost died, wouldn't you be even more flashy? But he didn't dare to say this, he knew that this was a pain in Sun Quan's heart.

As an old minister of Jiangdong, Sun Shao knew that Sun Quan had a heart disease, and the root cause was what Sun Ce said when he was dying.

Before Sun Ce died, when he entrusted Jiangdong to Sun Quan, he said, "The people of Jiangdong will decide between the two formations and compete with the world, and they are not as good as me." Be virtuous and capable, do your best, and protect the heart of the river, I am not as good as Qing. This sentence was originally about Sun Quan's strengths, but from another point of view, it is also talking about Sun Quan's shortcomings: You can't fight. And Sun Quan was only ten years old at the time, it was the time of arrogance, and among his brothers and sisters, except for Sun Kuang and Sun Shangxiang, who were still young, the first three were all brave people, Sun Quan's martial arts skills were also quite good, and he also hoped to fight on the battlefield like his father and brother and make great achievements. This is the case with his third brother Sun Yi, many people think that Sun Yi is more suitable to take over than Sun Quan, because Sun Yi is more like Sun Ce than Sun Quan, and has inherited Sun Jian's ability to fight bravely.

Sun Quan didn't say it, but he was not convinced, after taking over Jiangdong, he led his troops many times to recruit in person, conquered Huangzu, fought Anhui City, attacked Hefei, he often went to the front line in person, at the end of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, when he was under the city of Hefei, he even had to wear armor and hold a halberd to challenge the city. Why? Didn't he just want to prove to others that he was as brave as Sun Ce? Why did he hunt tigers many times and was almost injured by tigers? Again, that's the reason.

However, in the twentieth year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao gave Sun Quan a blow to the head under the city of Hefei, and smashed the confidence he had cultivated, and the 100,000 army was defeated by Zhang Liao twice, and the last time he even hid Sun Quan's life, this fiasco became Sun Quan's nightmare, and once again proved Sun Ce's correctness: "Between the two battles, Qing is not as good as me." ”

More than ten years of hard work has only proved this sentence.

Now that Sun Shao was born, he swept across the East China Sea and the South China Sea in a few years, and made great achievements, as if Sun Ce was reborn, what would Sun Quan think in his heart?

So Sun Shao knows very well, no matter how deferential Sun Shao is, he is a thorn in Sun Quan's heart, and it will not be any problem to say Sun Shao's in front of Sun Quan.

"Changxu, Guan Yu defeated Yu Ban, I think Cao Ren won't last long, do you think Cao Ying will withdraw his troops from Bashu, or transfer Xiahou to ask for help?" Sun Quan walked out of the lobby and came to the porch, and the accustomed ones scattered along the corridor. Sun Shao hurriedly followed, following closely behind. He thought for a moment and said, "It's all possible." However, I don't think it's likely. ”

"Why do you say that?" Sun Quan asked quietly.

"In order to win the state, Cao Ying violated the art of war, poured into the nest, and spent nearly a year to finally attack the hinterland of Bashu. So if he wants to withdraw, I'm afraid it won't be easy. And to ask Xiahoudun to ask for help, I'm afraid it is not easy, as soon as Xiahoudun withdraws, who will guard between Jianghuai? So it's also unlikely. ”

"Won't that be saved?" Sun Quan couldn't help laughing, stopped, and turned to look at Sun Shao: "Sit and watch Cao Ren trapped?" ”

"Of course not." Sun Shao hesitated: "I think Cao Ying will move the capital." ”

"Move the capital?" Sun Quan really felt strange this time, he smiled and looked at Sun Shao very seriously, "Why do you think he will move the capital?" ”

"Supreme." Sun Shao organized the language: "Where do you think Guan Yu can attack?" ”

Sun Quan rolled his eyes, carefully considered the comparison of the strength of the two sides, and then said: "With Guan Yu's current strength, he can probably occupy Nanyang County at most." Further north, there may be some whips out of reach. ”

"What the Supreme said is very true. With Guan Yu's strength, he can win Nanyang County at most, and his soldiers can reach Xu County. Then as long as Cao Ying moved the Son of Heaven from Xu County to Yecheng, Guan Yu could only sigh. And he can calmly attack Yizhou, as long as he takes Yizhou, how long can Guan Yu be majestic? ”

Sun Quan was stunned, he only thought that Cao Ying would definitely come to save Cao Ren, but he didn't think that Cao Ying would give up Nanyang, but Sun Shao said this, it does make sense, if Cao Ying gives up Nanyang and continues to attack Yizhou, then he may still be the final winner.

Guan Yu's victory seemed unexpected and exciting, but after careful consideration, it still didn't help.

"That'...... What to do? Sun Quan was a little anxious. He was not worried about Liu Bei, but about himself.

"There are two ways." Sun Shao hesitated and said: "First, help Guan Yu at any cost, help him fight farther, not only to Xu County, but also to Luoyang, but also to Yecheng, and force Cao Ying to withdraw his troops from Yizhou." The other is ......"

"What's the other one, tell me quickly!" Sun Quan was a little impatient.

"The other is to ask Cao Ying to surrender in exchange for the six counties of Jiangdong. With the strength of my Jiangdong Naval Division, with the great river and natural danger in hand, I can occupy Jiangdong for at least 30 years. Cao Ying's sons, none of them can match Cao Ying's ability to use soldiers, how many years can he live? Once he dies, who knows if anything will change? ”

Sun Quan was speechless for a long time, and Sun Shao's words made him at a loss. He turned back and forth a few times, and finally shook his head: "It's better to assist Guan Yu in attacking Nanyang, although Liu Bei is a scoundrel, it is still much easier to deal with than Cao Yinglai." Although Cao Ying is already over the age of six, who knows how many years he can live, in case he lives for another ten years and does not die, can I keep it for ten years? ”

Sun Shao no longer explained, but nodded his head: "Supreme Wisdom." ”

Sun Quan turned back and forth a few times with some irritability, and said with some anxiety: "But if Guan Yu takes Nanyang, we still haven't made an inch, I'm afraid we will be at a disadvantage at that time." No, we have to let Ziming and Gongyi hurry up and strive to defeat Xiahoudun as soon as possible and seize the land of Jianghuai. ”

After speaking, he immediately sent people to ask Lu Meng to discuss matters with Jiang Qin, Lu Xun and others. After getting the news, Lu Meng and the others quickly arrived, and when they saw the battle report, they were very surprised, they always thought that Guan Yu would have a hard battle, but they didn't expect that a big flood would actually solve the ban, and the progress of the battle situation was somewhat unexpected to them. After listening to Sun Shao's suggestion, the three of them looked at each other, they were all a little embarrassed, and finally everyone turned their attention to Jiang Qin, if they wanted to break the deadlock in front of them, the first thing to do was to solve the Qingxu Water Division, and Jiang Qin's control of the Water Division became the key.

"If you want to defeat Qingxu Shuishi in the short term, I'm afraid it's a little unrealistic." Jiang Qin smiled bitterly, everyone looked at him, he was under a lot of pressure. "Although Su Thick Leg is under my command, his strength is far superior to mine, even if the new warship equipment is in place, our combat methods are not as skilled as theirs, at least we have to be familiar with it for another month, in general, within two months, we will not make much progress."

"Su Thick Legs doesn't listen to your orders?" Sun Quan's face sank, very annoyed.

"Orders are listened to, but they are not carried out thoroughly, and he can always find many reasons." Jiang Qin bowed to the ground in shame: "The minister is incompetent, please punish the supreme." ”

Sun Quan understood, Su Thick Leg and others were not convinced, Yang Feng Yin was violated, and probably Yu Fu was also inactive. It's no wonder that Sun Shao has made great contributions, but he has split the Aurora Sailors, which will inevitably make people uneasy. This kind of thing is not unusual, and if Jiang Qin wants to forcibly mobilize Su Thick Leg before his strength exceeds Su Thick Leg, he is afraid that it will backfire.

"Supreme, why don't you lure it with profit?" Lu Meng pondered for a moment, raised his head and said lightly: "Su Thick Leg was originally a pirate, what did he ask for?" It is nothing more than official positions and benefits, what the general can give him, the supreme can give, and what the supreme can give, the general may not be able to give. ”

Sun Quan suddenly realized, and nodded again and again, yes, if you add an official to Su Thick Legs, if you have benefits, he will naturally abandon Sun Shao and throw himself into himself. He asked Lu Xun's opinion, and Lu Xun naturally agreed. It's just that he is a little curious, Sun Shao also left Su Qiang's thick leg to Sun Quan, is he really willing to sacrifice his strength to show his loyalty? But judging by what he did, he wasn't the one to put up with. Is there any other way for him?

Sun Quan immediately asked Lu Yi to write an order, adding Su Thick Leg as the general of Lou Chuan, sealing the Tang Pavilion Marquis, and eating 800 households, and each of his subordinates had a reward. At the same time, he urged him to cooperate with Jiang Qin in the order and defeat the Qingxu Shui Division as soon as possible, and there will inevitably be another reward at that time.

At the same time, Sun Quan ordered Sun Shao to try his best to have a good relationship with Guan Yu, assist Guan Yu to attack with all his might, fight as far as possible, fight as fiercely as possible, attract Cao Ying from Yizhou as soon as possible, and relieve Liu Bei's crisis. At the same time as the order was issued, he sent out another batch of grain and grass baggage, and at the same time wrote a letter to Guan Yu, saying that he would go all out and cooperate with Liu Bei sincerely to defeat Cao Ying and restore the determination of the Han family.

When Sun Shao received Sun Quan's letter, it was already the eighth day of Guan Yu's onslaught on Fancheng. In the past eight days, Guan Yu has tried his best, the warships have sailed to the head of Fancheng, and the soldiers fought directly with Cao Ren in the city on the warship, and some people rushed to the city several times, but Cao Ren played with his life, and stood in the muddy water of [***] with full pets to run and shout, boost morale, and drove the soldiers who rushed to the head of the city again and again. In fact, he was already desperate when the ban was defeated, and was ready to abandon the city and flee, but Man Favor persuaded him. Man Zhong said to him that although Guan Yu was still in Fancheng, his forward guerrilla army had already arrived in Jiaxia, south of Xu County, and the people were uneasy, but why did Guan Yu himself dare not advance? It was because Xiangyang and Fancheng were still in our hands that he was afraid that the back road would be intercepted, so he didn't dare to enter lightly. If we break through, then even if Nanyang County is lost, Guan Yu can rest assured and boldly attack the area around Xu County. Do you think the Cao Guild will give up Nanyang and give up on us? He will definitely send someone to save us. Even if we want to give up Nanyang in the end, we have to wait for Cao Gong's order, otherwise, we will be sinners.

Cao Ren thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to hold on, he killed a white horse at the head of the city, and vowed to live and die with the city. At this time, Man Chong said to everyone again, the reason why Yu Ban was defeated was not because Guan Yu was strong, but because of the mountain torrent, the mountain flood came and went quickly, as long as we held on for a few more days, as soon as the water receded, Guan Yu had no choice. Everyone was inspired by their confidence, and in the next few days, they burst out with powerful combat power, knocking Guan Yu back again and again.

Seeing that the ten-day deadline was approaching, Guan Yu was anxious, on the one hand, the battle situation had not progressed for a long time, on the other hand, he also felt ashamed, he praised Haikou in front of Sun Shao, if he couldn't take Fancheng in ten days, and then replaced Sun Shao, where would he put his face, could it be that his father-in-law wanted to admit defeat to his son-in-law?

At this moment, Sun Quan's book arrived. After reading the book, Guan Yu breathed a long sigh of relief. In an instant, he was grateful to Sun Quan, not only for his spare effort to support him, but also for giving him the best step. With Sun Quan's order, he could justifiably ask Sun Shao to join the war.

After Sun Shao received the letter, he took the initiative to come to the door, he smiled as usual, and never mentioned the matter of the Ten Covenants, in fact, he did not talk to anyone about the Ten Covenants except for Yin Guan, Sun Jiao and others are still in the dark, why Guan Yu is in full swing, but Sun Shao is sitting like a mountain, and there is no intention of helping at all.

"Uncle Yue, how do you see us cooperating?" Sun Shao said to Guan Yu very politely.

Guan Yu's anger has not subsided, but at this moment, he is no longer in the mood to deal with Sun Shao, if he really wants to mess with Sun Shao, I will wait for you for two more days, and there is really nothing to do with him at that time.

"What do you see?" Guan Yu suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice.

"I'll give my father-in-law a striker, first rush up and beat Cao Ren hard, and then my father-in-law will come to teach him a lesson, presumably Fancheng can go down with one drum."

"Are you so sure?" Guan Yu looked at Sun Shao unconvinced, thinking that he was bragging.

Sun Shao smiled faintly: "With my father-in-law in command, it's not trivial to break a Fancheng." As soon as Fancheng is broken, Xiangyang is also easy to do. Uncle Yue, you should first think about how to march into Nanyang after conquering Fancheng and Xiangyang. ”

Guan Yu saw Sun Shao's old words again, this time he was not as arrogant as last time, because he now knew that without Sun Shao's help, it would not be easy for him to quickly take Nanyang. He pondered for a moment: "When the time comes, you will be the vanguard, and I will lead the army to march later, as for the territory, when the time comes, it will be rewarded according to merit, the two families are allies, and it is easy to discuss anything." ”

Sun Shao smiled, is this like a word, I said this earlier, how can I be like this today. He didn't say a word, but agreed.

Soon, Sun Shao took the army out of the camp, and he said to Sun Jiao, today you will be given a chance to make meritorious contributions, do you see it, I will use thunderbolts to bombard the south gate of Fancheng later, and when Cao Ren is defeated, you will rush up with people, and this first achievement is yours.

Sun Jiao was so happy that his back molars came out, so there was no reason not to agree.

Sun Shao ordered five ships to sail together near the south gate of Fancheng, and the other warships held around Fancheng, preparing to capture Cao's army who might break through. Everything was ready, and twenty thunderbolts and seventy-five giant crossbows from five ships began to bombard the city indiscriminately. To say that Sun Shao has not been idle these days, in addition to letting the soldiers carry out the usual training, he is to prepare stone bullets, prepare a large number of stone shells, and the training of thunderbolt gunners and crossbowmen is the most important, after these days of intensive training, the state of the gunners and crossbowmen has been adjusted to the best state. Winding, loading, and firing are as if they were innately instinctive, and they are dizzyingly proficient.

Cao Ren was blinded as soon as possible.

When he saw the five building ships stopped fifty steps outside the south gate, he already felt great pressure, he ordered the city crossbow and thunderbolt at the head of the city to attack the building boats, but the number was limited, and the second was that there was no chance to replenish the stone bombs these days, and at the beginning there was a little threat, and a few stone bullets hit the building boats, but as soon as the building ships were powerful, they immediately fell dumb, in front of the raindrops of stone bullets and giant crossbows, their little counterattack was as negligible as a drizzle, and what was worse was that The first targets of the ship were the crossbows and thunderbolts on the city walls, and after only two blows, the crossbows and thunderbolts on the city walls were completely lost.

What followed was the time for the Aurora Mariner to unilaterally commit abuse.

The city gate tower on the city wall, which was already about to fall, was smashed, the women's wall, which was originally soaked in water, was smashed, the warships that stopped behind the city wall were broken, the whistling stone bullets smashed the water splash on the city wall, and one by one the water columns rose into the sky, and the long arrows like rain shot the soldiers in embarrassment, and the ghosts cried wolves, and one after another fell in a pool of blood and fell into the muddy water.

The entire south gate of Fancheng became a hell, with corpses everywhere, blood stains everywhere, stone bullets and crossbow arrows everywhere.

Cao Ren shrank at the base of the city wall, his face was pale, full of favor was by his side, he had always been resourceful and now he had lost his composure, Jiangdong's Aurora Sailor had been watching the battle from the side for the past few days, they were a little happy at first, and the two families of Sun and Liu had their own ghosts, and they looked like they were separated, and it seemed that there was still an opportunity to take advantage of it, but I didn't expect that today's Aurora Sailor would use a killer move, and they would be knocked out without even giving them a chance to react. In the blink of an eye, the most heavily guarded south gate was smashed and lost its combat effectiveness.

At some point, the whistling of stone bullets and crossbow arrows stopped, but the shouting of killing was getting closer and closer, Cao Ren stood up, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and said to Man Zhong with no more emotion: "Berning, now is the time for me to fulfill my vow." ”

Man Chong grabbed Cao Ren and was about to speak, but Cao Ren shook his head and slowly pushed Man Chong away: "You escape and tell Cao Gong that Cao Ren is incompetent, he failed to hold Fancheng, and he has died with Fancheng." After speaking, he raised his knife and shouted: "Niu Jin, kill the enemy with me!" ”

"Whoa." The muddy face of the tribe made Niu Jin slam into promise, and followed with more than fifty surviving guards, they stepped on the wanton flow of blood and rushed up the city wall, and met Sun Jiao, who had just jumped off the warship, and neither side said a word, and immediately killed together. Cao Ren shouted forward, the long knife in his hand slashed left and right, and in the blink of an eye, he killed three people in a row, Sun Jiao was furious, strode up to meet him, and slashed with a knife. The two fought in one place, Cao Ren's eyes were wide open, the long knife danced vigorously, the knife slashed at Sun Jiao's vital point, only attacking but not defending, Sun Jiao was forced by his indomitable momentum, he couldn't show it for a while, and was forced to retreat step by step by Cao Ren, Niu Jin took the guards to roar and kill, and protected Cao Ren to the death, more than 50 trapped beasts and warriors who rushed up Sun Jiao and others killed together, one after another people fell, but no one took a step back.

Sun Jiao suddenly became angry, he let out a long roar, and the shield in his left hand held Cao Ren's long knife, and crashed into it. The long knife stretched out from under the shield and stabbed Cao Ren in the lower abdomen. Cao Ren was physically exhausted, he was pushed back two steps in a row, his lower abdomen was cold, he knew that he had been plotted, he was furious, regardless of the punch slammed on Sun Jiao's shield, hit the shield a deviation, followed by the long knife, slashed at Sun Jiao's shoulder, only three inches from the neck, Sun Jiao screamed in pain, twisted the long knife inserted in Cao Ren's abdomen, flew up and kicked Cao Ren's chest, the two took a few steps back at the same time, Cao Ren rose up with his last strength, his left hand was tightly pressed on the back of the knife, and the long knife crossed Sun Jiao's shoulder, A long hole was cut, and a fountain of blood gushed out.

The two looked at each other unconvinced, stumbled twice, and fell to the ground at the same time.

(To be continued)