Sun and Liu are called alliances, and their precautions against each other are naturally much lax, so Liu Bei can use the name of business and other things to unscrupulously insert detailed work in the Eastern Wu side, and even in the name of diplomacy, he can set up eyes and ears in the officialdom of Eastern Wu.

It is for this reason that as soon as Zhou Yu arrived in Moling, he had just made a statement to Wu Hou, asking him to lead his army against Jiangxi to take Yizhou, and Liu Bei quickly received the information.

Zhou Yu's suggestion was undoubtedly a major threat to Liu Bei.

If Sun Quan was lured by Zhou Yu and agreed to send Zhou Yu to attack Western Shu, then it would be impossible for the Wu army to cross Liu Bei's defense area to go west across a southern county, because this would not only stretch the supply line longer, but also easily cut off the return route of Zhou Yu's army once Liu Bei changed.

Therefore, if Sun Quan wanted to attack Yizhou, he had to use Jingzhou as a logistics base for Zhou Yu's army to advance westward, which meant that he had to tear up the previous agreement with Liu Bei to borrow Nanjun.

It was precisely because of this shocking news that Liu Bei immediately set off and went south in the starry night, intending to transfer the army staying in Linxiang back to the public security as soon as possible.

With Xu Shu's strategy, after listening to Liu Bei's words, he immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, and when he saw Liu Bei's murderous aura, he suddenly guessed a few points.

"My lord, are you planning to use troops to seize Nanjun?" Xu Shu asked uneasily.

Liu Bei glanced back left and right, and made sure that the soldiers could not hear their conversation, so he lowered his voice and said a little helplessly: "It is my long-term plan to take Yizhou in the west, how can I allow the Sun clan to get involved, if I tolerate Zhou Yu to take Yizhou first, then the Longzhong plan set by Kong Ming's military division will be wasted, and we will never turn over, so no matter what means I use, I must stop Zhou Yu's conspiracy." ”

Zhou Yu's people were not in Jiangling, and the total Wu army in Jingzhou was only 30,000, and they were stationed in Jiangling, Baqiu, Lukou and other places.

What Liu Bei did was such wishful thinking, Xu Shuyan didn't know.

"Zhou Yu has always been afraid of the lord, even if the person is not in Jiangling, he will definitely arrange a precautionary strategy when he leaves, if the lord takes the risk of raiding Jiangling, once it does not work, it will give Dongwu an excellent excuse to attack us, and then the Dongwu army will come to retaliate, with our current strength, how can we compete with it?"

Liu Bei's desperate strategy was dismantled by Xu Shu in just a few words.

After listening to Xu Shu's analysis, Liu Bei calmed down and weighed the pros and cons a little, and soon realized that now was not the time to take the risk of turning the other cheek with Dongwu, but how could he sit back and watch Zhou Yu play tricks and destroy the grand plan he had worked so hard to manage.

"Yuan Zhi, it's not a raid on Jiangling, and it's even more impossible to be tied up, so according to Yuan Zhi's opinion, how should we deal with Zhou Yu's tricks?" Liu Bei asked worriedly.

Xu Shu stroked his short beard and paced the bow of the boat a few times, his frowning brows gradually relaxed, and finally the corners of his mouth raised a sneer.

"Shu has a plan, and Wu Hou vetoed Zhou Lang's plan."

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Linxiang.

After Liu Feng defeated Guan Yu that night, he did not chase after him, and after the next day, he really found out that Guan Yu had deployed about 1,000 follow-up troops in the Xiangshui camp.

After Guan Yu experienced the defeat of the day, he did not continue to entangle, stayed in Linxiang for two days to rest, and then went north with all his camps.

Liu Feng did not relax his vigilance because of this, he sent many scouts to follow and monitor the enemy's movements all the way, and it was not until Guan Yu's fleet sailed out of Xiangshuikou that Liu Feng was convinced that Guan Yu was really withdrawing this time.

Immediately afterward, news of Zhang Feijun's retreat to Lingling also came from Guiyang in the south, and Liu Bei seemed to have strictly adhered to the agreement reached with Sun Quan, not only withdrawing the army, but also withdrawing many of the county towns that had already been occupied.

So, soon after Liu Bei withdrew his troops, Liu Feng sent Huang Zhong to lead his headquarters with 1,000 troops and horses to the north and recapture Yiyang on the west bank of Xiangshui, using it as a gateway to shield Changsha County.

While completing the recovery of the lost land in the two counties of eastern Xiangdong, Liu Feng accepted Liu Ba's suggestion to recruit Chen Zhenwei, a native of Nanyang, and sent him to Moling with heavy gifts, and according to the agreement with Sun Quan, he proposed to Sun Shangxiang with formal etiquette.

Linxiang is thousands of miles away from Moling, Chen Zhen is here, and it will take a month to go back and forth, during this time, all Liu Feng can do is wait patiently, hoping that there will be no more changes in the middle.

At this time, Liu Fengzheng, accompanied by Liu Ba, inspected the cultivation of farmland in eastern Linxiang.

Due to Liu Bei's poisonous plan to dig the Hunan water to flood Linxiang, although it did not wash away the city of Linxiang, the flood flooded many surrounding fertile land farmhouses and caused considerable damage to the economy.

In such an era of farming, agriculture is the foundation of strength, and Liu Feng had to pay more attention to it, so at the beginning of Guan Yu's withdrawal of troops, Liu Ba was ordered to restore the surrounding agricultural economy damaged by the war.

Just as Liu Feng was inspecting the field, a horse galloped over: "Lord Qi, the envoy sent by the imperial court, Jiang Gan, has arrived outside the city. ”

Court? Envoy?

I haven't heard these two terms for a long time, Liu Fengchu was still a little unable to react, and after a pause, Liu Feng suddenly realized that this was the arrival of someone from Cao Ying's faction.

Today, everyone knows that the Han Emperor Liu Xie of Xu Du is just an ornament, and any so-called holy decree from Xu Du is naturally instructed by Cao Ying. Even so, the princes of all parties, although they could refuse to accept the will of the imperial court, had to nominally still respect the puppet Han Emperor.

"This Jiang Gan must have come on the order of Duke Cao, lord, let's hurry back to the city to greet him."

Liu Ba's expression immediately became solemn, and the sentence "Cao Gong" in his mouth was also very cordial, Liu Feng suddenly remembered that Liu Ba had an experience of taking the initiative to join Cao, although he is now loyal to himself, but he still seems to have an inseparable good impression of Cao Ying.

As a new prince, Liu Feng naturally had to learn from his predecessors, and he still had to respect the court on this face, so he quickly put down what he was doing and rushed back to Linxiang.

rushed all the way back to Linxiang, returned to his Zhennan General's Mansion, and heard that Ma Jian and others had invited the envoys of the imperial court into the political hall to wait for a long time, Liu Feng went straight to it.

When he walked into the lobby, he found that the legendary Jiang Gan seemed to be quite different from the clown image in his impression.