Two days later, Liu Bei, who had been looking forward to it, finally got what he wanted.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of this day, the south of the Yangtze River, which is close to winter, is still warm and sunny, and a shadow appears faintly in the east of the Tianshui line, and people who know the goods will know that this is a large water army. Sure enough, it didn't take long for a piece of white to cover the rolling river, and the so-called white was an innumerable sail.

The Dongwu Navy, thousands of warships, banners, soldiers, mighty and mighty against the river, thousands of sails gathered, like the white yarn that swept the Yangtze River, when sailing through Fankou, only Liu Beijun who came out on both sides of the strait to watch was dumbfounded.

Such a huge naval army, maybe they could not dream of it, although the Jingzhou naval army is strong, but it is not as important as Dongwu, the technology is not as developed as Dongwu, and the height of the building ship is much worse. But this momentum gave great encouragement to Liu Beijun, who had just experienced a series of defeats, and the people of Jingzhou knew that the water army on the Yangtze River was the king, and no matter how strong Cao Cao was on foot, it would be in vain if he couldn't cross the river.

Zhou Yu first sent someone to inform Liu Bei that Yan's army was about to cross the border, and then Huang Gai, Dong Xi, Sun Shao, Gan Ning and others would lead the follow-up army to arrive, and Liu Bei immediately sent Jian Yong to the labor army.

But I didn't expect that Jian Yong came back in less than half an hour, and returned with a look of indignation, Liu Bei hurriedly asked how it was, Jian Yong exclaimed angrily: "That Zhou Yu is really arrogant, I asked him to go ashore to talk to the lord, but Zhou Yu said: 'I have a military responsibility, and I can't leave my post without permission.'" I don't know if Liu Yuanjun can deign to come and meet me, if so, Yu is not very happy'. ”

When everyone heard Zhou Yu's words, they all showed dissatisfaction.

Thinking about it, Liu Beigui is the leader of Yuzhou for General Zuo, but Zhou Yu is also a general. But Liu Bei is a prince of one side, and he is now allied with Sun Ce, and he is an equal head on both sides, and Zhou Yu is just a courtier under Sun Ce, so if he doesn't go to see Liu Bei, he will let Liu Bei see him in turn, which is too arrogant, no wonder everyone is angry.

According to Sun Qian's news, this time the Eastern Wu was led by Zhou Yu to resist Cao, and Sun Ce of Jianye was about to lead 50,000 troops to Chaisang. With such a big difference in strength, Liu Bei has no choice even if he is angry, who calls his own strength weak, let alone Cao Cao, even Zhou Yu in front of him can destroy him.

The fair-skinned Zhang Fei immediately shouted: "Zhou Yu, what kind of thing is he, why should he let his brother go to see him, he should come to see his brother!" ”

"Yide must not be rude." Liu Bei immediately said: "Zhou Yu is the general of the queen and is on an equal footing with the official position, and now he is leading the army and riding on behalf of Sun Che, so why not go to see him!" ”

Liu Bei's implication was that he only admitted that it was Sun Ce's official position, not that he was afraid of Eastern Wu.

Liu Bei immediately decided to go to the ship to see Zhou Yu in person, and considering that among these subordinates, Zhang Fei was too reckless, Zhao Yun had a heavy responsibility, only Xu Shu and Sun Qian, who had just returned from Eastern Wu, were suitable, and at the same time, Sun Gan had a good impression of Zhou Yu's evaluation, so he took the two of them, only one ship, and four personal guards, and went in person.

On Zhou Yu's flagship, according to convention, Zhou Yu should come out to greet him, but after Liu Bei got on the boat, he was greeted by only a small colonel.

"The last general Dai Gang has seen Liu Yuzhou, and the governor of the capital and the governor of the right have been waiting in the cabin for a long time" This small colonel is Dai Gang under Qiao Ren, although this ship is Zhou Yu's flagship, but Zhou Yu himself only brought a few guards from Jiangxia to Jianye, and now those few people can't even do the defense on the ship. Therefore, the flagship is full of Qiao Ren, the troops of the right governor.

Sun Qian originally said a few good words about Zhou Yu, but he didn't want Zhou Yu to snub Liu Bei so much, and his face was a little unbearable for a while, and he couldn't help but feel a little worse about Zhou Yu's evaluation.

Liu Bei still maintained the smile on his face and said, "There is General Lao." ”

If an ordinary lieutenant heard Liu Bei's words, he would probably feel some emotion in his heart, but Dai Gang was obviously not among the ordinary, so he just smiled and said, "Don't dare, please make the king." ”

Liu Bei saw Dai Gang's humiliation and unfazed performance, and he thought a little higher in his heart about the army of Eastern Wu.

When he entered the cabin, he saw Zhou Yu, who was dressed in a silver armor robe, was staring at the map with low eyebrows and pondering, I don't know if he didn't hear anyone come in, or if he did it on purpose, anyway, he didn't pay attention to Liu Bei. There are two other people in the cabin, one of whom is Lu Su, who is familiar to Liu Bei, and is arching to Liu Bei; There is another person, a well-dressed silver armor no worse than Liu Bei's, with a handsome face, it seems that he is not more than twenty years old, but Liu Bei has never seen it. However, Sun Qian on the side knew in his heart that this person was our Eastern Wu Protector General Right Governor Qiao Ren.

At this time, Sun Qian saw that Zhou Yu had no tendency to get up, so he had to come to Liu Bei and Xu Shu and said with a smile: "Lord, Yuan Zhi." The person who looked at the map was Zhou Yu, and the younger person on the side was Sun Ce's protector Qiao Ren. ”

Lu Su saw that the atmosphere in the room was awkward and was about to be relieved, Liu Bei stepped forward and bowed first, and said with a smile: "I have met the governor of Zhou, and I have admired the name of the governor for a long time, and it is an honor to see it today." "Liu Bei did not call Zhou Yu the official general, but called Sun Ce the governor of the capital, the purpose is to imply that Zhou Yu is just a subordinate of Sun Ce.

Zhou Yu raised his head suddenly, with a look of surprise, and also arched his hand, and said: "It turned out to be Liu Yuanjun, why did he come without prior notice, Yu couldn't greet him from afar, please forgive me." Zhou Yu's surprise was not actually pretending, but he was also surprised that Liu Bei could put down his body and come to see him in person.

Liu Bei didn't say much when he saw this. said: "Today, you and I have formed an alliance, so we don't need to be so polite. ”

Zhou Yu was already bold in treating people, and said: "That is the case, please also invite Liu Yuanjun to take a seat." ”

After everyone took their seats according to their official positions, Sun Qian and Lu Su took on the role of formal introduction, introducing Qiao Ren to Liu Bei's side on the one hand, and Xu Shu on Zhou Yu's side on the other. But Qiao Ren kept looking, the Xu Shu, who was known as a talent for helping the world, saw that he had a darker face and a slender body, stronger than ordinary scribes, presumably from practicing martial arts when he was young.

The greetings were over, Liu Bei didn't talk nonsense, went straight to the question he was most concerned about, and asked straightforwardly: "Today's anti-Cao, you and I should discuss countermeasures, I don't know how many soldiers and horses the governor brought this time." ”

Although Sun Qian also brought back the news before, Liu Bei still felt that it was better to do it.

Zhou Yu replied very simply: "30,000 people." ”

"Ahh Not only Liu Bei, but Sun Qian is also very entangled, didn't he say 80,000! How did it shrink so much all at once? When Liu Bei heard that there were only 30,000 people, his face suddenly changed. According to his estimate, in such a battle of life and death, it is not an exaggeration for Jiangdong to deal with the troops of the country, how to make up 60,000 or 70,000 should not be a problem, but Zhou Yu only brought 30,000 people, which is too big. However, it is true that Liu Bei made a mistake in his busyness and forgot that Zhou Yu already had troops in Jiangxia.

At this time, Zhou Yu smiled again: "Plus my Jiangxia garrison has a total of 80,000 people. ”

At this time, Liu Bei's worries disappeared, but he couldn't laugh, the 80,000 army of Eastern Wu and his own family was less than 20,000, and the only one who could really do it was less than 5,000 of the original Yuzhou army. In addition to some other water armies, Liu Pan and Liu Qi's troops were the troops. With such a big gap, even if he can win Cao Cao, it will not be good when he seizes Jingzhou.

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