The flagship of the Jingzhou Army.

It was late at night, but in the flagship cabin, it was brightly lit, except for Guan Yu, Fang Shao, Meng Da and others were all present.

Guan Yu showed the letter to everyone and said: "Lu Zijing is really interested, the big war is approaching, but he invited me to meet alone, I don't know which one he wants to play." ”

"General, Wu people are deceitful, this time Lu Su suddenly invited the general to meet with a single knife, he must want to plot against the general, and the general must not fall into his trap." The confidant will be the first to express his objection.

Fang Shao said with a smile: "Although the Wu people are deceitful, but Lu Zijing has the style of a gentleman, since he invited the general to meet, he will definitely not make those three rotten means." ”

Guan Yu also stroked his beard and said: "What Zhongzheng said is good, I have known Zijing for many years, this person is not as slippery as Sun Quan, I expect him to meet alone on this date, just to persuade me to quit the army." ”

Meng Da's eyes lit up, and he said: "If this is the case, why don't the general ambush the next army in advance, and when the meeting comes, take the opportunity to capture Lu Su, when the Wu army is leaderless, it will inevitably fall into chaos, and our army can take the opportunity to break through, and it will be able to defeat the Wu army in one fell swoop." ”

After hearing Meng Da's strategy, Guan Yuxing's eyes widened angrily, and he reprimanded sharply: "What kind of bad idea are you, the two armies are fighting, and people have asked me to meet in a dignified manner, but you want me to use tricks to capture the murderer, aren't you trying to trap me Guan Yu in a situation of great injustice!" ”

Meng Da was intimidated by Guan Yu's angry reprimand, and was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak any more, although there was fear on his face, he was extremely dissatisfied in his heart.

Guan Yu said proudly: "Even if I, Guan Yu, want to capture Lu Zijing, I must personally defeat him on the battlefield with a dignified and upright army, so that he can lose convincingly." Since Lu Zi invited me to meet, then I will go to his appointment. ”

Fang Shao's heart moved, and he hurriedly said: "Since the general is determined to go to the meeting, then Shao will accompany the general on this trip." ”

So, the next time, Guan Yu left Liaohua Zhao Lei and others to lead the headquarters of the naval army, and Huang Zhong and other Yizhou regiments to guard the upstream water village, while he took Zhou Cang, Shiren and several other people to go ashore to go to the date with Lu Su.

Early the next morning, shortly after dawn, Guan Yu took more than 100 people to the middle border between the two armies in a small boat, and then abandoned the boat and went ashore. At the same time, Lu Su also went to the appointment on time and brought more than 100 people ashore.

The two groups of men and horses walked close to the shore, and on the river, the boats of all sides followed closely along the riverbank, and more than ten miles behind the small boats, they followed closely the warships of the brigade, and at the same time, on the river, the small boats patrolling and reconnoitering back and forth.

Such strict measures by both sides are nothing more than to prevent the other party from setting a trap, in fact, Meng Da's strategy looks insidious, but in fact it is useless. Because the meeting place chosen by the two sides was an extremely open place on the bank of the river, there was no way to hide ambushes nearby, and if they found any unusual movement on the other side, they could quickly board the boats and evacuate. Therefore, the ambush soldiers' worries are completely unnecessary.

The two teams saw each other, slowed down in unison, and finally stopped advancing when they were more than a hundred paces apart.

On the Wu people's side, Lu Su calmed down, checked the saber he was carrying, and wanted to step forward immediately, but before he could take a step, Gan Ning, who followed, couldn't help but say: "General, after thinking about it, I always feel that Guan Yu's surname is like a tiger wolf, and the general is going like this, isn't it too hasty." ”

Lu Su was fearless, and said angrily: "The situation has reached such a point, whether it is war or peace, both sides have to make it clear." Besides, it was Liu Bei who failed our Dongwu, and the merits of the whole thing couldn't be clearer, how dare he do anything to me. ”

Lu Su was determined to go to the meeting alone, Gan Ning couldn't help it, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Since the general is determined to do so, then Ning will accompany the general to go, if Guan Yu changes, Ning will resist, the general doesn't need to ask, just leave." ”

Lu Su's face showed a smile of relief, and said: "There are Xingba with you, what is Su more afraid of, let's go." ”

So, Lu Su rode his horse forward slowly, followed only by Gan Ning and other three guards, without long soldiers, and only a portable sword hung from his waist.

Over there, Guan Yu also only brought Fang Shao, Zhou Cang, and Shiren to ride their horses forward, and the two sides stopped when they were three steps apart.

Talking with a saber is in itself an act of mutual enemies, not to mention that at this time, on the river and water a few miles away, the two sides are even more heavily armed, and before this meeting began, Fang Shao could already feel a strong tense atmosphere.

Lu Su took the lead in bowing and said, "General Guan, it has always been good. ”

Guan Yu also arched his hand slightly, and said, "The body bones are quite tough, and it seems that Zi respects your complexion well." ”

Lu Su smiled faintly: "Recently, I have been worried about the affairs of the two families, how can my complexion be better." ”

Guan Yu pressed the knife with one hand, stroked his beard and said: "This is simple, as long as Zijing withdraws from our border with your men and horses, the Liu and Sun families can get back together, Zijing, you naturally don't have to worry." ”

Guan Yu's words were relaxed, but Lu Su's face was slightly gloomy, and he said: "General Guan's words are wrong, this Jingzhou is my lord and Liu Yuanjun, and my Jiangdong Erlang can enter and exit freely, where does it come from." ”

Guan Yu snorted coldly and said: "Since it is borrowed, then General Zuo has not paid it back, and this Jingzhou is said to be General Zuo's. ”

Lu Su originally came on the basis of reason, but instead gave Guan Yu a reason to be confident, he suddenly became angry in his heart, so he changed his humble and gentlemanly style, and said with great indignation: "The reason why we lent Jingzhou to you in the first place was not because you came from defeat, and there was no place to stay. And you obviously promised that once you get Yizhou, you will return it to Jingzhou, but now you have backtracked and forcibly occupied it and did not return it, so now we want to take back the three counties, why don't you agree? ”

Lu Su took the embarrassment of Liu Bei's defeat at the beginning, Guan Yu's expression immediately became gloomy, and behind him, a military general behind him couldn't hold his breath at the moment, and immediately retorted: "The land of this world belongs to the people of the world, only the virtuous live in it, why does it have to be from your Jiangdong?" ”

Fang Shao looked back, but saw that the person who made a generous statement was none other than Guan Yu's subordinate Shiren.

Previously, in view of the fact that Shiren had a bad record of surrendering to Eastern Wu in history, when Liu Bei decided to stay in Jingzhou for civil and military purposes, Fang Shao tried to transfer Shiren to Yizhou. However, Shiren is a subordinate general who has followed Guan Yu for many years, and Liu Bei is not good at transferring him for no reason, so he can't do it, but at Fang Shao's insistence, Liu Bei replaced Shiren with Guan Ping as the public security order.

Therefore, Shiren, who was not entrusted with the key matter, disappeared from Fang Shao's field of vision from then on, but he didn't expect that one day, Fang Shao would be able to go to the meeting with Guan Yu alone.

And as soon as this Shiren spoke, the way he spoke was the same as Liu Bei's, using "virtue" to suppress "strength", which seemed to be very reasonable, but it was actually a quibble.

On the other side, when Lu Su heard this trick, he immediately became furious, and pointed at Shiren is angry scolding, and what he scolded was nothing more than ugly words such as "strong words" and "treachery".

Lu Su, who has always been polite, was able to scold so loudly at this time, and it seems that he was forced to be a little unbearable by Liu Bei's procrastination.

In Fang Shao's opinion, Shiren's words are very good at the word "drag", but it is obviously not Guan Yu's style to play tricks, so his eyes were like lightning, and he turned his head to Shiren fiercely, and shouted angrily: "I am here with Zijing to discuss the affairs of the country, what do you know!" Do you have a part in speaking? ”

Guan Yu's forced gaze and stern and disdainful words startled Shiren, he originally wanted to refute the opponent for Guan Yu, but he didn't expect to get back Guan Yu's angry reprimand, he felt quite aggrieved, but he didn't dare to complain a little, so he had to lower his head and not dare to squeak again.

After scolding his subordinates, Guan Yu turned his head again, and said to Lu Su with an indifferent face: "Zijing's words are bad, I think that during the battle of Wulin, General Zuo took the lead in charging into battle, and he didn't even have time to take off his armor and rest at night, so he worked with you to break the Cao thief, these credits of General Zuo, are they ignored by Zijing like this?" And General Zuo has this skill, shouldn't there be a small place to stay? ”

Guan Yu did not directly deny the fact of borrowing Jingzhou, but emphasized that his own family had the credit for repelling Cao Ying, and Liu Bei deserved to reward Jingzhou for his meritorious deeds. This excuse was also used by Fang Shao when he fooled Zhuge Jin, and it seems that General Guan also has some research on the art of sophistry.

Lu Su is not as easy to bully as Zhuge Jin, he immediately said sharply: "General Zuo's meagre merit is nothing more than following Gongjin and taking the opportunity to snatch some loot, and my Dongwu from the Battle of Chibi to the Battle of Nanjun, sent tens of thousands of troops, countless soldiers were killed and wounded, and countless grains and grass were consumed, even if General Zuo is meritorious, then please ask General Guan to care his conscience and ask himself, can your credit be as great as my Dongwu?" But in the end, my Dongwu has nothing to gain except for a mere Hanchang County, and General Zuo is sitting on the six counties of Jingzhou, General Guan feels reasonable, does this result make sense? ”

Guan Yu was stopped by Lu Suyi's stern words, and was speechless for a while, so he had to look sideways at Fang Shao, thinking that he knew that he was known for his eloquence, and hoped that he would come up quickly to play a round.

At this time, Fang Shao, who had been watching coldly, stepped forward and said lightly: "Zijing, don't forget, in fact, Jingzhou is Liu Jingsheng's foundation, whether it is Cao Ying or Jiangdong, it is just a forcible occupation. And the head of my family is the royal family surnamed Liu, and when he was dying, he had to let Liu Qi's son give way to Jingzhou. And my lord remembered the credit of the time when Dongwu broke the Cao thief, so he gave up Dali and stooped to borrow Jingzhou, which should have belonged to him, and now it is only because Yizhou is not stable, so it can not be returned for the time being, and Dongwu does not remember the friendship of the alliance, and openly snatches by force. ”

Fang Shao is called the real master, he played the dead man card of Liu Biao, and immediately refuted Lu Su speechless.

Lu Su, who originally wanted to convince people with reason, was now forced to "run out of reason", and after being speechless, he finally became angry and ashamed.

So, he flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "Since you are unreasonable, then I don't need to bother to talk about it, who Jingzhou belongs to, tomorrow at this time, I will see on the rolling Yangtze River." ”

Lu Su is equivalent to a decisive battle, Guan Yu did not demonstrate, and immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "Okay, it doesn't make sense, then let's use the sword to speak!" ”

(To be continued)