Sun Quan's sentence of "good treatment" actually implies that he did not intend to clash with Cao Ying in Jingzhou in this delicate period.

Seeing this, Lu Su's brows couldn't help but condense slightly, judging from Sun Quan's treatment of Cao Ren, he had already faintly felt that Sun Quan came with great determination this time, and it seemed that it would be extremely difficult to change Sun Quan's mind about Liu Feng's use of force.

Cao Ren was sent away, Sun Quan closed the wooden box on the desk, looked up at Chen Zhen, and said in a cold tone: "It's rare that my brother-in-law is so kind to send me such two big surprises, it seems that I have to thank him for what he did." ”

There is a clear irony in this statement.

Chen Zhen smiled, waved his hand and said, "Wu Hou and my general are both members of their own family, so why do you need to say thank you." However, my General Liu really has a small matter that I want to ask Wu Hou for help. ”

"This is a strange thing, my brother-in-law beheaded Guan Yu, captured Cao Ren, and shocked Huaxia, he is so capable, I, who is the eldest brother, don't ask him for help, how can he beg me in turn?"

Sun Quan's irony became more and more intense, and in his blue eyes, the anger of resentment was bursting and diffuse.

Chen Zhen could only pretend not to know, and sighed: "Wu Hou is really a winner, no matter how capable my General Liu is, he can only be Wu Hou's western barrier." It's just that now my general has captured Cao Ren and angered Cao Ying, and now Cao Ying's army of more than 100,000 has arrived in Xinye, and there is a great tendency to raise troops to the south and swallow Jingzhou. ”

"Cao Ying wants to fight Xiangyang, I can't help it, otherwise, you can go back and tell my brother-in-law, he can do his best to fight the northern soldiers of Jingzhou, and go north to Xiangyang to fight against Cao thieves, and in the southern county, I will send troops to station and be his solid backing."

Sun Quan began to play a scoundrel, and his words clearly meant to tease Chen Zhen.

Chen Zhen suddenly felt embarrassed and didn't know how to respond for a while.

At this time, Lu Meng said again: "My family Wu Hou actually wants to help General Liu, but our army has just fought a bloody battle with Cao Thief in Huainan, and the soldiers are tired and have no strength to fight again. And General Liu is powerful in China, and his morale is flourishing, and if the whole army goes north, he will definitely be able to repel Cao thief. On the front line of Jiangling, although our army is tired, if it is only responsible for defense, it will not be a problem, and General Liu can rest assured. ”

The two of them sang a double reed, only making Chen Zhen's three-inch mouth speechless.

Seeing that Chen Zhen was silent, Sun Quan's face deliberately became gloomy, and he said unhappily: "You also said just now, Sun Liu is his own family, since he is his own family, what else does my brother-in-law have to worry about, is he still afraid that I will take the opportunity to swallow his territory?" ”

Fools know that Sun Quan is coming to Jingzhou, but on this table, how can Chen Zhen take it seriously.

At that moment, Chen Zhen calmed down and quickly recovered his train of thought, he pretended to be panicked and said: "Wu Hou misunderstood, how could my general not believe Wu Hou." It's just that my generals also know that the Jiangdong soldiers are tired from fighting for a long time, so how dare they bother easily. General Liu meant that Wu Hou Ke led the army back to the east with great fanfare under the banner of entering Hefei, and Cao Ying was afraid of fighting on two fronts, so he naturally retreated without a fight. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to retreat from a strong enemy so effortlessly. ”

This is Pang Tong's strategy for Sun Quan, and theoretically, this is also the best strategy to force Cao Ying back.

However, the wish is good, but it is not always as it is.

Sun Quan listened, stroked his purple beard, pondered for a long time as if he was serious, nodded slightly, and said: "I will consider General Liu's suggestion, but now that our army is fighting the big war, it is a time to be tired, even if you want to go back to the division, you need time to rest." Go back and tell your General Liu, and let him wait patiently. ”

Sun Quan didn't refuse, but he didn't agree on the spot, but gave an itchy answer: Wait patiently.

Wait? When? In such a situation, how can we afford to wait.

Sun Quan obviously deliberately delayed and played sloppy, but now, Chen Zhen also knew that it was useless to say more, so he had to force a smile, thank you, and said that he would return to Jiangling to resume his life.

After sending Chen Zhen away, Sun Quan's anger seemed to have diminished a little because of this, but this did not change his determination to seize Jingzhou.

In view of Lu Su's opposition, Sun Quan ordered Lu Su to lead his army to Xiakou, pretending to go north to attack Xiangyang, and he himself led a large army to Baqiu, with Lu Meng as the forerunner, all the way to the public security, and ordered Gan Ning to lead an army of 10,000 to the south from Xiangshui, preparing to seize the four southern counties.

Gangneung side.

After Chen Zhen returned to his life, he did not bring back good news, and judging from Sun Quan's attitude he described, Liu Feng could only think that Pang Tong's strategy had failed.

Under this, Liu Feng quickly redeployed his troops.

If Sun Quan attacks Jingzhou, Jiangling will be the core target of his attack, and all the defense systems will inevitably revolve around the garrison of Jiangling, and if the Wu people want to enter Jiangling, the Gong'an City on the south bank to the east is their first obstacle.

There were 5,000 troops in the public security city, and Liu Feng himself commanded 5,000 people, together with Huang Zhong, with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 400 warships to guard the public security. In Changsha, Chen Zhi led an elite army of 3,000 and quickly went south, cooperating with Liu Yu to defend Linxiang. On the side of Jiangling City, Pang Tong and Liu Ba led 3,000 troops to garrison.

These soldiers and horses, plus the 5,000 people and more than 20,000 troops of Wei Yan's department in Xiangyang, are already all the Changsha troops that Liu Feng can use.

As for the more than 30,000 soldiers and horses that were surrendered, the three cities of Jiangling, Xiangyang, and Gong'an, as well as the Ma Tan Department that attacked Yidu in the west, some were dispatched to each place.

The reason why Sun Quan dared to use Lü Meng's strategy and prepare to seize Jingzhou by force was because Lü Meng believed that Liu Feng would definitely take Cao Ying as the main object of prevention, and most of his elite Changsha army should be deployed on the front line of Xiangyang.

However, to Sun Quan's surprise, Liu Feng only deployed 5,000 troops in Xiangyang, and Wei Yanyi faced Xinye's Cao Ying's army of more than 100,000 people. The rest of the soldiers and horses were all deployed in the Jiangling Public Security area, putting on a posture of preparing to fight to the death.

Liu Fengyu's attitude of dying in the net suddenly changed Sun Quan's tough attitude, he was not afraid of Liu Feng, but afraid that after he fought to the death with Liu Feng's main force, even if he finally won the victory and took Jiangling, then his strength would inevitably be greatly damaged, and how to deal with Cao Ying, who was waiting for work in the north.

Under these circumstances, Sun Quan ordered the march to be temporarily halted, and the army was stationed in Baqiu, and the attack on Gangneung was not launched for the time being. As for the Gan Ning Division, which entered Xiangshui in the south, it was also only cruising in Xiangshui, and did not enter the actual surname attack on Changsha County.

Sun Quan's immobility made Liu Feng see the hope of reconciliation, so he got the approval of Pang Tong, and sent Chen Zhen to envoy Baqiu again, following Liu Bei's example, saying that he was only temporarily borrowing Jingzhou, and once he attacked Shuzhong to the west, he would return Jingzhou to Sun Quan.

From a legal point of view, the Jingzhou borrowed by Liu Bei is just a place in Nanjun, but now, Liu Feng counts the entire Jingzhou as borrowing from Sun Quan, which is undoubtedly a huge concession.

Although Sun Quan knew very well that Liu Feng's current promise was only a last resort under the predicament, and it was still unknown whether he could fulfill his promise in the future, but when he thought that he could get the entire Jingzhou without bloodshed, Sun Quan couldn't help but be moved again.

Liu Feng was playing tricks, and Cao Ying was not idle. As soon as Chen Zhen left Baqiu with his front foot, the envoy of the imperial court arrived with his back foot.

The envoy of the imperial court brought the holy decree of the Han Emperor, appointing Sun Quan as the pastor of Jingzhou, the general of the chariot cavalry, and ordered him to lead the army to attack Liu Feng, and then led the army to capture Bashu, eliminate Liu Bei and Liu Zhang, after the matter was completed, the Han Emperor will be named the Duke of Wu and allow him to divide the river and rule.

Everyone knows that the holy decree of the Han Emperor is the meaning of Cao Ying, and in order to show his sincerity and let Sun Quan rest assured that he will attack Liu Feng, Cao Ying also took the initiative to withdraw the army from Xinye to the north to Nanyang, in order to show that he came south this time, just to retaliate against Liu Feng, and had no intention of taking the opportunity to go south.

Jingzhou Mu, Che Cavalry General, and the future Wu Guogong, these three titles are really coveted by Sun Quan, although these titles are empty, although Sun Quan knows that this is Cao Ying's plan to make a discord, but the three titles awarded by the imperial court will be of great help to enhance his appeal, which Sun Quan can also see.

Sun Quan's hesitant attitude just now, because of this holy decree, quickly became resolute again. After weighing, he immediately issued an order, ordering that another 10,000 soldiers and horses be transferred from Lusu from Xiakou to reinforce Baqiu, and increase Baqiu's garrison to 50,000 people, with a posture of preparing to advance westward.

Cao Jun retreated to Nanyang, although the pressure on Xiangyang was reduced, but when Liu Feng received the news of the increase in troops from Eastern Wu on the Baqiu side, his mood became heavier and heavier.

To a certain extent, in fact, Liu Feng is more afraid of Sun Quan, the reason is very simple, Liu Feng does not have a strong naval army.

Previously, Liu Feng was held in Changsha, although there was a Hunan water in front of the door, but after all, it was not as vast as the Yangtze River, and it was impossible to establish a water army that could be used all the time. Later, when he attacked Nanjun, although he collected all the four or five hundred warships left by Guan Yu, the navy is not a thing that can be done with ships and soldiers, and the most important thing is that the soldiers must go through long-term training in water warfare.

If Sun Quan really led the water army to kill, Liu Feng naturally did not dare to fight with him on the water, all he could do was to burn the warship and stick to the city, waiting for the times to change.

Faced with such a predicament, even Pang Tong, who has always been resourceful, could not come up with a perfect plan at this time.

Just when Liu Feng had a headache because of this, his wife Sun Shangxiang rushed to the public security from Jiangling City.

originally thought that Sun Shangxiang just missed her husband and wanted to come to the public security to take care of him, but as soon as the husband and wife met, Sun Shangxiang's first sentence surprised Liu Feng.

"Husband, now that the matter is over, why don't you let me go to Baqiu and beg my second brother to withdraw from the army."

(To be continued)