Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Eagle Rises Around the Suburbs
"Fengyi?" Sun Quan smiled and looked at the excited Sun Luban to tell what he saw and heard in the Destruction Camp today: "Did he say why it was called Fengyi?" β
"My sister said what it was in the scriptures, and I said it was because my sister-in-law had a phoenix in her name, but the eldest brother said it was right."
"Yes, yes." Sun Quan nodded with a smile: "But it's not all right." β
"Why is that?" Sun Luban walked around behind Sun Quan and asked while hugging his neck.
"Big Tiger, do you know what the name of your eldest brother has another building ship?"
"I don't know." Sun Luban shook his head: "I only saw one, does he have another one?" β
"Yes, I gave him two escort ships." Sun Quan took Sun Luban's hand and said with a smile: "That one is called Yingyang." β
"Eagle Fly? Which Eagle Fly? Sun Luban blinked, unable to understand.
"The eagle of the eagle, the eagle of the flying." Sun Quan turned his head and looked at Sun Luban with slanted eyes: "Do you know what it means?" β
"I don't know." Sun Luban simply shook his head.
"Does Yuan know? What about you, little tiger? Sun Quan asked Sun Luyuan and Sun Luyu, who were sitting opposite, Sun Luyu shook his head, Sun Luyuan bit his finger, his big eyes blinked, and he blinked for a while, and then said uncertainly: "Could it be Fengyi Yuting, Eagle Yang Zhoujiao." β
"Hahaha......" Sun Quan leaned over and touched Sun Luyuan's little face affectionately: "In the end, it is the nephew of the Yuan family, and he reads well." Big Tiger, let you read but you don't read, it's a fool of you today. β
"What yin and yang, I thought you were talking about the Book of Changes." Sun Luban was a little angry, and rolled his eyes: "Who knows if what she said is right." β
"If you don't understand it, don't think that others don't understand." Sun Quan pretended to pat Sun Luban's hand angrily: "Listen to Ah Weng tell you, what these two sentences mean is that Emperor Yu Shun rules the world with virtue, so there is a phoenix flying into his courtyard and dancing for him, and King Wen of Zhou lives in the world with virtue, so there is an eagle in the suburbs, and he wants to serve him to conquer the cruel and unkind King Xu." β
"What does that have to do with the big brother?" Sun Luban asked.
Sun Quan choked for a moment. When he heard that Sun Shao had named the two warships, he understood Sun Shao's intention: he was reassuring him, if you are good to me, be the benevolent Emperor Shun and King Wen of Zhou, I will be the phoenix and the eagle that serves you. But he doesn't believe in these, or rather, he believes it, and others don't believe it either, these days it's only about the size of the strength, and the name of this thing only has a slight effect when the strength is not enough to sweep everything. He is not Emperor Shun and King Wen, and he does not dare to expect Sun Shao to be the phoenix and eagle.
But in this case, he can only understand, not speak, he can't say to his daughter, Sun Shao is lying to me.
"He wants to fight the world with Aweng, he is the eagle." Sun Quan thought for a while, and had to say vaguely.
"Oh-" Sun Luban suddenly realized: "By the way, no wonder he wants to go to Xiyi to find the Qilin." β
"Kirin?" Sun Quan was puzzled, what did Sun Shao take Sun Luban and them to play today, a phoenix for a while, and a unicorn for a while.
"Big brother heard that there is a country in Xiyi, there are a lot of unicorns, he is going to catch a few and come back, so that our Sun family will be justified in the world." Sun Luban shook his little head proudly and told Sun Quan what Sun Shao said.
When Sun Quan heard this, he was a little uncertain. Sun Shao has the strength at the moment, which has caused the speculation of the ministers and his uneasiness, but Sun Shao has not shown any intention of restlessness from beginning to end, on the contrary, he has always behaved very well. Let him come back to participate in the war, he came back, and asked him to fight the Qingxu Water Division, and he also accepted it, and he wanted to split his Aurora Water Division, and he didn't show any too fierce reaction, except for throwing Zhou Xun and Sun Huan to the Destruction Battalion to toss. In general, there are small grievances, but there are no big handles. This made Sun Quan very conflicted, he hoped to eliminate Sun Shao's hidden danger in the embryonic stage, but he was afraid that he would deal with it too quickly and cause a backlash from the clan again. In order to split the Aurora Water Master, he had to use a Yuzhang Taishou to appease the clan in advance - you see, I can even forgive Sun Ben who did something wrong, how can I deal with Sun Shao? I'm going to clean him up, and he must have an unpardonable sin. Before Sun Shao has a clear rebellion, if he forcibly deals with Sun Shao, I am afraid that there will still be opinions in the clan, and at the same time, it will also chill others - you can even frame Sun Shao out of nothing, then who else is safe?
It's okay to clean up Sun Shao, but there must be a strong reason. So far, he has not found such a reason.
Sun Shao had previously said that he was going to sea and wanted to visit the records on the Book of Mountains and Seas, and now he said so, did he really think so? Even if he wants to be a fake, he won't fake it through Sun Deng and Sun Luban. It sounded like he was very uneasy in his heart, and he didn't want to make trouble about Xiao Wall, so he would rather go to sea. This forbearance is rare for a surname like him, so should he also reciprocate?
"Your eldest brother is a capable person, he said that if he can have it, then there must be." Sun Quan put down his thoughts, and suddenly felt a sense of relief.
"Of course." Sun Luban nodded again and again, as if Sun Quan was praising Sun Shao and praising her.
A day later, Yu Chuan arrived in Jianye with the water master, Sun Quan had prepared the water village for them, and Sun Shao officially moved out of the mansion and lived in the water village. As soon as he saw Sun Shao, Yu Fu vaguely expressed his worries, Sun Quan was splitting the Aurora Sailor Division, and if he didn't deal with it properly, the Aurora Sailor might have an existential crisis.
Sun Shao just smiled calmly, "The most urgent task at the moment is to defeat the Qingxu Sailor and regain the advantage of the Jiangdong Sailor on the Great River, and it is not easy for us to do this." β
On the one hand, it means that the Qingxu Sailor is also very strong, and there are about more than 8,000 people in the hands of Zang Ba and Wu Dun, and more importantly, they are also equipped with thunderbolts, and Sun Shao's advantage is not obvious. On the other hand, the Aurora Sailor must not lose too much, otherwise, he will lose his deterrence against Sun Quan and be reduced to the point of being disposed of.
"I think that if you want to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the Qing Xu Shui Division, you can't hand it all over to us, and the warships in the hands of the generals must also participate in the battle." Yu Fu said cautiously: "Only in this way will our strength far surpass that of Qingxu Shuishi, and we will be able to occupy an advantage and succeed in one fell swoop." β
"Sir has a point." Sun Shao nodded solemnly, he understood what Yu Xuan meant, if he wanted to fight, he would drag Jiangdong's sailors to fight together, and he couldn't let them watch the play on the side, otherwise, he would win the battle, and the loss would be not small, but the fruits of victory would be someone else's.
He's not the kind of stupid cat who picks on people's fire.
"Gongji went home for a few days, why hasn't he come yet?" Yu Fan suddenly asked.
Sun Shao's eyes rolled, and he immediately came to his senses. "He probably talked happily to Gu Gong, and forgot that there was still business, so I'll go and invite him."
"It should." Yu Flip nodded solemnly, and then smiled.
Sun Shao did not delay, immediately led people to leave the water village, rushed to Gu's mansion, and soon after sending the famous thorn, Gu Tan greeted him, and as soon as they met, he respectfully saluted Sun Shao: "Uncle." β
Gu Tan was born in Jian'an for seven years, only three years younger than Sun Shao, a combination of the elegance of the Gu family and the handsomeness of the Sun family, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, polite and polite, half a head younger than Sun Shao, and a little more childish.
"Zimo, is your grandmother here?" Sun Shao asked as he walked inside. Although he is only three years older, after all, his seniority is there, and his official position is high enough, Gu Tan is a little restrained in front of him: "I am talking to my eldest mother inside, and my uncle can see him when he goes in." β
Sun Shao smiled, it's really not easy, the eldest sister Sun Yuanying can talk to Mrs. Lu. He had never stayed in the Gu family before, and he had never seen this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sitting together chatting. He followed Gu Tan into the side courtyard where Mrs. Lu lived, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Mrs. Lu sitting in the hall facing east, Lu Ji sitting in the north, Sun Yuanying and Lu sitting in the east, all looking at him with smiling eyes.
"Fengxian is becoming more and more like a general." Old Madam Lu laughed loudly: "Yuan Ying, what do you think?" β
The style of a general she said can be understood in two ways, one is that he has the demeanor of a general, and the other is that he is very similar to his father Sun Ce, when Sun Ce was alive, everyone called him a general. Sun Yuanying smiled and pursed her lips: "Mother, don't praise him, he is an unpraised person." β
"Hehehe......" Mrs. Lu laughed and said: "It's a boast, I was a general at the age of twenty-one, and even a general didn't have this kind of achievement back then." I was sick last time, but I was really reborn. β
"Madame's got the prize." Sun Shao politely saluted Mrs. Lu.
"Feng Xian, sit, sit, we are listening to Gongji talk about you, he is stupid, it is not interesting to say, you tell us what is going on in the war in the South China Sea." Old Madam Lu warmly greeted Sun Shao to take a seat, Gu Tan served tea, Gu Cheng sat next to his mother Mrs. Lu, and Gu Rong, the son of Gu Yu, who was only a few years old, sat next to his grandmother, looking at Sun Shao with big black eyes.
Sun Shao smiled and told the story of the war in the South China Sea, which made everyone sigh. Mrs. Lu said: "As the saying goes, there are hundreds of birds, it is better to have an osprey, and Feng Xian is that osprey." β
"It's not just an osprey." Lu Ji said with a smile: "Fengxian has a warship called Eagle Yang, and he is the eagle soaring in the suburbs of Zhou. β
"Eagle, eagle, yes, it's an eagle." Old Madam Lu nodded again and again, turned her head and looked at Gu Tan with a smile: "Zimo, you are not young anymore, it's time to go out and experience the experience, according to the eldest mother, you have such a good uncle, don't think of other ways, follow your uncle to do some chores." β
Gu Tan smiled and arched his hand: "I'm afraid that my grandson will be inferior, and my uncle won't be able to look down on it." β
Sun Shao burst out laughing, pointed at Gu Tan with his finger and said, "At a young age, with sharp teeth and sharp mouth, I saw how I cleaned you up in the army." β
"I'm not afraid of this, there will never be an uncle who starves to death of a nephew." Gu Tan replied.
The crowd couldn't help but laugh and burst into laughter.
Mrs. Lu arranged lunch to entertain Sun Shao, and after the meal, Lu Ji said to Sun Shao that he would not participate in the war and was going to go back to Wu County to reunite with his family, since he went to Yulin, he had not been reunited with his family for nearly ten years. Lu Shan said to Sun Shao that although Gu Tan was inexperienced, he had strong mental arithmetic skills and was also smart, and she had passed on the relevant knowledge to him, and believed that he would be able to get started soon after he joined the army. Sun Shao also responded, and then pulled Lu Ji aside, and said the intention, Lu Ji understood: "It's useless to talk to my sister, Sima has never been in the mansion to talk about official business, the general can prepare with peace of mind, I'll just say it." β
Since Lu Ji took the initiative to undertake the task, he was relieved, Mrs. Lu arranged Gu Tan by her side, and she couldn't watch herself suffer. He talked to Sun Yuanying again and rushed to the barracks with Gu Tan. Yu Fu saw that Lu Ji did not come back, but a young man followed, a little curious, he heard that Gu Tan was good at mental arithmetic, so he tried it, and found that although Gu Tan's mental arithmetic ability was not as perverted as Lu Shan, he was indeed one in a hundred, and it was more than enough to deal with the accounts in the camp, so he was also relieved.
Lu Ji's work was done very well, and at the military meeting two days later, Gu Yong proposed that in order to obtain the greatest results as soon as possible, the current water division in Jiangdong would cooperate with the Aurora water division to fight, and they would take on the task of luring the enemy, attracting the Qingxu water division from the water village in Jiangbei, and then the Aurora water division would ambush it, and strive to defeat the Qingxu water division in a battle and completely remove the threat. Sun Quan listened and agreed very much, and Lu Meng and the others had no objections, so they decided immediately.
The next morning, Sun Shao led the Aurora Navy Division into the predetermined waters and made preparations for battle. Jiang Qin led the warship to the front of Qingxu Village to challenge, and LΓΌ Meng led a large group of men and horses to prepare to cross the river.
However, the development of things was unexpected, the Qingxu Shui Division, who had always been very arrogant, insisted on sticking to the gate of the village, Jiang Qin ordered his subordinates to insult in every way, and Zang Ba was indifferent. The back-up moves that Jiangdong had prepared all fell short at once.
Sun Shao was anxious, the war here could not be resolved, he could not go west, if Guan Yu could still be defeated in the same way as in history, it would be fine, if not, then at most two or three months, the situation in the world will enter an inflection point.
At this time, Fei Yuan arrived in Jianye and asked Sun Quan for food aid.
Juchao, Cao Jun's camp.
Fubo General Xiahoudun wore a cloth scarf with a calm demeanor, and respectfully bowed to an old Confucian student: "Send sir." β
The old Confucian returned the salute, and the boy behind him held the prayer bag and walked away with his head held high. Although Xiahoudun led the army for many years, he had been studying, and everywhere he went, he would invite local learned Confucian students to teach him the scriptures. Compared with the aggressive Xiahou Yuan, he looked very thick and elegant, the only flaw was that he was blind in one eye, which greatly affected his overall senses. Although he is now respected and powerful, no one dares to call him Blind Xiahou like he did at the beginning, but the bronze mirror is still the thing he hates the most.
"General, the Jiangdong Army is challenging again." Yang Wei General Zang Ba strode into the military tent and bowed. Zang Ba is in his fifties this year, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a lion nose and a wide mouth, and a very powerful appearance. He looked straight at Xiahoudun and asked tentatively, "Do we want to fight?" β
"No, you don't." Xiahoudun slowly put away the silk book on the case, raised his head and glanced at Zang Ba, who was a little disappointed, pointed to the seat where the Confucian master was sitting just now, and motioned for Zang Ba to sit down: "Xuangao wants to fight?" β
Zang Ba laughed dryly, picked up his battle skirt and sat down, tidied up the hem of his clothes, and then said with some worry: "The king fought fiercely in Hanzhong, and General Zhengnan was besieged in Fancheng, but we are sitting and watching here, I am worried that the king will blame us and others in the future." β
Xiahoudun laughed and said loudly: "Xuan Gao, don't worry, since I am ordered by the king and the overseer is here, I will naturally bear whatever I want." If the king wants to blame, let him blame me. β
Zang Ba smacked his lips, this sentence was blocked by Xiahoudun very uncomfortable, but Xiahoudun was the governor of the 26th Army, and he only had to obey orders. But he was a little unwilling, he used to do it, Qingxu Sailor is not the opponent of Jiangdong Sailor, but now it is different, Qingxu Sailor who is equipped with a Thunderbolt can now beat Jiangdong Sailor to the ground, why do you still have to stay in the village? Is it because the Aurora Sailor is here? Zang Ba has fought with pirates, and knows the combat effectiveness of pirates, to be honest, the pirates' strengths are coming and going without a trace, and in real face-to-face combat, they are not the opponents of the sailors at all. Sun Shao's subordinates are mainly pirates, and although there are quite a few of them, they are not terrible.
"Xuangao, can you defeat the Jiangdong Naval Division on all fronts and help the army land?" Xiahoudun saw that Zang Ba was unwilling, so he asked with a smile. Zang Ba thought about it and shook his head, it's okay to have the upper hand on the water, it's more difficult to cross the river, otherwise why would they stay here, they would have crossed the river earlier.
"In that case, then why should we rush for a while." Xiahoudun said unhurriedly: "The king's war in Hanzhong is going well, Liu Bei has reached the point of exhaustion, Yizhou rebellion is everywhere, in a few months, Yizhou will have no soldiers to send, no food to eat, how can it be undefeated?" Although Zhengnan was besieged by Guan Yu in Fancheng, but they held on more than enough, General Zuo (Yu Ban) had already led 30,000 troops to rush to support, not to mention that they could meet with Zhengnan, and Guan Yu would be defeated at that time. In this way, Yizhou is feasible and the world can be determined. Xuangao, we don't need to fight, as long as we protect Jianghuai and don't give Sun Quan a chance to take advantage of it, it will be a great achievement, are you worried that the king will forget our merits? β
"Don't dare." Zang Ba hurriedly shook his head.
Xiahoudun's meaning is already very clear, they are contained, with static braking, and defending instead of attacking, attracting Sun Quan, making him unable to support Liu Bei, and waiting for Cao Ying and Yu Ban to attack Liu Bei and Guan Yu. From the point of view of the combined situation, this plan is of course the best plan, and of course there will be merit for the credit, but how can it be compared with the credit of breaking the army and killing the enemy.
Zang Ba was still unwilling.
Seeing that Zang Ba was still not leaving, Xiahoudun pondered for a moment, and then said: "Xuan Gao, do you know anything about Sun Shao's Aurora Water Master?" β
"I don't know much." Zang Ba said in a deep voice: "As far as I know, the Aurora sailors are mainly pirates from the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and there are very few sailors who originally belonged to Jiangdong, it seems that they are Gan Ning's subordinates, and some of them are the sailors of Houguan Shipyard, and I estimate that there are also some Jiaozhou sailors." They originally had their own subordinates, and they had just been combined by Sun Shao. β
Xiahou smiled at it, what Zang Ba meant was that Sun Shao's subordinates were not only pirates but also a mixed team, and their combat effectiveness was definitely not strong, so there was no need to worry, he still wanted to fight. "Xuangao, before the Aurora sailors arrived, did the Jiangdong sailors take the initiative to fight?"
Zang Ba grinned and smiled proudly: "I had it at first, but then I didn't dare." β
"Then why do they dare to challenge you now?" Xiahoudun immediately asked rhetorically: "Are Lu Meng and Jiang Qin that kind of impulsive people?" β
Zang Ba choked.
"If the attack is uncertain, why not hold on? Sometimes it is necessary to defend instead of attacking, and sometimes it is to defend instead of attacking. Xiahoudun stood up and walked to the back tent: "Pass on my military order, and those who go out to fight without authorization will be killed!" β
"Whoa." Zang Ba didn't dare to say anything more, and bowed down to receive the order.
(To be continued)