Wu Shuo said it quickly just now, Cui Qian didn't understand it all of a sudden, and Yue Hai gave him a translation, and he suddenly became angry. But his surname was gloomy, and his joy and anger were invisible, and after listening to Yue Hai's words, he just raised his eyebrows and said word by word: "If you don't fight a hard battle, it's useless to talk about it." The more fierce you say, the faster you will escape when you start a battle, I see that you have a lot of ships, and you are only afraid of the trouble of escaping when the time comes. ”

Wu Shuo's surname was in a hurry, and he was so angry by Cui Qian's words that he jumped three feet high, and was about to reason with Cui Qian, but was dragged by Zhang Liang. Zhang Liang smiled slightly: "So, you have few boats, just for the convenience of escaping?" ”

"Not really." Cui Qian waved his hand very awesomely: "We have few ships, it's not that we don't have boats, it's because there are only one Fancheng and Xiangyang, there is no need to mobilize the people, there are too many people, and the credit is not enough." He glanced at Zhang and Wu, and it felt as if they had come to share his credit, and the disdain in his eyes could be seen even by the blind.

"The general can rest assured." Zhang Liang remained silent: "We don't like to be robbed of credit, so we won't rob you of your credit." If General Cui is afraid that we will rob him, he might as well suggest that General Hou divide the task, anyway, the two cities of Fancheng and Xiangyang, we can't swallow it. ”

Sun Shao, who was in the cabin, listened to the words outside and laughed: "General Zheng, your subordinates are very morale." ”

Sun Jiao's mouth crooked: "It's okay." However, I think this plan is also good, Fancheng and Xiangyang, each attack one, and no one will delay anyone. ”

"Are we here to take credit?" Sun Shao asked rhetorically: "Doesn't the general know the purpose of cooperating with Guan Gong this time?" Is our goal the two cities of Fancheng and Xiangyang? It's understandable for your subordinates to say that, but it's a little unreasonable for you to think so. ”

Sun Jiao was stunned by him.

"Shuwu, hang up the map." Sun Shao waved his hand, and Sun Huan, who was standing behind him with a knife, immediately stepped forward and spread out the map on the case. Sun Jiao didn't look at the map, but stared at Sun Huan stubbornly, he knew that Sun Huan was arranged by Sun Quan to Sun Shao's side, but he didn't expect that the black boy standing behind Sun Shao was actually Sun Huan, and when he saw his black face, he didn't look at it at all.

"Shuwu?"

"I've seen the captured general." Sun Huan saluted respectfully, and then stood respectfully in his place. Sun Jiao didn't react for a while, he glanced at Zhou Xun, who was standing on the other side, with the same dark and thick face: "Zhou Boying? ”

Zhou Xun bowed and saluted: "Zhou Xun has seen the general of the conquest. ”

Sun Jiao was completely stunned. Sun Huan is just that, although he has a good reputation, but he is only a captain, although it is a bit too much to be a personal guard for the general, but he can barely accept it, and Zhou Xun is a hereditary general, how can he ...... Also as a personal guard? And looking at them like this, it seems to be quite useful.

Sun Shao didn't give him much opportunity to think, he knocked on the desk, attracted Sun Jiao's gaze, and nodded in Hanzhong first: "Liu Yizhou and Cao Ying have been fighting fiercely in Bashu for nearly a year, and the situation is very critical, and they have asked the Supreme for support many times. Xiahoudun's 50,000-strong army attacked by defending, Lü Meng and Jiang Qin fought for a long time without success, and the possibility of defeating Xiahoudun in a short period of time was very small. And here," Sun Shao knocked hard in Fancheng: "It has become the key to the whole battle, if you win, you can drive straight in, take Nanyang, directly attack Xudu, cut off the connection between the east and west of the Cao army, defeat, you will lose Jingzhou, and the Cao army will reoccupy the middle reaches of the river, and you can cooperate with Cao Ying to take Yizhou, and you can attack Jianye." ”

Sun Jiao nodded again and again, he was naturally clear about the situation of this battle, what he didn't expect was Sun Shao's plan to take Nanyang and attack Xu County. Sun Quan's order to him was to cooperate with Guan Yu, defeat Cao Ren, and attract Cao Ying to withdraw his troops from Bashu in order to relieve Liu Bei's crisis. In his opinion, this matter is just a help, and there is no need to push too hard. And what Sun Shao said is different, his goal is not limited to breaking through Fancheng and relieving Liu Bei, he wants to take Nanyang and attack Xu County, what is he doing attacking Xu County? Of course, it's going to take over the Son of Heaven. The reason why Cao Ying is so powerful now is because he acts by the order of the Son of Heaven everywhere, and he has a moral precedence, Sun Quan is still the general of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei has won Yizhou, and he can only stand on the table as the pastor of Yizhou, regardless of whether they have the Son of Heaven in their eyes or not, but this name is still needed.

As soon as Sun Jiao's train of thought was broken, he immediately discovered the mystery, all took Nanyang, then Xiahoudun could not sit down, he must return to Shixu County, so that Lu Meng and others could take advantage of the weakness to enter, and take all the Lujiang, Jiujiang, and Guangling between Jianghuai, although there are no people in these places now, but the land is fertile, once it is successful, Jiangdong's strength will be greatly enhanced, and more importantly, Jianye will be safer.

To guard the river, we must fight for the Jianghuai. Sun Quan has been attacking Hefei for so many years, isn't he just trying to gain a foothold between Jianghuai?

If this plan can be implemented, then they will not only assist Guan Yu, they will be the heroes.

Sun Jiao was a little excited. He stared at the map and stroked the short beard on his chin: "However, even if we rush to Fancheng, our strength is only comparable to Yu Ban and Cao Ren, and it is not so easy to defeat them." ”

"I don't think so." Sun Shao straightened up, his fingers tapping quickly on the desk. "Although Yu Ban's 30,000 army is menacing, Yu Ban has never led such a man alone, and Cao Ren has the ability to command the army, but he is surrounded in Fancheng. Cao Jun's command may not be smooth, and Guan Gong has been in Jingzhou for a long time, and the army of 20,000 or 30,000 is no longer difficult for him. What's more, this is Hanshui, and now it's almost the flood season, but have you heard of Yu Ban Shui Shi? ”

Sun Jiao's eyes lit up and he nodded again and again. As Sun Shao said, although Yu Ban is among the five good generals, he has never led an army of 30,000 like this time, Cao Ying's subordinates are qualified to lead tens of thousands of troops alone, only Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan and a few other people, not that they are capable, but because they are the most trustworthy people in Cao Ying, in fact, people have the ability, but they will not have this opportunity, and they will not have this experience. Commanding tens of thousands of horses and commanding thousands of horses is definitely not a concept, and the complexity of this is far from being several times the relationship. Cao Ren has this ability, but he is now blocked in Fancheng, and Yu Ban did not have such experience before, even if he is smart, it is difficult for him to be like an arm for a while. What's more important is what Sun Shao said, it's almost the flood season now, but the people brought by Yu Ban are all foot riders, there is no water division, Guan Yu's subordinates have a water division that has been trained for many years, although his men and horses are not professional water masters, but they are also very familiar with water warfare, and Sun Shao's people and horses are simply professional water divisions based on water warfare.

In this comparison, their odds of winning are greatly increased.

Sun Jiao sighed with emotion, it seems that it makes sense that Sun Shao can become a general so quickly, he has not yet arrived in Fancheng, and he has already analyzed the strength of the two sides very clearly, and he has stayed in Xiakou for so long, but he has not thought so carefully, he is still limited to creating momentum for Guan Yu and can't extricate himself.

"Reasonable, reasonable." Sun Jiao nodded again and again.

"However, the most important thing now is that we must rush to Fancheng as soon as possible, after all, Guan Gong is now under-armed, slightly inferior, if before we arrive, he has been defeated, then all this is impossible to talk about, not only is the credit gone, we also have to attack Cao Jun in Xiangyang, the sailor will be useless, in that case, the pressure we face will be too great."

"Not bad." Sun Jiao clenched his fists hard: "We should travel day and night, rush to Fancheng as quickly as possible, strive to defeat the ban on the Han River, and then go straight to Xu County." ”

"Just what I want." Sun Shao smiled. He gestured to Zhou Xun: "Okay, the business is over, let people prepare a banquet, and I will invite General Zhenglu and his subordinates to drink." ”

Zhou Xun went out to make arrangements. Sun Shao turned his face and said to Sun Jiao with an apologetic expression: "Uncle, it was official business just now, and I had to be stern, now that the official business is over, let me apologize to Uncle A, and ask Uncle to tolerate my disrespectful salute." ”

Sun Jiao is now immersed in the great defeat of Cao Jun's exploits, and is very satisfied with Sun Shao, where is the accounting more rude than him, on the contrary, he feels that Sun Shao is doing the right thing, when talking about official business, it is the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and he is humble and polite in private, and the public and private are clear. He laughed: "Fengxian, don't be polite, it's my little family who is an uncle, I was offended a lot just now, please don't be surprised." ”

Sun Shao smiled: "I have heard for a long time that Uncle is good at recruiting talents, and I also asked Uncle to introduce one or two." ”

Sun Jiao was even more proud, pointed at Liu Jing and said: "This is Mr. Liu Jing and Liu Wenjie, a famous man in Lujiang, resourceful and decisive, and my long history." Ping said that he had benefited a lot from his assistance. ”

Sun Shao arched his hand, Liu Jing didn't dare to be, and hurriedly returned the salute, Sun Shao called Zhou Xundao: "Boying, this is a famous person in your same county, you can ask for more benefits in the future." You, a Lujiang person, haven't stepped on Lujiang for a single step. ”

Zhou Xun stepped forward with a ninety-degree salute, which is much more than bowing his hand, where does Liu Jing dare to be, the Zhou family is a big family in Lujiang, when Zhou Yu was alive, it was difficult for him to see Zhou Yu at a glance, who would have thought that Zhou Yu's son would be so respectful to himself. He felt a light on his face, and his emotions were a little excited.

Sun Shao asked Wu Shuo, Zhang Liang and others to come in and meet them one by one, and then introduced his generals, especially Cui Qian, saying that he was the most famous pirate in the South China Sea. Only then did Wu Shuo and the others know that this man who couldn't understand the bird language was actually the king of pirates in the South China Sea, and they couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The two sides took their seats, and after a while, the banquet began, and as soon as a few rounds of wine passed, some of the rustiness between the two sides dissolved, and between the staggering, they laughed loudly, as if they had been friends for many years. Sun Jiao deliberately relayed the great prospect that Sun Shao had just described to him to Wu Shuo and others, and as soon as they heard that there was a great merit to be made, they immediately came to the spirit, coupled with Sun Shao's deliberate modesty, their disgust with Sun Shao became a thing of the past, and they were all high-spirited, and they wanted to defeat Cao Jun under the leadership of Sun Shao. No matter how much sincerity there is in these words, the scene is already relatively good-looking.

At the banquet, Sun Shao decided that the fleet would rush overnight, and strive to rush to Fancheng to participate in the battle within two days, and the generals would respond with a bang.

Sun Shao then discussed with Sun Jiao to tow his warships, especially small and medium-sized warships, behind his building ship, and transfer the sailors above to the building ship for rotation, so that the sailors' physical strength can always be sufficient and ensure speed. Sun Jiao felt that it was of little use at first, but later he was taken by Sun Shao to visit the cabin below deck, and after seeing the speed of Sun Shao's building ship with his own eyes, he was amazed and immediately agreed to Sun Shao's proposal.

The boats are connected in series and towed by the fast building boat in front, which not only reduces the overall water resistance, but also effectively ensures the physical strength of the building boat sailors, which also ensures the speed. After this adjustment, the speed of the entire fleet has increased significantly, and Sun Jiao and others were surprised. They looked at the sailors on their boat, although they were desperately rocking the boat, but they could only barely keep up with Sun Shao's boat, which had towed twenty or thirty boats, and they were all a little happy when they looked at each other. If they really want to compete with Sun Shao, they will lose by speed.

Sun Shao left Sun Jiao and Liu Jing on his Eagle Yang, discussing the upcoming battle, analyzing various situations that might be encountered, and at the same time arranging the work that needed to be prepared in advance. Especially if you want to go deep into Nanyang to do the grain and grass needed during the war, you must start hoarding, Sun Shao and Sun Jiao jointly wrote to Sun Quan, asking him to prepare for the war immediately.

The next night, Sun Shao and Sun Jiao were talking in the cabin, Liu Jing walked in from the outside with a happy face, his hand [***], and he smiled as soon as he entered the cabin: "Congratulations to the two generals, great joy, great joy." ”

"What's the joy of?" Sun Shao smiled faintly.

"The water is rising, and the flood peak is about to arrive." Liu Jing took the handkerchief and wiped his hands, and said with a smile: "As soon as the Han water rises, Yu Ban, who is not familiar with water warfare, will be greatly restricted, and General Guan can at least maintain the situation and wait for our support." ”

Sun Shao's heart tightened, and he walked out of the cabin quickly, looking into the distance by the railing. The surface of the river was sparkling, and the sound of the waves crashing against the warships was incessant, and the current seemed to be much more urgent than yesterday, and the river seemed much wider.

I don't know if Guan Yu can seize the fighter plane and flood the Seventh Army as in history. Sun Shao was nervous, for the first time, he was worried that he had changed history and blown away the great exploits of this powerful second master Guan in China. If you really want to fight to the death with Yu Ban's 30,000 army, it will be really difficult.

"Fengxian, are you worried about General Guan?" Sun Jiao walked behind Sun Shao and gently put his hand on Sun Shao's shoulder: "Don't worry, he has been able to hold on until now and has not shown his defeat, which means that God is on our side, and when we arrive, how can Yu Ban be our opponent." ”

Sun Shao smiled and nodded: "I hope so." ”

"Go back to the cabin and get some rest, and I'll let you know as soon as there's any news." Sun Jiao said to Sun Shao with concern: "You came from Jianye Starry Night, you are too tired, and you have to fight for a long time in the future, but you can't exhaust your body." ”

Sun Shao's heart warmed: "Thank you Uncle for your concern." ”

"Who made us all surnamed Sun, broken bones and tendons." Sun Jiao smiled faintly, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance: "There were only a few thousand people when the general raised the army, and the Sun family can have today, isn't it because the children of our Sun family are in a group?" ”

Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, then turned his face sideways and glanced at Sun Jiao, wondering what he wanted to say. Sun Jiao's face looked tough in the moonlight, and his eyes were solemn, staring straight into the night ahead. Sun Shao knew that Sun Jing's branch was relatively strong, Sun Jing was originally the longest-lived among Sun Jian's brothers, and because of his heavy surname, it was not easy to fight with others, so from Sun Ce to Sun Quan he had been more polite to him, when he was still alive, several sons led the troops one after another, in recent years, because of the unremitting struggle of the clan, and Sun Quan's concern about the expansion of the power of Jiangdong's courtiers, their strength has further increased, Sun Jiao is now the general of the Duhu Expedition, and there are as many as 10,000 people under his command, His second brother Sun Yu's surname is more similar to their father Sun Jing, more stable, not as brave as him, and his military exploits are also worse, with only more than 3,000 horses under his command, but he is also a Fenwei general, Danyang Taishou, and the fourth brother Sun Huan Sun Jiming is a general of Yangwu Zhonglang. It should be said that compared to the decline of Sun Qiang's branch, the prospects of Sun Jing's branch are very good, and they should least want the Sun family to have infighting.

Sun Jiao said this to him now, probably because he heard something, and took this opportunity to remind him.

"Uncle, I understand this truth." Sun Shao smiled bitterly: "It's just that not everyone understands. ”

Sun Jiaokan turned his head to look at him, and pondered for a moment: "Rumors stop at the wise, gossiping, why should you listen to it, as long as you stand right and act properly, others will understand you one day." ”

Sun Shao smiled secretly, Sun Jiao's words were a bit off. Now it's Sun Quan who is on guard against me, and you let me let it go, and let Sun Quan clean me up? I don't want to be killed inexplicably, and then pretend to be rehabilitated, saying that you turned out to be a loyal minister, I misheard slander and killed the wrong Yunyun. I don't want to pin my fate on the discovery of someone else's conscience, especially for those who want to be the first in the world, conscience is a scarce commodity.

However, although he was disdainful in his heart, he said very beautifully: "Uncle is right, I used to have too many scruples. In fact, as long as the Supreme believes me, I don't need to care too much about what others say. ”

"That's right." Sun Jiao smiled and said: "The Supreme arranged for you to lead the army to assist General Guan to break Cao, this is the trust in you, and it is the best refutation of those people." As long as you trust each other, don't be afraid of what others say. ”

"Exactly." Sun Shao nodded again and again sincerely.

Early the next morning, Sun Quan was still asleep, and was woken up by Zhou Xun, who told him that there were many corpses on the river, and it seemed that there was a big battle ahead, but judging from the clothes and banners of the corpses, most of the dead were Cao Jun, and many were drowned.

Sun Shao jumped up and couldn't help but be ecstatic, could it be that Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army? He put on his clothes and strode out, and suddenly gasped, and there were corpses floating everywhere on the river, some lying on their backs in the water, revealing their white and swollen faces, and some lying in the water, only their backs were exposed, and they were caught in shields, drums, and all kinds of miscellaneous objects, which was shocking to see. He can be considered to have participated in several major battles, but he used to see a lot of broken ships, but there are only a limited number of dead people, and most of the pirates do not drown after falling into the water, they can all fight to survive, the scene is very lively, but now what he sees is a dead silence, only corpses, no living people.

The feeling is completely different.

Most of the soldiers on the building ship were also silent, and they couldn't see the excitement they should have at all, the battlefield was still a hundred miles away, and so many corpses could already be seen here, so this battle must have been fought fiercely.

Sun Jiao hurried over, but he was a little excited: "Fengxian, it seems that General Guan has the upper hand." ”

Sun Shao came back from the shock and laughed a little unnaturally: "It should be, if it's not unexpected, you can receive the news at noon." ”

Before noon, Sun Shao received the news. Guan Yu was defeated yesterday in the ban, Yu Ban's 30,000 army was washed away by the rushing Han water, the 30,000 army did not use Guan Yu's hands, and was washed away by the water, and the rest of the people were divided on several high slopes, looking at the water in despair.

In fact, Sun Shao and the others saw the water rise yesterday, it was already after Guan Yu won the battle, and the tide peak of the Han River arrived a few days ago, but Guan Yu built a dam upstream, and then it leaked down, and suddenly rushed to the ban by surprise.

"Pound?" Sun Shao suddenly remembered someone: "How is he?" ”

The scout was inexplicable, how could he care about Pound, he thought about it, and could only say honestly: "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Send someone to inform General Guan immediately, if you catch Pang De, don't kill him." Sun Shao was a little frightened when he remembered that Pang De's son later avenged Pang De and killed the Guan family. Now that the battle has been won, there is no need to kill more, and maybe we can break this causal relationship. Since Guan Yu can still flood the Seventh Army as in history, who can be sure that Pang Hui will not be able to enter Chengdu? Cao Ying is in Bashu now, maybe Pang Hui is in the army.

Sun Shao immediately ordered to advance at full speed and rush to the battlefield as soon as possible. Sun Jiao and the others saw that their worst worries had been solved in this way, and they were full of expectations for the battle ahead, and they were full of energy and geared up to fight Cao Jun.

On the Han River, Guan Yugao sat on the boat, looking at Cao Jun who was struggling in the water in the distance, without saying a word. Zhao Lei, Yin Guan and others stood behind him with happy faces. No one expected that a big flood would actually wash away the powerful Cao army. In just a few days, all their worries were washed away like Yu Ban's 30,000 army, and now no one is as frightened as before, no one is persuaded by Guan Yu to withdraw from the army, they are full of confidence in the future, the 30,000 army has been defeated, what reinforcements does Cao Ying have to send? Cao Ren, who is trapped in Fancheng, where else can he run? Liu Bei's predicament can be solved, and Guan Yu's great achievements have been made.

"Father." Guan Ping drove the boat over, and after the boat approached, he quickly climbed onto the boat, and Guan Yu, who was sinking like water, gave a salute to Guan Yu, licked his lips, and said a little nervously: "Father, Pang De will not descend." ”

"Not down?" Guan Yu raised his eyebrows, and a murderous aura burst out: "At this moment, does he still want to escape?" and without surrendering, they slew him. ”

(To be continued)