Cao Cao and Liu Miao blocked Sun Ce in the Divine Pavilion for many times, making it difficult for Sun Ce to move forward.

Although Liu Miao is incompetent, Cao Cao has a lot of elite soldiers and fierce generals, although the soldiers from Danyang have poor physical strength, but the short-range fight is extremely brave. Even with Sun Ce's bravery, he couldn't help it.

However, the thing that puzzled Sun Ce was that Cao Cao only fought with him head-on every day, and the rest of the time he was silent and very low-key.

Sun Ce knew that Cao Cao was unpredictable, where did he dare to take it lightly? Fearing that Cao Cao would copy his back road from behind, he distributed manpower to patrol day and night in Wucheng, Yuhang, Jiaxing, Songjiang, and Wujun, and even deployed defenses along the shores of Taihu Lake, for fear that Cao Cao would attack from the waterway. Unbeknownst to him, there was still no news, which made Sun Ce more and more puzzled.

And Zhou Yu's side is still no progress, but if you can capture Qu'a, you can bypass the Beigu Mountain in the east, point to the Dantu, and capture the next tomb from behind Liu Xuan's army, so that Liu Miao will be homeless, only to cross the river with Cao Cao to Shatou Town, and return to Guangling, at that time, he can be deployed by the river, relying on the danger of the river, to block the comeback of Cao Cao and Liu Xuan.

It's a pity that I still have to think about it, Zhou Yu and Mao Jie are really chess opponents.

However, Sun Ce was also dissatisfied with Zhou Yu, because he really didn't know what Zhou Yu was doing, so he actually divided half of his troops to retreat to both sides of the Qinhuai River and deploy defenses in Moling and Taiping. Having made the troops so scattered, Sun Ce was really curious about what Zhou Yu was playing.

Zhu Zhi and Lü Fan were also quite dissatisfied with Zhou Yu, and had repeatedly hinted to Sun Ce that Zhou Yu should be removed and replaced by the main general, and thought that Cheng Pu was very strict in governing the army. It's up to the task.

Of course, Sun Ce refused, thinking that changing generals before the battle was a strategy for defeating the army. It's really not advisable, not to mention that the soldiers and horses led by Zhou Yu are all recruited by themselves. Zhou Yu was deeply loved in the army, and he changed Cheng Pu, but he was afraid that the army's morale would fluctuate, and Cheng Pu led the army rigorously, but he was too conservative, and now the situation was complicated, Cheng Pu was really incompetent, at this time, Sun Ce felt the importance of talents. In the past, I saw that Yuan Shukong was famous, flashy and unrealistic, so I underestimated the heroes of the world, until I saw Cao Cao, I knew that the heroes of Lu Dao were not only themselves, a Cao Cao is still like this, not to mention that it can be called the overlord of the Central Plains Xu Ji. I can't help but secretly plan for my future.

It's just that what Zhou Yu did really gave Sun Ce a headache, and this Zhou Yu was looked down upon by his subordinates on the one hand because he was really young, and more importantly, Zhou Yu's background was not high, although he was also a child of a family. But it's much worse than the rest of the army.

This also made Sun Ce realize that he should be cautious in his use of Zhou Yu, and he could not make his army unharmonious because of Zhou Yu.

Of course, this is a matter for the future, and what Sun Ce is worried about now is Cao Cao's silent appearance. It's unsettling.

A few days later, what Sun Ce had been puzzled about was finally answered: it turned out that Cao Cao had already secretly sent his younger brother Cao Ren to lead Cao Hong and Cao Chun under the command of the strategist Mao Jie. Starting from Guangling to cross the river to the west, cross the river after Tuqi and Liyang. went straight to the Niu Zhu that Sun Ce had just won some time ago.

Sun Ce knew very well that if Niu Zhu was lost, it would mark the complete failure of all his previous military operations, and even if he retreated, he would be attacked by Cao Cao.

At this time, Zhou Yu's soldiers in the ambush of Moling and Taiping played a role, and the newly subdued general Chen Wu sent by Zhou Yu effectively blocked the sneak attack of Cao Cao's army.

After this battle, Mao Jie's strategy in one night, three attacks on Taiping and Moling, were resolved by Chen Wu, at dawn, Zhou Yu, who heard the news, led the army to help, Mao Jie's fear of being flanked, only to retreat to Hengjiang.

When Cao Cao of Qu'a saw Zhou Yu retreating, he overrode public opinion and denied the opinion of his subordinates that this was Zhou Yu's plan to lure the enemy, but made a decisive attack and attacked Zhou Yu at the end. However, Zhou Yu had expected this hand, and set up a small number of ambushes in the southwest of Beigu Mountain, divided into five groups, and constantly harassed Cao Cao's army.

In only two days, Zhou Yujun and Cao Cao's army fought bloody battles one after another, and they did not fall behind at all, which made Cao Cao's advisers inexplicably frightened, thinking that only Cheng Yu and Guo Jia of Yanzhou could match them.

But Zhou Yu obviously didn't have time to entangle with Cao Cao, he transported Niu Zhu's grain, grass, weapons and equipment along the Qinhuai River to Jing County in the rear overnight, after all, since Sun Ce killed the marshal Zulang of Jing County, Jing County is the world of Sun Cejun, although there are few villains in Jing County, but it is safe for the time being.

At the same time, Zhou Yu ordered Chen Wu to light torches to illuminate both banks of the Qinhuai River, so as to confuse the enemy in Hengjiang, and even sent people to pretend to attack Qu'a at night, which frightened the Qu'a defenders overnight, and made Mao Jie's sleepless night, while Zhou Yu rushed to Shentingling overnight to meet Sun Ce.

At dawn, Zhou Yu had already arrived at Sun Ce's camp.

When Sun Ce heard that Zhou Yu was coming, he was overjoyed and led the generals out of the camp to greet Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu was very happy to see Sun Ce, and the handsome fair face that could be compared to Guo Jia and Lu Bu showed an elegant but slightly decadent lazy smile, like the autumn sun, which was unforgettable.

"Lord!" Zhou Yu saw Sun Ce, who was walking towards him, and said loudly: "Lord, please forgive Zhou Yu for being incompetent and not taking Qu A for you." ”

Sun Ce grabbed Zhou Yu's arm and said happily: "Gongjin, don't say anything, let's go to the camp." At this time, a group of Sun Ce's subordinates came to visit Zhou Yu, but there was a look of respect that they had not seen before. He immediately knew that the successive battles he had commanded had already frightened them, and that it would be much easier to command them in the future.

Even Zhu Zhi and Lu Fan were very respectful to themselves.

For some reason, when Sun Ce saw Zhou Yu coming, the haze in his heart was swept away, and Zhou Yu, who was smiling and smiling, entered the camp.

After sitting down, Zhou Yu said to Sun Ce: "Lord, we can't fight here, for the sake of today, it is better to retreat as soon as possible." ”

Everyone was surprised, and Sun Ce asked, "Gong Jin, why do you say this?" ”

Zhou Yu first glanced at everyone, and when he saw that everyone was listening attentively to his words, he was very satisfied, and said in a deep voice: "Lord." Now our army has three disadvantages: it is alone and has no food and grass to support. This is called a chaotic army, and the enemy has been operating in Yangzhou and Guangling for many years. The network is very wide, if a battle is unwinnable, then the war is unwinnable, this is not good; Although the lord is in charge, the name is a young general, everyone in the world knows that Yuan Shu is the lord of the lord, but he does not know that the lord is the Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian, so everyone looks at the general, Yuan Shu. The national thief also, talking about the mandate of heaven in vain, I expect it to be defeated, once Yuan Shu is defeated, and the lord is Yuan Shu's general, at that time, how will the general deal with himself? These two disadvantages also; Yangzhou is called the land of Liu Xuan, in fact, Jiangdong has countless forces, if the general is defeated. will be homeless, there is a Yuan family in Yuzhou, even if Yuan Shu is defeated, then Yuan Ben will definitely take his place. The Yanzhou army is eyeing Yuzhou again, and it is really not a place to settle down, Jingzhou. The land of the lord's father's enmity, if the lord is defeated in the hands of Cao Cao. Liu Biao will only take advantage of the fire to rob, which is not good. With these three disadvantages and the lord is at a loss, isn't it as dangerous as a tired egg? ”

Zhou Yu's words shocked everyone, but they didn't expect that they seemed to be safe, but in fact they were in danger.

Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce, who was frowning and silent, and said patiently: "Lord, it is not too late for the so-called gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and it is not too late for Liu Xuan to bully Lord Wu Jing's deep hatred." ”

After a pause, he said: "Don't forget, Liu Ji is a royal family, and he has a good relationship with Xu Ji, the assassin of Yanzhou, Xu Ji is a concubine, and he can be regarded as a royal family, and I am still nominally Yuan Shu's subordinate to the traitor, so it is inevitable that this will help the suspicion of abuse, and I am most afraid of becoming the target of the public, and there will never be a day to turn over." ”

After another pause, Zhou Yu continued in a deep voice: "The most worrying thing is the reaction of the Jiangdong family, we all know in our hearts, that class of wall grass is not reliable at all, the lord has repeatedly asked the inside and outside to expel Liu Xuan, they are all yang and yin, now when they see Cao Cao interfering, they want to take advantage of the fisherman, in their eyes, their own family interests are the most important, if it were not so, when Liu Xuan bullied Lord Wu Jing and forced the lord to be cornered, how could they stand idly by? Hmph, even if Cao Cao didn't intervene in it, after we defeated Liu Xuan, it was not unimpeded to go all the way south, but I was afraid that we would have to fight all the way to the end, as for now, we can't even think about it, otherwise Cao Cao and Liu Xuan will not be destroyed, and the Jiangdong family will join forces to fight back and forth with the two great enemies, and the lord will never have a place to turn over. ”

Sun Ce was covered in cold sweat by Zhou Yu's words, and fidgeted and said, "Gong Jin, in this way, will the plan be released?" ”

Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "We will withdraw our troops immediately, and we will draw a clear relationship with Yuan Shu, confront Cao Cao with the Qinhuai River as the boundary, occupy Sanshan, Hulin, Xindu and other places, and move westward with Yuzhang as the base to capture Jiujiang County. ”

Jingzhou?! Everyone was stunned. Zhou Yu actually said that he was going to attack Jingzhou. Zhu Zhi couldn't help but say, "Gong Jin, is it really? Let's attack Jingzhou now? Over the years, both Yuan Shu and General Sun Jian have all returned to Liu Biao, and General Sun Jian has died in Jingzhou, and now how can our army be qualified to attack Jingzhou? ”

Zhou Yu said indifferently: "The key to this matter is mainly on the body of Xu Ji, the assassin of Yanzhou, and the current situation in Jingzhou. You must not forget that Jingzhou is not monolithic, Liu Biao has always been worried about the stalemate situation in Jingzhou, although under his auspices, bandits have been suppressed, but the local situation is still independent, Liu Biao naturally wants to take back power, but there is no chance, now Xu Ji has disappeared, Liu Biao thought that the Yanzhou army would be in a mess, and found a self-made idea, and naturally sent troops north, on the surface, it seems to be in line with the Yanzhou army, but in fact, it is fishing in troubled waters, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to defeat the Yanzhou army, In order to expand his reputation in order to achieve the goal of further controlling Jingzhou, it is a pity that he really underestimated Xu Ji. ”

Everyone was stunned, Zhou Yu's words were completely unexpected to them, only to hear Zhou Yu sneer: "Others think that Xu Ji is dying in Jingzhou now, but I think that Xu Ji has already returned to Yanzhou, and even the recent Hedong Campaign, I think it is Xu Ji's handiwork." ”

Sun Ce couldn't help but say, "Gong Jin, how is this possible?" As far as I know, Xu Ji already has an exact whereabouts in Jingzhou, so this thing can't be faked......"

Zhou Yu shook his head and smiled: "But in Jingzhou, who has really seen Xu Ji?" Who knows what Xu Ji really looks like? Xu Ji has a lot of fierce generals, and Xu Ji can find someone to pretend to be himself. And although Xu Ji has been in the army for many years, he is mostly mysterious in front of outsiders, and it is difficult to say whether he is really just a scribe, and it is not known whether he is actually a general who fights on the battlefield! ”

Everyone thought about it carefully and felt that there was indeed such a possibility, Zhou Yu snorted coldly: "On the surface, it looks like Yanzhou and Jizhou are in chaos. But let's take a look, it's been a month. Xu Ji's army captured Xuzhou, Bingzhou, and Hedong County one after another, does this seem to be done by a leaderless army? Now the state and Hedong are in good order. Who's in charge? And who appointed the rulers of the two places? It is said that Guo Jia and Xu Ji are at odds, but where is the actual evidence? Guo Jia didn't listen to Xu Ji's orders from Xun Yu, the principal of Xu Ji's fate, but why did Xun Yu keep Guo Jia's grain and grass? ”

Everyone was stunned by the question and couldn't answer. ”

Zhou Yu snorted coldly: "Xu Ji is low-key, and since he became famous, he likes to confuse the enemy the most, since he disguised himself as someone else during the trip to Chang'an, why can't Xu Ji, who is now in Jingzhou, be fake?" ”

Sun Ce was stunned for a long time, speechless. Zhou Yu suddenly smiled: "Maybe you don't believe what I say, but it doesn't matter." If I'm not mistaken, the next target of Yanzhou's Gaoshun army to attack is not Yuan Shu, but Zhang Yun. That is the best evidence that Xu Ji is not in Jingzhou. ”

Everyone was stunned for a while, they couldn't understand the reason why the Yanzhou army attacked Zhang Yun, and they didn't understand what it had to do with Xu Ji's absence in Jingzhou.

After a long while, Lu Fan nodded and said, "If it's really as Gong Jin said." Then there is great hope that we will attack Jingzhou, because Liu Biao will put the realization entirely on the Yanzhou army. It's just that I don't know if Lu Dao Gongjin guessed accurately. ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "We can wait for a while, wait until the Yanzhou army and Zhang Yun's army start a battle before taking action, and it is not too late to attack Jiujiang County." ”

Zhu Zhi shook his head on the side and said, "I'm afraid this thing is not easy." It is important to know that Jiujiang is in danger of Poyang Lake, and it is not easy to capture it. ”

Zhou Yu smiled and said: "Mr. Zhu Zhi is too worried, you must know that Lu Dao is now in our hands in Anhui City." We can go west from Anhui City to Pengze ......."

Zhu Zhi still frowned and said, "What? Yuan Shu and Liu Biao had been fighting for a long time, and Peng Ze had already taken strict precautions. Even if he fought with the Yanzhou army, Liu Biao would not be stupid enough to transfer troops along the river. Crossing the river from here is even more undesirable. ”

Zhou Yu smiled: "What's so difficult about this? We can send an army to feint to attack Pengze, after attracting the enemy's troops, then cross the river from Yuzhang, attack Jianchang, and then map the north of Chaisang, Jiujiang County is our bag, once the lord occupies Jiujiang County, there is the capital to dominate the south of my Han Dynasty, if you can seek to seize Jingzhou, and then wave the army to the west to capture Yizhou, with the Yangtze River and resist the Central Plains, according to Guanzhong and seek the world, it is not known! Hehe, don't forget that once Liu Biao is entangled by the Yanzhou army, he will definitely be anxious, where is he still in the mood to criticize our actions? This is our best chance! Please also ask the lord to make a decision as soon as possible. ”

The eyes of everyone attracted by the lofty picture depicted by Zhou Yu lit up, and they all yearned for it.

Turning his head to look at Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, who were distracted on the side, he said to the two: "There are two generals, what is a small Poyang Lake?" ”

The eyes of the two began to glow, and of course they had a thousand ways to torture the enemy.

Lu Fan couldn't help but say on the side: "Gong Jin's words make sense, but I'm afraid that others won't give us this opportunity, you must know that we are now enemies on all sides, and we are really alone......

Zhou Yu interrupted him and said in a deep voice: "Now that the world is in chaos, as long as we don't provoke others, no one will care about us." ”

After a pause, he continued to analyze: "First of all, Yuzhou, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, and Yanzhou Army will definitely have a series of bloody battles here, so our rear is safe, on the one hand, the Yanzhou Army is not capable of occupying Yuzhou for the time being, on the other hand, Yuan Shao will not come to us in order to compete with Yuan Shu for territory, otherwise it will be asking for trouble." ”

Everyone nodded, these people were originally from Runan, of course, the struggle between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu was already an open secret.

Zhou Yu said again: "Cao Cao and Liu Miao in the east don't have to take it to heart, as long as we don't provoke them, they won't come to provoke us." ”

Everyone was amazed.

Zhou Yu said coldly: "Let's talk about Liu Miao first, he doesn't have this ambition himself, so the lord naturally doesn't have to take him to heart." The crowd nodded.

"As for Cao Cao," Zhou Yu smiled, "Cao Mengde has been developing his strength in Guangling for many years, how can a small Guangling satisfy him?" Xuzhou in the north is only afraid that it is already in Yanzhou's bag, Cao Cao will not seek to seize Xuzhou, his only way out is to go south, now Cao Cao has heavy troops in Biling and Shenting, it seems to be helping Liu Xuan, in fact, he is looking for an opportunity to go south, if we get out of the way, Cao Cao will not take care of us at all, he will definitely rush south and occupy Jiangdong. As for where we are going, he has no interest for the time being, after all, Cao Cao, like us, does not have a place to live. In that case, what are we fighting with Cao Cao? It's better to take what each has and decide it out in the future. As long as we strictly guard the city west of the Qinhuai River, Cao Cao will never come to provoke us. We will go our own way, with the Qinhuai River as the boundary, I will take my Jingzhou, and he will occupy his Jiangdong. ”

After a pause, he said: "Cao Cao is not a stupid person, compared to us, Yan Baihu and the others in the south are really like chickens and wooden dogs, and they are vulnerable. ”

Han Dang said on the side: "In that case, why don't we capture Jiangdong, but give it to Cao Cao?" Jiangdong is, after all, the birthplace of General Sun Jian. ”

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "We capture Jiangdong?" Don't forget, if that's the case, Liu Miao and Cao Cao are behind us, and we have to deal with Yan Baihu and others in the south on the one hand, and Cao Cao in the north on the other, wouldn't it be exhausting to the enemy? ”

Han Dangden was speechless.

Everyone nodded, Huang Gai was an old minister of the Sun family, and he sighed when he heard the words and said: "General Zhou Yu has a point, but if you think about it, you are really unwilling to give up half of Jiangdong to Cao Cao." ”

Zhou Yu sneered: "What about Cao Cao's possession of Jiangdong? Since those big families will not give face to the lord, how can they give Cao Cao face, Cao Cao has to be busy. ”

Immediately, Zhou Yu snorted coldly and said: "How can I let Cao Cao get Jiangdong so comfortably, I will definitely secretly contact those big families to make trouble for Cao Cao." Hum! Cao Cao's army did not take Qu'a, he couldn't rely on the Yangtze River, and he took Jiangdong without any scruples, and I won't let him have a good time! ”

Everyone laughed, and after the laughter stopped, Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "The lord only needs to be responsible for the defense of Sanshan, Hulin, Xindu, Jing County and other places, and I will personally solve the matter of capturing Jiujiang County, but in this way, most of the lord's men and horses will be handed over to me, I don't know what the lord will do?" ”

Everyone looked at Sun Ce together, but Sun Ce didn't even think about it, so he happily agreed: "Okay! ”

A look of gratitude flashed in Zhou Yu's eyes, but he said calmly: "I will not live up to my lord's expectations of me!" ”

After a pause, he said to Sun Ce: "Lord, you can go to Jing County and other places to recruit troops first, after all, we have snatched a lot of food and weapons and equipment from Liu Xuan. ”

Sun Ce nodded and said to Zhou Yu: "I naturally know this. ”

Then he couldn't help but say: "Gong Jin, the terrain of Jingzhou is complex and not easy to deal with, you have to be careful!" ”

Zhou Yu nodded, turned his head to look in the direction of Cao Cao's camp, and sneered in his heart: Cao Cao, let you go for the time being, but I won't let you be complacent for too long, sooner or later I will let you know how powerful I am! (To be continued......)