These days, it is not the first time Sun Quan has heard such words.

Avoid its sharpness and seek perfection. It sounds good, but it's actually a euphemism for "you can't beat Wei Ba, you admit defeat", although it is a bit harsh, Sun Quan also admits it. After all, the facts are here, Lu Xun and Pan Jun shot together, and they were both defeated by Wei Ba, whether Wei Ba was too capable of fighting, or Lu Xun was confused, the main force suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight again, this is a fact. Sun Quan confessed.

However, the taste of "recuperating and resting with the people" in the back is complicated. You can think of it as learning and practicing and tasting courage, or you can understand that this is the reason for failure: you are too heavy and lose the support of the people, so this leads to a big defeat.

Sun Quan was very unacceptable to this.

That's right, my endowment is relatively heavy, in times of war, how to raise soldiers without collecting more taxes, and how to fight without soldiers? When you are in Linhe, you are asking me to be benevolent, but on the other hand, you are also asking for soldiers and food? I also want to be benevolent, but the situation does not allow it. When the world is peaceful, I will naturally take a light requisition and rest with the people, but it is impossible now.

In the final analysis, I have not lost the hearts of the people, I have lost your hearts. On the one hand, you want power and wealth, but on the other hand, you speak in a high-sounding manner, benevolence and righteousness are in your mouths, and tyranny is all done by me.

Sun Quan forcibly suppressed his anger, so he did not speak ill of Pan Jun. After all, Pan Jun was captured twice, and he was in a bad mood, in this case, he did not surrender to Wei Ba, and insisted on returning to Wuchang, which was indeed not easy. It's too ugly to say, and it hurts feelings.

Sun Quan politely sent Pan Jun away and let him have a good rest. Don't get too uncomfortable. He also generously said that if he wanted to go back to his hometown for two days to recuperate, he would also agree with it. Although the war was raging in the south, the Linyuan area was still relatively restrained, and Zhao Tong and Bu Qi were fighting, but there was no fighting, and it was still peaceful.

Pan Jun heard the meaning, bowed back again, and returned to the house. And he shut the door. I thought about it behind closed doors, never went out again, and didn't accept any visitors. At such a sensitive moment, if he returns to Linyuan. It's basically the same as surrendering.

In fact, Pan Jun is a little sensitive. Sun Quan really didn't have time to pay attention to him now. All of Sun Quan's mind was on the matter of reopening negotiations.

In fact, the negotiations between the two sides began a month ago. However, no one could have imagined that this would be the result at that time, and Fei Yi couldn't believe that Wei Ba would defeat Lu Xun, so his foothold was to keep Wuling. Let Lu Lan withdraw from Chenyang, and at the same time keep the Jiaozhou trade road, if you can cut off Yulin, it will be better.

But Sun Quan was full of confidence in defeating Wei Ba, and he was thinking about whether to kill Wei Ba completely, so he kept delaying, first, waiting for Lu Xun's good news, and second, waiting for Zhou Yin's good news. As a result, Zhou Yin disappeared into the depths of the mountains and sank into the sea like a stone, and Lu Xun failed to achieve a long-awaited victory after paying a heavy price, but ushered in a fiasco, a fiasco that no one dared to believe.

The moment he received Zhuge Ke's military report, the entire Wuchang City held its breath. Fei Yi, who was talking to Zhang Wen, changed his face at that time, like a mourner. Zhang Wen smiled happily and asked to adjourn the meeting and listen to the situation at the front before talking.

None of them expected this to be the result. In fact, at that time, only Sun Quan himself had a premonition that something was wrong, and the others only knew that there was an urgent military report coming from the front, but they didn't know who wrote it, and Sun Quan smelled an ominous smell from the military newspaper written by Zhuge Ke instead of Lu Xun.

When Sun Quan summoned Zhang Wen and Fei Yi, the whole situation suddenly reversed. Fei Yi was ecstatic, and Zhang Wen was dumbfounded.

The situation of the negotiation also immediately changed, although Sun Quan also threatened to tear up the alliance and start an all-out war with Shu Han, but both sides knew that Sun Quan no longer had this strength. Next, the most likely thing to happen is that Shu Han will attack Wuchang on three ways, and the two sides will fight a decisive battle over the ownership of the entire Jingzhou.

If it weren't for Zhuge Liang's main force being fighting Cao Wei in Guanzhong, Fei Yi didn't want Li Yan and Meng Da of the Dongzhou Department to make meritorious contributions and encroach on the materials that were originally going to supply Zhuge Liang, he would probably have walked away. Despite this, Fei Yi still gained great initiative, and he was no longer in a hurry to restore the alliance, but instead stalled for time and made very excessive demands on Sun Quan.

He wanted the entire Jiaozhou, and re-divided the southern part of Jingzhou, at least to restore the pattern before Jian'an 24 years, that is, with Xiangshui as the boundary, the west of Xiangshui belonged to Shu Han, and the east of Xiangshui belonged to Sun Wu.

There are too many things involved, Fei Yi is just a messenger, he doesn't have such a big right, he can only talk about it, how to talk about it, Zhuge Liang has to make a decision. But he can wait, but Sun Quan can't. Every day they were waiting, Wei Ba was advancing north.

Knowing that Lu Xun was retreating, Wei Ba immediately ordered Jin Dongliu to lead the army to follow up, and received Lingling and Guiyang all the way without bloodshed, and the army entered Changsha County, and Lu Xun stopped at Linxiang (now Changsha City) in Changsha County and no longer retreated. Jin Dongliu didn't press too hard, and camped at the place where Lianshui poured into Xiangshui. Jin Dongliu's camp faced the water on both sides, and it was very stable, and Lu Xun was not given any opportunity to take advantage of it at all. In fact, Jin Dongliu didn't give Lu Xun a chance along the way, and Lu Xun tried to ambush him several times but failed, so he had to give up.

The two sides confronted each other, but the situation did not stop there, but continued to deteriorate. As Pan Jun conjectured, Wei Ba's victory over Lu Xun this time not only gained the initiative on the battlefield, but also spread the prestige of the god general to all directions. The barbarians in Guiyang and Lingling County rushed to Linhe one after another to congratulate the Divine General, and hoped to join the Divine General's command and expel Sun Wu. Someone patted his chest and said, as long as God nods you, gives you a pair of seals, and a battle flag, we can pull up a group of people ourselves. What's more, before he could get in touch with Wei Ba, he raised the banner of the god general, claiming to be a subordinate of the god general, doing the right thing for heaven and hanging the people.

Of course, there are also those who fish in troubled waters, holding the banner of gods and robbing houses.

In any case, Jiangnan is surging, and with Wei Ba's arms raised, Jiangnan will no longer have the situation of Sun Wu. Even Jiangxia and Lujiang in Jiangbei began to stir. In this case, it would be unrealistic to say that Sun Quan was not in a hurry.

For a time, Jingzhou was in turmoil, and all Sun and Wu generals entered a state of combat readiness, extinguishing fires everywhere, and doing everything possible to control the situation, so as not to let these barbarians and Shu Han echo each other and completely support Sun Wu's rule in Jingzhou. At the same time, Sun Quan urgently mobilized reinforcements, focusing on Xiling, in case Chen Zhi and Li Yan went east, and Meng Da went south, and together with Wei Ba, they attacked Wuchang.

At this time, although Sun Quan sneered at the benevolent government of Lu Xun and Pan Jun, he did not dare to increase the taxes of the people of Jingzhou, so as not to cause a greater commotion, so he could only mobilize grain and grass from Jiangdong. In this way, the people of Jiangdong were full of complaints, and they had the intention of complaining about grievances, which made Sun Quan anxious.

In this case, Sun Quan knew that he could not be too weak, and he had to make concessions to Fei Yi. Do you want to divide Jingzhou, let's talk about it, you let Wei Ba stop first. If he continues to march into the army, there is no need for us to talk, and Soochow can only fight to the death.

After Fei Yi thought about it for a while, he agreed to Sun Quan's request, rushed to Linhao as quickly as possible, and met Wei Ba, who had just arrived.

After defeating Lu Xun, Wei Ba gained a large amount of baggage, as well as nearly 10,000 prisoners. At the same time, a large number of barbarians arrived from all directions, eager to join his ranks. He did not expand his call, carefully selected 15,000 people, increased the total number of troops to more than 40,000, Jin Dongliu led 10,000, left 5,000 for Liao Li, and he took 25,000 himself.

After the battle of Linhe, the barbarians, who were originally accustomed to rushing up, knew the importance of fighting in formation, and accepted Wei Ba's reorganization with joy and sincerity. Wei Ba marched and trained at the same time, promoted those soldiers who had experienced the great war and made meritorious contributions, and served as officers and officers, and then they instilled their own ideas into the minds of every soldier. After some efforts, this army, which was mainly composed of barbarians, showed a momentum that was very different from the usual impression of barbarians.

What Fei Yi saw was a regular army with strict military discipline and hard training, not those scattered barbarian army, and believed that even if they encountered the same size of Sun Wu's army, they would have the strength to fight.

Fei Yi was happy and worried, and after seeing Wei Ba's face, he smiled a little unnaturally: "Ziyu, congratulations." ”

"Congratulations." Wei Ba hurriedly stood up from behind the case, stepped forward, and gave a deep salute: "Fei Jun, you only see my scenery, but you can't see my tiredness." In the past, I only thought that commanding tens of thousands of troops was very majestic, but now I know it, and only I know the suffering. I have to worry about the eating, drinking, and sleeping of tens of thousands of people, and whenever there is something that I can't take care of, there will be mistakes. Thinking about it, it is really not easy for the prime minister, and the army of more than 100,000 people is like a finger, which is very within the reach of people. ”

Fei Yi looked at Wei Ba with a smile: "Do you really think so?" ”

"Of course." Wei Ba said seriously: "My admiration for the prime minister is like the water of a great river, gushing endlessly." ”

"It's all a heavy general with tens of thousands of troops, and it's so unserious." Fei Yi shook his head helplessly, and was not polite, he found a place to sit down, patted his sore legs, and said, "Ziyu, do you know the purpose of my coming in such a hurry?" ”

"Roughly guessed." Wei Ba put away his smile: "The situation in Guanzhong is not ideal? ”

"Hmm." Fei Yi sighed, his face full of sadness. "Shangluo and Tongguan have been fighting fiercely for a long time, and both sides have consumed a lot. However, the main force led by Zhang He and Qin Lang never appeared, and no one knew where they were. The prime minister's main force is waiting for him east of Longshan, but no one can say whether he can wait for Zhang He. ”

"Do you want reinforcements?"

"The prime minister doesn't know that you won, so I don't know what he means. However, judging from my personal analysis, if you can lead the army north, threaten Luoyang, and then march into Luoyang, you will definitely be able to reduce the pressure on the prime minister. Fei Yi looked directly into Wei Ba's eyes: "Ziyu, your great victory this time has made it possible for Cheng Zheng's original strategic plan to be realized." This is a great opportunity, and you can't let it go. ”

Wei Ba patted his chest and said loudly: "As long as the prime minister gives an order, I will immediately lead the army to the north, attack Cao Wei with the prime minister, and restore the Central Plains." ”…… (To be continued......)