Standing at the head of the city and watching Sun Ce and Lei Tong fight in the streets. There are not only Xuzhou generals such as Zhang Liao and Pang Tong, but also Jiangdong generals not far away.

When Sun Quan saw that his eldest brother Sun Ce finally led his men to attack an agreed mansion and planted a flag on the roof, he was already excited.

was defeated by the Xuzhou side twice in a row, but as long as there are still some bloody Jiangdong children, who doesn't expect the eldest prince to save some face for Jiangdong in the final battle?

While everyone in Jiangdong was cheering for Sun Ce's victory at the head of the city, Zhou Yu frowned tightly, not knowing what he had discovered, so that he turned a blind eye to the bravery of the Grand Duke Sun Ce.

Zhou Yu naturally wouldn't tell the people around him that although Jiangdong barely won the battle, as long as he looked at the performance of the opposing soldiers before and after the main general Lei Tong was "killed" by Sun Ce, and looked at the casualties on both sides, it was not difficult to find Xuzhou's intention to concede.

As the third general of Xuzhou to participate in the competition, Lei Tong was unknown before, and his martial arts were obviously inferior to Sun Ce, but in the first half of the competition between the two armies, Lei Tong was not at the forefront, but calmly commanded his soldiers to have a tenacious confrontation with Sun Ce. In the entire first half of the battle, the soldiers on the Xuzhou side defended without leakage, and the attack was tacitly coordinated, which directly caused the number of "casualties" on the Jiangdong side to be significantly more than that in Xuzhou.

I don't know what Lei Tong's considerations were in the second half, he actually rushed to the front with a weapon to attack Sun Ce, who had fallen into a state of madness, and was "stabbed to death" by Sun Ce with a shot, and then the soldiers on the Xuzhou side began to gradually break up until they were all "killed". In order to win this victory, Sun Ce's body was lit with cinnabar in at least seven or eight places, and the soldiers who finally "survived" on the Jiangdong side were only 300 people!

Of course, the above-mentioned "killed", "casualties", and "survived" are not really dead, but according to the rules of the competition, all of them were hit by the opponent's weapons.

Because Jiangdong finally won a game, although he lost the supreme command of the coalition army, but after all, it was not too ugly, so Sun Ce still generously agreed that Zhang Liao would serve as the commander of the Xu-Wu coalition army, and in the future, he would be fully responsible for commanding the 120,000 troops of both sides to attack Yuzhou and besiege Nanyang.

That night, when Sun Ce was nowhere to be around, Zhou Yu told Sun Ce what he had seen during the day and what he thought in his heart. Zhou Yu said to Sun Ce: "In the last battle, our side took Bo Fu as the main general, but the Xuzhou side only sent a middle-level general Lei Tong, Zhang Liao and Li Tiezhu and others did not make a move, can Bo Fu know the meaning?"

After Sun Ce listened, he was silent for a moment, and then his face slowly became a little ugly, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief, and then said with emotion: "In the past, I only heard people say how Zhang Wenyuan was treacherous and refused to suffer, but now it seems that this person is a rare general, compared to Guan Yunchang, Xu Gongming, Zhao Zilong and others, not inferior! Fortunately, now that the two sides have formed an alliance, if it is a battlefield duel, I am afraid that we will lose even more ugly." ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "Although admitting this result will make you feel bitter in your heart, but in terms of the actual situation, the combat power of the Jiangdong Legion is indeed not small compared with the Xuzhou Legion. I have heard that Li Tiezhu, the main general who succeeded Zhang Liao in commanding the dragoon army, is also a very good general, and he has never made a move this time. If we have a duel with 60,000 Jiangdong troops and the Xuzhou Army, and the opponent has generals such as Zhang Liao, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and Li Tiezhu, I really don't see what our chances of winning are. ”

Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu: "Gong Jin thought that Zhang Liao would save us some face in the end this time, but he was instructed by the king of Pingxi?"

Zhou Yu replied: "It is very possible that this is also a hint that the king of Pingxi will continue to convey goodwill to Jiangdong." Although I and Bofu, even the second prince and many generals of the younger generation in Jiangdong are a little unconvinced by the speed and means of the rise of King Pingxi, but to this day, we have to admit that King Pingxi has indeed complied with the will of the army and **, if not, how can he control so many amazingly talented and unruly civil and military generals under his command?"

Sun Ce finally said: "In this way, we still need to pay more attention, even if we join Zhao Guochang's command in the future, we must not abandon the prestige of the children of Jiangdong!"

The three successive battles between the Wuzhou army and the Xuzhou army in the Huailing area, in the eyes of outsiders, are real swords and real guns, although the number of troops invested each time is only a few thousand, but in terms of the "fierce" degree of the fighting, it fully shows the relationship between Wuzhou and the Jin State now "water and fire are incompatible, and the fish is dead and the net is broken".

It is normal for people who don't know the inside story to have this kind of thought, after all, this series of actions that Zhang Liao and Sun Ce teamed up to do is too deceptive. If it is linked to Sun Quan's previous "invasion" of Guangling County, it is even more reasonable to believe that the current situation is that Zhang Liao, after tolerating for a period of time, finally stopped caring about the relationship between the former Jin State and Jiangdong, and launched a fierce counterattack. And Sun Ce's leading the army to the north is better understood. Because Sun Quan couldn't withstand Zhang Liao's counterattack, he hurriedly called his brother Sun Ce to come over to help, and the two brothers "avenged their father" together.

There are not a few people who have the above thoughts, but they do not include Zhuge Kongming, who is in Shouchun City.

From the very beginning, Kong Ming was very vigilant about the comings and goings between Jiangdong and Xuzhou, and when he found out that Sun Quan led 30,000 Jiangdong soldiers to cross the river and only operated in the southern part of Guangling County, and Zhang Liao had no way to deal with it, his suspicions became even heavier.

Sun Ce crossed the river with 30,000 infantry and entered the territory of Xuzhou, many people wished that Zhang Liao and Sun Ce would fight and break the bloodstream, but Zhuge Liang clearly saw that Zhang Liao's army and Sun Ce's army in Xuzhou were 120,000 yuan, which was already equal to the combined strength of Yangzhou and Yuzhou!

Zhuge Liang did not hesitate to ask people to urgently send a letter to Liu Bei. In the letter, Zhuge Liang reminded Liu Bei that there would be a large-scale battle in Xuzhou soon, and asked Liu Bei and Cao Cao to take precautions, do a good job of replenishing and recruiting reserve troops, and at the same time seize the time to solve the problem of Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and must not delay any longer.

When Liu Bei received Zhuge Liang's urgent letter, he happened to have just met the secret envoy sent by Sima Yi in Yizhou, and he also knew that it had reached a very critical juncture, so he hurriedly went to Xuchang to meet Cao Cao and told Cao Cao Zhuge Liang's warning.

After listening to Liu Bei's analysis, Cao Cao immediately said: "Let's immediately knock Yuan Shu and ask him to get out of the way on the road to Jingzhou, it's time to send troops to attack Liu Biao from the north!"

Liu Bei nodded, and then said: "Meng De, I heard that you have subdued 20,000 people from Huang Zu, a rebel general under Liu Biao, do you want to make good use of it this time?"

Cao Cao listened to Liu Bei's words, although he was a little tired in his heart, but now is the time for sincere unity, and it is not good to remind Liu Bei whether he stretched out his hand a little long, so he had to say: "This is indeed the case, this time it is just right to let that Huang Zu surprise Liu Biao!"