Zhou Yu and Zhang Xi's two questions seem to be a little different, but in fact, there is only one answer - to receive the grace of the ancestor and repay it to the queen.

The relationship between Zhou Yu and Sun Ce is that of opposite-sex brothers.

Back then, Sun Ce borrowed troops from Yuan Shu to recruit Jiangdong, but Zhou Yu didn't even do the head of the nest, and led his family's private soldiers to join Sun Ce's camp, until Sun Ce initially laid the foundation in Jiangdong, and then led the troops back to perform his duties.

It is also because the Lujiang Zhou family is a big family of Huaisi, and Yuan Shu is a person who relies on the big family very much, otherwise Zhou Yu's approach, even if it is changed to Yuan Shao's side, the end will not be better.

Later, Sun Ce and Yuan Shu completely turned their faces, and after the edict of the Son of Heaven conquest of Yuan, Zhou Yu directly stopped pretending, and followed Sun Ce all the way to the south and the north, laying a huge foundation in Jiangdong.

After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan succeeded to the throne at a young age, Zhou Yu led the troops outside, afraid that Sun Quan would be hollowed out, and directly committed the taboo to lead the troops to the funeral.

Is Zhou Yu for his own power?!

At that time, at least half of the military power of Eastern Wu was in the hands of Zhou Yu, if Zhou Yu really had any ambitions, when he led the troops to the funeral, he went up to Sun Quan, down to Zhang Zhao and others, in fact, there was no way to deal with it.

If Zhou Yu wanted to establish himself as the lord of Jiangdong, he would have been able to achieve the Sun regime at that time, which was already a little turbulent.

Sun Quan is young and has no prestige, the Jiangdong family adopts a hostile attitude towards the Sun family, and because of Sun Ce's sudden death within the Huaisi Group, the internal hearts are also very complicated and treacherous. Even Sun Ce's last words to Zhang Zhao also said that it is really not good, let's go back to Huaisi to develop.

But Zhou Yu led the troops to the funeral at the first time, and immediately established a relationship with Sun Quan.

In the context of the dual monarchy, Zhou Yu's behavior is tantamount to admitting that Sun Quan is his own monarch, and if he has a second behavior, it will basically be the same treatment as Lu Bu.

Apostasy is a great sin in this day and age.

And it was at this time that Sun Quan finally understood that Zhou Yu did not lead troops to snatch power, he came to support himself. With the support of Zhou Yu and the military power he brought, Sun Quan was able to survive this most dangerous moment and successfully complete the transfer of power, instead of becoming a mascot or puppet.

Sun Quan will trust Zhou Yu, not for nothing, and Zhou Yu's purpose for doing so. To be honest, it's really not for Sun Quan.

He is really for Sun Ce, for the foundation of Jiangdong that Sun Ce has laid with great difficulty.

This is the so-called, receiving the special encounter of the first lord and repaying it to the later lord. Similar words, Zhuge Liang has already written in the "Teacher Table", this is an open attitude.

Therefore, Zhou Yu asked Zhang Xi whether he was assisting the Liu family or the Zhuge family, Zhang Xi was the answer, and Zhang Xi asked Zhou Yu whether his king was Sun Ce or Sun Quan, in fact, Zhou Yu also had this answer.

At the same time, Zhang Xi also used this rhetorical question to tell Zhou Yu, don't say what you say next.

Everyone is not the kind of person who is capricious and turns his back on the enemy to surrender, and if he says anything to persuade him to surrender, it is disrespectful to the other party.

Everyone present could understand the meaning of the words of both sides, and for a while, they didn't know what to say.

Oh, except for one person

"Second brother be careful, of course Brother Gongjin is the eldest brother, so why bother asking?!"

A woman with a special identity who doesn't know much about politics said so.

When he said this, Lu Xun was aggrieved again. Still can't refute it.

When people evaluate the two elder brothers as sisters, how can he, the niece and son-in-law, intervene.

But if you don't say it, if this word reaches the ears of those who have a heart, it will also be a troublesome matter.

Even if Zhou Yu doesn't answer, it's not a big deal, can Sun Quan still do anything to Zhou Yu. But Lu Xun was at the scene, but he did not refute this kind of remarks, and he would be remembered by some people.

So Lu Xun is aggrieved.

In the end, Zhou Yu stood up, smiled, and said to Sun Shangxiang, "Little sister, why did you say this, the king trusts the whole country with the soldiers, and this kind of trust is the monarch and the minister." ”

If you want Zhou Yu to choose privately, then he will definitely choose Sun Ce. But today's Great Wu Supreme is Sun Quan after all.

The king is the king, the minister is the minister, no matter how Zhou Yu chooses in his heart, now Sun Quan is his lord, this is an unchangeable fact, and it makes no sense to discuss this issue again.

Sun Shangxiang obviously didn't understand the meaning that Zhou Yu wanted to convey, and wanted to say something more, but Zhang Xi gently pulled the corner of his daughter-in-law's clothes and told her to shut up. If you don't shut up, your brother will be uncomfortable.

Although Sun Shangxiang didn't understand, he still looked dissatisfied when he saw this little eyesight, and sat down and stopped talking.

Zhang Xi looked at Zhou Yu again and said, "If the Metropolitan Governor only has this to say, today's banquet will end here, okay?!" ”

Zhou Yu also sighed, and then said almost emotionally, "It's okay. It's just that the hundreds of thousands of people in Gangneung are pitied, and they are afraid of being killed by soldiers. ”

Saying this, Zhang Xi was suddenly unhappy. Ya's Lingxing soldiers are coming, and they still say this kind of bargaining words, is it interesting?!

"In this case, wouldn't it be beautiful that the Metropolitan Governor can withdraw his troops and return to relieve the military disaster?!"

"Where the duty lies, I have to do it!"

Then what are you talking about all that, just hit it!!

The two sides talked, parted unhappily, and returned to the city and camp to prepare for the next big battle.

The persuasion of surrender has not been successful, and there is no other strategy to change the strength of the troops, compared to Zhou Yu, of course, it is even more impossible to withdraw the troops now.

What can you do if you don't fight?!

Zhou Yu ordered the army to besiege the city, blocking the breakthrough passage of the Jiangling defenders, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to start cutting down trees, building siege equipment, and preparing for the siege.

After Zhang Xi returned to Jiangling City, he was not idle, strengthening the defense of Jiangling City, inspecting the guards of the military food and armory, formulating a strategy for patrolling the city and defending the city, and strictly inspecting the detailed work of the Eastern Wu army in the city.

Both sides were preparing for a big war, but it took more than half a month for the war to officially start.

On the one hand, Zhou Yu had to raise the necessary siege equipment as soon as possible.

With Zhu Ran's precedent last time, Zhou Yu also realized the benefits of water transportation, and did not pin all the siege equipment on the spot.

Gangneung is a fortified city, and there are many defenders in the city, so it is definitely not possible to build a batch of siege equipment like conventional siege warfare, use it first, and then rebuild it when it is used up. This is too time-consuming to siege the city, and the attack will not be too efficient.

Therefore, Zhou Yu chose to cut down trees under Jiangling City to build a batch, and at the same time, he also transported a batch by water.

Some siege equipment such as ladders, hook ladders, and rushing cars, which are built in situ a little faster than water transportation, are directly built in situ.

However, similar to the bulky bed crossbow, it still had to be removed from the castle head of other cities, and it was more convenient to transport it to Gangneung City by water.

When he fought in Hefei, Zhou Yu realized that the bed crossbow could not only be used to defend the city, but also to suppress the city head when attacking the city, and it was also a good hand.

Plus. The shameless Zhang Yuanchang not only added a lot of bed crossbows to the Jiangling city wall, but also moved his counterweight catapult to the Jiangling city wall.

How can this be fought?!

Jiangling was already a city with high walls and thick walls, and the crossbowmen of the Eastern Wu Army could not completely guarantee that they could suppress the city head with arrows, and if there were not enough bed crossbows to suppress these catapults, their own soldiers might not even have the opportunity to get close to the city wall.

Even if these bed crossbows were transferred, Zhou Yu couldn't guarantee that he would have a chance to completely destroy those bed crossbows and catapults in Jiangling City, and he could only fight for quality with quantity.

The only advantage is that Zhou Yu can call the bed crossbow from other places, which can be built on the spot, and after Jiangling City is besieged, the city-defending equipment in Jiangling City will all rely on inventory supplies, and things like bed crossbows and catapults generally do not have too much inventory.

To this end, Zhou Yu spent more than half a month, not to mention building siege equipment by himself, but also transported dozens of bed crossbows from Wuling, Changsha, Jiangxia and other places to prepare for battle.

Then, the outpost of the Battle of Gangneung was fought in a way that was unfamiliar to everyone.

In general siege warfare, both sides are suppressing arrows while carrying out hook ladders, or pushing ladders, rushing carts, and attacking the city walls or gates at the same time.

But the outpost of the Battle of Gangneung was a duel between a bed crossbow and a bed crossbow, a bed crossbow and a catapult.

Except for the soldiers with bed crossbows and catapults, no other soldiers appeared on the battlefield, and the way of the duel was not hand-to-hand, but long-range mutual fire.

Zhang Xi saw this posture, and he had the illusion of artillery bombardment during World War I.

Zhang Xi has this illusion, not to mention the generals who are in charge of watching the battle on both sides.

Whether it was Lu Xun, Zhuge Ke, Sun Sheng, or Wang Ji, Zhou Tai, Zhong Limu, they were all a little stunned by this strange offensive and defensive battle.

They have never seen long-range arrow suppression operations, but they have really never seen such a large-scale battle of throwing bed crossbows into each other and bombarding each other.

But the two managers didn't think it was at all.

Anyway, Zhou Yu is iron-hearted, and if he doesn't solve the threat of these bed crossbows and catapults, he will definitely not easily throw himself into the soldiers' strong attack.

As for Zhang Xi, he has no intention of sending troops out of the city to burn the enemy's bed crossbows.

Let's fight and see whose bed crossbow and catapult are more!!

(End of chapter)