Lu Xun's reply seemed to be full of momentum, but as a qualified monarch, Sun Quan certainly understood the true meaning of Lu Xun's letter.

Lu Xun's meaning is actually to tell Sun Quan, if you, the Supreme Wu of Dawu, decide to fight, then of course I, as a courtier, have nothing to say, just fight for the national strength.

But if you want to ask me if I am sure of counterattacking Jingnan, a "duel with thieves" has already explained all Lu Xun's attitudes.

The commander of the first army, before he set out on the expedition, was thinking about how to "fight the thief to the death", which doesn't seem to be an attitude of being sure enough to win easily.

In the current Eastern Wu Army, Lu Xun is already the best military commander, and the next is Zhu Ran, but Zhu Ran has proved that he can't beat his cheap brother-in-law at all, Lu Xun's reply is this attitude, how do you let Sun Quan choose? !

In addition, after receiving the battle report from the front, Zhu Ran safely led the remaining 18,000 foot soldiers and 16,000 Baqiu sailors to return to Xiakou, and the Shu thieves also withdrew from the northern counties of Jiangxia, except for plundering some property, even Dingkou was not forced to relocate. The attitude is already obvious.

Sun Quan could only give an order for Zhu Ran to continue to hold on to Jiangxia in case the Shu army changed, and then wait for Zhang Xi to send someone to come to the door for peace talks.

Sun Quan had already sent Zhou Yin to see Zhang Xi and ask the two families to strike the army, and the statement that Zhou Yin brought back at that time was that Zhang Xi said that he could consider this situation, and it was impossible for Sun Quan to take the initiative to send envoys again to negotiate peace with Shu Han.

This is a procedural issue in terms of diplomatic etiquette, and it is also a matter of face in fact, to put it bluntly, it is still a matter of face.

This face, as long as Zhang Xi is not brain-dead, he must give Sun Quan.

And Zhang Xi's side did not let Sun Quan wait too long.

After the two sides confronted each other near Jiangxia for almost a month, Zhang Xi sent his own envoy to Jiangdong with his own letter to give an official reply to Sun Quan.

The envoy is a famous man in the world, Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan.

This envoy candidate, not to mention that Sun Quan didn't expect it, even Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Buqi and others didn't expect it.

The specifications of this envoy are too high, so high that even if the two sides are now at war, Sun Quan must send his own envoy to meet him outside Jianye City in person, and he will arrange a special time to meet him in person.

At the same time, Pang Tong's personal envoy also made Sun Quan see that the Shu Han side was unwilling to make a big move with Eastern Wu at this time.

Then there is a series of political problems.

Ji Han sent Pang Tong, but in fact, it was really not decided by Zhang Xi, and Pang Tong himself wanted to go to Jiangdong for this matter.

In fact, the messenger that Zhang Xi wanted to send was Pan Jun.

Pan Jun himself is a famous person in Jingxiang, and he is also quite famous in Jiangdong, and as a vested interest in Jingnan, Pan Jun himself has the need to take the initiative to protect the interests of the Han in the four counties of Jingnan.

Sending such a person to Jiangdong is enough, and it is better than him Sun Quan sending a Zhou Yin, which is much more sincere.

However, Pang Tong still recommended himself.

This Mao recommended himself, which shocked Zhang Xidu.

It's not that I'm worried about Pang Tong's safety, but I feel that Pang Tong's status is too high for the Han Dynasty, and he is also the top three in the decision-making level of the Han court.

Pang Tong really had the right to directly decide the Han dynasty's political and diplomatic strategies.

When such a person went to see Sun Quan, it seemed a little too formal.

You must know that the Han and Wu sides are now at war, but it is not the previous state of alliance with such a high-level official envoy, is it really necessary? !

But Pang Tong did this, but he also had his own reasons.

First, after the battle of Jingnan, Pang Tong also saw the strength of Eastern Wu, especially the advantages of the navy.

This battle of Jingnan was really lucky, first Zhu Ran rashly divided his troops to support Xiakou, causing Yangqu to rely on the advantage of troops and warships to temporarily suppress the Baqiu naval army.

Immediately followed by Zhuge Ke's blind command, he was broken by Wen Ping who seized the opportunity to suppress the Xiakou Water Army.

But after that, the Ji Han Navy obviously occupied an absolute advantage in strength and ships, but it was never able to fully control the Yangtze River Basin, and from time to time it had to be counterattacked by the Soochow Navy Army, causing Zhang Xi to collapse the river and attack Changsha County, and always have to worry about the back road.

This made Pang Tong understand that although the performance of the army of Eastern Wu in actual combat was crotch-pulling, before the Han Naval Army was strong enough to directly defeat the Eastern Wu Naval Army, there were too many variables to confront Eastern Wu head-on.

Therefore, Pang Tong believes that it is already the best result to recover the four counties of Jingnan at this stage. It is better to postpone the all-out attack on Eastern Wu until the Han naval army has not fully grown.

Second, Pang Tong has such a high status and takes the initiative to send an envoy, on the one hand, he can better win Sun Quan's trust, let Sun Quan see the sincerity of the Han Dynasty, and then give up the idea of a decisive battle with the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, Pang Tong wanted to make trouble known to the whole world, so as to divide the alliance between Wei and Wu.

What is the festival of Dongwu, Pang Tong believes that Cao Wei in the north will not not know, and his identity is an envoy to Dongwu, and it is impossible for Dongwu to completely ignore etiquette and refuse to see him. As long as Sun Quan received him according to the usual diplomatic etiquette, Cao Wei would inevitably be suspicious.

After all, there is nothing worthy of mutual trust between Wei and Wu, and who can trust Dongwu's credit reputation? !

This trick is not a yang scheme, but when it is used on the body of Soochow, it is not a yang scheme, but also a yang scheme.

In this way, Pang Tong personally crossed the river and sent an envoy to Eastern Wu, and on the Eastern Wu side, out of diplomatic etiquette, even though Sun Quan could not greet him in person, he also sent Gu Yong as his special envoy to go out of the gate of Jianye City to greet Pang Tong in person.

When Pang Tong was in Jiangdong, Gu Yong would accompany him in all public activities, and it was inconvenient for Sun Quan to come forward directly in the previous truce and peace talks between the two countries, so the specific matters were presided over by the old prime minister Zhang Zhao himself.

There is no way, on the Dongwu side, the only person who can barely suppress Pang Tong, a famous man in the world, is Zhang Zhao.

Gu Yong can't do it, even if his teacher is the great Confucian Cai Yong, but Gu Yong's achievements are really incomparable with the current Pang Tong.

One is a famous man in the world, a great man.

A great man is just a famous person in Jiangdong and an alternate prime minister.

Therefore, only Zhang Zhao, a person who is old enough and has made great achievements in Eastern Wu, can barely suppress Pang Tong.

As for the peace agreement between the two sides. Actually, there's not much to talk about.

Sun Quan hoped to restore the boundaries demarcated when Xiangshui was demarcated, but now that the rotten battle that Eastern Wu fought in Jingnan, even Sun Quan was embarrassed to make such a cheeky request.

Therefore, Sun Quan's peace agreement demanded that the upper limit be that Shu Han stop his troops in Jiangxia and return Changsha, but that they could occupy Guiyang, and the lower limit was that Shu Han should make a clear statement and divide Jiangxia out of Jingzhou and into Yangzhou in Eastern Wu.

In other words, Jiangxia must belong to our Eastern Wu, whether it is actually occupied or in terms of legal attribution, it must be clear.

If Jiangxia is still within the ownership of Jingzhou, Shu Han can attack Jiangxia again at any time under the pretext of recovering the lost territory. But if Jiangxia belongs to Yangzhou and not to Jingzhou, then there is no official excuse for Shu Han to attack Jiangxia.

Sun Quan is really, really, very strange.

He himself can not take the alliance seriously, and say that if he reneges the alliance, he will betray the alliance, but he still believes in Shu Han's attitude on the alliance very much. He believes that as long as Jiangxia is carved out of Jingzhou and Shu Han loses the official excuse to attack Jiangxia, then at least for a short time, Shu Han will really not attack Jiangxia.

It's a strange idea, but that's what Sun Quan really thinks.

And Pang Tong. Pang Tong was really hesitant about this matter.

There is no way, Ji Han is a continuation of the regime of the two Han Dynasty, and it is the orthodox regime in the world, and everything pays attention to a famous teacher.

Once Jiangxia is really carved out of Jingzhou, before finding a more suitable excuse, it is really not good to directly attack Jiangxia, and it is impossible to engage in some sneaky infiltration.

In this way, Jiangxia, a strategic place, will really not come back in a short period of time.

For this reason, Pang Tong and Zhang Zhao cited scriptures and classics on the historical belonging of Jiangxia, and argued with each other on the basis of reason.

As for the four counties of Jingnan, no one mentioned it.

After all, the fight has been defeated, do you still expect the big man to return it to you?!

Sun Quan likes to take advantage of it, but Zhang Zhao is not the kind of person who can't see the situation clearly, and it is already very good to be able to keep a Jiangxia.

The two sides fought with each other in Jianye for about half a month, and initially finalized a simple peace agreement.

The two sides took the area under their current de facto control as the boundary and called a truce. As for the question of the ownership of Jiangxia, Pang Tong said that it could be temporarily recognized as belonging to the Eastern Wu Dynasty, but it was not under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, which needed to be determined by the exchange of credentials between the two sides.

Therefore, the Supreme of Eastern Wu was also requested to send an envoy to Chang'an to formally make a request to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and then the two sides finalized.

Sun Quan had no objection to this outcome, and at the same time sent Bu Qi as an envoy to follow Pang Tong back to Jingzhou, and then went to Chang'an together to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why Bu Qi was sent was to correspond to the specifications of Pang Tong's envoy to Eastern Wu, and the Eastern Wu side must also let an important minister send an envoy to Shu Han, and Bu Qi, a hussar general, is obviously more weighty.

On the other hand, the current Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty is the Empress Dowager Bu.

The clan sister of Buqi.

(End of chapter)