On the outskirts of Shu County, Lujiang County, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were sitting in a clearing next to a forest, looking at a few robes placed on the saddle, Sun Ce grinned and said, "Gong Jin, your archery skills are making rapid progress." ”

Zhou Yu smiled embarrassedly, to say that hunting he and Sun Ce are not at the same level at all, but the two hit it off at first sight a few years ago, and have been inseparable ever since, when Sun Ce went to Yingchuan and was almost used by Sun Jian as a hostage to stay in the Wei Xuan camp, although Wei Xuan did not agree later, but Sun Ce was worried about when his own son would be confused and pledge himself out, so he discussed with Zhou Yu, and the two of them took Sun Ce's mother and several younger siblings to Zhou Yu's hometown Shu County early. One of the brothers is the eldest son of the state assassin, and the other is a son of the Lujiang Hao family, and they are living a happy life. Later, Sun Jian learned Wei Xuan to prepare for going south, and praised Wu Jing as the Taishou of Lujiang, and the brothers' days in Shu County were even more chic.

Sun Ce also wanted to tease Zhou Yu for a few words, and suddenly rode from the direction of Shu County, and when the person got closer, Sun Ce felt familiar, and then looked carefully at the person who was from his uncle Wu Jing's family, and saw that he was looking for the two of them, so he sighed at Zhou Yu: "Uncle is really, Bacheng is going to recruit you to go to the government to do things." ”

Zhou Yu just laughed, he was only eighteen this year, Sun Jian, Wei Xuan and others had sent people to conquer, but he didn't answer the call. Now that he is with Sun Ce, he is even more reluctant to pay attention to other people's conquests, Aunt Ying's kind of thing is not only him, Sun Ce has experience, it is nothing more than that he is still young, and he is afraid that he will live up to the sincerity of the prince of the mansion, and also delay his own blood. This era is very enlightened about conquest, like Dong Zhuo's conquest, the threat that you don't come to Lao Tzu to kill your whole family is unspeakable to ordinary people, and Tao Qian's conquest of you Cong will go directly to prison is also rare in the world.

Sure enough, the person who came rolled the saddle and dismounted a few steps away and knelt down in front of Sun Ce after a few steps: "Young Master Cousin, the prince of the mansion asks you to return to the city quickly." ”

Sun Ce glanced at the person who came, this person was the constant entourage of his uncle Wu Jing, if he could send this person, there must be something important, and it was not important or urgent to recruit Zhou Yu to do things in the Taishou Mansion anyway, so he asked, "Do you know what the matter is?" ”

The person who came shook his head and seemed to remember something again, and said: "It seems that someone from Yuzhou is here, and I want to find you, the young master." ”

Sun Ce's expression was solemn, it was not his uncle looking for Gongjin, it was someone from Yuzhou who was looking for him, could it be that his father had figured out and was ready to let himself lead troops to fight?

Sun Ce jumped up from the ground and smiled at Zhou Yu: "Gong Jin, eighty percent of my father wants me to lead the troops to fight, let's go, hurry back to the city." Our brothers finally have the opportunity to make a difference on the battlefield. ”

So the three of them turned over and galloped towards Shu County. Two quarters of an hour later, Sun Ce and the three of them stopped their horses outside the gate of Taishou Mansion. Sun Ce took Zhou Yu and walked straight to the back of the Taishou Mansion, but as soon as he entered the mansion, Sun Ce found that the atmosphere was not right, not only his uncle was in his mother and several younger siblings, but also his brother Sun Ben, and the messenger Sun Ce from Yuzhou also knew, everyone showed sadness one by one, and his mother Wu sobbed even lower.

Seeing Sun Ce come in, Wu Jing stood up from his position and handed a letter to Sun Ce, Sun Ce took it and unfolded it with a blank face, and the few words that came into his eyes shook Sun Ce like a thunderbolt from the sky.

After a long time, Sun Ce looked at the messenger who was kneeling on the ground with an incredulous expression: "How could my father die suddenly, did you see it with your own eyes?" ”

The messenger was the son of the Sun family, and he nodded bitterly: "The little incompetence did not go out with the general, and when he got the news, the general had been transported from the battlefield to Pingyu." Captain Huang and Captain Han asked the little one to come here overnight to deliver the letter......"

Sun Ce held back his tears, coaxed his eyes and continued to look down a few lines, and suddenly roared: "Lu Bupifu, I'm going to tear you alive!" ”

Zhou Yu was also stunned by the scene in front of him, he snatched the letter from his hand and hurriedly glanced at it a few times, also with a sad face, but soon he packed up his mood and patted Sun Ce on the shoulder from behind and said: "Bo Fu, Captain Huang is right, this matter still needs you and Fujun to make a decision, if you want to go to Runan, you need to leave immediately." Zhengyang is only three or four days away from Pingyu, and if it is too late, Ji Ling and Lu Bu will definitely besiege Pingyu. ”

Hearing this, Sun Ce glanced at his uncle Wu Jing, and then came to his mother Wu's face???????????????? He knelt on the ground with a plop forward: "Mother, the child is going to Runan to avenge his father." ”

Wu didn't speak, obviously not coming out of the pain of the sudden loss of his husband, Wu Jing also came over and patted Sun Ce on the shoulder and said, "Bo Fu, you sit down first, listen to Xiao Liu tell you about the situation that day, and then everyone will discuss what to do next." ”

Zhou Yu nodded and came to Sun Ce's side to help him up, and the family member who was kneeling on the ground once again told how Sun Jian pursued Lu Bu that day, how he was ambushed, and how he was evacuated from the battlefield. When they heard that Sun Jian and the others had encountered Zhang Fei's 3,000 heavy cavalry dozens of miles away from Pingyu, they all sighed!

This is fate, if Sun Jian attacks even for a few hours at night, he may be able to join forces with Zhang Fei, with 3,000 heavy cavalry on the side, not to mention that Ji Ling and Lu Bu are 40,000 infantry, even if it is 30,000 or 40,000 light cavalry, Sun Jian will not be killed.

After the family finished speaking, Wu Jing looked at Sun Ce and said: "Bo Fu, now we have two choices, one is to lead the troops and horses to the north and go directly to General Zuo, and after joining forces with General Zuo, we should be able to temporarily block the combined forces of Lu Bu and Ji Ling for a while." General Zuo and Wentai are like brothers, and if Wentai dies this time, he will definitely send heavy troops to attack Yuan Shu.

There is also Bo Fu, you first go north to collect the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou to hold Runan, please General Zuo come forward to show that you are the assassin of Runan, even if Runan can't hold it, you can retreat to other sides. ”

Sun Ce looked up at his uncle Wu Jing blankly, and Zhou Yu said on the side: "Mingfu, Bofu, although General Zuo has a great relationship with his uncle, but he has just recovered the state, and most of the soldiers and horses are in the border counties of the state, and it is difficult to gather a large number of soldiers and horses in a hurry. Yuan Shu's hometown is Runan again, his uncle is newly mourned, and the wealthy families in Runan will definitely rise up to correspond to Yuan Shu, Ji Ling sent 30,000 troops from Wancheng, and in a few days, it may be 40,000 or 50,000. For today's plan, we should quickly gather the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou, withdraw from the two battlefields of Runan and Peiguo, and then go south to the Lujiang River, and then cross the Jiangdong when the time is ripe. Now Zhu Duwei of Wu County is also my uncle's old department, if we can get his help, we can occupy Wu County, and then go south to occupy Huiji, and gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong before Yuan Shu occupies Yuzhou and Jiujiang County, so that we can have a chance to take revenge in the future. Wu Jing looked at Zhou Yu with a surprised expression, this young man is too powerful, he has seen it very thoroughly, he has always been worried about the current situation, throwing all the people of Lujiang into the battlefield of Yuzhou, and he may not be able to get anything in the end. In the end, he had to be attached to Wei Xuan. Zhou Yu's approach was to leave Runan and Peiguo to Yuan Shu and others to fight for, and it was a safe strategy to grow slowly away from the battlefield.

After listening to Zhou Yu's description, Sun Ce frowned, he believed in Zhou Yu's talent 100%. But in this way, wouldn't it be a matter of letting the enemy ignore his own selfish interests, what is the difference between the Yuan Shao brothers who were propagandized and crusaded against by the left generals?

Zhou Yu saw Sun Ce frowning and knew what he was thinking, the scene was his own people, and Zhou Yu did not shy away from saying: "No matter how good General Zuo and Uncle Zuo are, they were also a county leader before, and they were both princes of one party. In the land of the four wars in Yuzhou, such a close alliance between my uncle and General Zuo will inevitably be coveted by others, and General Zuo alone will not be able to hold Yuzhou, and in the end it will be empty. And once he is attached to General Zuo, when to send troops, when to deal with Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, and when to avenge his uncle, everything must be obeyed by Zuo???????????????? Jiang's arrangement. General Zuo in the next few years, when he headed westward to Chang'an, welcomed the return of the Son of Heaven to the east. In this way, Lujiang, Peiguo and others will definitely lose contact with General Zuo, and sooner or later they will be occupied by Yuan Shu and others.

On the contrary, if we go directly south and then cross to the east, when General Zuo successfully welcomes back the Son of Heaven, we already have a certain amount of strength in Jiangdong, and then we will unite with General Zuo to attack Yuan Shu and others in the east and west, so that Yuan Shu and others can bow down. ”

Wu Jing was also very appreciative when he heard this, but he still said worriedly: "If Bo Fu goes north and directly collects his troops and horses and goes south, it is equivalent to giving up most of Yuzhou to Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, and the pressure on General Zuo will also increase sharply, will General Zuo be cut off from us at that time?" ”

Zhou Yu smiled: "Fujun, General Zuo is aiming to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and the Kwantung heroes will become his enemies except for us." With my uncle's affection, as long as we don't take the initiative to provoke, General Zuo will definitely not give up on us as an ally. Of course, Bo Fu still has to rush to Runan as soon as possible, first see how many soldiers and horses we can gather, and how the morale of the soldiers is, if Lu Bu, Yuan Shu and others attack Pingyu and are frustrated, General Zuo can send some troops and horses to support, then stick to Run'an County and give up Peiguo. If Lu Bu and the others attack very fiercely, they can only temporarily avoid their edge. But no matter what this battle is, we will have to withdraw from the universe sooner or later, because Tao Qian and Yuan Shu in Xuzhou have been united, plus Liu Bei who passed by, Peiguo and Runan are enemies on three sides, plus the local wealthy families in Runan will definitely be instigated by Yuan Shu to constantly rise up and resist. Under the internal and external troubles, it is very difficult for our army to do anything in Yuzhou. ”

Wu Jing nodded, but he still told Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, after you go, you have to find a way to appreciate General Zuo, no matter what choice you make, you must get General Zuo's understanding." It would be better if I could borrow some more soldiers or weapons from General Zuo. You have to remember that less than half a month after Lü Bu's attack on Runan, General Zuo had already arrived in Pingyu with 3,000 heavy cavalry, which shows that General Zuo attached great importance to the alliance with Wentai, and it is very likely that these heavy cavalry were transferred from Hedong. Marching thousands of miles, whether it helps or not, you should be polite when you see the main general of the cavalry. ”