Sun Quan returned to Lincheng.

His disposition of all the generals on the front line was to cut the officials by the first rank, and the officials led by Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and Cheng Pu were cut to the third rank, temporarily leading their current positions, and making meritorious contributions.

In fact, this was also his original plan, but Zhou Yu and Lu Su gave a step, so he went down this step by the way.

By the time I had washed my body and changed back into a silk satin, the sun was about to set.

After escaping from the morning, Sun Quan walked all the way to the north in the direction of Lincheng, but he had already taken a boat out of Lingyang for more than ten kilometers, which was very far away from Lincheng, so he was not discovered until the afternoon.

I hadn't eaten anything before, and I was very hungry, so Sun Quan ate a little food in the backyard, and then built a small building in the backyard and hurriedly summoned Zhou Yu and Lu Su to discuss things.

After the two of them came in, Sun Quan looked at them and said: "Gong Jin, Zijing, Gu didn't mean to blame you, I wanted to expose this matter, but I didn't expect you to mention it yourself, there were many people in the hall just now, so I had to order punishment, you are the important minister I rely on, and the rod will be exempted." ”

The rod can be exempted, but the matter of duty is not mentioned.

Zhou Yu and Lu Su glanced at each other, then arched their hands and said, "Putting the Lord in danger is our dereliction of duty and a capital crime. Wu Hou didn't give us death, he was already grateful to Dade, how could he be exempted from sin? Tomorrow we will be rebuked with the rod in front of all the generals in the army. ”

"Gongjin, Zijing."

Sun Quan pretended to persuade him, and when he heard that the two of them insisted, he reluctantly asked: "Alas, you don't need to be like this, but if this is the case, then follow your own wishes, but the eastern adults are desperately protecting Lonely, and you must rescue it." ”

"Yes, I'll wait to save Zi Ganggong with my life."

Zhou Yu took two steps forward, pointed to the map on the table and said: "Wu Hou, please look, Shen Xiaothief asked us to exchange in Yixian, we have already made arrangements, once the protons are exchanged, we will immediately attack Yixian from both sides, and we will be able to capture Shen Chen alive!" ”

"Hmm."

Sun Quan's face showed a touch of anger: "When I was in Lingyang, Shen Xiaothief actually humiliated me, and he didn't take revenge and swore not to be a man." ”

"Speaking of which"

Lu Su asked curiously, "How did Wu Hou escape from Lingyang?" ”

Sun Quan smiled and raised the small dagger in his hand and said, "I found a dagger in the room where I was being held, and while they escorted me to the boat, I cut the rope and jumped out of the window into the water to escape." ”

"Wu Hou's courage is extraordinary and admirable."

Zhou Yu and Lu Su both had some doubts in their hearts, but seeing Sun Quan smiling, he was obviously very proud of his feat of escaping from the demon cave, so he had to suppress his doubts and turn to something else.

They introduced the deployment operations in the past few days, and at the end Zhou Yu said: "The only thing I am worried about now is the Shanyue people, and I still have to send someone to warn them." ”

"Humph!"

Sun Quan said coldly: "I must not let Shen Chen leave Yuzhang, you send someone to inform Shanyue along the way, but if anyone dares to help Shen Chen, I will destroy his clan!" ”

"Yui!"

The two bowed.

At this moment, suddenly a guard outside the door shouted, "Report, there is a messenger." ”

"Pass in."

"Report!"

The messenger rushed into the hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "Report, General Lu and General Xu found that Liu Pan's army did not enter Yixian, but went to the direction of Haiyang on the seventh and eighth days. ”

"What?"

Zhou Yu and Lu Su were both shocked.

Sun Quan was also very surprised: "What is he doing in Haiyang?" ”

"Haiyang can go along Zhejiang to Qiantang"

Lu Su frowned: "Mo want to surround Wei to save Zhao?" ”

"Wait."

Zhou Yu suddenly got up and said to Sun Quan: "Wu Hou, can I take a look at the map?" ”

"Come on."

Sun Quan nodded.

Zhou Yu immediately rushed to the table and looked at the map.

After a while, he said with a very gloomy face: "Something is wrong, something is wrong, Xuancheng and other places in Wujing County have been lost, and Liu Pan has attacked Haiyang again, which is very wrong."

"Don't they want to attack Koto?"

Even Sun Quan was shocked when he looked at the map, because it was obvious that it had been marked on the map, and it was easy to reach Wuhu along Jingshui, that is, the Qingyi River in the later generations, and then enter Zhenze along the Zhongjiang River, and directly behind Qian Tang.

And Zhejiang is even more so, along the Zhejiang all the way to the east, you can directly to Qiantang County, Qiantang is the hinterland of Wu County, but also where Sun Quan's lair is, if Wu County is attacked, Jiangdong will fall into a dilemma.

The main force returned to Jiangdong, and the Yangtze River defense line was directly surrendered to Jingzhou, and when Liu Biao attacked in a big way, Jiangdong was in danger. If you don't defend yourself, then Jiangdong will perish directly.

So if the enemy does this, it will be very embarrassing.

Zhou Yu muttered to himself, "How is this possible? Shen Chen actually had the audacity to attack Jiangdong? Isn't he afraid that the back road will be cut off and the whole army will be wiped out? ”

Lu Su said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid there is nothing in this world that he doesn't dare to do, Guandu won a big victory over Cao Cao, if it weren't for Shen Chen's attack in the rear, I'm afraid that the entire north would have been returned to Cao Cao at this time." Even Xu Du dared to attack three times, not to mention Jiang Donghu? ”

"Where did he get his food and grass?"

As soon as Zhou Yu said this, he remembered that this was a very stupid question, because Shen Chen had only obtained hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass from Lingyang, so he closed his mouth again, and then said: "It is indeed possible that he will do this, but it is also possible that he is suspicious and pretends to attack Wu County, but in fact, he mobilizes us to defend back to facilitate his escape back to Nanchang." ”

"Hmm"

Lu Su and Sun Quan both lowered their heads and began to fall into deep thought.

When you fight, you fight intelligence.

Needless to say, the intelligence warfare of later generations relied heavily on intelligence information even in ancient times.

For example, what was the key to Cao Cao's victory in the battle of Guandu?

It was Xu Yu who gave him the information.

What did the expedition to Liaodong rely on later?

It was Tian Chou who gave him the information.

The list goes on.

Information warfare runs not only through the entire history of warfare in Chinese civilization, but also throughout the history of war civilization in the world.

And the intelligence is not only true, but also false, such as "bluff", "so the formation of suspicion", "the bright plank road, the darkness of the Chen Cang", and "the sound of the east and the west" are all considered to be the use of false intelligence for design.

Therefore, in the face of complex and diverse intelligence information, an excellent handsome person must find true and reliable information from this information and make arrangements.

So what is the intelligence information in front of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, and Lu Su now?

First of all, it was the intelligence that Shen Chen was going in the direction of Yixian.

It comes from the correspondence between Shen Chen and Zhou Yu, who asked the two sides to exchange hostages in Yixian, and the scouts who went to investigate did judge the direction of the fleet to Yixian.

And the most important thing is that the place where Sun Quan got off the boat escaped was later reported according to the details, which was located in the area of Loess Ridge south of Jinghu Lake.

From here, all the way south into Shushui, the fleet went south less than 200 miles away from Yixian.

The second is that Shen Chen may pretend to go to Yixian, but in fact he is going north.

The source of this information was that Anwu, Jingxian, Xuancheng and other places in the north were lost one after another, and Lü Meng came to report that the men and horses sent by Liu Pan were not stationed in Yixian, but went to Haiyang in the east.

From the analysis of the information obtained, it would make people feel that Shen Chen seemed to be deceiving Zhou Yu and them, but in fact, he was not going south, but planning to go north.

But again, there is an anti-logic.

That is, Shen Chen already knew that Lu Meng was ambushed in Yunxi, less than thirty kilometers away from Yixian, and he might raid his rear at any time to cut off his retreat, so he deliberately released these news to deceive Jiangdong to return to defense.

So in the face of this information in hand, Zhou Yu and Lu Su had to seriously consider what he wanted to do.

"There's one thing that's weird to say."

Sun Quan suddenly remembered something, and said to the two: "Even the eastern adults are very puzzled. ”

"Oh?"

Zhou Yu hurriedly said: "What is the matter?" ”

Sun Quan said: "Today, Gu and the Eastern Lord were escorted onto the ship and met Shen Chen, almost all of his generals were wearing battle armor!" ”

Dressed in armor?

Lu Su and Zhou Yu's faces changed slightly, it was impossible to wear armor to fight a water battle, could it be that he planned to fight a land battle?

Wait.

Zhou Yu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "When Wu Hou was detained, did anyone not leave an inch?" ”

"I'm alone on the boat."

Sun Quan couldn't understand why Zhou Yu asked this, if someone didn't leave an inch, then how did he escape?

But Zhou Yu said: "It's not on the boat, it's on weekdays." ”

"On weekdays?"

Sun Quan thought for a while and said: "Yes, there are people following every day, and they don't leave an inch for twelve hours, and even when they are sleeping, there are four people guarding the door." ”

"And where did that dagger come from?"

Zhou Yu asked again.

Sun Quan remembered the situation when he got the dagger that day, and said: "It was the guard who had eaten his stomach, and the guards who usually took care of Gu in the door were not there, so Gu went out of the courtyard and rummaged in the next room to find it." ”

How could it be so coincidental that several guards ate their stomachs at the same time?

Zhou Yu and Lu Su suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter, and glanced at each other, their faces very solemn.

There are so many doubts in this.

The dagger came in a strange way.

And the ship cells where they are held are even more outrageous.

Obviously, there is a dark cell in the bilge, but the other party wants to lock Sun Quan in the second floor with windows.

Although it was tied with a rope, this dagger seemed to be given to Sun Quan.

All the irrationalities led to Sun Quan's successful escape, just like a man-made joke, as if it was deliberate.

Both of them tacitly did not say the news that Sun Quan was likely to be released, but fell into deep thought.

What is the purpose of letting Sun Quan out?

It can only be to pass on information.

And Sun Quan can bring them only one piece of information - they are heading south.

In other words, going south to Yixian County was a message deliberately released by Shen Chen.

But I don't know why, in Zhou Yu's opinion, these news also feel a little deliberate and false.

It's as if I was deliberately telling Zhou Yu that I was going to Yixian, and I was actually going to Wuhu.

Minutes and seconds passed.

All three of them were pondering, expressing their opinions, and chatting for a while.

After more than an hour, it was already dark.

Just then, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door.

"Report!"

The guard came in and said, "General Huang's messenger has come to report." ”

"Bring it in."

"Yui!"

"Report!"

A moment later, the messenger came in, knelt down on one knee and said, "Shexian, Xinshi, Jiande and other counties were lost a few days ago!" ”

"Go down."

Sun Quan waved his hand, looked at Zhou Yu and Lu Su, and said with a gloomy face: "Shen Chen, this guy is bold, this is planning to raid Jiangdong!" ”

(End of chapter)