Liu Bei returned to Zhou Yu and said: "Cao Ren is a strong general, Jiangling is strong, it is better to cut off its foreign aid first, and then break the city, otherwise I am afraid that the casualties will be not small."

Zhou Yu didn't expect Liu Bei to break the city, but Liu Bei was so prevaricated and said in his heart: "Cao Ren is really a brave general, even Liu Yuzhou's subordinate Guan Zhang can't get cheap, it seems that Zhou Yu should be careful." ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were furious, and Liu Bei had already taken over the words first: "Since Bei can't help, I won't bother here." ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "A few jokes, why should Liu Yuzhou take it seriously." ”

Liu Bei said: "Who does the Metropolitan Governor think is Bei, there are tens of thousands of male teachers here, how dare they sacrifice ugliness." ”

Zhou Yu said: "Cao Cao will send reinforcements in the south, and he still needs help from Yuzhou." ”

Liu Bei said: "Since the governor has good intentions and wants to personally lead his troops to Xiangyang to block the reinforcements, if Cao Ren knows that he will intercept him and cut off his way back, he will definitely retreat in fear, so as to help the governor." ”

Zhou Yu didn't want Liu Bei to interfere in Jiangling, Liu Bei said in the middle of the heart: "Since this is the case, there is Lao Yuzhou, I don't know how many people Yuzhou is going to send to go." ”

Liu Bei pondered for a while and said, "All the soldiers and horses here. ”

Zhou Yu propped up the table with his hand and said, "Yuzhou, Zhou Yu has a reluctant request." ”

Liu Bei said: "The governor is polite, please speak." ”

Zhou Yu said: "These soldiers and horses of mine have been fighting for several months and are a little tired, but Yuzhou still has some people left in my place to help Yu and act as a new force?" Of course, Yu would not let Yuzhou lose in vain, and Yu allocated 2,000 soldiers and horses to Yuzhou for Yuzhou to send. ”

Liu Bei thought for a long time: "Zhou Yu is leaving soldiers and horses to prevent me from changing, and then send someone to monitor me." It's okay, I'm here to hold you back. ”

After thinking about it, he said: "Since the governor has considered it thoroughly, then Bei will leave 3,000 people, led by Yide, to help the governor." ”

Zhou Yuxi said: "Okay, there is Lao Yuzhou." ”

Liu Bei left 3,000 soldiers and horses and handed them over to Zhang Fei in Zhou Yu's camp, and Zhou Yu also allocated 2,000 soldiers and horses to Liu Bei.

Before leaving, Liu Bei quietly instructed Zhang Fei: "Third brother, don't make trouble, do you know?" ”

Zhang Fei said: "I know big brother, Zhou Yu will do whatever I want!" Don't do anything that kills. Don't do anything that causes trouble. ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Okay, be careful in everything, I'll pick you up when this battle is over." ”

Zhang Fei said: "Little brother understands! ”

Guan Yu also said: "Third brother be careful. ”

Zhang Fei said: "Second brother, you and eldest brother too, don't work too hard." ”

Liu Bei patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder and said, "Let's go." ”

After that, he got on the horse and left, Zhang Fei saw the two leave, and it took a long time before returning.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu went north, Liu Bei said to Guan Yu: "Second brother, Zhou Yu calculated that we have no soldiers, don't you know that the surrendered troops and temporarily recruited soldiers and horses this time plus nearly 30,000 defenders in Xiakou, we now occupy as much land between Jiangling and Xiangyang as possible, and after taking Nanjun in the future, we can negotiate with Zhou Yu for the land of Nanjun." Don't go head-to-head with Cao Jun, save your strength, and move with the camera. ”

Guan Yu agreed: "Big brother, little brother understands that Zhou Yu is not a good type. It's just that Jingzhou should have been ours, but now it has become his Jiangdong. ”

Liu Bei sighed and said, "After all, the main force of Chibi Pocao is Jiangdong. ”

After Liu Bei left, Zhou Yu and Cao Ren confronted Jiangling City, Zhou Yu sent more than 1,000 people to try to attack Jiangling, but was killed and retreated, Zhou Yu saw such a strong city, and was unwilling to attack, leading troops to besiege Jiangling, Cao Ren could not hold out.

Liu Qi and Xu Shu led 20,000 soldiers and horses to Jingnan quickly, erected the banner of Jingzhou Mu Liu Qi, and pressed on it with large troops.

After Han Xuan surrendered, Xu Shu immediately assigned soldiers and horses to garrison the junction with several counties taken by Cheng Pu to prevent Cheng Pu from continuing to go deeper.

Cheng Pu saw Liu Qi's banner appear, so he had to suspend the attack and report to Zhou Yu.

Huang Gai besieged the Wuling County Administration, but Taishou Jin Xuan refused to surrender and led his troops to defend it.

After Xu Shu inquired and understood, he first asked Liu Qi to write a letter of persuasion and send someone to Jin Xuan, and then ordered Zhao Yun to lead his troops quietly to the vicinity of Wulingzhi.

Liu Qi was stationed at the junction of Wuling County and Changsha County, reassuring Huang Gai, who was besieging Wuling.

Huang Gai had already learned the news of Liu Qi's entry into the army, and sent someone to report it to Zhou Yu, and he stepped up his attack on Wuling to prevent Liu Qi from interfering.

After Taishou Jin Xuan received the letter of persuasion written by Liu Qi, he already understood his situation and took this opportunity to surrender. He immediately told the envoy that Jingzhou should have belonged to Liu Qi and that he was willing to surrender to Liu Qi.

Seeing this, the envoy told Jin Xuan the movement of Zhao Yun leading the troops according to Xu Shu's explanation, and agreed on a date for Zhao Yun to take over.

A few days later, the banner of Wuling County was changed, and Zhao Yun sent an envoy to inform Huang Gai that Wuling County had been taken over by Liu Qi, Mu of Jingzhou.

Huang Gai was dumbfounded, Liu Qi was still on the edge of Changsha County and Wuling County. Sent people to investigate, and sure enough, he saw Zhao Yun standing majestically at the head of the city, Huang Gai knew that he couldn't do anything, so he had to stop the siege, retreat twenty miles to camp, and send someone to report to Zhou Yu.

After Liu Qi got the information, he immediately divided his troops to take over the county seats, and led his army into Wuling. Zhao Yun was sent to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses, which was called to help, but in fact he was monitoring Huang Gai's soldiers and horses.

Liu Qi and Xu Shu were stationed in Changsha, and sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to return to Xiakou, and the city of Xiakou has been strengthened and expanded, and a wharf was built, which was completed on time.

Zhou Yu confronted Cao Ren. During this period, Cheng Pu reported: First, Liu Qi went south to capture the four counties, and Changsha County surrendered. And Xiakou did not withdraw the army, Zhuge Liang was stationed, with nearly 10,000 troops, and the people assisted. There were thousands of soldiers and horses in Fankou, and Su Fei was stationed.

Zhou Yu said hatefully: "Liu Bei is calculating, the main force of the navy is mostly in my hands, Xiakou is strictly guarded against my attack." Although Fankou only has thousands of soldiers and horses, the main princess is not strong, and I am afraid that the partial division will not be able to take Su Fei and make a mistake. Liu Bei still had 30,000 soldiers and horses. ”

But in order to appease the generals, he pretended not to be impressed: "Although Jiangling is small, it is an important place for soldiers to enter Bashu in the west, Xiangfan in the north, and enter the Central Plains. It is a hundred times more important than the four counties of Jingnan, if Jiangling City is broken, Xiakou Lonely City can be lowered in a blink of an eye, and Zhuge Liang is building a city for us. ”

Soon, Zhou Yu received a report from Huang Gai that Liu Qi quickly took the four counties, and sighed: "Jin Xuan only recognizes Liu Qi and disobeys me Jiangdong, which is hateful." It seems that Liu Qi inherited Jingzhou herdsmanship, and the people want it. The people of Jingzhou are all based on it, and I'm afraid that Jiangdong can control Jingzhou overnight. ”

Seeing that Liu Qi had gained a firm foothold, he had no choice but to let Huang Gai temporarily withdraw to hold the occupied county seat.

Lu Su brought the battle situation of Hefei from Chaisang, Zhang Liao stubbornly defended, Hefei could not attack, Cao Cao sent Zhang Xi to support, Zhang Xi used 4,000 people to falsely claim 40,000, and constantly sent envoys to Hefei, Sun Quan intercepted the messenger, searched out the letter, learned that the 40,000 army came to help, believed it to be true, and retreated, and only later did he know the truth. After Zhou Yu got the report, he sighed.

The situation was like this, Zhou Yu was not ready to drag it out any longer, and ordered a war letter to Cao Ren, agreeing to fight the battle.

Cao Ren knew that it was not a good strategy to trap the city for a long time, and only by defeating Zhou Yu could he hold Jiangling. So he agreed.

The two armies fought under the city, and the two sides came and went, fighting constantly. Cao Ren concentrated the most elite soldiers and horses, taking advantage of the two armies to fight to the depths, suddenly attacked, at this time, Zhou Yu personally stepped into battle, to boost morale, Cao Ren rushed to the front of Zhou Yu, so that everyone shot Zhou Yu in a volley, Zhou Yu's own soldiers desperately intercepted, repelled Cao Ren, but Zhou Yu was still shot in the right flank by a stray arrow, and was seriously injured, so he had to return.

Cao Ren saw that Zhou Yu was injured, and he went to the Jiangdong camp to challenge, and the Jiangdong soldiers and horses were quite shaken. When Zhou Yu learned of this, he inspected the military camp and encouraged the soldiers, and Cao Ren retreated to the city. But after a patrol of the camp, Zhou Yu's arrow sores cracked, and the trauma was even greater.