Regarding the rumors from Sun Quan's outside world, Cao Cao instinctively thought that it was Long Xiang's means.

After all, harming brothers and generals is not an ordinary stupid and capable person.

Sun Quan is only in his early twenties, can he be so ruthless? Cao Cao didn't believe it at all.

Originally, seeing the shallow water of Xuanwu Pond, Cao Cao felt a little unhappy, but he was in a good mood when he saw Sun Quan's envoy.

Cao Cao thought that Sun Quan wanted to form an alliance, but unexpectedly, the envoy directly handed over the letter of surrender, expressing his willingness to bring the people of Jiangdong to Shun, but the premise was to help Sun Quan eliminate Long Xiang.

Sun Quan's reason is very simple, Long Xiang attacked Wu County and Danyang, not only captured his family, but also spread rumors and tarnished his reputation, and Sun Quan had a common enmity with him.

Cao Cao immediately agreed to the envoy's request, saying that he would soon go south with an army of one million.

Sun Quan was asked to send a naval army to assist in attacking Guan Yu, and then go down the river to destroy Long Xiang after the matter was completed.

Sun Quan had attacked Shouchun twice, and it was reasonable for Cao Cao to ask for a name.

The envoy returned to Nanchang in early May, 100 days later.

When Sun Quan received Cao Cao's reply, he immediately fell into confusion and hesitation.

In the past two years, Long Xiang was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with Sun Quan, but steadily consolidated the results of victory.

Internally, Long Xiang purged the remnants of the Sun clan through counterinsurgency and conquest, and spread Sun Quan's crimes externally, recognizing Sun Kuang as the heir of the Marquis of Wu, causing internal confrontation and division in the Sun family.

Until the spring of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Long Xiang had completed absolute control of Danyang and Wu County, and successively defeated Zhu Ran, He Qi, Sun Jing and others in Qiantang, Fuchun, Shanyin and other places, and recovered a large area in the north of Huiji.

Longxiang also used the characteristics of cement to build guard towers along the Yangtze River and Lishui at an incredible construction speed.

The naval warships that Sun Quan was proud of could not effectively disturb the riots on the waterways, and even broke several large ships due to wind and waves.

The land territory was shrinking, and the navy was completely ineffective, and Sun Quan was worried that he would eventually be eaten away by Long Xiang, so he had no choice but to surrender to Cao Cao.

As the key figure in the murder of Zhou Yu and Sun Yi, Zhou Shan fell into the water and drowned after a drunken accident, and the two suspicious cases died instantly without proof.

Although Sun Quan vigorously denied it, he knew better than anyone whether he had done anything wrong.

Therefore, Sun Quan cannot fall into the hands of Long Xiang, let alone in the hands of Sun Kuang.

When life and death are at stake, Sun Quan can only choose to give up his dignity.

If you can hug Cao Cao's thigh, even if you can't chase the Central Plains, you can still be a free Wu Hou.

Sun Quan did not really surrender, so the envoy was also looking for a way back.

In the same year that Long Xiang attacked Jiangdong, Jiaozhou, the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, also underwent a major change, and Zhang Jin, the assassin, was killed by the general Ou Jing.

In order to improve Liu Cong's prestige, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue made Lai Gong, a native of Lingling, a new assassin, and Wu Ju, a native of Changsha, guarded Cangwu.

The local wealthy clan of Jiaozhou and Jiaozhi Taishou Shixie lured Lai Gong and Wu Ju to attack each other, causing Lingnan to be in war for a long time.

Lü Meng keenly saw the opportunity, so he suggested that Sun Quan take advantage of the chaos to seize Jiaozhou as a way out.

Sun Quan bullied the weak and feared the strong, and liked to pinch soft persimmons, and was restricted by Long Xiang's 'turret tactics', and was no longer able to recapture Danyang and Wu County, but the 30,000 soldiers under his command were idle, so he accepted Lü Meng's suggestion.

Then he took Buqi as the history of Jiaozhou's assassination, and led 8,000 troops with his henchmen Dong Xi and Xu Sheng, and entered Nanhai County of Jiaozhou from the south of Luling.

Lai Gong, Wu Ju, and Shi Xie pecked each other, and Sun Quanxin said that he was a fierce general with 8,000 proud soldiers, so wouldn't it be easy to occupy the city and take the land.

After Sun Kuang became self-reliant in Guangling, Sun Quan only had more than 30,000 soldiers left, and allocated 8,000 soldiers to Buqi to attack Jiaozhou, and the rest were mainly naval troops to protect themselves.

But Cao Cao's 'vote for a name' was imminent, and Sun Quan hesitated and summoned Lu Meng to discuss.

"Ziming, Cao Cao has already received the surrender letter, but he wants us to send troops to Fancheng, retreat from Guan Yu first and then attack Long Xiang, but at the moment we don't have many soldiers, if Long Xiang repeats his old tricks to sneak attack, won't we have no place to stand?"

"In the past two years, Liu Bei has been very powerful, and it is also reasonable for Cao Cao to fight Jingzhou first"

Lu Meng frowned, stroked his beard and groaned, and suddenly his eyes lit up and reminded Sun Quan:

"Since the lord has offered a letter of surrender, if he doesn't do it, I'm afraid that Cao Cao will be suspicious, but the lord has a father's enmity with Jingzhou, how can the Xiangyang Navy let our army pass?

You can reply to Cao Cao with these difficulties, and promise that when he defeats Guan Yu and captures Jingxiang, we will definitely send troops to help. ”

"Ziming doesn't know anything"

Sun Quan looked bitter, shook his head and explained: "Liu Cong descended before us, Cao Cao promised that our troops would enter Hanshui, not only would the road be unimpeded, but Cai Mao and Kuai Yue would also arrange for the labor army."

"Huh? The"

Lu Meng was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time, and it took him a long time to ask: "I don't know when Cao Cao will send troops?" How many soldiers and horses will you bring south? ”

"It is expected that this summer, the time is already very close, as for Cao Cao's soldiers and horses."

Sun Quan sold it, and then raised a finger, "There is this number." ”

"One hundred thousand?"

"Heh, you underestimate Cao Cao, it's a million!"

"What? Million. ”

Lu Meng's eyes widened, he swallowed his saliva violently, and muttered to himself: "If there are really a million soldiers, won't they sweep the world?" It seems that the lord was right to surrender, and none of the princes could stop it. ”

"The main thing is the soldiers and horses he got in Hebei, Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army gathered the crowd and voted, the soldiers left by the three brothers of the Yuan family, and countless Wuhuan people, no wonder Cao Cao has been stumbling in Hebei in recent years, and this time he has really made a fortune."

Sun Quan sighed sadly, and said in his heart that if Shouchun had been defeated, maybe he would have been able to replace Cao Cao.

Cao Cao also made a fortune today, what Liu Biao, Liu Bei, Long Xiang, Chen Deng and the like, I am afraid that I will have to kneel when I hear a million heroes.

Lu Meng saw that although Sun Quan was worried, there was no panic on his face, and he seemed to have a countermeasure, so he asked tentatively:

"Since you have to send troops to respond, you have to find another way to deal with Long Xiang, I don't know if the lord has any ideas?"

Sun Quan bowed his head and said: "Uncle has died in Fuchun, Yifeng and Gongmiao have been defeated many times, there is no point in continuing to stick to Huiji, I want to withdraw the two of them to Yuzhang, but I am afraid that Long Xiang will take advantage of the victory to pursue, so I hesitate to decide."

"Zhu Yifeng and He Gongmiao have nearly 10,000 soldiers, if they can really withdraw in time and leave some sailors to cooperate, Long Xiang will not dare to come from afar to attack."

Lu Meng nodded in affirmation, and then added: "There are more Huiji Mountains than Danyang, Long Xiang wants to completely control Huiji, and he can't do it in a few years, so the lord might as well use money as bait to instigate the southern Shanyue to go north to make trouble?" ”

"Feed the Kou with money and food? Wonderful"

Sun Quan stroked his purple hair and praised, his soft eyes suddenly darkened, and he snorted coldly: "I can drag Long Xiang into the quagmire, so that some money and food is worth it, I will send someone to be responsible for this matter, as for leading the water army to help Cao Cao, I will leave it to you to deal with it with full authority, by the way, Long Xiang used rumors to slander before, can the soldiers in the army have an impact?" ”

"There are still some influences, especially Jiang Gongyi, who has a good relationship with Zhou Dudu."

Lu Meng's words came to an abrupt end at the end.

Hearing this, Sun Quan half-squinted, remembering Zhou Yu's last words.

Zhou Yu appointed Jiang Qin to succeed him on his deathbed, did this guy find something?

"The general values loyalty the most, since his loyalty is shaken, maybe he will betray me, Ziming took him to the Jingzhou battlefield, and then borrowed Guan Yu's hand."

(End of chapter)