Chapter 108: A Bloodless Confrontation
At this point in the war, Liu Chan actually no longer planned to rely on force to take public security.
He now has the capital not to rely on force to achieve his goals, and to use force again will do more harm than good.
First, there are still more than 20,000 Wu troops in the public security, and the elite of the navy is still there, and the losses from the strong attack are too great.
But this is not the most important thing, Jiang Qin's troops were deceived back by their own design, not destroyed, and these combat forces can be replenished after they are recognized.
Moreover, Jingzhou has been mobilized for war, and if new recruits are recruited, it will inevitably cause damage to the people's livelihood and economy, and most of the recruits are still untrained.
Yizhou is not much better, the battle of Hanzhong has been fought for two years, and the people need enough time to recuperate, and the cost of the battle of Jingzhou is huge if it falls into anxiety.
A large amount of land is not collected, which means that when the tax is collected in the next year, the income will also fall, so should the tax be increased again?
Plus will fall into a vicious circle, and the so-called reckless use of military force is like this.
Crushing Wu Guo was a planned thing for Liu Chan, but now was not a good time.
At this time, he fell into an endless war of attrition with the other party and competed for national strength, and the happiest person would only be Cao Cao.
Of course, although the goal is to achieve the goal by not fighting, Liu Chan still orders riding, walking, and sailing every day to practice.
Especially the navy, every day to the public security near the military exercises, I look like I'm just resting, and when I finish my rest, I will kill you in a stunned posture.
Frightened, Wu Jun, who even suffered defeat, was terrified.
There are many people who are fashionable and have never fought, and now they can't even compare with the troops, and the pessimism of the soldiers of the Wu army can be imagined.
Zhu Ran had no choice but to patrol everywhere every day, appease the sergeants, eat and live with the soldiers, and engage in performance art.
Unfortunately, the results are still not good.
Sun Quan can't help but be in a hurry, and now that the two sides are facing each other, it is not easy for him to leave.
It is very easy to turn into a rout when leading an army, and it is easy to lose people's morale if you go first.
As far as the morale of the army is concerned, if it falls again, it will fall into the mud.
But if he doesn't leave, if the Shu army attacks, he will be trapped in the public security.
This is bound to cause a great shock in Jiangdong, and many people who did not dare to move before may come forward, and there may even be many vicious rebellions like Cao Wei's base camp.
After all, under Jiangdong's superficial unity, there are many jackals, tigers and leopards waiting for his Sun family to pounce on and bite when his Sun family is weak.
Sun Quan now has a lot of resentment towards Zhuge Jin, and it was only after listening to his words that he personally recruited again.
Recruit a fart! It's good now, it's hard to ride a tiger.
From the beginning of the Battle of Jingzhou, he did it according to his strategy, and the result?
He and his brother were both born in the same family, how could the gap be so big?
On the third day, Sun Quan couldn't hold back any longer, ignored Zhuge Jin, who advocated continuing the confrontation, and sent invitations to Liu Chan and Guan Yu.
After a fierce operation, Sun Quan, who had not achieved a strategic goal, was beaten back to the negotiating table.
Naturally, he would not set up the negotiation venue in the public security city, which would appear insincere, and no one would be stupid.
But let him cross the river...... He didn't have the guts.
So the negotiation site was magically set up near the last beacon tower in the direction of Gangneung, north of the public security.
Liu Chan Guan Yu, who received the invitation, naturally wanted to go, but the question was who else to take.
At first, Liu Chan thought that it would be okay to go with Guan Yu and the others, the sight of the riverside in winter was good, and whether there were ambushes or not without getting off the boat could be known, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Even if Sun Quan lost his mind and went crazy and wanted to die, he would not have the environmental conditions to set up an ambush.
However, it was strongly opposed by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.
"The second uncle can go, why can't the third uncle go? So-and-so is going too. ”
Zhao Yun rarely stood on the same position as Zhang Sanye in this matter: "The lord ordered the ministers to protect the prince, how can the ministers stay in Jiangbei alone?" ”
Zhuge Liang smiled and waved his hand at this time and said: "It's okay, then I'll wait for the five to go together, but the three generals must not insult that Sun Quan." ”
Liu Chan was dumbfounded, no, why do you want to go Uncle Zhuge too?
You thin arms and thin legs, if there is a mistake, where will I find a hexagonal prime minister in the future?
However, after thinking about it carefully, he is still young when negotiating such a major matter with Jiangdong, and he really needs to have a representative of Lao Liu present, Zhuge Liang is naturally this role, so he did not object again.
At noon on the appointed day, a group of five people crossed the river by boat, talking and laughing all the way.
When the boat stopped and landed, Liu Chan immediately became solemn, and he had a bearing when he walked, which was not at all as casual as when he got along with people close to him on weekdays.
Sun Quan stood in front of the temporary wooden platform erected by the river with the support of the waiter, and saw that the young man among the several people was dressed in a dark brocade robe and a sword with gold silk and jade at his waist, and walked towards him without hurrying, revealing heroism and solemnity.
Even Sun Quan, who smashed one of the culprits of his plan to attack Jingzhou, couldn't help but praise in his heart at this time, but Liu Bei gave birth to a good son.
Liu Chan's outfit was specially brought by Zhuge Liang from Shu.
After the initial panic, if anyone has the most confidence in Liu Chan in Jingzhou, it is undoubtedly him Zhuge Kongming.
But even he didn't expect it to be used so quickly.
This is the first time Liu Chan has seen this legendary blue-eyed child with his own eyes, and the imaginary high nose and deep eyes, similar to the appearance of a foreign race, regardless of the color of his hair and eyes, he actually looks very "Chinese".
It's not like a string.
"Ah...... Ah, the heir is really a talent, I have been separated from my father for many years, and I can't imagine that you are so old, haha. Sun Quan's enthusiastic face was full of kindness.
However, inside and outside the words, Liu Chan was treated as a junior, and it seemed that he was just trying to break the embarrassment of the confrontation between the two armies and bring them closer to each other, but in fact, they did not put each other in an equal position at all.
If you don't notice this pit and follow his words, you will be constrained everywhere in the following negotiations.
I want to be a junior, right?
Liu Chan narrowed his eyes, and just now I saw the meaning, you were going to call Adou at the beginning?
Fortunately, Sun Quan changed his words in time, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about it today.
Hearing this, Liu Chan stopped moving forward, stood with his hands in his hands, and raised his head and said: "Gu is the crown prince of Hanzhong, and you are my Liu courtier, why don't you salute when you see Lone?" Mo Feier and other Jiangdong people don't know the etiquette? ”
Sun Quan was only an acting general of the chariot cavalry, and he had not turned positive, and when he saw him, the crown prince of Hanzhong, he should salute first.
Since you don't want to talk about it, and your mind is only thinking about digging a pit, let's compare who digs a bigger hole.
You either deny your identity as a courtier of the Liu family, or you admit that you don't know the etiquette.
Otherwise, just bow to me obediently and talk again.
The problem is that this head is bowed and courteous...... Still talking about?
In fact, if Sun Quan hadn't lost the battle and was now blocked by the public security, this problem would be easy to resolve.
He just needs to catch Liu Bei's King of Hanzhong who is not sealed by the Son of Heaven and does not admit it.
But now that Jingzhou has been defeated and blocked by the public security, Sun Quan does not dare to say such insulting words.
For a moment he was in a dilemma.
What a tough boy!
Zhuge Jin behind Sun Quan stood up with his hand: "Uh......"
"Shut up!" Liu Chan frowned coldly, "Lonely and your lord are talking, what is your identity and you are also here to interject?" Jiangdong people don't know how much etiquette there is? ”
Zhuge Jin, who was interrupted as soon as he made a sound, was stunned.
Hiss...... Zhuge Jin gritted his back molars and retreated, such a domineering boy!
His current official position is only the middle Sima of Sun Quan's Cheqi General's Mansion, but he has no way to refute Liu Chan's words.
The inferior disadvantage of the boss and the official is thus manifested.
This is also one of the important reasons why Liu Bei must be the king after the battle of Hanzhong.
Zhuge Jin looked at his younger brother Zhuge Liang for help with a bitter face, but Zhuge Liang stared at Sun Quan's face, as if he had flowers on his face, and pretended not to see his brother's expression.
wants to let Prime Minister Zhuge who has done his best in history abolish the public because of his private interests, but there is no door.
But thanks to Zhuge Jin's interruption, Sun Quan thought of a way to deal with it: "Uh...... I recently suffered an arrow wound in my leg, and I have a lot of inconvenience, hehe. Come on, let's take a seat. Come on, serve wine! ”
He only said that he was injured and inconvenient, but he did not directly admit that he should salute, which can be regarded as avoiding this pit.
But Zhang Fei behind Liu Chan was staring at his knees, and the sneering expression on his face made him want to kill.
It's a shame to talk about the arrow wound, but it's better than admitting that it's a low status.
I wanted to take advantage of Liu Chan's young and shallow knowledge to ask for some cheapness during negotiations, but I didn't expect to get a bargain, and I lost an ugly ......
In the confrontation of the first meeting, Sun Quan lost for a while.
Thanks to the "Shenghuang" boss 1500 points, the "Qing Idle People 2022" boss 100 points, and once again inject funds into the Jihan Armed Group, the two points will be used to reward the meritorious soldiers in the battle of Jingzhou, thank you for your support~
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