Chapter 158 The Joker?

Sun Liu's name is the alliance, and they naturally need to relax a lot of each other's precautions. Therefore, Liu Bei can use the name of business and other things to unscrupulously place detailed works in Eastern Wu, and even in the name of diplomacy, he can openly set up his eyes and ears in the officialdom of Eastern Wu.

That's why, as soon as Zhou Yu arrived at the mausoleum, he just asked Wuhou to lead the army against Jiangxi to take Yizhou. Liu Bei soon received the information.

Zhou Yu's suggestion is undoubtedly a major threat to Liu Bei.

If Sun Quan is tempted by Zhou Yu and promises to send Zhou Yu to attack Western Shu, then it is impossible for the Wu army to cross Liu Bei's defense zone to the west across a southern county, because this will not only make the supply line longer, but also easily cut off the return of Zhou Yu's army once Liu Bei changes.

Therefore, if Sun Quan wants to attack Yizhou, he must use Jingzhou as a logistics base for Zhou Yu's army to advance westward, that is to say, he can only tear up the loan south county agreement previously reached with Liu Bei.

It was precisely because of this shocking news that Liu Bei immediately set off and went south on a starry night, intending to transfer the army staying in Linxiang back to the public security as soon as possible.

With Xu Shu's conspiracy, after listening to Liu Bei's words, he immediately understood the serious surname of the matter. Seeing Liu Bei's murderous spirit, he suddenly guessed a few points.

"Lord, are you going to seize the southern county with troops?" Xu Shu asked uneasily.

Liu Bei looked back and made sure that the soldiers could not hear their dialogue. Then he lowered his voice and said helplessly, "It is my long-term plan to take Yizhou in the west. How can I allow the Sun family to do it? If I tolerate Zhou Yu to take Yizhou first, the Longzhong plan set by Kong Ming's military division will be abandoned, and then we will also be eternal. There is no turning over, so no matter what means I use, I must stop Zhou Yu's conspiracy.

Zhou Yu is not in Jiangling, and the Wu army in Jingzhou has a total of no more than 30,000, and they are stationed in several places such as Jiangling, Baqiu and Lukou. If Liu Bei can concentrate his superior forces and surprise him to raid Jiangling, it is not impossible to take the South County before the Eastern Wu reacts.

What Liu Bei played was such a satisfactory calculation that Xu Shu didn't know.

"Zhou Yu has always been afraid of the Lord. Even if he is not in Jiangling, he will definitely arrange a preventive plan when he is leaving. If the Lord takes risks to raid Jiangling, once it does not work, he will give the Eastern Wu an excellent excuse to attack us. At that time, the Eastern Wu army will come to revenge. With our current strength, how can we compete with it? "

Liu Bei's desperate strategy was disintegrated by Xu Shu in a few words.

After listening to Xu Shu's analysis, Liu Bei calmed down to weigh the pros and cons a little, and soon realized that it was not the time to take risks and turn against Dongwu, but how could he watch Zhou Yu play tricks and destroy the grand plan of his painstaking management.

"Yuan Zhi, it's not like a raid on Jiangling, and it's even more impossible to wait for him to be killed. In Yuan Zhi's opinion, how should we deal with Zhou Yu's tricks?" Liu Bei asked worriedly. .

Xu Shu brushed his short beard and paced several times in the bow of the boat. His frown gradually unfolded, and finally there was a sneer at the corners of his mouth.

"There is a plan for the concubine, and Wu Hou vetoed Zhou Lang's plan."

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Linxiang.

After Liu Feng defeated Guan Yu that night, he did not chase after him. The next day, after the dawn, it was true that Guan Yu had deployed about a thousand follow-up troops in the Xiangshui camp. If he chased him rashly, he might be killed by Guan Yu.

After experiencing the defeat of the day, Guan Yu did not continue to pester. After staying in Linxiang for two days, he went all the camps to the north.

Liu Feng did not relax his guard because of this. He sent many scouts to follow and monitor the enemy's movements all the way. It was not until Guan Yu's fleet sailed out of Xiangshuikou that Liu Feng was sure that Guan Yu was a real withdrawal this time.

Immediately after that, the news of Zhang Feijun's return to Lingling also came from Guiyang in the south, and Liu Bei seemed to have strictly abided by the agreement with Sun Quan, not only withdrawing the army, but also withdrawing many counties that had been occupied.

Therefore, shortly after Liu Bei withdrew his troops, Liu Feng sent Huang Zhong to lead a thousand troops and horses to the north and recaptured Yiyang on the west bank of the Xiangshui River as a gateway to block Changsha County.

While completing the recovery of the lost land in the two counties of Xiangdong, Liu Feng accepted Liu Ba's suggestion to recruit Chen Zhenwei, a native of Nanyang, and sent him to Yangling with heavy gifts. According to the agreement with Sun Quan, he proposed marriage to Sun Shangxiang with formal etiquette.

Linxiang is thousands of miles away from the Mausoleum. It takes a month for Chen Zhen to go back and forth. During this period, Liu Feng can only wait patiently, hoping that nothing will happen in the middle.

On this day, Liu Feng, accompanied by Liu Ba, was inspecting the farmland cultivation in the east of Linxiang.

Due to Liu Bei's poisonous plan of digging Xiangshui to flood Linxiang, although it did not destroy Linxiang City, the flood flooded many good farmland farmhouses around him, causing considerable damage to the economy.

As the saying goes, food is the first priority for the people. In such an era of farming, agriculture is the foundation of strength, and Liu Feng has to pay more attention to it. Therefore, at the beginning of Guan Yu's withdrawal of troops, Liu Ba began to restore the surrounding agricultural economy damaged by war.

Just as Liu Feng was inspecting in the field, a horse rushed over: "I want to the lord that Jiang Gan, the envoy sent by the court, has arrived outside the city."

The court? The envoy?

I haven't heard these two nouns for a long time. Liu Fengchu couldn't react a little. After a moment, Liu Feng suddenly realized that this was the person sent by Cao Jian.

In today's world, everyone knows that Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty in Xudu, is just a decoration. Any so-called imperial edict from Xudu is naturally instructed by Cao Jian. Even so, although the princes of all parties can refuse to accept the will of the court, they have to nominally respect the puppet Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

"This Jiang Gan must have come by the order of the Duke of Cao. Lord, let's go back to the city to meet him."

Liu Ba's expression immediately became solemn, and the sentence "Cao Gong" in his mouth was also very kind. Liu Feng suddenly remembered that Liu Ba had an experience of taking the initiative to vote for Cao. Although he was now loyal to himself, he still seemed to have an inextricable good impression on Cao.

As a new prince all the way, Liu Feng naturally had to learn from his predecessors. In this face, he still had to respect the court, so he quickly put down the matter at hand and rushed back to Linxiang.

All the way back to Linxiang, he returned to his Zhennan General's Mansion. Hearing that Ma Yu and others had invited the envoys of the imperial court to the political hall to wait for a long time, Liu Feng went straight there.

When he walked into the lobby, he found that the legendary Jiang Gan seemed to be quite different from the image of the clown in his impression.