Chapter 207 Out of the Mountain Again

(Thank you for the reward, hehe. I'm on a business trip from Thursday to Sunday. I can only update a large chapter in one day in these four days. Sorry.) Originally, he was aggressive. He did not take Jingzhou and did not send to destroy Liu Feng. Sun Quan, who was domineering, sent Liu Feng's messenger Chen Zhen, indifferently. Now, at such a delicate moment, he sent an envoy to see Liu Feng.

At the moment he heard of Lv Fan's arrival, Liu Feng felt that the sharp sword hanging above his head had finally withdrawn.

At the critical moment, this blue eye is still timid.

Public Security City, the main hall of Zhennan General's Mansion.

Liu Feng wore silver armor and knelt down solemnly. What was placed a few times ago was the blue sword that drank countless blood.

The hurried footsteps came to his ears. After a while, the familiar face entered Liu Feng's vision with a smiling face.

"Lv Fan met General Liu." Lv Fan stepped forward and saluted deeply. In his words and deeds, he was extremely respectful to Liu Feng.

"Free gift, look at your seat." Liu Feng only raised his hand gently, and his attitude was very cold.

If Sun Quan had sent messengers before, Liu Feng would have welcomed him warmly and treated him warmly.

But now, the situation is different. When Lv Fan arrived at this time, it was obvious that Sun Quan was in his own strategy. He was afraid that he would really surrender to Cao. He intended to give in to himself.

The initiative has changed hands, and Liu Fengyan can play without using the topic.

When he first sat down, Liu Feng didn't even look at Lv Fan, but said coldly, "Isn't Wu Hou already planning to meet me in the army? Ziheng, what's the point of coming to see me at this time?"

"Ha ha, the general really misunderstood. Wu Hou has never had the idea as the general said. In fact, the general is Wu Hou's brother-in-law. The Sun and Liu families are united as one. How can their own family fight with their own family? Isn't it to make the enemy happy and the relatives hurt?"

Hearing this, Liu Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but on the surface, he still had a straight face and sneered, "Since Wu Hou thought I was my own family and had no intention of dealing with me, I don't know what the tens of thousands of soldiers in Baqiu were going to do? Group fishing?"

Liu Feng's tone was full of sarcasm.

Lv Fan was a little embarrassed. He coughed a few times and laughed, "Cao Qian's army went south. Wu Hou was worried that the general could not cope with it, so he sent more troops to Jingzhou. Of course, the purpose was to deal with Cao Qian with the general. General, don't think too much about it."

"So that's it." Liu Feng first suddenly realized, and then said blankly, "But Cao's army is in the north. If Wu Hou really wants to help me fight against Cao, he should also station troops in Xiakou, but now he has stationed all the troops in Baqiu. In the eyes of outsiders, he will really mistakenly think that Wu Hou is going to fight with me."

Liu Feng took the initiative. Naturally, he chased and fought fiercely, which was also a fierce blow to the oppression of Sun Quan these days.

Lv Fan hurriedly explained, "Well, the general is not in Jingzhou. There must be a lot of Guan Yu's old intentions to make trouble. My Wuhou's soldiers in Baqiu also want to subdue those who intend to make trouble for the general."

This is really difficult for Lv Fan. Finally, he reluctantly rounded up this matter.

Liu Feng's sarcasm was just to come up with a mouthful of disgust. Sun Quan's concessions were exactly what he wanted. Naturally, he would not make the scene a room to return.

After Lv Fan's explanation, Liu Feng was a little happy, and his expression gradually eased. "It's rare for Wu Hou to imagine it for me, my brother-in-law. In this way, the previous things were all misunderstandings caused by the lack of communication between our two families."

Listening to Liu Feng's words turning around, Lv Fanru was granted amnesty and hurriedly nodded and said, "Misunderstanding, of course it's a misunderstanding."

"So, the rumor that Wu Hou was angry with me for seizing Nanjun should also be false?"

Lv Fan laughed and said, "Of course it's false. My Wuhou said that Jingzhou is still the same as the previous agreement with Liu Bei. It can be temporarily borrowed from the general to settle down, and it is not too late to return it after the general takes Yizhou."

It seems that Sun Quan's concession was not in vain. It turns out that he still remembers this.

Liu Feng personally promised Sun Quan, but it was not good to go back on it. He thought that it was just an empty promise anyway. It was not up to him to decide whether to fulfill it in the future. Why not to send Sun Quan away with an empty check?

At the moment, Liu Feng also laughed and vowed, "I, Liu Feng, have always said that I must do it. There is no need for Wu Hou to doubt this."

With Liu Feng's reconfirmation of his promise, Lv Fanchang was relieved. Even if he told Liu Feng, Baqiu's Wu army would soon return eastward and launch an attack in the direction of Hefei to relieve the pressure on Xiangyang.

As Lv Fan said, not long after he left the public security, the Wu army in Baqiu left the east and sailed out of Jingzhou in just one day. The speed of retreat made Liu Feng a little surprised, and even made him suspect that the withdrawal was just a barrier for Sun Quan, and the purpose was only to prepare for the subsequent raid.

The subsequent intelligence made Liu Feng completely relieved. The army of Eastern Wu withdrew as promised, leaving less than 20,000 people on the western front of Lu Su.

The withdrawal of the Eastern Wu Dynasty ruined Cao Qian's dream of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Under the chagrin, Cao Qian immediately led the army from Nanyang to Xinye again. This time, he was no longer soft, but serious.

Cao Qian's reaction was early in Liu Feng's expectation. After he was convinced that the main force of the Eastern Wu would withdraw from the east, Liu Feng left Huang Zhong to lead 4,000 people to guard the public security, and Pang Tong led 3,000 to guard Jiangling. He himself led 5,000 elites and nearly 10,000 barbarian soldiers of Samoco to go straight north to Xiangyang.

Under the instructions of Liu Feng, Wei Yan led 4,000 soldiers and horses to re-enter Fancheng on the opposite bank. Three days later, Cao Qian's army rushed to the city and launched a fierce attack on the door on the north bank of Xiangyang.

Although the number of Cao's troops is far greater than that of the Wu people, Liu Feng is more confident in land warfare. With Fancheng's solid city defense system, backed by Xiangyang, and Liu Feng's full support from the water, Wei Yan withstood waves of fierce attacks of Cao's army with 4,000 soldiers and horses.

In a blink of an eye, a month has passed. Under the lives of thousands of soldiers, Cao Qian still can't shake Fancheng.

Wei Yan's ability was fully reflected in the battle to defend the city. Although Fan Cheng was indestructible, Liu Feng was not happy.

This time, he seems to have really angered the hero who swept the north. So far, he can hardly see that Cao Cang has any intention to retreat. On the contrary, according to the detailed information, Cao Jian is still constantly mobilising troops from Xudu, and he has the intention of not to stop.

It seems that Cao Qian intends to fight a protracted war with him on the front line of Xiangfan.

Cao Zhen can afford it, because his family has a big business. Relying on the perfect field system, he can fully feed hundreds of thousands of professional soldiers who do not need to cultivate and are in charge of war.

Liu Feng can't do it. He imitates the Tuntian established by Cao Jian and only implements it in Changsha, and it is still on a small scale.

As for Liu Bei, since he got Jingzhou, he seems to be blindly afraid of offending the Jingzhou clan. He has not dared to implement farmland in the area of Nan County. Most of the grain accumulated by ordinary people has been transferred to the front line in Shuzhong, leaving much for Liu Feng at all.

Since the beginning of the Battle of Jingzhou, Liu Feng has suddenly surrendered nearly 30,000 troops. With so many more mouths out of thin air, the consumption of grain is extremely large. In just a few months, he consumed most of Liu Feng's hard-earned grain in Changsha.

At present, the war is in the ascendant. On the one hand, Liu Feng has to urge Liu Ba to find ways to collect grain. On the other hand, he can't scatter troops for farmers, releasing more labor for spring ploughing, so that the summer grain production in Jingzhou will inevitably be reduced.

At this moment, Liu Feng once again deeply realized that at some point, food may be the key to the victory or defeat of the war.

In this case, Liu Feng had to send letters to Sun Quan again and again, asking him to enter Hefei immediately to share the great pressure on Xiangyang.

Sun Quan's reply was to send troops as soon as possible, but after sending the messengers away, he still did not move.

Sun Quan's indifference made Liu Feng feel helpless at the same time. In the case of unfavorable help, he had to do his best to support it.

........................The breeze gently pointed to the handsome face, faintly with the fragrance of dirt and grass.

He sat quietly, with closed eyes and long eyelashes trembling slightly.

The plain white fingers skillfully fiddled with the bright strings, the quiet sound of the piano, and the sound of Jiang Tao patting on the shore, wisps of silk, quietly into the ears.

There is peace in my heart. In a trance, there is a feeling of isolating the world.

A slight and rhythmic vibration came from the ground. He frowned and immediately recognized that several horses were flying in this direction.

The sound of horses' hoofs destroyed his elegance. His fingertips loosened, his palms pressed the shaking long strings, and the melodious and pleasant sound of the piano suddenly stopped.

When he just stood up, the rapid sound of his hoofs had stopped behind him. Looking back, the purple-bearded man had already carried his robe and strode with the sword around his waist. Before he approached, he had opened his mouth and shouted, "Gong Jin, when is it? How can you still have such leisure and elegance?"

Zhou Yu straightened his clothes, saluted Sun Quan, who strode, and smiled, "If the lord has something to do, just send someone to say hello. Why do you have to work hard in person?"

When the words fell, Sun Quan had come to his side. He took a few deep breaths of the river wind, and his ups and downs of his chest gradually calmed down. He looked a little anxious. He took Zhou Yu's hand and smiled and said, "Gong Jin, after all, you are still recuperating your body. It's not far from here. What's the big deal for me to come by myself. I just come out to move my muscles and bones. "."

Zhou Yu smiled faintly. Although her handsome face was still a little pale, it was already different from the precarious situation a few years ago.

A few years ago, it was Gan Ning's intention and Liu Feng's generosity that made Zhou Yu take back his life from death under the treatment of Zhang Zhongjing.

The current beautiful Zhoulang is still thrillingly beautiful, but in that beautiful face, it vaguely adds a kind of calmness that others can't reach, as if it is a new understanding of life after escaping from death.

"I miss the Lord, but my body is almost good, and I can fight and kill the enemy at any time." Zhou Yu answered with an indifferent expression.

Seeing Zhou Yu's demeanor, Sun Quan also breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and turned to the point.

"Gong Jin, since your body has recovered as before, I am relieved. It's just your previous plan. It's been a month in a blink of an eye, and I don't know when it will be implemented.

Zhou Yu and Sun Quan walked side by side on the shore and said, "Yu has already said before. When we act, the first thing is to see how Cao Thief uses troops. As long as Xu still has more soldiers left, this plan will have to be delayed."

Sun Quan hooked the corners of his mouth and showed a tid smile: "That's why I came to you. Just after receiving the information from Jiangbei, Cao Wei transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses from Xudu. Now, except for the soldiers and horses left behind, almost all of his hundreds of thousands of field soldiers and horses have been deployed on the front line of Xiangyang.

Sun Quan's words made Zhou Yu's eyes shine. He stopped, extended his eyes to the north of the river, and raised his hand and pointed away, "What about Hefei? I don't know how many soldiers and horses have been left by Cao Thief?"

Sun Quan smiled and said proudly, "There are only three people, Zhang Liao, Li Dian and Le Jin. There are no more than 7,000 soldiers. Gong Jin, at this time, don't you plan to send troops?"

"Three generals, seven thousand soldiers, hum, old thief Cao really underestimates me in the east of the Yangtze River."

Between the handsome faces, a murderous spirit suddenly emerged.

At that time, Sun Dongtun soldiers in Baqiu heard that Liu Feng had the idea of surrendering to Cao. He was in a dilemma for a while. He not only wanted to give in to Liu Feng, but he was unwilling to gain nothing. His face was damaged. At this difficult time, Zhou Yu came all the way to Bachu and met Sun Quan secretly.

Zhou Yu offered a plan to Sun Quan to withdraw his troops to Wu, let Cao Qian fight with Liu Feng in Jingzhou, and then took advantage of the emptiness of his southeast, and he led the army to Hefei to seize the land of Huainan in one fell swoop.

Sun Quan has no absolute confidence in others, even if Lv Meng is impassioned and confident, except for Zhou Yu.

Lv Meng offered a plan to let his troops enter Jingzhou, but in the end, he was in a dilemma and embarrassed to withdraw.

Lu Su didn't embarrass himself, but he made himself very suffocated.

Only Zhou Yu, once again, stood up decisively when he needed it to solve his problems.

In those years, Zhou Yu could even defeat Cao Shen, not to mention a Hefei. It was precisely because of Zhou Yu's initiative to fight that Sun Quan made up his mind to fight for Hefei again.

Hearing Zhou Yu's murderous words, Sun Quan had a little bottom in his heart, but he still had some concerns in private.

He suddenly sighed again, with a look of shame, "Gong Jin, I really should have listened to your advice at the beginning. I shouldn't have lent Jingzhou to Liu Bei, but it turned out to be my fault."

Of course, Sun Quan knew how smart Zhou Yu was. He lent Jingzhou to Liu Bei, which was somewhat aimed at him. Zhou Yu could not guess.

It is precisely because of this that Sun Quan is worried that Zhou Yu will complain about this, and let a general with complaints go out with his tens of thousands of troops. Of course, Sun Quan can't rest assured.

Hearing Sun Quan's self-reproach, Zhou Yu smiled lightly and said lightly, "It can't be said that. As the saying goes, at this time and then, under the situation at that time, it was not wrong for the lord to lend Jingzhou to Liu Bei. On the contrary, Yu was too persistent to clearly observe the master's long-term plans, but who could have expected that Liu Feng's abnormal number would appear? After all, no one is wrong in this matter.

There was no complaint in Zhou Yu's words. On the contrary, he tried his best to excuse Sun Quan, which made Sun Quan feel at ease and moved a little more.

You should know that Zhou Yu has always had prestige in the army. At the beginning, he ignored Zhou Yu's advice and tried his best to lend Jingzhou to Liu Bei, but as a result, there was a current situation. It was inevitable that some generals in the army would have complaints. Now Zhou Yu also made such a statement, which naturally helped him resolve the generals' complaints.

"Gong Jin, you are very clear and righteous. I'm very relieved." Sun Quan stroked Zhou Yu's shoulder and sighed.

"It's not that I am deeply righteous, but the Lord's wisdom and divine martial arts. The momentum of Fang Jin is the perfect opportunity for the Lord to enter the Central Plains in the north and win the world. How can Yu not go through fire and water for the Lord?

This generous words made Sun Quan ambitious and immediately said, "Okay, Gong Jin, you said it well. Now the time has come. It's time for the soldiers to enter Hefei. This time, I'll give you all the soldiers and horses you want."

Zhou Yu said proudly, "One Hefei, 50,000 soldiers is enough."

"Fifty thousand is 50,000. In terms of Hefei, there is Lao Gongjin's trouble. I will be your backing in Muling, allocate money and grain for you, and replenish soldiers and horses, so that you don't have any worries."

........................It was the beginning of the summer, when 50,000 troops from Eastern Wu entered Hefei.

The news first came back to Jingzhou, and Liu Feng was finally relieved.

"I really didn't expect that Sun Quan would use Zhou Yu again." Liu Feng sighed.

Pang Tong's two-slit eyes showed a sneer, "Jiangdong generals are mostly fierce people. It's okay to fight a little, but when it comes to fighting the world, there is no one but Zhou Lang. Wu Hou thought of using Zhou Yu at this time, but I felt that it was a little later than I expected.

Hearing Pang Tong's words, Liu Feng's back suddenly felt a chill. Fortunately, Zhou Yu was not used when Sun Quanxi attacked Jingzhou. If so, the situation would be very different.

The generals in Jiangdong, Liu Feng is afraid, and Zhou Lang is the only one.

Liu Feng nodded slightly: "No wonder Sun Quan has been delayed in Wu for so long and refused to send troops to attack Hefei. It turns out that he has been waiting for Cao Qian to transfer all his troops to Xiangyang. Humph, my uncle is really good at calculating."

Pang Tong said with a relaxed expression, "Anyway, Sun Quan has finally sent troops, and the commander-in-chief is still Zhou Lang. I don't expect that it will take long for Cao to have to withdraw his troops."

Pang Tong's optimism, but Liu Feng didn't agree. "Although Cao Jian did not have many soldiers and horses left in Hefei, he left Zhang Liao as a good general. Zhou Lang's attack on Hefei this time, I'm afraid he may not be able to force Cao Jian to withdraw his troops."

"Although Zhang Liao has some generals, he is only a general after all. How can he be handsome last week? Lord, we should have confidence in Zhou Lang, hehe--"

Liu Feng did not fight with Zhang Liao. He was just impressed by the historical "Zhang Liaowei Zhen Xiaoyaojin" before he had concerns about the battle of Hefei.

But seeing that Pang Tong had such confidence in Zhou Yu, Liu Feng also comforted a little, so he said, "Okay, let's wait and see how Zhou Lang performed."

The two ministers were talking about themselves, and suddenly the soldiers came to report, saying that it was Huang Quan, a subordinate of Liuzhang in Xichuan, who asked for a meeting.

(to be continued)