Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

The words of the great man are still catchy to this day.

This sentence was impartial, and it happened to be heard by Lu Su.

Lu Su looked at Lan Tian's back and pondered for a moment, thinking that this Lan Taishou is not useless, besides being able to cook fish, he can also speak well.

In the afternoon, when the boat arrived in Chaisang, Zhou Yu went to the pier to meet him in person.

After Lu Su's introduction, Zhou Yu's eyes kept turning to Zhuge Liang. After all, his ordinary life metaphor has also spread to Jiangdong.

Zhou Yu is relatively perfunctory towards Liu Qi, a "confidant".

Then Zhou Yu led them into the city to meet Sun Quan. Lan Tian saw Fang Yi with a big mouth, blue eyes and purple beard, and thought that being a monarch was really different from ordinary people.

After a brief introduction, Sun Quan asked about Cao Cao's truth.

Zhuge Liang replied: "Although Cao Cao claims to have 80 to 40 soldiers, Liang thinks it is exaggerated. When he and Yuan Shao refused to go to Guandu, he had no more than a hundred thousand soldiers. The consumption is no more than [-] at most, and with the tens of thousands of newly acquired Jingzhou soldiers, the current total strength will not exceed [-]."

Sun Quan took a deep breath and thought that the 40 soldiers were not a small number. He asked with a heavy face: "Since Cao Mengde has 40 soldiers, Liu Yuzhou has defeated him several times, how do he plan to deal with himself now?  … "

"What should the general do with himself?" Zhuge Liang asked back.

Sun Quan shook his head and said, "Yangzhou has few small soldiers, and all the ministers are afraid of Cao Cao's force, so they all intend to surrender Cao Cao, but I am a little hesitant."

Zhuge Liang glanced at Sun Quan, then stared at the serious Lu Su, and said to himself, are you playing hard to get with me?

Zhuge Liang affirmed: "The general should do what he can, as long as he puts on his armor and faces north, not only can Jiangdong be saved from the flames of war, Cao Mengde will definitely give the general a generous promotion..."

Sun Quan's face changed slightly, "Why didn't Liu Yuzhou put on his armor and face north?"

Chapter 119 Liu Qi Has a Big Appetite

Zhuge Liang said awe-inspiringly: "Liu Yuzhou is the man of the emperor's family, and he spreads loyalty, benevolence and righteousness all over the world. Besides, my lord is entrusted by the emperor's blood to wipe out evildoers. He should have summoned a group of heroes to fight against the country's thieves. How could he bow himself to the thieves for his own selfishness?"

Sun Quan stood up angrily, thinking that Liu Xuande was unwilling to follow the thief, should I?

The disparity in military strength, not to mention the fear of the Jiangdong officials, Sun Quan did not make up his mind to fight decisively.

Lu Su knew that Zhuge Liang was using aggressive methods, so he immediately took up the topic and said, "Since Liu Yuzhou wants to seek out thieves, Mr. Kong Ming must have a countermeasure? The so-called military is expensive, and Cao Cao won Xiangyang and Jiangling but did not move. It is really strange. "

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Zijing is a brilliant man, don't you understand Cao Mengde's tricks?"

"Mr. please clear up your doubts." Lu Su bowed his hands and asked without shame, what's the use of face if we can form an alliance against Cao Cao?

"Cao Cao's soldiers are all northern infantry. Even if there are millions of mobs, they can't easily cross the Yangtze River. His navy is only 2 people in Xiangyang. It is difficult to capture Jiangxia with this force. How can we talk about being able to Jiangdong? The elite water army to fight? If we fight against it at this time, the northern army will be a fish and shrimp."

"Then Cao Cao stood still in Jiangling..." Lu Su seemed to understand something.

Zhou Yu immediately snorted coldly: "Tie Cao is delaying time, waiting for his warships to be ready and the navy to take shape..."

Zhuge Liang gave a thumbs up, "What the governor said is absolutely true."

Sun Quan was very excited when he heard this, and immediately said happily: "Then we can't give Cao Cao time to prepare, we should discuss the battle strategy as soon as possible..."

"If you want to defeat Cao Cao, you have to send troops as soon as possible, depending on the battle." Zhuge Liang added.

It was getting dark outside, and the waiter lit up candles in the hall, and Zhou Yu asked someone to fetch the map of Jingzhou, planning to discuss how to march overnight.

Lan Tian and Zhuge Liang looked at each other, and said to themselves that you are still using maps, and we are already sand tables.

"Mr. Kong Ming, how many soldiers and horses does Liu Yuzhou have?" Sun Quan asked suddenly.

"Ten thousand sailors, three thousand cavalry." Zhuge Liang replied.

After hearing this, Sun Quan shook his head and said, "Some are missing..."

"The [-] sailors were borrowed from my lord Liu Jingzhou." Lan Tian hurriedly said.

"Yes, I borrowed it..." Zhuge Liang quickly nodded in agreement.

Lan Tian didn't have any reputation in Jiangdong, he just sat aside and didn't say a word. Sun Quan, Lu Su and others didn't value him very much, as if he was Zhuge Liang's entourage.

At this time, he suddenly swore the ownership of the navy. Zhou Yu wondered if Liu Qi had some ideas, so he asked, "I wonder how many troops Liu Jingzhou has besides the [-] sailors?"

Lan Tian raised his head and pretended to think, then calculated to himself, "General Liu Pan of Changsha has [-], Lingling has [-], Guiyang has [-]..."

I can't even remember how many troops my family has, and Sun Quan and Lu Su all have contempt for him.

"There should be another [-]." Lan Tian said loudly after 'calculating'.

Sun Quan stroked his purple beard and nodded perfunctorily, "Liu Jingzhou still has a lot of troops, Gong Jin, now you can discuss how to deploy the battle."

"My lord, it's getting late at this time. Kong Ming and Ziyu have come from a long way. It's time to throw a banquet to cleanse the dust. It's not too late to discuss the battle strategy tomorrow." Zhou Yu suggested.

"Haha, I was the one to be rude, Zijing, order a banquet for the two gentlemen." Sun Quan waved his hand.

"Wei." Lu Su bowed his hands in response.

Lan Tian seldom spoke, no matter when he was meeting with Sun Quan or at the welcome banquet, and he always spoke with the caressing tone of a common man, pretending to fight for Liu Qi's interests.

After the banquet, Sun Quan asked everyone to rest early, and to discuss the battle tomorrow morning.

Sun Quan left Zhou Yu and Lu Su behind after the meeting, and said coldly, "Liu Qi actually took Jingnan secretly and saved [-] soldiers and horses. Judging by Lan Tian's face, he seems to want a piece of the pie too."

Lu Su said: "Liu Qi may not be able to get back the [-] sailors lent to Liu Bei. In the future battle of the Yangtze River, Liu Qi's troops will not be of much use."

"Zijing is right. Liu Pan's [-] soldiers in Changsha have some combat strength, and the rest should be the mobs like Jinxuan and Han Xuan. However, after forming an alliance with Liu Qi, Demou's Jianchang garrison will be able to participate in the battle. "Zhou Yu added.

Sun Quan worried: "I don't know how big this guy's appetite is. If we want us to help him conquer Jingzhou, there is no need to form an alliance with Liu Qi. Who is this Lantian? Why has he never heard of it before?"

Lu Su explained: "It is said that he is Liu Qi's confidant brought out from Xiangyang. I think this person can write articles and is very good at cooking, but his talent is far from being comparable to that of Kong Ming."

"That's right, if you really have the talent of Kong Ming, how could you go to join Liu Qi? You have to find someone to test his bottom line." Sun Quan said.

Zhou Yu disdained to talk too much with Lan Tian, ​​Lu Su saw this and said: "Now that we are full of wine and food, the two must have not gone to bed early, I invite him to go for a walk in the city."

Seeing Lu Su's open-minded personality, Zhou Yu also said, "Then I'll talk to Kong Ming about how to break Cao."

Zhuge Liang and Lan Tian were placed in the Chai Sang Inn, while Zhao Yun and Chen Dao stood guard in front of the house like two door gods.

Seeing that there was still candlelight in Lantian's room, Lu Su asked Zhao Yun, "General Zilong, is Mr. Ziyu going to sleep?"

Before Zhao Yun could answer, Lan Tian pushed the door open, "Mr. Zijing looking for me?"

"Just now, I didn't show proper manners, so Su Te came to apologize." Lu Su cupped his hands.

Lan Tian: "Zijing is too polite, please come inside."

Lu Su shook his head and said, "I want to go for a walk in the city to digest food. I wonder if Ziyu would like to go with me?"

There are no street lights in this era, and when you go for a walk in the city in the dark, Lan Tian said in his heart that you are really in a good mood.

Chaisang is an important military town in the northwest of Yangzhou. Zhou Yu implements militarized management here. Although there are no street lights in the city, there are many soldiers patrolling back and forth with torches, so the streets are not so deserted.

"How long has Mr. Liu Jingzhou been with you?" Lu Su asked first on the road to provoke the topic.

"It's been a long time..." Lan Tian replied vaguely.

Lu Su saw that this guy couldn't go on the road, so he asked again: "Liu Jingzhou has the style of being a father, and now the four counties in Jingnan are full of heart and spirit, I wonder what his ambition is?"

Lan Tian knew that Lu Su asked whether his ambition was false and whether the division of interests after the war was true, so he said: "The ministers under my rule, because Liu Cong hastily defected to the enemy, caused many family members to stay in Jiangbei. Going down to Jiangling."

Want Jiangling?The appetite is really not small.

Lu Su thought about it again, Jiangling and Wuling County are across the river, so it is reasonable for Liu Qi to take back his hometown.

"Jiangling has Cao's army stationed there. Even if the Yangtze River water battle wins, it will not be easy to conquer this important town in the north of the Yangtze River..." The meaning behind Lu Su's words is that Liu Qi has no ability to capture Jiangling.

Lan Tian pretended to be surprised, "The so-called defeat is like a mountain. Wouldn't it be easy to defeat Cao Cao on the Yangtze River and capture Jiangling? My lord has [-] to [-] soldiers."

Lu Su was very speechless, why should he emphasize [-] to [-] soldiers?Among them, the most elite navy was taken away by Guan Yu, and the remaining [-] went to fight Jiangling. Isn't it just a dream?

"Twenty to thirty thousand soldiers are also difficult..." Lu Su reminded.

"It's okay, I won't blame you if I can't beat you." Lan Tian was full of confidence.

1 Chapter Twenty

Lu Su was taken aback when he heard that, what do you mean you won't complain if you can't beat him?

He didn't know what Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were thinking: "That's all after the victory of the water battle. We'll discuss it tomorrow."

"Zijing is right. I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in Jiangdong?" Lan Tian asked.

Lu Su wanted to form an alliance, so he was not wary of the man in front of him. He replied honestly: "Chaisang has 2 to [-] navy troops. In addition to the left-behind soldiers in various counties, the infantry can also mobilize [-] to [-] people."

Lan Tian nodded, "We have a total of [-] people, and with the Yangtze River as a barrier, we should be able to fight Cao Cao."

"According to Mr. Kong Ming's analysis, there is indeed a great chance of winning."

Before they knew it, the two had walked hundreds of steps out of the post house, while Zhao Yun followed closely behind.

Clang clang!

The two passed by a courtyard wall on the side of the street, and heard the sound of metal and iron intersecting inside, Zhao Yun immediately put his hand on the saber vigilantly.

Lan Tian waved his hands and said, "Don't be alarmed, Zilong, maybe someone is practicing martial arts in the courtyard. Mr. Zijing, who lives here?"

Lu Su remembered that this place was Zhou Yu's other courtyard. Could it be that the governor of the capital raised some dead soldiers?It's dark and I'm still training.

He couldn't tell Lan Tian his guess, so Lu Su shook his head and said, "Su doesn't know..."

"Jiangdong soldiers really train hard." Lan Tian looked at the other courtyard and praised.

Lu Su's eyes were wide open, and he thought that this Lanziyu had a keen sense of smell, "It's getting late, let's go back. This place should be the residence of a certain general. I can't sleep at night and I'm practicing martial arts. It's actually the same as our walk." of."

"Oh... okay." Observing Lan Tian's words, he found that Lu Su was evasive just now, and the people living here should not be ordinary people.

Because the two of them were silent, Lu Su was afraid of Lan Tian's questioning, so he raised the topic and said, "Liu Yuzhou is a hero in this world. I don't know how you treat him? I heard that Duke Xuande was stationed in Xinye first, and then he went there for no reason. Guiyang..."

Lan Tian hurriedly explained: "It was all arranged by my master's parents before, but now Liu Jingzhou attaches great importance to Liu Shijun and intends to let him stay in Jiangxia forever."

Lu Su nodded, "So that's the case."

When Lan Tian returned to the post house, Zhou Yu had just left.

Zhuge Liang welcomed Lantian into his room, and asked, "Lu Zijing came to find Ziyu to ask how to carve up Jingzhou after the war?"

Lan Tian nodded, "Yes, I told him the position of the eldest son, we want Jiangling, what about your side?"

"I fought for Xiangyang for my lord, and now Nanyang is left in the north..."

"Nanyang has no danger to rely on, and it is too far away from Jiangdong. I am afraid that Sun Quan will not agree."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Ziyu once said that he would ask for a lot of money to pay back the money. Since we have already offered the price, it depends on Sun Quan's plan."

"Sun Zhongmou is destined to not sleep well, but we have to make appropriate concessions tomorrow, otherwise this alliance will be difficult to achieve." Lan Tian reminded.

"I don't think so. The more sincere you are, the more Sun Quan will believe it. In short, play by ear tomorrow." Zhuge Liang analyzed.

Zhou Yu and Lu Su begged to see Sun Quan overnight, and relayed all the words of Zhuge Liang and Lan Tian.

Sun Quan was furious when he heard the words: "These two families are deceiving people too much. Nanyang is far away from Jiangdong and adjacent to the Central Plains. Even if it is given to us, how can it hold it? If it is so unaligned."

Lu Su hurriedly advised: "My lord, rest your anger for a while, I think this matter can be dealt with."

"Oh?"

"Although both families have sent people here, Liu Qi is the governor of Jingzhou. If we want to divide the counties after the war, we only need to take care of Liu Qi."

Sun Quan looked puzzled: "Zijing, please clarify."

Just as Lu Su was about to speak, Zhou Yu approached him and said, "Liu Bei is a hero in the world. Because he is holding the imperial edict, Cao Mengde must be killed quickly. He lives in Jingzhou, and Liu Biao is afraid of his ability and cannot use it. Now Liu Qi wants to make him For Huang Zu in the past, Yu thought it was a wild idea, if my lord could separate the two of them, then Jingzhou would be in turmoil and Jiangdong would be able to reap the benefits."

Lu Su just wanted to form an alliance and suppress Liu Bei by the way. He had no intention of alienating them at all. Now that Zhou Yu has robbed him of his words, he can only add: "As the governor said, we still need to form an alliance against Cao... "

It doesn't matter whether we want to form an alliance to fight against Cao Cao or not. Sun Quan heard that he could reap the benefits, and immediately became interested. "Tomorrow's debate will be tense. Gongjin and Zijing will talk to Kongming and Ziyu first. I will show up later and make a rescue with you."

"Wei." Zhou Yu (Lu Su) said in unison.

In the early morning of the next day, Lan Tian and Zhuge Liang arrived on time, but Sun Quan did not show up.

Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu had reached an agreement last night on how to fight together, and today the four of them mainly divided up their interests after the war.

On behalf of Lantian, Liu Qi wanted Jiangling, while Zhuge Liang insisted on Xiangyang.

Zhou Yu sneered and said, "In this joint fight against Cao Cao, I sent the most troops in Jiangdong, so I should choose first. Besides, there are only two counties in Jiangbei, Nanjun and Nanyang, so why divide them into cities?"

"The governor is right. Nanjun is on the Yangtze River, not far from Chaisang. I, Jiangdong, are better here. As for Nanyang County, you can divide it yourself. Liu Yuzhou lived in Xinye for several years. Why don't you come back to the old place?" Lu Su added.

"Jingzhou is originally owned by my lord. Giving up Nanyang is already the biggest concession of my lord. Other places can be discussed, but Jiangling absolutely cannot." Lan Tian argued sharply.

"Mr. Ziyu, this statement is wrong. This Jingzhou is not owned by Liu Jingsheng, but the land of the emperor of the Han family. Besides, it is not General Wentai who killed the governor Wang Rui. Liu Jingsheng may not have the opportunity to take over Jingzhou." Lu Su explained the truth to him. .

"No matter how much you argue, whatever Jiang Ling says should belong to my master..." Lan Tian pretended to be out of words.