Outside Jiangling City, more than 10,000 Jiangling soldiers put down their weapons, took off their armor, and stood in line in a row in a commoner. Everyone was dejected and anxiously awaiting the official incorporation of Cao's army.

Behind them were teams of tiger and leopard cavalry guarding the surrendered soldiers with murderous intent. In front of the team, Pang Ji and Wang Jie had been waiting for a long time with dozens of generals.

Opposite the surrendered soldiers, the hundred thousand Cao troops had been arranged into several huge square formations, with flags waving, covering the sky and overwhelming. When thousands of cavalry surrounded Cao Cao and appeared in front of the team, the hundred thousand Cao troops shouted like thunder, "Prime Minister Thousand Years!" The voice was like a mountain collapse and cracking, resounding throughout the earth.

Cao Cao was wearing a golden helmet and a golden armor, and was extremely conspicuous in the team. He waved his hand slightly, and the team suddenly became silent. Pang Ji and Wang Jie walked forward with dozens of generals and knelt in front of Cao Cao, "Don't let Pang Ji, the leader of the Nanjun, Wang Jie, joining the army, pays homage to the Prime Minister."

Cao Cao turned over and dismounted, and helped the two of them up with a smile. "The two envoys are devoted to the court and share the worries and problems for the court. They are worthy of being the strong ministers. The two envoys will not let me down, and I will never let them down."

Pang Ji and Wang Jie gave a deep tribute, "Thank you for your kindness!"

Cao Cao smiled at dozens of generals and said, "All the generals are the mainstay of my Han Dynasty. I don't want to be loyal to the traitor. I will report to the emperor and give you the title of generals!"

The generals were overjoyed and said, "I wish to serve the Prime Minister!"

Seeing that they understood people, Cao Cao couldn't help but smile and his eyes fell on a woman behind them. To be precise, it was a baby held in the woman's hand. The baby was only half a year old, and it was Liu Bei's son Liu Chan.

Pang Ji understood what Cao Cao meant, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the cradle from the woman and handed it to Cao Cao, "It's this kid!" he whispered.

Seeing that Liu Chan was fat and cute, he was sleeping soundly, Cao Cao couldn't help but smile proudly and said, "Your father has let me down, don't learn from him!"

The woman was Liu Chan's wet nurse. She suddenly stepped forward and knelt down and begged, "My master only has this bloodline, begging the Prime Minister to spare his life!"

Cao Cao handed Liu Chan to her and said with a smile: "My father and I are brothers, and the son of the emperor's uncle is my son. How could I harm him? I will raise him in the future."

The wet nurse hugged Liu Chan tightly in her arms and kowtowed and thanked her, "Thank you Prime Minister!"

Cao Cao asked again: "Where are the two wives of the emperor?"

Pang Ji hurriedly said, "Everyone is in the city, everyone is safe and sound!"

Cao Cao nodded and ordered his left and right, "But send them to Yedu and their three mothers to Yedu and support them with the salary of the emperor. Those who dare to come to harass the house will be killed immediately!"

Although Liu Bei's wife and children were captured, his subordinates, such as Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang and others, had already crossed the river. This has to be said to be a pity. Cao Cao immediately ordered a large army to enter the city, and a hundred thousand troops lined up toward Jiangling City.

But what Cao Cao was most concerned about was the warships. He did not enter the city, but came directly to the dock, and there were countless warships anchored on the river. Xiahou Yuan reported to Cao Cao: "You have reported to the Prime Minister, Bei Zhi has counted it, and there are more than a thousand warships, of which more than 700 warships are more than 1,000 stones."

Cheng Yu next to him smiled and said, "It rained heavily for several days in a row, making the warship unable to cross south. This is God's will, and God wants the Prime Minister to succeed!"

"It's indeed God's will!"

Cao Cao stroked his beard and sighed: "It has not rained heavily in Nanjun for several years, but it happened when our army went south. This is God's arrangement."

He asked Xiahou Yuan again, "How is the boatman and the navy?"

"The soldiers surrendered in Jiangling were all naval troops, and there were more than 5,000 boatmen, and they were not enough to control the ship."

Cao Cao immediately turned around and said to Cao Hong: "Send people to collect boatmen everywhere. All ages and young must get on board. Be sure to collect 30,000 boatmen within ten days."

"As for the order!" Cao Hong hurried away.

At this time, Cao Cao stared at the other side and asked Xiahou Yuan again: What is the situation on the other side?"

"Report to the Prime Minister, the people of the army on the other side have withdrawn from Wuling County in a hurry, but more than 200 warships cannot be taken away, and they are all captured by our army." After a stop, Xiahou Yuan asked for instructions again: "But they brought the old and weak, and the withdrawal speed is extremely slow. Should we be humble and lead the cavalry to chase after him?"

Cao Cao shook his head, "Liu Bei is no longer a concern. Liu Jing is the key to our success or failure. We ordered the soldiers to rest for ten days and will take the ship to the expedition in ten days."

"Prime Minister, I have an idea." Cheng Yu said carefully.

"What's the idea?"

"Weichen thinks it is better to train troops in Jiangling for two months. The river surface here is wide and it is very suitable for training troops. It is not too late to let the soldiers adapt to the Yangtze River waterway before expeditioning eastward. Moreover, we know that Jiangling has very little grain reserves, so we also need to transport grain from Fancheng."

After all, Cheng Yu had been guarding Fancheng Town for more than half a year and knew the southern water war better than Cao Cao. He took a boat from Jiangling to Jiangxia. Not to mention the water war, the soldiers would not even be able to bear the long-distance boat ride.

More importantly, Liu Bei had transported most of the grain stored in Jiangling, and the current grain storage could not support the consumption of the 100,000 army. Cao Cao obviously did not expect this.

After all, Cao Cao had been fighting for many years. Although Cheng Yu spoke implicitly, he still woke up immediately. His eagerness almost ruined the big thing. He nodded immediately, "If Zhongde hadn't reminded me, I would have made a wrong decision. I would train in Jiangling for two months according to your suggestion."

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In Qichun County, Sun Quan's fleet has arrived for three days, but Sun Quan never mentioned the transfer of the army to Zhukou, nor did he mention the transfer of Cheng Pu away. Except for agreeing to reach a tincture oil trade with Jingzhou, the deployment of the remaining army has almost no change, and an uneasy atmosphere enveloped the Jiangdong Army.

At night, Lu Su took several followers out of the county town and ran towards the dock where the warships were docked. He gradually approached the dock and was immediately discovered by the patrol soldiers. They raised their crossbows and pointed at the riders who were running. Some soldiers shouted loudly: "Stop, otherwise you will shoot an arrow!"

The knight stopped the horse, and in the dark Lu Su responded: "It's me, Deputy Governor Lu."

It turned out to be his own people. The soldiers put away the military crossbow and a garrison commander stepped forward to salute, "I don't know if it was Deputy Governor Lu who came, and I offended the humble position."

Lu Su nodded, "This is your duty, so don't blame yourself."

"Thank you, Deputy Governor Lu, for leaving Hu-ye!"

After the patrol left, Lu Su quickly came to the riverside. There were a row of small boats moored here. He happened to see a boy picking up water in the river. Lu Su asked with a smile: "Is Mr. Kong Ming here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall man came out of the boat and bowed and smiled, "I just got a pot of good wine today. Did Zijing smell the smell?"

This person is Zhuge Liang. The reason why he came to see Sun Quan was because many officials and military generals in Jiangling were unwilling to participate in the fight against Cao, including Liu Bei. He also had the idea of ​​reaping profits.

But Zhuge Liang knew very well that if they did not participate in this coalition anti-Cao, then they would have no say in the distribution of interests after the war.

So he strongly advocated participating in the alliance and persuaded Liu Bei to come to see Sun Quan and discuss the specific details of Liu Bei's army's participation in the fight against Cao.

Zhuge Liang invited Lu Su into the cabin. The cabin was not big and could not stand up straight, but it was clean, with soft and bright lights, and there were dozens of bamboo slips in the corner.

The two sat opposite the table. The little boy brought a pot of wine and two wine cups, served two plates of side dishes, poured a glass of wine for them. Lu Su asked with concern: "Is Kong Ming still worried about Jiangling?"

At this time, Zhuge Liang had already known what happened in Jiangling, which made him feel sad. He didn't want to see anyone for two days, except for personal friends.

Lu Su is one of his friends. When he was 20 years old, he came to Jiangdong for study and met Lu Su, Zhou Yu and other Jiangdong heroes.

Zhuge Liang sighed, "This matter is Liu Jing's first release, Cao Cao's layout is behind, Pang Ji and others betray him in the third place. Unfortunately, I am not in Jiangling, otherwise how could Cao Cao's plan succeed?"

"However, although Jiangling lost, the emperor's uncle and the main general are there, and he has saved some of his strength, which is a blessing in disgrace."

Zhuge Liang drank the wine in the glass and shook his head and said, "We won't talk about this anymore, it will only cause trouble. Let's talk about your affairs! Why did you suddenly become quiet these days? The atmosphere is a bit weird!"

"I came to you for this."

Lu Su lowered his voice and said, "Cao Cao secretly sent an envoy to send a letter to Wu Hou. I only learned about the content of this letter today."

"What is the letter?" Zhuge Liang asked curiously.

"In the letter, Cao Cao promised not to attack Jiangdong within three to five years, and he also appointed Wu Hou as Duke of Wu, with the condition that Jiangdong withdraws troops back to Dongwu."

This surprised Zhuge Liang. The reason why Jiangdong actively resisted Cao was because he was worried that his lips would be lost. Once Cao's army broke through Jingzhou, it would go down the river and attack Jiangdong. Now Cao Cao promised not to attack Jiangdong within three to five years. This would be to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot, leaving Jiangdong without the danger of being attacked. In this way, will Jiangdong still be willing to resist Cao?

"Does Zhang Zhao know about this?"

"He should know the message, but he definitely didn't know the content of the letter, otherwise this group of civil servants would have made trouble long ago..."

Speaking of this, Lu Su suddenly remembered Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin, and a hint of embarrassment appeared on his face, "Only I know the content of this letter now. Wu Hou asked me to discuss this matter with me."

"What is Wu Hou's attitude?"

"Mr. Wu is undecided, I can see that Mr. Wu is a little shaken."

Lu Su's eyes showed a look of worry. Now the Marquis of Wu was a little shaken. If Zhang Zhao led the civil servants to collectively oppose it, the tenth anti-Cao alliance would collapse. With Jiangxia alone, how could he resist the attack of Cao Cao's 300,000 troops?

What made Lu Su even more worried was that once Cao's army annexed Jingzhou, the strength of the navy would inevitably increase greatly. At that time, Cao's army attacked Jiangdong from both the east and the north, and Jiangdong would be destroyed.

Thinking of this, Lu Su said anxiously and angrily: "How can Wu Hou be so short-sighted? Cao Cao promised to delay the attack for three years. He obviously wanted to use these three years to pacify Zhang Lu, Ma Teng and Liu Zhang. Without allies, he would turn around and attack Jiangdong."

"Did Zijing tell Mr. Wu this?"

"I told him, but he didn't respond." Lu Su sighed long.

At this time, Zhuge Liang sneered coldly, "Mr. Wu is probably considering that while Cao Cao attacked Ma Teng or Zhang Lu, he would in turn annex Jingzhou. His long-cherished wish that he had not fulfilled in Liu Jing would be completed by Cao Cao."

Lu Su's face changed drastically. Wu Hou meant that, but he didn't tell Zhuge Liang, but was explained by his words.

Zhuge Liang observed his expression and looked at Lu Su's expression. When he saw Lu Su's face change drastically, he knew that he had guessed the truth. Sun Quan really had this idea.
Chapter completed!