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"What are you saying?"

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu in surprise, "Why is it Liu Jing's conspiracy?"

"It's very simple. After seeing General Ling's injuries, if it was really a big yellow crossbow shot, his bones would be smashed within twenty steps. But in fact, he was only a flesh-and-skin wound. At most, it was just a crossbow power of one stone, and the range was only forty steps. So Liu Jing's use of a big yellow crossbow was actually bluffing and covering his eyes and ears."

Only then did Sun Quan feel like he was awake when he was dreaming. After a while, he sighed, "But the appearance of a crossbow and multiple arrows, if you think about it carefully, it is still scary."

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and said, "It is indeed surprising that a crossbow has multiple arrows. However, judging from today's situation, the range and strength are not strong, and the threat is not great. As long as we change the navy's spear into a sword and shield in time, we can basically avoid a large number of casualties.

The key is tincture. I heard that Cao Cao gave us five thousand barrels of tincture, but Weichen believes that it is still small. When Liu Jing burned Cao's army water camp in Chibi, he consumed 20,000 barrels of tincture. Once it was really fought, five thousand barrels of tincture were far from enough."

Before he knew it, Sun Quan's thoughts had completely kept up with Zhou Yu. Some of the unhappiness that had happened with Zhou Yu before was gone, and Sun Quan pondered for a while and asked again: "Gongjin meant that I asked Cao Cao to get tincture oil again, right?"

Zhou Yu nodded, "In fact, I have two ideas. One is to seize Xiazhi County as soon as possible. Although it is not the kind of tincture oil we want, it can burn after all and block the Jiangxia army warships on the water; the second is that I hope to get the purification method of tincture oil from Cao Cao. In the future, even if we can't find tincture oil in Jiangdong, we can use trade means to get tincture oil from the Central Plains."

Sun Quan nodded slowly, "Gongjin said it very well. I want to hand over the task of seizing Zhixian County to you. Can you accept it?"

After saying that, Sun Quan turned around and looked at Zhou Yu. He actually wanted Zhou Yu to be the head coach of this battle against Jiangxia, but Zhang Zhao and his group of ministers would definitely object. As well as Cheng Pu, it would be difficult for him to cooperate with Zhou Yu, so he would let Zhou Yu compete for Xiazhi County first. If it succeeds, it would not be too late to use him.

Zhou Yu immediately bowed and said, "I am willing to share the worries of the Marquis of Wu."

"Okay, I will give you eight thousand troops, Xu Sheng is the deputy general. I hope you will take Xiazhi County for me within ten days."

"Abide by the order"

Zhou Yu took the military talisman and retreated. Sun Quan thought for a while and ordered the guards to say, "Let Zhang Wen come to see me."

Soon, Zhang Wen hurried over and bowed and said, "See Wu Hou."

Sun Quan smiled gently and said, "Hui Shu went to Xuchang for me and told Cao Cao that five thousand barrels of turmeric oil are not enough to defeat Jiangxia's army. I hope he can add another ten thousand barrels of turmeric oil. If transportation is inconvenient, it is OK to tell me the method of refining the turmeric oil. I hope he can help me defeat Liu Jing with sincerity."

Zhang Wen nodded silently, "I understand, I will set out to Xuchang now."

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Qichun County has a high terrain in the east and low terrain. It is located in the north and northeast with the vast Dabie Mountains, separated Qichun County from the Central Plains, bordered by Lujiang County in the southeast, and faced Jiangxia County in the west and south with Jiangxia County in the south.

Influenced by the Dabie Mountains, most of the land in Qichun County is hilly and mountainous. Only the west and south along the river are rich plains. The only county towns in Qichun County: Zhu County, Qichun County, Xunyang County and 70% of the population in the entire county are distributed in the riverside area.

This time, the Jiangxia army sent troops to occupy Juchun County, which was actually occupied its county town in the Yangtze River. In addition, Huang Zhong led 20,000 troops to the east of Xunyang to prepare to fight against the Wanlu Army led by Cheng Pu.

In a narrow plain area, Huang Zhong led 20,000 troops to march eastward quickly. There were vague hills and mountains in the north, and to the south was an endless lake. This lake was actually connected with Pengze Lake through the Yangtze River. It is the northern part of Pengze Lake, located between Qichun County and Lujiang County. The part in Qichun County is called Xunze Lake, and the other half of the lake is renamed Songze Lake.

At this time, Huang Zhong's army had entered Lujiang County. Huang Zhong received information. Cheng Pu's army had arrived in Wan County in the northeast and stationed there. It had been stationed for four days, and seemed to be waiting for something.

Huang Zhong has already received news that the Wanjiang East Army was stationed in Wan County. At this time, the Jiangxia Army was still nearly two miles away from Wan County. Huang Zhong was not in a hurry to go north to fight to the decisive battle.

Huang Zhong’s top priority is to find military ration supplies. He hesitated that most of the inland Qichun County are deserted mountainous areas and hilly areas. He cannot find supplies on it. He also has to rely on Jiangxia to send military rations and supplies.

Therefore, when leaving, Huang Zhong and Liu Jing formulated a supply plan and transported the supply to the near Songze Town on the north side of Songze Lake by boat.

Huang Zhong looked up at the sky. It was already dusk, but Songze Town had not arrived for a long time. He was already two days later than the original plan. If he was one night later, he was worried that the supply fleet would leave Songze Lake and return. He now had only one day of food. Without supply, they would face the misfortune of food being cut off, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Huang Zhong became a little anxious and immediately ordered someone to find the guide. The guide was an old man in his fifties, from Xunyang County, who made a living by collecting herbs and knew the terrain of Qichun County and Lujiang County. Huang Zhong asked him: "How far is Songze Town?"

The guide bowed and said, "Report to the old general, our current place is called Yuzuiwan, and it is more than twenty miles away from Songze Town."

Huang Zhong frowned. There were more than twenty miles left, which meant that they could not get to Songze Town before dark. Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, he felt a little embarrassed. At this moment, a soldier next to him said, "General Zhao is here."

General Zhao was naturally Zhao Yun. He was not good at water warfare, so he volunteered to be Huang Zhong's deputy general and go to fight the Jiangdong Army led by Cheng Pu. Liu Jing originally wanted Zhao Yun to lead 10,000 trained prisoners of war to go north to Anlu County to defend Cao's army's attack on Anlu County, but Zhao Yun cooperated with Huang Zhong, and he would be even more sure of defeating the Jiangdong Army.

Liu Jing changed his mind and appointed Zhao Yun as Huang Zhong's deputy general to face Cheng Pujun in the east. At this time, Zhao Yun urged him to come forward and smiled and asked, "How far is Songze Town still there?"

For Huang Zhong, with Zhao Yun here, his battle would be like a tiger with wings. Although Zhao Yun was his deputy general, Huang Zhong also knew that Zhao Yun had a deep experience in the army, had a war, and had a deep relationship with the provincial governor. He did not dare to underestimate and neglect, and discussed everything with Zhao Yun.

Huang Zhong smiled bitterly and said, "It's more than twenty miles away from Songze Town, but it's getting dark. I'm very worried that the supply ship won't be able to wait for us..."

Before Huang Zhong finished speaking, Zhao Yun smiled and said, "The army is very tired. The old general takes them to rest on the spot first. I will lead the army to Songze Town first to find a supply ship."

Huang Zhong was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed: "Then I'll be General Long."

Zhao Yun waved to his five subordinates and said, "Everyone comes with me."

He led the five armies to continue to go east under the guidance of the guide. Seeing that they were gradually moving away, Huang Zhong immediately ordered: "Station camps and rest on the spot."

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As night falls, the moon comes up. The clear moonlight shines on the distant mountain mausoleum, plastering the mountain mausoleum with a light silver color. The lake surface is also clear. From a distance, it looks like a huge piece of luminous jade shining brightly.

Although the moonlight was breathtakingly beautiful, Zhao Yun had no time to appreciate the beautiful mountain moon lake light. He kept urging soldiers to speed up. As a general who had been through war, he could fully understand Huang Zhong's concerns. Once he missed the supply and cut off food, what would that mean for the army.

The journey was not far away for more than twenty miles. Half an hour later, Zhao Yun saw Songze Town, a place where fishermen gathered.

But at this moment, Zhao Yun suddenly stopped the war horse and pointed a spear at a forest dozens of steps away and shouted: "Who is it?"

The soldiers suddenly became nervous, squatting on the ground, holding shields in their hands to cover their bodies, staring at the dark woods. At this time, several people ran out of the woods and shouted for them: "General Zhao, we are the scouts of the Jiangxia army."

When the visitor approached, he was indeed wearing Jiangxia army armor. Although they knew Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun did not know them. He still kept his guard down. He pointed a spear at the visitor and turned around and said, "Check them."

A soldier rushed up, carefully checked several scouts, and came back to report to Zhao Yun, "Report to General, they all have military cards, they are ours."

"Bring them up"

The soldiers brought several scouts and knelt down on one knee for a leader and said, "Report to General Zhao, we are subordinates of General Lou Fa. General Lou Fa sent supplies to General Zhao on the order of the governor of the prefecture. We are looking for troops everywhere."

Finally hearing the news about the supply ship, Zhao Yun showed a smile on his face and asked: "Where is the fleet now?"

"Report to the general, the fleet is in a bay east of Songze Town."

Zhao Yun immediately ordered: "Take me to see General Lou Fa"

The team continued to move forward, but the speed slowed down. Zhao Yun glanced at the scout, and saw that he was quite tall and strong, and asked, "How could you know me?"

Shi Chang scratched his head and said, "Bizhi was once a Yellow Turban Army. He followed General Zhao in Runan. Later, he was captured by Cao's army and sold to slaves. He finally fled to Jiangxia to join the army for four years."

Zhao Yun heard that he had followed him, and felt a little touched in his heart, and asked him again: "What's your name?"

"The name of "is Chen Zhong"

Zhao Yun nodded, "Since you were my subordinate, I'll talk to Lou Fa, and you'll still follow me in the future."

Shi Gang was overjoyed, "I am willing to follow the general"

Speaking of this, President Shi suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "There is something that we want to report to the general. We were originally on the lake, but yesterday we caught a Jiangdong mail ship. It seemed that something was wrong. General Lou was a little nervous and ordered the fleet to sail into the relatively hidden lake bay. I don't know what the specific matter is."
Chapter completed!