Chibi, the camp of the coalition of princes of the Han Empire, and the dragon tent of the Chinese army.
"Your Highness King Wu, you want me to plead guilty to that Qin Yang and ask him to come back?! Are you kidding me?" Liu Bei stood up in a light yellow robe, and his beard under his chin was trembling slightly with anger. Liu Bei
He never expected that when Sun Quan went to chase Qin Yang, this would be the result after he came back.
At this moment, there were only four people in the dragon tent. The emperor of the Han Empire, Emperor Xian of Han, sat on the dragon chair without saying a word. The king of Wei, Cao Cao, sat on the left side with a half-smiling smile, looking at Liu Bei quietly.
As for the youngest one here, Sun Quan, he stood with his hands behind his back, neither humble nor arrogant, and looked at Liu Bei.
"Uncle, please be patient. I just asked him to go to Jiangxia in person and reconcile with Ming Zhai. Now that the demon army is approaching and the war is imminent, does the emperor hope to see that at this time, there are still people in the Central Plains?
Are there any differences or disagreements?" Sun Quan saw Liu Bei being so angry, but he calmed down and said calmly.
"What's the difference between this and me trying to plead guilty to him?!" Liu Bei said loudly: "Whether I go to Jiangxia to reconcile with him or plead guilty, in the eyes of the world, it's me, Liu Bei, and I, the Han Empire, want to apologize to his Ming Dynasty
The empire has bowed its head! What is the Ming Dynasty? It just took advantage of the weakness of the Han Empire to proclaim itself emperor! Even if His Majesty the Emperor is mighty and powerful and acknowledges his existence, he can only be a vassal of my Han Empire!
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As he spoke, Liu Bei cupped his hands towards the somewhat dull-looking Emperor Xian of Han who was standing on the dragon throne. However, Emperor Xian of Han looked straight in the eyes, turning a blind eye to Liu Bei's actions and looking into the distance without focus. Although both Cao Cao and Sun Quan were both
He was an important minister of the Han Empire, but after all, he had little contact with Liu Bei. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty knew this emperor's uncle too well. On weekdays, Liu Bei could be called a good old man and looked amiable to everyone. He always had a smile on his face.
A smile as warm as the sun.
But as soon as the issue involves the Han Empire, Liu Bei must be like a different person. As long as it is detrimental to the Han Empire, whether it is people or things, Liu Bei will hate it deeply, and even be a little paranoid. In Liu Bei's heart, the Han is him.
He is the big man. Today, Liu Bei will do anything for the big man, even if he violates his consistent principles. According to Zhuge Liang's words, "The emperor's obsession with the big man is so deep that it has even reached the point where it can influence
The point where correct decisions can be made on military and national affairs.”
Therefore, whenever Liu Bei had this sign, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty would habitually "let go". For all Liu Bei's suggestions, he would just respond with these words: "Oh, oh, um, um, ready to play." In fact, his
My thoughts have wandered to nowhere. This is also the result of the emperor being sidelined and the power being sidelined.
For Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, who is now almost twenty years old, he has only one role in his life, and that is that of a puppet. In Luoyang, he was first controlled by Dong Zhuo, then Li Jue and Guo Si. Next was Lu Bu, and later
When he arrived at Cao Cao's place, it was even more impossible for Cao Cao to let him take power. He finally found a "loyal emperor and patriotic" Uncle Liu. However, all the civil and military officials in Jingzhou only knew that there was Uncle Liu in Jingzhou, and he, the emperor, was like a temple.
The Buddha statues there were just worshiped as if they were nothingness. When the emperor did this, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty felt helpless.
Sun Quan looked at Liu Bei quietly. After Liu Bei finished speaking, his expression gradually darkened and he said: "Uncle Huang's words are wrong. To put it another way, even if Uncle Huang apologized to Qin Yang,
He is just representing the emperor's uncle. Now that your majesty is still here, the Han Empire respects you. As long as your majesty remains motionless, waiting at Chibi and waiting for the Yellow Turban Army to join forces, how can the majesty of our Han Empire be damaged?
Woolen cloth?"
Cao Cao on the side also snorted softly at this moment, and said lightly: "His Royal Highness King Wu is right. Could it be that the emperor's uncle has regarded himself as the majesty of the Han Empire, and the emperor's uncle can represent the Han Empire?!"
For a long time, among the three major princes of the Han Empire, Liu Bei had the emperor, and naturally had the greatest say. Sun Quan and Cao Cao couldn't stand this, especially Liu Bei always used the emperor of Han as his excuse for everything, which made them feel that
They both had grievances. Seeing how stubborn Liu Bei was at this moment, the two of them were on the same side without realizing it.
"I..." Liu Bei was choked by Cao Cao's words for a moment, then he flicked his sleeves and said forcefully: "Don't misunderstand me, Liu Bei, as a minister, how can I dare to overstep like this?! It's just that Qin Yang is now a soldier
There are only a few hundred thousand remaining soldiers, and no more than a hundred generals have been defeated. And the demon army is now at the end of its war effort. Only two troops, Xiang Yu and Han Xin, are left, with a total of only more than 1.6 million. Our army is evenly matched with it, do we have to do it?
Can Qin Yang win?"
The more Liu Bei spoke, the more he felt that he was justified. He couldn't help but ask: "Do your two highnesses have so little confidence in the army of our Han Empire?! You two are the mainstay of our Han Empire!"
"Report! Your Majesty, the emperor's uncle, and your two highnesses are informed. The Commander-in-Chief Zhou Yu of Chibi Water Village has sent back the enemy's report. Your Majesty, please review it with your emperor's uncle and your two highnesses."
Just when Liu Bei was boasting and about to use his words to fight back against Cao Cao and Sun Quan, suddenly the voice of the Imperial Guards' report came from outside the dragon tent.
"Send it up." Sun Quan glanced at Liu Bei and said calmly.
Not long after, the expedition report jointly written by Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi had been submitted to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. In the hands of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, this battle report was just a formality. Soon, it was sent by Liu Bei, Sun Quan and Cao Cao.
Checked it out.
"There are so many demonic troops?!" After reading the battle report, the first person to speak was Liu Bei. Now Liu Bei no longer boasted. After seeing the battle report, his face had already become a little ugly.
In the battle report sent back from the front, it was clearly written that the Demon Army had noticed the strategic intention of the Central Plains Army to fight a decisive battle. Just this morning, the Demon Army had successively arrived at Wuhan in Jingzhou from both land and water lines.
On the land of Lin, they faced off across the river with the Han Emperor's army.
In the battle report, after preliminary investigation, it was found that there were three groups of soldiers and horses gathered by the demon army this time. The first group was Xiang Yu's third legion that went south in one fell swoop, commanding nearly a million elite demon troops. The second group was
The demon army has been cruising on the Yangtze River. Han Xin's second army navy, whose base camp is set up in Hongze Lake, totals 400,000 and nearly 10,000 warships. Moreover, Zhang Han's 200,000 demon army belonging to the second army has also arrived.
Wu Lin joined Xiang Yu's army. The third group came from Jizhou City, the demon capital. They were suspected to be the Demon Guards Army led by the Demon Lord himself. The number was one million Zuoyou. Although the Demon Guards Army was highly elite.
It is far inferior to Xiang Yu's Third Army, but conservatively estimates that the number of elite soldiers is only 200,000.
As a result, the demon army has gathered 2.6 million troops in Wulin, including 400,000 naval troops. They set up a water village in the north of the Yangtze River and sent patrol boats to cruise on the river. In less than half a day, they fought against the Han Empire.
There were dozens of small-scale water battles between Jingzhou and Soochow naval forces, each with its own victory or defeat.
On the river bank, 2.2 million demon army troops have marched down the river and camped for hundreds of miles. The momentum is huge, and the army is preparing for war. Seventy-eight out of ten armies in the entire world have been concentrated on both sides of the Yangtze River at this moment.
The war is imminent, and the ownership of the world is about to be determined.
Seeing Liu Bei's change of expression, Sun Quan couldn't help but smile coldly. He said calmly: "Uncle Mingjian, the emperor just said that the strength of our army and the demon army are almost the same. They are capable of fighting. But now, I don't know what the emperor said?
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"The gap is so huge. Can Qin Yang's hundreds of thousands of soldiers be able to turn the tide?!" Liu Bei said stubbornly.
Seeing that Liu Bei was being squeezed out by Sun Quan, Cao Cao couldn't help but act as peacemaker. He smiled and said: "Uncle, don't be anxious, His Highness King Wu has no other intentions. Now, the number of demon army is almost double that of our army. Such a huge disparity."
In contrast, we should concentrate all the forces we can. Only in this way can we stand up to the demonic army."
While talking, Cao Cao kept trying to show off to Sun Quan. Sun Quan naturally understood what Cao Cao meant, so he just looked at Liu Bei and sneered slightly, and stopped talking.
"This..." Liu Bei also fell into silence. He didn't know what Cao Cao and Sun Quan meant. However, if he nodded now, wouldn't it mean that he admitted that he was frightened by the momentum of the demon army? If it spread, I'm afraid Uncle Liu Huang
This cowardly name will be famous all over the world.
"Your Majesty! Lord! Something bad has happened!" Just when Liu Bei was in the middle of a battle between heaven and man, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps from outside the dragon tent. The footsteps paused in front of the tent door, and then the tent door opened.
A scribe wearing a green shirt strode in.
"Commander Xu Shu?! What happened?" Liu Bei couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person coming, and asked hurriedly. The person who came was none other than Liu Bei's other adviser, Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi. Now that Zhuge Liang is on the front line, Xu Shu will accompany him.
At Liu Bei's side, Liu Bei was undecided, so he was naturally very happy to see Xu Shu coming.
However, Xu Shu did not see Liu Bei's joy. He only saw his head wrinkled slightly, and a trace of hesitation and worry flashed on his rather delicate face.
"Xu Shu has come to meet His Majesty the Emperor! I have met my lord and my two highnesses." Xu Shu, who hurriedly walked into the dragon tent and bowed in a circle, said directly: "Reporting to my lord, a large number of troops were found a hundred miles south of Chibi.
Judging from the numbers, the number should be more than 100,000. None of these troops are from the Central Plains, and they did not listen to our scouts and orders from checkpoints along the way, and marched straight in, heading straight for Red Cliff..."
"Not from the Central Plains? Are they from the Southern Wilderness barbarians?" Before Xu Shu could finish speaking, Sun Quan had already interjected. Just when Han Xin's Second Army landed in the Central Plains, Soochow was reminded by Qin Yang and was able to effectively contain it.
Han Xin's offensive was stopped, and at that time, the barbarian army in the Southern Wilderness suddenly descended from the sky to help the Wu army turn the tide of the war. Therefore, Sun Quan was deeply impressed by the barbarian army.
Sun Quan couldn't help but feel happy when he thought of the barbarian army, and continued: "The barbarian army in the Southern Wilderness is the subordinate of Qin Yang, Emperor Ming. Naturally, they will not obey the orders of our officials of the Han Empire. They must have come to Jiangxia to fight with Emperor Ming."
The commander..."
As he spoke, Sun Quan glanced at Liu Bei and thought to himself, didn't you say that the Yellow Turban Army only had a few hundred thousand remnants and defeated generals? Now a hundred thousand fresh troops came. Let me see what you say.
Xu Shu bowed deeply to Sun Quan and said: "His Royal Highness King Wu Mingjian, I also think so. If it is just this army, I will naturally not panic. However, now there is more than one army gathering here."
"More than one army?" Sun Quan and the other three looked at each other, and their eyes immediately focused on Xu Shu.
Xu Shu said: "Our army's scouts reported that another army has left Shu, passed Baidi City, passed the public security, and arrived at Baling in Wudi. This army is under the banner of the Ming Empire. The total number of horses and infantry is fifty.
Yu Wan is also heading to Red Cliff."
"Coming out of Shu? That's right. The Ming Empire commanded Hanzhong, Yizhou, and Nanhuang. These soldiers should be soldiers from Shu, coming for reinforcements. However, after the battle, Qin Yang still had fifty
Ten thousand troops, this strength is really powerful..." Cao Cao analyzed.
Xu Shu said: "What King Wei said is absolutely true. These should be all the elites from Hanzhong and Bashu, plus the soldiers from Xiliang under King Wei's command, they have all arrived now."
"Five hundred thousand, one hundred thousand..." Liu Bei couldn't help but look even uglier when he heard that Qin Yang had gathered 600,000 reinforcements in just a short period of time. Now it seems that he has indeed underestimated Qin Yang's strength.
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When Cao Cao heard that among the reinforcements there were actually his own Xiliang cavalry, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. At first, in order to quickly evacuate Chang'an, he simply used the Xiliang cavalry as bait for Bai Qi. But he didn't expect that Qin Yang would now
However, he had integrated the Xiliang army and came to help him at this moment. This was undoubtedly because Qin Yang inadvertently slapped him in the face.
Sun Quan saw that the other two were silent. Knowing what they were thinking, he couldn't help but smile and said: "The Ming Empire is our ally. It is a good thing that reinforcements have arrived at this moment."
Xu Shu shook his head slightly and said: "Reporting to His Highness King Wu. Although these two groups of soldiers and horses are reinforcements, they are not the only ones rushing to Chibi at the moment."
"What else?!" This time, Sun Quan couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Shu nodded and said: "According to the report from the flying pigeons sent by the scouts along the Yangtze River, nearly ten thousand warships of various types suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Yangtze River. These warships are all well-built and have huge hulls, even in the sea.
The progress will not be hindered at all. According to reports, the sophistication of these warships is even better than the ships used by the demon army to cross the sea."
"Warship?!" After hearing the news, both Liu Bei and Cao Cao had forgotten their embarrassment, and Sun Quan opened his mouth in surprise. You know, in the Central Plains, only Jingzhou and Soochow have regular naval forces.
.Only these two places have large rivers and lakes that can train navy. Now more than 10,000 warships have been shot out of thin air, and they are also sea ships. Most of them should be the demon army.
Now in the confrontation with the demon army, the only thing that the Central Plains human race can rely on is the natural danger of the Yangtze River. Only in terms of naval forces, combining the power of Soochow and Jingzhou can suppress the demon army and the navy. If at this time,
The demon army suddenly increased by tens of thousands of warships, so whether on land or on the water, all the armies in the Central Plains would be suppressed by the demon army.
"Is it the Demon Army?" After a while, Sun Quan murmured as if to himself.
Xu Shu shook his head honestly and said: "There are no flags on the warship, so we can't tell which army it is. If it is the demon army, the flag should be directly displayed..."
"There is no banner...could this also be..." Sun Quan was mid-sentence and suddenly became silent. He just had an idea that suddenly appeared based on his habitual thinking. But this idea was quickly rejected by him. Qin
No matter how powerful Yang is, it is impossible to build a fleet of nearly ten thousand warships in a few years, and all of them are naval forces. This is too incredible.
Xu Shu nodded and said: "It is very possible that in this world, apart from the Lord and the two His Highnesses, there is probably only one person with such strength, His Majesty Emperor Ming."
"What?! This could also be someone from Qin Yang?!" Liu Bei felt as if he had stuffed a big apple into his mouth. He opened his mouth, stared, and his mind went blank.
The expressions of the other two people were similar. After listening to Xu Shu's analysis, their expressions were also very exciting. Qin Yang's current strength has far exceeded their imagination. If these navy troops also belong to Qin Yang, then Qin Yang
Today's strength can fully compete with the three major princes.
Xu Shu coughed lightly and continued: "Reporting to my lord, your two highnesses. Not only that, there is also a troop of soldiers and horses heading towards Chibi..."
"More?!" This time, even Sun Quan was not calm anymore. He seemed to be looking at Xu Shu angrily. He cursed in his heart, is this guy deliberately trying to whet our appetite?! Is there anything that can't be said in one breath? That's all.
How can a military intelligence report be told in pieces?!
Xu Shu was not aware of Sun Quan's resentment at all, and said honestly: "Yes, this army is a bit special. They come from Wu, and they are all rebels formed voluntarily by the people. The number is about 300,000 zuoyou...
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"Oh? The people who came from Wu?!" Sun Quan felt slightly proud. The people who came from Wu were naturally his army. And there were more than 300,000 people. Well, these people were indeed very proud of Wu.
The king has a long face! Have you seen it? Even if Qin Yang has reinforcements from all walks of life, our Soochow is not bad, and it is also the people's initiative...
Eh? That's not right! Sun Quan, who was straightening his back and complacent, suddenly felt something in his heart and muttered secretly: "These people usually stay away from each other whether they are recruiting heavily or compulsory military service. Why do they come out all of a sudden?
More than 300,000?! Could it be that these common people who have been evading military service suddenly have a conscience? Or do they want to give me a surprise?!"
The more Sun Quan thought about it, the more something was wrong. He quickly swallowed back his impassioned speech and carefully asked Xu Shu: "Mr. Xu, what is the banner of these people?"
Xu Shu had no expression on his face and said calmly: "According to the report, the leader of these people is Princess Sun Shangxiang, the sister of His Highness King Wu and Princess Dongwu. And the flag they fly is the Yellow Turban Banner of the Ming Empire...
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"My sister?! Yellow turban flag?! Oh my god..." Sun Quan was dumbfounded when he heard this. His expression was even more exciting than that of Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Not only did the people of Soochow stand under the yellow turban flag, but even his own relatives
My sister also... His Highness King Wu suddenly felt a little dizzy.
"Uncle Emperor..." Just when the three major princes were all silent after hearing Xu Shu's words, suddenly, His Majesty Xiandi, who had been "emptying" on the dragon throne, didn't know what to say.
Nervous, he spoke.
"Your Majesty?!" Liu Bei looked at Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty who was no longer "empty" in surprise, his voice full of surprise.
"Uncle Emperor, it's better to go to Jiangxia..." Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty seemed to muster up great courage and said: "If you don't go to Jiangxia to apologize, I'm afraid I will have to go there myself after all the reinforcements arrive...