Wei Ba's face looked ugly. He squeezed Yu Ruyi's hands tightly, and his knuckles turned green like Yu Ruyi... Zhang Wen was very worried that Wei Ba would suddenly rise up and smash Li Feng's head with Yu Ruyi.
He obviously did not expect Li Feng to make this suggestion, and he didn't know how to end it. Yesterday, he said in front of everyone that only the general's orders are followed, and only the Major General's orders are followed. If Li Feng's proposal is rejected now,
, tantamount to breaking one's own promise. If you refute Li Feng's face, you will naturally break with General Li Yan.
The reason why Zhang Wen was willing to agree to Li Feng's proposal was that he hoped that Wei Ba and Li Yan would have a conflict. At this moment, he was more nervous than Li Feng.
Li Feng was also very nervous. Although he still had a smile on his face, he clearly felt Wei Ba's anger. While he was nervous, he was a little excited. If he could succeed this time, it would mean that he had regained the initiative.
, no longer let Wei Ba control it. This opportunity comes from Deng Yang, who is the person around Wei Ba himself. As for why Deng Yang is like this, Li Feng doesn't think it is important, maybe it is because he is not satisfied with a person without military power.
The prefect, if he wants a more affordable official position, maybe he just wants to get some benefits.
Wei Ba was silent for a while, slowly relaxed, and said in a dry and hoarse voice: "Since the Major General is willing to show kindness to Wu, I have nothing to say. However, I want to remind the Major General, if the King of Wu is willing to give me a great man.
To be complacent, it is logical that he would send a hostage to the capital. He heard that the King of Wu was in good health and living for another twenty or thirty years would not be a problem. I suggest that the prince’s descendants be appointed as the magistrate, and ask the Major General to pay attention to it."
Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, Wei Ba finally agreed to this condition that was obviously unfavorable to him. As for whether Sun Deng was allowed to go to Chengdu as a qualifier, he didn't think it was a big problem. I heard that Sun Quan didn't like Sun Deng at all,
I like my younger son Sun He. Even Sun Ba, who was just five years old, is favored more than Sun Deng. Speaking of Sun Ba, there is another rumor in Jiangdong that the reason why Sun Quan named his son Sun Ba was because he hated Wei Ba too much.
He named his son Ba, which means he both wants to vent his anger and has high hopes, hoping that Sun Ba will be as domineering as Wei Ba.
"What the general said is very much, I will add this clause." With ease, Li Feng once again took a lot of money.
Zhang Wen's mood was a bit complicated. Sun Deng was a quasi-grass, so the problem might not be big, but he was not very good at Dongwu in his face. But from another perspective, sending Sun Deng, who is inclined to Jiangdong clan, to Chengdu was a quasi-grass.
If Sun Quan could establish good relations with the Shu Han court, it might be more beneficial for Sun Deng to take over as King Wu in the future. No matter how Sun Quan likes Sun He, he would not dare to take the blame for the world and abolish the eldest son, let alone Sun Deng has some potential.
Qualitative credit.
The Eastern Wu surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and the losses were the interests of the Sun family, but for the Jiangdong family, it was a good news that the benefits outweighed the disadvantages.
He did not express any opinion.
...
Sun Quan was furious and swept everything on the desk to the ground, roaring in a loud voice.
"Zhang Wen, what are the benefits of taking Wei Ba?" Sun Quan pulled out the ring knife around his waist, walked to Zhang Wen, and asked breathlessly: "How dare you bring such a clause to the orphans,
Aren't you afraid of being alone and slashing your head?"
Zhang Wen had expected it, so he bowed to the ground and said suddenly.
"King, I know I am guilty and dare not ask for the kindness of heaven. I ask the ministers of the king to be erected with a halberd and rush to the battlefield. I am willing to fight with Wei Ba to repay the king's grace of knowing his favor and to atone for the crime of losing power and humiliating the country."
"You want to die?"
"I have no way to relieve my worries, but I only die." Zhang Wen paused his head again, raised his head, and faced Sun Quan's fire-breathing gaze: "If the king wants to fight Wei Ba, I am willing to lead the way and fight in the face of the battle, and never die.
, to repay the king.”
Sun Quan held his breath, his teeth clenched tightly, his cheeks bulged like iron. His cheeks twitched a few times, smashed the long knife to the ground, crossed his waist, and sighed to the sky. Two lines of turbid tears were along his thin cheeks.
Slide down and drips on the floor tiles in front of Zhang Wen.
Zhang Wen reminded him that if you can fight, you can fight. If you can’t fight, you can sign the agreement honestly.
Sun Quan knew that he could not fight, otherwise he would not have sent Zhang Wen to Changsha to meet Wei Ba. It was just that the numbers proposed by Wei Ba were too terrifying, and the suggestion proposed by Li Tianshang was too vicious, which made him unable to accept, no matter how it was.
Psychologically or strategically.
Jingzhou is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, controls the Han River in the north and the Wuling in the south, and controls Jingzhou. Only when Jiangdong is safe. If Jingzhou is lost, Jiangdong will always face the possibility of being attacked. The navy followed Jingzhou and Jiangdong was in a row. There was no danger in Jiangdong.
So fighting for Jingzhou is a strategic policy that has been implemented since Sun Jian. Sun Jian and Sun Ce fought for more than ten years until Sun Quan succeeded to the throne and fought for several years. In the 13th year of Jian'an, it was the initial stage.
After achieving the strategic goal, he later competed with Liu Bei for Jingzhou many times. It took nearly thirty years before Jingzhou was truly in his hands.
Now, he was asked to give up Changsha and Nanjun, and almost gave up the entire Jingzhou. The situation returned to the battle of Red Cliff in the 13th year of Jian'an. For him, wasn't the efforts and sacrifices of these twenty years gone by in vain?
A comprehensive strategic failure is a psychologically severe blow. This blow is no less than that of being taken away by Wei Ba of Jingzhou and seven counties of Jiaozhou, because after all, it is a battle failure. There is a victory or defeat on the battlefield, and it may be lost or possible.
It took the initiative to take it back. This time, he took the initiative to admit defeat, and there was no excuse to take it in the future. He was not only nominal, but also lost in the whole psychology. If he had another conflict with Shu Han in the future, he would not know how to
How much resistance is faced.
A great shame.
Sun Quan was in a state of great pain, and he did not give up. He immediately wrote two urgent letters and sent them to Nanjun, Yingchuan camp, Xiang Buzhi and Lu Xun for advice.
...
When Lu Xun received the urgent message, it was midnight and he had been dealing with military affairs for a day. Lu Xun had just taken off his clothes and went to bed. Before he could close his eyes, Lu Lan broke in with the messenger, which surprised Lu Xun very much.
After reading Sun Quan's urgent letter, Lu Xun narrowed his eyes and didn't say anything for a long time.
"Take the messenger down and rest, I want to think about it."
Lu Lan didn't say much. From Lu Xun's expression, he could see that Lu Xun really needed time to think about it now. He arranged the messenger and returned to the big tent. He saw Lu Xun looking at the map at his desk, rubbing his fingers back and forth on the map.
Shaking his head from time to time.
Although Lu Xun has been stationed in Yingchuan and monitoring Meng Da and Cao Wei's every move, the situation in various places is still spreading to him, but because the distance is too long, the lag is serious. At present, the news he has received
It was the navy sent by Wei Ba in Jingkou, and another side army led by Deng Ai in Luling. Wei Ba himself led 70,000 main forces in Changsha, who had defeated Zhang Cheng and surrounded Yiyang.
Overall, although the latest trends are not clear, you can roughly feel Wu Jun’s current dilemma.
"General, do you want to transfer you to the war?"
"Join the war?" Lu Xun turned his head and looked at Lu Lan, with an indescribable bitterness in his smile. "If I want to fight, I don't have to go to Changsha, and I will face a fierce battle in Nanyang."
"Meng Da?" Lu Lan looked at him disdainfully: "He is not our opponent."
"It's not Meng Da, it's Zhuge Liang."
"Zhuge Liang?" Lu Lan was shocked.
Lu Xun slapped his mouth and signaled Lu Lan to see the urgent letter he had just opened. Lu Lan didn't care about being polite, so he hurriedly opened it and read it. He immediately took a breath of air conditioning and said for a long time: "Wei
The methods of Ba... are too cruel, right?"
"You only know now?" Lu Xun shook his head: "This boy has made rapid progress, and it's really hard to predict. We all underestimate him."
Lu Lan asked in confusion: "Why did the general say this?"
"Can't you see?" Lu Xun explained patiently: "Wei Ba is using small to fight against the big, promoting the fire, and pretending to be powerful. He assembled nearly 100,000 troops and attacked in three groups, which disrupted our army in an instant.
Deploy, put our great Wu in the enemy from both sides. He created a situation where the Wu Kingdom could be destroyed with one force. Will Li Yan and Zhuge Liang remain indifferent? If they also want to get a share of the pie, then the Wu Kingdom could be destroyed with nothing more than
It's just a situation, but a real possibility."
Lu Lan seemed to understand a little, her eyes widened like a copper bell, and she blurted out: "Making momentum?"
"Yes, people often say that the times create heroes, but he is the hero creating the times." Lu Xun sighed lightly, feeling indescribable loneliness. "Compared to two years ago, his realm is one level higher, and his progress is amazing.
.No wonder he was able to compete with such heroes as Li Yan and Zhuge Liang at his twentieth year."
"Then...we have no choice?"
"There is no way to be attacked from all sides?" Lu Xun asked back: "The navy went up the river, can anyone fight against it?"
Lu Lan thought about it and shook his head slowly. Wei Wen, the navy commanded by Zhuge Zhi was the most elite main force among the Wu army's navy. He was destroyed in one battle, who could be the opponent? The warship technology was originally Wei.
The technology that Ba has always refused to let go, and now he has created such a powerful giant ship, and Wu Jun has no effective way to deal with it.
"Deng Ai encouraged Shanyue, and Zhou Feng's whereabouts are unknown. Once he attacked Yuzhang, can anyone compete with him?"
Lu Lan shook his head again. When Wei Ba entered Wuling, he bewitched people's hearts with the name of a god general. Wuling Man, Wuhu Man, and later Guiyang Man and Jiangxia Man all regarded him as the real god general. Shanyue
I have been moved for a long time, but because of the long journey and the mountains blocking it, I cannot join me. Now that Wei Ba sent Deng Ai into Luling, can Shanyue still be attached without looking at the wind?
Lu Lan knew very well about Shanyue's combat effectiveness. What made people worry even more was that half of the Wu army were Shanyue, but they did not rely on themselves, but were forced. Once they encountered the army led by Deng Ai, God knows whether they would
If you want to block Deng Ai, no one dares to say that you are sure.
"Li Yan comes out of Yong'an and Zhuge Liang comes out of Nanyang. Can anyone compete with him?"
Lu Lan's face turned pale, she was silent for a while, and slowly shook her head. He understood what Lu Xun said. Wei Ba's three armies might not be able to destroy Wu, but Wu also had no choice but to use his three armies.
At least they will be overwhelmed. At this point, Li Yan and Zhuge Liang have no reason to remain indifferent. Once they are moved, the Wu Kingdom may face the real danger of destruction.
Wei Ba's purpose of building a storm has been achieved. Under such circumstances, Lu Xun did not dare to leave Yingchuan easily and go to Changsha. He wanted to keep an eye on Nanyang. In other words, Sun Quan now has no extra troops or capable generals.
Cope with Wei Ba's attack.
Accepting the conditions of Wei Ba, ceding Changsha and Nanjun, and placing vassals to Shu Han became the safest choice for the Wu Kingdom at present.
Lu Xun pondered for a while and replied to Sun Quan: The king wanted to fight, but I was willing to be the vanguard, but I would never die; the king wanted to be harmonious, but I followed the orders.