Chapter 42: Killing and Destroying the Heart
"Sun Hou is not as good as Zhou Gongjin."
Even though he was called a "cunning captive" by Sun Quan in the light curtain, Liu Bei still smiled calmly.
Jingzhou is too big to accommodate Sun and Liu, let alone Yizhou.
Lu Zijing and Sun Hou were able to lend half of Nanjun to him together, didn't they just want a thug?
"If the Jiangdong soldiers are like what General Huang said, it's still unclear whether my blue-eyed uncle can defeat them!" Zhang Fei whispered: "But Gan Ning can lead a hundred riders to raid the camp, he is also a man!" Huang Zhong knew much more about Jiangdong Huang Zhong. He stroked his gray beard and thought for a while: "Gan Ning... I worked with him in Liu Jingzhou. He is generous and resourceful. He is generous to his soldiers and is really a real hero!" "When I worked with him, Gan Ning said that he was instigated by villains to rebel against Liu Zhang in his early years, which made it difficult for him to return home." "A native of Ba County?" Liu Bei thought about it and took note of it for the time being. [Sun Quan is sometimes a typical shrewd man. He hasn't even become the emperor yet, but he has mastered the art of weighing pros and cons in Jiangdong. But sometimes he was cutely stupid in politics. Sun Wu needed to borrow Jiangling to enter Shu, but any leader would not feel at ease about such a thing:
Who doesn't understand the idea of destroying Guo by pretending to be a pass?
Since his brother-in-law had already taken Yizhou, Sun Quan said: Shouldn't Jingzhou be returned?
Liu Bei responded: I am planning to take Liangzhou. Once Liangzhou is settled, I will give you Jingzhou. 】
Liu Bei squinted and nodded at the idea of destroying Guo by pretending to be a pass. He was so worried, but when he heard the latter part, Liu Bei opened his eyes wide.
His hand shook and pulled off two beards. He hissed and laughed, but still asked in surprise:
"Isn't it Nanjun that was borrowed?!"
Yes, isn't it Nanjun that was borrowed? Everyone looked at their lord, and Liu Bei touched his chin with a pained look:
"What I negotiated with Sun Hou was indeed to borrow Jiangling. As a price, we will return the entire Nanjun after we recover Nanjun. How did it become the entire Jingzhou?"
Zhang Fei revealed the truth: "Brother, you just said that Sun Hou was not as good as Zhou Yu. Are you afraid of Zhou Yu?"
Liu Bei was silent. If in the original history, he might really agree to this because Zhou Yu was beside him?
[To be fair, there is nothing wrong with this sentence, because Liu Bei has at least made a promise, and what he promised to return was Jingzhou.
There is a premise that is easily overlooked in this regard: Liu Bei actually borrowed only Jiangling in Nanjun, Jingzhou, which cannot be said to be a state, but only 5 counties.
The four counties of Jingzhou were all conquered by Liu Bei himself. Sun Quan came up and asked for the entire Jingzhou?
Liu Bei didn't throw a cup of tea in his face, which was considered to be a leeway.
But Sun Quan's evaluation was: This is a fake and not a return, but an attempt to use false words to delay the year.
This evaluation cannot be said to be wrong, at least from Sun Quan's perspective, but Sun Quan started to operate!
When Lu Meng led his army to seize three counties, Zhao Yun intercepted the river to save Adou and it happened at about the same time. 】
Guan Yu: "Lu Meng seized three counties?"
Zhang Fei: "Yun Mei intercepted the river to save Adou?"
Huang Yueying: "5?"
The three looked at each other, Huang Yueying made a gesture to let Guan and Zhang go, and took a piece of paper, ignoring Kong Ming's painful expression, and wrote and drew on it.
"Is this Lu Meng the one who stabbed my second brother in the back according to Sun Hou's intention?" Liu Bei remembered it clearly.
As for Adou...I used to feel very distressed for my only son, but now I think I can wait and see.
Guan Yu glanced at the map and said: "It must be Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling counties!"
Wuling County is connected to Yizhou and Nanjun. If they are taken down in one go, they don't have to fight.
"The three counties have been lost, but we still have Nanjun and Wuling, and the troops have not been lost, so we can still take it slowly!" This is Guan Yu's thinking.
The three counties are not places for garrisons, so if they are lost, they are lost, or it is normal to lose them unintentionally.
"Brother, Adou was robbed!" This is the anxious Zhang Fei.
"The three counties were taken so easily, maybe because Sun Hou has been managing for a long time?" Liu Bei asked Guan Yu for his opinion, and emphasized the word "management".
Guan Yu thought carefully: "Most of the time, the three counties are connected to Jiangdong, with the same customs, and many of the officials we recruited have inextricable connections with the Jiangdong nobles, which is difficult to defend!"
Difficult to defend is Guan Yu's final evaluation: "In this case, Yizhou is more important. If we are trapped in the four counties of Jingzhou, Sun Hou can overthrow us in a counterattack, which will eventually make wedding clothes for others."
"Brother, our only seedling has been robbed!" Zhang Fei was anxious.
Liu Bei said angrily: "Why panic! He surrendered the whole country later! He buried our foundation later! He was happy here and didn't miss Shu later!"
"He lives a long life! Why are you worried about him!"
Jing Yi is dangerous. Liu Bei almost understood what he had figured out:
Cao wanted to enter Shu from Hanzhong, so as to completely lock down Sun and Liu.
Sun Wu also wanted to attack Cao from Jing Yi, and there were two wills of Sun Hou and Zhou Yu in Sun Wu.
In such a situation, taking Yizhou from the fire was considered to be a real foundation. After decades of hard work, did it end up sending Adou to Cao Wei for a banquet?
Liu Bei felt that the blood vessels in the back of his head were throbbing.
Zhang Fei was speechless, but still whispered: "After all, he is your son, my nephew..."
[To capture the three counties, Lu Meng played a trick that he was very proficient in later.
Changsha and Guiyang surrendered, but only Hao Pu held on to Lingling.
On the surface, Lu Meng frequently mobilized troops to capture Lingling, but secretly found Hao Pu's friend Deng Xuanzhi and said:
Liu Bei was trapped to death in Hanzhong by Xiahou Yuan, and Guan Yu was trapped to death in Jiangling by Lu Su. Who can help you?
Hao Pu was desperate, so when he surrendered, Lu Meng told Hao Pu the truth and showed him Sun Quan's letter.
It has to be said that Lu Meng's move was too dirty, a standard killing and heartbreaking, and Hao Pu was "ashamed and resentful".
Hao Pu was also a standard unlucky guy. After surrendering to Sun Wu, he ran into Yin Fan, the biggest spy sent by Cao Rui to Sun Wu.
Yin Fan pretended to surrender to Wu under the order of Cao Rui, and served as the Minister of Justice. During this period, he colluded with the Jiangdong nobles to rebel, but was eventually exposed.
Hao Pu was also implicated and ended up committing suicide. 】
"Who is Cao Rui?"
Everyone chattered:
"Emperor Ming of Wei! The son of the short-lived Cao Pi!"
"Fake surrender! What a good trick! It's a pity for Hao Pu!"
Zhang Fei said angrily:
"It's a fake, but after luring people to surrender, he laughed at them in person! This Lu Meng is not a son!"
The generals nodded with sympathy.
The fact that Hao Pu believed it showed that this good friend was also a close friend, but after surrendering, he was humiliated in person by the other party's commander:
Hahaha, you idiot.
"Could Lu Meng force Hao Pu to commit suicide?" Huang Zhong suspected.
Everyone thought, oh, why does it feel more evil!
Kong Ming connected the previous records and understood:
"The lord had not entered Hanzhong at this time, Yizhou was just settled, and Hanzhong was still in the hands of Zhang Lu. So how could he be besieged by Xiahou Yuan?"
"It's a pity for Hao Pu." Liu Bei sighed for the unfortunate experience of his ministers in history.
There is no lack of loyalty, but unfortunately met such a murderous general.
"Second brother..." Zhang Fei thought that Lu Meng's later skillful tricks could not be used against the second brother, right?
But in the end, he patted Guan Yu on the shoulder: "Be careful!"
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