Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 211 Raid on Jiangdong?

Sun Quan returned to Lincheng.

His treatment of all the generals on the front line was to reduce the first rank of officials. The leaders Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and Cheng Pu were reduced to the third rank. They temporarily led their current positions and made contributions.

In fact, this was also his original plan, but Zhou Yu and Lu Su gave him a step down, so he went down this step by the way.

After washing her body and changing back into silk and satin again, the sun was about to set.

After escaping in the morning, Sun Quan walked all the way north to Lincheng, but he had already traveled more than ten kilometers from Lingyang by boat, which was very far away from Lincheng, so he was not discovered until the afternoon.

He hadn't eaten anything before, and was very hungry. Sun Quan ate some food in the backyard, and then went to the small building in the backyard, and hurriedly summoned Zhou Yu and Lu Su to discuss matters.

After the two came in, Sun Quan looked at them and said, "Gongjin, Zijing, Gu didn't mean to blame you, I wanted to expose this matter, but I didn't expect you to bring it up yourself. There are too many, so I have to order punishment, you are the important ministers I rely on, so you can be relieved of the stick."

The staff responsibility can be avoided, but the job is not mentioned at all.

Zhou Yu and Lu Su looked at each other, then cupped their hands and said: "It is our dereliction of duty to put the lord in danger, and it is a capital offense. Wu Hou is already grateful for not killing us, how can we forgive him? In front of all the generals in the army, personally accept the rod."

"Gongjin, Zijing."

Sun Quan pretended to persuade them, and when they heard the two persisted, he reluctantly said: "Oh, you don't need to do this, but if it is the case, then do as you like, it's just that the Lord Dongfang is desperate to protect the orphan. , you must be rescued..."

"Yes, I will try my best to save Zi Ganggong."

Zhou Yu took two steps forward, pointed to the map on the table and said, "Look, Marquis Wu, Little Thief Shen asked us to exchange in Yi County. We have already made arrangements. Once the protons are exchanged, we will attack from both sides immediately." Yi County will surely capture Shen Chen alive!"

"Ah."

Sun Quan showed a look of hostility on his face: "When I was in Lingyang, the little thief Shen humiliated me. I will not avenge this revenge, and I will not be a human being."

"speak up"

Lu Su asked curiously: "How did Marquis Wu escape from Lingyang?"

Sun Quan smiled and raised the small dagger in his hand, and said: "I found a dagger in the room where I was imprisoned. While they were escorting me to the boat, I cut the rope and jumped out of the window into the water to escape."

"Wu Hou Guoyong is extraordinary and admirable."

Both Zhou Yu and Lu Su had some doubts in their hearts, but seeing Sun Quan was smiling, obviously very proud of his feat of escaping from the devil's den, they had no choice but to suppress their doubts and talk about other things.

They introduced all the deployment actions in the past few days, and finally Zhou Yu said: "The only thing to worry about now is the Shanyue people, and we still have to send someone to warn them."

"Humph!"

Sun Quan said coldly: "I will definitely not let Shen Chen leave Yuzhang. You send someone to tell Shanyue along the way that if anyone dares to help Shen Chen, I will destroy his family!"

"only!"

The two bowed their hands in salute.

At this time, suddenly a guard outside the door shouted: "Report, there is a messenger."

"Come in."

"Report!"

The messenger rushed into the hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "Report, General Lu and General Xu discovered that Liu Pan's army did not enter Yi County, but went to Haiyang on July or eight."

"what?"

Both Zhou Yu and Lu Su were shocked.

Sun Quan was also very surprised and said, "What did he go to Haiyang for?"

"Haiyang can go to Qiantang along Zhejiang"

Lu Su frowned: "Do you want to surround Wei and save Zhao?"

"Wait."

Zhou Yu stood up suddenly, cupped his hands and said to Sun Quan, "Marquis Wu, can I have a look at the map?"

"bring it on."

Sun Quan nodded.

Zhou Yu immediately rushed to the table and looked at the map.

After a while, he said with a very gloomy face: "It's not right, it's not right. Xuancheng and other places in Wujing County fell, and Liu Pan attacked Haiyang again. It's not right."

"Don't they want to attack Jiangdong?"

Even Sun Quan was shocked when he looked at the map, because it was clearly marked on the map, and he could easily reach Wuhu along the Jingshui, which is the Qingyi River in later generations, and then enter Zhenze along the Zhongjiang River, and he could go directly behind Qian Tang .

This is especially true in Zhejiang. If you follow Zhejiang all the way to the east, you can go directly to Qiantang County. Qiantang is the hinterland of Wu County and where Sun Quan's old nest is. If Wu County is attacked, Jiangdong will be in a dilemma.

The main force returned to aid Jiangdong, and the defense line of the Yangtze River was directly handed over to Jingzhou. When Liu Biao made a large-scale attack, Jiangdong would be in danger.If you don't return to defense, then Jiangdong will perish directly.

So if the enemy really does this, the situation will be very embarrassing.

Zhou Yu muttered to himself, "How is this possible? Shen Chen has the guts to attack Jiangdong? Isn't he afraid that his retreat will be cut off and his entire army wiped out?"

Lu Su said in a deep voice: "I am afraid there is nothing in this world that he would not dare to do. Cao Cao won the battle at Guandu. If Shen Chen hadn't attacked from behind, the whole north would have already belonged to Cao Cao. Even Xudu he would dare Three attacks, let alone Jiangdong?"

"Where did he get the food and grass?"

As soon as Zhou Yu said this, he realized that this was a stupid question, because Shen Chen had only obtained hundreds of thousands of stones and grass in Lingyang, so he closed his mouth again, and then said: "It is indeed possible that he will do this, but it is also possible that Therefore, we set up a suspicious formation and pretended to attack Wu County, but actually mobilized us to return to the defense, so that he can escape back to Nanchang."

"Well"

Both Lu Su and Sun Quan lowered their heads and began to fall into deep thought.

In war, what is fought is intelligence.

Needless to say, the intelligence warfare of later generations relied heavily on intelligence information even in ancient times.

For example, what is the key to Cao Cao's victory in the battle of Guandu?
It was Xu You who gave him the information.

What did the expedition to Liaodong rely on later?
It was Tian Chou who gave him the information.

Examples like these are countless.

Intelligence warfare not only runs through the entire history of wars in Chinese civilization, but also runs through the history of world wars and civilizations.

And intelligence is not only true, but also false, such as "bluffing", "creating doubts", "clearly repairing plank roads, secretly keeping Chen Cang" and "striking from east to west" are all designed by using false information.

Therefore, in the face of complex and varied intelligence information, an excellent handsome talent must find true and reliable information from these information to make arrangements.

So what is the intelligence information in front of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and the others?
The first is the information about Shen Chen going to Yi County.

From the communication between Shen Chen and Zhou Yu, he asked the two sides to exchange hostages in Yi County, and the scouts who went to investigate at the same time also judged from the direction that the fleet was heading to Yi County.

And the most important thing is that Sun Quan escaped from the ship and reported later according to detailed reports that it was located in the Huangtuling area to the south of Jinghu Lake.

All the way south from here, you enter Shushui, and the fleet is less than [-] miles away from Yi County.

The second is the information that Shen Chen may pretend to go to Yi County, but actually go north.

The source of this information is that Anwu, Jingxian, Xuancheng and other places in the north were successively lost, and Lu Meng came to report that the troops sent by Liu Pan did not enter Yixian County, but went to Haiyang in the east.

From the analysis of the information obtained, it would make people feel that Shen Chen was lying to Zhou Yu and the others. In fact, he did not go south, but planned to go north.

But it's counter-logic.

That is, Shen Chen already knew that Lu Meng was in ambush in Yunxi, less than [-] kilometers away from Yi County, and that he might raid his rear to cut off his retreat at any time, so he deliberately released these news to trick Jiangdong into returning to defense.

So in the face of these obtained information, Zhou Yu and Lu Su had to seriously consider what he wanted to do.

"It's a strange thing to say."

Sun Quan suddenly remembered something, and said to the two, "Even Master Dongfang is very puzzled."

"Oh?"

Zhou Yu hurriedly said, "What is it?"

Sun Quan said: "Today Gu and Lord Dongfang were escorted onto the boat, and when we met Shen Chen, almost all his generals were wearing battle armor!"

In full armor?

The faces of Lu Su and Zhou Yu changed slightly. It is impossible to fight in water while wearing battle armor. Could it be that he plans to fight on land?

wait.

Zhou Yu suddenly remembered something, and quickly asked, "When Marquis Wu was imprisoned, was there anyone who stayed close to him?"

"Alone on board."

Sun Quan didn't understand why Zhou Yu asked such a question. If there was someone who couldn't leave him, how could he escape?

But Zhou Yu said, "It's not on the boat, but on weekdays."

"Weekdays?"

Sun Quan thought for a while and said, "That's right, there are people following him every day, and they stay close to each other for twelve hours. Even when I'm sleeping alone, there are four people guarding the door."

"And where did that dagger come from?"

Zhou Yu asked again.

Sun Quan recalled how he got the dagger that day, and said: "The guards had eaten their stomachs badly. The guards who usually guarded Gu at the gate were not there, so Gu went out of the yard and rummaged in the next room to find it."

How could it be such a coincidence that several guards ate their stomachs at the same time?
Zhou Yu and Lu Su suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter, and looked at each other with serious expressions.

There are too many doubts here.

The dagger came in a strange way.

And the prison cell of the ship held is even more outrageous.

There are obviously dark cells at the bottom of the bilge, but the other party wants to lock Sun Quan on the second floor with windows.

Although it was tied with a rope, the dagger seemed to be given to Sun Quan.

All the unreasonable things led to Sun Quan's successful escape, just like a man-made joke, which seemed to be done deliberately.

Both of them tacitly did not tell the news that Sun Quan was probably released, but fell into deep thought.

What is the purpose of releasing Sun Quan?

It can only pass on information.

And there is only one piece of information that Sun Quan can bring to them—they are heading south.

In other words, going south to Yi County was the news that Shen Chen deliberately released.

But I don't know why, in Zhou Yu's view, these news also feel a bit deliberate and false.

It was as if I was deliberately telling Zhou Yu that I was planning to go to Yi County, but I was actually planning to go to Wuhu.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The three of them were contemplating, and each expressed their views, chatting for a while.

After more than an hour, it was already dark.

At this moment, footsteps came from outside the door.

"Report!"

The guard came in and said, "General Huang's messenger is here to report."

"Bring it in."

"only!"

"Report!"

A moment later, the messenger came in, knelt down on one knee and said, "Shexian, Xinshi, Jiande and other counties fell a few days ago!"

"You go down."

Sun Quan waved his hands, looked at Zhou Yu and Lu Su, and said with a gloomy expression, "Shen Chen is so bold, he is planning to raid Jiangdong!"

(End of this chapter)