Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1002 The war is coming
Taishi Ci saw Huang Gai being tied up and pushed up. Huang Gai was naturally dissatisfied and cursed Zhou Yu. As expected, Zhou Yu was furious and wanted to push Huang Gai out and behead him.

Then all the generals knelt down and begged for Huang Gai's mercy. Zhou Yu naturally pretended not to agree and said angrily: "The peace talks are related to the plans of both parties. The safety of the world is not allowed to be criticized by a warrior!"

"Today I have to give an explanation to General Taishi no matter what!"

When Zhou Yu heard this, he looked at Tai Shi Ci and said that he had already said this, which would be considered as giving you face. You shouldn't let everyone stand down, right?
Unexpectedly, Taishi Ci took a sip of wine and said calmly: "This is Jiangdong's internal feeling. Naturally, Ci has no right to comment."

"However, Ci still admires Jiangdong's strict military discipline."

Zhou Yu vomited blood, what do you mean?

Are you trying to force me to cut off Huang Gai?

He instinctively felt bad, fearing that if he continued talking, Taishi Ci would say that he wanted to see how Jiangdong enforced military law, and he would end up in a bad way, so he quickly said: "Huang Gai violated military discipline, and he can be exempted from death penalty, but he will not be spared from living punishment!"

"Come here, drag me down and hit fifty big boards!"

Immediately some soldiers dragged Huang Gai out of the tent, stripped off his armor, pushed him to the ground and started beating him.

And why are you taking off your clothes?

He stumbled all the way, dragging Taishi Ci into his room, then fell down on the couch and started snoring.

Unexpectedly, Taishi Ci seemed to have some misunderstanding in his mind. He seemed to be watching a play, just drinking one glass after another leisurely. This made Zhou Yu hate it. Could it be that his plan was seen through by the opponent?
And Taishi Ci only met Huang Gai once, so he could tell that he was lying?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
You must be overthinking it!
Zhou Yu had no choice but to continue acting, but Huang Gai was hit hard. In the end, Huang Gai was beaten so hard that he could not stand up and had to be carried in by soldiers.

Thinking of Taishi Ci's meaningful words before, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel chills in his chrysanthemums. Doesn't Taishi Ci have a habit of cutting off his sleeves?
If this were to happen, wouldn't he be in danger?

Zhou Yu was glad that the matter was finally over, but Tai Shici's words almost made him vomit blood, "General Huang is really upright. When I was a junior official, if I wanted to make suggestions at the risk of speaking out and violating taboos, I had to advance some time." Stuff dozens of layers of linen inside your pants.”

No, increase the intensity!

So Zhou Yu pretended to be very drunk and forced Taishi Ci to sleep with him. Taishi Ci resisted several times. Seeing that it was difficult to refuse Zhou Yu's kindness, he smiled and said: "Since the governor's kindness is difficult to refuse, it would be disrespectful for Ci to refuse. Ci had also been with Zhou Yu before. Many men fell asleep with their feet rested."

Huang Gai was also very tough and cursed Zhou Yu again before he was taken away.

This time Zhou Yu almost stopped breathing. The table in this room is full of military information essentials. Why don't you take a look?

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Yu became even more nervous. Did Taishi Ci ignore the situation, or was he suspicious of Huang Gai?
If it's the latter, then doesn't his cruel trick become a joke?

Just as Zhou Yu expected, Taishi Ci walked to the desk and looked through the military situation. Not surprisingly, he found several letters from Yuan Xi's men who had secretly communicated with Jiangdong.

Hearing the sound of the board being lowered to the flesh, all the generals in the tent showed unbearable expressions. When they looked at Taishi Ci, their expressions were extremely unkind, and when they looked at Zhou Yu, they gritted their teeth.

Zhou Yu saw this and was just pretending to be stupid. This cruel trick was discussed between him and Huang Gai before, and only two of them knew it. The other Jiangdong generals were kept in the dark. The purpose was to deceive Taishi Ci. .

Is it possible that you are really here to negotiate?

Some of these letters were actually true, but the ones about Lu Xun and Liu Ye were forged.

Zhou Yu's idea of ​​a solution is very simple. In his opinion, these two people are the biggest threat to Jiangdong. If one can frame one, the other will be better. Both will be better. If one fails, it will not be a loss. Anyway, the seeds of doubt will be planted. If you can influence the fierce tiger's decision-making, you will make money!

But then Taishi Ci stopped taking off his pants, finally letting Zhou Yu breathe a sigh of relief.

When Taishi Ci saw it, he shook Zhou Yu, but Zhou Yu couldn't wake up. So Taishi Ci arranged Zhou Yu on the bed, and then he went to the bedside, ready to undress and fall asleep.

Early the next morning, Zhou Yu pretended to be drunk and waited for Taishi Ci to go out and return. Zhou Yu secretly wiped his sweat. Fortunately, Taishi Ci was not a good man. If he had gone to his overlord last night, he might not have wanted to. Bear it?

When Zhou Yu heard this, he was so frightened that he almost twitched, but when he thought about using tricks, he immediately held back and continued to pretend to be drunk and murmured: "Ziyi and I hit it off as soon as we met. We will stop working together. We will definitely be able to do it."

If this is true, it will be a stain on my life!
Then news came that Jiangdong had attacked Lukou. Taishi Ci left urgently, and Zhou Yu led his men to chase him. However, Gan Ning came to rescue him. Zhou Yu took the opportunity to retreat, just waiting to see if this plan of suffering and alienation could work. Play a role.

But everything seemed to be calm in Shouchun afterwards, as if nothing had happened, which made Zhou Yu think that his plan had failed.

Until one day news came that Liu Ye had been removed from the position of Shouchun Prefect, and Lu Xun had also been deprived of part of his military power. After Zhou Yu heard this, he instantly felt that he could do it again. This strategy still achieved results! Thinking about it, the war is imminent, and both sides are clearing up unstable factors. Although Lu Xun and Liu Ye are in important positions, since there are suspicions, it is the safest way to replace them without finding out the truth.

This shows that Tai Shici must have reported the situation to Yuan Xi. If this is the case, then Huang Gai's plan of suffering must have been successful, right?

So Zhou Yu refused to do anything and asked Huang Gai to send a private letter to Shouchun. In the letter, he scolded Zhou Yu for acting arbitrarily and would be destroyed. Now Huang Gai wanted to join the Ming Dynasty.

Shouchun quickly wrote back and asked Huang Gai to make an appointment, so Huang Gai wrote back again and agreed to come at night in half a month.

This time was accurately calculated. Cao Jun was marching towards Shouchun on both land and water. Half a month later, it was time to arrive in Shouchun and cooperate with the Jiangdong navy to attack!
At this point in time, Shouchun will definitely recruit Huang Gai to surrender with great urgency and use it to resist the Jiangdong Navy. By then, hundreds of Huang Gai's warships will carry fire starters and enter the Chaohu waterway north, and then enter behind Yuan Xi's navy. Taking the opportunity to light a fire, Yuan Xi's navy was in chaos. The water channel of Chaohu Lake was narrow. After the fire attack, Yuan Xi's navy was unable to advance or retreat. Then Jiangdong navy and Cao Cao's navy took the opportunity to attack Chao Lake and annihilate all Yuan Xi's navy!

Although this strategy has many imperfections, even if it fails, Jiangdong will not suffer much loss, because the southeast wind is blowing at this time, and Yuan Xi's navy in the Chaohu waterway is heading northwest, and there is no countermeasures to deal with the fire attack.

And in this second Chaohu water battle, the Jiangdong Army actually had one more move in store, and that move was even more deadly. As long as it succeeded, it would definitely annihilate Yuan Xi's entire naval force in Chaohu!
Zhou Yu had been deducing on the map for a long time, and he felt more and more that this strategy had a high probability of success. There were many things that were beneficial to his side, and he had also left enough escape routes. Even if things were not harmonious, he should be able to retreat safely. This is an extremely sound strategy!

So under Zhou Yu's urging, Jiangdong mobilized troops in full swing. As soon as Cao's army arrived, both sides launched an offensive to eliminate Yuan Xi together!
In Shouchun City, Taishi Ci suppressed his laughter and smiled at Yuan Xi: "Zhou Yu is very calculating, but he didn't expect that his lord was unpredictable and knew exactly what he wanted to do."

"But what Ci didn't understand was why the master wanted to reveal the secret to him in advance. So when I watched Jiang Dong's acting, I almost couldn't hold back my laughter several times."

"I even took the opportunity to insult them a few words, so it won't be exposed, right?"

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, our ambiguous attitude will make them suspicious."

"Actually, for me, if they don't fall into the trap, there are ways to deal with it. After all, Cao Cao puts more pressure on me."

After hearing this, Taishi Ci said worriedly: "Having said that, considering the number of people, the fifty or sixty thousand people in Jiangdong are not a small number."

Yuan Xi shook his head and said: "It's not 50,000 or 60,000 people, it should be more than 100,000."

Taishi Ci was surprised and said: "There is still more than half?"

"How is it possible? There are not that many naval forces in Jiangdong. Is the intelligence wrong?"

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "It's not a navy army, but an infantry army."

Taishi Ci was stunned, knowing that Yuan Xi had information channels, and said: "Since my lord knows, he must have a countermeasure. Please go to the battle and be the vanguard."

Yuan Xi said, "Don't worry. This battle may take a long time. It may be the most arduous and the one with the most casualties in recent years."

"Let's take advantage of each other step by step. When the war subsides, the situation in the world will be clear."

Almost at the same time, large and small wars suddenly broke out at the borders of Heishan and Sili, Qinghe County and Wei County in Jizhou, and Qingxu.

As for whether Cao Cao and Yuan Xi took the initiative to provoke it, it is difficult to say clearly, but in a short period of time, the war spread to almost all areas where the two parties' forces meet.

In Jizhou, Tian Feng was in charge and Chunyu Qiong was the general. They fought several battles with Cao Jun sent by Xiahou Dun who was in Yecheng. Both sides relied on the city and fought hard, but no one took advantage.

At the junction of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the Taishan bandits, led by Zang Ba and others, met the Yanzhou army led by Lei Bo and Chen Lan in the mountains. The two sides fought until corpses littered the fields, and the mountain roads were filled with corpses.

In the Sili area, Zhang Xun and Yang Feng relied on the city fortress to lead troops to resist the coalition forces of Zhong Yao and Ma Chao. This route was indeed relatively weak. Gao Lan, a high-ranking official in Bingzhou, also led troops south to support, which could barely block Cao's offensive.

Yuan Xi and Cao Cao were fighting everywhere, and Jingzhou was not idle either. Cao Cao concentrated almost nine-tenths of his generals on the Jingzhou and Yuzhou front lines, and at the same time put great pressure on Liu Bei and Yuan Xi.

According to Yuan Xi's advisers, Cao Cao's soldiers on both land and water have already dispatched more than 100,000 men!

This puts great pressure on the coalition forces of Yuan Xi and Liu Bei, not to mention Jiangdong who is ready to take action at any time.

Now in Qu'a of Wu County, Sun Quan was watching the urgent military report with great interest. He knew that his chance had finally come!

(End of this chapter)