The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 395
The battle of Jingzhou, the dust settled, Liu Bei was captured and surrendered to Dongfang Sheng, Zhou Yu vomited blood and returned with unknown life or death, only a few thousand cavalry fled back in embarrassment from [-] Jiangdong soldiers, and the rest were either killed or captured.

Since then, Dongfang Sheng has acquired Yizhou and Jingzhou, most of the territory in the south has fallen into Dongfang Sheng's pocket, and the Jiangdong Sun family is already on the verge of collapse.

Dongfang Sheng didn't want to give Sun Quan a chance to grow up. He wanted to point his sword at Jiangdong and take Jiangdong in one go.

Jiangdong was the name given to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui regions on the south bank of today's Wuhu-Nanjing section of the Yangtze River that flows northeast at this time. Together with the Lujiang River and Jiujiang River on the opposite bank, it became the six counties of Yangzhou.

Sun Quan, who had just taken over, was not yet fully fledged, and all the soldiers under his command had not returned. He only relied on Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao, Sun Ce's former ministers, to maintain him. Now is the best time to act.

So Dongfang Sheng let Liu Bei continue to be the shepherd of Jingzhou, and Cai Mao and Kuai Yue worked together as the Biejia. With them two local snakes, and Liu Bei had no soldiers and horses under his command, Dongfang Sheng was very relieved.

Although Zhou Yu was defeated in the Battle of Jingzhou this time, and only a few thousand of the 5 people returned, Sun Ce's accumulated wealth is still solid, so Dongfang Sheng did not despise him at all.

A large number of scout battalion secret sentries were sent to Jiangdong. At the same time, Dongfang Sheng also began to mobilize troops and horses, and sent some Jingzhou soldiers to join the battle.

Two months later, when Dongfang Sheng was preparing to go out, Zhuge Liang came back.

Zhuge Liang came back with Lu Yi. Both of them lost some weight, but they were more energetic.

As soon as Lu Yi saw Dongfang Sheng, he rushed up and hugged Dongfang Sheng without hesitation, and shouted a little excitedly: "Brother, I decided to change my name to Lu Xun, and the name is Boyan."

Lu Xun!Dongfang Sheng only felt his little heart twitch and was excited for no reason. Lu Xun set fire to the company, which was the first pillar of Soochow after Lu Meng. Liu Bei died in Baidi City after being defeated by him.

This is a strong man who can compete against Liu Bei in its heyday. Dongfang Sheng only thought that Lu Yi was a talented kid before, but he never thought that Lu Yi would be Lu Xun, the pillar of Soochow in the future.

Zhuge Liang stood beside him for a while and said, "I brought back an old friend for my brother this time."

Dongfang Sheng patted Lu Xun on the shoulder and said, "You've grown taller, not bad. I'll take you to meet some nice girls when I'm free."

Lu Xun suddenly showed a shy expression and shook his head, "I'm still early."

Zhuge Liang on the side immediately joked: "My child can walk, why are you so early?"

Lu Xun's face was flushed with a single sentence, but at this moment a young general in a white robe came in from outside and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

This young general is Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng in Xiliang. Liangzhou was finally calculated by Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun together. Han Sui was defeated and killed, and Ma Teng finally chose to join Dongfang Sheng.

Ma Chao and Dongfang Sheng met again, and both of them sighed. Ma Chao was more lonely. Ma Teng and Han Sui had been running Xiliang for many years. If Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun hadn't used tricks, they would never have won it so quickly. Liangzhou, and after a long time, Cao Cao will definitely not sit idly by, and Dongfang Sheng will definitely not be able to take Liangzhou so easily.

It's a pity that now, Liangzhou has changed its master, with Zhang Liao and Zhang Yun stationed there, even if Ma Teng wants to make any waves, he will shoot them out.

Ma Teng gave up precisely because he knew Zhang Liao and Zhang Yun, while Han Sui was obsessed with his own reputation and status, and finally ended in a tragic end.

Since Ma Chao was willing to come to see him, Dongfang Sheng also knew that Zhuge Liang must have done his ideological work well, so he said straight to the point: "Will Meng Qi come with me to visit Jiangdong?"

"As much as you wish!"

After Ma Chao heard Dongfang Sheng's words, he immediately changed his previous loneliness and responded loudly. He knew that he would have no chance to participate in this battle among the princes, but following Dongfang Sheng might not make him famous.

Dongfang Sheng immediately called Tuobahan over and asked him to allocate half of the cavalry to Ma Chao. You must know that the Xiliang cavalry is definitely one of the most powerful cavalry in the Han Dynasty.

Although Tuobahan had never met Ma Chao, he knew that there was a young general in Xiliang, Ma Chao, who was extremely brave, and he felt close to him immediately, and the two quickly became acquainted.

After Ma Chao and Tuobahan resigned, Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun were sitting in front of Dongfang Sheng, obviously wanting to say something.

Dongfang Sheng took a look at Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun. Among the two, Zhuge Liang was tall, mighty, handsome, and his temperament was more like a counselor.

Although Lu Xun's appearance is not weaker than Zhuge Liang, but he feels more like an imperial student who specializes in learning.

"Talk what you two have to say." Dongfang Sheng said with a smile.

"Cao Cao's army is divided into two groups, one is to go straight to Youzhou, and the other is to go to Yizhou. I think my brother should know?" Zhuge Liang asked quite seriously.

Dongfang Sheng nodded and said, "I did receive a secret report that Mr. Cao has sent two tiger generals to attack Yizhou and Youzhou."

"If my brother doesn't take Jiangdong now, it will be difficult in the future." Lu Xun interjected with a frown, "Jiangdong Sun Quan's foundation is not stable, but if it takes time, it will definitely become a success. Brother, don't think too much, just attack Jiangdong."

"What about Yizhou and Youzhou?" Zhuge Liang said with a sneer, "If my brother loses these two places, what's the use of winning Jiangdong?"

Seeing Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun facing each other tit for tat, Dongfang Sheng didn't stop them. The two of them were born at odds, and they were in the same situation, but basically it was a friendly competition, and Dongfang Sheng couldn't interfere.

"Mr. Cao was probably frightened by my actions this time." Dongfang Sheng said after a moment of silence, "But I have already arranged several time bombs, and there will definitely be a disturbance in Jizhou."

As soon as they heard that Dongfang Sheng had made arrangements, Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun immediately thought of what Dongfang Sheng's "time bomb" was.

In the battle of Jizhou, although Cao Cao basically put down the team left by Yuan Shao, it was not complete. Some remnants of Yuan Shao's forces such as Zhang Yang and Yuan Tan were still there. Although they surrendered to Cao Cao, they always wanted to turn against them.

This time Cao Cao wanted to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when Dongfang Sheng had just settled Liangzhou and Jingzhou and was about to attack Jiangdong.

And Dongfang Sheng took advantage of the emptiness behind Cao Cao and let the people in the scout battalion incite Yuan Tan and the others to take the opportunity to make trouble.

Of course, both Dongfang Sheng and Cao Cao are scheming against each other. It seems that Dongfang Sheng is better now, but things are always changing, and it is unknown who will have the last laugh.

(End of this chapter)