What he did to all the generals on the front line was to reduce their officers to one rank. The leaders Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and Cheng Pu were reduced to three ranks, and they were temporarily assigned to their current positions, in exchange for their crimes and meritorious service.
In fact, this was also his original plan, but Zhou Yu and Lu Su gave him a step to go down, so he took the opportunity to go down this step.
After I washed my body and changed into a suit of silk and satin, the sun was almost setting.
After escaping in the morning, Sun Quan walked all the way north to Lincheng. However, he had already taken a boat for more than ten kilometers out of Lingyang and was very far away from Lincheng, so he was not discovered until the afternoon.
Sun Quan had not eaten anything before and was very hungry. After eating some food in the backyard, he went to the small house in the backyard and hurriedly summoned Zhou Yu and Lu Su to discuss the matter.
After the two of them came in, Sun Quan looked at them and said, "Gong Jin, Zijing, and Gu have no intention of blaming you. I wanted to expose this matter, but I didn't expect that you mentioned it yourself. People in the hall just now
There are too many, so I have no choice but to order a punishment. You are the important ministers I rely on, so I will exempt you from the punishment of the rod."
The rod was exempted, but the duties were not mentioned at all.
Zhou Yu and Lu Su looked at each other, then raised their hands and said: "It is our dereliction of duty to put your lord in danger, and it is a death penalty. Marquis Wu did not grant us death, and he was already grateful. How can we be exempted? We will wait for tomorrow.
In front of all the generals in the army, I personally received the rod's punishment."
"Gongjin, Zijing."
Sun Quan pretended to persuade him, but when he heard the two insisting again, he reluctantly gave in: "Oh, you don't have to be like this, but since that's the case, then you can do whatever you want. It's just that the adults in the east are fighting to the death to protect the orphans.
, you must rescue..."
"Yes, we will fight to the death to rescue Mr. Zigang."
Zhou Yu took two steps forward, pointed to the map on the table and said: "Wu Hou, please see, Shen Xiaothief has asked us to exchange in Yi County. We have already made arrangements. Once the exchange of protons occurs, we will immediately attack from both sides."
Yi County will definitely be able to capture Shen Chen alive!"
"Um."
Sun Quan showed a look of anger on his face: "When I was in Lingyang, Little Thief Shen actually humiliated me. If I don't avenge this, I will never be a human being."
"Talk about it"
Lu Su asked curiously: "How did Wu Hou 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 detained. 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 Guo's bravery is extraordinary and admirable."
Zhou Yu and Lu Su both had some doubts in their hearts, but seeing Sun Quan smiling and clearly very proud of his heroic feat of escaping from the Demon Cave, they had no choice but to suppress their doubts and talk about something else.
They introduced the deployment operations over the past few days one by one. At the end, Zhou Yu said: "The only thing we are worried about now is the Shanyue people. We still have to send someone to warn them."
"snort!"
Sun Quan said coldly: "I will definitely not let Shen Chen leave Yuzhang. You send people to inform Shanyue along the way. If anyone dares to help Shen Chen, I will destroy his clan!"
"only!"
The two of them bowed their hands.
At this time, suddenly a guard outside the door shouted: "Report, there is a messenger."
"Pass it in."
"Report!"
The messenger quickly ran 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 Yixian County, but went to Haiyang on the 78th."
"What?"
Zhou Yu and Lu Su were both shocked.
Sun Quan was also very surprised and asked: "Why is he going to Haiyang?"
"Haiyang can go along Zhejiang to Qiantang"
Lu Su frowned: "Do you want to surround Wei and rescue Zhao?"
"Wait a minute."
Zhou Yu suddenly stood up, raised his hands and said to Sun Quan: "Wu Hou, can I see the map?"
"bring it on."
Sun Quan nodded.
Zhou Yu immediately rushed to the desk and looked at the map.
After a moment, he said with a very gloomy face: "Something is wrong, something is wrong. Xuancheng and other places in Anwujing County were lost, and Liu Pan attacked Haiyang again. It is very wrong."
"Could they want to attack Jiangdong?"
Even Sun Quan was shocked when he looked at the map, because it was clearly marked on the map that he could easily reach Wuhu by following the Jingshui River, which is also the Qingyi River in later generations, and then follow the Zhongjiang River into Zhenze, and he could directly reach behind Qian Tang.
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This is especially true for Zhejiang. If you go east along Zhejiang, you can directly reach Qiantang County. Qiantang is the hinterland of Wu County and the home of Sun Quan. If Wu County is attacked, Jiangdong will be in a dilemma.
The main force returned to support Jiangdong, and the Yangtze River defense line was directly surrendered to Jingzhou. When Liu Biao launched a large-scale attack, Jiangdong would be in danger. If he did not return to defense, Jiangdong would be directly destroyed.
So if the enemy really does this, the situation will be very embarrassing.
Zhou Yu murmured to himself: "How is this possible? Shen Chen actually has the courage to attack Jiangdong? Isn't he afraid that his retreat will be cut off and the entire army will be annihilated?"
Lu Su said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid there's nothing in this world that he wouldn't dare to do. Cao Cao won a great victory in the battle of Guandu. If Shen Chen hadn't harassed the rear, I'm afraid the entire north would have gone to Cao Cao at this time. Even Xu Du would dare to do so."
Three attacks, not to mention Jiangdong?"
"Where did he get the food and grass?"
As soon as Zhou Yu said these words, he remembered that this was a very stupid question, because Shen Chen had just received hundreds of thousands of stones, food and grass from Lingyang, so he shut 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 to facilitate his escape back to Nanchang."
"Hmm"
Lu Su and Sun Quan both lowered their heads and began to think deeply.
When fighting a war, we fight for intelligence.
Needless to say, the intelligence warfare of later generations relied heavily on intelligence information even in ancient times.
For example, what was the key to Cao Cao winning 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.
There are countless examples like this.
Intelligence warfare not only runs through the entire history of Chinese civilization and war, but also throughout the history of world war and civilization.
There are not only true information, but also false information. Examples such as "bluffing", "laying suspicions", "building plank roads openly and concealing warehouses" and "making false claims in the east and attacking in the west" are all designed using false information.
Therefore, in the face of complex and complex intelligence information, a good commander must find true and reliable intelligence from the information and make arrangements.
So what intelligence information is now in front of Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others?
The first is the information about Shen Chen heading towards Yi County.
It comes from the correspondence between Shen Chen and Zhou Yu. He asked both parties to exchange hostages in Yi County. At the same time, the scouts who went to investigate did indeed judge from the direction that the fleet was heading to Yi County.
And the most important thing is that the location where Sun Quan disembarked and escaped was later reported based on detailed reports. It was located in the Huangtu Ridge area south of Jinghu Lake.
From here we enter Shushui all the way south, and the fleet is less than 200 miles away from Yixian County.
The second is the information that Shen Chen might pretend to go to Yixian County, but actually go north.
The source of this information was that Anwu, Jingxian, Xuancheng and other places in the north had been lost one after another, and Lu Meng came to report that the troops sent by Liu Pan did not enter Yixian, but went to Haiyang in the east.
From the analysis of the information obtained, it seems that Shen Chen is deceiving Zhou Yu and the others. In fact, he is not going south, but intends to go north.
But we have to make a counter-logic statement.
That is, Shen Chen already knew that Lu Meng was ambushing in Yunxi, which was less than thirty kilometers away from Yixian County, and might raid his rear at any time to cut off his retreat, so he deliberately released this information to trick Jiangdong into returning to defense.
Therefore, in the face of the obtained information, Zhou Yu and Lu Su had to seriously consider what he wanted to do.
"There is something strange about it."
Sun Quan suddenly remembered something and said to the two of them: "Even Lord Dongfang is puzzled."
"oh?"
Zhou Yu asked hurriedly: "What is it?"
Sun Quan said: "Today Lord Gu and Dongfang were escorted onto the ship and met Shen Chen. Almost all of his generals were wearing battle armor!"
Full armor?
Lu Su and Zhou Yu's expressions changed slightly. It was impossible to fight in water while wearing armor. Could it be that he planned to fight on land?
Wait a minute.
Zhou Yu suddenly remembered something and asked quickly: "When Wu Hou was imprisoned, was there anyone who stayed close to him?"
"I'm all alone on the boat."
Sun Quan didn't understand why Zhou Yu asked this. If someone stayed with him, how could he escape?
But Zhou Yu said: "It's not on the boat, but on weekdays."
"On weekdays?"
Sun Quan thought for a while and said: "Yes, there are people following me every day, and we stay there for twelve hours. When Lian Gu sleeps, there are four people guarding him at the door."
"Where did that dagger come from?"
Zhou Yu asked again.
Sun Quan recalled the situation when he got the dagger that day and said: "The guard was so hungry that the guards who usually guarded me inside the door were not here, so I went out of the yard and rummaged in the next room to find it."
How could it happen that several guards got hungry at the same time?
Zhou Yu and Lu Su immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and looked at each other with serious expressions on their faces.
There are too many doubts here.
The dagger came at a strange time.
And the boat cells where they were held were even more outrageous.
There was obviously a dark cell at the bottom of the bilge, but the other party wanted to lock Sun Quan in the second floor with a window.
Although it was tied with a rope, this dagger seemed to have been given to Sun Quan.
All the unreasonable things that led to Sun Quan's successful escape were like a man-made joke and seemed to be intentional.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and did not tell the news that Sun Quan was likely to be released, but fell into deep thought.
What was the purpose of releasing Sun Quan?
It can only convey information.
And there was only one piece of information that Sun Quan could bring them - they were heading south.
In other words, the news of going south to Yi County was deliberately released by Shen Chen.
But for some reason, in Zhou Yu's opinion, these news also felt a bit deliberate and false.
It was as if I was deliberately telling Zhou Yu that I planned to go to Yi County, but actually planned to go to Wuhu.
Time passed minute by minute.
The three of them were all deep in thought, expressing their opinions and chatting for a long time.
After more than an hour, it was already very 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!"
After a while, the messenger came in, knelt down on one knee and said: "She County, Xinshi, Jiande and other counties were lost a few days ago!"
"You go down."
Sun Quan waved his hand, looked at Zhou Yu and Lu Su, and said with a gloomy expression: "This guy Shen Chen is so brave, he is planning to raid Jiangdong!"