Seeing Zhou Yu's surprise, Ling Cao hurriedly explained: "Grand Governor, don't listen to Youping's nonsense. That's not what happened at all."
So Ling Cao explained what happened in public and handed Zhou Yu a letter written by Lu Su.
After Zhou Yu took the letter, he opened it and read it hastily. At first, he didn't feel anything unusual. However, he suddenly found the words "Lu Zijing's autograph" at the signature, and he immediately noticed the meaning of the letter.
abnormal.
Because Lu Su and Zhou Yu are very good friends, they are both teachers and friends, and they have a close friendship. There is never a signature in the letters between the two people, because they are already familiar with each other's handwriting and can tell it at a glance. Although this letter is
It was written to the generals stationed in Xunyang City, but Lu Su knew Zhou Yu's return date early on, so Zhou Yu had to read this letter, so he left a note in the letter.
After Zhou Yu realized the anomaly in the letter, his eyes immediately scanned the words in the letter. He saw that the words were neatly arranged, with consistent ups and downs. There were ten words in each line, and the whole text was a hundred words. Suddenly, Zhou Yu remembered
It was a word game that I had played with Lu Su before, and the format was probably the same, so I glanced at it sideways and saw that it was a different word, and it immediately jumped out on the paper.
But I saw that starting from the first word in the letter, there was a word in each line after that. The ten words were completely put together to form a sentence, which turned out to be "I am trapped by Zhuge, come and save me quickly."
Zhou Yu immediately closed the letter, frowned, and ordered: "Order your troops and horses immediately and follow me to the north bank to attend Zijing's wedding banquet."
Zhou Tai, Ling Cao and others did not dare to say anything, they cupped their fists and said: "Promise!"
As soon as Zhou Yu returned to Xunyang City, he went directly back to his home, but saw his wife Ouyang Yinying already waiting at the door, so he said: "Madam, prepare my armor quickly, I want to go on an expedition."
"Going to war? My husband is going to war? Is he going to fight with China? Why didn't I hear any news?" Ouyang Yinying said in surprise.
Seeing how nervous Ouyang Yinying was, Zhou Yu hurriedly explained: "Madam, it's different from what you think. I know you don't like any war between China and Wu. Anyway, I promise you, I will never do anything wrong.
Yes, Huaxia and Wu are still allies. I will not openly break this alliance. I am only going to save Zijing."
"Lu Cheqi? What happened to him?"
"He was deceived by Zhuge Liang and is now trapped on the north bank. I'm going to rescue him, that's all." So Zhou Yu told Ouyang Yinying the matter concisely while walking.
After Ouyang Yinying heard this, she said: "Is there such a thing? Then Zhuge Liang is too damaged, isn't he?"
She returned to the room and put on Zhou Yu's helmet, battle armor, and weapons one by one, then hugged Zhou Yu tightly from behind and said slowly: "Husband, promise me,
No matter what, don't have a conflict with the Huaxia Kingdom. Once it turns into a war, I'm afraid the world will be in chaos again."
Zhou Yu nodded and said: "With the current national strength and combat effectiveness of Wu State, it is indeed not suitable to have a conflict with Huaxia State, but I am only here to save people. Madam, don't worry, I am free to use my discretion."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yu left his residence. It happened that Zhou Tai and Ling Cao had already ordered their troops and horses, and the 30,000 navy troops were ready to go. Xu Sheng and Ding Feng were left to guard Xunyang City.
Ouyang Yinying personally watched Zhou Yu leave, but she felt a little worried in her heart. She hurriedly wrote a letter, then walked to the backyard, handed the letter to Lao Hu, and said to Lao Hu: "Send carrier pigeons to Jiangxia immediately, just ask for help in the future."
Before the navy of Wu Kingdom arrives in Jiangxia, this homing pigeon can reach Zhuge Liang first."
Lao Hu obeyed Ouyang Yinying's words and immediately tied the letter and released the carrier pigeon.
Seeing the homing pigeon spread its wings and flying high, Ouyang Yinying felt a little worried. For a long time, she had been stealing important information from the Wu Kingdom as a secret spy of the Huaxia Kingdom. In the first few years, she also followed the instructions of Gao Fei.
She frequently sent out important information according to her instructions. But since having the child, her heart has completely tilted towards Zhou Yu. She only sends out a piece of information every now and then, and the so-called information is only "everything is normal".
Simple words.
She was caught in a dilemma between her foster brother who was kind to her, and her husband and the father of her child on the other, so she could only come up with this compromise.
In fact, Gao Fei already knew that Ouyang Yinying was no longer as dedicated as before, so he no longer expected Ouyang Yinying to obtain any information. Instead, he found another way and placed an important role within the Wu Kingdom.
Secretly stealing intelligence for the Huaxia Kingdom, this important role has also been secretly keeping an eye on the things of the Wu Kingdom. But Ouyang Yinying is completely unaware of all this.
She didn't know that there was always a pair of eyes watching behind her. Her situation had already been clearly stated and she had been sent to the North Country.
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Zhou Yu boarded the deck of the fighting ship, waved the flag in his hand, and 30,000 naval troops sailed toward the north of the Yangtze River in a mighty manner. Large warships were lined up in a row, and the officers and men on board were all warriors fighting against all odds.
Holding the weapons tightly in their hands, they looked towards the north bank with the same gaze, ready to stand ready.
After the Wu Kingdom's navy sailed into the northern waters of the Xunyang River, a huge warship came into view on the river. It was escorted by four large warships. Each ship was filled with Chinese sergeants. There were even more on the bow.
Heavy crossbows, the deck of the ship is covered with crossbowmen, and there are a row of crossbows on both sides of the ship, which looks extremely powerful.
This is not the first time Zhou Yu has seen such warships from the Huaxia Kingdom. This is what worries him the most. The Huaxia Kingdom has developed industry and the war weapons it produces have left the Wu Kingdom far behind. In addition, the Huaxia Kingdom has more
There is something called gunpowder as a weapon, so in a real fight, Wu's navy may not be Huaxia's opponent.
However, Wu's navy has its own strengths. Although its warships are not as big as those of Huaxia, they are more flexible. Zhou Yu is very familiar with water warfare, so as long as the layout is reasonable, it may not be impossible to compete with Huaxia. However,
If you do that, the price you pay will inevitably be huge.
There are two types of troops for the Huaxia Kingdom that can fight on the water. One is the navy that was established earlier and can move freely on the sea and rivers. The other is the navy that was surrendered from the hands of Jing Han and Shu Han.
The navy can only fight in rivers, so Zhou Yu has never dared to act rashly. As a navy defending Soochow, it is enough to defeat the invading enemy, but if it wants to attack, I am afraid it is slightly insufficient.
On the Huaxia Kingdom's giant warship, Hengjiang General Huo Jun was fighting at the bow. He saw the Wu Kingdom's navy approaching from the south bank in a row. He smiled and said: "As expected by the prefect, the Wu Kingdom's navy is full of elites.
We are dispatched. Give the other side the command flag immediately!"
"promise!"
The flag bearers on the Chinese warships immediately waved the flags in their hands and waved flags towards the Wu navy approaching from the south bank.
After Zhou Yu saw it, he immediately fell into deep thought and thought secretly: "The other party actually issued a signal of waiting for a long time. So Zhuge Liang knew that I would lead the navy to come to him for Zijing? It seems that Zhuge Liang is still the same.
Cunning. However, no matter how cunning you are, your defeated general will always be your defeated general."
"Send a signal to the other party, saying that we are here for a banquet, and requesting everyone to disembark." Zhou Yu sneered and said calmly.
"All of us disembark? Governor, aren't we falling into Zhuge Liang's scheme? If he burns our ship, how will we get back?" Zhou Tai said worriedly.
"If Zhuge Liang dares to cook it, let him cook it. Since we are invited to the banquet, we should eat and drink to our heart's content, enjoy the food and wine, and ignore everything else." Zhou Yu said with confidence.
"Grand Governor, what does this mean? Didn't we bring troops to force Zhuge Liang to hand over Lu's chariots and cavalry? Why do we have to go ashore to eat and drink?" Ling Cao was also confused by Zhou Yu's words and asked immediately.
"Haha, do you think that I came with an army of 30,000 people to fight against the Huaxia Kingdom? Then you are wrong. Do as I say and send a flag message to the other party." Zhou Yu's eyes had a hint of cunning,
He was confident and had already made plans.
As a result, Wu State immediately sent out a flag to the other side.
After Huo Jun saw it, he couldn't help but have some doubts, and said secretly: "The other party actually asked everyone to go ashore? What kind of attention is Zhou Yu taking?"
He couldn't think clearly, so he hurriedly turned around and walked into the cabin, and asked the flagman to signal the other party to stay put.
Huo Jun entered the cabin, came to the room where Zhuge Liang was, and immediately reported: "Master Magistrate, Zhou Yu requires all the Wu Kingdom's navy to land ashore. How should we respond?"
"Everyone come ashore? What's Zhou Yu's plan?" Zhuge Liang was also surprised. His original intention was to force Zhou Yu to take action and openly break the alliance, so that he could surround Zhou Yu with heavy troops and give Zhou Yu a heavy blow first. But in this way,
Later, Zhuge Liang had to change his original intention.
He thought for a moment and said immediately: "Immediately send an order to Huo Du and ask him to personally invite General Zuo to lead his army to cut off Zhou Yu's return. He also sends a carrier pigeon to General Right and asks General Right to lead his army to come for support. Since
If Zhou Yu wants to go ashore, I will let him stay on the shore permanently."
Huo Jun knew that the situation was serious, so he immediately clasped his fists and said, "No, I will send a message to my elder brother right now."
"Wait a minute, send a message to General Huya, tell him all the news about this place, and ask the general to lead the land and water army to approach Xunyang."
"promise!"
After Zhuge Liang saw that Huo Jun had left, he looked out from the window of the cabin. When he saw Zhou Yu standing on the bow of the battleship with a heroic appearance, he secretly thought: "Zhou Gongjin, I was defeated for a while in the past, and I was almost defeated."
I lost my life, and today I want you to pay me back twice as much..."