After deciding on the strategic plan to expedition to Guan Yu and seize Jingzhou, Lu Meng began to publicly resign to Sun Quan according to the previous arrangements. After receiving permission, he immediately set off for Jianye. When he passed by Wuhu, he stopped and went to visit the right governor Lu Xun.

Since Sun Quan was afraid of being under house arrest for Wuxian for many years, Lu Xun lived a life of studying behind closed doors all day and never got involved in any military and political affairs. It was not until 216 AD (the 20th year of Jian'an) that he got the opportunity to return to his official career.

That year, Cao Cao was sending troops to attack Ruxuwu again. This time, Cao Cao was fully prepared and quickly captured Juchao, which forced Sun Quan to use most of his main force to deal with Cao Cao, which also caused great danger to his rear.

In early February of the same year, the Poyang thief commander Youtu started a rebellion in the rear of Sun Quan due to the secret enlistment of Cao Cao's western Cao's subordinate Jiang Ji. Due to the empty guards in the rear, there was a strong response in Xingdu, Danyang and other places for a time, and the entire Jiangdong was shocked.

At this time, Sun Quan was already unable to deal with Cao Cao alone. He had no general to send him no power to deal with Youtu. However, the rebellion in the rear had to be dealt with. In a critical moment, Bu Lianshi and Lu Meng also recommended Lu Xun, who had once defeated Pan Lin, to Sun Quan. They believed that he was the only person who could stabilize the rear at this time.

It was not that Sun Quan had not considered Lu Xun, but Sun Quan was still resentful of the deep hatred of Lu Xun and the Sun family and the old relationship between him and Bu Lianshi. In desperation, he decided to temporarily put these aside for the sake of the overall situation and sent Lu Xun as the commander and General Fenwu He Qi to quell the rebellion together.

Lu Xun used Youtu to stretch the front line too long, led his army to bypass Youtu's main forward in Huaian, and chose to attack Xindu by taking a different sword, which completely cut off the supply of food and grass for Youtu's front. Then He Qi took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack on Youtu, while Lu Xun stayed in Xindu to block the reinforcements in Poyang.

In less than ten days, the rebellion that spread to Danyang was completely quelled by Lu Xun. The thief leader You was suddenly beheaded and more than 8,000 subordinates surrendered.

The rebellion in the rear was settled, and in order to stabilize the situation, Sun Quan quickly asked Cao Cao to surrender. After the two sides signed an alliance, Sun Quan hurriedly returned to Jianye to take charge. In order to reward Lu Xun's meritorious service in this battle, Sun Quan cut him off as the Dingwei Captain and stationed his troops in Lipu.

After this incident, Sun Quan found that a person like Lu Xun would definitely be of great use in the future, so he thought hard about how to make Lu Xun completely feel at ease to serve him. Bu Lianshi saw Sun Quan’s thoughts, so he proposed to marry a woman under the Sun family to Lu Xun, thereby incorporating Lu Xun into the Sun family’s gate.

Sun Quan believed that the marriage method was very good, and Lu Xun had not been married so far, probably it was related to Bu Lianshi, so he sent Lu Xun's brother Lu Ji to propose marriage to him and marry Sun Ce's daughter. Sun Quan believed that in this way, he could completely control the Lu family, the prominent Jiangdong clan headed by Lu Xun, in his own hands.

Lu Xun, who was as careful as he was, quickly understood Sun Quan's intention, and he had no room for rejection, so he simply agreed.

After marrying Sun Ce's daughter, Sun Quan began to show his value to Lu Xun and often asked him to discuss military and national affairs. Sun Quan recognized all the strategies for rectifying Shanyue's branch in Yangzhou, and once again promoted Lu Xun to the right-level governor under the tent, commanding all the personal guards.

In addition, Sun Quan also intends to be the military governor of Lu Xun, Kuaiji, Poyang and Danyang, which is very honorable and favorable.

In 217 AD (the 22nd year of Jian'an), the Danyang thief leader Fei Zhan raised an army to rebellion. Lu Xun volunteered to go out to quell the rebellion, but he once again killed Fei Zhan with a few wins and more with suspicious soldiers. Later, with Sun Quan's tacit approval, Lu Xun ordered all the residents of Shanyue to migrate to the plains, and incorporated them into household registration, farming and paying tribute, completely differentiated them into ordinary people, and gave them equal treatment, completely eliminating the hidden dangers of Shanyue's rebellion.

After quelling the Feizhan Rebellion, Lu Xun moved his troops to Wuhu.

This time, Lu Meng passed by Wuhu defense land and thought that Lu Xun was a talented man who was born in the world and must have his own unique insights on the battle in Xiangfan, so he deliberately stopped to visit Lu Xun in the name of visiting his old friend.

What surprised Lu Meng was that Lu Xun had known for a long time that he would come and was waiting at the port in advance.

"How did Bo Yan know I'm coming?"

After the two saluted each other, Lu Meng revealed his inner doubts without any concealment.

"The general would come to me for discussion whenever there was a major event. This time I would raid Guan Yu's neck and seek to capture Jingzhou. I would definitely come to find him, so I welcome you here."

After hearing Lu Xun's words, Lu Meng couldn't help but take a breath:

"I'm talking about Bo Yan, you are so unfathomable that it's scary."

Lu Xun invited Lu Meng to his home as a guest. During the meal, the two talked about the upcoming Nanjun attack in the future. Although Lu Meng was a hardliner who firmly advocated the use of force to retake Jingzhou, he was still worried about actually fighting with Guan Yu.

Lu Xun saw this, and he asked while he was in charge of Lu Meng pouring tea:

"The general still seems to have some doubts?"

Lu Meng sighed and said, "To be honest, Bo Yan, you said, Guan Yu has been guarding Jingzhou for many years and is familiar with various river basins and terrain. Although he is now in the battlefield in Fancheng and is restrained by Xu Huang, I sent a visitor to Nanjun to conduct an undercover investigation and found that he still has heavy troops in the Public Security Bureau and Jiangling. If we want to regain Nanjun, we must hit it with one blow. If things change, it will cause endless harm."

Lu Xun smiled and said, "Wu Hou and Cao Wei alliance to regain Nanjun, and the timing was very good. If you miss it, not only will Jingzhou not be able to be taken back, but you will probably not have any result when you go to Liu Bei to ask for it later. The feint attack on Hefei was aimed at Nanjun. This is a big trick. Wu Hou could think of this step as already very powerful."

"No, it was not the lord who came up with the plan to feint attack Hefei, but Sima Yi, the prime minister and chief clerk beside Cao Cao."

After hearing Lu Meng's words, Lu Xun couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, because when he was in contact with "Liu Ji" and Yu Ji, he had heard of this name from the two of them. Later, he heard that Cao Cao's strategy of moving south to advance west was also set by this person. Since then, Lu Xun has become interested in Sima Yi. This time he heard his deeds from Lu Meng again, which made Lu Xun sigh:

"Wu Hou really shouldn't let Sima Yi go. This person will definitely be a major disaster for Eastern Wu in the future..."

On the issue of paralyzing Guan Yu, Lu Xun made this suggestion:

"Guan Yu is extremely brave and has a little strategy, but he has one of the biggest and most fatal shortcomings, that is, he is arrogant and conceited. After the general returns to Jianye, he can suggest to Wu Hou to propose to Guan Yu to become a marriage in the name of consolidating the Sun-Liu alliance. Guan Yu will definitely not agree. Instead, he will think that the Eastern Wu is afraid of him and despises us. Naturally, his guard is not as good as before."

Lu Mengfu asked: "If Bo Yan is in my position, how should he deploy and attack?"

Lu Xun smiled and said, "It's very simple. Take three steps: one is to show weakness, pretend to show weakness to Guan Yu, praise his merits, and at the same time expresses his admiration and surrender to him; the second is to wait. When Guan Yu is paralyzed and careless, he will inevitably transfer the main force in the rear to the front line to deal with Xu Huang and Cao Ren; the third is to be quick. Mi Fang and Fu Shiren guard Jiangling and the Public Security Bureau. These two have always been contemptuous and neglected by Guan Yu. They have long been resentful and must deploy their troops under the Public Security Bureau in an extremely secretive form. Then, the sudden attack will surely be able to surrender Fu Shiren. Once he surrenders, Mi Fang will naturally surrender. At that time, the morale of the army in Jingzhou will be in chaos. It is not a problem for the general to annex the three counties in Jingxi or even capture Guan Yu alive."

After arriving in Jianye, Lu Meng passed on Lu Xun's suggestion to Sun Quan and strongly recommended that he take his position temporarily:

"Lu Xun has far-reaching thoughts and has enough ability to shoulder heavy responsibilities. With his demeanor, he will definitely become a pillar of the Eastern Wu in the future. Besides, he has no reputation now, so that he can temporarily take over my position to achieve the goal of paralyzing Guan Yu."

After weighing the matter, Sun Quan agreed to Lu Meng's proposal and immediately promoted General Lu Xun to serve as the right governor, and went to Lukou to command the three armies.

After Lu Xun received the order, he begged Sun Quan to transfer half of the troops stationed in Lukou to the north to Ruxu in order to achieve the goal of completely paralyzing Guan Yu. Sun Quan did not understand. He believed that if he transferred half of the main force in Lukou, he might not have enough strength to attack Nanjun in the future. However, Lu Meng understood Lu Xun's meaning very well, and he said to Sun Quan:

"Although Guan Yu is stubborn and arrogant, he is definitely not an incompetent person. As long as our troops are still at Lukou, no matter how many illusions you make, it is probably not enough to convince Guan Yu that Lu Xun will definitely have a way to deal with this move."

Finally, Sun Quan publicly ordered:

In the name of fully preparing for the war and conquering Hefei, 30,000 troops from Lukou Port were mobilized to station in Ruxu.

The news reached Weitou, CD and Luoyang respectively, and the reactions in the three places were completely different.

Before, when Guan Yu sent troops to attack Xiangfan, Zhuge Liang was worried that Sun Quan would do something, so he vaguely conveyed to Liu Bei the intention of giving up Guan Yu to withdraw his troops. Just as Liu Bei was hesitating for this, Guan Yu surrendered to Jin, killed Pang De, flooded Fancheng, and shocked China. After Sun Lang from Luhun Mountain learned of Guan Yu's reputation, he launched a rebellion to attack the county town, forcing Luhun County Magistrate Zhang Gu to escape to the hermit Hu Zhao, and echoed Guan Yu. This completely dispelled Liu Bei's idea of ​​letting Guan Yu retreat, and adopted a tacit attitude towards his behavior of sending troops without asking for instructions.

Later, Zhuge Liang thought of Liu Bei's appointment as crown prince, Liu Feng, who was stationed in Shangyong, was very dissatisfied. If unpredictable dangers really occur in the future, Liu Feng would probably remain silent and watch for success or failure. Meng Da was even more inconsistent with Guan Yu and had a strong personal hatred, so he asked Liu Bei to send Zhao Yun or Huang Zhong to replace Liu Feng and Meng Da, but he was not adopted.

Hearing that Lu Meng returned to Jianye for cultivation, Sun Quan transferred half of Lukou's troops to Ruxukou. Liu Bei's defense against Sun Quan was even lower, but Zhuge Liang's doubts became more and more serious. However, at this time, he knew that nothing he could do to make Liu Bei and Guan Yu sober, and everything could only be left to fate...

On the other side, Guan Yu received a request from Lu Meng and Sun Quan to transfer troops, he also received a handwritten letter from the new governor Lu Xun. In the letter, Lu Xun's attitude was extremely humble, and his words all showed his admiration for Guan Yu. At the end of the letter, Lu Xun also pretended to remind Guan Yu not to rashly transfer the main force behind to Xiangfan. With Guan Yu's current strength, he could fight to the city of Xudu alone.

Guan Yu was completely deceived by Lu Xun's apparent act of showing weakness. In addition, as he knew, Lu Xun had only pacified Shanyue in Jiangdong several times, and had no prestige or fame at all, so Guan Yu did not take Lu Xun seriously at all.

However, Xu Huang, who was opposite him, gave Guan Yu a headache. The several confrontations in recent days had made Guan Yu gradually feel strong. At this time, Lu Xun's letter and the superficial articles of the Eastern Wu completely dispelled Guan Yu's defense against Jiangdong. He ordered the main force of Nanjun to be transferred to the Xiangfan front line, intending to completely form a complete encirclement of Xu Huang's troops.
Chapter completed!