The south bank of the Yangtze River at the same time.

Zhuge Liang and Lu Su showed their heads from the river in a mess.

The siege was ignited by the rocket just now. Although they were unable to burn them to death, they were also seriously injured, and their status was "seriously injured".

The weather was warm and cold at this time, and the river water was even more cold. The two were seriously injured and were drowned. Fortunately, Sun Jian's soldiers were very good at water, so they rescued the two of them and swam back to the shore.

Zhuge Liang, who was arching up the river bank under the slap of the river, had his previous elegance and freedom and was gone, and his whole body was like a chicken. I don’t know where the feather fan was swept by the river. Anyway, it would be a blessing to be able to save his life, so I have no time to care about any fan.

Looking back on my bold words since I became an official, I have made many bold words, and my mechanisms have been done and my plans have been made, but I have been repeatedly frustrated in front of Wu Fan. Even my beloved treasure cart and feather fan could not be kept, one was destroyed and the other was lost.

Thinking of this, a fire surged in Zhuge Liang's chest, a hot voice, and a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out, dyeing the front collar and the land under his feet red.

He was seriously injured now and was stimulated by ice water again. He vomited blood again and was exhausted. He looked at him a few times and almost fell into a coma on the spot. He was held tightly by the soldiers behind him. It took him a long time to barely recover.

Seeing that Zhuge Liang was so virtuous, Lu Su naturally couldn't say anything resentful - if he had followed his words at the time and turned around and returned when he saw that he was good, maybe the fleet would not be attacked by rockets. He could only help but comfort Zhuge Liang, and with the soldiers, he supported Zhuge Liang and returned to Sun Jian's army water camp.

However, Zhou Yu had heard early in the morning that Zhuge Liang and Lu Su were driving a fleet of more than a dozen ships, and the heavy fog was heading towards Cao's camp in Jiangbei. Zhou Yu was stunned when he heard the news. His first reaction was that Zhuge Liang knew that he could not create 100,000 arrows within the time limit, so he fled for fear of crime and colluded with the enemy and treason; and he kidnapped Lu Su.

However, soon Zhou Yu heard the sound of drums coming from the river. The soldiers patrolling the river came back to report to him that Zhuge Liang ordered the fleet to beat the war drums in the heavy fog to pretend to charge, but lined up the fleet in a row towards the direction of Cao's water camp. Cao's army did not know the truth and shot a large number of arrows, and as a result, he quickly laid a dozen ships full.

When Zhou Yu heard this, he realized the reason why Zhuge Liang pretended to be B. It turned out that this kid had such a skill. This person's wisdom is indeed above me.

Later I heard that Cao Jun’s water camp suddenly shot rockets, igniting and sinking Zhuge Liang’s dozen ships; Zhou Yu’s mood suddenly felt relieved for no reason.

Anyone who is arrogant will inevitably feel arrogant. Zhou Yu's comprehensive ability is a top figure in the entire Three Kingdoms, and no one can match Sun Jian's hands. Suddenly, Zhuge Liang, a strong competitor, suddenly appeared, especially the director's hand borrowing arrows, which made Zhou Yu feel a little depressed while sighing.

Now that he learned that Cao's army had released rockets, Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows from the straw boat to burn the body, and ended in failure. Zhou Yu was in a good mood. The two of them had no friendship at all, and they secretly rushed to express themselves in front of Sun Jian in order to reuse them. Zhou Yu's mood was reasonable at this time.

This is not enough to conclude from this that "Zhou Yu is a person who is jealous of the virtuous and jealous of the capable." If any normal person is in the position of Zhou Yu, he would be like this. And those who sympathize with Zhuge Liang and even regret are not ordinary people, but saints. Like Liu Xiahui, ordinary people are beyond their reach.

Zhou Yu is not a saint, so Zhou Yu's mood at this time is just a human nature.

He sat upright in the central army's tent, with civil and military officials standing on both sides, waiting for Zhuge Liang to come back.

After a while, Lu Su supported the weak Zhuge Liang into the tent. After coming to the tent, Lu Su quietly retreated aside. Although Zhuge Liang was reluctant at this time, he had to show his repentance in order to deal with it leniently and kneeled down towards Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhuge Liang and chuckled:

"Mr. Kong Ming is so intriguing. He even went to the river to play in such a cold weather. The deadline for 100,000 arrows that you and I set yesterday is less than five hours left. Mr. Kong is so intriguing. I think the 100,000 arrows must have been completed. I will be delivered immediately when the time comes?"

Zhou Yu clearly mocked Zhuge Liang in his words, but Zhuge Liang had nothing to say, and he was so angry that he was short of breath. He blushed and his neck was thick, and Zhuge Liang said:

"I'm not sure about it. I want to borrow arrows from the boat and get 100,000 arrows in a short period of time. Unexpectedly, the plan failed and this arrow-making mission could not be completed."

Zhou Yu pretended to be strange and asked Zhuge Liang what to borrow arrows from a straw boat. Zhuge Liang told him his plan. Zhou Yu nodded and said:

"Borrowing arrows on the straw boat? This is a good way. Even if you fail now, there must be some arrows on the straw boat. I wonder if you can estimate how much of the arrow-making mission has been completed?"

Zhuge Liang knew that Zhou Yu was asking questions knowingly, but he had to answer. After all, he was trying to get Zhou Yu to be lenient and respectful in his attitude. Don’t mess with Zhou Yu, then his life will be really unstoppable.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang had to say truthfully:

"Because Cao's army suddenly released rockets, it ignited the straw boat. The more than ten ships had sunk to the bottom of the river, and the arrows on the ship could no longer be retrieved."

When Zhou Yu heard this, he turned against his kindness, slapped the table hard and shouted:

"What? Not only did you fail to build arrows, but you also lost more than ten warships? What should you do?"

Zhuge Liang sighed and said helplessly:

"I also knew that the blame was inevitable, so when I fell into the water, I wanted to die and apologize. But I was rescued by the soldiers and dragged to the shore. Therefore, I was able to stand here and wait for the reign of the general to fall."

Through Zhuge Liang's performance, Zhou Yu certainly knew that he was trying to get his leniency. However, Zhou Yu finally caught Zhuge Liang's handle, but he didn't want to give him that cheaper. He asked the civil servants behind him to take out the military order, unfold it, and threw it at Zhuge Liang, saying:

"There is a military order here. Now you have lost more than ten warships. If two crimes are returned to one, you should be killed. What can you say?"

Zhuge Liang was speechless. Seeing this, Lu Su hurriedly walked out and said to Zhou Yu:

"Mr. Supervisor, now the Cao army is in a heavy army, and it is the time when our generals and ministers work together to fight against the enemy. Kong Ming has a good military strategy and a good plan in his mind. He can show his skills when fighting against the enemy. I hope that the Supervisor will keep Kong Ming's life for the time being and make meritorious service in the future..."

Zhou Yu was not moved by it and shouted:

"How can you make fun of the military order? If someone comes, take Zhuge Liang down and behead him immediately."

Not long after Zhuge Liang arrived at Sun Jian's subordinates, his interpersonal relationships had not yet been opened. Others except Lu Su had basically no personal relationship with him, so naturally no one stood up to plead for him under pressure.

Until the guards carried him to the tent, Zhuge Liang saw that no one pleaded for him anymore, he had no choice but to speak out:

"Wait, please listen to me, Lord Supervisor."

In fact, Zhou Yu did not really want to kill Zhuge Liang. He just wanted to take this opportunity to stop Zhuge Liang's arrogance and make Zhuge Liang obey in front of him in the future. Therefore, after hearing Zhuge Liang's sudden shout, Zhou Yu immediately asked the guards to stop and listen to what Zhuge Liang said.

Just listen to Zhuge Liang:

"But I ask the Chief Supervisor, now there are many west winds and north winds, but no east winds and south winds. How can we attack Cao's army in the future? Could it be that we have to wait until March to attack again?"

Zhuge Liang's words reminded Zhou Yu, frowned for a moment, and could not think of a comprehensive plan to attack Cao's army in a short period of time. Zhou Yu hesitated:

"You must have made plans for this, so you might as well speak out."

Zhuge Liang said:

"Although Liang is not talented, he has astronomical skills, which can be called wind and rain. As long as he chooses a good day and finds a altar to worship him, even if Cao's army has a person with a skill of heaven, he cannot change it for a certain period of time."

This sentence is more important than a dozen people pleading for mercy, and it is also more practical. As early as when attacking Lujiang, Zhuge Liang had used the Heavenly Change skill, and Zhou Yu was very clear about it and had no silence. After hearing what Zhuge Liang said, Zhou Yu took it for a while and ordered the guards to release Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang saved his life as a priest, intending to be able to make meritorious service while attacking Cao's army with fire and use the skills of heaven to change the wind direction.

In fact, Zhuge Liang had another secret that he had not told anyone. If he had said it at this time, Zhou Yu would also let him go immediately. This is also the reason why he was confident that he would not die here, so he came back.

This secret is the mysterious formation he discovered before

Since Sun Jian's army retreated to the south bank of Hefei, Zhuge Liang began to secretly arrange the formation according to the formation, and it has been completed about half of it. He believes that this is his last trump card. As long as Cao's army stepped into the formation, Cao's army and Cao would be severely damaged, including Wu Fan. When the formation was activated, he would not be able to escape even if he had wings.

However, Zhuge Liang kept this mysterious formation extremely confidential and never talked about Lu Su, and the others were even more unaware of it. It was also for confidentiality reasons that Zhuge Liang did not tell the formation when he asked Zhou Yu for a reason to avoid death.

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At this point, Zhuge Liang borrowed rockets from a straw boat, but the arrows were not taken by him and accompanied the boat again.

Two days later, in Cao's water camp, Wu Fan, who was watching soldiers train for water battles, suddenly received a report from the civil servant that Cao Cao had something important to ask Wu Fan to go there immediately.

Wu Fan left the water camp, rode his horse and whipped it. Soon after, he came to Hefei East City. After seeing Cao Cao in the lobby of the General's Mansion, Cao Cao smiled and asked Wu Fan to sit down, and then picked up a letter from the table and handed it to Wu Fan.

After reading the letter roughly, Wu Fan and Cao Cao looked at each other and laughed.

It turned out that this letter was written by Huang Gai, which roughly means that as an old minister of the Sun family, he was humiliated and slandered by the yellow-haired boy Zhou Yu, and he couldn't swallow his anger. Anyway, Jiangdong could not resist Cao Gong's troops at all. Many of the lord's generals and ministers were willing to surrender. I, Huang Gai, were the first person and wanted to surrender Cao Gong and quell the dispute in this troubled times as soon as possible.

The letter was sent by Yu Fan, the councillor of Sun Jian. Cao Cao kept remembering what Wu Fan had said before: In a short time, if a general under Sun Jian's tent came to surrender, he would have to prepare for the fire attack. At this time, he was naturally very happy to see Yu Fan send this letter.

However, after reading the letter, Cao Cao was unable to make a comeback for Yu Fan. On the surface, he showed his suspicion, but in fact he didn't want the other party to see that he was prepared. Fortunately, Yu Fan was a man who was good at speaking and distinguishing. After a while with Cao Caoxiong, he "dispelled" Cao Cao's doubts, and finally made Cao Cao believe that Huang Gai was really coming to surrender. He agreed that at midnight in five days, Huang Gai personally came on a boat. At that time, Cao's water camp would open the gate for him and welcome him into the village.

Wu Fan and Cao Cao laughed, and this time it was basically confirmed that Sun Jian's army would inevitably launch a fire attack on Cao's army. As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Next, you will wait for Sun Jian's army to join the Internet cafe.

With this joy, Wu Fan and Cao Cao drank again, and then Wu Fan rode his horse back to the riverside water village.

As soon as I arrived at the edge of the water village, I saw a transport unit of the Second Legion of thousands of people driving dozens of carriages and parked by the river.

When we arrived near, Yuan Shao was greeting the soldiers to carry some objects on the carriage. Most of the structures of these objects were made of wood and a small amount of iron. The wooden parts were painted with colorful patterns. Because the single structure was large, it was impossible to see what the overall pattern looked like.

When Yuan Shao saw Wu Fan, he smiled and walked up to him with his fists, saying:

"Governor General, I'm here to Yuan Shao, I'm polite."

Thinking about Wu Fan being a minister under Yuan Shao, although Wu Fan is not a monarch, he is also the leader of a legion, and Yuan Shao has become his subordinate. The positions of the two have changed, and it feels that only these two people can explain it clearly.

However, when Wu Fan was under Yuan Shao, he was excluded by Yuan Shao's favorite minister Guo Tu and despised by Yuan Shao. Now, Wu Fan did not make any trouble for Yuan Shao at all. He even divided Yuan Shao a group of generals and soldiers, allowing him to form a group of troops and horses to pacify Shuzhong with Zhang Lu.

This move made Yuan Shao admire and grateful to Wu Fan, which was also the reason why he personally led the transportation troops here.

On the other hand, Wu Fan did not bring all the troops from Jiangling this time. Instead, he only brought 450,000 people, leaving more than 100,000 troops to Li Zhan, and ordered Guo Jia and Li Zhan to take advantage of the situation to capture Yong'an, the territory of Liu Yan west of Jiangling.

Just as Wu Fan led his army to Lujiang and fought against Sun Jian's army on the river, Li Zhan also led a 100,000 troops at the same time, and joined forces with 80,000 troops from the four counties in Jingnan, a total of 180,000 troops to Yong'an.

Liu Yan's troops had less than 300,000 troops, most of which were gathered in Jiangzhou to prevent Chengdu Yuan Shao and Zi Zhang Lu, and concentrated all their manpower and material resources to develop Jiangzhou technology and produce siege weapons. When Yong'an was attacked, Liu Yan was immediately unable to take care of each other. As a result, under Guo Jia's plan of virtuality and reality, Yong'an and Jiangzhou all fell into the hands of Cao's army one after another.

At present, Liu Yan only has Jianning, which is adjacent to the Southern Barbarians.

After occupying Jiangzhou, Yuan Shao dismantled the three wooden beasts from the captured Liu Yan's army and loaded them to Hefei, hoping that these three ultimate weapons could exert surprising power in the battle with Sun Jian's army.
Chapter completed!