"Duke Wu, where is General Deng? Subordinates... Subordinates want to..."

Lu Meng came to Sun Ce and looked at Sun Ce's gray face, and couldn't continue speaking.

The ominous premonition is getting stronger and stronger.

"General Deng may have died in battle in the enemy's formation."

Zhou Yu's words made Lu Meng stand on the spot as if he was struck by lightning in an instant.

"Although we have not received any specific information, if General Deng is not killed in battle, he will be captured alive. He did not meet General Deng when the army retreated, and the possibility of General Deng being able to escape was extremely low."

Zhou Yu added another sentence.

Deng Dang was Lu Meng's brother-in-law. He was originally in Yuan Shu's army and followed Sun Ce to Jiangdong to fight earlier. Lu Meng pretended to be an adult at the age of fifteen and grew up with Deng Dang along the way. It can be said that Deng Dang was Lu Meng's military enlightenment teacher, which was very important to him.

Now that Deng Dang's life and death are unknown, Lu Meng suddenly lost his composure.

"how so……"

Lu Meng couldn't stand, his body collapsed on the ground, crying bitterly.

Sun Ce turned his face and refused to look at Lu Meng, only thinking that Lu Meng's crying was a great stimulation to him.

Zhou Yu walked up to help Lu Meng up, took Lu Meng to somewhere else to comfort him, supported Lu Meng away, and then returned to Sun Ce.

"Let's go, Bofu, we cross the river, the speed is fast."

Sun Ce endured his grief and nodded, without saying anything. He walked towards the riverside with Zhou Yu and prepared to land. Just as Sun Ce stepped onto the boat and prepared to cross the river, an emergency report suddenly came.

More than ten miles away, the Wei cavalry were found and they were coming quickly towards Liyang.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were shocked.

"Oh no! Zhang Wenyuan's reaction is too fast. Bo Fu, go quickly. I'll lead the troops to stop here and buy you time!"

Zhou Yu said that and rushed back.

"Bad words!"

Sun Ce grabbed Zhou Yu: "If you die, what else can I do when I am alive?"

"Who said I'm going to die?"

Zhou Yu was anxious and shouted, "I am not Mr. Wu, you are! You are the lord of Wu. If you are gone, we will be all over! You must live! You are not allowed to die! Let me pass!"

Zhou Yu pushed Sun Ce onto the ship, then pushed Dong Xi, who was following the side, and shouted "Crossing the River", and the soldiers on the ship immediately rowed and left the river bank.

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, and he realized something until he found that he was getting farther and farther away from Zhou Yu. He was anxious to jump back, but was pulled tightly by the soldiers on the boat and Dong Xi.

"Gongjin!!! Gongjin!!!"

Sun Ce shouted at the top of his lungs. Zhou Yu held back the grief in his heart, turned around and refused to look at Sun Ce, and ran forward.

The Wu army in front became restless because of the news that the Wei army was chasing. It was all due to Huang Gai and Han Dang that they could barely control the Wu army. They did not let them flock to the riverside to grab ships on a large scale, and they barely controlled the situation.

So Zhou Yu brought the few remaining personal troops forward, called Huang Gai and Han Dang, and discussed his decision with them.

"I want to lead troops to set up defense lines to prevent Zhang Wenyuan's cavalry from rushing over to block us from crossing the river. These soldiers and horses should return to Jiangdong as much as possible. We really can't afford the losses."

Han Dang and Huang Gai looked at each other, but they didn't expect that Zhou Yu would take the initiative to stand up at this time.

To be honest, Huang Gai and Zhou Yu, plus Cheng Pu, because they are old and experienced, have always been dissatisfied with Zhou Yu who is young but trusted by Sun Ce, and are not very willing to admit his status and achievements. However, when they look at it today, they did look at it with admiration.

Zhou Yu is a responsible man.

So Huang Gai and Han Dang each assigned part of their own personal troops to command Zhou Yu. Huang Gai even took the initiative to stand up and lead the troops with Zhou Yu to resist, but Zhou Yu sternly refused.

"It's enough to have me, and there are no more people. General Huang, General Han, you are the last generals, and you are indispensable to Mr. Wu."

Zhou Yu persuaded Huang Gai and Han Dang to retreat. Huang Gai and Han Dang felt very moved and mobilized some soldiers to follow Zhou Yu, so that Zhou Yu had two thousand soldiers to use. He also concentrated all the remaining shields, spears and crossbows to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu brought these things alone and led his troops against the road, heading towards the direction where the Wei cavalry rushed.

Zhou Yu knew that there were no cavalry in his army, and they were all infantry. When fighting against cavalry, he must guard the important crossings, give full play to the advantages of the infantry's military formation, and withstand the charges of these cavalry so as to limit these cavalry.

Zhang Wenyuan hurried south to pursue, and it was impossible to bring the main force and heavy weapons. The number of this group of cavalry is estimated to be limited, so it should not be so difficult to withstand.

Zhou Yu's judgment was correct. When he saw the cavalry led by Zhang Liao charge with a very oppressive sense of charge, he even breathed a sigh of relief.

The cavalry coming in a hurry, without heavy weapons, without strong crossbows, were not many people. It was probably more than the defenders he brought, but it was not impossible to fight.

It should not be difficult for Jiangdong's children who have persisted until they all cross the river and leave.

So at Zhou Yu's order, the soldiers of Jiangdong were fully energetic and looked at the Wei cavalry opposite nervously, ready for battle.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang frowned as they looked at the Wu army blocking the road.

"Does there still be a thief army dare to fight? It seems that Sun Bofu is not without merit. At least so many people are willing to die for him."

Zhang Liao sighed a little.

"General, these people are all mobs, let's rush up and kill them."

Xu Huang was a little impatient.

Zhang Liao grabbed Xu Huang: "You started to be impulsive after just a few words of praise? See clearly, there are many military appearances, shields, spears, and crossbows. Are they a mob? If you rush up, you will directly shoot thousands of arrows over there to make you look good."

When Xu Huang saw that this was true, he shrank his head and stopped talking.

"Dropping off the horse and preparing for a sporting battle. There is no benefit in continuing to ride a horse in this situation."

Zhang Liao made a decision, so more than 3,000 cavalry dismounted and became infantry, holding iron shields and ring-headed swords, quickly formed an army formation, and stared at the Sun Wu army opposite.

When Zhou Yu saw Zhang Liao's ordering the army to dismount and form a military formation, his face tightened. He knew that this battle was not easy to fight. Zhang Liao was a capable person and knew that there would be no good end to charge with cavalry here, so he decided to dismount and fight an infantry battle.

Zhang Liao stared at the banner of the word "Zhou" raised in the Wu army formation, so he thought of the name Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu, I remember that Guo Peng was angry about this man who defected to Sun Ce. He was not friendly to the Zhou family in Shu County, Lujiang, and ordered the Zhou family to move to Yecheng. The head of the family Zhou Shang was the county magistrate in Youzhou and did not do well at all.

It seems that Guo Peng attaches great importance to this former general of the Wu Kingdom, known as Zhou Lang in Jiangzuo.
Chapter completed!