As soon as Sun Jian asked, Sun Ce said: "As soon as Guan Yu is in Jiujiang, I Yangzhou will not be at peace, and I can attack it." "Jiujiang County is too important. Hanging high above Yangzhou's head, Yangzhou has spent a lot of effort to beware of Guan Yu. Sun Ce had long wanted to send troops to attack.

Sun Jian listened, waved his hand, and asked Sun Ce to let go and do it.

After Sun Ce left, he found Zhou Yu and Lu Su and discussed: "My father has allied with Cao Cao and agreed to advance and retreat together. Now you want me to send troops to attack Guan Yu, so as to solve the danger of Yanzhou, Gongjin and Zijing, can you have a good plan to teach me? ”

In recent years, because the external environment is still good, there has been no major war, Sun Ce has been in Yangzhou, Lianping Haoqiang, Shanyue, stabilizing the place and recruiting talents, and many talented people have been discovered by him. Now that Sun Ce is under his command, it can also be said that he is full of talents.

In addition to the seniority faction led by Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, etc., and the blood faction headed by Sun Ben, Wu Jing, etc., left by his father Sun Jian. Like Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Yu Tuo, Xu Sheng, He Qi, Pan Zhang, Hu Zong, Quan Rou and others, all of them were single-handedly promoted by Sun Ce, and most of these people came to him because of Sun Ce's personal charm. Zhou Yu and Lu Su don't talk about it, like Hu Zong, he followed Sun Ce at the age of fourteen and ran for him. It can be said that if there is no Sun Ce, this Jiangdong still doesn't know who owns it.

When Zhou Yu and Lu Su heard this, they thought about it carefully.

After a long time, Zhou Yu said: "If you want to contact Cao, you can send Yuzhou." When our army attacked Jiujiang, it moved eastward and pulled out Pengcheng first. If Pengcheng falls, the upper can attack Yaoyu and save Yan, and the lower can attack the East China Sea and take Xu. Liu Xuande is far away in Qingzhou, and he can't be saved, if Guan Yu wants to save Xuzhou, Jiujiang will be owned by me. ”

Lu Su also discussed from here, and said that if he can act fast and cooperate well, maybe Xuzhou can also be defeated.

Zhou Yu deserves to be a first-class commander in the world. pointed out Xuzhou's weaknesses with a sharp point. If he can join forces with Cao Cao, he will attack Jiujiang by himself, and at the same time drag Guan Yu, so that the Yuzhou army will raid Pengcheng. The situation will be very different. As soon as Peng Cheng is lost, Guan Yu's back road will be unstable, if he goes to save Peng Cheng, Jiujiang will not be able to protect it. If you don't save it, the danger is even greater, and if you don't do it well, Xuzhou will have the risk of collapse.

Indeed, if you look at the map, Qingzhou and Xuzhou form a "7" character, while Yan and Henan are surrounded by this 7 character, and Yangzhou is below Xuzhou. Qingzhou and Xuzhou can calmly attack Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and Yanzhou and Yuzhou can naturally easily attack Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Liu Bei didn't know that Yan and Yu were his confidants. It's just that the main contradiction at that time was not Cao Cao, but Yuan Shao. After solving Yuan Shao, he set his sights on Guanzhong again. Because Yuan Shao's remaining senior cadres and Yuan Shang fled to Guanzhong, he couldn't help but pay no attention to it. If you sit idly by, Gao Gan and Yuan Shang said that if Guan Liang and his men and horses are mobilized, it will really be a disaster. After pacifying the pass and cooling, he turned his mind to Yanzhou. While Cao Cao attacked Yizhou to break the rules, he sent troops and entered Yanzhou, wanting to expel Cao Cao's forces in one fell swoop.

It's just that Liu Bei didn't know that Cao Cao and Sun Jian had secretly formed an alliance, and the three forces of Yan, Henan, and Yang were about to sharpen their knives to Xuzhou.

Sun Ce discussed with Zhou Yu and others, and went to write to Xiahou Yuan, the general of Yuzhou. It was agreed that the two families would raise troops together. Xiahou Yuan stayed in Yuzhou, and not long ago he received a letter from Cao Cao, saying that he had formed an alliance with Yangzhou and raised troops together to deal with Liu Bei. After receiving Sun Ce's letter, he also began to prepare secretly.

The two families secretly exchanged letters. But he hid Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others. Zhou Yu repeatedly emphasized secrecy and suddenness to Sun Ce. If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will be harmed. Sun Ce naturally knew this truth, and in order to succeed, he also told Xiahou Yuan not to leave.

In the summer of May, Lu Su led the army in Dantu and Sun Ben led the army in Niuzhu, making a gesture of wanting to cross the river, which immediately attracted the attention of Guan Yu and Chen Deng. Guan Yu was afraid that Yangzhou would attack, so he made Gan Ning lead the water division, move to Liyang, and then began to patrol the river.

After the mobilization of Ganning, the Yangzhou army almost moved into the nest, and Sun Ce's troops went out of Lu'an, raided Hefei, and surrounded Hefei. At this time, Guan Yu still didn't know what Sun Ce's idea was, and only thought that Sun Ce wanted to fight for Jiujiang. If Hefei is lost, Jiujiang will be divided into two. At that time, the southern counties will all be owned by Yangzhou, and Guan Yu will also lose a large section of the river defense. This is something Guan Yu can't bear.

After guessing that Sun Ben and Lu Su might be suspicious soldiers, Guan Yu still resolutely attacked. If he comes out and relieves the siege of Hefei, then the suspicious soldiers are suspicious soldiers, and if Sun Ce is allowed to attack Hefei, the suspicious soldiers will become real soldiers. As soon as Guan Yu's front foot moved here, Zhou Yu led the army down from Huaishui and surrounded Shouchun.

Halfway through Guan Yujun's journey, he received news that Zhou Yu went down the river to surround Shouchun, and smiled angrily: "I have been fighting for many years, and I don't want to be played by my son today." ”

is almost forty people, and he was deceived by a few hairy young men in their early twenties, how can Guan Yu not be angry. It's no wonder that Guan Yu is not guilty. Although Guan Yu is also a commander who stands alone. But with his strength, it is indeed beyond his strength to deal with the luxurious team composed of Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others.

Shouchun was besieged, Guan Yu didn't plan to go back, he still knew in his heart, Shouchun Jiancheng, and Wu Kuang and Liu Ye guarded it, how could it be easily attacked. It is not too late to relieve the siege of Hefei first, defeat Sun Ce's army, and then return to the division. Just in case, Guan Yu sent a letter to Xia Pi again, ordering Chen Qi, the minister of Pi, to raise grain, grass, soldiers and horses, and if Shouchun was in danger, he would send troops to rescue him.

After the arrangements were made, Guan Yu continued to march and went straight to Hefei.

The soldiers and horses in Yangzhou were dispatched everywhere, with only two purposes, one was to mobilize Guan Yu's troops to surround Shouchun, and the other was to mobilize the general Wen Ping, who was guarding Pengcheng, to aid Jiujiang.

Pengcheng is an important place in Xuzhou, Liu Bei knows it, and Guan Yu also knows it. Before, it was Chen to the town guard, then Wu Kuang, and later, after Wen Ping followed Liu Biao to Qingzhou, Liu Bei knew that Wen Ping was from Jingzhou and was also proficient in water warfare, so he sent Wen Ping to Jiujiang, which was similar to Jingzhou, as Guan Yu's assistant. After Wen was hired, he won Guan Yu's trust, so he entrusted him with the important task of Pengcheng.

Now that the purpose of Wei Shouchun has been achieved, Wen Ping is still in Pengcheng and does not move. If Guan Yu mobilized Wen Ping to come south to help, then Xiahou Yuan, who was already in Peiguo, would drive straight in and attack Pengcheng.

It's a pity that Guan Yu did not transfer Wen Ping, and Wen Ping was also in Pengcheng, not moving. Since this is the case, let's just have a big fight in Jiujiang first. Only if Guan Yu's army is hurt, I think Wen Ping and others will naturally come to the rescue.