Wuling is very close to Changsha, and the envoy sent by Guan Yu can arrive within a day, but when the envoy arrives in Wuling, he is not able to see Zhang Fei.

It turned out that Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang went to Shu to ask Fazheng, it has been more than half a month, and there has been no news so far, Wuling Lai has Jin Xuan in charge, and Lingling has Liu Du in charge, fortunately, nothing major happened.

After learning of Guan Yu's intentions, he asked the envoy to return to Changsha first, and he would immediately send someone to get in touch with Zhang Fei, and when there was a result, he would send someone to Changsha to inform Guan Yu.

The messenger had no choice but to leave a letter and go back to Guan Yu to return to his life.

The news of Jingzhou's change of ownership, Zhou Yu, who was stationed in Chaisang, also knew about it, and immediately wrote to Sun Quan to report the matter, and hoped to send troops to Jingzhou as soon as possible, taking advantage of Zhang Yan's unstable foothold to show the strength of the Jiangdong army.

However, unlike Guan Yu's suggestion of sending troops, what Zhou Yu suggested was that he launched the main attack on Jingzhou, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the army in Jingnan to respond.

Zhou Yu's envoy, Guan Yu's envoy, arrived in Nanchang City almost at the same time, and when the two messengers handed over to Sun Quan's desk at the same time with two letters, Sun Quan opened them one by one and immediately frowned.

The content of the two letters is basically the same, both of them want to take advantage of the change of ownership in Jingzhou and Zhang Yan's unstable foothold to attack Jingzhou, which is to strike first. After all, after Zhang Yan gets Jingzhou, he will inevitably get Longwangshu, and the next step will definitely be to destroy Jiangdong.

It can be said that Guan Yu and Zhou Yu's predictions of the war are very accurate, but the difference is that. Both of them are going to be the main attackers this time. Guan Yu suggested sending troops from Jingnan. Attack Nanjun, the important land of Jingzhou, where money and grain are widely gathered, and let Zhou Yu serve as an auxiliary attack, bluffing, and containing the enemy in the Jiangxia and Lujiang areas.

Zhou Yu believes that the Jiangdong naval army is invincible and invincible, and Zhang Yan's naval army and Jingzhou's naval army are inferior to him, and he should be the lord. Lead the Jiangdong naval army to gallop in the Yangtze River, give the enemy a hard blow, and let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead the troops of Jingnan to respond and attract land troops.

After Sun Quan read these two letters successively, he fell into deep thought, whether it was Guan Yu or Zhou Yu, what he said was very reasonable, and he fell into a dilemma for a while.

Sun Quan couldn't make up his mind, so he sent someone to call Lu Fan over. Lu Fan, like Zhou Yu, was an important minister entrusted to him by his brother. Moreover, Lu Fan is also extremely resourceful, and he will definitely be able to choose a suitable attack strategy for him in these two dilemmas.

After a while, Nanchang Taishou Lu Fan walked in from the outside, and as soon as he entered the hall, he bowed to Sun Quan: "See the lord!" I don't know why the Lord of the Dao is in such a hurry to summon me here? ”

Sun Quan handed the two letters in his hand to Lu Fan and said, "You take a look at these two letters first, and everything will be understood." ”

Lu Fan took the two letters from Sun Quan's hand, opened them one by one, and hurriedly browsed them, and he already knew why Sun Quan wanted to call him here. It turned out that Sun Quan was not sure about the contents of these two letters, so he asked him to come over and give him an idea.

Lu Fan put down the letter, clenched his fists and asked, "The lord thinks that who is reasonable about Zhou Dudu and General Guan?" ”

"It all makes sense, they have a good grasp of the situation of the war, and if it were me, I would do the same. Instead of being beaten passively, it is better to take the initiative to attack, surprise it, attack it unprepared, and strike first. It's just that I have made a difficult decision about where to choose the main battlefield, and I can't make up my mind, so I called you here to discuss and ask you to make an idea for me. Sun Quan said.

Zhou Yu and Lu Fan were all friends of Sun Ce before his death, Zhou Yu was good at strategy, Lu Fan was good at decisiveness, and at the beginning of Sun Ce's uprising, the two of them were Sun Ce's right-hand men. Before Sun Ce died, he entrusted Zhou Yu and Lu Fan to Sun Quan, and asked Sun Quan to take on important tasks, because these are all talents he has accumulated.

Sun Quan did not live up to Sun Ce's instructions, and indeed reused Zhou Yu and Lu Fan, Zhou Yu commanded the army outside, and Lu Fan commanded hundreds of officials, and the two of them also became Sun Quan's right-hand men. Moreover, Sun Quan's mother also once said to Sun Quan that Zhou Yu would be asked if he was undecided on foreign affairs, and Lu Fan would be asked if he was undecided on internal affairs, so Lu Fan was also treated the same as Zhou Yu.

Sun Quan lived in Nanchang, and Nanchang became the most important place, and Lü Fan was appointed by Sun Quan as the Taishou of Nanchang, which gave Lü Fan the power he deserved.

When Lu Fan heard Sun Quan say this, he pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "Actually, what Zhou Yu and Guan Yu said makes sense. But if it makes sense, it makes sense, and the lord should also take into account the actual situation. Gongjin garrisoned Chaisang, is the gateway of our army, now Jingzhou has been in the hands of Zhang Yan, then Jiangxia, Lujiang is equivalent to the formation of an encirclement of Chaisang, and Zhang Yan's army also occupies Jinling County, if Gongjin leads the navy to attack Jiangxia, Lujiang's army will take advantage of the situation, if Gongjin attacks Lujiang, then Jiangxia's army will take advantage of the fire to rob, if it is not good, it will fall into the situation of suffering from the enemy. Although the Jiangdong Navy is powerful, the enemy is not stupid, knowing that the water battle in the road is not as good as ours, it will definitely not be easy to face the battle, but hide in the water army camp. In this way, the navy loses the effectiveness of the attack. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Fan paused, and when he saw Sun Quan listening attentively, he continued: "And Jingnan itself is the place of Jingzhou, and Nanjun is the place where Jingzhou's money and grain are widely gathered, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's army is only a river away from Nanjun, as long as they cross this river, the army can directly reach the county seat of Nanjun." Moreover, Jingzhou's army is not as good as before, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the fierce generals in the world, and he will lead the army to attack Nanjun, even if it is not successful, it will cause heavy damage to the enemy. But once it succeeds, then our army can plunder a large amount of grain, grass and money hoarded in Nanjun to build more armor, weapons and arrows, and equip more troops. ”

Sun Quan listened to Lu Fan's eloquent talk, nodded as if pounding garlic, and felt that Lu Fan's analysis was very good.

Lu Fan continued: "My lord, I thought that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei could lead the army to attack Nanjun from Jingnan, no matter whether they won or lost, it would have no impact on our army. If Gong Jin's army is used, it will move the whole body with one shot, and it is difficult to guarantee that the enemy will not take advantage of the weakness. It's better to continue to let Gongjin stick to Chaisang, actively defend well, and once you encounter an enemy situation, you can quickly take a counterattack. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the defensive strength of the eastern front to prevent Zhao Yun from leading the army to attack from Jinling, and also actively prepare for war, and actively build battle armor and weapons in case of emergency. ”

After listening to Lu Fan's suggestion, Sun Quan finally made a decision on the psychological side, deciding to adopt Lu Fan's suggestion, letting Guan Yu and Zhang Fei take the main role, and Zhou Yu's department served as an auxiliary attack, bluffing, and containing Jiangxia's enemies. In addition, Sun Quan sent Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao to lead the army and horses of his headquarters to Jingnan again to cooperate with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's attack, and wait for their orders at any time to make up for the lack of troops.

After the order was issued, Sun Quan personally wrote a letter to Zhou Yu, euphemistically rejecting Zhou Yu's suggestion to send troops, and hoping that Zhou Yu could actively cooperate with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's actions in Chaisang, so as to achieve the goal of attracting Jiangxia's enemies.

But Sun Quan was afraid that Zhou Yu would be in a mood, so he hesitated for a long time to write a good letter, and never sent it out, and finally tore up the letter, and then sent Lu Fan to go to Chaisang in person, and persuaded him with good words to avoid Zhou Yu's mood swings.

Lu Fan was naturally duty-bound, and with Sun Quan's verbal order, he set off, took a carriage, and rushed to Chaisang.

At the same time, Sun Quan sent an envoy to Changsha with his handwritten letter to Guan Yu and handed it to Guan Yu.

In the letter, Sun Quan not only agreed to Guan Yu's suggestion to send troops to Nanjun, but also praised Guan Yu's resourcefulness, and persuaded him with good words, hoping that Guan Yu could play a triumphant song, and said that he was waiting for the good news brought by Guan Yu in Nanchang.

At the same time, Zhang Fei took Xiang Lang and went through a lot of hardships and finally arrived in Fuling County, Ba County, Yizhou.

Shu road difficult, difficult to go to the blue sky, this is the Tang Dynasty great poet Li Bai on the road into Shu to do a description, in the ancient era that the road was not developed, there is no complete highway, even the so-called official road, but also because of the high mountains and mountains of Shu and obstructed, so the mountain road is difficult, Zhang Fei, Xiang Lang set off from Wuling half a month ago, it took more than half a month, this arrived in Fuling County.

At this time, Fuling County is somewhat different from the current Fuling County, the current Fuling County is called Tongxian County in this era, and the county now called Fuling belongs to Pengshui County now.

Fuling County is located in the Wuling Mountains, located in the lower reaches of the Qiqi River (now Qianjiang River), separated from Wuling County by a heavy mountain, and there is no road in the mountain at all, the straight-line distance from Wuling is very short, but if you want to get here, you must go around a big circle, so Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang will take half a month to arrive here.

Along the way, Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang slept in the open air, and finally arrived in Fuling County, but after careful inquiry, Fa Zheng was no longer a county magistrate here, and was just transferred to Jiangzhou, the county town of Ba County, just two months ago. In desperation, Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang had no choice but to move towards Jiangzhou, the county capital of Ba County.

And Zhang Fei also made up his mind on this trip, if he didn't bring Fa Zheng back to Wuling, he would never leave Shudi!

Zhang Fei and Xiang Lang paused in Fuling County to purchase some food and water, and then prepared to leave Fuling and go to Jiangzhou.

The two of them stayed at an inn for the night, ready to rest for the night, and left again tomorrow. (To be continued......)