Jingzhou, Xiangyang.

In the government office, Sima Yi was very busy, it stands to reason that the new official should burn three fires when he takes office, but Sima Yi is business as usual, not a single fire has been burned, and even the rebellious Deng Xi and others did not involve their families when dealing with them.

Sima Yi's magnanimity, both among officials and among the people, has won a good reputation.

In addition, Zhang Yan also gave Sima Yi the right to participate in the military, Zhang Yan sat in Xiangyang, issued orders to the soldiers and horses of the whole country, Tai Shici and Xu Huang also rushed to Jingzhou with some soldiers and horses, and stationed in the camp outside Xiangyang with Zhang Xiu's army.

The four people who surrendered, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong were all appointed by Zhang Yan as the governor of the navy, and all the original 100,000 troops in Jingzhou were reorganized into the navy, and in addition, the 30,000 surrendered troops that were captured in the battle of Liu Biao were also returned to Huang Zhong's hands, and Huang Zhong served as the governor of the navy, and Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong were respectively appointed as the deputy governors of the navy, as Huang Zhong's right-hand man.

In addition, Zhang Yan also deliberately transferred Yingchuan Taishou Yang Xiu to serve as the commander of the navy. After the arrangement, Zhang Yan began to make a reasonable deployment, he asked Wen Ping to lead the 30,000 elite sailors to garrison in Xiazhi, and drained all the troops in Xiazhi County, in addition, he also sent Tai Shici to garrison the shore of Xiazhi County with a troop of soldiers and horses, echoing Wen Ping's sailors.

Then, Zhang Yan asked Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Li Tong to lead the rest of the 100,000 troops in Jingzhou, all of whom went to Dongting Lake, where they were trained as sailors. Xu Huang was also specially sent to lead a team of soldiers and horses. Stationed on the shore of Dongting Lake. Responsible for defense.

Dongting Lake, located at the junction of Nanjun, Changsha and Wuling Counties, is the only place where the Yangtze River leads to the rest of the water system, and the reason why it chose to train the navy here is mainly to play a deterrent role in the four counties of Jingnan, and these 100,000 trained sailors will also be used in the future in the battle against the four counties of Jingnan.

The four rivers of Naxiang, Zi, Yuan and Li in the south of Dongting Lake merge into it, and the north flows into the Yangtze River from Yueyang Chenglingji in the east. It is known as "Eight Hundred Miles of Dongting" and "Land of Fish and Rice"! But these are all descriptions of Dongting Lake in later generations, and now, Dongting Lake is not 800 miles, and it is not a land of fish and rice.

Dongting Lake is located at the junction of the three counties, if it is accurate to say according to the geographical environment at that time, it should be in Changsha County, which is the junction of Changsha County and Nan County.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei occupied the four counties of Jingnan, and Zhang Yan reacted immediately, that is, he must block Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's troops at the junction. It must not be allowed to cross the line. Nanjun is the place where money and grain are widely collected in Jingzhou, and it is also a relatively wealthy place. After Zhang Yanping took over the three counties of Nanjun, Xiangyang, and Jiangxia, he had to shoulder his responsibilities, and he was responsible for protecting them.

Therefore, after sending Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Tong and others to lead 100,000 Jingzhou troops to train troops in Dongting Lake, and sending Xu Huang to garrison on the shore of Dongting Lake to prevent the harassment of the enemy, he issued orders one after another, ordering Zhang Xiu to lead his troops and horses to Nanjun Public Security to garrison to prevent the enemy from attacking Nanjun through Wuling.

In addition, Zhang Yan also gave an order to Zhang Liao, Gan Ning, and Lu Meng stationed in Xunyang, asking them to keep an eye on Chaisang on the other side, and be optimistic about Zhou Yu's every move.

In addition, Zhang Yan also specially sent people across the river to Jinling County to inform Zhao Yun and Lu Su that they should first secretly organize soldiers and horses, ordnance, grain and grass, and wait for his attack order at any time.

After everything was arranged, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Tong and others led the 70,000 troops from the rest of the places, took boats, went down the river, and directly arrived at Dongting Lake, and joined forces with the 30,000 troops stationed in Huarong to start building a naval camp on a small island called Junshan in the center of Dongting Lake.

Xu Huang took 5,000 soldiers and horses with his headquarters, because they were all northerners, and they would get seasick when they took the boat, so they could only take the land route, and the result was two days later than Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Tong and others who took the water route.

But no matter what, Xu Huang still arrived as promised, and temporarily set up camp on the edge of Dongting Lake. Subsequently, Xu Huang took a few people with him and walked around Dongting Lake, and he also had an understanding of the local terrain.

Two days later, Xu Huang moved the army to a clearing located at the confluence of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, after he personally saw the terrain, he felt that this position was very dangerous, facing the river, back to the mountain, looking at Dongting in front, pillow on the back of the golden osprey, far away to Jun Mountain, south to the south of the four rivers of Hunan, north of the Yangtze River, is a very important place.

On a whim, Xu Huang immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Yan, saying that he wanted to build a city here, and hoped that Zhang Yan would approve it.

After the letter was dispatched, Xu Huang began to wait anxiously, but while waiting, he was not idle, he thought that his suggestion would definitely get Zhang Yan's approval, so he began to order his subordinates to go up the mountain every day to carry stones, and then transport them to the barracks and pile them together, in addition, he also went up the mountain to cut down trees and dig trenches around the barracks, seemingly building fortifications, but in fact he was preparing for the construction of the city.

After Zhang Yan received Xu Huang's letter, after reading it in a hurry, he fell into a deep thought, although he had not been to Jingnan, but according to his familiarity with modern geography, the location Xu Huang said should be modern Yueyang City. There is a world-famous tower in Yueyang City, called Yueyang Tower, which is said to have been built in the Three Kingdoms era. It can be seen that at this time in the Three Kingdoms, this place is still a barren.

As a result, Zhang Yan immediately replied to Xu Huang's suggestion, agreeing that Xu Huang should build a city there, and named the newly built city Yueyang.

In addition, Zhang Yan even asked Nanjun Taishou Huo Jun to send people to help Xu Huang build the city, but the city to be built this time is mainly military, so the prototype of Yueyang City is a military fortress.

After Huo Jun received Zhang Yan's order, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a construction team composed of 50,000 people, directly led by his henchmen, with the construction team composed of 50,000 people, to officially go to Yueyang to build Yueyang City. There are many craftsmen in this team, and there are also many people who do construction, which can be described as a professional construction team.

The Han army arrived at Dongting Lake and the public security area successively, which immediately attracted the attention of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, which also made Guan Yu a little overwhelmed.

Originally, they planned to attack Nanjun and seize Nanjun's money and food, but they didn't expect that they lost the opportunity to attack while waiting.

The reinforcements from Guangzhou sent by Sun Quan to Jingnan have not yet arrived, Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao are still on the way, and if this support army is not available, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will not have enough troops to fight, but now the Han army has done a good job of active defense, but it makes Guan Yu and Zhang Fei feel that they have no way to start. Even if reinforcements arrived, they might not be able to break through such a strong enemy defense.

However, there is good news that Zhang Xiu, the murderer of Liu Bei, is currently leading the army to garrison the public security, at least there is no need to go to great lengths to find him.

Zhang Fei is a quick temper, since he came back from Changsha, he has been waiting in Wuling for almost half a month, but in the end he didn't wait for anything, the reinforcements did not arrive, but the enemy came first.

So, Zhang Fei sent someone to ask Guan Yu, he wanted to send troops to attack the public security and kill Zhang Xiu, the murderer of Liu Beidao, hoping to get Guan Yu's assistance.

As a result, Guan Yu rejected Zhang Fei's attack, because Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Tong, Xu Huang and others had as many as 100,000 troops in Dongting Lake, and he couldn't take this risk, for fear that he hadn't killed Zhang Xiu yet, but Changsha would be captured by the enemy.

In addition, Guan Yu also told Zhang Fei that he must wait until the reinforcements from Guangzhou arrived, so that they could let go and fight the enemy army.

After Zhang Fei received Guan Yu's news, he was just helpless for a while, seeing that Zhang Xiu was in front of him, but he couldn't do it. He couldn't hold back this temperament, so he invited Fa Zheng and Xiang Lang over and asked them for their opinions.

In the hall of the palace, Zhang Fei, Xiang Lang, and Fa Zheng all sat together, Zhang Fei talked eloquently, informed Xiang Lang and Fa Zheng of the current situation, and then continued: "What about the situation, this is the situation, two gentlemen, I really can't wait, I want to send troops now to kill Zhang Xiu and avenge my eldest brother." But the second brother didn't let me, he had to let me wait for reinforcements from Guangzhou, I don't know if the two gentlemen of Lu Dao could do anything to let me win more with less, and I could cut off Zhang Xiu's head in a battle? ”

Fa Zheng said: "What's so difficult about this, just carving insect skills, you can make Zhang Xiu's head fall to the ground." But, General, have you ever thought about the consequences of doing so? ”

"What happens if I kill the murderer of my eldest brother?" Zhang Fei asked incomprehensibly.

Fa Zhengdao: "General, now it's General Guan who says it, General Guan asked the general to stay still for the time being, but the general acted without authorization and sent troops to attack Zhang Xiu, even if he killed Zhang Xiu, General Guan's face can't be covered, when the time comes, General Guan will definitely think that the general has violated military discipline, and maybe, he will be punished!" ”

"Even if I have to be punished, I will kill Zhang Xiu, otherwise, I won't be able to eat or sleep." Zhang Fei said.

"In that case, then filial piety has a plan, the general might as well try it and see if he can kill Zhang Xiu." Fa Zheng Dao.

"What's the plan? Tell me! Zhang Fei couldn't wait to say.

Fa Zheng then put it in Zhang Fei's ear and whispered a few words, and after Zhang Fei heard it, he smiled and said: "It's really a good strategy, Mr. is really extraordinary, no wonder Mr. Xiang respects Mr. so much." ”

"The small skills of carving insects are not enough to worry about. It's just that whether it succeeds or not, it depends on whether Zhang Xiu will take the bait. "Fa Zhengdao.

"Zhang Xiu, like me, is a puppet, he will definitely not be able to see through such a clever plan, and he will definitely take the bait." Zhang Fei said.

"But His Royal Highness King Yan is surrounded by talents, and I am afraid that there are wise and resourceful people by Zhang Xiu's side, in this case, Zhang Xiu may not be fooled." Fa Zheng Dao.

"Let's give it a try." Zhang Fei said excitedly. (To be continued......)