The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

What Lu Jun said at this time came from the bottom of his heart.

"If it weren't for the fact that Lu Xun is too young, only five years old, I really want him to go directly to the military school to study."

Lu Xun, Lu Jun's son, is indeed a talent. This is why Liu Zheng values ​​Lu Jun. Lu Xun will definitely be thrown into the military school by Liu Zheng in the future, but now, he has to be by Lu Jun's side Study for a few more years.

During the time when Liu Zheng and Lu Jun were communicating, Wen Pin and Sun Ce on the school field finally decided the winner.

Wenpin's wooden spear hit Sun Ce's back with tremendous force, and Sun Ce gritted his teeth in pain. However, Sun Ce could still bear this level of pain.

He held back the pain and fought back, but he was still a step too late. Wen Pin shot him again with a feint and hit him sideways, causing Sun Ce to lose his coordination and fall to the ground.

Seeing Sun Ce fell to the ground, Wen Pin put away his wooden spear and laughed loudly.

"Hahaha, Sun Ce, I won again."

Wenpin seemed a little excited that he had defeated Sun Ce.

Sun Ce got up from the ground and patted the dust on his body with his hands. The expression on his face was obviously a bit frustrated. After all, the challenge failed, which made Sun Ce lose face in front of so many people.

But for Sun Ce, he is not considered a failure. After all, there is such a big age gap. If Sun Ce reaches the age of Wenpin, Sun Ce may not be able to tell how awesome he will be.

"Hmph, I just let you win once by chance. Don't be too happy, I will continue to challenge you."

"Now I can support fifty strokes under your command. When I have two more people, I will definitely be able to fight you equally. I will definitely defeat you before I graduate!"

Although Sun Ce failed the challenge this time, he did not admit defeat, took a breath in his heart, and thought about practicing first and continuing to challenge next time.

"Okay, I'm waiting for you to challenge."

Wenpin is also generous and does not refuse. Only when the two of them sharpen each other can Wenpin improve accordingly.

"Sun Ce, are you okay?"

Seeing Sun Ce get up from the ground, Zhou Yu hurried over, wanting to ask his little brother if something happened.

Sun Ce shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he was fine, and Zhou Yu put his arms around Sun Ce to cheer him up.

And the battle between Liu Zheng and Lu Jun's computer was over, so he came up, clapped his hands, and applauded the wonderful battle between the two just now.

clap clap.

Liu Zheng applauded, and Lu Jun, Yuan Zhou and others followed suit.

It immediately attracted the attention of those onlookers. When they saw Liu Zheng approaching, everyone immediately looked serious. Even Sun Ce and Zhou Yu did not dare to neglect, and a group of people began to say hello and salute Liu Zheng.

"Lord!"

"grown ups!"

"Master!"

Different people call Liu Zheng differently, but they all look at Liu Zheng with the same respect. After all, the man standing in front of them, in this troubled world, has single-handedly defeated the huge People in Jiangshan, many of them, have been supported by Liu Zheng.

"Don't be too polite."

Liu Zheng waved his hand to make them stand still.

"Sun Ce, I haven't seen you for a few months. Your strength has improved."

"Thank you for your compliment, my lord."

Liu Zheng saw that although Sun Ce and Wenpin were defeated in the competition, he played his own spirit, which is still worthy of Liu Zheng's praise.

It was also because of Liu Zheng's praise that Sun Ce was so pleased. After all, he was secretly happy to be recognized by Liu Zheng.

"But you have to train yourself harder. I have high expectations for you. At least you will not be worse than your father in the future."

"Thank you for your high hopes, my lord. Sun Ce will definitely not insult the family tradition."

After talking about Sun Ce, Liu Zheng continued to look at Wenpin, and praised Wenpin a few more words.

However, unlike Sun Ce, after Wen Pin was praised by Liu Zheng, he didn't show any flattery, secretly elated in his heart, but saluted Liu Zheng very calmly.

Wenpin does not have such a good family background as Sun Ce. He can get to where he is today, completely relying on himself, following Liu Zheng, and walking out step by step.

"You continue to work hard. It is estimated that there will be a war soon. At that time, maybe you will also have a chance to fight the enemy."

Liu Zheng inspected these students successively in the school grounds, and then went to inspect the barracks of Wenpin, Tai Shici, and Gan Ning. Before the big battle, he first checked his morale.

Because Liu Zheng got married before, the barracks entertained them with good wine and meat for a few days. With the help of this atmosphere, the morale is very high. As soon as the news from Yuan Shu arrives, Liu Zheng can directly Starting from Yichun City, go directly to Changsha County.

It only takes two or three days for the army to advance, and it can directly approach the city of Changsha.

It's just that Liu Zheng knows that the current Changsha County is guarded by Cai Mao, and if he is asked to fight Cai Mao directly, he also has some embarrassment. However, this battle still has to be fought. Sooner or later, when he approaches Liu Zheng, he will point his troops at Jingzhou. Sooner or later things.

The best choice is to try not to use weapons and persuade Cai Hao to surrender.

Liu Zheng wanted to persuade Yuan Shu to surrender, but when Yuan Shu made a move, Liu Zheng decided to ask Yuan Zhou to deliver the letter of persuasion first.

At this time, I didn't wait too long.

At the end of May, Yuan Shu's army was almost assembled, and he couldn't wait any longer. When the Dongting Lake was flooded and the flood season came in June, it would be even more difficult to march. At that time, it would be difficult to take down Jiangxia.

So Yuan Shu wanted to take Jiangxia down in one go before the flood season came.

Chapter 497 The Act of Persuading Surrender

At the end of May, when Liu Zheng received the news from Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu had already dispatched troops to Jiangxia. With an army of [-] assembled, it took only two days to launch a fierce attack on Jiangxia.

However, Yuan Shu's onslaught did not work immediately, because Liu Biao's defender Huang Zu, who was guarding Jiangxia, was already prepared.

While Yuan Shu's army was thinking about Jiang Xia launching a fierce attack, Huang Zu immediately asked his men to stand firm on the city wall and not take the initiative to fight. Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were not much different from those under Huang Zu's command. There is no absolute thing, but on Liu Zheng's side, since he agreed to send troops to contain Yuan Shu, when the time came, Liu Zheng directly led an army of [-] to Changsha County.

After all, as long as Liu Zheng helps to contain Changsha's troops, Yuan Shu, who can't beat Jiang Xia, can hold out for a while.

At the beginning of June, Liu Zheng's men had already arrived outside Changsha.

Contrary to Liu Zheng's expectations, there was no obstacle on the way. Several small counties directly opened the city and surrendered without any obstacle at all. However, after Liu Zheng entered the city, he discovered that there were also people in Changsha. Prepared accordingly.

Although Liling County is still there, the people in the city have already been relocated, and it is estimated that all of them have gone to Changsha City.

After all, although the city exists, it is just an empty city, and it is of little use if it is left over. Even if it is occupied by Liu Zheng and the others, it doesn't matter.

And as long as Changsha County City is still there, it is much better to take over the dangers of the Xiangjiang River to defend Changsha City than to send a large number of soldiers and horses to station for a few small cities.

Only when the main city is defended, can Changsha County be able to defend it.

"Brother Cai Mao can do it. Why didn't I realize that he is so smart before."

Along the way, Liu Zheng had never fought with Cai Mao's men, which made Liu Zheng's initial thoughts go to waste. He had hoped to have a few battles with Cai Mao's men before arriving in Changsha City. Play some momentum, so that Cai Mao understands his strength.

At that time, if he sends someone to persuade him to surrender, he can give Cai Mao some deterrence, and make Cai Mao take the initiative to choose to surrender after weighing his own strength.

But since there is no fight, Liu Zheng still wants to send someone to talk to Cai Mao about the surrender before the battle. After all, he is an old acquaintance, and he can try not to meet Cai Mao with swordsmen. Liu Zheng is more or less unwilling to fight Cai Mao directly. of.

After all, not to mention the personal relationship between himself and Cai Mao, even Cai Yao's relationship made Liu Zheng take Cai Mao into consideration.

"Yuan Zhou, I want to send someone to Changsha City to persuade Cai Mao to surrender. Do you have any ideas?"

"To persuade you to surrender? Then Cai Mao is the one who surrendered so easily?"

Yuan Zhou didn't agree with Liu Zheng's idea. Based on his understanding of Cai Mao and the signs along the way, Cai Mao had the intention to fight Liu Zheng's people, and he didn't seem to want to. If you want to surrender, even if Liu Zheng sends an envoy to talk about surrender, the chance of success will not be high.

"Cai Mao and I have an old relationship, and we have some personal friendship. If we really want to fight him, I still can't bear it. If he can surrender, that's the best. If he doesn't surrender, we can fight again."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, everyone in the military tent understood what Liu Zheng meant, especially Gan Ning Wenpin and others. They all knew that Cai Yao was Cai Mao's younger sister. I will be ruthless and attack Changsha City directly.

After understanding Liu Zheng's concerns, Yuan Zhou took over the task.

"Okay, I understand, my lord, let me go to Changsha City."

As the main counselor under Liu Zheng's command, Yuan Zhou did many things by himself in order to show his ability.

"No, my lord, let me go this time."

However, this time, Xu You, who was standing aside, said something to Liu Zheng.

"You go?"

When Liu Zheng heard that Xu You spoke at this time, he was also surprised, and immediately looked at Xu You. ,

"Mr. Xu You, you don't really like to be this kind of lobbyist, don't you? Why did you take the initiative to stand up and go to Changsha City to be this lobbyist today?"

"My lord, there is an expert behind Cai Mao. If Mr. Yuan Zhou goes there, he may not be able to see who the expert behind Cai Hao is. If it were me, I should be able to complete the task of the master."

"If I go there, I don't necessarily have to surrender Cai Mao. I want to find out who is in Changsha City."

In this way, more information can be obtained for the lord.

Xu You said his own words. In fact, this is not to look down on Yuan Zhou, thinking that Yuan Zhou is incapable, but Xu You is better at this aspect, and it is also for the sake of Liu Zheng. Yuan Zhou on the side would always feel a little embarrassed when he heard this.

But Yuan Zhou is a generous person after all, so he doesn't mind Xu You's tone.

"Since Brother Ziyuan wants to go to Changsha, then I won't argue with you about this matter."

Yuan Zhou withdrew voluntarily and responded to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng saw that the two had already agreed, so he followed this meaning and agreed.

"Okay, Ziyuan, you go, don't forget, your life is important, don't offend them, if you can recruit them, you will surrender, if you can't, we are not afraid."

Liu Zheng gave Xu You a last word of advice, and asked Xu You to take a few people and go outside Changsha City to call the door.

Xu You came to the city with only two people, but it was because of the small number of people that the defenders on the Changsha city tower saw them.

The two little officials immediately shouted to open the city gate.

There are messengers asking to see.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of battle will usually receive envoys, especially Liu Zheng and Cai Mao are old, so naturally it is impossible to miss the envoys, so Cai Mao, Kuai Liang, Zhang Yun and others on the tower saw envoys begging to see them below the city At that time, he hesitated for a while, and finally chose to accept.

Open the city gate, put down the suspension bridge, and let Xu You enter the city.

In this way, Xu You walked into Changsha City with two small officials.

Liu Zheng and the others were waiting ten miles outside the city for news from Xu You.

After Xu You entered the city, led by two rows of soldiers, he walked directly to the government office where Cai Mao usually worked. Not long after, he saw Cai Mao with a serious face.

Chapter 498 Unintentional Surrender

At this time, Cai Mao was wearing armor, but he looked a bit brave. There were some people standing beside him, including generals and counselors. When Xu You led the servants into the room, Cai Mao spoke uprightly.

"Who is coming?"

Cai Mao actually knew Xu You, because when Cai Mao was captured by Liu Zheng, Xu You was already under Liu Zheng's account. Although he didn't meet Xu You much at that time, Cai Mao also knew that Xu You was under Liu Zheng's account. counsellor.

The reason why he knew clearly that it was Xu You who came was that Cai Mao wanted to show Xu You some face and let Xu You know that the current Cai Mao is no longer the Cai Mao of the past.

Now he is the lord of a county.

"Runan Xu You."

Xu You simply said a few words and announced his name.

Cai Mao nodded.

"Xu You, I know you. It was you who blackmailed the little emperor to help that bastard Wang Fen in Jizhou and disrupted the imperial court. You still dare to come to Changsha, do you think your life is too long?"

Xu You's name, among the most wanted criminals in the imperial court, although not as famous and rewarded as Liu Zheng, is definitely a well-known figure on the ranking list.

Because a few years ago, Liu Zheng brought out the little emperor from Luoyang. It was Xu You who took the little emperor all the way to Jizhou, and then proclaimed himself emperor in Jizhou to fight against the court.

It is precisely because of this move by Xu You and Wang Fen that the Han Dynasty has truly declined. Although Wang Fen has been punished, the culprit Xu You has been at large. After fleeing to Liu Zheng's side, he not only joined forces with Liu Zheng The chaos is booming, and the imperial court is becoming less and less important.

Therefore, if Xu You can be killed at this time, it is a great contribution to Cai Mao, but since ancient times, it is also a rule not to kill Xu You. become a joke.

"I came this time as an envoy of Liu Zhengjun. If the Lord wants to kill me, I will admit that I am unlucky and I will not complain. However, I believe that with the friendship between the Lord and my lord, the Lord should not kill me. I'm the."

"Hahaha, you still have the nerve to submit friendship to me. What kind of friendship do I have with that Liu Zheng? If there is, it is not friendship, but hatred. I was defeated by him and captured by him back then. It is because I am not strong enough , Now that I have a heavy army in my hand, it is also time to fight him again."

When Cai Mao heard Xu You mention the word friendship, the expression on his face obviously changed.

Xu You looked at Cai Mao, and noticed something was wrong from the change in Cai Mao's expression, but he didn't know the inside story.

In fact, Cai Mao really doesn't hate Liu Zheng. After all, because of Cai Yao's relationship, Cai Mao and Liu Zheng still have a lot of friendship in private, but after Cai Yao returned to Xiangyang during this period, she regarded Liu Zheng as a heartless man. , Cai Mao was full of anger and had no place to vent it.

Especially recently, the news of Liu Zheng's wedding has been spreading all over the place, which made Cai Mao even more furious.

Originally, Liu Zheng was his brother-in-law, but now his younger sister has been abandoned by Liu Zheng. A few months ago, he sent someone to deliver a message to Liu Zheng. The message has been delivered, but Liu Zheng not only came to see Cai Yao also directly announced the wedding.

This is naked slapping Cai Yao in the face. Cai Mao thought that Liu Zheng would come to accept Cai Yao, and then explain to him what happened to the two of them.

But Liu Zheng not only didn't come to explain, but also got married, which made Cai Mao puzzled. He just thought that Liu Zheng was really the heartless man who left his sister alone.