Chapter 189: Returning to Lujiang (Part 1)

After returning to Moling City to settle Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao, Zhou Yu set up a banquet to greet them. Many civil servants and generals under Zhou Yu came to participate. The gathering of elites made Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao very shocked, and they secretly thanked that they had made the right choice.

On the second day, Zhou Yu officially appointed Zhang Zhao as the chief secretary, the chief lieutenant, Zhang Hong as the chief lieutenant, and the chief lieutenant in the mansion, and all could participate in civil affairs and military affairs. In this way, the two of them officially joined Zhou Yu's decision-making circle.

Zhang Zhao also recommended Qin Song, a native of Guangling, to Zhou Yu, saying that Qin Song was knowledgeable and upright, honest and dedicated, and was a good helper in carrying out specific affairs. Zhou Yu was overjoyed and immediately asked Zhang Zhao to recruit him on his behalf.

Zhang Zhao then wrote a letter, and Zhou Yu ordered Jingwuwei to deliver the letter to Guangling safely. At this time, Qin Song was resigning from his post and recuperating at home. He had a deep friendship with Zhang Zhao and admired Zhang Zhao's personality very much. After seeing the letter, he did not hesitate at all. After relocating the family, he got up and came to Moling.

Zhou Yu and Qin Song fell in love with each other and talked for several nights, from astronomy and geography to trivial matters, from the world situation to local governance, and then appointed Qin Song as the magistrate of Danyang County to assist Zhou Shang in handling all the internal affairs of Danyang County. Qin Song did indeed live up to expectations, performed well in his position as the magistrate of the county magistrate, handled affairs in an orderly manner, and had high work efficiency, and became Zhou Shang's most capable assistant.

Zhang Hong also recommended his student Chen Duan, a native of Chungu, to Zhou Yu. After Zhou Yu received it, he saw that Chen Duan was young and promising, active in thought, and good calligraphy. In addition, Chen Duan was smart and eloquent, and was very suitable for being a lobbyist or diplomatic envoy, so Zhou Yu kept him in the account to listen.

At this moment, Chen Gong had been sent back to Lujiang by Zhou Yu to preside over the military and political affairs of Lujiang. In Danyang County, Zhou Yu received strong assistance from Sun Shao, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Qin Song, Chen Duan and others. Yuan Huan, Zhang Cheng, Zhang Fan and others who were transferred from Lujiang were doing their best. The internal affairs of the entire Danyang County were progressing very smoothly. Within a few months, Danyang County saw a scene of political harmony and prosperity. A large number of refugees from surrounding counties poured in, and were placed in barren fields for military farming.

After Danyang was settled, Zhou Yu turned his attention to the other four counties in Jiangdong: Jiujiang, Kuaiji, Wujun, and Yuzhang. According to the six counties in Jiangdong, relying on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, you can attack and retreat or defend. This is Zhou Yu's strategic idea. Moreover, since the Western Han Dynasty, a large number of northerners have moved to Jiangnan. This land is no longer synonymous with remote and desolateness, but has gradually become rich and prosperous. The total number of counties in Jiangdong has nearly 8 million people, which is a solid foundation for career development.

With people, everything comes. Historically, after Sun Ce occupied the six counties of Jiangdong, he laid the foundation for the establishment of the Eastern Wu Kingdom. In addition, Jingzhou and Jiaozhou that were later captured, Fang established the country as Wu, and Liu Bei, who occupied the two rivers, Hanzhong, and Cao Cao, who occupied the Central Plains and the north, formed a three-legged tripod.

Zhou Yu thought while staying at the letter sent by Lu Su.

Before the troops were launched in Danyang, in order to prevent the sneak attack from behind by the prefect of Jiujiang Zhou Ang, Zhou Yu specially left behind a total of 6,000 troops in Dongcheng Camp with Lu Zhuang Ding as the core and Pan Zhang's Dongjun Camp, stationed in Tongyang and Xunyang to monitor the abnormal movements of Jiujiang's troops.

When Zhou Yu led his main force to fight in Danyang, Zhou Ang finally couldn't sit still. Although he was quite afraid of Zhou Yu, he also wanted to take the opportunity to make some money and take advantage of the troubled waters, so he sent his confidant general Li Shu to lead 10,000 troops to invade Tongyang.

After negotiation, Lu Su and Pan Zhang decided that Lu Su would lead the Dongcheng Camp to defend Tongyang and serve as a supportive force with Pan Zhang in Xunyang. If you attack one, you will attack the enemy's food route. If you attack the other, you will attack the enemy's food route to resolve the enemy's attack.

Li Shu led his troops to attack Tongyang. Under Lu Su's tenacious defense, and the food route was repeatedly attacked by Pan Zhang, and the food was often robbed. He had to leave the body of the ground and return in disappointment, ending up losing troops and losing generals and returning in vain.

Lu Su understood Zhou Yu and did not want to distract him, which affected the entire Danyang battle situation. Therefore, after Li Shu's army left the country, Lu Su made a letter to explain the whole story and told Zhou Yu that Zhou Yu would rest assured that with him and Pan Zhang, Lujiang was as stable as a rock.

When Lu Su's letter was delivered to Zhou Yu, Moling City had just been captured, Liu Yao fled to Yuzhang, and Wu Jing died in the deep mountains. Zhou Yu was busy sending troops to capture those county towns that had not yet surrendered to pacify the people of Danyang, and had no time to look north. Fortunately, with Lu Su, a future general, Zhou Yu was quite relieved.

Out of caution, Zhou Yu still notified Liu Jun and Zhou Dao who were staying in Shu County to quickly expand the scale of military farming soldiers, and recruited 3,000 people from military farming soldiers to add 1,000 troops to Lusu's Dongcheng Camp, Pan Zhang's Dongjun Camp, and Wang Yue, who guarded the western counties, each of them.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also wrote a letter to Wang Yuexiu, urging him to be careful and guard against the sneak attacks of Jingzhou people. Then the prefect of Jiangxia Huang Zu was a powerful character.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu picked up Lu Su's letter and read it again. In the letter, Lu Su wrote that since Zhou Yu led his troops to capture the fire of Danyang County, Jiujiang Prefect Zhou Ang was quite frightened. Although he also had the ambition to have a self-respecting force, Jiujiang County was in Xuzhou in the north and east, and Tao Qian was definitely not a good person. On the west was Nanyang County occupied by Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu had many soldiers and generals, and had been expanding his territory around him. Kong You, the former governor of Yuzhou, was driven away by Sun Jian, and the entire Yuzhou except Runan County fell into Sun Jian's hands. Kong You had no choice but to see that he could not resist Sun Jian alone, so he presented Runan County to Yuan Shu. Now Yuan Shu has occupied Nanyang. Runan, the two largest counties in the Central Plains, have a great reputation and are sharpening their swords and wanting to attack Jiujiang County.

Lu Su also wrote that judging from the scouts sent and the news heard by meticulous works, Jiujiang Prefect Zhou Ang was afraid that Zhou Yu would return to his army to take revenge, and he had a vague intention of joining Yuan Shu. He was currently in close contact with Yuan Shu.

Zhou Yu slowly paced around the house. Chen Gong, whom he trusted the most, could only make a decision alone. After thinking for a long time, Zhou Yu decided to return to Lujiang and attack Jiujiang.

So, Zhou Yu wrote a letter to Chen Gong and Lu Su, explaining the necessity of returning to Lujiang and attacking Jiujiang.
Chapter completed!