The firm light in Zhou Yu's eyes made Lu Meng feel, and he also felt some confidence in his heart.

Since the governor is not afraid of the difficulties of this situation, then we still need to be afraid?

It’s just a child who crossed the Yangtze River. Since he crossed the Yangtze River, then we will wipe him out at our doorstep. Wouldn’t that be fine?

After this idea, the light in Lu Meng's eyes also shone a lot.

When Lu Meng's eyes flashed, some people were not like this. Even after seeing Zhou Yu's eyes, their hearts were stuttering and their faces were filled with disgrace.

In Zhou Yu's military camp, there are probably two types of generals.

One is a general who is full of battles, who is bloodthirsty and warlike, and does not easily admit defeat. Most of these generals follow Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. Even when facing a desperate situation, they can still remain calm. Among them are brave generals such as Lu Meng, Gan Ning, Cheng Pu, and Zhou Tai. When they heard the news of Xiakou's defeat, they were not scared. Instead, they were inspired to have a bloody and courageous spirit and came forward to fight to eliminate Cao Chong on the south bank of Xiakou.

The other type is the generals of private soldiers of aristocratic families. Although these people are called generals, they are actually born as a landlord. They have some ink in their stomachs and do not have much courage. If these people fight against the wind, they will be fine. They are fighting against the wind and will not be able to do it anymore. The three souls and seven spirits lose their souls and one spirit, and they don’t look like they have any energy.

The representatives of these people are naturally from the four major families, including Zhu Ran, Gu Mu and Gu Ji.

Among these three people, Zhu Ran is quite talented. Most of the other two Gu family members rely on Gu Yong's east wind and the power in the family to achieve the position of a brave general, not talented people.

Zhu Ran's face looked ugly, but he could stand still, and Gu Mu and Gu Ji fell down directly.

"Grandmaster, Cao Chong, the son of Cao thief, crossed the river from Xiakou, with 70,000 or 80,000 people. Grandmaster, do you see if we want to retreat and return to Chaisang to prevent the lord from being harmed by Cao Chong?"

Zhu Ran knew Zhou Yu's character well, and Zhou Yu was extremely proud. In other words, he was a little stubborn and self-righteous. If you don't have sufficient reason to refute the decision he made, it would be better not to speak.

Zhu Ran had no sufficient reason to say how bad it would be for Zhou Yu to continue fighting with Cao Cao, so he changed his perspective and hoped that Zhou Yu would not fight Cao Cao head-on, preserve the power of the aristocratic family, and return to help Chaisang.

On the one hand, the leaders of the aristocratic families are now basically in Chaisang, such as Zhu Ran’s adoptive father Zhu Zhi, who is now in Chaisang. If Zhu Zhi was in the hands of Sun Quan, Zhu Ran would not dare to surrender.

So Zhu Ran chose a roundabout way.

He didn't say he would not fight against Cao Cao, but just said he wanted to go back to protect Sun Quan. After they returned, the private soldiers of the Jiangdong family returned to his hands, and Sun Quan did not dare to force him too much, and even asked the Jiangdong family for help.

In this way, the initiative came to the hands of the Jiangdong family again.

However, Zhou Yu is not stupid. On the contrary, he is one of the smartest people of this era.

So after Zhu Ran said this, Zhou Yu also gained insight into Zhu Ran's purpose.

Return to Chaisang?

Sun Quan shook his head, this is something that he must not do.

After returning to Chaisang to help, the 100,000 troops he now have, in the end, is an unknown number.

Before the war, Zhou Yu used a series of measures to force the Jiangdong family to send troops through a series of measures. Among the 100,000 troops, 30,000 were private soldiers of the aristocratic family. If they returned to Chaisang, it would be possible that the Jiangdong family would use any tricks, so that the 30,000 people would "disappear out of thin air".

With the face of those aristocratic families, this kind of thing can be done completely.

This situation was something that Zhou Yu didn't want to see. Moreover, Huang Gai's 40,000 to 50,000 troops were withdrawn from Chaisang. In addition, there were tens of thousands of people in Chaisang, and there were 60,000 to 70,000 people. In addition, the city of Chaisang is strong and there are many grains. As long as Sun Quan has the skills and does not allow the aristocratic family to take advantage of the opportunity, then Chaisang would have more than enough to persist for a month under the attack of Cao Chong's 70,000 to 80,000 people, and there would be no problem at all.

During this month, Zhou Yu was confident to deal with Cao Cao and let Cao Cao's army in Wulin be buried in the belly. When the main force of Cao's army in Wulin was eliminated, Zhou Yu could free up his hands to cooperate with Sun Quan inside and outside, attack inside and outside, and annihilate Cao Chong in Jiangdong.

In this way, the situation of the battle will not be corrupt yet.

Jiangdong, there is still a chance!

So Zhou Yu raised his head and said coldly to Zhu Ran: "Chaisang has a 50,000 army that Huang Gai returns to help. Although the number of people is not as large as Cao Chong, it is impossible for Cao Chong to break up Chaisang in a short time with the advantage of geographical advantages. Therefore, the most urgent task is to solve the Cao army in Wulin first. As long as all Cao army in Wulin is annihilated, Cao Chong's 70,000 or 80,000 will not cause too much storms in Jiangdong."

Zhu Ran sighed in his heart, knowing that Zhou Yu had a clear understanding of his thoughts. Zhu Ran knew in his heart that if he dared to say something, he might be executed by Zhou Yu on the charge of disrupting the morale of the army. So Zhu Ran slowly let out a sigh and asked Zhou Yu: "Grandmaster, what if Cao Chong doesn't attack Chaisang and turns to Wulin, what if Cao Cao doesn't want to deal with our army in Wulin and cross the river to Xiakou, what if the last one, what if the Grandmaster cannot wipe out the main force of the Cao army?"

Zhou Yu listened to Zhu Ran’s question. Although he knew what Zhu Ran was thinking in his heart, Zhou Yu had to admit that this was a direct hit to the point of his three questions.

If Cao Chong comes to Wulin and forms a siege with Cao Cao, can he stop it?

What if Cao Cao wants to cross the river in Xiakou, what can he be with him?

Zhou Yu fell into silence, but soon, Zhou Yu raised his head, and his divine light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted to Zhu Ran: "That boy Cao Chong cannot have such insight."

Zhou Yu paused for a moment, and after a while, he continued, "Even if Cao Chong has this knowledge, are you afraid? I have 100,000 heroic troops in Jiangdong, and you are all brave and good at fighting. How could you be afraid of a child?"

After Zhou Yu said this, Gan Ning and others came forward to ask for the fight. When Zhu Ran saw this scene, he knew that nothing he said would be useless.

He is in a dilemma now.

"Since that's the case, please ask the Grand Commander to arrange tactics!" Zhu Ran gave up resisting.

Zhou Yu's eyes flashed with a divine light and he shouted: "All the generals obey the order!"

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When Zhou Yu was setting up the tactics, Cao Chong left 10,000 people in the original Jiangdong Military Village in Xiakou, while the other 70,000 people drove to Wulin.

Among the soldiers transported across the river, five thousand were cavalry, and these five thousand were unquestionably led by Wei Yanzhou. As for Cao Chong's main force, they attacked after the cavalry set off.

While Cao Chong's rear army was driving, Cao Chong's messengers also arrived in Wulin.

The generals of Wulin were looking forward to it. When they saw Cao Chong's messenger, tears were about to flow out. Before the messenger got off the horse, they were pulled down by Cao Chun, making the messenger think that Cao Chun was fond of him!

Step by step ~

Cao Chun held the letter written by Cao Chong to Cao Cao in his hand, and ran to the main tent of the central army, shouting loudly.

"Young Master is here, the messenger who will go to fight has arrived."
Chapter completed!