Chapter 178 Lu Meng
What Zhou Yu had never understood was that before Lu Xun rebelled, Sun Quan offered a reward, and everyone else had been promoted, but Lu Meng only rewarded some gold and silver. Then Sun Quan deliberately crossed out Lu Meng's other rewards, without even giving a reason. Zhou Yu didn't understand at that time, but because Lu Xun rebelled soon later, the whole matter was not mentioned again, and Lu Meng himself did not talk about any related topics to Zhou Yu, which surprised Zhou Yu.
Since Lu Meng fought with Sun Quan, his loyalty and admiration for Sun Quan have been deeply rooted in the bones. Pang Tong likes to go to Lu Meng to talk about everything and do nothing. He has never heard Lu Meng say anything dissatisfied from Lu Meng's mouth. Pang Tong believes that Lu Meng's loyalty makes Lu Meng think that Sun Quan is just testing him and training him, but only Lu Meng himself knows the specific details.
So why didn't Sun Quan use Lu Meng for such an important war in Chibi? Of course it was impossible not to use it. Lu Meng is now carrying out his own mission. In the mountainous areas near Xiangyang, Lu Meng is training people here, and everyone is dressed as bandits. These people are the people in the martial arts competition in Jiangdong. They were not selected for the Six Gates. Sun Quan secretly organized them to enter here. Of course, Sun Quan arranged for them to come after giving them a month of brainwashing. Those who failed to pass the brainwash had lost their heads. In order to prevent them from escaping or changing their minds on the road, Sun Quan promised to be profitable and asked the Jinyiwei to find out their families.
After Lu Meng gathered these people here, he recruited a lot of people through these people. Finally, he summoned almost a division of troops here, and the food and grass were bought from merchants in Xiangyang, using all the gold coins given by Sun Quan. Therefore, Lu Meng, the mountain king, lived a comfortable and casual life, but he knew that Sun Quan asked him to come here, and he definitely hoped that he would play a major role in the Battle of Chibi or after. Although Sun Quan did not give him specific tasks, he just asked him to act on the camera, Lu Meng was more cautious because of this.
Lu Meng would arrange people to inquire about the situation in Chibi every day. When Sun Quan arranged people to take a walk here, when rumors caused chaos in Jingzhou, Lu Meng took the opportunity to recruit some young and strong people, and soon the manpower was expanded to about 10,000. Sun Quan sent Sun Yu to assist Lu Meng and brought another large sum of gold coins, giving Lu Meng enough space to operate.
Here, Sun Quan appointed Lu Meng to be responsible, while Sun Yu had to obey orders. These two divisions did not have a chief of staff, so all matters were decided by Lu Meng. Sun Yu was rebelled last time and was now determined to earn his position back, so he was eager to make contributions. However, Lu Meng was not anxious at all. He was not useless to let Sun Yu say anything except training troops.
Lu Meng looked at the map every day and thought about his own uses. Lu Meng said to Sun Yu: "We are here now, just in Cao Cao's belly. We cannot let people know that our existence is. We must appear at the weakest position of Cao's army at the most critical moment, and then kill it with one sword, which will make Cao Cao completely fail. If there is no such opportunity, we cannot take action. The lord said before leaving that we are the last backup."
Sun Yu looked at Lu Meng and said happily: "It means we can make the greatest contribution."
Lu Meng said lightly: "It can be said that, and the lord said that if the Cao army in Chibi is defeated, let us arrange an ambush on Huarong Road, and then wait for Cao Cao to pass by here. If there is a chance, I will arrange this credit for you! How about it, can you stay here now?"
"But how did the lord know that Cao Cao would appear in Huarong Road?"
"The lord must have made corresponding arrangements based on the form of the battlefield to drive Cao Cao to this road."
"Then do I want to kill Cao Cao?"
"This lord has not made any specific explanation, you can do it at that time."
At this time, Zhou Yu had already begun to arrange to draft boats and borrow arrows from the front line of Chibi. In the early morning, the soldiers found that the river was foggy, so Gan Ning arranged the straw boats and warships and set off. When he arrived within the range of Cao's army, Gan Ning asked someone to aim at Cao's army and fire arrows. When he heard Cao's army's cry in the fog, he knew the distance between the two sides. Then he asked someone to blow the horn and kept firing arrows at Cao's water camp.
Seeing that the foggy weather was coming here, Cao Cao called Guo Jia and Cheng Yu to discuss countermeasures. He was not very brave to send troops, and he didn't know how many enemies were. He couldn't detect them. He didn't send troops. The enemy shot arrows, and even if his soldiers could hide, they would lose their morale. In the end, everyone had no choice but to send archers to shoot. After a while, every sound in the river was heard, and the Cao army stopped shooting.
After Cao's army stopped a few times, the arrows on the river surface shot over again, and the shouts sounded, and Cao's army had to start another round of shooting. Until everyone's experience was almost half an hour before the fog was about to dissipate, Gan Ning's people began to evacuate. After a while, Cao's army really stopped shooting arrows. This time there was no movement on the river, and everyone shouted: Finally, the enemy was shot away, and everyone was very excited.
The second and third time, Cao's army has been harassed in the fog for three consecutive days. In fact, if Cao's army is just beating drums and shouting like Zhuge Liang, Cao's army will not be fooled. No matter how loud the fog is, the sound can still be judged at a rough distance. Generally, he will not shoot arrows when he hears the sound. If you don't attack, Cao's army will not fight back. After all, everyone is not a fool, just like a fight between two people. No matter how powerful you are and if you don't take action, everyone knows that you are a slut.
So when Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were shooting for a while, they thought we were cheating, and we started shooting arrows again. If Cao's army didn't shoot, they would have to be shot. When Cao Cao didn't know that it was borrowing arrows on the straw boat, he would have to order a fight back, otherwise what would the soldiers think?
But even if the arrangements are carefully and every day comes, Guo Jia will start to doubt it. This will not be very meaningful for harassment every day. It is impossible to train troops in heavy fog. Even the Sun and Liu coalition forces cannot fight in heavy fog. This will accidentally hurt their own people, so Guo Jia will definitely be doubtful.
In order to find out what was going on, Guo Jia spent a lot of money to offer rewards from the former Jingzhou naval army to swim and find out the situation. As long as he got the information, he would give him a great reward. On the fourth time, no one who went there did come back, and most of the people who were asked to be shot to death by Cao's own arrows on the way. Some of them were drowned because the water was too cold. One of them was lucky and almost brought back the news, but was shot to death by his own people on the way back.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!