Chapter 1736: Find the Iron Lock and Sink to the Bottom of the River
A few days later, Qin Mi went to the palace again to urge Sun Quan, but saw that Sun Quan was bedridden, the maid beside him was serving soup and medicine, and the doctor frowned to check his pulse. Seeing Qin Mi coming in, Sun Quan wanted to make a move, but failed several times, and could only lie on the bed panting Said, "Your Majesty returning the old capital, this is a great joy, the king should go to congratulate, but the king occasionally feels seriously ill, I am afraid that it will be difficult for a while, and it will be difficult to travel and travel for thousands of miles."
"Cough cough." Then Sun Quan coughed a few times, and asked Zhang Wen to hand over a memorial, "This is the memorial of the king's congratulations and pleading guilty, please bring it back to Chang'an Xian and His Majesty, after the Japanese king recovers a little , and went to Chang'an to plead guilty to His Majesty."
Sun Quan has no good solution, he can only procrastinate for a while by pretending to be sick, but this is also expected by the officials of Shu Han. Qin Mi accepted the memorial and said with a smile, "In that case, the King of Wu can let Shi Zideng replace him." King Wu is going to Chang'an!"
Okay, since you are sick, let your eldest son, Sun Deng, go instead of you? "I heard that the son Dengqian Rang is eager to learn. It happens that Chang'an has quite a lot of knowledgeable people. It will be of great benefit for the son to study in Chang'an."
Sun Quan's expression changed when he heard this. He has always loved the child Sun Deng. Cao Wei came several times before and asked Sun Quan to send Sun Deng to Cao Wei as a hostage. Inconvenient to stay away."
"I heard that last year, Shi Zideng married Zhou Gongjin's daughter as his concubine. Since he has already married and established a career, how can he talk about being young?" Qin Mi refused to back down and continued to press her step by step. All the officials of the Eastern Wu Dynasty were angry.
Sun Quan said in a cold voice, "The lonely king is unwell, and sometimes time is running out, but at such a critical moment, the younger generation cannot be allowed to leave without authorization."
"Since that's the case, I can only wish King Wu a speedy recovery!" Sun Quan had reached the end of his words, and Qin Mi had nothing to say. Anyway, his mission this time was only to issue an imperial edict, regardless of whether Sun Quan would go or not. Chang'an, as long as the imperial decree is delivered, he didn't say much, and retreated after saluting.
After Qin Mi left the palace, she went back to the post house to pack up her things and left Jianye by boat, while the ministers of Eastern Wu quickly came to the palace to discuss, "This time when Qin Mi returns, Liu Bei will definitely send troops to attack, and we have to discuss countermeasures as soon as possible. "
However, after discussing for a long time, there was no good idea, so they could only send a large army to the north, and at the same time strengthen the iron chain that was across the river last time, in order to block the Shu army, and then sent envoys to Yecheng, hoping to persuade Cao Wei to attack south.
After returning to Chang'an, Qin Mi immediately reported what happened in Jianye, and all the officials of the Shu Han were overjoyed. Sun Quan's actions just gave them a handle, allowing them to grasp the right to attack Jiangdong.
Liu Bei immediately issued an order to ask Qin Mi to write a call to crusade against Soochow, and Qin Mi finished it in a short while.
Then Liu Bei began to arrange the candidates for the crusade against Soochow. General Shen Long and former general Guan Yu were the commanders. They dispatched Jingzhou navy and 100,000 infantry out of Jingzhou and went south along the Yangtze River to attack Soochow. He was the two of the other soldiers. pick.
Zhuge Liang then moved to Luoyang, rectified his troops and put on a posture of attacking Yecheng in the north and Qing and Xuzhou in the east to contain Cao Wei; Xu Shu and Zhang Fei continued to stay in Chang'an, and Ma Chao and Jiang Wei led the army out of Longyou to frighten the local Qiang people.
After the arrangements were made properly, Shen Long and Guan Yu bid farewell to Liu Bei and prepared to return to Jingzhou to regroup and march south. Liu Bei personally sent them ten miles outside the city and saw them off with wine at Shili Pavilion.
"Second brother, Zifeng, be careful when you go, don't be negligent, and I will wait for you to come back when you are done." Liu Bei raised his glass to see them off.
"Brother, don't worry, this trip will definitely wipe out the six counties and eighty-one counties in Jiangdong. After the success, I will return to Chang'an, and I will always be with my elder brother and third younger brother." Guan Yu also knew that he was getting old.
This is probably my last big battle.
Hearing this, Shen Long couldn't help shivering. Fortunately, I was here, otherwise, based on your words alone, there would be a high probability that he would not be able to come back this time.
"I am so envious of my second brother, who can go out to fight, but I can only stay in Chang'an." Zhang Fei is very envious of Guan Yu. He was in Chengdu before, and now in Chang'an. He would help Liu Bei guard the capital, but he didn't lead the troops to fight. Opportunity.
"Zifeng can rest assured, I guarantee that Cao Wei will come and go, and it will not interfere with Zifeng's plan to crusade against Soochow!" Zhuge Liang also assured that now that Sima Yi is not going out of the mountain, Cao Wei can only rely on Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen to support him. Now, blocking them is no problem at all.
After bidding farewell to everyone, Shen Long and Guan Yu went south together, left Hangu Pass and arrived at Wancheng, and then went down the river from Wancheng, and returned to Jingzhou within a few days, and immediately mobilized troops and horses to make Yu Jin the commander of the navy. Xing, Zhang Bao, Zhao Guang, Zhao Tong, Ma Dai, Guan Suo, Deng Ai, Wang Ji, Guan Ping, Liao Hua and others will command the infantry.
Shen Long and Yu Jin led the warships in front, and Guan Yu led the generals and infantry in the troop carrier behind. The army left Jingzhou and went down the river to Chibi.
Seeing the upcoming battle with the Soochow Navy, the generals gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Guan Yu asked Shen Long, "Wu made iron cables and cut them across the river; and put iron cones in the water, and the warships would break when they hit the cones. How can they cross the river?" ?”
"It's easy!" Shen Long laughed, and then he built a large raft dozens of square meters, tied grass on it as a man, put on armor and held a staff, stood around, and lowered it down along the water. When Wu Bing saw it, he thought it was a living person. Concealed the raft secretly, lifted it away, and made a big torch on the raft, more than ten feet long and more than ten circumferences, and poured sesame oil on it, but when it met an iron chain, the torch would burn and it would be broken in an instant.
"Hahaha, the children of Dongwu had all kinds of scheming, but they were easily defeated by Zifeng. This is a good omen. This battle will definitely win Jianye and completely pacify Jiangdong!" Guan Yu and other generals laughed when they saw this. It was an excellent omen to win so easily in the first match, and it seemed that Soochow's fall was only a matter of days and nights.
In this way, the iron lock Hengjiang that Soochow worked so hard to build was easily broken by Shen Long, and thousands of large ships went down the river, heading straight for Jiangxia where Lu Xun was stationed.
When Lu Xun heard that Shen Long had easily broken the iron chains across the river, he couldn't help but turn pale with fright, and hurriedly reorganized his troops and horses to fight. However, the warships burned by Yu Jin last time had not been fully recovered, and the soldiers of Eastern Wu were afraid of the Shu Han navy. Yu Jin's big victory last time had left an indelible shadow in their hearts.
Now when they saw the big flag of Yu on the big ship, all the soldiers were pale, and the two were fighting, Lu Xun fell to the bottom of his mood when he saw this, how could he win like this?