Romance of the Three Kingdoms 15th Red Cliff Battle (I)

Zhou Yu came out of the tent to greet Jiang Gan and asked, "I came all the way to the river, I want to be a lobbyist for Cao Cao!"

Jiang Gan said, "I'll reminisce about the past." Zhou Yu didn't believe it, and Jiang Gan wanted to leave. Zhou Yu grabbed Jiang Gan's arm and said, "Since it's not, why go." He ordered a banquet to be set up, and summoned hundreds of civil and military officials to meet Jiang Gan.

Zhou Yu said to the generals: "Jiang Gan is my classmate and friend, although he is from Jiangbei, he is not Cao Cao's lobbyist. Today we only talk about friendship, not about military affairs. After that, he handed the sword to Tai Shici, and ordered him to go down and say, "Today's banquet is only about friendship, and if you mention military personnel, you will not be spared." When Jiang Gan heard this, he didn't dare to say more.

When he was half drunk, Zhou Yu took Jiang Gan's hand and walked outside the tent, letting Jiang Gan watch the barracks and see the grain and grass. He also said with the intention of wine: "My husband lives in the world, and when he meets a lord who knows his heart, he obeys his words and divides his fortune and misfortune, even if the lobbyist is very good, how can he say that it touches my heart?" After laughing, Jiang Gan's face was like earth, and he couldn't speak.

Zhou Yu laughed for a while, and then invited Jiang Gan to re-enter the table to drink. He pointed to the generals and said to Jiang Gan: "These are our heroes in Jiangdong, today's gathering, is it enough to be called?" The Heroes? Finish. After that, he pretended to be drunk and danced with a sword and sang until late at night, pulled Jiang Gan into the tent, and slept with him.

Wait until Zhou Yu snores loudly. Jiang Gan got up and peeked at the documents on the table, and there was a letter inside, which was actually written by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to Zhou Yu. Jiang Gan hurriedly hid the letter in his sleeve, turned off the lights and fell asleep, but he was already so preoccupied that it was difficult to sleep.

On the fourth watch, I heard someone enter the tent and whispered: "Dudu! ”。 Zhou Yu got up in a hurry and walked outside the tent with the visitor to talk in a low voice. Jiang Gan listened attentively, but he only heard two voices: "Cai Mao and Zhang Yun said that they couldn't do it for a while. "The voice was so low that I couldn't hear it clearly.

Jiang Gan thought to himself, if he didn't run at this time, he wouldn't be able to run away until dawn. fled back to Jiangbei overnight and handed the letter to Cao Cao, who was furious after reading it, and immediately beheaded Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. As soon as he finished the killing, he realized that he had fallen for Zhou Yu's scheme, and he regretted it very much.

When Zhou Yu learned that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun had been beheaded, he asked Lu Su to see Zhuge Liang to see if he knew the inside story, and Zhuge Liang said: "Once Cai and Zhang die, Eastern Wu will no longer have to worry about Cao Cao's army." Zhuge Liang advised Lu Su not to tell Zhou Yu what he said, lest Zhou Yu harm him again.

But Lu Su returned to the tent and still told Zhou Yu about it. The next day, Zhou Yu asked Kong Ming to make 100,000 arrows within ten days, and if he couldn't do it, he would be killed. Kong Ming said, "Just three days is enough." Zhou Yu secretly instructed Lu Su to delay the craftsman in order to find an excuse to kill Kong Ming.

Zhuge Liang asked Lu Su to borrow him twenty ships, thirty sergeants per boat, and prepare green cloth and hay on board, and he would definitely hand over 100,000 arrows after three days. It's just that you must not tell Zhou Yu, otherwise you won't be able to complete it. Lu Su agreed in a daze.

In the middle of the night three days later, the fog was thick and the fog on the river was thicker. Kong Ming asked Lu Su to take a boat to fetch arrows. Kong Ming lined up twenty boats, and when he was about to reach Cao's camp, he called the soldiers on the boats to beat drums and shout in unison. Cao Cao didn't know the inside story, suspected of an enemy invasion, and ordered arrows to be fired indiscriminately, and the arrows were all pierced on the scarecrow. By the time the fog cleared, Kong Ming had already obtained more than 100,000 arrows.

Zhuge Liang returned to the camp to resume his life. Zhou Yu set up a banquet to ask for credit for Zhuge Liang. and said that he thought of a plan to break Cao, and asked Zhuge Liang to make a decision for him. Zhuge Liang said: "Don't say it yet, write it in the palm of your hand, and look the same." The two put their hands together, and at the same time reached out to see that they both wrote the word "fire".

Cao Cao lost his arrow, and his heart was depressed. The strategist Xun You suggested sending someone to fake Zhou Yu in order to break Zhou Yu. Cao Cao agreed, so he sent Cai Mao's brothers Cai Zhong and Cai He to Eastern Wu to surrender.

Zhou Yu saw that the two of them did not bring their relatives to surrender, and concluded that it was false, so he calculated the plan, left the two of them, and after rewarding them, he assigned Gan Ning as a pioneer and asked Gan Ning to be careful.

That night, Zhou Yu was in the tent, and Huang Gai secretly walked in, saying that he was willing to go to Cao Cao to falsely surrender, and the two discussed for a while before dispersing. The next day, Zhou Yu was promoted to the account, and Huang Gai loudly said that he wanted to demote Cao Cao. Zhou Yu ordered someone to beat Huang Gai with a hundred rods, until Huang Gai's skin was opened.

Huang Gai's friend Kan Ze knew that Huang Gai was making a bitter trick, and he was deeply moved, and was willing to go to Cao Ying to send a fake surrender letter.

Kan Ze pretended to be a fisherman and went to Cao Ying to submit a book. Cao Cao didn't believe it, and wanted to kill Kan Ze. At the moment of crisis, someone gave Cao Cao the secret letters of Cai Zhong and Cai He, and Cao Cao believed it and asked Kan Ze to return to Jiangdong to do internal response.

But Cao Cao was still not at ease, and sent Jiang Gan across the river to find out the truth.

Zhou Yu knew that Jiang Gan was coming again, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: "As soon as this person comes, my plan will be successful." As soon as Jiang Gan arrived, Zhou Yu said with a straight face: "You are so sorry for your old classmates." Last time you stole my confidential correspondence and mistook my big thing. If you come again today, nothing good will happen. So he sent Jiang Gan to the nunnery in Xishan to rest for a few days. Jiang Gan had no choice but to comply.

Jiang Gan was bored, and when he was walking behind the nunnery, he suddenly heard a person giving a, knocked on the door and asked, only to know that it was Mr. Feng Xiao Pang Tong, so he asked Pang Tong why he lived here alone. Pang Tong said that Zhou Yu's size was too small to accommodate people, so I had to live in seclusion here. Jiang Gan persuaded him to vote for Cao Cao, and Pang Tong agreed, so the two crossed the river overnight and returned to Cao Ying.

When Cao Cao heard that Pang Tong was coming, he personally went out of the tent to greet him, and asked Pang Tong to inspect everywhere. Pang Tong praised Cao Cao's skillful use of soldiers, and offered a series of tactics to Cao Cao, locking large and small warships together with iron rings and laying wooden planks on them to solve the suffering of the turbulence and discomfort of the navy. Cao Cao told him to do so immediately.

Pang Tong said that he went back to persuade Jiangdong to come and surrender, and by the way, he took out his family, and Cao Cao agreed. Pang Tong was about to cross the river, but was grabbed by someone, and the man said: "You are so bold, Huang Gai used bitter meat tricks, Kan Ze issued a fake book, and you came to play a series of tricks!" Pang Tong looked back and saw that it was his friend Xu Shu. Xu Shu asked how he could avoid the scourge of the war. Pang Tong said a plan.

Xu Shu acted according to the plan and spread rumors in Cao Ying, saying that Xiliang Han Sui and Ma Teng had led the troops to kill Xu Du, and he was willing to lead his troops to disperse the pass to guard, Cao Cao agreed, and Xu Shu broke away from Cao Ying.

built a series of ships, and Xu Shu guarded the pass, seeing that the southern expedition was about to succeed. Cao Cao was very happy in his heart, and summoned the civil and military officials to drink on the ship, and after several rounds of drinking, he ridiculed Zhou Yu, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang for a while, and said that when he subdued Jiangnan, he would let Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao of Eastern Wu accompany him in his old age.

The officials flattered in unison, and Cao Cao got even more carried away, picked up a spear, stood on the bow of the ship and chanted poetry, very happy.