Sun Ce sent someone to invite Jiao Zhongqing in. As soon as he entered the door, Jiao Zhongqing fell to the ground and burst into tears.

Sun Ce quickly helped him up. Jiao Zhongqing's face was covered in dirt, his hair was as messy as a chicken coop, and his body was not as dirty as it was. He was completely different from the pretty little official Sun Ce had seen before.

"Why did you make this happen? What happened?"

Jiao Zhongqing wiped his tears with his sleeves. "Mr. Lu was embarrassed, Lujiang was shamed, and he dared to follow Shen Baoxu's righteousness, so he asked the general to rescue Lujiang."

Sun Ce was ridiculous and terrified. This metaphor is a bit inappropriate. Why did I become a tiger and wolf Qin? "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, just talk about it slowly."

Jiao Zhongqing sat down, stabilized his emotions, and told him about Chen Deng's forced Lujiang and expelling Lu Kang.

When Guo Jia confirmed that Chen Deng was heading south, Sun Ce estimated that this result was achieved, but he did not expect that Chen Deng would take Lujiang so easily. A gentleman can deceive him. Lu Kang is only suitable for being the prefect of governing the world and cannot be a hero in troubled times. This is fine, he will not die because of me. In the future, he will always encounter less resistance.

Sun Ce arranged for someone to take Jiao Zhongqing to take a shower and wash, and then change into clean clothes. He said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, how about Chen Deng?"

Guo Jia smiled and said, "I acted with a firm plan, acted decisively, but was very restrained. I was considered the best among the children of aristocratic families. Compared with him, the Zhou Ang brothers are simply stupid pigs."

"What should we do now?"

"No hurry, Chen Deng will not send troops immediately. Now is the time for spring plowing. We have to send troops to recruit civilians and interfere with the farming season. The autumn harvest is greatly affected. Liu Bei doesn't care, and Chen Deng won't care. We will send more scouts, just be careful. The most urgent thing is to defeat Liu Bei first."

Sun Ce felt that Guo Jia was too confident. Will Chen Deng give up on such a good opportunity to attack?

Guo Jia smiled. "General, take the supreme guard against the emperor. If Chen Deng was appointed by the court and took over Lujiang openly, he would not have to worry about it. Even if it affects the harvest, it would not matter. The army is famous. But now it is different. He is forcing Lujiang. The Lujiang family does not speak, which does not mean that there is no opinion. Chen Deng would rather miss the opportunity to fight than act hastily. If it is too tight, it will hurt the interests of the aristocratic family. There is no benefit for him. Liu Bei is the governor of Yuzhou. He is just supporting Liu Bei. There is no need to take such a big risk. You can watch from the wall and wait for the opportunity."

Sun Ce suddenly realized. No wonder, it's okay for others, why is the Zhou family so cowardly? It turns out that they are betting on both sides and watching the situation. Those people don't care about Lu Kang's stay or not, but they will see Chen Deng's performance. If Chen Deng does too much, they will resist and expel Chen Deng from the country in the name of seeking justice for Lu Kang. Chen Deng only has more than a thousand troops, and a few families in Shu County gather together with thousands of people. With just force, Chen Deng cannot control Lujiang.

Liu Bei has a reputation for bravery and enough troops. In addition, Chen Deng is eyeing him, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for Sun Ce to eat Liu Bei in one bite. Even if he wins, he will have to rest for a while. The greater possibility is that he is stalemate or both sides are injured. At that time, Chen Deng will come out from behind and help Liu Bei with his strength to save Liu Bei from the fire. Liu Bei not only can't blame him, but also owe him a favor. If Liu Bei wins by himself, it would be even better. Chen Deng doesn't have to move at all, and he will be able to control him. Liu Bei has no foundation in Yuzhou and can't speak in front of Yuan Shao, so he really dare not provoke him.

The children of these aristocratic families are all transformed by monkeys, one is smarter than the other, and the small abacus is a joke. Only Liu Bei, who took a letter of appointment, was willing to be a gun.

However, the most difficult thing is not Liu Bei, but his Sun Ce. Liu Bei could also wait, but he could not wait. After the spring farming, Chen Deng sent troops from Lujiang. He was attacked from both sides, so it became even more difficult to fight.

"If possible, lure Liu Bei to attack the city." Guo Jia knocked on the table. "The general has sown the seeds, and I will water it a little more, and maybe there will be unexpected results."

Sun Ce agreed and asked someone to invite Jiang Gan. After a few days of rest, Jiang Gan's injury was healed. He was not good at going to the army and was cheated by Zhou Ang for a while. Jiang Gan was very embarrassed and was determined to regain his strength. Sun Ce gave him this opportunity and explained his previous arrangements in detail, asking him to see Liu Bei.

As soon as Jiang Gan left, Zhu Zhi returned from Pengcheng. He was ordered by Sun Ce and negotiated a series of conditions with Tao Qian. In addition to being a little dissatisfied with Mi Fang's appointment as Sun Ce's subordinate, Tao Qian was generally very satisfied. Of course, it was useless for him to be dissatisfied. The Mi family did not want to support him, and he could not force him to rob, otherwise even Mi Zhu would run away.

Zhu Zhi suffered a lot of losses before, and Sun Ce assigned him 2,000 county soldiers from Pei State. Zhu Zhi was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly. Sun Ce treated him with courtesy, and regarded his children as his own words. He always called Zhu Gong. But Zhu Zhi was very conscious, respectful in front of others and spared no effort to safeguard Sun Ce's dignity, and did not dare to be arrogant in the slightest reliance on his favor.

Sun Ce explained the combat plan to Zhu Zhi, and Zhu Zhi agreed. The reason why he led his troops to hide in Dangshan was because the water surrounding Dangshan was crisscrossing, it was inconvenient to march, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Sun Ce rushed over and fought with Liu Bei, the battlefield would not be able to be spread out at all. If Liu Bei was lured to attack the city, it would be more beneficial than disadvantages for Sun Ce.

Soon, Tao Ying also led 10,000 troops from Pengcheng to meet with Sun Ce.

At this point, Sun Ce had more than 20,000 troops and was ready to fight against Liu Bei. It depends on whether Jiang Gan could fool Liu Bei.

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Jiang Gan got out of the car, swayed his sleeves to Liu Bei, and before talking to Liu Bei, he first glanced at Guan Yu behind Liu Bei.

"You are Guan Yunchang?"

Guan Yu didn't look at him, stroked his beard and snorted.

Jiang Gan was not embarrassed at all and nodded repeatedly. "General Sun said that you are a hero of the world and have the courage of thousands of men. I didn't believe it very much. Seeing you, I believed it a little. I am not losing my strength. Such a tall person, at least I have the strength."

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, his eyebrow trembled twice, and he was even less interested in talking to Jiang Gan. What does it mean to have strength? Do you think I am strong?

"I said, can you drag the bull down?" The more indifferent Guan Yu, the more excited Jiang Gan became. "My general has a Wuwei commander named Xu Chu, who is also strong and can pull the bull away. If you fight with him, I don't know who will win."

Guan Yu simply turned his face and didn't want to talk to Jiang Gan. This scholar is so mean, he is so stupid that he can't bother with you. How could Sun Ce use such a person as an envoy? It's really disappointing.

Zhang Fei was unhappy and shouted sternly: "You are so unreasonable. My envoy is here. If you don't talk to my envoy, you are plaguing me with some reckless man Xu Chu. What's the reason?"

Jiang Gan grinned. "Are you Zhang Yide?"

“That’s right.”

"I heard that you are good at painting beauties, but take it seriously?"

Zhang Fei was stunned. "Can I draw a beauty? What's your business?"

"My general said that when you defeat you, Guan Yunchang can be a general. You can be a painter."

Liu Bei couldn't help it and coughed: "What about me?"
Chapter completed!