Gongsun Xiu returned to Liao Tun City, and only twenty-one boats that harassed the Wei army's rations road finally returned safely. The rest were buried in the sea, probably losing a hundred soldiers.

Yang Zuo hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, frowned and said, "How can the prince's golden body be in danger? The Wei army has heavy troops to guard the food supply road. If something goes wrong, the humble position cannot be explained to the King of Yan."

Since the battle of Liaoshui, Gongsun Xiu has gained fame and has become the soul of the Yan army. His aura is unbearable.

Gongsun Xiu patted the dust on his shoulder and shook his head and said, "It's okay. I have discovered the truth and reality. There are nearly a hundred ships in the Wei army's food route. With these few small broken ships, it's okay to harass the enemy. If you want to achieve something, it's hard to climb to the sky."

Yang Zuo said: "There are no navy troops in Liaodong, only infantry and cavalry. It is difficult to cut off the Wei army's food route. The Wei army transported grain by sea, and the coast was hundreds of miles long. Any coast could find a location to unload the grain and send it to Sima Yi's military camp. Our army would not be able to send people to guard the hundreds of miles of coasts, after all, it was too scattered."

Gongsun Xiu shook his head and said, "After this harassment, Sima Yi will have two choices. One is to change the food route, and the other is to divide the troops to guard it. After this matter, Sima Yi's big village will definitely divide some of the troops."

Yang Zuo was stunned: "What the prince means is to lead troops to rob the village while Sima Yi's army is dispersed?"

"I am not sure, so I can only use small groups of troops to harass them, so that the Wei army is exhausted from running between the two routes and consuming its spirit."

Gongsun Xiu did not dare to look down on Sima Yi at all and said seriously: "If you have no choice, you will never fight to the death. What Sima Yi wants is that I will fight to the death with him. I will never give him this opportunity."

Yang Zuo nodded and said yes, with a little hesitation in his heart, and suddenly said, "The prince has grown up and has a long-term plan. The whole Liaodong in the future will be entrusted to you alone."

He was stunned, not understanding what he said suddenly, and said: "One person is short-sense, everyone is smart, and the generals are able to gather their brains and will definitely be able to compete with Sima Yi."

Yang Zuo said meaningfully: "Criminal, this is not what I mean... The King of Yan is old now, and sooner or later you will take over Liaodong. I am just worried about the King of Yan. After all, the King of Yan is old and is prone to be confused. This—"

Gongsun Xiu immediately understood what he wanted to say, which was an hinting that he wanted to find an opportunity to replace Gongsun Yuan's position as King Yan. He was frightened by these few words and thought to himself: "Yang Zuo, Bei Yan are both the father's confidant generals, how could he say such words to disagree? Could it be that Gongsun Yuan, the guy who asked Yang Zuo to test me?"

He smiled faintly: "General Yang, please wait. Although the King of Yan is old, he is the lord of Liaodong. Although he is old, he is neither blind nor deaf, and his mind is very clear. I only do my duty."

When Yang Zuo heard what he said, he couldn't help but be anxious. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered: "Criminal, I will say something against my will. Now Liaodong is being scolded. Not only is the Wei State attacking, but Wu State is also eyeing it. Even Goguryeo, who lives next door, is very dissatisfied with the King of Yan. The Prince is the bloodline of the King of Yan, and should inherit the throne as soon as possible and protect Liaodong."

Gongsun Xiu thought to himself: "This is a saying of persuading advancement. It is true that Liaodong has today and today, and he blames Gongsun Yuan alone. Not only is he capricious, he forgets his righteousness when he sees profit, he has never been able to win the favor of any country between Wei and Wu, and is restrained everywhere and has no allies at all."

He also understood that as a subordinate of Liaodong, it was not only related to the interests of Yang Zuo, but to the interests of Yang Zuo's entire family and generations. In the past, Gongsun Xiu's grandfather Gongsun Kang was the prefect of Liaodong in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Yuan Shao was defeated in the Battle of Cao Yuan. His remnants Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang brothers fled to Liaodong. They were detained by Gongsun Kang and beheaded and given to Cao Cao, which won Cao Cao's favor.

It can be said that Liaodong has always been a subject of Cao Wei, but Gongsun Yuan's debauchery has almost no faith and righteousness, which has led to no one helping him, and the Yan Kingdom of Liaodong is about to face the danger of demise.

Gongsun Xiu sighed and said, "First fight back the powerful enemy. If your father is really old and stupid, we will talk about inheriting the throne. You must not tell this matter, otherwise the strong enemy will be in chaos before retreating."

Yang Zuo nodded seriously when he heard this, and he should have said that.

Gongsun Xiu knew about the throne, not only for Liaodong, but also for the great gentry and powerful people who supported the Gongsun family. Gongsun Yuan was not popular with the people and would definitely be replaced.

The best replacement is naturally Gongsun Xiu, who led the Yan army to fight Sima Yi one after another.

——

In Liaokou, after two days of salvage, the Wei army finally fished out the remains of the Yan army's boat.

Wang Chang looked at the hunted Shen Yan, and actually pulled the three huge hard bows of Shen Yan with the winch on both sides. The first two bows are positive and the second one is reverse. No wonder the range is 700 steps. This design is really ingenious.

"It's really a genius in the world."

Wang Chang could see that this bow was improved based on the Han Dynasty bedside, and the range after improvement was more than twice.

He stroked the bed with his hand and sighed: "Although such an instrument has only been improved in a small range, it has exerted great power. If the Taiwei saw such a magical crossbow, he would be very happy."

Liu Zhi was overjoyed and praised: "Shen Yan is much more useful than a large and bulky catapult, a ladder, or something."

"Take it to Dazhai immediately, report to the Taiwei, and advise the Taiwei to order the craftsmen to copy it quickly."

"yes!"

Liu Zhi immediately ordered the ship to dock, and the soldiers carried Potianqian onto the carriage, and drove it to Dazhai himself.

——

Dongwu.

Ten Yan troops have arrived in Jianye, and this place has been designated as the capital of Wu by Sun Quan. The hand-carried wooden box and the city of Dongwu is already in front of you.

The Eastern Wu guards on the city raised their bows and arrows and aimed at ten people, frowned and asked, "Why did the little thief from Liaodong enter my Wu Kingdom?"

The leader of the Yan army, Shifu, shook the wooden box in his hand and shouted: "The prince of Yan State, Gongsun Xiu, specially sent a big gift to His Majesty of your country."

The guard was stunned and did not dare to stop for a moment, so he quickly ordered someone to report.

In Jianye Palace, the Emperor of Eastern Wu, with purple beard and blue eyes, lived in the upper seat, and the ones sitting on the left and right were Prime Minister Gu Yong and General Lu Xun.

In the seventh year of Jiahe in the Eastern Wu, Sun Quan, who was nearly sixty years old, looked at His Highness's Yan army and smiled: "What gift did the prince of your country give me?"

Forced by Sun Quan's momentum, Shifu knelt on the ground, tremblingly did not dare to look up, and said tremblingly: "I, the Prince of Yan, specially sent Niu Jin, the general behind Wei State, and a letter."

"oh?"

Sun Quan's smile froze. He looked at Gu Yong and Lu Xun, both of whom were surprised.

The Eastern Wu had known about Sima Yi's expedition to Liaodong for a long time, and Liaodong also sent envoys to Dongwu to rescue soldiers. Sun Quan hated Gongsun Yuan for beheading the envoys of Dongwu to please Cao Wei. He said it was passionate. Dongwu would definitely send troops to rescue him, so he should not be afraid.

In fact, I was watching from the wall and had no intention of sending troops.

In his opinion, Gongsun Yuan did not have much hope to resist Sima Yi. It was a matter of time before Liaodong was destroyed. It was completely thankless to send troops to fight with Wei.

“Show it.”

Sun Quan ordered him to bring it up.

Commander Shifu raised the wooden box and climbed to the front of the hall. Sun Quan glanced at it. It was indeed Niu Jin, the general of the Wei Kingdom. He couldn't help but be moved: "This man once followed Cao Ren and Sima Yi to fight south and north, and made great achievements. He died in Liaodong. Wouldn't it defeat the Wei army?"

Chief Shifu said respectfully: "Sima Yi of Wei has come to Liaodong and fights with our army. The prince is good at using strange troops to defeat the Wei army in succession, and annihilates the eight thousand soldiers of Wei in the Liao Tunnel."

"Can Sima Yi be like this? Your country's prince is not simple."

The General, who had been silent, suddenly spoke out.

As the Supreme General of the Eastern Wu, Lu Xun encircled and decapitated Guan Yu, who was in power with Lu Meng in his early years. He then burned the 700-mile camp of the Shu army in the Battle of Yiling, almost destroying most of the elite troops of Shu led by Liu Bei, forcing Liu Bei to escape back to Baidi City and died of shame and anger.

As the replacement of Zhou Yu, Lu Su and Lu Meng, Lu Xun has become a minister of the country in the Eastern Wu. He became a general, but Sun Quan still felt that he was not respectful enough and set the title of "General" on the general to give Lu Xun.

Not only that, Sun Quan and Jianye of Eastern Wu proclaimed himself emperor, and the jade seal engraved with ribbons was placed directly beside Lu Xun, and Lu Xun made decisions on government affairs, and had the right to take action first and then report.

Sun Quan looked at Lu Xun and whispered: "Boyan, what do you think?"

Lu Xun was very envious and knew that Gongsun was capricious and had almost no profit to help Liaodong. He frowned and said, "Your Majesty, since the prince of Yan has defeated the Wei army and is about to eliminate the great troubles, why should he travel thousands of miles and send envoys to help rescue soldiers? Besides, Gongsun was capricious and was a enemy the day before yesterday, an ally today, and a friend of the Eastern Wu tomorrow, or an enemy?"

When Sun Quan heard this, he nodded, took the matter of sending troops to Liaodong very lightly, and said with a smile: "Boyan's words are not false, and Gongsun's repeated repetitions are not worthy of being a minister."

Chief Shifu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please read the letters handed over by the prince of our country."

Sun Quan frowned: "Since there are letters, why not submit them early?"

Shifu said tremblingly: "Your Majesty is unpredictable, and the villain is afraid...so he forgot about it."

He rolled and crawled to Sun Quan's feet and presented Gongsun Xiu's documents.

He opened the letter and read it carefully.

When Lu Xun saw Sun Quan's expression, he turned from calm to joy, then from joy to anger, and finally his face was full of excitement. He didn't know what he read in the letter, which made Emperor Dongwu feel overjoyed.
Chapter completed!