Although they have formed a secret alliance with Cao Cao, this is just a alliance with the weak and strong. Both Lu Bu and Cao Cao know that once the situation changes, Yuan Shao will turn against each other immediately when the situation of Yuan Shao declines. Therefore, although they have formed an alliance here, Yuan Shao is still arguing with each other, just to see which side Yuan Shao is mainly attacking.

Lu Bu naturally wanted Cao Cao to fight against Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao was not stupid, so how could Lu Bu be happy? Yuan Shao himself hesitated between the two. The group of strategists in the tent were divided into two factions and quarreled every day. Chen Gong and Chen Qun wandered among the famous scholars in Jizhou. In short, for more than half a year, Yuan Shao could not decide who to fight first. In the past six months when Yuan Shao hesitated, Lu Bu and Cao Cao had gradually stabilized the situation on their side.

The impact of the Battle of Xuzhou gradually disappeared, and after Lu Bu was able to control land harvests, the Xuzhou gentry suffered several losses, most of the Xuzhou gentry turned to Lu Bu. After all, Lu Bu's ability was unsolvable. Even if these gentry were pretentious, in this era of farming, being stuck in Lu Bu's grain output would be equivalent to being held by Lu Bu's lifeline. If you don't rely on Lu Bu, it will be a matter of time before you die.

On Cao Cao's side, the impact of the emperor being robbed was naturally not eliminated so quickly. The gentry from all over the country was mostly against Cao Cao. Many people secretly had close contacts with Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao could only treat it as invisible and constantly consolidate his strength. At the same time, it was actively prepared to fight Yuan Shao. In terms of internal pressure, Cao Cao was probably worse than Lu Bu at this moment, and wanted to defeat Yuan Shao in one fell swoop and consolidate his current precarious power.

Time passed quietly as Yuan Shao hesitated, Cao Cao was in trouble with internal and external affairs, and Lu Bu gradually leisurely days passed quietly, but the princes in the world were not just these three.

Danyang, Wanling.

"One of our army in Lujiang and Jiujiang counties needs to be able to cross the two sides of the straits and control Guangling, and then Xuzhou can be captured!" Zhou Yu pointed to the map and talked happily.

Lu Bu took the emperor to command the princes. Now with the stability of Xuzhou, this advantage gradually became apparent. In July, Lujiang Prefect Liu Xun accepted the appointment of Lu Bu. Although he did not formally submit to Lu Bu, it also meant that he had left Yuan Shu. Several counties in the Jiujiang area chose to leave Yuan Shu and endowed Lu Bu.

Although Yuan Shu is unpopular, it is the reason why the general situation is over, but why did these people not vote for Cao Cao or Jiangdong and choose Lu Bu who is not pleased with his background or territory?

Because Lu Bu holds great righteousness and orthodox name, he is born with a certain deterrence.

First, Cao Cao used the emperor to command the princes and gained a lot of political benefits. Now that Lu Bu has become the emperor, he has gradually started to play a role. Sun Ce naturally wants to get a piece of the pie. When the emperor was still in Xuchang, Sun Ce had the intention to rob the emperor, but there was no right time, but in the end he was snatched away by Lu Bu. If today, the son was in Lu Bu's hands, and he was closer to Sun Ce. How could Sun Ce, who has always been fearless, missed this opportunity?

Several months ago, he had intended to cross the river and attack Guangling several times, and first gained a foothold in Xuzhou, and then considered whether it was a light cavalry raid or gradual erosion. However, Zhang Liao was like a barrier in Guangling. Sun Ce had fought more than a dozen battles with Zhang Liao in the past few months, but he had never gained any advantage. At the same time, he was also a little jealous.

After all, Zhang Liao was both civil and military, and neither smart nor martial arts were worse than himself. Why did such a good general follow Lu Bu? Sun Ce had secretly sent someone to contact Zhang Liao to see if there was a possibility of convincing Zhang Liao to return to Jiangdong, but Zhang Liao refused mercilessly, and he didn't care. However, he returned in vain for more than a dozen fights, which made Sun Ce realize that Zhang Liao's obstacle was not easy.

Since the right path cannot be understood, we can only find a way from the side. Therefore, Zhou Yu offered a plan to take the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang first, and use these two counties as the fulcrum to advance water and land together to encircle Guangling. Although Zhang Liao was brave, Guangling's territory was vast. It was precisely because of this reason that it was relatively independent. Even if Xia Pi sent reinforcements to support it in time, it would take nearly a month at the earliest. With this month, Guangling might have lost most of it.

"I don't want Xiao Xiao Zhang Liao to teach our army that it failed several times. I really don't know what kind of method Lu Bu is? If you have the chance in the future, you will definitely compete with him!" Sun Ce put his hands on his chest and looked at the map. He was thinking about these heroes in Xuzhou.

Although Zhang Liao was a powerful general under Lu Bu, he was said to be as famous as him, including Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci, who were just one of them. Jiangdong was helpless and had to avoid his sharp edge. Sun Ce really wanted to see what Lu Bu had to make such generals willing to serve him.

"Lord...gong!" Zhou Yu's expression darkened and looked at Sun Ce. Although he was calling the lord, those who don't know would have misunderstandings about the word lord.

"Just talk, Gongjin knows me the most. I am the one who doesn't know the general and the severity?" Sun Ce smiled awkwardly.

Zhou Yu looked at him without saying anything.

"Gongjin, tell me your eyes that you don't trust me." Sun Ce's face darkened and he looked at Zhou Yu and said unhappy.

"On May 18th, the army withdrew, Bo Fu, and he was loyal to the night. After three hundred rounds of fighting with Zhang Liao, our army had already retreated to Danyang, but you were no longer visible. If I had not returned with the Gongfu General, I was afraid that this battle would have been far from over. On June 13th, after the war, our army retreated back to the river. You ran to drink with Zhang Liao late at night. If you weren't the lord, we almost thought you had surrendered to the enemy!" Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce with an increasingly embarrassed expression: "Bo Fu, how do you want me to believe you?"

"Cough~" Sun Ce coughed lightly and looked out the window and said, "Although it is not a family, Zhang Liao is also an open-minded person. Gongjin, I think people have good abilities. Zhang Liao is worth making friends, and maybe they will fight together in the future. You said, I made friends with him in advance, and it is not for the future."

"Huh~" Zhou Yu exhaled a deep breath to calm his mood. He was afraid that he would be angry to death by focusing on this problem again. He turned the topic: "Lu Bu is different from Zhang Liao. I look at this person's past and kill him decisively. If he has the chance to kill you, he will definitely kill him. You are the lord of Jiangdong, no longer a major general. You are so willful and arbitrary, and will sooner or later be harmed!"

"Ha~ Looking at the world, how many people can..." Sun Ce smiled disdainfully when he heard this. He was about to say something, but when Zhou Yu's eyes gradually became gloomy, he immediately changed his tone and said, "Although few people can hurt me, Gongjin said it well. I should be very careful. However, if Lu Bu can be taken under his command and Zhang Liao, why worry about the uncertainty of the world."

"Haha~" Zhou Yu smiled, ignored him, and continued to look down at the map. Why didn't you say that Yuan Shao would vote for you?

While the two were studying the strategy of crossing the river, they heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside the tent. A personal guard came in and bowed to the two, "Lord, something happened."

"What's the matter?" Sun Ce's expression turned solemn and returned to his serious appearance.

"When General Ling Cao was on patrol, he encountered a beast on the road and injured people. He tried to expel him but was injured by the beast." The guard bowed and said.

"It's another evil beast that hurts people!" Sun Ce frowned and said, "How serious is the injury?"

"It's not too heavy, but a Zhu family's farm was slaughtered!" said the guard.

"Recently, this wild beast slaughtering village has happened from time to time, and I don't know why?" Sun Ce sighed and looked up, "I ordered someone to invite the best doctor, Gongjin, let's go and have a look."

"I heard that it is not just Jiangdong. There are fierce beasts in various places in the world that have recently been hurting people. The powerful writing is like this time, slaughtering the village, and these beasts are extremely powerful, and often dozens of people can't hurt the roots. If this continues, don't say that they will attack the city and land, everyone will be in danger." Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce and frowned.

Sun Ce nodded with a serious expression. He had chased and killed a wounded tiger and was almost ambushed by the other party several times. He felt that these beasts are not only huge in size, extremely powerful, and quick and agile, but most importantly, they feel as if they are enlightened. Many times people are not as smart as them.

The two of them went to see Ling Cao together. Ling Cao was very capable and had personal guards around him. The injury was not serious, but this was already the top ten generals under Sun Ce.

"We have to find a way to solve this problem." After leaving Ling Cao's mansion, Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu and said that now the harm of beasts has had an impact on the governance of Jiangdong. In the past few months, there have been no less than a hundred incidents of beasts hurting people and even slaughtering villages reported by counties and counties.

Zhou Yu nodded, this is indeed a problem.

The two were walking on the streets of Wanling, thinking about countermeasures, but they saw many people rushing in one direction. Sun Ce was hit a few times and was not annoyed. They were traveling in plain clothes at this moment, and how many people knew about it? Seeing a large number of people rushing in one direction, they were curious and pulled Zhou Yu to run with the crowd.

Zhou Yu had no choice but to ask his personal guards to call more people to avoid any situation. Although Sun Ce is the lord of Jiangdong, there are many people who want Sun Ce to die, so you must be careful!

Soon, the two of them followed the crowd to a temple with their personal guards. There was an altar in the center of the temple, and a Taoist was distributing talisman paper. The people around them bowed devoutly.

"Who is this?" Sun Ce was dissatisfied and pulled someone and said, "What qualifications are there to ask everyone to kneel down?"

"This is Master Ji, you must not be reckless and collide with Master Ji!" The man who was held by Sun Ce saw that Sun Ce was dressed in an unusual manner and dared not offend him, so he whispered.

"Yu Ji?" Sun Ce felt that the name sounded familiar, but when he saw that Yu Ji was kneeling down by everyone, he felt dissatisfied and snorted coldly: "What kind of virtue does he have? I am the people of Jiangdong who kneel down to worship?"

I immediately wanted to demolish the altar.

"Don't be reckless!" Zhou Yu quickly grabbed Sun Ce: "Is An Zhi not a master?"

There are really gods in this world.

"Master?" Sun Ce looked at Yu Ji, and no matter how he looked, he seemed like a cheating person, and immediately said to his guard: "After this matter, please invite him to the yamen office. I want to see how master he is!"

"Here!"
Chapter completed!