The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 412 Deliberately

"Bofu, you and I have known each other for such a long time, do you think I can't tell that there is something hidden in your words?" As soon as Zhou Yu heard what Sun Ce said, he knew that he had not told everything.

"Of course I know that my clumsy lie cannot deceive you, but I just want you to rest more, Gongjin. Look at your face now, it is completely different from the face before we separated a while ago.

What's more, you are the supreme commander in this camp, how long can I keep it a secret?" Sun Ce shook his head and said, Sun Ce at this moment was not like the usual idiot who would hang his brain on the wall and act happy to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "I know what I need most now is a good rest, but given the current situation, how can I rest well?
Besides me, who else can stop Yang Ziyu? Li Wenda or Li Zhengfang? Or you, Lord Sun Bofu?

Don't tell me you don't know the strength of the other side? " Although his face was still pale, Zhou Yu still looked calm and indifferent, and when he opened his mouth, Sun Ce didn't know what to say.

"Yang Ziyu is such a formidable opponent. Facing the army he commands, I simply can't find any flaws that can break the situation. Or even if there are flaws, they are traps he set there waiting for some idiot to run into them." Sun Ce sighed. He and Yang Ji had only fought yesterday. How could he not have a deep impression of him? He would never forget it for the rest of his life.

Three days ago, he was fighting Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and planned to take Liu Biao's head to Nanjun to sacrifice to his father. However, when he was about to behead Liu Biao, he made a mistake and missed the opportunity to behead Liu Biao, allowing Liu Biao to escape with his life.

After missing the opportunity, Sun Ce wanted to chase after him and wait for the next opportunity or create an opportunity to behead Liu Biao himself, but for some reason, Sun Ce looked at Liu Biao who was running away for his life, and suddenly lost interest in continuing to chase him and behead him. Instead, he thought of Zhou Yu who was in Jiangdong.

This was not the first time that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu fought separately, but for some reason, Sun Ce at that time always felt that if he did not do something, he might never see Zhou Yu again.

Between Liu Biao and Zhou Yu, Sun Ce decisively chose Zhou Yu, and let Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and Han Dang lead the remaining soldiers to continue to encircle and suppress Liu Biao in Jingzhou. He took his personal guards to find Jiangxia Prefect Liao Li and asked for several warships, and went directly down the Yangtze River to the waters near Jiangcheng County, Danyang County.

Then he encountered Yang Ji who took advantage of Zhou Yu's coma and directly attacked Zhou Yu's camp. Unexpectedly, Sun Ce led his personal guards into the battlefield and was beaten up by Yang Ji. If Li Yan had not brought a double-talented Danyang elite to rescue despite his injuries, Sun Ce, this troublemaker, would definitely have been left behind by Yang Ji.

However, if Sun Ce had not suddenly intervened at the time, Li Yan would not have been able to lead his troops to break through the front line, rescue Sun Ce, and disrupt Yang Ji's command line.

"Wait, you said that after the righteous side destroyed the other side's command line, the other side withdrew its troops?" Zhou Yu said in an incredible tone. For a commander of Yang Ji's level, it was just a partial destruction of the battle line and a disconnection of the local command line. What did it matter?

Even Zhou Yu could mobilize troops to reconstruct the battle line and reconnect the command line at any time in this level of local disadvantage on the battlefield. Not to mention a commander of Yang Ji's level, who probably didn't need to mobilize troops from elsewhere, but could just rely on the soldiers who were still alive on the scene to reconstruct the battle line and reconnect the command line on the spot.

However, Yang Ji really withdrew his troops like this, and there was no other gain except bringing more than 5,000 casualties to Zhou Yu's army. Of course, 5,000 casualties was already a large number for Zhou Yu's army, and Zhou Yu's army only had 65,000 people in total.

The total losses before and after this have exceeded 7,000 people. If Sun Ce had not brought 5,000 personal guards, the total strength of Zhou Yu's side would have fallen below 60,000. How could he fight against Yang Ji then?
Logically speaking, Yang Ji, who had absolute advantage, should have taken down Zhou Yu's 60,000-man army directly while no one could stop him.

However, Yang Ji withdrew his troops under such circumstances. Zhou Yu could not figure out the reason why Yang Ji did so. Unless Yang Ji had a larger plan than taking down Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and the 60,000 troops, Zhou Yu really could not understand why Yang Ji retreated in the face of such a good situation.

It couldn't be that he wanted him and Sun Ce to meet and talk to each other before they were captured, right? How could someone be so crazy?

"Well, that's right. After Li Yan led his troops to break through the enemy's front line and rescued me and my personal guards, the other side withdrew their troops. They didn't try to reorganize the front line to pursue us, although my intuition told me that those people could catch up and kill us even if they didn't reorganize the front line." Sun Ce's words made Zhou Yu fall into deep thought again. What on earth was Yang Ji doing? He didn't even try to capture them when there was a ready-made opportunity.

"Okay, Gongjin, don't think so much. What you need most now is a good rest, otherwise you won't be able to participate in the next battle." Seeing that Zhou Yu was still thinking despite a headache, Sun Ce began to dissuade him.

For Sun Ce, although the great cause that Zhou Yu mentioned was important, in Sun Ce's heart, the ranking of competing for hegemony was actually lower than avenging his father. However, in the face of the safety of family and friends at the moment, the importance of avenging his father did not seem to be something that could not be given up.

Zhou Yu looked up at Sun Ce. How could he not know what Sun Ce was thinking? However, in his opinion, if Sun Ce wanted to accomplish the first two things, the most critical thing was to fight for hegemony. Now was a time of chaos. If he wanted to protect everything he cherished, he had to master the power to change the world, or at least have the power of united front value, otherwise he would not be included in other people's united front list.

[It seems like Yang Ziyu is restraining himself in every battle he fights...] Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce thoughtfully and thought that if Yang Ji, Chen Xi or Liu Bei really had a list of united front targets, then with the power he and Sun Ce wielded, they seemed to be qualified to be united front targets.

If what Zhou Yu thought was true, he could probably understand why Yang Ji gave up the choice of continuing to expand the victory after seeing Sun Ce being rescued.

However, after figuring out one doubt, another doubt now arises: Why did Yang Ji and others make a list of people with united front value?

The surrounding ethnic minorities? Impossible. The ethnic minorities surrounding the Han Dynasty had basically been completely destroyed by the Han Dynasty. It was impossible for an ethnic minority force to threaten the entire Han Dynasty to appear again.

The various princes within the Han Dynasty's territory? It shouldn't be possible. After all, with Liu Bei's current military strength, he should be worried about those princes. They are really worried that Liu Bei will use them as sacrifices when he is unhappy one day, although the possibility is not great. The remaining are the most powerful princes in the north and south. It happens that these two princes have a great relationship with the Yuan family of Runan. As for Gongsun Zan in the north, who in the world can't see that he and Liu Bei are wearing the same pants. Just wait for Liu Bei to defeat Yuan Shao and directly incorporate Youzhou into Liu Bei's rule.

As for Yizhou... forget it, let's not analyze the princes who are in charge of Yizhou. After all, given the current situation in the Central Plains, they are ready to welcome Liu Bei's army at any time. After all, the most powerful prince in the Central Plains is called Liu Bei.

Among the princes within the territory of the Han Dynasty, the three with the strongest will to resist are probably Yuan Shao, Sun Ce and Cao Cao. However, Cao Cao has already stepped down from the stage, and the remaining Yuan Shao and Sun Ce are still persisting, trying to create a miracle. After all, no one can predict what will happen on the battlefield.

However, judging from Zhou Yu's own experience of being nearly captured alive while unconscious, Yang Ji's attainments in military command had long surpassed those of their large army commanders by a large level. The reason why they have not yet fallen to the same level as Cao Cao is probably because Yang Ji has restrained his abilities. However, Yang Ji is usually not as naked as he was yesterday when he directly withdrew his troops.

So, why did Yang Ji do this? Why did Liu Bei and Chen Xi allow Yang Ji to do this? Zhou Yu didn't believe that Liu Bei and Chen Xi couldn't see that Yang Ji had been restraining his abilities.

Even Zhou Yu, who had only fought with Yang Ji once, found that Yang Ji was restraining his performance. Zhou Yu didn't believe that Chen Xi, Liu Bei and others who had been with Yang Ji for a longer time didn't notice what Yang Ji was doing.

In other words, they condoned Yang Ji's behavior, or Yang Ji's behavior was at their instruction.

So, what kind of enemy would make Liu Bei, who could have easily taken the Nine Cauldrons, give up the path to a quick victory and instead use an incomprehensible method to avoid the consumption of Han princes?
Looking at Zhou Yu who was in a trance, Sun Ce scratched his head uncomfortably and could not help but said, "Gongjin, even if you look at me like this, I can't let you participate in the next battle in this state." Sun Ce shook his head. Facing Yang Ji, he could not reveal any flaws at all, otherwise he would easily be taken away by Yang Ji in one wave, unless Yang Ji did not want to do that.

Zhou Yu, who was awakened by Sun Ce's voice, said to Sun Ce unhappily: "Who said I would go to the battlefield in this state? Don't I know what you said?"

Zhou Yu sighed, "I was just wondering why Yang Ziyu withdrew his troops at that time yesterday." No matter what, he couldn't figure out what Liu Bei and his men's purpose was in avoiding internal consumption within the Han Dynasty. Could it be that the Northern Huns really had crawled out of their graves again?
If it was because the Northern Huns had resurrected again, Zhou Yu would not be surprised. After all, it was right for the Han Dynasty to fight the Huns, and fighting the Huns had almost become an instinct for the Han people.

What really horrified Zhou Yu was what happened to the Northern Huns after their reincarnation. Even Liu Bei, with his military strength at that level, had to avoid internal strife within the Han Dynasty before facing the Northern Huns' attack again?
Although Zhou Yu himself guessed about the Northern Huns' reincarnation, apart from the Northern Huns, Zhou Yu really couldn't think of any other enemy that could make Liu Bei so afraid. And this was not the first time that the Northern Huns' reincarnation had happened, so the Northern Huns were the most suspicious.

"Couldn't it be that something happened in the rear of the enemy?" Sun Ce blinked and said, no matter what the reason was, that's what he thought anyway.

"Do you think it's possible?" Zhou Yu rolled his eyes. He felt that Sun Ce had hung his brain back on the wall again, otherwise how could he say such a thing.

"What's impossible to happen? There are so many strange things in this world." Sun Ce muttered in a low voice.

Zhou Yu glanced at Sun Ce and decisively gave up arguing with Sun Ce about this matter. Instead, he asked Sun Ce about another matter.

"What's the current situation in Jingzhou?" Although Zhou Yu knew that he shouldn't ask this now, as the highest military commander of the Sun Wu forces, he had to ask. If he wanted to coordinate the overall situation, he must have intelligence as the basis for the overall perspective.

"We almost caught him. Now he should have been driven back to Jingnan by the three old generals." Sun Ce said coldly. If he had been faster at that time, maybe he could have avenged his father on the spot. Unfortunately, under the cloud of energy, he could only exert the combat power of his Qi training into Gang. He had not yet reached the ultimate state of internal Qi leaving the body.

"Have they made it back to Jingnan?" Zhou Yu frowned, then relaxed. He originally thought that Sun Ce could deal a heavy blow to Liu Biao, but this outcome was not impossible now.

"Why did you suddenly mention this guy?" Sun Ce was very sensitive and noticed Zhou Yu's abnormality. After all, the topic involved Liu Biao.

"It has nothing to do with that guy Liu Biao. The main thing is that after the war here is over, I want to send troops to conquer Jingnan. I remember that the Cai family in Jingzhou, like the Lu family, are both shipbuilders." Zhou Yu expressed his plan.

"Attack Jingnan?" Sun Ce's eyes lit up immediately. He was not sleepy when it came to attacking Jingnan. Although Zhou Yu's target was not Liu Biao, it would not take much energy to deal with Liu Biao. As for the fact that the Cai family of Jingzhou was Liu Biao's in-laws, Sun Ce said that since you can build ships, he would let you go.

"Now it depends on how this battle turns out." Zhou Yu turned his head and looked in the direction of Yang Ji's camp. Who knows whether Yang Ji on the opposite side will give this opportunity? Although this opportunity can only be fought for by himself, after all, Cao Cao is a lesson learned.

Sun Ce thought about it and said to Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, my legionary talent has become what you call the monarch's talent. Do you think it will be helpful in this battle?"

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(End of this chapter)