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

Chapter 435: Eighty thousand versus sixty thousand, this time the advantage is on my side!

After noticing the eye contact from Sun Quan, Zhang Zhao began to think about what Sun Quan could bring to him and his family, and finally what Sun Quan wanted to do.

In this situation, what Sun Quan wanted to do was very simple, and Zhang Zhao could easily guess it with his ability. It was nothing more than preserving the Sun family and keeping the foundation left by Sun Ce as much as possible.

To protect the Sun family - no, it should be to protect the Sun family's top spot among the Jiangnan forces, let the Sun family continue to occupy the first place in the Jiangnan Joint Conference, but dilute the power of the Sun family's first place to the various families present.

The Holy Emperor rules the country with ease, and this is the forte of these aristocratic families. They get the benefits, but the chief is the one who takes the blame. Doesn't this fit perfectly with the usual style of these aristocratic families?

After coming up with an idea, Zhang Zhao knocked on the table in front of him, drawing everyone's attention to himself, and said, "Everyone, now is not the time to make a fuss, we need to come up with a practical and effective plan to defend the city.

Don't wait until the enemy is at the gates of the city before we have made preparations to defend the city. By then, all the arguments you have made here will become meaningless."

"There is one more thing." Zhang Zhao looked at the first person who spoke and said slowly: "Fifty thousand people can defend Shouchun City." Although Zhang Zhao is not good at military affairs, people at his level, even if they are not good at it, know most of what they should know. At most, it is just a matter of operation and awareness.

After saying that, Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Quan, bowed and said, "Please give the orders, Second Young Master." That was giving Sun Quan a little face.

The stage has been set. Next, it depends on what Sun Quan can achieve on this stage. If Sun Quan can do it, then Zhang Zhao doesn't mind helping Sun Quan. After all, the current political power of Sun Wu is in his hands. In the future, even if Sun Quan can deal with these people in front of him, he will have to ask Zhang Zhao for help.

The current Sun Quan is not like his elder brother Sun Ce, who has the military power to take back power. To put it bluntly, the current Sun Quan is even smaller than Zhuge Liang, and there is no way to make those who are loyal to Sun Ce transfer their allegiance to Sun Quan.

The only thing about Sun Quan that those people can accept is probably the legal principles inherited from Sun Ce. However, in the current situation, although everyone needs the legal principles of Sun Quan, the legal principles of him are also an area that everyone is paying attention to.

Those people will not let Sun Quan become an obstacle to their completion of the Holy Emperor's rule, even if it is Zhang Zhao, the collaborator chosen by Sun Quan. Don't forget that Zhang Zhao is also one of the representatives of the aristocratic families.

In response to Zhang Zhao's sudden salute, Sun Quan naturally looked confused, and then hurriedly returned the salute to Zhang Zhao.

Finally, he said, "Please teach me." But no one saw the cold light flashing in Sun Quan's lowered eyes, or even if someone saw it, it would not matter. After all, what could Sun Quan do? He could do nothing.

Hearing Sun Quan's words "Changshi taught me", Zhang Zhao was delighted, knowing that he had obtained the title he needed. With this title, combined with the power he already had, he could legitimately unite these people in the hall without blatantly hindering others.

"Zhang Zhao obeys the order." After a series of refusals and refusal, with the support of Gu Yong and others, Zhang Zhao accepted Sun Quan's appointment and unified the remaining forces of Sun Wu to fight against Yang Ji.

In fact, those aristocratic families originally did not want Zhang Zhao to take over the power that Sun Quan had ceded, but they still needed to recognize Sun Quan's legal principles. Otherwise, they could only invite Yuan Shu out. After all, the legal principles that Sun Quan inherited from Sun Ce were also inherited from Yuan Shu.

However, they were now at loggerheads with Yuan Shu. If they went to Yuan Shu now, they would be laughed at by him. They couldn't even control a teenager. They were really going backwards. How dare they come to him to strip Sun Quan of his legal rights? It was really a mess.

After taking over the power transferred by Sun Quan, Zhang Zhao began to command everyone to improve the defense plan of Shouchun City with high spirits. At least at this time, no one dared to deny Zhang Zhao's order. After all, the defense planning framework that Zhang Zhao came up with was still in line with the interests of each of them.

As expected, Zhang Zhao is the representative of their family. Unlike Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, they are obviously from aristocratic families, but they end up cleaning up the aristocratic families. They are really going against the will of Heaven.

——Although Yuan Shu also did it, they did not dare to say it openly, because Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were very kind, unlike Yuan Shu who just picked up a knife and did it. Moreover, Yuan Shu only cut off some of the scum among the aristocratic families and did not think about consolidating the power in the hands of the aristocratic families. It is possible that the aristocratic families should thank Yuan Shu for helping them clean up the branches.

After seeing that the representatives of various families in the hall finally stopped directing their malice towards himself and the Sun family and instead began to revolve around Zhang Zhao, Sun Quan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now he had finally temporarily diverted these people's attention away from him.

However, Sun Quan was very clear about one thing. These people must have guessed what he was going to do, but they would not care about Sun Quan's little tricks. After all, the cards in Sun Quan's hand were too small to cause any waves. Even if there were ripples, they would overestimate Sun Quan.

Sun Quan looked at the passionate Zhang Zhao and slowly let out a breath. As a person who was extremely sensitive to politics, he could feel that he and the Sun family had temporarily escaped the covetousness of these people. All that was left was to defeat Yang Ji.

As for redeeming Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, Sun Quan no longer held out hope. After all, with the example of Cao Cao, the lives of these two should be fine, and they might even live better than him. But that was it. There was absolutely no way Fenggao would release these two people.

Look at the scene in front of us. This is what Fenggao wants to see. If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu come back, they will not see such a scene. Therefore, Fenggao will definitely not let Sun Ce and Zhou Yu come back.

[Just wait and see. Sooner or later, I will be like my elder brother and take back all the power in your hands!] Sun Quan was calm on the surface, but he was roaring madly in his heart.

After Zhang Zhao unified the remaining forces of Sun Wu in the name of Sun Quan, it took Zhang Zhao only a few days to tidy up the originally chaotic Shouchun City. At least on the surface, it had returned to the state it was in before Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were captured.

Do you understand the value of “Ask Zhou Yu for help on foreign affairs and ask Zhang Zhao for help on internal affairs”? Although Zhang Zhao is not good at military affairs, he can use Sun Quan's name to invite back the three old generals in Jingzhou. After all, there are no enemies in Jingzhou that need to be guarded against.

As for the troops led by Zhu Ran and Lu Fan from Yuzhou, Zhang Zhao did not transfer them back to Shouchun. After all, they were still needed to hold back the 50,000 troops led by Yu Jin, although it was difficult.

... "General, the intelligence from Shouchun says that Sun Bofu's brother Sun Zhongmou has been carried out from the Sun family. Shouchun City is now under the rule of Zhang Zibu. He has integrated all the families in Shouchun City and started to arrange city defense with the cooperation of all families." Zhuge Liang walked into the tent and said to Yang Ji who was studying something.

"Sun Zhongmou?" Yang Ji raised his head and looked at Zhuge Liang with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He didn't expect to hear Sun Quan's name at this time. But if it was Sun Quan, it seemed that the current situation in Shouchun City was not surprising. After all, Sun Quan had a high talent for personnel matters.

"According to the intelligence provided by the insider in Shouchun City, at a city defense meeting organized by various organizations three days ago, Zhang Zibu suddenly asked Sun Zhongmou to order the integration of various forces in the city and coordinate the deployment of city defense.

Sun Zhongmou agreed to Zhang Zibu's request at the meeting and asked him to take charge of the specific matters of city defense. "Zhuge Liang said slowly. He did not expect that the various forces in Shouchun City would be unified by Zhang Zhao. They were still fighting for power a few days ago.

"It's not surprising that Zhang Zhao can unify the various forces in Shouchun City. He himself comes from an aristocratic family and knows the needs of the aristocratic families very well. It's a simple matter for him to come up with a city defense plan that suits the interests of each family. This city defense arranged based on the interests of each family is nothing to worry about.

I am a little surprised by Sun Zhongmou, who actually let Zhang Zhao get the power that belonged to the lord. He played the balancing act pretty well. "Yang Ji said.

"Speaking of which, this guy Sun Zhongmou is younger than you, Kong Ming." Yang Ji remembered something and said to Zhuge Liang with a smile.

"Younger than me?" Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, then asked with interest: "Has he also awakened his spiritual talent?" He did not think that he was the youngest person to awaken spiritual talent because he awakened at the age of twelve.

"That's not the case. It's just that he has a better talent in personnel matters. He noticed the undercurrents in Shouchun City and found a balance point among the turbulent undercurrents." Yang Ji shook his head and said.

"That's amazing. He can find the balance point in such a short time." Zhuge Liang was still optimistic about Sun Quan's operation. After all, being able to find the balance point at this age and make use of it is not just a better talent as Yang Ji said.

After hearing Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Sun Quan, Yang Ji looked at Zhuge Liang with a strange expression, hoping that Zhuge Liang would not think of his evaluation of Sun Quan today when he saw the history books recording the history of the Three Kingdoms in the future.

Sun Quan's talent in this aspect is indeed good, but in other aspects it is the same as Cao Cao's evaluation of Sun Quan: If I had a son, I would hope he would be like Sun Zhongmou. This both affirmed and denied Sun Quan's ability. It was really a good evaluation.

"Okay, let's not talk about this guy anymore. He is our enemy now." Yang Ji spoke up to stop the topic from going any further.

"Let's discuss the siege in two days." Yang Ji shifted the topic to the attack on Shouchun City.

"I'll go find Lord Cao and Military Advisor Cheng." Zhuge Liang stood up and prepared to find Cao Cao and Cheng Yu to discuss the siege.

"Okay, let's go get them both." Yang Ji said indifferently. Although his original idea was just to talk to Zhuge Liang, since Zhuge Liang wanted to inform Cao Cao and Cheng Yu, Yang Ji could accept it.

Soon, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu followed Zhuge Liang to the central army camp where Yang Ji was, and then saw the situation map of Shouchun that Yang Ji had laid out on the sand table.

"What is this?" Zhuge Liang saw the sand table at a glance. He remembered that the sand table was not there when he left. However, in less than a quarter of an hour, Yang Ji had made a sand table by hand. What level of hands-on ability was this?
"This is what you are talking about. This is the Shouchun City defense sand table I made based on the information in your hand. Although there are definitely many errors in it, just use it as it is. After all, I don't have a more accurate sand table." Yang Ji said with some regret.

The corners of the three people's mouths twitched when they heard what Yang Ji said. Does Yang Ji realize that he is different from ordinary people? Which commander-in-chief can make a battlefield sand table within a quarter of an hour?

"This sand table should be a creation of essence and energy, right?" Cheng Yu touched the sand table and confirmed its material.

"This is indeed a creation of essence and energy. I used my mental power to restrain the essence of heaven and earth and constructed it according to the layout in my mind." Yang Ji briefly explained the principle of this essence and energy sandbox.

"I didn't expect that you have such a strong control over the essence of heaven and earth." Looking at the essence sand table in front of him, Cheng Yu was amazed. As far as he knew, among the many generals with internal energy out of their bodies and spiritual sages under Liu Bei's rule, only Zhao Yun and Yang Ji could achieve this level.

Zhao Yun relied on his own huge reserves of internal energy to construct the internal energy creature. Even if the essence of heaven and earth was involved, it still needed to be refined by the internal energy before it could be used. After all, without the internal energy refinement, even Zhao Yun would find it difficult to control the essence of heaven and earth to create a creature of this level.

But Yang Ji is different. He directly uses his own mental power to restrain the essence of heaven and earth, and then creates the essence-based creatures he wants. He doesn't even need to go through the cleansing of internal energy or mental power, and does not abide by the existing rules at all.

However, this is not a big deal for Yang Ji. After all, he has already broken through the existing rules and built his own domain outside the existing rules. This is the domain of those who have achieved enlightenment.

After several people sighed at Yang Ji's control over the essence of heaven and earth, they began to discuss the next siege around the city defense layout of Shouchun City. After all, as mentioned before, as long as the families in Shouchun City are united, relying on the existing 50,000 people, plus the 30,000 people transferred back from Jingzhou, it is more than enough to defend the city.

Eighty thousand versus sixty thousand, this advantage is on my side - this is what the various forces in Shouchun City said.

In this regard, Yang Ji could only say that the advantage is indeed on your side.

(End of this chapter)