The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 406 Chapter 405 Correspondence

On February [-]th of the first year of Wude, Xu Chu led an army to Li Dian's camp in secret. At the same time, the two armies of Chen Ying and Lu Dai also arrived in Wan County and Juchao respectively.

At this moment, Zhang Yan has been hiding in Li Dian's naval camp, and regards it as the headquarters. Under Li Dian's cover, everything is going on in secret.

In order not to attract the attention of others, Zhang Yan always dressed up as Li Dian's personal soldier, so that he could enter and leave the barracks conveniently.

That day, Zhang Yan had nothing to do in the barracks, so he walked around, who knew that he just saw a group of patrolling soldiers bringing in a heavily tied man.

Zhang Yan stepped forward to ask what was going on, and the patrolling soldiers said they had caught another spy.

"Another spy has been caught? Could it be that you often catch spies?" Zhang Yan asked curiously.

"That's not true, this spy is already No. 11." The soldier replied to Zhang Yan's words while pushing the spy towards the camp.

Zhang Yan stood there, motionless, but he was thinking about the spies in his heart.

Since he came to the barracks, spies were caught almost every day for five days in a row, but all the spies caught were very stubborn, and Li Dian couldn't get any news from these spies by using both soft and hard tactics.

Zhang Yan also talked about him with soldiers in the army, asked about spies, and asked the soldiers if there were many spies before.The soldier said that there were not many spies in the past, but for some reason, these days there have been many spies, which is abnormal.

Suddenly, Zhang Yan had an idea and thought of the emissary captured by Li Dian. It seemed that after that emissary was captured, the number of spies gradually increased.

Regarding the envoy, Zhang Yan was blank, because Li Dian only wrote in the letter that he had captured an envoy from the Jiangdong Army, but did not mention the name, so Zhang Yan had no idea that the envoy was Sun Yi.Moreover, after Zhang Yan arrived at the barracks, he did not ask about the envoy.

So, Zhang Yan went to Li Dian, and after the screen retreated left and right, Zhang Yan personally asked Li Dian what the name of the envoy he had captured was.

"Sun Yi!" Li Dian replied.

When Zhang Yan heard the name Sun Yi, he was silent for a moment, and carefully searched for the name in his mind, only to be surprised to find that Sun Yi was Sun Quan's younger brother.

It's no wonder Jiangdong's spies come to Xunyang one after another, and they are here to find Sun Yi.

At that moment, Zhang Yan came up with a clever plan, and planned to use Sun Yi's affairs to make a fuss.

Later, Zhang Yan wrote a letter in the name of Yu Jin and sent someone to send it to the other side.

……

Chai Sang.

Zhou Yu waited ten miles west of Chaisang City with his subordinates, and saw an army approaching slowly in the distance. The first was a general with a red face and long beard under a large banner with the word "Guan".

Zhou Yu has already found out clearly that the commander of this army is Guan Yu, who is Liu Bei's sworn brother and has invincible courage. He is the army sent by Liu Bei this time. He came with Guan Yu, and Jingnan's Five thousand soldiers.

"There are only 5000 people. It seems that Liu Bei doesn't pay much attention to this joint operation..." Zhou Yu said secretly in his heart when he saw Guan Yu leading the army.

Before Guan Yu arrived, a scout ran to Zhou Yu's side first. After seeing Zhou Yu, he handed over a letter and said, "Xunyang urgent report!"

After hearing this, Zhou Yu immediately took the letter from the scout. After opening it, he glanced at it quickly, and immediately beamed with joy, and said happily, "That's great, that's great, God help me!"

However, after a short period of joy, Zhou Yu suddenly frowned again, looked at the contents of the letter again, and couldn't help but feel that there was something strange in it.

Zhou Yu came up with the plan to send Sun Yi to contact Yu Jin this time.

According to the plan, Sun Yi first contacted Yu Jin, and presented Sun Quan's handwritten letter drafted by Zhou Yu on his behalf. In the letter, he first praised Jin, and then offered an olive branch to Yu Jin, promising great benefits to him, and preparing to rebel against Jin. .

Of course, instigating rebellion is false, and eliminating Yu Jin is his real purpose.Zhou Yu did this to paralyze Yu Jin and gain Yu Jin's trust.

But what Zhou Yu never dreamed of was that Yu Jin offered to surrender to Sun Quan, and was willing to be the vanguard general of the Sun family, leading his troops to Pengcheng and destroying Zhang Yan for Sun Quan.Moreover, he agreed to all the conditions proposed by Zhou Yu.

Who is Zhou Yu, how could he fail to see the flaws in the letter, because the benefits he gave Yu Jin were minimal, if Yu Jin could be bought by this little benefit, then Zhang Yan would never appoint Yu Jin Yang is stationed.

In addition, Sun Yi has not returned so far, which has also become a great doubt.

Zhou Yu is more willing to trust Sun Yi than the messenger who claims to be a soldier of Yu Jin.

However, to this day, Zhou Yu still has no news of Sun Yi, and there is no news of the dozen or so spies he sent out in succession.

Zhou Yu once again looked at the letter in his hand. Although he was extremely calm on the surface, his heart was already turbulent. This letter was sent for no reason, making things confusing.

Sun Yi hasn't returned yet, was he detained by the enemy, or was there some accident?
The more Zhou Yu thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was a bit outrageous, so he turned around and gave instructions to the people around him, and sent a few spies again to secretly go to Xunyang to inquire about the news, and he must find Sun Yi's whereabouts.

At this time, Guan Yu and his army were getting closer and closer. Zhou Yu hid the letter in his hand, put the matter aside for the time being, and took people to meet Guan Yu.

After meeting each other twice, Guan Yu ordered the army to stop advancing, while he got off his horse and walked straight towards Zhou Yu.

"This general walks like a tiger, and his appearance is magnificent. If Zhou guessed correctly, the general must be Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang, Xuandegong's sworn brother, right?" Zhou Yu clasped his fists first and said.

Guan Yu stroked his long beard hanging on his chest, laughed and said, "The governor has good eyesight, so this is Guan Yunchang!"

"Sure enough, it's General Guan. It's better to meet him than to be famous. I never thought that General Guan would be so mighty and extraordinary." Zhou Yu greeted from the side.

"The chief inspector has won the award. Guan is just a warrior. It is a great honor to be praised by the chief inspector. In fact, the chief inspector is..." Guan Yu also began to flatter.

Zhou Yu and Guan Yu exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Zhou Yu and Guan Yu returned to Chaisang City together, talking and laughing along the way, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After arriving in Chaisang City, Zhou Yu ordered Guan Yu's army to be placed on one side of the barracks, and held a banquet to entertain Guan Yu warmly.

During the banquet, both Zhou Yu and Guan Yu were very polite. After drinking for three rounds, Guan Yu asked Zhou Yu when he could send troops to attack Xunyang.

Zhou Yu said that preparations are underway, and the army has not yet been dispatched. Once the army is mobilized, troops can be sent to attack Xunyang, and Guan Yu can temporarily stay in the city for a few days with peace of mind.

After the banquet was over, Zhou Yu went back to the study, wrote a reply letter to the letter sent over, and sent someone to send it to the other side.

……

Zhang Yan opened the letter sent by Zhou Yu, and after reading it, he just smiled. The whole text is more than 1000 words, but he didn't say anything substantive. He just said that it might take a few days to report the contents of the letter to Sun Quan. time.At the same time, he also asked about Sun Yi's situation.

Zhang Yan once again replied to the content of this letter. The general meaning is that Sun Yi and Yu Jin hit it off. In order to promote the friendly cooperation between the two armies, he left Sun Yi in the barracks. The daily hospitality of good wine and meat, please Zhou Yu is relieved.

For this reason, Zhang Yan also specially took something from Sun Yi's body as a token, and asked someone to pass it to Zhou Yu on the other side.

In addition, Zhang Yan made Li Dian and Sun Yi perform a good show.Of course, Sun Yi will never cooperate, the only way is to get Sun Yi drunk, let one of Li Dian's soldiers pretend to be Yu Jin, and under the escort of Li Dian, openly appear in public, showing the appearance of being drunk Come on, let those details be seen on purpose.

What Zhang Yan didn't expect was that this scene was very successful, and Li Dian contributed a lot. It's really inappropriate to pretend to be drunk while helping Sun Yi.

However, this scene was successfully performed, and the enemy's detailed work was completely seen by the enemy, so he fed back the information he saw to Zhou Yu.

……

Zhou Yu received a reply again, and after a hasty look at it, he was still a little uneasy. When he heard back about the secret work he had sent out, he was still a little skeptical.

Because, the whereabouts of the spies he sent out a few times are still unknown, so why did the spies he sent out this time have results?After thinking about it, Zhou Yu guessed that the enemy might be acting for Xizuo.Therefore, what you see with your eyes may not necessarily be real.

However, Zhou Yu can be sure that Sun Yi is indeed in the hands of the enemy, and he is in the naval camp.

Sun Yi is Sun Quan's younger brother. When Zhou Yu chose the envoy, he hesitated for a while, but Sun Yi volunteered to go. Zhou Yu couldn't stop him, so he had to hand over this task to Sun Yi.

Unexpectedly, Sun Yi would never return.

In short, no matter where Sun Yi is, Zhou Yu must try to rescue Sun Yi, because he doesn't want to see Sun Ce's younger brother die at such a young age.

That night, Zhou Yu stayed up all night, thought hard, and finally came up with a rescue plan. Then he picked up a pen and paper, began to write a reply, and sent someone to the other side of the river.

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"His Royal Highness, the troops of Chen Ying and Lu Dai have already arrived in Xunyang, and now Yu Jin is entertaining the two of them. Do you want to tell them the truth now?" Li Dian stood in the tent, facing a group of soldiers Zhang Yan said respectfully.

Zhang Yan waved his hand and said, "I don't need it for now, let's settle the matter here first. I believe, there will be another reply tonight."

As soon as the words fell, a soldier walked directly into the big tent, handed Zhou Yu's letter to Zhang Yan, and said loudly: "Reply from the other side to His Royal Highness King Yan!"

Zhang Yan smiled and said, "How is it? My guess is correct, Zhou Yu's reply really came!"

While smiling at Li Dian, he opened Zhou Yu's reply letter, and after a while, his face became gloomy.

Seeing this, Li Dian hurriedly asked, "His Royal Highness, is something wrong?"

(End of this chapter)