Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 318
"Gentlemen, I spotted several enemy fast boats ahead, coming towards us, and then turned back." A sergeant walked into the cabin, clasped his fists and said to Zhuge Liang and Lu Su.

Zhuge Liang's hand holding the wine glass froze in mid-air, sighed softly, waved his hand to let the sergeant back down, drank the wine in the glass, and said to Lu Su: "Zijing, I'm afraid it's a waste of time tonight. If someone finds out, they must evacuate immediately."

Lu Su opened his mouth, unable to speak for a moment, he also knew that the situation was urgent, since he was discovered by the enemy, the enemy navy would arrive soon, so Lu Su immediately ordered to evacuate.

In Li Song's camp, a personal guard ran into the big tent, knelt down on one knee, cupped his fists and saluted, "Report to the prime minister! The fast boat returns! We found that the enemy has twenty warships, and there are many straw men on board, only thirty sergeant."

With a wave of Li Song's hand, the guards backed out, and the generals looked at Li Song. Just after hearing the description from the guards, Li Song knew that it was undoubtedly the straw boat borrowing arrows.

"Prime Minister! Please, Prime Minister, quickly order the navy to attack and destroy the enemy's warship." Yu Jin clasped his fists and saluted.

"No! Zhuge Liang is full of tricks. He sent these twenty warships to lure our navy to attack. The purpose may be an ambush. We have to guard against it. No one is allowed to act without permission. Anyone who resists will be killed!" Li Song said.

If Zhuge Liang borrowed less than [-] arrows, he would be executed by Zhou Yu when he returned. There was no need to do it himself. Zhou Yu wanted Zhuge Liang's life more than himself, so let them eat dogs.

"Okay! You all go down!" Li Song said to the generals, the generals retreated, and Li Song hurriedly ordered the spies to go to Jiangzuo to inquire about the news.

Back at Jiangzuo, Zhuge Liang and Lu Su got off the boat and landed. Lu Su sighed and said, "It's been three days now! Kong Ming! You don't have a single arrow, but what do you do?"

Zhuge Liang laughed loudly and said, "Zijing, don't worry! I have my own plan. I can get [-] arrows. Just wait and see."

Lu Su was puzzled, and when he was about to ask, he saw another twenty warships that were exactly the same as them, the difference being that the scarecrows on the boats were full of arrows.

The warship docked slowly to the shore, and a person got off the warship. This person was Cao Zhi, Cao Zijian, the fourth brother of Cao Ang. Cao Zhi got off the warship and came to Zhuge Liang. Military advisor, Cao Zhi is lucky to live up to his fate! I borrowed [-] arrows."

"Okay! The fourth son has worked hard! Please go back and rest first." Zhuge Liang said, Cao Zhi bowed his hands and left the place.

"Kong Ming! Don't tell me you've figured it out a long time ago, and now you're dividing up your troops and going to borrow arrows?" Lu Su asked.

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Gongjin asked me to complete this task in ten days, and the craftsmen and materials were not good enough. They imposed this crime on me. They obviously wanted to kill me. My life depends on the sky. How could Jin harm me!"

After hearing this, Lu Su bowed down. Not long after, five hundred troops sent by Zhou Yu said to Zhuge Liang and the two of them: "You two gentlemen, the governor ordered me to come and fetch arrows. I wonder if one hundred thousand arrows can be made?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to the warship that Cao Zhi had brought back, and said to them, "Get on the boat and get it yourself, and you can get more than [-] branches, all of which will be moved into the tent of the Chinese army and handed over to the governor."

"Promise!" The five hundred soldiers responded, and immediately went to pull out the arrows one by one from the scarecrow on the warship, trapped many bundles, and carried them to the camp of the Chinese army.

Lu Su immediately went to see Zhou Yu and told Zhou Yu about Kong Ming taking the arrow.Zhou Yu was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that he wanted to kill Zhuge Liang, but unexpectedly he made Zhuge Liang's reputation.

Zhou Yu was unwilling, but he had to admit it, and sighed: "Kong Ming is so clever, I am really not as good as him!"

After a while, after Zhuge Liang went back to freshen up, he entered the stronghold to meet Zhou Yu.Zhou Yu got down from the tent to greet each other, and said with admiration, "Mr. is admirable for his calculations."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "It's a tricky little trick, it's nothing to worry about."

Zhou Yu invited Zhuge Liang to drink together.Zhou Yu said: "Yesterday my lord sent an envoy to urge the supervisor to march. Yu didn't come up with a trick. I hope you can teach me."

Zhuge Liang said: "Liang is just a mediocre talent, how could he have any clever plans?"

Zhou Yu said: "I watched Li Song's Water Village yesterday. It was very strict and law-abiding, and I couldn't wait to attack it. After thinking about it for a day, I finally came up with a plan. I just don't know if it will work. I hope that the master can make a decision for me."

Zhuge Liang said: "The governor should not say it, we each write it in the palm of our hand, and see if it is the same method."

Zhou Yu was overjoyed, and shouted: "Teach me to fetch a brush and inkstone quickly." After a while, someone came with a brush and ink.

Zhou Yu secretly wrote it in the palm of his hand first, but then gave it to Zhuge Liang; Zhuge Liang also secretly wrote a word in the palm of his hand.The two moved closer to the couch, each with the words in their palms, looked at each other, and laughed.It turns out that the character in Zhou Yu's palm is the word "fire", and the character in Kong Ming's palm is also the word "fire".

Zhou Yu said: "Since the two of us see the same thing, I have no more doubts. I hope you don't let it out."

Zhuge Liang naturally understood what Zhou Yu said, but he didn't point it out. Zhuge Liang said, "There is no reason to leak the official affairs of the two families. I guess that although Li Song is being tricked by me, maybe he won't guard against it. Now the governor can do it boldly." After drinking, the generals didn't know what happened.

The spies sent the news back to Li Song's camp in Jiangbei. Li Song asked, "Is it true? Did you lie to me?"

"Report to the Prime Minister! This matter is absolutely true! I personally confirm it, I dare not lie to the Prime Minister, so please ask the Prime Minister to learn from it." The spies said.

"Okay! I already know about this, you go down to receive the reward first!" Li Song said to the spy.

"No!" The spies saluted with fists in their hands, got up and exited the big tent, very happy in his heart, and went to receive the reward after leaving the big tent.

Li Song thought to himself, this Zhuge Liang is really fateful, so he won't die like this, how did he know that he couldn't borrow arrows from himself, instead he borrowed [-] arrows from other places.

Originally, he wanted to use Zhou Yu's knife to kill Zhuge Liang. This would probably cause Cao Ang and others to be dissatisfied with Soochow, which would lead to a big fight between the two sides, so that he could reap the benefits.

It's a pity that everything has come to naught now. If I knew this was the case, I would have sent sailors to keep them all. It's too late to say anything now. Fortunately, my plan will be implemented in the next few days .

Once this plan is successful!Then the Jiangdong Navy can be defeated. At that time, Soochow will become meat on the felt board, ready to be slaughtered.

After the straw boat borrowed arrows, they will implement the plan of attacking with fire!With me here, how could the historical tragedy of burning Chibi and losing Huarong Road repeat itself. This time I will cross the river and capture Chaisang.

(End of this chapter)