Chapter 854

Under the guidance of Tai Shici, Zhang Xian finally met Zhou Yu. As soon as he met, although Zhou Yu was young, he had an inexplicable demeanor and heroic temperament all over his body.

"I'm Zhang Xian in Changsha to see governor Zhou."

"Hehe, governor Zhang, please get up quickly."

Zhou Yu lifted Zhang Xian to his feet with a smile and said with a smile, "Liu Biao was not from the south of the Yangtze River, but he stole the high position of animal husbandry in Jingzhou and extorted money from the people in the south of the Yangtze River

Zhang Xian praised: "Jiangdong sun's righteous deeds have been heard of for a long time."

"Ha ha, I'll go into the city and talk about it."

Zhou Yu took Zhang Xian's hand and walked into the city of Linxiang. After some conversation, Zhang Xian finally agreed to Sun Quan's accession to Jingnan.

Zhang Xian, the county of Changsha, was the leader of the three counties in Jingnan. Since Zhang Xian has been subdued, it has become much easier to persuade the other two counties.

After persuading Zhang Xian, Zhou Yu immediately sent taishici to take Sun Quan from Yuzhang County, and left taishici to guard Yuzhang county to guard against Cao's attack.

Taishici is now the leading general in Jiangdong army, and Cao's army occupies most of Jiangdong. Only when taishici guards Yuzhang can Zhou Yu be relieved.

Outside the city of Changsha, Zhou Yu, Zhang Xian and the generals of Jiang Dong army were waiting outside the city.

In the distance, more than 1000 military horses escorted a carriage slowly, with a red water Unicorn flag on it.

"The Lord is here. I'll meet him in person."

A group of generals headed by Zhou Yu welcomed Sun Quan's chariots and horses into Linxiang City, and Sun Quan's safety was finally guaranteed.

"The Lord, if you want to own Jingnan and win the support of Jingnan army and people, you have to rely on these gentry in Jingnan. I hope the Lord can open some preferential policies to them."

Zhou Yu gave Sun Quan a hand.

Sun Quan nodded and said calmly, "Gongjin, please."

From the governor of Yuzhang County, he became the leader of Jingnan. However, Jiangdong army was not strong enough. If he wanted to get Jingnan, he had to pay some price.

"These clans are allowed to own private soldiers and purchase some land from the poor..."

every time Zhou Yu said a word, Sun Quan could not help frowning. In fact, Sun Quan had much to rely on when he was in Jiangdong. The four most famous clans in Jiangdong are Zhu Lu, Gu and Zhang. These families provide private soldiers to support the sun clan in Jiangdong in military and political terms. In exchange, Sun Quan appointed the younger generation of the four families as officials, such as Gu Yong and Zhu Huan.

However, the demands of Jingnan gentry were too much. They almost became independent small kingdoms one by one.

"My Lord, it's only a matter of time before we can clean up these gentry as long as the army is still in the hands of our army." Zhou Yu spoke to Sun Quan in a deep voice.

Sun Quan pondered for a while and sighed: "OK, promise to come down, but they want to show me as the governor of Jingnan!"

In the spring of the sixth year of Jian'an, Jiang Dong army, who was dormant in Yuzhang County, suddenly attacked Liu pansuo's headquarters which was besieging Linxiang city of Changsha County from behind. They cooperated with the garrison in the city and defeated Liu pansuo's headquarters and successfully occupied Changsha County.

In April, the prefects of Changsha County, Lingling county and Guiyang county jointly went to the imperial court and denounced Sun Quan as the governor of Jingnan.

After hearing this, Liu Biao was naturally furious and sent a large army of 30000 southward to attack Changsha.

Sun Quan took Zhou Yu, the governor of Dadu, as his generals and led 15000 troops against the Jingzhou army.

Although there were a large number of Jingzhou soldiers, Cai Mao was the leader. Naturally, Cai Mao's talent was far from being comparable with Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu designed several battles in succession and annihilated about 10000 Jingzhou soldiers before and after. Cai Mao was afraid to continue fighting with Zhou Yu.

However, even after repeated defeats, Cai Mao still had 20000 Jingzhou troops under his command, which even slightly surpassed the Jiangdong army in number. However, Cai Mao was beaten by Zhou Yu and did not dare to attack at all. This shows Zhou Yu's military talent.

Liu Biao is helpless. Cai Mao is his in laws. His concubine, Mrs. Cai, is Cai Mao's sister. When she heard that her elder brother was trapped, she naturally threw a pillow to Liu Biao all day long and begged Liu Biao to send out an army to rescue Cai Mao.

Cai Mao had no choice but to send another driver, Kuai Yue, and 5000 troops to the south to meet Cai Mao. Cai Mao responded in a hurry. Zhou Yu did not send troops to stop Cai Mao. Cai Mao was able to escape successfully.

However, this war completely broke the prestige of Jiangdong army. From then on, except Wuling County, all the other three counties in Jingnan were out of Liu Biao's control.

In addition to the land and population of the three counties, the Jingzhou army also lost tens of thousands of people.

The news soon reached Luoyang.

"Governor of Jingnan?"

"It was Liu Biao's ambition that he led his troops to the north to invade the territory of the imperial court for many times. My Lord Sun qiuni was very angry at Liu Jingsheng's treacherous behavior, so he sent troops to attack Liu Biao."

Lu Su said: "my Lord is loyal to the imperial court. Now he has done a good job in attacking Liu Biao's traitors. All the prefects in Jingnan county can see it in their eyes. Please allow me to invite the governor of Jingnan."Liu Ye nodded without expression: "well, this matter needs to be discussed with the staff in the government. Zijing can go to live in the post house temporarily."

"In that case, I'll leave."

Lu Su no longer bothers Liu Ye, but gets up and retreats.

As soon as Lu Su went out, Xun you said in a deep voice: "I can't imagine that Sun Quan's children have only one Yuzhang county. They even attacked the three counties in Jingnan. The plot is not small."

"Sun Quan is just a child, but Zhou Yu can't be underestimated." Liu Ye said slowly.

"General, don't you agree with Sun Quan's request to be governor of Jingnan." Guo Jia said.

"Oh? Try to talk about filial piety. " Liu Ye said.

"On the one hand, when Cao Cao attacked Jiangdong, the sun family and Cao Cao in Jiangdong were enemies of life and death, and their hatred was almost irreconcilable. If Sun Quan was the governor of Jingnan, Sun Quan's strength would grow and he would certainly be the enemy of Cao's army. The enemy of the enemy would be our ally."

"On the other hand, Liu Biao attacked our county many times before, and the military front pointed directly to Nanyang. If Sun Quan ruled Jingnan, Liu Biao and Sun Quan must have been engaged in a seesaw battle all the year round. In this way, Liu Biao would not care about fighting with our army, and would continue to consume power. It would be easy for our army to take over Jingzhou

Guo Jia talked with a lot of words.

Liu Ye clapped his hands and laughed: "the words of filial piety are reasonable. It seems that we can't even canonize Sun Quan as the governor of Jingnan."

Jia Xu said with a smile: "in this case, you might as well give Sun Quan a big gift and appoint him as the general of the southern expedition and take charge of the right of crusade?"

The general of the four towns and the general of the four expeditions had great power and had the power to attack the four sides. Thus, Sun Quan's intention to send troops to attack Liu Biao was naturally more justified.

In June of the sixth year of Jian'an, the imperial court conferred Sun Quan as the governor of Jingnan and marched on the southern general.