Sun Quan sat upright, pulled up his wrinkled robe, and asked in a low voice: "Don't worry about Jiangxia's cavalry. We in Jiangdong are good at naval forces. I just want to know how many naval forces Jiangxia has."

"Well... although Fa Xiaozhi treated me warmly, he did not trust me with the truth about the military situation. However, Li Yi led his fleet to report in the middle of the way. In addition, there are many warships at Jiangxia pier, so the number of naval forces should not be small.

." Zhuge Jin replied.

"Li Yi is the lieutenant general in charge of Jiaozhou Navy?"

"It should be him."

Sun Quan stroked his beard and guessed, "The navy in Jiaozhou is only a few thousand, and Lantian has sent them all to Jiangxia. It should be to prevent us from making a comeback?"

"Uh... I don't know about my humble position, but Lantian is full of tricks, and our past intelligence may not be true..." Zhuge Jin analyzed.

Sun Quan took a breath, Zhuge Jin's unintentional words made him feel scared. Maybe he had received wrong information, which made Lan Tian so hungry, so he sighed: "What Ziyu said is true, but it's just that he didn't even

If the law is correct, Xu Shu can't even take charge. I don't know when the captives will be returned..."

"Perhaps we have to wait until the Xiangfan war is over..." Zhuge Jin smiled helplessly.

Sun Quan gently waved his hand and signaled Zhuge Jin to leave: "Tzuyu has worked hard all the way, go back and rest first..."

"Wei." Zhuge Jin stood up and saluted. When he stepped back, he accidentally stepped on the wine glass thrown by Sun Quan and almost stumbled. Finally, he leaned over to pick up the glass and placed it gently on the table next to him.

"The matter has come to this, so we can only deal with it well and not get too angry..." Zhuge Jin bowed again.

"Hey, it's not Luling's troubles..." Sun Quan sighed.

Zhuge Jin was about to leave when he heard this and stood still, "Hasn't the bandit King Jin been wiped out yet? General Ding, he can't, right?"

"Humph, Ding Feng's qualifications are still low. He was fooled around by Wang Jin in Nanye. Although the bandits returned to Guiyang, Yu Zhongxiang's whole family was taken hostage and demanded a ransom of 50 million yuan, otherwise he would have to pay a ransom of 50 million yuan.

Damn it, these real bandits are more ruthless than Xuan Owl..." After Sun Quan said this, he handed Lu Dai's letter to Zhuge Jin.

The letter said that after Ding Feng left Gan County, he fought and won in succession and chased Wang Jin to Tailing Mountain on the upper reaches of the Yuzhang River and besieged him. Yu Fan followed closely and took his family to settle in Nanye County. Tailing Mountain was densely covered with vegetation and many snakes and insects.

Ding Feng was afraid of ambushes and did not dare to go into the mountains to suppress rats and ants, so he stayed at the main road at the foot of the mountain for several days. As a result, the garrison who stayed in Nanye came to report that their food and grass in the county town had been burned, and the county magistrate Yu turned over more than ten members of his family.

All were taken away.

Ding Feng was shocked when he heard the news and led his troops back to rescue Nanye. As a result, the bandits who had retreated reversed their direction and looted Gan County and Yudu County. They did not rob the people but only attacked the government offices, causing several counties to be paralyzed. The bandits

Fighting to support fighting, he jumped back and forth across the Gan River, causing Ding Feng to be exhausted in the rear. The bandit leader Wang Jin led his troops to harass the rear, and staged a drama of a mantis stalking a cicada and an oriole behind. During this period, Ding Feng lost track of him.

Yu Fan and his family.

After fighting for more than ten days, the two groups of bandits joined forces and fled to Guiyang County along the Yuzhang River. Ding Feng was angry and pursued him into Guiyang County. Unfortunately, he encountered the Guiyang garrison in Qujiang. Ding Feng and the envoy

The young general who painted the halberd fought twenty times and was unable to win, and finally retreated to Luling because the opponent increased his troops. Later, Wang Jin sent people to sneak into Nanye secretly, and the archery book went to Ding Feng's camp to demand ransom.

Zhuge Jin was confused after reading the letter and thought to himself, is this still the Ding Feng in my memory? Although he comes from a poor family, he has rich combat experience, so he won't be teased like this, right?

In fact, among the thousands of bandits that Wang Jin brought to Luling, he was the only leader who was the real bandit. The "little minions" were the barbarians that Lan Yuan rushed to Longchuan to borrow from Samoko, and the "leader" in the army was Lu.

The teaching veterans of the Tiejiao Martial Arts Hall, as well as the veterans of the reconnaissance camp around Song Chen.

Lu Dai withdrew his troops pretending to be Shanyue from Longchuan. Shamoko secretly dispatched half of the barbarians to Guiyang according to Lan Yuan's previous instructions, and finally met Ding Feng in Qujiang.

Before leaving, Lan Tian only asked Lan Yuan to ensure the stability of Jiaozhou, but did not give him an order to attack Luling, so he took the loot (Yu Fan) and returned to Guangzhou. When Lan Yuan communicated with Zhao Shuang at Guangzhou Academy

, Junjie, who probably knew Jiangdong's profound knowledge, heard that Yu Fan was actually in Nanye County, so he staged the drama of kidnapping by bandits, which was like hunting down rabbits.

"This does not seem to be the work of bandits, and with General Ding's martial arts, how could he be stopped by an unknown young general? When did such a person appear in Guiyang?" Zhuge Jin asked in confusion.

Sun Quan shook his head, "Humph, God knows... I tried so hard to find out the generals around Lantian, but who would have thought that a young general would appear in Guiyang? As for the authenticity of the bandits, we don't know. They are so powerful that they can't be defeated.

I don’t know what to say about Xi Zhen’s soldiers..."

Zhuge Jin sympathized with Ding Feng's experience. He had many military exploits, but his promotion was very slow due to his poor family background. This time, he failed in Luling. It would take him many years to be promoted to general.

Four armies attacked Jingzhou. Lu Xun's army suffered the least damage and returned to Chaisang. Jiang Qin's army suffered the most damage and was almost wiped out. The remaining prisoners were mainly those of Lu Meng, Pan Zhang and other generals. The Jiangdong nobles had money and were unwilling to do so.

It was not in their interests to redeem people from General Huaisi. This kind of transaction was detrimental to themselves and others.

Sun Quan repeatedly sent people to negotiate during this period, and he finally chose to make some concessions. First, he promised to distribute some of the redeemed tribes to the noble generals, and secondly, he was willing to promote a group of noble generals to give the Jiangdong nobles a say in the military attache group.

In mid-December, Sun Quan received a personal letter from Cao Cao, honoring his invitation to attack Jiangxia in response to the Battle of Xiangfan, and asked him for detailed news about Lantian.

While Sun Quan expressed his bitterness to Cao Cao, he assembled 30,000 naval troops with Zhou Tai as general and advanced to E County, intending to take advantage of the situation and pressure Jingzhou to return the prisoners of war.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month of the 25th year of Jian'an, Lantian's fleet arrived at the agreed-upon Jiangxin Island, which is halfway between Jiangxia and E County and where the Yangtze River turns south (near today's Tuanfeng County, Huanggang City)

Sun Quan had been waiting for this negotiation for a long time. He pointed to the people on the big ship to the north, turned to Zhuge Jin and said: "The former ruffian in the market has now transformed into a state shepherd. Ziyu, please talk to him for me first. If we talk,

If you don’t agree, I’ll show up again.”

"Only." Zhuge Jin bowed and responded.

The two parties docked and disembarked as agreed, each brought ten guards ashore, and chose a flat place to discuss.

Zhuge Jin was followed by Zhou Tai, and Lan Tian was followed by Gan Ning. The two of them looked at each other as soon as they met, with sharp and fierce eyes as if they were going to eat each other up.

"General Lan, you are polite." Zhuge Jin bowed his hands and saluted. Because he had a very different official position from Lan Tian and represented the victim, he was the first to lower his posture.

Lan Tian raised his hand and returned the greeting: "Mr. Ziyu is polite, are you the one talking to me today?"

"My lord has been caught in the wind and cold. Now he is resting on the big ship. How about we try to talk first?" Zhuge Jin asked.

"Of course it's no problem. It's business anyway, just negotiate the price." Lan Tian smiled slightly.

"Uh... the general's price is too high. Can you please consider reducing it? Jiangdong has been harassed by Shanyue all year round. In addition, disasters occur frequently in various parts of Yangzhou. There is not much money left in the treasury..."

"My price is too high, but life is priceless. If General Sun had not betrayed the alliance, how could we be in this situation now? Besides, we need some compensation, mainly to pay for the soldiers who died in the war. Mr. Ziyu said it was too expensive... Today

This negotiation is..."

Before Zhuge Jin finished complaining, he was blinded by Lantian's three-point axe. He quickly waved his hand and said: "It's not too expensive, it's not too expensive. For the sake of Kong Ming, can the general make some concessions so that I can be here?"
Chapter completed!