Chapter 470 Strategy to Defeat Wu

Chapter 470 Strategy to Defeat Wu

Facing Ma Su's teasing, Zhuge Jin was choked and speechless for a while. Especially seeing Ma Su's attitude, he felt that there was little hope for his mission.

Ma Su guessed correctly, Zhuge Jin was indeed sent by Sun Quan to reconcile.

Although Sun Quan had signed an alliance with Cao Wei, he had no intention of breaking up with Ji Han immediately. After all, with Ji Han's relationship with him and the current progress of the Northern Expedition, he might be attacked before the Eastern Expedition.

And so far, although Ji Han's offensive is fierce, the national power is still not as good as Cao Wei. If Sun Quan is really serious about working with Cao Wei to deal with Ji Han, if Ji Han can't stand it anymore, it will be Cao Wei who takes advantage.

Sun Quan's ideal situation is that Ji Han and Cao Wei are evenly matched, and then both plan to win over him to increase their advantage. And he, the overlord of the southeast, can therefore take advantage of both sides.

He could even use this as an opportunity to complete his unfinished mission of becoming emperor again.

It's a good idea, but obviously Ma Su doesn't agree with this. He directly showed off his cards to Zhuge Jin, "Stop dreaming, we have nothing to talk about."

Ma Su's current identity is a general of chariots and cavalry, a prince and a tutor, and the successor of Zhuge Liang. This pillar of Ji Han's army had this attitude, and Zhuge Jin guessed that it was unlikely that anyone else would be convinced.

For a moment, Zhuge Jin planned to turn around and return to Soochow immediately, instead of continuing to ink here.

But after some hesitation, Zhuge Jin still shook his head and said to Ma Di,

"It's not certain whether I can be persuaded or not. I hope to go to Chengdu to have an interview with the Emperor of Han."

"It's up to you." Ma Su rolled his eyes, but quickly reacted and looked at Zhuge Jin curiously.

"That's not right. If you want to go to Chengdu, why don't you just go up the Yangtze River? Why did you come to Nanyang? Isn't this a detour?"

If you want to go to Chengdu, just go up the river from Jiangling and you can reach Chengdu in less than ten days. If you come to Nanyang, you can only walk to Hanzhong, and then make a long circle to Chengdu.

What is Zhuge Jin trying to do? .

Facing this inquiry, Zhuge Jin looked increasingly embarrassed. Then he explained hesitantly, and then Ma Su knew what was going on.

Because Soochow could not break through Xiang Chong's blockade, the barbarian rebellion instigated in Wuling was suppressed by their own barbarian king. After some calculations, Soochow frantically hid the warriors as envoys and pretended to come for peace talks in a small boat, trying to break through Xiang Chong's blockade.

Xiang Chong did suffer a big loss from this, and Yi Dao was almost defeated by Soochow because of this. Fortunately, Soochow's land battle failed. After the naval forces pressed into the city, they were beaten violently by the Han army, and the Han army burned the ships in the middle of the night. Only then did Soochow's invasion be repelled.

Obviously, the war was not going smoothly in Ma Su's absence. Many battle reports show that everything is going smoothly, but in fact there are many dangerous twists and turns.

As a result, because of this, Xiang Chong began to blockade the Yangtze River indiscriminately. All ships coming from the east, no matter who they are, are treated as spies.

What, are you a Confucian scholar who wants to cross the border? Not even animals!

Zhuge Jin was almost shot to death by Xiang Chong and was forced to take a detour to Nanyang.

Now Ma Su lost his temper. After hearing Zhuge Jin's explanation, he could only give him a thumbs up.

"Soochow's troops come up with clever tricks frequently, I admire them!"

"Next time Ziyu comes back, he must stand on the bow of the boat and shout to identify himself, otherwise I might sink the boat for you too."

Under Ma Su's ridicule and yin and yang, Zhuge Jin felt extremely embarrassed. But he still bit the bullet and asked Ma Su to come, hoping to go to Chengdu to meet Liu Chan.

"Alas...Brother Ziyu is a great talent, and his loyalty is astonishing, but he fell into the trap of a thief."

Ma Su sighed and finally agreed to let Zhuge Jin pass.

But even if he is allowed to pass, Ma Su can be sure that he will return without success. Because even if what he said was reasonable and Liu Chan and even Fei Yi recognized it, it would not be of any use.

Because it was Zhuge Liang who made the decision to break off diplomatic relations with Soochow and completely break up the relationship and start a war!

In fact, Zhuge Liang personally made a decision to break up with Soochow immediately after the Northern Expedition to Chang'an, and immediately began preparations for the expedition to Wu. This decision surprised Ma Su extremely, because this really does not seem like Zhuge Liang's character.

However, Zhuge Liang's attitude towards this was more decisive than Ma Di's, which also made Ma Di feel that the Prime Minister had not actually forgotten the hatred of Yiling in the past... He even said that the Prime Minister should hate Soochow more than anyone else in the court.

It's just that he has always put the overall situation first, and that's why he has tolerated Soochow's arrogance until now.

I was often melancholy at the foot of Jiuyi Mountain, and I once promised that I would be a fish in the water.

In the third year of Zhang Wu's reign, the water lost its fish, and from then on the waves were clear without ripples.

All in all, under the premise of this grand strategic direction, Zhuge Jin's words are useless. Instead, Ma Di should be busy at this moment and prepare a strategy for Li Hui to defeat Wu.

"Speaking of which, how is our mainland governor's life lately?" Thinking of this, Ma Su suddenly remembered Lu Xun, the current governor of Soochow.

Because Lu Xun provoked Ma Di during the Han army's eastern expedition, saying that he ordered Ma Liang to be intercepted and killed. Ma Su didn't have any trouble in his heart, but he lightly prepared some small gifts for Lu Xun.

After such a long time, I don’t know how far this little gift has fermented.

"When I think about it, it seems like I don't have any less things to do."

He was encouraged to flee from famine, made a strategy to defeat Wu, and planned another surprise attack on Luoyang. It was almost not enough for him to do.

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At this moment, Lu Xun, whom Ma Su missed, was in Jiangling. And thanks to Ma Su, his life in the past few years can be said to be very bad.

Ever since Zhuge Liang's eastward expedition a few years ago and the Yi Dao defeated the Wu army, Lu Xun had sensed something was wrong. People in Jingyang began to spread rumors about Lu Xun one after another, and as time went by, they became more and more obvious.

There are rumors that Lu Xun is actually the illegitimate son of Sun Jian and his wife, who secretly had an affair with each other and stayed in the Lu family. Because of this, Sun Quan colluded with Lu Xun to exile the Lu family in order to put him in power.

At the same time, there were also rumors that he secretly spoke ill of Sun Quan. Although he was an illegitimate son of the Sun family, he always regarded himself as the head of the Lu family and looked down upon Sun Quan.

Almost every rumor of these things is based on some unspeakable things about Lu Xun. In the end, he didn't say anything bad about Lu Xun, but as soon as he thought about it, Lu Xun became a filial piety, loyalty, propriety, justice and shame, a bastard who had nothing to do with it.

Especially as these rumors spread more and more widely, many wealthy officials in Soochow who did not like Lu Xun also used this as an excuse to attack Lu Xun. And it is precisely because of this that more people believe the rumor.

Even Lu Ji, a member of the same clan, began to doubt him, which made Lu Xun unable to defend himself.

"Grand Governor! The Supreme Lord has a letter for you."