Speak down,

Seeing Zhou Yu's expression calm, Sun Ce couldn't help but look at Zhou Yu and said suspiciously: "Gongjin, what do you mean?"

Zhou Yu chuckled, elegant and handsome, and said loudly: "Lord, it's still ten days before the beginning of the moon. You can send someone to spread rumors, and say that Zhang Xiu and the Sun family are in marriage. At the beginning of the moon, they will go to Yangzhou to welcome the marriage."

"As long as you spread these, even if Zhang Xiu wants to come out, he will be concerned about the eyes of the world. In this way, it will not be that easy for him to slip away under our noses."

As he said that, Zhou Yu held his arms empty and his five fingers slightly clenched.

Listening to Zhou Yu's words, Lu Su pondered a little, and using rumors to guide him was indeed effective, but it just depends on whether Zhang Xiu was on the trap.

I'm afraid this guy won't dare to come then.

Zhou Yusheng continued, "In addition, there are dozens of miles apart from the agreed location of Chaisang Water Village. If Zhang Xiu wants to get here, there are only three waterways that are convenient for access."

"But there are small islands along the other two roads, which are convenient for setting up ambush. I think Zhang Xiu would only choose the middle road. Our army's water camp is only twenty miles away. After Zhang Xiu passed by, countless boats and boats would be sent to cut off their backs."

"As for the shore, the lord can bury thousands of soldiers in the dense forests on both sides. My Jiangdong soldiers are all through many battles and are definitely not inferior to Zhang Xiu's elite armor. They can surround and kill them at any time after Zhang Xiu passes."

"As for the ruined temple, the lord can greet him outside. There are dead soldiers in our army hidden in the temple. However, in order to allow Zhang Xiu to enter the temple, Xiangxiang may also need to come forward to guide him."

Sun Ce frowned and said in a deep voice: "But what if Zhang Xiu hijacked his younger sister?"

Zhou Yu smiled gently: "Lord, don't worry too much. Just let Zhang Xiu know that Xiangxiang is in the temple. Moreover, there is a back door in this dilapidated temple. After you are invited to get into the vessel, Xiangxiang can escape."

"As long as Zhang Xiu enters this dilapidated temple, he will find it difficult to escape. Even if he rushed out regardless of casualties, he will find it difficult to survive along the way."

"What's more, even if he can retreat to the warship by chance, his warship will have no way out and will definitely lose."

Zhou Yu talked broadly, and he asked himself that this was almost a net of heaven and earth. Unless Zhang Xiu could have three heads and six arms, there would be no possibility of breaking out of the siege.

Sun Ce frowned and thought for three breaths, and nodded, "Then let me follow Gongjin's words, I have sent someone to Wujun to pick up my younger sister. I guess Xiangxiang will arrive in another three to five days."

"Okay, let me leave the rumors to Zijing to handle. The three armies will be fully arranged by Gongjin."

"No!" The two of them clasped their fists and responded in unison.

......

A few days later, in Xiangyang City.

In the military camp, Zhang Xiu was taking his personal guards to train the use of the Divine Arm Crossbow, and how to form a small crossbow formation, just like the flintlock rifle in later generations.

In addition to the Divine Arm Crossbow, the five hundred pairs of steel armor and the battle helmet were also neatly placed in the camp. I saw that the battle helmet was specially added to the face armor, which was composed of steel bars.

There is a gap between each of these steel bars, but this gap is less than one finger wide, which is a little annoying, but it's not bad.

This batch of steel armor and battle helmets were started to be built after Zhang Xiu developed the steel, but the process of forging armor was not very skillful, and the connection between armor was very complicated.

Moreover, it is difficult to leave holes between the armor, so they can only be chiseled and polished by rivets. Of course, it is mainly because Zhang Xiu pursues steel armor.

Ordinary armor usually comes with cowhide and all kinds of iron sheets. First, the thickness of the iron sheet is generally easy to perforate and polish, and second, the hardness of the iron is not as hard as steel, making it easy to use.

As Hu Cheer shouted out the assembly, the five hundred elite armors were arranged neatly at an extremely fast speed.

These five hundred people were Zhang Xiu's personal guards, all selected from the three armies. At least one can fight against five, and the elite level can be imagined.

These five hundred people had a lot of blood on their hands, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they had experienced many battles.

Zhang Xiu wore a strong armor, held the sword, his spine was straight, and his tiger eyes glanced at everyone.

He couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "You are all selected from the elite soldiers of the three armies. I am the best equipped sword, the most sharp spear, the most strong armor, and the thickest shield."

"I just hope that you can attack and overcome them, defend them, and you will be strong, and you will be invincible and unstoppable, can you do it?"

"Drink, drink, drink!"

Wu Bairen's voice was like thunder, which scared the birds to avoid it.

"Okay, you can wear armor and knives from the first batch of steel armor created by the Blacksmith Camp." Zhang Xiu pointed to the neatly arranged steel armor not far away and shouted in a deep voice.

"No!" The three armies shouted together and immediately acted quickly.

Hundreds of people approached Cheng Liang's steel armor, and their eyes lit up. The steel armor was probably not afraid of ordinary swords and arrows. When they touched the thickness, there were only a few such steel armor in the entire man.

You should know that steel is still a matter of making steel after hundreds of tempering, and it is even more difficult to piece together the armor after hundreds of tempering.

Several qualified blacksmiths wanted to build a pair of steel armor, and it would probably take several years or even ten years to build it. There is no way, armor is countless times more difficult than knife.

Even if ordinary generals wear pure steel armor, they are not pure steel armor. They can only get some steel blocks in their heart protection mirrors, which is already very luxurious.

The armor was very fast, followed by the battle helmet.

The battle helmet is a bit slender and long, and it can perfectly protect the neck with armor. The facial armor made of steel strips invisibly adds a little coldness.

On the side of the steel armor, there is a gap in the belt to hang a sword.

There is a gap behind the belt to hang crossbow arrows.

At this time, the five hundred armored soldiers wore armor, with a horizontal knife on their waist, and a divine arm crossbow hanging behind them. They were equipped with a long spear in their hands. However, it was not very similar to a spear, but it looked like a spear, but it was slightly shorter in length.

Hu Cheer looked down at her clothes and smiled silly. This armor was gorgeous, but the only thing that was a little bad was that it was a little heavy.

It is estimated that the weight of the things worn on the body, as well as the spear and armor, is probably no less than thirty or forty kilograms. If ordinary soldiers wear this weight, it will probably be useless in less than a quarter of an hour.

Fortunately, these soldiers are all elites in a hundred, and their physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people.

"It's not bad!" Zhang Xiu came with his sword, looked at these people, and nodded quite satisfied.

"Lord, you can't be invulnerable to war with this thing?" Hu Cheer smiled and said, "It's just a little heavy."

"It's impossible to be invulnerable to swords and guns, and there's never an absolute weapon of war. But these armors can avoid the stabbing of ordinary spears, spears, and some stray arrows are hard to break."

"However, the disadvantage is that the action is slightly blocked and the physical exhaustion is increased. Moreover, these armors are afraid of blunt weapons, such as the elves under Yuan Shao's command, or some big swords and hammers."

Zhang Xiu said with a serious expression.

These shortcomings are obvious. Of course, steel armor is still a powerful tool. This time, Zhang Xiu doesn't mind being exposed in advance whether he can win Yangzhou.

"Okay, in the next few days, you will need to adapt to water combat and strengthen marching and running." Zhang Xiu said to everyone.

"Hu'er, please take them to run twenty laps around the school grounds. After the run, you will take them to various ships to adapt to the fluctuations on the river surface."

"After doing these, go and run for ten laps before nightfall." Zhang Xiu spoke and arranged that these soldiers had also trained warships and horses, but they needed to adapt more this time.

"No!" Hu Cheer responded with a heavy emphasis.

He knew that he would have to go to Yangzhou in a few days, and they had more training before, but today he was ready to use armor to adapt.

I think Zhang Xiu’s preparation this time will definitely be foolproof.

Just as Hu Cheer led everyone away, Jia Xu carried his skirt and pants, with a slightly anxious expression, rushed over quickly and whispered:

"Lord, there are rumors everywhere in the streets and alleys that you have married Sun and have made friendships together. You will set the wedding date and get married at the beginning of the month. Then the lord will go to Yangzhou to marry Sun."

Zhang Xiu frowned and couldn't help but think.

He and Sun will inevitably break up. Now that they are promoting these things, they are obviously done by the Eastern Wu, Zhang Xiu couldn't help but say, "Did Sun Ce do these?"

"Master, I'm afraid I'm going to be with you."

"Haha, it's probably Zhou Gongjin's actions again. It seems that he is ready to surround me this time." Zhang Xiu snorted coldly, his expression quite cold.

"Lord, Sun Ce's army is ready this time, why don't you go to Yangzhou for the time being?" Jia Xu said with a little hesitation and a little worried.

Zhang Xiu waved his hand, and he had to grab the other party's handle, otherwise Zhuge Liang would have to lose his verbal words when he acted rashly, but he had thought of a countermeasure in the past few days.

"Wenhe, isn't it a chance to marry Sun this time?" Zhang Xiu's eyes slid, and a trace of viciousness flashed in his eyes.

"What does lord mean?" Jia Xu raised his eyebrows.

"Since you have to go, you naturally need to prepare. Since Zhou Yu is preparing to siege and kill me, he will naturally mobilize the three armies of the water to siege and siege to siege and siege."

"In this case, it's better to use our plan and then take another wave of firewood from the cauldron. What do you think?" Zhang Xiu curled a sneer on the corner of his mouth and looked at Jia Xu and said solemnly.

"Take off the firewood from the cauldron?" Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

He is a wise man in the world, how could he not know what Zhang Xiu meant? He couldn't help but lit up and said anxiously: "Lord, are you talking about sending people to capture Pengze camp while Zhou Yu was dispatching troops to surround and kill?"

"Haha, that's right. Didn't he, Zhou Yu, want to take me? Then I'll assemble all the navy troops in Jingzhou, use the water frog to open the way and lurk on the north side. After the enemy's movements, I will attack his water camp with all my strength."

"I thought that the water camp was short of troops and could win in one battle, so that we could go down the river. In other words, even if our army was difficult to capture in a short time, we could force Sun Ce to lead the army back to defense and thus rescue the siege."

Zhang Xiu smiled gently and explained.

The key to this trip was not his side. His side was mainly to cooperate with Zhuge Liang, because only when he went to Yangzhou could most people pay attention.

This reduces Jiangbei’s defense vigilance.

Jia Xu pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Lord, this plan is feasible."

If it is other princes, this plan is too risky because the information is not transmitted in time, and there is no such good skill as the frogman and the water ghost.

But Zhang Xiu is different. He can mobilize the three armies dozens of miles away, so that Zhang Xiu can calmly command the three armies to capture Pengze Water Village.

"But lord, when you go to Yangzhou this time, be careful. You can bring five tower ships, hundreds of other ships and more than five thousand armors." Jia Xu said in a deep voice.

Zhang Xiu chuckled, not saying anything.

Five thousand people or many, but he was planning to draw 3,000 Xuanwei Army to accompany him and bring some Jingzhou naval troops.

"Oh by the way, Mi Zhu was looking for his lord before, saying that the shops of each state and county were preparing to start the first month, and the same lord was opened when they married. Now the Mi family is already transporting cloth."

Jia Xu suddenly remembered and said.
To be continued...