Chapter 838: Zhou Yu Enters the Government

With Huangfu Chaobo's order, everyone in the An Dong army began to get busy. After careful discussion, Huang Zhong and the other three generals decided to leave 5,000 soldiers in Xinxi and Fubo, and 10,000 soldiers in Xincai, led by Huang Zhong to defend against possible crossing of the river by Yuan Shu's army. The rest of the troops will temporarily gather to march to Shen County. After capturing Shen County, they will attack the eastern cities of Runan.

Now, the foreign coalition led by Zongheng Tianxia has captured Xiyang and is preparing to rest for a few days before attacking Song. After several months of fighting, only six counties in Runan, namely Song, Xinyang, Yilu, Sishan, Chengfu and Shansang, are still in the hands of Yuan Shu's army.

As for the other cities that have been captured in Runan, except for Gushi and Xiyang, which are still in the hands of players, the rest of the cities have been handed over to the control of Yuzhou Army.

Xun You has already rushed to Yingchuan Yangdi under the escort of a hundred soldiers of the Iron Wall Camp. He will first go to persuade Kong Jun, and then wait in Yangdi for Huangfu Chaobo to return with his personal guards, and then return to Luoyang together after the reunion.

As for whether this trip will be successful, Xun You is not worried at all. First, Kong Jun and Huangfu Chaobo have always been good friends. It can be said that Huangfu Chaobo was fostered by him. At the beginning, he just wanted to have an extra thug, but now he is dependent on others. It is certain that he is uncomfortable.

Secondly, Xun You knows that Kong Jun was originally a clean person with average ability and talent. He was only able to serve as the governor of Yuzhou by taking advantage of Dong Zhuo's opportunity to win over the scholars in Guandong. Now Zhang Miao, Kong Rong and Han Fu, who are far more talented than him, have successively given up their talents to Huangfu Chaobo. For him, it is just a lack of a suitable step.

In addition, Xun You is a descendant of the Xun family of Yingchuan, one of the eight dragons of the Xun family. His influence in the world is not much weaker than that of Kong Jun, the governor of Yuzhou, so Xun You is so sure that Kong Jun will let Xian step down.

After everyone else left, Huangfu Chaobo led Pang Tong, Guo Jia and others to Xincai under the escort of Xianzhen Camp and Tiebi Camp. They needed to prepare all the personnel and materials in Xincai, and then lead the troops back north after Huang Zhong led the troops to take over Xincai.

While Huangfu Chaobo was making intensive arrangements, on the dock outside Jianye City in Jiangdong, the little tiger Sun Ce was anxiously looking at the northwest direction of the river. He was waiting for someone, a young friend with good looks and good music. Yes, this person was Zhou Yu of Lujiang.

As early as when Sun Ce left Huainan, he had invited Zhou Yu to go with him, but unfortunately Zhou Yu did not go with him. This time, Sun Ce was defeated in Guangling, and finally made up his mind to ask Zhou Yu to come to help, so he sent his confidant to sneak into Lujiang to help Zhou Yu cross the river.

According to the spy's report, Zhou Yu's ship should arrive in Jianye today, so Sun Ce led his guards to the dock to greet him before he dealt with the political affairs today.

Just after the middle of the morning, several boats sent by Sun Ce sent people to report that Zhou Yu's ship would arrive in half an hour, which made Sun Ce very excited.

At the end of the morning, a fleet of several merchant ships finally appeared on the river in the west, surrounded by several warships of Sun Ce's army, which were the warships of Sun Ce's army going to meet Zhou Yu.

A quarter of an hour later, the fleet finally docked. Before the ship completely stopped, Sun Ce flew forward and jumped onto the deck of a ship. Standing on the bow was a handsome young man.

Sun Ce, who had jumped onto the boat, walked towards him quickly, and the young man also came up to him with a look of joy.

"Gongjin!"

"Brother Bofu!"

Both of them took a few quick steps, held each other's arms together, and laughed happily.

After a long time, the two separated, and Sun Ce said: "Gongjin, you are finally willing to help me."

"Brother Bofu, don't worry too much, it's just a small defeat. When my uncle passed away, the Sun family was in such a desperate situation. Who could have thought that Sun Bofu could become the lord of a county today?" Zhou Yu smiled and comforted;

"Okay, you and I brothers will join hands and create a foundation in Jiangdong." Sun Ce laughed;

Then, when the boat planks were set up, the two helped Zhou Yu's mother get off the boat together.

As soon as they got off the boat, several Sun family members surrounded them.

"Brother Gongjin!"

"Brother Gongjin!"

It was Sun Ce's younger brothers, Sun Quan, Sun Yi and Sun Yi. Zhou Yu looked at the people and said to Sun Ce with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years. Brother Zhongmou has grown a lot taller."

The group did not stay at the dock for long. After the family members on the boat got off, Zhou Yu handed the servants and property to his cousin Zhou Hui to arrange, and then rode to the city with Sun Ce.

Sun Ce had already arranged a mansion for Zhou Yu's family in Jianye City. There were people who would arrange these things. However, Sun Ce and his two men went straight to the Danyang prefectural government under the escort of his personal soldiers. After the great defeat, Sun Ce's confidence in the hearts of several veterans of the Sun family had dropped a lot, so Sun Ce must find a way to restore his image and consolidate his position as soon as possible.

Because in addition to several veterans left by Sun Jian, there are also generals from other branches of the Sun family. Once Sun Ce cannot lead the Sun family to restore the strength of Sun Jian's period, the Sun family will consider other Sun children, such as Sun Ce's uncle Sun Jing.

The group entered the prefect's residence at lightning speed, and then, led by Sun Ce, came to his study. Seeing Sun Ce's anxious look, Zhou Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly. His sworn brother was still as impetuous as he was when he was young.

After entering the study, Sun Ce did not care about resting. He pulled Zhou Yu to the map of Jiangdong and said, "Gong Yu, my brother's defeat in Guangling has been written in the letter to you. Have you read it?"

Seeing Zhou Yu nodded, Sun Ce said again, "I lost many soldiers and generals in this expedition. Some family members are dissatisfied, so I want to ask you, is there any way to save it?"

In fact, Zhou Yu had been thinking about this problem as early as when he received Sun Ce's letter. As a child from a big family, he knew everything about the internal affairs of the family. Although Danyang was conquered by Sun Ce, in addition to Sun Jian's four veterans, the Sun family must have made a lot of efforts. So once Sun Ce made a mistake, there would definitely be different voices in the family.

So these days, on the boat, Zhou Yu has been thinking about how to save Sun Ce's decline. Now he has almost thought about it, but he still needs to confirm the situation in Jiangdong with Sun Ce.

So, he asked Sun Ce: "Brother Bofu, is there anyone who is familiar with the situation in the counties of Jiangdong?"

Sun Ce immediately said: "Yes, Quan Rou stayed in Danyang for this battle. He has been collecting intelligence from the counties of Jiangdong. You can ask him any questions you have."

After saying that, Sun Ce immediately ordered Quan Rou to come in.