While the ministers were worried, they heard Sun Quan say loudly: "Everyone, Cao Wei's sight is attracted by Western Shu. Should I, Dongwu, have something to do?"

The previous year, Sun Quan personally led the army to Jiangxia, and all the elite soldiers and generals of the Eastern Wu were released. The formation was extremely large, but the result was unsatisfactory.

Not only was he scared away by Wen Pin and others through suspicious soldiers, but he was also easily defeated by Sima Yi and retreated back to Jiangling with a loss of troops.

In fact, it is acceptable to retreat. What made Sun Quan most angry was that the general Han Zong, whom he had high hopes, actually led the entire clan to treason and surrender to the enemy. This move made him lose all his face in the court, and was very funny by some people.

Now compared with Ji Han's Northern Expedition, he felt even more disgraceful and could not help but compete. He was ready to send troops to attack Wei again. He made up his mind to win several victories for the people of the world to see. He must not let Ji Han enjoy his reputation alone.

As soon as Sun Quan finished speaking, Gu Yong quickly dissuaded: "Supreme, although most of Cao Wei's energy is now focused on Western Shu, there are still more than 100,000 Wei soldiers guarding the Jingyang line.

Moreover, the Wei generals Sima Yi and Cao Xiu were not ordinary people. They forced their troops to send troops without any obstacles. I think this is an unwise move and it was not done by the wise monarch and heroic lord."

"The Wei thieves were defeated by the Shu people. The country must be panicked, and the military and civilians must be frightened. How can we not take advantage of this opportunity?" Seeing that someone objected as soon as he finished speaking, Sun Quan was very angry and immediately retorted in a bad tone.

Gu Yong looked up at Sun Quan and saw that he was full of unhappiness. Although he felt that what his lord said seemed a bit unreasonable, he did not dare to argue again under such circumstances.

At this time, Zhuge Jin also advised: "Supreme, Cao Rui may return to Luoyang soon. Once he returns to the court to take charge, the panic situation in the country will definitely stabilize. At that time, Cao Wei will stabilize the West and turn to the east and focus on dealing with our northern expedition army. In this way, our army may not be able to win, so I hope the Supreme will think twice."

The Wei and Shu countries will soon stop the troops. This is a consensus among the ministers. Sun Quan himself also recognized this. Zhuge Jin used this reason to oppose the dispatch of troops, and for a while he was speechless.

Seeing that his king was refuted and many people opposed it, they could not give up. But how could Sun Quan give up? He turned to look at Zhu Ran, hoping that this confidant general could speak up to support him.

"Yifeng, what do you think?"

Zhu Ran also felt that he was not sure about attacking Wei at this time and wanted to object directly, but when he saw Sun Quan's face full of anticipation, he felt unbearable, so he forced his opinion and bowed and replied: "Supreme, I think it's appropriate to send troops at this time."

"Well, tell me your reasons." Sun Quan looked encouraging.

Seeing that someone finally supported him, Sun Quan's expression was cheered up and looked at Zhu Ran and secretly relieved: "Yi Feng is still caring!"

Zhu Ran knew that his lord wanted to argue against Gu Yong and other opponents, but he was originally from Gu Yong, so he could not think of the reason for supporting the dispatch of troops. If he had him, wouldn't he have become Sun Quan's supporter long ago? Where did he have to wait until now?

However, at this moment, everyone in the hall was focused on Zhu Ran, and he had to bite the bullet and say, "Supreme, I think that even if Cao Rui will return to the court soon, when the Shu people occupy Longyou Hu to look at Guanzhong, Cao Wei will spend at least half of his energy on the Western Front, which is much better than the situation where we sent troops before.

In the past, my Eastern Wu could still cross the river and cross Jinghuai. Didn’t we dare to send troops under the current situation of Cao Wei’s defeat?”

"Well, Yi Feng's words are very consistent with his own will. Now that I am snobbish, I should seize the opportunity to move north to achieve great achievements. How can I retreat?" Seeing Zhu Ran's words profusely and provoke, Sun Quan was greatly excited.

With such a strong reason to support the troops, Sun Quan immediately felt his back straightening a little. He glanced at Gu Yong and others with a smile. Seeing that they didn't dare to look at him, he felt proud.

"Does my words make such sense?"

Seeing that no one refuted, Zhu Ran couldn't help but doubt his original thoughts, recalling the reason he had just said based on his feelings that the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was reasonable. At this time, he was really interested in sending troops to attack Wei.

Just as Sun Quan wanted to make up the matter of sending troops while the iron was hot, Gu Yong suddenly retorted: "The general of the Northern Expedition is not a correct argument. Soldiers are a major matter of the country. How can he do it with just a courageous attitude?

In the past few years since the Cao usurped the Han Dynasty, most of the Wei army attacked us. Apart from the previous year when the Cao Rui throne was not stable, our army had no large troops to go north. It can be seen that even though Cao Wei is now spending energy to deal with Western Shu, as long as there are no major flaws in the Jing and Yang line, our army will not be able to go north. Forcing it to go north is just to waste money and food to do useless achievements."

"this......"

Zhu Ran was speechless for a moment, and felt that what Gu Yong said was quite reasonable. As a general in the army, he had to admit that his army was indeed a bit difficult to fight against the Wei soldiers in land warfare. The gap in combat strength between the two armies could not be compensated by their blood and courage alone. If you want to make achievements in attacking Wei in the north, you have to find a good opportunity.

Seeing that Gu Yong and the others had the upper hand again, Sun Quan became a little anxious and finally turned his attention to Lu Xun, who had not spoken for a long time. Whether the Eastern Wu sent troops must obey this person's opinions.

"What is Bo Yan's idea?" Sun Quan asked.

Lu Xun bowed and replied, "Please forgive me for your sins, I have not yet thought about it."

"Is this true? But..." Sun Quan was about to force Lu Xun to express his opinion when he suddenly saw that he was winking at him.

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, then understood and said to everyone: "Forget it, let's discuss here first today, whether to send troops later. Bo Yan stayed, and everyone else would be dispersed."

After all the ministers retreated, Lu Xun asked Sun Quan to retreat, and when all the eunuchs and palace maids had left the hall, Lu Xun said, "Supreme, in fact, since the Northern Expedition of Western Shu started, I have been planning to attack Wei. As the Supreme said, Cao Wei's attention now is mostly on Zhuge Liang's side. This is a good opportunity for my Eastern Wu to go to Jingyang in the north, and we must not miss it."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Oh? Why haven't you heard of this?" Sun Quan said in surprise.

Lu Xun explained: "Supreme, as the Prime Minister and others said, even if Cao Wei's attention was mostly attracted by the Shu army, our army must find the flaws of the Wei army if we want to go north, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve greater results. The ministers have not found any good opportunities before, so they dare not report, and it was not until recently that the turn of action has occurred."

"What is the opportunity?" Sun Quan asked hurriedly.

Lu Xun said: "Does the Supreme Lord still remember Zhou Feng, the prefect of Poyang?"

"Of course I remember that this person was the one who could quell the Peng Qi rebellion last year. If he hadn't captured Peng Qi alive, the rebellion would not have been quelled so quickly."

Peng Qi was the general of the clan thief in Poyang County. In the third year of Jianxing, Cao Pi led his army to Guangling to attack Wu again. This man took the opportunity to gather tens of thousands of people to rebel against Wu. He captured several counties for a while and claimed to be a general. He was quite powerful.

Since Sun Quan had been preparing for the war against Wei, he did not launch a large army to attack Peng Qi. He only appointed Zhou Bree as the prefect of Poyang, and asked him to reconcile and supervise Hu Zong to fight.

Zhou Bree did not disappoint Sun Quan, and joined forces with Hu Zong to successfully capture Peng Qi alive and quell the rebellion. Afterwards, Zhou Bree was appointed as the captain of Zhaoyi by Sun Quan for his merits, and was still the prefect of Poyang.

"What does this matter have to do with Zhou Rui?"

Lu Xun replied: "I haven't found any flaws in Cao Wei for a long time, so I plan to lead a good opportunity on my own, so I thought of a plan.

Month ago, I ordered the prefect Zhou to secretly look for the leaders of the thieves who escaped into the mountains and gathered in groups and were known to Cao Wei, and planned to let them go to Cao Xiu's place to surrender and lure Cao Xiu to lead his troops south so that our army can ambush and kill him.

Unexpectedly, the prefect Zhou thought that these sect thieves would leak secrets and were not enough to rely on them to accomplish things. So he recommended himself to ask his ministers to allow him to surrender to Cao Xiu himself.

I thought that the weight of the Poyang prefect was indeed greater than that of the sect leader, so I agreed to the previous supreme emperor. This plan was beyond my reach and asked the supreme emperor to surrender." As he said that, he stood up and bowed to the ground.

Sun Quan quickly helped Lu Xun up and said with a smile: "You are planning for the country and are in urgent need of power. What is the crime?"

He had already carved a few of his seals and placed them with Lu Xun, so that Lu Xun could do it cheaply when dealing with the military and national plan. How could he blame Zhou Bing for designing Cao Wei?

"Where have you gone to with Zhou Feng now?" Sun Quan asked excitedly.

Lu Xun said: "When returning to the Supreme Lord, Zhou Feng had already written seven letters to send his confidants to Yangzhou. In the letter, he lied that he had been criticized by the Supreme Lord and was afraid of being questioned and killed. He planned to surrender to Cao Wei with Poyang County and asked Cao Xiu to send troops to support him."

"Did Cao Xiu believe it?" Sun Quan asked hurriedly.

"Cao Xiu is still in a half-believing and half-doubting situation. In order to further paralyze Cao Xiu, this plan requires the Supreme to cooperate."

Sun Quan smiled and said, "Oh? How do you do it if you want to be alone?"

"The Supreme One only needs..." Lu Xun stepped forward and replied whispered.

A moment later, a hearty laughter came from the hall, which was what Sun Quan felt very happy because he had made a plan.
Chapter completed!