Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 217 Backlash
"Zhengping, you said that Bofu and I are not worthy of our reputations, and that Lord Bai does not know how to judge people. So, do you think we can capture Jingzhou?" Zhou Yu interrupted.
On the one hand, he wanted to use Ni Heng's words to argue with him - you said we can't do it, but our mission is to capture Jingzhou, you can't contradict yourself, right?
On the other hand, Zhou Yu didn't want Sun Ce to have a bad reputation, and he was willing to fight... so let him go to Nanjing to fight!
Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu and said after a moment of silence: "What is Bai Gong? Call him 'Big Brother'."
Zhou Yu: ...
“Humph, the clay sculptures in Huang Zu’s temple and Liu Biao’s door-guarding dog, even if they are as small as snakes and eels, can be broken after fighting for three to five years. This is what we call a group of ants competing for victory!” Ni Heng said with his head held high.
Sun Ce turned his head and looked at the "anchor" next to him, wanting to smash this guy's head with the anchor...
So we are all too bad? The winner is determined by picking the best from the worst?
"Haha, the river has been blocked during wartime. When you go to Nanjing, you'd better walk faster, otherwise our victory report will reach Nanjing first." Zhou Yu became more confident and did not seem angry, but he expressed silent disdain.
"So Zhou Lang of Lujiang can also brag?" Ni Heng asked back.
"It doesn't matter if you talk big, but what's scary is that you can only talk big but can't do great things... Zhengping has indeed seen a lot at Huang Zu's place, and he should know more about the Jiangxia navy than we do, but... a frog in a well, how can he know the vastness of the world? Well, Zhengping, you still have to send the letter, don't be too late." Zhou Yu said calmly.
Zhou Yu just thought that this guy was childish, but he was not angry - the "magnanimous character" was not said in vain.
When facing Ni Heng, Zhou Yu, like Cao Cao, only regarded him as a madman. Even though he spoke wild words, they just listened to him and ignored him.
The reason why Cao Cao got angry at the beginning was that he originally wanted to recruit Ni Heng, but ended up being humiliated by him, so he was very angry.
However, having suffered losses before, Cao Cao quickly calmed down.
Zhou Yu had never taken Ni Heng seriously. After all, he was just someone sent by Huang Zu to declare war. No matter how many outrageous words the enemy's envoy said, why should he mind? Fighting back was the right thing to do!
Instead, Ni Heng was provoked by Zhou Yu. He could understand clearly that Zhou Yu was saying that he was narrow-minded and... could not accomplish anything great!
"Humph, I'm afraid that after being in Nanjing for too long, I'll hear the sad news of Zhou Lang's defeat." Ni Heng said angrily.
"Let's wait and see." Zhou Yu didn't know why, but when he saw this guy really angry, he felt secretly happy.
Could it be... this is the joy of arguing?
Ni Heng didn't get any rest either, as Sun Ce sent him away from Chaisang overnight on the pretext of being busy with military affairs. If Ni Heng hadn't often argued to exercise his body, I'm afraid he would have been exhausted from the three-month tour of Xudu, Xiangyang, Echeng, Chaisang, and Jinling.
After sending Ni Heng away, Sun Ce was still somewhat indignant. As he walked back to the military tent, he said, "This is Gongjin. Stop me. Otherwise, I will smash his dog head with an anchor. Let's see if he still makes trouble!"
When the curtain was drawn, Zhou Yu was seen looking in the mirror, a specially supplied small "glass" mirror.
Sun Ce was used to it, so he just rolled his eyes and continued complaining.
Zhou Yu looked left and right and then said, "Do you feel that I am more handsome?"
If it were someone else, most would think he was just suffering from narcissism, but Sun Ce was a little surprised when he heard it and said, "Your mental strength has been growing pretty fast recently?"
Sun Ce naturally knew that Zhou Yu possessed "Book of Heaven Volume 7: Appearance", and he understood that Zhou Yu's main focus was to attribute "appearance" to himself , that is to say... compared to observing appearance for others, Zhou Yu was better at shaping his own "appearance". The most common way to shape his appearance was that his "appearance" would be optimized as his mental strength grew.
Of course, this mysterious optimization is actually very insignificant in external manifestation, and Sun Ce, who lives with him day and night, can't see any changes either.
However, Zhou Yu's ability to read faces was enough to detect even the change in the curvature of one of his eyelashes!
"No, not recently, just now." Zhou Yu said.
"Are you angry?" Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu strangely.
Sun Ce thought to himself: Could it be that being angry has this effect? Indeed, he was also very angry just now...
If this is the case, then for the sake of Gongjin's growth, should I act more irritating and not be so annoying?
"No, it should be anger... To be precise, it was because of me that Ni Heng was provoked... Ordinary anger would not have this effect! Otherwise..." Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce and said while rubbing the red dot between his eyebrows.
Sun Ce seemed to understand, so he asked, "Do you want me to capture him? We can tease him every day!"
"No, it shouldn't be that simple. It may be related to his special strategy. Let Bai...Brother deal with him." Zhou Yu guessed something from Ni Heng's performance and his own discovery.
At the same time, he was also looking forward to the meeting between Ni Heng and Bai Tu - no matter who wins, it would be revenge for himself!
"However, from Chaisang to Jinling, even if that guy takes the land route and travels along the river, it will take less than a month. Gongjin, do you have the confidence to take Jiangxia?" Sun Ce asked.
"Doesn't Bofu have any confidence?" Zhou Yu asked back.
"There are still thirty-seven days left until my father's death anniversary. I can return to Wu County in ten days by riding a fast horse from here... Within twenty-seven days, I will take down Huang Zu's head!" When Sun Ce spoke, his eyes as sharp as a knife deliberately avoided Zhou Yu, otherwise even a person with strong mental strength would feel some pressure.
On the one hand, it was his trust in the combat effectiveness of the elite naval warriors he trained personally after Bai Tu allowed him to build his own navy. On the other hand... it was also his trust in the warships that had been waiting for a long time!
Although the first batch of warships were no longer new models for Pang Tong, they were enough to form an absolute advantage in surface warfare in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Wuya warship, whose prototype comes from the Sui Dynasty, is a five-story ship that can accommodate 900 soldiers. It was a powerful weapon used by the Sui army to destroy the Chen Dynasty and unify the world.
Four hundred years later, the Sui army used a navy centered on four five-toothed warships to march out of the Three Gorges, completely despairing the Chen State, which was very confident in its navy and wanted to use it to live in peace in the south of the Yangtze River.
Although it has weaknesses such as a too high center of gravity and lack of flexibility, it is impossible for the Jingzhou navy to exploit these weaknesses.
Even...this is just the first batch of warships. As for the river warships, the Ministry of Industry has completed the modeling of the "paddle steamer". As for the ships operating on the sea, the Fu ship fleet has also been completed. Two months ago, Gan Ning led the fleet to sea to search for "Yizhou". The large sailing ships that focus more on speed and sea combat effectiveness are also being modeled.
Sun Ce didn't know yet that the five-tooth warship that made his eyes light up was actually just built and had already been out of print because of "outdatedness".
Three days later, the Chaisang navy completed the running-in of the sailors and warships, that is, they were able to "load" the Ji-made soldiers onto the warships, and Sun Ce once again launched an attack on the Miankou...
