Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
Another week had passed.
In the Red Cliff water fortress, Ouyang Shuo finally met Zhou Yu and his men. Even though the entire meeting process was filled with unhappiness, Ouyang Shuo was still exceedingly delighted and immediately sent Sun Quan back to Chaisang.
Zhou Yu was similarly an honest person. Even though he was loyal to Sun Quan, he still followed the agreement and joined Shanhai City.
Ouyang Shuo smiled in glee as he checked out Zhou Yu's stats.
Name: Zhou Yu (Emperor Rank)
Dynasty: East Han End
Identity: Shanhai City General
Occupation: Special Rank General
Loyalty: 60
Command: 91
Force: 68
Intelligence: 85
Politics: 85
Specialty: Navy and Army Trained (Raises navy combat strength by 20%, raises troops morale by 30%, raises strategy success rate by 30%, reduces enemy morale by 15%)
Evaluation: Zhou Yu, also known as Gongjin, was a military general and strategist under Sun Quan. Courageous, he has proficient leadership skills, and he is good at both martial and administrative matters. He is able to take up important tasks, a top class person.
Since he was forced to submit, Zhou Yu's loyalty was only 60 points, the lowest for recruiting a general. If it was lower than 60, it would mean that the person in question was planning something.
However, Ouyang Shuo was not worried.
After returning to the main map, Zhou Yu's loyalty stat would naturally rise. Ouyang Shuo was clear that out of the Three Kingdoms Lords, only Liu Bei would appear in the wilderness.
Be it Sun Quan or Cao Cao, they would just hide in the wilderness and not come out.
Without Sun Quan roaming in the main map, Ouyang Shuo had reason to believe that Zhou Yu would be amazed by the foundation of Shanhai City and his charm.
Ouyang Shuo was not on the same level as Xunlong Dianxue and the others.
Out of Zhou Yu's four stats, apart from the force stat being a little low, the other three were absolute top stats out of Emperor Rank generals; especially his command stat that even broke through 90.
His politics stat could even contend with civil servants. Hence, he could be considered an all rounded general. Looking at all his stats, he was only a step away from God General.
Although the Three Kingdoms Era was star studded, Gaia did not evaluate any of them as God Generals. It could not be compared to the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period.
Despite the presence of many fierce generals, their military thinking was lacking.
A lot of the generals during this time were born from the wilderness, so they totally lacked the chance to study and only learned from practical experience. Hence, they were like those in the warring states who not only could fight but were the founders and explorer thinkers.
Even Baiqi's military upbringing was better than Zhou Yu.
During the Three Kingdoms era, the one with an achievement in such matters was Cao Cao.
He was intelligent in the art war and was familiar with the works of Sun Wu and Wu Qi. On the foundation of the Art of War, he wrote his own book.
Unfortunately, Cao Cao was considered a Lord and was not part of the general evaluation system. If not, Cao Cao was the one during this period who had the highest possibility of being rated a God General.
Below him would be Zhou Yu.
In the Romance of The Three Kingdoms, while they immortalized Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu became a stepping stone. The Zhou Yu in the story was far from the truth.
The Zhou Yu in history was handsome and magnanimous; he was also highly talented, not the jealous and useless person that Fei Luo Guan wrote him out to be.
His talents won the hearts of countless girls and women, similar to Pan Yue. However, Pan Yue was just looks; on the other hand, Zhou Yu was the entire package.
The true Zhou Yu was exceedingly magnanimous.
Old General Cheng Pu often bullied and humiliated Zhou Yu, but he did not care and mind, causing Cheng Pu to admire him, "Dealing with Zhou Yu, if one drank, one would unknowingly get drunk."
Even Liu Bei could not help but say, "Zhou Yu is good at both martial and administrative matters, and the most handsome out of ten thousand men, so he is exceedingly important. It will not take long for him to become the right hand man."
One could see that to call him selfish and self-centered was only to immortalize Zhuge Liang. Without such bias, how could it show Zhuge Liang's majestic nature?
The most eye-catching Zhuge Liang angers Zhou Yu was just a blatant lie.
Obviously, Zhou Yu was not angered to death by Zhuge Liang, and there were no traces of the story being true. After the Battle of Red Cliff, Zhou Yu was struck by a poisoned arrow while attacking Nan Prefecture and died at a young age.
Strictly speaking, Zhou Yu at that time was not even on the same level as Zhuge Liang and could not even be mentioned on the same page. When Zhou Yu was helping General Sun build Jiangdong, Kong Ming was still in seclusion. When Zhou Yu's name shocked Jiangdong, when he became a contributor to the Sun Regime establishing a country, Zhuge Liang was far from coming out.
We were not looking down on Zhuge Liang here. Obviously, he was talented, but his true rise was after Zhou Yu's death.
Even when Zhou Yu was sick and healing up, he still advised Sun Quan to house arrest Liu Bei while making plans to attack Yizhou. The plan gained Sun Quan's approval but before it could be enacted, Zhou Yu had passed away.
One could foresee that if Zhou Yu did not die, there probably would not be any Shu and Han.
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Ouyang Shuo was familiar with history, so he was occasionally awed by Zhou Yu. With that, it was not hard to understand why he spent so much effort to recruit him.
For him, Ouyang Shuo even gave up on the chance to kill Sun Quan to directly end the battle map.
The position of fleet admiral of the Beihai Bay Squadron was the position Ouyang Shuo had especially left for Zhou Yu.
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After recruiting Zhou Yu, Ouyang Shuo removed the imprisonment of Lu Su, Huang Gai, Lu Meng, Zhou Tai, and Gan Ning, allowing them to meet Zhou Yu.
Seeing these generals once again, Zhou Yu did not know where he should feel happy or worried.
During this battle, the most elite navy generals of Jiangdong were all captured by Ouyang Shuo. When they returned to the main map, they probably would not be lonely anymore.
The Jiangdong system would become an unmistakable power in the Shanhai City Navy.
As for the arrangements for Lu Su and the others, a decision would be made when they returned.
After the handover was completed, the Shanhai City Squadron did not remain in Red Cliff and immediately left for Yiling.
This trip to Yiling was not to help the battle but to obtain battle rewards. In truth, four days ago, the entire Battle of Red Cliff was already over.
Be it Bai Hua, Feng Qiuhuang, or Di Chen, they were all back in the main map.
Shanhai City was the last and final one remaining.
This whole matter had to be started from the Battle of Yiling.
After Zhou Yu led his troops and left, problems rose up from within the player group. Zhou Yu's departure did not only reduce the strength of the army; it also affected their morale.
The Lords were not that determined and wavered. Especially the Lords that were not close to Di Chen, they did not have any hopes for success in this battle map.
Hence, Di Chen had no choice but to quicken the siege preparations.
That day, Di Chen ordered the army to move and perform one last sweep of grain. At the same time, he moved large amounts of laborers and smiths to quicken the production of the siege weapons.
Time was of the essence, and this was really important.
Huge sections of the army were sent out, and the army camp became exceedingly empty.
Just that afternoon, Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang who had been holding it in finally struck out. And this strike was a no holds barred one; they gave the enemy the deadliest strike at the most impossible time.
They succeeded.
At 3 PM, the tightly shut north city gate suddenly opened. Shanhai City, Consonance City, Fallen Leaf City, and Stone City, a total of 70 thousand troops charged out.
Apart from that, there were no other Lord troops.
Obviously, they had learned from the Caiyun Zinan betrayal incident and only used Shanhai Alliance Army troops.
What was smart was that their choice of target was not the Sun Liu player army but Di Chen's army.
The 20 thousand troops were in charge of sentry and control while the other 50 thousand were like a pack of hungry wolves as they charged into Di Chen's camp.
The defenseless Di Chen forces were caught totally off guard and instantly suffered heavy casualties.
His forces quickly fell apart. Seeing that, the other troops that had rushed over to help had other thoughts when they received the news.
Since the biggest supporter of fighting the war was out, why should they continue to fight?
Just like that, his allies watched on as Di Chen's forces were massacred.
Feng Qiuhuang and the others were not greedy. After striking out, they immediately retreated, leaving a broken camp and a dead faced Di Chen.
Di Chen screamed in the ruins.
After this battle, he had less than two thousand troops left, so he lost his right to speak in the Alliance Army.
The matter of attacking Yiling was pushed aside.
Hence, the encirclement of Yiling was broken. This also announced the end of the Battle of Red Cliff that had lasted for close to two months.