719 Battle of Yiling (1/2)

Chapter 719-Battle of Yiling

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.