After Red Cliffs, Zhou Yu attacks Nanjun and is hit in the side by one of Cao Ren’s poisoned crossbow bolts. He beats Cao Ren by pretending to be dead and rides to the walls of Nanjun, but from the ramparts Zhao Yun calls out, By the Military Adviser’s orders, we have already taken the city. With the tallies taken at Nanjun, Kongming has seized Jingzhou and Xiangyang too, and Zhou Yu gives a great cry and his wound bursts open again.
Lu Su comes to Jing Province and says that since Eastern Wu drove off Cao Cao, the nine commanderies of Jing should go to Wu. Kongming says Jing Province was the inheritance of Liu Biao and Liu Bei is Liu Biao’s younger brother. Liu Biao’s son is alive, so what is wrong with an uncle helping his nephew hold it? When Kongming has the sick Liu Qi helped out from behind the screen, Lu Su is left speechless. When Lu Su asks what will happen if the young lord is gone, Kongming says that as long as he lives one day, they will hold it one day, and if he is gone, they will discuss it then.
After that Liu Bei, on Ma Liang’s advice, takes the four commanderies in the south of Jing Province, and before long Liu Qi dies of illness. Lu Su comes to Jing Province again on the pretext of mourning. The young lord has passed away, so surely you must return Jing Province now. When will you hand it over?