Jiang Gan crosses the river for the second time, following Cao Cao’s orders. Zhou Yu wants to apply Pang Tong’s ‘boat-connecting sceme’. Now he arranges for Pang Tong to stay meanwhile in a thatched cottage. Zhou Yu is implementing his plan, and orders some men to send Jiang Gan to the ancient temple on the West Mountain to let the monks there hold him hostage.
闞澤明白這是書信上有破綻給曹操找到了。書信中有什麽破綻我不知道，這是我大意，我事先沒有看過書信，也沒有問黃蓋書信上寫的什麽。現在只有騙住曹操讓自己來看這一封信，因此大笑，曹操將闞澤推回頭重問，闞澤用智謀騙取書信一看，知道糧船軍需隨船獻納，這是個破綻，闞澤辯白，背主作竊，安可定期，欺住曹操。