Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2532 Chu Wu Song three points Lujiang, Sima Yi secretly helps Sun Quan

Chapter 2528: Chu Wu Song three points Lujiang, Sima Yi secretly helps Sun Quan

The level of competition between Wu and Chu for Lujiang County is comparable to that of Qin and Chu competing for Jiangling County and Song and Ming for Guangling County.

Jiangling County changed hands repeatedly between Qin and Chu, Guangling Army changed hands repeatedly between Song and Ming, and Lujiang County also changed hands repeatedly between Chu and Wu.

Lujiang County originally belonged to Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, but because Lu Kang's brother Lu Wei and his eldest son Lu Jun all died at the hands of the Sun family, the Lu family headed by Lu Kang hated Sun Jian deeply.

Therefore, in the process of Sun Jian's attack on Jiangdong, Lujiang was also the county that resisted the most.

No matter how Sun Jian tried to persuade him, Lu Kang was unwilling to surrender his grandson.

Later, Sun Jian successively captured the four counties of Wu County, Danyang, Kuaiji, and Yuzhang, as well as part of the southern part of Jiujiang County.

Lu Kang knew that he would not be able to defeat Sun Jian, so he simply brought disaster to the east, bringing with him Lu Ji, Lu You, Lu Xun and other relatives, as well as the five counties in the south of the Lujiang River that had not yet been captured by Sun Wu: Wan County, Shu County, Juchao, Xunyang, and Tongxiang. He surrendered to Liu Xiu, who was still the Marquis of Chu at that time.

Liu Xiu was naturally overjoyed when he learned of it. After all, the five counties were listed as subordinates, and there were five wealthy cities. This was a good thing for Liu Xiu, who only had four counties in Jingnan at the time. So naturally there is no reason to refuse.

Without any hesitation, Liu Xiu chose to accept Lu Kang's submission and the five counties of Lujiang, and naturally he must bear the grudges between the Lu family and the Sun family.

Lujiang was the western gateway to Jiangdong, and Sun Jian absolutely could not give up Lujiang.

Therefore, after the competition for Lujiang County, Wu and Chu fought many battles, and each time they fought extremely fiercely, with each other winning and losing.

The most difficult and dangerous time, even if Liu Xiu, King of Chu personally led the army, was still defeated by Sun Wuda, and lost four cities in Wanxian, Shuxian, Juchao, and Tongxiang, and only the last Xunyang City was left. support.

However, this crisis was finally resolved by Liu Xiu's strategy.

When Japanese pirates invaded the eastern coast, Wu County and Kuaiji County were robbed.

Sun Jian sent Sun Quan to suppress the Japanese pirates in the rear, but Sun Quan was defeated by the Japanese pirates.

After Liu Xiu learned of this, he provoked Shanyue from all over Jiangdong to launch a rebellion together, which almost overturned the entire Wu State in one fell swoop, and this forced Sun Jian to withdraw his troops from Lujiang and go to pacify the Shanyue rebellion.

After Sun Jian's main force left, Liu Xiucai effortlessly regained the three fallen cities of Lujiang, leaving only one city in Shuxian that could not be recovered.

There was Lu Su in Shucheng, and Liu Xiu attacked several times. Not only did he fail to break it, but he also lost his troops. In desperation, he could only temporarily give up the attack and besiege the city first, and wait until the attack scared Qianxian, Lu'an and other eight counties in the north. After the land, it is not too late to attack Shu County.

Sun Jian was busy suppressing the Shanyue rebellion, and he didn't care about Lujiang County. In order to prevent the northern part of Lujiang from being captured by Chu, he sent an envoy to Shouchun to persuade King Zhao Kuangyin of Song to send troops from Jianghuai to Lujiang. Song and Wu joined forces to fight against Chu.

The Jianghuai area, located to the north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huaihe River, actually refers to Guangling County in Xuzhou, as well as Jiujiang County and Lujiang County in Yangzhou.

It's just that these three counties are all large counties, and the three counties combined are larger than any state in the Central Plains.

In addition, the Jianghuai region, which communicates between the north and the south, is a battleground for military strategists, and its geographical location is extremely important.

In addition, the Jianghuai region is fertile, densely populated and fertile, so it was divided separately and was repeatedly contested by the Song and Ming countries.

At this time, the Song Kingdom had occupied most of the Jianghuai area.

The fourteen counties of Jiujiang County, Song State occupies eleven counties in the north, and three counties in the south are owned by the State of Wu.

Among the twelve counties of Guangling County, Song and Ming Dynasty occupied six western counties, while Ming Dynasty occupied six eastern counties.

The Song Dynasty has already acquired half of the land of the three Jianghuai counties. He is the well-deserved overlord of Jianghuai, and naturally wants to completely occupy the Jianghuai area.

However, the Ming Kingdom was too difficult to deal with. Even if the Song and Wei countries joined forces and launched the thirteen Central Plains Wars, although they forcibly captured several counties of the Ming Kingdom, they also paid a very painful price and failed to occupy the land. Too much cheap.

On the other hand, the Ming Kingdom, after being weakened by the three Central Plains wars, was directly merged with the Qi Kingdom. Not only did its comprehensive strength not shrink in the slightest, but it was even stronger than before.

In the face of such a Ming Kingdom, even if Song Kingdom launched an all-out army, it would not get much benefit.

In addition to the Ming state, the Song state also bordered the three states of Wei, Qin and Wu.

Qin State is the overlord of the feudal lords. It would be good if he did not take the initiative to attack him. Song State did not dare to provoke Qin State at all.

As for the Wei Kingdom, they are allies with the Song Kingdom, and their lips are dead and their teeth are cold.

If either of the Song and Wei countries perished, the other could not survive alone, so neither Wei and Song would covet the other.

A total of four countries bordered by the Song Kingdom, and the Qin, Wei and Ming Kingdoms could not touch them. The only expansion direction was Lujiang County, which was also in the Jianghuai region and belonged to the Wu Kingdom.

For the Song Dynasty, the benefits of winning Lujiang County are too many. Not only can it dominate the entire Jianghuai River Basin, but it can also improve the defense of Shouchun, the capital of the country.

Anfeng County in Lujiang County is only a mere hundred miles away from Shouchun, the capital of Song Dynasty.

Although it is unlikely that the State of Wu will do anything to the State of Chu, who is also an ally, before the State of Wu completely stabilizes Jiangdong and drives the forces of the State of Chu out of Lujiang, it is indeed too close to the door of his own home. Can't sleep.

Although Song Guo decided to attack Lujiang, Wu Guo is an ally after all. If you directly tear up the covenant, it will be too ugly to eat. Therefore, you must find a good excuse to let people in the world not gossip.

For this reason, Zhao Kuangyin thought hard and couldn't find a suitable reason, but he didn't expect Wu Guo to send it to them.

Zhao Kuangyin naturally refused Wu Envoy's request to send troops without hesitation. There was no other reason, and the benefits given by Wu State were too small.

The State of Wu wanted to invite the State of Song to send troops to help the State of Wu protect the Lujiang River, but was only willing to pay for food, grass and money.

What Zhao Kuangyin wanted was the chassis and population, and Wu Guo's stingy approach obviously could not satisfy him.

Song Guo refused to send troops, which naturally made Wu Guo anxious. After all, Wu Guo was unable to support Lujiang at this time, and the defenders of Lujiang alone could not stop the Chu army. All of Chu State.

Wu Guo also knew that Song Guo coveted Lujiang County, but compared to his dissatisfaction with Song Guo, Wu Guo hated Chu Guo deeply, so he would rather take advantage of Song Guo than Wu Guo.

In the end, Wu State agreed to cede the three counties of Anfeng, Yulou and Yangquan in the northernmost part of the Lujiang River in exchange for the Song State to send troops to Lujiang County.

At this time, of the eight counties in the north of the Lujiang River, four counties had been captured by the State of Chu, and the other three counties were ceded to the State of Song by the State of Wu, leaving only one county of the State of Wu in the north of the Lujiang River.

After Zhao Kuangyin took over the three counties, he refused to send troops on the grounds of raising food and grass, and did not send troops until the last county was captured by Chu.

The reason why Zhao Kuangyin did this was naturally to gain more territory. After all, after the territory of Wu State was occupied by Chu State, if he took it back, it would not be from Wu State, but from Chu State. If you grab it from your hands, you don't have to give it back to Wu.

In doing so, it is not necessary to tear up the covenant with Wu, but also expand the power, which can be said to be the best of both worlds.

Zhao Kuangyin sent troops to Lujiang this time, raising a total of [-] troops, from Jiujiang and Runan, respectively, sending troops in two routes to jointly conquer Lujiang and Chu troops.

The [-] Song army along Jiujiang was led by Zhao Kuangyin himself.

The [-] Song army in Runan was led by Zhao Guangyi.

Liu Xiu was naturally shocked when he learned that the Song army was coming, and it was still an army of [-].

The Chu State attacking Lujiang was just a side division, how could it be able to stop the Song State's army of [-]?

However, Liu Xiu was naturally unwilling to give up the chassis in the northern part of Lujiang like this, so he sent an envoy to negotiate with Zhao Kuangyin, and added troops to the northern part of Lujiang.

Zhao Kuangyin was sure to win over Lujiang County, so how could he be easily dismissed by the Chu envoy?

No matter what conditions Liu Xiu proposed, Zhao Kuangyin ignored them, and his goal was only Lujiang County.

Although Liu Xiu sent more troops to the north of Lujiang, and went to command the army in person, the difference in strength between the two sides was huge.

After three consecutive cities were breached and nearly [-] troops were damaged, Liu Xiu realized that the strength of the enemy and the enemy was very disparate, and it was unwise to confront him head-on, so he decided to voluntarily give up Lu'an and Qianxian, and cancelled the siege of Shucheng. , the whole army withdrew to the southern part of the Lujiang River, and concentrated its forces to defend the nest.

By doing this, Liu Xiu is ceding the eight counties in the north of Lujiang to Song, but if Song wants to continue to attack Lujiang, he must pull out the nail of Shuxian before he can continue to attack the southern part of Lujiang.

If Song Guo really attacked Shucheng, it would be equivalent to taking the initiative to tear up the covenant with Wu Guo.

If they didn't attack, they would not be able to start a full attack and occupy the entire Lujiang County.

I have to say that Liu Xiu's move made Zhao Kuangyin very uncomfortable. He really wanted Lujiang County, but he didn't want to completely hate the Wu Kingdom unless he had to.

In addition, the total troops of Chu and Wu in the Lujiang River add up to as much as [-] or [-].

If Song Guo recklessly and forcibly occupied Lujiang, in the end, even if he won, it would only be a miserable victory.

Under the persuasion of Zhao Pu, Yan Xiang, Zhao Yong and others, Zhao Kuangyin decided to take it as soon as possible and only occupy the eight counties in the north of Lujiang.

As for the land of the seven cities in the south of the Lujiang River, let the two countries of Chu and Wu fight for it. Anyway, the biggest benefit has been taken away by the Song Kingdom.

After Sun Jian learned about it, although he was extremely dissatisfied with Zhao Kuangyin, he had nothing to do. After all, except for the three counties that were ceded voluntarily, the rest of the five counties were taken from the state of Chu by Song.

The State of Wu could not protect the northern part of the Lujiang River by itself, so should the State of Song not be allowed to take it?

Since then, Lujiang County has been divided into three parts, the eight counties in the north belong to the Song state, the four southwest counties belong to the state of Chu, and the three counties in the southeast belong to the state of Wu.

This time Sun Ce sent troops to attack Chu, that is, to send troops from Shuxian and Yuzhang, and divide the water route to attack the four cities in the southwest of Lujiang.

It was Song Que who took office as the prefect of Lujiang in the state of Chu. In the face of several attacks by the Wu army, he took over Lujiang. One of them was led by Sun Wu, and he was promoted to several ranks.

It is precisely because of this record that Song Que is qualified to become Deng Yu's left-wing commander in this Northern Expedition.

After Song Que was transferred, Guo Ziyi took his place.

Guo Ziyi had just been promoted to the prefect of Lujiang, and he had not yet been able to completely control the four counties in the southwest of Lujiang. Sun Ce's [-] Wu army came over, and he was definitely the most unlucky prefect of Lujiang.

For Guo Ziyi, it is undoubtedly a great challenge for Wu Jun to come here this time, but the soldiers will block the water and cover the soil, so he can only do his best to the best of his ability.

Guo Ziyi only had a total of [-] troops in his hands. In the face of Sun Ce's menacing army of [-] men, he was completely powerless to attack.

As a result, only three days after the battle began, the important town of Tongxiang was lost, and the defender Guo Tao was beheaded by Sun Ce.

On the sixth day, Juchao fell.

Juchao defender Wuzhiqi, although he blocked the alliance of Lihu, Lilu, and Liyang, but with the addition of Sun Ce, he was still no match.

After Juchao fell, Wuzhiqi had to lead the remnant army to break through and retreat to Wanxian, but Guo Ziyi told him to abandon Wanxian and concentrate his troops to defend Xunyang.

After Guo Ziyi and Wuzhiqi merged, they concentrated their forces to defend Xunyang City, while Sun Ce led two armies by water and attacked Xunyang.

The Wu army has been fighting and victorious, and it took only ten days to start the battle, and they even broke three fortified cities. Seeing that they were about to completely capture the southern part of the Lujiang River, their morale was naturally rising.

Sun Ce won the battle, and Wu Guo was very happy, but there was only one person except Sun Quan, who was complicated to escort food and grass.

Sun Quan has been dissatisfied with his eldest brother Sun Ce and wanted to replace him, but if Sun Ce succeeded in attacking Wu this time, his ambition would never be realized again.

At this time, in Sun Quan's tent, a man in black said to Sun Quan unhurriedly, "Second Young Master, how are you thinking? If you continue to hesitate, you will be completely out of the position of King Wu. "

And he is the long-lost Sima Yi.

(End of this chapter)