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Chapter 603 Pulling
In November of the sixth year of Ganlu, the [-] troops of Soochow and Tao Huang, the prefect of Cangwu, joined forces in Hepu.

The Jiaozhou battle cloud is thick.

Yu Fan and Xue Jue thought they had a large number of people, so they took Chen Shang and Pan Jing as the front governors, led [-] troops, and went straight to the core of Jiaozhou - Jiaozhi.

Yu Fan and Xue Jue supervised the army behind them.

Tao Huang felt that the Wu army had an advantage in the interior, and the convenience of the navy army was beneficial for long-term battles, while the Qin army was brave and high-spirited, which was beneficial for quick battles.

He urged the two to stabilize Hepu first, cut off the Yulin, wipe out the threat from the west, cut off the connection between Nanzhong and Jiaozhou, and then slowly go south.

But at this time, the Tao family was still a small family, and Yu and Xue belonged to the big families of the Wu state. After their meritorious service, they naturally didn't want to listen to the noise of a prefect, so they decided to go south and take the address first.

Yang Ji, the prefect of Qinjiaozhi, had already fortified the walls and cleared the country, waiting for a long time.

The two generals Chen Shang and Pan Jing arrived, but their foothold was not stable. They thought that there were few soldiers at the intersection, so they would stick to it.

However, Yang Ji did the opposite and led five thousand soldiers to kill them. nothing.

The scolding of "Wu Dog" resounded across the battlefield.

Wu Jun couldn't resist, Yang Ji led five hundred elite soldiers, rushed into Wu Jun's center, shot and killed Pan Jing, Chen Shang was terrified, and when he saw Qin's army pounced on him like a wolf, he turned around and ran away, and was killed by the rebel army.

Wu Jun was defeated.

At this time, Dong Yuan left Yulin, Huo Yi led Linghu Sheng and others to send [-] troops out of Nanzhong, and surrounded Yang Ji on three sides.

Yu Fan and Xue Jue were discouraged and did not dare to fight, so they surrendered their insurance to Hepu.

The 10,000+ army was defeated in such a dismal manner, so someone must take the blame.

Yu Fan and Xue Jue scolded Tao Huang: "Where is the responsibility for begging for thieves and losing the second marshal?"

At the beginning, it was Tao Huang who kept writing letters, advocating the recovery of Jiaozhou. If Jiaozhou was lost and Lingnan was lost, Jingzhou and Jiangdong would suffer from the enemy.

Now that it's failed, Yu and Xue are bringing up the old story again, it wasn't you Tao Huang who wanted to take back Jiaozhou, the army wouldn't be so depressed.

Tao Huang was not timid, so he refuted the two superiors face to face: "The armies are not in harmony, so they will be defeated."

Fighting against each other, with different thoughts, has always been the state of Wu's serious illness.

But Tao Huang still left a line, it's not the two of you who command poorly, but the fault of the generals and soldiers below.

Xue Jue was still angry, and the battle was not going well. Staying in Lingnan would only ruin his future.

Xue Jue is the son of Xue Zong, the young prince of the Wu Kingdom. General Ding Feng made preparations.

The same is true of Yu Fan, another supervisor of the army. He was born in the Yu family in Kuaiji.

The two main generals were like this, and the morale of the Wu army was low.

The [-] troops were besieged by [-] to [-] Qin troops, daring not to move...

Seeing this situation, Tao Huang realized that it would be useless to persuade him any more, so he led three hundred songs to attack Dong Yuan's troops in the north that night.

Qin's army was unprepared for a while, Tao Huang rushed forward with a lot of noise, slaughtered all directions, took his treasures, and returned with a boat.

Wu Jun admired him very much.

Xue Sui took Tao Huang as the front governor and led an army of [-] to counterattack the Qin army.

Seeing the encirclement of the Qin army, Tao Huang knew that it was impossible to fight with all his strength, so he led his troops across the sea and went straight to Jiaozhi.

Yang Ji led the troops back, Tao Huang's sailors arrived first, and set up an ambush on the way, defeating Yang Ji, Dong Yuan, Xie Xie and other generals.

Yang Ji led the remnant soldiers out of the siege and returned to Jiaozhi.

In the first round of the Jiaozhou War, both sides won and lost.

Tao Huang turned the tide and became the mainstay of the Wu army.

Afterwards, the two armies fell into a confrontation.

Tao Huang besieged Jiaozhi, and Huo Yi and Linghusheng besieged Yu Fan and Xue Jue's 3 troops with [-] troops...

The war continued until the seventh year of Ganlu.

At this time, Zhang Fu, the envoy of Qin State, also traveled thousands of miles to enter Jianye.

The two countries are at war, and the attitude towards the envoy is naturally extremely bad.

Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing were not even interested in meeting each other, so they sent Zhuge Liang to deal with it.

Zhang Fu was not in a hurry, he only traveled in the mountains and rivers in Jiangdong, visited Jiangdong scholars, and secretly spied on the situation of Soochow.

Seeing that the people are exhausted, their faces are full of food, and there is no place to stand, the manors of the wealthy people are full of manors, and the fields are connected to the rice paddies. The whole country is used to it. People take care of themselves, knowing that the state of Wu must not be the opponent of the Great Qin.

The facts were as he had speculated. The news of the defeat of Wu's [-] troops soon came, and Jianye was in an uproar.

The 13 army prepared for several months, costing hundreds of millions of money and food, and within a month of fighting, two generals were beheaded, tens of thousands of horses were lost, and morale was taken away.

A few days later, the news of Tao Huang's defeat of Yang Ji and the confrontation between the two armies came back, which reassured the Jiangdong scholars and made them more sober.

The Qin army in Nanzhong is just a partial division, or the former Shu army.

An army of 10,000+ has the advantage of fighting on the inside, and it can't even win [-] to [-] Shu troops, let alone confront the elite Qin army that is like a wolf and a tiger.

There is no harm without comparison.

Zhang Fu's treatment in Jianye has been continuously improved.

Soochow officials also began to summon.

"The Qin and Wu countries have no old enmity, but a common enemy. Why not attack the Sima family to comfort the soldiers who died in Hefei and Shouchun?" Zhang Fu was full of confidence.

"Jiaozhi is my homeland. Erguo invaded for no reason. What is no enmity?" Zhang Bu went out in person.

"If it weren't for the princes coveting Shuzhong and Nanzhong, why would there be such a disastrous defeat?"

"Shuzhong Nanzhong is the land of the Shu Kingdom. Why can't we take it? If the Qin Kingdom is willing to return Bazhong, Nanzhong, and Jiaozhou, the two families will form an alliance and attack the Sima clan together!" Puyang Xing said with a big tongue.

As soon as these words came out, the hall was extremely quiet.

No matter how shameless the officials of the state of Wu were, they couldn't help but look at each other in blank dismay.

General Ding Feng smiled wryly.

Zhang Fu laughed loudly, "It seems that you are not sincere, let's not talk about the alliance."

Ding Feng is more realistic, "How will Jiaozhou be divided when the two are in an alliance?"

The army of 10,000+ has been rushing to Jiaozhou, and the state of Wu can't hold it.

Moreover, a secret report came from the front that Zhou Tai, the governor of Jiangnan in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, died of illness.

A complete Jingzhou is even more attractive to Soochow.

In the military, Ding Feng undoubtedly has more say.

Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing are just clowns, and Ding Feng is the pillar of Wu Guo.

In the past, being patient was only for the sake of the overall situation, but now it is also for the sake of the overall situation.

When the veteran came out, Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing stopped making trouble.

After recapturing Jiaozhou and making it look like this, they are ashamed to face others.

The [-] troops of Xue Jue and Yu Fan, the confidantes, were blocked by [-] to [-] Qin troops in Hepu and dared not fight.

It's simply a joke of the world.

However, this is also the style of Soochow. When the great emperor Sun Quan attacked Hefei, which was guarded by thousands of people, he was defeated by Zhang Liao...

Zhuge Ke's 20 troops besiege the new city guarded by 3000 people...

Wu Jun's combat effectiveness has always been a mystery. In the hands of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun, he is like a tiger and wolf, but in the hands of others, it is hard to describe.

So the rulers and ministers of Soochow are used to it.

"Hepu belongs to me, and the two families keep their own realm!" Zhang Fuhao said leisurely.

Now that it has entered the stage of bargaining, the matter of forming an alliance is a matter of course.

But this alliance is only a temporary truce.

Soochow can't fight, and Qin Jun actually doesn't want to waste too much energy in Jiaozhou.

Ding Feng glanced at Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing and said with a smile: "Jiaozhi, Rinan, and Jiuzhen will return to Wu, and Yu Lin will send them to you."

Zhang Fu shook his head.

Ding Feng got up and said: "Yulin and Jiaozhi belong to Qin, and the other two counties belong to Wu. Let's let this matter go."

A veteran can naturally see that Qin will never hand over the two strategic locations of Jiaozhi and Yulin.

It happened to be exactly the same as Yang Zheng's bottom line.

(End of this chapter)