Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 380
"Ah."

In May, Jiangdong Jianye.

In Wuhou's mansion, Sun Quan sneezed.

He was quite puzzled, how could he still be sneezing in the midsummer of May and the scorching summer?
But when he noticed his nose itching, he thought it was an uncomfortable nose, so he didn't care, and continued to read the official document.

Sun Quan is not in a good mood recently.

In other words, since last year, and half a year now, his mood has not been much better.

A few days ago, he also went to the cemeteries of his father and brother in Danyang County and Wu County to worship.

Originally, he thought that his father and brother would be able to bless Jiangdong in the sky, but after arriving at Sun Ce's cemetery in Wu County, he found out that his brother Sun Ce's tomb had been stolen.

Sun Ce killed a lot of people in Jiangdong. Jiangdong, who was violently suppressed by killing, was actually not popular in Jiangdong counties.

In the past, when the Sun family was powerful, the cemetery was guarded by soldiers and horses, no one dared to steal it, and no one had such thoughts.

But now that Sun Quan lost his army, most of Jiangdong's troops were lost in Jingzhou, so that the rear was extremely empty, bandits were everywhere, and rebellions continued. The limited troops had to defend Liu Bei and quell the bandits, and there was no one guarding the tomb.

So some people who hated Sun Ce robbed his tomb and dug up his dead body, and threw it somewhere, which made Sun Quan very angry.

After anger comes fear.

Originally, he wanted to worship his father and brother and pray for their protection, but he didn't expect his brother to make the enemy's bones ashes, which made him feel very gloomy and very depressed when he originally had a glimmer of hope.

Therefore, in just six months, Sun Quan, who was only 39 years old, seemed to have aged ten years, his face was extremely haggard, and his whole face was completely lifeless.

It's not all good news, though.

He Qi was quite capable. After the Battle of Jingzhou, the mountains rose everywhere, and Sun Quan's forces completely withdrew from the south of Huangshan Mountain, and he did not dare to invade the mountains.

But I didn't expect the Shanyue people to intensify their efforts, and even regained the lost ground, and went north to attack him instead.

So Sun Quan sent He Qi to send troops to defeat Shanyue with less.

The Shanyue people are not a whole, but inhabit the mountains in the southeast hills in a tribal-like situation.

Most of them are actually Han Chinese rather than barbarians. Many of them were dissatisfied with being exploited by the court and aristocratic families, and their families moved to the mountains to live a life like a peach blossom garden.

It turned out that after the Sun family took control of Jiangdong, they would continue to plunder the population of the Shanyue people, rob them of their property, and force them to go out of the mountains to become Sun's farm slaves, contribute to the Sun's labor, plow the land and pay taxes.

This made the Shanyue people who were accustomed to freedom very dissatisfied, so they slowly organized to resist, and gradually formed some larger tribes.

It is a pity that due to the lack of leaders and the dispersion of forces, they did not form a whole, and were defeated one by one by the Sun family, so that a large number of Shanyue tribes were attacked, and their population and property were taken away.

Now that the Sun family is close to ruin, the Shanyue people see the hope of a counterattack.

But still old problem.

They did not belong to each other and each fought independently. As a result, He Qi only led 8000 people and defeated the Shanyue coalition army by [-] to [-]. Shanyue was defeated and retreated to the south of Huangshan Mountain.

After temporarily quelling the Shanyue Rebellion, Sun Quan breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were still some rebellions in Wu Jun, Kuaiji County, Yuzhang County and other places in the rear, the basic situation of Danyang County and most of Wu Jun barely settled down, so that it would not let He breaks down.

The biggest problem he faces now is the attack of the Liu Bei Group that may come at any time.

At present, Sun Quan is extremely short of troops.

Jiangdong Qingzhuang lost more than 15 troops in one battle of Jingzhou. In addition to the previous defeats in the battle of Yixian and the battle of Hongkou, the loss of troops in these years is nearly [-].

In the name of Shen Chen, Jiangdong's children are stopped from crying.

Although they have been vigorously recruiting troops and continue to draw blood from the aristocratic families on the grounds of the Liu Bei Group's suppression of the gentry, no matter how much they are drawn, they are almost out of blood.

So now the entire Sun Group can gather less than [-] troops.

Among them, only more than 3 are old soldiers, and the rest are forced recruits. Not only are there many old and weak soldiers, but also there is a serious shortage of training time, and their combat effectiveness is pitifully low.

This made Sun Quan extremely worried.

Looking at the official document in his hand, there was no other good news, which made Sun Quan very annoyed. He threw the bamboo slips in his hand on the ground and said: "Call Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, Gu Yong, Kan Ze, Sun Shao, Yan Yan, Lu Xun , It’s Yi, Lu Ji and the others come over.”

"only."

The attendants outside went to work.

At noon, all the talents entered the hall one after another, paid homage to Marquis Wu one by one, and then sat down in rows.

Sun Quan sat on the throne and looked around the crowd, and said with a worried face: "Gu's petitions to Liu Bei for peace have been rejected several times, and he has not even replied to me. You all think that he is really planning to attack Jiangdong this year. Yet?"

Zhang Zhao sighed and said, "Recently, I heard that Jingzhou is constantly mobilizing troops and horses, and a large amount of grain and grass are also being transported to Xiakou, Xiling, Xunyang and other places. This is obviously planning to send troops to Jiangdong."

"Ruo Gu."

Sun Quan said hesitantly: "If Gu wrote a letter to Liu Bei to claim his ministership, do you think he can stop the army and make peace?"

In the Battle of Jingzhou, Sun Quan backstabbed first and completely lost his morality.

Logically speaking, Sun Quan should have no face to ask for peace.

But politics should not be shameful. Sun Quan may not be a hero, but he is a qualified politician.

If it can be exchanged for Liu Bei not to attack Jiangdong, even if he is made to bow his knees, so what?

So even if he was beaten back to Jiangdong after the war, and he was in constant panic, he still wanted to sway from side to side.

At the same time, he wrote a letter to Cao Cao willing to join him, and prayed for Cao Cao's protection.While writing to Liu Bei to seek peace, he asked to give him another chance.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's reply letter was in response to his request for attachment, and all letters from Liu Bei's side fell into nothing, without a single reply.

It was nothing.

No one has the guts to forgive anyone who is stabbed in the back, not to mention that Jiangdong is a piece of meat now, how could Liu Bei let it go?
Therefore, Sun Quan didn't have much hope for Liu Bei from the beginning, and only asked Cao Cao to send troops to help him.

So after getting Cao Cao's promise, Sun Quan was quite happy at first.

As a result, Cao Cao died within two months.

Although he also wrote a letter to Cao Pi afterwards, Huainan still had Zhang Liao's 7000 troops, and there has been no additional troops from Wei State, which made Sun Quan more and more panicked.

More importantly, I recently heard that Jingzhou has already started to take action. Shen Chen dispatched troops to attack Jiangdong at any time.

Under such circumstances, Sun Quan had to get up in a hurry and went to the doctor in a hurry. He simply thought that he would choose to surrender to Liu Bei if he didn't write a letter, or at least change his way of life.

However, Zhang Zhao immediately said: "No, we can all surrender, at worst, go to Yizhou and become an official. However, if Marquis Wu surrenders, Liu Bei will forcefully relocate Marquis Wu, and Marquis Wu will not be allowed to have any more soldiers and horses. , isn’t it all over?”

Sun Quan looked at Zhang Zhao in amazement. When Cao Cao came, he was determined to surrender to Cao Cao. Now that Liu Bei came, he has become a firm main fighter. This change in attitude is true.

However, Sun Quan also knew that Zhang Zhao was not thinking of himself, but for him and the Jiangdong family interest group represented behind him.

After surrendering to Cao Cao, the land, population and property of the Jiangdong family interest group can be preserved, and they can continue to be their emperor, and they may even be appreciated by Cao Cao and enter the central government as a court official.

But it would be miserable if he surrendered to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei can fight the local tyrants to divide the land. The Jiangdong family will go hungry for three days and nine meals if they follow Liu Bei. The hidden population must be handed over, and the fields must be handed over. Before the founding of the Han Dynasty, who can bear this?

So Zhang Zhao was definitely not willing to allow Sun Quan to submit to Liu Bei as a minister, because he was afraid that Liu Bei would take advantage of the situation and force Sun Quan to surrender to the end, occupy Jiangdong, and want to take their population, property and land.

Thinking of this, Sun Quan sighed: "If you don't submit, how can Jiangdong's soldiers and horses resist?"

"Forehead"

Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment.

Lu Xun, Gu Yong, and Lu Ji also didn't speak.

Like Zhang Zhao, they are also representatives of the interests of the Jiangdong aristocratic family.

Kan Ze didn't say anything.

Although he was not from a wealthy family in Jiangdong, he was from Kuaiji, so he did not dare to offend the local families.

After a while, Sun Shao sighed and said: "Jiangdong gentry, can you send some more troops?"

Sun Quan immediately looked at Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and the others expectantly.

Zhang Zhao looked left and right and didn't speak. Gu Yong and Lu Xun looked at each other and sighed, "I would like to produce two hundred pieces."

"Humble is also willing to give two hundred."

Lu Xun winked at Lu Ji, so Lu Ji said the same.

Only two hundred?
Sun Quan frowned slightly, and said to Zhang Zhao, "Do the other aristocratic families also give two hundred?"

Zhang Zhao hesitated, "I have to ask them about this matter."

"Ugh."

Sun Quan sighed.

Now he can only use this method to beat around the bush.

He doesn't even have the qualifications to lose his temper with the family.

But today's goal has been achieved. Although the Gu family and the Lu family each only contribute two hundred, if someone takes the lead, others will follow.

There are dozens or hundreds of Jiangdong families, and each family has one or two hundred people, and they can barely make up tens of thousands.

Sadly, I'm afraid things don't go well.

Sun Quan was worried.

At this time, a messenger came from outside the door to report: "Report, the king of Wei sent an envoy to send a letter."

"Bring it up quickly!"

Sun Quan was overjoyed.

He also sent many letters to Cao Pi before, but Cao Pi also responded in the letter that Wei Guo is now in rebellion, and he is in a state of desperation, and I am afraid that he will not be able to support Jiangdong.

This made Sun Quan extremely frustrated, and felt that Jiangdong's future was bleak, so he moved to submit to Liu Bei and bow his head to Liu Bei.

But I didn't expect that Cao Pi would take the initiative to send a letter this time. Could there be another turning point?
The messenger presented the letter with both hands.

Sun Quan took the letter, opened it, and browsed for a while, and his original bitter face suddenly smiled.

Everyone stared wide-eyed and stretched their necks waiting for Sun Quan to read the letter.

Sun Quan watched and watched, and even laughed out loud at the end: "Hahahahaha, Jiangdong is saved."

"Marquis Wu."

Zhang Zhao quickly asked, "What did King Wei say in the letter?"

Sun Quan laughed and said, "Cao Pi is ready to send troops."

"really?"

Zhang Zhao opened his eyes wide and said, "But he said last month that there were more than one internal problems."

"He wrote back to me saying things were much better."

Sun Quan put down the letter in his hand, looked around the crowd and said: "Cao Pi has quelled most of the internal troubles, and appointed Xia Houmao as General Anxi, and transferred Xia Houyuan's main force back to the Kanto. , once Liu Bei sends troops, he will march south himself and attack Liu Bei with us from Huainan."

"Great."

"This is indeed good news."

"Congratulations to Marquis Wu, if this is the case, Jiangdong will have no worries."

Everyone was given a shot in the arm, and everyone had a smile on their face.

Everyone including Lu Xun was extremely happy.

For a Jiangdong family like theirs, the political power is secondary, and the family is the first.

The Liu Bei Group's attitude towards the aristocratic family is obviously based on suppression. Only a very small number of Jiangdong aristocratic families want to defect to Liu Bei, and most of them want to surrender to Cao Wei.

It's just that Liu Bei became so powerful after the Battle of Jingzhou and the Battle of Guanzhong, which makes people extremely sad.

But now that Cao Wei has decided to send troops to help, it is naturally a very happy thing for them.

However, after the excitement, some people still raised questions.

Zhuge Jin wondered: "It's strange, logically speaking, the Cao family experienced the defeats of Guanzhong and Jingzhou, and the Guangzong family died Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong and others, and even the general was captured alive. , Why did Cao Pi dare to take the risk of sending troops?"

"Not surprising."

Sun Quan waved his hand: "The new king Cao Pi has just stabilized the situation after succeeding to the throne, so he must accumulate personal dignity. What could be more exciting and build up prestige than sending troops to Huainan, defeating Liu Bei, and keeping Jiangdong? If I were Cao Pi, I would also in this way."

"Yes, indeed."

Zhang Zhao also agreed with this point of view and said: "Cao Pi's domestic turmoil is due to the fact that he is not as far-sighted as Cao Cao. Now that he has a chance to establish his prestige, how can he let it go easily?"

"Ah."

Zhuge Jin thought about it, nodded and said: "That's right, then Wu Hou can rest assured. As long as Ruxukou and Zheqi City are guarded, with the help of Cao Jun in Jiangbei, Liu Bei will definitely not make it through."

But Lu Xun said: "Marquis Wu, don't be careless. Don't forget that you can enter Yangzhou from Jingnan."

"Shan Yue!"

Sun Quan almost uttered these two words through gritted teeth.

Ruxukou is the confluence of the Yangtze River and Ruxushui. To the south of the Yangtze River is Zheqi City, and to the north is Ruxukou. If Liu Bei's navy wants to go there, they must conquer these two important places.

If you go by land, because of the relationship between the southeast hills and the Yangtze River, you can't walk from the south of the south of the river, so you can only go north of the river.

Cao Jun can help to intercept in Jiangbei, and there will be no worries on the frontal battlefield.

The only problem is the rear.

At the beginning, Liu Biao sent Liu Pan to travel more than 1000 miles from Nanchang to Qiantang in the back of Kuaiji. If Huang Gai hadn't guarded him, his hometown might have been stolen.

The reason why Liu Pan was able to go so far was because of the help of the local Shanyue people.

In the past, from Nanchang to Yuhan to Geyang, Shangrao, Dingyang, Xin'an, Wushang, Zhuji and other places, it was all Shanyue people's territory.

Especially after the Battle of Jingzhou, Sun Quan's control over the southeast hills and south was further weakened, so that Shanyue was rampant, and even the officials sent out were driven away or killed by Shanyue.

So if Liu Bei attacks from two directions, the south is indeed a big hidden danger.

But Sun Quan was not afraid. He remained silent for a long time, and finally said: "With Cao Jun here, no matter what, we can defend the Yangtze River. Even if Liu Bei raids from the south and rushes thousands of miles, it will be difficult to get more food and grass. As long as we stick to it for a while , They will naturally retreat, we occupy the geographical advantage, and the advantage is ours!"

After finishing speaking, he got up and flicked his sleeves and said, "If I want to personally go to Ruxukou to supervise the battle, Liu Bei will come and let him die!"

　Poor Eggy, I sent her away in the afternoon, and she will have surgery tomorrow, alas, but there is also good news, there is no harassment from Eggy, I will write with peace of mind, the big outbreak on the 8th, at least 4th.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)