Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 392
When Shen Chen and his clan went south and passed through Lujiang, they were taken care of by Lu Kang, Lu Xun's ancestral governor of Lujiang.

In ancient times, the migration of clans was a very big event, especially for a famous family like the Deng family, who dragged their families and led their families, mobilized teachers and mobilized people, which must have attracted the attention of the world.

Therefore, every time they passed by, the local county magistrates and prefects of all counties would inquire about the situation, and the clans would naturally hand out name cards, say hello, and inform them of the reason for the migration.

The Deng family of Nanyang was famous all over the world during the Eastern Han Dynasty.So when passing Lujiang, Lu Kang gave some grain and oil gifts.

In return, Shen Chen asked his uncle Deng Hong to return a thank you post, and told Lu Kang in the post that Yuan Shu would definitely covet Lujiang, and hoped that he could handle it carefully.

Lu Kang knew that Deng Hong had visited Yuan Shu's mansion when the Deng family passed through Shouchun, so he suspected that Deng Hong had noticed something in Yuan Shu's house, so he sent half of the clan back to Wu County as instructed.

Historically, the Lu family in Wuxian County was all attached to Lu Kang, including the Lu Xun brothers. Because their father and grandfather died early, they were brought up by Lu Kang since childhood, and they have been following Lu Kang since he was Prime Minister of Le An.

As a result, Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce to attack Lu Kang, and Lu Kang resisted desperately for two years.When the city was broken, most of the hundreds of Lu's children who followed Lu Kang died due to war and famine.

So to a certain extent, Lu Xun and Lu Ji's Wu County Lu family had a lot of hatred with their Sun family.

It's just that the Sun family occupied Jiangdong by force, and if the Lu family wanted to develop and ensure the prosperity of the family, they had to be attached to their enemies, which forced Lu Xun and Lu Ji to serve in Jiangdong.

But now Lu Kang sent half of the Lu family's children back to Wu County, and the rest of the Lu family's children followed him in Lujiang. When the city was destroyed, only a few of the Lu family died unexpectedly, and most of the clan population escaped and ran back to Wu County.

In this case, the Lu family must remember Shen Chen's kindness and Sun's hatred.

When the Sun family is strong, this kind of kindness and hatred will shrink.

Because the Lu family wants to survive and develop, since it is in the territory of the Sun family, they can only endure it.

And he had to work for the Sun family desperately in exchange for a higher political status in Jiangdong and the power to make the family stronger.

But once the Sun family weakens, this kind of kindness and hatred will immediately magnify.

The Lu family will soon abandon Sun Quan, using Shen Chen's kindness to them back then, and Sun Ce's grudge against them back then as an excuse to change their families and become an official in the Liu Bei Group.

Even if the Liu Bei Group will indeed weaken the family, it doesn't matter.

As long as they can continue to walk on the thigh and continue the prosperity of the family, then for the aristocratic family, it is nothing more than the continuous accumulation of generations.

This Jiangdong belongs to their family after all.

Therefore, it is easy to understand that the Lu family took the vote to return to the Liu Bei Group.

One is that as the first family to surrender, Liu Bei Group should set an example and probably not cut them too hard.

The second is to take the lead in submitting, and you can also successfully take a good position in the new dynasty.

Three, and the most important point.

Now Shen Chen is at the height of his power, like the number two person in the south besides Liu Bei.

In the future, after the old people like Liu Guanzhang leave, Liu Bei's successor will definitely rely on him, and Shen Chen will also become the mainstay of the South by then.

As a local family in the south, when would you wait if you don't hold your thighs at this time?
So before Shen Chen was ready to attack Wu, a small number of dignitaries from aristocratic families wrote to him with the intention of submitting, hoping to hug their thighs in advance and find a good home.

Among them is the Lu family.

Although the letter was not written by Lu Xun himself, it would have been impossible without his intentions.

Therefore, finding a good owner in advance is also a long-term investment for these aristocratic families.

Naturally, Wei Yan didn't think so deeply. It is the best thing to be able to get Wujun peacefully. At present, the army has successfully entered the city and controlled the Wujun government.

After asking Lu's to help replenish the dry food, he set off again and went straight to Jianye.

What Wei Yan didn't know was that both he and Pound were still on their way to Jianye, and Guan Yu's army was about to arrive at Sun Quan's lair.

On September 25rd in the [-]th year of Jian'an, the fleet first went to Wuhu, Yuhu, and Danyang.

After that, after the follow-up food and grass arrived and supplies were replenished, the fleet set off again and headed for Liyang.

Liyang is Hexian County of Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province in later generations. It is located to the west of the Yangtze River and faces Ma'anshan City across the river. There is a famous river in the north of the county, which was called Wujiang River in Han Dynasty.

The fleet arrived in Liyang to wait for the army.

On September [-], the army led by Ma Chao arrived in Liyang.

At this time, Guan Yu had sent Gan Ning as the vanguard to lead an army of [-] sailors across Shicheng to Longzangpu.

Longzangpu is the Qinhuai River, and Gan Ning blocked the south bank of the Qinhuai River.

When Sun Quan learned that the enemy had reached the Qinhuai River, he was shocked and called a group of ministers to discuss matters in the residence of Marquis Wu of Jianye.

Inside the residence of Marquis Wu, Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, Gu Yong, Kan Ze, Sun Shao, Yan Yan, Lu Xun, Shi Yi, Lu Ji and more than a dozen Sun Quan counselors sat among them.

The candlelight in the hall shines brightly. Due to the poor lighting, everyone’s faces are intertwined with light and dark, showing everyone’s complicated and sad thoughts.

"Cao Pi missed me!"

Sun Quan patted the table, he was already extremely sad and angry, with a painful expression on his face.

This battle was originally intended to use Soochow as the defense to hold back the main force of Liu Bei's group. At this time, Cao Wei's group attacked, and the two sides attacked to repel the invading enemy.

Unexpectedly, Cao Chun was defeated at Dongxing Dike, and even he himself was beheaded by Zhao Yun, and there was no news of the so-called main force of Cao Jun after that.

The letters sent to Zhang Liao in Hefei also fell into the sea like mud, and there was no reply at all.

Now all fools know that they have been tricked by Cao Pi.

Although he didn't know what Cao Pi was thinking, Sun Quan understood that the current situation had reached a critical moment.

Zhang Zhao frowned, and said, "Marquis Wu, the western army is approaching, but the soldiers don't raise their swords, what will happen to them?"

Sun Quan propped his forehead, feeling that his head was burnt out, and angrily said: "I still need more than [-] soldiers and horses, and I will stick to Jianye. I must not sit idle and die."

"Does Marquis Wu want to defend Jianye?"

Lu Xun asked.

"How can that be?"

Sun Quan smiled bitterly and said, "At least Jianye has high walls and thick walls, which can resist it. How can the rest of the city be defended? Is it possible that we are going to flee north to Wei?"

Lu Xun shook his head and said, "It's the high walls of Jianye City that are hard to resist. Think about it, Marquis Wu, the walls of Jianye City are more than enough to accommodate tens of thousands of troops. What will happen if only [-] soldiers go there immediately?"

"Forehead"

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment.

Zhang Zhao said in a deep voice, "Leak the enemy from all sides."

"good."

Lu Xun nodded: "When the red-browed army attacked Chang'an, Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan was forced to flee alone because of the large city of Chang'an. The Kwantung Allied Forces attacked Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo also avoided disaster in Chang'an because of the large city of Luoyang. It also needs corresponding troops to defend, if there are few soldiers, it is not as good as a small town."

This is the disadvantage of high walls and thick walls.

Why in history, when many countries perish, once the enemy hits the capital, the monarch often chooses to surrender, and there are few stubborn resisters.

It is because the country's capital is too large, and when it is about to perish, there are very few troops that can defend itself, and the morale of the army in the city is also very low, so it is better to simply surrender and change to a better end.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, Chang'an, the western capital, and Luoyang, the eastern capital, were both metropolises with a height of five or six feet and an area of ​​tens of hundreds of square kilometers.There are also Chengdu in the Shuhan of the Three Kingdoms, and Jianye in Soochow. The cities are also very tall, with more than [-] people in the area, and they cannot be defended at all.

Therefore, in history, people like Liu Xuan, Dong Zhuo, Liu Chan, and Sun Hao were not willing to defend in a big city like Luoyang, Chang'an, and Chengdu Jianye.

The same is true of the current situation.

It has been ten years since Sun Quan moved the Jiangdong government office from Jingkou to Jianye.

As the seat of the Jiangdong government, the newly repaired city wall of Jianye is very tall, enough to accommodate more than 5 people for defense.

But now there are only more than 1 soldiers and horses in Jiangdong with low morale. After climbing the city wall, let’s not talk about morale problems. Conjuring two soldiers out, they were exhausted and couldn't defend themselves at all.

So Jianye is already in trouble.

Sun Quan mourned, "Could it be that I have reached the end of my life? Cao Pi will not save him, and Liu Bei will press every step of the way. The foundation of the three generations of Jiangdong will be destroyed in one fell swoop."

Zhuge Jin said softly: "Marquis Wu, if you don't return."

"Marquis Wu."

Lu Xun knew what Zhuge Jin wanted to say.

But he also knew that Sun Quan would not agree easily. If Zhuge Jin said it, Sun Quan might be furious and kill him, so he interrupted immediately.

Sure enough, Sun Quan gave Zhuge Jin a dark look, and then said to Lu Xun, "Bo Yan, what do you have to say?"

Lu Xun said: "The only way now is to take risks."

"You said."

Sun Quan stared at him intently.

Lu Xun said: "If we choose to defend the city now, there are two problems that need to be solved. One is that there are few soldiers in the city, and it is difficult to cover everything. The other is that the morale of the army is low, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit."

"Ah."

Sun Quan nodded.

He is not a fool, so he naturally knows that Lu Xun is right.

Lu Xun continued: "If we want to solve these two problems at once, it is still too difficult for us, so we must do it step by step. We must first boost morale, and then find ways to raise troops to resist Liu Bei's army."

Sun Quan hurriedly asked: "Then how can we boost morale?"

"The low morale was due to the failure of the Battle of Jingzhou and the Battle of Ruxukou. The soldiers felt that Jiangdong must not be able to hold on, and they did not want to die in vain. Therefore, a victory must be told to tell them that there is hope."

Lu Xun said in a deep voice: "Now there is a dangerous and dangerous way, and that is to go out of the city and fight."

"Out of the city for a decisive battle?"

Everyone's eyes widened.

Zhang Zhao even said, "Bo Yan, are you hysterical? Now that there are so many enemies, going out of the city for a decisive battle is a dead end?"

Even Sun Quan couldn't think about it, but looked at Lu Xun with angry eyes.

He felt that Lu Xun was forcing him to die.

However, Lu Xun shook his head and said, "No, this is a way to put him to death and survive. Only in this way can Marquis Wu have a chance."

Hearing this sentence, Sun Quan couldn't help but sneered and said, "Then please Bo Yan explain the reason in detail."

Lu Xun said: "Originally, if Guan Yu had fought steadily, it would have been almost impossible for us to win. But he wanted to take over the army first, and then sent Gan Ning to lead the water army to block Longzangpu. The front army arrived before the main force in the rear arrived. a good thing."

"Why?"

Sun Quan asked.

Lu Xun said: "Marquis Wu, do you still remember that when Yuan Shao attacked Cao Cao, he first sent Yan Liang to attack the white horse for the front army, but Cao Cao stopped him and lost Yan Liang and tens of thousands of troops, which caused the morale of Yuan's army to drop, and the morale of Cao's army soared. This principle."

"You mean that we should attack Gan Ning. If we can defeat Gan Ning, we can boost morale, and then retreat back to defend?"

Zhang Zhao also recalled it.

Lu Xun nodded and said: "Exactly. After defeating Gan Ning, Guan Yu did not dare to act rashly. He must be fully prepared before attacking Jianye. At this time, Marquis Wu can immediately recruit soldiers from the counties and deploy troops to defend. There is still a possibility of Jiangdong surviving."

Out of the city for a decisive battle, first break the former army?

Everyone thinks.

Even Sun Quan gradually calmed down and began to consider whether this proposal was correct.

Because they found that what Lu Xun said seemed to make sense.

When the army is defeated, the most important thing is to win a battle and boost morale before it can make a difference.

During the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu did not rely on meteorites, but first told the Green Forest Army that their main force had captured Wancheng, and the army was about to rush north to help Kunyang, so that the soldiers could cheer up.

At that time, Wancheng had indeed been destroyed, but the main force of the Green Forest Army was still resting, and the news had not reached Kunyang, so Liu Xiu was completely lying about the military situation and forcibly boosting morale.

However, this method works in the short term. If the long-term reinforcements are delayed, morale will inevitably drop.

So there has to be a big win.

Liu Xiu personally led more than a thousand people on foot, fought thousands of people sent by Wang Yi, and personally beheaded dozens of enemies. He won the first battle and greatly boosted morale.

After that, he brought 3000 people to fight with more than 1 horses led by Wang Yi himself, beheaded Wang Xun, and took advantage of the situation to defeat Wang Mang's army.

So did Cao Cao.

On the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang as the vanguard to take the white horse.

Cao Cao personally led the troops to the north and stopped Yan Liang on the white horse. Guan Yu rushed into the enemy's formation, one man, one horse and one knife.

After that, he retreated to Guandu and confronted Yuan Shao.He also led [-] cavalry to attack Wuchao by surprise, burning Yuan Shao's food and grass, and finally defeated Yuan Shao and annexed the entire north.

So what Lu Xun said is correct, if you want to win, you must first boost your morale.

What better way to boost morale than a victory?

the most important is.

Guan Yu seemed to be overbearing, and sent the vanguard Gan Ning with only 1 people to block the Qinhuai River.

However, Sun Quan still has more than 1 soldiers and horses in his hands, and there are still some ships that have not participated in the battle. In terms of military strength, he actually has a certain advantage over Gan Ning.

Therefore, it seems that it is not impossible to block Gan Ning.

Thinking of this, everyone felt that what Lu Xun said seemed to make sense, so they all made suggestions.

"Marquis Wu, Boyan is right. If you want to keep Jianye, you must boost your morale. Only by defeating Gan Ning can you boost your morale."

"That's right, it happens that Gan Ning only has 1 people, so he certainly wouldn't expect us to dare to go out of the city to fight. If we sneak attack at night, he will be able to defeat him and boost our morale."

"That's right, Marquis Wu, this is indeed a way to put one's death on the ground and live later. There is a saying in "Sun Tzu's Art of War": Victorious soldiers win first and then seek war, and defeated soldiers first fight and then seek victory. We need the courage to fight when we are waiting for a new defeat. "

Everyone persuaded them one after another.

Sun Quan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, according to Bo Yan's words, I will worship Bo Yan as the commander of this battle, and all the soldiers and horses from Jiangdong will be handed over to you. Then you will lead all the soldiers and horses out of the city, and fight Gan Ning to the death!"

Lu Xun cupped his hands and said in a deep voice: "Xun, I will live up to the entrustment of Marquis Wu!"

(End of this chapter)