Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 34
Zhu Jun led his troops to surround Wancheng, and then cut off the food in the city. Han Zhong sent envoys into the city to try to surrender, but Zhu Jun refused to allow him to surrender. The very important reason is that you can accept the surrender, why do you refuse Han Zhong's surrender?"

Zhu Jun replied: "The situation now is different from that at that time. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the people had no fixed masters, so they could use rewards to recruit them. But now that the whole country is unified, these yellow scarf bandits are plotting to rebel. , if let them surrender easily, how can it play the role of punishment and warning?
If these Yellow Turban thieves plunder wantonly when they win, and surrender easily when they fail, then there will only be more and more thieves in the long run, which is not a good plan. "

Liu Bei also said: "If these thieves are not allowed to surrender, then we will now surround Wancheng without leaving any gaps. If the thieves fail to ask for surrender, they will definitely fight to the death. It is no small matter. It is better to withdraw the troops in the southeast corner and concentrate to attack the northwest corner. When the time comes, the bandits will definitely choose to abandon the city and flee. When the time comes, we will attack them again. The bandits will be unwilling to fight, and they will win in a moment."

After hearing this, Zhu Jun felt that what Liu Bei said was indeed a good strategy, so he readily agreed, and then withdrew the two groups of soldiers and horses from the southeast, and withered to attack the northwest. Ren Sui led his troops all the way to cover up and kill Han Zhong. Han Zhong was shot down from his horse and died.

However, just when Zhu Jun and Liu Guanzhang were about to take advantage of the situation and continue to pursue and wipe out the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong led their respective Yellow Turban rebels to arrive and fought Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun's army and horses had been fighting for a long time. People were exhausted, and the Yellow Turban Army had a large number of reinforcements, so Zhu Jun had to lead his troops back temporarily. Zhao Hong took advantage of the situation and recaptured Wancheng. Zhu Jun led his army back to camp ten miles away from Wancheng.

The leader Zhu Jun was about to launch an attack when he suddenly saw a group of sturdy men and horses approaching from the east, and the general headed by this group of people was a man with a broad forehead and a thick back. This man was from Fuchun, Wu County. Wentai is said to be after Sun Wu.

When Sun Jian was only 17 years old, he went to Qiantang with his father, and saw more than a dozen pirates robbing the merchants of their money and goods, and after the looting, they were dividing the spoils on the shore. Sun Jian said to his father: "These pirates We shall destroy it."

So Sun Jian went ashore with a knife in his hand, yelled loudly, and acted like he was commanding people to come over. The pirates believed it was true. Suddenly catch up and kill a pirate.

Because of this incident, Sun Jian became a celebrity in the local county and county, and was recommended as a school captain. Later, the Kuaiji demon rebelled in Xuchang and called himself "Emperor Yangming". There were tens of thousands of people who rebelled with him. At that time, Sun Jian and the county Sima recruited more than a thousand local braves, joined the soldiers of the prefecture and county itself to attack and defeated the bandits, and beheaded Xu Shao, the son of the Xuchang bandit leader.

Inspector Zang Min reported the merits of Sun Jian to the emperor. Sun Jian was granted the title of Yandu Chancellor, and later became Xuyi Chancellor and Xiapi Chancellor. He has 500 elite soldiers from Huaisi, and they are invited to support them.

Zhu Jun was overjoyed when he saw this, so he ordered Sun Jian to attack the south gate of Wancheng, while Liu Bei attacked the north gate of Wancheng, Zhu Jun himself attacked the west gate of Wancheng, leaving only the east gate of Wancheng to let the yellow scarf soldiers escape.

Sun Jian was very brave. He climbed up the city wall first and beheaded more than [-] bandits. The bandits were terrified when they saw Sun Jian and ran away one after another.

Zhao Hongce came galloping towards Sun Jian with a spear in his hand, and Sun Jian was extremely calm when he saw this, so he estimated the distance, and when Zhao Hong was about to arrive, he jumped directly from the city wall and killed Zhao Hong in one fell swoop. Hong seized the battle lance from Hong's hand, then turned around and stabbed Zhao Hong to death, and then flew his horse to kill other Yellow Turban rebels in the city.

Sun Zhong led a group of rebels to break through the north gate, but ran into Liu Bei's leading army to stop him. Sun Zhong knew that he was no match, so he didn't want to fight at all, he just led his troops and fled out of the city.

Seeing that Sun Zhong only wanted to run away and did not fight him, Liu Bei took out his bow and arrow and shot at Sun Zhong. Unfortunately, Sun Zhong was hit by the arrow and fell off his horse and died. Zhu Jun led an army to cover up and kill him from behind. There are countless counties, and more than ten counties and counties in Nanyang have been pacified in one fell swoop.

Zhu Jun won a complete victory, so he returned to the court with everyone. The emperor named Zhu Jun as a general of chariots and cavalry, and concurrently served as Yin of Henan. He was sealed as the Sima of a certain county, and he took up his post in a few days.

However, Liu Bei and others waited in the city for many days, but they still couldn't get the reward, so the three of them gradually became depressed. On this day, the three of them went out for a walk in the street, and happened to meet the convoy of the doctor Zhang Jun. Liu Bei saw it, Then he told him about his military exploits.

Zhang Jun couldn't help being very surprised when he heard this, so he called Liu Bei to the pilgrimage to meet the emperor, and said to the emperor: "When the Yellow Turban Army rebelled before, the main reason was that the ten permanent servants sold their officials and nobles, and they were not people who had a good relationship with them. If they are not appointed, those who have hatred against them will be punished by them, and the world will be in chaos. Therefore, the ten permanent attendants should be killed, their heads should be hung in the southern suburbs, and envoys should be sent to announce to the world that all meritorious people can To be reused and rewarded, if you can do this, you will be able to calm the world."

The ten permanent attendants were furious when they heard the words, and told the emperor that Zhang Jun's words were all deceitful.

The ten permanent attendants secretly discussed together, thinking that the reason for this was that Liu Guanzhang and the others had indeed contributed to breaking the Yellow Turban Army, but they were not appointed. It's time to deal with it slowly.

So Shi Changshi said something in front of the emperor, and finally let Liu Bei get a sesame seed official of Anxi County, Zhongshan Prefecture, Dingzhou. Although the official was a small official, Liu Bei felt that it was better than nothing, so he ordered He also set off for his post today.

Liu Bei dismissed all the villagers who had been recruited and returned to their respective villages, leaving only more than [-] relatives and followers. Yu Guanyu and Zhang Fei came to Anxi County to take up the post together.

Liu Bei was in charge of the affairs of the county for more than a month, during which time he had nothing to do with Minqiu. The local people thought Liu Bei was a good official, and after he took office, he ate and slept with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, just like Xuande in Chouren. Sitting widely, Guan and Zhang standing side by side, tireless all day long.

(End of this chapter)