Wei Ni

Chapter 182 Entering the Urn
Everyone in the Sun clan who has followed Sun Ce is very familiar with Xuzhou.

Because in the process of establishing Jiangdong's foundation, the Sun family used troops against Xuzhou three times, and they were all against the Chen family in Huaipu.

Among them, the first time was the Sun family's counterattack provoked by the Chen family.

At that time, Sun Ce occupied Jiangdong in a very short period of time, which made Wei Wu and Cao Cao lament that "it is difficult to compete with the enemy", and he was worried that he would be in trouble. At that time, Xu Gong, the prefect of Wu Commandery, was strangled by Sun Ce. Cao Cao used the convenience of "taking orders from the emperor to disobey his ministers" and appointed Chen Yu as the prefect of Wu Commandery.

It was claimed that this was to assist Sun Ce in conquering Yuan Shu, who had already proclaimed himself emperor, but in fact it was to add sand to Jiangdong.

Chen Yu came from the Chen family in Huaipu, and was Chen Gui's younger brother and Chen Deng's father.

After receiving the official appointment from the imperial court, he first sent troops to Haixi, the northernmost part of Guangling County, to prepare to capture Guangling County occupied by Yuan Shu. Then he sent an envoy with more than 30 seals to seal Zulang and other leaders. The official made a wish to let them go out to attack the counties during Sun Ce's northern expedition to Yuan Shu.

This is just to prepare for the implementation of his title as the prefect of Wu County.

But what he didn't expect was that when the envoy arrived in Wu with the seal to find the person, Zu Lang and Tai Shi Ci had already submitted to Sun Ce.

Faced with such backstabbing behavior, Sun Ce naturally would not swallow his anger.

And under Chen Yu's leadership, it was natural for Sun Ce to use the troops that were supposed to attack Yuan Shu in the north against the Chen family.

Immediately, Xu Yi and other generals led their troops northward to attack Haixi with Lu Fan as the leader.

In this battle, Chen Yu was defeated. Not only was the leading family general Chen Mu killed on the battlefield, and more than 4,000 soldiers were captured, but he himself had to flee to Jizhou alone to join Yuan Shao.

But after winning, Sun Ce did not occupy Guangling County.

Because at that time the emperor of the Han Dynasty was still there, and the princes of the world were still worried about the honor of righteousness.

Instead, he paid tribute to the emperor again to show that he had no rebellious intentions, and Cao Cao successfully gave him a title by pinching his nose - making Sun Ce the rebel general and Wuhou, allowing him to take control of Jiangdong legitimately.

However, the governor of Guangling at this time was Chen Deng.

Now that Sun Ce has solved the issue of status, he must also start to consider the issue of revenge for the Chen family in the future.

Especially Chen Deng also did the same thing as Chen Yu.

Instead, he secretly sent people to appoint officials to Jiangdong's powerful men and recruit Yan Baihu's remnant party for his own use.

More importantly, when Sun Ce transferred his troops to attack Liu Xun and captured Lujiang County and persuaded Yuzhang Governor Hua Xin to surrender, Chen Deng also successfully recruited the most powerful pirates in Xuzhou at the time, with more than ten thousand of his subordinates. Xuezhou, who lives in the country, has the ability to cross the river south to avenge Chen Yu at any time.

There is no room for others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch.

Not to mention the enemy!
In order to have a stable rear when he marched into Jingzhou to avenge his father, Sun Ce, who had returned from Lujiang, directly went north to attack Guangling with his victorious troops.

It's just a pity.

An arrogant soldier will be defeated.

Chen Deng, whose talents and learning were better than those of his father Chen Yu and who had learned lessons from the previous war, had been prepared to face the enemy early.

He built Kuangqi City at Jinhu (Jinghu) and Shebei in the middle part of Zhongdu River to guard the connection between the river and the Huaihe River, so that Sun Ce could not rely on the elite navy to make encirclements and cut off grain routes. Supplies, siege and other measures.

Moreover, the water level in Zhongdu Water is very low.

Large ships can only pass through the river when there is abundant rain in summer and autumn. In winter and spring, the river cannot reach the Huaihe River.

For example, when Lu Fan defeated Chen Yu, he sent troops in the summer, so he could come and go freely.

Sun Ce, who had defeated the Lujiang River in the First World War and surrendered to Yuzhang, was in high spirits. He ignored the shallow waters in spring and led his troops north to attack Guangling.

The victorious soldiers under his command also hesitated in their ambitions. Everyone felt that Chen Deng was as unbearable as Chen Yu. When they faced the battle, they were defeated like a mountain.

Then Chen Deng defeated it with inferior troops.

The total number of Jiangdong soldiers who were killed on the battlefield and those killed by the pursuit was more than 10,000.

This battle was Sun Ce's worst defeat in his life.

He couldn't swallow this breath, and soon he raised his troops again to attack Kuangqi City.

The difference is that this time he stayed in Jiangdu on the north bank of the river to supervise grain and grass, and entrusted the power of supervising the war to Sun Quan.

Making such a decision does not mean that he still underestimates the enemy.

But when he raised troops to go north for the second time, he avoided all disadvantages, selected good soldiers and generals, and consolidated the premise of victory by overwhelming the minority, so he allowed Sun Quan to show his face and accumulate prestige.

Especially since Cao Cao was attacking Liu Bei who occupied Xuzhou at that time, he could not spare many troops to help Chen Deng.

However, Sun Quan was still defeated.

After Chen Deng sent an envoy to ask for help from Cao Cao with great fanfare, he secretly sent people out of the city to pile firewood every ten steps on the way to the rescue.

After nightfall, light them all to make the night as bright as day.

The Wu soldiers mistakenly thought that Cao Cao's army had arrived, and each panicked. This also allowed Chen Deng to once again find an opportunity to lead the army to take the initiative to attack, and once again forced the Wu soldiers back with a record of beheading more than 10,000 people.

After this battle, Sun Ce was assassinated not long after.

After succeeding to the throne, Sun Quan did not resume his troops to Xuzhou Guangling because of many important matters such as internal and external troubles, and Chen Deng also died of illness soon after.

But from then on, Sun Shao, who was given a surname by Sun Ce and incorporated into his clan, wanted to capture Guangling and Xuzhou to avenge Sun Ce.

This is one of the reasons why he actively manages Guangling County.

Therefore, when he heard that the sergeant reported a rebellion in Guangwu Lake in the north of the Yangtze River, he immediately summoned his private troops and crossed the river.

Although such small rebellions have long been common in Jiangdong.

But he did not allow his plan to march north to Qingxu, which was discredited by a small rebellion before Sun Quan could confirm it.

Even if this kind of rebellion is harmless!

Yes, the rebellion in Guangwu Lake had little impact on Sun Shao's management of Guangling County.

In addition to the self-sufficient garrison at Jiangdu Wubao, he went north along the Zhongdu River and set up garrison posts in Guangling County, Guangwu Lake, Fanliang Lake in Gaoyou, and Kuangqi City, and sent soldiers to supervise the weak Shanyue farming.

Among them, there are a thousand troops stationed in Kuangqi City, all of which are his private troops.

Therefore, with the presence of Kuangqi City, the rebellion in Guangwu Lake would not cause a catastrophe at all, let alone escape the pursuit of the troops he is leading now!

Furthermore, the losses caused by the rebellion were within his tolerance.

More than 700 soldiers were stationed at Guangwu Lake.

General Li Rong, who was in charge, was actually the hundred-man governor of his private army, while Wang Li, who was a school captain, and Zhang Peng, who was his deputy, each had three hundred private soldiers. These more than 700 people were stationed there, guarding the farming and fishing interests of more than a thousand Shanyue captives. After deducting daily expenses, half of the output went to the treasury and the other half went to Wang Li and Zhang Peng equally.

In addition, Wang and Zhang made the fields developed by their private soldiers privately owned, and the more they worked, the more they would get.

It can be regarded as a reward for Wang and Zhang to lead private soldiers to defend the country.

Therefore, the losses brought to him by the rebellion were the loss of a hundred troops, most of the prisoners from Shanyue, and some accumulated grain that was not transferred back to Jiangdong.

As for why there was a sudden rebellion?
He could probably guess that Wang Li and Zhang Peng often had conflicts when working together.

Today you accused me of secretly recruiting the deceased people of Wei, and the next day I accused you of whipping Shanyue prisoners, etc. These are all nonsense.

Sun Shao was helpless about this.

It is the nature of Jiangdong's little tycoons to be willing to spend money and to be greedy for small profits. Even if one of them is transferred away, another little tycoon will not get along well with him.

So, after instructing Li Rong to do his best to negotiate, he just let it go.

But it would have led to the sergeant reporting that Zhang Peng killed General Li Rong, captured Wang Li, and took most of the Yue prisoners to the north to join Wei. He never expected it.

What happened that caused Zhang Peng to defect alone regardless of his family's family in Wu County? With such doubts, Sun Shao led a thousand troops to cross the river with the support of 800 navy troops.

A thousand chapters are enough to deal with such a rebellion.

And now that there is no war, many soldiers are still taking turns to rest. After his private troops were stationed in Jingkou, Jiangdu and Kuangqi City, they did not have much time to spare.

It is worth mentioning that Wu Can, who came to visit, also accompanied him.

According to him, since it happened to be the right time, he went to Jiangbei together to see Sun Shao's business results.

Sun Shao couldn't ask for this.

He also took this opportunity to explain his war plan against Wu when crossing the river.

I am noncommittal.

He just nodded to show that he already knew, and whether he should join forces with important ministers to persuade Sun Quan, he had to let him think about it in detail.

When I was young, I arrived in Jiangdu.

The naval general Sun Yi (from Dongzhou, not from the Jiangdong clan) who was stationed here came out to greet him.

Moreover, the sergeants and Shanyue prisoners who had escaped from Guangwu Lake early gathered together, waiting for Sun Shao's inquiry.

This approach made Sun Shao quite approving.

But there's also a bit of a downside.

Just when he was asking, he actually saw a few childlike young men in Wubao.

After Sun Yi explained, he found out that they were Wang Li's nephews. After Liu Yu, who was stationed here, learned of the incident, he hurriedly sent private soldiers to the south bank to pick them up.

Therefore, Sun Shao thought about it and finally did not blame Sun Yi for letting the rest of the people enter the military camp.

He knew that Wang Li and Liu Yu were close friends and had many marriages.

What Liu Yu did was simply because he was worried that the private soldiers who had escaped from the Wang family and the fields they had opened up at Guangwu Lake would be hidden and annexed by other generals.

Alas, Jiangdong's powerful forces are so stubborn, An Neng begs them to fight the Northern Expedition!

Sighing in his heart, Sun Shao didn't say much. After asking the whole story and leading his troops north, he didn't let Liu Yu accompany him to pursue Zhang Peng - Wang Li, who was captured by Zhang Peng, should be in danger. Let Liu Yu stay in Jiangdu to protect the Wang family's nephews and take back their private soldiers, so as to prevent the Wang family from declining in the future and criticizing themselves for guarding the border for the country and ending up with the destruction of their families.

However, he still neglected it.

He was fully focused on how to show Wu Can the results of his management of Guangling, and did not notice anything unusual about Liu Yu.

When Wang Li was in trouble, Liu Yu, a good friend of the whole family, did not take the initiative to ask for help to quell the rebellion!

Moreover, Liu Yu kept his head lowered after he entered Jiangdu Wubao, not daring to look at him or letting him see the expression on his face.

Therefore, he didn't know that Liu Yu, who was so nervous that the lining on his back was soaked through and he didn't even dare to breathe out, breathed a sigh of relief after he left, and secretly showed a smile of success.

Because he sent his private soldiers back to the south bank of the river, he not only brought back Wang Li's family.

On the few ships docked at the dock, there are also his own family and assets accumulated over the years!

"My nephew, please take everyone back to the boat."

Standing by the Zhongdu River outside Wubao, watching Sun Shao lead hundreds of light boats to the north, Liu Yu pulled his nephew, the head of the Wang family, to his side and whispered, "Remember! No matter what happens next, , don’t act rashly! Don’t let the boatman sail the boat to Dantu! Also, your father is unharmed, so there is no need to worry.”

After saying this, without waiting for the Wang family's nephew to reply, he waved his hand to summon the troops to send them to the boat.

He continued to stop for a while before slowly returning to the dock.

In Wubao, more than 300 of his private soldiers were already under attack, and they were waiting in formation not far from the gate of Wubao camp.

Moreover, Sun Yi, the commander of Wubao, also followed Sun Shao to the north.

"I was not strict with my subordinates and made Brother Kong Xiu laugh."

On the hurriedly moving boat, Sun Shao faced the cold river wind and saw thick smoke billowing from the Guangwu Lake garrison point in the distance. He said this to Wu Can beside him with a hint of embarrassment.

"Hey, I'm humble because of public etiquette."

Wu Can, on the other hand, shook his head and said with a smile, "I just heard the reason for the traitor Zhang Peng's rebellion. It was not a matter of courtesy. The so-called villain's joy is like this."

Well, according to the returning sergeants and Sangoe prisoners, the Guangwu Lake Rebellion was caused by -

Zhang Peng had previously secretly hid more than 20 Wei deceased families and incorporated them into his own disciples' middle school. However, Wang Li found out about it for some reason. He also brought the matter to Li Rong's face and asked Li Rong to send someone back to inform him. Sun Shao, in accordance with the law, took Zhang Peng's marching law.

But before General Li Rong made a decision, Zhang Peng bowed his head.

He claimed that as long as he was not reported, he would give all the more than 20 households to General Li Rong and Wang Li.

With the profit, the three people reached a consensus on the spot.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Peng couldn't trust Wang Li at all, and felt that Wang Li would not give up the opportunity to torture him to death just because he was assigned to more than a dozen households.

Therefore, his bowing his head was just a delaying tactic.

On the fourth day after reaching a consensus, he transferred a lot of wine and meat from his home in Nan'an and hosted a banquet for Li Rongjiang and his hundreds of tribes.

Those drinks were all drugged.

I never expected that Zhang Peng could be so vicious, Li Rong general and hundreds of others were all killed.

After succeeding, Zhang Peng also took the opportunity to lead his troops to attack Wang Li, who was unprepared, and captured him alive. Then he plundered the stored grain and took the Shanyue prisoners to the north to surrender to Wei.

As for why Wang Li was not killed too.
The people who escaped saw Wang Li, who was kidnapped behind his back, being led north. There were full-time soldiers who humiliated and whipped him along the way.
Therefore, the rebellion caused by such reasons really must be attributed to the corruption of Jiangdong's young powerful men, rather than being blamed on Sun Shao.

Moreover, rebellions within Jiangdong occurred almost every year.

The mountains rebelled, the people rebelled, the officials and the people revolted, and generals surrendered to the enemy. Wu Can had long been accustomed to such things.

Now there is a rebellion under Sun Shao's command, what's so strange about it?

Furthermore, although Sun Shao has a reputation in Jiangdong as loving soldiers like a son.

But the soldiers Ai Ruzi refers to his private army, not all the soldiers under his command, let alone the private armies led by his generals.

Jiangdong Qu private ownership.

Zhang Peng's private army is not under the leadership of Sun Shao, so naturally Wu Can will not laugh.

On the contrary, after crossing the river, he looked at the farming fields on both sides of the Zhongdu River and felt that Sun Shao was extremely talented and worthy of the reputation of a good general in the border area.

So he just gave it a lenient explanation and added, "Furthermore, Gongli just claimed that our army has renovated Kuangqi City and will be able to march to Huaisi in the future. From this, it can be inferred that the traitor Zhang Peng will be blocked under Kuangqi City. If you chase after Li, you can definitely capture him in one battle. The rebellion can be put down in one day, but Gongli still behaves modestly?"

"Hahaha~~"

Hearing this, Sun Shao laughed out loud.

Just as Wu Can said, with hundreds of walking boats chasing him, he would definitely be able to intercept Zhang Peng outside Kuangqi City.

After all, Zhang Peng was too greedy. When he defected, he even plundered the stored grain and took the Shanyue prisoners with him. It was impossible for him to walk fast.

But this is not the main reason for his joy.

But he heard that Wu Can praised his achievements in running Guangling County and already had the intention to persuade Sun Quan to implement the Qingxu strategy.

However, Kuangqi City, which he relied on, has now fallen into the hands of the Wei army!

(End of this chapter)