Three Kingdoms: I, Ma Su, just want to die

Chapter 699 Ma Su Enters Yangzhou

Originally, Luo Tong led the last troops of the Eastern Wu navy to hold off the Han navy. But at this critical moment, Chaisang suddenly caught fire.

The fire in Chaisang immediately threw the Wu army troops who were still resisting into chaos. They all thought they were surrounded and dropped their weapons and fled in all directions.

When he saw the fire at Chaisang Water Fort, Luo Tong was almost in despair.

He figured out the specific situation almost immediately. It was obvious that he had taken a photo of the troops blocking the Red Cliff Trail in the south and failed to stop the Shu army, so they were stabbed all the way from Red Cliff to find me.

Because he only had 7,000 men, he could only send less than 2,000 men to block the small road to the south. After all, his goal from the beginning was just to hold Chaisang and prevent the Shu army from going down the river and heading straight to Jianye.

But he didn't expect that the troops in the south would be defeated so quickly. In just a few days, the Han army was able to penetrate the entire Yuzhang County and rush to Chaisang.

Is the Han army’s combat power a little too exaggerated?
But soon, Luo Tong understood what was going on, because he saw from a distance that many of the people who set fire to the water fort were not dressed in Han army uniforms, but in private soldier uniforms.

Obviously, the wealthy and powerful in Yuzhang County had lost confidence in the Dongwu regime. So rather than saying that Luo Xian fought his way here, it would be better to say that the wealthy and powerful in Yuzhang supported Luo Xian.

After thinking this through, Luo Tong fell silent. After looking around the room and realizing that the situation was completely irreversible, Luo Tong suddenly smiled sadly.

"We lost, this time we lost completely, Dongwu is finished." Luo Tong shook his head and prepared to draw his sword to commit suicide.

As a general, he did not intend to surrender, he still intended to die to prove his loyalty. But when Luo Tong reached for his waist, he found that his sword was gone.

"Commander-in-chief! Let's surrender, don't commit suicide!" Luo Tong looked back and saw that his guards had caught up with him without him noticing. His sword had also been taken away by the guards.

"How many of you will have to die for the ruined Sun family? Commander, you have held out for so long, you don't owe the Sun family anything, surrender now!"

All the soldiers had seen what Sun Quan had done over the years. Luo Tong's guards were obviously unwilling to see their general die for such a man, so they took the initiative to surrender their commander's sword.

Luo Tong immediately flew into a rage, but it was useless. Before he could make any move, the guards rushed forward, surrounded their general and refused to let him commit suicide.

This delay allowed the Han navy to successfully surround him. Luo Tong had no chance to end his life and was eventually captured by the Han army.

At this point, the entire Chaisang defense line completely collapsed, and Xiang Chong was able to continue downstream and head straight for Danyang!
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While achieving great success on the Chaisang front, Ma Su also began to take action.

While Zhuge Liang was mobilizing a large army to force a crossing of the Yangtze River, Ma Su quietly led hundreds of people eastward to the estuary of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River estuary is located in Wu County, which was still an undeveloped area in the Han Dynasty. There were no roads here, and local development was extremely limited. It was basically impossible for a large army to pass through, so the Eastern Wu basically did not set up defenses here.

"Envoy, we have arrived at our destination, but the Baiyue people's reinforcements have not shown up." Liu Yin, who had to temporarily serve as the scout captain due to lack of manpower, came back and bowed to Ma Su.

"These Baiyue people really don't keep their promises. Are they going to stand me up?" Ma Su narrowed his eyes and said uncertainly.

"It's very likely that, after all, they are just a group of uncivilized barbarians." said Jiang Wei, who served as the vanguard.

"Not necessarily. The Baiyue are different from the Shanyue. Many of them are Han people who have become bandits. We cannot generalize them." Deng Ai, who was in charge of logistics, retorted. "Why don't we wait a little longer?" Zhang Yi, who followed Ma Su as a personal guard, suggested.

"I think it's okay." Shu Ji, who was the rear guard, agreed.

Ma Su: "..."

Why does he feel that these people who followed him were here to perform crosstalk?

Ma Su didn't know how these people practiced outside, but after they came back, they all decided to come together. Moreover, these people who didn't know where they learned the tea art from bowed down to Ma Su and said they would commit suicide if they disagreed.

It was a pity that this small troupe of a few hundred people was crammed with seven generals of four expeditions and four garrisons and one great general.

Fortunately, although these people were the backbone of the Han army, they were not irreplaceable. In addition, Zhuge Liang was strong and could handle it, so it did not cause chaos in the front-line command.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, set up camp and investigate quickly, and wait for two days before talking." Ma Su kicked all the permanent generals to the grassroots level to do the work, and at the same time sent people to investigate the situation of Baiyue.

It turned out that the Baiyue people did not stand Ma Su up, they just had no concept of time. After Ma Su waited for three days, the Baiyue fleet finally arrived.

Although they called it a fleet, in reality, they were all small boats. Some of the Baiyue people even came on simple rafts, which was heartbreaking to see.

"Yan Baixiang of Wu County greets the great general of Han!" The leader of the Baiyue was a burly man. Upon seeing Ma Su, he immediately performed a standard Han etiquette.

"Are you the descendant of Yan Baihu, the fierce bandit from Wu County?" Seeing the other party introducing himself, Ma Su raised his eyebrows and asked.

"The general has actually heard of my father?" Yan Baixiang was shocked and felt a little flattered for a moment.

After all, the Yan family was only a little famous in Yangzhou, and it had been so many years. He didn't expect that General Han would come from the northwest and specifically inquire about a small figure like him.

Ma Su did not explain anything about this, but he felt a lot more relieved.

The Yan family and the Sun family were enemies for generations, and there was no possibility of reconciliation. Therefore, the possibility of Baiyue colluding with Sun Wu was basically non-existent, and he could cross the river with confidence.

"Now that things have come to this, let's cross the river first."

At Ma Su's command, the Han army quickly jumped onto the Baiyue boats. Then, under Yan Baixiang's command, the Baiyue people began to carefully row their boats across the river.

However, Yan Baixiang also discovered that the Han army's attire was not right. This group of Han soldiers were not dressed in traditional infantry attire, but were dressed very strangely.

Except for a few soldiers who were wearing hand-held shields, the rest had no conventional weapons and were all wearing heavy armor. Moreover, most of them only carried a short bow and a few arrows, as well as... an extremely sharp special two-handed broadsword!

Yan Baixiang was a little confused about the Han army's attire, but he was very tactful and remained silent.

This is not because of his high emotional intelligence, but... the looks of these Han soldiers are too scary. Just now, he was just glanced at by an ordinary soldier, and he felt as if he was stared at by a dozen tigers.

Are the northern armies already so terrifying?

(End of this chapter)