A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 407: The battle started for several months with no results, and he died before the great cause was accomplished.

April 15th

Half a month later, 20,000 Yuan troops attacked Le'an. Not only did they fail to capture it, they actually lost more than 5,000 people.

Not far from Le'an City, Chunyu Qiong was dressed in armor and looked like he was ready to lead the team himself.

In the past half month, Chunyu Qiong personally led the team to climb the city wall no less than ten times. Whenever it was about to penetrate the enemy's line, Gao Shun would personally lead the team there in time.

After fighting with him several times, Gao Shun was actually no match for him, but Gao Shun always had several crossbowmen behind him to shoot a few arrows while he wasn't paying attention.

As a result, he could not concentrate on fighting the enemy, so he was dragged in place, unable to open up the situation, and finally had to exit with regret.

Just when Chunyu Qiong just took the first step.

"Report, General, there is a large enemy force on the other side of Jishui River, tens of thousands of them can be seen!"

Chunyu Qiong's face changed drastically, and she quickly asked: "Have you ever seen the flag?"

"Hit Liu Ziqi."

"Liu?"

Chunyu Qiong looked at the small Le'an in front of him. He never imagined that such a small city could withstand his 20,000-strong army for half a month.

I thought I could earn meritorious service by leading the troops on this expedition, but now, let alone meritorious service, Yuan Shao would regard him as someone who valued him if he didn't behead him.

"Ming Jin! Order the entire army to break camp and withdraw!"

Chunyu Qiong knew that Liu Bei was coming, and it would be useless to stay here any longer. He might be surrounded by Liu Bei instead.

At the top of Le'an City, Gao Shun, who was dressed in tattered armor and stomach, looked at Yuan Jun who was retreating like a tide, knowing that he had won and Le'an was holding on.

Then he felt like the world was spinning and he fell straight to the ground.

"General, general!"

This frightened the soldiers on the side. Le Anling stepped forward to help him, explored with his hands, and breathed a sigh of relief: "The general is fine, but he has not rested for many days and fell into a coma. He will be fine in a few days."

Liu Bei led Zhao Yun, Xia Houbo and other generals, as well as hundreds of soldiers, slowly walked through the Le'an City Gate amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and looked up.

The walls of Le'an City were densely covered with arrows, and the original khaki walls had become black with blood.

When you walk into the doorway, you can still see people who are constantly cleaning up corpses. When you walk into the street, you can see that there are many damaged houses on the street. The people have no houses, so they have to roll a piece of cloth between the ruins as a temporary shelter.

Not only that, every house is surrounded by wooden beams, and people are constantly washing the blood on the ground with clean water on the street.

"My subordinate Tian You, the magistrate of Le'an County, pays homage to General Zuo!"

Liu Bei looked at Le'anling who greeted him with a tired face. The clothes on his body and his disheveled hair showed that Le'anling had gone all out to defend the city this time.

"Magistrate Tian, ​​please call me. I already know that a small city with less than 10,000 people can resist Yuan's 20,000-strong army. This is amazing. This is also rare in history.

I will reward the people and officials who have made meritorious service in this battle on a certain day, and I will also remember the contributions made by the people of Le'an.

I heard that Gao Shun promised Le'an to be exempted from taxes for one year. I am here to tell you formally that in view of Le'an's outstanding contribution to the Qingzhou War, Le'an will be exempted from all taxes for three years. Employment should never be taken lightly.

For the soldiers and officials who have made meritorious service in this battle, each will be rewarded with three thousand coins, and all officials will be promoted to the first level. As for Tian County Magistrate, after you have settled the affairs of Le'an, go to Donglai and serve as the prefect of Donglai. "

Tian You and the officials and people behind him were overjoyed when they heard Liu Bei's promises one after another, and their sadness was relieved for a while.

The entire Le'an County town used to have only more than 4,000 households and a population of more than 10,000. Now after this war, the population has dropped sharply to 6,000, and most of them are women, children, old and young, and most of the able-bodied men were lost in the battle.

Seeing this situation, Liu Bei was not ready to enter the city. He ordered Magistrate Tian to take good care of Gao Shun who had fallen asleep, and sent his own doctor to treat him.

Then he got on his horse, led the people back to the military column, and continued towards Linji.

April 16

Liu Bei's army arrived twenty miles south of Qiancheng City, and Zhang He's troops who besieged Qiancheng retreated to Linji.

April

After reuniting with the remaining 10,000 Qingzhou troops from Qiancheng, Liu Bei took 30,000 people to the north of Linji City and set up camp five miles north of the city. Watch and help Linji City.

Yuan Shao's army numbered more than 80,000, and Liu Bei's army totaled more than 50,000. They began to confront each other at the foot of Linji City.

When Yuan Shao and Liu Bei entered a stalemate in Qingzhou, major events also occurred in other parts of the world.

The first is Cao Cao.

Cao Cao learned that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei were fighting, but he did not stab Liu Bei in the back. Instead, he sent Pei Mao to pay homage to him, and led General Duan Xuan of Zhonglang to attack Li Jue in Guanzhong with 30,000 troops.

On the one hand, he personally came with an army of 50,000 to attack Zhang Xiujun, Zhang Ji's nephew, who occupied Nanyang County and was stationed in Wancheng.

Now we are discussing peace talks with Zhang Xiu.

Since Cao Cao occupied Yingchuan County, the second largest talent base in the world, Cao Cao's civil servants have been very abundant.

Afterwards, based on Guo Jia's suggestion, he issued a recruitment order together with Liu Bei, which not only weakened Liu Bei's influence, but also recruited talented people.

On April 20th, Sun Ce, the Yangzhou herder and rebel general, was assassinated by Xu Gong's disciples while hunting. Before his death, he ordered his younger brother Sun Quan to take his place.

Xu Gong once served as the captain of Wu County. Later, Sheng Xian, the prefect of Wu County, resigned due to illness, and Xu Gong became the prefect of Wu County.

As soon as Xu Gong took office, he wanted to persecute the late governor Sheng Xian. Gao Dai, a famous scholar in Wu County, helped Sheng Xian hide in the home of Xu Gong's brother Xu Zhao, so as to avoid being killed.

At that time, the captain of Wu County was Zhu Zhi, a native of Danyang from Sun Jian's old department.

In the second year of Xingping, Sun Ce used the excuse to help Yuan Shu attack Liu Yao's forces occupying Jiangdong in Yangzhou. He took the opportunity to break away from Yuan Shu and manage Jiangdong on his own, destroying Liu Yao and pacifying Danyang County and Wu County.

Xu Gong was defeated by Sun Ce in Youquan, the bandit leader Yan Baihu who defected to the separatist regime at Wucheng Mountain in Wu County.

Soon Yan Baihu was defeated by Sun Ce and had to seek refuge with his cousin Xu Zhao in Yuhang and received his protection.

Xu Zhao was a famous scholar in Jiangdong. Sun Ce said of him: "Being righteous to the old emperor (referring to Sheng Xian) and being sincere to old friends (referring to Yan Baihu) are the ambitions of a husband."

Therefore, for the sake of Xu Zhao's sake, he did not kill Xu Gong, but chose to withdraw his troops and returned to Kuaiji County.

In the second year of Jian'an, Xu Gong, who had lost power, was dissatisfied with the current situation and was still actively looking for opportunities to regain Wu County.

In the fourth year of Jian'an, Sun Ce was already known as the shepherd of Yangzhou and the general who fought against rebellion. Xu Gong reported to the court that Sun Ce was a poor father and the most brave in the world.

He pointed out that allowing Sun Ce to become more powerful would not be a good thing for the central government and Cao Cao, and would eventually become a serious problem. He proposed to summon Sun Ce to Beijing by imperial order, then take the opportunity to get rid of him, and then take over Yangzhou.

However, his form was intercepted by Sun Ce's subordinates and placed on Sun Ce's desk.

Sun Ce was furious because he knew that if Xu Gong's petition was successful, it would give Cao Cao a reason to summon Sun Ce to the capital, but Sun Ce would definitely not accept the summons. For Sun Ce, it would be equivalent to an open break with the Han court.

By then, there will be warlords and generals in Jiangdong who follow the emperor's orders and rebel against Sun Ce. Jiangdong, which has been unified by Sun Ce, will fall into division again, and Xu Gong can benefit from it.

So Sun Ce secretly ordered his warriors to take Xu Gong out of Xu Zhao's home and hang him in the market on the spot for betraying the imperial court and colluding with bandits.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, in order to avenge Xu Gong, three of Xu Gong's disciples broke away from the main army while Sun Ce was hunting. They ambushed Sun Ce in the dense forest and seriously injured Sun Ce with a powerful crossbow.

May
Sun Quan was appointed by the Xudu court as a general against captives, and also as the prefect of Kuaiji, stationed in Wu County, but he cleverly suppressed the title of Yangzhou Mu.

Sure enough, as soon as the imperial edict was issued, Lujiang Governor Li Shu openly rebelled, claiming that Sun Quan was not Sun Ce's legal heir and that he would no longer accept his orders.

Then within the Sun clan, Sun Fu, the prefect of Luling, secretly communicated with Cao Cao, and Sun Hao attempted to assassinate Sun Quan and seize power. Sun Yi, the governor of Danyang, and Sun He, an important member of the clan who supported Sun Quan, were killed one after another in one day.

Tens of thousands of people in Yuzhang, Kuaiji and other places are also waiting for opportunities to come out of the mountains to cause chaos.

After all, it had been less than a year since Sun Ce had fully planned to completely occupy Yangzhou. Not only the local scholars and the scribes staying in the guesthouse still had different intentions, but also the bandits in the territory had not been completely suppressed.

Therefore, what Sun Quan inherited was a mess that couldn't get any worse.

But there is no good news. Sun Ce's sworn brother Zhou Yu and Jiangdong celebrity Zhang Zhao publicly supported Sun Quan, believing that he could "achieve great achievements together" with them, so they "led a group of officials to assist him."

So Sun Quan made Zhang Zhao the leader of civil servants and Zhou Yu the leader of military generals. Not only that, Sun Quan also treated Zhang Zhao as a master and Zhou Yu as a brother, and then used Sun family veterans Cheng Pu and Lu Fan who had been following Sun Jian and Sun Ce as his trusted generals.

May 20
Sun Quan first eliminated the Sun clan members who were trying to seize power internally, put Sun Hao under house arrest, and supported Sun Shao and others who supported him to gain military power.

Then, under the leadership of Zhou Yu, with lightning speed, he defeated the Lujiang prefect Li Shu and gained 30,000 followers. Subsequently, Sun Fu, the prefect of Luling, was relieved of his military power.

end of may

Sun Quan defeated the rebellious Shanyue people in Kuaiji County, beheaded more than 6,000 people, recruited more than 10,000 people, and named it Shanyue Camp.

Then Sun Quan continued to recruit famous people who lived in or from local big families and entered his general's palace. People such as Zhuge Jin, Lu Su, Yan Zhen, Bu Zhi, Lu Xun, Xu Sheng, Gu Yong, Gu Shao and others were recruited under his command.

July
Sun Quan basically pacified Yangzhou, not only resolving the rebellions one after another, but also a series of policies that gave preferential treatment to the gentry in Jiangdong, which quickly calmed down the hearts of local nobles and people staying in Jiangdong, and stabilized the situation in Jiangdong.

This made Yu Jin, the general of Cao Cao's army, and Lu Bu, the governor of Yangzhou, who were about to take action but had not yet gathered their troops, feel a pity.

Just when Sun Quan was pacifying Jiangdong step by step.

Yuan Shao, knowing that he would not get any benefits, withdrew his troops, but left Yuan Tan to garrison Zouping and maintain a stalemate with Liu Bei's army in Linji.

As for Cao Cao in Wancheng, due to unknown reasons, Zhang Xiujun, who had already surrendered, suddenly rebelled at night.

Thanks to the protection of the general Dian Wei and his eldest son Cao Ang, he was able to escape, but both Dian Wei and Cao Ang died in the accident.

But there is also good news for Cao Cao. The troops attacking Guanzhong went very smoothly.

Li Jue was beheaded by the formation, Li Jue's three clans were exterminated, and the land of the three auxiliaries was captured by Cao Cao.

It's just that today's Sanfu land has no people for hundreds of miles and no city for thousands of miles. It is not as good as a county in the Central Plains. The central place cannot support a dynasty at all.

September
Cao Cao once again raised an army of 100,000 to attack Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu decisively surrendered to Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao wanted to crush him to ashes, but now that all the wars in the world have stopped, it is not safe for him to fight alone.

Therefore, he had to accept Zhang Xiu's offer of surrender.

And to show his generosity, he not only held Zhang Xiu's hand and attended the banquet together, but also let his son Cao Jun marry Zhang Xiu's daughter and named Zhang Xiu General Yangwu.

(End of this chapter)