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

Chapter 434: Leaving behind plans to plan states and counties, falsely claiming that the king is not strong enough

September

Zhou Yu, the governor-general of the Wu Kingdom and former general, passed away. According to Zhou Yu's will, the Wu army in Dongting organized a special funeral for him, and the whole sky in Dongting was filled with sad drizzle.

The funeral envoys sent by Sun Quan began to hold Zhou Yu's funeral according to the highest standards. However, unexpectedly, Wu Gong's newly appointed governor of Changsha, Lu Su, was not present. Along with him, Zhou Yu's five thousand troops from his headquarters disappeared.

Gongan, like Dongting, was originally a small fishing village. It was developed into a camp in order to confront the Wu army.

Because Jiangling was in the north of the Yangtze River, and the Wu army was good at naval warfare. He was afraid that the Wu army would block the two sides of the river and seize Wuling County. Cao Ren stationed 10,000 people at the Public Security Bureau 30 miles downstream on the south bank to guard and help Jiangling's 40,000 people.

The defense line was originally impregnable, but due to the urgency of the domestic war, Liu Bei's army attacked, and Cao Cao had no usable troops, so he had to mobilize Cao Ren's troops in Jingzhou and go to Yanzhou to support.

Fortunately, Cao Ren knew that Zhou Yu was seriously ill, so he ordered a general to garrison 3,000 troops in Gong'an and 5,000 troops in Jiangling.

The role of the public security is to serve as an outpost for Jiangling to prevent the Wu army from raiding.

Today's public security garrison is extremely lax, and the garrison general is extremely drunk with his subordinates because the enemy they are most worried about, Zhou Yu, is dead.

Without Zhou Yu, Soochow would be a group of beasts without claws and claws, ready to be slaughtered.

Since Zhou Yu was stationed in Changsha, Cao Jun did not dare to relax day and night for fear of being attacked by this famous general of Wu.

Today, there are only a few brave and strategic famous generals in the world. Guan Yu of Zhao State and Lu Bu are both slightly inferior to Guan Yu. Cao Ren of Wei State and Zhou Yu of Wu State.

These three people are the most famous generals in the Three Kingdoms, and they are generals who can stand alone.

Since it was early in the morning, the water was foggy and the visibility was only a dozen steps. However, in order to guard against Wu, Cao Ren also set up sentry towers every few hundred steps along the river to watch the passing ships on the river.

There are five soldiers in each guard tower, taking turns to guard the tower. Although the fog is very heavy, you can still vaguely see things on the river from the sentry tower.

"Captain Wu, there is a situation on the river. It seems that several ships are heading towards us."

"Oh, it must have been blocked by the fog. The merchant ships trying to dock at the shore have been seen a lot in the past few days, making a fuss."

"But you still have to be careful. Don't be careless even for a moment. In troubled times, little people like you and me can only survive by being cautious."

"Commander Wu, you must be serious. I heard that Zhou Yu, the governor of Soochow, is dead. And after all, today is the day of Zhou Yu's funeral. Could it be that they still come today?"

"It never hurts to be careful."

Under the vigilant eyes of Captain Cao's army, five small merchant ships docked under the guard tower.

"Master Jun, we are passing merchant ships. We are going to Yizhou to sell wine. However, the fog is thick and the passage is impassable. Please be considerate, Master Jun. To express our gratitude, we offer you a special bottle of wine."

Faced with the careful flattery of the caravan consul, the sergeant on the sentry tower looked exactly as I expected:

"Ha, Captain, just look and I'll tell you!"

The captain of Cao's army crossed the tower wall and looked down carefully. He found that he did not see any flaws. At the urging of his drunken soldiers, he agreed to allow the ship to dock.

With the consent of the soldiers, the five merchant ships slowly approached the shore. Several strong men came to the sentry tower holding wine jars. The wooden door of the sentry tower opened and two smiling sergeants walked out.

In an instant, the wine jar shattered, and a fierce battle broke out in the sentry tower. Lu Meng threw out his sword and killed the captain of Cao's army who wanted to fire a loud arrow. Then he lit a torch and waved it three times toward the river.

According to this method, Wu Jun pulled out dozens of sentry towers along the river one by one. This sentry tower was the last one.

In the past few days, Wu Jun had already disguised himself as a merchant ship and had a clear look at Cao Jun's sentry tower.

Just a moment later, a fleet of ships approaching the river that blocked the sky and the sun was the Soochow Navy led by Lu Su.

Seeing Lu Meng who had not wiped off the blood stains, Lu Su ordered: "Ziming, soldiers are very quick, the public security is just a side dish, the main course is still behind, today, we will take out the public security and Jiangling together.

With one thousand of your elite troops and two thousand naval troops, we can defeat the public security forces. I will take the remaining soldiers to attack Jiangling. "

"Order."

Half an hour later, Lu Meng led 3,000 men to suddenly attack Cao Jun's water stronghold of the Public Security Bureau. Many of Cao Jun's ships that were still in the dock were captured, and the Public Security Bureau was also breached.

Just as it was getting dark, the news that the police had been breached had not yet reached Jiangling.

Lu Su led the remaining 4,000 elite soldiers, and the 5,000 naval troops who arrived later, and used the fire ship to ram the Cao army's ship that had not sailed. Suddenly, the fire broke through the sky, and the Yangtze River water was like fuel, burning everything.

Cao Jun's general Cai Mao and others were still resting in the city and had no time to command the ships to avoid the disaster. The entire Cao Jun navy was burned to death by Lu Su.

At this point, Cao Cao's army lost all the areas south of the Yangtze River, and more than 10,000 Jingzhou naval forces surrendered, completely destroying Cao Cao's capital to attack Sun Quan.

Cao Cao was very angry and ordered Cai Mao, who was in charge of Jingzhou's military affairs during Cao Ren's absence, to be beheaded. The other relevant generals in Jingzhou were either isolated or surrendered. The Jingzhou faction disappeared for a while under Cao Cao.

Such a great victory wiped out Soochow's downturn in the Battle of Hefei. Sun Quan was overjoyed and appointed Lu Su as the Commander-in-Chief and General Hengjiang.

After capturing Wuling County, South Korea's navy was also wiped out. Soochow's navy can be said to have no taboos along the Yangtze River. Even the Guangling navy did not dare to show off, for fear that Wu would seize the opportunity to eliminate it. Their whereabouts have always been Be cautious.

Moreover, the road to Yizhou was also opened, so Sun Quan's original dilemma of being blocked by the Cao and Liu families in Jiangdong was solved. Now he could not only attack Cao Liu, but also enter Yizhou and capture Shu. The 17th year of Jian'an

In order to boost the morale of his forces and make everyone forget the defeats in the Battle of Yanzhou and the Battle of Jingzhou, Cao Cao asked Liu Xie to confer him the title of King of Han with a city of 30,000 households.

He sits on the throne of the princes and kings. He does not acknowledge his ministers when performing affairs and does not worship when receiving edicts. He worships heaven and earth with the emperor's crown, chariot uniforms, flags, ritual music and suburbs. He is called "Jingzhi" when he comes in and out. The ancestral temple, ancestors, and temples are all like the Han system. Xinzheng was changed to Xindu, as the capital of South Korea, all princes are princes.

After rising in rank, Cao Cao began to reward important ministers and generals under his command. He had more than 20 people such as Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xia Houyuan, Xiahou Dun, Xu Huang, Yu Jin and others who were awarded titles for military merit.

Another example is Xun You, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Jia Xu and other dozens of people who were awarded the title of marquis for their literary merits. At this time, although Cao Cao was not the emperor in name, he actually had the status of emperor.

The twentieth day of the first lunar month

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty also gave Cao Cao twelve crowns and a golden chariot with six horses and five auxiliary chariots.

Then Cao Cao appointed Cao Pi as the crown prince of Han with his facial features.

March
If he fights against Liu Bei in the north, he may not necessarily win. If he fights against Sun Quan in the south, he will lose his navy and is afraid of defeat. At this time, he urgently needs a big victory to unify the morale and morale of his troops.

Therefore, Cao Cao personally led an army of 100,000 men into Guanzhong and captured Zhanglu in Hanzhong from Fufeng.

May
Cao's army captured Hechi and beheaded the Di king Dou Mao.

July
Cao Cao's army advanced to Yangping Pass, which was only ten miles away from Nanzheng, Zhang Lu's seat.

On the thirteenth day only, Zhang Lu heard that Yangping Pass had been lost and immediately fled to Hanchang.

July

Cao Cao marched into Nanzheng and obtained all the treasures in Zhang Lu's treasury.

November

Zhang Lu, the governor of Hanzhong, surrendered to Cao Cao, and Hanzhong became Cao Cao's possession.

Cao Cao knew that Zhang Lu was not only the secular governor of Hanzhong, but also the leader of ghosts and gods. He had a very high reputation in Hanzhong. For the sake of the stability of Hanzhong, Cao Cao promised to help Zhang Lu preach to Yizhou and appointed him as an admonishing doctor to lead him. Returned to Xindu.

Hearing that Cao Cao was attacking Hanzhong, Sun Quan knew that Cao Cao was targeting Yizhou, so in the seventh month he sent General Gan Ning and Chief Governor Lu Su with 70,000 troops to attack Bajun.

However, Liu Qi's army, the governor of Bajun stationed in Wu County, was blocked by natural dangers. They stayed there for three months in vain, and finally had no choice but to retreat.

The 18th year of Jian'an

Liu Bei followed the advice of the ministers and ascended the throne as king, calling him King of Zhao. He still made the capital of the country Yedu. As King of Zhao, he awarded three titles to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Bai Gong, Yuan Zhao, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun. More than ten people are marquis.

Dongjun and Baijun were also merged and called Hebei Yin. They were used as the capital region. Shi Wu Zhi, the governor of the Liaodong Protectorate, was named Hebei Yin, and his salary rank was equal to that of Jiuqing.

In the same year, Sun Quan, who had not been granted the imperial title by Cao Cao, finally couldn't wait any longer. At the end of the year, he proclaimed himself king, proclaimed himself King of Wu, renamed Ziling Jianye, and also granted many ministers the same title.

19th year of Jian'an

After a year of development, Cao Cao regained his strength.

March
Cao Cao used the excuse that Sun Quan had violated etiquette and proclaimed himself king without permission, so he raised an army of 100,000 to attack Wu.

However, this time they did not attack Jingnan, but Sun Quan's territory in Jiangbei, Jiangxia County and Lujiang County.

Cao Cao divided his army into two groups, with Cao Ren as the main general. He led 50,000 troops from Nanjun to attack Jiangxia.

Along the way, Cao Cao personally led 60,000 troops to attack Lujiang from Runan.

April
Cao Ren's offensive was blocked by Lu Su. After a month of fighting, he only captured the two cities of Jingling and Yundu. In Anlu, Lu Su relied on his navy to block him at Jianshui and was unable to advance.

However, Cao Cao's attack went very smoothly. He captured Liaoxian, Yulou, and Liu'an one after another, and his troops reached the gate of Yaxian County.

Sun Quan, with 70,000 soldiers, and Gan Ning and other generals fought fiercely with Cao's army at the gate of Xian County.

May
Wu's army was defeated by Cao's army and suffered a huge rout. Sun Quan led 40,000 defeated troops to retreat to Juchao, while Cao Cao captured Yaxian and Longshu.

June
In order to resist Cao's elite army, Sun Quan urgently ordered Lu Su to send reinforcements to rescue him.

Lu Su, who was going back and forth with Cao Renqi, had no enough troops, so he had to send Lu Meng with 20,000 troops to rescue him. With only 30,000 men left, Lu Su, who lacked the troops to fill the defense line, had to abandon Anlu and Xiling, retreat to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and defend according to the natural dangers of the Yangtze River.

July
Cao Cao and Sun Quan fought in Juchao. Cao Cao's army broke through Juchao and stormed Ruxukou, the important land and water town set up by Sun Quan. Sun Quan was unable to resist and retreated again.

In desperation, Sun Quan had no choice but to send someone to ask Cao Cao to surrender, and voluntarily demoted him to the throne.

At this time, Cao Cao also received news that the Zhao State was mobilizing its army. In order to prevent Zhao from backstabbing, the army was trapped in the Lujiang River and could not support him, so he agreed to Sun Quan's surrender and promised that the two families would get married again and work together. Resist Liu.

(End of this chapter)