Soldiers come to the world

In the early morning, a carriage drove out of Moling County and headed slowly towards Jianye City. This was the carriage of Captain Yu Fan. During this time, Yu Fan was not in a good mood because his brother Yu Wang was appointed as the governor of Kuaiji County. , so that Sun Quan was indifferent to him, and Yu Fan was usually known for his stern dissuasion. He did not give Sun Quan face, which made Sun Quan very disgusted with him. make.

Yu Fan took out another letter from his bosom, which was sent secretly by Kan Ze last night, and only then did Yu Fan know that Kan Ze had surrendered to the Han army.

In his letter, Kan Ze bluntly stated that the situation in Jiangdong was over, and Liu Jing's unification of the south was a foregone conclusion. He advised him to go south to Kuaiji as soon as possible. With the status of the Yu family in Kuaiji, it would not be a problem for him to enter the Han court in the future.

Yu Fan sighed in his heart, he knew that what Kan Ze said was right, Jiangdong was indeed in the end, but Yu Fan was a person who wanted face very much, although he was also very dissatisfied with Sun Quan, but if he wanted him to betray Jiangdong immediately and surrender to the Han army, he would Still can't do it, today he wants to talk to Sun Quan again, hoping that Sun Quan can understand his difficulties.

The carriage drove into Jianye City and stopped in front of Jianye Palace. Yu Fan got out of the carriage, tidied up his clothes, and walked up the steps quickly. Two Zhige guards stopped him. Yu Fan cupped his hands and said with a smile: " Please report to Marquis Wu, it is Yu Fan who is asking to see you!"

The guards walked quickly to the palace. In the inner hall of Jianye Palace, Sun Quan was discussing the military situation of Wu County with Zhang Zhao and Bu Zhi. Sun Quan had received the preliminary report from Lu Meng that Lu Xun had withdrawn his troops from Wu County. , Most of the people in Wujun also retreated southward with the Han army, and Wujun almost became an empty county. This news made Sun Quan very annoyed.

He knew very well that the people of Wujun might not be willing to leave their hometown, but if the three aristocratic families in Wujun mobilized their tenants, with the influence of the three aristocratic families, it would be easy to form a trend of retreating southward. Withdrawal, this is why Sun Quan did not dare to touch the three major families easily, their influence is too great.

But now the three great families of Lu, Gu, and Zhang took the initiative to take their positions and took refuge in the Han army, which meant that Sun Quan would lose the popular support of Wu County, which made Sun Quan hate and anxious, wishing to kill all the three great families. Worried that he would never get Wu Jun back.

"Tell me, should I order an attack on Kuaiji?"

Zhang Zhao stared at the sand table in front of him, pondered for a long time and said, "With our current investment of troops and the [-] Cao army, the strength is far greater than that of the Han army, and we can completely capture Kuaiji. However, I am a little worried about the Han army in Taihu Lake. Their strength Not weak, but once they cut off the Jiangdong Army's retreat, the consequences will be disastrous."

Sun Quan nodded, then asked Bu Zhi, "What about Chang Shi's opinion?"

Since Zhang Hong died of illness at the beginning of the year, Bu Zhi took over the position of Chang Shi and became the second person in Jiangdong, second only to Zhang Zhao. "Actually, I am worried that the Jiangdong army will not be able to cross the Zhejiang River. The Han army's strength on the water is far greater than ours. Once the Han army's warships block the Zhejiang River, we will not be able to cross the river. In addition to what the military adviser said, the Taihu Han army If we take the opportunity to cut off our retreat, the consequences will be very serious, Wei Chen suggests not to rush south, but to wait for the opportunity."

Sun Quan walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back, and finally sighed and said, "This is also the intention of the Han army's deployment in Taihu Lake, to restrain us from going south. You are right, we really cannot act rashly."

At this moment, a guard reported loudly outside the hall: "Report to Marquis Wu, Captain Yu, please see me!"

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Sun Quan waved his hand, and said extremely displeased: "Tell him to go back, just say that I don't have time to see him!"

Zhang Zhao persuaded from the side: "Yu Zhongxiang is the head of the famous family in Kuaiji. At this time, Marquis Wu should try his best to win over him and prepare for taking back Kuaiji in the future."

"But this person's words are really rude. I don't know what is good or bad. I can't bear him. If he wasn't the head of the Yu family, I would have killed him." Sun Quan said bitterly.

Buzhi also persuaded Sun Quan, "I believe that Yu Zhongxiang is in danger now, so he will not persuade Wu Hou again. Wu Hou will appease him first, and then contact Shang Yu Wang through him, so that Yu Wang can slowly persuade the people of Wu County to return. In fact, it is also a way. "

Bu Zhi's words touched Sun Quan, the people of Wu County are under the control of Yu Wang, and now he really has something to ask from the Yu family, he must appease Yu Fan now and prevent him from running away, thinking of this, Sun Quan can only bear his heart With a bad breath, Ling said: "Let him come to see me!"

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Sun Quan moved his capital to Jingkou after the Chibi War, and moved his capital to Jianye a year later. The two capital moves cost him a lot of manpower and material resources to build a new capital. An urgent project to dig a canal from Jingkou to the Qiantang River.

It can be said that this canal is the lifeblood of Jiangdong. The canal connects the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River and is the key to linking the entire Jiangdong. However, due to limited financial resources, Jiangdong only dug a section from Piling County to Wu County, and then dredged it. Xu Jiang.

In this way, the Qiantang River can also reach Piling County through the Wucheng River, Taihu Lake, Xujiang River, and canals. According to the plan, the remaining section of the canal from Piling County to the Yangtze River will be excavated in the next five years.

Before that, the water transportation between Jianye and Wujun could only take a long detour temporarily, taking Wuhu to enter Lishui. Before the Hefei war, this mode of transportation only had the trouble of detours without other obstacles.

But now, the Han army has occupied Wuhu and cut off this crucial waterway, so that the warships of the Jiangdong Army in the Yangtze River cannot go south to Wujun. The warships of the army are small, most of them are hundreds of stones, and they are not strong enough to sail in the sea. Unlike the Jingzhou navy, in order to enter the sea, hundreds of warships are specially built to withstand the waves.

This made the Jiangdong Army face a very embarrassing situation. The warships on the Yangtze River could not follow the army to go south to Wujun. county.

Thirty thousand of the [-] Jiangdong army went south to recover Wu County, leaving Jianye with only [-] garrisons, of which only [-] were sailors. There were more than [-] warships moored on the river, moored in a huge Inside the water village.

At night, the water village is still as quiet as usual. A group of soldiers patrols the shore. Dozens of patrol boats in the water village pass through the large ships, watching the movement of the water vigilantly. The Jiangdong Army is very cautious. They mainly prevent The scouts of the Han army mixed into the water villages and burned the boats, so there were nearly a hundred patrol boats in the two water villages, patrolling day and night.

The navy general on duty tonight is Xu Sheng. He also took a sentry boat to patrol the water village at night. It was the fourth watch, and it was the time when the soldiers were sleeping the most. Xu Shengqiang stood on the bow of the boat , Watching the movement on the river, but the conversation of several soldiers behind him caught his attention.

"You said, will the Han army attack Jianye aggressively while our army is heading south?"

"How is it possible? If the Han army invades aggressively, Cao Jun will never stand idly by."

"Bullshit, Cao's army doesn't have warships, and at most they are waving flags and shouting in Jiangbei, putting on airs."

Xu Sheng was annoyed, turned around and shouted: "If you don't make a good inspection, what nonsense are you talking about?"

The soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound. The boat was quiet, but Xu Sheng became upset. He had already thought of this danger. Lu Meng led an army of 1 to the south, and Jianye only had [-] troops left. There are only [-] navy troops deployed. If Liu Jing is really ruthless and leads an army to attack Jianye on a large scale, they will not be able to resist it at all.

Xu Sheng sighed in his heart. He could only hope that there were more than a dozen beacons on the south bank. The beacons were not lit, which meant that there were no Han warships moving eastward for the time being.

It was more of a fluke in his heart, maybe Liu Jing didn't think of doing this, but at this moment, a sharp and piercing bell suddenly came from the sentry tower at the gate of the water village, "Dang!when!when! 'The bell rang extremely loudly.

Ringing the bell at night, there is only one possibility. Someone attacked the water village, Xu Sheng was shocked, and hurriedly turned the boat around, and rushed to the gate of the water village. He ran up and down and shouted: "General Xu, there are enemy ships on the river!"

Xu Sheng jumped on the pedal and ran towards the gate of the water village. Standing on a high place, he stared at the river and took a deep breath. He saw densely packed boats appearing on the river outside the water village. There are as many as a thousand.

In front of the small boat are three huge broken village boats, which are iron bows used to break through the water village. It was a large black ship of the Han army, standing dimly on the river, like a mountain stretching for tens of miles.

Xu Sheng suddenly shouted anxiously, "Hurry up and call the police!"

He also knew that it was too late, the three broken boats were only a hundred steps away from the water village, Xu Sheng jumped off the boat in a few steps, and shouted: "Go ashore!"

The boat turned around and drove towards the shore like an arrow. At this moment, the alarm bell from the sentry tower alarmed the beacon, and the beacon on the shore was lit.

But it was too late, before Xu Sheng's boat landed, he heard an earth-shattering crash behind him, 'Boom! 'Three huge broken boats were installed on the fence of the water village at the same time, and smashed three large gaps in the outer fence of the water village, each gap was more than ten feet wide.

The small boats following behind rushed into the water village from the gap like a pack of wolves. The kerosene on the boat was ignited, and the nearby fire boats rushed into the water village together, causing a very spectacular scene in the water village. Thousands of boats gathered together The flames shot up into the sky, illuminating the entire river red.

Since the Han army raided at night, the Jiangdong army had no preparations. There were almost no soldiers on the hundreds of warships, and more than a thousand fire boats rushed straight into the big ships, starting to set off a raging fire in the entire water village.

On the outermost [-]-stone building boat, Liu Jing watched the Han army's fireboat break into the Jiangdong army water village from a distance, and ignited countless warships. There was a slight sneer on the corner of his mouth.

The plan to attack the Jiangdong water village at night was proposed and planned by Pang Tong. Pang Tong also knew that there were eight beacon towers on the south bank of the Yangtze River from Wuhu to Jianye, monitoring the river day and night. , Pang Tong accurately marked the position of each beacon, and when approaching each beacon, the fleet sailed at night.

At night, the sight distance of the beacons is limited, and it is impossible to monitor the entire wide river. In this way, the warships of the Han army escaped the surveillance of the eight beacons on the south bank, and approached Jianye silently. The Jiangdong army was caught off guard.

The [-] barrels of kerosene loaded on thousands of small boats all burned, just like a raging fire burning the river, swallowing the sky with red flames. Fire the soldiers.

The fire in the water village alarmed Jianye City. Sun Quan, under the protection of a hundred guards, rushed to the head of Jianye City and looked at the water village ten miles away. The surface of the river is red.

Sun Quan's face was pale, his right hand clenched the hilt of his sword, and he was trembling slightly. He never imagined that Liu Jing would be so vicious, taking advantage of the opportunity of his main army going south, to surprise his Yangtze River stronghold.

Not only is the method vicious, but the consequences are also extremely serious. Once the Jiangdong Army has no warships, what if he participates in the Hefei War?Now that the Han army has taken root in the hinterland of Jiangdong, should he be asked to write a public letter of commitment to Liu Jing now?It seems too late.

Sun Quan sighed for a long time. He felt that he was really played by Liu Jing. Liu Jing's tactics were beyond his ability to deal with. Even the whole Jiangdong didn't consider the consequences. He really didn't know how to face him tomorrow. Courtiers and generals, he lifted a rock, but in the end he smashed his own foot.