Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 170
At dusk, there was the sound of horseshoes outside the gate, and the school came to report that Tai Shici had recruited thousands of Liu Yao's former troops to return.

Sun Ce laughed loudly and stood up, "Everyone come out with me!"

Sun Ce moved into Qu'e, and after more than two months of repairs, Lao Dun's army was rested and a lot of troops were replenished.

Lu Fan's followers also increased to more than 2000 people.On this day, Lu Fan played chess with Sun Ce, and said to Sun Ce: "The career of the young general is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more soldiers, but the various disciplines are not complete, and the internal management is loose, which is not conducive to future big battles. , I am willing to help the general do these things well for the governor.”

Sun Ce murmured, "Mr. is a well-known scholar-bureaucrat, and he has many generals under his command. He should be making contributions on the battlefield. How can I let you take care of these trivial matters in the army?"

Lu Fan said solemnly: "The general is in trouble! These are not trivial matters, these details will affect the success or failure of the general! I abandoned my hometown and followed you everywhere. Career. I and the general are like sailing across the sea, I am not only thinking about the general, but also thinking about myself."

Sun Ce smiled and said, "Let me think about it again, let's play chess first."

After Lu Fan left, he put on his cloak, jumped on his horse and brought his whip to the gate of Sun Ce's mansion, and asked himself to be the governor. Seeing that Lu Fan had made up his mind, Sun Ce granted him a military talisman and took charge of all affairs in the army.Lu Fan paid more attention to rectifying discipline, the army was solemn and orderly, and Sun Ce's army was on the right track, laying the foundation for the future expansion of Sun Ce's army.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Liu Yao and Ze Rong could no longer defend the isolated city, so they gave up Dantu and Moling and fled westward to Jingzhou. Sun Ce left his uncle Wu Jing to guard Dantu and continued to march into Wujun.At the same time, Zhu Zhi attacked Wujun from Qiantang. Xu Gong, the prefect of Wujun, resisted Zhu Zhi in Youquan. Xu Gong heard that Sun Ce was defeated and Liu Yao attacked Wujun. He escaped and attached himself to the local bandit Yan Baihu.

Yan Baihu, whose real name is Yan Hu, is a wealthy family in Wu County. He gathered tens of thousands of people to occupy Baihu Mountain, and he named himself Baihu.Sun Ce and Zhu Zhi joined forces to attack Yan Baihu. Tai Shici asked him to be the vanguard, and Ling Cao, Ling Tong and his son, because the local mountain people were bullied by bandits, led more than a thousand mountain people to defect to them as guides.

Under the leadership of Ling's father and son, Tai Shici broke through all the strongholds set up by Yan Baihu and arrived at the cottage.Yan Baihu couldn't hold on, trying to rely on the geographical advantages of the cottage to persist in the confrontation, and took advantage of the agility of his bandits on the mountain roads to find opportunities to attack and turn the tide of the battle.He has used this trick many times, and it can be said that it has been tried and tested.

Tai Shici's vanguard camp was attacked several times by bandits sent by Yan Baihu. Because of the tight guards, there was no loss of building the city. On the contrary, some bandits were shot to death when they approached the camp, which greatly affected the morale of Yan Baihu's men.

Being attacked by surprise made Tai Shici very unhappy, so he sent people to call for a fight at the gate of the cottage, and Yan Baihu's men scolded Tai Shici on the wall of the village.Tai Shici yelled, "Look at me shooting this guy's left hand." After speaking, he bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot it right in the middle of the general's left hand.Tai Shici yelled again, "Watch me shoot this guy in the left eye." The thief was so frightened that he fell off the wall of the village.Tai Shici laughed loudly, "Will you see my methods?"

Seeing that Sun Ce's subordinates were so brave, Yan Baihu's own subordinates were frightened and sent his younger brother Yan Yu to ask Sun Ce for peace.Sun Ce only accepted surrender, not peace. Yan Baihu had no choice but to abandon Baihu Mountain and defected to Yuhang. Yan Yu died in battle while retreating. Xu Gong surrendered.

So Sun Ce seized Wu County, and Zhu Zhi took charge of Wu County's affairs. Zhu Zhi named Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan as Xiaolian.Sun Ce sent Sun Quan to lead thousands of troops to garrison Xuancheng. Sun Quan had a close relationship with Zhou Tai, so he asked Sun Ce to ask Zhou Tai to be his general.Since then, the name of Sun Ce has shaken Jiangdong, and the name of Little Overlord has become louder and louder.

In Shouchun, Yuan Shu learned that Sun Ce had attacked Liu Yao, and asked Sun Ce to be the general who killed the bandits.Recall Zhou Shang and others to Shouchun for their own use.He sent his cousin Yuan Yin to replace Zhou Shang as the prefect of Danyang, and Zhou Yu followed Zhou Shang to Shouchun.Yuan Shu found that Zhou Yu was talented, so he wanted to take Luo Zhou Yu as his general.Zhou Yu saw that Yuan Shu would not achieve much in the end, so he only asked to be the magistrate of Juchao County. He wanted to wait for the opportunity to join Sun Ce, and Yuan Shu agreed to Zhou Yu's request.

In the second year of Jian'an, Sun Ce was going to continue to attack all parts of Jiangdong, but he ran into trouble: since he crossed the river, Sun Ce's army swept across Jiangdong non-stop. The speed was very fast and the results were great, but the existing problems gradually emerged. The most prominent problem was that Sun Ce ran out of food. .Sun Ce's food and grass initially depended on Yuan Shu's appropriation and Zhou Yu's collection from Lu Su, and then relied on combat capture. With the consumption of stored food and the increase of the army, the military food was finally exhausted.

Sun Ce couldn't bear to search for food and grass from the people, and when he had nothing to do, he remembered the allusion of Zhou Yu borrowing food from Lu Su, and was thinking about the big family in Wu County.There are five big households in Wu County, the Lu family, the old patriarch Lu Kang was forced to death by Sun Ce when he was in office in Luzhou; the Yan family, the patriarch Yan Baihu was expelled by Sun Ce; Zhang and Zhu.

Many members of the Lu family died, and Lu Kang's direct descendants were only son Lu Ji and grandson Lu Xun. Lu Ji was younger than his nephew Lu Xun, even though Lu Xun was only 15 years old.

Lu Ji was very smart since he was a child, he knew etiquette and filial piety, when he was six years old, he visited Yuan Shu with his father, Yuan Shu invited everyone to eat oranges, Lu Ji was reluctant to eat all of them, and kept three in his bosom.Before leaving, the oranges fell to the ground when I bowed to salute.

Yuan Shu asked, "Why is Lu Lang hiding oranges as a guest?"

Lu Ji knelt down and replied, "Leave three oranges for my mother to taste." Yuan Shu was amazed.

Lu Xun protected his younger uncle Lu Ji to welcome Sun Ce, perhaps because Lu Kang was dead and the Lu family was withered, Sun Ce did not make things difficult for the two children, and gently expressed his relief.He admired Lu Xun for being the mainstay of the Lu family since he was twelve or thirteen years old. Seeing that Lu Xun was gentle, well-read, and well-read, he liked it even more. He immediately decided to betroth his five-year-old eldest daughter to Lu Xun. Lu Xun smiled wryly.

The Yan family and the Xu family were his enemies, so Sun Ce confiscated his family property, leaving only a small amount of family wealth to Xu Gong, and Xu Gong hated Sun Ce even more.The Gu family, Zhang family and Zhu family selected their children to serve as officials in order to preserve their family wealth. The Gu family was Gu Yong, the Zhang family was Zhang Yun, and the Zhu family was Zhu Huan. Sun Ce refused to reuse them and still asked each family to donate food and grass.There was no war in Jiangdong, and these gentry families were rich, so Sun Ce soon got enough food and grass.

Sun Ce's actions won the support and love of the people in Jiangdong, but he was resented by the gentry in Jiangdong. Sun Ce also found that he was not the most loved person by the people. There was a Taoist priest from Langya who was even more supported by the people!

(End of this chapter)