Yes, that's right, Zhang Xiu quenched poison on the weapons used by the assassins.

Let's restore the beginning and end of Zhang Xiu's assassination of Sun Ce.

Zhang Xiu is a person who does it as soon as he sets a goal. Since it has been decided to annex Koto as his rear, he will do everything possible to attack the Koto Sun clan.

And Zhang Xiu knows very well that in the current period when Sun Quan is still young, the fate of the Sun family in Jiangdong is all related to Sun Ce.

Sun Quan is only sixteen or seventeen years old this year, although the resourcefulness and martial arts strategy that is now revealed are already quite outstanding and eye-catching in the Sun family, and his eldest brother Sun Ce also attaches great importance to his own younger brother, just last year, he also let Sun Quan go to Yangxian to be the county magistrate for a period of time, and then Zhu Zhiju, the Taishou of Wu County, was promoted as the filial piety of the county, and officially began to cultivate Sun Quan. But in the final analysis, Sun Quan has not fully grown up now, and he is just a teenager who has not had much responsibility under Sun Ce's wing.

Even if it goes further, even if Sun Quan is fully grown, mature and responsible, in a certain aspect, the threat to Zhang Xiu will never be as good as Sun Ce.

In history, Sun Ce himself has a sentence that sums it up very well, this sentence is what Sun Ce said to his younger brother Sun Quan before he died: "Lead the Jiangdong soldiers, fight between the two battles, and fight for the world, you are not as good as me; But I am not as good as you. ”

Later facts also completely proved that Sun Ce's words were very correct. The lands controlled by the Sun and Wu regimes were basically conquered during the Sun Ce period. Although Sun Quan later took Jingzhou, he also took advantage of the emptiness of Jingzhou to attack and succeed. To put it bluntly, the final outcome of the Battle of Jingzhou was more due to "Guan Yun's long-term loss of Jingzhou", and the factors on Sun Quan's side were not the main factors in victory or defeat.

If we talk about Sun Quan's conquest of other regions, it is easy to see the difference between Sun Ce and Sun Quan's brothers.

Sun Quan reigned in Jiangdong for 52 years, and personally led his army north to conquer Huainan and Hefei many times. But in the end, he collapsed and died, and he failed to capture Hefei at one time.

Not to mention that there was another time, Sun Quan personally led an army of 100,000 troops to the north to attack Hefei, an important town in Jianghuai, during the heyday of Jiangdong, but was defeated at Xiaoyaojin by Zhang Liao, the fifth general of Cao Wei. In an extremely incredible situation, Zhang Liao's fame was achieved in vain, and then in the history of the Three Kingdoms War, he wrote a disgraceful example of more losses and fewer losses.

Aside from Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, who could stop children's night cries and shock Jiangdong, Sun Quan also defeated Cao Wei's Guangling Taishou Chen Deng when he went to Guangling County in his early years, and in his later years, he also lost to Cao Wei and Yangzhou Governor Manzhong under Hefei City.

Let's take a look at Sun Ce, who often fought in the army when he was less than twenty years old and crowned. As soon as he arrived in the year of the crown, he resolutely led two or three thousand soldiers and horses to cross the river to conquer Jiangdong. In just three years, he swept away the chaos and recovered the entire territory of Jiangdong, and won the names of "Little Overlord" and "Sun Lang", and pursued the northern male Yuan Shao and the Central Plains traitor Cao Cao.

Historically, within two years after Sun Ce unified Jiangdong, Sun Ce also subdued Danyang County, which had two stumbling blocks of Zu Xun and Tai Shici, captured Lujiang County, which was seized by Liu Xun, and surrendered Yuzhang County, which was led by Hua Xin, defeated Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu, and seized the land in the south of Jiangxia County. If it weren't for the assassination of Xu Gongmen in the end, Sun Ce could really be called the four big words "promising future".

Some things have to be compared to find the difference hidden in them. Sun Quan is indeed not a little worse than his brother Sun Ce in leading troops to fight and expanding his territory.

But we can't generalize that Sun Quan is inferior to Sun Ce, because this pair of brothers can be said to be not the same type of person at all.

It is true that Sun Quan is much inferior to his brother in terms of military strategy, but in terms of appointing people and employing talents, protecting the territory and securing the people, Sun Quan is completely worthy of his title of "Emperor Wu".

As soon as Sun Quan ascended to the throne, he made a big effort to recruit talents, and used a large number of world-famous civil and military talents, such as Zhuge Jin, Lu Su, Gu Yong, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Xu Shengding, Feng Lingtong, Zhu Ran, Zhu Huan and others, all of whom were reused after Sun Quan ascended the throne. Later, these people also became the pillars of Jiangdong and made great contributions to the development of the Sun and Wu regimes.

In addition, although Sun Quan's foreign conquest was a mess, he performed exceptionally well in the self-defense war to protect Jiangdong. There are two famous examples, the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Yiling. The former formally determined the overall situation of the world, while the latter successfully defended the newly annexed Jingzhou land. In addition, Cao Cao also conquered Sun Wu many times from Huainan Weixukou after the Battle of Chibi, but none of them were blocked by Sun Quan on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

In short, in terms of conquering the world, compared with his eldest brother Sun Ce, Sun Quan can really be called the famous saying "more than enough, not enough enterprising"!

And now, Zhang Xiu's Wu County does not seem to be very stable, Zhang Liao is difficult to completely stabilize Huiji County with only an iron-blooded policy, and the main force of Jiangdong led by Sun also seems to be fierce and inevitable, but in fact, as long as you see one problem clearly, then all problems can be solved for Zhang Xiu.

This question is to ask Sun Ce to die.

Just imagine, if Sun Ce, the only Jiangdong overlord in Jiangdong who currently has the strength to fight Zhang Xiu, suddenly dies, and his best successor Sun Quan is unable to compete with Zhang Xiu in terms of war, how easy it will be for Zhang Xiujun to annex Jiangdong.

Moreover, it sounds whimsical to let Sun Ce, the lord of Jiangdong, suddenly die, but what if it can really be done?

At present, at least two people on Zhang Xiu's side know that Sun Ce can die violently.

The first person is undoubtedly Zhang Xiu himself, as a traverser, he knows too well how the little overlord Sun Ce died, and in later generations, he read this history and shouted that the boat capsized in the gutter!

And the second person is Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, who have not yet had a definite subordinate relationship with Zhang Xiu.

In fact, there were many debates about the cause of Sun Ce's death in later generations. The most widely spread is that Sun Ce went out hunting and accidentally died at the hands of three disciples of his former enemy Xu Gong. The second is that the assassins sent by Cao Wei are also quite convincing, because in history, Sun Ce's death coincided with Yuan Cao's final battle for the ultimate rule in the north - the Battle of Guandu, and Sun Ce had threatened to attack Xu Du many times before, so Cao Cao sent assassins It is very likely that Cao Cao would send assassins, after all, this method is very much in line with Cao Cao's style of doing everything.

In addition, there is another objective fact that supports this point of view, that is, Cao Wei's top strategist, the ghost genius Guo Jia, had previously evaluated and predicted Sun Ce about Cao Cao and Cao Wei Wenwu - "The strategy is light and unprepared, although there are millions of people, it is tantamount to walking alone in the Central Plains." If the assassin rises, the enemy of one man. In my opinion, I will die at the hands of the horseman. ”

Savor this passage, you will find that Guo Fengxiao has simply set Sun Ce's life in advance!

In fact, one of the reasons why the ghost genius Guo Jia was widely respected and praised by later generations was because he accurately predicted Sun Ce's fate!

Of course, we can also look at what Guo Jia said from another point of view. Since Sun Ce's shortcomings of being light and unprepared can be thought of, how can Cao Wei's side not take advantage of it when he feels threatened?

But in fact, no matter what Sun Ce's death was in history, Zhang Xiu clearly knew that Sun Ce's death was unexpected, and it was also predicted in advance.

Now, Guo Jia, the ghost genius who predicted Sun Ce's death, is working under Zhang Xiu, so Zhang Xiu can completely turn Guo Jia's prediction into a premeditation!

Guo Jia was not a good bird in the first place, and immediately hit it off with Zhang Xiu in the assassination of Sun Ce. Subsequently, Zhang Xiu and Guo Jia combined, and at Guo Jia's suggestion, Zhang Xiu carefully selected a group of loyal and brave soldiers in the army, and handed them over to Zhang Xiu's four pro-confidants Li Feng, Cao Xing, Hu Che'er, and Zhou Cang for further training.

Among them, Li Feng, who could walk three moves under Wen Hou and save his life, taught spear skills, Cao Xing, who was skilled in arching horses, taught riding and archery, Hu Che'er taught foot combat and close combat, and Zhou Cang, who was born as a bandit, taught some trapping and hunting techniques.

After undergoing various trainings, Zhang Xiu selected the best from this group of dead soldiers in the army and formed a special unit that truly belonged to him.

This special unit is usually divided into two parts, which are codenamed "Open Gun" and "Dark Arrow" respectively. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Xiu participated in the whole process of training and selection of this unit, not only presiding over the selection and assessment, but also personally participating in every special training as much as possible. They ate the same food, lived in the same places, and learned the same things.

There are two benefits to doing this. The first is to maximize the sense of belonging and identity of these carefully cultivated soldiers to themselves, and second, it also ensures that the chief training instructors do not dare to hide their personal interests and teach them all their life's learning.

After Sun Ce began his expedition to the west, Zhang Xiu put all the "open guns" and "hidden arrows" on the south bank of the Yangtze River in advance, granting him the right to move freely. Ordered to wipe the tip of his weapon every day with the strange liquid in the barrel.

This strange smelling, transparent liquid is a venom made by Zhang Xiu's own hands. The material is simple, but its efficacy is almost incomprehensible.

This venom can be made almost at any time. The name is "dog salivation", to put it bluntly, it is the saliva of dogs!

That's right! Zhang Xiu wanted to use rabies, which even modern medical treatment could not cure, to kill Sun Ce!

In order to ensure that Sun Ce could be killed in a lifeless place, Zhang Xiu ordered a large number of people to hunt Huainan wild dogs, and finally collected nearly a thousand wild dogs and saliva from famous vicious dogs from all over the world, mixed them and stirred them with some simple culture liquid, so as to ensure that the "canine saliva" made contained rabies virus!

Xiliang's unique Gu poison is already difficult to solve, and Zhang Xiu also added the saliva of the beast as a poison, which can be said to be extremely despicable, shameless, and mad!

But then again, since it has been decided to get rid of Sun Ce by a shady means, then simply be despicable to the end!