Niuzhu, here is a strategic place of the great river, the throat of the upper reaches of the Jiangdong, is one of the three major rocks of the Yangtze River, and the situation is very dangerous. It is a place where the north and the south are strife, and the soldiers must fight.

In the past, Sun Ce attacked Niuzhu Cang here, obtained most of the heavy grain and grass accumulated by Liu Xuan, and gained the strategic initiative in Jiangdong from then on. After that, he forcibly suppressed the forces in Jiangdong, and even chased after Liu Xuanrong, Wang Lang and others.

Today, Jiangdong has been peaceful and unified. However, Niu Zhu's strategic position has not decreased but increased, and as the first river defense fortress of Wu County, the core area of Sun Ce's rule, Niu Zhu has always been valued by Sun Ce. Even in the case of making a good alliance with Zhang Xiu's side across the river, Niu Zhu's resident soldiers and horses also remained at more than 3,000.

In Sun Ce's strategic planning for westward expansion, Niu Zhu is also an extremely important part.

Although Jiangnan is good, compared with the Central Plains, the development and construction are relatively late, and the infrastructure construction such as roads and cities can be said to have a gap of decades and hundreds of years compared with the Central Plains. Although there has been a large influx of people in recent decades, there are quite few densely populated areas compared to the very vast land south of the Yangtze River, and most of the areas are still in a situation where "vast land and sparsely populated" are still undeveloped.

Therefore, Sun Ce's westward march route was mainly along the river. It is because the transportation of grain, grass and baggage by land alone is not enough to ensure the consumption of Sun Ce's tens of thousands of troops, and because of the terrain and climate characteristics of the vast land and dense forests in the south of the Yangtze River, the cost performance of requisitioning and sending people to transport grain by land is too low. Therefore, if you want to go on an expedition, it is best to use the calm and open Yangtze River waterway, and it is the king to rely on grain ships to transport grain by waterway.

And Niuzhu is the most critical transit station of Sun Ce's water grain road!

Under Sun Ce's rule, the grain of Huiji County and Wu County was generally hoarded in Qu'a, Wu County, and then transported to Dantu Water Port, loaded onto a big ship and set off, and traveled hundreds of miles against the river to Niuzhu for a temporary rest. In Niuzhu, the grain and grass of the rich counties north of Wuhu were loaded on, and finally the ships were overhauled, and they set off for the front line of the Western Expedition.

From Niuzhu out of the port, Sun Ce's grain ships have no bay to stop and no harbor to berth in thousands of miles of waterways, because after Niuzhu, there is no good port along the south bank of the river, and even if there is a port, it is also Danyang County under Zhang Xiu's rule, and it will not berth until the ship leaks or encounters a storm. traveled thousands of miles to Pengze, and then directly supplied Sun Ce's army marching along the river.

This is Niu Zhu's role in Sun Ce's now, which can be described as pivotal!

Therefore, in the arrangement of Niu Zhu's guards, Sun Ce also put a lot of thought into it. It is not only necessary to be brave and brave, but also shoulder the responsibility of military defense against the forces on the north bank; And you must have a certain strategy, and be able to be competent in the heavy task of dispatching grain and grass!

In real history, during the two-year expedition to the west, Sun Ce arranged for Zhou Yu to guard Niuzhu. But in this life, Zhang Xiu has already poached Gongjin, so the general who guarded Niu Zhu this time was Quan Rou, the commander of Danyang appointed by Sun Ce.

Many people may not have heard of Quan Rou's name, but his son is a figure who later became famous in the entire Three Kingdoms - Quan Cong, a famous general of Eastern Wu!

Quan Rou, a native of Qiantang in Wu County. During the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was promoted to filial piety and was appointed as the right man of Shangshulang. During Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown, and Benzhou made it a different way to do it, and the imperial court ordered Quan Rou to be the eastern lieutenant of Huiji.

Sun Ce marched to Jiangdong, Quan Rou raised troops to attach Sun Ce, Sun Ce then entrusted him with an important task, and expressed Quan Rou as the lieutenant of Danyang, so that he could be stationed in the first Jiangfang fortress in Jiangdong.

In fact, Niuzhu belongs to the boundary of Danyang County. However, as early as the period of Liu Xuan, Niuzhu has been occupied by Zhang Yingfanneng, a general under Liu Xuan, and the Danyang Taishou appointed by Yuan Shu actually only controls the territory south of Niuzhu, and the six densely populated plains north of Niuzhu belong to Liu Xuan.

When Sun Ce expelled Liu Xuan, the six counties of Danyang County north of Niuzhu were actually controlled by Sun Ce. And Sun Ce arranged for his uncle Wu Jing, who had served as the Taishou of Danyang, to serve as the Taishou of Danyang. Of course, this Danyang Taishou was not appointed by the imperial court, and was canonized by Sun Ce himself, which is strictly a fake. But in this warlord turmoil, the edict of the imperial court has long been inappropriate.

Even the heirloom jade seal, which symbolizes the authority of the world, Sun Jian and Sun Ce's father and son dare to take it as a private property, and even give it to others for soldiers. It's just a small Taishou appointment, it's really not a big deal.

What's more, even if it is not legal for my Sun Bofu to appoint Danyang Taishou, then you Yuan Shu will remove and replace Taishou at will, and dismiss Zhou Yu's uncle Zhou Shang and appoint himself from his younger brother Yuan Yin as Danyang Taishou, is it reasonable?

After that, Zhang Xiu broke Yuan Shu, and when Sun Ce attacked Yan Baihu and did not have time to withdraw to capture Danyang County, he surrendered the rest of Yuan Shu. Since then, Danyang County has continued the situation of two Taishou! Wu Jing controlled the six counties in the plain north of Niuzhu, and Yuan Yin nominally controlled other subordinate counties in the mountainous area south of Niuzhu.

However, when Cao Cao was crusading against Zhang Xiu, the situation that the well water did not interfere with the river water between the two Taishou of Danyang County was broken. In order to win over Sun Ce, Cao Cao sent an envoy to Jiangdong to appoint Wu Jing as a general of Yangwu and concurrently serve as the Taishou of Danyang on behalf of the imperial court!

Private salt became official salt, and Sun Ce and Wu Jing were very happy. Especially after the news of Zhang Xiu's defeat in Qiyang, Sun Ce was already planning to send Xu Kun to attack Yuan Yin, but the plan could not catch up with the changes, and Zhang Xiu actually surrendered directly to Cao Cao when he still had the strength to fight.

There is no way to fight now, once the fight starts, it is equivalent to declaring war with Cao Cao. Sun Ce of the early peace Jiangdong was not ready to compete for the world.

Then wait until Zhang Xiu suddenly turned his face, closed the door and beat Cao Cao by surprise, killed Cao Cao's personal general Dian Wei, who could fight with the flying general Lu Bu, and finally chased Cao Jun and bit Cao Jun fiercely, creating one of the most terrifying records since the turmoil in the world, and also creating a new high that has dealt a heavy blow to Cao Jun's vitality since the Battle of Yanzhou!

This not only shook the world, Cao Cao's power group talked about "Zhang" color change, and even Yuan Shao of Hebei took the initiative to send more than one million pieces of grain and grass to win over Zhang Xiu, hoping that Zhang Xiu would become a strategic ally of Hebei's long-distance friendship and close attack. Under such circumstances, Sun Ce had to carefully consider his relationship with Zhang Xiu Group. Naturally, the plan to expel Yuan Yin and take the entire Danyang County had to be shelved indefinitely.

But fortunately, the rich counties of Danyang County are already under Sun Ce's control. Other relatively densely populated subordinate counties close to Huiji County of Wu County are also more or less related to Wu Jing. In addition, Yuan Yin couldn't even settle the armed forces in his own territory, Zu Yang Tai Shi Ci and others, Sun Ce didn't take Danyang's gains and losses too seriously.

Even if Zhang Xiu surrendered his former pain, the marshal of Jing County, Zu Xun, and the fierce general Tai Shici, who was once on par with him, greatly strengthened Yuan Yin's rule in Danyang. Sun Ce still didn't care. In his opinion, the biggest thing brought by Zhang Xiu's crossing of the river is not a threat, but an opportunity!

Because Zhang Xiu personally informed himself of the news that Liu Miao had died, and openly and honestly announced that he would use the news of Liu Xuan's death to collect Tai Shici. This made Sun Ce see the possibility of taking Yuzhang County without spending a single soldier.

Sun Ce also talked with Zhang Xiu about the situation in the world all night. The hero sees the same thing, and thinks that the dispute between Yuan and Cao is now the main contradiction in the north, and it is unlikely that either of them will use their swords against other forces until the two families decide the winner. And young princes like themselves who have created a foundation can use this precious time to stabilize their power base and expand their strength outward!

In the end, Zhang Xiuxiang invited Sun Ce to jointly raise troops to defeat Liu Biao in Jingzhou. Zhang Xiu led the army from the north bank of the Yangtze River to the west and fought in the north of Jing. After Sun Ce conquered Yuzhang County, he marched westward from the south bank of the Yangtze River and fought in Jingnan. The two armies echoed across the river, and Liu Biao vowed not to give up.

After the war, Zhang Xiu divided Jingbei, Jiangxia County, and Nanjun, the two richest subordinate counties in Jingzhou, and Sun Ce won the four counties of Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang in Jingnan. Killed Liu Biao's three clans, Zhang Xiu avenged his uncle Zhang Ji's death in Nanyang, and Sun Ce avenged his deceased father Sun Jian in Xiangyang!

The death of his father Sun Jian was Sun Ce's greatest pain, and Zhang Xiu also had the revenge of his uncle Zhang Ji, who was like his biological father. In addition, Sun Ce really needed to seize Yuzhang and the four counties of Jingnan to complete the situation of the Yangtze River, and the two hit it off and made a strategic plan to conquer Liu Biao in the west.

When bidding farewell to Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, who returned to Huainan with Zhang Xiu, learned about these contents from Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce. Zhang Xiu once smiled at Sun Ce on the spot and said: "If I want to recruit Liu Biao, I must use Gongjin as a general!" When I lay down the important land of Jingbei, I will use Gongjin as the governor of the capital, and sit in Xiangyang for me, I am in Shouchun, echoing it from afar, so that I can compete with Yuan Cao for the Central Plains! ”

Sun Ce smiled and didn't say anything, just gave Zhou Yu a sentence of "It's good for yourself!" ”

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Today's Niuzhu Beach is a little busier than in the past. The reason is the same, but it is the time of the grain delivery again.

When Sun Ce crossed Jiangdong, there were no sailors and no sailors. The ferries were all rented by the riverside fishermen, but fortunately, Sun Ce was only a few thousand troops at that time, and he could easily cross the river and gain a foothold.

In the conquest of Jiangdong, Sun Ce's earliest territory was his hometown Wu County and the plain area northeast of Danyang, where there were many good ports near the sea and the river. With the continuous suppression of other separatist forces, coupled with the suppression of pirates and bandits, many ships were captured. Sun Ce himself also attached great importance to the construction of sailors, and summoned good craftsmen to start building boats and ships by himself. It's just that the foothold is still short, and the generals of the naval army are limited, and the Dongwu Navy Division is still only a prototype.

However, this did not affect the transportation of grain and grass by water. Jiangdong has always been less affected by the war in the Central Plains, and the powerful and powerful families and wealthy merchants are strong, and the Sun Wu regime has always had a lenient policy towards the big families, so in the case of the shortage of grain ships in the sailors, Sun Ce allowed large-scale grain and grass transportation to be contracted by the local wealthy merchants and powerful families in Jiangdong.

Although it is necessary to pay a certain amount of remuneration for these merchants who have private fleet caravans to contract the transfer of grain and grass, the cost can be said to be quite low compared to the long and rugged land transportation of grain and grass! Moreover, the important weapons and baggage are all transported by regular sailor transport ships, and the entire transport fleet is also escorted by a certain scale of Soochow sailors, plus the pirates who have been wiped out, the risk is quite low!

In addition, because of the open secret that Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce formed an alliance to attack Liu Biao, there was actually no risk to the Soochow fleet in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. There was Zhang Xiu's Yangzhou Navy Division to intercept the Jingzhou Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu's strong and middle-class naval army, so on the transport fleet of Eastern Wu, Sun Ce did not arrange a powerful general to escort it.

Today, it is the day when the monthly supply fleet leaves the port, and the highest general of the garrison in Niuzhu and the highest military commander of Danyang County appointed by Sun Ce, Quan Rou, the commander of Danyang, personally came to dispatch the grain ships and baggage transport ships to leave the port.

The Niuzhu garrison is only a few thousand, but there are no less than 10,000 people, all of whom are coolies who load ships and pull fiber. On this day, the weather was clear, and Quan Rou was methodically directing the supply fleets to leave the port one by one, but he saw a light boat sailing into the border port while waving the flag of the call!

Standing on the highest place, Quan Rou stroked the sword with his left hand, his face frowned, and his eyes turned to the river on the south side, but he saw a hazy white sail in the distance.

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