Chapter 157: Sun Ce's Bloom and Fall

Sun Ce took Qu'a as his base and sent Zhu Zhi to attack Wu County first.

After being defeated by Zhu Zhi by Youquan, Xu Gong, the Taishou of Wu County, defected to Yan Baihu, the leader of the bandits who had been seized in Wucheng, and Wu County was owned by Sun Ce from then on.

Soon after, Yan Baihu was also defeated by Sun Ce, so Yan Baihu and Xu Gong ran to Yuhang Xu Zhao again.

Cheng Pu once suggested that Sun Ce should take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely exterminate the two, but Sun Ce did not agree because he respected Xu Zhao's character, but he did not expect Xu Gong to secretly contact Cao Cao and want to calculate Sun Ce.

Xu Gong's recital was intercepted and handed over to Sun Ce.

In a fit of rage, Sun Ce killed Xu Gong and Yan Baihu on the spot.

A year later, Sun Ce led his troops to attack Huiji County, and he adopted the strategy of his uncle Sun Jing, lighting torches everywhere at night to confuse the enemy in front of him, and at the same time dividing his troops to make a surprise attack.

Huiji Taishou Wang Lang sent Zhou Xin to meet the battle suddenly, but was beheaded by Sun Ce.

Wang Lang was defeated and fled to Dongye by boat!

Sun Ce sent He Qi to pursue, Wang Lang surrendered, and Sun Ce took advantage of the situation to include Jijun in his territory!

After Wang Lang surrendered, Sun Ce did not harm him, and later Wang Lang entered the court as an official under Cao Cao's conscription, and his career was quite smooth all the way, and in the era of Cao Pi, he was worshiped as Situ and ranked as the third duke.

Later, Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor in Shouchun.

After Sun Ce learned of this, he clearly announced that he would sever his affiliation with Yuan Shu, showing his loyalty to the Han family, and appointed Wu Jing as the Taishou of Danyang, driving out Yuan Yin, the cousin of Yuan Shu, the former Taishou of Danyang.

Cao Cao appreciated Sun Ce's attitude, and immediately praised Sun Ce as the Taishou of Huiji, and named Wu Chenghou, and in the name of the Son of Heaven in the second year, it was Sun Ce who was named the rebellious general and Wu Hou.

Cao Cao married his niece to Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Kuang, and asked his son Cao Zhang to marry the daughter of Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben, and established a marriage relationship with Sun Ce.

Soon after, Zhao Fan proclaimed himself the Taishou of Danyang and stationed troops in Jing County.

After Sun Ce learned of this, he personally led his soldiers and horses to conquer, but Zhao Fan was defeated and captured by Sun Ce.

Sun Ce admired Zhao Fan's talent and character very much, so he personally untied Zhao Fan, held his hand tightly and said, "Shenting Fighting General, do you remember?" What would you do if you caught me then? ”

Zhao Fan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I can't imagine it!" ”

After hearing this, Sun Ce laughed heartily, and immediately appointed Zhao Fan, who was twenty-five years old at the time, as the general of Zhichong Zhonglang and granted military power.

Soon after, Liu Miao died of illness in Yuzhang, and tens of thousands of his subordinates became ownerless soldiers, and Zhao Fan invited himself to pacify him.

Everyone said that Zhao Fan would not come back this time, but Sun Ce was very confident that it was impossible, and he personally practiced the wine for him, before leaving, Sun Ce took Zhao Fan's hand and asked, "When will you return?" ”

Zhao Fan replied: "Within sixty days, I will return." ”

Zhao Fan kept his promise and returned as scheduled.

Sun Ce is open-minded, bold and confident, tolerant and unsuspicious of his subordinates, and quite a master.

Zhao Fan has a good character and abides by his trustworthiness.

The two knew each other and cherished each other, and it was rumored to be a good story for a while!

At this time, Sun Ce already had three counties in Jiangdong, including Wu County, Huiji County and Danyang County.

In the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, in June 199, Yuan Shu died of illness!

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu took this opportunity to lead 20,000 troops to attack Lujiang County under Yuan Shu's rule, and defeated Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang, in Anhui City, and most of Lujiang County was placed under Sun Ce's rule.

When attacking Anhui City, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectively got the two peerless beauties of Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao.

Sun Ce was the same age as Zhou Yu, and because of his handsome face, he was called Sun Lang and Zhou Lang respectively, and everyone at the time thought that Xiao Qiao's fate was perfect.

This year, Sun Ce was twenty-five years old.

At the end of the same year, Sun Ce led Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, LΓΌ Fan and other generals to attack Shaxian's Huang Zujun in a big way.

In this battle, Huang Zu was defeated and fled alone, his wife and concubine and seven children were all captured by Sun Ce, more than 20,000 people were killed, more than 10,000 people were drowned by jumping into the water, Sun Ce captured more than 6,000 large and small ships, and the property was piled up.

The second year, the beginning of the year.

After Sun Ce defeated Huang Zu, the garrison was in Jiaoqiu, wanting to capture Yuzhang County, and Yuzhang Taishou Huaxin raised the city and surrendered.

Sun Ce respects Hua Xin and treats the guests as courtesy.

Later, Hua Xin, like Wang Lang, was recruited by Cao Cao to serve in Xu Du, and his official fortune was prosperous, and he was promoted to the third duke.

Soon after occupying Yuzhang, Sun Ce ordered his cousin Sun Fu to march on the victory and take Luling County.

At that time, Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, had a subordinate named Liu Pan, who was stationed in Changsha Youxian County.

Liu Pan is very brave, often entering Yangzhou to harass and plunder, no one can control it, but Liu Pan is only afraid of Zhao Fan.

Sun Ce had no choice but to take Zhao Fan as the lieutenant of Jianchang and supervise the military affairs of the south to deter Liu Pan.

Using Zhao Fan to guard Jianchang made Liu Pan extinct and did not dare to be a coward, but it also made Zhao Fan lose the opportunity to gallop in the north and make contributions.

Since then, Sun Ce has finally succeeded in occupying the six counties of Yangzhou, namely Wu County, Huiji County, Danyang County, Luling County, Yuzhang County, and Lujiang County.

At that time, there were seven counties in Yangzhou, and only a small part of Jiujiang County and Lujiang County were not occupied by Sun Ce.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, that is, in the year 200 AD, April 4th!

Sun Ce was hunting in the Dantu Mountains, and he rode fast horses, leaving the cavalry far behind.

At this time, three people suddenly rushed out, all of whom were the disciples of Xu Gong, the former Taishou of Wu County, who was killed by Sun Ce.

Sun Ce asked, "Who are you?" ”

The three of them replied, "We are Cheng Pu's men, and we are shooting deer here." ”

Sun Ce said: "I know all of Cheng Pu's subordinates, why have I never seen you?" With that, he bent his bow and shot one of them down on the spot.

The remaining two almost simultaneously shot arrows at Sun Ce.

Because the distance was too close, Sun Ce was hit by an arrow in the cheek.

At this time, the cavalry from behind arrived and killed all the assassins.

After Sun Ce was injured, it was not fatal at that time, and Lang Zhong told him that as long as he took good care of it, did not get angry within 100 days, and did not do strenuous exercise, he could be cured.

But Sun Ce cherished his handsome appearance too much, and when he saw himself in the mirror, he said: "How can you make contributions when your face is like this?" So he roared, and his wounds burst open, and he died that night at the age of twenty-six.

Sun Ce lost his father at the age of 17 and died at the age of 26.

Beginning in 195 A.D., in just three or four years, starting with a thousand people, overcoming thorns and thorns, conquering the city, Dingding Jiangdong, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, with the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, quickly flattened the many separatist forces entrenched in Yangzhou, and gathered a large number of outstanding civil and military generals, laying a deep material and talent foundation for the establishment of the Wu State in the future.

Sun Ce is the true founder of the foundation of Soochow, and his brilliant and short life is like a meteor, lighting up the night sky in the southeast.

Sun Ce was not only the fastest growing among the major military groups at that time, but also the youngest of the many pioneers, but Sun Ce's personality was too sunny and tolerant, which was not conducive to guarding against villains.

In battle, he often rushed into the enemy line single-handedly, and repeatedly took risks himself.

Although many people persuaded him, Sun Ce always didn't care, and showed too much confidence in his martial arts and wisdom, so that he was so talented that he finally died at the hands of Xiaoxiao, leaving such an infinitely deplorable ending.

Sun Ce's successor, Sun Quan, who was selected before his death, was good enough, but there was still a very obvious gap compared with Sun Ce.

Sun Ce's self-confidence is actually very similar to Liu Xiu and Li Shimin, this self-confidence comes from his outstanding personal charm, from the natural outpouring of his heart in the process of creation, and from his own strength to comprehensively crush all the civil and military generals under him.

Sun Quan did not possess such qualities, especially in the military.

Sun Quan is good at scheming, which determines that he will never be able to have absolute confidence and control in front of generals of Zhou Yu or Zhao Fan.

We can even say that the ending of Jiangdong was already doomed in the middle of the night when Sun Ce died, and the fate of Jiangdong and the infinite possibilities of the future were died with Sun Ce's death, and Sun's dream of setting the Central Plains and the grand desire to dominate the world were also wiped out with Sun Ce's early death.