Chapter 1777: Unlucky Soochow

Most of the troops of Eastern Wu were fighting with Liu Xiu for Jiangxia County, while the remaining army was busy encircling and suppressing the Japanese and could not win for a long time, which also made the domestic mountains rebel.

Yangzhou Shanyue, like Jiaozhou Baiyue and Jingnan Wulingman, are all ethnic minorities entrenched in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

The difference is that Wulingman has been conquered by Liu Xiu, and Baiyue has also surrendered to Liu Xiu's military might and does not dare to make trouble, but the problem of Shanyue has not been eradicated by Eastern Wu, and it has always been the most headache for Eastern Wu.

Since Sun Jian occupied Jiangdong, he has sent troops to attack Shanyue several times, and each time he has won a complete victory, which has greatly weakened the strength of Shanyue, but the remaining Shanyue are entrenched in the deep mountains and old forests, if he does not take the initiative to come out, he will not be able to completely clean up.

Seeing that Shanyue was already scared by himself and didn't dare to make trouble when he came out, Sun Jian temporarily stopped the idea of completely eradicating Shanyue, and turned to curb the growth of his neighbor Liu Xiu next to him.

What Sun Jian didn't know was that Shanyue was not afraid of him, but just hid it to recover his strength.

The Shanyue people are generally very resentful, and in the process of Sun Jian's crusade against Shanyue, countless Shanyue people died at the hands of Eastern Wu, and the two sides have formed a mortal enmity.

Therefore, taking advantage of the internal and external difficulties of Eastern Wu, all the ministries of Shanyue rebelled one after another.

Zu Lang, the leader of Yuzhang Shanyue, Fei Zhan, the leader of Danyang Shanyue, Peng Hu, the leader of Poyang Shanyue, Chen Ce, the leader of Lujiang Shanyue, Huang Lan, the leader of Huiji Shanyue, Shi Dan, the leader of Yongan Shanyue, Peng Shi, the leader of Qiantang Shanyue, and Dong Si, the leader of Linchuan Shanyue...... The various departments of the thirteen roads and mountains of the thirteenth road have rebelled, and for a time all parts of Jiangdong can be said to be full of beacon fires.

Shanyue has a total population of hundreds of thousands, and among these Shanyue rebels, the strongest is Yuzhang Zulang, with 100,000 people and 20,000 soldiers.

The rest of the Shanyue rebels were nearly 10,000 in the majority, and there were thousands in the few.

Under the rebellion launched together, the momentum was extremely huge, and it had been shaken to the foundation of Soochow.

Sun Jian, who was far away in Jiangxia, saw that the Japanese had not yet been exterminated, and the victims had not yet stabilized, but Shanyue had launched a rebellion, and the scale was still so large, that the good Wu State had completely become a sieve, and there were loopholes everywhere, so he was naturally furious about this.

Sun Jian never thought that Shanyue, who he regarded as vulnerable, would give him a fatal blow at this time, and he secretly regretted why he left this hidden danger.

Don't look at Shanyue's troubles in the territory of Wu, but as long as the main army of Eastern Wu returns, it will only be a matter of time before these Shanyue, who are not even equipped with weapons, will be cleaned up.

But once Eastern Wu withdrew its troops from Jiangxia, Huang Zu alone would definitely not be able to stop Liu Xiu, which would be equivalent to giving Jiangxia to Liu Xiu, and then Chu would have an absolute geographical advantage over Wu Guoke.

The battle of Jiangxia is related to the dispute between the national fortunes of Wu and Chu, whoever can seize Jiangxia first will be able to occupy an absolute advantage, so Sun Jian will support Huang Zu in Jiangxia at all costs.

But for the current Eastern Wu, the most important thing is not to fight for Jiangxia, but to quickly extinguish the rebellion in the country, otherwise even if Jiangxia is obtained, if Jiangdong is occupied by the rebels, the gains will outweigh the losses.

"My lord, the top priority now is to suppress the Shanyue rebellion, so let's withdraw the troops as soon as possible." Zhang Zhaojin said.

Although Sun Jian also wanted to withdraw his troops and go back to suppress the rebellion, Jiang Xia was too important after all to discuss the national fortunes, so he couldn't help but hesitate a little in his heart.

After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Jian couldn't make a decision, so he looked at Sun Wu and asked, "Brother Wu, what do you think?" ”

Sun Wu smiled bitterly and said, "Withdraw the army, now even Jiangdong is no longer stable, let's expel the Japanese and suppress Shanyue first, and then think about others." ”

Hearing Sun Wu's words, Sun Jian also sighed helplessly, and scolded angrily: "The damn Shanyue, and the damn widows, this father will never let them go." ”

The implication is that he agrees with the withdrawal of troops to suppress the rebellion.

This time he competed with Liu Xiu for Jiangxia, Sun Jian came with the determination to win, but he didn't expect to lose to Liu Xiu on the battlefield, but because of the attack of the Japanese and the Shanyue rebellion in China, he lost to Liu Xiu inexplicably.

This defeat is equivalent to the loss of Jiangxia, and even if Wu quells the rebellion in the country, in the confrontation with Chu in the future, the situation of Wu will probably not be very good.

As soon as he thought of this, Sun Jian couldn't help but envy his luck with Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu obviously didn't do anything, but he inexplicably won a national war.

No one is lucky.

"Alas, God helps Chu but not Wu."

Sun Jian couldn't help sighing, his heart was full of unwillingness and helplessness.

The news that Sun Jian was going to withdraw his troops and return to suppress the rebellion was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Huang Zu.

Huang Zu Huang Xie's father and son came to lobby one after another, but no matter what they said, Sun Jian only asked rhetorically: "If Jiangxia is also facing such a situation, will your father and son ignore the rebellion in the country and go all out to help my Wu State?" ”

Just one sentence made Huang Zu Huang Xie and his son speechless, if they were in Sun Jian's situation, they would definitely make the same decision as Sun Jian.

Regarding the domestic situation of Wu State, Huang Zu Huang Xie's father and son also knew that Wu State had been on the verge of extinction, and it was obviously impossible to stay and help Jiangxia resist Chu State.

But without the assistance of Eastern Wu, how could the strength of the Jiangxia army alone be able to stop the Chu army?

With the evacuation of the 100,000 Eastern Wu army from Jiangxia, Jiangxia Taishu Huang Zu fell ill directly under helplessness and despair, and his eldest son Huang Xie was ordered to take charge of everything in the Jiangxia army, but it was also difficult to escape the fate of the country.

After the Wu army withdrew from Jiangxia, it was divided into two, one 70,000 troops under the command of Sun Jian, to suppress the Shanyue rebellion in various places, and the other 30,000 naval army under the command of Sun Wu, along the Yangtze River straight down to the sea, detouring through the Wu army and Huiji County, responsible for exterminating the Japanese invaders raging in the two counties.

Jiangxia seemed to be a place of bad luck for Dongwu, and as soon as he left Jiangxia, Dongwu's fortunes immediately improved.

On the eighth day after the Wu army withdrew from Jiangxia, Sun Ce broke the rebels of Huiji Shanyue and personally killed its leader Huang Chao, and Huiji Shanyue was quickly pacified.

On the ninth day, Sun Wu, who went east to exterminate the Japanese invaders, and when he passed through the Danyang territory, he raided Danyang Shanyue and killed its leader Fei Zhan, and Danyang Shanyue was quickly pacified.

On the thirteenth day, Sun Jian defeated Yuzhang Shanyue at the beginning, beheaded more than 5,000 enemies and returned, and then defeated Zu Lang several times, and finally convinced him to surrender to the Wu army.

As soon as Zulang fell, the largest Shanyue rebellion in Soochow was also put down, and the turmoil in the territory was relatively stable, not as critical as before.