However, Yuan Shu was capricious and often untrustworthy, and at first he promised to appoint Sun Ce as the Taishou of Jiujiang, but soon, he changed to his confidant Chen Ji, a native of Danyang.

Later, Yuan Shu attacked Xuzhou and asked Lu Kang (Lu Xun's uncle and grandfather) for 30,000 military rations from Lu Kang (Zhishu County, now southwest of Lujiang, Anhui), but Lu Kang refused to give it, and Yuan Shu was furious.

It just so happened that Sun Ce had visited Lu Kang before, and Lu Kang looked down on Sun Ce, and only let his master book receive him, and he didn't come out to see him, so Sun Ce held a grudge against him.

Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce to attack Lu Kang, and made a wish: "I used Chen Ji by mistake before, and I often regret that I used the wrong person." If you take Lu Kang this time, Lujiang County will definitely seal it to you. ”

Sun Ce was ordered to attack and easily take Lujiang.

But Yuan Shu actually reversed himself again and appointed his old subordinate Liu Xun as the Taishou of Lujiang. For Yuan Shu, Sun Ce was disappointed more and more every time.

Prior to this, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty sent Liu Xiang (yáo) to serve as the assassin of Yangzhou, and Yangzhou's past seat was Shouchun, and Shouchun had been occupied by Yuan Shu, so Liu Xiang crossed the Yangtze River south with the assistance of Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing and cousin Sun Ben, and set up a place of governance in Qu'a.

This time Sun Ce attacked Lujiang, Liu Miao was worried, because he knew that Wu Jing and Sun Ben were appointed by Yuan Shu, and they were Sun Ce's own people, and he was worried that they would join forces with Yuan Shu and Sun Ce to annex him, so he used force to drive them out, and Wu Jing and Sun Ben had to retreat to Liyang (now Hexian County, Anhui).

Liu Miao sent his subordinates Fan Neng and Yu Lu to be stationed in Hengjiang County, and Zhang Ying was stationed in Danglikou to confront Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu appointed his old subordinate Hui Qu as the assassin of Yangzhou, and Wu Jing as the general of the overseer, and led the army to attack Zhang Ying together with Sun Ben. The two sides confronted each other across the river for a long time, but to no avail.

Zhu Zhi, the governor of Wu County, was Sun Jian's old subordinate, who had served as Sun Jian's lieutenant in the past, and when Taifu Ma Riyan (dī) was in Shouchun, he appointed Zhu Zhi as an adjutant, and later was appointed as the governor of Wu County. He found that Yuan Shu's political virtue was not established, so he persuaded Sun Ce to take the opportunity to take Jiangdong.

So Sun Ce went to see Yuan Shu.

Sun Ce said to Yuan Shu: "My family was kind to the Jiangdong people in the past, and I am willing to lead troops to help my uncle conquer Hengjiang." After the conquest of Hengjiang, I can still recruit soldiers in the local area, and I can recruit about 30,000 people. At that time, I will lead them to help you calm the world and achieve great things. ”

Yuan Shu knew that Sun Ce was dissatisfied with him, but he thought that Sun Ce might not be able to do anything because Liu Miao occupied Qu'a and Wang Lang occupied Huiji, so he agreed to his request and praised the imperial court to appoint Sun Ce as the lieutenant of Zhichong.

Sun Ce then led his father's old ministry and hundreds of his own guests eastward.

Along the way, people continued to vote, and Sun Ce's team continued to grow, and by the time he arrived at Wu Jing's station, Liyang, there were five or six thousand people. Sun Ce wrote to inform Zhou Yu of the news of the eastward expansion, and at that time, Zhou Yu's uncle Zhou Shang was the Taishou of Danyang.

Zhou Yu led the troops out to greet Sun Ce and sponsor military rations.

Sun Ce was overjoyed and said to Zhou Yu: "With your support, the big thing will definitely succeed." ”

Therefore, Sun Ce immediately led his troops to cross the river (see Sun Ce's Battle of Jiangdong), attacked Hengjiang and Dangli, and conquered them one after another, and Fan Neng and Zhang Ying were defeated. Then, Sun Ce attacked continuously, invincible, no one could resist his sharpness, and Sun Ce's army was strictly disciplined, and the people were quite supportive.

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In the second year of Xingping (195), the twenty-one-year-old Sun Ce, with the support of Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, crossed the river from Liyang, and first defeated Liu Miao of Niuzhu Camp (now Quarrying), seized all the grain and weapons and war equipment in the warehouse, and became more and more powerful.

At that time, Xue Li, the prime minister of Pengcheng, and the minister of Xiapi (pī) and the Xiang Zhen (zé) Rong were all attached to Liu Xiang and regarded him as the leader of the alliance, Xue Li occupied Moling City, and Zhenrong was stationed in the south of the county.

Sun Ce first attacked Zhenrong and killed more than 50,000 people, but Zhenrong was so bold that he closed the camp gate and did not dare to move.

Sun Ce turned to attack Xue Li, and Xue Li broke through and fled.

At this time, Fan Neng, Yu Lu and others gathered soldiers to seize Niu Zhu. Sun Ce immediately returned to the army, defeated them, and captured more than 10,000 people.

Then he re-attacked Zhenrong: During the battle, Sun Ce was shot in the leg and could not ride a horse, so his subordinates carried him back to the camp to heal his wounds.

Someone said to Zhen Rong: "Sun Lang was killed by an arrow!" ”

At that time, Sun Ce was only in his twenties, and although he had an official title, people still called him "Sun Lang".

When Zhen Rong heard the news of Sun Ce's death, he was overjoyed and sent soldiers to confront Sun Ce's troops. Sun Ce first sent hundreds of soldiers and horses to challenge and lure the enemy, and then set up an ambush behind.

The enemy attacked, Sun Cebu pretended to be defeated, led the enemy into the encirclement, and then gave an order, ambushed the troops, and killed more than 1,000 enemies. Sun Ce took advantage of the victory to attack the Zhenrong camp, and ordered his soldiers to shout: "How is Sun Lang?" The sound shook the enemy camp, the ground shook the mountains, and frightened many enemy soldiers to flee overnight.

Seeing that Sun Ce was still there, Zhen Rong became more and more vigilant and cautious, deep ditches and high bases, and strictly guarded.

Sun Ce saw that it was difficult for him to overcome the danger and hold on for a while, so he led his troops southward, first defeating Liu Xiang's other troops at Meiling (present-day Nanling County, Anhui), and then transferring his troops to conquer Huyi (present-day Nanhushu Town, Jiangning County, Jiangsu) and Jiangcheng (present-day north of Jurong County, Jiangsu) and other places. Then, reorganize the troops and go to Qu'a to fight a decisive battle with Liu Xuan.

Liu Miao fought with Sun Ce, suffered a heavy defeat, and fled to Dantu (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu), Sun Ce entered the territory of Qu'a (see Battle of Qu'a), during which Tai Shi Ci faced Sun Ce's thirteen horsemen with one horse, Tai Shi Ci and Sun Ce fought a duel alone, Sun Ce snatched Tai Shi Ci's halberd, and Tai Shi Ci snatched Sun Ce's helmet. Later, reinforcements from both sides arrived.

At the beginning, when the people heard that Sun Lang's soldiers had arrived, they were terrified, their souls were dissipated, and they could not avoid it, and the officials often abandoned the city and lurked in the recklessness. Later, people gradually discovered that wherever Sun Ce's army went, the sergeants strictly obeyed the general's orders and did not dare to plunder the people. So the people were very happy, and they vied with cattle and wine to reward the troops.

Sun Celao gave his soldiers and issued a proclamation to his subordinate counties: "Liu Xuan, Zhenrong's villagers and subordinates surrender without asking; Those who are willing to join the army can join the army, and the whole family is exempted from taxes and forced labor; If you don't want to join the army, you won't force it. ”

After the proclamation was issued, people gathered from all directions, and in a short time, more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 horses were recruited. Since then, Sun Ce's name has shocked Jiangdong. Soon, Liu Miao gave up Dantu and fled westward, and Sun Ce captured Wu County.

At the same time, Zhu Zhi attacked Wu County from Qiantang, Wu County Taishou Xu Gong resisted Zhu Zhi by fist, Zhu Zhi defeated Xu Gong, Xu Gong fled and attached to the bandit Yan Baihu, Zhu Zhi then acted as the duty of Wu County Taishou.

At this time, there was bad news, Sun Ce's concubine, Zhang Hong (hó

g) daughter Zhang Weiyi died in childbirth.

At this time, Zhang Hong was already in Sun Ce's camp, Sun Ce and Zhang Hong were very sad, Sun Ce said to Zhang Hong, "Then what should I do?" Will the rest of my family still be able to live in yours? ”

Zhang Hong sighed sadly and said, "If it's not in my house, where else can it be?" ”