Chapter 53: Endless Pain
On the night of September 15 in the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the soldiers of Sun Quan's army, who had been repeatedly betrayed and abandoned by the ruthless and unrighteous Sun Quan, finally turned against Sun Quan, Sun Jing and Zhou Yu and other top levels of Sun Quan's army, and collectively surrendered to Dong Zhuojun, which is known as the Poyang Lake Mutiny.
Under the bright moonlight, the sparkling waves of the clear lake were shining, the moonlight like quicksilver was lightly diffuse, and the lake gently lapped the sand, making bursts of intoxicating noises that intoxicated the literati. With the formation of a distinct is that on the island in the middle of the lake, the sound of killing shook the sky, more than 3,000 angry soldiers of Sun Quan's army surrounded Sun Quan and Zhou Yu and others, each of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu and other people's personal soldiers had more than a dozen or even dozens of Sun Quan's soldiers besieged, although these soldiers were the most well-equipped, and the only rations were first supplied to them, but no matter how well equipped they were, no matter how abundant their physical strength, they could not withstand the siege of a dozen mad soldiers, often they cut down one or two mutinous soldiers, and were immediately cut down to the ground by more mutinous soldiers, It was chopped alive into meat sauce, and the splashed blood stained the island in the middle of the lake almost instantly.
"Kill!" Sun Ce and Huang Gai first jumped off the warship, led Dong Zhuo's army to kill on the island in the middle of the lake, everywhere they went, the mutinous Sun Quanjun soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered, and then Dong Zhuo's soldiers put them on the prisoner of war ship, and gave them food and medicine, and the stubborn Sun Quan's cronies in front of the murderous Sun Ce and Huang Gai, they couldn't even hold a round, they were all cut into limbs, and then trampled to the flesh and blood, when Sun Ce and Huang Gai rushed to the top of the island in the middle of the lake, Sun Quan and other cronies had all turned into dead souls under the knife, Not even a single intact corpse remained.
At the peak of the island in the middle of the lake, surrounded by thousands of Dong Zhuo's army, Sun Quan's army was only Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Xu Sheng and Jiang Qin, all four of them were pale, although they were still trying their best to pretend not to care, but the trembling weapons in their hands still exposed the fear and despair in their hearts.
Dong Zhuojun did not rush to cut Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and the other four people with a thousand knives, but tightly surrounded them, Sun Ce and Huang Gai walked into the circle, Sun Ce pointed at Sun Quan and scolded: "Sun Quan, you brute!" Zhou Yu killed our father, not only did you not avenge your father, but also colluded with Zhou Yu to try to kill your own brother with the knife of Wen Hou, are you still human? ”
"Zhou Yu'er!" Huang Gai also scolded: "I, Huang Gai, am sorry for you? You actually plotted against me first, and then sent people to hunt me down, for the sake of a woman, you even dare to kill the lord, you disloyal and unrighteous person, what face do you have to live in the world? ”
The situation has reached this point, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu understand that they have no chance to be spared, but both of them have the same idea and resolutely deny it, even if they die, they can't admit those crimes! Sun Quan beat his spirit, looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahahaha, Sun Ce, you villain who recognizes the thief as his father, his father was obviously killed by Dong Thief, you coveted the beauty of Dong Thief's daughter, attacked Jiangdong for Dong Thief for the tiger, and killed countless good men in my Jiangnan, and now, you have to impose the crime on my head, you are despicable and shameless, but you have learned enough from your future father-in-law." ”
"That's right." Zhou Yu said: "In order to cover up the ugly thing that you recognized the thief as your father, you actually colluded with Huang Gai Lao'er to frame your own brother and slander you as a brother and sister, where is your conscience?" ”
Sun Ce was so angry by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu's strong words that his whole body trembled, and Huang Gai strode forward, lifted his battle armor, and tore off his upper clothes with a bang, revealing the dark red scar on his lower abdomen, Huang Gai pointed at the scar and shouted: "Zhou Yu, you can see clearly, this is what you left me!" At the beginning, the king kindly rewarded you with a sword, but you killed me first with a sword, and then killed the lord with a sword, but fortunately I was saved by my current wife, so I escaped with my life, and I had the opportunity to expose your crime here! ”
Zhou Yu forced a smile to himself, and was about to quibble again, but Huang Gai continued to roar: "Zhou Yu'er, let me ask you, after I was rescued by Xiaoli and returned to Jingzhou, where did my whole family of more than 20 go?" Did you kill me? In November of the second year of Chuping, you fell in love with Miss Xiao Qiao at first sight and asked to see her, Qiao Xuan thought that your family was in the middle of the road, and refused to let you meet Miss Xiao Qiao, it was I who took you to see Qiao Xuan with a thick old face, and Qiao Xuan let you meet Miss Xiao Qiao! A month later, it was I begged Wu Chenghou to promote you to a partial general, and subsidized you with money, so that you could not even afford a good piece of clothing before you could use the excuse to buy jewelry and contact the Qiao family! In February of the third year of Chuping, you and Xiao Qiao girl tryst were discovered by Qiao Xuan, Qiao Xuan wanted to go to the lord to accuse you of abducting the people's daughter, and I took someone to stop Qiao Xuan, and pleaded for you with an old face, so that Qiao Xuan stopped. Ten days after that incident, the lord wanted to make my eldest son a deputy general, and I forced my own son to give you the position of deputy general, and you gradually soared from then on, and Qiao Xuan began to have no objection to you and Miss Xiao Qiao......"
"Say no more! Stop it! Zhou Yu's eyes were almost breathing fire, and he clenched the steel knife and yelled at Huang Gai frantically.
"I don't want to say it either!" Huang Gai's voice was louder than Zhou Yu's, and Huang Gai's face was full of tears, "I, Huang Gai, am not a person who asks for retribution, saying this, I just want to ask you, I, Huang Gai, am sorry for you, why do you want to kill my family?" ”
"I didn't kill them!" Zhou Yutong shouted with red eyes: "It's Sun Quan!" At that time, I didn't want to kill your whole family at all, but Sun Quan must kill you all over the house, and I can't help it! Zhou Yu said this, only to find out that he was speechless, but his words had already spread to everyone's ears, Sun Quan and Xu Sheng's faces were like ashes, Jiang Qin screamed, staring at Zhou Yu as if he didn't know.
After Zhou Yu finished yelling, the scene suddenly fell silent, and after a long time, Sun Ce gritted his teeth and said: "Sun Quan, I can't imagine that you have a wolf heart and a dog lungs to this point, General Huang is loyal to my Sun family, you actually can't bear to kill him, you!" You! You! Speaking of this, Sun Ce was already so angry that he spoke, and he wanted to pounce on Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to avenge his father, but he thought of sibling affection, and for a while, Sun Ce didn't know what to do.
At this time, Dong Zhuojun burst out in unison, "King Chitose Chitose Chitose!" The crowd automatically divided into a road, the fat and ugly Kang Peng walked into the circle surrounded by General Dong Zhuojun and his own soldiers, Kang Peng's ugly face was full of tears, and the red and swollen copper bell eyes stared at Zhou Yu tightly, Zhou Yu was also looking at Kang Peng, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.
After a long time, Kang Peng's fat lips trembled and said: "Gongjin, Gu just received an urgent report from Jiangxia, she left, she left last night, and when she left, she was still reading your name." ”
"What?" Zhou Yu lost his voice and said, although Kang Peng didn't say who 'she' was, but everyone present understood who that 'she' was. Under the moonlight, the muscles on Zhou Yu's scarred face were distorted, and there was no sparkle in his tired eyes!!!! "The voice was terrible, like that of a dying beast.
After a long time, Kang Peng's ugly eyes were already full of tears, and he choked up on Zhou Yu, who was kneeling on the ground with his head in his arms: "You kill yourself, I will give you to be buried with her." After speaking, Kang Peng turned his head and left, without looking back.
Zhou Yu slowly raised his head and said to Kang Peng's back, "Thank you." Zhou Yu grabbed the steel knife and aimed it at his heart, "No frost, wait for me!" The steel knife stabbed down, the blood flashed, and Zhou Yu's scarred face had a smile of relief and happiness, and slowly fell crooked in the moonlight......
"Brother!" When Zhou Yu's body just fell to the ground, Sun Quan cried and stumbled to Sun Ce and knelt down, kowtowed, and cried: "Brother, I was wrong, I was deceived by Zhou Yu and did something inferior to a beast, I should die, I should die!" Brother, forgive your own brother. ”
Sun Quan's performance was no longer able to deceive anyone, everyone looked at him with disdain, only Sun Ce burst into tears, but there was no movement, and Sun Quan continued to kowtow again and again until his forehead was bleeding, "Brother, brother, brother......" Sun Quan was already only shouting these two words, and at the same time he couldn't stop slapping himself, his hands were extremely heavy, and the corners of his mouth were fanned out with blood.
Sibling affection, Sun Ce still couldn't bear it after all, and slowly bent down to help Sun Quan, wanting to say something to Sun Quan, but Huang Gai suddenly shouted, "Be careful!" Huang Gai flew up and kicked Sun Ce more than a foot away, revealing the pale green dagger in Sun Quan's hand!
"You're not my big brother!" Sun Quan roared, "I made Wucheng Hou, and you don't want to do it!" He raised the dagger and threw himself at Sun Ce, but as soon as his body moved, countless spears stabbed at him at the same time, nailing Sun Quan like a honeycomb......
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"What about Sun Jing?" Jia Xu asked in surprise with the military merit book.
After talking to Zhou Yu on the island in the middle of the lake, Kang Peng was physically and mentally exhausted, so he handed over the affairs of the military to Jia Xu, Pang Tong and others to deal with, and he went back to the cabin first, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were killed one after another, Xu Sheng and Jiang Qin had no way out, and chose to surrender to Dong Zhuojun, and Dong Zhuojun suddenly found that Sun Jing, the most mysterious in Sun Quan's army, disappeared at the same time as Sun Quan's biological mother, as if she had disappeared from the air.
"Send someone to find them, be sure to find them!" Seeing that Dong Zhuojun's generals shook their heads, Jia Xu ordered again. There is a secret in Sun Quanjun, as Sun Jian's younger brother, why Sun Jing did not usurp power after Sun Jian's violent death, but instead put Sun Jian's second son Sun Quan on the throne, this unreasonable thing is a secret that Dong Zhuojun's high-level leaders can't guess the reason.
Sun Jing and Sun Quan's biological mother's boat was found in the early morning of the third day, Lu Bu and Zhao Yunjun crossed the river to meet Dong Zhuojun's brigade, Zhao Yun's fleet encountered a strange fishing boat in the northwest of Poyang Lake, Dong Zhuojun went up to search as usual, but the colonel of the patrol team immediately retreated after entering the cabin, and sent someone to invite Zhao Yun to see. As soon as Zhao Yun entered the cabin, he immediately exited the cabin after only one glance, and asked the junior colonel of the patrol team, "Is there anyone else who has seen it besides you?" ”
"Nope." The colonel replied solemnly, "Just a few of us." ”
"It was done right." Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Burn this ship, I will ask the king for a reward for you, and forget what you saw." The oil poured on the hull of the boat, and the fire of the bust engulfed the boat, gradually bringing Sun Quanjun's secrets to the bottom of the lake......
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Three days later, Lu Su led Dong Zhuo's army and part of the army to continue eastward, to attack Jianye, Wu County and other places, Sun Quan is dead, Jiangnan vitality is lost, Lu Su led the navy to pacify Jiangnan is easy, the correct capture policy is also a big help for Dong Zhuojun to pacify Jiangnan, for Dong Zhuojun, the occupation of Jiangnan where the young and middle-aged are almost pulled by Sun Quan to accompany the burial does not have much practical significance for the time being, even if Dong Zhuojun intends to march from this road, the soldiers also need to be transferred from the rear, The only benefit can only be to complete the last link of Jia Xu's strategy to outflank the Central Plains, as for the economic and demographic benefits, it also needs Lu Su and Pang Tong, the chief of internal affairs, to slowly recover and then obtain, Sima Yi was also sent by Kang Peng to Lu Su and others, so that he could learn from Lu Su and Pang Tong and others.
In the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chai Sangkou, where Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao first met, a lonely tomb stood there quietly, and there were ten seal characters engraved on the tombstone - the tomb of Zhou Yu and his beloved wife Qiao Wushuang, the inscription is 'sinner Kang Peng', the word 'Kang Peng' is the pinyin alphabet, in this era, except for Kang Peng himself, no second person can understand what it means.
On the night after Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao were buried together, Kang Peng drove his soldiers into the distance and knelt alone in front of the grave all night. The next day, Kang Peng issued an order, from now on, whoever persuaded him to drink should be beheaded!
On September 30 of the fifth year of the first peace, the depressed Kang Peng led Jia Xu, Xu Shu, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu and others to return to Chang'an, passing through Xiangyang, Kang Peng left Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu and other generals to guard Jingzhou, assisted by Xu Shu and Ma Liang, which was also the second army of Dong Zhuo's army to prepare to march into the Central Plains.
More than a month later, the army led by Kang Peng arrived in the suburbs of Chang'an, and the depressed Kang Peng just wanted to return to Chang'an as soon as possible, find some warmth and comfort at home, and soothe his tired heart, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, Jia Xu and Lu Bu and others suddenly shouted: "King, it's not good, why are all the people who come to greet the king filial piety?" ”
Kang Peng was taken aback, and when he looked up, sure enough, the crowd that came to greet him from afar was all wearing filial piety clothes, almost the same color as the white snow, and there was a faint cry. "Drive!" Kang Peng slapped his horse violently and rushed towards the crowd, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed.
Kang Peng rushed to the group of people, and at a glance saw Xu Jing, Sima Lang, Fa Zheng and Dong Chong and other civil and military officers who stayed behind, all wearing linen and filial piety with tears on their faces, but missing the most familiar face of Kang Peng, Kang Peng jumped off the war horse, his fat hands trembling and pointing at them, wanting to ask but not daring to speak, for fear of hearing bad news.
"Grandpa!" An ugly and obese girl cried and threw herself into Kang Peng's arms, crying: "My father is him, my father is ......." ”
"What's going on? Why is this happening? Kang Peng burst into tears and yelled.
Xu Jing, Sima Lang, Fa Zheng and Dong Chong and others all knelt down, Xu Jing cried: "The king, Taifu he has been sick from hard work, this year's autumn rain continues, Taifu in order to ensure the front of the military and the rear of the autumn harvest, Taifu personally went to the field during the day to direct the harvest, and at night to act in charge of government affairs, the body was completely exhausted, and unfortunately died the night before yesterday, Taifu was still thinking that he could not see the king dominate the world, it was the most regrettable thing in his life, he begged the king not to be sad for him, to save the king's jade body. ”
"Great!" Jia Xu, who was usually moody, suddenly cried loudly and ran frantically towards Chang'an City......
The muscles on Kang Peng's ugly face couldn't help twisting and twitching, but there was not half a tear in his eyes, "Xianjia, lonely virtuous son-in-law!" Kang Peng roared, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he turned over and fell......
In troubled times, how can Jiangnan be good?
After the fifth volume of "The Biography of Dong Zhuo of the Three Kingdoms" is completed, please see the final volume of this book, "Melon Ripe and Falling".