Chapter 109: Into the Tiger's Den
Historically, Sun Quan adopted Lu Su's Lian Liu Kang Cao and divided the world into three parts, while negating Zhou Yu's seizure of Jingzhou and the division of the river. In addition to the Jingzhou Shi clan and Jiangdong, it can be said that water and fire are incompatible, and the root cause of Sun Jian's era can not be easily resolved. Sun Quan's suspicion is also an important reason, Zhou Yu is a pro-Jingzhou person, Sun Quan doesn't want Zhou Yu to sit big and fight against him.
"Then according to the words of the virtuous nephew, Huang Rui, you go to the direction of Nanjun to welcome the reinforcements, Su Fei, you immediately arrange for someone to collect the remains of the soldiers, and the official will go to Poxi to camp."
Huang Zu said this, his son Huang An and his general Su Fei couldn't believe it, Huang Zu had been in Jiangxia for many years, and even Sun Quan and Zhou Yu didn't dare to underestimate him, he had always been conceited, and when did he treat Liu Cong with such a young courtesy.
"Uncle Huang, the direction of the reinforcements has already sent someone to inform you, and it will not be too late for the reinforcements to come, Cong wants Huang Rui to take me to Shaxian City to investigate at night."
"No! Virtuous nephews must not. Today, you injured Sun Quan's two generals in a row, once exposed, Sun Quan will definitely not let you go, it is too dangerous to go at this time. As soon as Huang Zu heard that Liu Cong was going to Shaxian City, he was immediately anxious. It's not like a fifty-year-old feudal official at all.
"Uncle Huang, Liu Cong is not boasting, although Cong rarely goes to the battlefield, but it is his turn to fight hand-to-hand, three or five people are not a problem, Sun Quan wants to rob treasures and rob the people, we can't let him do bad things calmly. That pioneer Lu Meng has already been injured, and if any more generals in the enemy army are injured, I believe they will not dare to stay in peace. â
Liu Cong's abacus is that although he can't come and go freely among thousands of troops and horses during the day, at night, it will definitely be no problem to go to the city and set a few fires to add a little chaos to Sun Quan, but the terrain in the city is not familiar, so he wants to take Huang An with him.
Huang Rui saw that Liu Cong was full of confidence, and he was also eager to try. From the moment Liu Cong rode into the battlefield, he completely admired this son. Although at that time he didn't know if his father and brother would survive.
In the end, Huang Zu insisted on disagreeing and insisted on letting Liu Cong stay in the army, but Huang Rui did not leave, so he stayed by his side to protect Liu Cong. Huang Zu thought that since the second son admired Huang Rui, he would let his son sway in front of the second son, and when the second son was in charge of Jingzhou one day, he would not lose his son.
When Huang Zu and others suggested camping in Poxi, Liu Yin also came back with Liu Qi and others, Liu Cong noticed that there was no Pang Tong, so he asked others, it turned out that Liu Qi was defeated for the first time, and Pang Tong didn't know where to go.
But in this way, the possibility of Pang Tong voting for Sun Quan has increased, hey, he is still not charming enough!
Another piece of good news was that Anlu had sent reinforcements. This Anlu County Order is Huang Zu's subordinates, old acquaintances, and the Huang family is powerful in Anlu, so naturally they dare not slack off, and only a few hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people are left in case of change. And those cavalry really reflected the Huang family's rich background, knowing that Huang Zu was in trouble, and persuaded them to send out.
In this way, there were more than 2,000 soldiers left in the hard battle in the evening, some soldiers who could be put into battle after simple bandaging, plus the Jiangxia soldiers who had been scattered before, and then the soldiers brought by Huang Rui, they could barely gather 4,000 men and horses. When there are more people, it is relatively safe. If Sun Quan wanted to surround these 4,000 men and horses again, he had to abandon Sha Xian and send out the whole army.
Just after dinner, Liu Cong lied that he wanted to rest, went to bed early, and waited until Huang Zu went out to patrol the camp, so he took Huang An and Huang Rui to Shaxian City. Originally, Huang Zu instructed his two sons to protect Liu Cong at night. Liu Cong knew that Huang Zu didn't bring his family when he retreated, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, women had no status, and the first thing Huang Zu thought of when he wanted to run away must be his son.
It's just that Huang An and Huang Rui are still young, especially Huang Rui has just passed the weak crown, and his feelings for his mother are definitely deeper than those for women who often appear on the battlefield. Liu Cong asked Huang Rui to take him into the city in the name of saving his mother.
At first, Huang An and Huang Rui were both excited and nervous, thinking of their father's explanation, and resolutely refused to take Liu Cong to Shaxian County, Liu Cong showed the two of them his body armor, and repeatedly emphasized how not to save people tonight, then the mother and the captured brother of the two may be taken to Chaisang by Sun Quan and may even be executed on the spot. The two young men immediately forgot Huang Zu's confession and went to the clouds.
At this moment, Shaxian City was also in chaos, Sun Quan never expected that Huang Zu's two or three thousand people would defeat Lu Meng, and Lu Meng was also injured and Jiang Qin was captured. Although Shaxian was far away from Jingzhou, LĂź Meng had besieged the city for several days before, or more reinforcements from Xiangyang would definitely arrive in a day or two.
Sun Quan did come to rob and rob, he only brought 30,000 horses, and the casualties in the attack on Xiakou and Shaxian County were already a small half, and today LĂź Meng led his troops to pursue Huang Zu and suffered a lot of losses. Jingzhou has an army of 60,000 or 70,000, and he doesn't want to be trapped in this Shaxian city by Liu Biao, so he indulges the soldiers and loots from the moment he enters the city, and only waits for the people to return to Chaisang tomorrow.
Lu Meng's injury made Sun Quan very concerned about the battle situation during the day, and after Cheng Pu and others reported, Sun Quan was weak-hearted, when did Liu Biao's son become so brave, he was so fearless, could it be that Xiangyang's army was about to arrive? Or maybe the troops of the South County are pouring out?
After discussing with his subordinates for a long time, he finally decided to leave Shaxian early tomorrow morning, so as not to have too many dreams at night. So this night in Shaxian City was destined to be sleepless, and thousands of soldiers searched from house to house in the city, but all young and middle-aged people were rushed to the barracks, ready to be brought back early tomorrow morning.
When Liu Cong and Huang Rui came to Shaxian City, there were not even many guards on the city wall, and it was estimated that Huang Zu had been defeated and retreated, and most of them went to rob or arrest people.
The two-zhang high city wall is not difficult for Liu Cong, but the difficult thing is Huang An and Huang Rui, Liu Cong picked a corner a little far away from the sentry, climbed up first, and then put down the rope prepared earlier to pull Huang Rui up. Let Huang An stay outside the city to respond.
According to Liu Cong's requirements, Huang Rui successively took him to the barracks, treasury and government offices and other important places in Shaxian, but the training place in Jiangxia in the past has become a temporary garrison for the Wu army, and the busy Wu army can be seen everywhere in the city, obviously busy with carrying grain, grass and gold and silver treasures. Either that, or go around looting strong men.
The two guarded in front of the government for a while, and found that many of the subordinate officials of the government who did not have time to escape were taken to the temporary military camp of the Wu army as strong men, and there were also some female dependents in the middle, that is, there was no Huang Rui's mother and the close maids of the Huang Mansion.
Huang Rui suddenly remembered, so he whispered to Liu Cong: "Presumably my mother hid in Dongcheng." â
"Dongcheng?"
"It's near the east gate, where my father bought a mansion a few years ago, and my mother often brought her maids there."
The two gave up waiting in front of the government and went straight to Dongcheng. When he arrived at the mansion that Huang Rui said, Liu Cong found that the environment of this mansion was quiet, surrounded by big trees. It's just that maybe because of the war, there are no lights in front and back, not even a gatekeeper.
Because they didn't know the situation inside, Liu Cong and the others chose to climb over the * wall to enter.
The mansion was also pitch black, but fortunately, this was Huang Rui's own home, and the two groped their way to the inner hall. But it was still empty.
Just as the two were about to leave disappointed, they heard a woman in the side room shouting, "Who? â
"Xiao Cui, it's me."
"Third son?"
"Yes, what about my mother?"
"Madame, she ......"
Bang bang, the maid called Xiaocui was about to open the door to welcome Huang Rui in, but there was a knock outside the door.
"It's not good, it may be that Sun Quan's troops have searched here, Huang Rui, is there a back door in this mansion, you take someone and leave quickly, I will resist here for a while." Liu Cong understood why Xiaocui and the others didn't dare to light the lamp, just for fear of attracting enemy troops, but they didn't expect to be searched so quickly.
"Childe ......" Huang Rui entered the house and saw that his mother and a few personal maids were there, and his heart was immediately relieved. But if this is discovered by the enemy, not only will he and his mother not be able to escape, but Liu Cong will also be affected. Although Huang Rui is filial, he can also distinguish the importance of the matter.
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