Chapter 424: Xu Ming robbed the king
Seeing Sun Quan's hesitation, Zhu Zhi thought that he was considering his own suggestion, so he continued: "Lord, although Liu Cong is menacing, after all, he is still hundreds of miles away from Wu County. I still have tens of thousands of warriors in Jiangdong, and the old man is willing to lead the troops to resist Liu Cong for the lord. The lord can recruit troops in Wu County to supplement the front line, and if he returns from Youtai, he will definitely be able to stop Liu Cong from continuing to advance eastward! ”
"Jun Ligong, it's not that you doubt your ability. It's just that in the first battle of Chaisang, my Jiangdong Sun clan lost everything, the old general Cheng Pu and Zhou Tai were killed in battle, and Han Dang, Xu Sheng and others are still missing. Didn't you think that Wen Chao, Governor Lu and General Lu, could not defeat Zhou Youping in martial arts? Even so, there are not enough soldiers, there are not enough warships, what can they do to stop Liu Cong? Yu Chuan was very disdainful of Zhu Zhi's statement!
"You!" Zhu Zhi is angry, although he is conceited and famous, but it is naturally impossible for Wen Tao to defeat Lu Su and Lu Meng, and even if he is in the prime of life, he is not necessarily the opponent of Zhou Tai, Han Dang and others in terms of bravery. Although Yu translates this mean, it also hits the nail on the head! Lu Su, Lu Meng, Cheng Pu, Zhou Tai and others couldn't resist Liu Cong when their soldiers were strong and strong, why could you Zhu Zhi be able to block it after the defeat of the navy, under the premise of lack of troops and few ships?
"Jun Ligong, moving the capital is just a matter of urgency, and now the situation is critical, otherwise what do you say?" Yu Fu saw that Zhu Zhi's face was flushed but he stopped talking, so he further forced Zhu Zhi to give in!
"No matter how urgent the matter is, you can't abandon the front-line soldiers and run away!" Zhu Zhi looked at the civil and military who did not speak in the Manchu Dynasty, and felt sad in his heart, thinking that back then, when he followed Sun Jian, although there were few people, he had always moved forward bravely, and Sun Ce had repeatedly won more with less when he first arrived in Jiangdong. What's wrong with these people now, the enemy is thousands of miles away, so they think about escaping first?
"It's not an escape, it's a strategic shift, moving the capital to Shaoxing is also for the sake of Zhongxing Jiangdong's plan, the enemy is menacing in the art of war, and our move is also to temporarily avoid the edge. If General Zhu insists that he can lead his troops to hold out here, we will accompany the lord to hunt south...... When the enemy retreats, we will wait for the lord to return to Wu County. ”
"How do you explain that to the people?" Sun Quan saw that Yu turned Zhu Zhi and was in a good mood. He had thought about it carefully, it was indeed too dangerous in Wu County, so it was better to leave and hide for the time being. It is a good way to hand over Wu County to Zhu Zhi, this Yu Xuan can really think that going south to hunt, and even escaping is so magnificent! The civil and military officials present also whispered, this Yu is really shameless, but at present, it seems that there is no other way except this method, you must know that Lu Su and Lu Meng can't stop Liu Cong!
Other civil and military officials saw that the overall situation had been decided, and they no longer came out to oppose it, and Gu Yong and Zhu Zhi, who were angry, opposed it hoarsely. But Sun Quan didn't get in, and he was determined to leave, after all, he was the king of Wu, and no one could stop him. However, the officials in the DPRK and China are divided into two kinds, such as Yu Chuan and Gu Yong, who are in high positions in the court, and where Wu Wang Sun Quan goes, they naturally have to follow, otherwise the officials are gone, the Yulu is gone, and the forces on which the family relies are gone.
And those grassroots officials don't care, they are used to the life of Wu County, and when they go to Shaoxing, they must be the ones who do coolies. Therefore, some of them began to consider whether to continue to follow Sun Quan to Shaoxing or resign and return to their hometowns. Wu County naturally can't stay for a long time, even if Zhu Zhi sticks here, Liu Cong's army comes over, and it is the people at the bottom who suffer. Therefore, after Sun Quan decided to move the capital, the Jiangdong court was further divided! Someone even quietly went to Qu'a, where Xu Ming was, and reported to him with the wind!
When Xu Ming heard that Sun Quan was going to run, he naturally would not let go of the opportunity to continue to disturb Jiangdong, so he claimed with great fanfare that he would lead his subordinates to kill and occupy Wu County. Xu Ming also accelerated the recruitment of new soldiers after occupying Qu'a County, and now there are more than 5,000 people, and Sun Quan has not been able to send troops to exterminate them. Xu Ming is a smart man, although he once successfully ambushed Wei Yan and Yu Ban when they attacked Shangyong. But Wu County is heavily guarded by Zhu Zhi, and he will not be stupid enough to really attack Wu County.
He was just creating public opinion, making the defenders of Wu County nervous and the people nervous, while he took more than 2,000 elite fishermen dressed as fishermen to set off from the waterway in advance to ambush Sun Quan, who was heading south.
Sun Quan's guard of honor is huge, and in any case, it is still in his hinterland. Guan Yu's vanguard troops have been dragged by Huang Gai and others in the Shuishui Village, and Zhu Zhi is still heavily guarded in Wu County, Sun Quan should be very safe all the way south, so the posture that a King Wu should have, plus the big and small officials dragging their families and leading the mouth, are mighty!
Since the departure of Wu County, Sun Quan has hardly passed by again, everything is carried out under the auspices of Yu Tuo and others, according to Yu Tuo, the safety of King Wu is the most important, and now the situation is turbulent, we must pay extra attention to secrecy and be careful of assassins. Sun Quan was also worried that someone would attack him after hearing that Xu Ming was in Qu'a, but the eldest brother Sun Ce was so brave but died under the swords of several of Xu Gong's disciples. Although he is only moving the capital now, and he is accompanied by a large number of troops, Sun Quan still tries not to show up.
Sun Ce is not afraid of death, but Sun Quan is afraid! He was not only afraid of death, but also afraid of people seizing power, so he forced Da Qiao to leave, put Sun Shao in prison and then kill them all! You can call him ruthless, but at the end of the day, it's just that he's afraid of death, but everyone knows it.
But sometimes that's it, the more you are afraid of something, the more he comes, when a group of thousands of people passed through Qiantang County, suddenly a large number of water thieves appeared on the river, of course, these people were led by Xu Ming to pretend. Although Sun Quan's team was huge, it was only accompanied by 4,000 soldiers, and a large number of them were the female dependents of the Wu palace and the families of officials in the court. Xu Ming chose to attack on the river, which caught Sun Quan and the others off guard, organizing resistance on the one hand, and asking for help from Zhu Zhi in Wu County on the other!
And Xu Ming's purpose is also very clear, he knows that Sun Quan is hidden in the crowd, and it is impossible to find Sun Quan from thousands of people and kill him, so Cong rushed to the baggage at the beginning, picking on those boats with deep drafts and few sergeants. Those ships were often left with only female dependents except for the necessary shipwrights, so there was little power to fight back. Xu Ming and the others drove all the female shipwrights off the ship, and then replaced them with their own people.
In this way, under the coercion of more than 2,000 water thieves with swords and swords, one after another baggage boats left the large army and drove downstream. After plundering more than a dozen large ships, Sun Quan's sergeants in this area were also assembled, and Xu Ming gave an order and drove down the river towards the sea. After a plunder, there was little to lose.
I don't know what I really think, I really think that these people are water bandits, and they are water thieves far away at sea. It is said that these people were all outlaws who fled to the sea and gathered together, and now that the momentum is so great, Sun Quan only has 4,000 people to escort him, so he naturally does not dare to pursue. It was only after Sun Quan went ashore and hurried to Shaoxing that he felt distressed when he counted them, and more than a dozen baggage ships were looted, accounting for a quarter of the entire southward migration baggage.
And Sun Quan didn't know that Xu Ming had these belongings, so he could kill in Qu'a and recruit troops, and it was more difficult for Zhu Zhi to exterminate Xu Ming! And after such a troublesome incident by water thieves, Sun Quan and many officials are no longer in the mood to celebrate, although Shaoxing is in the south, but the south of the membership county is also making trouble with mountain bandits! As soon as the news of the water thieves' success in Qian Tang spread, these mountain bandits were even more daring and radical than they would be!
Therefore, after Sun Quan arrived in Shaoxing, he immediately began to order the army to start a house-to-house search to rectify the law and order in the county, and the people were miserable for a while. Those local Dazu people originally thought that King Wu's move to Shaoxing would bring business opportunities to the local area and make the people's lives more healthy, but now, they are afraid that Liu Cong's army will be remembered by the mountain bandits before he comes. Even if there are no mountain bandits, this day and night rectification of social order is a headache!
What relieved Sun Quan a little was that Sun Jing's army had crossed the South China Sea into Jian'an, and it would take about ten days to reach Shaoxing. After Sun Jingjun arrived in Shaoxing, Sun Quan was not afraid of the so-called mountain bandits, of course, it was almost impossible for the local people to make trouble, and then they should prepare how to deal with Liu Cong's Eastern Expeditionary Army. Because at the same time that Sun Quan decided to move south, news continued to come from Lu Su, and Liu Pan slowed down after chasing all the way across the Yuzhang realm. This was deliberately done by Liu Cong, in order to cooperate with the attack of the surface troops.
And Guan Yu, who was the first to arrive at the water village, also received an order to besiege but not attack! Now it is difficult for Sun Quan to send out a naval army to support the water village. In addition to Moling, there are also some naval troops and infantry in Danyang County, that is, there are more than 20,000 formed troops in Wu County, but Moling's troops cannot move, because Jiangbei is Zhang Liao, who is eyeing him. And Wu County was the ruling core of Jiangdong, and more than 20,000 people were not even enough to resist Liu Cong's land attack.
Liu Cong asked Guan Yu to surround but not fight, because he saw that Sun Quan could not shoot reinforcements in a short time, and the summer grain harvest in Jiangdong, especially Lujiang and Danyang, was later than that of Yuzhang and Jingzhou. Liu Cong planned to let Guan Yu surround Huang Gai, while Gan Ning continued to attack reinforcements and collect local grain.
The water village is different from Hukou, it is built in the north of the Jiangbei, and dozens of miles to the west is the location of the Lujiang County Governor's Office. The position is quite important, and Liu Cong of course wants to seize the water village before Cao Cao's action. Liu Pan and Yu Ban were asked to shrink their actions close to the naval army, so after entering the Lujiang River, they did not pursue Lu Su and Lu Meng relentlessly, but occupied county by county. When Liu Cong's army arrived at the water village, all the counties in the south of the Yangtze River in Lujiang County and most of the counties in the western part of Wu County fell into the hands of Liu Pan and others.
Gan Ning was ordered to lead his soldiers to cross the water village and continue down the river, preparing to capture Moling. In this way, the Jingzhou naval army besieging the water village is 20,000 people. Huanggai Yuanbei has 5,000 people stationed in Shuizhai, after learning the news of Guan Yu's coming, he quickly transferred 2,000 infantry from Lujiang City to support, and now there are only 3,000 infantry left in Lujiang City. If Liu Cong concentrates his land and water forces to attack, it should not be difficult to take it.