Chapter 371: A dilemma
Jiangxia Battlefield.
The sun has just risen, and the Jingzhou army behind the fence has already been ready to go, for so many days, they have been accustomed to the Jiangdong Army's sunrise attack, sunset and rest of the combat method, but this time it was a little unexpected to them, and when the sky and earth were bright, they had not yet waited for the Jiangdong Army's attack!
Huang Zu, who gradually realized that something was wrong, also sent spies to the Jiangdong camp not far away to check the situation, and the news that the spies came back also made Huang Zu deeply relieved, the Jiangdong army camp was empty at this time, which meant that they successfully defended it, and they bought enough time for the Jingzhou army attacking Nanyang!
Although the Jiangdong Army was withdrawn, Huang Zu was still worried about whether the Jiangdong Army would be cheating, and the army was still behind the fortress and did not move, but the small group of spies Huang Zu released a lot, and they had only one task, that is, to thoroughly investigate all the surrounding situations and not let the Jiangdong Army have a chance to kill the carbine! However, the final facts proved that Huang Zu was just worrying about the sky, and the Jiangdong Army had indeed withdrawn to Jiangdong one by one!
"Come on, send news to the lord, the Jiangdong army that committed my Jiangxia has all withdrawn to Liyang, these lords can rest easy!" After confirming that the Jiangdong Army had returned to Liyang, Huang Zu sent the news back to Liu Biao.
After the army withdrew to Liyang, Sun Yang issued the latest order, Han was appointed as the governor of the capital to lead 30,000 soldiers to guard Liyang, Dian Wei still took his own men and horses back to Chaisang to garrison to protect the naval army that was still under construction, and Guo Jia returned to Wu County with the rest of the army, waiting for the next arrangement.
Since then, Jiangdong, who has been fighting for a whole year, finally stopped, began to lick his wounds, recuperate, according to Sun Yang's thoughts, at least three years, Jiangdong will not start a war again, he is going to bury his head and develop well, Sun Yang believes that he will be given three years of stable development, and when they come out of the mountain again, the world will be shocked!
With the progress of spring ploughing, except for a few military camps on the border, Jiangdong still retains a large military strength, and the rest of the army has basically entered the state of tuntian and has become a semi-professional and semi-military soldier. In fact, to be honest, Sun Yang didn't want his soldiers to have to farm and fight at the same time, what he thought was that the sergeants would either only fight or farm!
But the reality made Sun Yang have to do this, plus the navy, Jiangdong's current soldiers and horses have exceeded 100,000, this number is very terrifying, if they all become professional soldiers, Sun Yang can't afford to raise himself even if he sells himself! However, fortunately, most of the soldiers in the Jiangdong Army were people who dragged their families with their families, and Sun Yang asked them to put down their weapons and carry their hoes, but no one objected, either staying to plant official fields, or returning home to help their relatives cultivate the fields.
In this way, the shortage of food in Jiangdong has improved a lot, coupled with the slow return of the merchants, Jiangdong's food has finally returned to a normal level, and Sun Yang can also breathe a sigh of relief, and the tense nerves that have been tense for many days have also relaxed a lot, and he also took time to take a vacation for himself, and stayed at home with his mother and Yan'er.
As for the eldest brother Sun Ce, who had recovered from his injury, Sun Yang wanted him to rest at home for a while, but he was not a person who could be idle, so he rushed into the south of Huiji with the little mountain army left, and while recruiting troops and horses to reorganize the mountain new army, he swept away a small group of Shanyue people in the south along the way, clearing the way for the army to go south to Jiaozhou in the future.
Sun Yang knew that although his father had passed away for almost three months, his eldest brother didn't say it, in fact, he was still extremely self-reproachful in his heart, he didn't want to stay in Wu County, why didn't he want to make himself forget his sadness for a while through constant busyness, so he didn't stop him, but on the grounds of his safety, he sent a team of three hundred secret guards to protect him, and also asked Dian Wei to be ready to support his eldest brother at any time......
Time flies quickly, although Jiangdong has entered a period of calm, but Nanyang is still in the midst of war, and the Jingzhou army is still attacking, but Han Chun's letters from time to time also make Sun Yang not worry too much, although the Jingzhou army is strong, it has not yet attacked the city wall of Wancheng!
After a long attack, Sun Yang believed that Liu Biao would not be able to hold out for a long time, even if Jingzhou was the land of fish and rice, with a lot of grain reserves, but it could not withstand the consumption of nearly 100,000 troops, and they could not fight it, so they could only choose to retreat!
The matter of Nanyang reassured Sun Yang, but Sun Yang encountered another annoying thing, at this time, Dong Zhuo, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, jumped out again, and officially issued an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven to canonize Sun Yang as the Marquis of Wu, and also sent Sun Yang a lot of gold and silver treasures in this name, which Sun Yang was acceptable, but Dong Zhuo even gave him one of his daughters in the name of the Son of Heaven!
Dong Zhuo wants to be his father-in-law, which makes Sun Yang unacceptable, he knows very well that Dong Zhuo can't jump for a few years, if he accepts his daughter and becomes his son-in-law, what will the people of the world think of him? People who don't know may still confuse him with Dong Zhuo!
But Sun Yang is very clear that now most people in the world have recognized Liu Xie's status as the orthodox emperor, whether it is an order he is willing to give or not, as long as it does not harm the interests of the princes, the princes will not refuse.
After falling into this dilemma, after all, this is not a trivial matter, and Sun Yang is not easy to make his own decisions, so he has to summon Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai over and ask them to help think of countermeasures.
"Hehe, my lord, this is a good thing, the son-in-law of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty is not someone who can be if he wants to, if you want me to say, if you don't accept it, you can get it, it's just a woman!" After Guo Jia learned about this, he was extremely free, someone gave Sun Yangsai a woman over, isn't it a good thing in his opinion? Since the emperor gave him a marriage, not only can he get a woman for free, but the dowry will naturally not be less.
"Fengxiao, you said it so lightly, if she were an ordinary woman, the lord would accept it, but she was Dong Zhuo's daughter, or not, or not!" As soon as Guo Jia's voice fell, Xi Zhicai spoke again, he knew very well the meaning of Dong Zhuo's daughter marrying his own father-in-law, Dong Zhuo wanted to tie them Jiangdong to his chariot!
"Zhicai, what you said is wrong, we are 108,000 miles away from Dong Zhuo, and it's not a big deal to be just a woman, our lord accepts it, isn't it just that there is an extra wife and concubine in the family? It just so happens that our lord is just worried that there are not a few red faces around, which is suitable! ”
"Bong-hyo! Pay attention to what you say, what do you mean that I don't have a few confidantes around me! Sun Yang glanced at Guo Jia angrily, although Guo Jia is very formal in major matters, but when it comes to some private matters of Sun Yang, Guo Jia has never been in shape!