Chapter 305: The Battle of Wu County
Everyone has relatives near and far, don't look at Sun Quan's character, but within the Sun family, he still has a few good buddies. His father Sun Jian had a total of five sons and one daughter, the eldest Sun Ce took on the responsibility of the head of the family at the age of sixteen, the Sun family was in trouble at that time, for the revival of the Sun family, Sun Ce was busy with foreign affairs, and there was no time to contact with his brothers. When he finally laid a foundation in Jiangdong, Sun Ce had to maintain the dignity of the head of the family, except for his younger sister Sun Shangxiang, Sun Ce's brothers were more in awe of Sun Ce than close, and Sun Quan was more loved by his brothers than Sun Ce.
The third son Sun Xu has already hung up, and the brothers around Sun Quan are only the fourth brother Sun Kuang and the fifth brother Sun Lang, and Sun Lang is even more optimistic about Sun Quan. Sun Lang and Sun Quan are not compatriots, but Sun Quan takes more care of Sun Lang than his own brothers. This person's heart is full of flesh, and Sun Lang, who is a dwarf because of his identity as a concubine, is grateful to Sun Quan for his care.
This time, Sun Jing disguised himself as the brother Sun Ce of the secret meeting in the city, Sun Lang didn't know it at first, but by chance, Sun Jing let Sun Lang, who happened to be patrolling the city, find out when he returned to the city. It's not that Sun Lang discovered Sun Jing himself, but that he recognized Sun Jing's entourage, which has always been inseparable from Sun Jing, and where he appears, there will definitely be Sun Jing. Even if Sun Jing didn't go out of the city, the person who went out of the city with him must have been sent by Sun Jing.
At this very moment, the slightest bit of unusual behavior could hide a shocking secret. Sun Lang didn't dare to slack off, and even reported the matter to Lu Meng. And the reason why Lu Meng was sent by Sun Quan to Wu County to preside over the overall situation was to guard against Sun Ce, who returned to Jiangdong, on the one hand, and on the other hand, to keep an eye on Sun Jing to prevent this old man from turning back.
After hearing Sun Lang's story, Lü Meng immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered troops to surround Sun Jing's mansion, regardless of whether Sun Jing planned to collaborate with the enemy or not, Lü Meng had the intention of taking this opportunity to "clean up the door" for Sun Quan. In fact, Lu Meng came at the right time, and Sun Jing was arranging tasks, which meant that Sun Jing's "comrades" were all in Sun Jing's mansion at this time.
In the face of the facts, Sun Jing had no way to quibble, but Lu Meng did not immediately sentence Sun Jingming. After all, Sun Jing is Sun Quan's uncle, and Sun Quan will not care about Sun Jing's life or death at this time, but if the crisis is over, Jiangdong is still Sun Quan's master, and if Sun Quan wants to clean up Lu Meng at that time, then Sun Jing's matter is a ready-made excuse.
Lu Meng, who didn't want to leave hidden dangers for himself, ordered Sun Jing and his comrades to be put into a prison car, and then escorted to Jianye to be disposed of by Sun Quan. Sun Lang, who had made great contributions, immediately became the head of the Sun family in Wu County, commanding the children of the Sun family and assisting Lu Meng in defending Wu County.
Nobody likes wallgrass! Sun Ce is no exception. Sun Ce actually doesn't attach much importance to Sun Jing's internal and external strategies, and any resistance from Sun Quan is just in vain. Sun Jing's success is just the icing on the cake, there are not many of him, not many of him.
Knowing that Sun Jing had suffered, Sun Ce did not take it to heart. Compared with Sun Jing, Sun Ce is closer to his uncle Wu Jing, at least after he was plotted by Sun Quan, Wu Jing's performance is more gratifying than Sun Jing. Sun Jing chose to agree, while Wu Jing chose not to be in the same stream with you, although I don't object to you Sun Quan succeeding as the lord of Jiangdong, but I don't think I will support you.
Wu Jing chose to stay out of the matter and stay at home, but now he has been rewarded by Sun Ce because of his original choice. The imperial court needed to appease people's hearts, and Sun Ce wanted to concentrate on military affairs, so he recommended Wu Jing, who was familiar with the situation in Jiangdong, to the imperial court. As for Sun Ce's recommendation, Liu Xie also gave face, and a temporary official position of Jiangdong's pacification envoy fell to Wu Jing's head, don't look at it as just a temporary official position, but as long as Wu Jing can make contributions, the imperial court will not treat meritorious officials badly.
As the old saying goes, nephews and uncles, if you want to talk about who is more helpful to Sun Ce between Wu Jing and Sun Jing, it is undoubtedly Wu Jing. As early as when Sun Ce captured Jiangdong, Wu Jing had been helping Sun Ce to do his work, unlike Sun Jing, who waited until Sun Ce attacked Huiji, it can be said that Sun Ce had already taken half of Jiangdong, and Jiangdong would only come to his aid sooner or later after the surname Sun was born.
Pay is proportional to the gain, if you want to get the sincerity of others, you must first pay your own sincerity. If there was a conflict between Wu Jing and Sun Jing, Sun Ce would not hesitate to stand on Wu Jing's side instead of helping Sun Jing speak. Sun Jing regards the rise and fall of the Sun family as more important than life, but Sun Ce, who has experienced a life-and-death crisis, does not agree with Sun Jing's opinion very much. The Sun family will continue to prosper, but this Sun family is Sun Ce's Sun family, not Sun Jing's Sun family, let alone Sun Quan's Sun family.
Sun Ce will not save the Sun family in the face of death, but he will also not sacrifice his own interests for the interests of the Sun family. From the moment the Sun family adopted a tacit attitude towards Sun Quan becoming the lord of Jiangdong, Sun Ce had already expelled himself from the Fuchun Sun family. In Sun Ce's heart, the Sun family in Chang'an is his home, and the Sun family in Fuchun is just a relative who doesn't interact much.
Now that there is no Sun Jing's internal response, it doesn't matter! I didn't expect much in the first place, but now that I know that there is no drama, I won't feel any disappointment. Of course, the most important thing is that Zhou Yu came back with the trebuchet that was dismantled from the warship. Because the naval warship led by Sun Ce was traveling on the sea, the draft was deep, and it was easy to run aground when it entered the inland, so this time Sun Ce only used the warship as a transport ship. The trebuchets that had been mounted on ships to attack enemy ships were useless.
But in the face of Wu Jun's persistence, these idle trebuchets seem to be able to come in handy again. The sea is constantly choppy, and in order to increase the hit rate of the trebuchet, it is generally used to attack with scattered bullets, and a dozen large areas. Combined with the powerful rhubarb crossbow, very few ships can approach for hand-to-hand combat.
At the head of Wu County, Lu Meng saw the twenty trebuchets placed outside the city by Sun Ce, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he had already learned the power of the Han army's trebuchets. Don't look at the fact that there are only twenty trebuchets under the city, but once they are powerful, then this Wu County will not be easy to defend.
"Ding Feng and Ling Tong listen to orders."
"The end will be."
"You two quickly select the elite to follow me out of the city, and be sure to destroy the trebuchet outside the city." Lu Meng commanded sharply.
"The last general commands."
They were all people who had been in the army for a long time, and Ding Feng and Ling Tong certainly knew how much of a threat trebuchets posed to the defenders. Although he knew that there was a danger outside the city, it was very likely that it would be difficult to return it once he went, but the military order was like a mountain, and since he received the order, no matter how difficult the errand was, he had to do it head-on.
Jiangdong was already short of horses, and Liu Xie deliberately restricted them, and most of the people in Jiangdong were foot soldiers. Lü Meng personally led the troops, leaving Jiang Qin and Xu Sheng to defend the city, while he took Ding Feng and Ling Tong out of the city and went straight to the northeast corner where the Han army placed trebuchets outside the city.
The move of the defenders of Wu County to destroy the trebuchet had long been expected by Zhou Yu, and seeing Lu Meng personally leading the team, Zhou Yu couldn't help but smile and said to Sun Ce on the side: "Bo Fu, your deal is here, if you can solve Lu Meng, then the capture of Wu County will definitely get twice the result with half the effort." ”
"Okay, then Gongjin is here to sit in the Chinese army on my behalf, and I will come when I go." Sun Ce said when he heard this.
Sun Ce has the confidence to say this, the title of Jiangdong Xiaobawang is not in vain. I think it's not like I haven't fought against Guan Zhang under Liu Bei at the beginning, and there is no winner in Lily, is Lu Meng more powerful than Guan Zhang?
"Cheng Yuan, I'll entangle Sun Ce with Gongji for a while, and you take someone to burn the trebuchet." Seeing that Sun Ce was urging the horse to kill, Lu Meng hurriedly ordered Ding Fengdao, who was following closely behind.
Ding Feng nodded when he heard this, deliberately slowed down, and beckoned his own soldiers to move closer to him. And Lu Meng and Ling Tong raised their weapons and went straight to Sun Ce.
Seeing Ding Feng with a team of men and horses bypassing him and going straight to the position of the trebuchet, Sun Ce did not see the slightest hurry, although Ding Feng was brave and good at fighting, but the guard in charge of guarding the trebuchet was not a mediocre person, and in terms of relationship, he was also an acquaintance with Ding Feng.
Jiangdong changed hands, Sun Ce's old department and Sun Quan's subordinates had a fierce conflict, although some people chose to take refuge in the new master, but Sun Quan's suspicion was also destined that this part of the people would not be reused. The other part of those who did not want to betray the lord were either killed by Sun Quan under the pretext or were idle and placed under house arrest.
Zhou Tai was originally a water thief in Jiujiang, and his reputation was on par with that of Gan Ning, a thief in Jinfan. When Sun Ce attacked Jiangdong, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin defected to Sun Ce together, and Sun Ce was the person who introduced Zhou Tai as a confidant. When Sun Quan had not yet shown his fangs to Sun Ce, Zhou Tai was ordered by Sun Ce to escort Sun Quan, but when Sun Ce had an accident, the paper could not contain the fire after all, Zhou Tai, who knew the truth, was unwilling to serve Sun Quan, and Jiang Qin, who had defected to Sun Ce at the beginning, made a different choice, and Sun Quan appreciated Zhou Tai's loyalty, and did not embarrass Zhou Tai, but put him under house arrest in Fuchun, hoping that one day Zhou Tai could change his mind. But before Zhou Tai could change his mind, Sun Ce had already led someone to rescue Zhou Tai from Fuchun.
Returning to the old master's side, Zhou Tai did not hesitate, the main general who was responsible for guarding the trebuchet array this time was Zhou Tai. When Ding Feng led people to kill closer, he saw Zhou Tai standing at the forefront of the Han army at a glance.
"A thief of the betrayal! How dare you be here! Ding Feng scolded and stabbed with a gun.
Zhou Tai was furious, and the knife in his hand immediately caught up, and he shouted violently: "Huangkou Xiaoer also dares to be strong here, eat Lao Tzu's knife!" ”
Zhou Tai's force value is very high, even if it is not as good as the super first-class masters of Guan Zhang, Zhao and Ma Huang, his strength is also stable and first-class. Moreover, Zhou Tai has been a water thief for many years, and he has extremely rich combat experience, and he has been under house arrest in Fuchun all these years. And Ding Feng is young and vigorous, quite a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he is not afraid of the powerful Zhou Tai at all, while scolding Zhou Tai for betraying the lord and seeking glory, while trying to get rid of Zhou Tai's entanglement and set fire to the trebuchet of the Han army.
But there is often a gap between the ideal and the reality. Ding Feng's idea is just an idea after all, but it is very difficult to realize it. Jiangdong lacks horses, the Jiangdong army is mainly foot soldiers, and this speed alone does not have the slightest advantage, and the Han army has long been prepared for the Jiangdong army to destroy the trebuchet, and the soldiers arranged near the catapult army are mostly heavily armoured, although the action is somewhat inconvenient, but the attack and defense power are far higher than the Jiangdong army.
Ding Feng struggled to break through Zhou Tai's defense for a while, so he could only watch the trebuchet that was close at hand in a hurry. And Lu Meng and Ling Tong, who were responsible for entangling Sun Ce, were also in danger at this time. There are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are kings, and in the face of Sun Ce, whose strength can be compared with Guan Zhang, Lu Meng and Ling Tong, two fierce generals who can also be called brave in the army, are a little insufficient.
Fortunately, Sun Ce was still thinking about capturing the enemy general alive at this time, and he did not directly kill the killer, otherwise Lu Meng and Ling Tong were likely to have lost their lives at this time, but even if they were not worried about their lives at this time, there were many colors on their bodies.
"Zi Ming is panicking, Pan Zhang is here!" Lu Meng, who was already retired, suddenly heard a loud shout like a heavenly sound.
"Huh...... Pan Zhang...... It seems that it is not okay not to be serious. Sun Ce suddenly smiled and said to himself.
"Moon Gyu, why are you here?" Lu Meng asked in surprise and joy.
"Ziming, I'm reminiscing about the old days later, and I'll deal with the present first." Pan Zhang stared at Sun Ce, who was looking at him for a long time, and whispered to Lu Meng.
Hearing this, Lu Meng nodded, "Okay, you go and help Cheng Yuan, we can still hold on here." ”
"Chengyuan has his own literary direction to help him, and you need a helper here." Pan Zhang shook his head when he heard this.
When Lu Meng heard Pan Zhang say that Xu Sheng had gone to help Ding Feng, he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, then you and I will join forces to meet the former Jiangdong Little Overlord." ”
"Is the finished? I could wait. Seeing the three people on the other side looking at him together, Sun Ce asked with a smile.
"There is labor...... Wait a long time, see the move! Pan Zhang immediately launched an attack on Sun Ce, and when Lu Meng and Ling Tong saw this, they immediately followed. The three of them surrounded Sun Ce in the center, circled the horses, and fought fiercely with Sun Ce.
If he fought alone, Sun Ce could defeat any of Pan Zhang, Lu Meng, and Ling Tong. If it was two to one, Sun Ce would only need to put in a little energy, but now that it was three to one, Sun Ce had to use all his energy to deal with it carefully. But just when the three of Lu Meng and Sun Ce were fighting fiercely, the city of Wu County suddenly sounded a rapid sound of gold.
Hearing the drums and marching out, the rules on the battlefield must be followed if there are no special circumstances. Moreover, Lu Meng also believed that Jiang Qin, who was in charge of defending the city at this time, was not a person who did not know the importance of it, since he chose Mingjin, it must be because he found out that he had to withdraw his troops.
Lü Meng did not doubt Jiang Qin's judgment, and after hearing the sound of Mingjin, he no longer cared about whether the trebuchet of the Han army had been burned, and worked with Pan Zhang and Ling Tong to force Sun Ce to retreat, and immediately fled back to Wu County without looking back, and only when he returned to the city did Lü Meng ask Jiang Qin the reason for Mingjin.
"Ziming, I also had to do it as a last resort. Just when you led your army to fight fiercely with the Han army, the Han army on your two flanks was also encircling. Thanks to your lack of hesitation, otherwise none of you would have returned. Jiang Qin explained to Lu Meng with some trepidation.