After Sun Ce's troops withdrew from Yuhan City, Liu Ye quickly sent Zhonglang General Dong Xi to lead 10,000 recruited infantry and 5,000 junior infantry to take over the city, and the cavalry and the remaining personnel camped on the east bank of Yushui as backup and response.

Qin Pass was stationed on the west bank of Ganshui, across the river from Nanchang City, in order to besiege Sun Ce for a long time, he built a city on the spot and named it a new city.

Zhonglang took Ji Ling as the commander of the southern road and stationed it in Xingan County, and He Man quickly moved south after occupying Ai County, stationed in Linru City, and temporarily placed it under the jurisdiction of Ji Ling.

Liao Hua stationed in Chaisang as a response, and ensured the supply of materials on the West Road and the South Road.

Qin Guan was busy building a city, and Liu Ye also planned several county towns between the Yushui River and the Changshui River, and was actively recruiting Shanyue people in the eastern mountainous areas; The two knew that their main enemy was Dong Zhuo, and there was no need to fight hard with Sun Ce, so they did not launch an active attack.

This made Sun Ce very depressed, he originally hoped that Qin Guan would attack the city, he could use Nanchang Jiancheng to kill the enemy, and then take advantage of the situation to counterattack after severely damaging the enemy army; Now the enemy has taken hold of the city.

Fortunately, there was a lot of food in the city, enough to consume for a year, and everyone was not worried, but the officers and soldiers did not see hope, and their morale was somewhat low, and the people who were forcibly moved into the city did not have enough food to be fed every day, and the people were very angry.

Time flies quickly, and March passes quickly; In April, the weather in Yuzhang County is very hot.

In the confrontation here, Dong Zhuo is the happiest, no matter who wins Qin Guan or Sun Ce, he is the biggest winner; It's best if the two families are evenly matched, and if they lose both, he can sit back and reap the benefits.

Sun Ce, who believed that he was strong in martial arts and safe in the city, often patrolled the city or city walls alone, and took the opportunity to think about problems, but he did not know that danger was approaching him.

After Xu Gong, the former Taishou of Yuzhang County, was killed by Sun Ce, his disciples scattered and fled, most of them hid in the countryside, but they were always ready to avenge Xu Gong; This time, Sun Ce relocated the people, and many people were hidden among the people and were moved to the city together, and three of them were fortunate enough to be conscripted into the army and become Sun Ce's officers and soldiers to help defend the city.

These three guests were all born as rangers, with good quality, and after training and selection, they became crossbowmen, which provided an opportunity for them to successfully assassinate Sun Ce.

Sun Ce treated the soldiers better, at least he could eat enough, and the soldiers were very loyal to him, and they did not suspect that someone would assassinate him, and he felt very safe in the city.

In mid-April, Sun Ce still regularly patrolled the city wall, and Xu Gongsan's gate figured out the pattern and made preparations, waiting for the best time to assassinate.

One evening, Xu Gong's three gates were on duty at the city wall; Sun Ce came to patrol again, and the guards followed him from a distance, for fear of disturbing Sun Ce's thinking.

Sanmen Ke suddenly burst out, grabbed his bow and shot arrows, Sun Ce lowered his head and thought as he walked, suddenly felt dangerous, and looked up to observe; The incident happened suddenly, Sun Ce was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to dodge, he shouted "ah" and was hit by an arrow in his cheek.

Xu Gong Sanmen continued to shoot arrows, and he would take Sun Ce's life.

At this time, Hu Cong behind heard Sun Ce's shout, quickly moved forward, shot three people with arrows, and saved the injured Sun Ce.

Sun Ce was hit by multiple arrows in his body, and the arrows in his cheeks were quite heavy, and the other parts of his body were not fatally injured due to the protection of the armor.

However, in that era, in the hot Nanchang, he suffered such a serious injury that the gods were difficult to treat.

That night, Sun Ce was hot all over his body and his face began to swell.

All efforts were made to rescue him, but to no avail, and Sun Ce died in pain five days later.

Before he died, Sun Ce arranged two things, first, his younger brother Sun Quan took over his position, and second, Huang Gai led the people in the city, quickly broke through the siege, joined Sun Quan and Zhu Zhi and others, and then left Yuzhang County and went to Jiaozhou, after which he would stay away from the Central Plains and never return.

The crowd responded with tears in their eyes.

Huang Gai has followed Sun Jian for many years, and followed Sun Ce for a few years, and he is loyal to the Sun family, even if it comes to the current situation of exhaustion, it still does not affect his loyalty.

Sun Ce left his last order and ordered Huang Gai to lead the troops to break through, which made him very difficult, Sun Ce was fierce, and he did not break through, not to mention that he was Huang Gai.

After careful consideration, Huang Gai made a decision to order Xu Kun to lead the people and the cavalry to break through, and he led the infantry to stay in Nanchang City to buy time for everyone to break through.

Xu Kun thought for a while and then objected: "Gongfu, we can't leave you and break through, we have to go together." ”

Huang Gai said angrily: "Now that I am the commander, you must obey orders, and don't you want the lord to be buried as soon as possible?" ”

In order to stabilize the morale of the army in the city, after Sun Ce's death, they did not mourn secretly; Huang Gai hoped to break through and join Sun Quan and other family members before being buried.

Everyone knows that whoever stays at this time will die, and the infantry is too slow to break through at all.

Huang Gai continued: "I have already inquired about the news, there are no cavalry garrisons in Yuhan City and Linru City, and our cavalry can break through from the southeast of the city, and when their cavalry troops arrive, our cavalry has entered the mountain. ”

Pheasant Mountain, later called Yushan, is a northeast-southwest trending mountain range in the east of Yuzhang County, parallel to Wuyi Mountain; At that time, the mountain had not yet been developed, and even if it entered the mountain, it was not known whether it could safely reach Luling or Ganxian County, and everyone had no confidence in their hearts, but it was better than waiting in the city.

From Nanchang City to the north of Yanshan, it is more than 200 miles away, and if the infantry breaks through, the speed is slower and it is easy to be surrounded; Surrounded in the wilderness, they will surely be defeated; There are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses in Qin Pass around, and they are now less than 30,000 and less than 10,000 cavalry, so they are definitely not Qin Pass's opponents.

The infantry stayed in Nanchang, and the cavalry quickly broke through, which was the best strategy.

Xu Kun suggested: "If we negotiate with Qin Guan, we will take the initiative to evacuate Yuzhang County and let him let us go." ”

Yu He was overjoyed and supported: "This is a good idea, we have no conflict of interest with Qin Guan, he will definitely not kill us, otherwise, he would not have let the lord leave Fuchun in the first place." ”

Huang Gai sighed and said, "Things are easy and things have changed!" At the beginning, the lord had no soldiers and no threat to Qin Guan, so he let the lord leave; Now that we have 50,000 soldiers and horses, we are a great threat to him, and he never wants to leave behind troubles, so how can he easily let us go? ”

Yu He said optimistically: "The public has been overwhelmed, according to He, Qin Guan is ambitious, and his biggest enemy should be the national thief Dong Zhuo, so they are unwilling to storm Nanchang City, just to preserve their strength, and not to expose their strength too much, causing Dong Zhuo's suspicion; Maybe after that, we and Qin Guan will have a chance to join forces to deal with the national thief Dong Zhuo. ”

Xu Kun supported: "This is very likely, Qin Guan is very hypocritical, he formed an alliance with Zhenrong to deal with Yuan Shu together, and curry favor with the court together, after defeating Yuan, he easily removed Zhenrong, and he didn't care at all that Zhenrong was appointed by the imperial court as the Taishou of Xin'an County, it seems that he curryed favor with the court and Dong Zhuo, which is all superficial and fake." He thought to himself, if he had noticed this earlier, and persuaded Sun Ce to take the initiative to give up Yuzhang County earlier, there would not have been today's disaster.

It's just that he didn't know that Sun Ce's plan was to gradually retreat, lengthen the logistics supply line of Qinguan, resist step by step, and gradually consume the strength of Qinguan. At that time, even if he thought of these problems, Sun Ce was ambitious and would not have taken his advice.

What they didn't know was that it was very convenient for Qinguan to transport grain by water, some of which were directly transported by water from Guangling County and Dantu, and some of which were secretly funded by Lu Su; Lujiang County and Yuzhang County are separated by a river, which is convenient for water transportation, and Lusu now has a lot of grain.

Huang Gai said again: "It's not proper, if you go to negotiate, it will definitely attract Qin Guan's attention, in case he makes adjustments for this, and then wants to break through, it will be difficult." ”

Xu Kun said: "Public reply, how do you know if you don't try?" If we can preserve more officers and soldiers, it will be convenient for us to open up our cause in Jiaozhou and live up to the trust of the lord. ”

Huang Gai didn't want to die, he also wanted to make a contribution, if the negotiation was successful, it would be conducive to the cause in Jiaozhou; After thinking about it for a while, he agreed to everyone's suggestion and sent Xu Kun to negotiate with Qin Guan.