It turned out that the young man's name was Zhu Ran, the word Yifeng, a native of Danyang, originally Zhu Zhi's nephew, his original name was Shi Ran, and later he was passed on to Zhu Zhi, so he changed his name to Zhu Ran. In his youth, Zhu Ran followed Sun Quan to study together, the two became friends, and after Sun Quan took over the lord of Jiangdong, he was awarded the title of Yuyao Chang, and recently because Zhu Zhi was ordered to support Zhou Yu, Wu County was unguarded, so Sun Quan was sent to Wu County again, temporarily responsible for guarding Wu County.

In fact, after Zhu Zhi returned with the defeated army this time, Zhu Ran was not as indifferent as Zhu Zhi, but his heart was full of worries, he always felt that since the enemy was aiming to annihilate the reinforcements, he would definitely have a corresponding backhand, and he would never sit back and wait for the troops in Danyang and Wujun to be slowly replenished and restored.

But Zhu Ran can't figure out what is wrong with the measures taken by his father Zhu Zhi now? Because according to his own observations, today's Wu County should be foolproof.

Unless Danyang County was first broken by the enemy, Wu County should not have any problems, and now Danyang Taishou Sun Yi although young, but there is the style of the eldest brother Sun Ce, I am brave and good at fighting, has always been very popular with the people, these days as soon as he took office, he directly incorporated more than 10,000 thieves from Dai Yuan, Fei Lan and other places, plus he requisitioned more than 10,000 people from the people, although the 20,000 soldiers and horses are insufficient, but if it is used to guard the Moling, as long as the enemy army is not in command of 20,000 or 30,000 troops, it is still not a big problem.

Therefore, although Zhu Ran has always been worried that the enemy army will never give up so lightly, he also knows that the current Wu County is indeed the safest, no matter how he thinks about it, he can't think of what method the enemy army will use to deal with Wu County, and in the end he has to give up thinking like this.

But Zhu Ran really didn't expect that an incredible thing would happen today: suddenly a group of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses came to the city of Wuxian today, and then they didn't even give a little time to react, so they launched a siege war.

At that time, Zhu Ran was leading the soldiers to routinely inspect the security in the city, but suddenly heard an earth-shattering shouting and killing sound from outside the city, and couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately sent someone to ask about the situation, and at the same time hurriedly led the sergeants to catch up with the city for defense, but he didn't expect that not long after he stepped on the city, he found that the other party's soldiers had rushed to the city and started a fierce battle with the defenders.

"It's not good, I really didn't expect that this time it was the Jingzhou army under Liu Qi's command, and I don't know how they came to the city unnoticed."

Zhu Ran saw that the morale of the enemy army was particularly strong, and Wu County, which had always been known as impregnable, was now like a paper paste, and he couldn't help but change his complexion when he was broken through the city defense by the other party, and he no longer cared about the soldiers left on the city wall in a hurry, but immediately turned around and returned to Taishou Mansion, and informed his successor father Zhu Zhi of the news, so that he could quickly evacuate here.

And when this qiē came out of Zhu Ran's mouth, Zhu Zhi had to believe that it was really the enemy army who sneaked up on his territory, and the sneak attacker turned out to be the incredible Jingzhou army.

Zhu Zhi couldn't help but be dumbfounded, now he was already in a state of confusion, and he was at a loss at all, relying on Zhu Ran to order his own soldiers to drag him to the outside of the Taishou Mansion at such a time, trying to find a way to escape.

But time did not allow Zhu Zhi and his son to escape, and when they just stepped out of the gate of the Taishou Mansion, they suddenly heard a burst of noisy footsteps outside the door, and then Zhu Zhi saw the enemy soldiers outside the gate of the mansion who surrounded the entire Taishou Mansion.

"This is a complete end, and our father and son have finally become prisoners of the enemy." Zhu Zhi couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, Zhu Zhi's eyes swept away, and he suddenly saw two familiar figures among the enemy troops, and couldn't help shouting: "Chen Zilie, Lu Ziming, no matter what you two say, you were also the ministers of Jiangdong at the beginning, but now you can't repay the late lord Sun Bofu with this?" ”

But seeing Lu Meng coming out of the crowd, he sneered at Zhu Zhi and said: "General Zhu, don't be excited, you just scolded us for being sorry for the late master Sun Bofu, but I don't know that your father and son, as Sun Bofu's former ministers, are also betraying the old master by what they are doing now, hehe, don't you know when you father and son?" As early as when the late lord Bofu was still fighting in the east and west, your father and son had already secretly belonged to Sun Quan, and later Sun Bofu was killed, but your father and son did even more. Zhu Ran, you originally stayed by Sun Quan's side to protect you, but now why did you come to Wu County?

When Zhu Ran heard this, he laughed dryly and said loudly: "The reason why I came to Wu County was because of your army, if it wasn't for your army's unauthorized army to besiege Wanling, how could my father lead the army to help?" If it weren't for the lack of power in Wu County, how could I have been sent here? ”

"Hehe, I'm afraid there's another reason why you've been sent here, right?" Lu Meng couldn't help but sneer, and said loudly: "I heard that Sun Quan ordered someone to assassinate his eldest brother in order to finally take over the entire Jiangdong, although this matter is done secretly, but how can he hide it from the people of the world?" Now Sun Quan's murder of his brother can be said to be a matter known to all women and children in the Han Dynasty, but Sun Quan still wants to let your father and son monitor Sun Shao and Sun Quan's third brother Sun Yi, for fear that their position will be threatened by them, so they appointed your father as the Taishou of Wu County, and immediately sent you to guard after your father left, just to prevent this pair of uncles and nephews, Zhu Yifeng, I don't know if what I said is right? ”

Zhu Ran couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, as Sun Quan's closest and most familiar partner with him, he naturally knew that with Sun Quan's character, it was absolutely possible to assassinate Sun Ce, so since the rumors of Sun Quan's killing of Sun Ce began to circulate, he believed that Sun Quan's killing of his brother this time was true.

However, because the relationship between Zhu Ran and Sun Quan is deeper than that of Sun Ce, although he is also faintly dissatisfied with Sun Quan's inhumane approach, he can also express his understanding, which also makes his loyalty to Sun Quan never waver, and Sun Quan is naturally like a torch, and he can see that his friend from his youth is loyal to him, so he let him do some very secret things, such as spying on Sun Shao and Sun Yi.

Such a thing naturally cannot be expressed in words, it can only be understood but not spoken, but Sun Quan saw that Zhu Ran was able to penetrate it at all, or even at all, so he naturally relied on it more and was relieved.

It was precisely because of such a secret that Zhu Ran couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he heard Lu Meng's words, he naturally wouldn't believe that Sun Quan's killing of his brother was well known, but he couldn't help but be slightly shocked when Lu Meng was able to analyze his purpose of spying on Sun Shao and Sun Yi.

However, Zhu Ran was naturally not stupid enough to admit those things, but shouted loudly: "Lu Meng, you are talking nonsense, damaging the reputation of my lord, today Wu County is broken, my father and son are trapped by you, and they are just dead, why bother to say more?" If you want to kill, just kill it, if I, Zhu Ran, frown, am not a hero. ”

"Hehe, what a good man, you don't know what is right and wrong, there is no distinction between loyalty and righteousness, you are loyal to a narrow-minded and ungrateful person, Sun Quan can even kill his own brother for power, you are just a subordinate, and you know a lot of his secrets, do you say he will keep you in the future? Whether this person is worthy of your allegiance, you should think about it yourself. ”

Lu Xun ordered someone to tie up Zhu Ran, and then said to Zhu Zhi: "General Zhu, you are the third important minister of the Jiangdong Sun family, and you have also seen with your own eyes how the Jiangdong Sun family has created such a foundation step by step, but you should also know that the current shape shì, the Jiangdong Sun family is gone, and sooner or later it will be destroyed by my lord, so instead of stubbornly resisting to the end and causing the Sun family to be wiped out, it is better to plan a way out for the Sun family, so that the Jiangdong Sun family can not only be preserved, but also not lose the throne, This can be regarded as your affection to repay the kindness of the third generation of the Sun family. ”

Zhu Zhi couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and deeply agreed with Lu Xun's words, because he also knew that now that Liu Qibing is strong, the Jiangdong Sun clan may not be able to last long, if it really continues to resist like this, I am afraid that the result will really be as Lu Xun said, not only his own Zhu clan, but even the entire Jiangdong Sun clan will be uprooted, so that even if he is under Jiuquan in the future, I am afraid that he will not have the face to see the old lord Sun Jian and Sun Ce.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhi respectfully said, "I don't know what the general wants me to do in order to protect the Jiangdong Sun family?" ”

I saw Lu Xun said slowly: "In fact, my lord was not a murderer, but because of Sun Quan's perverse behavior, assassinating his brother and disobeying the king's orders, this caused the anger of my lord, I want to kill this kind of rebel thief, let Yangzhou return to the imperial court, as long as the Jiangdong Sun family kills Sun Quan and hands over the three counties to the unified jurisdiction of Yangzhou Assassin History, my lord will definitely read the Jiangdong Sun family's obedience and let him go, and even think of the Sun family's contribution to stabilizing the three counties of Jiangdong, even if it is not impossible to keep the throne." ”

Zhu Zhi also heard from Lu Xun's hint, this sentence means that Sun Quan must die as a scapegoat, and the Jiangdong Sun family should find another obedient leader, and from now on, he will definitely be loyal to Liu Qi in his own life, so that the Jiangdong Sun family can still keep a bloodline.

However, now Zhu Zhi actually has no choice, so he had no choice but to agree, pretending to be suddenly enlightened, and said to Lu Xun: "Thank you for the general's guidance, in fact, the last general has long known that Sun Quan is perverse, but because of Sun's kindness, in order to keep Sun's lineage, he has no choice but to submit, and now since there is General Zhennan in charge, the last general naturally does not have to worry anymore, so the lord Sun Bofu has Sun Shao, who is obedient, and the last general is willing to serve him as the patriarch of the Sun clan and denounce the perverse Sun Quan." ”