Chapter 22: Sun Quan's Declaration
Liao Hua sent troops. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info He took the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the headquarters, dressed completely as a bandit, and put on makeup to guide Lu Meng, a merchant surnamed Gao, day and night, and spent six days of kung fu to come to the territory of Lujiang very secretly. Hiding in a place very close to the target, set up camp, and after carefully examining the target's situation, he decided on the final course of action.
The target is a group of dock forts nested in a valley, consisting of a main fort and four secondary forts. Liao Hua was lying on the top of a hill less than 400 zhang away from the dock fort and watched, followed by Lu Meng, who was in charge of helping him explain.
"This is a dock fort granary that my host used to support the military on the Soochow front. My host has a very deep military background in Soochow, so the specifications of this dock fort are completely equivalent to ordinary county towns, and the strength of the guards in the dock fort is also comparable to the elite soldiers of the military. One main fort was used for the garrison's accommodation and drills, while four secondary forts were used as storage places for grain. The proprietor stationed 2,000 guards in the main fort, divided into two shifts and four groups, of which 1,500 guards remained in the main fort at all times, while the other 500 men were stationed in the sub-fort and patrolled the men, and they were about ten people in groups and completed a patrol route in less than a quarter of an hour. It's really defensive. Lu Meng lay beside Liao Hua and explained to him in a whisper, in order to survive, he wanted to instill everything he knew into Liao Hua's brain. He knew that this was a good fit for the role he was playing.
"It's really strict. But that's just for the general bandits. An arrangement like this, not to mention defending against us, is not enough to defend against the large-scale Yellow Turban Army. Liao Hua carefully looked at the guards of the dock fort opposite, and thought about the connection between what he saw and what Lu Meng told him, but he came up with such an answer with disdain.
"That's ...... Is that! Lu Meng sneered, showing a little embarrassment in addition to being sycophant. In fact, he knew that this was a weak appearance deliberately put on by Ma Zhong, the guard here, and his purpose was to let Liu Bei's soldiers who were attracted by him immediately hook them, so that they could attack here with confidence. This is a matter that Lu Meng discussed with Ma Zhong after following Liao Hua's subordinates. As the leader of the secret force, Lu Meng himself also has a set of means to contact his own people when others are difficult to detect. He followed this Liao Hua and "kept to himself" all the way, but quietly arranged everything.
"By the way, how are the defenders here?" Liao Hua looked at it carefully and asked Lu Meng, "How many bows and arrows do the guards here have?" How many horses? β
"There are about two hundred bows, twenty crossbows, and thirty horses." Lu Meng gave Liao Hua a detailed answer like a few treasures.
"Why are there so many ......," Liao Hua's eyes widened involuntarily when he heard this. Although such a ratio is nothing for the regular army, it is unimaginable for the average large family. Bows and crossbows, which were forbidden for any prince to be owned by the people, and war horses, which were abundant in the north and were difficult to obtain in the south, were equipped with thirty horses, which is too unimaginable.
"General, as I said, my master's military in Soochow is very powerful, and it is not difficult to get these things. Moreover, these things are usually not exposed, but are stored in the dock fort. These things were easy to obtain, but they were always somewhat of a hindrance, so they had to be kept hiddenβthe master had placed them all in Fort Four deep in the valley. Although Liao Hua was not yet a general, Lu Meng still called him a general, and explained to him in detail the current distribution of these things.
"That's it......" Liao Hua nodded thoughtfully: "The bow and crossbow are good for defense, and the war horse is good for breaking through, if we want to take this place without alarming others, I'm afraid we must solve this problem first." Liao Hua stood up, pulled up Lu Meng, who was standing beside him, and left, we have to go back to arrange. Because Lu Meng is cooperating with this Liao Hua action at the moment, and in Liao Hua's opinion, he is already a betrayer and has nowhere to go, so Liao Hua is naturally talking about the word "we" at the moment.
Returning to the military tent with LΓΌ Meng, after Liao Hua sent LΓΌ Meng down to rest, he raised the main tent and summoned several of his deputies to arrange the task: "Xiong Er, you take fifty cavalry and three hundred archers to block Fort No. 4 for me, don't let the people inside run out for me; and you take another hundred and fifty cavalry to patrol me back and forth on the passage between the main fort and the secondary fort; Du San, how do you take your flying claw soldiers with you. I won't give you too much nonsense, you just need to destroy all the enemies on the head of the Dock Fort in the shortest possible time, and let us enter the fort. β
"No......"
"Yes......"
"Got it......"
The three lieutenants under Liao Hua said in unison, hugging their fists towards Liao Hua, but they retreated to the side. They didn't pay their bills, because they knew that their boss was used to announcing the start of the task at the end of the assignment. Therefore, these old people who have followed Liao Hua for a long time understand that now is not the time to go out to do errands.
"The time for the attack is set for after midnight tonight. I hope we can easily get things done here and accomplish this mission that is so important to us. Sure enough, in Liao Hua's usual style, he immediately said the time of the start of the battle when his three subordinates should claim to be.
"No......!" Everyone clasped their fists in unison, and then quickly ran out of the tent to prepare for tonight's operation.
And so the time passed, and it was evening. First, Bear Er's interception team; Then there is the **** parade; Finally, Du San's flying claw soldiers came out of Liaohua's camp in turn. Regardless of their people, they are all dressed in light clothes with mouths and feet wrapped in cloths, in order to prevent others from discovering themselves as much as possible before they reach their destination. "Raid ......" is the difference between success and failure for them.
Everything seems to be going well. Although it was a large team of 5,000 people, Liao Hua walked in the dark and wore black clothes that did not attract the attention of the Eastern Wu army. All the while, everything went on in the dark until each entered its place.
Seeing that everyone had entered their respective attack positions, the corners of Liao Hua's mouth slowly lifted a bright smile. Looking at the size of these granaries used to store grain and grass during the day, I estimated that there were tens of thousands of stone of grain stored in them. What such a large amount of grain means to his side, he has long been in the mirror. Thinking of such a rich gift, Liao Hua couldn't help but get excited as he waited for an order to belong to him after a short battle.
"Start ......" Liao Hua nodded and motioned to his own soldiers, who were responsible for transmitting the signal of the attack.
The order was quickly conveyed. Du San, who led the Flying Claw Soldiers, was the first to act. Claws linked by black ropes were flung to the head of the dock fort. Du San and they pulled hard, and found that everything was solid, but they cheered, and then they quickly pulled the rope and walked up the wall. Dozens of soldiers went up to the top of the city, some of them ran to the rest of the city wall, and some of them went down from the walkway of the city to the bottom of the city and opened the gates of the dock fort. In the midst of the dull sound of cutting throats and the whining sound of the door opening, Du San's action was obviously a complete success.
"Kill ......" With Liao Hua's shout, the soldiers who took the wooden sticks from their mouths also let out earth-shattering shouts. They made a noise and slaughtered into the dock fort, but they made a great move.
It is impossible not to wake up the people who are still asleep in this dock fort. All the guards were startled, and they came out of their houses, wielding their blades in their hands, and nervously watching the enemy rushing towards them. Although they had been guarding the fort for a long time, it was the first time they had encountered a large-scale enemy attack. Now that the enemy has stormed the fort, and there is nothing to learn from the training they have received, it is clear that they are left to fend for themselves.
The psychological superiority of the hastily rising defenders when they encounter an enemy who has already been well prepared, is already obvious. In addition, the defenders here were originally soldiers who were sacrificed as outcasts, and they were definitely not as elite as Lu Meng said to Liao Hua, so the contrast between the combat power of the two sides was very large.
Although the defenders have a bloody bravery, but their combat strength is not as good as Liaohua's soldiers and horses, in the battle of three directions and outside the same time, the two thousand who defended the dock fort were slaughtered by Liaohua in just half an hour, but no one survived. It's not that they won't surrender until the end, it's that Liao Hua adheres to the rule that everything is a secret operation and doesn't want to be captured. Regardless of whether they surrendered or not, they were all brutally beheaded by Liao Hua's soldiers.
Two thousand heads fell to the ground, and the inside and outside of the fort were filled with a thick bloody atmosphere. Liao Hua stood in the square in the middle of this dock fort, looking at the corpses in all directions, smelling the strong smell, and his brows furrowed unnaturally. Although he also thought that this final scene would be like this, but what could he do? These people are all dead, and their actions will undoubtedly be exposed, and when the time comes, God knows what Sun Quan will say.
"Alas......" Liao Hua sighed deeply, waved his hand, and let his private soldiers quickly load the grain of the four granaries here and transport it away, of course, it is impossible to transport so much grain at one time if it is used by manpower, so Liao Hua transferred another grain transportation team of about 10,000 people from Guan Yu, so that they were waiting in Lujiang City, not far from here, as merchants. As early as when he set out from the camp, he had sent someone to secretly contact the team. "So...... They should be there right now, and it's around here. Liao Hua was thinking like this, but he sent a personal guard around him to contact the matter.
The work of transporting grain was already going on at the same time as the guards were dispatched. Use as many people as you want, this is what Liao Hua has always done. In order to allow the grain to be quickly transported to the designated location, Liao Hua left a part of the soldiers as a warning force, but all the people, along with the war horses, were used as labor. Even the mount under him was not able to escape, and this became the fate of the horse. Of course, as the commander of the army, he himself has to carry out overall planning, rather than directly participating in the transportation. When the personal guards sent had not yet returned, he waited anxiously while coordinating the operation of the five thousand people from the overall situation. Under his coordination, everything went on in an orderly manner.
The people sent out had not yet returned, but the people who stayed in the camp to guard Lu Meng came to Liao Hua with a dejected look. He brought extremely bad news to Liao Hua: "The businessman surnamed Gao ran away. β
"What?" The news exploded on Liao Hua's head like a thunderbolt from a sunny day, "Ran away? How did you let him escape? Can't you still look down on a powerless businessman? β
"My lord, that businessman surnamed Gao is not a helpless person. He didn't run away either, he just knocked over a few of us in such a blatant way and broke through the siege generously. His strength is still above you, my lord. β
"What?" Liao Hua was shocked again when he heard this, but his head turned quickly, at this moment he already realized that this grain robbery was not a simple incident in which his subordinates betrayed their masters for their lives. He knew that there must be a conspiracy in this: "This may be a trap, a trap to lure us to attack here and make us enemies with Jiangdong." β
Thinking about this, Liao Hua became even more nervous. "Everyone hurry up and speed up, the people from Jiangdong will be coming over soon. We've got to get out of here. Liao Hua commanded.
"What? What happened? They were all very puzzled by Liao Hua's sudden order, and even more so the three lieutenants under him, and Du San, who was a little brainy, asked: "Is there something big?" Or is the escape of that merchant important to us? Will he go to the officer? β
"Reporter? He won't. But as far as the current situation is concerned, it makes no difference whether to report to the official or not. In any case, the Jiangdong side will know that their military grain station was attacked by our Liu Beijun, and their soldiers were all killed by us. This whole thing is a trap, a trap that makes us and the Jiangdong Army hostile. Abominable Cao Cao! Liao Hua gritted his teeth and said. As soon as he thought that this was a trap that made Ji Fang and Dongwu fight each other, he naturally placed this trap on Cao Cao's body. In his opinion, such a thing can only be done by Cao Cao, who is hostile to him, and the person who came up with this idea is likely to be that Jia Xu Jia Wenhe.
"What then?" Hearing what Liao Hua said was sinister, everyone couldn't help but be a little worried, and they also frowned with bitter faces like their bosses.
"What should I do?" Regarding everyone's questions, Liao Hua is also thinking. As a general who wants to be a pure soldier, Liao Hua is undoubtedly a person who doesn't think much about it. However, in this case, for the sake of his own lives and the lives of thousands of his subordinates, he had to use his little brain, and think carefully about how to solve the current problem. Of course, he hadn't thought about this for a long time, so after he moved his head, he finally got a not too good answer: "Go, wipe it off and go." Get out of here as quickly as you can, and get out of here. β
The more Liao Hua thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was right. He quickly gave the order, which was unanimously approved by several of his men. At that moment, they started moving quickly, but they let their subordinates all speed up invariably.
Since then, things have gone more and more smoothly. When half an hour later, the soldier who sent out came back with the 10,000 grain caravan, and the overall speed increased again. With the concerted efforts of everyone, it was finally done before dawn.
"Set it on fire. Burn here, I want this place to be a white field. This...... For the safety of all of us. Seeing the grain truck go away, Liao Hua said coldly. When and what to do, he himself can think clearly.
Huo Huo's dancing fire rose with Liao Hua's order. Liao Hua looked back at the place he was once excited about, shook his head heavily, and turned to leave. Everything here is a mistake for him, but in terms of the relationship between now and in the future, it seems that this mistake will continue.
"You can't admit it. Once we are out of here and return to our own realm, you and I, and all those involved in it, must choose to forget. "There was no danger of coming to a desolate shoal, where all the grain and grass had been loaded onto the cargo ship, and everyone was supposed to set off, but Liao Hua gathered everyone and warned them about it.
"Understood...... everyone nodded, many of them were soldiers trained by Liao Hua himself, and they had a high sense of identity with Liao Hua, the main general, and when they heard him say this, they naturally said it as good as they could - they all understood the necessity of doing this matter in secret.
"That's good...... Liao Hua nodded heavily, and he looked a little tragic: "In this matter, we have some problems doing it ourselves." Therefore, we must all have the consciousness to accept responsibility. I've kept your mouth in check, and I'll be solely responsible for the rest of the problems. Liao Hua thought about it and said, at this moment, he had the decision to completely bear the responsibility and judge himself in the face of Dongwu's questioning.
"My lord......" As subordinates, they wanted to dissuade something, but they were stopped by Liao Hua with a wave of his hand. He did not let them say anything more, but gave the order to sail.
A slip of fifty-two cargo ships sailed from Lujiang to Shouchun, and the whole way was calm. Dongwu may not know the news of the robbery of the granary, maybe they know, but they didn't think that they would take the waterway, in short, without anyone blocking them, Liao Hua and them arrived at Shouchun smoothly and unloaded tens of thousands of stone grains on the ship.
After everything came to an end, and the grain was registered and put into storage, Liao Hua went to see Guan Yu. At this time, he got a piece of news that surprised him, which was quietly told to him by Zhou Cang, the big man next to Guan Yu: "The people from Dongwu are here!" β
"The people of Soochow? Do they know what we're doing? Liao Hua had already eaten and asked with a somewhat nervous expression. It's no wonder that at such a sensitive moment, a person with such a sensitive force as Dongwu can't help but think of Liao Hua so much.
Looking at Liao Hua's worried expression, Zhou Cang, as one of the insiders, naturally understood what he was thinking, but he shook his head, "It's not for you, but for the land under our feet." Koto said that our land was leased to them, and it has been several years now, and it is impossible for us to lease it forever, so let's give it back to them. β
"What? This also ...... That's too much, isn't it? Shouchun and Hefei are all fought by ourselves. Hearing Jiangdong's statement, Liao Hua couldn't help but widen his eyes, at this moment he had already thrown the trace of regret in his heart for Dongwu out of the clouds: "Shameless, really shameless." How can the overlord of this side open his eyes and tell nonsense? β
"We think so too. However, Soochow was very persistent, and even put on a posture of not hesitating to fight. Zhou Cang said.
"It's a headache. Although it is said that it is taking advantage of the fire to rob, with our current strength, there is no way to reject Sun Quan in the south and Cao Cao in the north. Liao Hua told the truth, but laughed again: "But isn't it up to the lord to answer this matter?" Guan Junhou is not easy to make a decision. β
"Of course." Zhou Cang nodded and continued: "They went to see the lord first, and then made a threat. Although the lord was very reluctant, for the sake of the stability of the south, he still decided to temporarily cede Hefei City to Dongwu. Now the envoys of Eastern Wu are here, but they are here to ask Guan Junhou for the city. β
"I see. But how could the lord agree to give up such an important place as Hefei? Once Hefei is out of our hands, we will have no defense base against Soochow. Liao Hua frowned, feeling that the lord's approach was a bit of a mistake.
"Hey, hey!" Seeing Liao Hua's reaction, Zhou Cang laughed: "I knew that Yuan Jian thought so." In fact, how do you know that this is the lord's plan? The lord agreed, but Guan Junhou could refuse. As long as the monarch clearly refuses, the lord can also make a difficult appearance and pass the buck to each other. Although it is not possible to solve this problem quickly, it will finally take some time. β
"This is also ......" Liao Hua understood the helplessness of the lord: for Liu Beijun, who is now weak, Jiangdong's alliance undoubtedly needs to be maintained. Even if Liu Bei knew that Dongwu's request was unreasonable, he couldn't refuse it in one breath, and he had to use procrastination to solve the problem between the two.
"Then now Guan Junhou is over there, is this matter settled?" Liao Hua asked.
"Pretty much. So you'd better not go over for a while. It's not good in case someone recognizes you. We have also heard about what happened in Lujiang, so ......" Zhou Cang looked at Liao Hua a little apologetically, "I'm sorry for you." β
"I understand." Liao Hua nodded heavily, "I'll stay here and not go out." He said.
"I hope that the matter on the side of Dongwu can pass quickly......" Later, they talked about some other things, Zhou Cang said goodbye to Liao Hua, and when he was leaving, Zhou Cang said such a sentence. This is his wish, and it is also Liaohua's hope.
But......
Things are not so easy to solve.
Guan Yu clearly rejected the request of the Eastern Wu side, but the Eastern Wu side did not seem to take Guan Yu's refusal seriously. On the grounds that Liu Bei had already promised to let Eastern Wu be stationed in Hefei, Sun Quan sent Taishou to Hefei City. This was originally a thing that was not wrong from Sun Quan's standpoint, but in Guan Yu's opinion, this was undoubtedly a contempt for his authority. The arrogant Guan Er Ye was furious, and he sent troops to Hefei overnight to expel the Taishou sent by Dongwu from the mirror, during which there were naturally many pushing and irritable places - the Taishou sent by Sun Quan went to see Sun Quan with a blue nose and swollen face.
"Lordship......" said Na Tai Shou, lying on the ground, crying.
The teacup on the table was slammed to ......the ground with a bang. Guan Yu, Guan Yu, the old horseman, dared to treat my person like this......" Facing a large number of Jiangdong civil and military forces, Sun Quan roared and threw up the things on the table, "Damn......"
"Lord, don't be angry, don't be angry! There may be some misunderstanding. Because Cao Cao provoked the chaos in Jiangdong, the civil and military forces in Jiangdong were full of hatred for Cao Cao, at this time they didn't want to have any conflicts with Liu Bei, so even Zhang Zhao, who had always wanted to persuade Sun Quan to be friendly with Cao Cao, had to be forced by the pressure of the family to say good things for Liu Bei at this moment.
"Misunderstanding? How could it be a misunderstanding? Where is Ziming? Sun Quan called Lu Meng's name.
"The last general ......" Lu Meng came out of class and saluted Sun Quan with his hands.
"Ziming tell you what you know, tell your adults. so that they can understand what kind of person this Liu Bei is. Sun Quan forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest and said to Lu Meng.
"Yes...... Lord. Lu Meng agreed to come down, where to stop majestically, but he took out a scroll from his bosom and read it: "In October of the nineteenth year, Zhao He, a peasant in Wu County, rebelled; In November of the nineteenth year, the already settled Shanyue rebelled again, and the Shanyue army surrounded Yanping City; In March of the twentieth year, Zhao He's rebellion was put down, but in April of the twentieth year, there was another rebellion in Lujiang; In May of the twentieth year, a large-scale clash broke out between Zhu Zhi's subordinates on the Huainan front and the subordinates of Zhang Liao, the defender of Xuzhou, and the Jiangdong Army lost 3,000 men and horses; On May 15, 20 years, the company of the Huainan front was destroyed by inexplicable forces, and the grain and grass stored in it to supply the 20,000 troops on the front line for a year were wiped out; June 20......; October 20......; December 20......; March 21...... These things are suitable for Cao Cao in terms of the initial investigation results, but after further investigation, we found that our biggest enemy, the black hand after this series of events, was not Cao Cao, but Liu Bei, who thought we were an ally. Just a few days ago, on May 15, 21 years, Liu Beijun brazenly attacked our granary in Lujiang, looted the tens of thousands of stone grain we used to support the defenders of Lujiang, and brutally killed 1,500 of our soldiers......"
"Ah......" In the lobby, all the civil and military officers couldn't help but be surprised when they heard these things read out by Lu Meng. Some of them were surprised that Liu Bei was so hateful, and some were surprised that Sun Quan was determined to fight Liu Bei.
"Are you sure these things are true?" Zhang Zhao glanced at Sun Quan deeply and asked in a deep voice.
"It's true, of course it's true." Sun Quan was a little shocked by Zhang Zhao's look, but he still nodded again and again.
"In that case, I suggest that the lord start a war against Liu Bei." Of course, Zhang Zhao could see that Sun Quan was panicking about himself, but he didn't care about this, Dongwu needed an enemy, a war, so as to volatilize all the depression he had endured over the years, for this, Dongwu must choose one of the three princes other than himself to fight, and Liu Bei was the weakest, and unfortunately became this target, since Sun Quan, who was the monarch, recognized this, then Zhang Zhao, who was not very willing to fight Cao Cao, was naturally happy to change an opponent.
"Very good......" Hearing Zhang Zhao say this, Sun Quan rejoiced, he got up from his position, drew the long sword at his waist, and shouted loudly: "The whole army is ready, and I will send troops to pacify Liu Bei every day." β
"Nuo......" Sun Quan's hand sounded with a sound of approval.
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