Chapter 45: The Sun Family's 'Borrowing the Way'
In the first year of the first peace, December 9th, early in the morning.
Bursts of small snowflakes like dandelions fall in the sky of Wu County, like a layer of white coat covering the land of Jiangnan, the winter in Jiangdong, there is rarely snow, but this year's winter is obviously colder, this is the third snow after the winter.
The return of tens of thousands of elite soldiers led by the Jiangdong Tigers made everyone in the upper echelons of Wu County panic, not knowing when they would move troops to Jiangdong.
But these are a little too far away for Wang Fu, the gatekeeper who guards the west gate of Wu County.
Early in the morning, he took dozens of soldiers at the city gate, pushed open the gate of the north gate of Wu County, and put down the suspension bridge of the moat.
As soon as the city gate was opened, and the drawbridge guarding the river was lowered, the entire north city gate suddenly began to become noisy, and one by one began to pour into the city.
"Listen, don't mess around, line up for me one by one, pay the entrance tax on the left, and enter the county seat from the right! Whoever makes trouble, don't blame me for being rude. "Wang Fu's body is a little tall and strong, and it is a little terrifying to stand in the middle of the city gate.
In this era, it is necessary to pay an entry tax to enter the city.
Wu County is the county seat of Wu County, and it is also the core city of the entire Jiangdong, the geographical location is very good, the population is dense, the business is easy to do, the merchants from the south to the north are like cattle hair, just the entry tax is a considerable income of the county guard.
Wang Fu stared at it with dozens of fierce soldiers, but these merchants and ordinary people who lined up to enter the city were a lot quieter, and began to line up in an orderly manner to pay the entrance tax, and then enter the city.
Click......
Suddenly, there was a shaky shaking on the ground, followed by a loud sound of horses' hooves in the distance, which resounded through the sky.
"This is cavalry?"
The people under the city gate turned around suddenly, and they were all a little stunned, and they didn't react for a while in the face of this formation.
Jiangdong originally had few cavalry, and it was still good to be able to have more than a thousand times the cavalry, but this formation seemed overwhelming, and there were at least thousands of cavalry, which was menacing, and immediately frightened them.
"It's not good, the enemy is coming, it's the Jiangdong Army, they're the Jiangdong Army."
Wang Fu hurriedly raised his head and looked into the distance, in the wind and snow, only to see countless cavalry galloping coming, the momentum was like a tiger, terrifying, and everyone could see a big banner with the word 'Sun' erected high.
He was stunned for a moment, but he reacted very much, and shouted hysterically at the two groups of subordinates around him: "You go to close the city gate, and the others follow me, pull up the drawbridge, hurry, hurry!" β
"That's right! Put the suspension bridge! Go and put the drawbridge down. β
"Close the gates, close the gates!"
At this time, the merchants and people who were still queuing at the city gate were a little flustered, and the formation dispersed in a hurry, rushing into the city gate one by one, and the city gate was in chaos.
The dozens of soldiers guarding the gate were also in chaos, and five or six soldiers heard the order of the doorman Wang Fu, and hurriedly bold, followed, and twisted the drawbridge with a winch.
The countless cavalry in the distance were very fast, there were thousands of people, and they reached the city in an instant, and the general who led the troops was a tall, handsome young man, dressed in lion king armor, with a black horse under his crotch, and a bully gun in his hand, like a violent wind, galloping.
"Definitely!" Sun Ce saw that the suspension bridge was about to be re-suspended, his eyes swept through with a glint of essence, his legs clamped the war horse, jumped up in the air, forcibly crossed the guard river, and landed steadily on the suspension bridge that had not been fully lifted, the spear swept, several suspension ropes were broken, and the suspension bridge fell again.
"It's dead, it's dead this time." Wang Fu and a few soldiers guarding the door were already frightened by Sun Ce's bravery, their legs trembled, and they fell to the side, frightened, afraid to resist, and had already begun to close their eyes and wait for death.
However, after waiting for a while, Wang Fu opened his eyes gently, but he didn't see the young general in front of him doing something to him.
"Youping, bow and arrow!" Sun Ce immediately stepped on the suspension bridge, ignored a few pawns guarding the door, and shouted at a deputy general in the back.
"Childe, please!" Zhou Tice immediately came and sent a pair of good bows and arrows.
"You all go back and go to tell the sΓΉ Sheng County Guard, a certain family is Sun Jian's son Sun Ce, not to attack Wu County, but the team of the Sun family in Jiangdong has returned to his hometown Fuchun, and he needs to take advantage of Wu County, please raise your hand and make way, this is our Sun family's prayer post!"
Sun Ce's sound was like thunder, hundreds of meters can be heard, he let out a long roar, the bow and arrow in his hand are full of strings, and suddenly moved, the long arrow is off the string, nailed to the head of the city, and there is a worship post hanging on the arrow.
Wang Fu and a few people were stunned for a moment, and suddenly stood up for the rest of their lives, which was regarded as picking up a life, seeing that Sun Ce's cavalry obviously had no intention of attacking the city, several people hurriedly ran to the city gate, and then joined forces with more than a dozen soldiers to put down the jack gate gate with a winch, and closed it tightly.
"Youping, Bohai, give the order to go down, the army retreats three miles, and camp on the spot!" Sun Ce didn't care about the locked city gate at all, and shouted loudly at the cavalry team.
"No!" Zhou Tai and Sun He nodded.
This is all the cavalry of the Jiangdong Army, there are 6,000 of them, all of them are one person and two horses, well-equipped, but they have not undergone formal cavalry training, and they do not have much combat effectiveness, but these cavalry are all veterans, most of them are the original Xiliang soldiers, and they are familiar with horsemanship, but they can barely maintain the formation of the cavalry and maintain the momentum of the cavalry.
Sun Jian asked Sun Ce to serve as the other Sima of the cavalry battalion, in order to train Sun Ce's ability to block one side, not a veteran was sent to him, so he and Zhou Tailai led this Jiangdong cavalry, of course, Sun Ce was young after all, and Zhou Tai's new surrender was not enough to support the entire Jiangdong cavalry battalion, so Sun Jian also gave a personal soldier of his own, Sun He, Sun Bohai.
Sun He is Sun Jian's son, his biological father is a cousin of Sun Jian, after he was born, he passed on to his aunt, changed his surname to Yu, Sun Jian was the governor of Wu County, there were thieves in Wu County, Sun Jian in order to quell the rebellion, returned to his hometown to recruit the villagers, he took the lead in joining, Sun Jian appreciated him very much, personally entered the ancestral hall, and changed his surname back to Sun for him.
Since he was a teenager, he has been fighting with Sun Jian in the north and south, although he is a young man in his early twenties, he has a calm personality, and he has more experience in leading troops than Sun Ce.
Sun Jian asked him to assist Sun Ce, in fact, he was cultivating Sun Ce's team.
By noon, the camp of the Jiangdong cavalry had been erected next to a small hill three miles away from Wu County.
After the camp settled down, Sun Ce, Sun He, and Zhou Tai began to show off the bravery of the Jiangdong cavalry to everyone in the city according to the original plan.
The gate of Wu County is closed, although the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers is not very good, but there is still some foundation, tens of thousands of county soldiers under the command of Xu Gong have been arranged on the city wall, facing the cavalry under the city, although they are afraid, but they are still ready for battle.
However, the county town is lively.
The county guard, Sheng Xian received Sun Jian's greetings, and his expression was as rich as he could, crying and laughing, yin and yang were uncertain.
Borrowing?
Tens of thousands of Jiangdong elite soldiers borrowed Wu County?
What is this thing called, with Sheng Xian's wisdom, where can I not guess Sun Jian's thoughts, if this way is lent out, can I still get it back?
He was sad all of a sudden.
Click......
The sound of the hooves of the Jiangdong cavalry outside resounded inside and outside Wu County, even in the county guard's mansion, he could still hear it very clearly, and the momentum was mighty! Sheng Xian's brows couldn't help but worry.
"Lord County Shou, Sun Jian is a wolf's ambition, this must not be borrowed!" Xu Gong was also panicked at this time, he asked for help three or four times in the past few days, but the big families in the city obviously had a good impression of Sun Jian, and the Gu family and the Lu family were unwilling to deal with him, and in the face of Sun Jian's tens of thousands of elite soldiers who were about to die, he could only let Sheng Xian take the lead.
"People are not attacking the county seat now, if you don't borrow this way, it is us, is Captain Xu planning to use the county soldiers under your command to forcibly block the road?" Gao Dai said with eerie sarcasm.
"You?" Xu Gong was furious, he knew that Gao Dai had always admired Sun Jian, and he was also the most in favor of Sun Jian's return to Jiangdong: "Gao Dai, as a county prince of Wujun, what do you have in mind?" β
"It's you who thinks a lot, what can I think, I just think that since General Po is from Wu County, he will naturally not hurt Wu County, since he can make Wu County peaceful, why don't we do it?" Gao Dai sneered at sarcasm.
He really doesn't have any other thoughts, he just feels that the imperial court can't count on it, and Sheng Xian is not the hero who can suppress Jiangdong, in this troubled world, if Sun Jian presides over Jiangdong, he can at least make Jiangdong a little more stable, unlike now, it is messy, and he is afraid of being robbed by bandits even when he goes out.
"Okay, you tell me to calm down, let me think about this again!" Sheng Xian knew that Sun Jian was saluting first and then soldiering, and now he was considering Sun Jian's attitude towards him.
It's not that he is reluctant to take the position of the county guard, but after all, he is a legitimate county guard, and it is not impossible for Sun Jian to get the county guard, in order to cut off future troubles, he clicked himself with a knife.