Chapter 100: Constraints
At the beginning of April of the second year of Chuping, Sun Jian defeated Hu Zhen near Yangrenju, and destroyed more than 6,000 enemies in total.
The Kwantung Coalition won its first major victory since organizing the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and it was also the only victory so far, which was not easy.
The news of Sun Jian's victory over Hu Zhen was soon spread to all parts of the Han Dynasty, and it became more and more evil.
In this battle, Sun Jian's army of 13,000 people fought against Hu Zhen's 10,000 people. With the continuous spread of rumors, it gradually became that Sun Jian's army of 20,000 ** defeated Hu Zhen's army of 50,000, and then Sun Jian's army of 30,000 ** defeated the Xiliang army of 100,000, and even became Sun Jian's army of 100,000 people who rushed to kill one million people in the top ten to win the Xiliang army.
Although rumors continue to spread, Sun Jian's defeat of Hu Zhen's 10,000 elites with more than 10,000 defeated troops is an ironclad fact and cannot be doubted.
For a while, Sun Jian's prestige skyrocketed, and he was praised as a "loyal minister of the Han Dynasty", and even his master Yuan Shu was also known as the Han family.
When the report of Sun Jian's victory reached Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu's buddy was also very happy, and he was happy that Sun Jian finally lived up to his expectations and gave himself a long face, so that his face was bright. At this time, Yuan Shu remembered his house slave brother Yuan Shao, Wang Kuang, who was a cheap slave, tossed around in Hanoi for a long time, but was still defeated by the Xiliang army. And his own general, Sun Jian, overcame difficulties and successfully defeated the Xiliang army after hardships and dangers. Now, he is still good at employing people, and he is much better than his house slave brother.
Yuan Shu received a report from Sun Jian, asking him to take over the city pass and send troops to support him. There is a way that people are in good spirits when they are happy, and as soon as Yuan Shu is in a good mood, he immediately promises his good subordinate Sun Jian, and is ready to allocate another 10,000 horses to Sun Jian.
At this time, Chen Ji and Lei Bo spoke out to dissuade them.
These two buddies were originally sent by Yuan Shu to support Sun Jian, and they brought 30,000 horses to support Sun Jian. These two people felt that their martial arts were good, and after they arrived under Sun Jian, they saw that Sun Jian was going to fight with the Xiliang Army, so they wanted to participate in the fight, Sun Jian didn't trust the two of them very much, so they chose to refuse politely, and the two of them were a little unhappy when they saw Sun Jian so faceless.
Later, when the two armies were in the decisive battle, the two of them were in Sun Jian's Chinese army, and these two buddies saw that Sun Jian was about to lead themselves to break through from the center, but the spear formation on the left wing of Sun Jian's army was suddenly broken through by the Xiliang army, and the good situation collapsed instantly.
Now these two people saw that Sun Jian had made a great contribution, and they were about to gain power, and their eyes were red, so Chen Ji said to Yuan Shu: "Lord, Sun Jian is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, and he is about to conquer Luoyang in the near future, I am afraid that this move will not be beneficial to our army!" ”
Yuan Shu was a little puzzled when he heard Chen Ji's inexplicable words, and asked rhetorically, "What do you mean by this?" ”
Chen Ji saw that Yuan Shu really had doubts about Sun Jian, so he took the opportunity to provoke and said: "Sun Jian is brave and unmatched, if Shun occupies Luoyang, he will develop his power in Luoyang very quickly with his Wen Taowu strategy, this person is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, I am afraid that no one in the main army is his opponent, I am afraid that it will be difficult to restrain in the future, and it will be a big trend." If it is allowed to develop its strength, won't it get rid of a wolf and add another tiger? The last general's heartfelt words are all for the sake of the lord, please think twice. ”
Yuan Shu was suspicious and suspicious, and after listening to Chen Ji's words, he really began to doubt Sun Jian. Once some thoughts are generated, they will continue to spawn downward, and in the end, they can even scare themselves to death. Yuan Shu thought about it along Chen Ji's train of thought, and sure enough, he felt that Chen Ji's words were all for his own sake and loyal. Therefore, he immediately ordered to stop transporting grain and grass to Sun Jian.
Calculate that this is the second time that Yuan Shu's buddy has cut off Sun Jian's grain and grass. Therefore, if you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate, Sun Jian must have been deeply touched by this sentence.
To say that Sun Jian was still more loyal to Yuan Shu at this time, although the relationship between the two was not like that of ordinary lords and courtiers, Sun Jian's independence was strong, but in general, the two were still in a master-slave relationship. Back then, Sun Jian killed Nanyang Taishou to serve Yuan Shu, and then played Yuan Shu as Nanyang Taishou, it can be said that Sun Jian's vote was very sincere, and his gift was also very rich. Nanyang is the township of Emperor Guangwu, although it is a county, it is actually a state, after Yuan Shu received such a gift, it can be said that his mouth couldn't close with a smile.
Therefore, Yuan Shu's behavior of cutting off Sun Jian's food at this time was a little inauthentic, and he was a little sorry for Sun Jian. This time, Yuan Shu's actions were even more unkind than the last time.
The last time Sun Jian attacked the Tiger Prison Pass, Yuan Shu had cut off food for him, but that time it was not all to blame Yuan Shu, Sun Jian was too active at that time, and he didn't know that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers were not in harmony, and resolutely carried out Yuan Shao's orders, ignoring Yuan Shu's feelings a little, but Yuan Shu was ruthless and gave him some color to see.
This time, it's for no reason, it's just a villain's separation. There is a way that open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, Sun Jian was not killed by the Xiliang army, but now he has to be dragged down by Chen Ji and Lei Bo, two villains, which is also a kind of sadness.
Sun Jian also had a few familiar people in Yuan Shu's army, such as Yuan Shu's generals Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, who admired Sun Jian's bravery and character, and became good friends with Sun Jian, so after hearing that Yuan Shu was instigated by Chen Ji and Lei Bo to cut off Sun Jian's grain and grass, he sent his henchmen to inform Sun Jian, so as not to prevent Sun Jian from falling into passivity. And because of the existence of this relationship, Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui also took great care of Sun Jian's eldest son Sun Ce in the future.
Sun Jian stayed in Daguguan for a few days, waiting for Yuan Shu to send someone to bring him grain and grass, but he couldn't wait for the left or the right, and he was very anxious. Sun Jian sent sentinels everywhere to inquire about the news of the grain transportation team, but there was still no news.
Just when Sun Jian was spinning in place and at a loss, he suddenly received a secret letter from Qiao Rui, in which Qiao Rui told Sun Jian some of his recent situation, as well as greeting Sun Jian, wishing Sun Jian a great victory, and then vaguely hinting in the letter that Sun Jian should beware of villains.
Qiao Rui didn't want to have more rights and wrongs, so he just vaguely reminded Sun Jian, after all, he would have to serve under Yuan Shu in the future, and he would have to get along with the civil and military forces under Yuan Shu, if he offended people because of Sun Jian, it would be a bit more than worth the loss, after all, he and Sun Jian have not yet reached the point of life and death, but they have some good feelings, and they don't want to see him framed by the villain, so that's it.