Chapter 671: Wei Wu and Peace
After Sun Quan received Gu Yong's letter, he also thought about it for a long time.
To tell the truth, Sun Quan is indeed a person who can bend and stretch, after all, he has succeeded to the throne since he was fifteen years old, and he is a young man, if he does not have a little endurance and the city government, Sun Quan would not be able to sit in his current position.
To tell the truth, the political environment when Sun Quan first ascended the throne was no better than the situation that Zhuge Liang had to face after Yiling, and even because of some of Sun Ce's practices and Jiangdong's special military system, the situation was even worse.
If you are not careful, the Jiangdong foundation that Sun Ce has laid down may be overturned at any time.
And Sun Quan succeeded to the throne under such circumstances, relying on the support of Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao, a series of Huairou means came out frequently, which not only stabilized the Huaisi group, but also eased the relationship with the Jiangdong family, slowly sat in a stable position, and finally relied on the influence of the Chibi War, and finally completely controlled Jiangdong.
Therefore, Sun Quan is an excellent lord who knows the situation, and is also good at forbearance and checks and balances.
However, Sun Quan in this time and space is somewhat different from Sun Quan in history.
The biggest difference is that at the military level, Sun Quan in this time and space still has some confidence in himself.
The Sun Quan in history, when facing Cao Wei, although there were also highlight moments such as the first battle of the beard, but the rest of the time, he was basically reduced to the experience package of Cao Wei's generals, and he was really beaten.
But now Sun Quan in this time and space, although he suffered a small loss under Hefei City, made Zhang Liao assault and almost lost his life, but in the end, with Zhou Yu's timely support, there was only a danger after all.
Now it is a light take of Hefei, the soldiers are in Qingxu, and Cao Wei, who is fighting, can only be trapped in Pengcheng and struggle. Sun Quan is very confident at this time, and his heart is also high.
The title of the lord of Eastern Wu wanted to send himself away, but of course Sun Quan couldn't swallow this breath.
Therefore, when Sun Quan received Gu Yong's letter, he was also angry at Cao Wei's aggressive attitude.
Cao Pi, you are being beaten on both fronts, why do you dare to put such a high posture on me?!
But so be it. In the end, it's this "but" that is the most important.
Today's Soochow, in the Qingxu battlefield, is also a little unable to fight.
It has been almost two and a half months since the siege of Pengchengguo, and in these two and a half months, the Wei army has recovered from the panic of being attacked by sneak attacks, and the morale of the army has also stabilized the land combat ability of the Wu soldiers in the east.
Another one, there was a heavy snowfall last winter, which fell intermittently for more than half a month, and most of the Jiangdong soldiers were not prepared for the cold in the Qingxu area, coupled with the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, the non-combat attrition was very serious, and even the coach Zhou Yu had fallen ill.
Since Zhou Yu experienced a life and death in Baqiu, his health has not been very good, and it took several years to recover, and now this illness suddenly made Sun Quan worry again.
Sun Quan also faced a more troublesome problem at this time - the older generation of generals, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Gan Ning, Tai Shici and others passed away one after another, among the generals of the Mesozoic Generation, Xu Sheng, Zhu Huan was almost on fire, Sun Huan, Ling Tong and others died early, and in the new generation, Sun Shao, Zhu Ran, Lu Xun and others were not qualified enough, and it was not time to pick up the beams. I don't pick it up.
Therefore, although Sun Quan already had some fears about Zhou Yu, at this time, Sun Quan really couldn't watch Zhou Yu pass away due to illness, so he wondered whether to simply withdraw from the army and take Zhou Yu back to Jianye to recuperate with peace of mind.
Finally, and most importantly, the sequelae of the military system of Soochow began to attack.
The military system of Eastern Wu has adopted a relatively special world military system since Sun Ce's time.
In the world military system, the soldiers are all privately owned by the generals, and they are also privately raised by the generals, and Sun Quan is just giving a blank check for how many soldiers a certain general is allowed to raise.
Although this saved the Eastern Wu regime a lot of money and food for raising soldiers, it also led to Sun Quan's own weak control over the army, and he could only control the army indirectly by controlling the generals.
In these years, the Han and Wei dynasties actually had generals and private soldiers, but the generals of these two countries had no more than 1,000 private soldiers. For example, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Xiahoudun, and Cao Ren, the lord's cronies and generals, can keep so many private soldiers, and the rest of the army, theoretically speaking, belongs to the lord.
But in Soochow, because of the adopted world military system, the lords of these soldiers are the generals, and the lords of the generals are Sun Quan.
This led to the fact that when the soldiers of the Eastern Wu marched and fought, they were only responsible for their own lord, and the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Wu army formed by these soldiers was directly linked to the will of the main general.
Therefore, in the foreign wars of Soochow, there are often tailwind and waves, and there is a situation of going against the wind, or it is clear that it has an advantage, but while fighting, the Soochow army suddenly withdraws its troops.
This is all the pot of the Eastern Wu military system, and none of the generals wants to let their soldiers lose too much, which eventually leads to the end of the war.
And that's no different today.
The sneak attack on Qingxu by Soochow was launched by the Huaisi group headed by Zhou Yu against public opinion, and the Jiangdong family group was reluctant to send troops.
Now the result of the battle is only to occupy half of Xiapi, and it has never been able to fully capture Qingxu, which not only makes the generals from the Jiangdong family dissatisfied, but also has a lot of opposition within the Huaisi group.
Zhou Yu's prestige in the army was too high, and no one dared to complain about anything in front of him. But you can complain to Sun Quan.
About half of the generals who went out didn't want to fight, thinking that they would accept it when they saw it, even if Sun Quan wanted to support Zhou Yu again, he had to weigh the consequences.
Zhou Yu can't always win, and even if Zhou Yu can always win, he can't live forever In case there is no Zhou Yu, Sun Quan will completely offend these generals, and when Zhou Yu is no longer there in the future, who will help him suppress these arrogant generals in the army?!
Sun Quan is good at checks and balances, but sometimes, checks and balances are not necessarily very easy to use in the army.
This is also the reason why Sun Quan has always wanted to install his own people in the army over the years, and at the same time weaken Zhou Yu's influence in the army. Originally, there was a very suitable candidate, but unfortunately, Lu Meng died too early.
Therefore, after all things considered, Sun Quan does have the idea of retiring from the army now.
Coupled with Gu Yong's report in the letter, Liu Bei's military operations in Guanzhong and Nanyang were also suspended, so it was even more impossible for Sun Quan to completely offend Cao Wei and force Cao Wei to fight a big battle with him.
After thinking about it, Sun Quan still decided to end the battle of Qingxu as soon as possible.
Therefore, Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to make proper arrangements, withdraw his troops from Pengcheng first, leave Lu Xun to garrison Xiapi, and Zhuge Jin to guard Langya Kingdom, and after arranging these, let Zhou Yu return to Jianye as soon as possible to recuperate.
Then, Sun Quan wrote back to Gu Yong, using Zhou Yu's initiative to withdraw his troops as an excuse to express his sincerity to Cao Wei, and at the same time, let Gu Yong try his best to win Cao Wei's recognition of the Eastern Wu regime.
With Sun Quan's reply to Gu Yong, coupled with the fact that Zhou Yu did take the initiative to withdraw his troops and shrink back to Huainan, leaving only Lu Xun and Xu Sheng to guard Xiapi, and Zhuge Jin also returned to Langya Guo Gu Yong, so that this negotiation could continue.
In the end, there was another round of ruffling, Cao Pi pinched his nose and admitted that Sun Quan was "Lord Wu", allowing Sun Quan to call himself "Lord Wei", and followed a similar routine as Liu Bei's side.
This title is always more satisfying than the title of the lord of Eastern Wu.
At the same time, Cao Wei also officially recognized Sun Quan's occupation of Huainan, but did not recognize the land of Qingxu, Cao Pi's death.
After all, he still has Peng Chengguo in hand, and there is a springboard for the counterattack, so he will definitely not talk to death at this time.
Although, in the end, it depends on the strength, and whoever can fight down the land is who's it. However, since the two countries are friendly with each other, if they want to fight again, they have to pay attention to the fact that one division is famous.
Making excuses is also a troublesome matter, and Cao Pi doesn't want to be honest in this regard.
And with the peace between Wei and Wu, Liu Bei, who was in Xiangyang, couldn't sit still.
Yes, at this time, Liu Bei was indeed not in Chang'an, but in Xiangyang. There is no way, Xu Shu sent a letter, saying that Guan Yu was seriously injured, and Liu Bei was in a hurry, so he didn't even sit in Tianzi Luan, and took Zhang Fei and more than 100 personal guards, and directly took the route of Youfufeng, Shangyong, and Xiangyang, and went straight to Xiangyang to visit the injury of the second brother.
Therefore, when the news of the peace between Wei and Wu came, Liu Bei was indeed in Xiangyang City, taking care of Guan Yu.
Wei Wu negotiated peace, for Ji Han, it is not a good thing Sun Quan, Cao Pi can't get used to it, and Liu Bei can't believe it either.
Before, the two weak ones were strong and the weak ones could only hold together, otherwise they would be broken by the strong ones one by one.
But now, the Han Dynasty has Yongliang Erzhou, and Dongwu also occupies Huainan Qingxu, under the advantages of one and the other, although Cao Wei is still the strongest, Cao Wei's advantage is not as obvious as before.
It is not impossible for Sun Quan to make peace with Cao Pi and deal with the Han Dynasty together.
After all, Sun Quan has a criminal record, and he sent Lu Meng to attack Jingzhou a few years ago, if it wasn't for Zhang Xi and others who had already taken precautions, it would be really hard to say who this Jingzhou belongs to now.
Therefore, Liu Bei had to send Fei Yi to Jiangdong again, on the one hand, to find out if Sun Quan's attitude had changed from before, on the other hand, Sun Quan, you kid want to mix with Cao Pi, I don't care about this, why don't you help me send Fan A to Xiangyang first!
Lao Tzu is waiting for Fan A to treat my second brother!!
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