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In May, Jiangdong Jianye.

In the mansion of Marquis Wu, Sun Quan sneezed.

He was quite puzzled, why did he still sneeze in the middle of summer in May and the summer was hot?

However, when he noticed that his nose was itchy, he thought it was because his nose was uncomfortable, so he didn't care about it and continued to look at the official document.

Recently, Sun Quan has not been in a very good mood.

In other words, since last year, half a year has passed, and his mood has not been much better.

A few days ago, he also went to the cemeteries of his father and brother in Danyang County and Wu County to pay respects.

Originally, I thought that my father and brother would be able to bless Jiangdong in the sky, but after arriving at Sun Ce's cemetery in Wu County, I found that his brother Sun Ce's tomb had been stolen.

Sun Ce killed people in Jiangdong, and Jiangdong, which was forcibly suppressed by killing habits, was actually unpopular in Jiangdong counties.

In the past, when the Sun family was powerful, the cemetery was guarded by soldiers and horses, and no one dared to steal, and no one had such an idea.

But now Sun Quan lost his troops and lost his generals, and most of Jiangdong's troops were lost in Jingzhou, so that the rear was extremely empty, with bandits rising everywhere and rebellions continuously, and the limited soldiers and horses had to defend Liu Bei and quell the thieves, and there was no one to guard the tomb at all.

So there were people who hated Sun Ce deeply, stole and dug up his grave, and dug up his body, which was already white bones, and didn't know where to throw it, which made Sun Quan very angry.

Anger is followed by fear.

Originally, he wanted to worship his father and brother and pray for his father's blessing, but he didn't expect that his brother would let the enemy be crushed and ashes, which made him feel extremely gloomy and very depressed with a hint of hope.

Therefore, in just half a year, Sun Quan, who was only thirty-nine years old, seemed to be ten years old, his face was extremely haggard, and his whole face was completely lifeless.

But it's not without good news.

He Qi was still quite effective, after the battle of Jingzhou, Shanyue rose in all directions, and Sun Quan's forces fully withdrew from the south of Huangshan, and he no longer dared to take advantage of Shanyue.

But he didn't expect the Shanyue people to intensify their efforts, and they actually regained the lost territory, and went north to attack him.

So Sun Quan sent He Qi to send troops, won more with less, and defeated Shanyue.

The Shanyue people are not a whole, but inhabit the mountains of the southeastern hills in a tribe-like manner.

Most of them were actually Han Chinese rather than barbarians, and many of them were dissatisfied with being exploited by the imperial court and their families, and moved their families to the mountains to live a life like a peach blossom paradise.

As a result, I didn't expect that after the Sun family took control of Jiangdong, they continued to rob the population of the Shanyue people, robbed them of their property, forced them to go out of the mountains to become the field slaves of the Sun family, contributed to the Sun family, and cultivated the fields and paid taxes.

This made the Shanyue people, who were accustomed to freedom, very dissatisfied, so they slowly organized a rebellion, and gradually formed some larger tribes.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of leaders and the dispersion of forces, they did not form a whole, and were broken by the Sun family one by one, so that a large number of Shanyue tribes were broken down, and their population and property were taken captive.

Now that the Sun clan is close to ruin, the Shanyue people see the hope of a counterattack.

But it's still an old problem.

The result was that He Qi only brought 8,000 people, and defeated the Shanyue coalition army of 50,000 or 60,000, so that Shanyue could not form an army, and then withdrew to the south of Huangshan.

After temporarily quelling the Shanyue Rebellion, Sun Quan breathed a sigh of relief, although there were still some rebellions in Wu County, Huiji County, Yuzhang County and other places in the rear, but Danyang County and most of Wu County basically settled down and did not let him collapse.

The biggest problem he faces now is the attack of Liu Bei's group, which may come at any time.

At present, Sun Quan is desperately short of troops.

Jiangdong Qingzhuang lost more than 100,000 troops in the Battle of Jingzhou, plus the previous defeats in the Battle of Yixian, the Battle of Hongkou, etc., the loss of troops in these years is nearly 150,000.

Shen Chen's name stopped Jiangdong children from crying.

Although he has been vigorously recruiting soldiers, and continues to draw the blood of the family on the grounds that Liu Bei's group suppressed the Shi clan, no matter how much he draws the blood, he can't pump the blood.

So now, the entire Sun Group can muster less than 80,000 troops.

Among them, only more than 30,000 are veterans, and the rest are newly recruited soldiers, and not only are there many old and weak, but also the training time is seriously insufficient, and the combat effectiveness is pitifully low.

This made Sun Quan extremely worried.

Looking at the official document in his hand, there was no other good news, which made Sun Quan bored, threw the bamboo slip in his hand to the ground, and said: "Call Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin, Gu Yong, Kan Ze, Sun Shao, Yan Ji, Lu Xun, Shi Yi, and Lu Ji to come over." ”

"Yui."

And the attendants outside the door went to do their work.

At noon, everyone entered the hall one after another, met Wu Hou in turn, and then sat down separately.

Sun Quan sat on the throne and looked around at everyone, and said with a worried face: "Lone has asked Liu Bei several times to ask for peace, but he has sunk into the sea, and he hasn't even given me a reply, do you think he is really ready to attack Jiangdong this year?" ”

Zhang Zhao sighed and said: "Recently, I heard that Jingzhou is constantly mobilizing soldiers and horses, and a large amount of grain and grass is also being transported to Xiakou, Xiling, Xunyang and other places, which is obviously planning to send troops to Jiangdong. ”

"Ruo Lone."

Sun Quan hesitated and said: "If Lone Shangshu calls Liu Bei a minister, do you think he can stop the army and make peace?" ”

In the battle of Jingzhou, Sun Quan was stabbed in the back first, completely losing his morality.

It stands to reason that Sun Quan should have no face to ask for peace.

But politics should not be face-saving, Sun Quan may not be a hero, but he is a qualified politician.

If it can be exchanged for Liu Bei not sending troops to attack Jiangdong, even if he is made to grovel?

So even if he was beaten back to Jiangdong after the war, he was still thinking about swaying from side to side.

On the one hand, he wrote to Cao Cao that he was willing to belong and prayed for Cao Cao's protection. On the one hand, he wrote to Liu Bei to make peace, asking him to be given another chance.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's reply was in response to his request to belong, and all the letters on Liu Bei's side were lost in the sea, and there was no reply.

Originally, it was nothing.

Whoever was stabbed in the back didn't have such a big belly to forgive, not to mention that Jiangdong is a piece of meat now, how could Liu Bei let it go?

Therefore, Sun Quan did not have much hope for Liu Bei at the beginning, and only begged Cao Cao to send troops to help him.

Therefore, after getting Cao Cao's promise, Sun Quan was quite happy at first.

As a result, Cao Cao died within two months.

Later, although he also wrote to Cao Pi, Huainan was still Zhang Liao's 7,000 men, and there was no increase in troops on the Wei side until now, which made Sun Quan more and more panicked.

What's more, I recently heard that Jingzhou has begun to move, and Shen Chen has dispatched troops and may attack Jiangdong at any time.

In this case, Sun Quan also had to get up in a hurry, and rushed to the doctor when he was sick, so he simply thought that he would choose to submit to Liu Bei if he didn't go to the book, at least change his life.

However, Zhang Zhao immediately said: "No, we can all be obedient, it's a big deal to go to Yizhou or be an official." However, if Wu Hou is obedient, Liu Bei wants to forcibly move Wu Hou, and Wu Hou is not allowed to hold soldiers and horses anymore, and the foundation of Jiangdong for three generations is not all over? ”

Sun Quan glanced at Zhang Zhao in surprise, when Cao Cao came, he was unswervingly determined to surrender to Cao Cao, but now that Liu Bei is here, he has begun to become a firm main battle faction, this attitude change is true.

However, Sun Quan also knew that Zhang Zhao was not thinking about himself, but for him and the Jiangdong family interest group he represented behind him.

After submitting to Cao Cao, the land, population, and property of the Jiangdong family interest groups can be preserved, and they can continue to be their local emperors, and they may even be appreciated by Cao Cao and enter the central government as court officials.

But if you submit to Liu Bei, it will be miserable.

Liu Bei's side can fight the local tyrants to divide the fields, the Jiangdong family followed Liu Bei, then three days and nine meals, the hidden population had to be handed over, the fields had to be handed over, the family had accumulated dozens of years of hard work, and returned to the Han Dynasty before the founding of the country overnight, who could stand it?

Therefore, Zhang Zhao must not be willing to let Sun Quan go to Liu Bei as a minister, for fear that Liu Bei will take advantage of the situation to force Sun Quan to return to the end, occupy Jiangdong, and collect their population and property fields.

Thinking of this, Sun Quan sighed and said: "But if you don't return to obedience, how can you resist the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong now?" ”

"Amount"

Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment.

Lu Xun, Gu Yong, and Lu Ji didn't speak.

Like Zhang Zhao, they are also the representatives of the interests of the Jiangdong family.

Kan Ze was silent.

Although he is not from a Jiangdong family, he is a person who will be an auditor, and he does not dare to offend the local families.

After a while, Sun Shaocai sighed and said, "Jiangdong Shi Clan, can you send some more troops?" ”

Sun Quan immediately looked at Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong with expectant eyes.

Zhang Zhao looked left and right and didn't speak, Gu Yong and Lu Xun glanced at each other, and sighed: "I am willing to make two hundred." ”

"I am willing to give two hundred."

Lu Xun glanced at Lu Ji, so Lu Ji said the same.

Only two hundred?

Sun Quan frowned slightly, and said to Zhang Zhao: "Are the rest of the families also out of two hundred?" ”

Zhang Zhao hesitated: "In this matter, I have to ask them." ”

"Ugh."

Sun Quan sighed.

He can only use this method to ask for people now.

He doesn't even have the qualifications to lose his temper with the family.

However, today's purpose has been achieved, although the Gu family and the Lu family only give out two hundred each, but some people take the lead, and naturally some people follow.

There are dozens or hundreds of Jiangdong families, and there are one or two hundred people in each family, and they can barely make up tens of thousands.

Sadly, I'm afraid things don't go well.

Sun Quan was sad in his heart.

At this time, a messenger suddenly came from outside the door to report: "Report, the king of Wei sent a messenger to send a letter." ”

"Bring it up!"

Sun Quan was overjoyed.

He also sent a lot of letters to Cao Pi before, but Cao Pi also responded in the letter that Wei was now in rebellion, and he was anxious, and he was afraid that he would not be able to support Jiangdong.

This made Sun Quan extremely depressed, and felt that the future of Jiangdong was bleak, so he moved the idea of submitting to Liu Bei and bowing to Liu Bei.

But I didn't expect Cao Pi to take the initiative to send a letter this time, could it be that there is another turn for the better?

The messenger handed the letter with both hands.

Sun Quan took the letter, opened it, and browsed for a while, and the original bitter gourd face suddenly smiled.

Everyone's eyes widened, and they craned their necks and waited for Sun Quan to finish reading the letter.

Sun Quan looked at it, and even laughed at the end: "Hahahahaha, Jiangdong is saved." ”

"Wu Hou."

Zhang Zhao hurriedly asked, "What did King Wei say in the letter?" ”

Sun Quan said with a smile: "Cao Pi is ready to send troops." ”

"Really?"

Zhang Zhao's eyes widened and said, "But he said last month that there are more internal troubles. ”

"He wrote back to me and said it was much better."

Sun Quan put down the letter in his hand and looked around at the crowd: "Cao Pi has pacified most of the internal troubles, and sent Xiahou Nan as the general of Anxi, and transferred Xiahou Yuan's main force back to Kanto, after Wei settled down, he said that he would be able to rush to our aid, once Liu Bei sent troops, he would personally march south and attack Liu Bei from Huainan." ”

"Great."

"That's really good news."

"Congratulations to Wu Hou, if this is the case, Jiangdong will be worry-free."

Everyone was immediately given a shot in the heart, and everyone's faces were smiling.

Including Lu Xun, they were extremely happy.

For a family family like theirs, the political power is secondary, and the family is the first.

The attitude of Liu Bei Group towards the family is obviously based on suppression, only a very small number of Jiangdong families will want to defect to Liu Bei, and most of them want to submit to Cao Wei.

It's just that after the Battle of Jingzhou and the Battle of Guanzhong, Liu Bei's strength is great, which makes people extremely sad.

But now that Cao Wei has decided to send troops to help, it is naturally a very happy thing for them.

However, after the excitement, some people still raised questions.

Zhuge Jin wondered: "Strange, it stands to reason that the Cao clan experienced the defeat of Guanzhong and Jingzhou, and the clan alone died Xiahoudun, Cao Hong and others, and even the generals were captured alive, morale was low, civil strife continued, and Cao Cao was ill, why did Cao Pi dare to risk sending troops?" ”

"Not surprising."

Sun Quan waved his hand: "Cao Pi's new king has succeeded to the throne, and as soon as he stabilized the situation, he must accumulate personal majesty." What could be more exciting and prestige than sending troops to Huainan, defeating Liu Bei, and keeping Jiangdong? If I were Cao Pi, I would be the same. ”

"Yes, it does."

Zhang Zhao also agrees with this point of view and says: "Cao Pi's domestic turmoil is all because people are far inferior to Cao Cao. Now that there is an opportunity for him to establish his prestige, how can he easily let it go? ”

"Hmm."

Zhuge Jin thought about it, nodded and said, "That's right, then Wu Hou can rest assured." As long as he guards the mouth of the river and the city of ochre, and there is Cao Jun in Jiangbei to help, Liu Bei will definitely not be able to pass. ”

Lu Xun said: "Wu Hou still don't be careless, don't forget that you can enter Yangzhou from Jingnan." ”

"Yamagoe!"

Sun Quan almost gritted his teeth and said these two words.

The mouth of the Yangtze River is the confluence of the Yangtze River and the water of the Yangtze River, the south of the Yangtze River is the city of ochre, the north is the mouth of the water, Liu Bei's army wants to go over, it is necessary to lay down these two important places.

If you take the land route, because of the relationship between the southeast hills and the Yangtze River, you can't go from the south of the Yangtze River, so you can only go to the north of the river.

Cao Jun can help intercept in Jiangbei, and the frontal battlefield will be worry-free.

The only problem is the rear.

At the beginning, Liu Biao had sent Liu Pan to travel more than 1,000 miles from Nanchang to Qian Tang in the rear of Huiji, if it wasn't for Huang Gai to defend it, I am afraid that his hometown would have been stolen.

And the reason why Liu Pan was able to go so far was because of the help of the local Shanyue people.

In that past, from Nanchang to Yuhan to Geyang, Shangrao, Dingyang, Xin'an, Wusheng, Zhuji and other places, they were all the territory of Shanyue people.

Especially after the Battle of Jingzhou, Sun Quan's control over the southern part of the southeastern hills was further weakened, so that Shanyue was rampant, and even the officials sent out were driven away or killed by Shanyue.

Therefore, if Liu Bei attacks from two directions, the south is indeed a big hidden danger.

But Sun Quan was not afraid, he was silent for a long time, and finally said: "With Cao Jun here, no matter what, we can prevent the Yangtze River." Even if Liu Bei attacks from the south and travels thousands of miles, it is difficult to get more grain and grass, as long as they hold on for a period of time, they will naturally retreat, we occupy a geographical advantage, and the advantage is ours! ”

After that, he got up and brushed his sleeves and said: "Lone wants to go to the mouth of the water to supervise the battle, Liu Bei comes, let him wait for death!" ”

Poor Dandan, I was sent to Karma in the afternoon, and I will have surgery tomorrow, but there is good news, there is no harassment of Dandan, I will be at ease with the code word, the 8th big outbreak, at least 4 more.

(End of chapter)