Sun Quan's head flew high, and the expression on his face was still solidified with a smile.

Everyone around was stunned.

Gu Li opened his mouth and said in disbelief: "Ding Feng, you! ”

He never dreamed that the inner ghost would be Ding Feng!

This time, Sun Quan got up and contacted the major families in Jiangdong, and he knew that there must be ghosts among them.

And there may be more than one.

The Sun family can't be said to be a Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty in Jiangdong, and it is also a group of enemies.

The early Sun Jian era was okay, but in the Sun Ce era, it was called a killing person, and countless families hated them to the core.

Later, Sun Quan chose to unite with the family, and the situation was slightly better.

So even if Liu Bei doesn't treat the Jiangdong family very well, Sun Quan himself knows that if he can't say it well, some people will use him as a vote to choose to exchange for fame and fortune.

It's just that he can't figure out who the inner ghost is for a while, so he can't filter it out, so he can only pick someone he trusts to be around.

Among them, Ding Feng is one of the young players who can be trusted in Sun Quan's eyes.

Because he is Ding Feng's younger brother.

After Ding Feng was captured, he would rather die than surrender, and even the Ding family was in embarrassment and was very embarrassed.

This time Sun Quan rose up, which was to contact those who had no ambition in Jiangdong and launch a rebellion together.

Ding Feng is quite brave and good at fighting, and has the talent of his brother, so he was entrusted with important tasks by Sun Quan and selected to become a pioneer by his side.

I didn't expect him to be an inner ghost!

Ding Feng beheaded Sun Quan with a knife, blood splattered all over his body, and he looked at Gu Li with a hideous face and scolded: "Jiangdong has been peaceful for several years, how can there be another war?" ”

"Kill him!"

Gu Lilema raised his knife and shouted, angrily drawing his knife and slashing at Ding Feng.

As soon as the words fell, another young general on his side, Zhong Limu, stabbed him obliquely and stabbed Gu Li under the horse.

Ding Feng glanced at Zhong Limu in surprise, Sun Quan's position just now was in the middle, he was on Sun Quan's left side, and Gu Li was on Sun Quan's right side.

And Zhong Limu was behind Gu Li's right.

Obviously, Zhong Limu is also one of the undercover agents of the imperial court, but he is far away from Sun Quan's position, and he doesn't have a good chance to get off, so he was preempted by himself.

Zhong Limu also glanced at Ding Feng, and the situation on the field suddenly shocked all the families and soldiers who followed Sun Quan.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "Your Majesty has an order, only the first evil will be killed, if you lay down your arms, surrender on the spot to avoid death and avoid crime, you will not be blamed for the past, if you resist stubbornly, you will kill the whole clan!" ”

"Really? Can I avoid death if I surrender? ”

"Sun Quan is dead, Gu Li is also dead, what else is there to continue to make trouble, let's vote."

"I'm willing to surrender."

"Don't kill me, I'm being coerced."

"Voted!"

Thousands of soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered.

The soldiers who were still crossing the river in the distance didn't know what was happening, and they saw chaos outside Qiantang City from a distance, and as soon as they came ashore, they were ordered to lay down their weapons and surrender to avoid death.

Liu Shen accepted all the captives with a smile, registered the major families who rebelled, and arranged the merit books for the families who did the internal response.

This credit was almost for nothing, Sun Quan thought that he could take advantage of Cao Wei's attack and Jiangdong was empty to set off a rebellion, but he didn't know that no one was willing to accompany him to gamble.

If Sun Quan has the personal prestige and force of his father and brother, it may be a different matter, but his strength is not good, why should he let people sell their lives?

What's more.

Compared with following Sun Quan, he once again started from scratch to fight Jiangdong.

It's better to pick up the ready-made ones and take Sun Quan as a vote, so that the court will have rewards, not to mention, and they can also be recruited into the office.

This is an opportunity for the Jiangdong family, and they are naturally unwilling to go all the way to the dark.

Therefore, it can be said that Sun Quan calculated everything, but he didn't calculate it, just because his own food was not as good as his father and brother, and he was sold.

The farce was quickly put to rest.

At this time in Huainan, after Guan Yu burned Hefei City, the fleet went south to the south, looking like it was going to help Jianye.

Cao Xiu immediately started the pursuit, both land and water, and hurriedly followed behind.

Soon the scouts came to report that the main force of Guan Yu's army retreated to the mouth of the water, and the rest of the defenders scattered all over the country crossed the Yangtze River one after another to quell the rebellion in the rear.

This means that there are only about 50,000 Guan Yu troops in the mouth of the water.

At the beginning of November, news came from the south that Sun Quan had captured Qiantang and tens of thousands of Han troops were gathering in Jianye, as if they were going south to deal with Sun Quan.

Cao Xiu's main force entered Dongxingti, which was the place where Zhuge defeated Sima Zhao in history, and it was also the place where Zhao Yun killed Cao Chun today.

After arriving in Dongxingti, Cao Xiu immediately arranged the camp, more than 100,000 troops along the water, the fleet also blocked the river, the camp stretched for more than ten miles, and there were more than ten camps used to store materials alone.

In the tent of the chief general of the Cao army in the middle camp, Cao Xiu sat on the main seat and discussed with several staff officers.

Although it was daylight, it was relatively dark inside the tent, it was full of candles, and the howling north wind outside was blowing the curtain, Cao Xiu looked around at everyone and said, "The scout came to report that Guan Yu had about 50,000 people to intercept us at the mouth of the water, and the rest all went to Jianye." ”

"Guan Yu has about 30,000 soldiers and horses in Huainan counties, these people will be evacuated soon after we arrive, judging by their appearance, they should go to Jianye to assemble, and then go south to fight Sun Quan."

Jiang Ji stroked his beard and said: "It's a pity that we are one step slower, if we can surround the whole of Hefei before Guan Yu burns down Hefei and retreats to the mouth of the water by boat, and breaks through his dock on Shishui, then Guan Yu will definitely die now." ”

"Count him as a fast runner."

Cao Xiu snorted coldly, and then said: "However, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not easy for us to attack it immediately." ”

Liu Ye said with a smile: "His grain and grass should only be left for more than a month now, who will be in a hurry?" ”

"I'm afraid that Sun Quan won't last for a month, not to mention that their naval army occupies the mouth of the river, if they immediately mobilize some old grain from Jianye, they may be able to slow down for a while."

Jiang Ji was a little worried.

The current situation is that they are one step slower and did not surround Guan Yu to death in Hefei, causing him to board the ship and run back to the mouth of the water.

As long as this place is guarded, Guan Yu will be able to calmly mobilize grain and grass from Jianye, and divide his troops to quell the troubles in Jiangdong.

This situation is actually something that Jiang Ji and Liu Ye can think of in the past few days, but it is a pity that when Hefei was besieged, Cao Xiu still hesitated a little and did not act immediately, but was a day late.

That's how it is to fight a war, the fighters are fleeting, and now it's too late to regret it, and you can only think of reparative measures.

Liu Ye thought about it and said: "General, although the river is vast, there are actually many Jiangxinzhou in the heart of the river, and there is a huge island across the Liyang River. ”

"Oh?"

Cao Xiu was surprised: "How big is this Jiangxinzhou?" Can accommodate tens of thousands of troops? ”

Liu Ye said with a smile: "I have been to this island before, not to mention tens of thousands of troops, even hundreds of thousands of troops can accommodate it." ”

Liu Ye is a native of Chengde in Huainan, not far from Liyang, in the early years between the Jianghuai River, is a famous celebrity in Huainan, for the geographical environment here, naturally very understanding.

The Jiangxinzhou he said is Jiangxin Township, Dangtu County, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, which is a continent island in the center of the Yangtze River in Dangtu County, with an area of more than 50 square kilometers and the second largest alluvial continent in the Yangtze River.

However, in the Han Dynasty, the area of this Jiangxinzhou was not as large as that of later generations, after all, it had been alluvial for two thousand years, and it must have been much larger in later generations.

But even so, an area of forty or fifty square kilometers, not to mention the stationing of tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people is indeed more than enough.

Hearing Liu Ye's words, Cao Xiu groaned: "But in such an important place, won't Guan Yu station soldiers and horses?" Send scouts to scout and find out what's going on over there. ”

"There will definitely be soldiers and horses stationed, but Guan Yu probably has no other soldiers and horses, even if there are on Zhou Island, can we still stop our army from crossing the river?"

Liu Ye said.

"Well, that's right."

Cao Xiu nodded: "But let's investigate first." ”

At that moment, he immediately sent people to investigate.

Soon the next day, the scout returned and informed him of the situation.

There is indeed a Han army stationed on that Jiangxinzhou, but there are not many of them, and the most important thing is that if you rely on this Jiangxinzhou, crossing the Yangtze River will be much smoother.

Because the Jiangxinzhou is only two or three hundred meters away from the narrowest place on the left bank of the Yangtze River, this distance can be crossed by makeshift boats.

So when he learned this information, Cao Xiu was overjoyed and immediately sent Lu Qian Zangba to divide 40,000 troops and start preparing to cross the river.

A few days later.

Lü Qianzang built hundreds of ships and transported soldiers across the river in batches.

Although the Han army resisted desperately, the Han army on the island only had more than 1,000 people, and they could not defend it at all, and finally withdrew from the island.

At this time, in the mouth of the water, in the camp of Guan Yu, the dock fort was built on the bank of the Yangtze River, and Guan Yu's old face in the camp was condensed into a ball, and his face was very ugly.

Because Lu Xun told him just now that he had burned Hefei City, and now it was time to burn the Xukou.

"Prince."

Lu Xun stepped forward with a smile and said: "This battle is supposed to extinguish Sun Quan's rebellion and hold Hefei." But I strongly advocated luring the enemy deeper, because this battle could hurt Cao Wei and pave the way for the Prime Minister's Northern Expedition next year. If it is just to extinguish Sun Quan and hold Hefei, Cao's army will retreat to Henan, and it will be very difficult for the prince to go north at that time. ”

Guan Yu shook his head and said: "I have never been afraid of difficulties, but what you have to understand is that if we fail, Huainan, which I worked so hard to fight, will give up like this." ”

Lu Xun said: "So the worst result of this battle is that Huainan will give in, and there will be no people in Huainan for thousands of miles, which will not shake the country's foundation." It's just that in the future, the prime minister's northern expedition, the prince and the marquis will work harder, and the big Han in the south is still a big Han, but if we win, we will get too many benefits, and we may even destroy Wei in a war. ”

"Huh."

Guan Yu glanced at him and chuckled, "You have a lot of courage. ”

"Humility is also gambling with one's own net worth and life."

Lu Xun lowered his head and said: "The Jiangdong Shi clan is in a bad situation with Sun Quan, even if they defect to the first emperor, they will not be reused, if this battle is successful, they can also gain a foothold in the court." ”

"Good."

Guan Yu appreciated his honesty, nodded and said: "If it is done, I will guarantee you as the deputy minister of the three provinces, if not, your head will not be guaranteed." ”

"Yes."

Lu Xun's deep gaze looked at the river in the distance.

He was indeed gambling on this battle.

Because if you only keep Huainan, it's still not a big problem.

They had an internal response on Sun Quan's side, and probably guessed that Sun Quan might attack Taicang, so they only needed to keep Taicang and transport the grain to Hefei.

There are 50,000 people in Hefei, and if there is enough food, it should be more than enough to resist Cao's army of more than 100,000 troops, and the risk will not be too high.

When the time comes, Sun Quan will be eliminated internally, and Cao Jun will probably have to return in vain at that time.

But in that case, the strength of Cao's army still exists, and it is expected that if it goes well, Zhuge Liang will plan to go north next year, and at worst, the year after tomorrow, Cao Wei's soldiers and horses still have so many elites, and it is not easy to overthrow them in one fell swoop.

Therefore, if you can make good use of Sun Quan's rebellion, lure the enemy deep, lure the Cao army to attack and set up an ambush, and cripple the soldiers and horses of Cao Wei in Henan at one time, then the Northern Expedition will be much smoother.

The key is whether Cao Jun will be fooled.

Lu Xun is also gambling.

He bet that Cao Jun would not be so easy to accept when he saw it, and he was satisfied with a burned Hefei city.

It will definitely continue to move south to pursue Guan Yu's army, which is "anxious" to rush to the aid of Jiangdong.

After all, the progress of Sun Quan's side in the south was "smooth", not only burned down Taicang and made Guan Yu's army temporarily run out of food, but also Lianke Second County was storming Qiantang.

If Cao Jun had more ambition, he should have taken this opportunity to beat the water dogs, continue to pursue Guan Yu, cooperate with Sun Quan's side, block Guan Yu in the Yangtze River and Jianye, and attack him from both sides to completely eliminate him.

And until that time.

Lu Xun will let Cao Jun see the natural danger of the Yangtze River, why is it a natural risk!

He looked at Da Jiang, and a hint of determination flashed in his eyes.

Soon, with Guan Yu's order, countless soldiers began to board the ship and evacuate from the mouth of the water, and the monstrous fire of the mouth of the mouth also burned.

More than an hour later.

Cao Jun's scouts informed Cao Xiu of the news at an almost dead pace.

Cao Xiu was shocked and hurriedly called a strategist to discuss.

Liu Ye exclaimed: "This Guan Yu is worthy of being a veteran for many years, this trick of a strong man breaking his wrist is admirable." ”

Jiang Ji nodded: "We have just occupied the Jiangxinzhou, Guan Yu understands that the grain road in the rear has been cut off, if he directly goes up the river at this time and retreats to Jingzhou, his strength will be preserved." ”

"Will he withdraw to Jingzhou? Yangzhou doesn't want it? ”

Cao Xiu was surprised, and then asked the scout, "Where did their fleet go?" ”

"The subordinates don't know, as soon as the flame of the mouth of the whisker rises, the subordinates will come back to report."

The scout replied.

"Revisit."

Cao Xiu had just given this order.

Suddenly, there was a shout outside: "Report! ”

"What?"

"After the flames of the mouth of the Whiskers burst into flames, we immediately rushed over and saw Guan Yu's fleet crossing the river from a distance."

Another scout rushed in to report the situation.

Liu Ye immediately said: "He must want to cross the river and return to Jianye by land, he has already sent someone to pacify the rear, Sun Quan can't afford any wind and waves, this Guan Yu is probably going to give up Huainan and rely on the Yangtze River to defend it." ”

"Hahahahaha."

Cao Xiu laughed and said: "Then I definitely can't let him go, Sun Quan can be regarded as a great help to us, how can we just ignore it, he crosses the river, and I also cross the river!" We have a lot of soldiers and horses, and we have the entire Huainan north of the Yangtze River, are we afraid that we can't go over the river and take their Jiangdong nest directly? Pass me on the order! ”

"General!"

The herald came out to salute.

Cao Xiu said: "Order the three armies, immediately board the ship to pursue, you must not run Guan Yu!" ”

"Yui!"

The herald immediately went out to deliver the order.

After the order was issued, Cao Xiu looked around and said: "It is said that Guan Yu is the enemy of ten thousand people, and in the past, taking the head of the general in the army was like probing for something, and today, I will take his head!" ”

"The general is wise!"

Liu Ye, Jiang Ji and other staff officers saluted one after another.

Now, at least from their point of view, Guan Yu has few soldiers, a rebellion in the rear, and no food, which is at the end of the road!

(End of chapter)