When Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang came to Jing County along Jingshui with the victorious army that broke through Lin Lishan, Zu Lang was completely shocked. There was no resistance along the way, and as soon as Guan Yu's army arrived outside the city, he opened the gate of Jing County and personally surrendered and pleaded guilty.

The other tribal chiefs of Danyang counties were also in awe and knelt down.

They didn't even know how Chen Fu was suddenly defeated, only heard that the Han army showed another "immortal art", able to fly the eaves and walk the wall to climb the cliff, like a heavenly soldier descending to the earth to attack Chen Fu's guard troops, and then Chen Fu was destroyed.

These news obviously came from the mouths of the surrendered Chen servants, because there was indeed no soldier from any of the warring sides who saw how Zhuge Liang helped Guan Yu's troops climb the cliff.

And Zhuge Liang, before the war, also counted with Guan Yu, saying that he would try his best to block the news and keep the existence of these new mountaineering equipment secret to enhance deterrence - although Danyang's Shanyue has surrendered, I don't know if it will fight with the mountain barbarians in other places in the future. If you can keep it secret, you can use it again next time to ensure suddenness.

Guan Yu thought so, so after the fight, he still didn't allow those Danyang rock climbers to brag, but just gave everyone a gold silk reward to seal their mouths, and in the future, these rock climbers will be organized into a new team separately, so that they don't have too much intersection with other original troops.

With the combination of money and rewards and severe punishment, those soldiers were willing to shut up, and the secrecy work was very good for a while.

The Shanyue people only know the result of a defeat so far, so they can only use their own cognitive experience to reverse the process. In the end, it was not surprising that the Zhuge family had flying immortal skills.

Anyway, the Zhuge family already knew how to turn iron into alchemy, and it seems that one more flying immortal technique is nothing, who made the Shanyue people's cultural level low, and they can't understand the more complicated situation.

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"Zhuge Mansion Jun Immortal Skill is unparalleled, General Guan is invincible! The barbarians are willing to surrender to the court and be driven by the king! Don't dare to repeat it again! ”

After the army was stationed in Jing County, Zu Lang personally toasted Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang to the labor army, and also took out food to supply Guan Yu's military supplies, and his words were extremely humble.

Zhuge Liang originally wanted to be modest, but seeing that the Shanyue people regarded him and his eldest brother as immortals, it seemed that they could achieve another miraculous effect, so he stopped explaining and passed the matter vaguely.

For the barbarians, it is sometimes necessary to rely on simpler and crude methods to win their awe and worship.

Zhuge Liang wanted to understand this truth, so he improvised: "If you can get lost, my eldest brother will naturally give you a chance and treat everyone equally."

My eldest brother's immortal arts, although not all iron can be turned into gold, but his method of smelting copper and silver is enough to outperform the old method by ten times and a hundred times. There is also Tongguan Town in Chungu County, and I look at the feng shui of Danyang counties, and there are many people who can open mines.

My eldest brother also mentioned to me a method of 'terraced fields', and the methods of planting tea and roasting tea in the mountains. As long as the various departments of Shanyue are divided and effective, whether it is mining and refining copper, building roads and planting tea, or serving in the army to fight thieves, you will naturally be able to make your people worry about food and clothing in the future, far better than in the past. ”

Zu Lang listened to Zhuge Liang's personal mention of copper smelting and gold, and said that he would look at geography and feng shui for prospecting, so he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said that the Shanyue Ministries would absolutely follow the development plan proposed by the Zhuge family in the future.

After Zhuge Liang drew a circle of cakes, he closed the topic and turned around: "...... But that's all for later, and it won't take a year and a half. There is another errand at the moment, which is enough to prove your sincere repentance and true loyalty to the court. ”

Zulang: "Please sir!" ”

Zhuge Liang took a map and pointed downstream along Jingshui: "Your Shanyue departments are good at climbing mountains and mountains, and the terrain of the river valley along Jingshui should be very familiar, right?" I want you to provide the army with rations, as well as a guide to open the way, to help the army go down the river to Wuhu -

Yuan Shu has now become emperor, and Sun Ce, as an old general of Yuan Shu, has not yet formally broken with Yuan Shu, and General Zhengnan has every reason to regard Sun Ce as a thief who attaches rebellion. If you can help Wuhu and prevent Liu Xun from colluding with Sun Ce, it will be enough to prove your will to reform yourself. ”

Zu Lang didn't even think about it: "Wuhu?" I know this well, and there is nothing I can't go to in the counties on both sides of the Jingshui. Please take a break today, and I will send a guide to help General Guan open the way early tomorrow morning! ”

Guan Yu didn't say much during the whole process, just stroked his beard and pretended to be cold, and then took an occasional drink with the wine lord, listening to Zu Lang's determination, he only nodded slightly, and the errands that needed to be moved were handed over to Zhuge Liang to deal with, and he was happy and relaxed.

Guan Yu is now very clear: in terms of eloquence, he is not good at it, since he is walking with Zhuge Liang, of course he has to hide it.

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Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Guan Yujun, after a little rest, went down the river and accelerated its march along Jingshui.

Zu Lang also urgently prepared a large number of small boats, so that the troops could save some effort when marching.

When Jingshui flows out of the Xuancheng Mountains, the water speed is still very fast, and the road of nearly 100 miles can be completed in the morning.

When Guan Yu's army drove out of the mountains and entered the Wuhu Plain, there were only seventy miles left from the Wuhu city.

The Wuhu area has been occupied by Sun Ce's army since two years ago, and there has been no fighting since then. When Liu Xuan's counterattack was the most intense, he had not been able to hit this area, so the local Sun Ce army was not heavily guarded.

In addition, Zulang, the handsome man of Jing County in the south, has been safe with Sun Ce for more than a year. No one expected that there would be land people from the mountainous areas around Jing County and Wanling, and suddenly kill along the Jing River.

After Guan Yu's army entered the Wuhu Plain, he advanced for more than ten miles, and Sun Cejun's scouts quickly sent a message to warn.

The people in the villages and towns along the way, at first, saw that there seemed to be a large group of Shanyue people among the attacking soldiers and horses, and they couldn't help but hide in horror.

Guan Yu didn't care about these details at first, he just wanted to advance quickly, but Zhuge Liang, who was with the army, noticed it and immediately suggested to Guan Yu:

"Yun Chang, let's send out a sentry before the scouts and bring more proclamations. The villages and towns through which they pass should be passed on to the people. Tell the people that this is the king's rebellion, not the mountain, and there is no need to panic. ”

Guan Yu felt that it was very reasonable, anyway, it was impossible to sneak attack Wuhu County directly, in this case, it was better to raise the banner and win the hearts of the people in the name of righteousness.

Sun Ce's expansion in Jiangdong has always been unpopular.

At first, as a general of Yuan Shu's department, he beat away the shepherds canonized by the imperial court one by one, and then stood on his own. From Liu Miao to Lu Kang, Xu Gong, and Zhou Xin, which one was not officially canonized by the imperial court? On the contrary, after Sun Ce killed them, the shepherds he showed were all hypocrisy in legal terms.

And Yuan Shu is now the emperor, Sun Ce has not drawn a clear line with Yuan Shu, and is still waiting for the price to sell.

This alone made the people in the Jiangdong occupation area panic at that time, and many people of insight were worried that they would be coerced and rebellious.

Zhuge Liang played the banner of the late Liu Xuan, plus Liu Bei's banner, as well as Zhuge Jin, the banner of the new canonization of "Danyang Taishou" by the official imperial court, so that the scouts took the proclamation to settle the people first, and the local people in Wuhu were quickly pacified.

In addition, the Shanyue soldiers sent by Zu Lang this time were only responsible for leading the way for Guan Yu, and they were stared at by Guan Yu, and they didn't dare to make a mistake at all, and they had nothing to do with Minqiu.

Some well-read and well-informed local gentry, after seeing the situation clearly, immediately chose to eat pot pulp to welcome the king.

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At the beginning of the afternoon, in the government office in Wuhu City, Sun Ce stayed in Wuhu's main civil official, Danyang County Cheng Li Shu, and received an urgent report from the scouts in the south.

At this time, Guan Yu's army had already entered the Wuhu Plain for two hours, and there were only forty miles left from the county seat.

If Guan Yu's army was equipped with cavalry, I am afraid that they would have rushed out of the city at this moment. It's a pity that Guan Yu's army crossed the Yellow Mountain and marched through the Jingshui River Valley, and the cavalry could not climb the mountain, so it was slow to move.

"What? Guan Yu actually came from Jing County in the south? Isn't that Zulang's territory? Zu Lang actually surrendered to Guan Yu? And also played the banner of counterinsurgency for the imperial court?! ”

Li Shu was completely unprepared, he hadn't encountered an enemy for a year and a half, and he was shocked when he heard the news. Hurriedly asked people to summon Jiang Qin, the Jiang defense general left by Sun Ce, and asked about countermeasures.

And Jiang Qin was in the Wuhu Water Village in the west of the city at the moment, Li Shu found him to discuss the matter, and it took another half an hour, and it was estimated that Guan Yu's army had marched more than ten miles in a hurry.

After Jiang Qin heard the news, he was also shocked, and couldn't help but secretly complain: "Guan Yu's army actually has tens of thousands of horses? How did he suddenly hit Wuhu? We are a small county in Wuhu, the city is low, and there are less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, how can we hold on? I don't know if the people outside the city can enter the city and clear the wilderness? ”

When Li Shu heard this question, he was quite angry in his heart:

"Those Diao people have all surrendered to the enemy! also took the initiative to provide Guan Yu with water and food, and did you still expect them to be strong and clear? I heard that the enemy's name is Zhuge Liang, who is extremely vicious.

As soon as Guan Yu was killed, he sent people to spread the word everywhere, saying that General Sun was a rebellious minister, and that the official positions he held were all false positions, and that they were coming to quell the rebellion on behalf of the imperial court! ”

The more Li Shu talked, the more angry he became, especially when he talked about Zhuge Liang.

Because Li Shu himself is Sun Cefeng's Danyang Juncheng, and Zhuge Liang is the Danyang Juncheng of the Son of Heaven's edict, then he is here to rob him of his own job!

When a false job meets a positive position, how can you not be jealous.

After speaking, he was still puzzled, and added: "Hmph, I heard that Zhuge Liang is only a seventeen-year-old yellow-mouthed child!" Cao thief's indiscriminate life can be seen! The children can be the county! ”

Jiang Qin saw that the county was so at a loss, and his confidence in defending the city was also quite frustrated, and he couldn't help but mutter: "The enemy is outnumbered, and the people's will is fluctuating, it is better to make plans as soon as possible, retreat to Niuzhu, and defend the danger with Zhou Sima!"

The danger of Niuzhu is far beyond Wuhu, and there are important passes on land and water, not as much as this Wuhu only has a river waterproof village, but there is no strong city and mountain. Moreover, if we retreat to Niuzhu, we will have enough time to prepare, withdraw the rural people to Guanbei in advance, and clear the wilderness to wait for the main force to return to help. ”

Jiang Qin's argument is also based on the task that Sun Ce gave him and Zhou Tai at the beginning, which was to ensure the defense of the river, so their troops were mainly sailors, and the focus of defense was also to block the Yangtze River. In this place, there is no strong city in Wuhu.

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were both born as water thieves, and in their early years, they committed crimes in the Chaohu Lake and Weixushui area of Lujiang County, and followed other Danyang heroes and gangsters. After defecting to Sun Ce, Sun Ce also mainly used them to quell sporadic internal rebellions and maintain the defense of the river on the western front, which can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

Li Shu heard that Jiang Qindu had the idea of preserving his strength, and he couldn't help but become more and more shaken, so he ordered: "You go to the water village to prepare a warship, once the city is surrounded on three sides on land and cannot hold on, you must be ready to break through from the Yangtze River at any time."

Even if Wuhu cannot be defended for a long time, we cannot give up immediately. What you just said is also a bit reasonable, we need to use Wuhu to buy time for the Niuzhu defenders, otherwise the enemy army will advance too fast, and the Niuzhu side will also have no time to clear the wall! ”

When Jiang Qin heard this, he immediately went back to Shuizhai to prepare.

Li Shu ordered to pack up the valuable property and armor equipment in the treasury and prepare to transfer, and on the other hand, he sent scouts and messengers to the north to report the emergency.

After nightfall that night, Guan Yu's army approached Wuhu, and first sent people to persuade him to surrender to no avail, so he left the city five miles away and went to the village, preparing to build a flying ladder to test the siege in the coming day.

However, Li Shu and Jiang Qin did not stay stable for long after all, and after a night of fear, early the next morning, Jiang Qin found that on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, there was an enemy naval army far larger than the Wuhu defenders, approaching the water village.

It was Tai Shici's banner that came to the enemy to fight, a posture of avenging Liu Xuanjun.

Jiang Qin was shocked, knowing that once the escape road on the river was also blocked, the defenders of Wuhu were afraid that it would be difficult to escape, so he immediately informed Li Shu of the situation.

Li Shu weighed it again and again, considering that the people in Wuhu City were not attached to it and the city was short and outnumbered, he finally gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to withdraw quickly in warships and leave before Taishi Ci surrounded the Yangtze River escape waterway.

Li Shu and the others fled halfway, and they met Zhou Taijun, who came from Niuzhu. Zhou Tai had just been ordered by Xu Kun, the Taishou of Danyang, to be sealed by Sun Ce this morning, and he divided his troops south to reinforce Wuhu. Unexpectedly, before he arrived, Wuhu Wenwu ran away with his troops, and Zhou Tai had no choice but to join forces with Jiang Qin and return to Niuzhu to hold on.

Before noon that day, Guan Yu once again launched a tentative offensive against Wuhu. Because the main force in the city had already run, and only some of the villagers were left, they immediately chose to open the door to welcome Wang Shi, and Guan Yu entered the city almost bloodlessly.

Riding on a tall horse, enjoying the pleasure of entering the city in high spirits, Guan Yu couldn't help but sigh: "Ziyu is really a believer, he said that he would not let me help in vain, guaranteed that I could enter Wuhu, and helped my eldest brother across the river, and he really did it."

From the attack on Lin Lishan, to the forced landing of Zulang to take Jing County, and then to Wuhu, a total of only seven days, breaking three strong enemies, advancing more than 300 miles, although the ancient famous generals, but that. Even if I directly asked for orders to give up the siege of Lin Lishan at that time, take another detour back to Chaisang, and then take the Yangtze River down the river to Guangling, I may not be able to walk in seven days. ”

As Guan Yu spoke, he also recalculated the account in his heart, and his emotion and disbelief were beyond words.

For seven days, there were two battles in between. If he had turned around and bypassed the enemy, he would not have been able to reach Wuhu at this time.

What an experience it is to fight faster than to walk.

Soon after Guan Yu entered the city, Tai Shici also occupied Wuhu Water Village. When Jiang Qin was leaving, he set a little fire in Shuizhai and burned down a lot of wooden buildings to prevent the enemy. Tai Shici asked people to put out the fire first, and they were busy until the afternoon before entering the city to meet Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.

Guan Yu asked about Tai Shi Ci's itinerary, and Tai Shi Ci only said that he was assigned by Zhuge Jin. After the good news of the battle of Lin Lishan was transmitted back to Chaisang, Zhuge Jin immediately ordered him to enter Wuhu, and finally arrived with Guan Yu who came by land, only less than a day.

Guan Yu, who tasted the sweetness, couldn't help but be angry, and asked Zhuge Liang temporarily: "If our army takes advantage of the victory to pursue and go straight to Niuzhu, what does Mr. think?" ”

Zhuge Liang was still calm, and said calmly: "Niuzhu has dangerous passes such as Jilong Mountain, which can be fortified by land and water, and I am afraid that it is not easy to obtain in a hurry." Moreover, this time the capture of Wuhu was more based on the advantage of a sneak attack, and the enemy army could not have imagined that our army would suddenly appear from the mountainous area controlled by Zulang and launch a sneak attack, so that the enemy army could not dispatch troops and horses to fortify.

The Niuzhu garrison was already on guard, and Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai joined forces in one place, and it was not easy to attack in a hurry. And once our army attacks quickly, Sun Ce will definitely transfer all the troops in front of Huiji back and fight to the death with us. Niu Zhu is the last gateway of the Moling, once Niu Zhu is lost, Sun Ce will fight us at any cost for the safety of the Moling. ”

Guan Yu was in a state of pride, but he didn't look down on Sun Ce very much, so he just snorted coldly at the moment:

"Could it be that if we only take one Wuhu and no longer take Niu Zhu, Sun Ce will be willing to admit that this dumb man will lose? If you want me to say, it's better to offend them all anyway, so it's better to offend them thoroughly. The sage is still in the clouds: 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter, is it different? ”

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this, secretly thinking that Guan Yu was really not careful in reading than him.

The book clearly says "Fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter, then what is it", or "Killing people with a sword and a sword, there is a difference", and these two paragraphs are said by Mencius.

However, Guan Yu is so casually grafted, the meaning is quite right, and Zhuge Liang is too lazy to chew the words.

He replied matter-of-factly: "If we stop here and put on a posture of 'we don't want to threaten Moling yet, but just want to seize a port city that can block the mouth of Yuan Shuwei on the other side,' then Sun Ce may really continue to hold on and not expand the conflict with us for the time being."

Because we played the banner of rebellion, and because Sun Ce had not officially broken with Yuan Shu, he gave us the truth. If we see a good situation, we will take it, and emphasize and hint at our reasons for attacking through various channels.

Sun Ce may give up on continuing to be ambiguous, but immediately send an envoy to Xu Du to express his heart to Cao Cao, saying that he is willing to formally break with Yuan Shu and will not rebel again, so that Cao Cao will admit that he is still a Han Chen, and issue an order for the Sun family to temporarily reconcile with us. In this way, although it is inevitable that the two sides will have a war in the future, it is possible to make peace for the time being.

If Yun Chang has to take advantage of these few days to get more benefits, I don't object, but I can't attack Niu Zhu, once I attack Niu Zhu, it will block Sun Ce's road to peace, and Xuande Gong and we are indeed powerless to deal with Sun Ce and Yuan Shu at the same time. Even if you stabilize Sun Ce for a year and a half, isn't that good?

Moreover, after Wuhu is in the hands of our army, as long as our army is willing, it can basically block the route of Sun Ce's defection and counterattack on Lujiang County under Yuan Shu's rule. Once Sun Ce really votes for the imperial court and opposes Yuan, and there is no way to expand Yuan's territory, then we can pick up a period of development in vain, but Sun Ce can only wait, after a year and a half, the strength of the situation may have new changes. ”

Guan Yu's eyes were fixed, and he stroked his beard nervously, and was explained by Zhuge Liang like this, a development route that he had never imagined before seemed to suddenly go on a winding path.

"That being the case, it is better to wait and see. Anyway, we have now occupied Wuhu, and we can intercept Yuan Shu's attack on the eldest brother from Shunjiang in Lujiang County at any time, and keep the eldest brother's flanks worry-free.

This main goal has been achieved, and everything else is an addition. Mr. is clever, so let's plan according to Mr. ”

Guan Yu no longer questioned it, and Zhuge Liang followed his wishes and ordered the deployment in front of him first.

And Zhuge Liang really didn't seem to be wrong. Xu Kun, who was in Moling City, urgently strengthened the city defenses, stationed troops in Niu Zhu, and reported to Sun Ce in an emergency.

After Sun Ce was angry for a while, he really controlled his emotions, knowing that the most important thing at the moment was not to immediately counterattack Liu Bei, but to send a prestigious envoy into the court first to get a whitewashed identity for himself.

Because if you fight back directly now, the Sun family's brand of "Yuan Shu rebelling against the party" will never be washed away.

Waiting for the price and selling it is messed up! Before he could sell it, he was first seized a small piece of land by the Zhuge family in the name of rebellion.