Chapter 262: The Strong Always Go Alone, and the Weak Always Hold Together
Sun Ce was reminded by Zhou Yu's analysis, and for the first time seriously thought about the back road.
He himself is not afraid of death and wants to leave a name in the history books.
But he also knew that he couldn't gamble with the fate of his entire family.
After all, the Sun family is only a small warlord who has been dividing several counties for four or five years, and it is not without a chance to withdraw from the struggle for hegemony.
In the past ten years, a small warlord of his level in the world has finally been defeated and fled, and he has done more to find a loose official in the imperial court.
Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that Hua Xin and Wang Lang in history also managed one or two counties in Jiangdong, and after the defeat, they slapped their butts and went to Xudu, and they could still be a Jiuqing, but they didn't have real power.
The path that Wang Lang can walk in history, the other side relatives of the Sun family may not have the opportunity to take it - although Wang Lang in this life has not yet come to this point, Sun Ce cannot learn from Wang Lang's example.
After Sun Ce realized this possibility, the decadence in his heart was also stimulated, he looked at the sunset in a daze, in a daze for a long time, and he didn't know how many thoughts of the war between heaven and man in his mind, and finally came back to his senses.
He subconsciously looked left and right a few times, and confirmed that there was no outsider nearby except Zhou Yu, so he decided to open the skylight and talk to Zhou Yu about the retreat.
Anyway, no outsiders will hear it, so it won't hurt morale.
I only heard Sun Ce sigh, and explained earnestly: "Gong Jin, there is no way back in my life, I have killed too much, I have offended too many people, once I lose power, I will be attacked by enemies in all aspects."
But you are different, after Yuan Shu became emperor, in order not to rebel, you crossed the river to vote. Although in my early years, as a general of Yuan Shu, I fought a few battles in the first year of my crossing the river, but after all, I did not offend the Jiangdong family and did not form a personal vendetta......"
The more Zhou Yu listened, the more wrong he became, and hurriedly stopped the other party: "Why did Bo Fu say this?" Don't you still want me to make a living in secret, and find a way out in the future if the situation is unfavorable? Am I such a man? ”
Sun Ce raised his hand and pressed it weakly, signaling Zhou Yu to be calm for a while, and then continued: "Don't be anxious, how can I not understand you? Of course I know your bravery. But the other peers and juniors of the Sun family are still young and young, and none of them are reliable.
I can make a desperate bet myself, but the whole Sun family can't follow me to make a desperate bet. I have only occupied three counties for five years, and in such troubled times, this is not a difficult thing to ride a tiger, and I must press the foundation of the whole clan.
I hope you can help the Sun family think of a way out, in the future, if there is a mistake and the desperate bet fails, at least you can keep Zhongmou and Shao'er and them retreating, and keep the bloodline and title for my Sun family.
If Cao Cao can win against Yuan Shao, it will be the best. At that time, he will directly find a way to break through Liu Bei's blockade and go to Cao. Cao Cao remembered the credit of our Sun family helping him to drag Liu Bei and save him from being attacked by the enemy on his back, and Zhongmou and Shao'er will be treated well, and they will still lose their position as marquis.
If Cao Cao fails to win against Yuan Shao, the situation is more complicated, where else can he vote? Could it be that the children of our Sun family can only float on the sea? ”
Zhou Yu heard Sun Ce say so sincerely, and finally a little moved. He also subconsciously looked left and right, and confirmed that there was no one and would not hit morale, so he put his heart into his heart to help deduce:
"If you really get to that field...... Yu vowed to keep the Sun family safe, but at the moment, he was not so pessimistic, and his energy should still be focused on the defensive battle in front of him.
Even if Cao Cao wins, it is not so easy to vote for Cao, and now Liu Bei occupies the two counties of Guangling and Xiapi in Jiangbei, as well as the six counties of Yidong in Donghai County, and completely occupies the coastline of the East China Sea.
Further north, the two counties of Yidong in Langya County, Xuzhou, Zhu County and Ju County are in the hands of Yuan Tan. Unless Cao Cao can defeat Yuan Shao in the future and tear a hole between Qingxu and Xu, we can go directly to Cao by sea, otherwise we will inevitably pass through Yuan Shao's territory.
Yuan Shao and we may not have direct hatred, and they will not embarrass us like Liu Bei, but we must also be prepared to 'all the troops brought to join Yuan were detained by Yuan Shao, and we can only wait for the time to be ripe and the enemy's vigilance is lax, and then we can escape and cross the border to join Cao', and it is impossible to take the army through Yuan Shao's jurisdiction.
If Cao Cao failed to win against Yuan Shao, then there was no point in voting for Cao. We are surrounded by Liu Bei on three sides, and only the east can go to sea, and when the time comes, we can only cross the sea and cross Fujian to Jiaozhou, and we don't know how many ships will sink and be damaged by the wind and waves on the road.
If you don't go to Jiaozhou, you can only go to Yizhou on the other side of central Fujian, then you have to cross the black water ditch that is difficult to walk, and Yizhou is a land of barbarian miasma, so you can only survive. Similar to the situation in Yizhou, after going north to Qingzhou, he crossed straight east along the Qingzhou Peninsula and went to Sanhan regardless of it.
The wilderness of Sanhan may be better than Yizhou, but the distance of sailing should be farther than going to Yizhou. Regardless of whether we choose Jiaozhou, Yizhou, or Sanhan as the way of retreat, we must reorganize and assemble all the sophisticated sea ships at hand in order to have hope - I wonder if our army has captured Guan Yu's new sea ships in the Jiangyin water battle last month? ”
Inspired by Zhou Yu's brainstorming, Sun Ce also remembered that in the Yangtze River Bay water battle in Jiangyin nearly a month ago, although his side lost 20,000 soldiers, it was not all gained.
At least half of the 5,000 people of the Taishi Ci Department were annihilated. It's a pity that the Taishi Cibu is riding on old-fashioned fighting ships, and there is no technical generation difference, and there is no research value.
And Guan Yu and Zhang Duo's naval forces that attacked Sun Ce on both sides, in order to rescue Tai Shici at that time, they didn't care about avoiding the battle and fighting guerrillas, and they also rushed up to fight directly in the face and recruit meat.
In the end, although Sun Ce was comprehensively crushed and defeated because of his skills and tactics and the right time and place, as long as it was an upright bloody battle, both sides would definitely have their own casualties and capture.
On Guan Yu's side, some medium-sized and light new keel clippers were also killed by Sun Cejun and the whole ship collapsed and were captured, and some warships could not kill the enemy when they jumped to the gang to take over the battle, and they were unwilling to surrender, so they jumped into the river to escape in bamboo lifejackets, and the empty ships were captured by the enemy.
This is all inevitable, and it is impossible to keep the technology absolutely secret.
It's just that even if Sun Ce captures a small amount of new equipment, it will be too late for him, and it is impossible to build new warships and ordnance on a large scale, and then turn the tables.
Navy construction has always been a long cycle, and Sun Ce has run out of time.
However, since he didn't want to use these techniques to turn the tables, but just wanted to escape for his life, he relied on the captured only a few medium-sized keel clippers, nearly ten keel boats, and a little imitation to rush to build them. When the time comes, it is still possible to carry the Sun clan and henchmen across the sea to transfer.
Once he opened this idea, Sun Ce's mind suddenly opened up, and he thought of many other possibilities.
Thinking of the wonders, Sun Ce high-fived and exclaimed:
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"Gong Jin is worthy of foresight! This theory has inspired me, and perhaps our army should take advantage of the stage of holding on to each other and repair all the warships captured in the water battle last month, and then make imitations of them, not to use them in water warfare, but to sail quickly and easily transfer.
By extension, those ships also had something they had never seen before, armor attached to bamboo tubes, which could help people float on the water.
There are also strange arson ointment weapons, which were originally set on fire by the sticky and hard-to-wash fire oil, which was attached to the side of the battleship and burned down our ship!
Although we don't have much chance to use these things, if we can provide them to Cao Cao, it will also be a promotion rank in exchange for an official title in the future, which is enough to help Zhongmou win Cao Cao's trust. If Cao Cao can repel Yuan Shao in the future and turn around to fight Liu Bei, he may be able to use it. ”
Sun Ce's idea, to be honest, is already a bit similar to the Germanic science and technology data transfer plan at the end of World War II in history.
At that time, they knew that their country might not be able to hold on for the first time, so they wanted to secretly transfer their nuclear program and some other scientific research materials to the allies to continue their research and resistance, hoping for a chance to turn the tables around.
Although Sun Ce has no scientific and technological accumulation, after all, he has more experience with Liu Beijun and has learned a lot of lessons, while Cao Caojun has not fought with Liu Bei so far (Zhuge Jin's old accounts before he voted for Liu are not counted).
The lessons learned by Sun Cejun by losing 30,000 troops and the physical capture must be very attractive to Cao Cao, which can prevent Cao Cao's army from stepping on the same pit again in the future.
It's just that a lot of seizures, you only have samples, no formulas, and Cao Cao can reverse reproduce a few percent after getting it, so it's very doubtful.
Some mechanical structural innovations, some samples can be imitated at least seventy or eighty. For example, life jackets, such as some shipbuilding structural know-how.
And those oils and fats such as "high viscosity fire attack fish paste", Cao Jun craftsmen only see the real thing, there is no formula, they can only experiment by trial and error, and they have no clue, and it is good to be able to imitate two or three percent of the effect.
Zhou Yu and Sun Ce inspired each other like this, Zhou Yu also had a lot of experience, and soon thought of a point:
"Indeed, for the sake of long-term planning, this aspect should be carefully sorted out, and I also thought of a point: when I returned from the battle of Guangling, the main reason was that we had too many drawbacks through the drawings and craftsmen provided by Cao Jun and the imitation Ge bus!
So much so that he was pulled and dumped by Chen Deng with a three-bow bed crossbow with cast iron giant arrows, thick hemp rope and boulder pulleys, and his siege combat power was greatly damaged. Later, I also summarized some of the key points and experiences of the improvement of Ge's bus, and asked the defeated soldiers and prisoners in detail, and explored Chen Deng's method of restraining Ge's bus.
If these methods can be provided to Cao Cao, Cao Cao will definitely attach importance to our army, and it can be regarded as leaving an extra way back. Moreover, I heard that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were holding each other in Guandu, and Cao Cao chose a high base and a deep ditch to resist the enemy, so Yuan Shao would inevitably storm Cao's army camp and walled city.
If Yuan Shao also relied on rumors to imitate Ge's bus to attack Cao's camp, wouldn't we be able to help Cao Cao resist Yuan Shao's offensive tactics if we revealed Zhuge Jin's own defense against Ge's bus to Cao Cao? Only if Cao Cao wins against Yuan Shao, can we have hope. ”
When Sun Ce heard this, he touched his beard and felt that what Zhou Yu said was very reasonable, but he was still a little worried, so he confirmed to Zhou Yu:
"Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, they should be secretly allied, right? Could Liu Bei have already revealed technologies such as Ge Gong to Yuan Shao? If Yuan Shao has Liu Bei's skills, rather than imitation of rumors, the reminders we provide may not help Cao Cao......"
Zhou Yu thought about it, but he was very sure and answered this question positively:
"I don't think it's possible, we have to join forces with Cao Cao because we are weak. Liu Bei and Yuan Shao are the strong side, and Liu Bei will definitely secretly keep a hand and intrigue with Yuan Shao.
In the future, if Yuan Shao wins Cao Cao, Liu Bei still wants to compete with Yuan Shao for the world, how can he give his secret to someone who will become an enemy in the future? But we have no choice, if we don't do our best to help Cao Cao, we will inevitably be broken by each other, and we will naturally have no reservations when communicating. ”
Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, and found that it seemed to be such a truth, and finally made up his mind: "That is the case, these things are all up to Gong Jinling to worry about, in the past few months, you have nothing to do in Moling, anyway, you don't need to defend the city."
You still took advantage of the fact that Jurong had not been cut off by Guan Yu, first led a team of cavalry to travel lightly, returned to Wu County, presided over the overall situation for me in Wu County, Qiantang and other places, and sorted out the captures and experiences of our army in the battle with Liu Bei.
Then he sent a secret envoy from the sentinel ship, disguised as a private merchant, sneaked through Liu Bei's jurisdiction, and handed over the secret scroll of his experience to Cao Cao's people, and also let our Sun family have a good relationship with Cao Cao in advance. When sending secret envoys, send a few more waves, and don't be afraid that one or two of them will be intercepted and seized by Zhuge Jin or Guan Yu.
Anyway, these things are their own, and it doesn't matter if they are seized. And as long as we ensure that there is a wave of dense scrolls delivered to Cao Cao, we can increase Cao Cao's combat power against Yuan Shao. The earlier Cao Cao repelled Yuan Shao, the easier it was for us to survive until the day we came out. ”
With Sun Ce's decision, the "Sun Cao Technology Alliance" has been de facto formed.
Although Liu Bei's technological and scientific research strength is still the highest among the princes, Sun Cao can at least fully communicate with each other and exchange experiences.
Make sure that one of the parties has suffered losses and bought lessons, and the other party can directly learn the ready-made lessons and lessons, and does not have to suffer a loss again.
As for how many lessons can be learned from each loss after each loss, it depends on their respective learning ability. It's fair, and it's not to blame.
It is completely conceivable that in the future of the Han Dynasty, there will be "princes who are closer to Liu Bei's camp and fight with him more." Although they will be beaten more severely, the more benefits they will receive from the diffusion of technology, the easier it will be for the more remote princes to win the technological advantage".
It's like the armored forces rolled out of the European battlefield in World War II, when they fight against the Mi army, they can immediately beat the Mi army's armored forces out of the sky (under the premise that the Mi army can't use the air force in bad weather, only the ground armored forces are considered to be heads-up)
And after the Mi Army and the "number one competition area in the world's armored technology" are finished, they will go back to the Pacific Theater to roll up the Japanese invaders, and they will be able to roll out the Japanese armored forces.
After Zhou Yu got Sun Ce's order, he immediately chose to follow it, and with a small team of cavalry, he hurried back to Wu County to preside over the overall situation in the rear and operate these plans. He also knew that he couldn't do anything else if he stayed in Moling for a few months, anyway, Sun Ce just needed to defend the city.
Once the results were sorted out, they immediately sent someone to Cao Cao in secret.
At the same time, during this period of Guan and Sun Xiang, Liu Beijun also made many breakthroughs on the battlefield on the Western Front, and it seems that he was gradually able to pull out.
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ps: There will be a two-line narrative in this book, and the map will be changed back to Jingzhou later, and the timeline may be slightly backtracked, please forgive me, the next chapter will start with Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Jingnan.
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