Chapter 168: Sun Qi's Death
Sun Qi led his troops to Xunyang, and just after walking a few miles, he learned the news of the large-scale army gathering of Wei and quickly stopped.
At this time, the new emperor Sun Xiu was summoning several important ministers in the palace to discuss important matters.
Sun Xiu is much older than Sun Liang, and he is twenty years old this year.
His appearance is very similar to Sun Quan, quite a bit of the majesty of a king, he has just arrived in Jianye, and he has already been loved by the ministers.
It's not that Sun Xiu's personal charm is too great, the main thing is that Sun Xiu is used as a comparison.
With his own strength, Sun Qi united the whole Wu State and turned them all into royalists.
From this point of view, he should be the most conscientious minister of Great Wu.
Now gathered in front of Sun Xiu, there are Shangshu Pu Yangxing, who has just come to the temple, Zhang Bu, who has been deposed as an official, General Wei Miao, Wu Wei Shuo and others.
After Sun Xiu arrived in Jianye, he immediately rewarded and promoted many people, won over the ministers, and pardoned those who had grudges with him in the past.
These actions quickly gained him the support of many people.
Today, these generals are gathered in the palace.
General Wei Miao opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, Sun Qi's dog thief left Jianye this time, there will definitely be chaos, and when he comes back, there may be minions to persuade him to take the position, which will be an extremely unfavorable situation for Your Majesty." ”
"You should be prepared to get rid of him while he and his henchmen are not in the temple."
Sun Xiu frowned, deeply convinced of his words, and then asked, "Then how do you get rid of him?" ”
Wei Miao looked at Zhang Bu dressed in white on the opposite side, now Zhang Bu was dismissed as an official by Sun Qi and became a white body, he frowned, and scolded angrily: "Sun Qi has brought the Great Wu disaster to such a point, allowing the enemy to take advantage of it!" ”
"I heard from the loyal people in the court that Cao Wei organized a large army to invade, and Sun Qi was afraid and did not dare to go to Jingzhou, and was returning to Jianye with a large army."
"Your Majesty, Sun Qi is not good to the soldiers, and several of his younger brothers are in Jingzhou, and they can't return at this moment."
"I think that when he returns to Jianye, you can set up a banquet and let him come to the banquet, saying that it is to repay him for his support."
"When he arrives at the banquet, we can rush out and kill him in the palace."
"The ministers and generals of the entire Jianye are very dissatisfied with Sun Qi, as long as they can kill him, they can use His Majesty's edict to appease Jianye's army, and let the rest of the generals be used by His Majesty."
Zhang Bu said his thoughts, and the other generals also echoed him.
Sun Xiu narrowed his eyes, "Let's prepare for this matter immediately, Sun Qi is a thief, kill my pillars, and do a bad job for me, if you can't get rid of him again, I'm afraid that this Great Wu will fall into the hands of thieves!" ”
After he finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment before asking, "Will General Shi obey my orders?" ”
Zhang Bu immediately saluted Sun Xiu.
"Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to temporarily pardon my crimes."
"Oh? Why did Zhang Gong say this? ”
Zhang Bu explained: "When Sun Qi wanted to kill the general Ding Feng, it was the minister who found him privately and sent him out of Jianye, and now he is with General Shi, General Shi sent someone to get in touch with me, and the purpose of his army was originally to take Sun Qi's army out of Jianye, so that we could have the opportunity to ambush him."
Sun Xiu laughed, "Zhang Gong is really virtuous!" If the country is so loyal and good, why worry about the world not being governed?! ”
The emperor immediately ordered his ministers to begin planning to kill Sun Qi.
When Sun Qi returned to Jianye, he actually felt a little different.
The generals in the city seem to have been replaced quite a bit, many of them new faces, and after inquiry, I learned that these people were arranged by the emperor after he left.
This made Sun Qi a little unhappy, but the emperor arranged for some middle-level generals who were not very powerful, so Sun Qi didn't say much.
After what happened last time, Sun Qi still hasn't learned any lessons.
He really didn't know how to overthrow the emperor at all, he only thought about the military power in his hands, and didn't care about the system and politics at all, so that the emperor could issue edicts and arrange cronies as he wanted.
However, he did not have enough prestige in the army, and even the soldiers hated him, and the emperor's edicts were more effective than his orders.
When Sun Qi had just returned to the mansion, an angel came and brought an edict from the emperor, asking Sun Qi to go to the palace for a banquet.
Sun Qi asked the angel to wait outside, looked at the henchmen on the side, and asked, "The emperor asked me to go to the palace today, will there be a fraud?" ”
"General, someone told you that Ding Feng and the others wanted to ambush you, and I think it was best for you not to go to the palace."
The henchmen immediately offered advice.
Sun Qi stroked his chin, "I have also heard similar rumors, but the emperor has sent so many people to convey the edict, if I don't obey, then the emperor will say that I don't obey the edict and reprimand me for rebellion, and I don't know how many people will oppose me at that time." ”
"In this case, I'll go to the palace first, you stay in the palace, and when I get to the palace, you will set fire to the palace."
"When the time comes, I'll say that the palace is on fire, and then leave the palace!"
The henchman was only dumbfounded by Sun Qi's genius plan, and was about to persuade him again, but Sun Qi had already gotten up and started to prepare to go out.
The henchmen didn't dare to say anything, Sun Qi was conceited, only believed in himself and a few younger brothers, and never trusted others.
So, Sun Qi swaggered towards the palace, and before leaving, he still blinked at his subordinates very confidently, asking him to set the fire on time.
When Sun Qi arrived at the palace, Sun Xiu sat on the top with a straight face, and his attitude was very indifferent.
This made Sun Qi very angry, and after sitting down with the ministers, he said to the general Wei Miao on the side: "It was because of me that Your Majesty was able to become the emperor, but now that I salute him, he treats me like an ordinary minister!" Looks like things are about to change! ”
The corners of Wei Miao's eyes jumped, and he didn't echo him.
The banquet began, but none of the ministers had a smile on their faces.
Sun Qi sat here very bored, looking in the direction of his mansion from time to time.
Suddenly, smoke rose from the direction of his mansion.
Sun Qi was overjoyed, and he hurriedly got up, "Your Majesty! There is a fire in the minister's house, and the minister has to go back to check! ”
Sun Xiu said coldly: "The general's family property is innumerable, it's just a mansion, why are you anxious?" Isn't all the places in the world being regarded as their own private property by the general? ”
Sun Qi immediately realized that something was wrong, he suddenly drew his sword, but at this moment, Zhang Bu, Wei Miao and others rushed out with the guards, and directly pressed Sun Qi to the ground and tied him up.
Until this time, Sun Qi was still shouting: "There is a fire in the minister's mansion!" There is a fire in the house! ”
When several guards closed the door, Zhang Bu pressed him, and forced him to bow to the emperor, Sun Qi reacted.
He hurriedly prostrated his head.
"The minister is willing to be exiled to Jiaozhou to atone for his sins!"
"Why didn't Qing exile Teng Yin and Lu Ju in the first place, but killed them?"
"The minister is willing to be punished and become an official slave!"
"Why didn't Teng Yin and Lu Ju become official slaves in the first place!"
Sun Xiu questioned angrily, and then ordered Sun Xiu to be beheaded.
Before Sun Qi could say anything, Zhang Bu directly moved to separate Sun Qi's body.
And Sun Xiu issued an edict as the emperor, and those who had conspired with Sun Qi to cause rebellion were all pardoned!
Zhang Bu went out with the emperor's edict, Sun Qi's subordinates immediately chose to surrender, Sun Xiu quickly subdued Jianye's army, regained power, and then, it was the liquidation of Sun Qi and others.
Sun Qi's people began to be captured and executed.
His younger brother Sun Ju, who remained in the palace, was killed along with him.
The great clans that he killed jumped out at this moment and began to take revenge.
Things went even more smoothly than Sun Xiu and the others thought.
However, when the news of Sun Qi's killing came out of Jianye, several people who were commanding the army on the front line, that is, Sun Qi's younger brothers, immediately panicked.
Some people feel that they should counterattack Jianye and avenge their brother.
Some people feel that they should take advantage of the situation to capture Jingzhou and establish their own foundation.
Some people feel that they should defect to Cao Wei and use Cao Wei's power to avenge their brother.
They were still hesitant, but Shi Ji did not intend to give them a chance to continue to think, taking advantage of Sun Qi's killing, his younger brothers were panicked, Shi Ji changed his strategy, and suddenly attacked, Ding Feng personally led the elite to attack, killing Sun Qi's younger brother Sun Gan, Sun En and Sun Min no longer thought about any counterattack and capture Jingzhou, led the rest of the army, and immediately voted for Cao Wei.
They sent someone to inform Wang Ji that they could hand over Xia Kou and ask for Wei Chen.
Ding Feng began to storm Xiakou, waiting to be flanked by Jianye's army and take down Sun Qi's two younger brothers.
Finally, Wang Ji made a move.
But his target was not Xiakou, he didn't even divide his troops to attack, he gathered all the troops, directly killed under Gangneung City, and began a strong attack on Gangneung regardless of the cost!!
In an instant, Gangneung was in a hurry and hurriedly began to ask for help around.
Ding Feng did not dare to give up Xiakou, for fear that Sun En and others would defect to Wei, so he could only divide a part of the army to return to support.
As a result, as soon as this army approached Jiangling, it encountered an extremely elite Cao Wei cavalry.
The cavalry seemed to have been waiting for them for a long time, and when they saw the other side appear, they immediately began to charge and attack.
The commander Liuxian was beheaded, and the morale of the Wu army completely collapsed, and they surrendered one after another.
At this moment, Shi Ji, who was stationed in Gangneung, also felt that something was wrong!!
This Wang Ji is encircling the point to send reinforcements, and he is constantly consuming the vitality of Great Wu in Jingzhou through Jiangling!
But it was useless for Shi Ji to react, at this moment, he was already surrounded by groups, and he couldn't get out of the order at all.
He can only defend the city, I hope the generals everywhere don't rush to attack!