Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2659 Wu State splits Chu State, Sun Ce VS Sun Liu

Chapter 2655: Wu State splits Chu State, Sun Ce VS Sun Liu

Regarding supporting Sun Ce or Sun Quan, Daqin's attitude has always been to support whoever is more beneficial
Previously, the senior leaders of Daqin, including Ying Hao, believed that it would be more beneficial for Daqin to support the weak Sun Ce, because once Sun Ce provoked the civil strife in Soochow, the state of Chu would not let go of such a good opportunity to destroy Wu.

After all, between protecting the Central Plains and destroying Soochow, Liu Xiu would definitely choose to destroy Soochow.

The Central Plains area is too far away from the Chu State, and the only way for Liu Xiu to support the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains is to send troops to the Northern Expedition to attack Xiangyang City, so as to contain part of the Great Qin's troops.

However, Xiangyang is the most fortified city in Jingzhou, and it can be said to be as solid as gold. Even if the soldiers of the Chu State go northward, they may not be able to break through in a short time.

If Xiangyang is not breached, the state of Chu will not even be able to threaten Jingbei, and naturally it will not be able to restrain the strength of the Qin army.

That is to say, in terms of protecting the Central Plains, what Chu State can do is actually very limited. Even if it tries its best, it may not be able to stop Daqin, and the benefits obtained are at most no more than a dozen counties around Xiangyang.

Such a small amount of income is completely incomparable with destroying Wu.

If the State of Chu can destroy the State of Wu, not only will it be able to fully occupy the defense line of the Yangtze River, but also most of the troops defending against the Eastern Wu will be liberated. From then on, there will be no constraints in the south of the Yangtze River. It exploded several times in an instant.

Therefore, if a good opportunity to destroy Wu really appeared, Liu Xiu would have no other choice except to send troops to destroy Wu.

For Chu State, destroying Wu is not only the most beneficial thing, but also self-preservation and survival.

But once the Chu State sends troops to destroy Soochow, it will naturally be unable to support the three kingdoms of the Central Plains, and the Great Qin can concentrate on destroying the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming first.

It was with this kind of thinking that Da Qin tried his best to protect Sun Ce. For this reason, he even did not hesitate to offend Sun Quan and refused Sun Quan's request to repatriate Sun Ce.

About Sun Ce's coup plan, Ying Hao actually knew about it earlier than Sun Ce. He thought that even if Sun Ce could win Jianye, he would definitely not be able to win Sun Quan.

After all, the entire Wu Kingdom has been controlled by Sun Quan, and the military power of Jianye is in Sun Quan's hands. Even if Sun Quan can't stop Sun Ce, he won't be able to escape even if he escapes, right?

Once Sun Quan escapes from Jianye, Soochow will definitely split, and Chu will also attack Wu.

But what Ying Hao and Da Qin's many think tanks didn't expect was that Sun Quan would be so crotchless that it would be fine if he couldn't beat Sun Ce, but he couldn't even run away.

The process of Sun Ce's coup was too easy. It only took half a day from the beginning to the end to capture Sun Quan and control Jianye. The speed was so fast that Chu and Qin had no time to react.

For Daqin, the failure of Sun Ce's coup was a bad thing, but if it was too successful, a good thing could turn into a bad thing.

If Sun Ce were allowed to take control of Wu State so quickly, with the abilities of Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Lu Su and others, it might not be enough to get in, but it would be more than enough to defend the city.

Although Chu State is stronger than Wu State in terms of generals and military strength, it has always been inferior to Wu State in terms of cutting-edge commanders, especially Sun Wu, who beat the entire Chu State into a temper by himself.

If Sun Ce takes full power over Soochow, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others will definitely be reactivated.

Liu Xiu had been defeated by Sun Wu many times. Naturally, he knew that facing such powerful enemies as Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Lu Su, etc., even if the soldiers of the whole country were not sure of victory, he naturally did not dare to send troops to attack Wu easily.

At this time, the Great War in the Central Plains has already started, and the hundreds of thousands of Chu troops will definitely not be idle, and if Liu Xiu does not send troops to attack Wu, he will definitely use it to prevent Daqin from capturing the Central Plains.

In order to prevent Chu State from obstructing Great Qin's capture of the Central Plains, Ying Hao planned this plan behind his back and sent two great masters to rescue Sun Quan, which caused Wu State to split and lured Liu Xiu to take the bait.

After all, Liu Xiu must keep one of the Central Plains and Jiangdong. There are too many variables in the Central Plains. Only by destroying Wu can Chu State have the capital to compete with Great Qin.

Therefore, Liu Xiu had no choice at all. Even if he knew it was Da Qin's conspiracy, he couldn't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In order to be able to successfully capture the Central Plains, Ying Hao also took great pains, including both Wu and Chu, and the biggest victim is probably Wu, who became a pawn for no reason, but Wu is not innocent.

The general trend of the world, the long-term division must be united, and the long-term unity must be divided.

Daqin not only has the strength to unify, but also started the battle of unification. Even if Wu is not destroyed by Chu this time, it will be wiped out by Daqin sooner or later.

If you die sooner or later, you have to die. It is better to contribute a little value to the future unification of the Qin Dynasty.

Of course, Daqin will not let Wu State be wiped out easily. It is best to fight with Chu State and lose both sides, and run out of ammunition and food.

In this case, after Daqin did not arrive in the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains, he would be able to send troops directly to destroy the Wu and Chu countries without even needing to rest.

Jianye, Wu Palace.

Sun Ce was in a state of desperation right now, not because he found out that Sun Quan had escaped, but because he was dealing with his biological mother, Mrs. Wu, uncle Wu Jing, and other Sun family elders.

Mrs. Wu actually prefers her eldest son, Sun Ce, and also hopes that Sun Ce will inherit the throne of King Wu, but she doesn't want her eldest son and second son to fight each other.

After learning that Sun Ce secretly returned to China to launch a coup, imprisoned his younger brother Sun Quan, and killed Zhu Cai, Xie Yi and many other generals, Mrs. Wu, under the instigation of Sima Yi, thought that Sun Ce was obsessed with power and would usurp his younger brother. Location.

Sima Yi was very eloquent, and bluntly said that Sun Ce would definitely kill Sun Quan, and Mrs. Wu was also persuaded, worried that Sun Ce would really harm Sun Quan, so she immediately called her younger brother Wu Jing, and other Sun families, to come to the eldest son to ask for help. If you want to say something, you can't say anything. The elder son is not good for the second son.

Facing accusations from his biological mother and elders, Sun Ce also explained the original intention of his coup, which was actually because Sun Quan killed his father and wanted to kill himself.

But with Sima Yi's flattering words in front, Mrs. Wu had preconceived ideas and only thought that Sun Ce was justifying herself. She didn't believe that the innocent second son would do such a rebellious thing as killing his father.

Even Mrs. Wu thought that Sun Ce was deliberately framing Sun Quan, so that he would bear the infamy of killing his father for thousands of years, so as to prepare for the next murder of his younger brother and seize the throne, so she cried and made trouble and hanged herself, asking Sun Ce to release Sun Quan. Otherwise, he would starve to death and let Sun Ce bear the reputation of being unfilial.

Faced with the persecution of his mother, uncle and many other elders, Sun Ce was also very helpless. He could only turn to his cousin Wu Fen for help and asked him to take away his uncle Wu Jing and other elders. Before there is no conclusive evidence, he will never kill his younger brother Sun Quan, so he managed to stabilize Mrs. Wu.

Afterwards, Sun Ce didn't care about anything, he handed over all matters big and small to Sun Bin, and he himself investigated all the movements of Sun Quan in the past three or four years.

As a result, it doesn't matter if you don't check it. Once you check it, you will really find out the problem.

Sun Quan's patricide was done seamlessly, all the people involved were eliminated, and no evidence was left in the world, but because it was done too cleanly, there were still problems.

"Mother, look for yourself, Sun Quan, as early as four years ago, when he was the prefect of Kuaiji, he had already started recruiting masters in the Jianghu. He secretly recruited them under his command, and later he placed these people into the Military Intelligence Department.

But after the birth of the father, Jiang Zuo Jianjun and other 28 masters disappeared on the same day, even though they were not assigned any tasks, and even the list was crossed off from the Military Intelligence Department.

If Hai'er hadn't searched through all the files, he wouldn't know that there were still these people in the Military Intelligence Department. "

Sun Ce gritted his teeth and said that although he had confirmed that Sun Quan had killed his father before, he suffered from the lack of any evidence.

The evidence in Sun Ce's hands now, although it still can't really beat Sun Quan, but it can already be inferred that it is almost inseparable.

On the day of Sun Jian's death, the 28 experts of the Military Intelligence Division disappeared in Jianye City one after another, and they were even secretly removed from the list. There is obviously something wrong with it, and there is a high probability that Sun Quan killed him to cover up his patricide.

"Impossible, how could Zhongmou kill his father? This is absolutely impossible."

Mrs. Wu is not stupid. After all, there are so many doubts here, coupled with her daughter Sun Shangxiang's words, she actually believed in Sun Ce in her heart, but it was a little difficult to accept for a while.

"I want to ask Zhongmou personally."

Madam Wu gritted her teeth and said, she still had some luck in her heart. After all, as long as this kind of thing is not completely beaten to death, no mother would want to believe that her son would commit such a thing as patricide.

Mrs. Wu couldn't accept it, so how could Sun Ce accept it?
His father, Sun Jian, and Cao Cao, king of Wei, and Ying Wen, the great emperor of Qin, were not called the "Three Heroes of Troubled Times", but heroes worthy of the heaven and earth, how could they accept the absurdity of being killed by their own sons? How to die?
As soon as he thought of this, Sun Ce felt like a knife was twisting his heart, his eyes were red, and he said through gritted teeth, "Mother, my son is also going to ask Sun Quan, how did the father feel sorry for him, and he did such a heartless thing."

Seeing the murderous eyes of the eldest son, Mrs. Wu did not speak for Sun Quan again this time. After all, killing his father is too rebellious. If Sun Quan really did it, even if Sun Ce didn't do it, she would kill this rebellious son herself. , to offer sacrifices to the spirit of the deceased husband in heaven.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Ce took Mrs. Wu to prepare to go to the secret prison where Sun Quan was held, but when he arrived, he found that the prison was empty.

More than 100 people who were in charge of guarding Sun Quan, including the most powerful master, all died tragically on the spot. Only Sun Quan's whereabouts were unknown, apparently rescued.

Sun Ce inspected the bodies of all the people, and found that they were all killed with a single blow. He was able to kill a master master with one move, and he killed more than a hundred people without disturbing anyone. This shows that the people who came to rob the prison are extremely powerful Strong, at least there is a great master.

In addition, although the corpses in the prison were already stiff, the sword intent on the wounds had not completely dissipated, which also meant that Sun Quan should have been taken away within two hours.

"Order to block the entire city immediately."

Sun Ce ordered with a livid face, he was not angry at Sun Quan being taken away, but at how Sun Quan's detention location was leaked out.

In order to prevent Sun Quan from being rescued, Sun Ce personally imprisoned him secretly, and only a few people such as Sun Wu, Sun Bin, Wu Zixu, and Lu Su knew about it.

However, Sun Quan was only detained for two or three days before he was rescued. This shows that there must be a traitor among his own people.

Sun Ce checked the people who knew him several times, but still couldn't find any clues, because these people had no reason to betray him.

Sun Wu and Wu Zixu went to Lujiang and Yuzhang to take over the military power, while Sun Bin and Lu Su took control of Jianye on their behalf, pacified the prefects of the counties and won over the generals.

None of them have any reason to betray themselves!

"We can't continue with such unreasonable suspicions. Maybe Zhongmou left some behind-the-scenes. The most urgent task is to capture Sun Quan again." Sun Ce shook his head.

Sun Ce's reaction was not slow, but it was still a step slow. Before the order was delivered, Sun Quan had already escaped from Jianye under the protection of Xie An, Zhou Tai and others, and went straight to Wu County.

After Sun Ce heard the news, he immediately led five thousand cavalry to pursue, but was caught by Xie Xuan's golden cicada's plan to escape.

Xie Xuan suggested to Sun Quan that he and Zhou Tai would lead [-] soldiers and horses, pretending to be [-] troops, and retreat from the direction of Jurong to Wu County by taking a shortcut to attract Sun Ce's attention, while Sun Quanze took the remaining soldiers and horses , Detour to Yangxian to go to Wu County.

Sun Ce did not realize that he had been tricked because he was in a hurry to catch up with Sun Quan.

After a great battle, although Sun Ce easily wiped out Zhou Tai and Xie Xuan's five thousand cavalry army, he had completely leaked Sun Quan, and Zhou Tai and Xie Xuan fled back to Wu County by water.

After Sun Quan fled back to Wu County, with the support of Bu Zhi, the prefect of Wu County, he immediately issued an imperial edict to the outside world, and sent a large number of envoys to the counties and generals stationed in various places in Song Dynasty.

In the imperial edict, Sun Quan accused Sun Ce of usurping the throne and seizing power, and even prepared to slander himself for killing his father, asking the prefects of all counties and all the armies from all over the country to attack Sun Ce.

After Sun Quan’s edict was released, he quickly got the support of the three prefects, Gu Hui, the prefect of Kuaiji, Qian Liu, the prefect of Linhai, and Xie Shi, the prefect of Dongyang. With the addition of Bu Zhi, the prefect of Wujun, four of the ten prefectures of Wu State had stations. In the Sun Quan camp.

As for Zheng Zhilong, the prefect of Yizhou, and Pang Juan, Tian Ji and other powerful generals who hold military power, they neither expressed their support for Sun Ce nor Sun Quan, and most of them were still on the sidelines.

After seeing Sun Quan's accusation against himself and the edict of reversing it, Sun Ce was naturally furious, and immediately prepared to use up his Jianye army to attack Wu County and capture Sun Quan alive to prevent future troubles.

But at this moment, Sun Ce received the news that Liu Xiu raised 35 troops and divided them into four groups to attack Wu.

(End of this chapter)