Shu Chen

Chapter 407
The northern part of Yangzhou, which is north of the Dajiang River and south of the Huai River, was known for its prosperity in the past.

But in Huainan today, it is most appropriate to describe it as "the bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no chicken crowing for thousands of miles".

This was not caused by the tyranny after Cao Wei occupied Huainan, but the result of years of endless fighting, which led to the loss of Li and Shu and their migration to avoid disaster.

For example, when Yuan Shu, who was arrogant, extravagant and dissipated, ruled Huainan, he expropriated and extorted violently. As a result, many Li and common people in the Jianghuai area died of hunger, people ate each other, and their bones piled up.

After Yuan Shu deserved his demise, his subordinates had no one to rely on and acted independently.For example, Sun Ce's Li Shu, the prefect of Lujiang, attacked and killed Yan Xiang, the governor of Yangzhou, and ordered Mei Gan, Lei Xu, and Chen Lan to gather tens of thousands of people to defend themselves.

The Jianghuai River and the Huai River have no rules and regulations, and the people of Li and common people are in danger, so they can only rely on the powerful and handsome to escape into the mountains or avoid disasters elsewhere.

After the Battle of Chibi, the situation in the world is generally clear.

Wei Wu Cao Cao began to manage the land of Huainan, with Liu Fu as the governor of Yangzhou, established the state government, implemented good governance and cultivated the land to support the people, so most of the Li Shu who fled to the mountains and forests returned.However, the marshals who gathered in Jianghuai and refused to surrender were defeated by Xia Houyuan's military governor.

For example, Lei Xu from Lujiang led more than 50,000 soldiers and his family members to Jingzhou to join the late emperor Liu Bei who had just won the four counties in southern Jingzhou.

However, Huainan, which has been in chaos for several times, did not allow Li Shu to live and work in peace.

Before the Battle of Xiangfan, Jiangdong and Cao Wei Duo had a war in Huainan.

At that time, Wei Wu Cao Cao used troops in Yongliang and Hanzhong many times, and thought that it would be difficult for the navy to compete with Jiangdong, so he ignored Jiang Ji's remonstrance and forced all the people in Jianghuai to move to Huaibei, so as not to be used by Soochow.

This move ruined Liu Fu's years of hard work.

After a few years of poor governance, Liu Fufang added more than [-] Lishu to the Wei State to gather in the Shouchun area.

However, once Cao Cao's emigration order came out, these Li and common people were afraid of becoming children of Huaibei Haoyou and servants of the government's farmland, so they all fled to Wu with their families and gathered in Wancheng, Lujiang County and other places.

In other words, there are few people living in the area from Hefei to Huaishui today.

Such a situation also gave Jiangdong the convenience of sending part of his troops into Huainan during the dispatch of the insidious attack, without worrying about being discovered by Li Shu and alarming the Wei army.

The intention of this partial division to enter Huainan was not to participate in the attack on Hefei or to besiege Shouchun City.

And not under the control of Lu Xun or Zhu Huan.

It was under the order of Sun Deng, the prince of the state of Wu, that Jianye set off across the river and arrived at Quanjiao County (Jianghuai Hills) on the opposite bank. The previous edict restored the garrison system of Wei Wu and Cao Cao, and let Hu Zhi and Xia Houxian set up the garrison land in Yangzhou.

That is to say, the intention of this partisan division is to take advantage of the autumn harvest just after the harvest and the grain and fodder from Wei Guo's farms to be transferred to other places to come and plunder supplies for military use.

And it can be regarded as supporting Sun Shao and Zhang Chengbu, and sharing the pressure of Wei Guoqing and Xu Erzhou's reinforcements going south to Hefei.

More precisely, it is the manifestation of Emperor Sun Quan's check and balance mentality.

Because he is already over fifty years old.

It is urgent to train the ministers of the prince's hidden residence, and to prepare for the prince's future succession and transition.

After all, the world has been in chaos for many years, and people's hearts have long since faded away.

Even Zhaolie Liu Bei, whose name of benevolence and righteousness was sung all over the world, had rebellions in various counties in Nanzhong after his death.

No matter how conceited Sun Quan was, it was impossible for him to feel that he was more popular than Zhao Lie and Liu Bei, and he dared not pin his hopes of inheriting the foundation of the Sun surname on the loyalty of Jiangdong officials.

Therefore, after he sent Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao to serve as the front of Lu Xun's army, he also asked Sun Deng, the prince who is now in Jianye to supervise the country, to send other potential courtiers to Huainan to practice for a while, to gain some merit and fight. Some military reputation.

Sun Deng didn't have much military power. Except for the necessary troops to guard the capital, he could only squeeze out more than [-] soldiers.

But there were four thousand partial divisions rushing to the battlefield.

The reason is that the officials he sent out include Zhang Xiu, the second son of Zhang Zhao, and Gu Tan and Gu Cheng, the grandchildren of Prime Minister Gu Yong.

Based on the background of Zhang and Gu's family, it is easy to piece together more than a thousand private soldiers' trilogy and evidence.

Naturally, these three men had to go deep into the hinterland of the enemy's territory almost without going into battle. Out of safety considerations, Sun Quan also authorized Sun Deng to mobilize the captain of the Tunqi school as the superintendent.

Tunqi Xiaowei is Liuzan.

Zi Zhengming, a native of Changshan, Kuaiji County.

Shao was a county official. He once fought against Wu Huan, the leader of the Yellow Turban Bandit.

He has a strong personality, and every time he sees the trend of Gu Liang's attack, he sighs alone at the book.At a time when the world is in turmoil and heroes are rising together, when you hate being disabled and have no meritorious deeds, you intend to cut your own legs with a knife to cure yourself, so that you can walk without hindrance.

The family does not allow it.

Liuzan did it on his own, looking for gaps, dissecting the legs to see the bones, dividing the flesh and smoothing the tendons, resulting in profuse bleeding, fainting and unconsciousness.

Fortunately, he was discovered by his family, treated him and extended his support.

After that, live it, and the old wound will heal, so you can walk in a hurry!
When Ling Tong heard about his deeds, he invited him to meet him. He was so surprised that he recommended him to Sun Quan and brought him into the army.

Facing the enemy, one must first be called to the sky, and sing because of resisting the sound, and respond to it from left and right, and then enter the battle, and the battle will be invincible.Tired of military exploits, Sun Quan was honored with the honorary title, and he was regarded as the captain of Tunqi.

Liu Zan has a strong nature, often advises on the gains and losses of current affairs, and is very outspoken and respected by Sun Quan.

The crown prince, Sun Deng, stayed in the capital to supervise the country, but Sun Quan asked him to lead the army to stay in Jianye to assist, admonishing the government for gains and losses and providing comprehensive protection.

Now that he is in charge of Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan and Gu Cheng's three tribes entering Huainan, there is no need to worry about their safety.

However, both Sun Quan and Sun Deng were negligent.

That is Liu Zan used to follow the expedition and often be the first to go first, not hesitating to go to battle, not hesitating to die in battle!

But he said that when the Liuzan governor crossed the river and entered the territory of Quanjiao County, they marched westward for about a hundred miles, but never met a Li Shu or a Wei soldier.Going back for more than fifty li, it was a cover-up attack near the point where the Wei army was garrisoning fields.

More than [-] soldiers in Wei Tuntian did not dare to fight.

The generals and soldiers of the Wu army were all rejoicing, but Liu Zan stopped and looked around alone.

After the battle, the soldiers and generals discussed. General Gu Zhangsan claimed that the success of this time should not be greedy. They can divide the troops to protect food and fodder and return the prisoners to Jianye. The rest will go north to Yinling County to block the road. Zhang Shi can.

Leave a comment and stay silent.

Everyone was surprised, but asked.

Leaving praise is to express his own opinion, claiming that Wei Jun was lax and unprepared based on Jiangdong's disastrous defeat in Jingzhou in April in summer and was busy with autumn harvest inventory and warehouse storage, thinking that this is the time to drive in. It is a god-sent opportunity for everyone to make contributions and promote the prestige of the Jiangdong country!
After all, he spoke loudly.

Said:
"My lords, Your Majesty and the crown prince sent us to Huainan, not only for the sake of the lords to make meritorious deeds, but also for us to benefit the battle situation! Now we are unprepared against Wei, and we can reach the city of Hefei if we go west for a hundred miles. I have a plan, sir. If you wish to die hard, the city can be broken! I don’t know if you want to return with a small victory, or if you want to work together with me to break Hefei in order to repay the country and win the reputation of the world?"

(End of this chapter)