Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 391 The Lu family of Wu County welcomes the general

Before it got dark in the evening, Ruxukou was breached.

Guan Yu and Huang She Gan Ning, with the cooperation of the navy and the army, broke through the camp gate in the southwest corner and rushed in.

Then under the chain reaction, Ma Chao's troops in the north also successfully broke through the northern camp.

Pan Zhang, He Qi, Zhu Ran, Lu Fan and others defending in the south were defeated. Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran were beheaded, He Qi and Lu Fan were captured alive, and a large number of Jiangdong troops surrendered.

When Sun Quan of Zheqi City overlooked Ruxukouwu Fort on the other side of the river, because it was too far away, he could not see the specific situation there, and the battle reports often required He Qi and the others to send people from the southeast corner of the ferry every day. Take a boat and report to him to know what happened on the other side.

But this is no longer necessary. After the camp gate was breached, the defense was already at an extremely disadvantageous position, and after they were about to be wiped out, He Qi, Lv Fan Zhuran and the others chose to set fire, splashing all the fish oil and fat, intending to die with the enemy.

So at this time, raging flames rose in many places in Wubao in Ruxukou.

In the past, it was Guan Yujun who wanted to burn their camp, but failed because there were more fire prevention facilities in the camp, but now it has become Jiangdong Army who set the fire by himself. It can be seen that Jiangdong Army has reached the end of the road at this time.

Sun Quan stood blankly on the city and looked at the burning fireworks in the distance. His whole body seemed to have no bones, his legs gave way, and he collapsed to the ground, muttering "It's over, it's over".

At night, the Jingzhou Army completely occupied Ruxukou, and the fleet of the Jingzhou Navy appeared at the foot of Zheqi Mountain swaggeringly, and surrounded the mountain heavily.

The next day, Sun Quan, who hadn't slept all night, saw that the fire at Ruxukou in the north had been extinguished after dawn. Although it was far away, it was still unclear whether the other side had fallen, but everyone knew that Ruxukou was probably gone. People are stationed.

The river bank has been blocked by the Jingzhou army, and even a ship reporting the letter cannot pass through.The most frightening thing is that the enemy has surrounded Zheqi Mountain and is beginning to attack the top of Zheqi City.

Zhu Huan knew that after losing Ruxukou, Zheqi City could no longer defend it, because it was an isolated city, and the enemy didn't need to do anything. The main force went directly south to Jiangdong, and the rest surrounded the city until the food was exhausted. , they will all starve to death naturally.

Therefore, Zhu Huan urged Sun Quan to abandon the city and flee, as did Zhuge Jin Gu Yong and others in the city.

On August 25, the 26th year of Jian'an, when Guan Yu had just occupied Ruxukou and had not yet launched a large-scale attack on Zheqi City, Sun Quan fled in a hurry, went to Wuhu by land, and fled to Yongping along the Zhongjiang River.

He dared not take the Yangtze River waterway.

Because the Yangtze River waterway has been completely occupied by the Jingzhou army, if he goes back to Jianye by water, who knows if he will be intercepted by the Jingzhou army halfway.

So he planned to return to Moling from Yongping along the Guanjiang River.

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he learned that Guan Yu had won a great victory on the front line, and went to Zheqi City with Shen Chen.

At this time, Guan Yu immediately went down the river, broke through Wuhu to take Danyang, and went straight to Jianye.

Zheqi City has been deserted, except for a large number of captured Jiangdong Army who were imprisoned here, there are only a few thousand defenders.

After Liu Bei and Shen Chen arrived at Zheqi City with a rear army of 1 people, they stood on the top of the mountain and looked around.

To the north is the vast and turbulent Yangtze River. It is the end of August, the north has entered late autumn, and the weather is getting colder, but the east of the river feels neither cold nor hot.

To the south are endless mountains and rivers, with undulating mountains and towering peaks.To the east is the plain land, along which you can go north to Wuhu County.

Looking at the scenery, Liu Bei sighed for a moment: "Xiaoqing, this river is very beautiful."

Shen Chen said with a smile: "The north and south of the river all belong to the Lord."

"Yes."

Liu Bei smiled and nodded: "Sun Quan is destroyed, we will divide the north and south with Cao Pi and rule."

"But it's not the end."

Shen Chen agreed.

"good."

Looking to the north, Liu Bei seemed to see Luoyang, the weather-beaten capital of the Han Empire through thousands of miles away, and said softly: "I will attack Cao Pi in the north, revive the Han Dynasty, and return to the old capital!"

The sky gradually darkened, and the sun set in the west, reflecting the red glow of sunset glowing on the banks of the Yangtze River.

Shen Chen and Liu Bei stood on the city, overlooking the south of the Yangtze River.

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Just when Guan Yu won a big victory at Ruxukou, he was like a broken bamboo and went straight to Jianye, and when Liu Bei Shenchen boarded Zheqi City.

At this moment in Jiangdong Wujun, Wei Yan and Pang De divided into two groups. After breaking through Qiantang, the last stronghold in Jiangdong, one attacked Wujun and the other attacked Danyang.

Wei Yanshun went northward from Qiantang to Wucheng and Jiaxing, and went straight to Wu County, the seat of Wu County.

There are almost no Jiangdong soldiers guarding along the way.

According to the past, the strength of troops sent by various countries and princes is not the total strength. For example, Liu Bei was defeated in the Battle of Yiling and almost wiped out his entire army, but Zhuge Liang still organized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to immediately go to Baidi City for rescue.

It is because the total force at that time was 20, and some soldiers and horses were often left behind when going out. It is unlikely that all the troops of the whole country will go to war like the Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, there should be county soldiers behind Jiangdong to suppress rebellions and guard against bandits, pirates, rogues and other small groups of rebellious forces.

But now all the counties are defenseless, the government offices are in vain, accompanied by the devastating collapse of public security, economy, and agriculture, a large number of people fled everywhere, many people simply rose up and looted everywhere, the Jiangdong family was in danger, and ended up in the dock Fort manor defense.

Wherever Wei Yan's army passed by, either a large number of refugees wanted to join them, or the aristocratic families were serious in their manors, sending people to contact Wei Yan's army, while carefully preventing their clan from being exterminated.

After all, most of the aristocratic families in Jiangdong do not welcome the Liu Bei Group, so even if Qian Tang is breached, they don't want to choose to surrender so quickly, but hope that Cao Wei can come to rescue.

Those aristocratic families along the way, Wei Yan, ignored them, and now he had only one goal - to capture Wu County, and then immediately went straight to Jianye.

Therefore, he marched all the way in a hurry, not even those low-level people who started the rebellion, but left a few hundred people to lead them to occupy various county towns, and the main force went all the way north to Wu County.

Wu County is the Suzhou City of later generations. If there is one word to describe this place, it would be the lake like the sea of ​​stars.

As the estuary of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Wu County faces the Yangtze River in the north, the East China Sea in the east, and Taihu Lake in the west.

It is very close to the East China Sea.

Because the level of the East China Sea in the Han Dynasty was much higher than that of later generations, Shanghai, Nantong, Qidong and Chongming Island in this area of ​​later generations are now blowing bubbles in the East China Sea.

Go east from Wu County to Lou County, which is the Kunshan District of Suzhou in later generations, and you can see the sea.

So the land of Wu should have belonged to the sea many years ago. After the sea water receded, it left behind lakes as numerous as stars and the vast Taihu Lake.

Wei Yan's army appeared on the south bank of Taihu Lake, on the wilderness plain, a land of fish and rice. The rice fields were neatly spread on the vast land under the division of the ridges.

The lake is covered with dense aquatic plants, and flocks of wild ducks, wild geese, and red-crowned cranes swim in the lake wetland. Passing by a lake on the roadside, you can also see schools of fish in the clear lake water.

Every household here has a fishing boat, and many people even live on the boat. If there is not a road and official road in the criss-crossing lakes, I am afraid that Wei Yan's army will have to make boats to travel.

After arriving in Wu County, everything seemed to be much more peaceful, without the chaotic scenes of other counties, and there were no large numbers of people's uprisings, rebellions, burning, killing and looting everywhere.

When the common people saw the Jingzhou army, they just looked at them curiously, and then stood on the edge of the field, watched from a distance from the fishing boat, or continued to do their own things.

No one came up to ask them to surrender, as if they were just passing by, and nothing happened to everyone.

Wei Yan was puzzled at first, but as he walked, he probably understood the reason.

There are too many lakes around Wuxian County, and the waterways are extremely developed, while the land road conditions are poor. The densely criss-crossing waterway network is the umbrella of the local people.

Even if a foreign enemy invades, the common people only need to drive boats and hide in the reeds in the lake, and no one will be able to find them.

So they don't need to rely on the Jingzhou army to keep them safe.

Seeing this situation, Wei Yan didn't respond, as long as the common people didn't organize troops to attack them, they would just pretend they didn't see each other.

At present, his task is to destroy Wu County, and then immediately go straight to Jianye.

The military regulations of the Liu Bei Group are very strict, the most important of which is that looting of the people is not allowed, and once found, the master will be beheaded.

Therefore, Wei Yan traveled lightly and hurriedly. Before coming out of the southeast hills and mountains, after replenishing the last wave of food and grass from the Shanyue people, each person only carried 20 days of dry food with him.

Without being able to plunder the people on the spot to replenish food and grass, killing from Qiantang to Wu County, and then from Wu County to Jianye within 20 days, it can be said that time is urgent and the task is urgent. Naturally, Wei Yan has no time to waste the extra time on irrelevant on the person.

He was at the head of the line now, hurrying along the road.

Not only are there paddy fields, lakes, and wetlands on both sides of the road, but even the air is humid. The soil under your feet seems to have never dried, and it is full of a soft texture, which is very disturbing.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, passing through the densely packed lakes and swamps, crossing the turbulent Lou River and Songjiang River, and crossing the wooded forest wilderness, at the end of August and the beginning of September, Wei Yan finally arrived outside the city of Wu County.

Wu County is located in the Wuzhong District of Suzhou City in the later generations, but the area at this time is not one-tenth that of the later generations. It is only a small city of two to three square kilometers.

The waterways outside the city are criss-crossed. Although the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has not been excavated, there are already many rivers passing through the city and outside the city. Along the tree-lined path all the way to the north, Wei Yan saw the city.

The pavilion is on the edge of the small river, and there is a wooden bridge connecting the two banks. There are many people standing near the pavilion. They are too far away to see clearly, but they can only vaguely see the shadows of people over there.

Wei Yan's face suddenly became serious. He waved his hand to signal the soldiers to stop, and then with a roar, several scouts rushed out and ran forward quickly.

Soon the scouts arrived at the river, found a field ridge as a shelter, and watched from a distance of more than 20 feet.

I saw that standing beside the pavilion was not a serious soldier, nor a rebel army composed of Jiangdong people who came to defect to Liu Bei's group, but a group of people wearing large silk and satin robes, crowns and A scholar of jade and sword.

Scholars?

Wei Yan couldn't believe his ears when he heard the scouts report back.

The Liu Bei Group treats aristocratic families relatively harshly. He does not restrict the aristocratic families to be officials, but restricts the population and land owned by the aristocratic families.

For the Jiangdong family, this is tantamount to killing them.

So even if they broke through Qiantang, the aristocratic families everywhere they passed would treat them with a non-cooperative or even hostile attitude.

That is to say, the aristocratic family has experienced many failures of the Sun Quan regime, and has given Sun Quan a lot of population and food, leaving them seriously short of troops and parts.

Otherwise, it is not good to say that in private, it is very likely that a large number of aristocratic families will join together and organize troops to fight against Wei Yanpound and the others.

But even if the aristocratic family is weak and dare not stir up trouble, at least their attitude is unfriendly.

After all, they still don't know that Ruxukou has been breached, and the news that Cao Wei's reinforcements are nowhere in sight, so they are naturally still looking forward to the return of the northern Cao army king.

Under such circumstances, suddenly a group of gentry greeted them outside the city, what would Wei Yan think of this?
fraudulent?

This was Wei Yan's first thought.

But then he shook his head, pushing the thought out of his mind.

The surrounding rice fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and there are rivers besides the lake. The forest outside the city has long since become sparse after years of felling, making it difficult for people to hide.

In the case of a relatively wide field of vision, it is almost impossible to ambush.

It's impossible for the enemy to send those dozens of scholars over to die, right?
Thinking of this, Wei Yan suppressed the confusion in his heart and ordered the soldiers to move on.

Soon they arrived at the small bridge. Seeing the arrival of the army, dozens of scholars on the other side became excited and waited under the pavilion by the bridge.

Because the other side of the river was narrow, the army couldn't cross it at once, and Wei Yan also wanted to know what the other side was doing, so he only brought dozens of personal guards, crossed the bridge alone, and came to the other side of the bridge.

He saw a scholar in his thirties walking forward slowly, came to Wei Yan, bowed his hands and saluted, "Wu County Lu family, welcome the general."

Immediately afterwards, another person came up, cupped his hands and said, "Gongsun family of Wu county, welcome the general."

"Master Zhang of Wu county, welcome the general."

"Gu family of Wu county, welcome the general."

The four surnames in Wuzhong, Lu, Zhu, Gu and Zhang, were all present except Zhu's.

Wei Yan was quite surprised.

The Jiangdong gentry are especially represented by the four surnames in Wuzhong.

It's no accident that Mrs. Zhu didn't come.

After all, the Zhu family used martial arts to fight against Wu, and Zhu Huan and his son were loyal to Sun Quan, and they are still helping Sun Quan to garrison the city, so it is impossible to come and submit.

But the rest of the surnames were all present. Are they willing to follow the King of Han and voluntarily reduce the land and population?
Wei Yan was very puzzled, and asked, "Are you all willing to submit to the King of Han?"

"good."

The head of the Lu family in Wu County was named Lu Hao, who was Lu Xun's younger brother. He stepped forward and said, "I am willing to surrender."

"It's strange."

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Wherever our army goes, the people are happy, but the family is afraid to avoid it. I didn't expect that when we came to Wu County, the family would be willing to submit."

"It's all because of the kindness of Governor Shen back then."

Lu Mao said.

"The favor of the governor?"

Wei Yan was puzzled and asked, "What is it?"

Lu Hao said: "In the first year of Xingping, when Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou, the governor went south from Xuzhou to Jingzhou to avoid disaster. He passed by Huainan. He once wrote to my ancestor Ning Gong in the name of the Xinye Deng family, asking him to be careful of Yuan Shu. At that time, the Lu family followed Ji Ninggong in Lujiang. After getting the trust from our ancestors, we sent my brother and dozens of people from my father back to Wu County. Soon after, Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce to attack Lujiang. Because most of that letter survived!"

　The whole town has a power outage, and the Internet cafes are out of power. I only call in the afternoon. I will try my best to code Chapter 2. If it is too late, there is nothing I can do.In addition, this little foreshadowing comes from Chapter 27, friends who forgot can go back and have a look.

　　
　
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