Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 101 Danyang Zhu Family
Looking at Yan Yu, who was soaking wet and tied up tightly by Huang Gai, Gan Ning showed a look of regret on his face:
"It wasn't that idiot Yan Baihu... What a pity!"

Lu Meng laughed:
"General Gan is too bold!
"With this plan, you killed more than a thousand enemies, captured four thousand, and even captured the enemy commander alive at the small cost of only a hundred men!

"It can be called a complete victory! If Yan Baihu had come, we might not have won so beautifully."

Huang Gai, who had previously looked down on Gan Ning, now showed a little more admiration:
"Huang finally understands why the lord thinks so highly of you...it turns out you really have some skills!"

Hearing their praise, Gan Ning laughed heartily.

Although he was not a strategist, he ate, drank, defecated and urinated on the river.

In terms of ability to command navy, he may not be better than Huang Gai and Lu Meng.

But when it comes to experience in fighting on rivers, he definitely has more experience than anyone else!

But he quickly calmed down, knowing that the battle was not over yet.

Although the enemy lost 6,000 soldiers, they still had 14,000 soldiers guarding the port.

After suffering a loss once, the enemy will not attack easily again.

And forcibly attacking the port will only result in heavy losses...

Lu Meng guessed Gan Ning's idea and gave his own suggestion:
“According to the time, the lord should have taken over Danyang County.

"According to the lord's strategic policy, we must try to capture Wujun at the lowest cost.

“General Gan might as well write a letter to inform the lord and ask him to attack the southern part of Wujun.

“Once Xu Gong gets the news, he will definitely send troops to guard the rear.

"Then we can catch the chicken from both sides and we will definitely be able to capture it in one fell swoop!"

After listening to Lu Meng's suggestion, Gan Ning immediately adopted it.

He wrote a letter and asked Huang Zu, who was accompanying him, to take the letter to Danyang County and deliver it to Lu Bu.

At the same time, Yan Baihu on the other side was roaring angrily:
"Gan Ning, you bastard! I swear to cut you into pieces!"

Looking at Yan Baihu who was still going crazy after sobering up, Xu Gong tried to comfort him while sighing secretly.

He finally understood where his previous uneasiness came from.

Since Lu Bu raised his army in Lujiang, he has almost never been defeated!

The other side sent Gan Ning, who was experienced in naval battles, to attack Wujun, which must have shown that they had full confidence in him.

However, he failed to see through Gan Ning's trick of showing weakness to the enemy in time.

Otherwise, Yan Yu would not have been defeated and captured alive by the enemy.

"If Gan Ning dares to touch my brother, I will fight him!"

Seeing Yan Baihu still howling and wanting to fight, Xu Gong hurriedly advised:
"Brother Baihu, calm down. Now that the two armies are facing each other, the enemy will not easily harm Yan Yu before they capture the port.

"We just happened to capture a battleship from the enemy. Why don't we use it to exchange for Brother Yan Yu?"

Hearing this, Yan Baihu, who had been so arrogant just now, suddenly fell silent.

However, noticing that his brothers were all looking at him, he could only glance at Xu Gong coldly:
"What do you mean? Of course I want my brother back!"

Xu Gong saw the reluctance in Yan Baihu's eyes, and felt a chill on his back.

This guy just acted like he cared about Yan Yu, but it turned out he was just doing it for his subordinates to see.

Now he is asked to exchange the fighting ship for Yan Yu, but he is reluctant to do so?

As expected, bandits are bandits. You must be extra careful when dealing with such people who only care about profit and forget their principles!
Otherwise, he might be sold out to the other party at some point...

At the instruction of Yan Baihu, Xu Gong sent a soldier to negotiate with Gan Ning's army.

However, a moment later, the soldier reported back:
"Gan Ning was unwilling to accept the exchange and threatened to behead Yan Yu in three days..."

"what?!"

Yan Baihu slammed the table fiercely, furious!

Although he was reluctant to part with this battleship, it would not be a big loss if he could exchange Yan Yu back.

However, Gan Ning actually refused the exchange and even wanted to kill Yan Yu?

He simply doesn't take the King De of Eastern Wu seriously!
"No! I can't stand it anymore. I must kill Gan Ning, the bastard!"

Having said that, regardless of Xu Gong's objection, he directly ordered five warships and five thousand soldiers and headed straight for the enemy. But what Yan Baihu didn't expect was that when he approached the enemy ships, the enemy ships actually retreated in an orderly manner and did not confront him head-on.

Although Yan Baihu was angry, he didn't dare to go too deep.

In the end, he could only curse a few words across the boat and retreat back to Lougang with everyone.

Three days later, Gan Ning actually killed Yan Yu and sent his head over.

Yan Baihu was furious and sent out his troops, but saw that Gan Ning's army retreated again, still not giving him a chance to engage in a head-on confrontation, as if they were waiting for something.

Yan Baihu had no choice but to bury Yan Yu's head with great honor, and continued to guard Lougang with Xu Gong.

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Danyang County, Wanling County.

After reading the letter sent by Huang Zu, Lu Bu praised with satisfaction:

"Xingba did a great job! I knew he was capable.

"Now that Danyang County has been taken over, it's time for me to go and help him."

Having said that, Lu Bu handed over the management rights of Danyang County to Zhou Xin, and led 10,000 troops to Qiantang County in the south of Wu County!

Qiantang County is the location of Qiantang River in later generations.

However, the commander of Qiantang County at that time was Zhu Zhi, the head of the Danyang Zhu family.

When Sun Ce was still under Yuan Shu, Zhu Zhi once persuaded Sun Ce to leave Yuan Shu, who had evil intentions.

However, Sun Ce did not agree to his request because he still needed the help of Yuan Shu to avenge his father.

So Zhu Zhi left alone.

Later, he brought Sun Ce's mother Wu Guotai, his younger brother Sun Quan and others to Qiantang County for shelter.

Lu Bu had known about this long before he came to Danyang.

Therefore, he brought Sun Ce's handwritten letter with him in order to persuade Zhu Zhi to surrender.

Before entering Qiantang County, he ordered someone to deliver Sun Ce's handwritten letter to Zhu Zhi.

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Qiantang County Government Office.

Zhu Zhi, with a serious face, read the letter in his hand without any noticeable change in his expression.

He had already known that Sun Ce had surrendered to Lu Bu.

Although he was angry at Sun Jian for not fighting for his country, he could not inherit Sun Jian's hegemony over Jiangdong.

But he knew that if Lu Bu parachuted into Lujiang, he would be destined to compete with Sun Ce.

And now it seems that Lu Bu is undoubtedly the taller one.

After all, Zhu Zhi had a close relationship with the Sun family and took care of all the descendants of the Sun family and Mrs. Sun.

Seeing that Lu Bu did not rush in, but delivered Sun Ce's letter first, the first impression of Lu Bu was quite good.

But as the leader of a prominent family, Zhu Zhi has his own ideas and personality.

He didn't want to commit himself to Lu Bu easily, so he wrote back:

“I do have a close relationship with Bo Fu, but I am not willing to serve you.

"Your Excellency may take the road directly to attack Wu County, the seat of Wu Commandery.

"But if you want to enter Qiantang County, you can only enter by breaking through the city gate!"

When Lu Bu received Zhu Zhi's reply, his brows immediately frowned.

This Zhu Zhi is really ungrateful.

However, the other party had a close relationship with Sun Ce after all, and he didn't want to fall out with him.

We can only attack Wu County first, and then slowly persuade them to surrender...

(End of this chapter)