Chapter 1116: Siege
August of the third year of Tang Wude (208 AD). Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Jianye, the Dongwu Imperial Palace, the Great Wu Emperor Sun Quan got the news that the Tang Army had won the victory of the two armies and besieged Chengdu, and immediately found Zhou Yu, the general and the governor of the navy, and Lu Xun, the deputy governor of the navy.
Sun Quan asked without a master: "How is it good, how is it good?" Liu Bei was about to be destroyed...... There's only one ...... left."
Sun Quan is a hegemon, so he knows it very well in his mind. In the end, if you are left with yourself, you will definitely die. With panic in his blue eyes, he stroked his purple hair and walked up and down the temple.
Your Royal Highness, Zhou Yu pondered for a while, and said to Sun Quan: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much, our army has the Yangtze River moat, although the Tang Army is very powerful, but our land-based defense has never been slack." Today, hundreds of miles along the river, places that can be used for large-scale landing operations are covered by heavy defensive weapons such as trebuchets. If the Tang Army wants to force it over, even if it is a first-class battleship of the Tang Army, hundreds of catties of flame boulders will be smashed down, and it will only sink! ”
Lu Xun nodded violently and agreed: "Don't look at the Tang army controlling the waterway of the Yangtze River, but if you want to attack my Eastern Wu, you still need to use large-scale landing troops, unless you storm a large-scale landing site, such as Chibi or Misukou." ”
1,800 years ago, humans were not able to transform the environment due to low productivity. A world-class river like the Yangtze River cannot land on the shore unless it is a naturally formed gentle crossing, not to mention that there are enemy defenses on the other side.
Hearing this, Sun Quan nodded and waved his hand: "We must strengthen the monitoring along the coast and prohibit any of our ships from traveling on the river, so that as long as it is a boat, it is the enemy, and it can avoid such a thing as Cai Mao's sneak attack on Yufu." ”
As a hero, Sun Quan can still afford to let go, so he said bluntly: "Liu Bei is not good nine times out of ten, hmph, I can't beat Li Yi to be honest, I must leave a way out, and it's good to give it a go when the time comes." ”
"What the emperor said is very true!" Lu Xun nodded violently and said, "Although Yizhou is an island, it is very huge, and the geography is not below Jiangdong, so it is better to send someone to build it, and it is good to have a place to stay." ”
Sun Quan began to send troops to Yizhou to build from his words.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, after the Dongwu Shi clan got the news, they began to transfer assets, and the descendants of the family all emigrated to Yizhou, if the Dongwu may be defeated in the future, it will not be cut off the incense.
Li Yi is not paying attention to Dongwu's side at the moment, and he can't bite two bites of a big cake at the same time, how to completely destroy Liu Bei is what he is most concerned about at present.
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Outside Chengdu, the Tang army camp.
Guan Yu, the general of the Tang Hussars, defeated Wu Yi, the general of the Shu Han Dynasty, and seized the eastern region of Ba County, which is also known as Badong County.
In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (190), Zhao Ying proposed to divide Ba County into three counties: Ba County above the Dianjiang River, which was a public security Han; The following Jiangzhou is Yongning County; The following is Guning County.
In the first year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (194), Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang divided Ba County into three: Ba County to the north of Dianjiang, Yongning County from Jiangzhou to Linjiang, and Guling County from Quren to Yufu. In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Yongning County was renamed Ba County, and the county governed Jiangzhou County. In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Yufu ordered Jian Yun to fight for the name of Ba, Liu Zhang changed Yongning County to Ba County, Guling County to Badong County, and Ba County to Brazil County, which is the source of "Sanba".
However, none of these orders were recognized by the Jicheng court at that time, and it was only Liu Zhang's own decision. Therefore, on today's map of the Tang Dynasty, Sanba and Poria County in the southeast of Chongqing still share the same name, that is, Ba County.
However, on the map of Shu Han, there are four counties: Pasir County, Badong County, Ba County and Fuling County.
After Li Yi captured Luocheng, Wu Yi quickly retreated to Xichuan, and had already ordered Zhao Yun to lead the cavalry to capture Bajun. After the news of Wu Yi's defeat reached central Sichuan, the Taishou of Fuling County of Shu Han took the initiative to surrender.
At this point, Li Yi captured Ba County in its entirety. Although Liu Bei's Shu Han still nominally occupied the eight counties in the south of Yizhou, only Yongchang County and Yizhou County were left with the strength to completely control it.
However, as the second largest county in the Han Dynasty, Yongchang County is not only vast in area, but also has a large population.
During the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ailao was attached to the country, and its land was divided into Ailao County and Bonan County, and the six counties in the west of the original Yizhou County were separated and merged into Yongchang County, which governed eight counties and covered an area of about 1.38 million square miles, starting from the Ailao Mountains in the east, reaching the Minjin Mountain in northern Myanmar in the west, reaching the south of Xishuangbanna in the south, and reaching the southern foot of the Himalayas in the north. The population is as high as 2 million, second only to Nanyang County before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
In addition, Yizhou County, as the Dianchi Basin located in the core area of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in later generations, has a warm climate, fertile land, and is also a densely populated place, with a population of more than 500,000.
However, most of the population of the two counties is not Han Chinese, but Nanban. Although these people are nominally attached to Shu Han, they are actually obedient to the tune and do not listen to the announcement.
Li Yi raised the Yang Song report, looked around at the full tent of civil and military, and said with a smile: "Liu Bei actually gave up the national capital and ran to Yizhou County, Chengdu can't help but fight, do you have any good suggestions?" ”
Zhuge Liang came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, Chengdu is too guarded by Mengda, this person is quite capable, the city is quite disciplined, the guard is tight, it is impossible to steal the city, and the siege of the city may cost troops." It is better to send a messenger to know the righteousness and persuade him to surrender. ”
Meng Da's ability, Li Yi is naturally very clear. Although he is not too good a character, it is rare that the five-dimensional values are very balanced, the commander is 77, the force is 75, the resourcefulness is 74, the politics is 71, and the charm is 72, all of which are above 70, although it is difficult to be a general in charge, but as a deputy general, or a county guard, it is still more than enough.
Li Yi felt that Zhuge Liang's idea was good, and in another time and space, Zhuge Liang had persuaded Meng Da to rebel against Wei and return to Shu, and it was precisely for this reason that Meng Da left the impression of capriciousness to the world. However, Li Yi didn't care too much about this, because the world was about to be unified, and Meng Da would have no choice but to be loyal to him.
At this time, a person like Meng Da, who is aware of current affairs, must have made a wise choice.
So, Li Yi said to Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, this matter will be handed over to you, you tell him that if he comes to surrender, I will treat him as a guest!" ”
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A day later, the messenger brought back the message.
"Most of the guards in Guancheng are willing to surrender, but the main general Meng Da is unwilling to surrender." The messenger said.
Li Yi was stunned, what does Meng Da mean by this kid? Unexpectedly unwilling to surrender?
Li Yi frowned and asked, "Who else is there in the city?" ”
The messenger replied, "There are Shamoke, Huang Quan, Wang Lei, and others. ”
"Huang Quan, Wang Ti!" Li Yi was inspired and said with a smile, "Heaven helps me, in less than three days, Chengdu will be broken!" ”
He laughed and got up to return to the tent.
A group of military advisors and generals looked at each other.
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At the third watch of the night, in a mansion in Chengdu, the two of them sat opposite each other in the hall and drank. Both of them are dressed as scribes, and they are the famous scholars Huang Quan and Wang Lei in Shu.
Huang Quanzi Gongheng, a native of Langzhong, Brazil. In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Liu Zhang's other driver Zhang Song suggested that Liu Bei should be greeted and made him crusade against Zhang Lu. Huang Quan advised: "General Liu Bei of the left has a reputation for bravery, and now he is invited to come to Shu, and if you want to treat him with the courtesy of your subordinates, you will not be able to satisfy his wishes; If you want to treat him as a guest, you can't tolerate two kings in one kingdom. If the guest has the stability of Mount Tai, the host will be in danger of being tired. Now we can hold the border and wait for the situation to stabilize. Liu Zhang didn't listen, and sent Fa Zheng to meet Liu Bei, and released Huang Quan as the chief of Guanghan.
In the seventh year of Jian'an (202), Liu Bei began to attack Yizhou, and sent generals to capture the counties respectively, and all the counties were obedient, while Huang Quan closed the city and held on, and waited until Liu Zhang surrendered before going to see Liu Bei and surrender. Liu Bei named Huang Quan as a partial general.
Wang Lei's situation was similar to Huang Quan's, and he was also resolutely opposed to Liu Zhang's welcoming of Liu Bei to Yizhou. Even, in another time and space, Wang Ti committed suicide after Liu Bei became the ruler of Yizhou. And in this time and space, I don't know what happened, he actually surrendered to Liu Bei after Liu Zhang surrendered to Liu Bei.
However, in general, these two people did not have a good impression of Liu Bei. Especially after Liu Bei captured Yizhou from Liu Zhang, he killed Liu Zhang, who had surrendered, which made the two even more resentful of Liu Bei.
In the past, Liu Bei was powerful, and the two of them couldn't help Liu Bei. But now that Liu Bei fled to Yizhou County with his tail between his legs, there was no need for them to follow Liu Bei anymore.
Today, the Tang army outside the city sent envoys into the city to persuade them to surrender, Huang Quan and Wang Lei advocated surrender, but they didn't expect Meng Da, the main general, to refuse. This made Huang Quan and Wang Lei very unhappy, so in the evening, Wang Lei secretly came to Huang Quan's house to discuss what to do next.
Both of them wanted to surrender, but now that the main general Meng Da refused, even if they wanted to surrender, there was no way, so they were a little troubled.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the housekeeper in Huang Quan's mansion walked in and quietly told Huang Quan that there was a guest visiting.
Huang Quan was very surprised, and he didn't know who would come to the door at this time. However, after discussing with Wang Lei, he still decided to meet the comer.
The person who came to visit was a secret agent of the Tang Dynasty lurking in Chengdu City, and after receiving Li Yi's secret order, he quietly came to persuade Huang Quan and Wang Lei to surrender.
Because before this, Li Yi knew that Huang Quan and Wang Lei were not loyal to Liu Bei. Coupled with the memory of another time and space, Li Yi felt that these two people were the key to his successful occupation of Chengdu without spending too much effort.
The spy was very happy to see that Wang Lei was also in the Huang Quan Mansion. It's a hassle-free.
After some persuasion by the secret agents, Huang Quan and Wang Lei finally strengthened their determination to surrender.
After receiving an affirmative reply, the agent happily said goodbye and left, and got in touch with the outside of the city.
Late that night, a secret letter was shot from the city to the Tang army camp.