252 Don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite
Fuhuling is the only way from the north bank of Chaisang to Jiangxia.
The reason why Meng Hui set up an ambush here in advance and successfully shot Sun Jian was not only due to Liu Bowen's planning and Meng Hui's choice of terrain, but also due to Liu Wei and Wang Meng.
Since sending Zhuge Jin as an envoy to Jiangxia, Liu Wei immediately revised two letters. They were sent to Jinling and Chaisang respectively to remind Han Shizhong and Liu Bowen that Huang Zu was likely to send troops to harass Sun Jian's rear as agreed, and that he should pay close attention to Jiangxia's movements.
After receiving the letter, Liu Bowen consulted with Meng Hui and judged that if Huang Zu harassed Sun Jian's rear, Sun Jian's army was likely to use the strategy of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" to attack Jiangxia, which was closer, in order to relieve the siege of Changsha.
The waterway from the river to Jiangxia is nearly 300 miles, and the nearest shortcut to the north bank is only about 230 miles, so Liu Bowen deduced that Sun Jian is likely to advance by land and water.
Then he led a group of elite soldiers to cross the river from Moling, along the river to the west, and set up an ambush on the way from Chaisang to Jiangxia to hunt and kill the general of Sun Jian's army. It's just that what I didn't expect was that the general didn't catch it, but shot Sun Jian to death!
The garrison of Jinling only had 25,000 troops, and after allocating 15,000 men to Zhou Tai and Guan Sheng to go to Chaisang to support by water, there were not many soldiers and horses that could be mobilized, so Meng Hui only led 3,000 cavalry to the west.
Stopping and stopping all the way, he finally chose this dangerous pass in Xunyang County, hid the horses in the deep mountains, and left 200 people to guard them. Then he personally led other soldiers to set up ambushes on both sides of the road, and finally succeeded in shooting Sun Jian, a Jiangdong tiger, under the slope of this mountain called "Fuhu Ridge".
The only regret that Meng Hui felt was that because of the lack of troops, he did not dare to go down the mountain to meet Sun Jun. So much so that Huang Gai snatched back Sun Jian's body, which can't help but make people sigh!
After Huang Gai gathered the remnants of the army and retreated. Meng Heng led his troops down the mountain to count the results, in addition to shooting Sun Jian to death. There are still more than 2,500 bodies of Sun Jun in the valley. But compared to Sun Jian's death, this is already insignificant!
"The man on the white horse who was shot to death is really Sun Jian?"
Meng Hui and Sun Jian have never met, although some people say that the person who was shot to death was Sun Jian, but Meng Hui still has to ask clearly, before he dares to pass on the good news to the Son of Heaven. In case the person who shot him to death was not Sun Jian, the crime of bullying the king was not a joke!
The chief who first recognized Sun Jian swore and said: "Although the general can rest assured, the villain once followed Sun Jian when he was in the Tiger Prison. It was only because he violated military discipline that he was punished with a rod, and the villain abandoned the darkness and went to Jinling to join the army. The person who was shot to death was definitely Sun Jian. If there is a mistake, the villain is willing to be dealt with by military law! β
In addition to this chief, many people echoed in unison: "This person must be Sun Jian, I have seen him before, I can't be wrong!" β
Since there were so many people who were sure that the person who was shot to death on the white horse was Sun Jian, and then thought of Huang Gai snatching the body back despite the rain of arrows on his head, Meng Hui also felt that this person must be Sun Jian. Immediately repaired a book on the hillside, and sent a messenger to Beihai to convey the good news.
After Sun Jian's death, the wind subsided. The clouds cleared, and the sky became full of stars again.
It seems that the flying sand and rocks just now have never been.
Huang Gai led more than 7,000 mourning soldiers to escort Sun Jian's body. Singing all the way, he returned to his own camp at dawn.
"Father!"
When I saw the body of Sun Jian, who was unrecognizable and full of arrows. Sun Ce let out a wail and almost fainted to the ground.
Under the first aid of the generals, he woke up slowly. Howling and crying: "My Sun Ce swore to kill Liu Wei and Huang Zu to avenge my father." If you don't take revenge, you will be a son of man in vain! β
The generals accompanied the weeping, Zhou Yu hugged Sun Ce's shoulders and said: "Bo Fu, the matter has come to this point, please mourn and change, our army should quickly return to Changsha to appease the people, otherwise the four counties of Jingnan will have a change!" β
Sun Ce also knows that now is not the time to be sad, in this war-torn era, even ordinary people have to face life and death at all times, not to mention these soldiers.
As the saying goes, "if the crockpot is not broken from the wellhead, the general will inevitably die before the battle", and fighting on the battlefield means facing death at all times!
Sun Ce immediately ordered to abandon the camp he had just set up, and the whole army boarded the ship, taking advantage of the dark to retreat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River overnight, first to keep the territory of Jingnan and then to plan later.
With Sun Ce's order, more than 30,000 soulless Sun soldiers abandoned the fence they had just planted, boarded the big boats, and went upstream along the river.
Just after Sun Ce's fleet had sailed upstream for half an hour, the scouts of the Han army heard Sun Jun's movements and hurriedly reported the news to Han Shizhong.
Han Shizhong immediately summoned Lu Su, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, Guan Sheng and other generals for a military discussion to analyze Sun Jianjun's combat intentions.
At this time, the scouts lurking in Jingnan also sent information that Huang Zu had attacked Yueyang Port and pointed at Changsha. And Meng Hui's envoy also arrived almost at the same time and delivered Meng Hui's letter.
"What? Sun Jian was shot to death? β
After reading Meng Hui's letter, Han Shizhong couldn't help but be dumbfounded. This is simply a bolt of good news, and this word is not enough to express the shock in Han Shizhong's heart!
This famous general who has risen since the Yellow Turban Turmoil, this heroic hero, this fierce general with unstoppable bravery, this prince who gave Xiliang Army, Liu Biao, and Liu Wei a headache, died without warning on this hot night!
When Han Shizhong spit out this sentence in a daze, the handsome tent suddenly exploded.
"What, Sun Jian is dead?" Gan Ning looked incredulous.
Guan Sheng was skeptical: "Impossible, right?" Did Meng Heng lie about the military situation? β
"Such a big thing, Meng Heng, he dares to lie?" Liang Hongyu, who was standing behind Han Shizhong, also intervened in the discussion
"Come on, come on...... Let me see what is written in the letter! β
Zhou Tai, who was impatient, couldn't hold back his impulse, and directly stepped forward to grab the information from Han Shizhong, but scratched his head with a smile, "I forgot that I can't read!" β
Stuffed directly into Liang Hongyu's hand: "Mrs. Han is careful, you read it to everyone." Don't be like Han Dudu, who is stuffy and stealing fun by himself! β
"Okay, the concubine will read it to the generals!"
Liang Hongyu pursed her lips and smiled, took the book from Zhou Tai's hand and recited it.
After listening to the full tent, the school no longer had any doubts. Combined with the intelligence analysis from Jingnan, the whole thing has an eyebrow: Huang Zu sent troops to harass Changsha according to the agreement. Sun Jianbing divided into two ways to "encircle Wei and save Zhao". Liu Bowen was like a god and concluded that Sun Jun would take the land route. Meng Hui chose the most suitable terrain to set up an ambush, and finally successfully hunted the Jiangdong Tiger!
It can even be said that Sun Jian's death was the result of the collective efforts of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, under the planning of Liu Wei, Wang Meng, Liu Bowen and others, under the positive containment of Han Shizhong, Lu Su, Gan Ning and others, and under the harassment of Huang Zu behind his back, in the end, the hands of Meng Heng reaped the greatest results!
"Haha...... Jiang Gongyi, Sun Jian is dead, your spirit in the sky can be blinded! β
When the message is confirmed. Zhou Tai couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh wildly, and after laughing, he said anxiously: "Since Sun Jun is panicked like a lost dog, I won't chase after him at this time, but when?" β
Lu Su stood up and tried to dispel the crowd: "Don't chase after the crowd, the mourning soldiers are hard to win!" After Sun Jian's death, although the morale of Sun Jun was low, he was afraid that the cohesion would be stronger! If our army pursues it with all its might, the enemy will fight to the death, even if it wins. I'm afraid that it will also be a situation of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of yourself. β
Han Shizhong agreed: "Lu Zijing's words are reasonable, after two fierce battles, our army suffered huge casualties. There is an urgent need to recuperate and replenish the troops. It is not advisable to be poor this mourning army, so let them go! β
Since Sun Ce retreated, Zhou Tai and Guan Sheng led their troops to bid farewell to Han Shizhong. Went down the river and went to Jinling to garrison. Han Shizhong, Lu Su, and Gan Ning continued to stay in Chaisang to clean up the mess. Regroup your defenses.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu urged the fleet to go all the way up, and ordered Huang Gai and Zhang Dingbian to take turns to set up ambushes all the way. It's a pity that the Han army didn't pursue it, but kept them busy in vain.
Huang Zuke didn't plan to attack Changsha seriously, he just bluffed to curry favor with Liu Wei. After all, Jiangxia's 30,000 horses were created by himself, neither Liu Biao's nor Liu Wei's.
It takes a huge price to attack the city, and even if Changsha is defeated, it will not be beneficial, it is not owned by Liu Biao, but it will greatly reduce his strength. This kind of thankless thing, Huang Zu will not do it!
After the scouts detected the retreat of Sun Jian's army, Huang Zu immediately slipped back to his lair like a loach, abandoned the Yueyang port he had just captured, and retreated into Jiangxia City, guarding it behind closed doors.
Two days later, Sun Ce's fleet passed under Jiangxia City again, and the soldiers all looked at the city, looking at the triumphant and gloating Huang Zujun, they were all sad and indignant, and they all asked Sun Ce for battle: "Lord, give the order to attack the city, kill Huang Zu and avenge the old lord!" β
Huang Zu smiled from ear to ear in the city, revealing a row of yellow teeth: "Hey, hey, hey...... Where is Sun Jian? How angry was standing in the bow of the ship more than half a month ago, why is he lying in a coffin now? Didn't you have 60,000 troops when you attacked Jinling? I'll see how many are left...... Tsk, it looks like there are still 40,000 people, and it would be nice to die a few more! β
Sun Ce quietly ordered someone to bring a four-stone strong bow, hid in the crowd and used all his strength, pulled the bowstring like a full moon, and quietly roared in his heart: "Dog thief, go to death!" β
A cloud-piercing arrow broke through the air, and shot a distance of two hundred and twenty zhang, and the remaining momentum was inexhaustible, hitting Huang Zu's left eye.
"My eyes hurt me!"
Huang Zu was caught off guard and was so happy and sad that he almost fainted with his bleeding eyes, and collapsed on the city wall weakly.
Sun Ce was still angry, and shook his head dissatisfied: "I only hate myself for not being good at archery, and I was going to take the life of this dog thief, but I only shot him in one eye, this human head will be sent for the time being, and sooner or later I will retrieve it for my father!" β
Seeing that Sun Ce blinded Huang Zu's left eye with an arrow, tens of thousands of Sun Jun cheered in unison: "The lord god is more powerful than the old lord, I am willing to die to assist!" β
Huang shot angrily at the head of the city and ordered the arrows to be fired, but Sun Ce gave the order, and Sun's warship continued to drive upstream.
Huang Jie was eager to avenge his father, ordered the gate of the sailor village to be opened, personally supervised more than 10,000 people, and followed the pursuit on 100 warships.
After chasing for four or five miles, suddenly a drum sounded, Zhang Dingbian and Huang Gai came out of the reeds on both sides of the riverbank, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu turned the bow of the boat and killed it.
Under the attack from three sides, the yellow shot that only killed was defeated, and 10,000 horses were killed in the battle, and seven or eight thousand were killed, and the wolf fled back to Jiangxia City. Since then, the enmity between the Jiangxia Huang clan and the Sun clan has also become incompatible!
Knowing that Sun Ce's army had successfully retreated to Jingnan, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and LΓΌ Daisan would continue to hold on to Guiyang, and Xu Huang, Lu Xiangsheng, and Lin Chong saw that the city was difficult to break, not to mention that Sun Ce's main army had returned to the nest, so they retreated on their own. After all, the purpose of marching into Jingnan was to contain Sun Jian in order to relieve the siege of Changsha.
Sun Ce retreated to Changsha, appointed Zhou Yu as the governor of the capital, assisted him in handling important military and political affairs, and then mourned the entire four counties of Jingnan, 60,000 Sun troops were in mourning, and the military camps everywhere were in mourning.
The news of Sun Jian's death spread all over the country at the fastest speed, causing a great deterrent to all the princes, and when Liu Bian's name was mentioned, a trace of fear appeared in the subconscious.
And Sun Jian is also the fifth prince to die in the hands of Liu Wei's forces after Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu, Yuan Shu, and Dong Zhuo.
After Sun Ce succeeded to his father's throne, he adopted Zhou Yu's Jianyi, recuperated, opened up wasteland, absorbed refugees from all over the Central Plains, and expanded the population of Jingnan. Repair the walls of various places, strengthen the fortifications, turn the offensive into a defensive position, first the inside and then the outside.
At the same time, he took the initiative to remove Sun Jian's self-reliant title of "King of Hanzhong", and sent an envoy to Luoyang to plead guilty to Liu Xie. Liu Xie adopted Yang Su's words, posthumously awarded Sun Jian as the general of the hussars, posthumously awarded the "Yonghou", awarded Sun Ce the position of former general, bestowed the title of Jinling Hou, and led the history of Jiaozhou Assassination, and vigorously fought in Jingnan to curb the development of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The news reached the ears of Beihai Liu Bian, and while sighing for Sun Jian's death, he couldn't help but scold: "Yang Su...... You Malegobi, you actually gave my Jinling to Sun Ce as a territory, and Lao Tzu will dismantle you sooner or later! β
After scolding, the remaining anger did not subside, and immediately put pen to paper and passed down the edict, which was concocted in the same way: Cao Cao was crowned as the general, Luoyang Hou, Lingyu Prefecture, Sizhou, and the pastor of the three states. Liu Bei was crowned as a hussar general, Chang'an Hou, Lingyongzhou, and Yizhou. Gongsun Zan was crowned as the general of the chariot and cavalry, Ye Hou, and led the herd of Jizhou and Youzhou.
After issuing several edicts in a row, Liu Fang let out a bad breath: "It was you turtle grandsons who provoked the widow first, since you don't follow the rules, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite, playing word games, and sealing up your position, will you be widowed?" β
Putting down the pen and ink, he rubbed his wrist and instructed the system in his mind: "Check this host, how many pleasure and hatred points do you have now?" Lao Tzu must continue to summon ministers and circle fierce generals! Sweeping away the princes of the world, even if they are enemies of the world, what are they afraid of? Anyway, sooner or later, Lao Tzu will sweep you away! β
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