Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 210 Zhou Yu's Wisdom

Lincheng is about 30 kilometers away from Lingyang, which is almost the distance between Qingyang County and Lingyang Town in later generations.

At this moment, Zhou Yu led more than 1 troops to gather here.

The total strength of Jiangdong is about 8000 to [-], and they lost [-] to [-] troops in the water battle with Huang Zu in Penglize, so there are still about [-].

But at least 6 to [-] of the [-] people needed to defend Jiangdong, and most of them followed Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Zhu Zhi and others to stay in the Qiantang area to prevent Liu Pan from attacking Jiangdong from the south.

Then in the previous battle of Xunyang, Zhou Yu led [-] main forces to attack, and the remaining thousands were distributed in various places in Jiangdong, mainly in Wanxian, Juchao, Wankou, Hulin, Zongyang, Nanling, Lincheng, Lingyang and other Yangtze River There are more than ten cities along the route.

In other words, Jiangdong's troops are actually very scattered at present.

There are more than 1 people in Huang Gai on the southern line, and thousands of people are left behind in Wujun and Danyang counties. There are no more than 4 people who confront Huang Zu on the front line of Wankou, maybe a little more than [-].

Although Jiang Xia's navy was defeated and Huang Zu was even captured alive, Liu Biao is powerful and might send troops again, so he must be on guard.

Therefore, Zhou Yu’s current layout is as follows: Lu Meng and Xu Sheng led about 8000 people from Yunxi to Yi County, and he himself led more than 1 people in Lincheng. In order to encircle and suppress Shen Chen, he dispatched about 2 troops Above, the rest of the soldiers and horses are guarding against the Jiangxia navy in Wankou.

After all, it was precisely because the front line was empty that Shen Chen took advantage of it. If Liu Biao suddenly sent a large army to attack while he was trying his best to encircle Shen Chen, his situation would be very serious, so he had to guard against it.

In the afternoon, a courier reported to Zhou Yu at the county government mansion in Lincheng County, telling him that the scouts who were waiting and watching in the mountains around Lingyang found that the soldiers in Lingyang City had all boarded the troop transport ships, eight large ships Drove in the direction of Jinghu.

Zhou Yu called for Lu Su, and the two of them leaned on the table to observe the map of Jinghu Lake, which is the map around Taiping Lake in later generations, and conduct tactical research.

"According to the details, Shen Chen's current movement is heading towards Jinghu Lake, but because of the thick fog on the lake, they can't keep following them, so they can only judge from the direction, it should be heading to Shushui in the south. "

Lu Su pointed to the direction of Yi County in the south and said, "It's strange. Is this Shen Chen in vain? It's impossible not to guess that we will send troops to Yi County."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "The mountain roads in Yishan are difficult and dangerous, and the roads are complicated and changeable. Not to mention that Shen Chen is not from Jiangdong, even Jiangdong people cannot know that Yunxi can lead to Yi County, so it is normal for him not to know that the back road is cut off. matter."

Lu Su nodded and said, "That's true."

"but."

Zhou Yu changed the subject and said again: "There are many Shanyue around Yi County, the only thing I am worried about now is that the Shanyue people will send people to help Shen Chen."

Lu Su shook his head and said: "Shanyue people will not take such a big risk to fight against us. The Shanyue tribes who led the way for Liu Pan last year were all slaughtered by us. It was so shocking that many Shanyue tribes asked us to surrender. Don't they dare to take the risk of genocide to become an enemy of Jiangdong?"

"rational."

Zhou Yu nodded slightly: "It's just that even if you don't send troops, you may lead the way for him. You have to guard against this."

"This is also easy."

Lu Su smiled and said, "Just send someone to warn them."

"good."

Zhou Yu also laughed: "Zi Jing's words are exactly what I thought. In order to prevent them from being capricious and defecting to the Jingzhou Army, I still have to send someone to warn them to prevent Shanyue from making trouble."

Since the Shanyue people and the Jiangdong regime have always been in a hostile state, the two sides have fought and collided many times in history. After Sun Quan aggressively attacked Shanyue and killed a large number of Shanyue people in the past few years, they began to migrate south.

The original Shanyue people spread all over the southeast hills, but now in the north of the southeast hills, such as Lincheng, Lingyang, Anwu, Xuancheng, Jingxian, Guangde, Ningguo, Huaian and other places, there are no traces of Shanyue.

Their footprints also went all the way south, deep into the depths of the Huangshan Mountains, and moved towards Yishan, Linlishan, Anleshan, Buxieshan, Liyangshan and other places south of the southeast hills.

These places are probably around Huangshan City, Anhui Province in later generations. In the Han Dynasty, it could be said to be inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, surrounded by mountains and forests.

Last year, Liu Biao sent Liu Pan to go deep into the hinterland of Jiangdong. The reason why he was able to fight all the way to Qiantang was because of the help of the Shanyue people in the south of the Huangshan Mountains, they reluctantly confronted Huang Gai for more than half a year.

Only after Liu Panliang withdrew his troops, these Shanyue people were retaliated by Jiangdong.

Huang Gai marched all the way to Xinshi along Zhejiang, that is, the Qiantang River in later generations, and attacked Shanyue in large numbers, forcing these Shanyue tribes to migrate all the way to the southwest, and ran to hide in the mountainous area northeast of Jingdezhen in later generations.

The remaining Shanyue tribes surrendered to Huang Gai, making the Shanyue people in this area dare not fight against Jiangdong again.

So both Zhou Yu and Lu Su believed that the Shanyue people were not so bold to send troops to help.

After all, the current situation should be clear to them. Huang Zu suffered a big defeat, and even he himself was captured. Jiangdong rose again, and it was only a matter of time before Yuzhang was regained.

Once the Jingzhou army is driven out of Yuzhang, the Shanyue people will face a catastrophe, so as long as they are not stupid, they will not be stupid.

In fact, it is indeed as analyzed by Zhou Yu and Lu Su.

Although the people of Shanyue had enmity with Jiangdong, in fact Jiangdong took the initiative to attack Shanyue, wanting to plunder their population and property and expand Jiangdong's strength.

Moreover, the Shanyue tribe was not united. Historically, Sun Quan sent He Qi to defeat them one by one, and easily pacified countless Shanyue tribes.

Therefore, the Shanyue people really didn't dare to send troops, they could only lead a way and help Shen Chen secretly.

But they must have never imagined that although the Shanyue people did not dare to send troops to help, they still had other ways to serve Shen Chen.

After analyzing the situation, Zhou Yu pointed to the map and said, "That's the arrangement. Once we return to Wuhou and Ziganggong, we will immediately attack Yi County from both sides and annihilate Shen Chen."

"That's right, Gongjin."

Lu Su looked up at him and said, "Yesterday, I remember that an official document was sent, saying that Anwu, Jingxian, Xuancheng and other places lost contact. Someone from Wuhu sent someone to inquire, but there is no news yet."

Zhou Yu frowned and said, "I also know about this. It should be Shen Chen who sent people to attack the county towns along the Jingshui River. I was wondering yesterday whether he would send troops to attack Jiangdong."

"Although Jiangdong is empty, there are still thousands of people in all the counties, and General Huang is sitting in the rear. Could it be possible that he can accomplish such a great feat with just a few thousand people?"

Lu Su smiled and said: "We are not Cao Cao. Cao Cao was later attacked by Shen Chen because he had to deal with Yuan Shao on the front line. Now that we have the main force, forgive him for not being able to accomplish anything."

"Don't underestimate the enemy."

Zhou Yu thought for a while and said, "It's better to send some scouts to check the situation."

"Ah."

Lu Su nodded and said, "That's fine."

"Report!"

At this moment, suddenly a soldier from outside rushed into the county government hall, and said to the two of them, "Marquis Wu is back."

"what?"

Zhou Yu was shocked, but turned to joy and asked, "Where is Marquis Wu?"

The soldier said: "Our scouts found a man on the bank of the river. He called us and called himself Marquis Wu. We couldn't identify him, so we took him to General Ling Tong's station. General Ling Tong confirmed that he was Marquis Wu. He should be in the area now." On the way back to Lincheng."

"Quick, Zijing, follow me to meet you."

Zhou Yu got up quickly.

He also has arrangements on both sides of Lincheng and Lingyang.

Ling Tong was stationed on a mountain on the left bank of Qingshui near the front line of Lingyang, which is thirty or forty miles away from Lincheng. However, Qingshui originates from Taiping Lake and flows from south to north to the Yangtze River, so it goes along the river. The speed will be very fast.

Almost when Zhou Yu and Lu Su rushed to Lincheng Wharf with Zhou Tai and Hu Zong who were currently in Lincheng, a large ship had already parked on the wharf, and several middle and lower rank officers quickly disembarked to stand around.

After a while, Sun Quan, who was covered in mud and quite embarrassed, stepped out of the boat with his head held high and his chest held high.Seeing this situation, both Zhou Yu and Lu Su frowned, then bowed their hands and said, "Marquis Wu."

"Humph."

Sun Quan ignored them and walked forward on his own.

Zhou Yu pulled a soldier from behind and asked, "Why didn't General Ling Tong change his clothes for Marquis Wu?"

The faces of the soldiers were troubled: "It's not the general who doesn't want to, but the Marquis of Wu doesn't want to"

"I see."

Zhou Yu's face darkened, knowing what was going on in his heart, he winked at Lu Su.

Lu Su nodded slightly, and followed Sun Quan towards the county government.

Sun Quan went straight into the city, and Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Zhou Tai, Hu Zong and others hurriedly followed behind him, and when they reached the hall of the county government's mansion, Zhou Yu disappeared.

"Where's Zhou Yu?"

Sun Quan entered the hall of the county government office and looked back.

All the officials and officials of the Jiangdong Army were there, Lu Su, Zhou Tai, Hu Zong and more than a dozen other lieutenants, but the main general Zhou Yu was missing.

While everyone was in amazement, Zhou Yu came in with his upper body bare and thorns on his back, and knelt down in front of Sun Quan: "Marquis Wu."

The meat bears the thorn?

Sun Quan couldn't speak for a while, and was a little speechless.

"Marquis Wu is in jail. It's all the fault of Yu and many Jiangdong generals. Yu and his colleagues didn't plan well, so that Marquis Wu is in danger. Yu is willing to suffer the death penalty, and please punish Marquis Wu."

Zhou Yu fell to his knees and kowtowed to plead guilty.

All the soldiers around were all watching, no one made a sound.

When they came in, they had already received Lu Su's suggestion, asking them to stand on the sidelines and not get involved.

No one spoke in the hall, and the surroundings became quiet.

Sitting in the hall, Sun Quan's eyes flickered, his face was cloudy and cloudy, he didn't say anything, and he didn't say anything, and he didn't know how to respond.

For a while, the hall was so quiet that the sound of a needle falling could be heard clearly.

At this time, Lu Su also stood up and knelt down and said: "Su also has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter. I also ask Marquis Wu to punish Su. Even if he was sentenced to death together with Zhou Dudu, Su will not complain at all."

"Well"

Both of them asked for the death penalty, so it was even harder for Sun Quan to say anything.

He really wanted to lose his temper today.

Because it has actually been five years since Sun Ce died and Sun Quan came to power, but he is still worried about the fact that he lacks power.

Although he is the lord of Jiangdong in name, the major families and military leaders in Jiangdong do not necessarily obey him.

Nowadays, there are many factions in Jiangdong, and the internal struggle is very fierce. In addition to countless aristocratic families, there are also the veteran faction left by Sun Jian, the young faction left by Sun Ce, and members of the Sun family clan.

Needless to say, the major families include Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zhu Zhi and other veteran factions in the army, and then there are Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Fan, Jiang Qin, Ling Tong, Ling Cao, Zhou Yu and others. Tai, Lu Meng, Chen Wu, Chen Bao and other young and strong factions.

The situation is even more complicated if civil servants, counselors, and the power of the Sun family are included.

However, Sun Quan ascended the throne at a young age and lacked authority.

So on the way back, he had already planned to take advantage of this opportunity to show his prestige and directly attack the officers at all levels on the Jiangdong front.

After all, this incident was essentially a major mistake made by these frontline generals.

He was in the rear, and he didn't rush to the front line to be captured rashly, but the enemy killed him all the way to Lingyang, easily captured him, the lord of Jiangdong, and made him suffer such a shame. The frontline generals couldn't get rid of it relationship.

And most importantly.

According to Sun Quan's personality, this time he originally planned to go to the front line to make waves, personally lead the troops to Xunyang, defeat Huang Zu, and establish his authority.

Huang Zu was their sworn enemy of the Sun family. He killed his father and repelled his elder brother many times. If Huang Zu could be killed or captured alive, then his Sun Quan's prestige would rise overnight to be comparable to that of his father and brother.

However, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Han Dang, Cheng Pu, Zhang Hong, Qin Song and other veterans objected and resolutely did not allow him to go to the front line. Under such circumstances, Sun Quan could only endure it and retreat to the rear.

In the end, I didn't expect that Huang Zu was captured, but it became Zhou Yu's credit, and he was captured instead. This made Sun Quan almost die of anger, and for a while he was even more annoyed that the old officials interfered with his decision without authorization, so he planned to establish his own prestige .

After all, if Sun Quan had acted according to Sun Quan's vision from the beginning, then he would have been able to capture Huang Zu alive, and he would not be captured alive by others.

It's just that Zhou Yu's kneeling, which was originally intended to take advantage of the opportunity, made it difficult for Sun Quan to get angry.

If Zhou Yu and the others deal heavy blows, it is very likely that people will say that they are harsh on his subordinates, which is not good for shaping his generous image.

Moreover, Zhou Yu's talent was indeed recognized by him, and he was also one of the two most important assistants left to him by his elder brother Sun Ce. It was even more impossible for Sun Quan to severely punish or even kill Zhou Yu.

Therefore, holding it up high and laying it down gently is the best choice.

Sun Quan looked around the hall with a pair of divine eyes. Zhou Yu and Lu Su knelt down, but the rest did not kneel down to intercede with them, which made him feel a little better.

If everyone pleads with Zhou Yu together, it proves that Zhou Yu's prestige in the army is higher than that of Wuhou, is that okay?

After hesitating for a long time, Sun Quan said softly: "This time Gu and Master Dongfang were captured by that little thief, you are indeed a big mistake. But Gu escaped alone, and Zhou Yu captured Huang Zu alive, and Lu Su kept Huang Zu alive." Entering Wankou can be regarded as making up for one's mistakes. It's just that capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes are inevitable. The two of you will be given twenty sticks, and the rest of the generals will be ten. Take the crime and make the meritorious service!"

Only then did Zhou Yu heave a sigh of relief, lying on the ground, he looked at Lu Su, kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Marquis Wu!"

(End of this chapter)