Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 235 Attacking Xinye from the north and cleaning Xiangyang

In February and March, it rains for one-third of the time in Jingzhou.

Although it is not like the continuous torrential rain during the flood season after May and June, it is the Qingming and cold weather, with continuous light rain, and the entire south of the Yangtze River is shrouded in misty rain.

And the ancient city of Xiangyang, which has experienced more than 1000 years of vicissitudes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Eastern Han Dynasty, seems to have fallen into a dead silence.

The light rain was swaying, and countless large ships on the banks of the foggy Hanshui River were ready.

Today is a rare good weather.

"Captain."

Outside the city of Xiangyang, Kuai Yue cupped his hands and said, "This battle is the key. I hope the Taiwei will win in one fell swoop."

Cai Mao laughed loudly and said, "Gan Ning is only one man, let me capture him alive."

"Jingzhou's great cause is entrusted to the Taiwei."

Kuai Yue bowed his hand again.

Cai Mao turned around and boarded the boat. Tens of thousands of troops continued to march northward to Xinye.

Nanyang's [-] troops, after Liu Bei went south, Wenpin was stationed in Wancheng, while Han Xi and Lu Jie were in Ye County, Duyang and other places.

Gan Ning was still stationed in Huyang County before, serving as Huyang guard, but recently, he moved to Xinye.

Xiangyang ordered him to hand over his military power on the grounds of his unauthorized transfer, and he was bound and escorted back to Xiangyang for trial.

In fact, everyone knew which side Gan Ning was on, but he had tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his command, and he was a force to be reckoned with, so no one dared to do anything to him.

Now that the war officially started, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue planned to take Gan Ning first, and then wipe out Huangmenting's garrison forces.

This is true strategically.

Because although most of Nanyang's troops belong to Cai Mao Kuaiyue, the people from Gan Ning and Huangmenting are hidden dangers. Once they concentrate their forces to attack Jiangxia, these people are likely to cause chaos in the rear.

Therefore, based on the principle of eliminating the nearest hostile forces first, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue decided to destroy Ganning and Huangmenting first, completely unify Nanyang County, and then encircle Jiangxia three times.

This time Cai Mao brought 3 people, and ordered Han Xi and Lu Jie to go south, a total of 2 troops, of which 6 were deployed in Caiyang, plus Zhang Yun's troops in Fancheng, so there would be [-] or [-] troops around Xiangyang. Be prepared for the enemy to come to aid from Zhangling Jiangxia.

Cai Mao Kuaiyue and the others were not worried about whether the mobilization of the troops guarding the entrance of Nanyang Basin, such as Han Xi and Lu Jie, would lead to an empty front and allow Cao Cao to take advantage of the vacancy.

Because Cao Cao is now in Yecheng.

Three years after Yuan Shao died of illness, Cao Cao finally regained his vitality and began to use troops against the north.

At this time, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan squared Jizhou, and had been exhausted for years after years of fighting.

Cao Cao took advantage of the battle between Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan in Julu in March last year, and once again attacked Yuan Shang in the north, besieging the city of Ye.

Yuan Shang was shocked and rushed to rescue him. He was ambushed and defeated by Cao Cao, and fled north to Youzhou to join Yuan Xi.

Later, due to unbearable headache and pain, he had to retreat back to Chendu to recuperate.

But Yuan Tan took the opportunity to annex Yuan Shang's troops, occupied Jizhou, tore up the alliance with Cao Cao, and began to fight him.

At the end of last year, after Cao Cao's condition stabilized, he went north to raid Wei County again. Yuan Tan resisted desperately. The two sides are currently engaged in a life-and-death battle around Yecheng. After three or four months of fighting, no results have been drawn.

Therefore, Cai Mao Kuaiyue concluded that Cao Cao could not separate himself and go south, and decided to take this opportunity to immediately wipe out Liu Qi's forces, solve the internal troubles in Jingzhou, and then send troops to Xichuan, then take Jiangdong, and get the entire south!

In their first battle, they planned to spread the flames of war to Xinye.

There is no reason for it.

Xinye is close, if they go straight to Jiangxia, Xinye is likely to harass Xiangyang.

And after eliminating the forces of Gan Ning and Huangmenting, they can go south from Zhangling, take Sui County between Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and attack Jiangxia Xiling by land.

Then the navy went down from the Han River to attack Jiangxia Shaxian by water.The last road is from Jingnan to attack Zhouling, which is later known as Jiayu County.

In this way, land and water advance simultaneously, and the three routes attack Jiangxia at the same time, completely blocking all the roads that Liu Qin took to escape from the south to the north and to the west. Unless he flees east to Jiangdong and joins Sun Quan, he will be unable to fly with his wings and will die!
The Han River was covered with white mist. Kuai Yue watched Cai Mao's fleet heading north along the Feishui River and disappeared into the mist.

At this time, he was planning to clean Xiangyang. There were too many officials with ambiguous attitudes, and the officials of the family with unknown sides chose to be neutral in this struggle.

And neutral means unstable factors.

Therefore, even if it is ruthless, no matter what method is used, whether it is persecution, threat, temptation or killing, these unstable factors must be eliminated.

So after returning to his Situ mansion, Kuai Yue began to draw up a list and sent people to various official mansions for control.

Some people need to be imprisoned, some people need to have a good conversation, and some people...

only.

Looking at the last few lists, Kuai Yue frowned.

Neither the Pang family nor the Huang family made a statement. Although they did not participate in politics, there are still many younger generations of the two families who have become officials, and Pang Degong and Huang Chengyan have extremely high prestige and cannot be forced.

It's just that the relationship between Pang Degong and Shen Chen is very good, and Shen Chen unequivocally supports Liu Qi, which makes Kuai Yue decide to kill him.

It is very likely that these people will inform Shen Chen of their action plan.

But.

That's what he said, but he didn't dare to do it. Once he moved the Pang family and the Huang family, all the major families in Jingzhou and Shilin would be turned upside down.

Kuai Yue frowned deeply, and finally crossed out these two families, and said, "Come here."

"Situ."

The attendants outside the door had been waiting for a long time.

Kuai Yue said: "Prepare a few boxes of gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, and send them to the Pang family and Baishui Huang's house outside the city in a carriage."

Master Situ beside him was surprised and said: "Is Situ planning to win over the Pang family and the Huang family? But Lord Pang De and Lord Chengyan are not in Baishui outside the city. One lives in seclusion in Yuliangzhou and the other in Miannan."

Kuai Yue said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because Pang Degong and Chengyan Gong are not at home that we can send gifts, otherwise the gifts will definitely be returned. This is just to show our attitude. The two of them can refuse, but their family members cannot refuse. I think they should understand what I mean."

"Oh."

The master secretary nodded half-understanding, and then looked at the last name on the list: "Situ, Da Si Nong."

The chief minister of the Jingzhou court is none other than Deng Hong.

Deng Hong was mostly engaged in agriculture in his early years, when Liu Biao got hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves and refugees from Guanzhong to farm in Nanyang, he took care of these matters.

Moreover, he also made keel waterwheels, improved agricultural tools, and invented fertilization technology, which greatly increased grain production and laid a solid foundation for Liu Biao to have sufficient grain and grass to conscript a large number of soldiers to fight. Therefore, he was appointed by Liu Biao to specialize in agriculture.

Kuai Yue also had a headache looking at this name.

Deng Hong and Shen Chen's mother are cousins ​​and nieces. They are Shen Chen's grandfather, and they have a deep relationship. They should have been the first on the list to be dealt with.

But he has a good wife.

No matter what Kuai Yue had to take care of the Cai family, the Cai family was now the largest family in Jingzhou.

Mrs. Cai has now become the queen mother, and the queen belongs to the Cai family, which means that Deng Hong has now become a relative of the emperor. His wife is the niece of the queen mother, and she is the queen's sister. With her protection, no one can move Deng Hong.

"never mind."

Kuai Yue shook his head and said: "That Mrs. Cai is not a good quarrel, she can't be provoked, just let the soldiers watch outside the mansion of Da Si Nong, don't go too far."

"only."

When the master got the order, he went down to give orders.

Soon the whole of Xiangyang fell into chaos. Some officials who used to have a good relationship with Liu Qi were dismissed and sent to prison. Some aristocratic families were ordered to prohibit contact with Jiang Xia. Some people became Liu Qi's internal support.

In the mansion of Dasinong, Deng Hong, who was just 40 years old this year, sat cross-legged in the pavilion in the back garden with a very melancholy face. Beside him was Cai Shi, who was in his thirties and had successfully lost weight, and his figure was even more plump.

Farther away, there are three innocent and romantic children running around. It is the spring of March, and the courtyard is full of flowers and butterflies.

Deng Hong's eldest son, Deng Yan, was born in October of the first year of Jian'an. At the beginning of the year, when Zhang Ji came and Cai was pregnant with Deng Yan, he didn't even dare to tell Deng Hong who was running between Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu as a lobbyist. In the past 12 years, he took his younger siblings to play in the garden.

Looking at this scene, Cai's face showed a touch of warmth, and he smiled and watched his young children making noise.

Deng Hong put his arms around her waist and said softly, "Ma'am."

"Husband."

Cai patted his hand and said, "What's wrong?"

"Situ sent people to surround our mansion."

A trace of melancholy flashed between Deng Hong's eyebrows: "Recently people are being arrested everywhere in Xiangyang."

"I know."

Cai whispered softly in his ear: "Your Majesty, don't worry, they won't be able to enter the mansion."

"lady."

Deng Hong hugged her tightly and asked, "Madam, is it really right to do this? Maybe we should do nothing."

Mrs. Cai shook her head: "My uncle, I know that Mrs. Cai Kuai has offended many aristocratic families in Jingzhou too much these years. The King of Chu proclaimed himself emperor, and the various aristocratic families have long been dissatisfied. I am afraid they will never win the support of the aristocratic families. Support, only in this way can the family continue.”

"I understand."

Deng Hong's eyes were slightly distracted. On such a big matter, because he was afraid that his wife would be implicated, he couldn't make up his mind. Everything was led by the Cai family.

As he spoke, his emotions became a little lost, and he muttered to himself: "How did Jingzhou become like this? It seems that it will collapse overnight."

Cai didn't speak, she just snuggled up beside Deng Hong, reciting the ballad softly, looking to the north, where not only Cai Yang and her Cai family, but also Huang Menting and her Deng family were there.

In the Cai family, Cai was not happy. Although her parents treated her very well, but because she was obese, she stayed out of the house all day long, so it was difficult to comfort her heart.

Only in Huangmenting, did she really feel what happiness is.

She can show her face without worrying about being looked at with disgust by children from other aristocratic families, and she doesn't have to be afraid of being discriminated against.

Wherever he went, he was respected by people because of Deng Hong. What everyone voted was not the kind of contempt for a fat and ugly woman, but a kind of admiration from the heart, even envy...

The people at the bottom envy the lives of the people at the top, but more importantly, Deng Hong specialized in farming and helped the people in Huangmenting to actively produce. He and Shen Chen led the way to persuade the clan to move south, so that everyone survived.

Therefore, the prestige of Shen Chen and Deng Hong was extremely high among all the people in Huangmenting. As Deng Hong's wife, Cai was naturally respected by them.

Here, it also gave her the feeling of a real big family.

The Cai family and the Deng family are both her family.

therefore.

In this bloody storm, she will never let the Cai family and the Deng family fall into a situation where there is no redemption!
(End of this chapter)