Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 455 Jiangdong, Lonely is back

"How are things going?"

In a private house outside Jianye East City, a tall man watched everyone from inside.

Jiao Cheng was among them, besides him, he also met several colleagues.

Unsurprisingly, the colleague who had stared at him with solemn eyes before was also among them, and he knew him.

When contacting Jiao Cheng, he was always contacted by a single line, so Jiao Cheng knew that there were other people besides him, but only now did he know who they were.

Perhaps the colleague who had glared at him before was the companion who was in charge of monitoring them.

Jiao Cheng replied honestly: "My colleague happened to be busy before, and the things have been hidden in the warehouse to which I belong."

"I sent my colleagues away, and I have already hidden them. My colleagues also said that it smells like fish, so I fooled them."

"It's more troublesome on my side. It wasn't until my colleagues changed their clothes later that they poured fish oil in the middle."

Everyone reported the situation.

The tall man nodded in satisfaction and said, "I know you are scared, but don't forget, this is the only chance for your family to regain the land and population."

"But."

A colleague worried: "If there is a fire, we will definitely be executed, this."

"What are you afraid of? After tonight, you all flee to the south."

The man sneered and said, "If you hide in Kuaiji County, no one will find you. After the incident, Marquis Wu will not forget you."

"Aren't we going to have something to do tonight?"

Jiao Cheng said in surprise.

The man shook his head: "After the fire starts, the whole city will definitely be under martial law. It's not so easy to think about it. We can only start from the south first, and you all run for your lives."

"Yes."

The crowd complied.

Several people went out, and the remaining one turned to the man and asked, "Aren't you going to kill them?"

"What did you kill for? So as not to chill the hearts of those aristocratic families."

The man said in a deep voice, "They know what to do if they want their family to stay safe."

"Ah."

That person was the one who gave Jiao Cheng a look before, thought for a while and said, "But I think they have some people who are not determined."

"Who?"

"Jiao Cheng."

"The Jiao family?"

The man thought for a while and said, "Forget it, Jiao Chu also helped to contact Jiao's family about this matter, maybe he was just afraid, everything has already been done, so there is no need to worry."

"Then why don't you lock them here? Let them go after dawn?"

The man was puzzled.

The man smiled and said, "After dawn? Is it still possible to leave? Let's go, we are leaving too. The whole city will be under martial law when the fire breaks out, and no one can escape."

"Ok."

The man just nodded.

There are actually hundreds of dead soldiers in Jianye.

But one piece of these people is not enough to fit between the teeth, so it is extremely difficult to start trouble in Jianye.

The main reason is that the various families still don't know who is involved, and the team is too scattered. If Gu Li directly gathers people and takes them to Jianye, it will be a dead end.

More than 2 people swaggered through the market, thinking they didn't die fast enough?
Therefore, we had to concentrate our manpower in the south first, and Gu Li launched a surprise attack in Kuaiji, Linhai and other counties, and captured these counties first.

After that, Jianye Taicang was burned, and the defenders in Yangzhou and Guan Yu's army in Huainan in the north were short of food. Cooperating with Cao Wei's army, it was not difficult to defeat the Han army in one fell swoop.

At present, hundreds of dead soldiers lurking in Jianye evacuated one after another.

Jiao Cheng was walking on the street at night, his face was still very ugly, and he was sweating profusely. He didn't know when he came to the door of the house, and saw his wife was waiting for him to come back with a light on.

By candlelight, the wife is still working hard at weaving.

The sound of the creaking loom was moving back and forth, hitting Jiao Cheng's restless heart one after another.

He didn't know how to explain it to his wife, and he didn't know how to open his mouth to tell his wife to leave as soon as possible tonight.

In a daze, Jiao Cheng remembered why he accepted this order.

In addition to the instructions of the elders of the family, the most important thing is his hatred for the court.

I hate why they dismissed me and refused to admit me just because I am from the Jiao family.

He is obviously just a side branch of the Jiao family, why should he implicate himself?

At that time, Jiao Cheng accepted the task without hesitation with such hatred.

But when I think about it now, I'm already in a cold sweat.

If things come to light.

The family is ruined!
Jiao Cheng showed fear, and looked at his wife who was still weaving. His face was pale, and he was in a trance. He didn't dare to step into the house.

After a long time, he finally gritted his teeth, turned his head and walked away.

Whether it is life or death depends on this step.

It's getting dark.

The imperial court did not have a curfew, and there was even a night market in Jianye City.

At this moment, in Danyang Prefect's Mansion, the new Danyang Prefect Ru Chao is talking with several people in the house.

"The market in Taicang should have been closed."

"In the past few days, new grain has been stored for replacement of old grain. I haven't done anything a few days ago. Either tonight or tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow night is the last night, and almost all the food in the warehouse has been replaced."

"How many are left?"

"It seems that there are more than 20 stones."

"More than 20 shi? It's a pity. Although the new grain is replaced with straw and stones on the road, only a small part of the outside is used for testing, but it is still more than 20 grains."

"According to the words of General Hussars, it's called being reluctant to let a child fail a wolf."

"Uncle Fang, you really know how to play with each other."

"Is not it?"

"Speaking of which, Boyan came up with this plan, so nothing could go wrong."

"What can go wrong, we know their actions well, and now we are waiting for them to be fooled."

Several people were chatting.

They are Lu Hao from the Lu family of Wu County, Zhang Dun from the Zhang family of Wu County, and Gu Mu from the Gu family of Wu County who defected to Liu Bei earlier among the big families in Jiangdong.

Cao Pi contacted Sun Quan, and Sun Quan helped to contact the Jiangdong gentry.

Because of the fear of being betrayed, the liaison person adopted a single-line connection, and the various families did not even know who was involved.

Even if someone is willing to serve as an undercover agent for Zhuge Liang and tip off the news, they don't know who the other party is and what they are going to do. The whole operation is completely directed by Gu Li.

Zhuge Liang talked to Zhuge Jin, Lu Xun and Gu Yong about this matter.

Fortunately for Zhuge Jin, he has a younger brother who is the prime minister. Although Zhuge Liang never promoted him, both Liu Bei and Liu Chan treated him kindly, and now he is the third in command of the Minister of Ministers, ranking in a high position.

Lu Xun and Gu Yong were more miserable. After all, they joined later, and their status was not very high. Before that, they had been serving as the staff of Liu Bei's army, and they had not fought since then and were not reused.

However, after Zhuge Liang found them, Lu Xun and Gu Yong immediately realized that this was an opportunity, and the first sword they went ashore was to kill the old master first.

The two immediately gave their opinions.

Lu Xun believed that if Sun Quan wanted to launch a rebellion, it would definitely not be enough to rely on the original aristocratic family, and he would definitely think of other ways.

What is the most effective way?
No food!

Today, during the three-way Northern Expedition, Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou are responsible for food and grass supply.

Yizhou is responsible for Shen Chen's offensive in Guanzhong, Jingzhou is responsible for the main force in Henan, and Yangzhou is naturally responsible for the Guan Yu army in Huainan.

It is not difficult to find out the operation and mobilization of grain and grass. If the new grain can be burned while the grain is being changed, it will be a huge blow to the Yangzhou Army.

Although Yangzhou Mu can immediately re-mobilize the old grain, but the old grain will flow into the millet market immediately after the grain is exchanged. It will take at least a long time for the government to collect the old grain again.

Basically, by that time, Guan Yu's side should have run out of food. If Cao Jun attacked at this time and started an uprising in the south, Guan Yu's side would inevitably end in a disastrous defeat.

Therefore, Lu Xun believed that Sun Quan would not miss this opportunity.

Zhuge Liang felt that what Lu Xun said was very reasonable, so he promoted Lu Xun to be Zuo Pushe, who was in charge of handling this matter.

After much deliberation, Lu Xun formulated a plan that would do everything he could, and after getting Zhuge Liang's approval, he passed the plan to Ru Chao, and asked Ru Chao to lead several big families to complete the plot in secret.

Now several people are waiting in the mansion for any movement.

Tomorrow, the food exchange will basically be completed. If Sun Quan wants to do it, this is the last chance.

Ru Chao sat cross-legged on the mat, frowned and said, "It's just that there seems to be no movement in Taicang these past few days. Everything is as usual. Could it be that Sun Quan has no plan to burn food?"

"My brother said that this is the only possibility for Sun Quan to win. If he doesn't do this, the incident will definitely be extinguished."

Lu Hao said: "Unless Sun Quan is so stupid that he can't even think of this."

"Ah."

Ru Chao stroked his beard and tapped his chin lightly.

At this moment, a servant outside the door hurried in: "Report!"

"Oh?"

Ru Chao was pleasantly surprised: "Is there a fire in Taicang?"

The servant said: "No, a Taicang official came and said that he has something important to report."

Taicang official?
People looked at each other.

Immediately realized that someone inside the enemy wanted to tip off.

Ru Chao immediately said, "Let him in."

"Yes."

The servant went out to lead the people.

After a while Jiao Cheng came in and saw a few people, he didn't know these people, but Ru Chao had visited Taicang before, he had seen it from a distance, and he cupped his hands to Ru Chao, "Jiao Cheng, the official of Taicang, pays his respects to the envoy."

"What's the matter with you?"

Ru Chao asked.

Jiao Cheng had already made up his mind at this time, he took a deep breath and said, "Bei is an official in Taicang. The elders of the family found him a few days ago and asked him to hide fish oil and thieves in Taicang."

What he said was deliberate.

Although the interests of the family are paramount in this era, the problem is that Jiao Cheng is not the head of the family, and the interests of the family cannot be enjoyed by him. On the contrary, he cannot be an official because of the family.

So at the beginning Jiao Cheng was bewitched by his family and hated that the court could not admit him, so he decided to agree to set fire to him.

But looking at his newly married wife, Jiao Cheng knew that he was not setting fire, but playing with fire and setting himself on fire. The family he built with great difficulty was about to be destroyed.

So he had to tell the truth.

However, what he didn't expect was that Jiao Cheng thought that Ru Chao and the others would be very shocked, and immediately sent people to search Taicang.

As a result, Ru Chao and the others looked at each other, but suddenly laughed.

"Hahahahaha."

"It seems that what Zuo Pushe said is true."

"That puts us at ease."

Several people were all smiling.

Jiao Cheng was confused, and said: "Master, they haven't set the fire yet, they should be waiting for the patrolling soldiers to change their guards in the middle of the night, if they send people to check the warehouse immediately at this time, there is still time."

"It's okay."

Ru Chao waved his hand and said, "You don't know, we already know what Sun Quan did, and now we are waiting for him to set fire."

Jiao Cheng was shocked and said, "Your envoy knows? But there are millions of stones of grain in the granary."

"The sacks are filled with straw and stones."

Straw and stones?
Jiao Cheng was even more shocked.

Looking at the smiling faces of several people, they looked confident.

In a daze, he suddenly felt that he had done the most wise thing in his life.

That night.

The Jianye Taicang fire destroyed millions of stones, grain and grass.

For a while, the whole city was under martial law.

The monstrous fire could be seen from dozens of miles away.

Cao Wei's spies quickly passed the news to Cao Xiu, General Zhengdong. Two days later, Cao Xiu's army of more than [-] men marched southward to take Hefei.

at the same time.

During the fire in Jianye Taicang, Xiangyang, Jingzhou.

At midnight, Sun Quan, who had been hiding outside the city for a day, arrived at the pier on the east coast of Bianshan.

Liu Bei didn't treat Sun Quan badly, and he didn't ground him. He could still walk outside Xiangyang City, but he had to be monitored by soldiers.

During the day, Sun Quan reported to Liu Chan that he was going to go outing in the countryside, and then ordered his servants to pretend to be him, put on his clothes and go back in a carriage, while he hid himself outside the city.

After dark, he and Fu Jun were ready to flee Xiangyang.

There was already a speedboat waiting at the pier, and the two of them quickly boarded the boat, looking at the farther and farther Mount Xian shrouded in the moonlight, Sun Quan sneered and said, "Gu has finally escaped from the cage."

Fu Jun said: "Marquis Wu, they said that Taicang will be burned tonight. If we leave now, will we just encounter martial law over there?"

"I will definitely meet."

Sun Quan said without hesitation: "So we can't go to Jianye. When we get to Peng Lize, we will go directly south to Kuaiji by taking Poshui."

"Gu Li and the others are waiting for us in Kuaiji now, and now they are afraid that Guan Yu will not be restrained from the north."

Fu Jun was a little worried.

Sun Quan said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? Gu Li told Gu Li a long time ago that before Gu Li arrives, he must not make trouble. He was harmed by Cao Pi once before, and this time he must not be fooled again."

"But if Marquis Wu leaves, will they immediately realize that we are already preparing to start an incident in Kuaiji?"

Fu Jun hesitated and said: "If Cao Pi harmed Marquis Wu again, let us conspire to burn down the granary, force Guan Yu to go back, and occupy Huainan without bloodshed, wouldn't we have to do it again?"

Sun Quan's face suddenly darkened.

That guy Cao Pi is very insidious and cunning. Although what Fu Jun said is extreme and the possibility of it happening is unlikely, it is still possible.

But after a while, Sun Quan shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I don't believe Cao Pi is so short-sighted, let's go back and talk about it."

Right now he was standing at the bow of the ship with his hands behind his back, watching the ship leave Xiangyang quietly.

a few days later.

The ship went down the river and arrived in Poyang County, Yuzhang.

When he landed, Gu Li had already been waiting at the agreed small pier in the south of Poyang County.

"Greetings to Marquis Wu!"

Gu Li stepped forward and saluted on one knee.

They were the only ones at the small pier, and the surrounding area was deserted.

Sun Quan was in high spirits at the moment, looked around, and laughed loudly: "Jiangdong, I'm back!"

(End of this chapter)