Overlord!

Chapter 60

Liu Yao's army was defeated and fled all over the mountains and plains.

Sun Ce's subordinates immediately started chasing and killing them without any scruples, and the enemy army lay dead for more than [-] miles along the way.

At this moment, the seven hundred iron cavalry finally demonstrated their unparalleled strategic value. The brave generals divided up their troops and charged into the crowd.

In this battle, Sun Ce's army beheaded more than [-] people and captured tens of thousands of people!
The huge cavalry took the situation in a completely different direction.

The most important point is that Sun Ce's army chased and killed the defeated soldiers all the way to Dantu County, and directly took down this important town in the north of Qu'a, facing Guangling County across the Yangtze River.

Cheng Zi rode his horse in front of Sun Ce with blood all over his body, and said with great righteousness, "General, I didn't find Liu Yao when I took down the Dantu. He must be hiding among the routs. I ask a team of disciples to continue searching all night long." !"

He commanded all the cavalry under Sun Ce except the Xuanjia Cavalry. It can be said that his troops fought desperately in this battle and made great contributions.Especially when chasing and killing, he personally led the cavalry to attack. Any enemy army who tried to gather a crowd to resist would be violently defeated by his troops.Therefore, the blood that bathed his whole body was not only sprayed by the enemy, but also wounded himself in several places, dripping with blood.

But he still ignored his injuries and wanted to search all night.

Sun Ce appreciated this loyalty very much, and he didn't want any mistakes in this kind of love. He said: "Liu Yao fled, but he was just a remnant thief. You don't need to spend a lot of time searching. You go to bandage the wound and take good care of it."

Cheng Zi said anxiously, "But that's General Mujia Zhenwu of Yangzhou!"

Sun Ce smiled and said, "You also know that he is General Mujia Zhenwu of Yangzhou appointed by the imperial court? What do you plan to do with him after arresting him? Kill him, release him, or hand him over to Yuan Shu?"

Gongsun Zan beheaded Liu Yu, the shepherd of Youzhou, and almost the whole of Youzhou was in turmoil. Countless forces united and formed an army of [-] to strangle Gongsun Zan, who was in great power for a while.

If Sun Ce killed Liu Yao, the whole Jiangdong would be turned against Yingtian.

Of course, giving him to Yuan Shu would be a trick for himself.Yuan Shu will proclaim himself emperor within one or two years.If Sun Ce sent Liu Yao to him, he would be killed by Yuan Shu.Sun Ce's reputation was immediately notorious, and he was simply helping the evildoers.

Cheng Zi still frowned: "But let him go like this? He still has Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County under him. Once he escapes to these two counties, he will definitely become our enemy."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Sun Ce frowned: "Otherwise, if we conquer Kuaiji, how should we deal with Yuan Shu's enlistment? Give up Jiangdong, and then help him to conquer other counties?"

"Hiss~" Cheng Zi suddenly took a breath, his eyes widened.Suddenly thought of a word, Yang Kou self-respect!
Sun Ce said calmly: "Don't waste your strength, rest as soon as possible, and prepare to continue marching eastward to capture Piling, Wuxi and other counties. I want to hold at least half of Wujun in my hands! This relationship is very important, even more important than Liu Yao .'"

If you hit Wuxi, you are already in the north of Taihu Lake.The five counties of Wuxi, Wuxian, Yangxian, Wucheng and Youquan are the fertile land beside Taihu Lake, the most fertile land of abundance in the world.

Sun Ce must guarantee to grab three of the five counties before others.

Cheng Zi immediately took orders and began to lead the army back.

But Liu Yao suddenly left on Qingqi, so it was not easy to search.Even in which direction he went, no one knew.If he did not flee north to Dantu, but went east to Wu County.

Even if Sun Ce's [-] troops overturned the land all night, it would be impossible to catch him.

So Sun Ce didn't care much at all, so he withdrew his troops and entered Qu'a City.

Wuxi and Wucheng Sun Ce hadn't got it yet, but Qu'a, an important military town in Yangzhou, was easily brought into Sun Ce's hands.

The most important reason why it went so smoothly was that Gu Yong, the magistrate of Qu'a County, directly surrendered the city.

This is the hero who dedicated the entire city of Yangzhou, and he was also the first celebrity among the gentry in Wujun to support Sun Ce.

In any case, Sun Ce had to personally receive this celebrity from Wu County in person as soon as possible.

In order to show his closeness to Gu Yongzhi, Sun Ce even ordered that no one of the three armies should enter the city without authorization, and the whole army should be stationed in camps outside the city.

Sun Ce's army has strict discipline and has not committed any crimes against the city. This Yangzhou prefecture is safe for the people.

Gu Yong also personally led the famous people and heroes in the city to visit Sun Ce's camp.

Gu Yong was wearing a soap robe, a black ribbon with a bronze seal on his waist, and a sage crown on his head. He stood in front of the crowd and led them to salute: "I am waiting for the chief official from Qu'a to pay my respects to General Sun."

Sun Ce immediately helped Gu Yong up with his own hands, and laughed boldly: "I have heard of Gu Yuantan's name for a long time, and with the help of Yuantan and all the sages, I will be able to help the crisis and the chaos, and stabilize Jiangdong."

And Gu Yong definitely deserved Sun Ce's praise.

When he was young, he worshiped Cai Yong, a great writer in the late Han Dynasty, as his teacher.

Cai Yong is the father of Cai Wenji, a talented woman through the ages. He is already a great man in the world, but when he saw Gu Yong, he was still expensive and different, and said: "You will become a great talent in the future, and you will be famous in history. Therefore, I will bestow my name on you. , I hope that future generations will think of me when they mention your name."

Gu Yong is indeed worthy of Cai Yong's high hopes. When he was weak, he was recommended by the prefectures and counties. He started as the magistrate of Hefei County, and then he was transferred to the magistrate of Lou County and Qu'e County.

He is only 27 years old now, but he has been transferred to several counties, and he has made achievements wherever he goes.

Historically, after Sun Quan served as the prefect of Kuaiji, he stayed in Wu County without knowing the prefecture, and directly took Gu Yong as the prefect of Kuaiji.

After Sun Ce captured Kuaiji County, he naturally did not intend to stay in Kuaiji County. A county in Kuaiji is almost equivalent to the two provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian in later generations. It is extremely developed here in later generations, but it is too far away from the Central Plains.

Sun Ce also planned to use Gu Yong as the county magistrate to govern the entire Kuaiji County.

Governance is so huge that it is equivalent to two counties in two provinces, and it is impossible for someone like Gu Yong to manage it.

After all, he has been the prime minister of Soochow for 19 years!

Moreover, Gu Yong's prime minister for the past 19 years was not a clay figurine prime minister, a marionette.He is truly in power and in charge of state affairs.

Since he does not drink, he is taciturn and well-behaved.When the ministers and ministers were having fun at the banquet, everyone was afraid that Gu Yong would see their gaffe after drinking, so they didn't dare to enjoy themselves.Sun Quan also said: "Gu Gong is sitting on it, which makes us unable to be happy." It is awe-inspiring, which can be seen in general.

Of course, even though Gu Yong is a talented person from Jiangdong, he still has a slight gap compared with Sun Ce.After all, Sun Ce had just lost the championship, so he fought together and defeated the dignified Yangzhou Mu and Zhenwu General Liu Yao!
Gu Yong looked at the fierce and heroic Sun Ce in front of him, sincerely admired him, and said: "I only wish to follow the general to help the Han Dynasty and help the Han Dynasty together in times of difficulty."

Sun Ce nodded with a smile, and looked behind Gu Yong.The most gratifying thing about defeating a force is undoubtedly capturing a large number of officials and talents in the enemy's city.

In the battle of Qu'a, not only dozens of enemy generals led the crowd to surrender to Sun Ce, but also almost all the talents in the city were wiped out by Sun Ce.

So Sun Ce said to Gu Yong with anticipation: "Yuan Tan will introduce me to a few more talented people from Qu'a."

Gu Yong immediately bowed his hands sideways, with a respectful attitude: "Dare not to obey orders."

He was the first to introduce Sun Shao, who was eight feet tall, and said: "This is a famous scholar from Beihai, Sun Shao, whose name is Changxu. Kong Rong, Prime Minister of Beihai, once praised him as a talent for Langmiao, who can take on important positions in the court. Those who lead thousands of elite soldiers to surrender today are servants."

The generals behind Sun Ce were in an uproar. The performance of this person on the battlefield today is obvious to all, and he caused great trouble to our side.It can be said that if Zhou Yu hadn't led the army to arrive in time, he would have almost reversed the entire battle situation.

Sun Shao bowed and saluted, and said: "On the battlefield, everyone is their master, so they have to do their best. I hope the general will forgive me."

Sun Ce looked at the eight-foot-tall Beihai celebrity.Like Zhuge Liang, he is a standard Shandong man, with a very majestic appearance and awe-inspiring bearing.

At that time, each was his own master and had to do his best.

Sun Ce appreciated this sentence very much.If he can do his best for Liu Yao, he will be able to do his best for himself in the future.

So Sun Ce laughed and said, "This is an act of loyalty and righteousness, so why blame it?"

All the generals who have resisted will be killed.In the end of the Han Dynasty, most of the talents Tai Shici, Wenpin, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, etc. would all die.

In troubled times, the most important thing is the heart.

And Sun Ce is undoubtedly one of the most generous and open-minded princes. With his hearty laughter, all the scholars in the tent admired him and were happy to serve him.

After introducing Sun Shao, Gu Yong continued to introduce the next scholar to Sun Ce, but this scholar was very young and not an official.

"This is Qu Awang, the patriarch of the Hong clan with the surname Hongzi, whose style name is Changlin."

I am afraid that Sun Ce is not clear about the status of the Hong family, so Gu Yong specially emphasized: "The Hong family is a prominent family in Yangzhou. It is not only the surname of Qu'a, but also has great prestige in Wu County. Changlin is more generous and generous, and has great ambition."

Sun Ce took a deep breath, that is to say, the Hong family is extremely influential in the three levels of Qu'e County, Wu County, and Yangzhou.

Sun Ce looked at this outstanding young man with a weak crown. No wonder the bully in history wanted to marry his younger sister to him and make him a relative by marriage.

If he can fully support him, it will definitely facilitate his occupation of Jiangdong.

After all, the Zhou family of the Gongqing family has already married me, and I am still trying to win over another big family of Gongqing, the Chen family. If the Qu'ahong family, which is very influential in Yangzhou, is also drawn into marriage at this time, then the Sun family can be married only by this relationship. Stand firm in Jiangdong.

And this is the wealthy family that will recommend Zhuge Jin in the future.Zhugejin took refuge in Jiangdong, maybe it was the Qu'ahong family.

So Sun Ce had high hopes for him, so he asked with a smile: "Changlin has great ambition and integrity, would you like to become an official and govern Yangzhou for me?"

Hongzi cupped his hands and said: "I have been interested in helping the troubled times for a long time, but I just hate that I have not met a hero. The general has tens of thousands of troops entering Qu'a, but has no offense against the people. He is indeed the king's teacher. The prefectures and the people are all satisfied. The general I have the intention of withdrawing troops from Wuhui, and I would like to help the general."

The most important reason why Hongzi was willing to help Sun Ce was as he said, Sun Ce's tens of thousands of troops won a complete victory today, but they had nothing to do with Qu'e County Qiu, and none of the generals and soldiers entered Qu'e City.

The entire Qu'a family and tyrants greatly appreciated this.

You must know that after the army breaks through the city, it has been accompanied by chaos and killing since ancient times.Therefore, many local tyrants tried their best to resist foreign conquerors.Every change of power means the bloodshed and loss of local power.

However, Sun Ce's military discipline not only prevented them from losing anything, but even gave them the opportunity to follow Sun Ce and expand their interests in other counties.

Hongzi was young and energetic, and when he was most ambitious, he was most willing to join Sun Ce, a new force, follow Sun Ce to conquer Jiangdong, and further enhance Hongzi's status and prestige in the entire Jiangdong.

Sun Ce didn't expect it to be so smooth. Although some powerful families in Wu County resolutely resisted, some people joined his side smoothly and supported him to pacify Jiangdong.

Sun Ce will naturally reward this big family that supports him generously.After he suppressed the rebels and subdued them, and wiped out those resisting tyrants, the heroes of the big clans such as the Hong family and the Gu family would be an important source of talents for him to rule Jiangdong.

So Sun Ce said to Hongzi: "After occupying Wujun, I plan to develop the northern part of Wujun with all my strength, so that the families and wives of the lieutenants and soldiers will be located near Zhenze. I will appoint you as the captain of the northern part of Wujun, and take full responsibility for this. thing."

Zhenze is Taihu Lake, and Sun Ce's father Wu Chenghou's fief is just south of Zhenze, so he is very familiar with this area. Fuchun County, the hometown of the Sun family, is at the southernmost tip of Wu County.

It can be said that the Sun family itself is quite an influential family of princes and princes in Wu County.

The Sun family and the Hong family joined forces and placed tens of thousands of lieutenant officers and soldiers, which destined the two families to have a very high influence in the northern part of Wu County.

Hongzi was very pleased with this appointment, since he was the captain of Wu County at the beginning, he was higher than the county magistrate, and it was an absolute exception. He immediately handed over his hands and said, "Zi must put all his heart and soul into it, and live up to the general's trust."

Sun Ce nodded, and comforted Gu Yong who was beside him: "Yuan Tan is also a hero in Jiangdong, with outstanding achievements. It is a shame to only serve as the county magistrate of Qu'a. When I take down Kuaiji, I will make Yuan Tan the governor of Kuaiji County and the prefect. To govern a county for me."

Sun Ce's clear rewards and punishments made all the heroes in Qu'a City sincerely respect him.

They are willing to support Sun Ce, but what they want is to defeat the resisters and replace them in high positions?

Gu Yong can also confirm that the Gu family of Wu County will be glorious in the process of following Sun Lang this time!

The Gu family has been in decline for too long. After his great-grandfather Gu Feng served as the prefect of Yingchuan, it has been three generations since he served as the prefect of Liangqianshi.

The Gu family at this level is barely qualified to be called a powerful family, but it is completely without a trace of qualifications to be called an aristocratic family.

Gu Yong was very much looking forward to having a higher influence among Sun Lang's forces, so he actively recommended a large number of talents in Qu'a for Sun Ce.

Including Teng Dan and Teng Zhou, the talents brought by Liu Yao from Beihai, who recruited Wu Fan and Liu Yi in Yangzhou.

Among them, Teng Zhou is what Sun Ce admires the most. After all, he is beautiful, fair-skinned, and impressive, which is the most suitable for Sun Ce's beauty.Using him as an envoy in the future can give Jiangdong a bad image.

The more talented one is Wu Fan. He is proficient in arithmetic and is famous all over the world for his research on calendar and climate.This is of great value to Jiangdong's development and academic development.

(End of this chapter)