The Shuhan Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 51 Lu Xun Takes Command

Lu Xun took command, "If Derun (Kan Ze's word) hadn't reminded me, I would have almost forgotten about Lu Xun." Sun Quan also got excited when he heard Kan Ze mention Lu Xun.

"Lu Xun is a scholar, how could he be the opponent of the hero Liu Bei, I'm afraid he can't be hired yet," Zhang Zhao stood up to stop him;
"Lu Xun has no prestige in the army, and I am afraid that the generals will not be convinced; if he refuses to accept it, it will cause disaster and delay the military." Gu Yong also stood up to prevent Sun Quan from appointing Lu Xun.

"Lu Xun's talent can only be the talent of a county. If he entrusts him with a major task, there will be no good results." Bu Zhi also dissuaded Sun Quan from using Lu Xun.

Kan Ze saw so many people against him, and Sun Quan seemed to be beginning to hesitate, so he gritted his teeth, "If Lu Xun is not used, Soochow will die! I am willing to use the life of the whole family as a guarantee for Lu Xun."

Sun Quan was also exaggerated by Kan Ze's loyalty, "I also know that Lu Xun is a genius! I have decided my loneliness, so you don't need to persuade." In the end, Sun Quan still made a decision to appoint Lu Xun.Perhaps Sun Quan relied on this choice of being the master, so that Jiangdong could survive under the vanguard of Cao Wei and Shu Han.

Lu Xun's real name was Lu Yi, later changed to Xun, and his style name was Boyan. He was from Wu County.The son of Lu Jun, the captain of Jiujiang, and the official commander of Zhenxi General.After receiving the edict, Lu Xun was also surprised, "The lord summoned me at this time. Could it be because of the battle of Jingzhou? Could there be a big change in Jingzhou?" Then Lu Xun bid farewell to his family and rushed to Jianye without stopping." In the end, I will pay my respects to the Lord"

Seeing Lu Xun coming so quickly, Sun Quan also sighed with emotion, "Bo Yan is really a real husband."

"Accepting the Lord's edict, Chen An dares to slack off;"

"Now that the Han army is suppressing the border, I want to worship you as the governor and governor of the Eastern Wu army." Sun Quan did not bypass the subject but directly stated his edict.

"Ministers of civil and military affairs in Jiangdong are all capable ministers and generals of the lord; the ministers have no talent and no hope, and they can command the entire Jiangdong soldiers." Lu Xun was also frightened by Sun Quan. He originally thought that Sun Quan recruited him to come here so that he could get the commander. Unexpectedly, the opportunity for one of the soldiers was to be the governor of the entire Soochow.

"Kan Derun used his whole family's life to protect you as the commander-in-chief, and Gu also knows your talent; now I do not want you to be the commander-in-chief not to enjoy the glory, but to resist Liu Bei's army;"

"If civil and military generals refuse to accept, how should we respond?"

Sun Quan took off his sword and handed it to Lu Xun without any hesitation, "If anyone disobeys the order, you can kill them first and play later."

Lu Xun took the saber with both hands, "Thanks to the great trust of the Lord, the minister should only take orders, but I also ask the Lord to gather all the officials in the future, and then give it to the humble minister."

"It should be like this! Order to build an altar and gather all the generals." Sun Quan immediately ordered the generals to build the altar overnight.

The next day, hundreds of officials and thousands of soldiers gathered together; "If the lord appoints Lu Xun's son, Jiangdong will be in danger." Zhang Zhao looked at the altar and said to Gu Yong who was next to him.

"I hope Lu Xun isn't like Zhao Kuo, that's all. It's not just a single person in Jingzhou who can change the whole situation of the war," Gu Yong said worriedly.

"Why don't you two adults believe that Lu Xun has the talent of Zhou Lang?" Kan Ze seemed helpless when he saw that Zhang Zhao and others were still unwilling to believe in Lu Xun's talent, but luckily he met a lord who believed in him.

At this moment, Sun Quan asked Lu Xun to go to the altar, and Lu Xun was wearing a military uniform and walked towards Sun Quan with a heroic face;

"Nowadays the Han army is pressing down on the border. I, the generals of the Eastern Wu, should guard my city and the people. Now when Han Dang, the governor of the left, resisted the Han army in Jingzhou, he exhausted his last drop of blood and finally fell on the land of Jingzhou; tens of thousands of me The children of Jiangdong are still fighting on the land of Jingzhou to guard every one of our cities; so today I have to worship the general of Zhenxi Lu Xun as the governor of Dongwu and Jinfeng Louhou; he is in charge of the six counties and 81 states and the roads of Jingzhou Soldiers and horses, go to Jingzhou to resist the Han army from invading our Soochow!" Sun Quan stood on the altar and shouted loudly to the soldiers below.

"Must win! Definitely win! Definitely win!,,," all the soldiers also answered in loud and orderly voices.

"Catch the sword" Sun Quan untied his saber from his waist and handed it to Lu Xun; Lu Xun knelt down to receive the sword with both hands, and then stood on the stage and raised Sun Quan's saber to the soldiers below. The moment I saw Lu Xun holding up his sword was also the dream of every soldier at this time.

After Lu Xun took the order to step down from the altar, he immediately ordered Xu Sheng and Ding Feng to serve as guards, and then mobilized [-] soldiers from Jiangdong to Jingzhou.

In Yidao City; Yidao City with its four gates closed, coupled with the corpses of the Han army under the Ximen City, Yidao City at this time looks extraordinarily gloomy, and the people in the city are also hiding in their homes. people, went out to inquire about the fighting situation;

In the prefect's mansion of Yidao City, "the right governor, the last general thinks that the Han army may have other attempts." Luo Tong, who joined the army, suggested to Zhou Tai.

"What does Gongxu (Luo Tong's word) mean by this?"

"Yesterday's siege of the Han army was too large, and Liu Bei was personally in charge, but the result was that they left the city wall after leaving more than a thousand corpses; the general thought that Liu Bei would never do such a thing, but He is plotting a terrifying conspiracy of his own."

"What conspiracy?" Zhou Tai continued to ask.

"I don't know the end, I just feel that there will be news soon"

"I don't think Liu Bei will have any big conspiracy or treachery. After all, his camp is less than [-] miles away from our city. If there is any trouble, our scouts will definitely be able to find it, but so far, no scouts have found it. What is the behavior of the Han army to deploy troops and generals; moreover, the Han army's siege formation yesterday was completely beyond my expectation, with a lot of siege equipment prepared; The city will be lost." Ling Tong clearly disagreed with Luo Tong's statement.

"The last general also thinks that the Han army is unlikely to have any conspiracy to attack our army. As long as Yidao City is still in our hands, it will be difficult for the Han army to make further progress unless they can fly past us." Pan Zhang also disagreed. I agree with Luo Tong's statement, but when he finished saying this sentence, he suddenly felt something was wrong,

"I know, the Han army wanted to storm the city in Yidao so that we all pay attention to Yidao, and he sent another surprise army to raid Dangyang County. After Dangyang County, it will be Nanjun." Hearing Pan Luo Tong immediately thought of Dangyang County when Zhang said flying over Yidao.

"This is impossible! There is no news from our scouts at all, and no news from Dangyang County;" Ling Tong was still unwilling to believe that Liu Bei would send out surprise troops, because the scouts did not hear any news of the division of the Han army. He sent people to watch the smoke from the cooking stoves in the Han army.

"Regardless of whether the Han army divides up to take Dangyang or not, our army should reinforce Dangyang to determine the strategy of the Han army's surprise attack, and to reduce our worries about the Dangyang area." Luo Tong saw that Zhou Tai was hesitating. However, Ling Tong also insisted that there would not be any surprise soldiers in the Han army, and proposed a neutral strategy; in fact, Zhou Tai's hesitation cannot be blamed. Zhou Tai was originally a general rather than a handsome talent. He served as the right governor because Sun Quan looked at his military exploits and rescue, and Han Dang, the left governor, controlled the entire battle situation, so Sun Quan let Zhou Tai take the position of the governor, but no one thought that Han Dang would commit suicide .

(End of this chapter)