Chapter 676
Faced with Zhou Yu's decadent state, most people around him were at a loss.
Jia Hua and other ordinary men do not understand any great principles. The Sun family like Sun He does not study or understand the righteousness, but only knows that the Sun family cannot surrender.
At that moment, everyone looked at each other and responded in disagreement, but they didn't have the courage to question.
Finally, Yu Fan, who had a little knowledge, spoke out and advised him: "The Grand Governor must not share his ambitions. At this point, the Sun family's foundation cannot be preserved, and it is not a matter of being hidden.
They were embarrassed to say that they would let me, a lifeless man, say it. They were not very popular. When they slaughtered all the Xu Gong tribes and the Lu clan of Wujun, the famous scholars in Jiangdong did not resist, but simply because they saw that the General Polu was indeed a hero of Dong and a hero of the world.
General Polu died at the hands of the Lu clan's disciples, and the grudges between the two sides stopped a little. But now Li Su is as powerful as the bamboo shoot, and people's hearts will definitely be repeated. On the day when Jianye City is broken, the rest must be decided by an edict."
Sun He was furious when he heard this, and drew his sword directly: "Yu Fan! You dare..."
Yu Fan was not afraid, and raised his eyelids: "If you kill me, you will die when Li Su comes. I am not Li Su's inner support, but Li Su must be happy to see the Sun family fighting in the internal conflict before their death and clean up the local tribes in Jiangnan. You are so happy to be with your relatives.
If you realize that you are the direct descendant of the Sun family, and you have no way out, and surrender may not have a good end. It is better to persuade Gongjin to find another way out together. I am for everyone's good."
Sun He's aura was suppressed by Yu Fan's calmness. He didn't want to fight in the internal conflict at such an end. He took back his sword and sighed: "What else can I do?"
Yu Fan and everyone calmed down for a moment, and drank another glass of thin wine to relieve their breath. Anyway, what he provided was rice wine, so this amount was not intoxicating.
Although the soju in Kansai is occasionally sold to Kansai through merchants, Liu Bei controlled the output and saved food, so the Kansai people drank very little, and the price increased several times.
If the soju wine of about 40 degrees is sold in Guandong, if it is a brand like Jiangyang Laojiao or Wuliangye, it can be sold to the level of "10,000 Jinzun Sake Wine" in it. Only 10,000 yuan per kilogram, which is worth 70,000 yuan per kilogram.
Yu Fan was an official in a broken place like Yuhang, even if he was entertaining Zhou Yu, he could not afford such expensive things.
After both sides became more and more decadent when they were drunk, Yu Fan felt it was suitable for persuasion, so he encouraged:
"Gongjin, everyone is also a colleague. When you colluded with Linyi Kingdom to attack you, I really look down on you. I will not hide it from you now.
Even though you know you have no hope, you still do such things. It is better to be like the first lord, who is like Xiang Yu, who refuses to cross Jiangdong. It is a passionate and vigorous one. You have lost, but you are still depressed and ugly!
However, things have come to this point, to be honest, everyone else can surrender. But you don’t have much hope. Li Susu came to persuade Liu Bei to put Hu and Han’s righteousness first.
Even Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were captured in the future because of their achievements in breaking through the Xianbei royal court. As long as there was no other serious evil, even if they had committed the crime of stealing the alliance and attacking Guan Yu before, they would probably be spared from death.
But if you collude with Lin Yi, any accomplice who is Wen of this plot will probably be very involved. In the future, Li Su will even be used as an excuse to clean up the Jiangdong family!
Now, we neither want you to be captured nor surrender, and we also say that if you surrender, you will die. If you tied you up and offered it to Li Su, we can't do it. I advise you, if you realize that you are still a master and want to make your future history books less famous, then go out to sea and try to atone for your sins."
If Yu Fan said these words five days earlier, Zhou Yu would kill him for the crime of shaking the morale of the army.
But now that we say it, the situation has suddenly reversed. In the final battle of Taihu Lake, Zhou Yu's coalition forces had 90,000, and 50,000 were completely annihilated, either dead or injured or surrendered or captured.
The remaining 40,000 is actually only 18,000,000, and there is a possibility of escaping. He Qi and the thousands returned to Jianye City, but they just saved it in Li Su's ATM for a while. Yu Jin's 20,000 escaped in a panic, probably only a few days later.
By then, 70,000 out of 90,000 people will be wiped out, and only 20,000 will escape.
In this dilemma, it is understandable that Yu Fan would say anything excessive.
Moreover, Yu Fan was a madman in history and was not afraid of offending others. Sun Quan often contradicted him in front of him, which made Sun Quan almost draw his sword. Even if he was blocked by Zhang Zhao, Sun Quan angrily scolded: The old thief (Cao Cao) could kill Kong Wenju, but how could he not kill Yu Zhongxiang!
Later, Mi Fang surrendered to Sun Quan, and was probably in the same camp as Yu Fan, but Yu Fan did not give in when he saw Mi Fang and humiliated Mi Fang without integrity.
Now there is no chance to do these things. Yu Fan just said some heartless and inspiring words to Zhou Yu who is at the end of the road, which can only be regarded as a basic operation.
Zhou Yu endured his anger for a while, but at least he was not blown up by Yu Fan's attitude, so he gritted his teeth and asked for advice: "Oh? I want to ask Brother Zhongxiang for advice! Tell me, how can we be a destination and keep our historical books famous!"
Yu Fan: "If you have the ability, go to the South China Sea. If you collude with Linyi Kingdom, then you go to the barren lands further south of Linyi Kingdom, and destroy the barbarians that invaded the Han territory, which is also considered atonement.
However, Linyi is too southern and the heat is unbearable. I heard that Li Su went south to Jiaozhi and brought various secret medicines to prevent fever. Only Zhang Ji, the medical officer in Liu Bei's army, knew all the prescriptions.
If you don’t prepare at all, most of the soldiers who went to Linyi would probably die of illness, which would have harmed tens of thousands of creatures in the army. Moreover, after Li Su pacified Jiangdong, he would definitely take advantage of the winter to return to the army and destroy the Linyi Kingdom.
Linyi Kingdom can resist the first year, but it can resist the second year or the third year. Once Linyi falls, even if you establish a foundation in the south of Linyi, you will again border Li Su's jurisdiction, and then you will still be chased by Li Su again.
So, it is better to take a step back. You go to Zhuya, to Yizhou, find places where Shanyue barbarians have not been controlled by Li Su, and open up the barbarians, encircle and suppress Shanyue, and spread the Han tradition. This will also be considered a crime of great success. You will not be caught by Li Su, and then use excuses to expand the unjust case and implicate our Jiangdong family.
As long as you leave this time, no one from the Jiangdong family will go with you. Even if you are caught by Li Su in a foreign land in the future, he will not be able to make excuses for you to implicate others. You cannot say that anyone is your accomplice in colluding with Lin Yi, and it will be good to everyone.
If you are afraid of going to Yizhou, you will eventually be discovered by Li Su and catch up with him, and are worried that Li Su will develop sea transportation to connect Lingnan in the future. Then you can only run farther away.
In recent years, I heard that Cao Cao was also sending the Lu family's remnants to explore the East China Sea. It is said that to the northeast of Yizhou, there are archipelagos like chains, which look like a winding stream, and can reach the wrath of the Japanese kingdom. If Yizhou is lost, you can find a way to run away. Maybe in the end, Li Su is looking at you to explore the land of the Eastern Yi and Southern Barbarians, let the Han dynasty expand, and save your life. The key is to clean up your infamous in history."
I have to say that Yu Fan is also under the Sun family. Now, except for the two Zhang, there are more politically wise talents (mainly because Gu Yong did not follow the Sun family from the beginning). At least in the territory of Kuaiji County, civil servants in other places are not as good as him.
Yu Fan's words not only advised Zhou Yu not to rush to die, but also made clear the reasons and did not give Li Su the opportunity to expand the crackdown and create unjust cases to clean up local forces.
The time when the Jiangdong family surrendered to Li Su was a time difference with the time when Zhou Yu was finally destroyed. If the Jiangdong family surrendered first, it would not be considered Zhou Yu's "deadly accomplice".
Everyone will live a few more years, and win-win situations.
Zhou Yu is only twenty-seven or eight years old, so he probably isn't really in a hurry to die. Even if he lives a hard life in the future and wants to overcome the smoky land of barbarians, he can also clear up his historical infamousity. Zhou Yu will do it himself.
"I really want to escape to Yizhou, or even Liu Qiu and Xiematai? I am only twenty-eight years old, and I can still cleanse my reputation in history books! When I go overseas, we must also record our own unofficial history and not let the Li Su family's wife stigmatize us in official history!"
What Zhou Yu feared most was that Li Su criticized him in history books, wrote him without any shining points, and became a complete clown loser.
Especially after Liu Xie's father-in-law was the Grand Tutor, Cai Yong began to compile the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty". In the future, the subsequent materials of "Han Ji" will be Cai Yan to check. Li Su's advantage in this regard is too great.
The history of the country was made up by his wife. He still blew whoever he wanted to slander?
Fortunately, Zhou Yu is one year younger than Li Su (according to the age announced to the public, Li Su is actually two years younger than him). He feels that his life span may not be comparable, and he must write his own history by himself!
Zhou Yu finally made up his mind that he could not die! He could not pursue happiness like Sun Ce. He wanted to endure the humiliation and live with Sun Ce.
After Zhou Yu made up his mind, he finally fell down relieved and slept hard all night with alcohol. The next day, he ordered the troops to cut down bamboo in Yuhang County, make slide rails, and then drove the troops in the army, as well as other warships with faster speeds and good airworthiness in the sea, to use the slide rails to Zhejiang within a few days, and then sail southward along the coast.
Those large fighting ships, especially those with high superstructures above the water surface and strong inland melee battles, were abandoned by Zhou Yu because of their poor sea navigation and wave resistance.
After all, Zhou Yu is a genius in water warfare. No one knows the seaworthiness of various ship types in various waters better than him. He knows what he is going to take away.
So, Zhou Yu finally staged another miracle of "dry boating". He spent seven or eight days to take advantage of the Han army's horse-drawn land on the northern line and besieged Jianye. He had no time to pay attention to the broken place in Yuhang, which gave him the opportunity to regroup and escape.
Gan Ning never came to guard against Zhejiang because he knew that the southernmost end of the Jiangnan Canal was not connected to Zhejiang. Moreover, after receiving Zhao Yun's information, Gan Ning immediately tilted all the main forces to the north line and went to Jingkou to block Yu Jin from crossing the river.
It was equivalent to Yu Jin's death, which pulled away the Han army's attention and hatred, and the surrounding forces, and instead saved Zhou Yu, who broke through in the direction that others were most unlikely to think of and were too lazy to be prepared for.
However, Zhou Yu also knew that he was unpopular and had several big defeats, so he did not force everyone to follow him. He knew that many soldiers were unwilling to go to the barbarian land, so he left three ways:
Those who want to stay in Yuhang, Wujun, Jiangbei, followed Yu Fan.
I want to follow you for a while and go to Shanyin, Kuaiji, on the south bank of Zhejiang. Anyway, I probably surrendered with the Jiangdong family in the end and would not fight.
Finally, I felt that I was a direct descendant of the Sun family, especially the veterans of the Huai Si generals, who were not natives from Jiangnan. I felt that staying in Wujun, Kuaiji might not be treated well. If the Sun family leaves, they will be excluded by the locals, so I will continue to follow Zhou Yu to open up the territory.
Finally, Jia Hua and Sun He followed Zhou Yu, and 8,000 soldiers chose to stay. Zhou Yu only brought the last 10,000 people and a hundred boats, entering the East China Sea from the mouth of Zhejiang and heading south along the coast.
Chapter completed!