Chapter 826 Before the fall, I will see Cao Ren's head
After discussing the plan with my cousin, Sun Quan actually wanted to bite his finger and let Wu Fen take it out in his belt.
However, he was afraid that his wife would see him at night and have new wounds on him, which would arouse suspicion, so Sun Quan had to change his mind.
After all, when Liu Xie wrote blood in history, Queen Fu and him were at least in love with him and even sewed his clothes and belts. Sun Quan's wife was a time bomb.
Fortunately, Sun Quan soon realized a problem: when his uncle died, he should have given him a blood sacrifice.
He took out a knife, stabbed his arm slightly to retrieve blood, and wrote a brief command of just dozens of words. The size was also very small, so Wu Fen hid it easily.
That night, Cao Zhu indeed saw that Sun Quan was a little disfigured and was very haggard. He also noticed a bleeding wound on his arm.
After asking, I found out that Sun Quan was unable to attend the funeral in time for his uncle's death, so he was too sad and felt that he was very unfilial and did not deserve to be a nephew, so he stabbed his arm and took blood to sacrifice.
Cao Zhu was also very moved when he heard this, thinking that this was indeed human nature and that Liu Xun was too ungrateful.
Sun Quan comforted his wife very much, and proposed the plan he had planned that night, and asked his uncle to go to the east of the city for a sacrifice seven days after three days, and he would come back that day.
Cao Zhu couldn't bear it and felt that this little filial piety should still be supported. He went to confront Liu Xun the next day.
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The next morning, Sun Quan and his family went to recruit Liu Xun for a confession. Liu Xun's first reaction was of course that he refused to agree to such an unreasonable request.
He was just ordered by Cao Ren five days ago to put Sun Quan under house arrest in the city during this period and not allow internal and external communication.
Cao Ren needed to leave enough time to mobilize his former subordinates in Huai Si and follow Cao Cao's instructions to take reinforcements from the front line of Yuzhou.
Only by pulling the new surrendered soldiers to another defense zone can they ensure their combat effectiveness and fighting will, rather than immediately collapse of their fighting will because their hometown was occupied by the enemy.
This process will not last too long, and it will be completed in half a month after being placed under house arrest.
If Sun Quan had no ambition and did not observe carefully, and had not thought about leaving the city in the past half month, he might have been "painlessly placed under house arrest" and had never noticed that he had suffered unfair treatment.
Can't you bear such a little restraint?
Of course, there are some things that Liu Xun cannot say, and even Cao Ren cannot say.
Sun Quan was also willing to pretend to be ignorant, but just showed his pure filial piety acting skills.
Seeing this, Cao Zhu was very angry and scolded Liu Xun: "Liu Xun! You are just a general surrender of Yuan Shu! This matter is suddenly. Besides, you are afraid of being responsible, so you can send someone to ask your son and uncle Xiao to ask for advice! Don't we go out of the city to worship the farewell ceremony in three days?
I don’t believe that my uncle will be so unkind! Since my husband married our Cao family, he has been gentle, kind, filial, respectful and pure, even if my father asked about it himself, he would not be like this!
Maybe Uncle Zixiao just feels that the road is not stable now, and he is afraid that there will be danger in our wandering around, and he will just run into the enemy scouts. When you come to your mouth, you will pretend to be powerful. Even I dare to take care of it? Let me tell my father later..."
Liu Xun was scolded and scolded, just like one person was too big, so how could he dare to retaliate?
Although he had once led tens of thousands of soldiers, before Yuan Shu surrendered to Cao after he surrendered to Cao, there were no more than 10,000 troops left in his direct troops controlled by him. How could an unpopular surrendered general challenge Cao Cao's daughter?
Liu Xun thought to himself: Sun Quan will leave the city in three days, and Wu Jing's funeral cannot be fake. Although he sent someone from Hefei to Shouchun to ask for instructions within three days, he should be able to fight back and forth, but it is too rush.
He could send a fast horse that travels four or five hundred miles a day to deliver the letter, but would Cao Ren be so active in dealing with it?
Anyone who has been in the officialdom knows that the people below report urgently, but the leaders may not deal with the reply as soon as possible. Cao Ren is very nervous every day now, not knowing what kind of roads Li Su has to bluff, when and where will he really launch an attack, and where will he have time to deal with these housework?
If the final request result is inconsistent with what Cao Zhu needs, or if it is delayed, Cao Ren's reply was not sent back before Wu Jingtouqi's day, and Liu Xun is still a villain.
The sin of not following the request for instructions is more serious than not asking for instructions.
If you don’t ask for instructions, you can say that you are negligent. After asking for instructions, you didn’t wait for the leader to reply, but you chose an option that was not in line with the leader’s will, which was to know the law and violate the law.
What's more, from the perspective of the whole country, Cao Cao's situation is already in danger, which is something that many generals know. At this time, if you really do something wrong, then you will give up your official position and run away! Maybe you won't be able to do it for long if you don't give up your official position.
Moreover, Cao Cao would be suspicious of the Huai Si generals who were sent to the Sun family today, so he would let them be cannon fodder first.
This clearly shows that if the situation deteriorates further, this kind of experience will spread to Yuan Shao's old subordinates and Yuan Shu's old subordinates. This is a relationship of a tragic relationship between a rabbit and a fox.
Liu Xun dared not to surrender to Liu Bei, because Yuan Shu was once a rebel, and Yuan Shu's generals surrendered from the beginning and did not participate in Yuan Shu's battle of regicide, otherwise no other ended up.
Lian Qiaorui's two daughters were abducted as slaves, but they were both punished by Liu Bei to go to the left school for a hard work for one or two years because they blocked Liu Bei's way of rescuing Liu Bei.
It can only be said that people are in panic in Cao's camp now. Except for the absolute direct line, they are all ulterior motives and just want to preserve their strength.
The trees fall and the money scatters are scattered, right now.
"Since that's the case, please be sure to return on the same day, and the guards should be careful." Liu Xun could only give a verbal warning in the end, and then let Sun Quan and Cao Ju go out of the city.
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Three days later, it is said to be Wu Jing's first seventh anniversary (actually, Wu Jing has not died yet in the Wu family mansion in Guangling, but the white banner has been hung out in advance at the door of the mansion)
Sun Quan was trembling and finally left the tiger's mouth and left the city. During these three days, he had a very hard time acting, but fortunately he did not arouse his wife's suspicion.
This kind of acting is very difficult, because if you want your wife to listen to you, you will have to be comforted.
But as a model who respects elders, I heard that my uncle died, Sun Quan should not be close to women, so he cannot use the life between husband and wife to comfort his wife. This scale is really difficult to grasp.
Fortunately, Cao Zhu has been married to him for more than two and a half years, but now it’s a coincidence that he has been pregnant for more than four months and is not very good. Sun Quan could not do those things with Cao Zhu, so he did not show any flaws.
When Cao Zhu and Sun Quan left the city, of course, they would also bring 300 guards from the Marquis' Mansion, most of whom were sent by the Cao family to monitor. The Sun family's own direct guards and only dozens of old servants.
When he left the city, Liu Xun was worried. He was afraid of accidents, so he brought hundreds of guards with him, with more people than those of the Sun family. The name "protection" is actually surveillance.
Sun Quan left the city for thirty miles east of the city and was already on the verge of Tushui (the Chushui after the Tang Dynasty). Then he found a high place in the mountain and mausoleum as planned and began to set up a memorial service.
Cao Zhu was also a little suspicious of his sacrifice so far away from the city, but after all, it was within an acceptable range of thirty miles, so he endured it.
There have been two major water systems in Hefei since ancient times. One is Feishui, which starts from Shaobi, passes through Hefei, and flows southward into Chaohu Lake.
The second is Chu River, which flows eastward in the eastern suburbs of Hefei (now Feidong County), and flows into the Yangtze River on the other side of Jinling. The estuary of the river is already the boundary of Guangling County. Later generations Ouyang Xiu wrote the "Drunk Old Man's Pavilion" in this place.
Because the upstream of Chushui no longer connects to other water systems, that place has not been considered a military corps since ancient times. Cao Ren defended Huainan and never stationed naval troops and warships in Chushui.
All the warships of Cao's army in Huainan were concentrated in Hangou and Ruxushui-Lishui. Because there were only those rivers that could connect the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, Li Su could continue to advance deeper after he entered the army.
Therefore, the "river control power" on Chushui basically doesn't care about anyone, but in fact it is controlled by Lu Fan, Wu Jing and others from Guangling County.
In the past few years, they had sent letters to Sun Quan, but basically sent people to take a boat dozens of miles east of Hefei City. There was no waterway to go, so they landed at the wharf, and then rode their horses to the city by more than 30 miles by land.
Sun Quan's sacrificial etiquette for his uncle was very complicated, and it took him a long time to delay. Just when the guard officers sent by Liu Xun to "escort" were a little impatient, but it was difficult to scold Sun Quan for being too filial,
Suddenly smoke and dust rolled on both sides of Chushui on the east side, and boats and boats advanced together, causing sudden changes.
"What's going on? Where did the riots come from?" Because Liu Xun himself did not follow Sun Quan and he was not that empty, the only one who was responsible for monitoring Sun Quan was the Sima, and naturally he was a little busy when he saw this.
In a hurry, he forced Sun Quan to get on the horse quickly and immediately ran back to the city.
Sun Quan did not deliberately resist, but just calmed down and said, "Where is the flag of the enemy coming? Seeing cavalry accompanying him, thirty miles away from the city, the large group of people and horses had obvious targets to escape. If they were caught up, wouldn't they backfire?
It’s better to break it into pieces and go up the mountain to hide! In this wilderness, even if there are large troops passing by, you won’t deliberately search the mountains! If you are worried that General Liu is not on guard, you can send a scout to the city to report on the enemy’s situation!”
The surveillance army Sima was quite reasonable when hesitated. With the scrutiny, the banner of chaos coming along Chushui in the east was becoming more and more obvious, and he deliberately confirmed that it was not his own defeated army.
On the contrary, under the banner of "Han Prime Minister Li" and generals such as Gan Ning, was it because the Han army finally attacked Huainan? However, Chu River was blocked, why didn't Li Su let Gan Ning attack the north along the Hangou Road in Guangling and the Zhongdu River, but came to attack Chu County and Fuling and other corners?
No matter what, there is no choice now. The Sima, who monitored Sun Quan, brought a total of seven or eight hundred people, climbed up the mountain nearby and stopped defending, just waiting for the Han army that suddenly invaded to come.
However, after a stick of incense, the "Han Army" brigade rolled by, and after arriving in Feidong, they all landed on the shore, but instead went to Hefei City. Instead, they surrounded Sun Quan's hiding mountain to death and began to attack the mountain!
"Capture Liu Xun alive, Sun Quan!" The soldiers attacking the mountain shouted and rushed, and Cao soldiers, who had only a few hundred people on the mountain, could not resist the enemy at all.
Everyone was still confused, and there were already corpses everywhere. There were hundreds of people killed on both sides, and the total was nearly a thousand.
Sun Quan used the excuse that the servants around him were not good at martial arts and only occupied a small hill and shivered, asking the Cao family dead soldiers beside Cao Zhu to take the lead in breaking the enemy.
The guards around Cao Zhu were all warriors sent by Cao Cao to his daughter. Of course, they were very strong in martial arts and fighting will. Only a few hundred people had caused so many casualties to the enemy who attacked the mountain. Otherwise, if some ordinary Cao army soldiers would have been surrounded by several times of the enemy, they would have collapsed and surrendered long ago.
After almost all the personal guards of the Cao family died in battle, Cao Ju trembled with Sun Quan in fear, ready to surrender and be humiliated.
At this moment, Cao Zhu suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen. He looked down in shock and saw that it was her husband who pulled out his sword and pierced her lower abdomen with one sword, which penetrated her back.
"Cao thief annexed my old subordinates in recent years and still placed under house arrest. I was so blind back then that year that he even surrendered to Cao thief! If I hadn't been to you and pledge you, how could I live to this day!
He killed Yuan Shang and would kill Yuan Tan soon. Will he come to kill me in the end? Zhuer, don’t blame him for being a husband when he goes underground. Being a husband is just to protect himself. This is to start first!"
Sun Quan retreated with a ferocious and distorted expression, and he pulled out his sword in one leap, and was on guard against his body?
"You... can pretend for so long, just your sinister way of living, what's the point of being a human being? If I had known that my husband was such a person, I would have been ashamed to live for a long time!" After Cao Zhu was pulled out, he was bleeding like a spring, and after a few words, he fell to the ground.
After cleaning up the Cao family's confidants in the venue, several Huaisi generals came up to ask for their orders to confirm the situation.
"Is the lord safe? At the end, the general Zhou Shan/Ding Feng set out from Chu County, Guangling two days ago under the order of Lu Changshi, and came to pick up the lord twice. After passing Fuling yesterday, he dared to attack Li Su and Ganning this morning, pretending to be the enemy's entry.
Fortunately, Changshi Lu was resourceful, and this method really deceived Cao's army and protected the lord from his lord. He also asked the lord to return to Fuling quickly with us, meet with the troops of Changshi Lu from Guangling, and defend the city to the death."
Zhou Shan Ding Feng explained the situation clearly in a few words and asked Sun Quan to be content. Ding Feng is still only a 15 or 16-year-old boy, and is only a garrison in the army. He is a grassroots officer of the Qu level. He has not participated in any battle to defend Jiangdong because he was too young before.
If Sun Quan hadn't had the withering of his old subordinates, Ding Feng would not have climbed so fast. In history, he had just climbed to the middle-level officer until the Battle of Red Cliff six or seven years later.
Sun Quan comforted everyone who came to rescue him, and he was about to flee in a hurry. After thinking about it, he turned around and cut off his wife's head and took her away.
He knew that if he wanted to surrender to Liu Bei in the future, he would have to prove that he and Cao Cao's family had completely drawn a clear line.
Cao Zhu has helped him a little these days, and he also knew that his wife, a daughter, was innocent, but there was no way to do anything, and he had to kill his wife and Mingzhi. Moreover, Cao Zhu's child who was more than four months old in his belly must not be born, otherwise he would be Cao Cao's grandson, which would cause greater disaster to the Sun family.
Why do real men have no wives? Sun Quan feels that he is only nineteen years old, and there is still a chance to whitewash his wife and have children.
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After Sun Quan successfully escaped from Hefei, Liu Xun was still unclear on the day because it was getting late and he dared not report it randomly.
But after only one day of delay, the next morning, the scouts he sent completely grasped the fierce battle between Feidong in "Li Su and Gan Ning Army invaded" and found a total of thousands of corpses on the ground.
There is no doubt that Fuling County, which is downstream of Chushui in the east, did not report the invasion of the Han army. Therefore, this Han army must have been a false name, and it suddenly appeared after entering Fuling.
Huainan, Lujiang and Guangling caused a series of shocks in just two or three days. Zhu Zhi and Lu Fan all took over the city to protect themselves, killed the envoys sent by Cao Ren to supervise the dispatch of troops, and gathered all the troops that had not been transferred to the ground and relied on their own.
Of course, the reason why it is said that "has not been transferred yet" is naturally because in the previous days, a small number of Huaisi generals had been transferred. It takes time for them to make a plan to unify their thoughts and lay out the way to rescue Sun Quan.
In order to hold on, they could only send some soldiers who were not very direct to Cao Ren to deal with Cao Ren, so that Cao Ren could not get angry directly. At this moment, as the Huai Si generals re-established themselves, at least 20,000 Huainan Army was separated from the Cao army's sequence.
The remaining direct troops Cao Ren could use to defend the Huainan counties, which had been reduced to only 50,000. Who told him to draw some of the people before and support the upstream Runan battlefield under Cao Cao's order?
Li Su on the other side had been pulling for so long, and counter-spray. After hearing that civil strife broke out in Huainan, Li Sucai no longer tried to push his 100,000 troops like Mount Tai, and took the Five-Tooth Warship as the vanguard, directly pressing into Ruxukou and attacking Cao Ren's defenders without any effort.
Li Suyou and Gu Yong managed his logistics, and his troops temporarily increased from 80,000 to 100,000.
Cao Ren has only 50,000 left, and 20,000 more are still left, and the Sun family army who has turned against each other may bite Cao Ren at any time.
Li Su stood on the Five-Tooth Battleship Tower and looked up high. Beside him was Zhuge Liang who had just arrived at the battlefield in Yangzhou.
Chapter completed!