Chapter 357 Yusu Beihui
At first hearing his name, Gao Shun raised his head in surprise and saw Liu Feng looking at him with admiration.
Gao Shun quickly got up and walked all the way to Liu Feng to bow down.
Liu Fengxu gave him a hand, and then encouraged him: "My filial father was my vanguard across the river. With one force, I resisted the siege of the main force of Sun's army, and repeatedly repulsed Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, The siege led by Song Qian, Rui Liang, and Yuan Xiong was as solid as a rock, buying time for our army to cross the river, and covering the crossing and deployment of follow-up troops."
Liu Feng followed the case several times. He picked out a silk book and handed it to Gao Shun.
"This should be a miracle!"
The generals were immediately in an uproar.
Although the miraculous skill is second to the first skill, there is only one first skill.
Therefore, miraculous merit should be the best of all merits under normal conditions. Gao Shun was able to achieve miraculous merit in this battle, which really surprised and envied all the generals.
But everyone is leading old soldiers, and there are not many newcomers.
If you think about it carefully, Gao Shun's battle was indeed dangerous. It can be said that during the four hours of crossing the river, he was on the verge of annihilation almost all the time.
If at the beginning, Sun Ce wanted to use Gao Shun's troops to fish, but he had the intention of keeping Gao Shun's troops alive.
But after Jia Kui landed, the pressure on Gao Shun's troops was unprecedentedly strong.
At that time, everyone from Sun Ce to Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others wanted to eat Gao Shun first, and then continue fishing with Jia Kui as bait.
Even at such a critical moment when Zhao Yun appeared behind Sun Ce's army, there were still 2,000 Yuan Xiong's men among Sun Ce's troops participating in the siege of Gao Shun, which shows the tragic and cruel situation of Gao Shun.
The generals thought about it and felt that they might not be able to persevere if they were replaced.
As a result, the generals looked at Gao Shun with a hint of admiration.
Gao Shun's personality is similar to that of Zhao Yun. They both put emphasis on righteousness and merit. Gao Shun is not as good as Zhao Yun in terms of military force, but in terms of strategy, he is between brothers. Both of them have great wisdom.
Gao Shun gave Lu Bu several key advices. Whenever Lu Bu listened once, his situation would be much better. The same is true for Zhao Yun. His two suggestions after entering Shu fully demonstrated Zhao Yun's strategic layout and high vision.
To put it simply, Gao Shun can be regarded as Zhao Yun's lower-ranking substitute, and it is the kind of substitute with a fairly small gap. Especially in terms of loyalty, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun are exactly the same, which is one of the reasons why Liu Feng loves him very much and vigorously promotes him.
As expected, Gao Shun, like Zhao Yun, also wanted to refuse with humility.
Liu Feng smiled and waved his hand: "filial father, do you mean to accuse this general of unfair judgment?"
Gao Shun was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly fell to the ground to defend himself. : "The general is sensible, far-sighted, and fair and strict in his dealings. He is known to everyone and no one is dissatisfied. He admires Shun so much that An dare not disagree with him."
Gao Shun can now be said to be loyal to Liu Feng. As a foreign general, he was forced to agree with him halfway, and he was neither a native of Youzhou, Hebei nor a native of Xuzhou. Logically speaking, Gao Shun should have no future.
Looking at his ups and downs in the Lu Bu Group, that is the treatment Gao Shun deserves.
But since he followed Liu Feng, Gao Shun had never felt that he was being excluded or looked down upon. On the contrary, Liu Feng regarded him with special regard and respected him very much. He had only followed Liu Feng for more than a year, and now he was also a powerful school captain.
In this decisive battle with the Sun family in Jiangdong, Gao Shun was even more valued by Liu Feng, and he defied all opinions and served as the vanguard. At the same time, Liu Feng also specially allocated a batch of precious ordnance, including iron armor, tower shields, and powerful crossbows, just to help him achieve success.
Gao Shun wanted to die for Liu Feng right away when he treated each other like a noble. How could he dare to be disrespectful to him?
Therefore, although there was no blame in Liu Feng's tone, but full of teasing and ridicule, Gao Shun still explained with sincerity that he was not acting like this for his own future. , I really don’t want Liu Feng to be disappointed in him at all.
Gao Shun's actions naturally could not escape Liu Feng's eyes. The latter was very happy in his heart, but pretended to be unhappy and said: "In this case, why don't you accept my merit?"
Hearing the words, Gao Shun was silent for a moment, kowtowed and said: "Shun'an dares to do this, and I will obey the general's order."
Liu Feng then turned his anger into joy, went out of the case and helped Gao Shun up, and encouraged: " I already know the talent of the king, so I should not underestimate myself."
After Gao Shun retired, many people looked thoughtful.
For example, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Jia Kui and others.
These are all smart and knowledgeable people, and Liu Feng's high regard for Gao Shun naturally cannot escape their eyes.
Liu Feng has already determined his first and most outstanding achievements, but all the generals present have no objections.
First of all, Liu Feng's prestige was enough to intimidate the generals and make them bow their heads and obey orders. Secondly, the military exploits of Zhao Yun and Gao Shun were indeed enough to convince the public.
But the generals in the hall were still looking at Liu Feng with eager eyes, hoping that there would be another outstanding achievement.
However, it is a pity that Liu Feng's next highest meritorious service is only first-class merit.
Next, Liu Feng awarded Xu Huang, Gan Ning, and Jia Kui the first-class merit, and Taishi Ci, Dong Xi, Zhou Yu, and Zhou Bin all received the second-class merit. The rest of the people who participated in the battle and made meritorious deeds, All are third-class merit.
No one had any objection to Liu Feng's assessment.
That night, Liu Feng held a banquet in honor of the generals. The generals drank happily all night long and returned home happily.
In the afternoon of the next day, Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Zhou Yu, Jia Kui, Lu Xun, Gu Yong, Yu Fan, He Qi and others were summoned by Liu Feng.
After entering the hall, they saw Wang Lang sitting upright next to Liu Feng. Everyone's eyes lingered on him for a moment.
At this time, Wang Lang was still the prefect of Kuaiji worshiped by the imperial court, and he had the greatest legal rationality. Even Liu Feng could not ignore him.
However, Wang Lang is a very talented person, pays attention to classics, is knowledgeable, has good personal ethics, and deserves to be called a famous scholar.
But this man's bones are actually relatively soft. The most bloody time in his life was when he resisted Sun Ce for more than half a year with the support of the powerful gentry in Kuaiji. After the defeat of Gaoqiantun, he would rather float. Hai fled and refused to surrender.
The reason why this is the case is that Wang Lang obeys the system and authority. Wang Lang is loyal to the Han and will be loyal to the Wei in the future. He even sits back and watches the Sima family ignore Cao Wei. The essence is the same thing.
Liu Feng naturally doesn't think highly of Wang Lang like this. After all, Liu Feng himself doesn't value classics, and Wang Lang is not a die-hard personality, so naturally he can't get into Liu Feng's eyes.
But who made the other party the prefect of Kuaiji now?
Moreover, he is also a prefect with great reputation and good reputation in Kuaiji County.
As long as Wang Lang expresses his support for Liu Feng, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the pressure on Liu Feng in terms of recovering the counties and mobilizing the counties to provide grain and grass supplies.
"My lords, the Sun thief is nothing to be afraid of now and can be overturned." Liu Feng said, "I have called you here today to discuss the matter."
At this time, Liu Feng had already released Zhu Zhi and went to Shanyin to surrender to the Sun family. The condition he offered was that the Sun family's children would also be sent to Luodu for trial.
If Sun Ce wants to surrender, he can follow this example, but he only has one chance.
Zhu Zhi followed the order and left Yuji County three days ago, taking more than thirty soldiers to Shanyin.
Ling Cao entrusted Ling Tong to Liu Feng's account and personally protected Zhu Zhi when he went to Shanyin.
Zhu Zhiku could not persuade him, so he could only take him with him.
This time Liu Feng discussed the matter to take over the power of Kuaiji.
There were a total of fourteen counties in Kuaiji, and Beihui accounted for more than two-thirds. This time, except for Zhuji County, all surrendered to Sun Ce after the city of Shanyin was defeated.
Now that Liu Feng has won a great victory, it is impossible for him to let these people go, whether from the perspective of establishing power or from the perspective of practical benefits. Not only were the county magistrates, magistrates, magistrates, and registrars of each county to be removed, but even those who donated food and supplies to Sun Ce would also be punished.
Liu Feng is determined this time and wants to clean up Kuaiji in the name of Wang Lang.
"I intend to escort Governor Wang back to Shanyin, with Yu Zhongxiang as the chief administrator and He Qi as the captain. Then I will assign generals to temporarily take charge of the affairs of each county and investigate the remaining members of the Sun family."
Liu Feng's expression turned cold and said: "Prefect Wang was fighting bloody battles in the front, and he still defended Shanyin to wait for Master Wang. But how can the famous clans in Kuaiji County have the backbone? They surrendered without a fight and bowed their knees to the Sun thief. The general must investigate this responsibility and eliminate all evil!"
"I obey the general's order!"
The generals in the hall were perked up and they quickly bowed down.
On the contrary, Yu Fan and He Qi's expressions changed drastically and they looked at each other.
Although the He family has been wiped out, He Qi’s mother clan and wife clan are still fine. And now news is coming out in Shanyin City that the Zhou family was killed because they vowed to resist Sun Ce. The family was executed, but the He family was arrested because the terms negotiated with Sun Ce collapsed.
As for the Yu family, they were implicated by Yu Fan and were unjustly accused. The most bizarre thing is that the Yu Fan family is safe in Yuyao County, but it is the branch of the Yu family in Shanyin that suffers. Home.
As a result, both Yu Fan and He Qi were a little embarrassed.
Especially Yu Fan and Yuyao were also one of the counties that surrendered without a fight. They also supplied Sun Ce with nearly 100,000 shi of grain and other various ordnance supplies.
The two of them were a little confused about Liu Feng's attitude.
If Liu Feng disdains them, it is impossible to directly arrange them as Wang Lang's right-hand men. One can almost replace the county guard in handling county affairs, and the other controls the military power of the entire county, acting on behalf of the county. Guard the right to march.
It can be said that as long as Yu Fan and He Qi join forces, Wang Lang will really be a humanoid seal.
But if you really value them, you can naturally use them to appease and recruit high-ranking officials in Kuaiji.
Yu Fan and He Qi dared to use the heads on their necks as guarantees. As long as Liu Feng was willing to speak gold, there was no need to play the trick of a polite corporal, and the high-ranking nobles in Kuaiji would be willing to take the initiative to surrender to him and work for him.
The battle on the Qiantang River was really shocking.
Yu Fan and He Qi both thought highly of themselves, especially in the military field, and they were extremely confident.
Yu Fan helped Wang Lang pacify the mountain rebels, and He Qi served as county magistrate in Kuaiji many times and quelled rebellions in various places, which proved their excellent military talents.
But the battle of Qiantang River was called a battle of gods, which completely broke through the minds of Yu Fan and He Qi. They had never thought that a war could be fought like this.
Although many ships were lost in this battle, all sterns and most of the boats had only scratches and minor injuries and only needed maintenance before they could be put back into use.
Only a few unlucky boats hit hard objects such as rocks, causing damage to the hull and requiring major repairs or simply giving up.
But these costs were exchanged for victory in the entire battle, which not only greatly reduced the casualties of the elite soldiers, but also fought an extremely rare battle of annihilation.
In fact, throughout the Three Kingdoms period, the most common thing was the defeat war, and the annihilation war was extremely rare.
Don't look at the Battle of Guandu, where Cao Cao wiped out most of Yuan Shao's troops, but that was really what Yuan Shao forced into Cao Cao's mouth.
At that time, Yuan Shao had already lost his head, and with Guo Tu continuing to use personal power to deprive public officials, Yuan Shao's entire army was wiped out.
Otherwise, if we operate according to normal decisions, there will be absolutely no problem in successfully evacuating 70,000 to 80,000 people.
Liu Feng destroyed Sun's 30,000-strong army in one battle, almost all of which were soldiers. This was so valuable that Yu Fan and He Qi were truly convinced from the bottom of their hearts. Especially since Liu Feng was from the north, he was able to use troops to such an extent. He really used the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers as his troops, just as the Marquis of Huaiyin said.
Yu Fan and He Qi even had a little weird idea in their minds. If Liu Feng hadn't wiped out all of Sun Ce's elite main forces so neatly, he probably wouldn't have made such a high-profile purge of the counties in Kuaiji, right?
Now it was clear that even if the wealthy families in Kuaiji counties went crazy and worked desperately for Sun Ce, without the elite main force and the officer corps accumulated over the years, Sun Ce would have no chance of making a comeback.
And all this will only make Liu Feng's purge more fierce and thorough.
“All county magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates, and officials above a hundred stones were imprisoned. They were regarded as traitors and sent to Luodu to await the emperor’s fate.”
Liu Feng continued to issue orders. : "All his family property has been sealed up and used as military expenses."
"General!"
Yu Fan and He Qi really couldn't sit still now, just the county magistrate, county magistrate, and county magistrate. These were all temporary officials appointed by the imperial court. Although many of them were locals from Kuaiji, the number was small after all.
But there is something wrong with the officials who are above a hundred stones. Starting from the chief secretary, meritorious officials, and all the Cao Cao, they are all reserved for the powerful local nobles.
Although these officials only have a hundred to several hundred dan, their power is quite great. Regardless of the county magistrates and magistrates issuing orders, if you really want to do things, you still have to rely on them.
And these people are increasingly coming from powerful noble families, with strong backgrounds and backings, which makes their power more powerful, and they even dare to go against their superiors.
The situation in the Central Plains is better, because there are many nobles in the Central Plains and few powerful ones. Moreover, the nobles are all high-ranking, and all high-ranking officials in the court are related, so the powerful do not dare to be too presumptuous unless they get involved with the eunuchs. way, otherwise we would not dare to be disrespectful to the nobles.
But it's different here in Kuaiji. Not only do these people have solid backgrounds, but they also collude with the Vietnamese barbarians in Shanxi. If they are unhappy, it is very likely that they will stage an impromptu rebellion immediately.
At most, when the time comes, all the blame can be placed on Shanyue and Nanman, and then they can hide in the mountains. No one can do anything to them.
But Yu Fan and He Qi understood that this was all old history. It might be possible to deal with the Han Dynasty, but it would be a fool's dream to deal with Liu Feng.
(End of this chapter)