Chapter 358 The troops are divided into two groups

Chapter 358 The troops are divided into two groups

With Liu Feng's 50,000 troops and Zhu Zhi and others willing to surrender, these are actually 70,000 soldiers. How can the Kuaiji people stop them?

You are not Shanyue or Nanman, who can drill into the mountains.

Which of the fields, shops and workshops, port and shipyard, and Gaomen compound can you give up?

Yu Fan and He Qi looked at each other and hurriedly came out and said: "General, you must not do this."

Liu Feng's face turned cold and he said displeasedly: "Zhongxiang, Gongmiao, what do you mean by this?"

Yu Fan and He Qi's hearts suddenly twitched, even though these two people were so bold in the original time and space. One of them dared to kill officials for a small provocation and regarded the rebellion of the powerful as a merit. The other even boasted to Sun Ce that he was a treasure of the Sun family, and even persuaded Sun Ce to surrender Yuzhang County single-handedly.

But in front of Liu Biao, the two of them really couldn't stand up.

"The general has always been benevolent, why do you want to be so harsh on the officials and people of my county?"

Yu Fan gritted his teeth and paused: "The Sun thief used to be powerful, but the Shanyin Incident, in one day, Seven famous families were executed inside, and everyone in Kuaiji was shocked and frightened by it. Only out of fear did they become thieves, which was not something they did willingly. "

He Qi also hurriedly took over and said: "Many prominent local families are willing to serve the imperial court, and they have been secretly sending information, hoping that the general will allow them to make meritorious deeds."

After listening to Yu Fan and He Qi Wang Lang couldn't sit still for his explanation, and he also tried to persuade him: "I don't know what's going on in the southern expedition. I, Sun Ce, Qiantang, and many high-ranking households in Beihui have all contributed money, food, and contributions to the army. Otherwise, what can I do?" I can accomplish this great thing."

Both Yu Fan and He Qi were overjoyed to have Wang Lang come forward to help.

Both of them knew that Wang Lang was not only the governor of Kuaiji appointed by the imperial court, but also a local celebrity in Xuzhou. Wang Lang's relatives and friends all served under Liu Feng's father, and many of them were close ministers who Liu Bei relied on for help.

They naturally hope that Liu Feng will take advantage of this and let the powerful gentry of Kuaiji go.

But to their surprise, Liu Feng sighed loudly after hearing Wang Lang's words.

"Zhongxiang, Gongmiao, I regard you two as friends, and I don't want you to make such foolish remarks."

Then Liu Feng said to Wang Lang again: "Ming Ming Feng Shi disagrees with what the government said. The so-called clear rewards and punishments can convince the public."

Liu Feng's words made Yu Fan and He Qi's hearts rise, and everyone present also looked at him unkindly. , obviously unhappy with Yu Fan and He Qi's continuous excuses to Liu Feng.

Liu Feng asked He Qi: "Gong Miao, I heard that you have served as the county magistrate of Kuaiji for several times. Every time you go to a place, you need to quell chaos first. Is this a problem?"
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He Qi's face was very ugly. This was certainly true. He even put down local rebellions, and even took over the rebellion in Taimo County that no one else could put down, and put it down within a month.

This incident is the proudest thing in his life, and it is also an important capital for fame. Naturally, he often talks about it. Either to boast or to boast to others, in short it has spread widely in Kuaiji.

Therefore, He Qi can't change his mind now and say that there is no such thing.

Isn’t this really a naked deception of Liu Feng?

Besides, He Qi himself was disdainful of lying, and it was even more impossible for him to deceive Liu Feng at this time.

He Qi was silent for a moment and replied helplessly, "I dare not deceive Zhengnan. What the general heard is all true."

Liu Feng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Yu Fan again: "Feng Chang I heard that Duke Wensu first served as a county magistrate in Kuaiji, and later as a county magistrate. His achievements in suppressing the rebellion were valued by the court, and he was promoted to prefect. He was appointed two thousand stones many times. I wonder if what I heard is true? "

Yu Fan? He was stunned for a moment, then his face changed slightly, but he could only nod his head.

Wensu is the cousin of Yu Fan’s father, Yu Xin. He was appointed two thousand shi repeatedly and served as the prefect of many places. The more famous ones are the prefect of Rinan and the prefect of Dongjun. Even after his death, He was not able to move back to his hometown, but was buried in Dong'a.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Yu family had no backing in the central government, Yu Xin would have been able to enter the court and become the ninth minister long ago given his ability, resume and political achievements.

There is another interesting thing. Yu Fan was very dissatisfied with Hua Xin and looked down upon him, but he admired Wang Lang; Wang Lang was Hua Xin's little fanboy, and he idolized Hua Xin and imitated him in everything; and Hua Xin admired Yu Fan very much, and was even persuaded by him to surrender to Sun Ce in Yuzhang after he rode into Nanchang alone.

To be fair, although Hua Xin is far inferior to Wu Hou, he is far from as despicable as in the novel.

Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty. Among the three important officials in the court, Chen Qun and Hua Xin were the only two who did not support it. This was completely opposite to the faces of forcing Emperor Xian in the novel.

Cao Pi even secretly suspected that Hua Xin was disloyal to him. After usurping the Han Dynasty, he not only failed to reward Hua Xin, but also demoted Hua Xin's official position.

Even so, Cao Pi was still not satisfied, and even invited Chen Qun to ask why the other party and Hua Xin were unhappy.

This is also because Cao Pi and Chen Qun have a very good relationship, and Chen Qun’s answer is very clever. What he said is that Hua Gong and I are Han ministers. The Han Dynasty is dead. How can we be happy with him, but we also admire Cao Pi. You have the ability to be benevolent, so secretly we are very happy for you.

Cao Pi was moved by Chen Qun's words and let Hua Xin go. Otherwise, it's hard to say what would happen to Hua Xin.

After seeing Yu Fan also nodded, Liu Feng's face was full of anger and he said angrily: "When I first met Zhongxiang, Gongmiao and Feng Yijun are the heroes of the South. I really want to recruit talents in Kuaiji. , I don’t want Nanzhu to have a legacy, but I don’t expect the Kuaiji tribe to be so weak and have no integrity at all.”

At this point, Yu Fan and He Qi were blushing and ashamed. , even Wang Lang lowered his head. After all, he was still the prefect of Kuaiji, and the education of a county was also his important responsibility.

"Zhongxiang, Gongmiao, even if we follow the laws of the Han Dynasty, if this person offers the city as a thief, he should be killed according to the laws."

Seeing this, Liu Feng took a breath and said, "I just ordered them to be imprisoned to await trial, how can it be harsh?"

Yu Fan's face turned blood red, listening to Liu Feng's whisper, It was reasonable and well-founded, and even used his father as evidence. How could he, a son, refute it.

Yu Fan's character is still upright, otherwise he would not have repeatedly criticized Yan in front of the emperor in the future. Later, after he was demoted to Cochin, he started teaching there and lectured tirelessly. He often had hundreds of disciples, which shows that he still had a certain sympathy for the people.

Wang Lang also sighed loudly at this time: "There are indeed arrogant and lawless people in the governance of the Kuaiji people. They are fierce on the outside and cruel on the inside. They are the fish of the people. If we conquer the south to get rid of the smell, it is also for the sake of the people of Kuaiji. Peace."

Liu Feng glanced at Wang Lang, and he was indeed a smart man. This assist came very beautifully.

Sure enough, after hearing Wang Lang's words, Yu Fan and He Qi were silent for a moment, and then they all bowed down and said to Liu Feng: "We are fully aware of the intention of conquering the south, and we are willing to follow the general's order and carry out the campaign." The smell of mutton in Kuaiji of the Qing Dynasty."

Liu Feng then smiled with satisfaction and stepped forward to help Yu Fan and He Qi up.

After witnessing this scene with my own eyes, Zhou Yu, Jia Kui and others present were all smart people. How could they not understand Liu Feng's thoughts.

In their opinion, Liu Feng even wanted to deliberately force a group of Kuaiji gentry to establish his power, and at the same time, he also wanted to collect a batch of trophies to reward the entire army in the southern expedition.

The speculations of Zhou Yu and others were indeed correct.

Liu Feng really wanted to deliberately force the powerful people from all over Kuaiji to rebel.

Now his army is on both sides of the Qiantang River, and these powerful nobles have donated a large amount of food and handed over their elite troops to Wang Lang. This is when they are at their weakest. If these people really rebel, Liu Feng is confident that he can defeat the entire Beihui in one month.

Liu Feng really hopes that these people will act boldly.

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After the meeting, everyone dispersed, only Zhao Yun and Zhou Yu were left behind by Liu Feng.

The two of them were kept because Liu Feng had special use for them.

"Uncle."

With Zhao Yun present, Liu Feng's first conversation target was naturally him.

Hearing Liu Feng calling him, Zhao Yun straightened his body to show his respect.

Liu Feng said: "Kuiji is a county with a vast territory and a huge territory. It may not be able to determine Jiangdong."

Although Kuaiji's transportation is not developed, it does connect to Jiaozhi in the south, Wu County in the north, and there are two separate counties in the west. Bordering Danyang and Yuzhang, Kuaiji is not peaceful, and the entire Jiangdong is quite stormy.

Otherwise, the great emperor would not have taken the initiative to rectify Kuaiji. The Kuaiji under his rule was really a rebellion every three days and a small rebellion every day. As a last resort, the emperor simply sealed off most of Kuaiji to use it to raise troops for the generals, suppress rebellions, and clear out Shanyue.

Zhao Yun was a little enlightened, but he still didn't think of the idea and mistakenly thought that Liu Feng was worried about a riot in Kuaiji.

So Zhao Yun said, half comforting and half responsible: "Don't worry about conquering the south. If the mighty Kuaiji doesn't know the current affairs and dares to resist the imperial court, Yun will definitely lead the expedition to the south."

Zhao Yun has a very stable character, but he is also very clever.

The empty city strategy in official history is actually the empty camp strategy, and the prototype is Zhao Yun's performance in the Battle of Hanzhong.

It can be seen from this that Zhao Yun can be called resourceful and resourceful, but he often speaks without thinking, regardless of the occasion. Perhaps he should be regarded as a model of high IQ and low EQ.

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhao Yun quietly, obviously he saw what Liu Feng was thinking.

After only a moment's hesitation, Zhou Yu decided not to worry about Zhao Yun's feelings, clasped his fists and said, "The one you are worried about in conquering the South is the land of Nanhui?"

Liu Feng pretended to be surprised and looked at Zhou Yu with doubt and surprise on his face.

Zhou Yu was secretly happy in his heart and continued: "In Yu's humble opinion, if the expedition to the south intends to reach the land of Nanhui, it must take the sea route to succeed."

It must be said that Zhou Yu saw that The question is quite sharp and hits the nail on the head.

Just after probing Liu Feng's thoughts, Zhou Yu keenly realized that the key to Nanhui Land came from the sea route.

However, Liu Feng also contributed a lot to this. After all, the Battle of Qiantang River was an eye-opener for not only Yu Fan and He Qi, but also Zhou Yu.

But Zhou Yu still guessed wrong. He thought Liu Feng wanted to send Zhao Yun to recover Nanhui with him, but in fact Liu Feng had another appointment for him.

“Gong Jin really sees the subtle things and knows what to do.”

Liu Feng first praised Zhou Yu, which aroused the latter’s humility. Then he changed the subject and said to Zhao Yun: “Uncle, just like According to Gong Jin, I want you to go south and suppress Nanhui. My uncle will lead the headquarters, with Dong Xi and Gan Ning as deputy generals. "

Zhao Yun's headquarters has six thousand people, Dong Xi. Gan and Ning's four thousand men totaled ten thousand people in total. Not only were they all elites, they also did not suffer much loss. They only needed to add a few hundred men from the surrendered troops to reach full strength.

As if thinking of something, Liu Feng added: "In addition, my uncle can also select five thousand people from Sun's army as auxiliary troops. If necessary, he can send them to attack the city and break out the stronghold."< br>

Five thousand is a more appropriate number, and the nearly 20,000 prisoners of Sun Army cannot be kept for dry food.

It would be a good idea to select five thousand people to do some serious work first.

Zhao Yun finally understood. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that the problem was not big.

Even large-scale landings on tidal flats have been carried out, so landing on islands and ports is naturally a no-brainer.

Zhao Yun is loyal and has outstanding abilities. Although independent leaders have not had a good record in history, it is mainly because they have not received similar training.

In addition, Zhao Yun has a bad habit of leading troops, that is, it is easy to divide the troops, resulting in too few troops.

When he planned the empty camp, the fundamental reason was that he rashly assigned his troops to Huang Zhong to attack Cao Cao's supplies.

At that time, Zhao Yun's side was certainly talking about an empty city strategy, but Huang Zhong, who had obtained Zhao Yun's troops, also had a very difficult time, and was once considered to have been wiped out.

It can be seen that if Zhao Yun had not divided his troops, Huang Zhong would have been in trouble.

It was also Huang Zhong's success in this wave of raids that burned a large amount of Cao's army's food and grass, which was one of the reasons why Cao Cao retreated.

When they left Qishan, Zhao Yun defeated Cao Zhen. This was also because his troops were too dispersed, which led to a vacuum period for Cao Zhen. He used fast to defeat slow, directly defeating Zhao Yun's army. It was even embarrassing that Zhao Yun was worried that Cao Zhen would follow the defeated troops to attack. When we entered Hanzhong, we had to burn down the plank road.

This greatly worsened Wu Hou's subsequent strategic situation. Without an easy-to-travel slanted valley plank road, Wu Hou actually had no strategic choice at all.

Therefore, Liu Feng specially opened a simple hand-drawn map of Dongye and warned: "Uncle, this time we go south, there is only one county of Dongye. Don't spread your troops. Use the fast to attack the slow. If Dongye wants to surrender, that's fine. If Dongye has evil intentions, he must cut off his connection with Dashan to ensure that Shanyue and Nanman cannot support him."

Zhao Yun nodded thoughtfully. nod.

Liu Feng was still worried and continued to warn: "There are countless Shanyue and Nanman in the mountains. If they are allowed to connect with the powerful people in Dongye City, the war will definitely last for a long time. I Ask He Qi to go with you later. He is from Kuaiji and has great prestige in Kuaiji County. Even Dongye has heard of his reputation, which will definitely be helpful to you. "

Dongye County is the only county in Nanhui and an important port connected to Jiaozhi. It has a naturally large population. However, due to the sparse plain area under its jurisdiction, the number of households still does not exceed 10,000. Dongye Chief, also known as the Chief Waiting Officer, was established.

Liu Feng's meaning is very clear. The population of more than 30,000 in the county alone is definitely not enough to compete with Zhao Yun's partial army.

At the same time, bringing He Qi was also to support Zhao Yun. In the original history, Sun Ce sent his direct descendant Han Yan to crusade, but he returned with a great defeat. He had no choice but to replace him with He Qi, and defeated him in one fell swoop. Not only did they annihilate many forces in the waiting group, but they also brought Wang Lang along with them.

This time, Zhao Yun nodded heavily.

Zhao Yun has made arrangements here, and now it’s time to arrange Zhou Yu.

(End of this chapter)