Chapter 215 Wu Lie
Jiao Yong was indeed good, and the Heji Corps that Dong visited was also quite impressive, but in late June of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, the highlight of history was not on them after all, nor on the Taishan Army who was confronting Mu Huangwan of Yanzhou in Puyang, but You are Yingru in the world.
Since May, the left Zhonglang general Huangfu Song and the right Zhonglang general Zhu Jun went out to fight several battles on Taiping Road in Yingchuan, with each winning or losing. Especially in June, Huangfu Song directly seized the opportunity to fight and almost burned down the troops besieging Changshe. Yingchuan Taiping Road, instead of frequent heavy rains in summer, a sudden heavy rain extinguished the fire, and Yingchuan Taiping Road was finished at this time.
But this battle finally exposed Yingchuan Taiping Road's trump card of not being good at military warfare. Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were armed with the Five Colonels, Three Rivers Knights and elite soldiers. They could be first-rate warriors, so After understanding the quality of Taiping Dao, they finally showed the strength of Hanting's powerful team and won several battles.
Especially in mid-June, another cavalry team also left the border and joined the Yingchuan battlefield. He was Cao Cao, who was the cavalry captain at the time. He led three thousand Yulin cavalry into Huangfu Song's tent to control, and then Yingchuan Taiping Road again Unable to compete for supremacy on the battlefield, they could only retreat westward to Yangzhai, with unknown intentions.
At this moment, Cao Cao was naturally high-spirited. As soon as he joined the battlefield, he made military exploits as a general and his future was boundless. The Cavalry Commander he is currently serving as is a member of Guang Luxun, and together with Fengche and Prince Consort, he is known as the Third Commander, and it is also an important position with a rank of two thousand stones. You must know that the rank is slightly lower than that of Erqianshi, and it also carries the green ribbon, but the seal is just slightly lower. When Cao Cao was less than thirty years old, he was transferred from Yilang to this post. Later, with his military exploits, he was naturally able to find a large county as the governor. He is a typical handsome man with a good family background and hard work.
But at the same time, under the command of General Zhu Jun, the right middle man, there was a handsome man who was about the same age as Cao Cao and also worked hard. Moreover, he came from a poor family and had to rely on his own efforts to reach this point.
This man is Sun Jian, the auxiliary army commander who led thousands of Huaisi elite soldiers to recruit.
Sun Jian's father was from a poor family and made a living selling melons. Logically speaking, even if his son was not destined to sell melons, he would at best be a local tycoon. But the excellence of some people is that they can only see things in their pockets.
Sun Jian encountered an opportunity to change his life when he was seventeen years old. Because of his courage that was beyond his peers, he was selected as an official by the county and was respected by the state and county. Later, he suppressed the rebellion in the county and became Sima and county magistrate successively. Eight years ago, Sun Jian seized another opportunity. At that time, there was an uprising of monster thieves in the neighboring county of Kuaiji. Sun Jian raised his own troops and went south to join forces with the army of Kuaiji to defeat them. He was immediately valued by Zang Min, the governor of Kuaiji. Du Cheng, who broke the ceiling directly, has the possibility of becoming an official.
And by the time he was valued by Zhu Jun, the right middle man, and joined the army to make great achievements again, he had already fulfilled the important position of Xia Pi Cheng.
During Cao Cao's celebration banquet, he also met this majestic general named Sun Jian. During this time, he was ranked first in military merit by Zhu Jun, the right middle man. This man led his Jianghuai disciples to fight unparalleled, and was the first to win every battle. Zhu Jun valued him very much.
In fact, Zhu Jun's recruitment of Sun Jian before was also done in vain. Zhu Jun was from Kuaiji. Sun Jian noticed this person when he was pacifying the monster thieves in Kuaiji, and knew that another general had emerged from the land of Wuyue. But it was just second best. For Zhu Jun, Sun Jian was indeed dispensable.
There are countless people under Zhu Jun who can recruit good warriors, and the first ones are Fu Xie, the guard of the army, and Zhang Chao, the commander of the other department. Fu Xie was from the North, a disciple of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan, and the son of a famous family. The same is true for Sima Zhang Chao of another department. This man was born in Hejian Mo after Liu Hou Zhang Liang. He was both civil and military. He not only had military strategy, but was also good at cursive calligraphy, which was extremely wonderful. So Sun Jian naturally didn't pay attention to him at first. But who knows, I picked it up.
When Zhu Jun first came out of seclusion, he and Huangfu Song split up and left, but they almost overturned. He was attacked and surrounded by Yingchuan Bo Caishai's army. It was Sun Jianshuai's thousands of Jianghuai disciples who fought for him to defeat the siege and regain his strength. The same was true for the next few battles. If there was one word to describe Sun Jian, it would be Jiangdong Tiger.
There is a saying that Zhu Jun's military strategy ability can only be considered average. He previously fought against the rebellion in Jiaozhi. Regardless of whether he fought the rebels or the Wuhu barbarians, they were actually relatively weak enemies. In the land where the southern barbarians were transformed, iron weapons were hard to find. How could these rebels stop the Han army's armored soldiers?
But the Yingchuan Bocai tribe that Zhu Jun faced was different. This side was one of the stronger ones in Taiping Dao. In addition, they were well prepared. Therefore, Zhu Jun suffered a big loss after making calculations mentally and unintentionally.
But fortunately, everything has passed. Now he and Huangfu Song's soldiers are fighting on the Yingchuan Taiping Road. The victory of the war will be sooner or later.
So at the celebration banquet, he drank a lot and introduced Cao Cao to Sun Jian. This was also a kind of support. After all, everyone knew that Cao Cao's future was inevitable.
Sun Jian was a ferocious man, but his emotional intelligence was not low. He always had nice words to say to the son of a powerful man like Cao Cao. Cao Cao also valued Sun Jian's bravery and felt that this person would have a bright future in the future, so the two naturally became harmonious.
Cao Cao actually knew about Sun Jian, not because Sun Jian was already famous all over the world, but because he was told to him by his friend Zhou as a joke.
The three brothers of the Zhou family in Kuaiji, Zhou Xin, Zhou Ang, and Zhou all studied in Kyoto. Especially Zhou Xin was a disciple of Chen Fan, the leader of the Party, so the three brothers were basically the underachievers of the Party. Although Cao Cao was a eunuch, he was determined to get close to the party member Qingliu in order to clear his name.
Among the three Zhou brothers, Zhou Xingzi was the most enthusiastic and had the best relationship with Cao Cao. Once when I was talking about people in my hometown, I mentioned Sun Jian, who was also from Wu and Yue. Of course, I was not talking about how brave he was, but he was mocking the shallowness of this melon field.
That is Sun Jian's marriage robbery.
According to Zhou's sarcastic remarks while drinking, when Sun Jian was in Kuaiji to quell the chaos, he heard that Qian Tang had a daughter named Wu, who was talented and beautiful. She was originally from Wu County, so he wanted to marry her. But at that time, the Wu family members all disagreed and felt that he was frivolous and not a good match.
Cao Cao was surprised when he heard the Wu clan's comment that Sun Jian was cunning. You should know that the word cunning is not a good word. Being cunning and incompetent are linked together, which means that this person is a gangster and a bandit. At that time, Sun Jian was already serving as a false captain in Fuchun, Kuaiji. How could he be evaluated like this with the dignity of a Han official? Could it be that he dislikes the fact that he is the son of a melon farmer?
But Zhou shook his head and said that it was not true, but that everyone in his local village knew the details of Sun Jian. Sun Jian lived with his father in Fuchun, Kuaiji, and he wandered around the lakes and seas very early, attracting a group of refugees. Once, he went to Qiantang with his father. On the way, he saw the Qiantang water bandits looting. Sun Jian rushed up and chased the bandits. When the water bandits saw this man, they thought it was the Fuchun water bandits who were chasing and killing them, so they all abandoned him. Run away with the goods. On the contrary, this allowed Sun Jian to be appreciated by Fuchun County and appointed him as a county official.
So even if Sun Jian was cleared and became a county official at that time, how could the Wu family, who knew his details, be willing to let their own girl be brought to harm such an incompetent person?
After hearing this, Cao Cao asked Zhou, "Do you have many water bandits in Kuaiji?" Can you still go ashore and work as a Han official?
This made Zhou, who was always reserved, silent. Although he did not want to discredit his hometown, he honestly admitted that the fierce folk customs in Wuyue were not groundless.
What is plagiarism? They are plunderers. These mountain people and fishermen usually work for the people, but sometimes they are bandits. Then Zhou used the powerful family in Kuaiji County, the He family in Shanyin, as an example.
The He family produced two thousand stones. In this generation, there was a man named He Qi who temporarily replaced Yan County as a county official. At that time, there was a county official in Yan County who had the same background as Sun Jian, but he was recruited by Shan Yue. Shan Yue is a group of Han people who escaped from military service and joined the local Yue people in the mountains, and this county official is one such Shan Yue Kuai.
He Qi wanted to arrest this person at that time, but several county officials at that time advised him, saying that if he arrests this person today, tomorrow the bandits will come to attack Yan County. He Qi was young and brave. He didn't understand this, so he did it immediately. Sure enough, the county officials' clansmen led thousands of people to directly attack the county town of Yan. Later, He Qi was really powerful and killed the thieves directly. It would definitely be a big chaos.
Therefore, Zhou simply summed up his hometown by saying, "There are many young people who are light, chivalrous and cunning."
Knowing the situation in Yangzhou, Cao Cao understood the rejection of the Wu clan relatives. Who would say that his innocent girl would be promised to such people.
But then, Cao Cao became even more curious. Sun Jian had been rejected, so how could he marry him again? It turns out that Sun Jian directly threatened these Wu clan relatives, and if they didn't make peace with them, big trouble would happen. At that time, the Wu family and the Gu Nian family had no choice but to follow Sun Jian. This is exactly what Zhou mocked. Yangzhou was already on the edge of the empire and was generally regarded as immoral. Therefore, the most important thing for the Yangzhou scholars who studied in Kyoto was etiquette. This has been the case since ancient times. The more something is lacking, the more emphasis is placed on it. . Therefore, Sun Jian's behavior of snatching brides like a barbarian directly caused the Yangzhou scholars to exclude him.
You, Sun Jian, are just a soldier.
With this in mind, at the Changshe celebration banquet, Cao Cao, who learned about Sun Jian's bottom line, looked at the broad and majestic Sun Jian, and then at his wife's brother Wu Jing who came with him to the banquet, and suddenly felt interesting.
In this marriage, the beginning is not important. What is important is that after the marriage, you are one of your own. Didn't you see that the Wu family was obviously the relative who was robbed, and now someone has come out to support Sun Jian?
Cao Cao looked at Sun Jian here. A person as sharp as Sun Jian naturally noticed it, raised his face, raised his wine bottle and shook it to give Cao Cao a toast. Cao Cao, as if nothing had happened, returned Sun Jian's drink.
No matter how lively this celebration banquet was, it came to an end. After the wine was exhausted, everyone dispersed and all the officials went back to their respective posts. Sun Jian also took his wife and brother Wu Jing on the way back to the camp.
The moon was shining brightly, and Sun Jian, who had drunk too much, staggered with Wu Jing's support. But Wu Jing knew that his brother-in-law was definitely not drunk, so he expressed his doubts today:
"Brother-in-law, I think Cao Cao is lucky enough to come here to take the credit. We followed the right middle man to chop thorns and thorns, and gained some merit in the bloody battlefield. This man only came here and gained the great merit of helping to defeat Bo Cai. Really It makes people angry." Sun Jian's cheeks were flushed at this moment. Although he was drunk, he was awake. He was not angry with Cao Cao, but he still made it clear to his wife and brother:
"A Jing, you still have to understand some things. Even if you don't like it in your heart, you can't show it. Some people can't help you, but they will do anything bad for you. These sons of the public family all think that all good things should be done. Yes, we don’t have to go against them. A Jing, you have to understand what it means to you and me to go out with You Zhonglang this time. So, let’s fight hard and take credit, and don’t care about anything else.” br>
Wu Jing understood what Sun Jian meant. Indeed, this pacification of the Taiping Road that was sweeping the world was the most important turning point in their lives for both his brother-in-law Sun Jian and Wu Jing.
He and Taiping Dao have also been fighting for more than a month. They know exactly what these people are like. In the eyes of front-line generals like them, victory must belong to Han Ting, and when the time comes to reward him for his merits, he, Sun Jian, must be at the front. And the Han family attaches great importance to military merit. This kind of quelling a great uprising that sweeps the world may happen once in a lifetime, and as long as you seize it, it is not impossible to become a prince for military merit.
Brother-in-law Sun Jian's career has now reached a ceiling. He has successively served as Yandu Cheng, Xuyi Cheng, and Xiapi Cheng in recent years. Although each city is larger than the other, they have always been in deputy positions and have never been a chief officer. The reason is not complicated. It is because Sun Jian did not start his career as a filial piety and did not go to Kyoto to make a fortune, so he could only work in a deputy position. And if it hadn't been for the Taiping Dao Uprising, it might have continued to be wasted.
Therefore, being able to participate in the suppression of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves under the command of General You Zhonglang was an opportunity to change the lives of the Sun and Wu families.
In this way, Wu Jing supported Sun Jian all the way to their auxiliary army Sima Department. Gu Ming thought, this is still a deputy position, but because Sun Jian brought thousands of Jianghuai children to join the army, Zhu Juncai, the right middle man, gave him a separate battalion leader, otherwise he would continue to waste his time.
After walking all the way, Sun Jian was almost sober. As soon as he reached the main tent, he heard the unique heroic voice of Yandi warriors coming from inside. Sun Jian knew who it was just by hearing it.
It was Beizhong Lang who he had captured the day before yesterday and his warrior, Liaoxi Han, was the leader, and the person who spoke to him was Cheng Pu from You Beiping.
The two of them were originally Zhu Jun's warriors, and both were from Youzhou. Logically speaking, they would never have any chance of meeting Sun Jian, a Yangzhou native. But that day Bei Zhonglang was about to be surrounded by Bo Cai. In order to open a gap, Sun Jian not only brought his own thousands of Jianghuai disciples to ascend first, but also borrowed Zhu Jun's account of hundreds of soldiers, including Han Dang and Cheng Pu.
It was thanks to Sun Jian's bravery and Zhu Jun's elite warriors that they successfully opened the encirclement. After the war, Sun Jian and Zhu Jun asked for Cheng Pu and Han Dang. Cheng Pu was a military official and already had some status. However, he was rescued by Sun Jian during the breakout battle and voluntarily surrendered to Sun Jian. Sun Jian especially admired Han because his skill with bow and horse was beyond the reach of Sun Jian, a native of Yangzhou. Now, when we are fighting in the vast land of the Central Plains, we need such warriors with bows and horses. So after the war, Sun Jian approached Han Dang and asked if he would switch to him.
Han Dang was a warrior under the tent at that time, but a somewhat brave warrior. Although Sun Jian felt that he had reached the ceiling, he was still beyond Han Dang's reach. With the appreciation of this brave military commander, Han Dang was confident that he could have a future, so he agreed.
So when Zhu Jun wanted to reward Sun Jian for his merits, he directly killed these two warriors, but Zhu Jun let them go without much thought.
However, Han Dang and Cheng Pu still have a long way to go to integrate into Sun Jian's group. Since these two people are from Youzhou and cannot understand the Jianghuai dialect in Sun Jian's team, it will be much more difficult for them.
But Sun Jian was good at winning people, and after several tricks, Han Dang and Cheng Pu had already recognized the team. As for the rest, it was just a matter of fighting a few more battles. For these warriors, nothing deepens the bonds between people more than the battlefield.
At this moment, Sun Jian heard Han Dang's words outside the tent and smiled across the tent:
"Well, you righteous man, you started talking about me behind my back when I was not here. It seems that I should practice military law."
As soon as these words came out, there was a silence in the tent, and then seven or eight generals were seen leaving the tent. Two of them were Han Dang and Cheng Pu from Youzhou. As soon as they came out, they crowded around Sun Jian and asked all kinds of questions. The situation of the celebration banquet.
Han Dang was embarrassed at this moment. He was the one who just said that Sun Jian was unjust. He didn't take them to such a luxurious celebration banquet, but took his wife and brother with him. Really!
Sun Jian led the generals into the tent, sat on the bed at the top, and said to Han Dang with a smile:
"What a luxurious celebration banquet, but I drank countless horse urine, and now I'm still dizzy. I should have called you before, after all, Youzhou people are better drinkers than Yangzhou people."
Sun Jian then explained that the celebration banquet was indeed quite good, and wine and meat were indispensable. Even Zhu Jun originally coordinated a group of dancing maids from the Zhong family of Changshe to prepare to assist the army. But later Huangfu Song was canceled by Zuo Zhonglang, the real commander in the army. He said that the war was not over yet and it was when the husband was dancing hard. How to talk about wine and beautiful women would hurt the heart of a strong man.
It seems that Huangfu Song knew that it was very inappropriate for the soldiers to be half-dead at the front while the beauties were still singing and dancing in the tents.
Sun Jian had been at Zhu Jun's side before, and he and other generals were fawning over Zhu Jun. When Zhu Jun heard that the music and dance had been canceled by Huangfu Song, his face turned red and he cursed at the guard who was delivering the order:
"The soldiers have been with me for more than a month, and you can't enjoy it now? Are you really going to use big words to suppress me?"
But having said that, Zhu Jun finally listened to Huangfu Song's military order and canceled the dance music. Because Huangfu Song was the left middle-ranking general, he was taller than him, the right middle-ranking general. Originally, it was okay for the two armies to be divided and each could make the decision, but now that they have joined forces, Huangfu Song has naturally become the commander-in-chief of the army.
Of course, the more important reason than his position is that Zhu Jun knows that he is not as strong as Huangfu Song. He, Zhu Jun, was a member of a poor family, while Huangfu Song was the queen of the generals. His uncle Huangfu Gui was a famous general with great reputation in the whole world. Therefore, once the Yellow Turban chaos broke out, Liu Hong went to ask Huangfu Song for countermeasures instead of inviting Zhu Jun to discuss matters. This was because in the eyes of the emperor, those who attacked the Qiang people in the west must know better than those who bullied the barbarians in the south. soldiers.
Initially Zhu Jun was still unconvinced, but as soon as he came out of seclusion, he suffered a huge defeat. As soon as Huangfu Song took action, he seized the opportunity and almost burned down Changsha and annihilated Yingchuan Taiping Road. Although Zhu Jun felt that this was not the same thing, in the eyes of Liu Hong, the two of them were at odds. So Zhu Jun had already heard from his friends in Beijing that the country wanted to dismiss him, but he didn't know why he didn't let it go anymore.
In fact, Zhu Jun didn't know that the reason why he was still leading the troops was because Huangfu Song strongly recommended him and even gave Zhu Jun the credit for repelling the Yellow Turban Army several times, which made Liu Hong change his mind.
From this perspective, Huangfu Song is undoubtedly more selfish than Zhu Jun. If Sun Jian could be subordinate to Huangfu Song, he might have achieved more credit.
But unfortunately, no matter what Zhu Jun does, Sun Jian has no choice. Although he is from Wu County, he was born in Kuaiji, so he is basically a Kuaiji native. In this era when the township party was the first fetter, Sun Jian could only seize the opportunity given by Zhu Jun, the township party, and compared with Huangfu Song's tricks, Zhu Jun's kind made Sun Jian's gentry circle more attractive. Outsiders are more comfortable.
Later, the generals gathered around Sun Jian and talked about the banquet, and Sun Jian focused on talking about the Changshe Zhong family who was present this time. Then Sun Jian and a group of Jianghuai, Wuyue and other descendants sighed that the Central Plains was indeed rich in clothing and clothing, and for such a small There are aristocratic families like the Zhong family and the Shen family in Changshe County.
The Zhong family is the surname of the county. They are good at criminal law. There are criminal judges in the family for generations. It can be said that they are a first-class famous family in Yingchuan County. Moreover, he also intermarried with the more influential Li family in Gaomen, Xiangcheng, the same county, and became a famous family in the world. Sun Jian had already heard from other military officials that their Zhong generation was called Zhong Yao. He was only thirty now and already held the important position of Huangmen Shilang. Don't look at this, it's the same as the county magistrate, only 600 stones. But the 600 stones he had were specially used to serve the country and connect the internal and external dynasties. Is this something that a county magistrate can compare to?
Zhong Yao's situation once again made Sun Jian lament that his fate was too late. He thought about how many times he fought without stopping to quell the rebellion and bandits, but in the end he was just hanging around in the county magistrate. But Zhong Yao, who was as old as him, had already gone straight to Tianmen. It’s not because he belongs to the Zhong family of Changshe! And he heard that there were families like the Zhong family in every county in Yingchuan. It really can't be compared.
But Sun Jian was a hero after all, and what he saw in front of him did not frustrate him. Instead, it made him understand even more that this battle with Zhu Jun on the Taiping Road was the most important opportunity in his life.
In fact, whether it is Sun Jian, Cao Cao or Liu Bei, they all have indomitable characters, and all three of them can make great achievements. Because no one is always successful. If you don’t have perseverance and perseverance, you will fail if you lose only once, and you will inevitably lose in the end. Yes, it's Yuan Shao.
Sun Jian and the generals talked about Zhong's story, naturally to inspire them. Having a living example there would further stimulate them to make contributions.
Finally, Sun Jian said the most important thing this time, which was to retreat westward from Yingchuan Taiping Road to Yangdi, and gather on the northeastern bank of Yingshui River with Ma Yuanyi's tribe who was the first to retreat here, with unknown intentions.
Now Sun Jian is also discussing the intentions of the Yellow Turban Army with the generals in order to prepare for the following war. After all, he is also a general and needs to have his own independent judgment on the war situation.
But Sun Jian has obviously overthought it. His current members are basically rough guys. They are either the evil boys from Jianghuai or the original water pirates of the Sun family. Then there are Han Dang and Cheng Pu, who are no one in the north. There is no military strategy, just staring at Sun Jian, which means, whatever you say, we will do it!
Sun Jian was frustrated and sighed once again, the Sun family's military fortunes still need to continue their efforts!
Wu Lie is the emperor title posthumously awarded after Sun Jian.
(End of chapter)