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When Ma Han pursued Cao Cao, Taishi Ci in the east was not idle and launched a series of fierce attacks on the Jiangdong Army.

On August 25th, the Longlang Xu Lin army occupied Wu County, captured Lu Fan, and killed Sun Yi. Guan Hai and Chen Deng joined forces and had also captured Dantu and advanced to Qu.

After Wu County fell, because Wu County was empty and the main force of the Jiangdong Army had not returned, Xu Lin's army took advantage of the situation to attack and took all the counties of Piling, Qu'a, Yangxian, Wucheng and Yuhang within half a month at the speed of a county in three days.

At this time, Sun Quan had led his army back to Jiangdong and was in Wanling in Danyang County. He had been worried about the safety of more than a thousand mouths of the Sun family in Wucheng along the way. When he arrived in Wanling, he saw his uncle, Danyang Prefect Wu Jing, and learned that he had taken the Sun family first, and his heart had just fallen to the ground. He was shocked to hear the death of his third brother Sun Yi, and his fourth brother Sun Kuang had his palm destroyed, so he couldn't help but feel sad.

At this time, Sun Quan was too young. He lacked prestige in both the army and the government hall, and he was facing a great enemy. So Sun Quan decisively entrusted political affairs to Zhang Zhao according to his brother's last words, and the military power was handed over to Zhou Yu's command.

When Zhou Yu took over the military talisman, at that moment, he was only moved by the fact that the scholar died for his confidant.

By mid-September, Ma Han had controlled the entire Jiujiang area, and Lejin in the north had reoccupied Yuzhou, stabilizing the rear, and was handing over to the local officials and support defenders sent by the court to free up their troops and go south to support the general.

After Taishi Ci occupied Wujun, he transferred Wujun to the second echelon led by Lu Dai to take over. He joined forces with Guan Hai and advanced along the water and land. He went up Lishui and advanced to Liyang.

At this time, Sun Quan's troops in Danyang, in addition to the original more than 10,000 men and ships, there were also 5,000 infantry led by Sun Ben and Sun Fu, more than 15,000 soldiers and horses led by Cheng Pu and Sun He, and more than 5,000 Danyang soldiers of Wu Jing. It can be said that the entire Sun family elite in Jiangdong were all gathered here.

Taishi Ci and Guan Hai had only more than 10,000 troops, less than one-third of the Jiangdong Army, so they naturally did not dare to attack rashly. All they had to do was put pressure on the Jiangdong Army.

Soon, Ma Han personally led Li Dian, Gan Ning, and a total of more than 15,000 troops from land and sea to Liyang, stationed troops in Jiangyou, and acted as if he wanted to cross the river and attack at any time.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Deng was ordered to lead three thousand navy troops across the Yangtze River and pressed towards Danyang from the north.

Although the Jiangdong Army had nearly 30,000 troops at this time, it was in an unfavorable situation of encirclement on three sides. Within the Jiangdong Army, fierce quarrels started.

Headed by Zhang Zhao, including Wu Jing, Zhu Zhi, Sun Jing, Yu Fan, Sun Ben and Sun Fu, all advocated evacuation from Danyang and Kuaiji to get rid of the dangers of being surrounded on three sides. After Ma Han took Danyang and Lujiang counties, he must first seek stability and then go south. This way he can get a breather and establish a foothold. Then he will slowly plan for it.

The generals led by Zhou Yu, including Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Song Qian, Dong Xi, Chen Wu, Lu Meng, Pan Zhang and other military generals all advocated a battle. They believed that if they did not take on a battle and flee after hearing the news, it would not only hurt morale, but also hit confidence, which would be very unfavorable to future resistance. Moreover, from the perspective of total force, the Jiangdong Army still had a slight advantage.

Whether to fight or withdraw, both sides have their own reasons and cannot argue. Sun Quan saw it and suffered in his heart. Just imagine how if his brother was still there, how could such a situation be there? No matter whether the battle or withdrawal, he would decide with one word.

Just as the people in Jiangdong were arguing, several things happened one after another, which eventually led to the balance of disputes being inclined to conservatives.

First of all, the Jiangdong forces were in a crisis of justice, just like Cao Cao.

In late September, Ma Han finally waited for the emperor's edict and immediately announced it to the world. He scolded the Sun family in Jiangdong, for hiding evil intentions, refused to accept official titles, planned separatist rule, and destroyed the local area. Now he is under the will of the emperor to fight against it.

When Sun Quan and others of Jiangdong heard about it, they took it as a twitch. Cao Cao attacked you, Ma Han for no reason, and was denounced as a rebellion; you, Ma Han for no reason, and said that I was separatist (it seemed to be right). This is simply, this is simply... The Jiangdong people thought about it for a long time, but they didn't put up a suitable word to describe it.

However, Ma Han has an image saying: double standards.

That's right, this is a double standard. It's useless to say that "using the emperor to fight against the unjust ministers"? The emperor is in charge, and the righteousness is in hand. If you want to hit anyone; if you have no reason, find a reason, and if you don't have any charges, you will be punished. As long as you have enough strength, you don't have to worry about excuses for attack.

Secondly, the Tao brothers exerted their influence, and the Tao merchant sneaked back to Danyang (Tao Qian's hometown), instigated the defenders to raise the flag of righteousness, killed the Jiangdong garrison, and accompanied the Mahan army to cross the Yangtze River and capture Shicheng. This directly disrupted the overall deployment of the Jiangdong army, especially the two cities were lost, completely breaking the connection between Wanling and Moling, Hushu, Jiangcheng, Jurong and other counties, and half of the Danyang county was lost.

Finally, the encirclement came from all sides - the life-and-death enemy of the Sun family in Jiangdong, Huang Zu, took advantage of the situation to rob and sent his son Huang She to lead 5,000 naval troops along the Yangtze River to the north, attacked Danyang from the south, burned, killed and robbed.

At this moment, the Jiangdong forces were surrounded by Ma Han, Taishi Ci, Chen Deng and Huang Zu from four directions, east, west, south, north and north. In a word, if you don’t run away, just wait to be made into dumplings.

It is extremely political and military disadvantage, and there is no internal conflict. This battle is really not enough. Zhou Yu is also a military and political talent. He fights as long as he can, and never force him to fight. He makes a quick decision and retreats.

More than 30,000 troops, plus tens of thousands of people, retreated from Lengshui to She County by boat. Then they divided their troops into two groups, and the main force followed the newly opened ditches into Zhejiang River, and then went east into Kuaiji. Cheng Pu and Han Dang led a partial army, with about 8,000 troops, from Zhejiang River to Pengze, and suddenly attacked Huang Zu's water camp on the Yangtze River, killing hundreds of enemies, burning tens of stones of food and fodder.

Huang She hurried back to the army to rescue, but was ambushed by Han Dang halfway and almost killed. He was defeated and escaped to Jiangxia in a hurry.

As Zhang Zhao and others expected, Ma Han did not continue to pursue, and immediately took down the four counties of Jiangzuo and Jiangyou. Various military and political affairs came one after another: officials from each county and county were appointed, the people were appeased, the powerful families were making friends, and the defeated soldiers and bandits were cleared out... Before the administrative officials sent by Luoyang arrived at the handover, Ma Han and his soldiers were busy until the end of the year.

The four newly obtained counties, Jiujiang is closest to Yuzhou, and the support is the most timely. In addition, Ma Han and others have also operated here for the longest time, so they quickly controlled the situation of the county. Danyang County is tough and has always been a region with serious bandit chaos. Both Yuan Shu and Sun Ce were very shaking their heads and made great efforts to clear and rectify them, and finally achieved some results. Therefore, Ma Han received this result without much trouble. So he led the prefect to the Tao merchant and Guan Cheng served as the commander; one was a local powerful family, and the other was a powerful general who specialized in destroying bandits. The two of them cooperated to basically control the situation.

Wujun is the base camp of the Sun family and the governance is the most difficult. So Ma Han also released two powerful people here: one is Lu Dai; and the other is one of the newly surrendered representatives of Jiangdong forces, Lu Fan. Lu Fan was appointed as the prefect of Wujun and Lu Dai was appointed as the county magistrate. With this old and new partner, I believe that Wujun will be managed sooner or later.

The last thing to talk about is Lujiang.

Under the rule of Yuan Shu, Lujiang was very ineffective and always chaotic under the rule of Liu Xun, the former prefect of Lujiang.

Today, Huang Zu's Jiangxia army will fight, tomorrow, Sun Ce's Jiangdong army will fight, the day after tomorrow, Chen Lan's thief army will also come to get into a leg... It's really like a comb, and the thief army will pass by like a comb, poisoning the place, and there will be no end to calm down.

After analyzing the situation in Lujiang, Guo Jia and Xun You agreed that to solve the Lujiang problem, the first thing to do is to solve the thief army Lei Bo and Chen Lan. Once this thief left, it can play three roles at the same time: shock Xiao Xiao, appease the common people, and relieve internal troubles.

Ma Han agreed with the two plotters, but he also knew that it was easy to defeat this bandit army hiding deep in the Dabie Mountains, but it was difficult to find them. The record of the suppression of bandits by millions of troops in later generations deeply interpreted this point. Of course, no matter how difficult it was, it was just a band of bandits, and it must be destroyed.

The old rule is to be polite first and then soldiers, and first send an envoy to the mountain to persuade the surrender. Xu You was originally quite suitable for the candidate for the envoy, but unfortunately he had returned to Luoyang to report to the emperor last month. However, after leaving Xu You, there was a more suitable candidate: Yuan Yin.

Yuan Yin was Yuan Shu's consul. He was once the boss of Lei Bo and Chen Lan. He had a deep relationship with the two, so it was most suitable to use it as a commander.

Yuan Yin was ordered to set out from Shouchun, and half a month later, he arrived in Lujiang County and then found someone to go to the mountain to deliver a letter.

Three days later, after receiving a reply, Chen Lan invited him to meet in a village twenty miles northwest of Yu County.

After the two met, they first reminisce about the past, and then looked north and worshiped (Yuan Shu was buried in Shouchun) to show their respect for the old master. Of course, at this time, Chen Lan selectively "forgot" that Yuan Shu was condescending to the nobles, but was rejected by them, which eventually led to his illness.

Yuan Yin asked why Lei Bo was not seen?

The answer was: "It has been a long time since I led my army out of the mountain to eat."

Well, this is the euphemism, understanding, understanding of going down the mountain to rob.

Yuan Yin didn't say much, and told the conditions listed by the general: Chen Lan and Lei Bo could choose a county in Yuzhou as the chief lieutenant, or enter Luoyang to serve as a court official of about a thousand stones. He could retain a hundred entourages, and the rest of the soldiers must be reorganized.

Chen Lan was naturally dissatisfied with this condition. He and Lei Bo had at least tens of thousands of troops (originally more than 7,000, but later he recruited thousands of strong men). It was not an exaggeration to be a general and become a prefect. Moreover, he hoped to continue to lead troops, place them in other departments, and lead the old subordinates.

Before Yuan Yin set out, Ma Han had already told him that other conditions were easy to say, but he would never allow him to continue to command his old subordinates. Yuan Yin was naturally embarrassed.

Chen Lan laughed: "Brother, please ask the general, and I can discuss it with Lei Zhong again."

Yuan Yin had no choice but to part with him.

Chen Lanxiang was sent out. As soon as Yuan Yin took a few steps, he saw a entourage hurried in, saluted Chen Lan, and leaned closer and whispered a few words.

Chen Lan was surprised, while Yuan Yin's face changed drastically and he left in a hurry.

That night, Yuan Yin, who returned to Huan County, immediately wrote a letter and asked his followers to send Wanling to him to report Chen Lan's reply first. Finally, he reported shocking news: Liu Ye, a doctor from Taizhong, was trapped in Wancheng by Lei Bo's thieves on his way back to the return of his life. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!