Chapter 497: The sound of decisive battle attacks the west

Shi Xie surrendered!

In fact, Shi Xie's surrender did not only represent the loss of Jiaozhou, but more importantly, the influence and status of the Shi family in Jiangdong.

As the first family to surrender to Sun Ce, although Shi Xie did not leave his home, he lived in Jiaozhi like a local snake. However, his five sons all held important positions in Jiangdong. Among them, Shi Xie's eldest son Shi Zhi was even appointed as the prefect of Yuzhang, and had great power.

Therefore, when Shi Xie sent a letter to Yuzhang, Shi Zhi hesitated for two days and asked to surrender to welcome Zhang Renshan’s barbarian army to take over Yuzhang. After the loss of Yuzhang, Jingnan’s way to Kuaiji immediately became smooth. In February of the sixth year of Taiping, Pang Tong’s Wunan Army and Zhang Ren’s barbarian army gathered on the banks of Gushui, Damo County. The 60,000 troops were pointed at Kuaiji County from afar, and even looked at Danyang.

Kuaiji County is extremely vast in terms of territory.

From Hangzhou Bay to the Minjiangkou, they all belonged to the rule of Kuaiji. In later generations, this land was worth every inch of land. However, at that time, 80% of the population of Kuaiji County lived in the Yuyao area of ​​Shanyin, Shangyu, near Hangzhou Bay in later generations.

Except for the Hangzhou Bay area, Kuaiji County can be said to be out of place for thousands of miles, and is even more desolate than the bitter and cold land of Liangzhou.

Moreover, on this vast and desolate land, Fanmiao Mountains are raging and disasters, with many mountains and steep mountains, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves everywhere, making it a wilderness area.

It is precisely for this reason that Pang Tong and Zhang Ren's troops were almost unobstructed.

It was not until Damo County that the two armies stopped and prepared to attack Kuaiji.

In Shangyu Shanyin, we must pass Wushang (now Yiwu, Zhejiang). Cheng Pu had gathered troops and garrisoned Wushang, and was preparing to fight to the death with Pang Tong. At the same time, Danyang Prefect Yu Fan was also prepared for assistance, but the troops in his hands were not sufficient.

Because Sun Ce stationed his troops in Jiangxia, he took away 60% of the troops in Jiangdong.

In addition, the navy was destroyed, and Yu Fan had only 20,000 soldiers in his hands. As a last resort, Yu Fan had to ask Sun Ce for help.

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In February, it is drizzling in Jiangnan.

This Damo County (now in Quzhou, Zhejiang) was called Gumi Country in ancient times. On the banks of Gushui, there is Sanqu Mountain in the territory, which is beautiful and the scenery is particularly charming. On the Qiantang River, there is a saying that "controls the elbows of Poyang, slams the throat of Oumin, and connects the sound of Xuanshe (she, four sounds). In later generations, Damo County can be said to be the gateway to Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Jiangsu.

Of course, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, although Damo was under the rule of the Han Dynasty, in fact, no officials were sent.

The real master here is an ancient country originating from the Great River Basin and moved from the Central Plains to this place. The Gumi people were called Yiren during the ancient Xia Dynasty and were once an extremely important part of the Xia Dynasty. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou fought eastward. As a state under the government, part of the Gumi country stayed in Lu, but its main part followed the Yiren people to the south.

Later, he arrived at the border of Vietnam and became a member of the Yue Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The Gumi tribe members were proficient in smelting. Famous sword-making masters such as Ou Yezi and Gan Jiang Moye appeared. However, they gradually declined after Qin.

Zhang Ren, the main force of the mountain barbarian army, arrived outside Damo County.

From afar, Zhang Ren saw a group of people lined up outside the county town. Under the door flag, there was a group of people dressed in strange style.

More than a hundred monsters with huge heads, weird appearances, long noses crawled on the ground in extreme silence.

Thousands of soldiers dressed in Southern Barbarians, holding swords and guns. Two people were sitting upright on the two monsters, one man and one woman.

The man has a short figure and a strange appearance.

The woman is slender and beautiful.

Zhang Ren recognized that the man on the monster's back was Pang Tong. As for the beautiful woman, she must be the barbarian girl of Caishan and Princess Zhurong.

He quickly stopped the movement of the people and Zhang Ren urged him to move forward.

But he saw Pang Tongyi urging the monster under his crotch, the huge creature was clamoring, walking slowly forward like a hill.

The war horse under Zhang Ren's crotch is also considered a BMW horse. But when he saw the monster, he was panicked and stood still uneasy.

"Shi Yuan, stop quickly!"

Zhang Ren quickly shouted, "Where did you find such a monster? Why do you look so scary?"

Pang Tong had a bamboo stick in his hand. He heard Zhang Ren's shouting and knocked his mount's head with the bamboo stick.

The monster shook his long nose and made a loud cry. Then he slowly crawled down, and Pang Tong slid down from the monster's back.

After patting the monster's head, Pang Tong walked forward with a smile.

Zhang Ren also got off the horse, walked forward, and hugged Pang Tong fiercely, "Shi Yuan, after a long time of separation, you are still so disgusting, but your body seems to be much stronger than before... I didn't expect that you actually did it."

When Zhang Ren and others heard that Pang Tong went to the Southern Barbarians and tried to attack Jiaozhou, like most people, they didn't believe that Pang Tong could succeed. In a flash, a year and a half, Pang Tong not only walked out of the mountains and ridges, but also took Jiaozhou without knowing it. If Zhang Ren did not feel jealous, it was impossible. On the one hand, he wanted to be jealous of Pang Tong's good luck. But on the other hand, Zhang Ren also praised Pang Tong's wonderful ideas and his extraordinary courage. At least Zhang Ren himself dared not do this.

Pang Tong smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a line, "How about it, my war elephant can be passed by."

Bu Wuwu pointed at the crawling monster with a show of flaunting, and Pang Tong said: "If it weren't for these guys, we wouldn't have been able to get out of the mountains."

This is called Xiang, which is a war beast tamed by Zhurong tribe. It has great power and is extremely fierce.

When my more than a hundred battle elephant soldiers came to Jiaozhi City, Shi Xie was stunned for a moment. In just three days, the old man obediently offered the city to surrender.

We had met Fanmiao Shanyue several times before, and thanks to these big guys with thick skin, it can be said that they are invincible."

Zhang Ren smiled and said, "You guy is really lucky. You fight the Southern Barbarians and not only get a beautiful lady, but also make such merits."

"Hehe, King Liang told me that I was born to do big things, normal, very normal..."

Pang Tong was very stinky and was not polite at all. Then he took Zhang Ren's hand and said, "Let's talk about it before entering the county town! The tiger has ordered people to station a barracks outside the city, and your subordinates can settle in immediately. Let's go, the tiger is waiting in the county town, and he can't say he regrets it so much at this time."

Commander Pang led Zhang Ren, first met Zhu Rong, and then arranged people to bring Zhang Ren's mountain barbarian army into the barracks.

On the way, Zhang Ren realized that Gan Ben originally wanted to come out and bet with Zhang Ren. But he lost the bet and could only stay in the government office. The glory of the glory of riding a war elephant and showing off his might was snatched by Pang Tong. He was in a bad mood.

Zhurong is a very docile girl, taller than Pang Tong, but she follows Pang Tong like a little woman.

This made Zhang Ren envious again.

After entering the government office, Gan Ben had already arranged a banquet and was about to welcome Zhang Ren.

According to the rules of the Southern Barbarians, Zhu Rong toasted Zhang Ren with a cup of wine, and then followed Pang Tong's instructions and took the female soldiers with him back to the backyard to rest.

This gentle look made Zhang Ren envious for a while.

In the lobby, only Pang Tong and the other two were left. The atmosphere became serious. Pang Tong put down his wine glass, "I heard that the war in Jingzhou has ended?"

Zhang Ren nodded and said, "It's indeed over! At the end of last year, the third master broke into Xiangyang alone, persuaded Kuai Yue and Cai Mao, and then designed to kill Wen Chou, seized the Baier elite soldiers, and even got Liu Biao's tiger talisman. Kuai Yue used the tiger talisman to mobilize the troops in Yicheng. The third master then ambushed on the way, defeated Liu Biao's eight thousand tiger shanghai, and captured Liao Li, a former leader in Jingzhou, completely taking control of Xiangyang.

Liu Biao died of illness later...

Later, when Liu Biao's son Liu Qi arrived in Xiangyang, Cai Mao designed to introduce Liu Qi into Xiangyang City and kill him.

After hearing the news of Jiaozhou's loss, Sun Ce immediately turned back to Jiangdong, leaving Jiangxia's troops empty. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the great governor of Jingzhou, Lu Xun, led the navy to raid Jiangxia. Jiangxia's guard Zhuge Liang caught him off guard and set up an empty city plan to drag the troops of Lu Xun's troops, then retreated to Chaisang and surrendered to Sun Ce... After learning about the news of Xiangyang's loss, Han Song of Nanjun raised fire to burn the city.

In Linju, the military advisor Kong Ming designed to capture Wei Yan who was rushing to help Xiangyang.

Huh, think about it carefully, the past month has been really exciting. However, it is not as good as the accomplishment of the Shiyuan to obtain Jiaozhou."

After Zhang Ren finished speaking, he couldn't help but praise Pang Tong again.

Pang Tong just smiled faintly, "Tiger, has the affairs of the Gumi tribe members been pacified?"

Gan Ben said: "It has been pacified. Zong Zheng of the Gumi tribe said that if King Liang could treat Gumi tribes according to the conditions for other tribes, he would be willing to naturalize the clan and persuade the Shanyue Fan Miao in various places to become Han people together. At the same time, he was willing to give out five hundred Gumi swordsmen and follow the army to obey orders... The old man's conditions were not harsh, and he only hoped to find an identity for his tribe."

If you want to fight against Jiangdong, Pang Tong had to consider the local situation.

Whether it is Kuaiji or Yuzhang...

There are many people in Fanmiao Mountains and Yue. If they cannot be properly pacified, it will inevitably cause trouble in the future. Fortunately, when Dong Qi was in the Western Regions, he promulgated the law. The so-called naturalization of all races is the Han people. They do not distinguish between barbarians, but can seek common ground while reserving differences and get along equally.

This is the case in the Western Regions, the North is the case in the Frontier, and the South Barbarians are also the case!

Since there has been a precedent, it is obviously very attractive to the wild Yi people Shanyue. After occupying Jiaozhi, Pang Tong ordered people to continue to promote Dong Qi's Han civil law. Although the Gumi tribe members were in Kuaiji, they had already heard about this.

Gan Ben explained the situation of Kuaiji to Zhang Ren in detail.

Pang Tong said: "After the last two years of long journey, the Wunan Army has suffered heavy losses. Therefore, it is probably difficult to make great efforts when attacking Kuaiji in advance. I estimate that it will take at least one hundred days for the Wunan Army to rest and recover its vitality. Governor Zhang, in these 100 days, the mountain barbarian army needs to be in front of him. Sun Ce has now turned to Jiangdong, and the effect of this strange soldier will be weakened.

At the same time, with Sun Ce's nature, he will definitely launch a counterattack. The pressure from the Shan Barbarians is quite high..."

Zhang Ren nodded and said, "I have already thought of this on the road... Wunan Army does need some time to rest. Let's do this. From now on, our mountain barbarian army will take the opportunity to rest and recuperate, and sort out the barbarians and barbarians in Yuzhang and other places in Jiaozhou as soon as possible, so that I can have no worries.

But in this case, for the lord, it is unlikely that we will give more support.

Shi Yuan, you'd better send another letter to your lord to explain the difficulties we are facing and will face now. Please decide."

Gan Ben said: "That's what it should be!

However, this place is not something I can do. I will leave it to Shi Yuan for management, and at the same time, I ask the lord to send people as soon as possible to assist Shi Yuan.

I followed the order under Lao Zhang. Hehe, we have had a life of not working together.

I am not as good as the Shiyuan when governing the local area. But if I say that I fight and kill the battle formation, kill the generals and the enemies, Lao Zhang is not as good as me."

Zhang Ren, also one of the founders of Wunanjun, once served under Gan Ben. The friendship between the two is very tacit.

He laughed and said, "Since the Grand Governor said so, Zhang Ren should comply."

But Pang Tong narrowed his eyes at this time. After pondering for a moment, he whispered: "Who is the Grand Governor of Jingnan Lu Xun?"

Zhang Ren then explained the relationship between Lu Xun and Dong Qi.

Pang Tong couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't expect that Xiao Wenji is about to get married now. Since that's the case, Lu Xun is considered his own person.

I have a plan, maybe I can solve some problem for King Liang.”

Gan Ben and Zhang Ren knew that Pang Tong often had a brilliant plan. After hearing this, Zhang Ren hurriedly asked, "Shi Yuan, will the plan be released?"

"This plan is called "Speaking east and attacking west."

Pang Tong ordered people to take the map, spread it on the ground, and pointed it at the map with a bamboo stick, "Although King Liang's troops are strong, the front line is too long and the troops are dispersed. Although Liu Bei and Cao Cao's troops are at a disadvantage, they shrink together and are partially superior to our troops.

This is like clenching into a fist, avoiding the solid and attacking the virtual, making it difficult for our army to launch an effective attack.

Therefore, if we want Liu Bei and Cao Cao to let go of our fists, we also need to take some measures. Pei County, Xia Pi, Runan has become a snake in Changshan.

If I were the head coach, I would pinch my head and tail and attack my abdomen, which was the headquarters of Liu Bei in Pei County.

To take Liu Bei, it is necessary to take Shouchun first. Governor Zhang can order the Shan barbarian army to attack Kuaiji and ask Governor Lu Xun to feint attack Danyang County in Jiangxia.

In this way, it can attract most of Sun Ce's troops...

Then ask the Third Master to lead the surprise troops to seize Shouchun. Once Shouchun is lost, Pei Kingdom will fall into chaos. At that time, Liu Bei is unable to take care of the head and tail. Uncle Zhi's eldest brother can lead the troops to attack Pei Kingdom, cut the snake from Changshan into two sections, and then launch another army and attack Xia Pi, and the coalition forces will be defeated."

Gan Ben Zhang Ren spread his eyebrows, looked at the circles on the map, and fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!