Chapter 496 Ambition(1/2)
"This Qin Feng is good!" Liu Mang smiled and nodded. Liu Mang naturally didn't want him to use such a teammate who cheated him, but it was good to use it to cheat his opponent.
"The position of the Marquis of Ting and the Prefect!" Liu Mang asked Jia Xu to record the reply to Yangzhou. With Qin Feng's contribution, these two positions are really not many. After all, if Sun Quan's 70,000 troops are cheated, Jiangdong's strength will definitely be greatly retreated.
"But the prefect cannot be in Linhuai anymore!" Liu Mang thought for a while and said that Qin Feng had been a local emperor in Linhuai for many years. If he was allowed to be in Linhuai again, there would inevitably be some problems, such as when he was waiting for a price, although he offended Sun Ce of Jiangdong and could no longer go back, he would inevitably have other ideas, such as Xu Du's one, if possible, would definitely not miss this opportunity to give Liu Mang the eye drop.
Moreover, Linhuai was just Liu Mang's first step. Liu Mang's main thing was to occupy a sea estuary for the Huaiyin generation. Linhuai was an important position, so the prefect of Linhuai certainly could not give it to Qin Feng.
"Anfeng has no prefect yet!" Liu Mang remembered that Anfeng has not arranged a prefect yet. Because the coalition forces of Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu attacked last time, Anfeng's prefect surrendered without fighting, so the position of this prefect was vacant.
"Let Qin Feng go to Anfeng!" Anfeng's current geographical location is much worse than before. He used to be a county, but now he is just a county town, and most of the population has gone to Guangzhou. With Hao Shao in Guangzhou, it is impossible to ensure that Liu Mang's western gateway to Yangzhou will not be lost. So Anfeng is not so much a county as a subordinate. Basically, Anfeng Gushi has to listen to Hao Shao of Guangzhou. He will not be afraid of his tricks by putting Qin Feng there, and he can be sent out to cheat people anytime and anywhere.
"Lord, we also captured the enemy military advisor Lu Su Lu Zijing, the second son of Jiangdong, and Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou," Jia Xu said standing aside.
Liu Mang continued to look and found that the two most important prisoners were these two. The others either died in battle or left. "Where is Lu Meng and Ling Chao?" Liu Mang remembered that on the information sent before, Lu Meng and Ling Chao were the first to fight with Zhang Liao, but there were no Lu Meng and Ling Chao on the list of this prisoner.
Could it be that he died in battle? Liu Mang frowned. Ling Chao was a little better, but this Lu Meng was the one that Liu Mang had focused on in Yangzhou. Liu Mang wanted to know where Lu Meng was going.
"Lu Meng and Ling Chao?" Jia Xu is also very unfamiliar with these two people. At most, they belong to a few young generals in Jiangdong. But why is the lord so concerned about them? However, Jia Xu shook his head and said, "My lord should not have died in the battlefield!" Jia Xu didn't understand the value of Lu Meng, but Liu Mang knew that this person was a great talent in Jiangdong after inheriting Zhou Yu and Lu Su. This person killed Guan Erye and seized Jingzhou. It can be said that Liu Guanzhang died indirectly at the hands of Lu Meng. Although he is a young general now, his potential is not bad.
"It should have escaped in Linhuai City!" There were also some defenders in Linhuai City who were not captured. Jia Xu really guessed that Ling Chao and Lu Meng were arranged by Sun Quan to guard the city. Sun Quan wanted to leave the two alone and show their military strength for a while. Who knew that Zhang Liao had an annihilation battle? Ling Chao and Lu Meng were not fools. Knowing that Linhuai City could not be defended, he immediately lost Linhuai City and took a hundred people under his command and ran away directly from the water. If they flowed down, they could only increase their merits to the Yangzhou army!
"Lord, what should we do with Lu Su Lu Zijing and Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou?!" Jia Xu asked Liu Mang.
"Lu Su, Lu Zijing?!" Liu Mang laughed when he heard this name. This is an acquaintance. During the Battle of Lujiang, Liu Mang was bullied by Lu Su Lu Zijing, and even Liu Mang himself would have sacrificed himself. Later, Lu Su's destruction and overturned the situation. If Gan Ning's navy had not been able to compete to command Jiang Qin and commanded 30,000 Jiangdong naval forces directly into the bottom of the Yangtze River, he might have lost the city and Lujiang would not have been able to defend it. How could there be any future happening?
During the Battle of Lujiang, Lu Su and Lu Zijing were captured by himself. He had just redeemed it for thousands of gold, but he didn't expect to be captured again today.
"Lu Su should stay!" Liu Mang didn't want to let Lu Su go back anymore. Lu Su Lu Zijing asked him to go back last time. In addition to the money reason, there was another important reason that Liu Mang wanted the craftsmen of Jiangdong. Those shipbuilding craftsmen were what Liu Mang really wanted. Now these craftsmen have obtained the warships and the warships have also entered the water. If you want to ask Jiangdong for it, Jiangdong will not give it to him or not, what else can he have? These craftsmen were bleeding from Jiangdong at the beginning.
So let's stay a talented person like Lu Su.
"Please persuade surrender first. It's best if Lu Su is willing to surrender. If he doesn't want to, then imprison this person for me!" Liu Mang really couldn't bear to kill Lu Su directly. This was not love. If it were Pang Tong's little turkey, Liu Mang would kill him without saying a word, but for an honest person like Lu Su, Liu Mang really wanted to keep this person.
"As for this second young master in Jiangdong?!"
"Did your lord have a plan?" Jia Xu looked at Liu Mang and said with a smile.
Looking at the old fox's smile, Liu Mang knew that the old fox must have guessed what he was thinking.
"Mr. Wenhe must have already found a way! Why do you need to hide it?" Liu Mang disliked the most was that Jia Xu, the old fox, stood aside with a clear expression. This feeling made people feel very uncomfortable, just like a detached person looking at everyone, and he was like a fool.
Seeing that Liu Mang was a little disliked, Jia Xu didn't dare to talk nonsense, he just said "Put it!"
It was really the same as Liu Mang thought, "Mr. Wen He, why did I release this second young master from Jiangdong! This person is a blue-eyed man, and the King of Western Chu was also like this!" Liu Mang deliberately said to Jia Xu that he was born with a strange phenomenon. In modern times, this may be a genetic mutation to explain it. In the era of ancient people's lack of technology, then this is no longer a matter of the world, but leaning towards heaven! He thought it was auspicious, especially when there was a King of Western Chu before, so it also became an emperor, which was very confusing.
"Although blonde hair and blue eyes are good, it's a pity that there is a real little overlord on his head!" Jia Xu said regretfully, if Sun Quan's brother was not so talented and not known as the little overlord of Jiangdong, then Sun Quan would have been called the reincarnation of the overlord.
"This Sun Quan was praised by Cao Mengde for having a son, just like Sun Zhongmou! This person is very talented! Am I just letting go?" Liu Mang continued to ask. There were only a few people like Cao Mengde who could get his eyes on him, and Sun Quan was also among them, which shows Sun Quan's ability.
"Should you give birth to a child be as Sun Zhongmou? Cao Cao said?" Jia Xu was stunned for a moment. He had never heard of this before.
"Ahhh!" Liu Mang saw Jia Xu's confusion, and was stunned for a moment and then became embarrassed. This sentence was the time when Cao Cao and Sun Quan confronted the Yangtze River later. However, Liu Mang deserved to be thick-skinned and just used the nonsense that year to pass by.
"Sun Quan was fourteen years old and managed a county, in an orderly manner, with sufficient government and warehouses, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment! He won over the gentry and made the Jiangdong gentry praise him. Isn't this a talented person?" Liu Mang said in a different direction.
"Being able to manage a county does not mean that one state can manage a state. There are many geniuses in ancient times. There are Kong Rong, a Kong family, who gave up the pear at the age of eight, but what is the ending! They are overwhelmed with ambitions, but they have no real talent!" Jia Xu, Kong Rong took it out and compared it with Sun Quan. If Kong Rong and Kong Wenju knew that they would not have strangled Jia Xu to death.
"The Jiangdong gentry praised him endlessly, which was the reason why our army let him go back!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang.
"Oh?! Mr. Wenhe, this is a great talent in Sun Quan. Letting him go back to Jiangdong is not letting the tiger return to the mountain!" Liu Mang deliberately said to Jia Xu.
"Haha, if a tiger returns to the mountain, there will be endless troubles. If two tigers return to the mountain, one will die!" Jia Xu then said the key point.
Jiangdong is full of talent. This person who can make the King of Western Chu stand out from the princes of the world rely on the talents of Jiangdong. But don’t forget that Sun Quan is talented, but there is also an older brother above him. It’s easy to say if it is an ordinary aristocratic family, just like the brothers of the Kuai family. Both of them are for the family, so that the entire family can be revitalized.
However, Sun Quan's Sun family is the master of Jiangdong. This is the real master of Jiangdong. The princes are all the imperial family. The imperial family has no feelings, and it will be difficult to tolerate people for this position. If Sun Quan has no talent, he will live a stable and comfortable life in his life. However, Sun Quan is talented, and talented people are naturally unwilling to fall into depravity. Sun Quan even has ambitions. People with blue eyes and purple hair are born with the appearance of overlords. Such people will not allow them even if they don't want to achieve much success.
Sun Ce is a martial artist. Jiangdong can only surrender because of his overlord's force, but Sun Quan is different. He has established a good relationship with the gentry in Jiangdong. It can be said that he is a member of the gentry!
How could the Jiangdong gentry not want such a lord who is close to the gentry? So the Jiangdong gentry likes Sun Quan more, but Sun Ce is too strong and has the help of Zhou Yu, and the warriors under his command are everywhere, which makes Jiangdong stable for the time being.
If Liu Mang killed Sun Quan, there would be no benefit except for the entire Jiangdong and his enemies. Even these Jiangdong gentry, who were originally ready to move, would not move again after seeing Sun Quan die, and Jiangdong would fall into unprecedented stability. But if Liu Mang put Sun Quan back, it would be different. The wise ruler in the minds of the Jiangdong gentry was Sun Quan, and Sun Quan was not a stable person. This person had ambition, otherwise he would not have sent troops alone.
Once Sun Quan acts too much, there are only two ways left for Sun Ce. The first is to abdicate and give up the wise. How could an indomitable person like Sun Ce compromise? The second is to kill Sun Quan. Sun Ce will kill Sun Quan, what a wonderful picture it will be.
"One Sun Quan can stir up the entire Jiangdong and make him uneasy! Lord, should you kill, or not!" Jia Xu said with a smile at Liu Mang.
"Let it go! Of course you can let it go! Let Jiangdong bleed again!" Liu Mang was unwilling to let go of Liu Mang in vain, at least he had to pay a ransom. "Don't be too much, just five thousand gold!" Liu Mang directly slapped.
"Ten thousand gold!?!" Jia Xu was also stunned. His lord was born with a quarrel. His heart was so dark, ten thousand gold. Liu Mang's entire trip to Jingzhou cost less than ten thousand gold.
"Lord, will Jiangdong not give it to you?"
"It can't be lower than before. Lu Su is worth a thousand gold. I don't believe that Sun Ce has no money!" Liu Mang would not be polite to Sun Ce. If you want such a younger brother, you can take back five thousand gold. Don't worry, just announce the price directly. In the end, even if Sun Ce doesn't want it, he will buy it back under the pressure of public opinion and the pressure of his old mother in his family! Abandoning his own brothers is not a good reputation. It depends on how Sun Ce chooses.
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"Boom!" In the Jiangdong Naval Army camp, this was the number of times that Sun Ce cut off the entire case of the matter. He raised his hand and fell down. This hardwood-made coffee table could not hold on to a single blow.
This is the strength of Sun Ce's peak god refining warrior. When he raised his head and raised his hand, he had the power of a dragon and elephant. His body was full of blood, but now because his blood was too strong, Sun Ce couldn't help it.
There was only one person standing beside Sun Ce. This man had the feather fan and the elegance of a literati and the heroic spirit of a martial artist. The two temperaments were mixed together but they did not make people feel abrupt at all, but they felt very comfortable. This was Zhou Lang and Zhou Gongjin from Jiangdong. Only someone like Zhou Yu who had a deep personal tutor could persuade him.
"Report to the lord, Lu Meng and General Ling Chao are back, and now they are looking for a meeting outside the gate!" A messenger ran in, looking at the chaos in the big tent, he didn't dare to report it with a breath.
"Haha, hehe, there is still a face to come back? Why don't they die on the battlefield? Why don't they die in Linhuai? Let them get out, get out!" Sun Ce banged with a loud bang and hit a new case again. The new case that had just moved in less than a cup of tea was once again split.
Wood chips flew everywhere, and Zhou Yu and the messenger were directly sputtered. Zhou Yu had the strength of a warrior and could naturally avoid it, but the messenger was not so lucky. The wood chips could be said to be stuck on his body, and it was okay on his body. After all, he had the protection of armor, and the blood troughs on his face were blown out by the wood chips. The blood immediately dyed his face red, but the messenger did not dare to say anything. He was afraid of their lord. If the lord didn't speak, he didn't even dare to wipe the blood.
"You go down! Bandage yourself and don't cause trouble!" Zhou Yu looked at the messenger with wood chips on his face and said, although the wound on his face was not big, there were a lot of them. If he bleeded too much, he would die. There was no war yet, so he didn't want to reduce his staff by just vain.
"Yes!" The messenger was very grateful to Zhou Yu. After Zhou Yu nodded, he hurried out. He didn't want to be affected by Chi Yu.
"Bo Fu, why do you have to be so angry? Winning and losing are common in military affairs. There is no permanent general in this world! Didn't you and I lose a game at Sanjiangkou?" Zhou Yu wanted to comfort Sun Ce.
However, Sun Ce did not reduce his anger at all, but pointed to the document on the ground that was about to be torn to pieces and said, "How can this be a matter of victory or defeat? This is completely a pig, a pig. The 70,000 army attacked 10,000 troops but were completely wiped out by others. Such a battle situation can be won even if a pig commands it!" Sun Ce was simply angry. If all the troops in Yangzhou were out and the Jiangdong army was defeated, then Sun Ce would not say much, but there were only 10,000 people, but in the end they were wiped out by 10,000 people. Such a person could not be lost in Jiangdong.
"Bo Fu! It's not that I am determined by others to destroy my own power. In the land battle, this Lu Bu army is the real king of land. Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and every camp of the camp is a trump card! Did Bo Fu forget the Battle of Shicheng!"
"Yuncheng?!" Sun Ce's pupils contracted. Yancheng, this was a pain for Sun Ce, and it was also a place where he defeated Sun Ce. The army of 100,000 except for five thousand soldiers and horses, all the others were left in Yangzhou.
Sun Ce didn't want to mention such a record, and no one was allowed to mention it. Fortunately, it was Zhou Yu. If another general was changed, the only answered by Sun Ce's sword might be Sun Ce's sword.
Seeing that Sun Ce reacted, Zhou Yu continued to say, "Xiliang Iron Cavalry, I believe you have encountered Bo Fu. Although you are not as good as this Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, you are also one of the best heavy armored cavalry!" Sun Ce of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry had really seen it, and even fought. When the eighteen princes besieged Dong Zhuo, the one who Dong Zhuo relied on the most was the Western Liang Iron Cavalry. It can be said that the eighteen princes had basically fought with the Western Liang Iron Cavalry.
Sun Ce's father Sun Jian was the vanguard at the time, so he naturally fought with Dong Zhuo the most profound. The strength of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry was not that good. Zu Mao's death and Sun Jian's defeat was brought by the Western Liang Iron Cavalry.
"The other one is the Black Chess Army!" When talking about this Black Chess Army, Zhou Yu was a relatively speechless person, because this Black Chess Army was the private soldier of the Zhou family in Shucheng. The Zhou family used several generations of money and decades of hard work to form an army. They originally planned to help Sun Ce in Jiangdong to make achievements in Jiangdong so that the Zhou family's status in Jiangdong would rise more and more. However, they did not expect that in the battle of Hancheng, they not only lost all the Black Chess Army, but were finally rebelled by the enemy. It can be said that the Jiangdong army could not break Hancheng, and most of the credit was on the Black Chess Army.
"This black chess army is not inferior to any of the troops under Bo Fu's command!" Zhou Yu gave this evaluation.
"As for this Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan!" Zhou Yu frowned. Although this person was a general under Lu Bu, he had always appeared as a deputy general. This time, Zhang Liao personally led the army and achieved such a beautiful ending in the battle, which made Zhou Yu frown. There would be another great enemy when dealing with Lu Bu's army.
"The person who can follow Lu Bu here is considered a strong general. It is reasonable for the second young master to lose!" Zhou Yu was still saying good things for Sun Quan. This did not mean that Zhou Yu had a good impression of Sun Quan. On the contrary, Zhou Yu was very afraid of Sun Quan, the second young master of Jiangdong. Because this person is talented and won the hearts of the people, most of the Jiangdong gentry have a good impression of him. Such a person is Sun Ce's second brother, so Zhou Yu is not vigilant and will have a ghost.
But now Zhou Yu has to speak for Sun Quan.
"Seventy thousand army, seventy thousand army!" Sun Ce smiled bitterly. Among the 70,000 army, there were 20,000 elite troops, but except for the 5,000 lost by Lu Meng, all the others were defeated by Sun Quan in Linhuai.
"Gongjin, can it be said that this Lu Bu's son-in-law is the nemesis of our Jiangdong?" Sun Ce was almost confused. His brother, who was not able to beat Liu Mang, the King of Shu, was taught a lesson by Liu Mang. The 100,000 army lost 95,000 yuan. This brother, who was better, was even more lost to the 70,000 army, and he also caught himself. This made Sun Ce feel confused. If he was defeated by Yangzhou, there were 170,000 troops. Most of his strength in Jiangdong was consumed here.
"Lord! I have said that victory or defeat is common in military affairs. If Lu Bu was the ever-winning general, would he be driven out of Yanzhou by Cao Cao and Mengde? In the end, even Xuzhou could not be defended, like a dog with a betrayal family. If it weren't for the previous support of our army, this dog with a dejected family might not know where to wander and reverberate!" Zhou Yu originally wanted to make Sun Ce feel more comfortable, but the more he said Sun Ce's heart became heavier.
Yes! It was because of his support for Lu Bu's army that Sun Ce would lead to the ending. If Sun Ce had been fantasizing at the beginning, if he had not planned to plot against Lu Bu's army at the beginning and end, he might not have had as much trouble now! Even because of Lu Bu's evaluation of Sun Jian's general's death, Sun Ce's favorability towards Lu Bu increased greatly, and he almost felt like he had met too late. However, with one plan, the relationship between the two families broke down. Lu Bu occupied Lujiang, fought a battle with Jiangdong Army in Lujiang, and another battle in Linhuai, and lost two battles!
There is no medicine for regret in the world, and there are not so many ifs!
"Let them both get in!" Sun Ce sighed and said to his personal guards. Although Zhou Yu was not completely persuaded by Zhou Yu, Sun Ce was not as irritated as before. Now he is thinking about letting Lu Meng and Ling Chao come in.
"Yes!" The guards took the order and left, but soon the guards came back and clasped their fists at Sun Ce and said that Lu Meng and Ling Chao would not come in.
"Why don't they come and ask me to invite them in person!" Sun Ce said a little angry. The anger that had just fallen rose again.
Zhou Yu thought about it and walked out in person, trying to see what was going on! But he came back soon and clasped his fists at Sun Ce and said, "Master, you'd better go out and have a look!"
"Why, you don't even give me the face of you, the Grand Governor! Those who know know know they are defeated generals, and those who don't know think they are the ever-winning generals!" Sun Ce was not polite at all. "The person who came to get the sword!" Sun Ce directly drew out the long sword and shone coldly, which made people frightened.
When Sun Ce walked outside the gate, he found two people kneeling there, naked and thorns behind his back.
A typical apology for carrying a thorn! No wonder Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce to come out and take a look in person.
Seeing Sun Ce coming out, Lu Meng and Ling Chao immediately clasped their fists and got down on their heads and said shamelessly, "The defeated general, Lu Meng, Ling Chao, I am ashamed of seeing my lord. We failed to take Linhuai and let the second prince be captured. We deserve to die. Please give it to death!"
"Haha, haha!" Sun Ce saw the two people's appearances and laughed instead of anger, with a sarcastic look on his face, "Do you think I won't kill you like this? A good step is to retreat to advance! Carrying a thorn to apologize? I deserve to die! So why didn't you have any corpses on the battlefield of Linhuai? Can you kneel in front of me so well and apologize?!"
"Lord, let's wait, let's wait!" Lu Meng was extremely ashamed. Sun Ce's words were so hurtful. The generals had already made the horse and wrapped the body, but they did escape back, and Lu Meng himself felt that he had no face to face Sun Ce.
"My lord is right, we have no face to see him." Lu Mengmengde stood up and pulled out a long sword from the waist of the guard next to him!
"Protect the lord!" As soon as he saw Lu Meng pulling out his long sword, Sun Ce's personal guard hurried forward and pulled out his battle sword and looked at Lu Meng in a guard.
"Get out of the way!" Sun Ce roared, his face was cold. Sun Ce is a warrior at the peak of the God Refining. If someone assassinated Sun Ce, Sun Ce would not be able to stop him. It would be useless to ask these personal guards. "I want to see what Lu Meng wants!"
"Why are you still alive? Let's just die!" Lu Meng smiled desolately, immediately picked up the long sword and slashed at his neck.
"General Lu!" Zhou Yu and Ling Chao were both shocked. They did not expect Lu Meng to be like this.
"I want to die! I have to ask my lord!" Sun Ce snorted coldly and shot the sword in his hand, directly hitting Lu Meng's sword, and knocking it down on the ground.
"Lord, lord! If you want to kill me, please kill me Ling Chao!" Ling Chao knelt in front of Sun Ce.
"Diet is so cheap for you! I said before. Even if I was defeated, I had to help me bring Zhongmou back. How could you finally come back by yourself in the end?"
"Lord, you can't blame General Lu Meng for this, they are all the second son!"
To be continued...