Chapter 2531 Chu, Wu and Song divided into Lujiang three times, Sima Yi secretly helped Sun Quan


    Chapter 2528: Chu, Wu and Song divided Lujiang into three parts, Sima Yi secretly helped Sun Quan


    The fierce competition between Wu and Chu for Lujiang County is as fierce as that between Qin and Chu for Jiangling County, and Song and Ming dynasties for Guangling County.


    Jiangling County changed hands repeatedly between Qin and Chu, Guangling Army changed hands repeatedly between Song and Ming dynasties, and Lujiang County also changed hands repeatedly between Chu and Wu.


    Lujiang County originally belonged to Lujiang Prefect Lu Kang, but because Lu Kang''s brother Lu Yu and eldest son Lu Jun, all died in the hands of the Sun family, the Lu family, led by Lu Kang, hated Sun Jian to the core.


    Therefore, during the process of Sun Jian''s conquest of Jiangdong, Lujiang was also the county with the greatest resistance.


    No matter how Sun Jian persuaded him, Lu Kang said he was unwilling to surrender to his grandson.


    Later, Sun Jian successively seized the four counties of Wujun, Danyang, Kuaiji, and Yuzhang, as well as some areas in the southern part of Jiujiang County, and captured more than half of the county towns in Lujiang, and the momentum of unifying the east of Jiangdong was completed.


    Lu Kang knew that he was defeated by Sun Jian, so he simply led the trouble eastwards, leading his relatives such as Lu Ji, Lu You, Lu Xun, and the five southern counties in Lujiang that had not yet been captured by Sun Wu: Wan County, Shu County, Juchao, Xunyang, and Tongxiang, and directly surrendered to Liu Xiu, the Marquis of Chu at that time.


    Liu Xiu was naturally overjoyed when he learned about it. After all, the five counties surrendered, and they were five wealthy cities. This was a good thing that Liu Xiu, who had only had four counties in Jingnan at that time, had never encountered any good things, so naturally there was no reason to refuse.


    Liu Xiu did not hesitate and chose to accept Lu Kang''s surrender and the five counties in Lujiang, so he naturally had to bear the grudges between the Lu family and the Sun family.


    Lujiang is the western gateway to Jiangdong, and Sun Jian will never give up Lujiang.


    Therefore, afterwards, there were many major wars between Wu and Chu countries around the battle for Lujiang County, and each time they fought extremely fiercely, with each other''s victory or defeat.


    The most difficult time, even if King Liu Xiu of Chu personally led the army, he was still defeated by Sun Wu, and lost four cities, Wan County, Shu County, Juchao and Tongxiang, and only the last Xunyang City was left to support it.


    However, this crisis was finally resolved by Liu Xiu using strategy.


    At that time, Japanese pirates invaded the eastern coast, and Wujun and Kuaiji were robbed.


    Sun Jian sent Sun Quan to suppress the Japanese pirates in the rear, but Sun Quan was defeated by the Japanese pirates and had to withdraw some of the troops on the front line and transferred Sun Ce on the front line to suppress the Japanese pirates.


    After Liu Xiu learned about this, he provoked Shanyue from all over Jiangdong and launched a rebellion together, almost overthrowing the entire Wu Kingdom in one fell swoop, which forced Sun Jian to withdraw his troops from Lujiang and quell the Shanyue rebellion.


    After Sun Jian''s main army left, Liu Xiucai took back the three cities of Lujiang without any effort, leaving only Shuxian City that failed to recover.


    Shucheng was in charge, and Liu Xiu attacked several times, but not only failed to break through, but also lost his troops and generals. In desperation, he had to give up the strong attack for the time being and besieged the city first. After the attack scares the land of Qianxian and Lu''an in the north, it will not be too late to attack Shuxian.


    Sun Jian was busy suppressing the Shanyue rebellion and could not take care of Lujiang County at all. In order to prevent the northern part of Lujiang from being captured by Chu, he sent envoys to Shouchun to lobby for King Zhao Kuangyin of Song, and sent troops from the Jianghuai area to Lujiang. The Song and Wu countries joined forces to fight against the Chu army.


    The Jianghuai region, located north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, actually refers to Guangling County, Xuzhou, as well as Jiujiang County and Lujiang County in Yangzhou.


    But these three counties are all large counties, and the three counties together are larger than any state in the Central Plains.


    In addition, the Jianghuai region communicates between the north and the south, which is a place that military strategists must fight for, and its geographical location is extremely important.


    In addition, the Jianghuai region is a rich and fertile land with fertile soil and dense population, so it is divided separately and repeatedly fought for by the Song and Ming dynasties.


    At this time, the State of Song had occupied most of the Jianghuai area.


    Among the fourteen counties of Jiujiang County, the State of Song occupies eleven counties in the north, and the three counties in the south are owned by the State of Wu.


    Among the twelve counties of Guangling County, the Song and Ming dynasties occupied six counties in the west, while the Ming dynasties occupied six counties in the east.


    The Song State has already obtained half of the land of the three counties of Jianghuai. It is the well-deserved overlord of Jianghuai, and naturally wants to completely occupy the Jianghuai area.


    But the Ming Kingdom was too difficult. Even though the Song and Wei countries joined forces to launch the thirteen Central Plains Wars, they forcibly captured several counties in the Ming Kingdom, but they also paid an extremely painful price and failed to gain too much advantage.


    In contrast, after the weakening of the three Central Plains Wars, the Ming Dynasty actually merged with Qi directly. Not only did it not reduce at all, it was stronger than before.


    Faced with such a Ming country, even if Song launched a huge army, it would not have much benefit.


    In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty also bordered the three kingdoms of Wei, Qin and Wu.


    Qin is the overlord of the princes, so it would be nice if he didn''t take the initiative to attack himself. Song did not dare to provoke Qin at all.


    As for Wei, they are allies with Song, and their lips are dead and their teeth are cold.


    If either Song and Wei countries perish, the other cannot survive alone, so neither Wei nor Song will covet each other.


    The Song State borders four countries, and the Qin, Wei and Ming dynasties cannot be touched. The only direction of expansion is the only Lujiang County, which is also located in the Jianghuai area and belongs to the Wu State.


    For the State of Song, there are too many benefits to winning Lujiang County. It not only can dominate the entire Jianghuai River Basin, but also improve the defense of the capital Shouchun.


    Anfeng County in Lujiang County is only a hundred miles away from Shouchun, the Song capital.


    Although it is unlikely that the State of Wu will attack the State of Chu, which is also an ally before the State of Wu completely stabilizes Jiangdong and expels the State of Chu from Lujiang, it is indeed too close to its doorstep, and even the allies will make the State of Song unable to sleep.


    Although the State of Song decided to attack Lujiang, the State of Wu was an ally after all. If it directly tore up the alliance, it would be a bit too ugly, so we must find a good excuse to let the people in the world not gossip.


    For this reason, Zhao Kuangyin thought hard and never found a suitable reason, but he did not expect that Wu State took the initiative to send it to them.


    Zhao Kuangyin naturally refused Wu''s request to send troops without hesitation. The reason was that the Wu State gave too few benefits.


    Wu wanted to ask the State of Song to send troops to help Wu protect Lujiang, but he was only willing to pay food and money.


    What Zhao Kuangyin wanted was territory and population. Wu''s stingy approach obviously could not satisfy him.


    The State of Song refused to send troops, which naturally made the State of Wu very anxious. After all, the State of Wu was unable to support Lujiang at this time, and the defenders of Lujiang alone could not stop the Chu army at all. If this continues, the eight counties in the northern part of Lujiang would be owned by Chu.


    The Wu State also knew that Song State coveted Lujiang County, but compared to his dissatisfaction with Song State, the whole country hated Chu State, so he would rather be cheaper than Wu State. In the end, the State of Wu agreed to ced the three counties of Anfeng, Yulou and Yangquan in the northernmost part of Lujiang in exchange for the State of Song to send troops to Lujiang County.


    At this time, four of the eight counties in the northern part of Lujiang were captured by the Chu State, and the other three counties were ceded to the Song State by Wu State. In the northern part of Lujiang State, there was only one county left.


    After Zhao Kuangyin took over the three counties, he refused to send troops on the grounds of raising food and grass, and he did not send troops until the last county was captured by the State of Chu.


    The reason why Zhao Kuangyin did this was naturally to gain more territory. After all, after the territory of Wu was occupied by Chu, if he took it back, it would not be snatched from Wu, but from Chu, so naturally there would be no need to return it to Wu.


    In doing so, you don’t have to tear down the alliance with Wu, and you can expand your power. It is the best of both worlds.


    This time, Zhao Kuangyin sent troops to Lujiang, and a total of 100,000 troops were recruited, and they sent troops from Jiujiang and Runan respectively, and jointly attacked the Chu army in Lujiang.


    The 60,000 Song troops along Jiujiang were personally led by Zhao Kuangyin.


    The 40,000 Song troops in Runan were led by Zhao Guangyi.


    Liu Xiu was naturally shocked when he learned that the Song army was invading and it was an army of 100,000.


    The Chu State''s attack on Lujiang was just a partial army, how could it stop the 100,000-strong army of Song State?


    But Liu Xiu was naturally unwilling to give up the chassis in the northern part of Lujiang, so he sent envoys to negotiate with Zhao Kuangyin and added troops to the northern part of Lujiang.


    Zhao Kuangyin was determined to win Lujiang County, how could he be easily told to retreat by the Chu envoy?


    No matter what conditions Liu Xiu proposed, Zhao Kuangyin ignored them, and his target was Lujiang County.


    Although Liu Xiu sent more troops to the northern part of Lujiang and went to command the army personally, the troops on both sides were very different.


    After three consecutive cities were captured and nearly 10,000 troops were damaged, Liu Xiu realized that the strength of the enemy and us was very unwise to face it head-on, so he decided to voluntarily give up Lu''an and Qianxian County and cancel the siege of Shucheng. The entire army withdrew to the southern part of Lujiang and concentrated its troops to defend Juchao.


    Liu Xiu did this to surrender the eight counties in the northern part of Lujiang to the State of Song. However, if the State of Song wants to continue to conquer Lujiang, it must remove the nail in Shu County in order to continue to conquer the southern part of Lujiang.


    If the Song State really attacked Shucheng, it would be equivalent to taking the initiative to tear down the alliance with Wu State.


    If you don’t attack, you will not be able to attack and occupy the entire Lujiang County.


    I have to say that Liu Xiu''s move made Zhao Kuangyin uncomfortable. He really wanted Lujiang County, but he did not want to completely get involved in the Wu Kingdom unless he had no choice.


    In addition, the total number of troops in Lujiang of Chu and Wu was as large as 50,000 or 60,000.


    If the Song State forcibly occupy Lujiang regardless of everything, even if it wins in the end, it will probably be a miserable victory.


    Under the persuasion of Zhao Pu, Yan Xiang, Zhao Yong and others, Zhao Kuangyin decided to stop when he was about to do so and only occupied the eight counties in the northern part of Lujiang.


    As for the seven cities in the southern part of Lujiang River, let Chu and Wu fight for it. Anyway, the biggest benefit has been taken away by Song.


    After Sun Jian learned about it, although he was extremely dissatisfied with Zhao Kuangyin, he had no choice. After all, except for the three counties that were voluntarily ceded, the other five counties were all taken from the hands of the State of Chu.


    Wu State itself cannot protect the northern part of Lujiang. Is it not allowed Song State to capture it?


    Since then, Lujiang County has been divided into three parts, the eight counties in the north belong to the state of Song, the four counties in the southwest belong to the state of Chu, and the three counties in the southeast belong to the state of Wu.


    This time, Sun Ce sent troops to attack Chu, which was to send troops from Shu County and Yuzhang, marched together in two routes, and attacked the four southwest cities of Lujiang.


    The State of Chu took office as the prefect of Lujiang because Song Que. Faced with the several invasions of the Wu army, he took over Lujiang. One of them was Sun Wu, and he was promoted to several levels in succession.


    It is precisely because of such a record that Song Que was qualified to become the leader of Deng Yu''s left-wing army in this Northern Expedition.


    After Song Que was transferred, the person who took over his position was Guo Ziyi.


    Guo Ziyi had just been promoted to the prefect of Lujiang, but he had not yet been able to completely control the four southwest counties of Lujiang. Sun Ce''s 80,000 Wu troops came over, and he was definitely the most unlucky prefect of Lujiang in Chu.


    For Guo Ziyi, this time the Wu army attacked was undoubtedly a great challenge, but the generals came to block the water and soil, so he could only do his best to do his best within his ability.


    Guo Ziyi had only 20,000 troops in his hands. Facing Sun Ce''s aggressive army of 80,000, he was unable to attack at all. He could only defend this path and asked Liu Xiu of Jiangxia at the same time.


    As a result, the war broke out, and the important town of Tongxiang was lost, and the guard Guo Tao was beheaded by Sun Ce.


    On the sixth day, Juchao lost.


    The general of Juchao, Wu Zhiqi, blocked the joint efforts of the three generals Li Hu, Li Lu and Li Yang, but if he added Sun Ce, he was still no match.


    After Juchao fell, Wu Zhiqi had to lead the remaining troops to break through and retreat to Wan County, but Guo Ziyi asked him to give up Wan County and concentrate his troops to defend Xunyang.


    After Guo Ziyi and Wuzhiqi merged, they concentrated their troops to defend Xunyang City, while Sun Ce led two large armies along the water route to Xunyang.


    The Wu army won consecutive victories. After only ten days of war, it broke through three strong cities and was about to completely capture the southern part of Lujiang. The morale naturally rose.


    After Sun Ce won the battle, the whole country of Wu was very happy, but the only one was Sun Quan, who was complicated to carry food and grass.


    Sun Quan has always been dissatisfied with his elder brother Sun Ce and wants to replace him. If Sun Ce successfully attacked Wu, his ambitions will never be realized again.


    At this time, in Sun Quan''s tent, a man in black was slowly saying to Sun Quan: "Second Young Master, how are you thinking? If you continue to hesitate, the position of King Wu will be completely out of your reach."


    And he is Sima Yi, who has been missing for a long time.


    (This chapter ends)