This chapter was written in a hurry. I have been working all day today, and I have to visit the store at night. I don’t have much time to write. I think I will have more time tomorrow, so I will try to write more and wait to make up for it the day after tomorrow. In short, I will update slowly.

Stable again, sorry...)

Lujiang, Shu County.

After breaking up with Chen Wen and Zhou Xin, Sun Ce suffered the biggest blow since he established himself in the southeast. But as the saying goes, you can't get the sharpest sword without sharpening it. Today's Sun Ce is getting better and better, both in appearance and in thought.

The more mature he becomes, the more he looks like the leader of an army or even a prince.

Even his two so-called sworn brothers, Qu A and Tai Shi Ci, are no longer as comfortable in front of him as they were before. This is not Sun Ce's deliberate alienation, but his aura is too strong, suppressing them both.

Well, even if Sun Ce relied solely on his personal strength, he still couldn't defeat any of them.

In the past few months, the southeast side, especially Yangzhou, has been experiencing sudden changes, with one wave rising after another. Sun Ce's changes mostly came from this.

First of all, the entanglement between Sun Ce and Chen Wen finally came to an end. After the cracks appeared in their once-close allies, the conflict quickly expanded. Their final decisive battle was even more tragic than the one with Yuan Shu, their great enemy. Both sides wanted to

Paying a heavy price

At the price of pain, Sun Ce, who had originally gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses, finally lost most of them in this battle, and Chen Wen even lost all his soldiers and horses, and Yuan Shu took the opportunity to occupy a lot of the land under his command.

After that, the rest was naturally taken into consideration by Sun Ce.

However, in addition to harvesting the land, population and some spoils of war, Sun Ce also gained a heavily reduced army. After being tempered by the war, their combat effectiveness was even higher.

Recruits have always been a headache for generals who are good at using troops. Originally, Sun Ce's subordinates could not be regarded as recruits. After all, they had fought against Yuan Shu many times before, but never before did they test them like this, and never fought like this.

As difficult as it was, just like Sun Ce himself, his army also underwent a transformation and took on a new look, and was deeply influenced by him. It gradually developed a unique temperament.

What's even more fortunate is that Yuan Shu did not take the opportunity to attack either of them during this period. It's not that he didn't want to reap the benefits. That should have been the main reason why he allowed the two sides to fight and even secretly fueled the flames many times. Unfortunately, this

Sometimes he himself was entangled and basically couldn't get away.

Wu Jun, located in the east of Yangzhou, was not completely controlled by Yuan Shu. When he was successively restrained by the alliance of Sun Ce and Chen Wen and the alliance of Cao and Sun, Wang Lang and others here were already ready to make a move. It was finally time to break out.

Yuan Shu launched a war against Wang Lang and Liu Yao, but he did not expect that another prince would be involved, Xuzhou Cao Cao, who had secretly formed an alliance with Liu Yao. In fact, Cao Cao had great intentions for Yangzhou, and helping Liu Yao was just an excuse.

, although the latter knew it but could do nothing about it, not to mention that even without him, Cao Cao seemed to have enough reasons to get involved in the current situation in Yangzhou. Who knew that his in-law Sun Ce was in Yangzhou at this time and the situation was not very good.

It's just that even if it was helpful before, Sun Ce was in a good situation at the time and was always wary of him, so he didn't have many opportunities to really intervene. Now this is a perfect opportunity, and naturally he doesn't want to.

Will let it go.

If the current Lu Bu wants to take over Hebei, he is a bit unscrupulous, then the current Cao Cao has stabilized his foothold in Xuzhou, and even occupied a small half of the eastern Yanzhou territory. In a short period of time, he has formed a larger

Lu Bu still needs to stabilize his power

, this is not only the ability of him and his group of people, but also has something to do with geography. Speaking of Xuzhou, he inherited the good man Tao Qian's influence. If you really want to say that the situation is only half of Yanzhou, it is not as good as Lu Bu's.

Dang, the two counties of Taiyuan and the three counties of Yanmen are big places.

As for Sun Ce, due to various reasons, he only has less than two counties in his hands now, but if you think about it, in the beginning, besides the two generals from his hometown, he only had two sworn brothers, but now he has a lot of momentum.

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Sun Ce's name has long been in the eyes of the heads of major forces in the world, and no one will look down upon this underachiever who has already become one of them at the age of seventeen.

The generals paid more attention to them. The reputation of the Three Tigers of Lujiang was no mere bragging. As the eldest among them, Qu'a, who also had the most impressive record, was directly ranked third in Xu Shao's ranking of generals. Taishi Ci and Sun Ce were both ranked in the top ten.

, it can be said that it was famous for a while.

However, Sun Ce, who is becoming more and more mature, is no longer the young man who is complacent because of his small fame and achievements. Not only does he look more and more calm in appearance, but especially after growing a beard, his whole person has a youthful look.

He has a calm temperament besides being domineering, which is a good thing for him and the small force he is at the helm of.

At this time, Sun Ce was conversing with people in the living room of his residence, drinking fine wine and delicacies. However, the two parties involved in this conversation did not seem to be very interested. Otherwise, the topic of their conversation was mostly focused on one person.

On the body, this is also the reason.

This person is Lu Bu. Sun Ce will never forget this person. It was Lu Bu who shot his father and made him bear a burden at a young age that he should not have shouldered so early. It was also he who killed himself.

He regards him as his uncle and is a loyal family general Han Dang. Although he has now made his own way with his own efforts and the help of Qu A and others, he and Lu Bu have long been destined to live in a life-and-death situation forever.

It won't change.

The reason why Lu Bu was mentioned this time was because news about him came, and not through any other channel, but through the circle called Jianghu.

Sun Ce is also a member of Young Ren Xia. He has been in contact with this kind of people for a long time. He himself is extremely loyal and naturally gets along well with these kind-hearted people. After he settles down here, he will interact with those people he once interacted with.

We got on the line again, but this time it was no longer just a hospitable friendship among young people, but also the idea of ​​obtaining another source of information through them.

This time he heard those people talking about a major event that had happened in Bingzhou in the north that caused a sensation in that circle, and one of the protagonists of this incident was strictly not counted as Lu Bu in that circle. This made him remember

A profound name.

"Yu doesn't know much about Lu Fengxian, but even far away from the north and in Bingzhou, you can still hear a lot of news about him, which makes Yu quite interested in him."

The person who spoke was Zhou Yu, who was the nephew of the Zhou Shang clan, the governor of Danyang. Originally, the governor of Danyang was Zhou Xin, who was also a member of the Zhou clan. However, because he followed Chen Wen, Chen Wen was defeated and died in a decisive battle with Sun Ce.

Zhou Xin then secretly communicated with Yuan Shu, if not

Yuan Shu was too busy taking care of himself, and he was afraid that Danyang County, which had been divided by Yuan Shu, would fall into Yuan Shu's hands at this time. At this time, Huang Gai, who was both rough and subtle, thought of a person, so he offered advice to Sun Ce and secretly contacted Danyang.

Zhou Shang, who was in charge of the prefecture in the county at that time.

Zhou Shang and Sun Ce did not know each other this time, but the Zhou family and the Sun family behind him were somewhat involved. When Sun Jian led the army together with other sixteen princes to attack Dong Zhuo, his wife, second son Sun Quan and other family members
Chapter completed!