Sun Ce's personnel adjustment draft was opposed, some were more tactful and some were more direct.

The focus of doubts is the people of Ruying. Xinpi, Chen Dao, and Xun Yu, who is in charge of Guanzhong, are all from Ruying.

Among them, Chen Dao suffered the most doubts. Some people think from a tactical perspective that although the Arctic cavalry has strong attack power, speed and endurance, they may not have an advantage in fighting against the Xianbei people who come and go like the wind. Some people think from a personnel perspective that Chen Dao has just arrived in northern Xinjiang and then moved to Liangzhou, which may not be able to adapt to the local climate and environment. It is better to transfer Ma Chao back to Liangzhou, even if it is transferred to Han Dang, it is more suitable than Chen Dao.

After all, Han Dang once fought with Sun Jian in Xiliang.

Some people think that there is no need to mobilize troops. Liangzhou has three governors, Yumen, Jincheng and Wuwei, with a total force of nearly 20,000 cavalry. Even if the Xianbei people recover their vitality, they cannot go deep into the hinterland of Liangzhou. At most, Dunhuang is in, and Jiuquan will be affected. Send a few generals with both civil and military skills to go there, and even Lu Su, the Grand Governor of Anxi, does not need to move to Liangzhou. Guanzhong was settled at the beginning and war was about to begin in Hanzhong, so the generals still needed to guard it.

The reasons are all very grand, but Sun Ce is too familiar with the way these people speak, and easily hears the struggle for the spirit behind reason. Compared with the rise of the generals of Ruying represented by Xun Yu, Chen Dao and Lu Meng, the rise of Ruying military generals represented by Lu Meng, is even more terrifying to the power of the Ruying faction and subconsciously resist.

The people of Ruying were not willing to be outdone and fought back, but Guo Jia, who was the representative of Ruying, did not express any opinions, and their voices always seemed to be insufficient. Ju Su, Liu Ye, and Guo Yuan didn't say much, and looked like they were doing their business and watching coldly.

Seeing these ministers’ intrigues, it is definitely false that Sun Ce cannot say that he is angry. It is not necessarily true that he is too anxious. Maintaining the relative balance between different factions in the court is a rationality, and it is impossible for any group to be harmonious, with differences or struggles. This is normal.

The matters in Liangzhou cannot be solved in one or two days, so they can discuss it slowly. With Lu Su in Guanzhong, Longguan can be used to provide reinforcements at any time, and nothing major happens.

However, the war to capture Zigui County cannot be delayed anymore. The flood season is approaching and the rainfall increases, and every day it delays increases one point of risk.

Sun Quan also realized this danger and asked for battle several times. He was dissatisfied with the Military Advisory Office and the Military Planning Office keen on arguing about the matter in Liangzhou, believing that they put the cart before the horse and did not distinguish between importance. The Military Advisory Office was angry. A young intern named Hu Zhi joined the army and criticized Sun Quan for the combat plan submitted by him, saying that his plan was a reckless one and had no tactics at all. He suggested that he be given a good-level B-level evaluation.

This is an achievement that the Military Advisory Office has never achieved since its evaluation system. If it is a little worse, then it will be a quarantine.

Sun Quan was furious and asked Hu Zhi on the spot, "In your opinion, how to attack is the tactic?"

Hu Zhi said that now is not a good time to attack the city, and the best tactic is not to attack. When the rainy season passes, cut off the streams outside Zigui City and force the city to cut off water. At most, Zigui will be reduced.

Sun Quan laughed in anger and was too lazy to argue with him, so he directly asked Sun Ce to complain.

After listening to Sun Quan's story, Sun Ce was also a little surprised and asked Hu Zhi to ask in person. After a while, Ju Su came in, followed by a young army officer. Ju Su handed over the comment report. When Sun Ce saw that the above was a high-level C. Although it was not a good-level B. The evaluation was not high-level C. Apart from that, Ju Su did not write his opinion, but just signed the name.

Sun Ce put down the review report and looked at the young man. "Are you Hu Zhi?"

Hu Zhi was young and not tall. He looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old. He had not yet grown a beard and had only a layer of hair on his lips. He was excited just now and regretted it after saying that. Now he was called to the emperor, his face was pale and his legs were weak. He just forced himself to hold on and did not kneel down. Sun Ce asked, and he subconsciously bowed his hand, responding with a hoarse voice.

Sun Ce smiled. "It seems that the Military Administrative Office was very quarreling just now, and his voice was hoarse. Come on, give me wine. Oh, how old are you? Are you eighteen?"

Seeing that Sun Ce was kind and not angry, Hu Zhi relaxed a little. "I took the liberty and dared to tell Your Majesty that I am tender, but I look young, but I am already twenty years old and can drink."

Sun Ce laughed and ordered someone to give him wine. Hu Zhi's eyes glowed, and his eyes followed Ling Tong, who was going to serve the wine. He couldn't help but lick his lips, drooling. Ju Su saw it clearly, coughed, and shouted, "Your Majesty, you must not be arrogant."

"Here." Hu Zhi quickly agreed and withdrew his gaze.

Ju Su smiled bitterly and said, "This son is not old, but he has a good wine. I was afraid he had drunk too much yesterday, but today he is arrogant and disrespectful to the King of Changsha. I also asked the King of Changsha to be generous and not to bother with him."

Sun Quan smiled reluctantly and said, "How dare you?"

Sun Ce smiled. "So he is a drunkard."

Hu Zhi replied, "Your Majesty, the drunkard is the name of my good friend Jiang Zitong, and I dare not use it."

Sun Ce frowned. "Who?"

"My good friend, Jiang Ji and Jiang Zitong, is known as a drunkard."

Sun Ce looked at Hu Zhi again, and he remembered who this person was. This young army member who looked tender was not an ordinary person. No wonder he dared to speak rudely and blame Sun Quan's plan.

Although Sun Quan's plan is not useless, to be fair, it does not have any highlights, at most it is qualified. Good grade B is not enough, but the best grade is not enough. The best grade C is in the report.

Ling Tong received the wine and gave Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and Ju Su a glass of each, and finally gave Hu Zhi. Hu Zhi took the wine and drank it all in one go, smacking his lips with an unfulfilled feeling. Seeing this, Sun Ce couldn't help laughing.

"Tell me your reasons. Well said, I also rewarded you with this glass of wine. I didn't say it well, this is the last time you spoke at the Military Advisory Office."

"Yes!" After a glass of wine, Hu Zhi miraculously calmed down and bowed calmly. "Your Majesty, although Zigui is near the river, it is inconvenient to get water. He relies heavily on the two streams that originate from Woniu Mountain outside the city. If it is in the autumn and winter seasons when there is little rain, as long as the two streams are cut off, the city will be cut off. If there is no water, it is more difficult than having no food. If there is no day out, the city will collapse. Now it is early summer, and the rain is quite strong. Even if the streams outside the city are cut off, there will be ponds in the city, or if the pottery pots and pottery pots are used to collect rainwater, it can solve the problem and support it for a few days."

Sun Quan couldn't help but retort: ​​"Even if it doesn't rain, is there no well water available in the city?"

Hu Zhi glanced at Sun Quan. "The king didn't know that there were more stones and less soil in Zigui, and there were stubborn stones several feet under his feet, so he could not dig a well. If not, how could Zigui rely on the stream outside the city?" He paused and couldn't help but add another sentence. "Did the king ignore the stone walls on both sides of the river?"

Sun Quan was thinking while sipping wine. When he heard Hu Zhi's words, he was furious and rose up, and most of the wine in his hand was spilled. If Sun Ce had not been present, he would have poured it directly on Hu Zhi's face.

Hu Zhi looked at Sun Quan who was running away, shrank his neck and said nothing.

Sun Quan also realized that he had lost his composure and regretted it. He looked at Sun Ce with guilt.

Sun Ce remained silent. "Hu Zhi, according to your opinion, how should we attack the city?"

Hu Zhi grunted twice. "If you have to attack, there is no other way to imagine except for a strong attack. However, if you can put a few stone throwers on Woniu Mountain, set up some shooting platforms, use iron balls and heavy crossbows to capture the heart, disrupt the formation, and attack forward and backward, it may be helpful."

Sun Quan's eyes lit up. He wanted to praise him, but when he said something, he swallowed it back.

Sun Ce nodded and said to Ju Su: "Your Majesty, this plan is feasible."

Ju Shu smiled and said, "Your Majesty said it is feasible, so it is naturally feasible. Although it is not of great benefit, it will also be of little help."

Sun Ce turned around and took the pen, signed the review report, handed it back to Ju Su, and said to Sun Quan: "Zhong Mou, go and prepare." He picked up the wine glass beside him and drank it all in one go.

Sun Quan received the order and turned around to leave the tent. Standing outside the tent, he raised his head, looked at the steep cliffs in the distance, and secretly regretted. There were so many mountains in front of him, why didn't he notice that Bai Bai was teased by the man, but in front of the emperor's brother.

Hu Zhi followed him out of the tent. Seeing that Sun Quan was still standing at the door, he didn't dare to talk too much, so he quietly slipped away against the edge of the tent.

In the account, Sun Ce and Ju Su sat opposite each other, looked at the signed review report on the case, and shook their head helplessly.

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Sun Ce adopted Hu Zhi's opinion and ordered people to build two platforms on the slope of Woniu Mountain in the east of the city, each of which was equipped with a stone thrower and two heavy crossbows.

Zigui County was built against the mountain, just like a gourd with its mouth towards the gourd of Woniu Mountain. The county temple was in the northeast corner of the city. After these two platforms were built, they were condescending and directly threatened the county temple, causing huge panic in the city.

Wenbu sent people out of the city to compete for the commanding heights and fought with Lou Gui's troops.

Although Hu Zhi's suggestion is of great significance and limited practical effect, it is a great bonus for Lou Gui. Lou Gui originally thought that he was just standing on the hillside to watch the show, at most letting the crossbow and arrow shoot some arrows to help the momentum. Now he found that there is still a possibility of competing for success, so how could Wen Bu succeed?

After several competitions, Wenbu lost more than 200 people, and was almost defeated by Lou Gui, who took advantage of the situation to fight back and snatched into the city. He did not dare to try again, so he had to let his subordinates be careful, and he kept his armor and shield away from walking against the city wall, so that he would not be seen by Wu Jun archers on the hillside.

Sun Quan was even more anxious when Lou Gui stole the limelight.

The battle to attack Zigui finally started. The tower ship carrying stone throwers and heavy crossbows sailed into Jiangwan, heading straight to the city of Zigui, and launched a cover-like attack. The iron balls and heavy arrows fell like raindrops, instantly smashing the city and the houses under the city wall into ruins. Even the city wall made of bluestone was trembling, and the stone slabs were smashed and cracked, and the sound of smashing was endless, as if people could see cracks spreading and breeding on the stone slabs.

The stone thrower and heavy crossbow on the hillside also launched an attack, attacking from east to west, and the entire Zigui City was within the range of the Wu army. The defenders in the city had nowhere to escape, and there were heavy casualties, so they could not organize an effective counterattack.

It took nearly a month to prepare before the war, but it only took half a day to attack. From the moment of the beginning, the victory or defeat was decided.

As if for the sake of demonstration, the Wu army lasted nearly half an hour of attack and almost flattened the entire Zigui City. When Sun Quan led his troops into the city, there was no complete house in Zigui City except the city wall. Wenbu, Deng Ji and others were huddled in the corner of the city wall and shivered. Many people were already scared and incontinent, with shit and urine flowing, and the smell of smell was soaked in the sky.

Seeing this scene, Chen Mi couldn't help but chill, and her legs were cold.

Generals such as Wenbu and Deng Kai were captured, their property was confiscated, and the men and women in the family were not officials and slaves. The men were assigned to work as laborers in the baggage camp, and the women were responsible for cooking and washing clothes. Among them, those with outstanding looks would be selected by the generals to serve. After all, those who could bring their families to the army were individuals. Most generals separated for many years, and it was normal for them to release their physical needs.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Sun Ce picked some people from the prisoners and asked them to go to Danyang City and Kui City to persuade them to surrender.

Chen Mi volunteered to go to Danyang City to persuade Lou Fa to surrender.

Lou Fa surrendered to the city.

Soon, Liu He, the garrison of Kuicheng, also surrendered.

The entire Zigui County was pacified.

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Sun Ce was rewarded by merits and promoted Sun Quan to the General of the Central Army to the Western Expedition. He ruled the Changsha County and State 2,000 soldiers, Chen Mi and Loufa's troops surrendered more than a thousand soldiers, plus five hundred troops, a total of more than 3,700 people and more than 30 ships, and attacked Wu County in the west.

On the day when Sun Quan set off, Sun Ce set up a wine to see him off.

Sun Ce held the wine glass, looked up at the blue sky that was squeezed into a line by the green mountains on both sides, looked down at the turbulent river water on the side of the ship, sighed, stretched out his arm, and slowly poured the wine in the glass into the river.

"This cup, to my father."

In an instant, Sun Quan was a little distracted, and then he realized again and poured the wine in his glass into the river. "I hope my father's spirit in heaven will bless me to go here, break Wu County, and take Yizhou, so as to live up to the emperor's entrusted."

Sun Ce filled another cup and signaled to Sun Quan. "This cup is to respect brothers. You are brothers at home and rulers outside. From now on, you are the general of the Central Army who commanded the Western Expedition. I can no longer protect you. There are rewards for victory, defeat and punishment, and everything has military laws. I hope you can remember your father's teachings, be cautious, be like Shubi and Shangxiang, be a real famous general."

"Thank you, Brother Huang." Sun Quan raised his glass with both hands, bowed and drank the wine in the glass. "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Sun Ce also drank all the wine and turned to Chen Mi and others. "Although you have surrendered, your family is still in Chengdu, there are many people who oppose you and others to fight. It was my brother, King Changsha, who strongly advised you to accompany you. I hope you will not let you down King Changsha, otherwise even if you escape to the ends of the world, I will never let you go."

He raised his glass. "Please drink this glass all over. On the day of triumphal, I will hold another banquet to celebrate the merits of you."

A servant brought wine, Chen Mi and Lou Fa looked at each other, took the wine glass in his hand, bowed to salute. "I wish to serve Your Majesty as a dog and horse, and I wish to follow the King of Changsha to kill the generals and seize the flag and pacify Yizhou."

After drinking, Sun Ce raised his hand. "Go."

Sun Quan and others bowed and bowed again, got off the stairs, took a small boat, and went to their respective warships. Chen Mi and Lou Fa each had hundreds of people. They were lieutenants under Sun Quan's command, each with a stairs and a stairs, and they stopped in the distance.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Mi's warship sailed past Sun Ce's building ship first. Then, Sun Quan's ship also sailed over, raised his flag, and said goodbye to Sun Ce. Then he raised his sails and drums, rolled up snow-white waves, and walked against the current.

Sun Ce stood on the boat, watching Sun Quan's sail shadow gradually fading away, and his eyes gradually became solemn.

When you part, are you still brothers when you see each other?
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