Chapter 17 For profit, both mice and cats can stop
Gan Ning still did not accept the position vacated by Guan Suo. He felt that he had not accomplished anything and owed a huge favor to the Guan family, so he could not take the upper position.
According to his original intention, he wanted to perform meritorious service in the future, and then ask Guan Yu to appoint him according to his meritorious service.
Guan Yu arranged for men to guard the beacon tower and led his army back to Jiangling.
Half of the Wu soldiers' captives were sent to Tianzhong's military garrison, and the other half were incorporated into the ranks of infantry archers.
Guan Yu ordered Ma Liang to write the whole story of the war into a memorial and report it to the King of Hanzhong, explaining that Cao Wei had added a large number of troops and that Soochow was causing trouble behind the scenes and failed to capture Xiangyang.
He suffered heavy losses and was promoted to general for fighting against rebellion based on his merit.
Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, held a banquet in Chengdu to celebrate the great achievements of Guan Yu and his son.
Because the Guan family and his son simultaneously contained a large number of Cao Jun and Soochow forces on the front line, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Liu Feng and others easily completed the task of consolidating the Hanzhong defense line and the Shangyong defense line. Liu Bei's group's strength increased rapidly.
skyrocketing.
Liu Bei sent Sima Feishi from the front of the state as an envoy to formally carry the letter of appointment and official seal to Jingzhou to commend Guan Yu, Guan Suo and others.
"Guan Yu, the prefect of Xiangyang, commanded the territory well and kept the people safe... His son Guan Suo killed 50,000 Wu thieves, which was a great achievement... On the order of the King of Hanzhong, Guan Suo was given the seal of general to defeat the rebels and a reward of 100 million..."
Guan Suo is the fifth "billionaire" of the Shu Han regime.
The first four are Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. They assisted Liu Bei and made him grow from a rootless weed into a towering tree. When Liu Bei became a man, he rewarded these cronies even before his death.
The fifth person to receive such treatment was Guan Yu's son. There is no need to elaborate on how proud Guan Yu was.
The Guan family and his son held a large banquet in Jingzhou to entertain Fei Shi.
The usual wheat rice, bean rice, and steamed cakes cannot be served on this occasion. The dinner is full of roasted suckling pig, fried fish with black bean sauce, boiled pork liver, pickled lamb, cold cuts of chicken with sauce, kumiss, and donkey.
Dried meat, soy sauce tripe, and boiled lamb are all famous dishes in Jingxiang.
On the Jingzhou side, people were drinking and drinking and enjoying themselves endlessly. On the Soochow side, Sun Quan had been ill for many days.
In order to ensure that he captured Jingzhou and killed Guan Yu, he gave Lu Meng all elite soldiers.
Those soldiers, who had fought with the Sun family for twenty years and served three generations of lords, were left to him by his father Sun Shu and his eldest brother Sun Ce.
Sun Quan was ambitious and wanted to conquer the world, and his greatest reliance was on having 50,000 elite soldiers at his disposal.
Now Guansuo has thrown his ambition into the toilet...
No matter how well behaved Sun Quan was, he was still so angry that he vomited blood.
Now he can't eat during the day and can't sleep at night. He hastily recruited farmers who don't know martial arts to guard Chaisang, Jianye and other places, for fear that Wei and Shu will come to take advantage of him.
Although the Wei State lost General Pang De and the elite soldiers of the Seventh Army, and Yu Jin also went to work under Guan Yu, but even if the Wei State could not do anything to Guan Yu, how difficult would it be to clean up Sun Quan's frontline troops? Especially when Sun's family was seriously injured and had not recovered.
situation?
King Cao Cao of Wei ordered General Xu Huang, General Zhu Ling and others to attack Jiangxia. Jiangxia sent a flurry of documents, threatening him several times, but Sun Quan had no troops to save him.
Cao's army robbed all the food outside Jiangxia City that could be robbed.
All the chickens, ducks, and even field mice from ordinary people's homes were snatched away...
The spies of Wei and Guan Yu are not vegetarians either.
Lujiang County is adjacent to Jiangxia County, but they dare not separate their troops to rescue them for fear of being attacked by Cao's army.
Guan Yu decisively seized this rare opportunity in a thousand years, ordered Guan Ping and Ma Liang to guard the base camp, and led Guan Suo, Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, Fan Miao, Chen Feng and other generals to attack Lujiang.
He did not bring the famous general Gan Ning with him.
Originally, Guan Ping had suggested to him: "Father! Gan Ning is familiar with Soochow's military, and he can be asked to help our army attack Wu!"
Guan Yu did not answer, but asked habitually: "Lao San, what is your opinion?"
Not only Guan Yu, many people now habitually use Guan Suo as a military advisor.
Anyway, Guan Yu didn't have any military advisors.
Originally, Xu Shu and Pang Tong, the two military advisors, were the people Guan Yu respected and trusted the most. Unfortunately, Xu Shu was deceived by Lao Cao, and Pang Tong died.
Guan Suo thought for a while and said, "That's inappropriate."
Guan Ping asked in confusion: "Brother, why is this?"
Guan Suo said: "Gan Ning was favored by Sun Quan and allowed him to attack Wu. Isn't this tantamount to torturing him? It would be better not to let him have a chance to fight against the Wu people at all, and transfer him to the Western Front to guard against the Cao family.
, it would be better to let Yu Jin lead the troops to defend the Sun family."
Ma Liang said: "Young Master's words are correct!"
Guan Yu became more and more satisfied with his youngest son. He narrowed his red eyes and twirled his long beard and said: "Boss, your martial arts skills are better than the third brother, but in terms of strategy, you really need to learn from him."
"Father!" Guan Ping was not jealous of his younger brother, but instead felt proud to have such a powerful younger brother.
Guan Yu's army first sent Liao Hua and Fan Nian to blockade Lukou Port, blocking the way out for Chaisang's troops.
Then he led a large army to surprise the rear of Lujiang County!
There is no need to capture this place because it cannot defend itself against Cao Jun's attack.
Guan Yu's army committed no crime with Minqiu. After killing all the garrison at the dock and landing, they seized the grain from the military fields behind the Lujiang River and even emptied the warehouses for him.
The Lujiang garrison was all on the front line to defend Cao's army, and the rear was extremely weak. The few garrison troops were not enough for Guan Yu to kill.
Lujiang County is located on the front line of Soochow. There are wars all year round, and the people are miserable.
Guan Yu ordered the soldiers to migrate to Jingzhou. When the people heard that General Guan and his son were coming, they were all willing to follow them.
At least General Guan's territory is stable and he can stay away from the disaster of war.
Guan Yu moved away more than 4,000 households.
When leading the people to withdraw from Lujiang, they encountered the Cao family's troops who were out collecting grain. Although there were many of them, the other general took the initiative to restrain his men and not to conflict with General Guan!
When the two armies were resting in the stronghold five miles apart, Guan Suo saw an eagle flying by. He thought to himself that my martial arts value has improved. High martial arts has bonuses for various weapons. I was feeling hungry for a while, so I picked up my bow and arrow and shot the eagle. One strike
And hit!
The eagle landed at the headquarters of Wei Army General Yin Shu. Yin Shu actually sent soldiers to carry the eagle to Guan Yu's camp and return the favor!
He shouted from afar: "General Guan! The prey captured by your army has been brought back to you by this villain. General Guan, please don't misunderstand me and don't let go of your arrows!"
The words must be explained in advance, otherwise Guan Yu will shoot indiscriminately without asking any questions, and that will be the end of the matter.
Seeing that he was so respectful and that he was alone, Guan Yu thought that he could not do any tricks or make any big waves, so he did not order the arrows to be fired.
When the soldier saw that Guan Yu was willing to listen to him, he took a few steps forward, knelt down and said, "The arrow came from the direction of your army. Although the prey fell into my camp, General Yin, General Yin did not want to take it without permission, so he ordered the villain to return it."
Your army!"
Guan Yu saw that Cao Jun was so afraid of him and respected him, so he laughed and said, "Thank you very much. This prey was shot by my son Guan Suo!"
Since this little soldier was sent as an envoy by his superior, he was a clever person. He shouted: "It turns out that he is the third son of the king. How disrespectful and disrespectful! The third son defeated the Wu thieves in a battle and became famous all over the world. Everyone knows about it.
People don’t know!”
Guan Yu was addicted to flattery and wanted to be photographed every day.
This joy made people pick up the eagle and send the envoy back to the camp.
Now was the time when Sun Quan's family business was riddled with holes. Cao Liu tacitly seized this perfect opportunity to snatch his territory and population.
This is not surprising.
But what surprised Guan Suo the most was that the King of Hanzhong wanted to support the Han, and the Cao family wanted to usurp the Han. Their routes were different. They were natural enemies and could never become allies.
But the general of the Cao family did not launch an attack when facing his biggest enemy, the Liu family army!
If this matter had not been authorized by King Cao Cao of Wei, it would have been because that General Yin had had enough!
In order to help their lords achieve the goal of unifying the world, both armies took advantage of the geographical convenience to attack the Sun family's territory closest to them.
In the process, they reached an amazing tacit understanding!
Wei and Shu are not allies and will never be allies.
However, General Cao's army moved the Jiangxia population to Xuchang, and Guan Yu did not interfere.
Guan Yu moved the population of Lujiang to Jingzhou, but Cao Jun did not interfere.
From the moment Lu Meng's head fell to the ground and he successfully helped his father defend Jingzhou, Guan Suo was thinking, how will the history of the Three Kingdoms, which was changed by me alone, continue?
When I was a child, I read Water Margin, and the greatest pleasure was to see two people disagreeing with each other, having a fierce fight, and after the fight, they cherished each other and became friends of life and death.
And now back in the Three Kingdoms era, big guys like Cao Cao and Sun Quan really taught him a lesson.
No matter what kind of alliance they had in the past, even if they were married to each other, as long as there is a conflict of interest, they will fall out faster than turning over a book!
For the sake of profit, Sun and Liu allied themselves to fight against Cao Cao and achieved a glorious victory in the Battle of Chibi.
For the sake of profit, Cao and Sun allied themselves to stab Guan Yu.
For the sake of interests, Cao and Liu, such sworn and irreconcilable military groups, could actually coexist peacefully face to face!
Asking what interests are in this world is like asking for life and death...
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1 The famous dishes of the Han Dynasty make people salivate just by hearing the names of the dishes. For the sake of compactness, I have not written all of them. Interested book friends can read this information:
Nowadays, cooked food is everywhere, and the market is full of miscellaneous food. The work is lazy, and the food must be interesting. Dolphins and leek eggs, dogs and horses are broken, fish are fried and their livers are cut, sheep are drowned in cold chickens, horse cheese wine is brewed, and stomach breasts and gizzards are eaten.