Chapter 3 Southern Expedition Sun En 1

When I met Liu prison for the first time, I was very excited. Although I had seen him several times before, my position was low at that time and there was no chance to get close at all. After becoming Sun Wuji's Sima, I have never seen him again. After all, our garrison is in Jingkou, and Liu Laozhi's garrison is in Guangling. Although it is not far away, the exchanges between the two armies are getting less and less.

The famous general of the Battle of Yushui has a nickname in the army - "Red-faced General". His face is purple, and he looks powerful at a glance. Even in the crowd is very conspicuous. No wonder among Fu Jian's soldiers, it is said that there is a "red-faced god of war" in the Jin army to help fight, otherwise dozens of times more than the enemy's strength could not collapse in an instant.

"Is Liu Deyu and Liu Sima at the bottom?" Liu Laozhi asked softly when he saw me.

It's hard to imagine such a heroic general speaking so softly. Later, when he saw his son Liu Jingxuan, he found that such a beautiful person had a naturally loud voice. Did God know that Liu Laozhi's voice was wrong and deliberately gave the correct allocation to his son as compensation?

I couldn't help laughing and replied, "The last general is Sima Liuyu under the account of General Sun Wuji."

"Good! I have been waiting for you for a long time. Sun Wu is finally my comrade-in-arms for many years, and the person he recommended is certainly good. He has also mentioned to me many times before that you are quite knowledgeable and a rare general. It's a pity not to fight with the army. This time, Sun En is in the south, and I hope Deyu can help me. However, our army already has the position of Sima, so we have to condescend to join the army temporarily. What do you think? He still speaks very gently.

I knew about joining the army in Liu Prison before I came, so I didn't mind. However, listening to Liu Laozhi's words about gaining military achievements, I suddenly had a feeling of meeting a bosom friend. Perhaps as Liulao said, only under his command can I give full play to my talents and rank as a general with combat merit.

I said, "It is the duty of soldiers to kill the enemy in the last battle. It's Liu Yu's blessing to be able to serve General Daojian.

"I heard that Deyu's ancestor is the king of Chu Yuan?"

I didn't expect Liu Zhenzhi to ask such a question at the first meeting. I don't know how to answer, so I have to say, "Exactly. However, for a long time, one of the kings of Chu Yuan has passed down to our generation and has become a poor person, which is really humiliated to our ancestors.

"It doesn't have to be like this. My distant ancestor is also the king of Chu Yuan.

"Oh?" Hearing Liu Laozhi's words, I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Liu Jaozhi continued: "In terms of blood, you and I are also close to you. However, the world is unpredictable. At that time, Liu Bei, the lord of Shu, was also a descendant of the Han clan and had also encountered difficulties. How do you know that you are not a hero?"

"Thank you for your encouragement!"

"The journey is tiring, go down to rest first, and pick up the wind in the house at night."

I saluted and quit.

Although I know that this admirable general is my clan, I also know that the current weight is the powerful and rich. The imperial relatives of the former dynasty like us have already fallen, which is no different from ordinary civilians. With Liu's talent, I still have to kill the enemy and make contributions on the battlefield.

That's it. I followed Liu prison's army from Beijing to Wujun. The army was more than 30 miles away from the city to camp. I volunteered to take the initiative and took more than a dozen people around the city to spy on the enemy. This happened when thousands of thieves were encountered.

At that time, I could not have thought that before I could participate in the first battle, I almost died because of a map outside Wujun City.

It was the third year of Long'an (3jiu AD) and December.

Wu County is wet and cold in winter. The city full of rivers seems to be shrouded in fog from morning to night. Sometimes it's white fog, sometimes it's transparent fog. No matter how much you wear, these fog will bring moisture into the neckline and skirt, which makes people feel cold. They just want to stay in a house with a fire and don't want to go out.

After patrolling the city, I didn't go home, but went to the barracks. In such a cold weather, I prefer to stay in the barracks, because the fire there is stronger, and because I can be closer to and familiar with the soldiers there.

Walking on the street with several personal soldiers, I saw a sedan chair stopped in the street not far ahead. Compared with ordinary sedan chairs, the sedan chair looks too luxuriously decorated. The soldiers beside me were subjected to the ** of the sedan chair and kept looking up and down their eyes.

"I don't know which lady is." When I approached the sedan chair, I was thinking like this.

But when he saw the servant standing respectfully next to the sedan chair, he suddenly bent down and said in the sedan chair, "It's him."

I saw the curtain of the sedan chair move slightly. Obviously, the people in the sedan chair were lifting a seam and looking out.

I naturally got vigilant and put my right hand on the waist knife.

I don't know what the person in the sedan chair said, but the servant nodded and said in a low voice, "It is said that he was indeed alone at that time." Then he stood up straight again, looked at me, and bowed to me with a smile.

After our party went far away, I looked back. The sedan chair has got up and turned around a street corner.

I asked my soldier, "Who is sitting in the sedan chair?"

"It's probably a lady in a house." After listening to the soldier's answer, I thought to myself: It's better not to ask you. What you said is no different from what I thought.

However, I seemed to see a circular sign printed on the sedan chair. I don't know if it is the family emblem of the house.

After a few days of rest in Wujun, our army should have been led by Liu Jingxuan and He Wuji to force Wuxing, Jiaxing and other counties south. However, before the vanguard set out, Wujun was attacked by thieves. These thieves gathered from the south of Zhejiang one after another.

Thanks to the deployment of two gues outside the city and the siege of the thief soldiers from time to time, the thief soldiers were difficult to take care of and did not form a siege.

Although facing the attack of thieves every day, the defense of the city is carried out in an orderly manner. Liu Laozhi was not worried about whether Wujun could defend it. What he was worried about was that our army was trapped in Wu County by these thieves and could not go south. The battle lasted for several days, and it was not until General Xie Yan led his troops to Wu County that the thieves stopped the siege.

But the thief only stopped the siege and did not end the battle.

As soon as Xie Yan's army arrived at the city of Wu County to camp, the thief soldiers attacked Xie Yan's barracks with a large number of people, trying to make the two armies inside and outside the city unable to care about each other. After several attacks, the thief soldiers were repulsed by Xie Yan and failed to camp impulsively. The camp was quickly built in the border war.

The number of troops brought by Xie Yan is not large, but it is not the same as Sun En's thief soldiers. In a camp of the scale of Xie Jun, the thief army has pierced at least four or five. Although the thief army has been defeated many times, the number of people is increasing. A team of thieves who came from all over the country to participate in the war arrived at Wu County. In only three or four days, seven or eight new camps were set up outside the city.

"If it goes on like this, we will inevitably be trapped in Wu County. Although we will win every battle, the number of people is decreasing; although the enemy is defeated, the number of people is increasing. Regardless of the war situation, the gap between the enemy and us is widening day by day. If you don't take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid the situation is not good. I proposed to Liu Zhenzhi.

After listening to me, Liu Laozhi expressed his concern: "Hmm. I wanted to fight a defensive battle first to consume the morale of the enemy, and then take the opportunity to destroy the enemy. If it goes on like this, before we find a good opportunity, our morale will be exhausted. I agree with the active assault, but I'm afraid that the military strength is too different to achieve the effect.

General Daojian was the pioneer of the Battle of Yushui. The current situation is quite similar to the Battle of Yushui. You must have thought of defeating its spirit with the vanguard army first, and then attacking the enemy in one fell swoop.

"Not bad. However..."

He Wuji interrupted without waiting for his uncle to finish speaking, "Since it is similar to the Battle of Yushui, why don't we try again?"

Liu Jaozhi said to He Wuji: "The main reason why the vanguard assault method is not to worry about the large number of thieves, but that the tactics of thieves are not clear at present. You must have noticed that the thief soldiers never lined up when they fought.

I nodded.

"In terms of the ordinary competition between the two armies, as long as the opponent's position is impulsive, the enemy will inevitably be defeated by the inability to array and command. But the current situation is that Sun En's thieves are like a group of scattered soldiers. Even if they use assault to impulse their feet, they are still scattered soldiers, and there is no rules and can't cause a substantial blow.