At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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It is necessary to do so.

Just now because of the kingship incident, many people were killed, so although Guo's external image is still radiant, in the eyes of many people, Guo who killed Xun Yu and Zang Hong is already a little bit changed.

Become a little strange, scary.

Although it is said that the reason for the execution of Xun Yu and Zang Hong was political struggle, they made political mistakes, and it was necessary to shock people's hearts when they were executed. Afterwards, someone Guo also used the ceremony of proclaiming king and a grand wedding to redeem them. Popularity, but the fact of killing is there.

Zang Hong, a veteran of Yuan Cong who grew up with someone Guo, and Xun Yu, who accompanied his family during the pastoral period in Qingzhou, are all old people who have made great contributions to someone Guo.

As a result, they were killed together, and their family members were killed together.

It is inevitable that some people will worry that some people will be afraid, and feel sad when the rabbit dies and the fox, and some people worry that someone Guo will cross the river and tear down the bridge, and will kill more people.

Guo's huge and almost unlimited power has initially shown its power, and many people feel vaguely uneasy.

This makes Guo seem to be moving in the direction of an independent husband, an image of the first emperor that officials and scholars least like, and they portray.

This has caused concern and fear in some people with keen sense of smell.

will i be next

How do I avoid being next?

What if I'm next?

They are anxious, and this anxiety is reflected in many places, with obvious appearances.

Someone Guo noticed, and clearly discovered it.

Secret agents of the Linzi camp have reported more than a dozen secret meetings of this type of conversation, and several officials have privately expressed concern about such a future.

This is a bit of a problem.

Although Mr. Guo has never had a psychological burden on such things as crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, he is indeed moving in this direction. For him, useless people or people who have a different heart must be suppressed and eliminated, whether he is who, what did.

However, at any time, political struggle must focus on pulling a group against a group. This is a necessary means, and it must not be made into a public enemy of officials.

If it becomes a public enemy, and the ruler and ministers become enemies, it will be very embarrassing.

A certain Guo has not yet had the prestige and strength to compete with the whole world and overthrow the whole world.

In politics, it is very important to figure out who is the enemy and who is the friend at a certain stage, because the world is not static, it is a dynamic balance.

For someone like Guo who wields huge and almost unlimited power, a group is now being beaten, and a group must be recruited, otherwise the political dynamic balance of Guo Wei's regime will be broken, and hidden dangers will arise.

Right now, Mr. Guo cannot reveal his true purpose prematurely.

Therefore, saving the Jiangdong Gu family is a crisis public relations that Guo Peng needs to carry out.

Not proclaimed emperor yet.

Haven't secured the throne yet.

The unified situation has not yet been established.

The image that should be maintained still needs to be maintained.

The human touch lost in Xun Yu and Zang Hong needs to be found in Gu Yong, so that everyone can know that Guo treats obedient people very generously and with human touch.

After all, he is a veteran of Yuan Cong, and he is an absolute supporter of claiming to be emperor after all. Saving the Gu family will definitely do more good than harm.

So Zhang Liao and Tai Shici had another purpose, which was to try their best to ensure Gu's safety, as for the others, it was up to them.

The remaining Zhu and Zhang of Wu's four surnames did not work for me.

What does their life and death have to do with me?

If the rebels rushed in and killed him, it wouldn't be my fault.

Someone Guo imagined so.

On the battlefield, after the first phase of the seven-day battle ended, both sides began to take a brief rest and adjustment.

Then on the tenth day of May, the Wei army took the initiative to attack again, attacking from three directions again, and attacked the Wu army navy like Mount Tai.

The commanders of the Wu army immediately commanded the soldiers of the Wu army to counterattack swiftly.

The previous fear of Wei Jun was polished away a lot during the previous seven days of war.

The officers and soldiers of the Wu army realized that the Wei army was just like that on the water, and even worse than themselves, so their morale soared.

The battle here has fallen into a stalemate. The Wei army cannot break through the Wu army's water defense line, and the Wu army will never take the initiative to attack, but only actively defend.

Yu Jin and other generals couldn't think of a solution after much deliberation, so they had to pin their hopes on the navy that had already set off from the coast of Xuzhou.

In this batch of navy officers and soldiers, there are also elite troops selected by Zhang Liao. The number is extremely large, that is, the ships have a very strong load capacity, so they can drive such a powerful army.

Guo Peng said that what Zhou Yu was most afraid of was fighting the Wei army on land, so he would try his best to fight the Wei army on the defense line along the river. If the Wei army wanted to break through head-on, he would definitely pay a heavy price. This is Guo Peng unwilling to see.

So we took another approach and ushered in the era of beach landing operations 2.0.

Zhang Liao and Tai Shici led a huge fleet of 2 people from Xuzhou port, all the way to the south, bypassed the offshore, circled a big circle, went around to the side and rear of the Wu army's defense line, went straight to the coast of Wujun, and prepared to be on the coast of Wujun. Landing at the edge, reorganizing the army.

Then the troops were divided into two groups, one to attack Dantu County, sending Zang Ba's troops to Wu County to help capture Wu County, and the other to go straight to Moling to go directly to Sun Quan and Zhou Yu.

Zhang Liao said that he had a lot of things he wanted to talk to Sun Quan and let Zhou Yu, especially Zhou Yu, talk about it.

Although Zhang Liao didn't suffer any actual losses in the previous battle, it still brought him a lot of psychological pressure. The so-called indecency is not reciprocal, but Zhang Wenyuan tried his best to move closer to the Confucian generals. On the other hand, it is very particular.

So Zhang Liao had to personally lead the troops to return the gift.

Chapter 723 Zhang Liao who is seasick

The long coastline, in the era when there was no concept of coastal defense, could be landed everywhere.

Looking around, there are breakthroughs that can be broken through everywhere. In stark contrast to the very tight defense along the Yangtze River, there is no human habitation at all on the coast of Wu County.

However, it was supposed to be a very smooth surprise attack, but there was an interesting episode because of Zhang Wenyuan's seasickness.

"Impossible... oh...impossible! Absolutely impossible! This general is oh... who has trained sailors on board... oh..."

Zhang Liao stretched out his head on the deck and poured out his despair to the blue water.

He actually got seasick!

"General, this... sea ships are very different from inland river ships. Sea ships are more turbulent than inland river ships, so... at the end of the year when the sailors first practiced, they actually often got seasick, but it didn't matter, just landed. "

Tai Shici was at the side helping Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao was sure that he must be very embarrassed now, it was too embarrassing.

The most embarrassing time for Zhang Wenyuan was when he surrendered to Guo Peng, but even at that time, Zhang Wenyuan maintained his demeanor, how could he be like this... vomit...

Zhang Liao felt like he was going to spit out everything he ate.

Not only Zhang Liao, those non-professional sailors, although all of them can swim, about one-third of the soldiers still have symptoms of seasickness, and everyone is pouring out their despair, resentment and dissatisfaction into the sea .

"No, you have to land as soon as possible. If this continues, if you don't die on the battlefield, you will faint on the boat... vomit..."

Zhang Liao couldn't even finish his sentence, and continued to pour out his despair and shame.

Fortunately, the journey was not far away, and when Zhang Liao was about to lose his hold, the sailor's guide had already led the sailor towards the coast of Wu County.

"Two generals, after landing here, you will be more than ten miles west to Lou County in Wu County. We are very familiar with this road."

The guide pointed out the way clearly, and Zhang Liao was relieved, so he gave the order to land.

Tai Shici immediately commanded the sailors very professionally to assist the non-professional soldiers to start landing, one by one the boats were lowered, and one by one the boats approached the coast, transporting troops, horses, and supplies in an orderly manner.

The generals and soldiers who were seasick like Zhang Liao were the first to land. The moment they landed on the ground, Zhang Liao took a deep breath and breathed in the air on land, feeling that the air on land was much sweeter than that at sea.

There is a feeling of being reborn.

Life is so beautiful!

Zhang Liao couldn't help but wanted to yell three times.

Of course, he held back, and immediately ordered the soldiers on the shore to form an army formation, and began to search for the enemy and investigate the enemy's situation.

The landing lasted from the morning until the evening. At this time, Zhang Liao had set up a temporary camp on the shore, and it was preliminarily determined that there was no one in the area within four or five miles. as a forward base.

In the process of continuing to explore westward, Wei Jun discovered several villages. According to the guide, it is estimated that if you continue westward, you will see Lou County, which is the target of the attack.

Right now, there is no trace of the Wei army's attack, and there is no trace of the Wu army near here. The main force of the Wu army is still fighting against the main force of the Wei army by the river. This is their defensive vacuum zone.

"In this way, the demise of the Wu Kingdom is just around the corner."

Zhang Liao showed a confident smile.

The advantage of the large number and strength of the Wei army is reflected in this way. It can contain the main force of the Wu army from the front, and it can also launch an attack from the side. This is a fatal blow to the Sun Wu regime.

That night, Wei Jun rested on the coast for the night. Early the next morning, Zhang Liao and Tai Shici presided over a military meeting to analyze the situation detected by the sentries overnight.

They took out the Jiangdong topographic map drawn by the secret agents of Linziying for comparison, and then made a strategic plan.

"Ziyi, we don't need to divide our troops for the time being. Let's attack Wu County together after we capture Lou County. Take Wu County and rescue the Gu clan first. By the way, the relatives of Sun's family are all in Wu County. Zhou Gongjin thinks Wu County is the safest Yes, let’s take Wu County first.”

Zhang Liao said: "After taking Wu County, let's go north together, and then divide the troops. You go north to Dantu to meet Zang Xuangao's army, and then attack Wu County together with Zang Xuangao."

Before the war, through information, Zhang Liao and others learned that Sun's relatives and the families of many generals were arranged to live in Wu County. The Sun Wu regime regarded Wu County as the rear area and believed that Wu County was absolutely safe, so there were move.

And Zhang Liao and others also decided to take all the family members of the senior politicians and generals of the Sun Wu regime while carrying out the surprise attack, so as to reduce their will to resist.

Zhang Liao also assigned tasks to Tai Shici, mainly to conquer Dantu, let Zang Ba cross the river, and then attack Wu County together with Zang Ba.

Taishi Ci immediately took the order.

"The last general took orders, so the general went directly to Moling?"

"Yes, I will take a team and go directly to Moling."

Zhang Liao grinned: "Your Majesty wrote to me that the king should be captured before the thief is captured. As long as Moling is destroyed, as long as Sun Quan and Zhou Yu are captured, Wu's resistance will naturally end. At that time, everything will be over." We can see the outcome, our army should not lose too much in Jiangdong, and there are more things to do in the future."

Tai Shici nodded.

The elimination of the Sun Wu regime is the first step in pacifying Jiangdong. The Sun Wu regime’s control over Jiangdong is mainly concentrated in the north of the Hangzhou Bay line, along the plains along the Yangtze River, and further south, that is Shanyue and some local aborigines The world is gone.

Pacifying Sun Wu is only the first step in pacifying Jiangdong. They need to continue to the south to control the vast Kuaiji County and the two counties of Yuzhang and Luling.

Along the way, they will also encounter a large number of Shanyue Group and other aborigines, as well as the more terrifying miasma. They have to face a primitive scenery, and the road to the south will not be easy.

After the discussion was over, Zhang Liao and Tai Shici began to act, rectify the army, and headed all the way to Lou County.

Lou County, which is in the rear, obviously never entered a state of war because of the outbreak of the war, and imposed martial law on the whole city. In fact, the scale of mobilization in ancient wars was relatively low. The front was fighting, but the rear was in a state of drunkenness. a lot of.

Lou County will not be drunk, but normal life will not change. As a rear county, it is impossible to arrange a large number of troops to garrison. Even if Guo can't arrange a large number of troops to garrison every city, Wu Guo will not be able to do so. possible.

In fact, except for a few important towns and border areas, a large number of counties and counties have no regular army. If there is a showdown, with China's vast territory, a million-scale regular army is not enough, and it is impossible for the imperial finances to support it.

Most of the counties have a few yamen servants, and some local garrisons in the prefectures and counties have 500 people, and more than [-] can be regarded as important towns.

Therefore, the concept of driving thousands of soldiers will not be outdated, that is, after breaking through the main defense line of the enemy army, [-] soldiers and horses can run wild in the enemy's hinterland, ignoring the defense of most cities, basically no [-] troops can't attack down the city.

So someone Guo was very concerned about the Hefei battle at the beginning.

It's not that Sun Ce has no chance of victory. If something happens and Sun Ce wins, he must immediately withdraw his troops from Guanzhong and return to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

At that time, before he returns with the main force, Sun Ce's army can run rampant in the Central Plains and fight wherever they want.

His inland counties and counties have no resistance, and wherever Sun Ce's army goes, they will inevitably fall one after another, which will be a huge blow to him.

Chapter 724 Three Zhang Liao's way of self-protection

Such an action is a huge blow to someone Guo, and it is a fatal blow to the current state of Wu.

What's more, the magistrate of Lou County and the officials in the county seat would never have thought that a Wei army would kill them from their side and from the rear.

This Wei army had a large number, and they attacked the city in one go, and took down the county town of Lou County, which was unprepared in a hurry, in less than a stick of incense.

The officials in Lou County didn't react, and they had no time to escape, so they became sad captives.

Zhang Liao strode into the Louxian county mansion, looked at the Louxian county magistrate and a group of assistant officials who were tied up and kneeling on the ground, and smiled triumphantly.

"Do you know who I am?"

"I don't know."