Chapter 29 Qian Liu sends troops to attack Xinzhou
Qian Passqian was only fifteen years old, only one year younger than Qian Chuan, but he was afraid of death and cried and refused to be a hostage. Qian Liu was so angry that he almost killed Qian Zhuan on the spot! Although Qian Zhuan's proactive petition, Qian Liu successfully solved the problem of sending hostages, but his disgust for Qian Zhuan's heart could not be eliminated.
In other words, no matter how hard money passes and how hard it is in the years to come, Qian Liu will never be able to put money passes into the ranks of his heirs. In other words, Qian Zhuo can no longer gain the leadership of Wu Yue through legal means, unless it is illegal means. Of course, he really intends to achieve his goals through illegal means twenty years later, but he eventually goes to failure and destruction.
Although Qian passes the ball very much is not favored by Qian Liu, he is Qian Liu's biological son after all, and his military talent seems to be bad. He can also use it when necessary, such as attacking Xinzhou.
In December of the first year of Tianyou, Chen Zhang, the governor of Quzhou, launched a rebellion and surrendered to Yang Xingmi. Bao Junfu was very unlucky. At this time, he happened to be a support envoy in Quzhou City. As a result, he had no time to escape and was directly given to Yang Xingmi by Chen Zhang as a gift for meeting.
Yang Xingmi has always valued the generals under Qian Liu. In addition to special preferential treatment, he also particularly won over them. Such as Du Ling, Cheng Ji, Gu Quanwu, etc., have been Yang Xingmi's senior prisoners, but each of them has good food and accommodation. They returned to Wu Yue without any damage by swapping prisoners of war.
But this time, Yang Xingmi was not interested in exchanging prisoners of war. He ordered his general Li Yuansi to take a close look at Bao Junfu, and at the same time he gave up his attractive official position to win over Bao Junfu. The local generals of Liangzhe under Qian Liu were almost all loyal to Qian Liu, so Bao Junfu chose to refuse!
Qian Liu learned about Bao Junfu's capture. Because he did not have Yang Xingmi's prisoners of war on hand for the time being, he could not exchange them. In addition, he was fighting with Yang Xingmi at this time, so Qian Liu was very worried that Bao Junfu would be killed by Yang Xingmi at any time. Qian Liu secretly sent someone to send silk books to Bao Junfu, asking Bao Junfu to temporarily agree to Yang Xingmi's request and save his life first!
As a prisoner of war, he was actually asked by the former leader to surrender to the enemy voluntarily. Qian Liu really has personality. After getting the silk book of his superior Qian Liu, Bao Junfu still did not intend to surrender to Yang Xingmi, and even pretended to surrender, he did not want to accept it. Bao Junfu would rather refuse to surrender and had already made up his mind to be killed by Yang Xingmi, but the turning point immediately appeared.
Li Yuansi was busy supervising Bao Junfu every day. In fact, it was very hard and exhausted, so he was inevitably a little distracted and relaxed his vigilance, so the supervision of Bao Junfu was greatly reduced. Of course, Bao Junfu would not miss this opportunity. One day, Bao Junfu invited Li Yuansi to drink and chat, took the opportunity to get drunk and killed Li Yuansi, and then fled back to Wuyue like a horse that broke away from the reins.
Bao Junfu, who successfully escaped from prison and returned to Wu Yue Kingdom, was warmly welcomed by Qian Liu and was appointed as the governor of Quzhou. He was responsible for long-term garrison of Wu Yue Kingdom's southwest border. He repeatedly repelled the harassment of the Wu Kingdom army in Xinzhou, ensuring long-term safety in Quzhou. Bao Junfu is of course the best partner and assistant for Qian to pass the ball to attack Xinzhou!
Qian Chuanqiu and Bao Junfu led an army of 20,000 to Xinzhou. In fact, this war was not difficult for them at all, because Xinzhou City is currently empty in defense, with only thousands of defenders.
For the long-standing Qian Pass and Bao Junfu, breaking Xinzhou should be no problem!
The problem with Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu is that he did not accurately grasp the real situation of Xinzhou City and did not know the current situation of Xinzhou's defense. Of course, there is a message they know exactly that the defender of Xinzhou City was Zhou Ben, a famous general of Wu. Since Zhou Ben defeated the Wei brothers in Fuzhou, he suddenly turned to the battlefield for good luck, almost winning consecutive victories, and instantly got rid of the title of general losing streak and became a heavyweight general of Wu.
However, the crisis in Xinzhou made Zhou Ben deeply worried. He wanted to deal with the Wu Yue army with less than a thousand troops, not to mention that there were powerful generals like Bao Junfu in his opponents. Zhou Ben had to plan to find a surprise troops to protect Xinzhou.
Zhou Ben was experienced in the battle. Facing the 20,000 Wu Yue army, he was not panicked and sent a small force out of the city to meet the enemy. This small force could not stop the Wu Yue army's advance. Bao Junfu led his troops to defeat him, beheaded the main general Li Shizao, captured the side general Feng Min, and quickly completed the siege of Xinzhou City.
Zhou Ben was not so stupid or stupid when he relied on hundreds of defenders in Xinzhou City to resist the 20,000 Wu Yue army. Although he was a descendant of Zhou Yu, Zhou Ben was like Zhuge Kongming at that time. Zhou Ben ordered the city gate to be opened, and a large number of camp tents were set up near the city gate, and then led his subordinate officials to hold banquets on the city tower, play piano and music, drink and have fun, replicating the scene of Zhuge Liang's plan to set up a large city in Xicheng County more than 600 years ago.
Qian Chuanqiu and Bao Junfu should have heard of Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, but the situation on the battlefield has always been virtual and real, real and virtual. Everyone wants to make contributions, but no one wants to die. So Qian Chuanqiu and Bao Junfu tentatively shot arrows at the Xinzhou City Tower Round, hoping to test the virtual and real of Xinzhou City!
But the result of the test was that there was no result. In the face of the attack of the Wu Yue army's arrow rain, Zhou Ben's reaction was that there was no response. Zhou Ben and the officials of all sizes on the Xinzhou city tower continued to drink and have fun as if nothing had happened, completely treating the 20,000 Wu Yue troops under the city as air. The test was no result. What was Zhou Ben doing?
Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu became extremely entangled and confused. Could it be that the empty city plan that Zhou Ben sang was not an empty city plan, but an ambush plan? Under the entanglement and confusion, Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu became very cautious, hesitant and did not dare to march. The night quickly fell to Xinzhou City. The hesitation and caution during the day made Wu Yue army miss the best opportunity to attack Xinzhou. Facing the night, Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu led their troops to slowly evacuate Xinzhou.
However, Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu did not give up the plan of "surrounding Xin and Save Qian". The final deployment of the two generals was to withdraw to Tingzhou south of Xinzhou and wait for the opportunity to continue the attack. With Qian Passqiu and Bao Junfu's withdrawal, Wu Yue's "surrounding Xin and Save Qian" military operation failed. Zhou Ben, who was often ravaged by the Wu Yue army in the past, finally washed away some shame for himself.
Although the Wu Yue army failed to rescue Qianzhou, the Wu Kingdom was very worried about Wu Yue. In order to prevent Wu Yue from rescuing Qianzhou again, Xu Wen simply took advantage of the victory to pursue Wu Yue and took the initiative to attack Wu Yue.
In August of the fourth year of Zhenming, Xu Wen appointed Chen Zhang as the southeast support envoy, and led his troops to invade Su and Hu states, completely disrupting Wu Yue's intention to rescue Qianzhou. Chen Zhang was once a general of Wu Yue, but he seemed to have a deep hatred with Qian Liu. Since the rebellion in Quzhou in the first year of Tianyou and fled to Wu, he has been serving Wu with all his heart and dedication to serving Wu, and has been in the Wu State for many years.
In the war against Wu and Yue, he was the unscrupulous pioneer.
After Chen Zhang defected to Wu, he was valued by Xu Wen, the powerful minister of Wu. He served as the Youlong Wu Army and Ping Zhangshi. Faced with the continuous harassment of his former subordinate Chen Zhang, Qian Liu was naturally very annoyed, but no matter how annoying or difficult Chen Zhang hated him, he had to spend time and energy to deal with it.
Qian Liu believed that as long as Qian Pass and Bao Junfu were still dormant in Xinzhou, the Wu Yue army's "surrounding Xin and saving Qian" plan would not be final. However, the Wu army's strength was completely beyond Qian Liu's expectations! In the same month, Liu Xin successfully carried out a siege near Qianzhou to attack the aid of the city, and sent his general Zhang Xuan to defeat the Chu State's rescue operation in Qianzhou. Liu Xin, with great morale, once again sent his general Liang Quan to lead his troops to attack the Wu Yue army stationed near Tingzhou.
The failure of the Chu reinforcements shook Qian Zhuanqian and Bao Junfu's confidence. Zhou Ben in Xinzhou had not yet been settled, and he faced the attack of Liu Xin in Qianzhou. He was also far away from his homeland and fought on other people's territory. If he did not withdraw his troops, he might be attacked by the Wu army on both sides and died in Jiangxi. Therefore, Qian Zhuanqian and Bao Junfu made the final decision, led their troops north and returned to Wuyue Kingdom. Wu Yue's military operation "surrounding Xin and saving Qian" was declared a failure.
The reinforcements of Chu were defeated, the reinforcements of Wu and Yue were withdrawn, and Liu Xin successfully fought against Qianzhou's siege and aid. The attack on Qianzhou City was right in front of him, and everyone could only wait for the news of the loss of Qianzhou.
However, Tan Quanbo's tenacity and Qianzhou City are unbelievable. In the tragic situation of no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, Qianzhou City actually resisted Liu Xin's several strong attacks. The Wu army had nothing but abandoned thousands of dead bodies under the city.
Liu Xin's confidence in capturing Qianzhou City began to shake, and this phenomenon was discovered by the shrewd Tan Quanbo, so Tan Quanbo kept sending envoys out of the city to negotiate with Liu Xin. On the one hand, he deceived Liu Xin by fake surrender, and on the other hand, he bribed Liu Xin with a large amount of bribery, with the purpose of letting Liu Xin withdraw his troops from Qianzhou as soon as possible. If it weren't for Xu Wen's final show of power, Tan Quanbo's plan would have almost succeeded.
Under Xu Wen's strong oppression, Liu Xin once again launched a more fierce offensive against Qianzhou. This time, Tan Quanbo knew that deception and bribery had all failed, and the fate of Qianzhou City could not escape.
In November of the fourth year of Zhenming, Liu Xin finally captured Qianzhou, Tan Quanbo fled to Yudu and was captured, and died of illness soon afterwards. The Wu State finally occupied the entire Jiangxi and successfully cut off the necessary passage for Wu Yue and other countries to pay tribute to the Liang Dynasty.
Qianzhou was not Qian Liu's territory, and even if it was occupied by the Wu Kingdom, it would have no impact on the territory and territory of Wu Yue. But the problem was that the loss of Qianzhou blocked the only land route for Wu Yue Kingdom to give tribute to the Liang Dynasty.
Although Qian Li was nominally Shangfu, the intimate name of Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Liang Dynasty, among politicians, the intimate name involving interests is to deceive people and pretend to behave. As Shangfu, Qian Li, actually needs to be filial to Zhu Youzhen.
Faced with the complete blockage of the tribute passage, Qian Li never made any excuses or any reason. The land passage was blocked. Isn’t there still a sea passage? Qian Li tried his best to find another way and found an extremely difficult road to give gifts at sea. The specific route is: take a boat from Hangzhou Bay in Wuyue Kingdom, pass through the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Shandong Peninsula, then land in Deng and Lai Prefectures, and then go to Bianjing by land.
Chapter completed!