Chapter 1939 Only peace of mind, autumn rain is like a knife
The autumn wind is bleak.
The sun shone down, and the Cao Jun camp outside Jiangxia City was quiet, as if no one was there.
The breath of approaching winter also blew into Jingzhou Jiangdong, and the coldness invaded the skin slightly, stirring up fine pimples.
Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu, looking at Zhou Yu who was as calm as water, looking at that beautiful face, but his heart became more and more lustful... uh, anger rose.
"Zhou Gongjin! What do you think?!"
"Lord," Zhou Yu said with cupped hands, "The art of war is as it is, don't hide it when you return to the army, and don't chase after the poor enemy."
"Ah haha, what if someone insists on pursuing me?"
"Those who pursue you will be defeated."
Sun Quan couldn't help but trembled and became cold, "Cao's thief has fallen into a certain trick, cutting off the food route, the army's morale is in chaos, and they retreat in a hurry. If we let it go easily, when will we get such a good opportunity?! Let's wait until Cao's thief stabilizes the army's morale."
...someone...you..."
Sun Quan was indeed in a hurry, and even spoke awkwardly.
Zhou Yu still had a calm demeanor, glanced at Sun Quan, and said: "Last night's beacon fire sent a message. Although there must be something unexpected, it may not be as the lord thinks. The thief Cao is treacherous. He has set up many beacons along the river, so how could he not be prepared for the surprise attack of the lord's navy?"
?I’m afraid Cao’s thieves are defeated this time because they want to trap the lord.”
Sun Quan was furious, "How did you know that the traitor Cao Cao was defeated by fraud?"
Zhou Yu sighed slightly. My lord, you didn't listen to what I just said, or do you just don't want to listen? "The thief Cao set up a beacon secretly, obviously he was well prepared..."
"No..." Sun Quan waved his hand and said, "This is different from Gong Jin's expectation. It was the thief Cao who set up a beacon, so he was careless!"
"The thief Cao has always been cunning and cunning, how can he be negligent?"
"Even if it is dense, there is still some sparseness!"
Zhou Yu looked at Sun Quan.
Sun Quan glared at Zhou Yu.
The atmosphere suddenly became weird. The surrounding soldiers and guards were silent, trying to reduce the projected area of their bodies as much as possible to prevent being affected by the invisible and colorless flames of war. They were like children who saw adults quarreling in an ordinary family.
You feel.
I think.
Fire and water have always been incompatible.
Zhou Yu lowered his eyes and said: "In this case, if the lord insists on pursuing the pursuit, I will let someone do it for me..."
"No!" Sun Quan blurted out subconsciously, then took a breath and softened his tone, "I have no other intention, but the arrangement has been made. It is inappropriate to suddenly change it..."
Zhou Yu's expression remained unchanged, he raised his hands and said: "I obey my lord's order. I will go and check the ordnance first..."
Sun Quan took a breath, nodded and said: "Good!"
Zhou Yu silently walked down the city wall, then turned around the corridor, and met Lu Su head-on. "Zijing..."
"Gong Jin..." Lu Su cupped his hands and said, "Gong Jin, don't blame Yu..."
Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.
"Gong Jin..." Lu Su took a few steps forward, followed Zhou Yu, and then said in a low voice, "Since Gong Jin knows that the master does not accept advice, why bother to do this and only make him unhappy?"
Zhou Yu raised his head and looked at the sky, "I can only do my best..."
Lu Su also followed Zhou Yu's point of view and looked up at the sky. He felt that Zhou Yu's words seemed to be responding to him, but also seemed to be addressed to someone.
It's fun to slap the leader in the face in public, but after you feel good, you must be handed the little shoe. Zhou Yu is not a stupid person, so he can naturally understand Sun Quan's thoughts, but understanding does not mean that he agrees, not to mention that this time Zhou Yu originally
My opinion is to take it while it's good. Even if it leaves some aftertaste and is taken away by the opponent a few times, as long as you still generally have the upper hand, it's not a bad idea.
However, Sun Quan felt that the piece of land he had not agreed to obtain was invaded by Cao Cao. How could he bear this? Naturally, he wanted to twist Cao Cao's chess pieces on the spot, cut off all the tentacles extended by Cao Cao and swallow them.
Got this bad breath.
"The guards...are all arranged?" Zhou Yu asked.
Lu Su nodded.
Zhou Yu sighed slightly. "That's it. Send someone to inform Governor Cheng to prepare to withdraw the troops..."
Lu Su hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to wait..."
Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "No. If we wait for the dust to settle, I'm afraid we won't be able to retreat."
"Well..." Lu Su sighed and said, "Only."
Zhou Yu clasped his hands behind his back and looked at the sky.
The autumn wind blew Zhou Yu's hair at the temples, as if it was comforting him or telling him something.
……(=`ェ′=)……
On September 11, Sun Quan sent Zhou Tai to lead the Dongwu navy, but the surprise attack on Xiaoyaojin failed. The beacon fire spread to the vicinity of Jiangxia overnight.
On September 12, at noon, Sun Quan sent Jiang Qin and Chen Wu to attack Cao Cao's camp in Jiangxia, and they were defeated. Cao's army was defeated and retreated. Zhou Yu persuaded Sun Quan, but Sun Quan was determined to pursue Cao Cao.
On September 13th, Sun Quan ordered his troops to personally suppress the central army, split up the army, and pursued Cao's army along the way, intending to regain the entire Jiangxia territory and eradicate Xiaoyaojin.
On September 15th, when Jiang Qin pursued him to Niutoushan, he was ambushed by Cao's army. Chen Wu came to his aid, but was ambushed by Cao Ren and trapped in the mountain. Sun Quan came to the rescue again, but was also flanked by Cao Chun's cavalry. The three of them could not advance or retreat at night.
At that moment, Fang broke out under the guard Sa Sheng.
On September 16th, Cao Cao led his troops to cover up the massacre, intending to encircle and annihilate Sun Quan and others.
On September 17, Zhou Yu gave way to Sun Quan, but surrounded Cao Ren, the forward of Cao's army. After a fierce battle, Cao Ren was wounded and left. Cao Cao was shocked, suspecting that it was Zhou Yu's plan to lure troops against China, so he hurriedly closed his line and stopped pursuing.
From September 18th to 20th, Cao Cao and Sun Quan's troops began to disengage and retreated.
On September 21st, Xia Houyuan led his troops to Jiangling. The Wu soldiers under Jiangling City had already retreated, so no gains were made.
Around September 30th, Sun Quan took away Jiangxia's gold, silver and other valuables and returned to Jiangdong, while Cao Cao plundered the remaining population of Jiangxia and moved them to Hefei. At this point, Jiangxia County was completely uninhabited, and corpses were piled in the fields...
...The previous paragraph is not watery...
Although winter is approaching, the temperature at noon is not very cold yet, and the dead people rot quickly, attracting many scavenging animals.
It is very interesting that there seems to be some audiences for stinky tofu, stinky mandarin fish, and even some foods of later generations, such as soybean juice, natto, durian, herring, etc., and many people think that they are special.
The smell is actually fragrant, but almost no one likes or accepts the smell of human corpses.
Corpse odor is like a naturally sticky gas. Once it is contaminated, even if you clean it repeatedly, it is difficult to remove the disgusting odor.
And what stinks even more than the rotting corpses are the refugees.
In Jiangxia, the entire county was ruined.
Originally, this month was supposed to be when the harvest was finished, and each household might have more or less, but they still got some rations, and the family could finally eat some decent meals, but now...
Cao's army couldn't wait long and could not gather the population, so they set fire to the village and left.
The people who hid in the mountains and swamps saw the soldiers retreat and came out again, only to see that their houses and villages had all turned into ashes...
what to do?
Just run away.
Just hide.
What else could the unarmed people do in the face of vicious soldiers?
In the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, they have been taught to be "filial", "respect the emperor", and "observe the rules". They are not allowed to do this or that. They all listened and did it. Honestly
If you actually cultivate the land, you should pay taxes according to your duties, but why?
Why?
Those officials who usually collect tax money, taxes, and accounts, stretched out their hands to collect the house tax when they were just putting up the beams of the house. When they caught a net of fish, they stared to collect the fish tax, even if it was
When they pick up some dry wood in the mountains, they also have to pay the tax on the harvest. They have to collect money and taxes when they eat a mouthful of food and drink a mouthful of water...
But when they were suffering, their houses were burned, and their food was robbed, when they needed some support and some comfort, none of these officials could see them...
Why?
No one will give them answers.
So these people could only whimper, like a lame dog, twisting and turning every step of the way, mixing their confused, sad, and frightened expressions with the cries of children, as well as hunger and hunger.
Tired, all mixed together, leaving their former hometown, their stable home.
They walked into the wilderness, walked through swamps, climbed over bald mountains, and passed through barren fields.
They are just ants, eating grass, tree bark, and soil. When they can't bear it any longer, they eat themselves.
It was walking like a zombie, and then there was a commotion in front of it, as if bait was dropped in the fish pond, and it suddenly started churning.
The government sent people to give porridge at the front.
Not the court, but the local government.
People rushed over to get the gruel that was probably just better than plain water.
The porridge had just been boiled and was very hot, but everyone was frightened by hunger. Those who received the porridge hurriedly sipped and drank, their eyes bulging but they still stared at the porridge shed, staring at the big mouthfuls in the porridge shed.
Pot, looking forward to finishing this bowl and adding another bowl.
Someone was shouting: "Who wants to surrender to the army? Those who want to surrender to the army, come here! There are pancakes! There are big pancakes to eat!" There were two dark "big pancakes" in their hands, about half the size of a palm.
Swinging in the air, seducing, making a group of people's heads follow the black pancake, from left to right, and then from right to left.
Of course, as a rule, only young and strong people are recruited.
Some people were so tempted that they wanted to sell their lives for two pieces of black cake at a low price, but they were dragged by their wives and children, and ended up sitting on the ground, hugging each other and wailing. Because everyone knows that the people at home are
As soon as the young man leaves, the family will be gone. If his wife and children are lucky, they may still be able to survive, but if they are not lucky, they may become food for others after a while.
There were also some who gritted their teeth and shook it off, surrendered to the army and took the pancakes. Some were cruel and just wanted to eat for themselves, but there were also some who gave them to their wives and children. After a long silence, they said, "Eat quickly, eat them all, Qian."
Don’t leave any leftover…
The wife knew that she couldn't hold on even if she had the leftovers. She bit and gnawed with all her strength, but she was crying and couldn't eat it. The child beside her also shed tears at first, but as she ate, she couldn't stop eating.
As she sat there, her tears stopped and she concentrated on eating the black pancake.
The man smiled, smiled, and cried when he turned around and left.
To be separated now is to say goodbye to death.
There are also some old people with some knowledge who try their best to persuade, "Don't join the army, you won't be able to come back... If we walk a little further, the court will not ignore us... the court will settle us..."
The fleeing team stretched endlessly, with more and more people at times, and most people didn't even have a clear purpose. They just knew how to follow the flow of people. It seemed that only in this way could they prove that they were still alone.
The chaotic team stretched on and on, and it seemed that there was no end or end in sight, and it seemed that it could not reach the edge. Compared with the chaos in the Jianghuai area in previous years, or compared with the situation of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in previous years,
It's as if they are two different worlds. Sometimes, some people in the team will lament, thinking about the past few years, everything they have seen, and thinking about what they did wrong, or what they did not do.
What made it become like this?
Jiangling is also in chaos, but what about Xiangyang?
Will it be better?
I heard that Liu Jingzhou is seriously ill again...
Autumn rain falls one after another, but it falls without a single one. It has no meaning of continuous spring rain. It only brings a bleak and cold chaos that is unspeakable, covering everything and spreading among everything.
……_(:з ∠)_……
Xiangyang City.
The autumn rain is like a knife, cutting down the grass, cutting off the leaves, and making people panic.
"I want to watch the autumn rain..." Cai Mao stood in front of the gate of the back garden and said in a deep voice, "You are waiting here, don't come and make any noise!"
"Master, it's raining..." the steward said cautiously from behind, "How about I let you hold an umbrella for the master?"
"No! I don't care about the swords, guns, and swords. Are you afraid that Xu Qiuyu won't do it?" Cai Hao waved his hand, "I'm just in a bad mood and want to be alone and meditate... I don't need you to wait on me. I'll just wait outside!"
"Wei!" Seeing Cai Mao's insistence, the steward said nothing more and led others to wait outside the back garden door.
Cai Hao walked into the back garden with his hands behind his back, then turned into the back room, took out his poncho and bamboo hat, put them on, and quietly walked to the corner door of the backyard, opened it, looked back for a while, and walked into the rain curtain.
There were not many pedestrians in the alley streets. Even if there were one or two people, they were holding umbrellas or wearing ponchos and hurried by.
Cai Hao braved the rain and turned into an alley, then opened a courtyard door, passed through the corridor, took off his poncho outside the hall, and then entered the hall.
After being fucked by Liu Biao that time, Cai Mao was like a peaceful little daughter-in-law. She seemed to act silently, think quietly, say nothing, and express nothing.
After Sun Quan withdrew his troops, Cao Cao did not completely evacuate Jingzhou. Instead, he stayed in the Xinye area for one reason or another. Wancheng and Runan also seemed to have disappeared from the memories of Liu Biao and Cao Cao.
In terms of restoring production and order, there is no doubt that the Qiaoqi troops are very experienced and powerful. Within three or four months, they have restored 50% to 60% of most areas bordering Wuguan. How much?
It already looked like an orderly town, instead of a den of thieves filled with death and chaos.
Of course, everyone knows how difficult it is to do such a thing well.
Cai Hao also wanted to do things well. After the previous lesson, Cai Hao finally knew that he might not be able to control Jingzhou with just his own family, or just himself...
Not long after, another person came into the courtyard, wearing a poncho, his face hidden under the bamboo hat. When he entered the hall directly in the courtyard, he took off the hat and poncho, leaving water stains on the wooden boards under the hall.
"Brother Yuanchang, please..." Cai Mao stood in front of the hall and held hands with each other.
The autumn rain fell on the rockery in the courtyard, triggering little bits of white smoke, and among the rugged hills, there seemed to be faint hints of swords and guns, as if there was a marching army, braving the rain, along the
Follow the rugged mountain road above the rockery and wind toward the front.
"Brother Cai..." Zhong Yao sat down slowly and said calmly, "This autumn is so bleak..."
Cai Hao did not respond, but first invited Zhong Yao to drink tea.
Jiangxia was almost divided between Cao Cao and Sun Quan, which has become the consensus of people in Jingzhou. Under this consensus, Liu Biao's incompetence became more and more obvious. The courage of riding into Xiangyang alone has gradually faded in the memory, and the remaining
What is more noticeable is his aging appearance and his weakness in facing outsiders.
"Good tea..." Zhong Yao said with a smile, "Could this be the so-called "fresh tea" produced by Qiusi?"
Cai Mao nodded slightly and said, "Exactly. I wonder if it can comply with Brother Yuan Chang's wishes?"
Zhong Yao laughed twice, "As for wine, I think the wine from Changshe is the best. After all, the water and soil of my hometown are very pleasant. As for this tea, I don't know much about it, so I can't comment..."
"Why not? If not forced, who would be willing to stay away from his hometown?" Cai Hao nodded and said.
The smell of tea is dense.
The sound of rain dripping.
After a while, Cai Hao couldn't help but said: "What do you mean by Sikong?"
Zhong Yao smiled: "The key is Brother Cai's intention... Sikong, there's nothing wrong..."
"really?"
"nature."
"Good." Cai Mao nodded, pointed slightly outside the hall, and said, "Thanks to Brother Yuanchang's great efforts, I will definitely remember it in my heart... Although this place is simple, it can still accommodate guests, so I asked Brother Yuanchang to stay temporarily.
The right should be at home..."
Zhong Yao nodded and smiled: "I know how to take care of myself. If Brother Cai has something important, you might as well do it yourself..."
Cai Hao stood up, saluted and said goodbye to Zhong Yao, then put on the poncho and bamboo hat placed outside the house, and slowly walked out of the yard, walking slowly in the rain.
The rain fell on the bamboo hat and poncho, making a crackling sound.
Cai Hao walked slowly, turned around the street, walked forward for a while, pushed open a half-open corner door in the alley, and entered the backyard. Then he took off his poncho and bamboo hat, put his hands behind his back, and walked out.
The back garden.
In the backyard, there are stewards and servants standing with hands hanging down.
Cai Mao calmly ordered: "Prepare soup, I want to take a bath..."
"Only..." The steward waved his hand quickly, and a servant hurriedly left. The servants immediately became busy. Some were preparing clothes, some were getting tea, and some were changing turbans for Cai Mao...
Someone's eyes fell on Cai Mao's wet robe and clogs stained with mud. But on a rainy day, walking in the back garden, isn't it normal for some rain and cement to be stained?
In the courtyard, the autumn rain is dripping, cutting like a knife.
