Chapter 262 Ma Su: That sword was only from my throat at that time
Chapter 262 Ma Su: The sword was only one centimeter away from my throat at that time
Being stared at by his three colleagues with wide eyes, Yang Wanwan did not panic at all, and was not worried that the three would get angry and attack him.
He has always been confident in his own power.
However, he felt a little unreasonable at this moment.
If you are wrong, you will be discouraged.
If you are angry, it will be difficult to fight back when being beaten.
So, he simply took out a shriveled cloth bag from his arms and said calmly: "That day when I went to the back mountain to pay my respects, I found a piece of ground that seemed to have been disturbed, so I opened it and took a look, and there was a bag of money inside. …”
"Three of you, this isn't considered a robbery, right?
Doesn't count.
This is plagiarism!
Huang Xi, Li Sheng, and Zhang Xiu looked at each other, and a proverb came to mind: "The mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole follows behind, and the hunter draws his bow."
Huang Xi grabbed the cloth bag, opened it and took a look. When he saw that there were only a few broken pieces of silver as big as soybeans left inside, his face suddenly fell.
He secretly cursed himself for being careless for actually believing that Zhang Xiu was an honest man.
It's good now, it's okay if you go bankrupt.
Fortunately, the reward for conquering Jiaozhou will be distributed this time, otherwise the next month will be very difficult.
As soon as they had finished drinking, they heard the "dong dong dong" sound of the gathering drum on the tower. This drum sound reminded all the generals who were out to return to their posts as soon as possible. The four people hurriedly went out. They went to the wine shop and headed towards their respective city gates.
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Ma Su left Guanshu and saw that it was still early, so he slowly walked back to his house with his guards, and sat in the pavilion in the backyard to think about things.
Although he had always been very confident in his military abilities, the battle for Jiaozhou ended in just over a month, which was a big surprise.
In other words, he is now the leader of a state, and if we add the vast area of Xiqiang controlled by A Xiu.
One-seventh of the world is already in his hands.
While this made Ma Su feel unreal, something called "ambition" quietly sprouted again.
Of course, Ma Su has not yet noticed the change in his ideas. What surprises him is why Sun Quan withdrew his troops?
It is not Sun Quan's style to suffer the consequences of being dumb.
This can be seen from what Sun Quan did during the thirty-two years he controlled Jiangdong.
Since the warlord separatism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, only two people have been most likely to unify the world - Yuan Shao in 200 and Cao Cao in 208.
But neither of them did it.
After the Battle of Chibi, the world quickly entered the Three Kingdoms era.
Among the three monarchs, in terms of ability alone, Cao Cao has the strongest military ability, followed by Liu Bei, and Sun Quan is the worst. Looking at military ability alone, Sun Quan has the smallest chance of unifying the world, and the person with the greatest chance is Cao Cao, followed by Liu Bei. .
However, Liu Bei's territory is the smallest among the three. The main reason for this situation is: different starts.
Liu Bei started with only a pile of straw mats. He was very poor. He had fought for half his life and was still dependent on others. He could be said to be the emperor with the worst start in history. Liu Xiu still had an ox at least (Zhu Yuanzhang, who started with only one bowl), had not yet born).
Although Cao Cao had a slightly better start, Yanzhou where he was located was surrounded by enemies on all sides. He was fighting with people all day long, his head was pinned to his belt every day, and the crisis coefficient was directly maxed out.
Sun Quan's start made the first two shed tears. His brother Sun Ce helped him win the territory and framework. The Jiangdong assassins who opposed the Sun family's rule were also bloodbathed by Sun Ce. After Sun Quan came to power, he didn't need it at all. To do anything, you only need to maintain stability, show gentleness, and comfort yourself internally.
Moreover, there is the Yangtze River to the east of the river, and the naval advantage created by Zhou Yu makes it difficult for other princes to defeat him. Even someone as powerful as Cao Cao was eventually defeated by the river. This shows that Sun Quan has a great starting advantage.
However, although they started with Tianhu, Cao Cao and Liu Bei's personal abilities were both stronger than Sun Quan's, so their final achievements were no less than those of Sun Quan.
In Ma Su's view, Sun Quan is the kind of king player who hides behind the defense tower all day long and calls the jungler to help from time to time. Once he bypasses the defense tower or draws his jungler away, he can beat him to death.
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If the defensive tower that Sun Quan relies on is the Yangtze River Cairn, and the junglers that can currently help him are Wei Guo or Lu Xun, then these two kinds of help are gone now.
The Wei State was restrained by Zhuge Liang and Kebi Neng and could not care about Soochow. As for Lu Xun, he was temporarily deposed by Sun Quan himself.
This act of alienation not only made Lu Xun jealous of Sun Quan, but also caused a rift between the latter and the Soochow gentry.
Soochow is the country with the most political involvement among the Three Kingdoms. Almost all the wealthy nobles are unwilling to invade Cao Wei in the north. For them, it is too difficult to unify the world, and in the Northern Expedition, they are the ones who need to contribute.
The gain outweighs the loss.
In contrast, it is still comfortable and comfortable to stick to the foundation of Soochow.
The most important thing is that even if Cao Wei finally invades Jiangdong, they still have trump cards. If Cao Wei wants to govern Jiangdong stably, he will also need the support of the wealthy noble families in Jiangdong.
From the beginning, the goals of the Jiangdong gentry were inconsistent with Sun Quan's. Sun Quan still wanted to make a difference at the beginning. During his tenure, he launched many battles of Hefei in an attempt to gain dominance in the world. However, these soldiers were invincible in defensive battles.
, it withered away as soon as it left the territory of Soochow.
The most representative example is Lu Meng and Lu Xun. When Lu Meng and Lu Xun attacked Guan Yu and captured Jingzhou, their performance was so perfect that Han Xin was ashamed to see it. The martial arts saint Guan Yu was unable to fight back. Especially Lu Xun, in the Battle of Yiling
When he defeated Liu Bei, he was as steady as an old dog. When he defeated Cao Xiu in the battle of Shiting, he was strategist. But neither of them advocated the Northern Expedition.
Why were Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu able to suppress the Wei army during their Northern Expedition (Zhou Yu forcefully captured Nanjun), but Lü Meng and Lu Xun could not?
It makes no sense to say that Lu Meng and Lu Xun's military capabilities are not as good as those of the previous two. Judging from Lu Meng and Lu Xun's battles with Guan Yu, Liu Bei, and Cao Xiu respectively, their military capabilities are very strong, and they almost always crush their opponents from a God's perspective.
But these two people never stepped outside the borders of Soochow throughout their lives.
In the final analysis, it can only be said that Lu Meng and Lu Xun have never thought about the Northern Expedition. This is also the attitude of the Jiangdong family represented by the latter. Lu Xun naturally has to consider the interests of the family.
Whether in this era or in later generations, many people have an illusion that the Soochow army is not capable of land warfare.
This is not actually the case.
Looking at all the major wars in Soochow, Zhou Yu's battle to seize Nanjun, the Battle of Yiling, and the Battle of Shiting were all fought on land. Only the Battle of Chibi was a water battle.
Therefore, the view that the Soochow army has poor land warfare capabilities is untenable. Although the Wu army is better at water warfare than land warfare compared to the Wei army and the Shu army, it does not mean that the Wu army is a bunch of noobs on land.
The most fundamental reason is that the Soochow family did not want the Northern Expedition at all, so as soon as they left the border of Jiangdong, they acted like they were unable to do anything, and they were defeated by Sun Quan. They conveyed to Sun Quan that "Soochow does not have the ability to do the Northern Expedition, so it can only
The illusion of self-preservation made the latter give up the idea of the Northern Expedition.
This is also one of the reasons why Ma Su was able to win Jiaozhou with just a few clicks.
For aristocratic families, it doesn't matter who becomes their lord. As long as their family's status remains unchanged, it will be fine.
Thinking of this, Ma Su suddenly realized.
In order to verify his guess, he got up and went to the inner room, intending to ask Lu Meng.
Lu Meng was sitting in front of the dressing table, looking at herself in front of the bronze mirror, lost in thought.
Hearing the movement behind him, after a while, Lu Meng turned around silently and said to Ma Su in a sad tone: "Husband, did my second brother really commit suicide?"
Ma Su was stunned and thought to himself: Could it be that the news was leaked?
Who could have leaked it?
But he said: "Madam, isn't this over? Why do you suddenly ask this question?"
After saying that, he reached out to hug Lu Meng, intending to use a warm applause to dispel her doubts and distract her attention.
Lu Meng did not refuse this intimate gesture, and was carried to the bed like a wooden figure. Her face was expressionless throughout the process, and her dark eyes were staring straight at the top of the gauze curtain.
Ma Su had no choice but to get up, come to the desk, and sit down cross-legged.
Lu Meng followed over silently, sat down face to face, stared closely into Ma Di's eyes, and asked in a plaintive voice:
"Husband, did my second brother commit suicide?"
"Yes!" Ma Su said firmly.
"Did you take the initiative to commit suicide?" Lu Meng asked again.
"yes!"
"Is someone forcing my second brother?"
"Yes! Uh... no!"
Ma Su glanced at Lu Meng guiltily and found that her eyes were a little red, as if she had just cried.
He was suddenly startled and said, "There is no resurrection after death. Madam, I express my condolences and accept the change."
Lu Meng raised her hand and took out a sword from the table, pulled it out, and stuck it in her husband's neck.
Ma Su was startled again: "Madam, why is this happening?"
Lu Meng looked at him sadly and decisively, and shouted outside: "Bring him in!"
The door opened in response.
A dark man limped in.
Ma Su turned his head and looked around, and immediately took a breath of cold air.
This person can no longer be called a human being.
His face was beyond recognition, covered with burn scars, and looked hideous and terrifying. One of his legs was lame, one of his eyes was burned out, and the exposed parts of his ears were turned into two fleshy buds.
"Who...are you?" Ma Su felt an unknown premonition in his heart and slowly stood up.
Could this person be a survivor of the fire?
The man chuckled, and his voice was like a broken bellows: "Sir, you didn't expect that I am still alive!"
Lu Meng stood up and added: "He is my second brother's personal soldier Lu Jiu. He was also present on the day of the incident. Fortunately, he survived the fire."
Sure enough... Ma Su silently digested the entire information and questioned: "You are completely unrecognizable. How can you prove that you are Lu Jiu?"
"Madam, this person's one-sided words cannot be trusted!"
Lu Meng hesitated for a moment, but still did not move the sword away.
In fact, Ma Su is not afraid of this sword at all, and Lu Meng's force is no match for him.
He deliberately did not resist, so he had something to rely on.
After all, the Master once said in bed: One day a husband and a wife will be blessed for a hundred days.
Although he and Lu Meng had only been married for ten days, this kindness had already accumulated into the tens of thousands.
Even if Lu Meng wanted to kill him, he would make him speechless before taking action.
Therefore, Ma Su was not panicked at all.
He even deliberately rubbed his neck forward, which frightened Lu Meng into quickly withdrawing the sword and placing the blade on his shoulder instead.
Ma Su glanced at Lu Meng silently, stretched out his two fingers, and put the sword blade to his neck again, and said solemnly: "Madam, do it quickly."
"Well..." Lu Meng held the hilt of the sword with all her strength, resisting the force of Ma Di's sword on his own neck. She didn't know what to say at this time.
The unrecognizable Lu Jiu shook his head with a bitter smile, took out a dagger, pointed it at his heart, and said resolutely to Lu Meng: "Third Miss, I swear on my life that nothing this villain said is false."
"Master Lu has treated me with great kindness. I endured the humiliation and risked my life to tell the third lady the truth. I just don't want the third lady to be deceived by this cunning man!"
"On that day, the sky was filled with fire. We had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. His subordinates said: As long as Mr. Lu commits suicide, we will be spared! At that time, this cunning man was also present!"
"Master Lu didn't want all the soldiers like us to be buried in the sea of fire and had no choice but to commit suicide. Wuwuwu... Mr. Lu, his death was so unjust..."
Ma Di glanced at Lu Jiu calmly and asked, "Do you have a witness?"
Hearing these words, Lu Jiu almost died on the spot. He squinted one eye and shouted loudly: "I can use my life to prove that everything I said is true."
"That being the case, why don't you take action?" Ma Su pressed.
Lu Jiu glanced at Lu Meng with sadness and anger, and seeing that she was still hesitant to take action, he immediately gritted his teeth and stabbed himself in the heart.
"Don't……"
Lu Meng was shocked and spoke to stop her.
But it was too late.
Lu Jiu slowly fell to the ground and died soon.
Witnessing this, Lu Meng was almost certain that Ma Su was the murderer who forced her second brother to death. She had always felt that her second brother would never commit suicide unless someone forced him to do so - now this guess has been verified.
Since Lu Jiu is willing to die to prove himself, then 99% of what he said is true.
Lu Meng closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face, and the past memories between her and her second brother came back bit by bit.
Lu Meng couldn't help but feel heartbroken when she thought that her husband actually took the initiative to force her second brother to death. A feeling of despair that was worse than death rose from the soles of her feet to her chest, and then spread throughout her body.
Suddenly, the second brother's image was overshadowed and replaced by a sweet and wonderful image, and the loving scene between her and the husband in front of her began to appear in her mind.
Picture after picture, scene after scene, flashing by like a revolving lantern, some are as hot as fire, some are gentle and drizzle, some are full of fun...
Lu Meng felt for a moment that the sword in his hand weighed more than ten thousand pounds.
The maids and guards all retreated.
Only the husband and wife were left in the room.
Ma Di looked at Lu Meng without any panic, and decided to play some emotional cards: "There once was a second uncle standing in front of me. I didn't know him, and he didn't know me. My generals forced him to death. I
I deeply regret this. If I could turn back time, I would definitely stop the general from doing this."
"Now, the regret has been cast, and it's too late to say anything."
"You should avenge your second brother, and I should die too. Cut my throat with your sword."
Lu Meng stared at Ma Di without blinking, trying to move but stopping several times, unable to do so.
After a long time, he dropped the sword on the ground, turned his head and looked aside, and said bitterly: "Let's go!"
"From now on, we will never be..."
Of course, Ma Su would not let Lu Meng say these words. He raised his legs and stepped over, stretched out his hand to cover her mouth, and blocked the last two words.
Lu Meng first opened her mouth and bit Ma Su's hand hard, biting out blood like a pig's trotter, then she released her teeth and beat Ma Su with her fist.
The two men, both of whom were very powerful, started fighting fiercely in the room.