Chapter 486: I will never return Liaodong until I break it!
Quan Cong finished lunch with all the generals in the hall, then stood up, put his sword on his waist again, and said loudly: "Everyone, follow me to capture Xiangping City, and make new achievements for Your Majesty. I swear I will not return it until Liaodong is broken."
towards!"
The generals also stood up and clasped their fists together and said: "Capture Xiangping and I will not return it until Liaodong is broken!" Although there were only about ten generals in the hall, they were still very powerful.
Qin Dan, Tian Jiang, Zhang Qun, and Du De were all here as captains when they were sent to Liaodong as envoys. After all, they were also sent to Liaodong as envoys and were familiar with Liaodong. They could serve as guides and leaders.
Some troops and horses will contribute some strength,
When the voices of the generals gradually died down, Qin Dan, Tian Jiang, Zhang Qun, and Du De held the military salute with red eyes: "Please Grand Sima avenge generals Zhou He, Pei Qian, Xu Yan, and He Da!"
After everyone finished speaking, Quan Cong spoke again: "The revenge of these generals must be avenged, but the top priority right now is to capture Xiangping first. Now that the Gongsun clan has disappeared, we can only seek revenge from Wei Jun."
Now, after taking the entire territory of Liaodong, we will take the opportunity to take over the land of Youzhou!"
The failure of the three missions to Liaodong in the past few years was ultimately Sun Quan's fault, but few people dared to openly talk about it to Sun Quan, but the matter of revenge was still mentioned from time to time.
Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the whole began to decline. Liaodong was divided into one side under the leadership of Gongsun Du. Because Liaodong was relatively stable compared to the Central Plains, a large number of people and celebrities even went to Liaodong to take refuge. This also added a lot of people to Liaodong.
Population and technology.
Later, the Gongsun family who separatized Liaodong became an important player in the balance of power. He defected to Cao Wei for a while, and then to Sun Quan for a while. It can be said that because the sky in Liaodong was high and the emperor was far away, and the Central Plains was not yet peaceful, Liaodong has always been in a state of uncertainty.
A comfort zone where no one cares.
In the second year of Taihe (228), Gongsun Du's grandson Gongsun Yuan drove his uncle away and ruled Liaodong by himself.
At this time, Gongsun Yuan had just succeeded to the throne, so he continued his previous policy - ostensibly surrendering to Wei, but in fact he still had the final say.
Cao Rui also knew what was going on in Liaodong, so he didn't mention that it wasn't your uncle who was in charge of Liaodong before. Why was it replaced? He just followed the trend and worshiped Gongsun Yuan as General Yang Lie and the governor of Liaodong.
But Gongsun Yuan was very ambitious. After he succeeded to the throne, he cleaned up Liaodong. After he had the final say, he planned to chat with Sun Quan, who had just become emperor, to see if he could get any benefits.
Although Sun Quan became emperor, his throne had no legal basis! Unlike Cao Wei, who abdicated from the Han Dynasty, Shu Han had his own surname of Liu, both of which had strong legitimacy.
Sun Quan urgently needed people from other small countries to recognize him and to bring together all the nations to show his legitimacy. Gongsun Yuan stated that he would follow Sun Quan, the "Great Emperor", which directly made Sun Quan very happy.
So Sun Quan sent General Zhou He and Colonel Pei Qian as envoys to visit Liaodong.
Sun Quan's purpose is very simple: first, to increase his external relations and not to appear that his emperor is only recognized by the Shu Han family;
The second is to contact Liaodong and use the strategy of "distance and close attack" to see if we can unite with Liaodong and attack Cao Wei from the north and south together when something happens.
In March of the first year of Jiahe in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, general Zhou He and captain Pei Qian took nearly a hundred ships and headed north along the coastline.
Gongsun Yuan felt that he had contacted Emperor Sun Quan, and naturally he could not recognize Emperor Cao Rui, so he simply gave up paying tribute to Cao Wei.
When Cao Wei saw Gongsun Yuan's attitude, he wanted to rebel!
So Emperor Wei Ming directly arranged for the governor of Runan and the Yi general Tian Yu to lead the Qingzhou soldiers to attack.
Tian Yu is not just a scholar. He previously served as the Colonel of Wuwu Wan in Youzhou for 9 years. He played the nomads in Youzhou to death. He either annihilated or subdued the powerful ones; he forced the powerful ones to death. His tribe was scattered... He also personally led troops into battle many times, and had a record of killing King Karasuma. It can be said that he was both civil and military.
But when Tian Yu had just organized his troops in Qingzhou and was about to set off, Emperor Wei Ming changed his mind again, and Cao Rui asked to stop fighting first.
Why did Cao Rui suddenly change his mind? Because Cao Rui received the latest news that Sun Quan sent General Zhou He and Colonel Pei Qian to lead dozens of ships to visit Liaodong.
Cao Rui believed that the opponent now had an extra navy, there were many enemies, and they had to cross the sea. This battle would not be easy. Moreover, Cao Wei's strategic focus at this time was to prepare for Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.
Tian Yu received the order to cease the war and could only obey the order first.
But Tian Yu is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. He thinks that I can obey orders and not hit others, but if others bump into my defense zone, I will definitely still hit them.
So Tian Yu asked his generals to patrol along the Qingzhou coastline, and troops must be stationed wherever it was convenient for ships to dock.
After Tian Yu came out with this move, the generals laughed at him: In ancient times, we waited for rabbits, but now we have open space to wait for thieves! I have never heard of such a war!
But Tian Yu’s reasons are also very good.
After Tian Yu's estimation, he believed that the fleet sent by Sun Quan arrived in Liaodong, and after discussing cooperation with Gongsun Yuan, it was ready to go south. During this period, various negotiations and wrangling, coupled with the repair and supply of the ships... it would definitely take It took several months.
It is expected that they will not go back south to Soochow until August or September, but this time is when the sea is very rough.
According to the shipbuilding and navigation technology at the time, Soochow's fleet was not strong enough to go south directly without passing the coastline. They could only go south slowly along the coastline. Except for a few small islands near Chengshantou, the Qingzhou coastline Basically there is no place to park a boat to avoid the waves.
Tian Yu led his troops to garrison Chengshan. When he had nothing to do, he even visited Chengshan Temple, which is said to have been visited by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Sure enough, in autumn and September, Zhou He and others finished their visit and prepared to return to Soochow.
When the ships were passing through the Bohai Sea and heading towards the Yellow Sea, they encountered strong winds and waves. The ships in the fleet either sank or quickly found shelter from the wind.
But Zhou He of Soochow did not expect that all the places that could be sheltered from the wind along the way were guarded by Cao Wei's people. Zhou He chose to go to Chengshan, which was the most convenient place to shelter from the wind. Unexpectedly, he met Tian Yu who had been waiting for him for a long time here.
He was beheaded by Tian Yu.
The generals under Tian Yu saw that they really waited for the people from Soochow to come, and then they obeyed Tian Yu.
Zhou He of Soochow went to Liaodong and died on the way, but this did not stop Sun Quan and Gongsun Yuan from having the same fate.
In the winter of that year, Gongsun Yuan sent his captain Su Shu and his lieutenant Sun Zong to pay homage to Sun Quan, professed his vassal status to Sun Quan, and presented Sun Quan with gifts such as mink skins and horses from Liaodong.