The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 309 Take a step back and watch the two dogs fight for food

After the defeat of the barbarians, Ding Feng led the remaining army to retreat to the southeast, intending to detour to Lingling and rush to Changsha.

A Guta chased after him like a candy bark, harassing him frequently.

Ding Feng did not expect that one day he would suffer so much in the mountains in the southern part of Wuling County, and even escaping unscathed became a luxury.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer soldiers under his command, and there are only 6000 left, Ding Feng is extremely anxious, but he is helpless.

At that time, most of the troops he led had participated in the Battle of Chenxi, and they all knew that A Guda had a fierce reputation of one enemy against a hundred, and feared him like a tiger.Seeing Aguda's banner chasing from behind, the soldiers were frightened and had no intention of resisting, shouting "Aguda is coming, run, if you run too slowly, I will give you my life!"

Those who ran slowly, when they saw being overtaken, immediately knelt down and begged for surrender, fearing that they would be decapitated if they surrendered too slowly; those who ran fast secretly thanked their parents for having a good body.

As they ran all the way, there were more and more deserters, and fewer and fewer soldiers following the flag.

On this day, Ding Feng led his troops to escape from the barbarian territory and walked under a horizontal mountain beam. Suddenly, he heard endless shouts of killing behind him. The mountains and fields were filled with black barbarian soldiers coming from all directions.

Seeing that the large army was rushed up in an instant, the barbarians had already rushed into the formation and began to kill.Ding Feng looked up to the sky and sighed, "Today my life is over", and he planned to sacrifice his life for the country and live and die with all the soldiers.

Fortunately, he got off his steed, and at this critical moment, with a hiss of alarm, he rushed forward with all his strength, leaped across the ridge, and fled to the mountain beam with him.

Ding Feng, who had escaped from death, had just recovered from his shock. When he looked back, he saw dust flying at the bottom of the mountain and his soldiers were surrounded.

I couldn't help feeling a pain in my heart, turned over and got off the horse, pounding the ground and yelling.

After shouting, he looked around and saw only a few dozen soldiers who followed him up the mountain. The rest were trapped in the barbarian formation at the bottom of the mountain, and they were immediately heartbroken.

At the same time, screams came and went from the foot of the mountain, and the barbarians tried their best to encircle and suppress the Ding's army, massacring them all.

Ding Feng couldn't bear to watch anymore, so he punched the ground with his fist, mounted his horse and turned around Changsha to apologize to Sun Quan.

When Sun Quan heard about the battle report, he was furious: "It's okay that you can't win the battle, but you actually caused the annihilation of my [-] elite army. Do you know your guilt?!"

Ding Feng was lying on the ground, and said with compassion on his face: "The last general is convicted, and he is willing to accept the military law."

Sun Quan waved his hand: "Come here, push Ding Feng out and behead him, so as to establish military discipline!"

"Lord, wait a minute!"

At that time, Lu Meng, who recommended Ding Fengping to be a man, had returned to Wuling to garrison.Lu Su, Zhang Zhao, Zhuge Jin and others couldn't bear to see Sun Quan lose his general talent again, so they all came out to persuade:

"General Ding won the first battle last time and killed [-] barbarians. Although he was defeated now, it was because the enemy commander was too cunning and the barbarians were so numerous that they were beyond the strength of human power."

"I hope that for the sake of previous achievements, my lord will forgive General Ding this time and let him take the blame and make meritorious service."

"I hope my lord will forgive General Ding and let him take his crime and make meritorious service!" All the civil and military soldiers bowed and saluted in unison, pleading for Ding Feng.

Sun Quan glanced at everyone in the hall, his face changed several times, and finally he looked at Ding Feng and said: "Since you beg for mercy, I will spare your life for the time being, and you will not back down!"

Ding Feng saluted in fear, and quickly thanked him and left.

Sun Quan looked around at the crowd and said with a frown, "My lords, the barbarians can't win this battle, what should we do?"

After this defeat, a shadow suddenly cast over his heart, and he had doubts about his unclear future.

Even though he still controls two and a half states at this moment, he still has 34 soldiers and horses under his command, which is stronger than Liu Bei in Yizhou and second only to Wei.But Sun Quan still felt a little unsure.

In fact, when he lost the four Jiangdong counties 11 years ago, he had already vaguely seen his own ending.

Fortunately, the Northern army did not kill them all at that time, and Zhou Yu was later given a life sentence. He led his army to sweep across Jiao and Guang, captured Jingnan, and made a comeback.

But now that Zhou Yu has passed away for six years, Lu Su, who succeeded him as the military governor, has also retired to the second line due to physical reasons, and the new governor has become Lu Meng.

Looking around the court, who can solve Sun Quan's worries and problems?Hengdao immediately?

Nobody!
Thinking of this, Sun Quan sighed.

Everyone in the hall frowned in thought, but no one said anything.

There was a long silence, but still no one offered advice, Sun Quan couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile, glanced at Lu Su, got up and left.

Lu Su quickly dragged his sick body and followed Sun Quan to the back hall.

In fact, not many soldiers and horses were lost this time, only [-].Although the barbarians won, it was a miserable victory, and they could only defend themselves, and did not have the ability to swing their troops around to attack.

But as a monarch with a keen sense of smell, Sun Quan still realized that something was wrong.

Just like when a building is about to fall, the people at the highest level always feel the shaking first, at this moment Sun Quan felt a sense of danger.

This feeling is indescribable and unclear.But it makes people feel extremely uneasy.

Sun Quan looked at the haggard Lu Su, and said in a deep voice, "Zijing teach me."

"Master, don't be anxious, Su is thinking about it."

Lu Su responded, and his thoughts raced at high speed.

As the top strategist of this era, he is naturally more aware of the crisis than Sun Quan.

But there was no good solution at the moment.

Once the fortress is cracked from the inside, even gods will be hard to save, let alone such a dying person?
However, the inside has not been completely cracked yet, but a crack has appeared, and you can try to remedy it.

There are currently four threats facing Sun Quan.In order of severity, they are: Liu Bei's eastward attack, popular dispersion, Wei army's border display, and barbarian rebellion.

Among them, Liu Bei's eastward attack was unavoidable. After Guan Yu's death, Liu Bei was determined to fight, so the two sides would have a fight sooner or later.

In this way, it is necessary to solve the problem of the Wei army's suppression of the border, and it is absolutely impossible to start a war with the two forces at the same time.

Therefore, showing loyalty to Wei Guo has become a top priority.

But this road seemed to be unworkable. Although the State of Wei ostensibly agreed to Sun Quan becoming a minister, it also granted Sun Quan a posthumous title.However, judging from the intervention of Xiangyang Governor "Cui Zhi" in the barbarian rebellion, it is very likely that Wei will take advantage of Liu Bei's eastward attack to add insult to injury.

It is not possible, it is certain!
The day Liu Bei attacked was the time when the "Sword of Damoris" was cut down.

In this situation, it is inevitable for the civil and military forces to become disengaged.

The building is about to fall, and it is human nature to think of ways to retreat, and there is no way to force it.

Dead end!

Lu Su's brows formed into the character "Chuan" and he thought about it for a long time, but found nothing.

He sighed, and was about to tell Sun Quan that he had no other skills, when suddenly he thought of a solution that was not a solution.

"My lord, Su suddenly thought of a plan."

"Oh? Zijing, tell me quickly!" Sun Quan was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly held Lu Su's hands, looking forward to it.

Lu Su came to the wooden case, picked up a black chess piece and put it in the middle, and said to Sun Quan, "My lord, this is a dog bone."

Sun Quan nodded.

Lu Su picked up three more white chess pieces and placed them around the black chess piece, "These are three dogs."

Sun Quan nodded again.I knew that what Lu Su wanted to express was the situation of three dogs competing for food.

Lu Su moved one of the white chess pieces to the distance, pointed to the two dogs (white chess) and one bone (black chess piece) that were still facing each other, and said with a smile: "My lord, the dog bone is Jingnan. The dogs just a little further away are us, how about that?"

Sun Quan pondered for a moment, clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "Wonderful, wonderful!"

Lu Su continued: "Take a step back and the sky will be brighter. Lord, we were in the middle of the situation before."

Sun Quan nodded again and again, and immediately burst out laughing.

He also thought of another benefit of taking this step back, which is to turn Wuxi Man, who was originally an internal rebellion, into an external force.

(End of this chapter)