After receiving Gu Yong's letter, Sun Quan also thought about it for a long time.
To be honest, Sun Quan is indeed a flexible and flexible person. After all, he has succeeded to the throne since he was fifteen years old, and he has been in charge of the industry since he was a young man. Without a little patience and government, Sun Quan would not be able to sit in his current position.
To be honest, the political environment when Sun Quan first came to the throne was no better than the situation Zhuge Liang faced after Yiling. It was even worse because of some of Sun Ce's actions and Jiangdong's special military system.
If he is not careful, Sun Ce's Jiangdong foundation may be overturned at any time.
Sun Quan succeeded to the throne under such circumstances. Relying on the support of Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao, he frequently used a series of gentle measures to stabilize the Huaisi Group and at the same time ease the relationship with the Jiangdong family. Slowly After securing his position, he finally took complete control of Jiangdong with the influence of the Battle of Chibi.
Therefore, Sun Quan is an excellent ruler who understands the situation and is also good at forbearance and checks and balances.
However, the Sun Quan of this time and space is somewhat different from the Sun Quan of history.
The biggest difference is that at the military level, Sun Quan in this time and space still has some confidence in himself.
The Sun Quan in history, when he faced Cao Wei, although there was a highlight moment like the first Battle of Ruxu, for the rest of the time, he was basically reduced to the experience bag of Cao Wei's generals. He really took a lot of beatings. .
But in this time and space, although Sun Quan suffered a small loss under the city of Hefei and almost lost his life when Zhang Liao attacked him, in the end, with Zhou Yu's timely support, he only had a near miss.
Now he has taken Hefei easily, and his troops are approaching Qingxu. Cao Wei can only be trapped in Pengcheng Kingdom and struggle. Sun Quan is very confident at this moment, and his spirit is also high.
He wanted to dismiss himself as the leader of the Soochow Kingdom, and of course Sun Quan couldn't swallow it.
Therefore, when Sun Quan received Gu Yong's letter, he was extremely angry at Cao Wei's aggressive attitude.
Cao Pi, you are being beaten on both fronts, why do you dare to show such a high profile to me? !
But. In the final analysis, this "but" is the most important thing.
Today's Soochow is also somewhat unable to win on the Qingxu battlefield.
It has been almost two and a half months since the siege of Pengcheng Kingdom. During these two and a half months, the Wei army has recovered from the panic of being attacked by a sneak attack. The morale and morale of the army have also stabilized the land combat capabilities of the soldiers of East Wu. There is no way to get anything good in front of this group of Wei soldiers who have recovered their breath.
Another thing is that there was a heavy snowfall last winter that lasted for more than half a month. Most of the soldiers in Jiangdong were not prepared for the cold in Qingxu area and were not accustomed to the acclimatization. The non-combat attrition was very serious. Even the head coach Zhou Yu was already ill. fall down.
Ever since Zhou Yu experienced a life and death in Baqiu, his health has not been very good. It took him several years of recuperation to recover. Now this illness suddenly made Sun Quan start to worry again.
Sun Quan was also faced with a more troublesome problem at this time - the older generation of generals, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Gan Ning, Tai Shi Ci and others had passed away one after another. Among the Mesozoic generals, Xu Sheng and Zhu Huan were still not close to being successful, and Sun Huan, Ling Tong and others died early. In the new generation, Sun Shao, Zhu Ran, Lu Xun and others were not qualified enough to take the lead.
Therefore, although Sun Quan was already a little wary of Zhou Yu, at this time, Sun Quan really couldn't watch Zhou Yu pass away due to illness, so he was wondering whether to simply withdraw his troops and take Zhou Yu back to Jianye to recuperate in peace.
Finally, and the most important issue - the sequelae of Soochow's military system began to occur.
Soochow's military system has adopted a relatively special military system since Sun Ce.
In the world's military system, soldiers are privately owned and maintained by generals. Sun Quan just gave a blank check to allow a certain general to raise as many soldiers as he wanted.
Although doing so saved the Soochow regime a lot of money and food for raising troops, it also resulted in Sun Quan not having strong control over the army. He could only indirectly control the army by controlling generals.
In these years, Han and Wei actually had generals and private armies, but the number of private armies among the generals in these two countries was no more than a thousand. For example, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and other trusted generals of the lord could maintain their strength. With so many private soldiers, the rest of the army theoretically belongs to the master.
But in Soochow, due to the secular military system adopted, the leaders of these soldiers were the generals, and the leader of the generals was Sun Quan.
This led to the fact that the soldiers of Soochow were only responsible to their masters when they were marching and fighting. The combat effectiveness of the Soochow army formed by these soldiers was directly linked to the commander's will to fight.
Therefore, in Soochow's foreign wars, there were often situations where the forces of Soochow were going against the wind and going against the wind, or the Soochow troops suddenly withdrew their troops even though they clearly had an advantage.
This was all the fault of the Soochow military system. None of the generals wanted to let their soldiers suffer too much loss, which would eventually lead to the war ending.
And the same is true today.
Soochow's sneak attack on Qingxu was launched by the Huaisi Group headed by Zhou Yu against all opinions. The Jiangdong Family Group was originally reluctant to send troops.
Now the result of the battle was only to occupy half of Xiapi, but still could not completely capture Qingxu. This not only dissatisfied the generals from the Jiangdong family, but also had considerable opposition within the Huaisi Group.
Zhou Yu's prestige in the army was too high, and no one dared to complain in front of him. But they could complain to Sun Quan.
About half of the generals who went on the expedition did not want to fight and wanted to give up as soon as possible. Even if Sun Quan wanted to support Zhou Yu again, he had to weigh the consequences.
It is impossible for Zhou Yu to keep winning, and even if Zhou Yu can keep winning, he will not be able to live forever. If Zhou Yu is gone, Sun Quan will completely offend these generals. When Zhou Yu is gone in the future, who will help him to calm down? These proud soldiers in the army? !
Sun Quan was good at checks and balances, but sometimes checks and balances were not very useful in the army.
This is also the reason why Sun Quan has always wanted to install his own people in the army over the years, and at the same time weaken Zhou Yu's influence in the army. There was originally a very suitable candidate, but unfortunately, Lu Meng died too early.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Sun Quan does have the idea of retreating.
In addition, Gu Yong reported in the letter, and Liu Bei's military operations in Guanzhong and Nanyang were also suspended, so Sun Quan would be even less likely to completely offend Cao Wei and force Cao Wei to fight a war with him.
After much thought, Sun Quan decided to end the Qingxu War as soon as possible.
Therefore, Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to make proper arrangements to withdraw his troops from Pengcheng first, leaving Lu Xun to garrison Xiapi and Zhuge Jin to garrison Langya Kingdom. After making these arrangements, Zhou Yu was asked to return to Jianye to recuperate as soon as possible.
Then, Sun Quan wrote back to Gu Yong, using Zhou Yu's initiative to withdraw his troops as an excuse to express his sincerity to Cao Wei. At the same time, he asked Gu Yong to try his best to win Cao Wei's recognition of the Soochow regime. The title "Lord of Soochow" was definitely not acceptable, and he was not Cao Wei's. vassal.
With Sun Quan's reply to Gu Yong, and Zhou Yu indeed taking the initiative to withdraw his troops and shrink back to Huainan, leaving only Lu Xun and Xu Sheng to guard Xiapi, Zhuge Jin also returned to the Langya Kingdom, and Gu Yong could continue the negotiation. .
In the end, there was another round of wrangling. Cao Pi pinched his nose and admitted that Sun Quan was the "Lord of Wu" and allowed Sun Quan to call himself "Lord of Wei." He followed the same routine as Liu Bei.
This title would satisfy Sun Quan much more than the title of Lord of Soochow.
At the same time, Cao Wei also officially recognized Sun Quan's occupation of Huainan, but Cao Pi refused to recognize the Qingxu land.
After all, he still has Peng Chengguo in hand and a springboard for counterattack, so he will never let his words die at this time.
Of course, these days, in the final analysis, it still depends on strength, and whoever can conquer the land belongs to whom. But since the two countries are friendly to each other, if they want to fight again, they have to pay attention to one division's reputation.
Making excuses is also a troublesome thing, and Cao Pi doesn't want to follow the truth in this regard.
With the peace talks between Wei and Wu, Liu Bei, who was in Xiangyang, couldn't sit still.
Yes, at this time, Liu Bei was indeed not in Chang'an, but in Xiangyang. There was nothing we could do. Xu Shu wrote a letter saying that Guan Yu was seriously injured and that Liu Bei was in urgent need. Even the emperor Luan Jia did not sit down and took Zhang Fei and more than a hundred personal guards with him. , take the route from Youfufeng, Shangyong, Xiangyang, and go straight to Xiangyang to see the second brother's injury.
Therefore, when the news of the peace talks between Wei and Wu came, Liu Bei was indeed in Xiangyang City, taking care of Guan Yu.
The peace negotiations between Wei and Wu were not a good thing for Ji Han. Cao Pi couldn't stand Sun Quan, and Liu Bei couldn't trust him either.
Before, two families were weak and one was strong. The weak families could only stick together, otherwise they would be defeated one by one by the strong ones.
But now, the Han Dynasty has the two states of Yongliang, and Soochow has also occupied Qingxu, Huainan. Under the one-and-done situation, although Cao Wei is still the strongest, Cao Wei's advantage is no longer as obvious as before.
It is not impossible for Sun Quan to really make peace with Cao Pi and deal with the big Han together.
After all, Sun Quan has a criminal record. He sent Lu Meng to sneak attack Jingzhou a few years ago. If Zhang Xi and others had not been prepared, it is really hard to say who would own Jingzhou now.
Therefore, Liu Bei had to send Fei Yi as envoy to Jiangdong again. On the one hand, he wanted to find out whether Sun Quan's attitude had changed from before. On the other hand, I don't care whether Sun Quan wants to get together with Cao Pi. Why don't you help me send Fan A to Xiangyang first!
I'm waiting for Fan A to treat my second brother's illness! ! !
(End of chapter)
