This time, Zhou Yu did not wait for the treatment of famous doctors. His condition deteriorated too quickly, and he did not even wait for the imperial doctor sent by Sun Quan from Jianye to treat him.
Across the Yangtze River, Zhang Xi didn't know what to think when he learned of Zhou Yu's death.
At the beginning of November, Zhou Yu had just led the Dongwu army to withdraw from Jiangling, and at the end of November, the news that Zhou Yu died of illness in Baqiu reached Jiangling.
Really, it was so sudden that Zhang Xi didn't even know how to go home and inform his wife of the bad news.
But no matter what, in November of the eighth year of Jianxing, Zhou Yu, a famous general of the generation, died of illness in Baqiu.
History has returned to its familiar place.
When Sun Quan heard the bad news, he cried and fainted on the spot. He announced that he would suspend court for one month and personally attend to Zhou Yu's funeral.
At the same time, Sun Quan posthumously named Zhou Yu the Marquis of Zhongxiang.
To worry about the country and forget one's family is called loyalty; to serve the king with integrity is called loyalty; to defend the country to the death is called loyalty.
The person who created the land with virtue is called Xiang; the armor with labor is called Xiang; the person who has meritorious deeds is called Xiang.
This posthumous title can fully reflect Zhou Yu's status in Sun Quan's heart, and it is also the final conclusion of Zhou Yu's life.
After the posthumous funeral, Sun Quan personally carried out the funeral and buried Zhou Yu at the southern foot of Zhongshan Mountain, beside Sun Quan's own imperial mausoleum, accompanied by the emperor and his ministers.
If things only come to this point, it can be said that Sun Quan still values Zhou Yu quite a lot.
But then Sun Quan did something that was really hard to evaluate.
This matter has to start with the military system of Soochow, the world military system.
As the general of Soochow, Zhou Yu is truly the number one person in the army. The size of the army he can control can be 6,000. These 6,000 people need to be supported by Zhou Yu. At the same time, they can also be passed down. To the descendants of Zhou Yu.
Logically speaking, after Zhou Yu died of illness, Zhou Yu's eldest son Zhou Xun inherited the title, and naturally he also inherited Zhou Yu's army. These six thousand soldiers should be under the command of Zhou Xun.
But Sun Quan found a random reason and split the 6,000-man world soldier quota into two, giving Zhou Xun a 3,000-man world soldier quota and Zhou Yin a 3,000-man world soldier quota. The two brothers divided the six thousand men equally. A quota of one thousand soldiers.
By doing this, it seemed that Zhou Yu's two sons were not treated badly, but in fact, it was in disguise that Zhou Yu's original quota of world soldiers was cut off.
Although no one dares to say this in public, privately they think of it.
What's the use of wealth and splendor during life, no matter how high-standard the funeral ceremony, no matter how good the posthumous title, it's only for the dead. This treatment for future generations is what everyone values the most.
For people of this age, the ultimate goal of serving the emperor is to find a wife and a shadow. That is Zhou Yu. He devoted himself to Wu and died. After his death, the treatment of his descendants became If you look like this, what about your turn? !
No matter what Sun Quan's considerations were, he did what he did. After learning about it, Sun Shangxiang wrote a letter and sent someone to Jianye to give it to Sun Quan. In the letter, he directly cursed Sun Quan as an ungrateful bastard.
Originally, this letter was written by Sun Shangxiang to Sun Quan. No outsider would dare to open it and read it, so the only people who knew about it were Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang. But they didn’t know what happened. The content quickly spread among the people of Soochow.
This directly put Sun Quan into a dilemma, and he had to symbolically increase the quota of the world military system to 4,000 for Zhou Xun and Zhou Yin to quell the criticism among the people.
Of course, in the end Sun Quan also found out who leaked the secret and who else could it be, Sun Quan's cheap brother-in-law.
Apart from Zhang Xi, who else knows the contents of the letter so clearly, and who has the motivation and ability to spread the contents of the letter to everyone in Jiangdong? !
Well, that bastard did it.
But in fact, it was Zhang Xi who did it.
On the one hand, the Han Dynasty and Soochow are now clearly enemies. Zhang Xi would be out of his mind if he did not do this to undermine the prestige of the enemy monarch and weaken the cohesion of the enemy monarch and ministers.
On the other hand, Zhang Xi is also complaining about Zhou Yu. He who has devoted his whole life to you, Soochow, will be treated like his son in the blink of an eye after his death, right? !
If you, Sun Quan, dare to do it, I, Zhang Xi, dare to say it.
Besides, Zhang Xi was originally very dissatisfied with Sun Quan, because what Sun Quan did after Zhou Yu's death in history was even more inhumane.
Historically, Zhou Yu died early and Zhou Xun was not yet an adult, so it made sense for Sun Quan to hand over Zhou Yu's soldiers to Lu Su temporarily.
After all, regarding the relationship between Lu Su and Zhou Yu, as well as Lu Su's character, no one believed that Lu Su could swallow up Zhou Yu's soldiers.
But after Lu Su died and Zhou Xun came of age, only two thousand soldiers were left in Zhou Xun's hands. Do you believe this is the Governor of Soochow, Zhou Yu who led the troops to defeat Cao Cao in Chibi? , the number of world soldiers that should be received? !
Sun Quan was really shameless in this. He didn't even give a reason and directly deducted Zhou Yu's number of soldiers.
In this time and space, although Sun Quan was somewhat embarrassed and his appearance was not that ugly, in Zhang Xi's eyes, his style of doing things was still so dirty and hateful.
Zhou Yu has worked hard for you for almost twenty years and has been helping you consolidate your foundation. But these extra twenty years of hard work have only given you a slightly better-looking appearance? !
Now Zhang Xi can understand why Chen Shou said that Sun Quan "had many sexual suspicions, which resulted in killing". If Zhou Yu had not made too much contribution, I am afraid that his fate would not be much worse than that of the Lu Xun in history.
It’s not fun anyway.
But no matter how unhappy Zhang Xi is, there's only so much he can do.
Although Jiangling has withdrawn its siege now, Zhang Xi still has a lot to do.
When Zhou Yu withdrew the siege of Jiangling, there were 36,000 people in Jiangling City, 9,000 of whom were reinforcements from the three eastern counties brought by Kou Feng.
In other words, under Zhou Yu's two-month siege, Zhang Xi's defense force dropped sharply from 37,000 to 27,000. The battle losses totaled 10,000.
This small amount of troops was no longer enough for Zhang Xi to launch a counterattack when Zhou Yu withdrew his troops.
As for Yidu County, although Zong Yu held the last two counties of Yidu County with the help of Li Qiu, their remaining troops totaled only more than 6,000 people.
In addition, the 7,000 navy troops were defeated in the water battle and finally retreated to Badong County. In the Jiangling defensive battle, Zhang Xi's Jiangling garrison also lost nearly half of its troops.
This small amount of troops is only enough to barely regain control of the situation in the counties after the withdrawal of troops from Soochow. It will not plunge Jiangling into a post-war security war. It is impossible to even think about launching a counterattack on the spot.
Therefore, during this period, Zhang Xi has been busy stabilizing the situation in Jiangling City and surrounding counties, guiding the fleeing people to return to their homes and produce with peace of mind.
In any era, destruction is always easier than governance. Zhang Xi is now in the most troublesome stage of post-war governance.
I have been busy from November to the end of the year, and I really have no time to care about what is happening in the outside world.
During this period, in the Heluo area, Sima Yi, who had been stationary outside Luoyang City for almost a month, arranged for Xiahou Ba and Wang Ling to continue the siege. He led 30,000 troops to suddenly go south into Yingchuan, and marched all the way to Xuchang. On the periphery, there was an encounter with 20,000 Hanzhong County soldiers led by Wu Yi in Yingyin.
Sima Yi couldn't do anything against Zhuge Liang, who had the advantage of defending the city, but against Wu Yi, Sima Yi still fought very easily.
Wu Yi was defeated and had to retreat to Linying. When Wang Ping, Jiang Wei and others, who were besieging Xuchang, heard the news, they immediately gave up the attack on Xuchang, withdrew the entire army and rushed to Linying to join Wu Yi.
At this time, Sima Yi ignored Wu Yi who was defeated and retreated to Linying. After taking a short rest in Yingyin, he marched directly westward, crossed the Yingshui River, captured Yingyang, and headed straight for Xiangcheng.
This scared Wu Yi almost to death.
Once Xiangcheng is lost, the entire retreat route of the Han army attacking Xuchang will be cut off. Where can Xiangcheng store all the food and grass for this attack on Yingchuan?
What's more important is that there are not many troops in Xiangcheng now, and there are no generals to guard it. Zhang Ni has already come with the army to besiege Xuchang.
Wu Yi ignored him at the moment and did not wait for Wang Ping, Jiang Wei and others to join up. He led the remaining 10,000 Hanzhong County soldiers back to rescue Xiangcheng. However, he had just crossed the Ying River and was guarded by the Ying River. Sima Yi was caught and punished.
Sima Yi did not attack Xiangcheng directly. In his opinion, Xiangcheng was now a turtle in the urn and could be captured at any time. The real threat was the Shu army in Yingchuan County.
As long as this Shu army is defeated in the field and Xiangcheng is taken, the connection between Nanyang and Luoyang can be completely cut off, and the entire Yingchuan County can also be saved.
Therefore, Sima Yi took advantage of Wu Yi's eagerness to return to Xiangcheng and laid an ambush on the bank of Yingshui River, severely damaging Wu Yi's troops again.
This time, if it weren't for Wang Ping's Wudang Feijun and Jiang Wei, the elite southern army led by Wen Qin marched all the way, arrived at the battlefield in time, and fought back desperately, Wu Yi might have ended up with his entire army annihilated.
But even so, Wang Ping's Wudang Feijun and Jiang Wei's Southern Army both paid a heavy price, with more than half of their casualties. Only then could they barely rescue the trapped Wu Yi. The group withdrew to Xiangcheng and occupied the city. defense.
Sima Yi, who was following them closely, and Chen Tai and Guo Huai, who had received the news, had also led their troops to reach Xiangcheng.
When he went to Xuchang, the Han army under Wu Yi had more than 40,000 people. Now there are only more than 13,000 people left. However, the Wei army that was originally passively beaten now has 45,000 people with the reinforcements of Sima Yi. The troops surrounded Xiangcheng.
Offense and defense are easy to change.
(End of chapter)
