"Now, General Sun, you and the two Captain Yan are all Jiangdong officials appointed by Duke Yuan!"
"Since we are both colleagues under Duke Yuan, how can we attack each other? General Sun, please quickly retreat and return to Kuaiji County!"
"..."
"What does this Yuan boy want to do?"
"Doesn't he know that both Wujun Commandery and Kuaiji North Commandery have been appointed?"
Sun Ce was already furious and was about to explode.
"Pass my general's order to attack immediately..."
"General, calm down!"
Zhou Yu hurriedly stopped him and said: "To attack the city by force at this time is unjust and offensive!"
Sun Ce said angrily: "Do you want me to retreat right now?"
Zhou Yu's face tightened and he said in a deep voice: "If the general starts a war rashly, he will play into the Yuan family's hands!"
"Has the general forgotten that like Gou Jian, he has to endure the humiliation and endure the hardships of his life?"
As Zhou Yu spoke, he drew out his shining sword.
Sun Ce calmed down a lot when he saw the old sword.
Zhou Yu then began to explain: "General, think about it, why did Jiang Gan announce Yuan Yao's appointment in public when our army was approaching the city?"
"Did he just arrive at Wucheng today?"
"Absolutely not!"
"He could have come to us before or during our army's departure, read out Yuan Yao's appointment to recruit Yan Baihu, and asked us to stop the attack!"
"But he didn't, why?"
"Presumably he must have received advice from Yuan Yao before his trip!"
"Yuan Yao'er is narrow-minded, jealous of talents, and will retaliate... He is a complete despicable person!"
"He will never sit back and let you, General, gain power in Jiangdong, especially if he suffers a loss without taking revenge!"
"So he recruited brothers Yan Hu and Yan Yu and appointed them as county captains. This is revenge for our recent actions in Danyang County!"
"And this guy is very insidious and cunning. He is especially good at pretending to be harmless and making people lower their guard. Then he bites people's flesh unexpectedly!"
"So Yuan Yao taught Jiang Qian like this, there must be deep meaning..."
Sun Ce suddenly said: "I understand!"
"He knew that the general had no choice but to fire his arrow, so he deliberately let Jiang Gan anger the general at this time, and then complained to his father that I would raise an army to attack him. He used this excuse to remove the general's Kuaiji prefect. An official position, right?"
"But our army has already marched here, are we going to return without success?"
Zhou Yu said slowly: "General, you can continue to arrange the siege matters, leave it to me to deal with it!"
Sun Ce was doubtful: "Do you have any idea?"
Zhou Yu nodded: "Although Jiang Ziyi is famous for his eloquence, I, Zhou Yu, am not a slow-tongued person!"
"General, please go back to our formation and see how I can make him reasonable. I can't tell you!"
Sun Ce nodded: "No matter what, I will pull out this city!"
After saying that, Sun Ce turned his horse's head and returned to the military formation.
On the upper floor of Wucheng City, Yan Baihu looked at the scene of Zhou Yu and Sun Ce talking below the city, and said with a smile: "Thanks to the seal and ribbon sent by Chief Jiang, our brothers have been saved from this disaster. Please accept my brother's respect!"
As Yan Baihu spoke, he gave his younger brother Yan Yu a look, and the two of them saluted Jiang Gan together.
"Hey, what are you two Captain Yan doing?"
"I'm just following orders. I shouldn't be the one you should thank!"
Jiang Gan quickly supported the two of them and said modestly.
Yan Baihu reacted quickly and knelt down in the sky in the direction of Danyang County to the west.
"Thanks to the kindness of the Grand Governor, my brother Yan is very grateful!"
This time Jiang Gan did not rush to support the two of them. Instead, he waited for the two brothers Yan Hu and Yan Yu to finish bowing before reaching out to help them up.
"Sun Ce is gone, Sun Ce is gone!"
Suddenly some disciples pointed at the city and shouted.
When Yan Baihu saw that it was true, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Master Jiang, look at it, Sun Ce rode away, it seems that this battle can be avoided!"
Jiang Gan looked down at the city and finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Sun Ce galloping back to the Jiangdong military formation.
But when he turned around, he saw Zhou Yu still standing on his horse.
"Why doesn't this person named Zhou still leave?"
Yan Baihu asked doubtfully: "Do I still want to chat with you, Chief Secretary Jiang?"
Jiang Qian suddenly felt uneasy, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
I have already read out the appointments of Yan Baihu and Yan Yu in public. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu should not go to war, right?
Probably... not!
"Yan Baihu, I advise you to hurry up and prepare to defend the city!"
"If it's a little later, Sun Ce's soldiers will begin to attack the city. Don't expect your rolling logs and stones to be in place by then."
At the corner of the city tower, a middle-aged scribe walked out.
"Xu Gong."
When Jiang Gan saw the person coming, he hurriedly greeted the junior and saluted him.
One of Yan Baihu's disciples suddenly ran to Yan Baihu's side and whispered into his ear.
Yan Baihu's face suddenly turned cold: "Xu Gong, why did you bring your soldiers here?"
"My lord, this captain is kind enough to take you in. Do you want to seize the gate and offer the city?"
Xu Gong glanced at the city and said coldly: "I am here to lead troops to help in the battle!"
After saying that, he glanced at Sun Cejun outside the city with great disdain, "I have a mortal enemy with Sun Ce's son, how can I surrender to him?"
Yan Baihu looked at Xu Gong and then gave his younger brother Yan Yu a look.
"No matter what you came here to do, there is nothing here now. Hurry up and go back with your defeated soldiers!"
"Otherwise, don't blame me for engaging in military law!"
"Captain Yan is so powerful!"
Xu Gong snorted coldly: "I'm afraid if I'm a step too late, I'll have to collect your bodies for you!"
"Instead of thanking me, you want to ask me about it!"
"It's ridiculous!"
"you……"
Yan Baihu was about to get angry, but Jiang Gan saw something was wrong and hurriedly blocked the two of them.
"If Mr. Xu has anything to say, you might as well say it clearly!"
"Hmph, you don't know what's good and what's good!"
Xu Gong snorted again.
"Sun Jian and Sun Ce father and son are not people who have been under others for a long time!"
"Especially Sun Ce's son's ambition, his desire to stand on his own in Jiangdong!"
"Yan Baihu, you occupy Wucheng. You should know that this city has a special geographical location. It is located in the middle of Wu County and Kuaiji County, and it is backed by Danyang!"
"If Sun Ce wants to hold Jiangdong, he must occupy this city!"
Yan Baihu's face was gloomy, but he didn't speak.
Yan Yu next to him said: "This old guy is really good at talking!"
"My eldest brother went out to occupy the city because he felt uncomfortable living in the mountains."
"How can this poor place be as good as wealthy counties like Qiantang and Youquan?"
"That means it's convenient for us to plunder everywhere, and if we can't defeat the army, we can escape back to the mountains!"
Jiang Gan suddenly smiled, and he understood what Xu Gong meant.
Yan Baihu actually understood it, but he kept taking chances.
But after all, it’s just self-deception!
Everyone can clearly see the current situation in Jiangdong, it is two tigers competing for food!
One tiger is Sun Ce, the fierce tiger from Jiangdong!
One tiger is Yuan Yao, the young tiger of the Yuan family!
These two tigers have almost devoured all the wolves, dogs and sheep in Jiangdong!
The territorial influence of Liu Yao, the shepherd of Yangzhou, Wang Lang, the governor of Kuaiji, Jiao Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Shanyue Sect, and Xu Gong, the governor of Wu County in front of him, have all become the meat of the two hungry tigers, Sun Ce and Yuan Yao!
Yan Baihu knows better than anyone else that although he is named "Tiger" and "White Tiger", to the two real tigers, Sun Ce and Yuan Yao, he can only be regarded as a cat at most!
A fat cat destined to be eaten by a tiger!
Yan Baihu originally thought that in troubled times, he could fight his way out with his strength and fairly good brain.
The separatist rule among the Jiangdong heroes is a perfect fit for them to take advantage of the situation and fish in troubled waters!
But more than ten years have passed since the young people gathered together as bandits and occupied Shicheng Mountain and Baihu Mountain as kings, and they have only occupied the two counties of Wucheng and Guzhang.
Yan Baihu couldn't help but wonder, did this stage of troubled times really belong to him?
It wasn't until Sun Ce came out of nowhere and swept Jiangdong in just one year that Yan Baihu suddenly woke up.
After all, I am just one of the "Jiangdong bandits" in the history books, and I will never be able to enter the biography of a prince!
And heroes like Sun Ce and proud men like Yuan Yao are the real protagonists of troubled times!
He actually calls himself a "white tiger", but in fact he is not even a "white cat" at all, he is just a stinky salted fish that will never recover!
Therefore, when Sun Ce launched a large-scale attack on Kuaiji County from Wu Commandery, Yan Baihu wisely did not harass and plunder Sun Ce's rear because he wanted to leave a way out for himself.
He even hid it from everyone, including his own brother, and sent a secret envoy to express his intention to surrender to Sun Ce.
But once the emissary leaves, he never returns.
Until the second emissary saw the head of the first emissary at the top of Shanyin City, he didn't even dare to enter the city and ran back in piss.
In desperation, Yan Baihu had no choice but to send a secret envoy to Danyang Yuan Yao.
At first Yan Baihu didn't have any hope!
Sun Ce was born into a poor family and could not tolerate others!
Yuan Yao came from a wealthy family, how could he accept the surrender of a bandit?
But within a few days, the emissary came back with Yuan Yao's gift.
Also coming back together was Chief Jiang in front of me.
Yan Baihu did not hesitate and directly agreed to all the conditions brought by Chief Jiang. He immediately summoned his subordinates to surrender to Yuan Yao.
He even ordered his younger brother Yan Yu to deal with several stubborn bandit leaders the night before the meeting, and asked him to lead his trusted ambush in the synagogue the next day with swords.
Even though I am a swordsman and a fish, I still have to choose which tiger to fall into!
Jiangdong tiger Sun Ce, since you think my salted fish, Yan Baihu, smells bad, then don’t blame me for feeding the meat to the Yuan family’s young tiger Yuan Yao, and then spitting out the fish bones and killing you!
"Master Jiang, I'm afraid this battle is inevitable!"
Yan Baihu took a deep breath and no longer cared about Xu Gong.
Jiang Gan frowned and sighed.
"When I came, the Grand Governor told me to be prepared for the worst!"
"I originally thought that the worst preparation would be when I meet you, Captain Yan."
"I didn't expect..." Jiang Qian suddenly took out a bottle of poison from his arms and smiled bitterly, "It's now."
"I'll try to negotiate with Zhou Gongjin again..."
"You should follow Mr. Xu's words and prepare for battle!"
Yan Baihu nodded, imitating Jiang Qian's gesture of bowing, and said: "No matter what the result is, I'll take care of you, Master Jiang!"
"It's your duty!"
Jiang Gan nodded heavily.
Yan Baihu turned around and was about to go down to deploy the defense of the city, but suddenly turned back and snatched the poison from Jiang Gan's hand.
"Master Jiang, you don't need this thing!"
"Yan Yu!"
"exist!"
Yan Yu was naturally sensitive, and he also noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere at this time, and quickly raised his hand and said seriously.
Yan Baihu threw the poison directly into a pot of burning oil.
The pottery bottle suddenly shattered and all the brown, viscous liquid flowed out.
"You stay with Chief Jiang and protect him, and don't worry about anything else!"
"Even if the city cannot be defended, you must protect Chief Jiang and fight his way out of the city!"
"As you command!"
…
"Where is Ziyi?"
"Where is Jiang Ziyi?"
"Shuchun Jiang Ziyi? Jiang Qian?!"
Zhou Yu thought of a countermeasure and started shouting at the city head again.
However, his voice is a bit shrill, and it breaks easily when the volume is raised.
Therefore, after shouting a few times and seeing no response from the tower, Zhou Yu began to suspect that there was something wrong with his voice.
Thinking about it, the funnel Jiang Gan held in his hand just now was used to amplify the human voice.
After I go back, I will also ask the craftsmen to build me a funnel like that.
Zhou Yu thought for a moment and waved to the rear military formation.
Someone understood what he meant and immediately sent out a humanoid loudspeaker.
"Where is Shouchun Jiang Gan?"
Bang~
Zhou Yu slapped the human-shaped horn on the back of the head.
"How dare you call my friend by his first name?"
"Shout again!"
The man who was beaten felt aggrieved, but he had to shout again: "Where is Shouchun Ziyi?"
"Bring your last name, bring your last name!"
Zhou Yu was so angry that he almost lost his breath.
Where the hell did you recruit this country bumpkin!
The human horn touched the back of his head again and cursed in his mind: You city dwellers are the only ones who do a lot of shit!
A name is not enough, what other nickname is needed?
Bitch, is that good stuff?
So many broken rules!
"Forget it, just repeat whatever I say next!"
Zhou Yu was afraid that the human-shaped trumpet would make a fool of himself again, so he had to warn him.
"Where is Shouchun Jiang Ziyi?"
"Where is Shouchun Jiang Ziyi?!"
The voice of the human-shaped trumpet seemed to be uncertain. After shouting, he glanced at Zhou Yu, as if he wanted to know if he shouted correctly this time.
Zhou Yu gave an approving expression:
"It would be nice to be louder!"
"It would be nice to be louder!"
"I didn't let you shout!"
"I didn't let you shout!"
"Stop repeating it, start repeating it from this next sentence!"
"..."
"..."
Zhou Yu felt that he could live ten years shorter!
"Where is Shouchun Jiang Ziyi?"
"Shuchun Jiang Qian is here!"
Just as Zhou Yu had finished adjusting the sound, a response finally came from the tower!
I saw Jiang Qian standing at the top of the city, with the breeze blowing, floating like an immortal.
"This looks like the Jiang Ziyi I know!"
Zhou Yu was a little absent-minded, and for a moment he seemed to recall the scene when he first met Jiang Gan when he was a young student.
"This looks like the Jiang Ziyi I know!"
The humanoid trumpet shouted loudly.
Zhou Yu quickly came to his senses and reorganized his words.
"Jiang Ziyi, Yan Baihu and others have human faces and animal hearts, and are cruel and violent."
"Now I just want to use Governor Yuan's order to avoid conquest. You must recognize this person's true face!"
"Haha, don't worry, Brother Gongjin!"
Jiang Qian said righteously: "Yan Duwei has now returned to normal and is an official of our Han family."
"Right and wrong, all will be settled!"
"Please go and persuade Mr. Sun Fu to retreat quickly and return to Kuaiji, then stop and make peace!"
"Bold Yan Baihu, he dared to hold my Jianghuai scholar hostage, he simply doesn't care about the laws of the Han family!"
"This general orders you to let Jiang Gan out of the city quickly, otherwise when the city is destroyed, no chickens or dogs will be left alive!"
Zhou Yu suddenly changed his color and shouted in the direction of Jiang Gan on the top of the city.
Jiang Gan shook his head: "Gong Jin, I have already told you that I am here on the orders of Governor Yuan!"
"Captain Yan treated me like a welcome guest and never threatened my life!"
Zhou Yu was furious and drew his sword and pointed at the city: "Yan Baihu, don't make any excuses. Release Jiang Gan quickly. I'll give you a moment to burn incense!"
Jiang Gan felt baffled and turned around to look around him, only to see Yan Yu with the same confused look on his face.
"Captain Yan is not here, why are you talking to yourself?"
At this time, Zhou Yu seemed to have been stimulated by something, and said angrily: "What? You said that if I dare to attack the city, I will kill Jiang Gan?"
