Zhou Yu became famous in Jiangdong. No matter from the height of the temple or the distance of the rivers and lakes, everyone praised him for his strong enterprising spirit and ambition to dominate the world. He was still young and could be regarded as a young man who had achieved success, and he had a pleasant demeanor and excellent comments. It is well known that Zhou Yu treats others with courtesy and is far more like a lord than Sun Ce.
But the world would say that he was imitating Lin Ze. This murderous judgment made Zhou Yu very angry. He vowed to destroy Lin Ze and let the world see who imitated whom.
Zhou Yu led a team of several hundred people to secretly cross the Yangtze River and attack Qu'acheng, but it was only a brief attack. After a brief attack, he retreated and quickly retreated to the other side of the Yangtze River.
Sun Ce waited for Zhou Yu on the shore and asked, "How is it? How is Qu'a's defense?"
Zhou Yu took off his cloak and said, "The defense doesn't seem that tight, but it's very strange. Qu'a seems to be an empty city. After fighting for a while, there was no resistance. It seems that Guo Jia didn't want to use Qu'a as a springboard to attack Jiangdong. I don’t know what he wants.”
Sun Ce said: "Take Qu'a directly and let Qu'a be our springboard!"
Zhou Yu said: "You have to kill Liu Yao before you can capture Qu'a. Lord, I have a plan."
"tell me the story!"
Zhou Yu said: "There has always been trade between Jiangdong and Qu'a. Follow the merchants to see where their goods are sold. We pretend to be merchants and we can take Qu'a by surprise."
Sun Ce smiled and said: "What a plan!"
Guo Jia had no idea that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce would use such despicable means to plot against Qu'a. Fortunately, all the warship drawings given by Lin Ze were launched in the Huaihe River for sea trials, otherwise the details of Yangzhou would be discovered by Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu moved very quickly. It only took him three days to learn Liu Yao's location and find out clearly that the people of Qu'a did not live in the city but in the villages. All the soldiers of the Jiaolong Regiment were in Yangzhou City and there were not many people around Liu Yao.
Zhou Yu ordered his soldiers to disguise themselves as merchants, and the goods were replaced with weapons. Overnight, he occupied the traffic artery between Qu'a and Yangzhou City, captured Liu Yao with lightning speed, and completely controlled Lin Ze's business. For a long time Qu'a became their territory.
It's almost a battle without bloodshed.
Zhou Yu also ordered the Jiangdong soldiers to use the extermination strategy and robbed all the people of Qu'a to Jiangdong. Zhou Yu learned from Lin Ze's shogunate regime in Jingzhou and set up a military government in Qu'a. If he advanced, he could attack Yangzhou City, and if he retreated, he could go to the Yangtze River. The basin is really a good calculation.
In Yangzhou City, Guo Jia was furious and said: "The rats from the east of the Yangtze River, who don't respect martial ethics, use such despicable means to occupy Qu'a, which is intolerable! They are robbing my people and destroying my farmland. I have to show them some respect." Look! The veteran generals Cheng Pu and Taishi Ci stationed in Qu'a, as well as Gan Ning's Jinfan Army, Huang Zhong, ordered you to go to Qu'a and completely level the city of Qu'a, opening up the southern part of Yangzhou City into a vast area. A dangerous and defensible war zone!”
The troops available under Guo Jia's command include the Jiaolong Group Army with 100,000 troops and Huang Zhong's Army with 200,000 troops. Xu Mao's Jiaolong Group Army is the main combat force in destroying Jiangdong. It is a secret weapon and is used to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.
The one sent to the front can only be Huang Zhong.
Lin Ze got the report immediately. He looked at Guo Jia's deployment, the corner of his mouth curled up, and said: "Following Xiao is a conspiracy. It seems that opening the battlefield of Qu'a is out of anger, but in fact it is to drain Jiangdong. I just don’t know if Zhou Yu will fight a protracted war with us. What are Fei Bin and Ling Yun doing?"
"My lord, Fei Bin actually has 200,000 mercenaries to fight against Yuzhang."
Lin Ze pinched his chin and said, "Fei Bin shouldn't have such a brain!"
The longer he followed Lin Ze, the more respectful Du Xiao became, and he said cautiously: "There is a man named Bu Zhi next to Fei Bin. He was originally going to join the army, but Liu Chong rebelled, so he stayed with Fei Bin temporarily. Bu Zhi said He has a clan sister named Bu Lianshi, who said he would dedicate her to you."
The corner of Lin Ze's lips curled up, but he didn't respond to Trainer Bu's comments at all, and murmured: "This is not surprising. Bu Zhi is a character. Who is the prefect of Yuzhang now, Hua Xin or Zhou Shu?"
Du Xiao said: "It's Hua Xin."
Lin Ze said: "Fortunately, there is Bu Zhi, or Fei Bin is not Hua Xin's opponent, what about Ling Yun?"
Du Xiao said: "I don't know what General Ling Yun is going to do. I just know that he sent out all the reconnaissance troops. I don't know what evil he is holding back."
The weather was getting colder and colder. Lin Ze rubbed his arm, and Du Xiao put the cloak on Lin Ze. Lin Ze stood on the high city wall, looking at the lingering west wind, thoughtfully, and suddenly the wind blew. He stood up, and the fox fur cloak on his body made a sound.
Behind him, in addition to Du Xiao, Wei Yan, and Jin Xuan, there was also Zhao Qi, the chief general of the Thunder God Army.
Fazheng came but didn't find him. He came by himself. He planted the sycamore tree and the phoenix came naturally. Lin Ze killed Pang Degong. The whole world saw Lin Ze's ability and finally began to face up to his ability to govern the country.
Fazheng is dressed in a navy blue robe and has golden hair. He is in his prime, with a thick black beard and thick eyebrows.
Lin Ze always thought that Fazheng would be a Confucian scholar, but he did not expect that he had a very tough appearance and character. Lin Ze knew that he was in Guanzhong, and Hanzhong was also in the possession of the Thunder God Group.
But Lin Ze was very unhappy now. Qu'a started a war. Guo Jia feigned anger and used mortars to destroy Qu'a's city, opening a scorched earth isolation zone with a radius of thousands of miles. At this time, Cao Cao once again captured Xuzhou. .
Guan Ning, under Cao Cao, developed the cannon. He said that the wisdom of the Chinese nation is that as long as there is a direction, things can be done. This is similar to the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty. The barrel is two to three meters long and made of copper. The gun body is equipped with a front sight and a rear sight. The ballistic trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, and the accuracy is relatively high.
Guan Ning developed the smoothbore technology for artillery shells, which was a terrible thing, but Lin Ze was even more worried about another thing. Cao Cao was stumbling upon himself again.
Lin Ze held this report of Cao Cao's attack on the city in his hand. He took a long breath and said, "Humph, if I follow my temper and defect to the Liu clan from various places in Guanzhong, no matter what my relationship with Jin'er is, everyone will Kill and leave no one alive, but today, they are holding millions of people hostage, forcing me to surrender to the emperor and restore the Han Dynasty! Damn it, are their eyes blind? The emperor who I surrendered to is Cao Cao? "
Fa Zheng said: "My lord, the great Han's way of loyalty and forgiveness has penetrated into the bone marrow and blood. Although the world is falling apart, the hearts of the people still support the Han. Otherwise, I don't know how many people in this world would be emperors!"
Lin Ze chuckled lightly and said: "It is true that the royal orthodoxy of destiny seems to be just a useless idea, but Cao Cao used the emperor to command the princes, and the word 'orthodoxy' can become Soldiers and armor turned into swords and guns. Especially in Guanzhong, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty for two hundred years, the people's thoughts are still towards the emperor in Xuchang!"
How smart is Fa Zheng? How could he not know what Lin Ze meant? He said: "Lord, don't worry. To stabilize Guanzhong, force is indispensable. Without a gentle policy, there will never be peace. As long as I am here, Guanzhong will sooner or later respond to the wishes of the lord and the people!"
Lin Zedao: "Guanzhong will be handed over to my husband to govern. When the war breaks out, Zhao Qi will take my military orders. If the war breaks out, Guanzhong will listen to Xiaozhi's orders!"
The methods of Fa Zheng were very tough. They first imposed strict military control on Chang'an, disarmed every household, and found literati to establish household registration and tax atlases, military and political yamen archives, land deed account books, etc.
Those clans with the Liu surname that asked Lin Ze to surrender to Emperor Xuchang all fell under the control of the Thunder God Army.
Fazheng is really a talented person. The forests in the north of Guanzhong are decreasing and the wind and sand are very strong. This is the territory of the Qiang Hu. Everyone thinks that it is a barren land, but Fazheng can see that it is the source of livestock and salt and iron weapons.
Fazheng already knew about Lin Ze's method of extracting salt, and he also knew a little about steelmaking, especially the kerosene developed by Yuan Shao. He knew that it was refined from a kind of oil from the earth's veins, and it contained Qiang Hu. In that area, Guanzhong can also be exempted from agricultural taxes.
Now, Lin Ze has the Langya Group Army in Xi County to resist Cao Cao. To the south of Guanzhong is Lin Ze's Jingzhou and Hanzhong Zhanglu. There is nothing to worry about. There is no complicated situation in Fazheng. Good card, he planned out the general trend of Feng Shui in the northwest, and its extension has already circled the Hexi Corridor, leading directly to the Western Regions.
But all of this requires start-up capital. It costs money to repair water conservancy and canals, it costs money to build roads, it costs money to build houses to house the people, and it costs a lot of money to provide food, clothing, housing and transportation. If we rely on the northwest to accumulate strength, there will be no one. After ten years of poor development in the northwest, Lin Ze ordered Jin Xuan to bring money from Xunfang City to help Fa Zheng develop.
Guan Zheng managed Guanzhong in an orderly manner. Lin Ze breathed a sigh of relief. There was Fazheng in Guanzhong, Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong in Yuzhou, and Chen Gong in Jingzhou. These people were all talents that history had tested for him, so he felt much more relaxed.
There is only one thing that Lin Ze is upset about right now, which is Cao Cao's fucking invention of the Hongyi Cannon. Although its maneuverability is not as good as his own mortar, its range, power, and deterrence make it more domineering.
How should I cope with it?
The appearance of the "Krupp 75mm Field Cannon" immediately appeared in Lin Ze's mind. Today's steelmaking technology and gunpowder technology can completely manufacture it.
That night, Lin Ze began to outline the drawings, with Ma Yunlu beside him serving pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Ma Yunlu had completely regarded himself as Lin Ze's person. He was innocent and thought that he would be happy following Lin Ze. He didn't care about his father and brother at all. He looked at the beautiful drawings drawn by Lin Ze with a charcoal-sharpened pen and said: "Ms. sir, what are you drawing? It's so strange!"
Lin Zedao: "It is something that can kill more people, but can also end the war quickly."
Ma Yunlu suddenly sighed and said: "You are so powerful, both civil and military, talented and beautiful. What the hell is Pang Degong? You are full of nonsense and almost made me miss such a good marriage like yours."
Lin Ze just smiled, and Du Xiao, who was guarding the door, let out a small "poof" and muttered in a low voice: "It's so shameless. I know that my lord cares about such a beautiful and sensible girl, so I just pretended to be like this, outside. A girl who is wilder than anyone else."
A little sister next to Du Xiao whispered: "General, the girls around my lord are as good as Li'er in front of my lord, and they are wilder than anyone else outside."
"Shut up, I want you to say it!" Du Xiao glanced at Ma Yunlu sourly, and suddenly heard Tong Yuan moaning from the bed, and immediately moved his eyes. Lin Ze had already hurried to Tong Yuan's side...
