Chapter 380: Taking over Jiangdong and announcing it to the world [Subscription Request]

"It's okay if you don't surrender."

Zhang Zhao looked at Sun Quan and said, "I strongly advocate surrender, but I am not fickle. It is true that I want to surrender to Wei, but it is also true that I am a vassal of the Sun family in Jiangdong.

If you refuse to surrender, I will die with you."

"You...how, how, how could it be, you are the chief of all the officials in Jiangdong."

Sun Quan was distraught: "When did you surrender to Wei?"

Zhang Zhao sighed, "My son-in-law has a caravan that trades with the north, as you know. Jiangdong has always been open to trade with Cao Wei."

Sun Quan nodded.

Many of Jiangdong’s resources depend on the north.

If the connection with Jiangbei was cut off, Jiangdong would suffer far greater losses than Cao Wei.

Even in wartime, trade will not stop. This is an unwritten rule.

"My son-in-law trades with the north and sometimes brings some news from the north, such as Cao Wei's water conservancy projects and changes in land cultivation."

"At first I just wanted to know more about Cao Wei, but later more and more relevant information came out.

Cao Wei's military system, the wars that swept the north and the south, the annual grain intake, and the reopening of east-west trade.

All this news is available.”

"I realized it was wrong, but I couldn't help but watch. The more I watched, the more I realized that Jiang Dong was far behind and there was no way we could win."

"The King of Wei's ability to govern and command the army is beyond our reach. For the sake of the world, we should surrender."

"I don't know when I started to lean towards Cao Wei.

My son-in-law has also become a spy for Cao Wei."

"Before the New Year, I received a letter from the 'King of France', and then a personal letter from the King of Wei, and I decided to surrender."

Everyone around was stunned, just like Sun Quan.

Zhang Zhao knelt on the ground and said, "I beg you to surrender as soon as possible.

But if you firmly refuse to surrender, I am willing to die with you.

This Jiangdong...cannot be defended after all. For the sake of the millions of people and for your own sake, I beg you to surrender to Wei."

More Jiangdong subjects around followed suit and knelt down.

Zhang Zhao’s appeal within Jiangdong is indeed strong enough.

Zhang Zhao, the leader of all the officials in Jiangdong, was a spy of Cao Wei.

Sun Quan's defenses were completely broken.

Tears were dripping down his face, he was so sad that he couldn't control himself.

He lowered his head and looked at the leather scroll that Zhang Zhao had handed over.

This is the letter of surrender written by Cao Cao to him, along with a map.

It depicts the offensive and defensive routes of the armies of Cao Wei and Sun Liu during the Battle of Chibi.

Including the Sun-Liu coalition forces, how many troops are stationed in each place, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us.

There is even a deduction of the retreat route of the Sun-Liu coalition forces after their defeat, listed one by one.

This is exactly the map that Cao Cao drew in Xiangyang before the battle.

At this time, it was only five days since the Battle of Chibi, but the drawings were delivered to Jiangdong, thousands of miles away.

Judging from the timing, Cao Cao had already considered and planned the war situation comprehensively.

The accuracy of his assessment of the enemy and our own situation is shocking.

The strategic deduction map, the letter of surrender, the kneeling Zhang Zhao, and even the ministers, all clearly conveyed one message.

Even if Jiangdong continues to fight, there will be no chance of luck and everyone will die.

boom--

In the silence, the door of the mansion shattered.

Zhang Liao led the army and rushed in first.

There was still flesh and blood on Gao Shun's hammer, which looked extremely hideous.

The moment Cao's army rushed in, the entire Sun family mansion was covered in a layer of blood.

Cao Cao sent Zhang Liao to attack with thousands of troops, which was not what Lu Meng analyzed, that is, to gather and annihilate the Jiangdong army.

Zhang Liao's thousands of troops charged into Jianye, coupled with the letter of surrender and Zhang Zhao's request for surrender, all of these were actually gathering a kind of power called "awesome", fully demonstrating Cao Wei's strength to Jiangdong.

If they fight again, Sun Quan will lose his head.

The moment Zhang Liao rushed into the Sun family mansion, the deterrent force created by this "awesome" force reached its peak.

Sun Quan shouted: "Stop fighting! I will surrender all the counties in Jiangdong to Wei!"

There was no fighting at first, as most of the people around were kneeling.

After Zhang Zhao knelt down, many guards also put down their weapons.

When Sun Quan said he wanted to surrender, the whole city seemed to be quiet, without any sound.

Sun Quan bowed his head and held high the letter of surrender.

Surprisingly, he did not feel humiliated, but rather somewhat fortunate. At most... he would just go to Cao Wei and let Cao Ang continue to bully him.

Cao Ang is my eldest brother, and he’s actually a pretty nice guy.

Sun Quan just felt a little sad and felt sorry for his father and brother.

But there is no other way right now.

He estimated that even if his father and brother were still alive, they would have to surrender, because they could not defeat Cao Wei, at all.

Ridiculously strong.

Zhang Liao dismounted from his horse and stood before the kneeling Sun Quan to accept surrender.

From Sun Quan's perspective, he could see blood dripping from Zhang Liao's armor.

A small pool of blood soon formed at his feet.

Sun Quan's surrender is of great significance.

Both the enemy and us will avoid huge losses.

Sun Quan surrendered to Wei, and the main force officers and soldiers representing Jiangdong no longer resisted.

At most, the remaining ones were local gentry, struggling to survive.

As for the private soldiers under the command of the gentry, most of them gathered around Jianye because of Zhang Liao's attack.

If the aristocratic troops around Jianye are wiped out, their power will be reduced by more than half.

In addition, they had previously participated in the Battle of Chibi, and the troops they sent to support Zhou Yu had been defeated.

The Jiangdong gentry were massacred in these two waves, and the number of private soldiers they could control was greatly reduced.

This removed a huge obstacle to Cao Wei's subsequent cleanup.

[Zhang Liao, your general, leads the troops and touches the mythical wall of military luck]

[After this battle, your heavy cavalry has entered the ranks of the strongest armies in history, and their rank is 27th (C)]

[You have conquered Jiangdong, obtained six counties, and more than a hundred cities. You have already obtained ten of the thirteen states in the world.]

You get three directions.

In front of Cao Cao, entries were prompted one after another.

At this moment, Cao Wei annexed Jiangdong.

The whole world, and even the history of future generations, will undergo earth-shaking changes. And the person who created these changes was Cao Cao.

Cao Cao also couldn't help but feel excited.

He sat by the window on the boat, spread out the map, and his eyes fell on the area of ​​Jiangdong.

"Call Jia Wenhe, Fengxiao, Gongda, Zhicai and others over."

After a while, several people came in one after another.

Cao Cao told them that Jiangdong had surrendered.

Several people were overjoyed and excited.

Cao Cao asked them to come in order to advance the next step, how to sweep across the entire Jiangdong region.

The plan was made long ago.

But it takes several people to discuss and implement it.

Judging from the map, Cao Cao had already made many arrangements to pacify Jiangdong.

He also hid a group of troops.

That is, to make full use of the coastline, send Zhang Liao to land in Jiangdong, and then have the Da Wei make a round trip, and then transport troops south again.

The entire eastern coastline of Jiangdong was covered by the landing of Cao Wei's troops.

When Zhang Liao attacked Jianye, the Da Wei ship sailed south and sent Zhang He, Cao Chun and Yu Jin to Kuaiji County and Linhai County, the easternmost counties in Jiangdong respectively.

The main force of Cao Wei had already moved south from the northern line and entered Jiangdong.

In this way, the Wei army launched an offensive against Jiangdong from two directions at the same time.

From north to south and from east to west, they blocked all the counties in Jiangdong.

Jia Xu: "We can keep the area west of Jiangdong instead of encircling it."

This is a vicious plan.

Now that Jiangdong has been taken, it is time to plot against Liu Bei.

The so-called encirclement on three sides leaving one side unblocked, leaving the directions from Jiangdong to Jingzhou and Yizhou unblocked, which on the surface gave the Jiangdong gentry a glimmer of hope.

In fact, they were forced to flee to Yizhou.

You must know that the current situation is that Cao Ying had already spread the news that after taking Jiangdong, he would vigorously eliminate the gentry.

The Jiangdong nobles were all terrified.

After Sun Quan surrendered, these nobles had only two options left: to resist stubbornly or to escape.

Leave the route to the west unfenced.

For the nobles, their determination to fight to the death would be weakened.

After all, who would want to die if they can live?
If the nobles flee westward, Cao Wei will be able to clear Jiangdong faster, and the resistance and losses will be smaller.

More importantly, once the disloyal nobles fled, what was left behind was a Jiangdong that was cleaner and easier to govern and control.

The biggest benefit was that the gentry fled to Yizhou.

In the early stages, they will definitely rely on and help Yizhou with all their strength to increase its strength.

The reason was the pressure brought by Cao Wei. If they wanted to survive, they had to help Yizhou, open up strategies to the surrounding areas, and strengthen themselves in order to save their lives.

For Cao Wei, it can further speed up Liu Bei's efforts to reorganize the tribes around Yizhou.

With these nobles fleeing westwards and pouring into Yizhou, it was helpful in the early stages of reorganizing the area surrounding Yizhou.

But at the same time, it will leave serious hidden dangers within Yizhou.

There will be a large number of noble families in Yizhou.

It is inevitable that they will compete for power with each other.

Then Liu Bei would not be able to truly control the entire Yizhou in the short term unless he killed all the gentry.

But he probably wouldn't dare to do so at this stage because Cao Wei is watching him covetously.

When more and more nobles pour in, they become a force that cannot be ignored.

He slaughtered the nobles on a large scale, and he himself would suffer heavy losses.

Liu Bei would first cooperate with the gentry, leverage each other's strengths, expand the surrounding areas, and wipe out nearby tribes.

Of course, even if Liu Bei really killed all the nobles, it would still be in Cao Cao's interest to use him to get rid of the nobles.

Therefore, giving up the Jiangdong line and allowing the gentry to flee to Yizhou will have many benefits and endless uses.

Guo Jia, Xun You, and Xi Zhicai took turns offering suggestions to enrich the subsequent plans for the annexation of Jiangdong.

"Immediately, announce to the world that Jiangdong has been brought under the rule of our Great Wei."

"promise!"

At the end of February, Cao Cao arrived at Pengze, now Lujiang County, in the middle section of the Yangtze River.

He is at the center here.

At this time, Cao's army, with more than 150,000 troops, marched into Jiangdong, took over the defense of various places, and wiped out local tyrants and nobles.

The early stages of taking over a force are bound to be filled with both appeasement and bloodshed.

Because this is the best opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

Countless nobles will be slaughtered, and Jiangdong will be stained with blood.

As expected, some of the nobles took whatever they could and fled westward with all their might.

Cao Wei deliberately let some of them go and drove them to Yizhou.

"Your Majesty, Zhou Yu has been captured." The personal army came to report.

Zhou Yu has been hiding everywhere.

He couldn't catch his breath, and after fainting, he started coughing up blood for days on end.

When they heard that Sun Quan of Jiangdong had surrendered, the situation was already hopeless.

Zhou Yu fainted again and did not wake up for three days.

When he woke up again, he met Lu Su and said, "It was because I didn't know my own limits that I had to fight against Cao Wei. I ended up like this. It's too late to regret now."

"In fact, before Bofu left, he told me that if I couldn't do it, I could surrender."

"I just saw an opportunity and wanted to give it a try. Looking back now, Cao Mengde may have deliberately lured us into a war from the beginning. He wanted to use the war to clean up the accumulated problems in Jiangdong and then take Jiangdong."

"What is the situation now?"

Lu Su said: "Cao Wei occupied all of Jiangdong, but left the west unencircled, driving the nobles to Yizhou.

I’m afraid the world will soon be unified.”

"So fast, so fast, from the Battle of Red Cliff to the end of the war, in just over a month, Jiangdong was completely defeated..."

Zhou Yu whispered, his eyes empty.

Lu Su suddenly asked, "Did Bofu really say that we should surrender if we can't do anything?"

Zhou Yu nodded, and Lu Su fell silent.

The two then discussed it and decided not to escape.

In mid-March, Sun Quan arrived at Pengze to meet Cao Cao.

Also coming with him were Lu Su, Zhou Yu who was breathing weakly, and Zhang Zhao and other Jiangdong ministers.

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