Vol 2 Chapter 2655: Sun Bofu Jianye's coup to capture Sun Quan
Chapter 2655 Sun Bofu Jianye’s coup to capture Sun Quan
Chapter 2651: Sun Bofu Jianye’s coup to capture Sun Quan
Jianye, located in Danyang County, was originally named Moling.
Moling was not the administrative seat of Danyang County. The Danyang administrative seat was actually Wanling (today's Xuanzhou, Anhui). Moling was originally a small county with a population of nearly 10,000, and its political status had never been high.
It was not until Sun Jian occupied Moling and vigorously managed it that Moling gradually prospered, but in terms of population and economy, it was not as good as the second eldest son in Danyang County, let alone the eldest brother Wanling.
Before Sun Jian became king and established the Kingdom of Wu, he solicited capital options from his subordinates. Most of them proposed Wanling as the capital. However, Sun Jian felt that Wanling's location was too remote and lacked an imperial flair, making it unsuitable for the capital of a country. capital.
In addition to Wanling, Wu County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), the seat of Wu County, was also qualified as the capital, but Sun Jian still felt that the location of Wu County was not good.
In the end, it was Sun Bin who proposed Moling as the capital, and this proposal was opposed by most of Sun Wu's senior officials.
Although Moling was developing rapidly at that time, its population was still less than 100,000. Using such a small city as its capital really brought disgrace to the state of Wu.
But after some consideration, Sun Jian rejected all opinions and adopted Sun Bin's proposal. He settled the capital in the mediocre Moling and renamed it Jianye, which means making meritorious deeds.
Just the name "Jianye" can reveal Sun Jian's enterprising spirit.
Facts have proved that Sun Bin has a good vision, and Jianye is the most suitable capital for Wu.
After Jianye became the capital of the Wu Kingdom, its development speed was like a rocket. It overtook Wanling in just one year, and then quickly surpassed Wuxian.
Today's Jianye is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, with a total population of 360,000, well-developed politics and business, and good public security. It is fully worthy of the evaluation of "a tiger perches on a dragon's plate, and a bell is beautiful".
“Jianye, I, Sun Ce, am back.”
Looking at the majestic city in front of him, Sun Ce's eyes were full of complexity. He looked at the city step by step, from a small and broken county town to the current royal capital, but the person sitting on the throne became someone else.
"Bo Fu, it's time to change defenses. Let's enter the city first." Sun Bin said.
Sun Ce nodded, success or failure depends on this.
According to Sun Bin's plan, Sun Ce first pretended to be his bodyguard, went deep into the tiger's den with Sun Bin, and went alone to meet Zhu Cai, the guard of Caishiji.
Zhu Cai was the second son of Zhu Zhi. His father Zhu Zhi died in the war against Japan, and Zhu Cai was also reused by Sun Quan.
There are five thousand defenders in Caishiji, and they are about to switch defenses with the defenders at the east gate of Jianye. Zhu Cai is the chief general of these five thousand defenders.
Zhu Cai and Sun Bin had a good personal relationship. When he saw Sun Bin coming alone with Wang Ling, he really thought it was Sun Quan who sent him, so he also received Sun Ce and Sun Bin. Then he was captured alive by Sun Ce who suddenly attacked without the ability to fight back.
Sun Ce did not kill Zhu Cai, but wanted to instigate him to rebel.
Although Sun Ce and Zhu Cai were not familiar with each other, his father Zhu Zhi and his brother Zhu Ran were both Sun Ce's old subordinates.
Although the relationship between the Zhu family and Sun Ce is close, they are from Jiangdong aristocratic families after all.
Sun Ce must be against Sun Quan when he comes back this time, and Sun Quan represents the interests of the Jiangdong family. Naturally, Zhu Cai cannot stand on the opposite side of his own family.
No matter how Sun Ce tried to coerce and induce him, Zhu Cai was unwilling to surrender.
As for pretending to surrender, Zhu Cai didn't even think about it. After all, in front of Sun Ce and Sun Bin, it was impossible to hide this small trick from them.
“My eldest son, please give Zhu Cai a happy life.”
Zhu Cai was holding his neck, closing his eyes as if begging for death, which made Sun Ce unable to make a move.
Sun Bin's stern voice came, and Sun Ce's body suddenly shook. Then he closed his eyes and broke Zhu Cai's neck with an expressionless expression.
After killing Zhu Cai, Sun Ce used Zhu Cai's name and summoned all the middle and lower-level generals in Zhu Cai's army on the pretext that a defense change was about to take place.
When Sun Ce appeared in front of these people, everyone present was stunned.
Zhu Cai was from the Jiangdong family, so he was unwilling to rebel against Sun Quan. However, there were a large number of civilians among the generals under his command, and these people had long been dissatisfied with Sun Quan's heavy use of the family and cutting off the promotion channels for civilians.
After Sun Ce stated his intention to come and hung Zhu Cai's body as a deterrent, most people directly agreed.
As for the very small group of opponents, they were hacked to death by supporters as a token of support without Sun Ce's personal action.
By instigating the rebellion of these middle and high-level generals, Sun Ce easily recruited Zhu Cai's 5,000 troops, and the number of troops in his hands reached 8,000.
Afterwards, Sun Ce took advantage of Zhu Cai's turn to change defenses, took over control of the east gate of Jianye, and successfully entered Jianye City.
After Sun Ce entered the city, he immediately sent a small group of troops, disguised and set fire to the west city, and falsely spread the news that the west gate defenders had mutinied. In this way, he mobilized nearly half of the palace defenders, and only then did he deal with the remaining 20,000 defenders. The palace launched an offensive.
When eight thousand heavily armed soldiers openly violated the ban and marched toward the palace, all the Jianye people along the way knew that something was going to happen.
“Look, isn’t that His Highness the Crown Prince?”
"He is really the Crown Prince. He is no longer the Crown Prince. He should be called the Young Master. But what is he doing with such murderous intent?"
“Needless to say, he must have come back to seize the throne.”
"If the eldest son becomes the king of Wu, he will definitely be better than Sun Erlang. I have long been unhappy with Sun Quan."
Most of the people in Jianye are refugees who have migrated here. Their current happy life is mainly due to Sun Jian's national policy of hiding wealth among the people and supporting poor families and suppressing aristocratic families. Sun Jian was already preparing to implement the imperial examination system when he was in power. However, after Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, not only did he not follow the trend and implement the imperial examination system, but he also used aristocratic families to monopolize the officialdom of Wu State, completely cutting off the promotion channels for common people.
Although common people are ignorant, they still know who is harming their own interests, so Sun Quan's reputation among common people is very bad.
“Since Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, loyal ministers such as Sun Wu and Lu Su who had made great contributions have been suppressed one after another. On the contrary, children from aristocratic families such as Bu Zhi and Gu Hui who had not made any achievements were promoted for no reason. It is simply unreasonable.”
“Sun Quan is a villain and a virtuous minister from far away. Look at the deterioration of the state of Wu in the past two years. If this continues, the state of Qin will not even attack us, and maybe it will be destroyed by the state of Chu.”
“Support the eldest son to be the king of Wu…”
For things like coups, ordinary people must close their doors and windows and hide far away. However, the people in Jianye have reached the extreme antipathy towards Sun Quan, so most of the people are on Sun Ce's side and support Sun Ce's coup to seize power. king.
This shows how unpopular Sun Quan is.
Sun Ce heard most of the people around him supporting his remarks along the way. Not only was he not excited at all, but he also felt very regretful.
Sun Ce naturally did not regret that he launched the coup, but regretted why he came back so late and allowed Sun Quan to bring such disaster to the good Soochow.
Sun Bin just saw Sun Ce's expression and guessed what Sun Ce was thinking, and immediately said: "Bo Fu, it's not too late now. We still have the strength to fight. As long as we can overthrow Sun Quan this time, Soochow may still be saved." ”
“Well, my father, Sun Ce, did not allow the foundation that my father had worked so hard to create for half his life to be destroyed in the hands of Sun Quan.”
Sun Ce nodded and said that the most important reason why he agreed to launch a coup with Sun Wu and Sun Bing was the plan formulated by Sun Bin. If it goes well, the success rate is not small.
As long as this coup can succeed and Sun Quan is in control, Soochow can ensure a smooth transfer of power in a very short period of time. Even if the Chu State invades the Wu State, it will not be afraid.
Just as he was talking, a Wu general led thousands of royal guards to suppress the rebels, but he never expected that Sun Ce and Sun Wu were among the rebels.
The prestige of Sun Ce and Sun Wu among the Wu army was so high that when the Wu army saw that there were two of them among the rebels, they did not dare to kill them. There were also many soldiers who were dissatisfied with Sun Quan's actions. As a result, under Sun Wu's lobbying He failed to defect before the battle, allowing Sun Ce and Sun Wu to easily lead their troops to the gate of the palace.
Sun Yu, the guard of the Wu Palace, was shocked when he saw Sun Ce.
“Big brother.”
Sun Yu’s eyes widened and he was a little overwhelmed for a moment, not knowing what to do.
Sun Yu is the second son of Sun Jing. Sun Jing's eldest son Sun Hao died in the war in Japan. Sun Jing was old and became ill due to the death of his eldest son Sun Hao. He died of illness soon after Sun Jian's death, so his title He was succeeded by his second son, Sun Yu.
After Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, although he made important use of the aristocratic family, he did not treat the clan poorly.
As the son of Sun Jing, Sun Yu was naturally put into great use by Sun Quan and was appointed as General Fenwei, responsible for guarding the palace.
Sun Yu is not stupid. He naturally knows that when Sun Ce comes back, he will compete with Sun Quan for the throne, and his relationship with Sun Ce and Sun Quan is not bad.
After weighing the situation, Sun Yu decided to side with Sun Quan. He was not optimistic about Sun Ce. After all, Sun Quan was the king of Wu now and held the military and political power of Wu. He did not think that Sun Ce and thousands of people could succeed in the coup.
“Brother, I’m sorry.”
A flash of guilt flashed in Sun Yu's eyes, and then he shouted: "Send the order, shoot the arrow..."
Before he finished speaking, a sword was placed on Sun Yu's neck from behind, and the sword holder was Sun Yu's lieutenant, Wu Fen, the son of Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing.
“Wu Fen, you’re crazy, Zhongmou can’t forgive you.” Sun Yu shouted in disbelief.
"Zhongmou didn't feel sorry for me, but he felt sorry for the old King of Wu, the great governor, and the entire state of Wu. The state of Wu would only be destroyed in his hands, and only Bo Fu could revitalize the state of Wu."
Wu Fen said coldly, then knocked Sun Yu unconscious and opened the city gate to welcome Sun Ce into the city.
Sun Ce entered the first gate of the Palace of Wu because Wu Fen abandoned the secret and took the initiative to open the city. Sun Ce entered the palace without any difficulty, but the second and third gates were not so easy to enter because the guards of these two gates Their names are Xie Yi and Sun Chuanting.
Xie Yi and Sun Chuanting, one was from the Xie family in Jiangdong, and the other was a relative of the Sun family. Both of them were Sun Quan's loyal supporters, so naturally they were not so easy to defect, so the two sides naturally started a war.
Sun Quan, who was in the palace of King Wu, felt bad when he learned that Sun Ce led the rebels in the city and was heading to the palace. After all, Sun Ce's sudden return to launch a coup must have been carefully planned. Domestic pointed out that There must be many of his people.
After Sun Quan forced himself to calm down, he immediately ordered the garrison in Xicheng to suppress the attack. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by the people in the city and could not rescue the palace in a short time.
Immediately afterwards, news came that the first gate of the palace had been breached and Sun Ce led his army to attack the palace.
Sun Quan could no longer sit still and immediately prepared to run away. However, before he could run away, Sun Ce had already stormed through two or three palace gates, beheaded Xie Yi, captured Sun Chuanting, and was about to run away with him. Sun Quan hit him on the road.
After Sun Ce saw Sun Quan, he said with a ferocious expression: "Second brother, long time no see, eldest brother, I miss you so much."
Sun Quan saw that Sun Ce was covered in blood and was frightened by Sun Ce's murderous intent. He turned pale with fright and shouted: "Quick, kill him quickly."
Ling Tong, the general of the bodyguard, immediately took the order and fired out his guns to fight Sun Ce. Sun Bin, on the other hand, would only command his soldiers to surround and kill the guards and masters around Sun Quan.
After nearly a thousand casualties, dozens of masters and hundreds of guards around Sun Quan were finally killed by Sun Bin and his men. Sun Quan was also easily captured alive by Huang Gai, and Ling Tong was also captured by the furious Sun Ce. Strongly defeated and seriously injured.
At this point, the general trend has been basically determined.
Sun Quan spent several years planning to take the power of Wu into his own hands, but Sun Ce and Sun Bin only took half a day to destroy everything Sun Quan had and completely restore it to its original shape.