Chapter 690-Battle of Red Cliff
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
A large war was only a touch away.
Shanhai City's actions had greatly exceeded the expectations of the four city-states.
"You will help us, right?" Qin Feng looked at the representatives of the other city-states; he looked exceedingly nervous.
"Do not worry Brother Qin, Lingnan City-state will help you. When we go back, I'll convince the members of the committee. We will move our 150 thousand alliance army to the Zhaoqing Prefecture border to face off against the Tiger Legion. If there's a need, we will fight our way in in accordance to the battlefield on the west." Yuan Ping was the first to express his opinion.
His stance was not surprising at all.
After Ouyang Shuo married Song Jia, Yuan Ping had become extremely stubborn, to the point where he was obsessed with getting rid of Shanhai City.
"Xiangnan City-State will also move the 100 thousand alliance army into battle status to take charge of the Leopard Legion." Caiyun Zinan expressed his stance.
Caiyun Zinan only said that he would keep the Leopard Legion busy. Hence, if the Leopard Legion did not strike, the Xiangnan City-State would not either.
Lastly, the representative of the Chuanbei City-State, West Gate Big Official, was a little jittery, “Oh, um, okay, we will support you. The Chuanbei City-State alliance army will maintain alert."
Half a year had passed, and many unknown changes had occurred within the Chuanbei City-State. There was a level of internal conflict regarding the matter of facing off against Shanhai City.
Even West Gate Big Official was unwilling to directly conflict with them.
When Qin Feng heard their words, he frowned.
Obviously, the stances of the three City-States did not please him, "You need to hold them, but is there any chance you could send troops to help us?"
The enemy troops they faced included the two legions of the Dragon Legion Corps, the Guards Legion, and the war fighting legion of Consonance City for a total of 280 thousand elites.
Four legions were already a huge challenge to the Yunnan City-State. The alliance army there only had 100 thousand, and they could only gather 300 thousand if they tried.
Qin Feng knew that his 300 thousand troops were not even in the same league as the enemy; there was a big gap in both strength and equipment.
Not to mention that Shanhai City had sent the two god generals Baiqi and Huo Qubing to lead together.
The cold-blooded Asura Baiqi and the genius cavalry general Huo Qubing.
Just thinking about it terrified them.
If Yunnan City-State faced them alone, it would be a little too much.
"This...."
This time, even Caiyun Zinan became jittery.
"Brother Caiyun, if the lips die, the teeth will grow cold!" Qin Feng looked anxious.
Caiyun Zinan sighed, “Cough, Brother Qin, it is not that we are not helping you. You also know that the committee must discuss such issues, and it is not up to me. If it was just to go up against their threat, the committee would not have much resistance, but sending assistance is rather difficult."
"That's right, Brother Qin, you have to understand our situation." West Gate Big Official replied.
Even the most eager Yuan Ping did not speak out.
The Lingnan City-State was not an alliance where he could make all the decisions, and it had extremely complicated internal circumstances. Especially in this half a year, Yuan Ping could feel that there was a group waiting for them to make a mistake and give them a chance to strike.
Hence, although he really wanted to dive into the battlefield, he could not.
When Qin Feng saw this situation, his face turned extremely ugly. On one side, he understood the worries of Yuan Ping and the others. Taking their place, if the Yunnan City-State wanted to help their allies, it would be a problem too.
On the other hand, Qin Feng felt a chill; his allies were leaving them in the lurch.
The emergency meeting of the four City-States ended in unhappiness. The three other City-States only promised to be in charge of dealing with the Tiger and Leopard Legion. As for the main battlefield, there was nothing they could do about it.
"I have no choice, we can only fight to the death!"
After sending away his allies, a look of determination appeared on his face.
Shanhai City, Nanjiang Governor-General House.
8th month, 24th day morning, Ouyang Shuo personally sent off the Guards Legion.
Huo Qubing led the Guards Legion to leave from the north city gate toward Mulan Stronghold. Such a scene was captured in the eyes of all the spies from the various territories.
Rain was coming.
That afternoon, Ouyang Shuo personally met Zhang Tingyu and Wei Yang and received their assurances. Finally, he agreed to let Pei Yun take up the role of Civil Affairs Director.
Zhang Tingyu agreed to the appointment in the end because he had made considerations. If he rejected the offer, he would be offending both Wei Yang and Pei Mo; it would not be a smart decision.
Furthermore, during the Qing Dynasty, such actions were simply too common. Even Zhang Tingyu sometimes had to go along with the Yongzheng Emperor’s wants.
Under such circumstances, all the more Zhang Tingyu had no reason to reject his appointment. However, the Monarch's smile during the court assembly caused his heart to tremble.
With that, the Wenxi Pei family had two people taking important roles in Shanhai City.
Name: Pei Yun (King Rank)
Dynasty: Sui Dynasty
Identity: Shanhai City Civil Servant
Occupation: Civil Servant
Loyalty: 70
Command: 45
Force: 30
Intelligence: 70
Politics: 80
Specialty: Civil Rule (15% increase in territory administrative efficiency, 10% increase in territory prestige, 20% increase in civil affairs efficiency)
Evaluation: Pei Yun, an official during the Sui Dynasty. At the start, he worked for the Chen Dynasty, with his Father in the north, he requested to be a spy for the Sui Dynasty. Entering the Sui Dynasty, he became the provincial governor of three states and became an assistant minister.
The history books truly did not have a high evaluation of Pei Yun.
Pei Yun had also become the first official in Shanhai City who truly had a dark history. Ruling over such a scheming minister would be Ouyang Shuo's challenge.
After all, when they reached Planet Hope in the future, something like a loyalty stat would not exist. Judgment of the loyalty of the subordinate would solely depend on Ouyang Shuo's eyes.
8th month, 25th day, morning.
Just as he was drawing his sword in Nanjiang, a system notification sounded out.
"System notification, China Region has reached 50 prefecture cities, starting the battle map system, the 6th battle map - Battle of Red Cliff, will be activated in three days. Friendly Reminder: Battle of Red Cliff is not a forced battle map scenario, only territories that have upgraded to prefecture city can sign up to join."
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Battle of Red Cliff, the most famous battle during the Three Kingdoms Era.
If the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, including the famous Battle of Guandu, was the turning point in the Cao Cao regime, then the Battle of Red Cliff was the turning point in the Sun Liu regime.
After this battle, Liu Bei truly started to rule, and the Jiangdong Sun Family started to get truly famous.
However, due to the literature work of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the outer world had many misunderstandings regarding this event.
First, Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrow tactic was purely fictional.
However, the story did not come out from nowhere.
Based on the records of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Song recorded that in the 18th year of Jian An, five years after the Battle of Red Cliff, Cao Cao had led the army south to attack Sun Wu.
One day, Sun Quan made use of the fog in the river to ride the warship to approach the Cao army and observe their troops. Cao Cao was a worrywart; when he saw the fog and the Sun army waiting solemnly, he was afraid there was a scheme and did not dare to fight. He ordered the archers to shoot at the Wu Ships.
Sun Quan's boat were shot by arrows and one side suffered heavy damage, causing the boat to slowly tilt. Sun Quan ordered them to switch the direction of the ships to let the other side get hit by the arrows to stabilize the ships. Then, Sun Quan ordered the warships to leave.
This was just a story that happened to Sun Quan, it was just a reactionary plan. Sun Quan did not plan to borrow the arrows and the history books did not mention any straw boat.
The straw boats borrowing arrows was exaggerated while the borrowing the east wind by Zhuge Liang was total bullsh*t.
In truth, the commander of the Battle of Red Cliff was Zhou Yu, and Zhuge Liang basically did not even participate in this battle.
However, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms author loved Zhuge Liang and attributed some matters to him to glorify him.
Not just the Battle of Red Cliff, even the empty city plan was not Zhuge Liang’s.
Similarly, Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai was also a fake story.
The Three Kingdoms history did not have the story of Huang Gai using a self-torture ruse, but he did in fact fake his surrender. To ensure that the fireships that did not have any weapons were not intercepted and to smoothly approach the water stronghold of the Cao army, Huang Gai did a fake surrender.
Cao Cao easily believed his surrender as he felt that since Huang Gai had been under Sun Quan, he had more experience than Zhou Yu and was unhappy to be under Zhou Yu.
Apart from that, Jiang Ziyi being sent by Cao Cao to persuade Zhou Yu was true, but this event did not occur during the Battle of Red Cliff.
In the records of the Three Kingdoms written by Pei Song, he recorded that after the Battle of Red Cliff, there was only Jiang Ziyi persuading him to surrender but no Zhou Yu counter tactic.
And Cai Mao, Zhang Yun was not wrapped up in this, they were not even the admirals of Cao Cao's navy.
Similarly, during the true Battle of Red Cliff, the number difference was not as exaggerated as described in the stories. Beating the many with lesser numbers was not really true.
If Lords used the storyline in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to guess and prepare, they would definitely fail this time.
In the last life, there were Lords that actually committed such a mistake.