皖城 / Wan City (Lujiang)

Overview

皖城 / Wan City is the Lujiang target captured by 孙策 and 周瑜 after 刘勋 leaves his rear exposed.

Current Profile

The current source presents Wan City as a rear-base prize rather than an isolated battlefield. Its fall turns Sun Ce’s inducement of Liu Xun into a decisive material transfer: family members, population, ships, and commandery control move from the Liu Xun/Yuan Shu orbit into Sun Ce’s Jiangdong expansion.

Key Characteristics

• Functions as Liu Xun’s practical Lujiang base while his main army moves toward Shangliao.
• Becomes vulnerable only after Sun Ce draws Liu Xun out with gifts, humility, and the promise of joint gain.
• Falls to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu while 孙贲 and 孙辅 guard Pengze.
• Concentrates the material results of the operation: captives, population, ships, and appointment authority.

Evidence

• Rear-base function: Hanji 1038 treats Wan City as the exposed Lujiang position Sun Ce plans to attack once Liu Xun leaves.
• Campaign execution: Hanji 1038 says Sun Ce and Zhou Yu take Wan City while Sun Ben and Sun Fu hold Pengze.
• Strategic payoff: Hanji 1038 records the capture of Yuan Shu and Liu Xun family members, more than thirty thousand people, ships, and the appointment of Li Shu to hold Lujiang.

Qualifications

This page disambiguates 皖城 from 宛县 / 宛城. The source’s city is the Lujiang target in Sun Ce’s 199 CE operation, not the Nanyang/Wancheng route already represented by Wan County.

What Changed

• Created the Lujiang Wan City page from Hanji 1038 to avoid collision with the existing Wan County page.

Relationships

• 庐江郡 - commandery setting in which Wan City functions as Liu Xun’s exposed base.
• 刘勋 - holder whose departure leaves Wan City open.
• 孙策 - attacker who captures the city after drawing Liu Xun away.
• 周瑜 - Sun Ce ally participating in the capture.
• 诱敌离位 - campaign pattern that makes the city vulnerable.
• 战争的暴力再分配 - conceptual frame for the transfer of people, ships, family captives, and authority after the city falls.