Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turbans finally revolt

Lujiang County, Shu County.

Lu Kang is in a hurry now.

He paced back and forth in the mansion, waiting for further news to come, feeling in his heart that there would be no good news.

Xu Dong, the governor of the county, held up his clothes and quickly entered the mansion, shouting: "Fu Jun, Fu Jun!"

Seeing the magistrate coming, Lu Kang hastily greeted him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Jun Cheng shook his head, with a bitter face, "I haven't seen Governor Chen, I'm afraid... I'm afraid they won't care about us anymore."

Jun Cheng was talking, and almost cried. It can be seen that he has suffered a lot of grievances during this trip. Chen Wen refused to meet, which is to show his position that he will not support Lujiang.

It may even go to the opposite side and become Yuan Shu's accomplice.

Lu Kang sighed, looked up at the sky covered with dark clouds, a feeling of suffocation came to his heart, almost made him faint.

"Is there no one who can save Lujiang?" Lu Kang sighed.

"Report-"

"Your Majesty, Yu Duwei has come to report that Yuan Shu's army has arrived in Bo'an."

A riding whistle suddenly rushed into the county mansion to report.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Shu's army is on the verge of Lu'an. With the strength of Lu'an troops, they will not be able to defend for a long time. What should you do, Your Majesty?" Jun Cheng asked.

Lu Kang thought over and over again, if the garrison is scattered, I am afraid that even the whole city cannot be defended, so it is better to concentrate all the troops in Shu County, anyway, it is absolutely impossible to compromise and surrender to the Yuan family.

"Decree, order the defenders on the front line of Shu County and Lu'an to withdraw to Shu County." Lu Kang first ordered the messengers, and then said to Xu Juncheng: "Since you can't count on it, then don't count on it. You can send some more people. Vehicles, transport as many rolling stones and wood as possible to the city for the defense of the city, and collect hundreds of iron pots and firewood, I will use everything to defend Shu County as much as possible!"

"Here!"

Jun Cheng went to work, watching his back and leaving, Lu Kang said that sentence.

"I want to live and die with Shu County!"

As Lu Kang said, he went straight back to the official affairs hall and took out the map, but no matter how he looked at it, the north of the Lujiang River was Runan, and the northeast was Jiujiang County. Don't worry about the reinforcements here. Fighting, let alone whether you want to or not, you can't get away if you want to. In the end, it's the Yuzhang army with Hua Xin as the prefect.

As for Peiguo, Lu Kang didn't know that Cao Cao had already captured Peiguo. In his impression, Peixiang was still Yuan Zhong, a son of the Yuan family. How could he know that Yuan Zhong's head, after Liu Qing learned that Ba Zhi had been murdered, Then I gave it to Yuan Shao.

Looking at the map, everything is empty, so why not leave a letter to the family.

After thinking about it, Lu Kang mentioned writing a letter.

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Luoyang.

Liu Qing looked at the letter from Qianying with a blank expression on his face.

Guo Jia was by the side, although his eyes fell on Liu Qing, but at this moment, he couldn't guess why the lord was sullen.

fighting?The battle situation in various places is under control, there are no accidents, or is there something wrong in Jizhou?
"My lord, what happened?"

"Xianbei has changed."

"Xianbei?" Guo Jia suddenly realized, "My lord, the desert is already very cold this season."

"The north was suddenly hit by a large-scale cold wave. Several tribes were buried in heavy snow, and countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death. Although the losses of the tribes on the south side were controllable, people were panic-stricken. Many homeless people began to go south in groups. , as you know, they used to plunder other tribes first, and then they plundered the territory of the big man."

The plundering in the south in winter has not changed much for decades or even hundreds of years. Until these few years, because Liu Qing has opened up trade with Xianbei, Xianbei people can use war horses, livestock, fur, meat, etc. for The exchange of materials such as coal, salt, grain, etc., plus the fact that there has been no extreme weather in recent years, has led to a relatively stable life.

"My lord, isn't the trade going on all the time? Why did such a disaster suddenly appear?"

Liu Qing looked at Guo Jia, intending to test him.

"Since the trade has been smooth, Feng Xiao might as well guess, why is this so?"

Feng Xiao analyzed calmly, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "The problem lies with the Xianbei royal family!"

Liu Qing was not surprised at all, Guo Jia got the answer right.

The cold wave is certainly the cause of such a disaster this time, but the root cause is that the Xianbei royal family cut off the trade supplies. Even if it is profitable, some people will temporarily give up the immediate benefits for the sake of power, intending to obtain more afterwards. Big profits, this is the charm of power.

"My lord, if the problem is not with Princess Qian, then it is because of her younger brother."

The corner of Liu Qing's mouth twitched, and he sneered, "It is estimated that the Xianbei royal family has grown so fast in the past few years that he thinks that he is a wise and powerful Khan. In fact, he is just lucky. She has a good sister and married a good husband."

Liu Qing explained this relationship in very simple and plain words. Because of his own support, the Xianbei royal family developed too fast. Along with the expansion of the royal family, there was also the ambition of the young Qianman, who also experienced several years of barbaric growth.

Finally, a certain point was reached where this ambition began to run wild.

There are also some external factors, perhaps the rise of the Tuoba tribe, which made Qianman feel the danger.

These things, the last time in Jizhou, Qian Ying told himself everything, and Liu Qing also expressed his position at the time, if Xianbei needs unification and needs a great Khan, then this person can only be Qian Ying.

And judging from Qian Ying's timely report this time, Qian Ying is still on her side.

Speaking of selfishness, Qianying can do it for herself, and if necessary, Liu Qing will help her to the top.

But Liu Qing believed in another situation, that is, Qianying's pattern was big enough.

She knew that the friendship between Xianbei and Dahan was not unified than that of Xianbei, and it was a hundred times more important. Without the material support of Dahan, even if Xianbei was unified, the unification would be temporary. In the tragic mutual attack and annexation.

"My lord, there are wars all over the place now. It seems that there are no generals under the lord's command?"

"Who said, Feng Xiao, don't forget Bingzhou Mu, the matter of Xianbei is a matter of Bingzhou, and it can be resolved by Dong Zhuo. As for the leader of the army, he still has some people under his command, and Zhang Xiu can join, Zhiyou Li Ru, it's up to Qian Ying to control the size, I don't want to worry about that!"

There are still a lot of broken things in the Han family, how can I have time to take care of Xianbei.

If you fight against the outside world, you must first settle down inside!
Guo Jia tasted it and thought there was nothing wrong with it.

"Goodbye my lord!"

"With that in mind, let's think about how to deal with him!" As he spoke, Liu Qing casually picked up a piece of paperwork and threw it away, and it landed right in front of Guo Jia impartially.

Guo Jia picked it up, raised his eyebrows, and found that things were not that simple.

This official document comes from Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and it is for the return of Nanyang.

Speaking of Nanyang, Liu Qing now only occupies two counties, Wan County and Xinye.

One is the county government, and the information of the people with land property and household registration is all in it.

One is an important military defense town, and the road to the south, no matter by land or water, must pass through Xinye.

The tricky thing about this matter is that the relationship between Liu Qing and Liu Biao has not deteriorated, and Liu Qing doesn't want to deteriorate, but he doesn't want to return Nanyang, because Nanyang is so crucial to connect the north and the south!

"Feng Xiao, how do you say this king should reply?"

"My lord, you might as well say that there are still remnants of the Yuan family in various parts of Nanyang, which urgently need to be wiped out. Therefore, they need to be stationed for a while longer." Guo Jia said.

"Liu Jingsheng will definitely say, 'Let the remnants of the Yuan family be left to him', so what should I say?"

"My lord, Liu Jingsheng won't tell."

"Oh? Why?"

"Because he is smart, this letter is just a dispensable thing. Maybe he wrote this letter without repaying any hope. If the lord returns Nanyang, it will be an unexpected joy. If the lord does not return it, it will not be considered a loss." .” Guo Jia explained.

"Really?"

"My lord, if you don't believe me, you can reply as Jia said."

Liu Qing immediately smiled, and nodded to Guo Jia: "It's really you!"

Liu Qing followed what Guo Jia said and began to reply.

Guo Jia lowered his head, looked at the wine on the table beside him, took it from Gu and took a couple of sips, looking refreshed.

"My lord, Luoyang fine wine is much better than Jizhou!" Guo Jia said.

Liu Qing stopped writing and replied, "How about the beauty in Luoyang?"

"That would be even better, my lord, if there is a chance..." Guo Jia thought about it, but he didn't say anything, why did the lord need to go there.

As for Princess Diaochan and the group of beauties who are dowry, none of them are better than the rouge vulgar fans in that place, so they changed their words: "The playing and singing are good. If there is a chance, the lord can go and enjoy one or two."

"I heard that you haven't been idle recently. You have managed to take care of your body, so don't let it go again. This winter is unusual this year, so don't give yourself up!"

"Decree, decree!" Guo Jia smiled, and quickly put down the glass of wine. Seeing that Liu Qing had already begun to write the letter, he knelt and walked a few steps, moved to Liu Qing's desk, and continued to laugh: "My lord, at the moment All the armies are almost in place, and a big battle is imminent, especially Lujiang, and maybe Yuan Shao will also be involved."

Liu Qing looked up at Guo Jia, "What do you mean?"

"Don't you want to capture Yuan Shao personally, my lord? If you miss this battle, you will probably only face Liu Biao and Liu Yan."

"When did you become so enlightened?" Liu Qing smiled and looked at the letter he was about to give to Liu Biao.

"Hearing what Feng Xiao said, I really don't want to miss it. It's rare that you are not greedy for comfort, so how about we go for a walk?"

"Uh..." Guo Jia was speechless for a while, and corrected: "My lord, what I mean is that if my lord misses it, I will have regrets. I'm fine, and I won't regret it."

Liu Qing didn't care about him, and said to himself: "Stop talking nonsense, you go back first, get ready today, leave tomorrow, go to Lujiang!"

Guo Jia suddenly looked sad, the warm city life was about to disappear.

After Guo Jia left, Liu Qing picked up another letter and read it, the corners of his mouth curled up...

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On the Jiujiang official road, a long army of troops headed southwest. A few miles away from here, there is the Taotao Huai River. As the weather turns cooler and the precipitation increases, the Huai River is also more abundant than in the dry season.

Bingzhou cavalry marched forward, but Chen Gong and Lu Bu walked in the middle of the team.

Cao Cao led the army to walk in front, and the generals followed behind him. Facing the cool breeze, there was a bit of poetry in his heart that he wanted to express.

While preparing for a while, Xia Houyuan suddenly interrupted: "My lord, it's time for Cai."

Cao Cao squinted his eyes for a while, then turned his head and asked Cheng Yu, "Zhongde, Xia Cai is so important, if he passes by, will he be cut off by him?"

Cheng Yu replied: "Don't worry, my lord, our army is powerful, and the defenders dare not act rashly. Our army has enough food to cross the Huai River. When we reach the Lujiang River, we don't need to worry about food anymore. Now that the autumn harvest is over, the cities will There are food reserves, Lu Kang is a clean and honest official, and has won the hearts of the people, and the people know that our army is here to save Lu Kang, so they must give them all their money to support our army."

"Oh, it's no wonder that Zhongde ordered to carry only such a small amount of food and grass. It turns out that only this section of the road is needed."

"Mr. Cao, what Zhong De said is true. What's more, even if the common people don't give Lu Kang face, they should give face to the court and King Bohai, right?" Chen Gong took over the words.

"That is, as long as we play the banner of the King of Bohai, the people will eat pots of milk to welcome the king's teacher. We must worry about food and grass!" Lu Bu also said.

Cao Cao laughed when he heard this.

The generals of Cao Jun listened and looked at Lu Bu silently.

The two armies passed by from the north of Xiacai. Xiacai just ran out a small cavalry of a few hundred people. Looking at them from a distance, it seemed that they really had no intention of intercepting them, but just guarded against them attacking Xiacai.

This small group of cavalry, one waits for the soldiers and horses to pass a certain range of Xiacai before returning to the city.

Everything was as Cheng Yu expected, the cai soldiers and horses did not dare to intercept, and the luggage, the luggage had been distributed back, and there would be no replenishment on the way, and the next replenishment would be in Lujiang County.

"Coward! I want to kill the intercepting soldiers and horses, and then take Xia Cai by the way!" Xiahou Dun yelled.

Cao Cao gave him an expression of "Are you going to die if you don't pretend to be coercive?" The county magistrate Xia Cai let him go. It was a fluke. On the other hand, the delay on the way is the most fatal.

If the rescue opportunity is missed, the operation will be a complete failure.

After walking a little further, several cavalry sentry sent to Lujiang in advance finally returned.

"General Qi, Yuan Jun has occupied Lu'an County and is continuing to move south."

Another cavalry sentry said: "General Qi, prefect Lu Kang did not garrison Lu'an, but dispatched all the troops from the cities along the way to Shu County, preparing to fight Yuan Shu to the death in Shu County."

Cao Ren said sharply: "This Lu Kang is pretty smart. He chose to defend the fortified city and maximize his limited troops. For Yuan Shu, this is a big disadvantage."

"However, with this arrangement, Yuan Shu will feel as if he has entered an uninhabited land on the way, and he will soon come to Shu County. Moreover, Yuan Shu has nothing to rely on, so he will definitely attack the city with all his strength. Yuan Shu can rule Nanyang Sili, and there are still many capable people under his command. , for Lu Kang, the challenge is not small." Cheng Yu added.

Several people discussed with each other, while Chen Gong at the side fell into silence.

And his brows were furrowed, obviously aware of something difficult.

Lu Bu lowered his head and patted Chen Gong's shoulder.

Cao Cao also glanced at Chen Gong, his expression became confused.

"Public platform? What's the difference?"

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