Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 288 Brother Farewell
When the news spread that the Northern Army was about to march westward, the soldiers of the Northern Army were extremely happy. This was a great opportunity to gain military exploits. Within Luoyang, they could not obtain military exploits, only in Liangzhou Only by cutting off the heads of a few Qiang people can they have a chance to be promoted, but it is a pity that there is no longer Duan Gong who is invincible in all battles to lead them to battle.

Although Sun Jian was young, he had been in the southern army for a long time, and his military exploits were outstanding. Even Tan Shihuai's army was defeated by him when he was a pioneer. The northern army and the southern army had six battalions, more than 2000 People, he can still suppress them, not to mention that many of the generals of the Sixth Battalion are comrades and friends who fought with him, such as Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Xu Rong, Ji Ling, Zhang Ji and so on.

In addition to leading the army, he was also a little excited, leaving behind his eldest son who was just born, and prepared to leave Luoyang.

When the Northern Army was about to leave, Yuan Shao, who was in command of Luoyang, rushed to the gate of the city early.

The Northern and Southern Army were fully armed. Sun Jian rode a tall horse and walked in the forefront. He looked very proud. Even the steed under his crotch advanced with its head held high. The soldiers behind him marched neatly. The armor made a pleasant sound, the main gate of the city had already been under martial law, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. It was necessary to ensure that the northern and southern armies could rush to Liangzhou quickly.

Yuan Shao stood alone outside the city gate, his robes fluttering in the wind, and he looked deeply at the Northern and Southern Army slowly approaching from afar.

Sun Jian saw Yuan Shao from a long distance, but he didn't pay attention to it, probably someone like the captain of the city gate, who wanted to see him off, he thought to himself, walking slowly, but Yuan Shao walked up to him slowly. In front of him, Sun Jian bowed his hands, and Sun Jian raised his hand. He was leading the infantry battalion of the northern army and advanced first. The entire infantry battalion stopped in an instant.

Sun Jian looked at the handsome and personable man in front of him with some doubts.

"No, Luo Yang ordered Yuan Shao, his younger brother Shu, to leave with the army. I don't know if the general will agree to let me say goodbye to my younger brother?" Yuan Shao said, Sun Jian frowned. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have stayed Yes, but this guy seems to be a member of Yuan's family. I heard that he is also the son of Shang Shuling Yuan Jun. So, Yuan Jun's other son is also in his army?
Sun Jian frowned and said, "There doesn't seem to be a general named Yuan Shu in the army."

"He became a soldier, but a captain of a battalion of infantry"

After Yuan Shao finished speaking, Sun Jian was even more astonished. The son of the dignified Yuan family actually became a soldier in the army?He knew that if the other party wanted to, he could join the Northern and Southern Army and become a general. No matter how bad he was, he would be a Marquis of the Sima Army. How could he be a corps leader?

In his heart, Sun Jian admired this man, nodded, and said, "Don't delay too long, let him follow quickly." After finishing speaking, he gave another order to the military marquis, and rode away. The soldiers of the Northern Army followed behind him, and Yuan Shao waited quietly. Not long after, an armed soldier came to his side reluctantly.

Seeing Yuan Shu with dark complexion and stubborn expression, Yuan Shao looked at him for a long time but was unable to speak, Yuan Shu asked impatiently, "Father wants you to come?"

Yuan Shao looked at him for a moment, nodded, and said, "Uncle was very worried when I heard that you were going west, so he asked me to come see you off."

"Well, tell father." Yuan Shu thought for a moment and said, "I will definitely not humiliate my family!"

"En..." Yuan Shao nodded, and the two remained silent. Since the last time Yuan Shu quarreled with him, the two of them hadn't contacted each other again. Yuan Shu felt a little guilty, but he was too proud by nature, so he couldn't bear to let go of his face and tell him Yuan Shao apologized, and Yuan Shao seemed to have never mentioned this matter, and he never mentioned it again. The two brothers felt a little complicated.

After looking at it for a long time, Yuan Shao took off a jade pendant from his waist, handed it to Yuan Shu, and said, "Take this and return it to me when you return to the army."

"En..." Yuan Shu took the jade pendant, held it tightly, thought for a moment, and said, "Brother."

"kindness?"

Yuan Shu still couldn't say sorry. He stared at Yuan Shao for a long time and said, "Take care."

Yuan Shu hurriedly ran to the army, Yuan Shao stayed where he was, watched Yuan Shu's figure gradually disappear before his eyes, and sighed, because of his background, most of the elders in Yuan's family looked down on him, but he was smart since childhood , suppressed many children of the Yuan family, and made these children treat him badly when he was young. At that time, only Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were with him.

Cao Cao was also bullied because of being an eunuch, while Yuan Shu was simply because he was his own brother.

Yuan Shao's biological mother died young, and Yuan Shu's aunt, who is also Yuan Feng's first wife, raised him. She is a gentle and kind person. In Yuan Shao's heart, he has long regarded her as his biological mother, and in his eyes, Yuan Shu is also Like a mother, but alas
Yuan Shao returned to the Yuan Mansion and met Yuan Feng.

Yuan Feng was studying at first, when he saw Yuan Shao walking in a bit lonely, he asked helplessly, "Erlang is gone?"

"Well, I just sent him away"

"This scorpion!" Yuan Feng cursed, turned his head away, and said nothing.

"Erlang said, he will never humiliate his family"

"kindness"

Among the northern and southern armies, many were new recruits. It was the first time they had experienced the pain of marching in a hurry. Seeing them exhausted and advancing slowly, Sun Jian couldn't help but feel a little amused. Once upon a time, he himself was like this, marching for a long time Rush to Jiangxia to fight, and surrender without fighting.
Yuan Shu just followed among these soldiers, without complaint or regret, he hung the jade pendant on his waist with a firm gaze.

This long march is still very painful. After all, there is only water transportation to Liangzhou, but there is no road, and the Liangzhou Canal that has just been built does not have enough ships to transport the Northern Army. , Then it might as well march to Liangzhou with a collective commander. In such a difficult situation, these young soldiers also matured very quickly.

When they arrived in Liangzhou, they did not see the desolate scene as they had imagined. There were a lot of merchants, and when they saw the soldiers of the northern and southern soldiers who were ordered to guard Liangzhou, these merchants all paid homage. The news that the Northern and Southern Army was sent to guard Liangzhou had already spread. Looking at this prosperous Liangzhou, which is second only to the Central Plains, the soldiers of the Northern and Southern Army were relieved.

However, what they didn't expect was that they were not stationed in these prosperous areas with many business travelers and heavy traffic. These areas were all under the jurisdiction of county and county soldiers. In the inhabited border area, Sun Jian deliberately learned from Huangfusong's behavior in Youzhou, and established a large number of sentry posts in the border area, and sent soldiers to each sentry post.

Of course, there are also large-scale legions, ready to go to support at any time.

At night, it was freezing cold, and the soldiers of the Northern and Southern Army exhaled cold air, trembling all over, holding spears, watching for wishes, and a team of five people stationed a sentry post, and what Yuan Shu wanted to station was on the side of Tianshui On the main road that the Qiang people must pass above Hanzhong, Yuan Shu was extremely serious every day and night, which made the generals gradually value him.

"I said, we have been stationed here for thirty years. Why don't we let the rest of the army come?"

"Heh, it's not that we are easy to bully. How can our military lords and soldiers who have been promoted compare to other generals?"

"Think about it, those little white faces are all in the camp, drinking fine wine, perhaps still hugging the beautiful woman, just waiting for grassroots people like me, stationed all night."

Yuan Shu turned his head abruptly, and said angrily, "Hua Xiong! Shut up! I'm on patrol!"

The brawny man who was chatting with everyone looked at Yuan Shu with some displeasure, and said, "Captain, could I be wrong? That kid Zhang Xiu, I can kill both of them with one hand, why can he be a military lord? Isn't that right?" There is an uncle who is a captain!"

"Look, Corporal, are there any people who are stationed at the bird's place from a rich family?"

"Shut up, Hua Xiong! I am from the Yuan family in Runan!"

Hua Xiong was taken aback, and stood up slowly, his face was a little blushing, but he didn't say another word, and stood up solemnly, and the rest of the people also got up quickly and stood in their respective positions, but, they Occasionally, when he secretly looked at Yuan Shu, his gaze was extraordinarily complicated.

(End of this chapter)