Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 874: The Beginning of the Southern Expedition!

"Say, who is it that bewitched the young envoy?" Zhang Ren jumped up in the big tent of the inner camp in the Dongzhou military camp, and kicked the middle-aged man in front of him.

"General Zhang Zhonglang, it's not me, I'm just following orders!"

The middle-aged man vomited blood from the corner of his mouth, one can imagine how hard this kick was.

"Did I tell all of you back then that under the First Lord's command, as long as anyone dares to respond to the order of the young envoy, I will kill him directly!" Zhang Ren's gloomy face was filled with evil spirits.

"General Zhang Zhonglang, you can't kill me, I belong to the young envoy..."

The pupils of the middle-aged man changed color, his face turned pale, and he begged for mercy.

"Crack!"

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Yijian pierced his chest.

"General Zhonglang, calm down!"

Outside the camp, a scribe walked in, and Zhang Ren said in a deep voice: "The young envoy must have just been confused for a while, and nothing irreversible has happened now, and Minghou probably won't care about it. If I don’t believe you, I won’t let you continue to lead the army!”

This scribe is the left general of the Dongzhou Army, named Yang Huai, one of the few remaining generals among Liu Yan's generals, and a rare confidant under Zhang Ren's command.

"Shaoling, am I worried about Minghou? How much trust Minghou has in me? I know very well that I need to be cautious in everything I do now. I can't count how many people around me are eyeliners. Why? How dangerous it is for the Young Envoy to send someone to meet me secretly at this time!"

Zhang Ren drew his sword, wiped off the blood on the sword with a strip of cloth, and said coldly: "The young envoy is ignorant, and if he is ready to move at this time, he will inevitably become the target of some people. These people don't care about the life and death of the young envoy. , They just hope to deal with Minghou, and when things get to an irreversible point, even if you and I beg Minghou with our lives, we will not be able to save his life, so we will let us live up to the generosity of the lord!"

"Why did the young envoy suddenly send someone to recruit you?"

Yang Huai looked at the middle-aged man's body on the ground and said in a deep voice.

This middle-aged man was sent by the State Shepherd's Mansion to recruit Zhang Ren with Liu Zhang's name card. This incident made Zhang Ren very angry, and he directly killed this man with a sword.

"In the previous Shu County and Guanghan Rebellion, I am afraid that the Young Envoy's actions!"

Zhang Ren clenched his fists tightly, and said in a low voice: "The young envoy is unwilling to be a puppet, but he doesn't know that such a result is already the best plan of the former lord, just to save his life. When the lord was around, he could not be counted as the Marquis of Ming, and he didn’t even have a tenth of the capital of the previous lord, so how could he be the Marquis of Ming’s opponent!”

"The rebellion between Shu County and Guanghan will inevitably involve the Southern Expedition. Will the Marquis of Ming be furious at that time?"

Yang Huai turned his face slightly.

"It shouldn't be!"

Zhang Rendao: "This matter is still in the Minghou's calculations. Otherwise, the young envoy has already lost his head, but there are some things that can be changed. It seems that we have to be more ruthless, otherwise the young envoy will be killed." I will not give up, I must let him give up, and be his Yizhou pastor with peace of mind, otherwise it will lead to disaster sooner or later, it is only a matter of Yizhou, we can still keep him, but once he becomes the target of Chang'an , then it will be difficult for me to intercede!"

As he spoke, he came up, chopped off the middle-aged man's head, preserved it with lime, put it in a wooden box, and handed it to Yang Huai: "Shao Ling, send someone to send the head back, directly to the state Mufu!"

"Understood!"

Yang Huai nodded.

"General Zhonglang, the military order from Beiwutang has come down, and we are ordered to withdraw the camp immediately. Within a month at the latest, we must enter Yizhou County, take the initiative to provoke, and provoke this war!" Dongzhou Army Right Army Sima Li Le walked in, cupped his hands and said.

Li Le was born as a general of the Baibo Army. He joined the Mu Army at first, and fought with the Mu Army since the Kanto Campaign. Later, the Baibo Army was merged into the Yellow Turban.

After the reorganization of the army in Baidi City, he was dispatched into the Dongzhou Army and became Sima of the Right Army of the Dongzhou Army, one of the deputy generals of the Dongzhou Army, second only to Zhang Ren.

"Beat the drums, the army gathers!"

Zhang Ren is no stranger to military orders. He has already ventilated before, and now it is just an official military order. After hearing the military order, he immediately moved: "Send my military order, and the captains and generals above the Sima will be sent out within half an hour." Inside, gather in the main camp of our Chinese army!"

"promise!"

The messenger immediately went down to deliver the order.

Half an hour later, in the main camp of the Chinese Army, on the conference table of the rectangular table, there were generals sitting side by side. Some of these generals were former generals of the Dongzhou Army, and some were dispatched from the Mu Army. There has already been a preliminary harmony in the running-in, but of course, if you want to become tacit understanding, you still need to run-in on the battlefield.

"It's a pocket watch!"

Zhang Ren's first task when he came over was to put down a batch of new armaments, and then send down some things from Beiwutang to assist in the war. This pocket watch is one of them. Since I came into contact with this pocket watch, Zhang Renai spared no effort.

"There are only so many at the moment. Commanders and lieutenants above the military ranks and above are equipped with one piece. Time is the most critical factor on the battlefield. In this battle, we must play the Dongzhou Army's prestige, and we must not lose it!"

As a general on the battlefield, he is very aware of the importance of time. The batch of pocket watches sent by Beiwutang was not very eye-catching at first. How powerful it is.

So even if he released the action, he seemed cautious.

"promise!"

All the generals received a box of pocket watches. These are pocket watches produced by Jiangzhou Watch Factory, about the size of a palm, with a chain, which can be hung on the body. When you open it, you can see the hour hand turning.

They don't understand pocket watches, but they can observe the movements on them.

"How does this work?"

"Are they able to move?"

"It turns automatically!"

"Is it to check the time?"

"I can understand the words. There are twelve hours on it. Doesn't it mean that wherever the pointer goes, it means entering the hour!"

"Is there such a magical thing?"

"This is much easier to use than an hourglass!"

After a detailed discussion, the generals found that the hour hand of the pocket watch is actually very easy to understand, so it took them about a quarter of an hour to understand it, and naturally they all loved it.

"Now we're on time!"

Zhang Ren took out his pocket watch and said, "Today is February 23rd, twice every quarter!"

"just!"

"It's a bit off, adjust it, this small turn can be adjusted!"

"My right!"

"just!"

Everyone adjusted the time one after another.

"Starting today, we will launch a unified campaign against Yizhou. The Dongzhou Army will be the vanguard. We will pull out the camp in an hour!" Zhang Ren put away his pocket watch and began to assign tasks: "Now I announce the mission, Dongzhou is the first Camp must be within three days, that is, on February 26, in the morning, at Chenshi, you must arrive at Qianwei Zhuti!"

"Yes!"

The lieutenant of the [-]st Battalion stood up and took orders.

"The Second Battalion of the Dongzhou Army will be pulled out in one hour, and must enter Hanyang on February 27!"

"promise!"

"The Third Battalion of the Dongzhou Army..."

"..."

Zhang Ren was constantly assigning tasks, and then dismissed the meeting, and the entire Dongzhou camp quickly moved.

The battle for the unification of Yizhou has officially started!

(End of this chapter)