Three Kingdoms: The blind box draws Da Qiao at the beginning

Chapter 33 The Death of Lu Kang
Lu Yi said goodbye to Liu Bei and went south early the next morning with Nangong Yan, Xu Shu, Xu Sheng and a thousand surviving Lujiang soldiers.

They stayed in Guangling County for a while.

Lu Yi met here with Tao Qian's thousand Danyang County elites.

Indeed, as Tao Qian said, these Thousand Danyang elites are completely different from ordinary soldiers.

Everyone is tall and big.

Moreover, they all have unified light armor and weapons.

Tao Qian's eldest son, Tao Shang, told these thousands of Danyang elites that Lu Yi was Tao Qian's designated commander-in-chief.

Lu Yi took out the tiger charm.

After that, Tao Shang asked Lu Yi to march secretly with the thousands of elites and his younger brother. He would first send Tao Qian's coffin to Danyang for burial. After the burial, he would let the thousands of Danyang elites enter the nest and meet Lu Yi. .

To be honest, Lu Yi was a little reluctant.

He is now the commander-in-chief of this thousand Danyang elite.

This was all taken away by the pottery merchant, so he was a short-term commander?

However, he couldn't stop it and could only agree.

the reason is simple.

These Qiandanyang elites went directly to the pottery merchant!
Completely ignoring the tiger talisman in Lu Yi's hand!
Seeing the elite Qian Danyang escorting Tao Qian's coffin out of sight, Lu Yi let out a long sigh of depression.

Seeing this, Nangong Yan consoled him: "Forget it, it's gone if it's gone. In the final analysis, these thousand Danyang elites were given to you by Tao Qian. Now that they are in the hands of his two sons, they can be regarded as returning to their original owners." "

Lu Yiqiang laughed.

What else can we do if we forget about it?
He remembered the various records about Danyang soldiers that he had read before traveling through time.

After Cao Cao was defeated by Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong's army, he went to Danyang to recruit four to five thousand troops and prepare for a comeback.

As a result, all four to five thousand Danyang soldiers escaped halfway!
In the original history, Tao Qian's thousands of Danyang soldiers obtained by Liu Bei did not disappear when Cao Cao conquered Xuzhou for the second time, but existed until the period of confrontation between Liu Bei and Lu Bu.

As a result, these thousands of Danyang soldiers took advantage of Liu Bei to lead his troops to Huaiyin to fight against Yuan Shu, and opened the back door for Lu Bu!
Of course, the world has changed.

The thousands of Danyang soldiers that Tao Qian gave to Liu Bei seemed to be gone when Cao Cao's general, General Jun, attacked the east of Tancheng.

Anyway, when Liu Bei followed Cao Bao and fled back to Tancheng from the east of Tancheng, he had almost no soldiers under his command.

I wonder if all the Danyang soldiers Tao Qian gave him were killed in the battle, or if they escaped?
Anyway, I didn’t see any of them come back.

It can be seen from these historical events that the Danyang soldiers were very difficult to control.

Probably, only Tao Qian, a Xuzhou pastoralist from Danyang County, could control it.

Now that I think about it, I am not from Danyang County, so it’s okay if they don’t follow me.

After figuring this out, Lu Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Danyang Elite is good, if it cannot be controlled, it will be a time bomb with endless harm.

Lu Yi continued southward with Nangong Yan, Xu Shu, Xu Sheng and a thousand Lujiang soldiers.

Originally, Lu Yi planned to bypass Shu County and quietly return to Juchao.

But what he didn't expect was that when he passed through Danyang County and entered the border of Lujiang River, he would hear expected but also unexpected news from the people's mouths -

Lu Kang, the governor of Lujiang, is gone!
In the original history, Lujiang was besieged by Sun Ce. Lu Kang supported it for two years, ran out of ammunition and food, and finally died of illness, and Sun Ce broke the city.

In this world, Lu Kang is gone now!
At the beginning of this year, shortly after Lu Yi took three thousand Lujiang reinforcements north to aid Xuzhou, Yuan Shu borrowed grain from Lujiang on the grounds that he also wanted to aid Xuzhou against Cao Cao.

There is a deviation from the original history here.

In the original history, Yuan Shu was going to attack Liu Bei who occupied Xuzhou, and asked Lujiang for food.

However, although the reasons were different, the result was the same: Lu Kang, the governor of Lujiang, refused to borrow grain.

Yuan Shu then ordered Sun Ce, who had returned from Sun Jian's funeral, to lead an army to attack Lujiang.

When Sun Ce attacked Lujiang, he encountered almost no resistance!

The fifteen counties under the control of Lujiang, except Shu County, all surrendered!

In these counties, except for a few counties such as Juchao, which had experienced severe drought and banditry and were too poor to defend themselves, the officials and families in other counties had completely given up resistance.

According to the rumors among the common people, it was Sun Ce who assured the officials and family talkers in these counties that he and Zhou Yu, the youngest son of the Zhou family, were good friends.As long as they did not resist and surrendered to Yuan Shu, he would not invade.

Sun Ce quickly laid siege to Shu County.

The battle was fierce, but also tragic.

Lu Kang, the governor of Lujiang, faced Sun Ce's invasion, but the entire Shu County could not recruit any troops!No food and fodder can be mobilized!
The only people he led to resist Sun Ce's siege were his own cronies and the Lu family members who moved from Wu County last year, a total of less than 2000 people!
Lu Kang persisted in the confrontation with less than 2000 people for half a month.

On the contrary, less than [-]% of the people died in the battle, and most of them starved to death.Facing Lu Kang's small force, Sun Ce was unable to break the city and was quite frustrated.

After half a month of continuous siege, Sun Ce finally got what he wanted.

After breaking the city, he carried out a bloody massacre in the city.

Almost all small families and ordinary people were killed.

Lu Kang was also beheaded by Sun Ce.

In the end, it was Zhou Yi, the head of the Zhou family, who saw that Sun Ce was going crazy and wanted to attack the Zhong family and the original official's family in Shu County. Zhou Yi stood up and stopped Sun Ce's subsequent killings.

However, even so, all those mid-level families were ordered by Sun Ce to hand over half of their property, and the family heads were escorted to Shouchun by Sun Ce and the Lu family to await Yuan Shu's disposal.

Nangong Yan looked at Lu Yi and said, "We are going to Shouchun."

"There are still members of the Lu family alive, you must save them."

"Otherwise, once all the Lu family members die, the Lu family will completely cease to exist."

Lu Yi nodded.

The reason why he always uses the identity "Lu Yi" is because the Lu family is a large family in Wu County.

Even if he is a member of a side clan, he still has a clan, which will make it easier for him to survive in these troubled times.

Otherwise, a person without a clan identity will not have any way to rise in this troubled world!
Naturally, now that the Lu family is facing a crisis of genocide, he must rush over.

Otherwise, it would be too difficult to give up the identity of "Lu Yi" and start over!
But no other Lu Kang would give him such a promotion opportunity.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi immediately changed his route.

On the one hand, he led everyone in Lujiang towards Shouchun.

On the other hand, he was going to write a letter to Yuan Shu as the chief of Juchao, telling Yuan Shu that he was going this time. In addition to bringing a thousand Lujiang soldiers to Yuan Shu, he was also asking Yuan Shu not to kill the remaining members of the Lu family. .

Nangong Yan stood beside him, watching him bite his finger and write a letter on the cloth with blood.

Seeing that he wrote "Ju Chao Chief", Nangong Yan suddenly said: "Add one after Ju Chao Chief, the current head of the Lu family."

Lu Yi looked at Nangong Yan doubtfully.

Nangong Yan said this before when he first met Tao Qian!
Lu Yi said: "I am just a branch of the Lu family."

Nangong Yan breathed out and said, "Prefect Lu actually asked you to take over the important responsibility of the family head, but it was just inconvenient at the time, so I didn't tell you."

Pointing to himself, Nangong Yan said: "Remember the last time we met his old man, he asked me to follow you in the future?"

Lu Yi nodded.

Nangong Yan said: "My Nangong family and the Lu family have made an agreement since ancient times. After the Nangong family head's direct bloodline reaches the age of 12, he must choose one to learn literary, Taoist and military strategies from the Lu family head."

"As for my Nangong family, my father, the head of the family, currently has only three descendants."

"And among the three bloodlines, I am the only one who has left Ou'a, and I am right next to you."

"clear?"

Lu Yi looked at Nangong Yan blankly.

He really hadn't thought about this!
He doesn't know either!
After all, he is not really a member of the Lu family and has no idea about these secret rules.

However, it doesn't matter anymore.

Lu Kang is dead!
If you don’t serve as the head of the family, then who will?
Moreover, the Lu family is now facing a crisis of genocide, and only himself, Lu Ji and Lu Xun are left.

Lu Ji and Lu Xun were still children, so it was impossible for them to stand up.

Another thing, as the head of the Lu family, this time is a crisis, but it is also an opportunity.

As long as I can save these tribesmen, I will have much more room to operate when I return to Wu County in the future!
It’s not just people from the Lu family who can be dispatched.

Even people from the Nangong family can communicate.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi hummed and filled in the identity of "Head of the Lu family" after "Chief Ju Chao" on the letter.

After writing the letter, Lu Yu asked Xu Sheng to take two soldiers to send the letter to Shouchun.

And he led the others to catch up behind him.

Half a month later, Lu Yi and his party arrived in Shouchun.

He showed the seal of Chief Ju Chao to the guards at the Shouchun City Gate, and asked Xu Shu and Nangong Yan to station a thousand Lujiang soldiers outside the city, while Lu Yi himself rushed to Shouchun Mansion under the leadership of the city gate guards. Yamen, prepare to wait for Yuan Shu's interview.

(End of this chapter)