The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 101 Chapter 101
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The county seat of Qu County is located on the north side of Qu Mountain. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he established Qu County here and erected a stone tower as the east gate of Qin.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Qu County was already an open commercial port capable of mooring hundreds of merchant ships.Qin Shihuang visited Haizhou five times and passed through Haizhou three times, making it the only gateway open to overseas at that time.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Japanese king sent envoys to Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, to pay tribute, wishing to be the Hanchen vassal.He asked the Emperor of Han to give him a name, but Han thought he was short, so he bestowed the title of "Woguo".The king asked the Emperor of Han to give him a title, and Emperor Guangwu granted him the title of "Women King".His envoys crossed the sea several times and came to the Han Dynasty, and they landed from Qu County five times.

Therefore, Qu County is not just a simple county, but a port of a seaport. After years of development, it has formed an important port. deliver their goods.

It is also because of this that salt merchants will take a fancy to this place as a place for collecting and distributing goods.

According to the report from the scouts, the salt merchant who rebelled this time was surnamed Li, Li Lun. He was a common surname in Qu County and had been in business for generations.However, unlike Mi Zhu, Mi Zhu relied on honesty in his business, while this salt merchant surnamed Li relied on stealing and cheating.

Li Lun also started out as a private salt worker. When Mi Zhu was in business, the Li family was just a small business.The real rise has been in recent years.

In recent years, Mi Zhu abandoned business and went into politics, and moved his family to Tancheng, and even sold the salt fields left by his ancestors. That's why Li Lun got this opportunity and started selling private salt like crazy. It can be said that Li Lun is an upstart.

Li Lun then raised followers and dead men, and relying on his wealth, he dominated Qu County and gradually became a bully.In addition, Li Lun also colluded with pirates to rob merchant ships, and he has become a figure who is both a merchant and a thief.

However, Li Lun is still very smart. He spends a lot of money as hush money every year, so that the county magistrate of Qu County deceived his superiors and conspired with him.

After Zhang Yan took charge of Xuzhou, he changed the bureaucracy of Tao Qian's era and selected honest and capable young people as county magistrates. Only then did he gain some understanding of the Qu County area.

But at that time Zhang Yan was in the stage of war, leading the army to fight abroad. Mi Zhu, the governor of the East China Sea, also knew Li Lun, so he wrote a letter to persuade Li Lun, and Li Lun restrained himself a lot.

But this time Zhang Yan prepared the official salt and iron camp, and he had to collect taxes on the sale of private salt, which angered Li Lun at once. Counties and counties openly rebelled.

There are mountains in the south of the county seat of Qu County and the sea in the north, so there are only two gates, east and west.

Zhang Yan led [-] cavalry, and soon arrived outside the county seat of Qu County, and immediately sent people to call for formation.

After a while, Li Lun, who was five big and three rough, boarded the city wall of Qu County. When he saw three hundred cavalry from the official army outside the city, he grinned and said, "There are only 300 people, what are you afraid of?"

Li Lun immediately asked one of his retainers to leave the city with a thousand troops to attack the cavalry of the official army.

Zhang Yan was riding on his horse, motionless, and when he saw the rebels coming to attack, he just moved his hand forward, and the three hundred cavalry behind him rushed out, rushing towards the attacking rebels like a group of savages. The wolf entered the flock, and the group of rebels who killed them cried for their father and mother.

The rebels couldn't resist the cavalry's assault, and immediately fled to the city.

Li Lun on the city wall saw such a scene before he knew what the real gap was. He could gather a crowd to rebel and kill the government servants in the county, but in the face of the regular army, his troops were simply vulnerable. Instead of killing a single On the contrary, more than half of the enemies were killed or injured, and the corpses were everywhere.

The cavalry of the officer army did not launch a chase, but returned to Zhang Yan's side. One of the cavalry shouted at Li Lun on the tower: "You rebels, surrender quickly, otherwise, there is only a dead end!"

Li Lun ordered the city gates to be closed. Although the officers and soldiers were strong, he was not too afraid because there were few soldiers. Besides, he had pirates to help him, so he might not lose.

So, he called his confidants and asked them to go to Yuzhou Mountain to find pirates for help!

Yuzhou Mountain is located on an island outside the east of Qu County. Li Lun colluded with the pirates to rebel and promised this small island to the pirates. The pirates helped Li Lun rebel, beheaded the county magistrate of Qu County, and occupied the The county seat of Qu County.

Li Lun's confidants crossed the sea by boat, and when they arrived at Yuzhou Mountain, they went to meet the leader of the pirates.

There are two leaders of the pirates. One is from Xiacai, Jiujiang, whose surname is Zhou Mingtai, and his style name is Youping; the other is from Jiujiang Shouchun, whose surname is Jiang Mingqin, and his style name is Gongyi.

Today the world is in turmoil, and the local tyrants and bullies continue to harm the people. These two people died because they killed the local bullies.

After the two met together by chance, they became thieves who robbed the rich and helped the poor in the Jianghuai area, and later recruited a group of brave men to make a living by robbing.

After Yuan Shu occupied Huainan, he sent Ji Ling to attack Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, who were outnumbered. They were defeated by Ji Ling and fled to Haixi. Lun used to plunder passing merchant ships, and only then did he become a pirate.

Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were drinking in the stronghold when they heard that Li Lun had sent someone to meet him.

"Zhou Zhuangshi, Jiang Zhuangshi, my master sent me here to inform the two strong men that the official army has sent troops to encircle and suppress them. My master couldn't resist, so I came here to invite the two strong men to lead troops to fight the official army in the county seat of Qu County. !"

Zhou Tai said: "How many officers and soldiers are here?"

"Only 300 people, all cavalry."

"With only 300 people, your master can't resist it. It can be seen how useless the dead soldiers your master usually raises! However, this is your master's business, what does it have to do with us? Why should we Your master went to battle to kill the enemy?" Zhou Tai laughed.

"My master said that if the two strong men can lead troops to rescue them, as long as they beat off the officers and soldiers, my master will definitely give us double rewards!"

As soon as he heard the word "Qian Liang", Zhou Tai's eyes suddenly shone with a gleam. He glanced at Jiang Qin who was beside him, saw Jiang Qin nodded, and then said: "Go back and tell your master, I will rectify the situation." After the soldiers and horses, we will arrive later!"

"Here! Then I will take my leave first."

After Li Lun's confidant left, Zhou Tai said to Jiang Qin: "Li Lun is rich and unkind, and has been using us. We were kept in the dark and helped him do a lot of bad things. Now that I think about it, I regret it very much. If he hadn’t promised us this small island this time, I would never have helped him. Now that he is being hunted down by the government and has nothing to do with us, why should we help him?”

Jiang Qin said: "You are right, but we have just occupied Yuzhou Mountain, and we finally have a foothold, but in terms of money and food, there is very little. Li Lun is a big local family. If you help him defeat the official army once, he will Give us some money and food, which will be much faster than our own planting. Besides, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. If Li Lun is killed by the army, the next thing the army will deal with is us who helped Li Lun rebel. Therefore, we are now with Li Lun Lun, we are all on the same boat, with Li Lun as a shield, we can live in Yuzhou Mountain for a long time!"

"You're right, then gather your troops and prepare to go to the county seat of Qu County to face the official army!"

After the two discussed it, Zhou Tai ordered five hundred pirates, crossed to the other side by boat, and soon entered the county seat of Qu County, but left Jiang Qin to garrison Yuzhou Mountain.

When Li Lun heard that Zhou Tai was coming, he was overjoyed and hurried to greet him in person.

Zhou Tai followed Li Lun to the city wall of the county seat, and glanced at the officers and soldiers standing outside the city.But seeing that the officers and soldiers are in order, the leader is even more majestic, but the whole team didn't show any banners, and they couldn't tell where the other party came from.

"Where did these soldiers and horses come from?" Zhou Tai asked.

Li Lun said: "These cavalry came from Tancheng. They should be the soldiers and horses of the prefect Mi Zhu, but the leader of the army is not Mi Zhu, maybe an army commander!"

"Where did he get the soldiers and horses, just [-] cavalry, you are scared like this?" Zhou Tai said.

Li Lun said with a sneer: "My subordinates can bully the people and beat the government servants away, but to deal with the regular army, we still have to rely on Zhou Zhuangshi..."

"Don't flatter me here, after I help you beat the army, how much benefit are you going to give me?"

Li Lun said: "I'm going to give you one thousand gold, ten thousand stone grain..."

After Zhou Tai heard this, he sneered, turned around and left, and said sarcastically: "Such a small benefit is not worth my hard work for you. Don't forget, this time it's the regular army, and they're all cavalry. It’s hard to deal with. Anyway, I don’t want to get into this muddy water, so you should deal with them!”

"Zhou Zhuangshi stays. If you think it's too little, we can discuss it again. How about this, I'll give you three thousand gold and thirty thousand stone grain, what do you think?"

Zhou Tai stopped in his tracks, turned around, smiled at Li Lun, and said, "That's right. Only in this way can you show your sincerity."

Li Lun breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How are you going to deal with them?"

"Of course it's a decisive battle out of the city, do you want to hide here and be a turtle?" Zhou Tai said.

Li Lun was overjoyed, and immediately asked someone to open the city gate, Zhou Tai went down from the tower, and led [-] men out of the county, facing Zhang Yan and other [-] cavalry.

Zhou Tai held an iron spear, wore a snatched wrought copper helmet on his head, and an iron armor on his body. He rode a maroon war horse under his crotch. His face was stern and fierce.

Zhang Yan saw another team came out of the city, but this team was different from before. Although they were not uniformly dressed, they all wore a red scarf around their heads. There are piercing eyes, and there is a deep scar on the left cheek, which makes people feel shuddering after looking at it.

Zhou Tai rode his horse and took two steps forward, pointed the iron spear in his hand towards Zhang Yan, and shouted loudly: "If you know your senses, retreat quickly, or Grandpa will send you to hell!"

(End of this chapter)