Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 86

"Bang! Bang!"

In the hall of Jingzhou Mufu, Liu Biao threw all the things that could be dropped in front of him.Brushes, inkstones, and bamboo slips flew out one by one. Kneeling in front of the table were Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, who dared not show their grandeur.How many years has Liu Biao been so angry?Cai Mao did not remember the exact time.But since I became his brother-in-law, I haven't seen him so angry.

"Huh!" Seeing that there was only his own official seal left on the table, no matter how angry Liu Biao was, he couldn't take it out.Exhaling bitterly, Liu Biao sat down heavily.Looking at Cai Mao and Kuai Yue who were kneeling on the ground in front of them, their buttocks sticking out higher than their heads, Liu Biao let out a long sigh, and said shyly, "Get up!"

"Thank you, my lord!" Cai Mao and Kuai Yue knelt for a long time, but got up staggeringly. "My army of 5 land and water from Jingzhou attacked Jiangdong, why did it end like this?" Liu Biao asked a little weakly.After Cai Mao and Kuai Yue cleaned up the remnants of the army, they found that there were only more than [-] people left. The defeat in this battle was really terrible.

"My lord!" Kuai Yue shut up automatically as soon as he opened his mouth, and he found that he really had nothing to say.Cai Mao didn't have so many worries, and said directly: "This time is all due to my carelessness, my lord, I would like to raise another army horse, and fight Jiangdong again, vowing to capture Zhou Yu and Sun Quan alive!"

"Huh?" Liu Biao was noncommittal upon hearing this.At this time, Kuai Yue's elder brother Kuai Liang stepped forward and said, "My lord, the men and horses in Jingbei have not practiced for a long time, and their combat power will inevitably be reduced." Kuai Liang also paused for a while, and then said: "The only plan now is not as good as Let Jingnan attack Jiaozhou General Liu Pan lead his army to attack Jiangdong. General Liu has been in Jingnan for many years, and the generals in Jiangdong except Zhou Yu are no match for him. Besides, the six counties in Jiangdong are the foundation of the Sun family. You only need to take these six counties, Take Jiaozhou Yier again! The troops in Jingbei should practice for a few months first, and go to the battlefield after their morale recovers!"

"It makes sense!" Liu Biao felt that Kuai Liang's proposal was reasonable, and immediately ordered the army to move south to attack Jiangdong. "My lord, if it wasn't for the Xuzhou army's rescue this time, Dudu Cai and Kuai would not be in danger, thank you!" Yi Ji, the counselor at the side, also reminded him.

"Uncle Ji's words are very serious, come here, prepare two thousand shi of grain and send it to the Xuzhou army at the front!" After Liu Biao had arranged all this, he signaled them to retreat without waiting for Cai Mao and others to express their opinions. "Brother, why do you want Liu Pan to attack Jiangdong?" Kuai Yue asked his brother in a puzzled manner as soon as he left the house.Liu Pan is Liu Biao's nephew, and he has always lived in the Han family clan, and he has a lot of discord with the two wealthy families of the Kuai family and the Cai family.However, Liu Pan was a brave man, and most of the generals in the army made good friends with him. This was the case with Wenpin in the past, and Cai Mao and others did not dare to push him too far.In order to prevent him, Cai Mao and others from blindly fighting among themselves, Liu Biao simply asked him to take charge of military affairs in the four counties of Jingnan.

"Hehe, second brother. The Jiangdong army is brave and good at fighting, wouldn't it be better for Liu Pan to fight with them?" Kuai Liang said with a sinister smile, Kuai Yue and Cai Mao were both thoughtful when they heard the words. "Degui, Yidu. We, Kuai and Cai, are the pillars of Jingxiang. Now that the world is in chaos, we should share weal and woe and help each other, understand?" Kuai Liang said in a serious tone.

"That's right!" Kuai Yue and Cai Mao had always admired Kuai Liang's insight, and they all nodded heavily after hearing what he said.At this time, in Lujiang City, Zhao Feng was preparing to march on the road to Kaihua in a few days, but unexpectedly learned that Liu Biao had changed the battle and would continue to fight again. "Liu Jingsheng doesn't seem to be too cowardly!" Zhao Feng murmured in his heart, wondering if Sun Quan and Zhou Yu beat him too badly, but instead awakened his youthful ambition.

"General, Liu Jingzhou sent someone to send two thousand shi of grain, please check." At this time, Hao Zhao came in to report. "I know!" Zhao Feng went out to see for himself after hearing the news.The population of Lujiang County is only more than [-], so naturally it cannot support its own army of [-]. Therefore, all the food, grass and luggage are allocated from Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and the transportation is not easy.

"General Zhao, the food is here, please check it!" A captain of Jingzhou saw Zhao Feng approaching, and hurried forward and said. "Liu Jingzhou is really polite, thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Feng also bowed his hands in greeting.Seeing that the captain was not young, and nearly half of his hair was white, Zhao Feng had a thought, and asked tentatively, "I don't know who you are?"

"Don't bother General Zhao to ask, the humble Nanyang Huang Zhong is the captain of General Liu Pan!" The middle-aged captain smiled and clasped his hands.When Zhao Feng heard the words, there was a "boom" in his head: I didn't expect to meet Huang Zhong here!Finally, he has become more and more calm over the years. Although he was excited in his heart, his expression did not change at all.At the moment, he quickly calculated in his head: This Huang Zhong is still just a captain. According to historical development, he should have defected to Liu Bei in Changsha eight years later. Should we poach the corner now?

Must dig!Zhao Feng quickly made up his mind, and continued with the same smile on his face: "Captain Huang has been in Jingxiang for a long time, and I think he has had a lot of contact with the Jiangdong Army in the past few years. Since the crusade against Jiangdong, Feng deeply feels that there is no one who is familiar with the situation of the Jiangdong Army. I wonder if Captain Huang is willing to help me?"

"The general has an invitation, and I will obey my humble position!" Huang Zhong was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know why the young general valued him so much, but he readily agreed.At that moment Zhao Feng wrote to Liu Pan, informing him that Huang Zhong would return to the Xuzhou Army.After getting Liu Pan's approval, Zhao Feng also immediately appointed Huang Zhong as the Captain of the General's Mansion of Zhengnan to assist him in attacking Jiangdong.That night, a banquet was held in honor of Huang Zhong, and all the generals were invited to be present.

Gao Lan and the others felt dissatisfied seeing Zhao Feng treat an old soldier so seriously.Huang Zhong didn't take it seriously when he saw this, so he asked someone to bring his sword, and danced in front of the hall.For a while, seeing the cold wind whizzing and the cold light shining, Gao Lan and the others were also members of the family. After seeing Huang Zhong's sword skills and comparing them with his own martial arts, they felt a little uneasy.

After dancing the knife, Huang Zhong was still unsatisfied, and ordered someone to bring two hard bows, and they pulled them together, and finally broke the two hard bows abruptly. At this moment, everyone exclaimed even more, and they all admired Huang Zhong's bow. Being loyal and strong, I admire Zhao Feng's knowledge of people.

"Liu Jingsheng doesn't know how to employ people!" Wei Yan, who came from Jingzhou like Huang Zhong, felt sympathetic, and shook his head repeatedly when he saw this.At this time, the road had begun to thaw gradually, and Zhao Feng also strictly ordered Zhang Liao and others who were stationed at Ruxukou to pay attention to strictly guarding Danyang and Wu Jun against possible invading enemies.At the same time, Liu Pan led his army to station in the west of the Ganjiang River, across the river from the Jiangdong Navy Dazhai.Zhou Yu originally wanted to return to the division to fight Zhao Feng again, but he knew that no one could be Liu Pan except himself, so he was forced to continue to garrison Yuzhang, so he could only strictly order the defenders of Chaisang and Poyang to pay attention to the movements of the Xuzhou army.

However, the Xuzhou Army didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and they were steadily exhausted in the Lujiang River. This surprised Zhou Yu, and disappointed Sun Yi, who was gearing up for a big battle in Danyang City. "Duke Yuan Tan, the roads are now clear after the beginning of spring, so why did the Xuzhou army stand still?" In the Danyang prefect's mansion, a heroic young man frowned and asked a middle-aged Confucian scholar.He is Sun Yi, Sun Quan's third younger brother, with a strong temperament, resembling his elder brother Sun Ce, and he is asking Gu Yong and Gu Yuantan who assisted him in guarding Danyang.

"Don't be impatient, third son. The Xuzhou army probably wants to wait for us to relax for a long time before launching a surprise attack." Gu Yong stroked his goatee and pondered.Without waiting for Sun Yi to say anything, Gu Yong jumped up and said: "The lord has an order, ordering me to stick to Danyang and never go out to fight. Third son, don't make things difficult for me!"

"Mr. Gu was joking!" Sun Yi also smiled awkwardly.Sun Yi has a strong temper, so it is okay to let him charge into the battle, but it is not suitable for defending the city.However, Sun Quan did not dare to entrust others with Danyang, he had no choice but to ask Gu Yong, who is usually stern and selfless, to supervise while ordering him to garrison.It is clearly stated that the two are only allowed to stick to it, and are not allowed to take the initiative to fight.Sun Yi couldn't hold back several times and wanted to take the initiative to attack, but was blocked by Gu Yong.

"We only need to wait for Governor Zhou to defeat Liu Pan, and then we can return to the division and defeat the Xuzhou Army!" Gu Yong also comforted.But he didn't want Sun Yi's expression to darken unexpectedly after hearing Zhou Yu's name.At this moment, a small school suddenly came running out of breath to Sun Yi and Gu Yong and said, "My lord, Jurong County urgent document!" After speaking, he handed a document in his hand.

"The Xuzhou army is dispatched?" Sun Yi and Gu Yong took the official document from the principal with some doubts. It stands to reason that if the Xuzhou army is dispatched, their scouts should not be unable to find out the news.

"Shanyue suddenly attacked Jurong County a few days ago, killed the county magistrate and robbed the warehouse!" Gu Yong briefly read the official document, which was sent by the county magistrate who survived the catastrophe. "Damn it, Shanyue took advantage of the fire to rob at this time?" Sun Yi couldn't help being furious when he heard this.

"It's strange, Shanyue usually goes down the mountain to grab grain when the rice is ripe, why does he come out to make trouble just after the beginning of spring?" Gu Yong found something wrong after a little thought.

"Could it be because of the heavy snow in spring this year, the mountain is getting more and more difficult to live on, and this is why I went down the mountain?" Sun Yi thought for a while and still put forward his own point of view.

"It's unlikely. Last year's summer grain harvest had already been harvested. If Shanyue was short of grain, he should have gone down the mountain at that time." Gu Yong frowned, and then said: "I think it's probably because they saw that we were fighting with the Xuzhou army and had no time to take care of it. Be unscrupulous!"

"Probably so!" Sun Yi also felt that only this reasoning made sense, and then said bitterly: "Even Shanyue dares to be so presumptuous. When the enemy army is retreated, I will personally ask my second brother to destroy Shanyue!"

"That's the only way!" Gu Yong also sighed when he heard the words.At the moment, Gu Yong and Sun Yi sent urgent notices to the counties under Danyang's rule, asking them to be more careful and be careful not to take advantage of the fire to loot.But the counties are hard to guard against, Shanyue seems to be elusive now, and he will come to any county at every turn.It should be noted that the Shanyue people are no different from the Han people in appearance. Once they dress up as Han people and sneak into the city, they suddenly attack them. At the same time, they cooperate with the large army outside. Generally, the defenders in a small county town really have nothing to do with them.In just five or six days, out of fifteen counties under Danyang's rule, six counties with fewer defenders were looted by Shanyue.Sun Yi and Gu Yong were also very troubled, so they had to order all the counties to temporarily impose martial law and not let anyone in.

"Report, my lord, there is an urgent official document in Moling County!" On this day, Sun Yi and Gu Yong were discussing matters in the mansion, and a schoolmaster came in out of breath to report.When Sun Yi heard the word "Moling", he was startled and quickly took the official document to read it. After reading it, his face was already gloomy.

(End of this chapter)