The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

And it happened that these two trades let Liu Zheng know about some things that happened in Youzhou, Eastern Liaodong.

Especially the matter about Su Puyan caught Liu Zheng's attention.

This guy Su Puyan, after Liu Zheng got the whole winter's food, his tribe will not have to worry about food and drink in winter, full of warmth and strong, he really launched his own according to what Liu Zheng said at the time. Soldiers and horses went to rob Qiu Liju.

The main reason why Su Puyan dared to move Qiu Liju at this time was not Liu Zheng and his lobbying.

It was Yuan Shao. After Yuan Shao and Nanlou joined forces, they pushed Nanlou to Karasuma Shanyu's position in one fell swoop. Moreover, Nanlou had Yuan Shao's military assistance, so Nanlou, who was already afraid of Qiu Liju, naturally had to be in front of him. A hole was torn in Qiu Liju's territory.

Nanlou led the army into Youzhou, and Qiu Liju robbed the territory of Youzhou with sharp swords and guns. There was no interest relationship between them, so they could live in peace, but once their own interests were involved, it would be natural. The state of peace cannot be maintained.

Nanlou had Shanyu's order to ask Qiu Liju to hand over the three counties of Youzhou, and wanted to occupy the territory of the three counties by himself, but Qiu Liju firmly controlled the territory of these three counties. In the hands, the duck in the hand, how can it be handed over to others.

Especially Qiu Liju knew that there are millions of people in the three counties of Youzhou, and within three months of control, they can recruit a powerful army in a short period of time, and naturally they will not hand it over to Nanlou. .

Qiu Liju rejected Nanlou's proposal on the grounds that Nanlou's Shanyu position was not conferred by the Han court himself.

This made Nan Lou furious, and directly united with Yuan Shao's troops to attack Qiu Liju. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers approached Qiu Liju's territory.

And Qiu Liju is not a vegetarian. During the time he occupied Youzhou, his strength has expanded a lot. He is no longer the second largest tribe in Karasuma. He is also trying to challenge Nanlou. Let's see who is the real Karasuma strongest clan.

Simply, Qiu Liju gathered all his soldiers and horses, and cooperated with Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun to start a big battle with the troops of Nanlou in Yuyang County.

Because of the support of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju combined more than [-] people, and fought against Nanlou in Yuyang, severely injuring Nanlou's troops.

Although Nanlou has Yuan Shao's 2 troops to help, there are still not as many soldiers as Qiu Liju. In the first wave of confrontation, he was defeated. After Qiu Liju won, his momentum became more arrogant and he wanted to directly annex Nanlou , directly led the troops, and killed the tribe of Nanlou.

It was at this time that Su Puyan seized the opportunity, led more than ten thousand soldiers under his command, rushed to Qiu Liju's royal court and killed them.

His Liaodong vassal state was already very close to Qiu Liju's Liaoxi. Originally, Su Puyan did not have the guts to attack Qiu Liju, but Qiu Liju dispatched most of the soldiers and horses in the royal court to fight Nanlou. left.

There are only more than [-] soldiers and horses in the royal court, and the rest are some women and children. With such a good opportunity, Su Puyan can't bear it.

If he doesn't take action again, he will understand the reason why Qiu Liju wiped out Nanlou.

In order to take advantage of Qiu Liju's use of troops against Nanlou, thinking about Qiu Liju's attack, Su Puyan also persuaded several other small tribes in the surrounding area to form a coalition army of 3 people.

It was also because of Su Puyan's sneak attack on Qiu Liju that Qiu Liju slowed down his attack on Nanlou, and he had to spare some troops to go back to deal with Su Puyan.

Qiu Liju, who fought left and right, was still unable to face the battles in so many places.

Chapter 412 Planning Yuzhang

After all, Nanlou was also the first tribe of Karasuma. Although he was at a disadvantage in the first confrontation with Qiu Liju, Nanlou's background was still there. He quickly summoned the cavalry from his own tribe and raised his troops to fight Qiu Liju again. Liju stood up.

Just like that, Youzhou became a mess, and even Yuan Shao, who wanted to get involved, didn't know how to get in, and he didn't have enough troops to deal with the Karasuma people at the moment.

Apart from the incident in Youzhou, what surprised Liu Zheng even more was the incident in Qingzhou.

Before last year, people like Zhang Ning had already led troops from Lingling County to Qingzhou, and joined the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.

Now that several months have passed, the uprising planned by the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou finally started within these two months.

It seems that it was the horse bandits who robbed the city in Huang County back then, which let these Yellow Turban soldiers know that the county seat of Qingzhou was so vulnerable.

They imitated those horse thieves, launched an attack in the middle of the night, and were beaten down when the small counties in Qingzhou were unprepared.

Within a month, one after another small counties were brought down, and finally, the two counties of Beihai County and Donglai County fell directly.

Huang Wan, who was a herdsman in Qingzhou, turned pale with shock. He immediately reacted and mobilized troops from various counties and counties to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army.

But after two years of encirclement and suppression, the Yellow Turban Army was not wiped out, so how could it be done in just two months? Huang Wan not only failed to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army, but even made the Yellow Turban Army more and more powerful. The soldiers and horses of the Yellow Turban Army came out one after another to attack various counties.

As a result, the entire counties and counties in Qingzhou were in a state of turmoil. On the other hand, the imperial court was busy dealing with Xiliang at this time, and there was also the matter of Youzhou. It was impossible to spare more troops to deal with these Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou.

Only the soldiers and horses from Xuzhou can go to assist the people in Qingzhou.

These things happened in this short period of two months.

As for Liu Zheng, not only did he ignore the battle in Youzhou, he didn't even want to care about the situation in Qingzhou. Anyway, what he cares most about now is Yangzhou.

Liu Zheng, who has been silent for more than half a year, and the soldiers and horses under his command are almost recuperating.

After the war in Yangzhou ended, Liu Zheng hadn't fought for a long time. There was chaos everywhere, and wars broke out everywhere. Of course, he didn't want to just watch like this.

But at this time, there are really not many places where he can send troops.

Jingzhou, there is Liu Biao, Liu Biao's strength, in today's world at the end of Han Dynasty, he is actually the most powerful princes, easy, Liu Zheng does not want to meet Liu Biao in battle.

The main reason is that Cai Mao is stationed in Changsha. If Liu Zheng wants to fight Liu Biao, he will definitely fight Cai Mao, and it will be difficult to explain to Cai Yao at that time.

Therefore, Liu Zheng can only focus on Yizhou and Yangzhou.

The mountain roads in Yizhou are difficult to travel. It is too tortuous to go from Jiaozhou to Yizhou. In addition, Yizhou has no benefits. Only Yangzhou is a place that Liu Zheng values.

Yangzhou Shepherd Liu Yao has lost his strength since the last battle with Liu Zheng and lost his generals. It is no longer a concern. In addition, he has gone to Shouchun now, and Yan Baihu is watching. If Liu Zheng goes to attack Yuzhang at this time Liu Yao must have no time to manage the county.

In this way, Yuzhang County is nothing to Liu Zheng.

As long as he can send troops, Yuzhang County can be taken easily.

In April, after everything was ready, Liu Zheng led Wenpin's [-] troops from Guiyang to Yuzhang County.

The first county to arrive was Yichun County.

Here, Liu Zheng is the most familiar, and it is precisely because he wants to directly persuade Lu Jun to surrender without using weapons. Liu Zheng did not lead people to directly kill Yichun County, but brought Wenpin, Gan Ning, Yuan Zhou and others, pretending to be Dressed up, sneaked into Yichun County.

Yuan Zhou grew up in Yichun County, and now he can be said to have returned to his hometown in good clothes. However, it is not the time to return to his hometown in good clothes. Here, it is still the court's territory, and it will take a few days to wait for Liu Zheng's troops to occupy it. After Yichun County, Yuan Zhou at that time was the real return home.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to ask Yuan Zhou to meet Lu Jun at the restaurant in the old place, but that would be a little neglectful, so after thinking about it, Liu Zheng took people directly to the county government office and went to find Lu Jun in person.

In the courtyard, a one-, three-, or four-year-old doll was playing on the ground, holding a small wooden stick in his hand, scratching something in the sand, and Liu Zheng walked over.

After taking a look at the doll on the ground, I thought, this doll is Lu Xun who will be on fire in the future.

"Baby, what's your name?"

"My name is Lu Xun!"

The four-year-old kid spoke to Liu Zheng in a childish voice.

"Lu Xun."

After Liu Zheng heard the little boy's words, he said the name of the little boy in his mouth. This boy will become the governor of Soochow in the future, and he is also the one who helped Wu to block the attack of Shu Han.

If Liu Zheng lured him to Jiaozhou now, in ten years or so, he might become a talent under Liu Zheng's subordinates.

Thinking of this, Liu Zheng not only began to think about how to persuade Lu Jun to join him.

"Little baby, where's your father?"

"Daddy has something to do today, so he won't play with me."

"Then is he at home?"

"At home, are you looking for my father?"

After Liu Zheng and others appeared here, the young Lu Xun gave up on poking and drawing on the ground with a stick. Instead, he stood up and got acquainted with Liu Zheng and others, as if he was sizing up Liu Zheng. and others.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to tease this young famous general, but unfortunately, at this time, a few servants came out of Lu's mansion. Seeing that Lu Xun was surrounded by a group of strange uncles, they did not dare to neglect and walked over immediately.

"Several, are you here to find my master?"

Interrupted by those servants, Liu Zheng was too embarrassed to talk to Lu Xun again, but nodded, turned and said to these servants.

"Please inform me that there is an old friend asking to see the county magistrate Lu Jun."

These servants seemed to be used to seeing people who came to see Lu Jun's county magistrate, so they were not in a hurry. After nodding, they led Lu Xun into the mansion, and at the same time sent someone to inform Lu Jun.

Lu Jun was in the mansion at this time, and he was meeting his cousin Lu Jun who came from Lujiang.

Lu Jun is the eldest son of Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, and also Lu Jun's cousin.This time I came to Yichun because I wanted to send troops from Yichun to Lujiang to support Lu Kang.

Chapter 413 Dear Friends

The situation in Yangzhou is actually not peaceful. This is mainly because the prestige of the imperial court is declining day by day.

In the recent period, Yangzhou Mu Liu Yao was attacked by Liu Zheng, resulting in the loss of soldiers and generals, and his strength dropped drastically. After he fled from Kuaiji County and returned to Shouchun County, he has been cultivating his health and rest in an attempt to restore his strength.

And because of this, Yuan Shu found an opportunity to take advantage of.

Last fall, after the ten-town princes alliance organized by Yuan Shao collapsed, Yuan Shao led people to occupy Jizhou, and his strength was strengthened. As for Yuan Shu, although he occupied Nanyang, he was unwilling and wanted to continue to expand the territory. There is no territory he can invade.

Runan, the hometown of his Yuan family, has long been controlled by the Yuan family. On the left, Jingzhou has Liu Biao, who is very powerful. Yuan Shu has no strength to compete with Liu Biao, and on the right, there is Cao Cao. Liu Dai and others attacked each other, but it was not Yuan Shu's turn.

After thinking about it, Yuan Shu could only focus on Yangzhou, and Lujiang County which was the closest to him.

The Runan area in Nanyang is not far from the Lujiang River. If Yuan Shu can annex the Lujiang River, his territory will expand rapidly, and he can also open up the borders of the three counties. If they can be connected with each other, their strength will inevitably increase.

But a few years ago, Lujiang was occupied by Lu Kang, the prefect. Although Lu Kang was a literati, he was somewhat capable. In the early years, a group of water thieves in Lujiang revolted in Lujiang, gathering 10,000+ people , It affected several surrounding counties and counties. At that time, it was Lu Kang. Under such a difficult environment, he took office as the prefect of Lujiang.The unrest was quelled.

When Liu Xie succeeded to the throne, all the prefects and governors in the world had second thoughts about the court, but Lu Kang took the risk to send envoys to make confessions to the court.

It can be seen that Lu Kang is a loyal and patriotic person, but Yuan Shu doesn't care about this. If he wants to get Lujiang, he doesn't directly send troops to attack Lujiang, but sends people to Lu Kang to ask for food and grass.

Just open your mouth and ask for thirty thousand shi of grain and grass.

This is the harvest of the entire Lujiang County in one year.Prefect Lu Kang naturally would not agree.

What's more, even if Lu Kang had so much food, he wouldn't hand it over to Yuan Shu. Who was Yuan Shu? He just joined Yuan Shao's anti-imperial alliance, and Lu Kang seemed to regard him as a traitor.

How could it be possible for Lu Kang to hand over grain and grass to Yuan Shu, so he quickly rejected Yuan Shu's request.

This refusal gave Yuan Shu an excuse to attack Lujiang.

Yuan Shu had his eyes on Lujiang. The reason why he didn't start the fight directly was because he didn't have an excuse. Now he has an excuse, although this excuse is just an excuse that others don't look down on at all.

But Yuan Shu is satisfied with his own heart. Last month, Yuan Shu led his own army to surround Lujiang County, and directly took down several small counties in Lujiang.

There were no soldiers in Lujiang County, especially after Liu Yao dispatched thousands of soldiers and horses, the whole Lujiang only had [-] defenders, how could they stop Yuan Shu's attack.

Although Lu Kang has actively recruited manpower to deal with Yuan Shu's attack, the gap in military strength is still difficult to settle in a short period of time. In this way, in order to block Yuan Shu, Lu Kang sent his eldest son Lu Jun to Yichun, intending to let Lu Jun led people to support him.

After all, Yuzhang County and Lujiang County were close, not far away. If Lu Jun walked faster, he would be able to reach Lujiang in two or three days.

Although Lu Kang also knew that Lu Jun himself didn't have many people to support him, but a thousand is worth a thousand. At any rate, if he had more people, he would be more likely to deal with Yuan Shu.

At the same time, he also sent someone to find Liu Yao, hoping that Liu Yao could send troops to support him.

"My dear brother, that's the way it is. My father told me to send people to help as soon as possible. Otherwise, Yuan Shu's troops will soon reach Lujiang. I don't know how long Father Fu can last."

There was some anxiety on Lu Jun's face. He was ordered to come to Lu Jun for help this time, and he was very disturbed in his heart.

"Cousin, it's not that I don't want to help my uncle, it's that in Yichun County, there are only three to five hundred county soldiers. Even if you count those brave men, there are only more than a thousand troops. They can really stop Yuan Shu's attack. Well?"

Lu Jun was a little embarrassed, but he didn't reject Lu Jun.

"At this time, we can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. No matter what, if we gather more strength, we will be more confident, right?"

"Well, since you've already talked about this, cousin, I don't have anything else to say. You stay here for a while, and I'll go organize the troops and set off immediately for Lujiang."

Lu Jun still attaches great importance to his uncle Lu Kang. He lost his father in his early years. It was his uncle Lu Kang who helped him and made him the magistrate of Yichun County. If there is no Lu Kang, there will be no Lu Kang. Chun's now.

But just when Lu Jun got up and was about to call up the staff, a servant came outside the door and shouted at Lu Jun.

"Master, there are a few people outside begging to see you, saying they are your old friends."

"Old friend?"

Lu Jun frowned slightly, thought for a while, but couldn't remember any old friends he had, so he opened his mouth immediately.

"Let them in."

Lu Jun paused for a moment, he was not in a hurry to summon the people, but he planned to wait for these guests to come and meet.

Not long after, Liu Zheng walked in with a group of people.

As soon as he entered, he saw Lu Jun and spoke immediately.

"Brother Lu, long time no see."

Liu Zheng looked at Lu Jun. Lu Jun was still the same person he saw two years ago, not much changed. The only difference was that he had some vigor compared to the way Liu Zheng saw him two years ago. A lot of energy.

Two years ago, Lu Jun suffered from a hidden disease, and probably passed away within a few years in history, but now he is still alive and well, thanks to the fact that Liu Zheng took Zhang Zhongjing to see a doctor for him.

At this time, Lu Jun was wondering who was the guest who begged to see him. When he saw that it was Liu Zheng, he was taken aback for a moment, and then his face was surprised and happy.

"Brother Liu, Yuan Zhou is you!"

Although Liu Zheng's identity is a traitor of the imperial court, as far as Lu Jun is concerned, they have a good relationship in private. Lu Jun does not reject Liu Zheng's status as a traitor, so it is not too embarrassing at this moment. The gesture let Liu Zheng and others come in.

Liu Zheng walked into the room, saw Lu Jun in the room, and frowned.

"Who is this?"