The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

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A few days ago, on the day of Zhengdan, Chen Wu invited Ying to strike the yellow beard for Xun Zhen, and today Liu Bei invited Ying again.

However, Xun Zhen had already made plans, and smiled: "The little thief in Huangqian District, with the ability of a virtuous brother, can easily capture him, but just after Zhengdan, the weather is still cold, and now it is not time to use troops, let's wait for the spring to warm again. It's not too late to send troops."

"Those small bandits in the mountains are afraid of the lieutenant's prestige, and they all turn to Huang Beard. It's only been a few days. He has already gathered hundreds of bandits. If we wait until the warm spring season? I'm afraid he will be overwhelmed. ."

"I'm not afraid of his power, I'm just afraid that he's not so powerful."

Liu Bei did not have outstanding military talent. Hearing Xun Zhen's words, he was stunned. After thinking about it, he guessed what Xun Zhen meant. Did you catch it all in one go?"

"Of course. The mountains in the west of Zhao County are ups and downs, and the mountains are stacked on top of each other. The small group of thieves who hide in them will have more than 100 shares. If you destroy them one by one, it will not only be time-consuming, but also time-consuming, and it will cost food and grain. Since they are willing to vote for Huang Yan, then let them vote, and when they are almost done, we will send troops to 'gather them and wipe them out' in one fell swoop."

"I have always heard that there are many thieves, but today the lieutenant is afraid of few thieves. The heroism of the lieutenant is beyond compare."

This lieutenant Gong Cao has not been long before Liu Bei has learned to say flattering words just right.

Xun Zhen laughed and said to Liu Bei: "The day when General Huangfu shot down Quyang, Yun Chang and Yide Yong won the three armies. When this spring comes to attack the thieves, the virtuous brother may not need to go into battle in person, but he must borrow Chong Yun. The power of longevity and virtue."

Although Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei are not brothers of the same birth, they have a distinction between superiors and inferiors, but they have long been in love with each other. From the point of view, they are all like a small group, and it is even more that they both lose and win together. Therefore, when Guan Yu was unwilling to serve Xun Zhen, Liu Bei persuaded him bitterly. Hearing Xun Zhen say that when the day comes to attack the thieves, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will be named by name, and Liu Bei is overjoyed and promises for them both.

Xun Zhen picked up the wooden bowl on the case and slowly took a sip of the warm soup with a smile on her face, as if she was very satisfied with Liu Bei's statement.

Once Zhengdan is over, it is early spring.

Because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was no harvest for the whole year last year, and many of the county's grain reserves were plundered. All things such as spring pilgrimage, farming promotion, planting loan, cattle preparation, weeding and land preparation, and dredging of ditches should be started as soon as possible.

In the second half of last year, Zhao County was most busy with Xun Zhen, fighting thieves, traveling the county, controlling the security of the county, raising food, recruiting troops, and training troops. After Zhengdan, the busiest person in the county became Liu Heng, who was so busy hitting the back of his head that he personally inspected the farmland of the counties, and deployed grain seeds, cattle, land preparation, ditching and so on in the counties. For various affairs, he was almost never seen in the prime minister's mansion.

Liu Heng knew nothing about military affairs, but he was a good player in civil affairs. Xun Zhen learned a lot from him.

Last year, Xun Zhen worried that after the spring this year, due to lack of food, a large number of good people and refugees would enter the mountains as thieves, but from the current point of view, the situation is not so bad.

There are three reasons: First, within two or three months, Xun Zhen successively defeated Zuo Xu, Huang Beard, and thousands of rioting refugees, beheading nearly 10,000 people, which greatly shocked the people and refugees in the county. Second, in order to prevent the common people and refugees from turning into thieves, since the end of last year, Xun Zhen began to make arrangements, and successively dispatched county soldiers and some righteous soldiers to enter the mountainous areas, seize the dangerous places in the neighboring counties, and firmly guard them. The mountainous area was separated from the county area, and hundreds of knights from the Xin Ai tribe were sent out in turn to patrol the area of ​​more than 100 miles west of Handan County. Thirdly, affected by the disturbance of thousands of refugees at the end of last year, Liu Heng and other civil officials also stepped up their efforts in providing porridge and clothing.

Several aspects are combined, so there is no large-scale good people, refugees and thieves after the spring.

Of course, there are still some people and refugees who are scattered and thrown into the thieves, but there are not many.

The surrounding counties of Zhao County, the state-owned Huangfu Song in Changshan to the north, are also in good condition, and there is no such thing as a large number of common people and refugees turning into thieves, and the rest of the counties are not optimistic.

Wei County in the south, Julu in the east and other counties have been in chaos since the beginning of the year. All the counties are short of grain, and the wealthy and big families have grain, but most of them are in their hands and refuse to take it out. There is no grain relief in the counties and counties.

I heard that in Julu County, which is the most food-deficient, five out of ten poor and displaced people died of starvation in one winter. The county was still better. When they left the county and went to the countryside, they were covered with roadside, fields, There were too many dead people in the pavilion, and the county didn't even have enough manpower to bury the bodies, so they could only be left exposed to the wild, which was terrible.

The refugees and poor who survived the winter through hardships can no longer take care of the king's law. In order to have a way to survive, they take risks in groups. Rob the farm.

There are soldiers in the prefectures and counties, and desperate refugees and poor people have not dared to attack the county seat for the time being.

What's worse is that Jizhou is the birthplace of Taiping Road. Although Zhang Jiao's brothers died and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was wiped out by Huangfu Song, there are still many fish that slip through the net of Taiping Road. The young masters were organized by them. After they unite together and elect their leaders, even if the county has food, it will be difficult to stop them from starting another rebellion.

Regarding the crisis in the surrounding counties, although Xun Zhen did not stay in Zhao County, he probably understood that there were two sources of information. One was from Liu Heng, and the other was from the order given to the county by Huangfu Song. of.

Just ten days after Zhengdan passed, Huangfu Song issued an order to Zhao County, ordering Liu Heng and Xun Zhen to appease the people of this county no matter what, to keep the refugees who flowed into Zhao County, and not to let them go. Out of the county, and ordered Xunzhen to prepare to enter the mountain again to attack the thieves as soon as possible.

Xun You, Xi Zhicai, and Handan Rong analyzed Huangfu Song's order: ordered Liu Heng and Xun Zhen to appease the people and not to let the displaced people out of the county.

The former is the job of the local chief, but the latter shows that the situation in the surrounding counties is already very bad, so bad that if there are more refugees entering, it may cause great turmoil. , so that Xun Zhen prepares to enter the mountain again to attack the thieves as soon as possible.

Xun Zhen had already attacked thieves twice in less than half a year after arriving in Zhao County. It is not unreasonable to say that he was "diligent". Huangfu Song was old in the military. Wouldn't he know that only one slackening would allow the troops to exert their maximum combat effectiveness? However, he urged Xun Zhen to prepare to enter the mountain again as soon as possible, explaining two points. One is that Huangfu Song had probably already clearly accused Chu Feiyan and Wang Dang of collusion. Therefore, Xun Zhen was urged to send troops, and secondly, according to Xun You’s guess, among them, Huangfu Song’s men were probably not strong enough to suppress the growing chaos in the prefectures, so Xun Zhen was urged to send troops as soon as possible and wait for him. After Wang Dang was eliminated and Zhao County was generally stabilized, he then dispatched his troops and horses out of the county to attack the rebels in the surrounding counties.

Now, among the counties in Jizhou, Zhao County has the most soldiers and horses. Xun Zhen originally had more than 2,000 righteous servants, and he recruited another 2,000 Jingyong. Once out of the county, not to mention more, at least the two counties of Wei and Julu can be stabilized.

Jizhou has a total of nine prefectures, Zhao, Wei, Julu three prefectures plus Changshan where Huangfu Song is located, as long as these four prefectures stabilize the situation, the remaining five prefectures, Huangfu Song can consider deploying troops. , calm and stable.

Huangfu Song had the grace of knowing and promoting Xun Zhen. Xun Zhen was both his "old official" and his current subordinate. No matter from which aspect, the order to him should not be compromised. execute.

This order from Huangfu Song was sent to Zhao County on the 18th of the first lunar month. On the day of receiving the order, Xun Zhen took Xi Zhicai, Handan Rong, Liu Bei, Xu Fu and other government officials to the barracks outside the county. The drum beat the generals, and Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin, Xin Ai, Xun Cheng, Wen Pin, Liu Deng, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gao Su, Xia Houlan and others gathered in the general tent and read it in public.

After reading, he issued two orders on the spot, ordering everyone to speed up the training of new recruits, and strictly ordered that the recruits must form sufficient combat effectiveness at the latest by the middle of next month, one of which; and ordered everyone not to stop the mountain warfare against the old ministers. The training is also strictly ordered, and by the middle of next month at the latest, the mountain warfare capability of the former Yoshihide will be improved to a higher level.

Xu Zhong and Jiang Qin were not stupid, and immediately heard that Xun Zhen was planning to use troops around the middle of next month.

The last time I fought Huangbeard was very difficult, and the casualties were quite large. Most of the people who participated in this battle, such as Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin, Chen Wu, Xin Ai, held their breath and wanted to fight a turnaround. Liu Deng was a violent one. At that time, he asked Xun Zhen, "Is the lieutenant ready to use troops?"

Xun Zhen did not hide it and said, "Exactly."

"Are you hitting the yellow beard or the king?"

"First hit the yellow beard, then hit Wang Dang!"

Liu Deng gritted his teeth and said: "The yellow bearded dog, it is disgusting and hateful to surrender and revolt! Deng can't wait to send troops into the mountains now, to bring him back for the lieutenant, and cook this thief!"

Huang Yan had offended these people under Xun Zhen's account, not to mention the difficulty in beating him last time, but only to say that since Xun Zhen started the army ~www.readwn.com~ there were several Yellow Turban generals who surrendered. He was the only one who returned to the betrayal. Xun Zhen could not take it seriously, but as his subordinates, Liu Deng and others were "the master worried about the humiliation of the ministers" and felt deeply ashamed. After that, Liu Deng wanted to "cook this dog thief".

Xu Zhong, Liu Deng, Chen Wu, etc. rallied, as did Wenpin, Gao Su, and other latecomers who had not participated in the First Battle of the Yellow Beard.

Xu Zhong and others followed Xun Zhen to fight for thousands of miles and pacified several prefectures. Today, their positions under Xun Zhen’s account are all fought with one knife and one shot. In the fierce battle, there is no merit in the battle. Wenpin is young and strong, and Gao Su strives for strength and courage. How can he be subservient to others? They all want to prove their prowess by deploying troops next month.

Gao Su squeezed from the crowd to the front, looked back at everyone, then faced Xun Zhen, crossed his hips and said, "Little yellow beard, what's the point! Thief, when the thief is attacked in the future, please be the vanguard! I promise to catch this thief for the lieutenant, no matter whether it is a pit or a meal, I will deal with him according to the lieutenant's will!"

From the start of the army last year to the present, Xun Zhen has been fighting for nearly a year, with few defeats, and all the generals under the tent are arrogant. "Bandit"? All fighting spirit.

The army has the will to fight, the soldiers are brave, and the battle can be fought.

Xun Zhen was very happy when she stroked her mustache.

There were generals in the battalion to speed up the training of troops, and Xi Zhicai, Handan Rong, Liu Bei and other civil servants in the lieutenant's mansion mobilized grain and people to prepare the logistics. When they were both ready for battle, a news came, and they were shocked. Xun Zhen, who was reviewing the official document in the Fuzhong Hall, loosened her hand and dropped the pen on the ground. (To be continued)