The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Vol 10 Chapter 71: Lu Bu 3 hits Jiangxia County (Part 1)

However, when Chen Gong arrived in Lv Bu's tent, he asked Lv Bu, "Why did the prince and lord withdraw before Sun Bofu's troops and horses arrived?"

Lu Bu was watching the servants put the papers, robes and other items in their tents into the rattan boxes. He did not answer Chen Gong first, but instructed the servants, saying: "Take it easy, take it easy! Don't put it away! That document is broken!...Ouch, oh, please slow down, my robe has a gold thread trimmed on it, don't break my golden thread!"

"Your Majesty?"

Lu Bu then turned to look at Chen Gong and said, "Ah? When did Chen Jun come?"

"...I just arrived, and I asked Ming Gong just now. Didn't Ming Gong hear it?"

Lu Bu asked, "What did Jun Shi ask me about?"

"I'm going to ask the lord just now. Sun Bofu's reinforcements have not yet reached the other side. Why did the lord withdraw?"

Lu Bu patted his forehead and said: "Oh, this is what Chen Jun asked, I'm so busy, I didn't notice Chen Jun coming, and I didn't hear Chen Jun's question. Chen Jun, although Sun Ce's son's reinforcements haven't yet To the north bank of Rushui, we have already passed Xiangcheng County. It is only 40 or 50 miles southwest from Xiangcheng County, which is Jiaxian County. Today, Sun Ce's reinforcements have not arrived yet, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest. It will definitely arrive, so I decided to withdraw today."

"Junhou, even if Sun Bofu's reinforcements come, there are thousands of people who have brought Yingchuan to Yingchuan, and it is not impossible to fight against them, and as Junhou said, there is also Lei Book on Songgao Mountain. , Chen Lan's subordinates can cooperate with the lord and lord, but they are puzzled at the lower end, why did the lord and lord leave without fighting?" Chen Gong sacrificed the method of aggressive generals and said, "Is it possible that the lord and the prince are afraid of Sun Bofu? ?"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Sun Ce's son is also my son, and his father Sun Jian was killed by me. How can I be afraid of him?"

"Then why did Junhou withdraw the army?"

Lü Bu said sincerely: "Chen Jun, the main reason for my withdrawal is not because of Sun Ce's reinforcements, but because it has been many days since I invaded Yingchuan, and the food and grain I brought with the army are almost exhausted. The day before yesterday, I sent officials. Back to Wan County, I urged Yuan Gonggong to bring me military rations, but until now, no one and a half buckets of grains have been sent to our army. Now our army has exhausted the grains, and the follow-up supplies cannot come. Sun Ce's reinforcements are coming, and at this moment, if I don't withdraw, what can I do? If I fight against him, the rations will not continue, this is what a fool does, not a good fighter, so he has to withdraw."

The day before yesterday, Lv Bu sent someone to ask Yuan Shu to ask for military rations. Chen Gong knew about it. So far, there is no news that Yuan Shu's military rations had been transported from Wan County to Lu Bu's army. Chen Gong also knew about this matter.

——But that Yuan Shu has only one county in Nanyang. He has been entrenched in Nanyang for many years, and he has already looted all the people. He must be able to respond. In other words, even if he has the will, he may not actually be able to do it. What's more, just before Lu Bu sent troops, he just gave Lu Bu a batch of grain? Therefore, Yuan Shu could only delay in replying to Lu Bu's request for food again this time.

After listening to Lu Bu's words, and related to Lu Bu's ineffectiveness in the battle a few days ago, and the fact that Lu Bu had avoided him for the past two days, how could Chen Gong still not guess that the "lack of food" was just because Lu Bu did it for him. An excuse for withdrawing troops?

However, Chen Gongzhichi, even though he saw that this was just an excuse by Lu Bu, but for a while, he was speechless, only Han was angry.

When he got out of the tent, Chen Gong thought to himself, "I abandoned Zhang Mengzhuo and came to him for Lu Fengxian for hundreds of miles. I hoped that he would be able to fight back to Yanzhou for me, but I didn't realize that even though he was a warrior, he was so cunning! The saying 'fight Yingchuan first, then Runan' is nothing more than perfunctory me, its original intention is to ask Yuan Gonggong for some benefits! If you really have no ambitions, I will praise him as a hero."

However, he could not, so he had to let Lu Bu withdraw.

Lü Bu retreated from the south bank of Rushui that day, and returned to Wanxian a few days later.

Shortly after Lü Bu withdrew, Yuan Shu received a military report, and when he heard that Lü Bu was back, he invited him to meet him.

The two met in the state hall.

Yuan Shu looked bad, looked up at Lv Bu, looked down at the case, pondered for a long time, raised his eyes, and said, "Fengxian, didn't you say that you are going to save Lei Book and Chen Lan? Now Lei Book and Chen Lan If there is no rescue, why did you withdraw your troops and return?"

Lü Bu explained Chen Gong's excuse to Yuan Shu again, and said, "Yuan Gong, if I don't want to save Lei Book and Chen Lan, but the army is short of food, I sent officials to ask the public for what they want. To reply, I have no choice but to withdraw the army." After speaking, he complained and said to Yuan Shu, "Yuan Gong, Liu Xuande is not my opponent, I was about to defeat him, but Yuan Gong, your rations have been delayed. There is no news. The morale of our lieutenants and soldiers is low. I am deeply afraid of changes. , I've picked them up a long time ago!"

After all, it was Yuan Shu who was at fault.

Yuan Shu was angry when he heard the words, but he looked at Lu Bu's strong body again and again. He didn't say anything about whether he dared to be angry.

Seeing that Yuan Shu had nothing to say, Lu Bu sat on the table for a while and felt bored, so he got up to leave, and went away.

After Lu Bu left, Yuan Shu got up and paced back and forth in the hall alone, feeling unhappy.

At this time, someone outside the hall asked to see him, and Yuan Shu called him in.

When this person entered the hall, he saw that the robe he was wearing was very gorgeous, with a splendid beard bag hanging from his chin. Could it be Li Ye?

Li Ye came here to ask Yuan Shu to report to Yuan Shu. After the report, he looked at Yuan Shu's expression and said, "Ming Gong, Ye Guan Ming Gong seems to be unhappy, so dare to ask him, what is on your mind?"

Yuan Shu showed an angry look and said, "You already know that Lu Fengxian led his troops to withdraw from Yingchuan. I called him to see him just now, and I asked him why he didn't save Lei Book and Chen Lan? Instead, he blamed the I said it was because I did not deliver the rations to him in time, and his army was short of rations, so he had to retreat. Before he led the army to leave Wan, the batch of rations I gave him was enough for his entire army for three months. Shi, how long has it been since then? Are all the soldiers in his army pigs? Even 10,000 pigs can't eat so much food! This is obviously an excuse for him to withdraw!... Now that I think about it, he treated me at that time. Said that he was willing to save Lei Book and Chen Lan Huanwan, but it seems that it was just a word he used to trick me into giving him money! If you lied to me, who would you consider me to be?

When Li Ye heard this, Deng Yi became angry and said angrily to Yuan Shu, "This little boy Lu Fengxian has become increasingly arrogant since he was defeated in Runan and returned to Nanyang. Duke Ming offered him rations and rewarded him with gold silk and silk. , he is not grateful, but instead he is more and more disrespectful to Duke Ming, always full of complaints behind his back, indicating that the Duke treats him meanly! He is really a dog that he does not know well! Duke Ming, Lu Fengxian is a brave man, and now it is I have deep resentment towards Duke Ming, and I am deeply worried about it, fearing that it will become a big problem for Duke Ming sooner or later!"

Yuan Shu took two steps, paused, and said, "Ziwu, I also have this concern." Said regretfully, "I just regret that when he came to vote for me earlier, I hadn't been able to detect his character, and because I valued his bravery Therefore, he was taken in! I didn't expect it to be my worry today."

Li Ye said: "The official has a plan now, and he dares to offer it to Duke Ming, so that Duke Ming can get rid of this worry!"

Yuan Shu heard Li Ye's words and said happily, "Is there any plan for me to relieve this worry?"

"Exactly."

"What is it?"

There was no one in the hall, but Li Ye still leaned over to Yuan Shu's side, lowered his voice, and said, "Lu Fengxian is a warrior, but there is a folk saying: 'Two fists are hard to beat with four hands', why don't Duke Ming find a day to have the opportunity to put him Please come to the mansion and say that it is to hold a banquet for him, and when the wine is weak, take advantage of the mecha soldiers to kill him and cut him in two, won't it be able to solve this worry of Duke Ming?"

Li Ye's strategy, once he heard it, didn't work.

Yuan Shu shook his head again and again, and said, "Ziwu, you can't do this! You can't see it: Lu Fengxian arranges hundreds of elite soldiers outside and inside his house, and whenever he travels, he is accompanied by armored soldiers, and Gao Shun is often there for him. , Fanyi, Song Xian and other fighting generals follow each other. Obviously, he is also afraid that I will do something to him! This strategy is not easy to implement. ... Even if this strategy is feasible, Lu Bu has to kill, but Zhang Liao and Gao Shun are under his account. All the generals are brave, if Lu Bu dies, his generation will be in chaos, how should we deal with it? This strategy is absolutely impossible.”

Li Ye was not discouraged by Yuan Shu's rejection, so he offered another strategy to Yuan Shu, saying, "In this way, Ye has another strategy, and it can also relieve Duke Ming of Lu Bu's worries."

Yuan Shu asked, "What policy?"

Li Ye said: "The policy is, Duke Ming, why not let Lu Fengxian go to Jiangxia County for Duke Ming?"

Yuan Shu said, "Go to take Jiangxia County?"

Li Ye said: "Exactly! Duke Ming, now our army has attacked Liu Jingsheng in Xiangyang several times and failed to defeat them. One reason is that Xiangyang is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and another reason is that Jiangxia County is in Nanyang. On the east wing, whenever the Ming army invaded Xiangyang, Jiangxia Huangzu would attack the eastern border of Nanyang in order to support Liu Jingsheng. As a result, our army repeatedly attacked Xiangyang, but failed to win.

"Now if Lü Bu is sent to attack Jiangxia, if he cannot defeat Huangzu, he will lose his troops and lose his generals, which will be beneficial to the Duke; if he can defeat Huangzu and capture Jiangxia, it will be equivalent to breaking Liu Biao's arm, which will be beneficial to Duke Ming in the future. Attacking Xiangyang again will also be of great help."

Yuan Shu heard this, but he didn't realize it. He pondered over and over again, and said, "Although this policy is a good policy, if Lu Feng refuses to listen to the tune, what should we do?"

Li Ye looked confident, and smiled lightly: "What's the worry about this? Ye has a plan, which will surely make Lu Fengxian obey Duke Ming's order."

Yuan Shu asked, "What is the policy?"

Li Ye said: "Ye Guan Lu Fengxian, he also seems to have had the idea of ​​not wanting to stay in Nanyang for a long time, if he wants to be self-reliant. In this way, why did Duke Ming not make use of his strength, so he simply granted him the prefect of Jiangxia? He? If Jiangxia is conquered, Jiangxia County will be his, Lu Feng heard this first, and as expected, he will gladly accept Duke Ming's order to fight Jiangxia for Duke Ming."

Yuan Shu said, "Permit him to be the prefect of Jiangxia?"

Li Ye said, "Exactly."

Yuan Shu stroked his beard and said hesitantly, "But if he kills Jiang Xia, will this Jiang Xia County really be given to him? Now that he is under my guard, he is still in trouble for me. If he gets Jiang Xia again. , isn't it even more of a scourge to me?"

Li Ye went to touch the beard and his beard bag, and then he remembered that he didn't take the beard bag, so he didn't take it. He touched the beard bag twice, and Quan should be stroking his beard. This worry", he said with a relaxed smile: "Ming Gong, is Jiangxia so easy to obtain? Here in Jiangxia, the river flows through, and all the waters converge, and the Yunmeng lakes within the territory are hundreds of miles in radius. It is true that A place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack! Lu Fengxian’s army is full of cavalry and no boat division. It is expected that Lu Fengxian will attack Jiangxia. At most, he can conquer a few cities in the north of the Yangtze River, occupying only half of its prefectures, as far as Xiakou where Huangzu is located, etc. It is difficult for him to conquer the land. At the end of this battle, the greatest possibility is that Lu Fengxian and Huang Zu each occupy half of Jiangxia, facing each other on both sides of the river.... Duke Ming, this strategy of industry will drive wolfs away. The plan is also."

Yuan Shu hesitated and said overjoyedly, "My son, this is a good policy!"

Although he was praised by Yuan Shu, Li Ye showed no pride and a humble appearance.

He smiled slightly, and then said: "Before Duke Ming ordered Lu Feng to fight Jiangxia first, Duke Ming had better not tell him directly and told him to fight Jiangxia, but you can tell him first that Duke Ming is going to attack Xiangyang and ask him to lead his troops to fight against Jiangxia. Pioneer, it is expected that Lu Fengxian will definitely refuse this order of Duke Ming, and then Duke Ming will ask him to fight Jiangxia to stop Huang Zu from committing crimes.

Yuan Shu couldn't help nodding his head and said, "Your words are exactly what you said."

According to Li Ye's plan, Yuan Shu and two days later gathered all the officers under the tent to discuss military affairs, and invited Lü Bu too.

During the meeting, Yuan Shu proposed that he would fight Xiangyang again, and formally proposed to Lu Bu, asking him to be the vanguard.

As Li Ye expected, Lu Bu refused Yuan Shu's request.

Yuan Shu then retreated and asked for the next best thing, and asked Lü Bu to go to Jiang Xia instead, thinking that he was the answer to attack Xiangyang.

Lu Bu was still reluctant to respond, so Yuan Shu took out Li Ye's words and said, "Fengxian, I was the prefect of Runan before, but now Runan has been gained and lost. Prefect Jiangxia."

"Represent me as Prefect Jiangxia?"

"An important town in Jiangxia, a general cannot be ruled without a name, and this appointment cannot be made without a monarch."

Lu Bu lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said in his heart, "I've been living in Nanyang, and if I can occupy Jiangxia, not only will I no longer have to rely on Yuan Gonggong, a stingy person, but he will occupy Nanyang, and I will occupy Jiangxia. I can also sit on an equal footing with him and raise my eyebrows a little! Besides, after all, I am relying on him for food supplies, and I have to rely on him for the supply of military rations. If he wants to fight Xiangyang, I have already refused to be the vanguard, and it would be inappropriate to refuse to fight Jiangxia again. After thinking about it, he said, "I've only heard of the names of Xun Zhenzhi, Gongsun Bogui, Liu Jingsheng, Cao Mengde, and Zhang Mengzhuo. What is Huang Zu? Don't worry, Duke Ming, it's easy to take Jiangxia here!"

"Jun Hou agreed to attack Huang Zu for me?"

Lu Bu said: "Yuan Gong entrusted it, but Bu will not obey?"

But instead of saying "order", he said "entrustment", Lv Buxian did not consider himself a subordinate to Yuan Shu.

So Yuan Shu and Lü Bu agreed that ten days later, the two troops would be dispatched together.

On Yuan Shu's side, Zhang Xun and Le were the generals, leading more than 10,000 soldiers and cavalry; on Lü Bu's side, there were about 10,000 soldiers and horses of his headquarters.

In the evening, Yuan Shu left Lu Bu to eat in the mansion, but Lu Bu refused, so he said goodbye and returned.

When he returned to his residence, Lu Bu immediately summoned Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other generals, and told everyone that Yuan Shu wanted him to fight Jiangxia.

Zhang Liao asked, "Can Duke Ming agree?"

Lu Bu said: "I have already rejected Yuan Gonggong as the vanguard to fight Xiangyang. If I refuse him to fight Jiang Xia, my face will not look good, so I agree." After a pause, Lu Bu continued, "As everyone knows, it's really boring for us to stay in Nanyang, and I've long wanted to find another place. Yuan Gonggong asked me to fight Jiangxia this time..." He looked at everyone and said, "Let's work together to bring After Jiang Xia laid it down, I got Yuan Gonggong Jiangxia Prefect's watch, and from then on, I don't have to look at Yuan Gonggong's face anymore, it's a good thing!"

Zhang Liao looked worried and said: "Ming Gong, but that one, Jiangxia's water network is dense, our army has no navy, and secondly, Yuan Highway is in Nanyang, and Xiangyang cannot be attacked. The big reason is that Jiangxia Huangzu, This person is quite capable of fighting, and if our army goes to attack him, I am afraid that it will not be easy to win.”

Lü Bu said, "Wenyuan, I have already considered this time for the navy master, and I have already proposed to Yuan Gonggong, asking him to send me some navy masters."

"Did he agree?"

"Although I didn't want it very much, I finally agreed to give me a thousand sailors."

"There are only a thousand sailors, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Lü Bu had an idea of ​​his own and said: "The counties in Jiangxia are not all surrounded by rivers and waters, but the counties to the north of the river, such as Xiling, Xiyang, Daiguo, Mengxian, and Pingchun, are not Are they all on the land? There are also counties such as Nanxin and Yundu to the north of Yunmeng Zhuze and the south of Lulin Mountain, which are also on land. Thousands of navy soldiers are not enough to attack Xiakou, but our army But it is possible to take down Pingchun and other counties first, and then slowly map Xiakou and other counties." At this point, he smiled and said to the generals, "It doesn't matter whether we can take down Xiakou in the end, we will only start from Yuan Road here. Getting a group of navy troops can be regarded as a little help to strengthen the strength of our army."

——Jiangxia County is Wuhan and its surrounding areas in later generations. It is located in Runan County (Runan and other places), Nanyang County (Nanyang and other places), Nan County (Yichang and other places) where Liu Bian lived in Xiangyang, and Changsha County (Changsha County) and other places) and Yangzhou is located between Lujiang County (Tongcheng and other places) in the southwest of Jiujiang County. Runan County is in the north, Nanyang County is in the northwest, Nan County is in the west and southwest, Changsha County is in the south, and Lujiang County in Yangzhou is in the east.

The geographical situation of this county can be roughly divided into two parts, one part is its heartland, and the three towns of Wuhan in later generations, as Li Ye and Zhang Liao said, the water network in this area is dense, and some sections of the Yangtze River twist here. Rush, the northwest part of the Yangtze River is Yunmeng Zhuze, in addition, there are several rivers such as the Han River converging here; part is the area where the counties in the north of the county are located, that is, Xiyang, Xiyang, Lu Bu mentioned. The four counties of Liguo, Hu, and Pingchun are mostly mountainous and land-based, and they are the boundaries of Xinyang in later generations. The other one is Nanxin, Yundu and other counties still mentioned by Lv Bu. These counties are located in the northwest of the county, bordering Nanyang County to the north and Nan County to the west. Green Forest Mountain is separated, and Nanjun is separated by Han River.

The "Xiakou" mentioned by Li Ye and Lu Bu is not a county, but a military town in Jiangxia County. Hanyang Town.

Here in Xiakou, the Yangtze River is in the south, and the Yunmeng Lakes are in the north, west, and south. Only more than ten miles to the west, there is a piece of land that is hundreds of miles from east to west, and dozens of kilometers from north to south. This land is still in the middle of Yunmeng Lakes. , which is equivalent to saying that the courier is surrounded by water. The county seat of Jiangxia County is Xiling County, which is on the south bank of the Yangtze River and less than 200 miles northeast of Shaxian County. Therefore, the county is not as easy to defend as Xiakou and Shaxian County. Therefore, after Huang Zuren was appointed by Liu Biao as the prefect of Jiangxia, he did not. In Xiling County, they went to Xiakou and Shaxian to be stationed.

And needless to say.

It is only said that Chen Gong was also called by Lu Bu to the hall.

After Lu Bu answered Zhang Liao, he turned to Chen Gong and said, "Chen Jun, I will fight Jiang Xia, do you think it will work?"

Jiangxia is in the south of Runan County, 108,000 miles away from Yanzhou. Can Lu Bu conquer Jiangxia? Chen Gong was not interested at all.

However, Chen Gong also expected to use Lu Bu to help him **** Yanzhou back from Xun Zhen, so as to secure Yanzhou scholars, and he knew that his time under Lu Bu's tent was not long after all. In the battle of Yingchuan, he could feel that he had not yet gained the trust of Lu Bu, so knowing that if he spoke against it at this time, it would only be counterproductive.

He then thought to himself: "Forget it, since Lu Fengxian is going to fight Jiangxia, I will try my best to advise him, hoping to win his trust with this, and then I will urge him to continue to attack Runan in the north and save me in Yanzhou. Scholarly people, get rid of the persecution of Xun thieves!"

After thinking about it, Chen Gong said, "Duke Ming is attacking Jiangxia, and he is willing to do his best to serve as counselor for Ming."

Lu Bu was overjoyed, and said, "I'm about to make a wise plan."

It was decided that day, and the whole army was ready for war. Ten days later, they would leave Wan and attack Jiangxia in the east.

Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, etc. will return to the camp, and they will assemble their own soldiers and prepare to go out, not much to mention.

Chen Gong really did his best, and offered Lu Bu a strategy, asking him to ask Yuan Shu to agree to recruit the people of Nanyang to join the army on the grounds that there were not enough soldiers. Lü Bu followed, how did the people live and die on Yuan Shu's heart? Of course he would not object. With Yuan Shu's permission, in a few days, Lü Bu recruited more than 2,000 new soldiers. ——These new soldiers are said to be recruited, but in fact they are all rushing into the army and forcing them to join the army.

With these two thousand or so people, and the thousand sailors allocated to him by Yuan Shu, Lu Buxian's corps has reached about 15,000 people.

On the tenth day, Lu Bu said goodbye to Yuan Shu, took Yuan Shu and some money and rations to him, and led his army out of Wan, southwest, and attacked Jiangxia. Yuan Shao also pretended and sent Zhang Xun and Le Jiu to attack Xiangyang.

However, after Zhang Xun and Le led the troops out of the camp, they kept sighing and sighing on the way south to the front line in Xiangyang.

Le endured him for two days, and finally couldn't bear it any longer. After building the camp that night, he asked him, "General, why are you sighing?"

Zhang Xun glanced at Le Jin and thought: "When Lu Fengxian was in Runan, Duke Ming and him couldn't get along. After Sun Jian's death, the situation was very good, because Duke Ming and Lu Fengxian's discord led to Dongliu! Lu Fengxian was defeated from Runan and returned to Wanxian County. Duke Ming and him were intrigued again, but they were still incompatible with each other! Now I have Sun Bofu in the north of Nanyang and Liu Jingsheng in the south. They are all powerful enemies! And in this situation, Duke Ming and Lu Fengxian couldn't join hands to fight the enemy, Lu Fengxian was driven to Jiangxia by Duke Ming, and the current situation is really bad for me, Nanyang!" Thinking like this, these words can't be said to Le.

He just said lightly: "Xiangyang is difficult to defeat. Our army has attacked several times, but we can't defeat it. This time you and I are ordered to attack again. I am worried that the war will be unfavorable, so I sigh."

Le disapproved and said: "I thought the general was sighing, it turned out to be for this. What is there to worry about? Didn't Duke Ming say that this time we are going to fight Xiangyang, just to show Lu Bu a look and lure him. Those who are going to fight Jiangxia, our army has reached the boundary of Xiangyang and feigned two battles. If the mission is completed, we can move back to Wan, so why should the general sigh?"

Zhang Xun said, "Your words are very true." He didn't say any more.

The two of them led their troops towards Xiangyang.

As mentioned earlier, Han Ji developed a lot of eyeliners in Nanyang. Han Ji quickly learned of the news that Lu Bu led his troops to attack Jiangxia. After learning about it, he did not delay and immediately informed Liu Bei. Liu Bei sent two teams of messengers, one team to report the news to Sun Ce, and the other team to report the news to Xun Zhen.

Sun Ce didn't mention it.

From Yingchuan to Xuzhou seven or eight hundred li, the messenger galloped day and night. A few days later, he arrived at Tan County and presented Liu Bei's military report to Xun Zhen. In this military report, in addition to Lu Bu's attack on Jiangxia, he also reported another matter to Xun Zhen, that is, Han Jicai learned from Nanyang's eyeliner that Chen Gong had appeared under Lu Bu's tent, and it seemed that he had become Lu Bu. 's counselor.

After reading the military newspaper, Xun Zhen sighed very much. Before talking about Lv Bu's attack on Jiangxia, Gu Yutang, Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu and others, laughed and said, "Chen Gongtai, this monarch, is persevering."

I don't know if it's a compliment or a mockery.

Xun Yu and Xi Zhicai asked Xun Zhen why he said this.

Xun Zhen said: "Xuande said in this report that Chen Gong was discovered under Lv Bu's tent. Lü Bu suddenly attacked me in Yingchuan again. When the military report came, I and the Qing and others were all puzzled, and he was defeated. Escape, even if he commits another attack on our realm, at least it will take three to five months. It will be possible after his vitality has recovered slightly, but why does he attack again at this time? Now it seems that it is impossible to say, it should be Chen Gongtai’s push. I, Yingchuan, huh, this is the meaning of the drunkard, what Chen Gongtai wants is to take Yanzhou away from me.

"He first went to Meng De, then to Zhang Mengzhuo, and now to Lv Bu. After going through the three masters, his ambition remained unchanged, because I said he was persevering."

Xun Yu and Xi Zhicai knew the reason for Xin'er's "persistence", they smiled at each other and didn't say much.

Xi Zhicai asked: "Xuande is reporting this, the messenger is also traveling in the starry night. Duke Ming, shouldn't it be just for Chen Gongtai?"

"Yes, Xuande reported that Lu Bu led the army to attack Jiangxia."

Xun Yu frowned and said, "You just beat me in Yingchuan, now you're going to beat Jiangxia again?"

Xun Zhen said, "How can there be a coexistence of tigers and wolves in a county in Nanyang? If I expect it to be good, Lu Feng would go to attack Jiangxia first, he must be unwilling to be angered by Yuan Gonggong, or it must be Yuan Gonggong's anger. Drive him out of Nanyang and coax him to go."

It was a correct guess.

In the summer, the weather was extremely hot, and Xi Zhicai shook his feather fan to keep cool and said, "Ming Gong, Jiangxia is upstream of the river, hangs above Yangzhou, and runs down the river. Yangzhou is safe, that is, the lifeblood of Yangzhou. In that case, one of them; Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, passed away a few days ago, and now there is no owner in Yangzhou, the other is the other; considering these two, now Lv Bu is going to attack Jiangxia, and he is loyal and worried. Will this cause anxiety in Yangzhou? If Yangzhou is uneasy , will inevitably affect my Jiujiang County, this must be properly dealt with, I don't know how Duke Ming plans to deal with it?"

In the end, Lu Bu was a flying general at home and abroad. He killed Dong Zhuo, his enemies Li Jue and Guo Si, helped Yuan Shao attack the Heishan Army, and so on. All of his previous things were shocking. Now that he attacked Jiangxia, it was indeed possible. This led to the turmoil in Yangzhou, which is now without a master.

Xun Zhen pondered and asked, "Zhi Cai, how do you think we should deal with it?"

Xi Zhicai said: "Jiangxia is full of water, Lv Bu is a young boat master, and Huang Zu has helped Liu Jingsheng to defeat Yuan Gonggong several times before. This is not comparable to Lü Bu, because it is a loyal expectation that at most Lü Bu can conquer counties such as Pingchun, but he must not be able to occupy the whole county of Jiangxia. Therefore, Lü Bu's attack on Jiangxia probably poses no substantial threat to me in Jiujiang. of.

"The only thing to worry about is what Zhongshi said, 'Will this cause Yangzhou's anxiety'? I, the Chaohu thieves in Jiujiang County, still haven't really convinced them, maybe they will take the opportunity to cause some trouble, so I am loyal. In my humble opinion, the countermeasures should be for the Duke of Ming’s biography to order Jiujiang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to make Xunfu Jun and Liu Deng pay close attention to the battle situation in Jiangxia, and report to the Duke Ming the process and results of the battle between Lu Bu and Huang Zu at any time. , at the same time, while suppressing the county, to prevent Chaohu thieves from causing chaos at this time."

Xun Zhen listened, agreed, and said, "Qing Yan is exactly what I want."

Following Xi Zhicai's suggestion, Xun Zhen sent a message to Liu Deng and others in Jiangxia, asking them to pay attention to the progress of the war between Lu Bu and Huang Zu, and to suppress the county at the same time.

After this matter was dealt with, Xun Zhen still put his focus on the stability and governance of Yanzhou, and the training of new soldiers. These new soldiers were mainly in Yingchuan, Yingchuan and Xuzhou when they returned from Yuzhou to Xuzhou. Runan summoned a total of four or five thousand people.

More than half a month later, that is, at the end of April after the beginning of summer, a military newspaper was sent from Jiujiang County.

Xun Zhen received the military newspaper and opened it to watch.

What was said in the military newspaper is exactly what happened in the first battle between Lv Bu and Huang Zu.

However, after Lu Bu left Nanyang and entered Jiangxia County, he had already fought a relatively fierce battle with Huang Zu.

The military newspaper wrote: On the third day of the fourth lunar month, Lü Bu's troops entered Jiangxia County, and their own troops were stationed in the west of Pingchun County. , Ruguo, Xiyang County and other places. The Pingchun defenders did not dare to come out. Huang Zu led Zhang Shuo to rescue Xiyang and others. On the fifteenth day, they were first defeated in Xiyang, and on the twenty-fourth day, they were defeated again in Pingchun. Zhang Shuo's army returned to Xiling. The four counties of Pingchun, Hu, Jiguo, and Xiyang have been assigned to Lu Bu. Lü Bu led his troops down to attack Xiling.

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