Chapter 172: Zhang Wenyuan is missing
Luoyue listened to Zhang Ning's words, and could see that Zhang Ning was still very worried about Chen Kun, although Zhang Ning didn't show it, but Luoyue is also a woman, and that kind of wordless worry doesn't need to say anything, she was like this to Gao Yi before.
I wanted to say a few words to comfort Zhang Ning, but when I heard Zhang Ning mention Divine Doctor Zhang, Luoyue suddenly had a spirit, grabbed Zhang Ning and couldn't help but ask excitedly: "The Divine Doctor Zhang you are talking about, is it Zhang Ji and Zhang Zhongjing?"
Zhang Ning nodded dumbly: "Yes, is there anything wrong with Sister Yue?"
Luoyue changed his expression and said: "I said how he disappeared for several months without seeing a figure, when he was in Handan, he was in danger and was rescued by a mysterious figure, now it seems that it is the Zuo Ci you said, the horse thief was accidentally injured by me and almost died, it was this Zhang Zhongjing who didn't know what method was used to save him, I didn't expect that for such a long time, he actually treated the two of you!"
Zhang Ning lowered his head and thought about it carefully, and also realized: "Yes, Doctor Zhang told me that he treated a dying seriously injured boy in Guangping, and he didn't use any method, just to find a way to make the thunder split, and it would be miraculous, could it be that this one who was struck by lightning was Brother Gao Yi?"
"Who do you think it is?" Luo Yue remembered Gao Yi's embarrassing and funny situation that day, and couldn't help laughing, "Sister Ning'er, haven't you seen the black appearance of the horse thief, it really looks like he crawled out of the black charcoal, not to mention how funny!"
Zhang Ning looked at Luo Yue's vivid description of Gao Yi's situation, and couldn't help laughing, the previous low mood was also swept away, the past is gone, why bother, now she is alive and will live well, this is enough.
Luo Yue then said: "By the way, Sister Ning, you said that you were killed by an adulterer, who is that adulterer? What is his name? Where is it? Sister is the master for you, you must teach this person a good lesson!"
Zhang Ning shook his head: "No need, Sister Yue, if you don't dislike it, if you can take me in and set up a home here in Wancheng in the future, and always be by your side, I will be satisfied!"
"Naturally, there is no problem with this!" Speaking of this, Luoyue paused for a moment, and then said, "But it's not necessarily, if this momentum continues, maybe tomorrow I will have to wander around like Sister Ning, but there is nothing bad about thinking about it, you can eat wherever you go, how good!"
"What are you talking about here, so happy!" Zhang Ning was about to fall back to the moon, when suddenly there was a shout outside, it was frustration, when the moon fell and looked again, I saw that Sun Jian and Zhang Jaw followed behind him, and they were talking to each other with great interest in the rain, as if the situation of the heavy siege outside had nothing to do with them.
"Yue'er, let's see who's coming?" said Frustratedly to the door of the room and shouted inside.
Luo Yue got up with the child in her arms and went to the door of the room, with a shallow smile on her face: "I really didn't expect the two of you to come, it can be seen that the horse thief made friends with the two of you in vain!"
"I haven't seen you for a year, I can't imagine that my sister-in-law's words are still so sharp!" Zhang Jaw walked in the front, and there was a smile on his handsome face.
Luoyue chuckled: "When have my words not been sharp, I have a lot of words I want to hear, do you want to come?"
Sun Jian also arrived at the door at this time, took off his helmet and poured the water inside, his hair was wet, but the whole person was in good spirits, and before he entered the door, he naturally caught a glimpse of Gao Yue in Luoyue's arms, and said with a hearty smile: "The war is tight, Sun should not have come, but he was selfish and wanted to recognize a daughter from his younger siblings, so he came uninvited!"
This request was unexpected, she smiled and said: "It's really strange, others have always loved their sons and not their daughters, why did Brother Wentai fall in love with my daughter?"
Sun Jian was naturally happy: "This voice of the eldest brother of Wentai makes people feel ten years younger, and my daughter naturally hurts, I have wanted one for a long time, but I gave birth to two sons in succession, Ce'er and Quan'er, but they are not as good as their younger siblings, and they gave birth to a daughter all of a sudden, which is really enviable!"
Zhang Jaw smiled on the side: "General Sun, don't patronize and say good and obedient, since you want to be a godfather, you have to be a little sincere, how can there be a reason to talk about a white wolf?"
"Yes, yes, forget this!" Sun Jian said, about to take something out of his arms, at this moment, a herald Pegasus came, and after seeing everyone, he said to Fu: "Lord Qiqi Gong Cao, the big thing is not good, my subordinates got a news, Liu Biao and Xun You from the east gate sent a team of people to the east to block the river!"
After everyone heard this, their faces changed greatly, and Sun Jian said: "Last year, when I attacked the Yellow Turban, I led the army to be stationed outside the East Gate, and I am very familiar with the terrain there, Wancheng is located in a low-lying place, if the river is blocked for the other party, then Wancheng will inevitably be flooded again!"
Frustrated nodded: "What's more, now that the autumn rain is continuous and the momentum is unabated, it is no wonder that the enemy troops outside the city gates on all sides have retreated for several miles, it turns out that it is not a defeat, but a conspiracy planned in advance!"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but have a cold sweat coming out, Wancheng had been flooded once last year, if it was flooded again this time, the entire city could collapse, Luoyue said to Frustration: "Without further ado, we need to immediately mobilize the defenders and people in the city to withdraw to the inner city, and then send a group of men and horses out of the city to try to prevent the enemy from blocking the river!"
Frustrated Zhu shook his head: "If we retreat to the inner city, we are likely to follow the old path of the Yellow Turban Army, and cut off our own back road to break through, in that case, there will be no food and grass, foreign aid will be difficult to arrive, and there is no way to retreat, no matter whether the other party attacks or not, we will not last long, even if the other party does not fight at that time, we will be chaotic!"
"Do you have to sit still and die?" said Zhang Jaw at this time. Flooding Wancheng is a beautiful strategy, I have a better strategy, since the enemy has expected to attack with water, must have prepared ships in advance, our troops are divided into several routes, all the way to organize the evacuation of people in the city, all the way out of the city to destroy the enemy's ships, all the way to contain the enemy, all the way to destroy the enemy's grain and grass, all the way to naturally prevent the enemy from blocking the river, so that no matter whether the water attack strategy succeeds or fails, we can reduce the loss to the minimum!"
The frustrated professor couldn't help but look at Zhang Jaw with admiration: "The three generals are really brave and knowledgeable, but it's a pity that we don't have so many men and horses that can be deployed, this is a fatal problem!"
"Then it's the hardest thing for Sun to do it! I'll personally stop the enemy's water attack plan!" Sun Jian put his helmet on his head again, strode into the rain, and then suddenly turned around, looked at the baby in Luoyue's arms and smiled, "This daughter, I have identified, wait for me to come back! Give my daughter a big gift!"
"It's really heroic!" Zhang Jaw looked at Sun Jian's back and sighed, "It's a pity that the fourth brother is not here, otherwise, this credit would not have been robbed by Sun Jian, and it seems that I have to destroy the enemy's ships!"
And the state, Huguan.
Compared with Zhang Jaw's smooth sailing, Ding Yuan's Zhang Liao here is not so easy to come to Nanyang, Ding Yuan received He Jin's secret order, led troops to Hanoi, because of the Hanoi white wave thief Li Le Hu Cai and the Black Mountain thief Zhenggu and the Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo colluded with each other to invade Hanoi, Ding Yuan had to crusade against these people first, and considering the relationship between Zhang Liao and Gao Yi is righteous brothers, Ding Yuan did not bring Zhang Liao here, but sent to Huguan to guard Zhang Yan, Zhang Liao also wondered why Ding Yuan made such an abnormal move, because since the year of defecting to Ding Yuan, Ding Yuan as long as he is fighting abroad, he will bring Lu Bu Gao Shun and him Zhang Liao, but this time only Lu Bu and Gao Shun were brought with him, which inevitably made Zhang Liaohu suspicious.
What Zhang Liao didn't know was that Ding Yuan's men and horses were going to point the finger at Gao Yi this time, and Zhao Yun's letter to Zhang Liao was also stopped by Ding Yuan, and now Zhang Liao didn't know anything about what happened in Nanyang.
As soon as he rode a herald to Pegasus to enter the customs, Zhang Liao summoned this person and asked in a deep voice, "Have you heard any news of Zhang Yan?"
The herald shook his head: "General Huiyu, there are only a few Black Mountain troops in Jinyang at the moment, and Zhang Yan is not in Jinyang at all!"
"What?" Zhang Liao was slightly startled, but then came back to his senses, "Maybe Zhang Yan led his troops to other places and didn't send more people to investigate?"
The herald said: "Zhang Yan did go to another place, it is the Sili area!"
Zhang Liao was even more puzzled: "Where is Zhang Yan going to do something?"
An adjutant general interjected: "Don't you know, the general doesn't know? Dong Zhuo was ordered to lead tens of thousands of troops from Xiliang, Zhang Yan didn't know where to get the news, and he knew that he would lead 100,000 horses to Sili in the future, and the purpose was probably to avenge the revenge when he was in Jizhou!"
Dong Zhuo had caused some trouble for Zhang Yan in Jizhou, and Zhang Liao knew about this, but Dong Zhuo went to Sili this time, and it was a place where Zhang Yan couldn't get hit, did Zhang Yan take the wrong medicine?
Zhang Liao didn't know that Zhang Yan sent troops not 100,000 this time, but 150,000, Zhang Yan himself brought 100,000, and ordered Ye 17 to take 50,000 people to march from the other road, and Jinyang's men and horses were almost empty.
And the reason why Zhang Yan dared to make such a big bet was because there were ten permanent servants who secretly provided him with grain and grass, and the ten permanent servants were very sincere in the agreement made by Zhang Yan this time, that is, as long as Zhang Yan was capable, there would be no problem in capturing Luoyang and becoming independent, and he also secretly sent people to deliver grain and grass to Zhang Yan and Ye Shiqi's station for three months.
This is a very funny thing, the reason why Zhang Yan gathered in the mountains and forests was because he was dissatisfied with the chaos of the Ten Standing Servants, and he couldn't imagine that he would collude with the Ten Standing Servants now, so Zhang Yan had a thought for himself, once Luoyang was really in turmoil, the first thing he wanted to eradicate was the Ten Standing Servants.
Only Zhang Liao, a lone army is garrisoned in Huguan, and the news is blocked, but since Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan are both ordered by the general, they are their own people, since Zhang Yan doesn't care about his own nest, it is better to take the opportunity to take back this lost territory, and it can be regarded as doing his best to reinforce the army.
"Rectify the men and horses, double the way to march, we will take Jinyang as soon as possible and force Zhang Yan to return to the army!"
That night, the sky was dark, the stars were hidden, it was the moon and the dark wind was high, killing people and setting fire, Zhang Liao led a thousand men and horses of Huguan to disguise themselves as the Black Mountain Army and sneaked into Jinyang City, as soon as they entered the city, they quickly occupied the city gates on all sides, and then concentrated on quickly annihilating the Black Mountain Army left in the city, when the sky was light, Jinyang City had no resistance to the Black Mountain Army, but when he counted some military exploits, Zhang Liao was shocked to find that the huge Jinyang City actually had less than 3,000 Black Mountain Army, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the original big households in Jinyang also moved away!
"Is Zhang Yan crazy? Jinyang stayed behind with such a small number of people, but moved all the rich families in the city, obviously he had already given up Jinyang!"
Zhang Liao muttered to himself, faintly feeling that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say what was wrong.
"Report!" Just thinking about it, a herald flew to the horse, "I have seen General Zhang Liao, Zhang Yan's men and horses in Sili have moved, and after a skirmish with Dong Zhuo's general Niu Fu, Zhang Yanjun returned to Hongnong from Hedong, and the target seems to be Nanyang!"
"Nanyang? That's my brother's land, Zhang Yan's real purpose is to invade Nanyang?" Zhang Liao was even more surprised, no wonder he felt uneasy, it turned out to be like this!
The herald took a breath and continued: "Not only that, where did the villain come from, it turned out that Dong Zhuojun had already fought with the people and horses of Nanyang, and at the same time, there were also any troops and white wave thieves in other places in Nanyang, and the news from Wancheng to the outside was blocked, and Nanyang was in danger!"
Zhang Liao was so surprised that he couldn't speak, the journey from Jinyang to Nanyang would take half a month at the earliest, how smart Zhang Liao was, he knew that the news now was actually the news half a month ago, and the real situation of Wancheng was probably captured!
"Hasn't Gao Taishou always been loyal to the imperial court, why did the general unite so many people to attack Nanyang?" the other soldiers whispered.
"Yes, not to mention that Gao Taishou did not make a mistake, even if he really has a heinous crime, can't the general just arrest him with an edict? Why use tens of thousands of sword soldiers?"
"This is the strange thing about this matter, if you don't do things according to common sense, there must be something strange about this matter!"
Zhang Liao heard it in his ears, he was actually the same as these soldiers now, he didn't understand why He Jin did this, but he knew that he couldn't mess with it now, on the contrary, he had to stay awake and rush to Nanyang as quickly as possible.
Just thinking about it, outside the city suddenly reported that Ding Yuan sent someone to come, Zhang Liao immediately led the army out of the city, only to see that the person who came was actually Zhang Yang's deputy general Mu Shun, as soon as he saw Zhang Liao's figure, Mu Shun smiled and hugged his fists on the horse and said: "Congratulations to Wen Yuan, congratulations to Wen Yuan for capturing Jinyang, for the shame of Lord Assassin Shi Yixue, Lord Assassin Shi specially ordered Mu to come, please Wen Yuan to Hanoi, Lord Assassin Shi will personally reward Wen Yuan for military merits!"
Zhang Liao put up a green dragon hook sickle, and without waiting for Mu Shun to finish speaking, he suddenly stretched out his knife in front of Mu Shun, and asked coldly: "I just captured Jinyang, how can the lord know about this? General Mu is a three-year-old child when I Zhang Wenyuan?"
"Hahaha!" Mu Shun looked at Zhang Liao's killing weapon that he didn't know how many people he had killed, he was not afraid at all, but on the contrary, he put away his smile and said calmly, "Since Wen Yuan is a smart person, there are some things that should not be asked to me, but should be asked by Lord Assassin Shi in person!"
"I'll naturally ask!" Zhang Liao slowly put away the Qinglong Hook and Scythe, turned around and ordered to his men, "The army will go to Hanoi with me, and when you see the lord, you can naturally ask for an understanding!"
"Wow!" everyone responded, and they got on their horses one after another, and they had to obey Zhang Liao's orders.
I didn't want to think that at this time, Mu Shun suddenly raised his spear, blocked Zhang Liao and the others from going, and said in a dignified voice: "There is an order for the assassination history, Jinyang is initially decided, and people need to be stationed, I hope that General Zhang Liao will go to Hanoi alone to see the assassination history!"
"What does this mean?" Zhang Liao listened, his face angry.
Zhang Liao's soldiers were also indignant: "There is no enemy here in Jinyang, where do we need so many people to be stationed? Since we are going to receive merit, we are also meritorious in siege and battle, why only let General Zhang monopolize it, and we must go together!"
"Go together, go together!" everyone shouted in unison, and the momentum soared into the sky.
Mu Shun's face also changed sharply, he raised the iron spear in his hand, and shouted: "The military aircraft is a big matter, how can it be a child's play? If you don't obey the military order, you will be dealt with by military law!"
"Our legs are long on our bodies, how can you be a mere deputy general to control us?" Everyone was even more angry, and immediately a few people wanted to leap over the horse, but Zhang Yang took a shot and swept these people off the horse.
But when Mu Shun wanted to continue to start, he was waved by Zhang Liao's long knife, and the whole person hit the horse, he got up in embarrassment, only to see Zhang Liao's soldiers all stabbing with spears, Mu Shun was shocked, so he wanted to use a gun to block, but found that in the panic, the iron spear was shot by Zhang Liao's knife and flew a few zhang away, seeing that the weapons of Zhang Liao's army were about to chop Mu Shun into meat sauce, Zhang Liao stopped them loudly: "Don't embarrass General Mu Shun, he just came to pass the word, and Jinyang needs a guard now!"
The soldiers listened to the order and let go of Mu Shun.
Mu Shun snorted coldly, straightened his clothes, picked up his iron spear, stared at Zhang Liaodao: "Wen Yuan, I think you also know, although your brother Gao Yi has helped Lord Thorn Shi a little, but you must also know that Lord Thorn Shi is loyal to the imperial court, and he has not and will not disobey the general's edict because of a mere Gao Yi!"
Zhang Liao smiled: "That's really high-sounding, lord, I still call him a lord, I am sorry that Zhang Liao has decided to follow this life-saving benefactor for the rest of his life, is he loyal to the imperial court, or is he loyal to the general? Gather people and horses to gather the subordinates, it seems that he wants to crusade against the ten permanent servants, but he actually attacked Nanyang with ulterior motives! The brother pacified the Yellow Turban, exterminated Han Sui, and was not rewarded for his merits, but suffered from the rebellion of the military revolution without fault! If even a figure like his brother should be regarded as a thief, then are there still loyal ministers in the world?"
Mu Shun was irrefutable by Zhang Liao's words, so he only shirked and said: "This is better to keep it for Lord Thorn Shi!"