Chapter 469: Rush back to help
"Yan Baihu!"
Liu Zheng gritted his teeth and popped out a few words from his mouth.
He never thought that the first person to betray him was Yan Baihu.
Although Yan Baihu is not his own subordinate, Liu Zheng's help to Yan Baihu can be described as a lot, from the beginning of Yan Baihu's lack of money, to his besiegement by Liu Xuan, and then to Liu Zheng's joint Yan Baihu to defeat Huiji County, defeating Liu Xuan's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
In this, without Liu Zheng's participation, Yan Baihu would not have developed so fast, and the main reason why Liu Zheng was willing to join forces with Yan Baihu was that he felt that Yan Baihu was not bad, at least he could be valuable to him.
But all this, in Yan Baihu's view, does use each other.
It's like Liu Zheng used Yan Baihu to contain Liu Xuan, and even let Yan Baihu deal with Wang Lang and Zhou Xin in the future.
And Yan Baihu is just using Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng's strength is strong enough, Yan Baihu used Liu Zheng to deal with Liu Xuan, and then profited from it, quickly improved his strength, and then in just two years, he developed into a small prince of Wu County and Huiji County.
Originally, this kind of alliance could still be continued, after all, it would be beneficial to both sides, but why did Yan Baihu suddenly regret it at this time?
This matter started a few days ago, when Liu Zheng sent Xu Yu to Wu County to lobby Yan Baihu.
Xu Yu was ordered by Liu Zheng to secretly go to Wu County, wanting to win over Yan Baihu and let Yan Baihu attack Wang Lang from the rear when Zhou Xin and Wang Lang sent troops to deal with Liu Zheng, so that the pressure on Zhou Xin and Wang Lang could be temporarily relieved.
Xu Yu also brought these words to Yan Baihu as he meant according to Liu Zheng's intentions, and also told Yan Baihu that if Yan Baihu could contain Zhou Xin and Wang Lang, Liu Zheng would be grateful.
But what kind of person is Yan Baihu, the head of the four water thieves, he is very ambitious, and at this time, he also received an important news.
That is, Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao is dead.
was killed by Yuan Shu, as soon as Liu Xuan died, Yangzhou suddenly became a borderless land, Liu Zheng wanted to get involved, Yan Baihu naturally knew it.
In addition, Yan Baihu clearly knew Liu Zheng's strength, if most of Yangzhou's territory was occupied by Liu Zheng, then Yan Baihu would become a prisoner in Liu Zheng's vast territory, and he could no longer want to develop, and could only be slowly annexed by Liu Zheng.
Therefore, after understanding that Liu Zheng was dead and there was no need for him to form an alliance with Liu Zheng, in Yan Baihu's heart, he had already begun to rebel against Liu Zheng and strengthen himself.
It's just that I haven't been able to find a chance.
And Xu You came over to tell him about this incident, which happened to give Yan Baihu a chance, and Yan Baihu knew that Liu Zheng sent troops and horses north to Huainan.
Yan Baihu thought that Liu Zheng was dealing with Yuan Shu, so he didn't think much about it, and directly sent someone to contact Wang Lang and Zhou Xin.
He already knew Wang Lang and Zhou Xin, when Wang Lang was still a Taishou, Yan Baihu was a wealthy family in Wu County, and he had some friendship with Wang Lang, Yan Baihu took the initiative to show goodwill, and then agreed with Wang Lang to deal with Liu Zheng together.
From north to south, Yan Baihu restrained some of the soldiers and horses stationed in Huiji before Liu Zheng of Huiji County, and Wang Lang and Zhou Xin went directly to Poyang to regain the lost territory.
Wang Lang and Zhou Xin had long wanted to send troops to deal with Liu Zheng, especially after knowing that Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai and Cao Cao and others were leading a large army to deal with Yuan Shu in Huainan, they were even more nervous.
Now that Yan Baihu has informed them of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, it naturally makes Wang Lang and Zhou Xin feel alive all of a sudden.
The two sides hit it off, and the day after Liu Zheng's army left, Wang Lang and Yan Baihu began a secret operation.
Zhou Xin led 20,000 soldiers and horses to Poyang, and Yan Baihu led his 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill Huiji County.
Because, almost all of Poyang's soldiers and horses were transferred by Liu Zheng to deal with Cao Cao and Liu Dai, so there was no one left in Poyang at all, and the army of Zhou Xin and Wang Lang easily entered Poyang County, and then attacked the city all the way, and in just a few days, they were killed in front of Poyang County.
And Yan Baihu is even more powerful, because Liu Zheng originally did not have many soldiers and horses stationed in Huiji County, and there were only a few thousand newly recruited county soldiers under him, these people were all soldiers and horses of the second echelon under Liu Zheng, and only the army of Gan Ning's headquarters stationed in Nanhai County was relatively close to Huiji County.
Yan Baihu is more familiar with Liu Zheng's men and horses because of his alliance, and often comes here to drink with Liu Zheng's people.
As a result, after Yan Baihu came over this time, he directly turned his face and went on a killing spree in the barracks. Let Liu Zheng fight for thousands of county soldiers, and lose them all like this.
When the news came back, most of the meeting fell into the hands of Yan Baihu.
Fortunately, Yan Baihu captured Huiji County, and when he wanted to go further, he was suppressed by the army of Gan Ning's headquarters stationed in Nanhai County.
A stalemate ensued between the two sides at the junction of Nanhai County and Huiji County.
Yan Baihu's 20,000 horses, against Gan Ning's 10,000 soldiers and horses, although Yan Baihu is more numerous, but Gan Ning's 10,000 elites are not bad, after a tragic battle between the two sides, Gan Ning won a complete victory, killed Yan Baihu more than 5,000 people, and forced Yan Baihu to retreat to Huiji County.
Of course, this news has not yet reached Liu Zheng's ears, and now Liu Zheng only knows that Yan Baihu has rebelled, and Wang Lang and Zhou Xin are leading soldiers and horses to besiege Poyang.
Liu Zheng led his 23,000 men and horses and quickly killed Poyang.
On the third day, I returned to the vicinity of Poyang City.
At this time, the county seat of Poyang County has been broken by Zhou Xin's people, and the army of Zhou Xin and Wang Lang entered the city of Poyang County, and it seems that they have received the news, and at this time, Zhou Xin and Wang Lang are closed.
Extremely angry and annoyed, Liu Zheng walked out of his military formation. 、
"Who is Zhou Xin! Dare to come out! ”
Liu Zheng shouted at Poyang County.
The Zhouzi flag fluttered on the city tower, swaying in the wind, and there was silence for a moment, and someone responded on the city tower.
"I'm Zhou Xin, but in front of me is the big thief Liu Zheng?"
"Zhou Xin'er, take advantage of my unpreparedness to sneak attack my Poyang County, it's extremely hateful, don't go out of the city and die quickly!"
"Hahaha, you and other anti-thieves, everyone will be punished, what is Poyang County is yours, this is the imperial court, I just took it back on behalf of the imperial court."
Zhou Xin was a little high-spirited at this time, he knew how powerful Liu Zheng was, after all, Liu Zheng's name and news had long been passed on to his ears for a long time.
But now he is able to defeat Poyang and humiliate Liu Zheng fiercely, not to mention making him happy.