Chapter 138: Ambush
On the other side, Liu Zheng led people and went south along the official road.
He had no intention of attacking Jiangxia at all, but the official road was built between the cities, and if he wanted to use the fastest way to get from Jiangxia County to Changsha County, he had to take the official road from Jiangxia City.
That's why Liu Zheng took his own people and horses and walked in the direction of Jiangxia.
However, when Liu Zheng's men and horses had just entered the territory of Jiangxia City, Pei Yuanshao rushed over quickly.
"What's wrong, Yuan Shao?"
Pei Yuanshao was sent by Liu Zheng in the cavalry team, in addition to Xu Huang, the commander of the entire cavalry squad, and now Liu Zheng's cavalry, in the battle of Luoyang, the number has risen sharply, because the number of war horses has increased to three thousand for a while, and the number has expanded to nearly three thousand these days.
After the number of people increased significantly, some of them were directly trained by Pei Yuanshao to become a scout team.
Scattered around Liu Zheng's army, responsible for listening to intelligence.
Because Liu Zheng understood from the beginning that intelligence is the top priority in a war.
Therefore, the scout team must focus on training, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the fighters are also fleeting, if they can control the latest intelligence, they can anticipate the enemy's opportunities.
"Qu Shuai, our spies found a military movement in the dense forest fifty miles outside Jiangxia City ahead, and it seems that there are soldiers and horses coming from Jiangxia City, ambushing our army over there."
Pei Yuanshao reported to Liu Zheng the information his spies had found.
Because there are cavalry spies, you can see some military movements from a distance, and Liu Zheng specially told Pei Yuanshao to pay attention to the surrounding intelligence.
Originally, Liu Zheng didn't plan to pay attention to the officials and soldiers on Jiangxia's side, but now after hearing Pei Yuanshao's words, Liu Zheng became interested.
"Someone ambushed us over there in Jiangxia?"
Liu Zheng smiled when he heard Pei Yuanshao's words.
He didn't want to mess with others, and now it was time for others to come to him for trouble.
"Is it clear? How many people are on the other side and who is the leader? ”
"Back to the commander of the Qu Shuai, the commander is not clear for the time being, but the number of people should exceed 10,000, how much is because the other party is relatively tightly hidden, and our spies are not too close, so it is not clear, but I guess the number should be between 10,000 and 20,000."
When Liu Zheng heard Pei Yuanshao's answer, the expression on his face became even more excited.
"Interesting, just one or two hundred thousand people dare to come and design an ambush for me, they are really bold, don't you know my Liu Zheng's name, one or two thousand people are not enough to stuff my teeth."
Liu Zheng's answer made Pei Yuanshao immediately follow.
"Then Qu Shuai, do you want me to lead someone to destroy those who ambushed me?"
Today's Pei Yuanshao follows Liu Zheng's side, has experienced a hundred battles, has more understanding of the battlefield, and his self-confidence has also improved a lot.
And Liu Zheng waved his hand, signaling that Pei Yuanshao didn't have to be like this.
"No need, since someone wants to play with us, we are in a hurry here, and there is nothing to do, so let's play with them."
"Yes, Qu Shuai, then I will take people to continue to inquire about intelligence to prevent these people who ambush us from making news that is unfavorable to our army."
Pei Yuanshao immediately retreated and left quickly on a war horse, while Liu Zheng was also guessing at this time who was the person who ambushed him here.
When he was in Nanyang City before, he also asked Zhao Hong about some news from Jiangxia County.
Before Liu Zheng came, Zhao Hong had led people to attack Jiangxia County several times, but because Zhang Mancheng took a large number of men and horses, he only left Zhao Hong with 30,000 or 40,000 old and weak soldiers.
However, although Zhao Hong did not conquer Jiangxia City, he had a better understanding of some of the situations in Jiangxia City, and knew that after the death of Qin Jie, the Taishou of Nanyang, the imperial court sent a new figure to serve as the Taishou of Jiangxia.
This new Taishou is probably the one who ambushed himself this time.
"Let Huang Zhong come to see me."
Liu Zheng thought for a while, and then said a word to the pro-soldiers around him, and the pro-soldiers immediately responded and took the order.
Not long after, Huang Zhong hurried over.
"My lord, are you looking for me?"
"Well, Brother Huang Zhong, although you are from Nanyang, I see that your surname is Huang, this Jiangxia Huang clan is a wealthy family, I don't know if you have any intersection with this Jiangxia Huang clan?"
Liu Zheng thought that since the new Taishou would send someone to ambush him, he would definitely be inseparable from the help of the local wealthy families in Jiangxia, and Jiangxia was most famous for the Jiangxia Huang family, Liu Zheng didn't know much about the Huang family, so naturally he had to ask Huang Zhong to ask a thing or two.
As soon as Huang Zhong heard that Liu Zheng was asking this, his expression immediately eased a lot.
"Lord Hui, although I am from Nanyang, but in fact, I am also half of Jiangxia, because our Huang family is from Jiangxia, and Jiangxia Huang's ancestor Huang Xiang is a famous Shangshu order in the current dynasty, and has been appreciated by Emperor He. His son Huang Qiong and great-grandson Huang Wan are all officials to Taiwei and are famous all over the world. ”
"Our Nanyang Huang clan is the Huang Qiong lineage, which moved from Jiangxia to Nanyang more than 30 years ago."
In fact, when Huang Zhongyi said the name Huang Xiang, Liu Zheng still heard a little, not that he had heard of this name after he traveled to the Three Kingdoms.
But when he was very young, Liu Zheng read a book called Twenty-Four Filial Piety.
There is one of the protagonists in it, that is, Huang Xiang, the story of the twenty-four filial piety, there is a fan pillow Wen Shu.
This story tells that during the Han Dynasty, the filial son Huang Xiang's mother died early, and he was well-read, and in the hot summer, he used a fan to fan the mat to let his father sleep. In winter, he first got into the quilt to warm up the quilt and let his father sleep. When he was too punctual in Wei County, the local area was hit by floods, and he took out his own money and family property to help the victims. People call him: "Unparalleled in the world, Jiangxia yellow fragrance." ”
And this Huang Xiang is the Kaiji clan of the Jiangxia Huang clan.
Right now, Huang Zhong said that their Nanyang Huang clan is also a branch of the Jiangxia Huang clan, but Liu Zheng nodded slightly, like this kind of family is not a few.
"That's easy to do, if my guess is right, this time in Jiangxia ambush we and other people, most of them are related to the Jiangxia Huang clan, after a while we met those Huang clan people, there will be General Lao Huangzhong as an intermediary for me, tell them that we have no intention of being enemies with Jiangxia's people, just passing by here, everyone doesn't need to fight each other, and it's okay to be safe."
Liu Zheng was not afraid of these people who ambushed him, but after learning that Huang Zu was also a member of the Jiangxia Huang clan, he did not plan to take the initiative to attack, but wanted to sell a favor to Huang Zhong.