If the Yellow Turban Uprising had not occurred in the Han Dynasty and fired the first shot against the Han Dynasty, then the Han Dynasty would have barely survived. At the very least, the situation will not be so tense, and there will not be too many large-scale war battles.

In particular, it is generally not daring to attack the government head-on and directly confront the officers and soldiers of the government.

However, there are some aliens who will send troops to plunder all parts of the Han Dynasty from time to time, but they are all in the name of robbers, and they will run away after plundering, and they will avoid the officers and soldiers of the Han as much as possible, and they will not easily engage the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty head-on.

In general, whether it is those who have become bandits and robbers, or those aliens, they do have a natural fear of the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and they do not dare to openly raise the banner to oppose the Han.

But after the Yellow Turban Uprising, this is indeed equivalent to opening Pandora's box. is a person, pulling up a team, and he dares to argue with the officials and soldiers.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated, which allowed the anti-Han forces in various places to be reined in.

But after more than a year of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the ecological environment of the entire Han Dynasty has been completely destroyed.

For more than a year, ordinary people have easily dared not do business. Including now, in this period, who is still a businessman, this is equivalent to sending money and food to those bandits and bandits.

Of course, it's not just bandits and bandits, even if they are government officers and soldiers, and local officials in many places, they have slowly lost their awe of the imperial court. If it is the kind of local officials with ambitions, they also begin to think about themselves, and if it is some officials who are not good people, they will even turn their officers and soldiers into robbers, that is, soldiers are thieves.

Let them go to the bandits and robbers, they don't have that ability, but they are very fierce when they turn into robbers to rob places, or rob passing merchants.

In such an environment, Liu Xian's Liu Mansion caravan will be particularly unique and conspicuous.

No one dared to trade in this period full of robbers, but the Liu Mansion caravan dared and became famous. So far, I have not heard of any losses suffered by the Liu Mansion caravan and the merchant failed.

Liu Xian has a certain identity background and is famous. The most important thing is to have the ability and strength, and without relying on the strength of the officers and soldiers of the government, they themselves have the ability to deal with some crises.

Among the big men, there are actually a lot of smart people.

The scholars and wealthy merchants in those places who really have a little long-term vision will not ignore the existence of Liu Xian and the caravan of Liu Fu.

Or, they also have the ability or financial resources to form a caravan of the same size as the Liu Fu caravan. However, they did not dare to guarantee that there would be no accidents in the process of trading, and they did not dare to guarantee that they would be able to trade smoothly in the face of attacks by bandits and robbers, or the threats of some government officers and soldiers, and ensure that their own interests would not be lost.

Speaking of which, a caravan like Liu Xian has not been considered by others, but when it is really done, it may not be possible or dare not do it.

For example, this time, three or four thousand officers and soldiers of the government pretended to be bandits and robbers, and they wanted to disadvantage the caravan. If it were an ordinary caravan, would they dare to fight against three or four thousand military horses? And dare to guarantee victory after confronting these centaurs?

If you are not careful, your caravan will be wiped out, and all the goods will fall into the hands of the enemy. At that point, they will really lose all their money, and even their own lives will be lost.

During this period, even if it was some tribute, escorted by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, they did not dare to say that it was safe.

Therefore, Liu Xian's Liu Mansion caravan stopped in Yangwu County, which naturally attracted the attention of the local scholar families and rich landlords, especially those merchants. They all want to get acquainted with Liu Xian and have something to do with Liu Xian.

If they could, they really wanted to cooperate with the Liu Fu caravan, hoping that the Liu Fu caravan could take their caravan with them when they passed through their place, and give their caravan a certain amount of protection.

Liu Xian is naturally no stranger to this kind of operation, and he went to Beihai with many local businessmen before he went to Beihai earlier. Naturally, the Liu Mansion caravan must have gained a lot of benefits from it. This protection fee must also be collected.

For three consecutive days, Liu Xian met with dozens of local squires in Yangwu County in the caravan camp, and they were basically rich landlords from noble families. Among them, some cooperation agreements have indeed been reached with some businessmen.

In the past three days, Zhang Ning would send someone back every day to send some information, and the officers and soldiers hiding at the crossing of the Yellow River did not move, and she continued to observe.

Zhou Cang and Zhang Ning are together, if there is really any change, Liu Xian believes that Zhou Cang will definitely be sent back to report the news.

During these three days, in the dead of night, the Liufu caravan camp would quietly drive out a group of people, leaving a total of more than 1,000 people. These horses and horses quietly drove to the preset ambush place and hid in the ambush place.

Leaving more than a thousand people and horses has already made the camp of the Liu Mansion caravan seem a little sparse, and it is impossible to continue to transfer people away. If you let someone with a heart see it, you will find that there are too many people missing from the caravan camp of Liu Mansion. Liu Xian didn't dare to guarantee that among those who came to visit him, there were any spies of those officers and soldiers, so Liu Xian didn't plan to transfer people away from the ambush again.

In fact, when Zhou Cang comes to the news, it is not too late for Liu Xian to bring people and horses to rush there.

Three days is the critical time that Liu Xian estimated that those officers and soldiers would hide in the mountains and forests. In fact, those officers and soldiers had been hiding in the mountains and forests for more than four or five days.

When Liu Xian met Zhou Cang, those officers and soldiers had already driven to the Yellow River crossing and had already taken refuge in the nearby mountains and forests.

After so many days, Liu Xian estimated that they had also reached a limit of patience.

And that's exactly what happened.

Zhao He was with Wu Jin, just inside the official garrison camp at the Yellow River Ferry Wharf.

This Yellow River ferry port is the Guandu Wharf, and naturally there are government officers and soldiers guarding here. If it is wartime, more officers and soldiers will be specially transferred to guard it.

During the Yellow Turban Riot last year, additional officers and soldiers were dispatched to guard these Yellow River crossings. Now, of course, it is naturally withdrawn.

In a well-furnished dock barracks house, Zhao He, Wu Jin and a few generals together, each according to a banquet table, a few of which were full of wine and food.

They toasted each other, but the atmosphere was a little dreary. Zhao He's forehead was even more wrinkled, as if he was about to wrinkle water.

"Lord Zhao, something is wrong. The Liu Mansion caravan hadn't moved yet. Our people came back to report that they actually settled down outside Yangwu City, these days, Liu Xian patronized and met with those local squires, it is said that it was to discuss cooperation, and Liu Xian did not reveal the intention of leaving for Beijing. ”

Wu Jin grabbed his beard, which was not much on his chin, and said to Zhao He a little impatiently.

"Well, our family also knows about these, it's time to die, Liu Xian, who killed a thousand knives, what does he want to do? I don't know if the emperor will let him hurry up the time to enter Beijing? How dare you drag your feet here? Hum! To be honest, just by virtue of him, he will feel good when he arrives in the capital, our family will definitely participate in him in front of the emperor, his mother is seriously ill, he is not in a hurry at all, this son is not a son of man! Zhao He scolded with an ugly face.

"Lord Zhao, with Wu's thousands of people here, does Liu Xian still have a chance to enter Beijing?" Wu Jin said.

"Yes, yes, the one who killed a thousand knives, I don't know where the wild seed jumped out, and he still dares to call the young master of the Plains Palace? Wu Jin Taishou, what do you say now? We're just waiting here? Zhao He felt that what Wu Jin said made sense, but the Liu Xian in front of him was not moving in Yangwu County, which really made him very unhappy.

"This crossing of the Yellow River is the place where Liu's caravan must pass, unless he turns south and crosses the river from Guandu there in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. But there was no reason for him to turn south, and besides, the road was not close, and there were still hundreds of miles, to say the least. Wu Jin said.

"Okay, let's be patient and wait." Zhao Hechang let out a sigh and said: "Our family originally had to go back to Beijing as soon as possible to report to the emperor, but if we can see Liu Xian's death with our own eyes and then go to Beijing to restore my life and remove this disaster for the emperor, this will definitely make the emperor happy." When the time comes, Wu Taishou will also be equivalent to making a great contribution, and the emperor will definitely reuse you. ”

"This ......" Wu Jin hesitated.

"Huh? What's wrong? Zhao He's expression was a little wrong with Wu Jin's expression.

"Lord Zhao, alas, we have been away from Qinyang for a few days, if we stay here for too long, in case something changes in Qinyang......"

"Ahem......"

At this time, a subordinate general coughed twice and said, "Lord Zhao, Lord Taishou." There is a situation that our soldiers have been hiding in the mountains and forests for several days, and many soldiers have become extremely impatient and impetuous. They are in the mountains and forests, sleeping in the open air, bitten by mosquitoes and insects, they can't set up military tents, they can't make fires to make food, they can only eat dry food, and if they go on like this, I'm afraid it won't work. ”

Another general also answered in time: "Also, this is not actually a problem of gnawing dry food, but our soldiers have only brought food for a few days, and now they are almost finished." If you want to continue to hide, you have to send a batch of food first. But the last general found that after hiding in the mountains and forests for a few days, the spirit of our soldiers seemed to be extremely weak, and in the long run, their combat effectiveness became doubtful. ”

Wu Jin had known about these situations for a long time, but he didn't dare to tell Zhao He directly about these situations of his military horses. so as not to attract Zhao He's dissatisfaction. But these are the facts, and he thinks that waiting any longer is no longer the way to go.

Zhao He may not be in a hurry to return to Beijing to resume his life, but he doesn't dare to leave Qinyang for too long. His position as the Hanoi Taishou is not too secure, and if the Hanoi officials who don't deal with him do something behind his back, then he will be passive.

"Oh? After only a few days in the mountains and forests, did it have such a big impact on the sergeant? Zhao He didn't know much about marching and fighting, so he said suspiciously.

Hmph, why don't you try to sleep in the wild for a few days?

Wu Jin sneered in his heart, and then said with a bitter face: "Almost, the weather is hot, there are many mosquitoes in the mountains and forests, plus there is no way to set up a military account, the sergeants do not sleep peacefully, and many sergeants are sick." ”

"That's it, this can't be done, you must let your men and horses maintain a certain combat effectiveness, then Liu Xian's Liu Mansion caravan is not easy to deal with, and the Yellow Turban Army is not their opponent. In that case, what should I do? Zhao He couldn't help but worry.

"Lord Zhao, in fact, we don't have to hide here to ambush the Liu Mansion caravan, right?" Wu Jindao.

"Oh? Why? ”

"Lord Zhao, you set off with the Liu Mansion caravan, and you know the situation of the Liu Mansion caravan very well. The real guards of the Liu Mansion caravan are only about 2,000 people. The remaining 3,000 men were all ordinary caravan men. With Wu's three or four thousand men, he can completely defeat them. ”

"But when we act, it's not easy to make too much movement, and we can only quietly destroy them, so that we don't fall into the truth." Zhao He's biggest concern was that the destruction of Liu Xian would be known to the world, which would affect the emperor's reputation.

Wu Jin lowered his voice and said: "Lord Zhao is too worried, don't we are thieves now, the thieves covet the goods of the Liu Mansion caravan, isn't it normal to rob and kill the Liu Mansion caravan?" ”

"Then in Wu Taishou's opinion?" Zhao He said.

"Since the Liu Mansion caravan has not left for a long time, and we should no longer hide and wait for them. Why not just go straight ahead? Our army went straight to Yangwu and launched a surprise attack on the camp of the Liu Fu caravan, destroying Liu Xian in one fell swoop and seizing their goods. ”

"Is that okay? The Liu Mansion caravan is just outside Yangwu City, attacking directly, what if Yangwu City sends troops to respond? ”

"Hehe, Lord Zhao, we are bandits...... Wu Jin blinked vaguely: "Yangwu City is no longer under the jurisdiction of Hanoi, and there are not many officers and soldiers in Yangwu City, but there are only hundreds, and our army can even kill Yangwu City by the way." When the time comes...... Hey hey ......"

Zhao He was trembling, not afraid, but excited.

Talent, this Wu Jin is really a talent, he is just greedy for the goods of the Liu Mansion caravan, but this Wu Jin actually hit the idea to Yangwu City. If you enter Yangcheng City in the name of a bandit, how much benefit can the entire Yangwu City reap? It is estimated that it will definitely not be less than the caravan of the Liu Mansion.

Zhao He's eyes lit up.

"W-Isn't that right?" Zhao He said pretendly.

"Lord Zhao, Wu decided to personally lead the army to attack the caravan of Liu's mansion, and he will definitely cut off Liu Xian's head and bring it back for you to see." Wu Jin naturally saw that Zhao He's heart was moved, and his expression was a little resolute.

"So, that's it? This official is waiting for Wu Taishou's good news? “

"Good! Come on, Wu will give another glass to Lord Zhao, and when the time comes, the goods of the Liu Mansion caravan will still have Yangwu City...... Wu naturally offered it with both hands, and hoped that Lord Zhao would have a lot of good words for the petty officials in front of the emperor. Wu Jin raised his glass and said.

"Please rest assured, Wu Taishou, as long as it happens, this position of Jizhou pastor is still somewhat certain." Zhao He responded without thinking.

"It's too late now, Wu will let the people in the mountains come out now, let them rest for a night first, recover some energy, and tomorrow morning, the army will kill Xiangyang Wucheng."

Wu Jindao.