Chapter 178: Sudden Ambush
"Quyang?" Liang Ji was taken aback and said, "No, young master, Quyang is fighting now." The soldiers are in danger, and they can't go! ”
"Don't worry, now the war in Quyang should be completely in the hands of General Huangfu Song. And we are just a legitimate caravan, let's go over now, and transport a large amount of clothing, which is a relief in the snow for General Huangfu. I believe that General Huangfu will be able to give a suitable price to buy our batch of clothes. ”
Liu Xian said to Liang Ji: "What's more, the war in Quyang is estimated to be about the same. I'm rushing over now, and it's probably just right. Granduncle, you know, Ning'er...... Well, this time I went to Quyang, and by the way, I figured out how she is now. It's been so many days, and there hasn't been any news. ”
Zhang Ning...... That's okay, I hope this time the business will go smoothly. Liang Ji heard Liu Xian mention Zhang Ning, he was silent for a while, and then did not object again.
He already knew that Liu Xian would not be able to let go of Zhang Ning seriously. One day Zhang Ning didn't come back safely, he would definitely rush to Quyang. This time, the officers and soldiers who planned to transport the clothes over and sell them to Huangfu Song in Quyang also happened to give Liu Xian a reason. He couldn't stop it.
"It's good to send these clothes to Quyang! Wen also felt that the officers and soldiers in Quyang needed these now. Wen Shen was a little surprised, but then he felt that it was good, and he believed that Huangfu Song would definitely buy this batch of clothes from Liu Xian.
As for what Liu Xian said about Ning Er and Zhang Ning, he didn't know and didn't understand who Liu Xian and Liang Ji were talking about.
"That's it, since we have decided to go to Quyang, then let's go together, after all, we can meet General Huangfu, and there are many brothers we know in the army." Wang Bao automatically asked for help at this time.
"No!" Liu Xian naturally couldn't let Wang Bao follow, not to mention that this time he went to Quyang for Ning'er, even if he didn't, let Wang Bao go with him, with Wang Bao's original position in the army, it is estimated that he would know Huang Fu Song at most, but Huang Fu Song might not recognize him and remember him. In this way, even if Wang Bao goes along, he may not be able to see Huang Fu Song directly, and he can't speak in front of Huang Fu Song, so what do you want him to do?
"Brother Wen and Brother Wang, your current focus is on Yang's County, and governing Yang's County well is a long way to go for you. You have to keep an eye on Yang Jie and them at all times, and don't let them do anything in secret. Once we find out that they are doing something that is not conducive to our governance of Yangshi County, there is no need to be polite to them at that time. For lawless landlords and tyrants, they should be cracked down on when it is time to strike, and they must not be soft. ”
"But...... Wouldn't it be better to talk with us? Wang Bao didn't understand why Liu Xian said something inappropriate, the matter of Yang's County, in fact, even if there was no him now, it would not have much impact.
"How can you talk well? Could it be that you can tell Lord Huangfu Song that he bought our clothes at a higher price? Or, in turn, they let you sell to them cheaper? Liu Xian smiled.
"Don't ...... We just thought that there was an acquaintance, and when he got to the ground, he had a way to meet people. Wang Bao scratched his head and said.
"Haha, we're caravans, we're merchants. As a businessman, if you can't even see the main owner, then what kind of business do you have? Well, you don't have to worry about that. ”
"Okay, when are you going to go, young master?" Wen Shen asked.
"There's no hurry tomorrow, and we have to prepare for how these goods will be delivered. But I have to leave early the day after tomorrow. In fact, it is not far from us to Quyang, but it is more than 200 miles, and we will definitely be able to arrive the day after tomorrow. Liu Xian said.
Liu Xian's heart was a little anxious, because he estimated that the Quyang war should have a result these days. He was worried that Zhang Ning was too stubborn and must save her second uncle Zhang Bao, which would involve her as well.
You must know that after the first battle of Quyang, Huangfu Song will kill prisoners, and this killing is more than 100,000. Liu Xian was worried that Zhang Ning would become a ghost who died in vain under the sword of Huangfu Song. If you lose your life like that, it's really not worth it.
In addition, Liu Xian rushed over, in fact, to see if there was a way to stop Huangfu Song's move to kill the prisoner this time.
More than 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves were killed like this, Liu Xian felt a little pity. After all, that's more than 100,000 productivity, if you can negotiate with Huangfu Song, come up with a way to get the best of both worlds and let Huangfu Song keep people. Or maybe that's a good thing.
Of course, Liu Xian understands very clearly. Huangfu Song had a sufficient reason to kill the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army. One, those more than 100,000 Yellow Turban captives really deserve to die, and it is said that almost all of them are fierce people whose hands are stained with innocent blood. Second, Huangfu Song attacked the city urgently, and the two sides fought non-stop fierce battles in Quyang, and in this battle, the military horses under Huangfu Song also suffered heavy casualties, and it was difficult to calm the anger of the officers and soldiers without killing.
Third, it is also extremely important. Killing the main force of the Yellow Turbans of more than 100,000 can greatly deter the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, so that they will be afraid when they see the officers and soldiers from now on, and they will not dare to take the initiative to attack the officers and soldiers of the government again.
Regarding this point, in fact, it is true, the later Montenegro Zhang Yan, known as the Yellow Turban million, but basically feared officials like tigers, and later he has been nesting in Montenegro and has not been able to really open up a situation.
But Liu Xian also knew that what was shocked might be this Yellow Turban Army. It did not have much of a deterrent effect on the Yellow Turban Army as a whole. Because of the following, there were still Yellow Turban riots in Jizhou, and then there were also Yellow Turban uprisings in Youzhou, and all over the world, large and small Yellow Turban riots were always continuous.
Therefore, Liu Xian believes that Huangfu Song actually does not need to be like this, and does not need to kill more than 100,000 Yellow Turban prisoners and build these corpses into a "Jingguan" to deter the Yellow Turban Army.
It's a pity that Liu Xian can't eat the 100,000 Yellow Turban captives, and there is no proper name to contain those captives. And Huangfu Song is even more unlikely to hand over more than 100,000 Yellow Turban captives to Liu Xian.
However, even if you can't eat so much, if you can get thousands from it, this is Liu Xian's biggest gain.
Late at night, Liu Xian, Liang Ji, Yu Jin and others left the official office and returned to the Qian Inn.
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Liu Xian also returned to Liulin Village together.
Tens of thousands of pieces of clothing can only be transported by manpower.
There is no way, there will definitely be no horses and cattle now, and there are not even any cars.
In this era, there was already a wheelbarrow, which can actually be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. But alas, in fact, it was not widely used in this period. In fact, the geography of Liulin Village can be regarded as a plain area, so in the plain area, no wheelbarrows are used, and there are generally two-wheeled oxen and horse carts.
Unicycles first appeared in those rugged mountain places. Legend has it that the wooden ox and flowing horse invented by Zhuge Liang was actually invented based on the wheelbarrow, which can be said to be a variant of the wheelbarrow.
However, after the Three Kingdoms, in later China in China, wheelbarrows will be widely used. Precisely, in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, unicycles were not widely used, and even in Liulin Village, there was no such concept of unicycles.
Liu Xian definitely has to figure this out, but not for the time being, it's too late, and there is no need for this right now.
Tens of thousands of pieces of clothing seem like a lot, but even using people on their backs doesn't cost much. After all, these are things that are light and easy to handle.
A cotton coat weighs less than a pound, and it is certainly no problem to carry thirty pieces in general. Liu Xian: The ordinary people here are actually some women in the prime of life between the ages of 20 and 40.
That's right, Liu Xian is going to let a group of women run the business with the goods on their backs this time.
Two thousand women carrying tens of thousands of pieces of clothing, such a team is really considerable.
This is also a matter of no choice, now in the entire Yang County, where can so many young men be summoned at once? Even if there were, they had already been recruited into the Liu Mansion caravan, but it was only more than five hundred people. Now, this Liu Fu caravan has not yet been fully trained and formed, and has not yet formed a real combat effectiveness.
Moreover, the five hundred young men were guarding the caravan, not the people who carried the goods. Liu Xian didn't plan to bring the five hundred young men with him this time, because they still had to obey Wen Shen's dispatch in Yang's County to deter Yang Jie and the others.
Liu Xian borrowed ten officers and soldiers from Wang Bao, as well as the people from the original Liulin Village Guards, and the people that Yu Jin later recruited from among the young men from various villages, which added up to a total of only a hundred caravans accompanying the guards.
There are already one or two hundred people recruited by Yu Jin, but some people have to be left for Liang Ji, who stayed in Liulin Village, to guard Liulin Village.
Besides, it's the men and horses of the dark camp.
This time, Liu Xian decided to have more than 2,000 women and about 200 caravan guards to carry out the business.
After explaining these affairs, Liu Xian returned to Yangshi County.
Because there are more important things to do.
That's what happened to Huang Wudie and Huang Xu's sister and brother. Regardless of whether Huang Zhong appeared now or not, Liu Xian planned to keep them before he left.
Liu Xian returned to Liulin Village in the morning, and it was already noon when he left.
This time to Quyang business, you must first cross the river.
In fact, it is now ready to start transporting some people and goods to Yangshi County first. You have to leave early tomorrow, so you can't wait until tomorrow to start acting.
When Liu Xian returned to Yangshi County, he also arranged for people to receive those who were preparing to do business and goods.
Liu Xian also returned to Yangshi County first.
Liu Xian's raft only has Zheng Feng, Zheng Bo and an old man holding the raft. With limited manpower, the old man volunteered to be in charge of the use of a row of rafts.
This old man is from Liulin Village, and he is the same age as Uncle Zheng, and he has known each other for a long time.
Liu Xian sat quietly on the raft and took the opportunity to practice.
As the raft slowly moved forward in the river, Liu Xian quickly settled down, using his mind to feel everything in nature, feel the aura between heaven and earth, and capture them and absorb them.
This piece of river is not big or small, and the radius is open for dozens of miles.
During this time, the people of Liulin Village kept collecting those reeds, but compared to the reeds in the whole river, it was only a small amount of collection. When the raft zigzagged into the river, through the reeds. Seeing the dense yellow reeds all around, at this time, you will feel that this reed river is very large.
The cold wind is sometimes sharp and slow, and the whistling sound of the wind is like a cold knife, which makes people feel cold. In particular, the wind blows down the reeds together, and from time to time some dead leaves will be rolled up, and those long reed dead leaves will dance with the wind like arrows. If you are hit in the face by those dead leaves, there is still a trace of pain.
From Liulin Village through this reed river, the straight-line distance is only several miles away. If you look at it with your eyes, you can see through it at a glance. Of course, if you go deep into it, you have to go around. If you are familiar with the road, a one-way trip is actually about half an hour.
Soon, there was almost half of the waterway.
But at this time, Liu Xian, who had already settled down, was sensing this nature with his heart, and looking at the aura of heaven and earth that existed in heaven and earth with his heart and eyes.
But suddenly, Liu Xian found that something was not right, because the whistling cold wind sound he heard in his ears seemed to be mixed with a sharp sound that was different from the sound of nature.
Is that......
Real arrows!
In Liu Xian's mental image, it seemed that something suddenly forcibly broke his image at this time, causing him to suddenly withdraw from his concentration.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a sharp arrow flying from a few dead leaves of reeds flying in the air, facing his door.
"There are bows and arrows! Be careful! ”
Liu Xian turned over directly backwards for the first time, and shouted a warning in his mouth as soon as possible.
"Whoosh!"
A powerful arrow roared.
The sound of porphyry was inserted in the place where Liu Xianfang was sitting.
Porphy!
Liu Xian turned over, but he turned out of the raft and fell directly into the water.
Whoosh!
This time, instead of one, an arrow came from the reeds around it.
"Young master!"
Zheng Feng had already reacted at this time, and immediately drew his sword, and blocked several bows and arrows that were fired at him. But when he saw that Liu Xian had fallen into the water, he didn't know Liu Xian's situation, so he couldn't help but scream angrily.
"Ahh
The old man holding the raft was not so lucky, he was hit by an arrow, fell into the water with a scream, and did not know whether he was alive or dead.
I don't know where the enemy is, but the arrows keep coming.
Zheng Feng was stumbling, and he was about to be killed by random arrows.
Tong!
Suddenly, there was an explosion in the water, and a large splash erupted.
But it was Liu Xianyun who made a splash in the water with Taiping True Qi.
"Uncle Zheng goes into the water!"
Liu Xian's timely cry reached Zheng Feng's ears.
Zheng Feng didn't hesitate, and jumped into the water with a tom sound.
The water is as cold as a knife, and jumping into the water is like being scraped by a cold knife.
Zheng Feng's body was so cold that his body was constricted, and the knife in his hand was almost unstable.
Who actually ambushed Liu Xian here?