Chapter 33: Sun Xia
Zhou Cang said a word to Zhang Mancheng again.
Zhang Mancheng, who was in anger, heard Zhou Cang's words, and then looked at Liu Zheng's body again.
Zhang Mancheng only then began to really look at Liu Zheng.
But it's just a glance, and I don't pay too much attention to it at all.
"You're stationed in Ye County? Yexian County is quite far away from here, why don't you come to Wancheng? ”
"Envoy, it's not that we don't want to come to Wancheng, but Ye County is relatively close to Runan County, and we are temporarily staying in Ye County, also to prevent the officials and troops in Runan from turning to Nanyang's side, once we receive the news, we can report to you in advance."
On the way, Liu Zheng had already thought of a countermeasure, so when Zhang Mancheng asked him, he immediately answered.
Zhang Mancheng didn't ask more questions about Liu Zheng's answer, then nodded and stopped asking.
"Just your thousands of soldiers and horses will definitely not be the opponent of the official army, so let's send another 30,000 people over to defend Ye County with you."
"When I finish the affairs of Nanyang County, then I will move eastward and level Runan County!"
Zhang Mancheng was silent for a moment, and after thinking about the situation, he began to say a word to Liu Zheng and Zhou Cang.
And when Liu Zheng heard Zhang Mancheng's words, he had roughly guessed that Zhang Mancheng did not directly take his own people to Runan now, and there must have been other things that dragged him down.
Curious, Liu Zheng asked.
"Envoy, what's going on here in Nanyang?"
"It's nothing, it's just that I recently got the news that someone has succeeded to the position of Nanyang Taishou, and at this time he is uniting the Jingzhou Thorn History, and plans to come over to suppress me and others, hmph, more than 10,000 people want to compete with my 200,000 army, it's simply beyond my strength."
Zhang Mancheng's expression was indifferent, and after hearing Liu Zheng's inquiry, he didn't hide anything, and directly told Liu Zheng about the worries in his heart.
And after Liu Zheng listened to Zhang Mancheng's words, his expression immediately tightened.
If he remembers correctly, Zhang Mancheng died in this crackdown in history.
At that moment, Liu Zheng hurriedly reminded Zhang Mancheng.
"Envoy, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, why do you need to do it, leave it to me, I will take people and destroy them!"
Although Zhang Mancheng does not take the new Nanyang Taishou in his eyes, after all, he is an official army, how they will act, and the suppression of Nanyang County will still attract Zhang Mancheng's attention.
But Liu Zheng said that he would hand over that wave of people to him to deal with, and Zhang Mancheng felt that Liu Zheng was joking.
"Hehe, I'll leave it to you, boy, I'm afraid you don't know the strength of the official army, right?"
"Although they only have more than 10,000 men, even if we have 50,000 people, we may not be the opponents of the official army, after all, those officers and soldiers are well-equipped, and the villagers under them are all burly and strong men who are recruited, and they are much more powerful on the battlefield than those soldiers and horses under our people."
"I just heard Zhou Cang say that you only have 7,000 people under your command now, and you want to defeat more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, I'm afraid you're dreaming."
Zhang Mancheng didn't believe that Liu Zheng had this ability at all.
Liu Zheng saw Zhang Mancheng say this, so he didn't say much, he didn't have the idea of slapping his swollen face to rush the fat man, since Zhang Mancheng was unwilling to let him participate in the war, then Liu Zheng would just kindly remind him.
"That envoy, when you fight with those officers and soldiers, don't go to the battlefield yourself. Remember. ”
"Joke, what kind of system does it become if you don't go to the battlefield in person?"
Zhang Mancheng flicked his sleeves and asked Liu Zheng to stop talking.
In addition, at this time, Zhang Mancheng was still depressed by the defeat of Bocai, so Liu Zheng did not continue to say anything.
The first meeting between the two sides broke up unhappily.
Zhang Mancheng planned to send 30,000 people over to assist Liu Zheng in garrisoning Ye County, but Liu Zheng did not refuse.
After all, there are people to help, so why wouldn't he do it.
When Liu Zheng returned to Ye County with Zhou Cang and Xu You, the people sent by Zhang Mancheng also followed.
The leader is called Sun Xia.
This guy is also one of the more famous commanders in the Yellow Turban Army.
If Liu Zheng is not mistaken, after Zhang Mancheng's death, Zhao Hong succeeded to the throne, and after Zhao Hong's death, it was this Sun Xia who succeeded to the throne.
It can be said that Sun Xia is the number three person in the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
"Brother Sun Xia, thank you for coming over to help, this place in Ye County is more important, if there is a loss, the official army can pass through Ye County and directly kill Wancheng, so I am stationed here."
Although Sun Xia was sent by Zhang Mancheng and was not familiar with Liu Zheng, as a colleague, he still had to give the other party some good looks.
Sun Xia is different from Zhang Mancheng, Sun Xia is more amiable and does not have the arrogance of Zhang Mancheng.
As soon as he saw Liu Zheng's greeting, he immediately greeted him with a smile and talked with Liu Zhengpan.
"Where is it, it is precisely because the envoy knows the importance of Ye County that he will send me over to assist you in guarding Ye County."
"Brother Sun, don't be too nervous, I have already sent scouts to inquire about the news near Yexian County to Runan City, once there is a movement of the official army, I will definitely be able to know it quickly. ”
Liu Zheng is not worried about Ye County, but Zhang Mancheng's life, after all, if history does not change, soon Zhang Mancheng will die in the battle with Qin Jie, so Liu Zheng is still quite worried about Zhang Mancheng and wants to know how Zhang Mancheng died.
Since he didn't know the situation in Nanyang County yet, he had to ask Sun Xia for news at this time.
"Brother Sun, do you know what happened in Nanyang County now? Why did I say that when I went to see the envoy before, there was an army of officers who were going to attack Nanyang County. ”
Hearing Liu Zheng ask about this, Sun Xia was also clearer, and immediately explained to Liu Zheng.
"Didn't we capture Nanyang County a long time ago? After killing the previous Taishou and a number of officials of Nanyang County, the imperial court immediately sent a new person to inherit the position of Taishou of Nanyang County. This person is Qin Jie, the governor of Jiangxia County. ”
"That Qin Jie is quite courageous, and before he took office, he united with Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, and recruited Xiangyong to form 10,000 elite soldiers. Fight all the way from Jiangxia to Nanyang, intending to exterminate us. However, our army is not vegetarian, and now it is still confronting it in Jiangxia, and both sides have their own victories and defeats. “
"But I heard that the envoy plans to lead all the soldiers and horses to fight with those Qin Jie in two days, and take advantage of the situation to exterminate these hateful officers and soldiers, and then go to Runan County to crusade against those guys who killed Bocai."
Sun Xia had already stopped Zhang Mancheng from talking about what happened in Runan City, and when he heard Liu Zheng ask again, he told Liu Zheng about the things he knew.
After Liu Zheng heard this, his expression became gloomy.
Sure enough, it was Qin Jie.
It seems that Zhang Mancheng's death is difficult to avoid.