【Sending troops to fight thieves】

"Let's go!" Wu Qiu Yi mounted his mount and shouted to the herald.

"Yes!" After receiving the order, several heralds rode in different directions, shouting incessantly: "The general has an order, leave immediately......

"Big brother, the army is about to start!" Guan Yu picked up the long knife and pulled the mount road.

"Okay, let's all get on the horse, everyone walks together, don't fall behind!" Liu Bei faced Guan Yu and the others, and then rode on his horse.

"Liu Xuande, Liu Xuande~" Suddenly heard someone calling Liu Bei's voice, Liu Bei looked around, and saw that Wu Qiu Yi was waving to Liu Bei not far away, signaling him to come over.

Liu Bei then beckoned, signaling that he understood, and he and Guan Yu and the others said, "I'll go to the front first, and you all take care of each other in the back!" The ambush battle in Youzhou made Liu Bei still feel uneasy, after all, he almost killed Liu Bei last time.

"General, I'm here!" Liu Bei rode his mount and ran over.

"Let's go together, talk to me along the way, and let your brothers walk behind!" Wu Qiu Yi pulled the reins, straightened the horse, gently patted the mount's belly with his foot, and marched forward.

"Yes, General, I wonder where our army will go this time?" Liu Bei tried his best to walk the position of his mount behind Wu Qiu Yi's mount.

"Oh, before the general asked me to recruit soldiers and horses, he didn't go anywhere with me, and I didn't go with you, I just received an order yesterday, the time is urgent, I only went to Xingyang with the lead troops, the Tun army is there, just beat the drum to help." Wu Qiu Yi held his head high and walked slowly.

Liu Bei thought to himself, He Jin's intentions are already obvious, although he uses Dong Zhuo Wang Yun and other forces in Liangzhou and Bingzhou, but he is not at ease with them, now Dong Zhuo is on the Lin Yuan, Ding Yuan is in Hanoi County, although these two places are in Sili, but not in Luoyang, Henan Yin, and several generals in the Kwantung are stationed in Chenggao, Xingyang and other Henan Yin, the distance is obvious, He Jin is also used to prevent Dong Zhuo Ding Yuan, and use the Kwantung forces to contain the forces of Liangzhou and the state, so that Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan will not dare to mess around.

"Yes, General."

"Report, General, we have arrived at the mouth of the river!" The herald came to report.

"Prepare to cross the river!"

"Yes!" The herald received the order and turned around and left.

"General, are we going to go by water?" Liu Bei asked.

"Well, the waterway is convenient!" Wu Qiu Yi said thoughtfully, and glanced at Liu Bei.

"Yes, General!" Liu Bei saw that the soldiers in front of him dismounted one after another, he looked at Wu Qiu Yi and was about to dismount, so he also dismounted, and everyone boarded the ships one after another, a total of ten big boats, and after all the boats were finished, they set sail north to Xuzhou.

Wuqiu Yi's army was crossing the river at this time, but seeing that the soldiers on the boat kept looking around, and kept whispering timidly to each other, Liu Bei walked in the crowd, perceiving this bad atmosphere, he approached Wuqiu Yi, approached Wuqiu Yi's ear, and said in a low voice: "General, the military spirit seems to be unstable." ”

Wu Qiu Yi listened to Liu Bei's words, his heart suddenly tightened, and secretly thought that this Liu Bei's observation ability was really good, and even this could be perceived, Wu Qiu Yi actually didn't know the problem of unstable military morale, and brought this group of Danyang soldiers to the north and left their hometown, who would want to go, the reason why he didn't tell them the destination of the army was to take them over first, and then they would have no choice. Such a troublesome thing, it could have been possible to recruit troops in the north, but Qiu Yi was also a last resort, Danyang was called the place of elite soldiers by the Han Dynasty, the people were fruitful, warlike and martial arts, noble strength, Danyang soldiers have strong physical capital, so people don't go there to recruit soldiers without school

At this time, Wu Qiu Yi frowned and said, "I know, report anything abnormal to me in time!" ”

"Yes, General!" Liu Bei then went to find Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

The army crossed the Yangtze River in the north, and everyone arrived at the territory of Xiapi in Xuzhou, after everyone got off the boat, lined up the array, and at this time Wu Qiu Yi said to everyone: "Everyone must be vigilant, the cluster is Xuzhou, the Qingxu Yellow Turban thieves are rampant in this area, be careful not to get separated, and do not leave the team, otherwise once they are captured by the thieves, they will be peeled and cramped, and there will be no place to bury." As soon as I said this, I saw that this group of Danyang soldiers suddenly raised their vigilance, and everyone stopped whispering, and they all focused on the surrounding woods and grass, not letting go of the slightest sound of wind and grass, for fear that when they would rush out a large number of thieves and arrest themselves.

Liu Bei saw that Wu Qiu Yi was really deliberate, first chose to cross the river north, these soldiers were on the boat to see where he ran, and then passed through the realm of Xuzhou, after the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao, in the last years of Emperor Zhongping of the Han Dynasty, the uprising of the remnants of the Yellow Turban broke out in the Qingxu region, and due to the turmoil of the court and the emptiness of the treasury, the imperial court was unable to send troops to exterminate again, so the Qingxu Yellow Turban thieves have been making waves in this area, and the people of Yangzhou next door can not know, Where do they dare to get out of the single place in this kind of area now, if they want to run, then they need to gather a large number of people, but this probability is also much higher.

Liu Bei thought to himself that Wu Qiu Yi was indeed a strategic person, he glanced at Wu Qiu Yi from time to time, and thought that there were indeed more ways than problems, but ordinary people didn't think about it.

Suddenly, he saw a scout in front of him galloping over on horseback, and said to Wu Qiu Yi: "Report to the general, I found an enemy army in front, the number is not large, about two hundred, it seems that the village has just been looted, and there are many women and young men in the car. ”

"What?" At this time, Liu Bei was surprised and said, in his impression, the Yellow Turban Army was just a peasant mass who rebelled just to survive like Chang Sheng before, and would never make a dirty act of looting villages, could it be that the world has changed, and the nature of the Yellow Turban Army has also changed, they have evolved from fighting for survival to today's thieves, which is really unexpected.

"Xuande, what do you think?" At this time, Wu Qiu Yi heard Liu Bei's question, so he asked casually.

"General, Liu Bei implores you to rescue these villagers in distress, these villagers fall into the hands of these thieves, men will become slaves, women will become **, we are the army of the imperial court, the purpose should be to protect the family and defend the country, to inherit the emperor's order, to calm the people, if the general does not give up, Liu Bei is willing to take the initiative to ask for help, give Liu Bei a hundred soldiers and horses, Liu Bei is willing to share the general's worries." Liu Bei took the initiative to ask.

Wu Qiu Yi thought to himself, he is worthy of being Lu Zhi's disciple, he has a heart, he cares about the people, and Lu Zhi's predecessors are similar to Ruci, he was raised as filial piety back then, and he doesn't know what he can do, but fortunately, Lu Zhi appreciates himself and recommends himself to the general, and it has been smooth sailing since then, since then, he has always been grateful to Lu Zhi's predecessors, Liu Bei has inherited Lu Zhi's beliefs and feelings well, if there is no Gongsun Zhan, Lu Zhi's predecessors should be more pleased. At this time, he said, "I will give you two hundred soldiers, go." ”

"Yes, Liu Bei will take the order, and he will not live up to the general's stop" After Liu Bei finished, he summoned Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Deran and Jian Yong, led two hundred troops, led by the scouts, and galloped away.

After galloping for a while, he finally saw the thief from a distance, Liu Bei slowed down, took a closer look, and found that the enemy army was disheveled, walking and twisting around, there was no military discipline at all, probably because these thief leaders in order to strengthen their power, there were only many people in their eyes, and they did not rectify military discipline, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, at this time Liu Bei said: "This battle, it is not difficult to defeat the enemy, the key is to save the hostages, what do you think?" ”

At this time, Zhang Fei said: "According to me, let's rush up directly and slaughter them one by one." ”

Jian Yong said: "This is not good, they are too close to the people, at the beginning they may have a purposeful resistance, and when they see that it is not our opponent in the back, they may be red-eyed, kill people when they see them, don't kill the people at that time." ”

Liu Deran said: "People here are not familiar with the place, and they can't use the right people at the right time, look at this ......."

Guan Yu saw that everyone was fine, and said at this time: "General, don't wait any longer, you see it's getting dark, wait for them to stop and we'll do it." ”

As soon as Zhang Fei heard Guan Yu's words, he immediately said: "Stop, when they arrive at the base camp, then don't even think about saving any of them." ”

Seeing that no one could come up with a good solution, Liu Bei called the scouts and asked, "How far are these thieves from their den of thieves?" ”

"Report to the general, there is no den of thieves within a radius of two hundred miles, and there is no city, they should have traveled a long way."

At this time, Liu Bei said: "Pass the order, the whole army will follow, and wait for the opportunity." ”

"This ......" Zhang Fei just thought, and when he saw Liu Bei's unquestionable tone, he choked and stopped talking.

"The Yellow Turban Rebellion, although it did not completely destroy the Han Dynasty, but it shook the foundation of the Han Dynasty, now the local power is bigger, thieves are rampant, and the imperial court is powerless to solve it, and the internal is still busy with political struggles, it is really like an old man full of diseases, dying old man!" Liu Bei held the sword tightly in his hand, he hated himself for having more than enough heart, but not enough strength.

The color was already dark, and the thief army really "set up camp" on the hillside, of course, the two hundred Rao team, they only set up more than 20 tents, and sat down to make food, Liu Bei saw this, so he said to everyone: "The opportunity is here, order everyone to tie a white cloth belt on their left arm, and don't cut their own people when the black light is blind." ”

"There aren't so many strips of white cloth!" Zhang Fei said in a low voice.

"If you don't have it, just tear a conspicuous cloth and tie it to your left hand, anyway, you can tell if it's your own person!"

"Yes, I'll go!"

When everything was ready, Liu Bei led the army to sneak in, constantly approaching the thief army, and when the time was ripe, he suddenly shouted: "Kill me." ”

With Liu Bei's order, Liu Guanzhang and the three of them took the lead in rushing over, everyone saw that the boss was so heroic, everyone was in high spirits, the thief army was still there burning food around the fire and laughing, suddenly saw a group of people rushing over and killed, they immediately got up to resist, the first few thieves were just about to raise their weapons to cut and kill, they were killed by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. In the darkness, only the light of the bonfire, with the sword light and sword shadows and constantly flickering, in this chaos, the thieves can't tell which is the enemy and which is the comrade, anyway, in order to survive for their own lives, they can cut down when they see someone.

The rebels became more and more brave under the command of Liu Bei, they could clearly distinguish the enemy and their comrades in the firelight, organized and disciplined, the thief army saw that it was not an opponent, so they all fled in the dark in a hurry, and the women and men in the car were also rescued by Liu Bei, because the color was black, Liu Bei ordered the soldiers not to continue the pursuit, and after saving these villagers, they were ready to return the same way.

"Big brother, do you want to take a break!"

"No, we've been out for a long time, I'm worried that General Wuqiu Yi will wait too long, it's not good!"

"Yes, I know, big brother gives it to you!" Guan Yu handed Liu Bei a piece of sermon and said: "Wipe it, your face is full of blood, and so are your clothes!" ”

"No, if I remember correctly, there's a water source on the way we passed, I'll just go there and wash it!" Liu Bei suddenly turned his head and said: "You go and walk with the people, talk to them, they are not lightly scared!" ”

"Yes!" After finishing it, Guan Yu turned around and walked towards the people.