When Lu Su returned to Dongcheng, Liu Ye sent someone to send Lu Su a letter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The letter said: "When today's heroes are flocking up, with your qualifications and talents, it is especially suitable for today's social situation. You better hurry back and pick up the old mother, and don't stay in Dongcheng. Now Zheng Bao has more than 10,000 soldiers in Chaohu and occupies a rich area, and many people in Lujiang County have gone to rely on him, not to mention us. Looking at his trend, there will be more people, and there is no chance to be lost, you should go there quickly. ”

Lu Su didn't understand what Liu Ye meant, he could see that Zheng Bao was not a great character, presumably Liu Ye could also see why Liu Ye wanted to go by himself?

He was in doubt, Liu Ye's messenger told Lu Su that the letter would pass through Zheng Bao's territory Chaohu, and Zheng Bao would find the letter, so he had to write like this, but Liu Ye's real meaning was to join forces with Lu Su, kill Zheng Bao, and then lead Zheng Bao's men and horses to defect to Wei Yan.

Why did Liu Ye join forces with Lu Su, because Lu Su was good at riding and shooting, and his archery skills were invincible in Huainan, Liu Ye wanted to join forces with Lu Su to kill Zheng Bao.

"Defect to Wei Yan?" For Lu Su, looking around, Yuan Shu was tyrannical and incompetent, Cao Cao was cruel and unkind, Lu Bu was rigid and unwise, Liu Biao was an old thief, and there were only two princes in the world who could take refuge, one was Sun Ce and the other was Wei Yan.

If Wei Yan hadn't been born, Sun Ce would be a good buddy of Lu Su's friend Zhou Yu, and he would be heroic and heroic, sweeping Jiangdong, with a great future, and it was very worthy of his attention!

But Wei Yan was born out of thin air, started with 300 people, successively defeated Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao, Cao Cao and other strong enemies, and his power was at its peak.

People are more popular than people, goods have to be thrown, Sun Ce turned out to be a great character, but compared with Wei Yan, too inferior, Wei Yan is now a general of Pingnan appointed by the imperial court, is an independent prince, and the defeated are all strong enemies like Liu Biao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu, Sun Ce is still only a lieutenant of Huaiyi, nominally a subordinate of Yuan Shu, and only Liu Xuan, Wang Lang and other weak people are defeated!

Of course, Lu Su wanted to defect to Wei Yan, but he was doing his grandmother's funeral and couldn't leave, so he had to give up.

Liu Ye did not have Lu Su's support, so he was ready to get rid of Zheng Bao with the strength of one person, and at this time, Wei Yan personally came to recruit him, so he first went with Wei Yan to meet Lu Su, and then get rid of Zheng Bao.

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At this time, Wei Yan once again told Lu Su and Liu Ye that there would be a drought and locust plague in Huainan in the autumn and winter of the second year of Jian'an (197).

Lu Su and Liu Ye's reactions were the same as everyone else's, they were unbelievable.

Wei Yan understood their reaction, after all, Huainan is full of treasures, there is the Yangtze River in the south, the Huai River in the north, and there are Chaohu Lake and Shaobi Lake in it, both of which are more than 800 miles in radius, with dense water networks and staggered river networks, how can there be a drought.

But looking at the history books, it is said that there was a great drought in Huainan in the winter of this year accompanied by a locust plague, and this drought and locust plague was a major catalyst for Yuan Shu's complete collapse, which was more terrible than being defeated by Cao Cao and Liu Bei!

In this way, it is very likely that this drought is too serious, and even the water level of Chaohu Lake and Shaobi Lake has dropped to the point that it cannot meet the irrigation needs of an 800-mile radius, so it has led to no harvest in Huainan!

Therefore, Wei Yan used all kinds of rhetoric to make Lu Su and Liu Ye believe that in the autumn and winter of this year, drought and locust plagues will definitely break out in Huainan.

Although Lu Su and Liu Ye are still a little skeptical, but this kind of disaster is definitely something that is not believed or not, and it will only be a little painful to go to migrate if they believe it, but if they don't believe it and stay here, hundreds of thousands of people may starve to death in the future!

Therefore, they supported Wei Yan to relocate the people of Huainan to the three counties of Yiyang!

As long as half of the people of Huainan have moved to the three counties of Yiyang, the land and grain in these three counties will be saturated, and in the future, Wei Yanbing will refer to Jingzhou, which is smooth and rainy!

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Before leaving Huainan, Wei Yan wanted to get rid of Zheng Bao, the thief of Chaohu!

On Chaohu Lake, there are more than a dozen bandits, mainly Zheng Bao, if they are not recruited now, by this winter, they will be scattered, and they will take refuge in Yuan Shu or Sun Ce!

Wei Yan can't cheapen Yuan Shu and Sun Ce for nothing!

And Chaohu Lake stretches for 800 miles, and Wei Yan's naval army is now on the Huai River, so it can't be transported at all, and it can't be encircled and suppressed by Zheng Bao and other thieves at all!

And Zheng Bao and other more than a dozen water thieves united with more than 20,000 people, and they are scattered in Chaohu Lake for eight hundred miles, which is difficult to eliminate in a short time, and Wei Yan can't delay in Huainan for too long!

Now there is only one way left, capture the thief and capture the king first, or decapitation action!

Executors, Liu Ye and Dian Wei!

Broadly speaking, Zheng Bao is now regarded as Yuan Shu's centaurs.

Four years ago, when Yuan Shu fled to Huainan, he was anxious to get the support of the local snakes in Huainan, and he did not fight steadily for all forces in Huainan, but mainly to persuade him to surrender, treat the counties and counties and forces leniently, and allow them to be autonomous.

And Yuan Shu's military focus is to repel Cao Cao and take Xuzhou, the military direction is to the north, he is not willing to spend time and energy to crusade against Zheng Bao, after all, eight hundred miles of Chaohu Lake, reeds, it is easy to defeat Zheng Bao, it is difficult to completely exterminate Zheng Bao, instead of spending energy to suppress Zheng Bao, it is better to temporarily seal him a miscellaneous general, so that Yuan Shu can concentrate on dealing with the northern enemy!

In this way, Yuan Shu sealed Zheng Bao a miscellaneous general.

When Yuan Shu fled from Shouchun to Lujiang, at the request of Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang, Zheng Bao allocated hundreds of small boats to help Yuan Shu escape.

But then, Zheng Bao regretted it, anyone can see that Yuan Shu is getting thinner and thriving, and Wei Yan is thriving, and it is really unwise for him to offend Wei Yan who is rising in the east because of Yuan Shu who saved the sun and the West Mountain.

Just when Zheng Bao didn't know whether to follow Yuan Shu or go to Wei Yanhao, Liu Ye came!

Prior to this, Zheng Bao repeatedly sent people to invite Liu Ye, wanting to use Liu Ye's prestige in Huainan to gather more than a dozen water thieves in Chaohu Lake, Liu Ye didn't want to be used by him, and kept evading.

This time, I took the initiative to come to the door!

Zheng Bao was overjoyed, and hurriedly went to a stronghold of Chaohu thieves to greet Liu Ye: "Liu Gongzi is here, Zheng is very honored!" ”

After Liu Ye saw Zheng Bao, he said sharply: "General Zheng's death is not far away, why is he still happy!" ”

Zheng Bao was shocked: "Why did Liu Gongzi say this? ”

Liu Ye sneered: "Yuan Shu in Huainan rampant conquest, fish and flesh people, the people are all disgusted, but General Zheng helped him escape from Chaohu, this is to help the abuse, now Wei Pingnan with 30,000 elite soldiers swept Yuan Shu's 100,000 army, lightly take Shouchun, the reorganization of Huainan elite soldiers more than 100,000 people, the soldiers are pointed, invincible, Your Excellency with 10,000 weak soldiers for Yuan Shu to block Wei Pingnan's more than 100,000 elites, is tantamount to a mantis arm as a car, not self-sufficient!" Act recklessly! ”