Danyang County Governing Office, Liyang City.

It is the spring season in the south of the Yangtze River, but this place is full of depression.

On the streets of the city, which were already quite old, one or two old men who were unclothed and hobbling by chance walked by, but they were all carrying heavy wooden plows, dragging step by step, and their faces full of wind and frost had a wooden and tired look, only the children who were wearing clothes full of patches that could not distinguish the colors, jumped and followed behind them, and on their little faces that did not know sorrow, there was a sweet smile, and they sensibly used their lotus-like arms to help one of the old men to help the plow. Only at this time, the old man's eyes as indifferent as dead ashes will flash a little brightness, grin at the shriveled lips with only one or two loose teeth left, squeeze out a kind smile, turn his head and look at the old man full of envy around him, revealing a little bitter pride.

"Get out of the way! Move! Old thing, blocking the official duties of the masters, don't you want to live anymore! Several stout officials, rudely pushed aside the ancestors and grandchildren who did not occupy the road, raised their eyebrows, and wanted to fight, but they were finally pulled by their colleagues, and then they stopped their hands stupidly, and spat in disgust at the old man who fell to the ground, as if he was protecting the young boy full of hatred under his arms, swayed his body, held a roll of yellow silk, and walked towards the city gate.

"These goddamn scumbags!" Seeing that the errand officer was getting farther and farther, several old men on the side helped the old man up, looked left and right to see no one, and then lowered his head and scolded a few words in a low voice, and helped each other away.

"Emperor Zhong has an order, and now there are thieves from the Han State who have come to invade our land. Omit my people, all my people, thirteen years old and above. Those under the age of 50 should have the ambition to join the army and serve the country! Serve the Zhong family! Seal the wife and the shadow, and glorify the ancestors! ”

"Emperor Zhong has an order, and now there is a ......"

The messenger was attentive, pasted a yellow silk at the gate of the city, which was now empty, and took turns to read it loudly over and over again in the empty streets of the city, not knowing who to listen to.

"Father. But I can't do the work! Danyang, a ghost place, has a small population, and it was forcibly abducted a few times ago! It is said that the person surnamed Li said. Their emperor's decree said that we should recruit 1,000 men and send them to the front within ten days, otherwise we would go to see them, and this was only after they begged for mercy and grace! But now in this Danyang County. The woman in the house had no clothes. Tanaka is full of old and weak, where is there still strong to recruit? At the beginning, my father and son were also the No. 1 people in Jiangdong, how did they end up like this now? In the military camp of Liyang City, Yan Yu complained to his Lao Tzu Yan Baihu and spit bitter water, with a look of disgruntle, and said.

"Heh, what's the hurry!" Yan Baihu was not angered by his precious son's words, and seemed to be unmoved by Yan Yu's words. The old god was still sitting on the soft couch, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand. It is also a relish to see.

"My father was originally a hero, even if he was in trouble, he should be looking for an opportunity to make a comeback, is it difficult to be at ease to be a dehou of the Zhong family dynasty of this Laoshi Zizhong?" Whether you are literate or not, you have taken down all the books, who are you bluffing? Yan Yu saw his father's perfunctory intentions, sat beside Yan Baihu with a smile and laughter, and said dissatisfiedly.

"Whew...... You, you! Yan Baihu knew that he couldn't hide his precious son, so he threw Shujian beside the couch, with a faint smile on his face, and said: "Yu'er, do you know why my father took my troops on the Yuan Highway and put my father and son under house arrest, can you still deal with them calmly?" ”

"This ......, could it be the ploy of my father to send the news to your person before, no, our soldiers who have settled down have been crossed by Yuan Shu, how can it ...... Belch...... I hope my father will make it clear! Yan Yu heard Yan Baihu's question, and subconsciously said the words that were worried in his heart, but seeing Yan Baihu's smiling face, he didn't know which point he said wrong, so he lowered his head and asked.

"Yu'er, look at this situation, whether it is Emperor Liu or Emperor Yuan, it will not last long. Remember, if you want to survive in these troubled times, you don't have to rely too much on anyone! You're on your own! Yan Baihu's rough face flashed with a bit of wisdom, and he said pointedly: "The forces that sent us the news, although my father still can't be sure who they are, he can't escape from those families in the Central Plains after all!" Their meaning is that their father understands it tightly, whether it is to raise self-respect or to muddy the waters even more, in order to cover up the news that the jade seal of the country has changed hands, it is very important to them, but for you and my father and son, why not an opportunity? ”

"Father means that we are going to do something about it this time? But the strength ...... "A character who once won half of Jiangdong, how could he be a man with a brain full of muscles?" After Yan Yu listened to Yan Baihu's words, he seemed to have realized something, but he always couldn't grasp the point, and approached Yan Baihu and said.

"Troops?" Yan Baihu looked at the southeast with a mocking look, looked at the southeast direction, and sneered: "Don't you also know that in Liyang City now, there is not one in ten young and strong, just these old, weak, sick and disabled, and the more than ten soldiers in the government office, vainly saying that there are still 500 people in us, even you and me, father and son, what are you afraid of?" Besides, is it a father who can be persuaded to invest all his wealth in a few words? Even if someone from Qin came in person, his father would have his own way to deal with it, not to mention, we still have a strange army that is not used! ”

"Does my father want to take over the city and stand on his own? That Qin Xu has a very strong idea of Yangzhou, and Danyang is ...... here, "Yan Yu really can't keep up with his father's street photography, and I don't understand how Yan Baihu has such a soft spot for Danyang, a place with poor mountains and bad waters!" And he doesn't seem to be afraid of the army of Qin Xu, who is rumored to be retreating even Sun Ce.

"Yu'er, you don't need to know about this matter now, Haosheng will appease the five hundred soldiers left by the Emperor of the Zhong family to you and my father and son, and at the same time, you must also settle down Li Feng and Han Yin! In the past few days, as soon as the news from the front comes, it will be an opportunity for you and my father and son to regain their foothold! Yan Baihu stroked his short beard proudly and commanded.

"No!" Yan Yu originally came to ask Yan Baihu to solve his doubts, but he didn't expect to end up being even more confused, and seeing that his father didn't mean to talk deeply, he had to promise to leave.

Just when Yuan Shu and Yan Baihu thought that they had a plan, Qin Xu, who stirred up this troubled water, was taking a trip to Xuchang this time, and Liu Xuan, who was renamed Yangzhou Mu by the Son of Heaven, held a grand "entry ceremony".

Although he instinctively captured or killed Sun Ce that day, Qin Xu unexpectedly put Sun Ce back unscathed, which made Liu Xuan's boss unhappy, and even did not hesitate to "self-destruct his reputation" and revealed a bit of his own "ugly things" to blackmail Guo Jia, but Qin Xu still saw that Liu Xuan and Guo Jia had some unclear relationship after all, and the "generous" did not care about Liu Xuan's offense that day, and still according to the previous agreement, Sun Ce forcibly suppressed the public opinion, and the vacated Qu Acheng was returned to Liu Xuan. Liu Xuan's face only improved a little after suffering for several days, but after inspecting the Qu'a Mansion Treasury that was still abundant before his family went out, he saw that the treasury that was originally full of rice and grain, and the treasury full of gold and silver was now empty, and there was not even a mouse.

"Zhong Ming, this time Yuan Shutun soldiers Xiao Pass, the intention to defend to the death is very big! Although Xiao Pass is not well-known, it is not as good as the Tiger Prison, Bishui and other passes, but it is also built on the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it seems that it is time to use the chess pieces laid by Wenhe! Since that day when Liu Miao was called out in public about his own affairs, Guo Jia was indeed depressed for "a while", for more than half an hour, and then he seemed to be nothing, but it made Qin, who had the intention to gossip about Guo Shuai's affair with the two Liu women, as if his fist had been punched into the cotton. This time, Guo Jia took the news from the shadow under Jia Xu's command and hurried to see Qin Xu.

"It's better not to use it for the time being, it's a chess piece that I laid out when I wanted to balance the relative balance of forces in Yangzhou and used it all by me, but this chess piece is an idle chess, if I don't beat Yuan Shu to a pain, it is estimated that the chess piece will not act rashly!" Qin Xu said with a smile. Although Yangzhou now has three forces of Sun Ce, Liu Miao and Yuan Shu, who is about to be defeated without suspense, because of Qin Xu's harmony, but this time Qin Xu is "on order" to clear out Yuan Shu's rebels, and if he wants to put a reasonable end to the matter of passing on the jade seal of the country, he will naturally not be able to leave Yuan Shu. But in this case, there is only one Sun Ce and Liu Miao in Yangzhou fighting each other, and it is too easy to distinguish the winner from the loser. Although Sun Ce has few soldiers, and because of Lu Bujun's "face", he may be able to tolerate Liu Yu for a while, but Zhou Yu under Sun Ce is not a vegetarian, and the three Liu Yu will not be Zhou Yu's opponents, so Qin Xu is very "enthusiastic" to help Yuan Shu, who also has no good impression of Liu Miao and Sun Ce, to find a successor. Let Yangzhou, which occupies almost one-sixth of the entire territory of the Han Dynasty, be more lively before Lu Bu's army has the strength to swallow it all! At the same time, it also serves as a wake-up call for the surrounding forces that also want to covet Yangzhou. Therefore, a hearty battle against Yuan Shu became a prerequisite for all this.

"Well, that's fine, Yuan Shu probably couldn't have imagined that Danyang, which he thought had the power of Xiao Pass and Fu Pass, was enough to resist the attack of our army and Sun Ce's army, but it was within the Xiao Wall after all." After Guo Jia listened to what Qin Xu said, he did not quarrel because Qin Xu's words were different from his own, but nodded in agreement,

"Fengxiao is really broad-minded, Qin admires, Yangzhou, this time we are bound to win! ......" Qin Xu was in a good mood when he saw that Guo Jia actually agreed with his suggestion, and he looked very admiring Guo Jia's generosity, and said with a smile, but after a change of words, he suddenly asked: "I don't know where the two Miss Liu, who have a deep relationship with Fengxiao, in Liu Yangzhou's mouth, are now?" How does Rong Xu worship his sister-in-law and wife......" (to be continued......