Chapter Twenty-Eight: Troops Aid East County

"Father, when the child had just returned from outside the city, he saw Lord Fan Xiang gathering soldiers and distributing grain and grass. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNow that there is no war in the territory of Chenliu, what is Lord Fan Xiang going to do with these thousands of soldiers? Wu Yi handed over the prey in his hand to the servants to take care of, and asked his father Wu Ke about the changes in the city.

Wu Ke, who was dealing with family affairs, put down the book in his hand: "I heard that it was the county guard of Dongjun who sent a troop transfer order to Fan Xiang, asking Fan Xiang to lead the defenders of Chen Liucheng to help Dongjun suppress the Taiping Dao moth thieves. ”

"What!! Fan Xiang Lieutenant wants to lead troops to Dongjun? Just because of a troop transfer order written by Qiao Mao? Qiao Mao is the county guard of Dongjun County, and Fan Xiang is the garrison of Chen Liujun, how can he Qiaomao have the right to transfer Fan Xiang to the captain to go to Dong County? If Fan Xiang led his troops to Dongjun, if the Yellow Turban Army from other places took advantage of the weakness, wouldn't Chenliu County fall into the flames of war like Dongjun? ”

When his mentor Chen Yu sent someone to Dongjun to persuade Qiao Mao to join forces with everyone to clean up Taiping Road, Qiao Mao mercilessly refused. Now Wu Yi asked Xu Shu Dianwei and Fan Xiang to clean up Chen Liu's Taiping Dao forces together, and it has only been a few days of comfortable life. As soon as he heard that Qiao Mao was going to help him suppress the thieves in Dongjun at this time, Wu Yi was naturally full of complaints.

"This is also a matter of no choice, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, if Lord Zhang Miao, the commander of our Chen Liujun Prefecture, is still alive, we can completely dismiss Lord Qiaomao's recruitment of Fan Xiang Lieutenant. However, Lord Zhang Miao died at the hands of Taiping Dao, and the current position of the county guard of Chenliu County is still vacant. Qiao Mao, as the former Yanzhou Assassin Shi and the current county warden of Dongjun, mobilized the assistance of soldiers and horses from neighboring counties in the name of the above official, which was completely feasible. ”

Although Wu Ke is not a person with outstanding wisdom, as the contemporary patriarch of the Chen Liuwu clan, he naturally understands the worries in his son Wu Yi's heart.

Now that the Yellow Turban Army is raging, Chen Liujun was able to maintain the original calm and peaceful during this period, all because of the early expulsion of the Taiping Dao forces in the territory. However, this does not mean that the stability of Chenliu County will not be destroyed, and the Yellow Turban Army, which is mostly composed of disaster victims and displaced people, is itself happy to plunder everywhere and take the opportunity to forcibly recruit people to expand their strength. If Fan Xiang brought the soldiers and horses originally used to defend Chenliu County to Dongjun, it would inevitably make the Yellow Turban Army, which had been around him, introduce the flames of war into Chenliu County.

For Fan Xiang, he is not a native of Chenliu County, he was originally from Xuzhou, and was recruited to Chenliu County by his friend Zhang Miao. Now that his friend Zhang Miao died at the hands of Taiping Dao, Fan Xiang, as a friend of Zhang Miao in front of him, his greatest wish at this moment is to kill more Taiping Taoist members for Zhang Miao to avenge him. Now that the Taiping Dao Banner Uprising has turned into the Yellow Turban Army, Fan Xiang believes that whether he is a military general of the imperial court or a close friend of Zhang Miao during his lifetime, he should participate in the battle to suppress the Yellow Turban Army in private and public affairs, instead of staying in Chenliu County and coveting comfort.

Because of this, after Fan Xiang received the transfer order from Dongjun Qiaomao, no matter how much the local clans and people in Chenliu County tried their best to keep him, he couldn't change Fan Xiang's determination. In addition to leaving 1,000 sergeants to guard Chenliu County, the remaining nearly 3,000 horse infantry sergeants will rush to the Dongjun battlefield with him today.

Fan Xiang's decision to send troops to aid Dongjun completely disrupted Wu Yi's plan. Originally, Wu Yi planned to take advantage of his foresight and ensure that his family's property in Chenliu would be affected by the war in this Yellow Turban Rebellion. Secondly, when the Han Dynasty sent troops to quell the rebellion, if he could get a little merit in the next counterinsurgency campaign, he could use the interpersonal relationship of his mentor Chen Yu to operate himself to Luoyang to develop.

Although Luoyang was in turmoil in the next few years, he had both the relationship between his mentor Chen Yu and his uncle Wu Kuang's relationship in the General's Mansion. With his own ability and spending some money, it shouldn't be difficult to buy a position that Chen Liujun guarded. And as long as he gets to the position of Chen Liu's county guard before the death of the great general He Jinzuo, then even if Dong Zhuo's Great Demon King still enters Luoyang, he can take his uncle back to Chen Liu's development.

The most important thing in his plan is to ensure that the Wu family's property in Chen Liu is not damaged by the Yellow Turban Army. The Taiping Dao forces that worked so hard to expel Zhang Jiao before were also taking precautions to ensure that there would not be a large-scale Yellow Turban Army in Chenliu. Only by ensuring the normal operation of the family business can there be sufficient funds to pave the way for the future position of Chen Liu's county guard, and at the same time, it is also to ensure that Chen Liu's Wu family will not be greatly damaged in the Yellow Turban Rebellion as in history.

But now Wu Yi is very helpless, although he has ambitions and grand plans for the future. But at this moment, the power in his hands is still too weak, no matter how meticulous his plan is, just a letter from Dongjun Taishou can easily break his layout.

Fan Xiang took thousands of soldiers into Dongjun, as long as the generals of the Yellow Turban Army around Chenliujun were not fools, they would know that Chenliujun's garrison was unprecedentedly weak at the moment. Even if the Yellow Turban Army on the Yingchuan side can't take care of Chen Liu's side for the time being, the Yellow Turban Army that was originally driven to Dongjun will inevitably return to Chenliu County, after all, compared to Dongjun, which is already full of corpses, Chenliu County, which has not yet experienced a major war, is the best target for plunder.

And as long as those Yellow Turban Army who took the lead in entering Chenliu County to plunder taste the sweetness, the rest of the Yellow Turban Army around them will swarm and burn Chenliu County, which lacks defense, into a white ground. As the so-called skin does not exist, the hair will be attached? Once Chenliu County was captured by the Yellow Turban Army, it had grown into a family second only to the Wei family, and in a blink of an eye, it would become a small family that could not be ranked in the third rate, and even the position of the contemporary patriarch would be transferred to Uncle Wu Kuang in Luoyang by the family elders.

"My father has sent someone to inform the family shops in the rest of the county, and overnight to collect money, grain, and goods to stay in the city of Chen for temporary shelter. It's just that most of our Wu clan are in the casting industry, and most of the ore and smelting furnaces are heavy objects that are difficult to handle. Time was urgent, and my father asked them to bury these things on the spot, but I don't know how many of them can be preserved after the looting of those Yellow Turban thieves. ”

The biggest reason why Chen Liuwu's clan has grown rapidly in the past ten years is that through Wu Kuang's relationship with the great general He Jin, some unimportant military artifacts were handed over to Chenliu Wu's family. Every year, this part of the income alone reaches 70% of the family's total income, and the grain harvested from some of the family's estate land is only less than 20% of the family's annual income after being sold. Most of the remaining 10% was earned by caravans participating in the sale of goods from the north and south. And once those smelting furnaces built with a lot of money and the ore purchased with huge sums of money were taken away or destroyed by the Yellow Turban Army, the chances of the decline of the Chen Liuwu clan were a sure thing.

"It's a foregone conclusion that Fan Xiang will come to the aid of Qiaomao, but there will be no Yellow Turban Army attacking Chenliu in a few days, and we must not waste these few days." Wu Yi was unwilling to watch his family suffer like this, even if it was difficult, he couldn't just sit idly and wait for the Yellow Turban Army to attack.