Emperor Liu Xiejian of the Han Dynasty was in the fourth year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info (199 A.D.) ）

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the gentry and officials of Gangneung, who had just finished celebrating the Yuan Day, had not yet reacted to what was going on, but found that the flag had changed at the head of Gangneung City. Although he still holds the crimson banner of the Great Han, the commander's banner has been replaced by a sweet character.

While the gentry in the city were wondering, the soldiers in the city, accompanied by a group of sergeants, beat gongs and drums on the main roads in the city to announce the news of Gangneung's change of ownership, and strictly ordered the city to be closed for three days, and all personnel were not allowed to enter and exit, otherwise they would be dealt with as rebels.

Jiangling County Ling Huo Du, Jingzhou engaged in Zhonglang Yi, Gong Cao engaged in Wang Cang, and the southern lieutenant Huo Jun of Nanjun four people, Huo Jun was the Huo Du brothers and their back Liu defected to Han Lie, which made Jiangling self-defeating and was easily occupied by Gan Ning.

When Han Lie and Liu Biao formed an alliance, Cheng Yu came to Jingzhou twice, and got acquainted with the two of them, and then after many contacts, coupled with Han Lie's current status as a general, and his prestige, the two finally made a choice.

Although the Huo Du brothers are not from the Jingzhou family, Huo Du has a meritorious contribution to Liu Biao, if it were not for Huo Du's humble background, with his merits and ability, he could at least serve as a county guard. The Huo family is not a prestigious family in Jingzhou or even Nanjun, but it is not a small family in Zhijiang, with more than 1,000 people in the past.

And Huo Du was the first to lead hundreds of children of the family to Liu Biao's account when Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou, and in the subsequent war of Liu Biao's pacification of Jingzhou, he made many military exploits, but when the credit was evaluated after the war, most of his merits were erased, and in the end he only won the small officials such as the captain of Jiangling East.

Huo Du, who is down-to-earth and hard-working, did not complain discouraged, so he went to take office, so he did it for three years, in the position of the eastern lieutenant, Huo Du was rated as the first political performance in Jingzhou for three consecutive years, and it was this prominent political achievement that Huo Du was able to be promoted to the post of Jiangling County Lieutenant, in the position of Jiangling County Lieutenant, he worked for five years, and only last year because his younger brother was valued by Liu Cousin's nephew Wenpin, when he was promoted to the southern lieutenant of Nanjun, he was recommended by Wenpin to serve as the commander of Jiangling County, responsible for staying in Jiangling City.

His younger brother Huo Junzi Zhong Miao, when he was a teenager, he participated in the war with Huo Du with the army, and participated in many counterinsurgency wars in Jingzhou, and won the appreciation of Wenpin, but because Zhang Yun disliked his humble background, he never agreed to Wenpin's recommendation for his position as Sima of other departments, and finally he took the position of military candidate, and was in the Wenpin Army for several years, until the battle of Changsha last year, because of meritorious service injuries, and Wenpin's repeated statements, he was able to take over the post of Nanjun Southern Lieutenant.

The reason why the Huo Du brothers agreed to choose to submit to Han Lie this time is that Cheng Yu's sentence of a general is meritocracy, regardless of the status of the gatekeeper, all good talents will be hired. It can be said that with the merits and abilities of the Huo Du Huo Jun brothers, it is obvious that they should get a higher position to display their ambitions.

Gangneung County Governor's Office. As the chief of the army under Han Lie's account, although Cheng Yu is not considered high in terms of position, as a strategist that Han Lie relies on, his identity and status at this moment undoubtedly represent Han Lie.

So under the humility of everyone, Cheng Yu sat on the throne, but Cheng Yu was also proud of this, and he maintained a consistent humble attitude, and said slowly: "The treasury of Jiangling has accumulated the wealth of Nanjun and even the four counties of Jingnan for many years, and there are 500,000 stones of grain and grass alone, and the coins under the treasury have even rusted, which is estimated to be at least hundreds of millions, plus countless cloths, silks, gold, silver and jewelry. ”

"This is one of them, and secondly, there are 30,000 weapons of various kinds in the armor arsenal, 200,000 arrows, and 30,000 pairs of armor, which means that these weapons and armor are enough to arm an elite army of 30,000."

"Whew." When Cheng Yu's words fell, everyone's breath couldn't help but become short, even Huo Du, the county commander, didn't expect that there would be so many items in the treasury in Jiangling City. Jiangling is the seat of the southern county, and the treasury in the city is also the treasury of the southern county, and the orders of these treasury are all people from the Cai family or Liu Biao, and Huo Du, the county commander, naturally has no right to interfere with it, so he is not clear about the specific situation.

"Lord Cheng, there are so many important materials in Jiangling, I'm afraid that the lord didn't expect it, what should I do next, please make a decision?" Although Gan Ning and Gao Shun only brought 3,000 men and horses into the city this time, but now with the more than 1,000 people under Huo Jun's subordinates, as well as more than 1,000 people under Huo Du's tent, and 5,000 troops under his troops, he is not worried that he will not be able to hold it, but for such a big matter, he also understands that he obviously can't be the master.

"The lord has already made a decision on this matter, that is, not to publicly support us for the time being, and now all of us are actually prisoners in your hands, at your disposal, which is why I asked you to order a ban on the city for three days, and then Huo Jun led three hundred remnants of soldiers to go to Xiaoling to defect to Wenpin, and then spread the news of the fall of Jiangling, which then caused panic in the entire Jingzhou."

Cheng Yu confidently said this, paused, and said: "General Zhong Miao does not need to feel guilty, the general once commented that under Liu Biao's account, a person who can be called a famous general must be hired, so the general sent you to the Wen recruitment army, in fact, when it is necessary, to persuade General Wen to submit to the general, I believe that with the wisdom of the general, and the courage of General Wen, it will be able to be crowned a marquis in the future. ”

Huo Jun has always been loyal, so he also respects Wen Ping, who has the grace of knowing him, and when he first heard that Cheng Yu arranged for him to persuade him to surrender and frame Wen Ping, he was somewhat resistant, but after listening to Cheng Yu's words, he couldn't help but suddenly wake up, and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Cheng, I will lead my brothers and immediately go to Xiaoling to join General Wen." ”

"Zhong Miao must remember that only saying that there is an internal response in the city will cause the city to be broken, and you must not say it in detail, so as not to be recognized by Wen Ping." Cheng Yu was worried that Huo Jun was young and vigorous, so he hurriedly instructed repeatedly.

"Whoa." Huo Jun hurriedly responded humbly.

In the camp of Han Lie's army in Chibi, when Jiangling was breached by Gan Ning, Diao Chan, who was mixed in the city, released Sparrowhawk and brought him back the news, and then Han Lie asked Sparrowhawk to bring back the news to Diao Chan, and asked him to inform Cheng Yu of the next arrangement, which led to Cheng Yu's deployment in the city.

In order to cooperate with the military operation in Gangneung, Han Lie sent Tai Shici to lead the 2,000 cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to march in the direction of Wulin, the purpose of which was naturally to approach Gangneung and assist in the war in Gangneung when necessary.

Immediately afterwards, Han Lie sent Lu Su, led Zhu Huan, Dong Xi, and two generals, led 20,000 naval troops, and began to march towards Luo County, the gateway to Changsha, to respond to the attack of Zhang Yun of Liu Biao's department on the front line of Huarong.

Huo Jun rushed to the Wenpin army in Xiaoling on the night of the second day after the fall of Jiangling, as the former general of the army, the soldiers and horses he commanded this time were 10,000 horses, and the opponent he guarded was Sun Ce's general Han Dang.

When he saw Huo Jun, Wen Ping was surprised, and when he heard Huo Jun tell the news that Jiangling was broken by the Jinfan thief Gan Ning, he couldn't help but ask in shock: "Didn't you say that Gan Ning rebelled in Jiangxia and had been exterminated?" Where did he get his soldiers and horses to break through Gangneung, which had a strong city defense? ”

"I don't know about this matter, it is said that Gan Ning sent people to lurk in the east gate in advance, because of the response of the internal response, so as to capture the city in one fell swoop, I also saw the opportunity quickly, so I was able to escape." When Huo Jun said this, he couldn't help wiping away his tears and said: "Please also ask the general to borrow my 3,000 soldiers and horses to rescue my brother, now that my brother has fallen into the city, he will inevitably encounter the poisonous hands of Na Gan Ning later, and please save my brother." ”

"Well, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run, Zhong Miao will wait for a while, I will give General Liu Pan at the mouth of the oil river an order, if I get General Liu's military order, I can withdraw the army, otherwise I will withdraw from the army without authorization, that is to flee the battlefield, and the responsibility is not small." Seeing this, Wen Ping had no choice but to comfort Huo Jundao.

The fast horse sent by Wenpin returned to the mouth of the Youjiang River at dawn, and received the news from Wenpin, Liu Pan couldn't help but be shocked, and then summoned his generals to report the news of the fall of Jiangling.

Liu Pan's army sometimes has the general Huang Zhong, as well as the former Changsha Taishou Han Xuan, the military captain Yang Ling, and the strategist Xi Zhen in the account.

"Jiangling is the place where the grain is tuned, now I have tens of thousands of troops in front of me, the grain and grass transported last time, and most of the food has been eaten, if the follow-up grain and grass can not keep up, the grain and grass in the army will not continue in less than half a month, and the enemy will not attack, our army will inevitably be defeated, for this occasion, we can strictly order Wen Ping to give up Xiaoling, lead the army to garrison the mouth of the oil river, and return to Jiangling, while the enemy is not firmly established, it is the best policy to recapture Jiangling." Xi Zhen's character Wenxiang, this person is from the Xiangyang Wang family, this time Liu Pan went on the expedition, and hired him to serve as the head of the army, to give advice to Liu Pan, and to coordinate military affairs.

"What do you think of Brother Hansheng?" Liu Pan hesitantly glanced at Huang Zhong, the general he had always been convinced.

"If there is no food and grass, the soldiers and horses will inevitably be self-defeating, this is common sense. However, this time to attack Sun Ce, Liu Yuanjun appointed the general as the deputy general, Zhang Yun as the main general, I think that the general should have a prophet of him, if he has no better way, we will withdraw the army is appropriate. "Huang Zhong, who is at the bottom, is now only in his early forties, with a body of nearly eight feet, he is good at shooting, not only good at swordsmanship and horse fighting, but also has the bow skills of piercing Yang in 100 steps, so he has won Liu Pan's trust and respect.

"What does Han Taishou think?" Although Liu Pan had made a decision in his heart, in order to show respect, he asked Han Xuan.

Han Xuan, as the former Changsha Taishou, lost Changsha County, if it wasn't for Liu Pan to take him in, he would have been questioned by Liu Biao, for this reason, he was also quite low-key to Liu Pan, who sheltered him, and never advocated causing trouble, and replied when he saw the inquiry: "Xuan thinks General Huang's words are very appropriate." ”

"Someone is coming, immediately send someone to Huarong to inform General Zhang and tell him that the military situation is urgent, and make a decision quickly." Liu Pan is a modest person and does not have the frame of a disciple of a family, so he has a prestige in the army and is also loved by grassroots soldiers.

As Liu Biao's clan, he was humble in Jingzhou and did not like to cling, although he was ranked as a lieutenant general, but he had been leading troops outside, and had participated in the counterinsurgency in Jingnan many times over the years.

On the contrary, Zhang Yun, who is also the nephew of Liu Cousin, has been prosperous in official fortune over the years, and even married the daughter of Cai Mao's brother, who is good at flattery, and so luxurious, and has a good relationship with Cai Mao's family and other Jingxiang families, so he was trusted by Liu Biao and was able to command the 60,000 naval generals in Jingzhou.

For this reason, Liu Pan and Zhang Yun also have a lot of discord on weekdays, Liu Pan looks down on Zhang Yun's villainous face, and Zhang Yun looks down on Liu Pan, the martial artist erection, this time to conquer Changsha, the reason why Jingzhou soldiers and horses are divided into three places is also because of the discord between the two.

Liu Pan's idea was originally to send a surprise army into Wuling, and attack Changsha from the flank with the soldiers and horses of Wuling County, while the main force attacked the mouth of the Youjiang River, forming a two-sided attack.

However, Zhang Yun vetoed Liu Pan's deployment, but adopted the tactics of dividing troops to hold on, that is, to wait for the attack, and passively greeted Sun Ce. As a result, Sun Ce's plan to attack many times in an attempt to seize Wuling and even cross the river was aborted, and finally became a stalemate between the two sides.

Just when Zhang Yun received the battle report sent by Liu Pan, Zhang Yun also received two news, the first news was that Sun Ce's main force had retreated, just when Zhang Yun guessed why Sun Ce had withdrawn, the second news came, which immediately solved his doubts, and the second news was that Han Lie's army Lu Su was launching an offensive against Luo County, the gateway of Changsha County.

After receiving three messages in a row, all of them were news related to the war situation, Zhang Yun hesitated, and then summoned the military generals Liu Xian, Chen Sheng, Zhang Hu, Lu Jie and others to discuss.

Liu Xianzi Shizong, Lingling people's clan, Jingzhou celebrities, for Liu Biao's account to do not drive, this time with the army, as Sima Changshi, to assist Zhang Yun in charge of the staff military.

"Jiangling is my foothold on the fundamental, and there must be no mistakes, but Changsha is an important town in Jingnan, if we don't send troops to participate in the war this time, once it is captured by Han Lie, I am afraid that I will want to come back again, but I am afraid that it is unlikely, the so-called certain thought, can be two-pronged, we led the army to immediately return to Jiangling, and sent Liu Panwen to hire two people to join forces together, and Han Lie to attack Changsha, so that it is foolproof." Liu Xian paused and said: "Ganning is just a water bandit, it is expected that there are not many troops in his hands, this time to be able to capture Jiangling, firstly, there are insufficient troops in our city, and secondly, there are no preparations in the city, and we have 16,000 soldiers in our hands, plus Ganning is not firmly established, we want to recapture the city, it is not difficult to come." ”

"What do you think?" Zhang Yun nodded, and his eyes swept over the generals under the tent.

"Ask the general to give the order." The generals looked at each other and agreed.

"Someone, hurry up and send this military order to Liu Pan." Zhang Yun then drafted a military order and sent it to Liu Pan, who led Huarong's soldiers and horses back to Jiangling day and night.

Zhang Yun's troops are all sailors, and returning to Jiangling from Huarong, you can drive a warship across the river from Jingshui to the outside of Jiangling City, and this road is also the fastest way. Its 20,000 horses, because of the war with Sun Ce, lost thousands, and now there are still more than 16,000 people, on the vast river, hundreds of boats compete for the stream, connecting more than ten miles.

Han Lie's camp in Chibi, which is only a hundred miles away from Huarong, but as soon as the news of Zhang Yun's withdrawal came, Han Lie's sharp gaze swept over the face of Xun You Guo Jia in the tent, and said: "Zhang Yun has divided his troops, and Sun Ce has also withdrawn. “

(Uh, I've been busy lately, I'm rushing to write at night, and the update may be late, sorry, thank you for your support!!!!!! (To be continued.) )