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In February, Liu Xiu arrived in Jiangling, Cai Mao, the governor of Jingzhou Navy, Yan Yan, the fake governor of Yizhou Navy, and others rushed to greet him, and after the cold noise, Yan Yan reported an important situation to Liu Xiu: Sun Jian, who was originally in the area of Shaxian, suddenly left Shaxian and led an army of 10,000 to attack Changsha County to govern Linxiang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info// Update fast // He came suddenly, Changsha Taishou didn't react at all, and was surrounded by him. After two days of fierce fighting, Sun Jian conquered Linxiang, and then returned to Liankeshu County, and now most of Changsha County has fallen into Sun Jian's hands. Sun Jian had originally been a taishou in Changsha, and those officials knew his bravery, and they didn't have the courage to confront him at all.

Sun Jian's movements were too fast, and by the time Cai Mao and the others got the news, Changsha County had already been lost, and they couldn't even send news to Liu Xiu. When Liu Xiu was about to arrive, something like this happened, not only Cai Mao's face was gloomy, but even Yan Yan was a little embarrassed.

"He should have taken a fancy to Changsha's rice." Kuai Liang said: "Occupy Changsha, and the south bank of the Yangtze River from the east is in his control, if we want to go down the river, we must first solve Changsha." ”

Liu Xiu was also a little surprised, this time point was really well chosen. If you don't fight Changsha sooner rather than later, just when his army is about to arrive, Cai Mao, Yan Yan and others put their minds on welcoming him, Sun Jian raided Changsha and took Changsha with lightning speed, just rubbing a bunch of sand in his eyes.

Yan Yan is not familiar with the situation in Jingzhou, that's it, why didn't a local like Cai Mao pay attention to the importance of Changsha, and only reacted when Changsha was taken away?

However, he is new to the city, and it is the first time he has cooperated with Cai Mao, and since things have happened, it is useless to talk about these things.

"I heard that Sun Jian is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, and he has always been conceited with bravery. But now it seems that he is a brave man. Liu Xiu smiled calmly: "Changsha is rice-producing, but there are many mountains between Changsha and Yuzhang, and it is not easy for Yuan Shu to support." He occupied Changsha, but he became a lone army. It is nothing more than an attempt to hold Changsha, to delay the speed of our advance, and to fight a protracted war with us. ”

Kuai Liang hurriedly nodded and said, "The general is right. However, the city of Changsha is strong. There is a lot of accumulated food, and if you attack it, I am afraid it will not be easy. ”

Liu Xiu smiled slightly: "Changsha produces rice, but it is only one county, can Changsha alone be worth the sum of three of the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River?" Kuai Zirou, I have heard for a long time that your brother is very intelligent, and I want to give you a heavy responsibility. I don't know if you'd like to. ”

When Kuai Liang heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Please let the general give orders, I will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire, and I will not give up." ”

Liu Xiu smiled and shook his hand: "It's not that serious, I just want to ask you to rush to Lingling as the head of the Jingzhou Thorn History Mansion to pacify the place, so that the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling will also be taken by Sun Jian." The other is to collect money and food to prepare for the army to recover Changsha. ”

Kuai Liang was overjoyed when he heard it. This is equivalent to Liu Xiu handing over all the power of the three counties in the south of the Yangtze River to him, as long as he helps Liu Xiu take Changsha, he will have more credit than those generals who charge into battle. Where to find this kind of good thing. He hurriedly thanked him for the order, patted his chest and said that he would complete the task.

"Cai Boqi, the task of you and Heber remains the same, continue to lead the sailors down the river and towards Exian. Since Sun Jian wants to rob Changsha and give up Shaxian, there is no reason why we should not take it back. ”

Cai Mao nodded again and again, bowing down to receive the order.

"Order Fu Xie to march south, march with the sailors on both roads, and recover Jiangxia first."

"Order Bei Zhonglang to take Zhao Yun out of the well. First take Zhongshan and Hejian to cut off the connection between Yuan Shao and Youzhou. ”

"Order Shuo Fang to guard Lu Bu, cooperate with the Bullhead tribe Marshal Split Wind to march eastward, break through Danhan Mountain, and teach Helian a lesson."

"Order the left general Gongsun Zan and the Liaodong vassal state captain Liu Bei to attack the right Beiping. General with Kitakaro. ”

“……”

Liu Xiu sent out one order after another, Meng Da wrote them down one by one, and turned around to Zhang Wei and those military planners composed of graduates of the Military Academy to do it. After several years of theoretical study, these students graduated one after another, and some of the good grades were added to the side of the leading generals as military strategists and clerks, and those with slightly inferior grades went to the counties to serve as soldiers, etc., among which dozens of the best talents were gathered by Liu Xiu and formed a staff group, which was responsible for the collection, analysis and sorting of these military information by his side, and the part responsible for ordinary affairs was led by Meng Da. And the most secret part is led by Guo Jia.

Everything was arranged, and Cai Mao invited Liu Xiu to the banquet in the name of receiving the wind. The war is about to start, Liu Xiu is actually not in the mood to drink and socialize, but he also knows that this is not a simple reception banquet, this is Jingzhou Haoqiang and his blind date, if he does not give face, Jingzhou Haoqiang will have a pimple in his heart, and there will be a great obstacle to him receiving Jingzhou. Considering this, he had to reluctantly agree.

Although he is now a general of the chariot cavalry, no one dares to persuade him to drink, but after drinking this wine, Liu Xiu is still a little dizzy. Fortunately, he hasn't forgotten to take care of Huang Chengyan. Sun Jian's unexpected occupation of Changsha County not only blocked his way to Yuzhang, but also made it impossible for him to attack Exian and Chaisang with peace of mind, making his plan to occupy the Yangtze River defense line first unable to be implemented. Taking Changsha has become a top priority.

There are no cannons in these years, although the Jinyang Academy has researched black powder, but that thing can be used as firecrackers, and it is useless to attack the city. Liu Xiu pinned his hopes on Huang Chengyan, the inheritance of Mozi's organ technique, and wanted to ask him to design a few siege weapons to take Linxiang City as quickly as possible and teach Yuan Shu a lesson.

Liu Xiu's qi and veins are smooth now, and the wine goes on his face quickly, but he also goes quickly, and by the time Huang Chengyan came to ask for a meeting, Liu Xiu had already returned to normal. However, when he saw the three women behind Huang Chengyan, he still blushed a little.

Cai Lin took Huang Achu's hand, gave Liu Xiu a salute in a subtle and polite manner, and asked Huang Achu to kneel down and kowtow to Liu Xiu. Since Huang Chengyan agreed to this family business, the little girl Huang Achu can be regarded as his daughter-in-law. This father-in-law can't be too intimate with his daughter-in-law, but now that Miss Huang Achu is still young, Liu Xiu took her little hand and asked a few words, but there was no gossip. Seeing the face of the little girl Huang Achu, Liu Xiu was finally completely relieved, although this girl couldn't match the beauty, she still looked upright, and she didn't know what kind of crazy Huang Chengyan was, so she had to give her daughter such a milk name.

In the accent of Achu in the Xiangyang area, it is very similar to Acho.

Seeing his daughter-in-law for the first time, and seeing his mother-in-law for the first time, of course Liu Xiu couldn't be too stingy, and hurriedly ordered someone to take out the gift. Fortunately, the eldest princess had thought of these things before he came, and all arrangements were made. It's just that the eldest princess didn't expect another person to follow, Liu Xiu was not prepared for a while, and she couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

"This is ......"

"Dare to sue the general, this is the little sister of the insider, the boudoir Cai Huan." Huang Chengyan also introduced with some embarrassment, and explained: "She ...... She came with her insider. ”

Liu Xiu still didn't understand, Cai Mao has a sister named Cai Huan who married Liu Biao, is it her? But...... This is too young, this girl is thirteen or fourteen years old at most, Liu Biaoke is already in her forties, and it is enough to be her father.

Sure enough, it's a beast.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Cai." Liu Xiu hurriedly saluted. Cai Huan's face stiffened and lowered his head. Huang Chengyan hurriedly attached to Liu Xiu's ear and said, "She has broken off the marriage contract with Liu Biao." ”

Liu Xiu glanced at him, and said in his heart, then you can't bring her to me, and you can't say a word beforehand. Although concubines can be given as gifts these days, I am not used to accepting women casually.

"This ...... The sister admires the adult...... The book, Teyang begged the clumsy man to bring him to meet the general, there is rudeness, please forgive me. Cai Lin saw Liu Xiu's embarrassed face, and hurriedly explained. She touched Cai Huan's shoulder lovingly: "My sister is young, and our parents died early, so we dote on her." Plus Achu is close to her, so ......"

Liu Xiu saw his mother-in-law interceding, so he had no choice but to stop care, and hurriedly pretended to be generous and said, "It's okay, it's okay." In this way, how about the two ladies please sit down for a while with Mrs. Guoshi, and wait for me to finish discussing with Chengyan before offering ugliness? ”

Cai Lin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly thanked her. Cai Huan kept his head down and didn't say a word, just bowed silently, took Huang Achu's hand, and followed Mrs. Lu to the side. As soon as they left, Liu Xiu put away his smile and said to Huang Chengyan seriously: "Sun Jian is too arrogant, he dares to go deep into Changsha alone, if I don't pull out this nail, I can't go east." Chengyan, see if there is a good way to take Linxiang City as soon as possible. ”

Huang Chengyan frowned slightly: "Mozi is not attacking, he is known for defending, and there is not much research on the method of siege." He looked at Liu Xiu and smiled bitterly: "I guess that the general may want to take Linxiang to boost the army's prestige, so I specially came from Xiangyang to remind the general of a word." ”

Liu Xiu was a little disappointed, but he couldn't show it on his face, so he had to ask, "What's the matter?" ”

"You have to pay attention to the Huan Steps."

"Huan Rank? What kind of person is this? Liu Xiu was very surprised, Huang Chengyan was a very arrogant person, and he actually came to remind him to pay attention to the person of Huanjie, which showed that this person of Huanjie did have something extraordinary.

"He is a native of Linxiang, his father and ancestors have been in the county, and his father Huan Sheng has also done a scholar, and he can be regarded as a famous person in the southeast. But what I want to remind the general is not his family background, but his own ability. I talked to him when I was traveling, and he was a very resourceful man. ”

Liu Xiu smiled: "Since he is a smart person, he should know that Sun Jian is not my opponent, so what else do you have to worry about?" Are you trying to get an official for him? ”

Huang Chengyan looked at Liu Xiu and didn't speak, until Liu Xiu felt that he was laughing a little boring, and then said lightly: "Huan Jie was once promoted by Sun Jian to be filial piety, and this person is ...... Very loyal. ”

Only then did Liu Xiu understand what Huang Chengyan wanted to remind himself. Sun Jian recommended this Huan rank as filial piety, then he is the old master of the Huan rank, since Huan Jie is a loyal person, then he will not abandon Sun Jian to vote for him. If Huan Jie is not capable, then it will be fine, but Huan Jie is a strategic, then there is one more opponent out of thin air, with Sun Jian's bravery, coupled with Huan Jie's strategy and the advantage of his locals, then this bone is a little harder than Liu Xiu's estimate. (To be continued.) )