In the first year of Chuping (190), Changsha Taishou Sun Jian killed Wang Rui in Jingzhou, and Dong Zhuo's fake edict of the Son of Heaven took Liu Biao as the assassin of Wang Rui.

At that time, Shandong troops were in all directions, Jiangnan sect thieves were prosperous, and Yuan Shu, one of the princes of the Eastern Anti-Dong Dynasty, thought about Jingzhou and intercepted Liu Biao, making it impossible for him to take office directly.

Therefore, Liu Biao went to Jingzhou anonymously and alone, and then rode into Yicheng alone.

At that time, there were many wealthy families in Jingzhou, among which there were seven most famous families: Pang, Huang, Cai, Kuai, Ma, Xi, and Yang. And Liu Biao is one of the eight horses, with a happy heart and a reputation for virtue. Therefore, there are many people in Jingzhou who support their attachment. Among them, Jingxiang celebrities, including Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, and Cai Mao, a native of Xiangyang, conspired with Liu Biao. Sure enough, within a year, the three counties of Nanjun, Nanyang, and Jiangxia have been pacified, and since then, Liu Biao's army has been stationed in Xiangyang to observe the changes of the times

In the spring of the second year of Chuping (191), Jingzhou was initially decided, and Liu Biao sent Wen to hire 300 people to ride a light car to Jian, and went north to pick up his family and move to Xiangyang to live. A pair of hundreds of people, even if they are light and simple, is not small.

In March of the second year of the first peace, the weather was sunny.

On this day, Wen Ping and Liu Biao's family were crossing the mountains and mountains, slowly moving forward. The eldest prince Liu Qi is over 20 years old and knows a little about civil and military affairs, so he rides a horse and hires in parallel. In the middle of the procession, there is a family carriage, and the third son, Liu Cong, is younger, and he is in the carriage, and the carriage is followed on foot by slaves.

And there was a young man on the side of the team who also rode a horse to accompany him, the young man was quite strong, more than six feet tall, and his appearance was gentle, it was Liu Xiu, the second son of Liu Cousin, although he was quite tall, but he was only eleven years old.

At this time, Liu Xiu, although he was riding on a horse, his eyes revealed confusion, doubt, and disbelief. At the last moment, Liu Xiu was still an ordinary young man in the 21st century, but the next moment he became the second son of Liu Biao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he was still an illegitimate son who was not welcomed. The change in an instant made Liu Xiu have no time to react. After the confusion, there is irrepressible fear and fear: the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, war, and death This is Liu Xiu's first reaction, you must know that in the hundred years of the Three Kingdoms, the people have dropped by tens of millions, and Liu Xiu is not afraid. As for saying that the tiger's body was shocked, the civil and military came to vote; Pointing out the country and scolding Fang Xuan is pure nonsense for him now. According to the memory of this body, the princes are happy to fight Dong Zhengfa, and he is only eleven years old now, and when he grows into a tiger body, I am afraid that the military generals of Wenchen have already voted for others.

Liu Xiu rode a horse, thinking, but unfortunately the more he thought about his future, the more confused and worried he became

Different from Liu Xiu's worries, Liu Qi at the front of the team had a good conversation with Yu Wenpin.

"My father has mentioned many times in his letters that General Wen is skilled in arching and horses, brave and good at fighting, and instructed Qi to ask General Wen for advice, and thank General Wen for escorting him on this trip to the south."

Liu Qi said.

"This is a matter within the general's share, and it should be done, and the eldest prince does not need to be polite." Wen Ping clenched his fists, replied respectfully, glanced at Liu Qi, and then continued to scan the surroundings.

Liu Qi couldn't help Wen Ping's respect, so he could only change the conversation and ask: "Qi has always had a question in his heart, I wonder if General Wen can solve my doubts?" ”

"But the eldest prince has a question, and the general will know everything." Wen Ping still replied respectfully.

"Why don't we take the official road, we can arrive in Xiangyang in ten days and a half months. But why take this rugged path? Liu Qi has studied Confucian scriptures since he was a child, and he doesn't know why the situation in Jingzhou is, so he has this question.

Wen Ping replied: "Just because there are many Yellow Turban remnants near Nanyang in Jingbei, although the official road is fast, it is easy for Yellow Turban thieves to rob the road. And Nanyang Yuan Shu has long wanted to plot Jingzhou, and the matter of the lord leading Jingzhou has always been in his mind, but he has a plan, and we are in danger. If he is accidentally captured, the lord will definitely be restrained everywhere, so he chooses this mountain and forest path. ”

"The general is far-sighted, and Qi admires it to the fullest." When Liu Qi heard this, he immediately clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly.

"The eldest prince is polite." Wen Ping is also a fist clasped with both hands in return

Liu Xiu followed the team, looking at Liu Qi and Wen Ping in front of him talking harmoniously, but he felt uncomfortable: to say that although this Liu Xiu is Liu Biao's second son, he is an illegitimate son born to a slave maid, whether it is in the Liu clan or in the eyes of outsiders, his status is not as good as the son of a concubine. Therefore, Liu Xiu's predecessor was withdrawn at home, mostly practicing literature and martial arts alone, and had few friends. Thinking of this, Liu Xiu's heart became more and more worried

No matter what Liu Xiu thought in his heart at this time, the more worried he was, the more he had to come.

I saw a burst of birds and beasts boiling between the mountains and forests, and the surroundings became silent for a while.

"Stop" Wen Ping waved his hand and gave the order, and the team of hundreds of people stopped neatly in a blink of an eye, which shows the rigor of Wen Ping's management of the army.

"General Wen, why did you stop?" Liu Qi said curiously.

"There should be an ambush ahead," Wen Ping stared into the depths of the forest in front of him, and ordered the soldiers on the side: "Pass the order, rest in place, and defend strictly, Mo Jiao people have a chance to take advantage of it." ”

The soldiers beat their horses and went to give orders. Wen Ping still looked ahead, and with a wave of his hand, everyone remained in the same formation, holding weapons in their hands, and was ready to fight. For a while, even the sound of horses and the wind disappeared.

Wen Pingyou turned his head and said to Liu Qi: "The eldest prince retreats to the middle of the formation, it is dangerous in front of the formation." Liu Qi didn't say much, and retreated into the formation.

Before he could stop for long, a group of thieves with yellow scarves on their heads were killed in the forest, surrounding everyone, and when they looked at it, the heads wrapped in yellow scarves flashed, at least more than a thousand people.

Wen Ping secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, holding the bronze long knife in his hand, staring at the two horsemen led by the opposite, one was a tall, black-faced, bearded Kansai man with a big knife in his hand, and the latter was also a strong man with a yellow scarf on his head and wearing a battle robe.

The big man with the yellow turban behind him stepped forward and shouted: "I am Pei Yuanshao, the general of the Tiangong General, and the one who comes quickly leaves the horses and belongings, and then let them go, otherwise don't blame me and other subordinates for being ruthless." ”

"A certain is Liu Jingzhou's subordinate Wen Zhongye, ant thieves are rampant, and they are thieves with Zhang Jiao, but they want to try the benefits of a certain knife?" Wen Ping also responded angrily, and at the same time did not forget to clench the long knife in his hand and wait for him.

As soon as the black-faced man heard Wen Ping's words insulting Zhang Jiao, he immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Good thief, how dare you insult General Tiangong, a certain Zhou Cang Zhou Yuanfu, eat a certain knife." ”

The roar, the sound of knives, the sound of horses' hooves, just fell, and the big knife had already arrived in front of Wen Ping. Wen Ping is not slacking off, rushing forward with a fast horse, slashing horizontally,

"Phew!" only heard a loud noise, and the two were already fighting together. The light of the knife, the sound of the knife, and the sound of the horse, intersect in one place, which can be described as evenly matched. The sound was like a trumpet, and the soldiers of both sides launched a charge at the same time, and in an instant, the sword light accompanied by the blood light splashed on the land where the snow had not yet completely melted, showing even more bewitching

At this time, Liu Xiu, who was in the middle of the team, saw that there was a yellow scarf blocking the way, and even fought if he didn't agree with him, and immediately retreated to the back of the team in fright. Although he knew in his heart that after coming to the Three Kingdoms, this kind of thing could no longer be avoided, but for him who first came here, he couldn't help but be a little frightened. I didn't even notice the mechanical ding-dong in my head.

After Liu Xiu retreated to the back of the team, he barely settled down and watched the battle ahead, in addition to the slaves to protect his family, the 300 cavalry hired by Wen against the more than 1,000 people with incomplete equipment in the Yellow Turban, not to mention the chance of victory, at least they would not lose in this head-to-head battle.

In the sound of slashing and falling to the ground, the men and horses of the two sides gradually separated, and the three hundred regular cavalry hired by Wen were five times the size of the ordinary yellow turbans, and they could fight without a victory; And Wenpin and Zhou Cang are also evenly matched.

I saw that in the battle array, every time Wen Ping and Zhou Cang slashed, there was a huge sound of iron weapons colliding. Zhou Cang's strength is large, and every knife is powerful to split Huashan, and although Wen Ping's strength is not as good as Zhou Cang's, his knife skills are orderly, avoiding Zhou Cang's knife momentum, and then waiting for the opportunity to move. Therefore, in Liu Xiu's view, the two are indeed evenly matched.

The two armies rushed and fought for a while, and then gradually calmed down and separated. Pei Yuanshao whispered in Zhou Cang's ear: "Brother Zhou, these cavalry attack and defend properly, advance and retreat well-founded, it seems that this Wen Ping is indeed the general under Liu Biao who guards Jingbei." ”

Zhou Cang also nodded in agreement and said: "Well, it's true, although the strength of this fight is not as good as mine, but the knife skills are very powerful, not worse than me, I'm afraid that I won't be able to take him for a while, how is this good?" ”

"I'm afraid that if we continue to fight like this, we won't be able to grab anything, and we will have to fight to defeat both," Pei Yuanshao naturally saw the martial arts of the Wenpin, thought about it, and replied: "Why don't we retreat first, and send someone to follow them later, just wait for them to relax, let's shoot back and kill him without leaving a piece of armor, how about it?" ”

Zhou Cang couldn't think of a better way, so he had to say hatefully: "It's the only way to go." Then he stepped forward: "That boy, it's not early today, your grandfather Zhou will go back to eat first, and I'll come back to compete with you in the future." ”

Zhou Cang completely ignored the weather in the middle of the day, and continued to roar: "Brothers, withdraw"

As soon as Zhou Cang finished speaking, the yellow turban people who were less than a thousand behind him 'hula', like birds and beasts, ran into the forest at once, and disappeared, and seemed to hear Zhou Cang's strong shout from a distance: "A group of stinky boys, why don't you run so fast in the war?"

Seeing the Yellow Turbans fleeing, Wen Ping had no intention of taking advantage of the victory to pursue, looking at his trembling right hand, thinking in his heart: This black-faced man is so powerful, if he fights for a few more rounds, I am afraid that I will not even be able to hold the knife.

Wen Ping looked back at his soldiers and horses, although he did not suffer heavy losses, but now with the wounded, there are only more than 200 horsemen left, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart: This way back to Xiangyang, three hundred brothers, I don't know how many people are left, hey

Immediately afterwards, he called his own soldiers and ordered: "Send someone to Xiangyang for help quickly, and then send some scouts to the front to continue to investigate, seize the time to rectify a little, pack up the horses, and set off immediately." ”

"Whoa!"

After that, Wen Ping came to Liu Qi again, bowed his hands, and said: "Eldest prince, now it seems that our whereabouts have been leaked, this yellow turban thief is just a trivial matter, but I am afraid that Yuan Shu will also know our whereabouts, so it will be troublesome." ”

Liu Qi also replied: "Then I don't know if the general has a good strategy?" ”

"There is no good plan, I have sent people to Xiangyang to ask for help, and now we can only speed up the journey, and rush to the Xiangyang boundary before Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses chase after me." Wen Ping didn't have any good ideas, he could only be thirty-six plans, and he said to Liu Qi: "The eldest prince, please also ask you to rectify the slaves and servants of the next family, and don't drag them when they are in a hurry, we will not stop in the future, please insist on the second and third sons." ”

Liu Qi responded: "It's okay, I'll go talk to them now, and I'll be ready to leave immediately." With that, he hurried to the back of the line.