Chapter 15: Kokatsu Karasuma
Liu Yao's trip to Guangping couldn't help but recover his frustration, and he also got a Gao Shun, which can be described as a bumper harvest.
The group waited in Guangping for a few days, and after rounding the team led by Zhang Fang, they went together in the direction of Jixian County, the place of governance in Youzhou. After half a month's journey, Jixian County is not far from everyone.
"Report, report to your lordship, there is a group of cavalry five kilometers ahead thinking of our direction, and it is menacing." A probe came to Liu Yao's side and reported.
"Cavalry? How many people. Liu Yao said with a frown.
"There are about 1,500 people, and they shouldn't be from the Central Plains."
"It looks like it's Karasuma cavalry, everyone is lined up, and the crossbows are ready, ready to meet the enemy." Liu Yao shouted loudly.
It didn't take long for fifteen hundred Karasuma cavalry to stop 500 meters in front of Liu Yao. Out of the cavalry came a man who appeared to be the leader. Frowning, he looked at Liu Yao's well-equipped three thousand troops, "Han people, leave all your supplies behind, I can spare your life." "In the eyes of the Karasuma people, the Han people are all soft-footed shrimp, and there are no large number of them.
"Hmph, you're not qualified enough." Liu Yao sneered.
"Then kill them all, rush." The leader ordered, and suddenly the cavalry rushed in the direction of Liu Yao.
"Draw the crossbow, stay at a distance of two hundred paces, and start a three-stage burst. Be careful, shoot people, don't shoot horses. Obviously, Liu Yao has taken a fancy to the Karasuma people.
Immediately, the well-trained 3,000 crossbowmen were divided into three groups, and as soon as the cavalry approached within 200 paces, they began to shoot non-stop, and 30,000 crossbow arrows rose into the air, and for a time the sky was covered by dense crossbow arrows.
"Not good!! Get out of the way. The leader looked at the dense crossbow arrows and hurriedly shouted, but it was already too late. For a while, the screams continued. Under the indiscriminate attack, there were many casualties, and some of the lucky people turned into a hedgehog, and less than 10 people survived intact, including the leader.
"Hansheng, You'an, Ziyi, kill the rest of the people, and the leader stays." Liu Yao commanded, but Liu Yao's face was pale at this time. It was the first time he had seen such a bloody scene since he had never been to war, and it was good that he could hold back and not vomit.
"No." Immediately, the three of them slapped their horses out, and it was a few Karasuma cavalrymen under the three of them, and they were swordsmanship one by one.
"Lord, are you alright?" Shi A couldn't help but ask with some worry when he saw Liu Yao's face.
"I'm fine, if I can't even survive such a trivial matter, what kind of revival will I talk about." Liu Yao said firmly, maybe the psychological comfort had some effect, and Liu Yao also felt that he was not so sad. This is also Liu Yao's first step out of transformation.
Not long after, the cavalry commander was overwhelmed in front of Liu Yao, "Everyone, gather the horses, collect the arrows, and make up another knife on all the corpses." "The arrows of this repeater are not so easy to make, so they are usually recycled and reused in good condition.
At this time, the leader was paralyzed with fright, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!" ”
"Hehe, weren't you very angry just now, didn't you say that you Karasuma people are very backbone, why are you so afraid of death." Liu Yao's face was full of disdain.
"Yes, yes, my lord, the villain is afraid of death, so you can surround the villain's life." The leader couldn't stop kowtowing.
"Going back to my two questions, I won't kill you.
"Yes, the villain must sue you."
"What are you cavalry doing here this time?" Liu Yao asked viciously.
"It was King Chuliju who asked us to explore the way." The leader was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly.
"When are you Karasuma going to invade Youzhou?"
"This ......" The leader obviously hesitated, if he said this, he would definitely be killed by Qiu Liju.
Liu Yao sneered and said, "You have to think about it, if you don't say it, you will die now, if you say it, then the situation is not certain." ”
Liu Yao's words echoed in the leader's mind like the devil's **, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "We, the king of Qiuliju, said that we will come to invade when we are ready to enter autumn." ”
"It's autumn, it's still half a year away, it's enough for me to prepare." Liu Yao thought in his heart, and then looked at the leader with satisfaction, "You are very good, now you can go, I say that if I don't kill you, I won't kill you." ”
When the leader heard this, he immediately turned around and ran. But before he turned around, Liu Yao gave Shi A a look, and the next moment, the leader's head had already risen into the air. "I said I wouldn't kill you, I didn't say my subordinates wouldn't kill you." Liu Yao muttered to himself. Liu Yao will not have any pity for these foreigners in Karasuma.
"My lord, this time we were all unharmed, but we lost 10,000 arrows. 1,260 horses were harvested, 2,000 stones of grain, and other weapons and baggage were not counted. Zhang Fang counted it and reported.
"Very well, this is a big victory." Liu Yao was also happy in his heart.
After packing up the supplies, everyone went in the direction of Jixian again. This time, no one was bothering, and half a day later, everyone came to Jixian County.
"Hurry up and open the door, this is the pastor of Youzhou Prefecture." A soldier shouted to the gate guard and sent the order up.
After the gate keeper saw the order clearly, he also opened the gate and let everyone in.
"Go and call me all the big and small officials in Youzhou, and I'll have a meeting.
"No."
"Ziyi, you go and arrange the encampment of our troops, and the rest of the people will follow me to the state governor's mansion."
"No."
Among the governors
Liu Yao sat on the main seat, and behind him stood Huang Zhong, Shi A, Gao Shun, Fu Zhu, and Tian Feng. It didn't take long for all the officials to arrive, and everyone looked at the newly appointed governor very carefully, afraid that the three fires would burn on him.
"Each of them will report to his official position." Liu Yao said lightly.
"Humble Wei You, the current Youzhou Fa Cao is engaged in."
"Humble ......"
Liu Yao shook his head helplessly when he heard some of the Kuibao, except for Wei You, who was a little famous, the others had never even heard of it. And there is only one who is engaged in governance, and there are no other drivers, soldiers, gongcao, and the like.
"Frustrated,"
"Yes."
"Now I order you to don't drive for Youzhou."
"No."
"Tian Feng."
"Yes."
"Now I order you to engage in the soldier, and you also serve as the gongcao." Liu Yao is also helpless now, his subordinates are not strong enough, so he can only make Tian Feng work harder.
"No."
The Youzhou officials present were a little unconvinced when they heard that these newcomers were suddenly higher than their official positions, but they dared not speak out, the one in front of them was not only Youzhou Mu, he was also the current prince, and he did not dare to provoke any identity.
"Wei Zhizhong, this official has just arrived, and he will report to me how many people and soldiers and horses there are in Youzhou." Liu Yao said lightly.
"No, Youzhou has a total population of 2.8 million people and a stock of 500,000 stones. In addition to the soldiers and horses stationed in various counties, Youzhou now has a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, including 5,000 cavalry and 35,000 infantry, of which 5,000 are archers. 10,000 horses. There are countless ordnance. Wei Yu said respectfully. This Wei You was originally supposed to be Liu Yu's subordinate, although this person has no great talent, but he is still okay in internal affairs.
"Okay, the Karasuma people are very rampant now, and this official is about to use your strength to deal with Karasuma, but if anyone tells me that I don't obey orders, then I won't be polite." Liu Yao said coldly.
Cold sweat flowed out of the back of the officials, they originally wanted to give Xinzhou Mu a dismissal, but now they don't want to get off the horse in reverse.
The officials in Youzhou were subdued, and Liu Yao's power in Youzhou was about to begin to thrive.