Liu He took a roundabout approach, personally got Cai Yan, and asked Han Fu to help him persuade Cai Yong, Liu Yu also recognized the practice of welcoming Cai Yan through the door first but not being determined as a wife for the time being, so Liu He's marriage had no resistance, and the wedding day was set on the eighth day of the fifth month.

There is still a period of time before the wedding, and the specific wedding preparations are busy with Han Fu, Qi Zhou and others, and Liu He doesn't have to bother. He stayed in Jicheng for a few days, concentrated on dealing with some backlog of affairs, and then went to the west of the city near the water to conduct a field investigation, and finally determined the specific location of Jicheng's "industrial park".

After finishing these chores, Liu He took the time to draw a sketch of a sedan chair by himself, and handed it over to the master in the car camp, entrusting him to make a sedan chair according to his own requirements.

The craftsmen of the Che Camp are mainly responsible for making all kinds of carriages, ox carts and van cars, and the complexity of the manufacturing process is certainly much more than that of a sedan chair carried by human shoulders, so it is not difficult to make a sedan chair that has never been seen before. Although there is no sedan chair used in wedding celebrations in this era, the shoulder of the sedan chair has already had a prototype in the Xia Dynasty, so it is not a rare object, just add more carvings, and decorate the sedan chair as festive and fancy as possible, and make the sedan chair comfortable and soft.

After finishing these things, Liu He said hello to his father and Cai Mansion, and left Jicheng with Guo Jia, Murong Ping, Shi A and others.

Liu He was present when the Xiaocai Guard, the Zhenbei Army and the Duliao Army were formed, and the Youyan Army saw that the army was about to be built, so Liu He should have personally gone to Zhuoxian County to participate in the flag awarding ceremony, and at the same time announced the appointment of Zhang He and others.

Don't look at the Youyan Army as the last unit to be formed, but it is not raised by the queen, otherwise Liu He would not have allowed Zhang He to lead the three thousand most elite Youzhou cavalry old team to Zhuo County. The reason why the Youyan Army became the latest was because Zhang He led the army to guard in Liaoxi at that time, and the southern part of Youzhou was close to Jizhou, and Jizhou was guarded by generals such as Tai Shici and Xian Yuyin, so he was not in a hurry to form it. That's what happened to me.

Liu He's two most powerful generals are Zhao Yun and Zhang He, Xu Huang still needs to experience several years, Xu Rong is lacking in personal force, so Liu He let Zhang He lead the Youyan army is definitely after careful consideration, and he must play a key role in the future.

On this day, that is, the seventh day when Zhang He came to Zhuo County, he invited Sun Li and Xu Miao to his temporary residence, and then said to the two: "This time is really hard Deda and Jingshan, if you don't help me from the side, I'm afraid that I won't be able to complete the preparations for the formation of the Youyan Army before Gongzi arrives in Zhuo County!" ”

Sun Li and Xu Miao are both much younger than Zhang He. didn't dare to pose in front of Zhang He, and said modestly together: "General Zhang is polite!" ”

Zhang He also said: "The situation in Zhuo County has always been more complicated, although it is the richest place in Youzhou, but there are many powerful people, many people have secretly funded Gongsun Zhan, and some people have funded Liu Bei earlier. Childe will arrive in Zhuo County in the near future, and the safety and security work is particularly important, so I invited the two of you here today to hear your opinions. ”

Xu Miao pondered for a moment. said: "The news that Gongzi is coming to Zhuo County is estimated to be impossible to block, because he went to Macheng, Diping and Lingzhi respectively, and people with a heart can also predict that Gongzi will go south to Zhuo County in the near future based on speculation." The formation of the Youyan Army is no secret now. If someone wants to attack at this time, they must take advantage of Gongzi's road to and from Zhuoxian to ambush, waiting for an opportunity to attack and assassinate. ”

"When Childe was active in the north, he had at least 5,000 troops around him to follow the escort. This time, he came to Zhuoxian from Jicheng, because the road was relatively close, and Jicheng was under construction. There are a lot of soldiers recruited, so we only bring 500 guards, so the protection force is relatively weak, and we must not take it lightly! ”

Zhang He nodded, agreed with Xu Miao's analysis, and said: "We have a heavy army stationed in Zhuo County, and the assassins have no chance to do anything at the flag ceremony, because we will block the venue at that time, and at the same time strictly restrict the soldiers entering from carrying bows and crossbows, which can be fired from a distance. ”

Sun Li thought about it along Xu Miao and Zhang He's train of thought, and said: "Bows and crossbows have always been sharp weapons for assassination, as long as the assassin is armed with a strong bow and a crossbow, he can use the slopes and woods to hide very well. ”

Zhang He said: "In addition to assassinating with bows and crossbows, assassins may also cause collapses in the road, destroy roads, demolish bridges, poison and set fires and many other means. ”

"Regardless of whether anyone is secretly doing something, we must act in advance and ensure the safety of Childe no matter what! For this reason, I would like to personally lead an army to meet Childe and join him in the middle of the road before Childe enters the territory of Zhuo County! Sun Li's attitude was very resolute, obviously stimulated by Zhang He's analysis.

"Well, if Deda personally led the army to greet him, it would naturally be the safest. I'll give you a thousand fine horsemen, and let you fire the army north! Zhang He was very decisive and decided the matter.

At the same time, in a manor in the north of Zhuo County, several strong men with unpredictable identities and mysterious origins are gathering in a secret room to discuss something.

One of the men with a meaty face said: "I just received an urgent report from the direction of Jicheng, Liu Shiren has left from the west gate of Jicheng yesterday, and this time there are a total of 500 guards with him, which is the smallest number in recent years!" ”

Another hook-nosed man said hatefully: "As long as Liu Shiren is still in Youzhou for a day, several of our families in Zhuo County will not be able to turn over, and they will always be oppressed and exploited by him." This time, several families have united to get rid of this wing, and never suffer in the future, and now is a rare opportunity to start, you must not retreat! ”

The rest nodded at the same time, and said one after another: "Steward Liu just orders the arrangement, even if we don't go back this time, we have to let the Liu family take a dog's life!" ”

"Good! That's what you want! Several of our families in Zhuo County are in the same spirit, and with the secret assistance of Guangyang, this time we must get rid of the thief Liu He! The hooked nose punched hard and hit the desk.

However, it was said that after Liu He left Jicheng, he first stayed in Guangyang City for a day, specially took a gift to the mansion where Yan Rou's old father lived, visited the "old and immortal" Yan family master, said some words of comfort and encouragement, and then swaggered out of Guangyang and went straight to Liangxiang City in the north of Zhuo County.

Liu He didn't know that when he left Guangyang with his front foot, the old master of the Yan family sent someone to take another road to the south to report the news. In addition to secretly reporting to several families in Zhuo County, the Yan family also threw all the gifts sent by Liu He into the dung pit in the backyard to vent their extreme dissatisfaction with Liu He.

A day later, Liu He's party entered Liangxiang and rested in the city that night, apparently to cross the Shengshui River the next morning and continue south.

In the darkness of the night, a group of strongmen came to the south bank of the Shengshui River, and they first risked their lives to send people down the river to carefully measure the depth of the water, and then carefully surveyed the terrain several miles up and down the ferry, and did not leave in a hurry until midnight.

It was still the manor outside Zhuoxian County, and several agile men walked in quickly from outside the village.

Steward Liu, who was the leader, said: "It is already certain that Liu Shiren will cross this section of the river and head south tomorrow morning, and our opportunity is to take advantage of the boat he is riding in to stop in the middle of the river to shoot arrows at him on the shore, if it does not work, Liu Shiren will definitely return to the north bank of the river." At that time, the team sent by the Yan family to intercept and kill him will attack him from the north shore, so that Liu Thief will not be able to escape even if he has wings! ”

"What if the thief escapes downstream?" Someone asked.

"Hmph, of course you can't be so cheap for him! I have sent someone to sneak into the river five miles downstream of the ferry yesterday night and lay dozens of hidden clothes, if Liu thief goes down the river, he happens to be stuck in these hidden piles, then we only need to launch a rocket at the boat, and we can burn him alive! ”

"What if the thief jumped into the river and fled?" Again questions were raised.

"You stupid, there are hundreds of people in ambush on both sides of the Shengshui River, how can we watch Liu and the water escape! If he dares to go into the water, we will send our best brother down and chop him up and feed him to the fish!" ”

After the group of strongmen finished deliberating, they dispersed and prepared for the attack tomorrow morning according to the division of tasks.

On the fourth watch, an army of cavalry quietly came from the downstream direction along the south bank of the Shengshui River, led by the young general Sun Li.

Sun Li came to the side of the ferry in the dark, and he whispered to a group of soldiers beside him: "You immediately cross the river on horseback, and be sure to arrive at Liangxiang City before breakfast tomorrow, and hand over this secret letter to General Murong!" ”

These soldiers were all from the Han family in Zhao Yun's cavalry battalion, and they belonged to an absolutely loyal and reliable group in the army, and they didn't ask Sun Li a word more, and were immediately ordered to jump into the still somewhat cold holy water river.

Sun Limu sent the soldiers in charge of delivering the letter and the connector into the water, and then immediately led the team into a mass grave two miles upstream of the ferry.

Early the next morning, a soaking cavalry appeared outside the city.

In Liangxiang City, Liu He and Guo Jia ate at the same table, eating millet porridge, pastrami and bran cakes made by the military cooks.

Liu He suddenly had a whim, and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Recently, all parts of Youzhou have calmed down, and I am really a little uncomfortable. In the past, it was either the Hu people in the north who made trouble on the border, or Gongsun Chan was tossing inside, and there was no time to completely stop anyway. Now that the places are calm, I feel a little less energetic, and I am not as nervous as before. ”

Guo Jia only buried his head in dealing with bacon, and then coldly said: "People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries." If you keep relaxing like this, I'm afraid that disaster won't be far away. (To be continued......)