When Yang Qing woke up, he found that he was lying on a bed, his wound was bandaged, and he was sitting next to the general Cai Jin, who was about to struggle to get up, but Cai Jin held him down, "Don't move, beware of bursting wounds." ”

Yang Qing lay down and couldn't help crying, "General, Cao Jun framed us, saying that we brought prohibited weapons and took away people and goods. ”

Cai Jin had also heard of this kind of thing, but he didn't expect the Cai family to encounter it, so he asked coldly: "You didn't tell them, are you the Cai family's caravan?" ”

"Deacon Wang said it, but the leading officer said that we were spies sent by the general, and it became more ferocious."

Cai Jin was annoyed in his heart, he didn't even give the least face, Lequn bullied people too much, so he said to Yang Qing: "You take care of your injuries, I'll deal with this matter." ”

Cai Jin walked out and asked the patrol officer who rescued Yang Qing, "Who is the other party?" ”

"There are brothers who know the patrol officer, who is Le Yi, the son of Le Qun."

Cai Jin pondered for a moment and ordered left and right, "Go and invite Mr. Xu!" ”

Mr. Xu's name is Xu Zhao, the current head of the Ye County garrison, his family is the Ye County Wang family, and he used to have close contacts with Cao Jun, after a while, Xu Zhao hurried over, Shi Li said: "General Ye is looking for his subordinates to have something to do?" ”

"That's the case, a caravan of my family was taken away by the son of Le Qun, I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding here, I want to ask Mr. Xu to go to Kunyang County, tell Le Qun, ask him to give me a face, put the people and goods back."

Xu Zhao had a good relationship with Li Dian, the former commander of the Cao army, after Li Dian was captured by Liu Hu, he took good care of Li Dian, and later the Battle of Hefei ended, Li Dian was also put back, and he has always been grateful to him, if the lord of Kunyang County will be Li Dian, then this is a trivial matter for him.

But now the general of Kunyang County has been replaced by Lequn, they have never dealt with each other, and it is said that this Lequn is extremely greedy, he may not be willing to give Cai Jin face, but Xu Zhao has no choice, so he only agreed.

Xu Zhao took two entourages to Kunyang County on horseback, and when there were still ten miles away from Kunyang County, a cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods next to him, surrounding them, and the person at the head was Le Yi, the son of Le Qun, who was as cunning as his father Le Qun, knowing that Cai Jin would send someone to negotiate, so he hid here and waited, and sure enough, he caught it.

"Who are you?" Le Yi asked viciously.

Xu Zhao was wearing the civilian military uniform of the Han army, and he arched his hand and said: "Bo Xu Zhao, the lord of the Han army in Xiaye City, on the order of General Cai, came to see you General Le, please lead the way!" ”

"Humph! I was about to go to Cai Jin, what did he mean by sending spies into Kunyang? ”

Xu Zhao was stunned, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

"Don't care who I am, if you want to go to the Lord, I will take you there."

Xu Zhao saw that they were all murderous and their faces were not good, and he secretly thought in his heart, 'Could it be that this is the son of Le Qun?' If you go with him, you will surely die. ’

He reluctantly smiled and said, "I'm here to deliver a letter to General Le, if you are willing to do it for you, I won't go." ”

He took out Cai Jin's letter and handed it to Le Yi, although Le Yi was as greedy for money as his father, he was not reckless, he knew that he could not kill the other party's officials indiscriminately, and his purpose was to prevent the other party from going to see his father.

He took the letter and said, "I will give it to the Lord, please return it!" ”

Xu Zhao arched his hand, turned the horse's head and hurried away, Le Yi saw him walking away, sneered, tore the letter to shreds, and waved his hand: "Let's go!" A group of cavalry rushed towards Kunyang County.

Xu Zhao returned to Ye County, but he didn't tell the truth, he sued Cai Jin, he was intercepted by Le Yi's army on the way, threatening his life, and the letter was also snatched away by Le Yi, and he escaped by luck.

Cai Jin didn't expect Le Yi to be so rude, he was very annoyed in his heart, but he was a cautious person and didn't dare to take action without authorization, so he immediately sent a pigeon letter to Wancheng Wenpin, briefly reporting the matter to him.

At dusk, Cai Jin stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance, with a trace of sadness in his heart, he was affected by the Cai family over the years, and his promotion was also affected, like Huo Jun, Xiang Zhong and other Jingzhou faction generals were promoted to partial generals, and his master Wen Ping was promoted to the governor of Xiangwan, but he stopped at Zhonglang General, although Liu Jing treated him well, and named him Tinghou, but he wanted to go up again, I am afraid it will be difficult.

The fundamental reason is that the Cai family does not know the current affairs, occupies too much fertile land, and is short-sighted, thinking that the Xiangyang government does not dare to touch them, at the beginning of the father asked the family to keep only 500 hectares of land, and the rest to the government, but was strongly opposed by the family, and the father was so angry that he couldn't afford to be sick.

Cai Jin still remembers what his father said before he died, if he can persuade the family, it is the best, but if the family does not want to change, he can break up with the Cai family and set up his own family, Liu Jing will definitely miss the old love and entrust him with a heavy position.

Originally, after his father's death, he should inherit the position of the head of the family, but unexpectedly, more than a dozen elders of the family revised the inheritance rules of the head of the family, and unanimously elected Cai Lin of Mingshanfang as the head of the family, obviously not letting him inherit his father's will, which made Cai Jin disheartened with the family.

At this time, he remembered his father's dying words, did he really want to break off from the Cai family and set up his own family?

It's just that the Cai family has split once ten years ago, Cai Mao established a new Cai family in Yedu and established himself as the head of the family, Cai Jin can't bear to split the family again, so he has not practiced his father's last words, but at this time, a strong desire to break with the family suddenly appeared in his heart, and Cai Jin couldn't help but slowly clench his fists.

At this moment, a soldier rushed to the scene and shouted, "General, the governor's urgent message." ”

Cai Jin perked up, this was the master's reply to him, and he hurriedly said, "Give me the letter quickly!" ”

The soldier handed a tube of pigeon letters to Cai Jin, Cai Jin opened the pigeon letters, squinted his eyes and looked at them, only to see that there were only four words on the letter: 'Provoke trouble!' ’

Cai Jin nodded slowly, he understood what the master meant.

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The boundary between Ye County and Kunyang County is actually a small river, the local people call it Liushui, the small river is about 50 miles long, and finally injects the water, the riverbed is not wide, the widest part of the river surface is only four zhang, the narrowest place is less than two zhang, Ye Kun Bridge is erected on this willow water.

One of the biggest features of Liushui is that both sides of the riverbed are covered with willow trees, and in mid-spring, the catkins fly all over the sky, which is spectacular, but since the confrontation between Cao Han and Cao Han here, the atmosphere here has become tense, and there are their own patrol soldiers patrolling back and forth on both sides of Liushui every day.

At night, a patrol team of more than 30 people of the Cao army was patrolling the north bank of Liushui as usual, they paid attention to the movements on the other side from time to time, and the patrol soldiers of the Han army on the opposite bank also happened every night.

But tonight, they never met the Han army patrol on the other side, and several soldiers couldn't help but mutter, "Everyone has a holiday to rest, but we have to do hard work every day." ”

"Shut up! Patrol well. The commander turned around and scolded the soldiers.

At this moment, countless black shadows suddenly poured out from all sides, surrounding them, and the Cao army patrol team looked at each other in fright, not knowing what was going on? The commander of the head of the tun recognized the other party, it turned out to be Han soldiers, there were two or three hundred people, raised his bow and crossbow and aimed at them, he felt a pang in his heart, and asked in fear: "What are you going to do?" ”

The general of the Han army at the head waved his hand, "Take them all!" ”

Overnight, all five patrol teams of the Cao army were captured by the Han army, which alarmed the chief general of the Cao army, Le Qun, and he was furious, and led 3,000 soldiers to Yekun Bridge early the next morning.

At this time, Cai Jin was also prepared, and he had led thousands of soldiers to ambush in the woods on the south bank of the bridge, waiting for Cao Jun to take the bait.

Le Qun waited for a while, and when he saw that there was no Han army patrol post coming forward to ask, he became impatient in his heart, and turned back to a tooth general and ordered: "You take five hundred brothers to kill them, and catch a Han army patrol for me." ”

"Obey!"

The tooth general waved his hand, led five hundred men to rush across the Ye Kun Bridge, and ran to the official road that the Han army often patrols, but only ran out of a hundred steps, there was a bang sound in the woods on both sides, and the arrows in the woods were fired together, the Cao soldiers were caught off guard, and were immediately shot over more than 100 people, and the rest of the soldiers were frightened to scatter, turned around and fled, and there was a burst of random arrows shooting, this time the arrows were more and more dense, and more than 200 people were overturned, and even the Cao army tooth general was also hit by several arrows, and fell from the horse on the spot.

Le Qun in the distance was taken aback, the Han army actually had an ambush, he hurriedly retreated left and right, the two thousand five hundred Cao army retreated back like a low tide, and retreated for a mile before slowly stopping, only more than 80 of the five hundred Cao army who entered the boundary of Ye County fled back, and many people had arrow wounds on their bodies and suffered heavy losses.

Le Qun looked at the Han soldiers standing on the other side of the willow water from afar, trembling with anger, the Han army was obviously using a trick to lure himself into being fooled, he couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "The three armies line up, kill them!" ”

The Cao army quickly lined up, and a group of soldiers held shields in their hands, slowly approaching the Liuhe, at this time, the Han army had lined up an arrow array, and a thousand crossbows were aimed at the Cao soldiers who were slowly approaching, but the Cao army did not enter the range of the bow and crossbow, but confronted the Han army one hundred and fifty steps away.

Le Qun had gradually calmed down at this time, he didn't understand why the Han army suddenly provoked an incident, but the Han army must have a purpose in doing this, and he couldn't be too impulsive, so as not to fall into the trap of the Han army.

He sent a soldier forward and shouted, "Both sides are patrolling, why does the Han army want to arrest our patrol soldiers?" ”

The Han army ignored it and did not reply, but an arrow shot over the head of the shouting soldiers, so frightened that the soldiers fled back, at this moment, the drums behind the Cao army suddenly beat loudly, only to see a Han army killed from behind, the soldiers behind were not prepared, and there was a sudden chaos.

Cai Jin immediately shouted: "Kill!" ”

Three thousand Han troops shouted in unison, rushed across the Yekun Bridge in one go, and killed the Cao army, the Cao army suffered from the enemy on its back, and each escaped in the chaos.

The Han army pursued and killed all the way, killed Cao Jun crying father and mother, surrendered countless soldiers, the road to the north retreat has been blocked by the Han army, Le Qun could not return to the city, had to lead the remnants of the army to the west and fled, at this time in Kunyang to defend the city Le Yi heard that the Han army attacked, his father had been defeated, the whereabouts are unknown, he was flustered in his heart, worried that he could not hold the city, so he gave up Kunyang County, led the soldiers to the north to evacuate.

Kunyang fell, the Han army occupied the first county seat of Yingchuan County, Kunyang County, the situation in Nanyang changed abruptly, Cao Zhen, the main general of Xudu, immediately sent an 800-mile express to Yedu, and at the same time sent 20,000 troops to Xiangcheng County, and the Han army's chief general Wen Ping also added 15,000 troops to Yecheng, and the clouds of war began to shroud over Yingchuan County, and the war situation was about to break out.