When Liu He led the army to approach Jinyang City, far south of the Yellow River, at the Yin boundary of Henan, a force pretending to be Liu He, Zhao Yun, Zhang He and others finally came to Yangwu County, which was close to Yanzhou, after a huge toss.

This army was instructed by Liu He to go to Yanzhou to attract the attention of the world.

Or the day before Liu He left Luoyang, Qu Meng, Deng Hai and Chen Gui led a mixed army of 10,000 foot cavalry to go against the grain, and after leaving Luoyang City, the marching battle was loud, for fear that the whole world would not know that Liu He was going to return to Youzhou to save his father.

The problem is that the eyebrows are about to burn in Youzhou, but the marching speed of "Liu He" is like a turtle crawling the street, where is it like a man who is eager to save his father?

From Luoyang to Yangwu is only more than 300 miles, all the way is a flat and open avenue, there are few rugged and difficult mountain roads, if the cavalry marches quickly, it only takes two days to arrive. Although the speed of the infantry march was slow, it was not difficult to advance forty or fifty miles in one day, so it did not take a full ten days to march from Luoyang to Yangwu.

Deng Hai and Chen Gui marched so slowly, but the commanders of several armies hidden in a few places in Yanzhou were "eager to see through", and they couldn't wait to jump out and curse a few words.

For example, Cao Renbu, who led 20,000 infantry to hide in the Wating area, was deployed in place half a month ago, just waiting for someone to pass through Yanzhou and jumped out and shouted: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree!" As a result, Cao Ren waited for more than ten days with his neck stretched, and Liu He had not yet entered the territory of Yanzhou!

For another example, leading 30,000 infantry to ambush Xiahou Yuanbu near Lihu City was originally a main dish carefully prepared by Cao Cao for Liu He, even if Liu He's troops broke through Cao Ren's first blockade line and came to Lihu tiredly, there was no possibility of turning the tables in the face of these 30,000 Yanzhou elites.

And also. With Cao Cao's acquiescence, Jingzhou Liu Biao's subordinate Huang Zu quietly led his army from Nanyang to Yingchuan into Chenliu's territory, and only waited for Liu He's troops to leave the Luoyang area, and then led the army to cut off Liu He's back road, and then came to a "close the door to catch thieves".

In addition to the above three troops who ambushed Liu He in Yanzhou, Cao Heizi also ambushed small forces of thousands of people in Dunqiu, Qinting, Cangting and other places in order to prevent Liu He from turning the tables against the sky.

Yuan Shao of Jizhou was worried that his good brother Cao Cao would not be able to work hard, so he also mobilized 20,000 horses and horses to gather on the line from Beiqiu to Ling County in Qinghe Kingdom, which was close to Dong County, and was bound to drive Liu He's military horses into the Taotao Yellow River.

Although the road ahead is so dangerous, Deng Hai and Chen Gui, who were happy and happy along the way, did not have the slightest awareness of stepping into the ghost gate. They still followed Liu He's instructions before leaving, maintained a turtle-speed march of 30 miles a day, stopped every time they crossed a county to familiarize themselves with the surrounding terrain, and by the way, they also carried out some military exercises that outsiders could not understand at all.

Don't look at Deng Hai and Chen Gui are just native-born mud-legged generals, their martial arts are ordinary, and their resourcefulness is not as good as many generals under Liu He, but they have one advantage that others can't learn, that is, they are obedient and never self-righteous. Whatever Liu He asks them to do, they will do it in a down-to-earth manner, and they will not go against the law.

Before leaving, Liu He asked Deng Hai and Chen Gui that the army should not go deeper than 30 miles into Yanzhou when it traveled eastward. The two of them really took turns staring at the Jili drum cart, and after the army had left the Yin boundary in Henan for more than thirty miles to the east, they stopped marching and immediately turned around and returned to the west.

The Jili drum carriage is a special horse-drawn carriage that appeared in the Han Dynasty. On this type of car is a wooden doll with a drum in its hands, and the wheels are connected by a transmission device underneath. Whenever the carriage travels a certain mile, the wooden man will wave the drum and beat the small drum in front of him, and the drum will remind the carriage of the mileage.

Although Deng Hai and Chen Gui strictly followed Liu He's instructions, they did not have the attitude of dealing with them passively, but always thought about how to do the things Liu He explained to be successful and beautiful. Liu He only said that he could not go deep into Yanzhou for thirty miles, but he did not limit the time they stayed in Yanzhou.

Here's what happened: Henan Yin and Yanzhou Chenliu County have a dividing line of nearly 200 li, and to the east of the boundary are five counties under the jurisdiction of Chenliu County, including Suzao, Fengqiu, Junyi, Chenliu County and Weishi, while to the west of the boundary line are Yuanwu, Yangwu, Zhongmu and Kaifeng four counties under the jurisdiction of Henan Yin.

The distance from Yuanwu County to Suzao County is no more than 50 miles, the distance from Yangwu County to Fengqiu County is not more than 50 miles, the distance from Zhongmu County to Junyi County is no more than 40 miles, and the distance from Kaifeng to Chenliu County and Weishi is not more than 50 miles.

If the Jili drum car is started from the middle dividing line of these corresponding counties, then the five counties of Suozao, Fengqiu, Junyi, Chenliu and Weishi happen to be within 30 miles of Liu He's regulations and belong to the "safe zone". Cao Ren's Tibetan soldiers' tile pavilion was a hundred miles east of Suojube, and the place where Xiahoudun set up an ambush was even farther away, and Huang Zu kept his troops south of Wei's clan near Yingchuan Yanling.

The reason why the warlords did not deploy their troops on the border close to Yin in Henan Province was naturally because they were worried that they would be startled by the snakes, and after Liu He found out that something was wrong, they turned around and fled back to Luoyang.

It won't be much of a problem to ambush Liu He secretly, but if Chen Bing openly besieges Liu He at the border, it will be a big taboo, not only will it cause the world to laugh, but it is more likely that Liu He will not be able to get rid of Liu He and cause a commotion.

Chen Gui and Deng Hai understood this, so they decided to leave a "commemorative gift" for Cao Heizi in Yanzhou without violating the rules set by Liu He.

All the way east, Deng Hai and Chen Gui saw with their own eyes that the Luoyang area was sparsely populated, and Cao Heizi had just obtained nearly one million Qingzhou Yellow Turban refugees last year, many of whom were placed in the counties of Sujuju, Fengqiu, Junyi and other counties near Luoyang.

The 10,000 troops that came out with Deng Hai and Chen Gui were all from the Shen Xi Army, and they were composed of peasants near Danshui in Nanyang, and they would carry out large-scale "mass work" under the instruction of Qu Meng whenever they passed, not only showing up to publicize to the common people in the villages and market towns how they had united to confront the landlords in the first place, but also vigorously publicizing the land policy formulated by Liu He in Luoyang, encouraging the nearby peasant households to move to settle in the vicinity of Luoyang, and seizing the time to change the Chenliu hukou to the "capital hukou".

This time, it's really amazing!

Wherever Shen Xijun passed, the people were boiling within 30 miles, and many landless tenant farmers rolled up their belongings and headed west, and some of the more daring ones hung behind Shen Xijun's buttocks, shouting that they wanted to join the Xi army and "eat big households".

The officials of the counties where Deng Hai and Chen Gui passed because they had no soldiers in their hands, so they dared not speak out, and when the army was over, they sent people to report to Cao Cao in Changyi. However, in their report, they could not accuse Shen Xijun of doing anything angry and resentful, because when Shen Xijun crossed the border, military discipline was not lax at all, and there were never vicious incidents such as smashing, looting, and burning, and people were just singing and talking along the road.

When Cao Cao received the report, Shen Xijun had already wandered from Sour Zao to Junyi, and his next stop was to go to Chenliu County.

Cao Cao, who had been waiting to see how unlucky Liu He was, couldn't figure out which one Liu He was playing, after all, the speed of information transmission at this time was slow, and he couldn't know that Liu He had actually arrived outside Jinyang City, and he didn't plan to cross the border from Yanzhou at all!

Cao Cao thought about it, and only thought that Liu He was deliberately testing himself in order to determine whether there were ambushes in Yanzhou, so he asked people to send orders to the counties, asking them not to interfere with the behavior of the Shenxi army, as long as they did not disturb the people, they could do whatever they liked, and everyone just had to watch from the sidelines.

Cao Cao also asked people to send secret letters to Cao Ren and Xiahoudun, asking them to calm down, not to be confused by Liu He's absurd and bizarre actions, and to be careful to prepare for Liu He's sudden U-turn and north.

It's a pity that this time it is destined to disappoint Cao Cao.

After Deng Hai and Chen Gui passed Chen Liu, there was still no sign of turning north, but continued to march south, preparing to "scourge" the Wei clan!

After the Shen Xi Army, more than 10,000 families were bewitched and moved to Luoyang, and tens of thousands of people followed behind the Shen Xi Army and refused to disperse.

Deng Hai and Chen Gui's behavior is like running to someone else's clean yard to relieve their hands, and after finishing their errands, they also took away the bonsai planted in other people's yards!

Cao Cao, who had already realized that something was wrong, hurriedly sent a letter to Huang Zu, Liu Biao's subordinate who was ambushed and near the Wei family, asking him to meet this team of fanning the flames for a while anyway to verify whether Liu He was in the team.

When Huang Zu received Cao Cao's secret letter, the Shen Xi army had already passed Chen Liu, and was slowly coming towards Weishi County, this arrogant guy had not seen the combat strength of Liu He's troops, so he decided to meet Shen Xi's army ten miles northeast of Weishi County.

However, Huang Zu was not stupid, he didn't want to lead the troubles to Jingzhou, and this time Cao Cao sent someone to send a letter to ask him to take action, so Huang Zu changed the banner of the army to Cao Jun's, pretending to be Cao Cao's subordinates to fight.

Deng Hai and Chen Gui, who were tossing to Xingtou, suddenly received an urgent report from Xizuo, saying that an unidentified unit had been discovered in the direction of the Wei clan and was rapidly approaching their side. The two were startled and hurriedly asked Qu Meng to help with advice.

Qu Meng looked at the map carefully, and then said: "If we start a war with Cao's army in Yanzhou, we will not be reasonable; But if we lead this force from Weishi to Kaifeng County, it means that they are not responsible. In my opinion, it is better to divide the troops into two routes, let the five thousand soldiers on horseback continue to pretend to march south, and the rest immediately turn west to Kaifeng County, where they are ready to ambush the enemy! ”

Deng Hai and Chen Gui had no objection, so they immediately divided their troops, and Chen Gui continued to march in the direction of Wei with 5,000 fake cavalry, while Deng Hai and Qu Meng led 5,000 infantry and more than 10,000 young men who refused to leave to set up an ambush in Kaifeng County. (To be continued......)

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