"Enough!" Yuan Shu's words were reasonable, but Yuan Shu, who only wanted to be the emperor, listened to it, looked out of the city, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stopped a cold voice, then snorted, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and turned around to go down the city wall.

The people who followed behind Yuan Shu also went down the city wall one after another and followed Yuan Shu.

On the city wall of Shouchun, only Yuan Jian was still standing there, looking at the back of Yuan Shu and the others leaving, and let out a long sigh.

Since not long ago, he borrowed 3,000 soldiers and horses to Sun Ce to help Sun Ce fight back to Jiangdong and revive the majesty of the Sun clan in Jiangdong, Yuan Shu obtained the jade seal of the country that Sun Jian had obtained earlier.

If there was no jade seal of the country, Yuan Shu would just have an objection in his heart, and he would not dare to really call the emperor, but with the jade seal of the country, Yuan Shu, who thought that he had obtained the mandate of heaven, would be more and more powerful.

Yuan Shu persuaded him several times, but Yuan Shu seemed to be getting more and more impatient.

Especially today, Yuan Shu's cold snort invisibly revealed a little murderous intent.

Standing on the city wall, looking at Yuan Shu and the others who had already gone down the city wall, Yuan Lian lowered his head, frowned tightly, and after a while, he said to the soldiers who followed him: "Lead the horse here, I want to go out of the city and take a walk." ”

"No!" A soldier who followed Yuan Lian answered, ran down the city wall and led the horse for Yuan Lian.

No one knew that Yuan Jian had never returned to Shouchun when he left the city, but not long after, in front of Lu Bu's tent in Xuzhou, he appeared.

In Luoyang City, which had just been washed by heavy rain, Liu Wei was not idle.

Xuzhou has been turbulent, and since welcoming back Liu Xie, Cao Cao's power is even more vigorous.

In particular, the addition of Guo Jia made Cao Cao like a fish in water, occupying Qingzhou and Yanzhou, blocking Yuan Shao's way south, and Cao Cao had already shifted his attention to Xuzhou and Huainan.

Xuzhou is still far away from Luoyang, and even if it does, it is not very suitable to keep it. But Huainan is a place with abundant products and adjacent to Luoyang, and Liu Wei is also very clear that whether he can occupy Huainan or not is directly related to the success of his future domination of the Central Plains and Kuang Zheng's Han Dynasty.

In the Tiger Benwei military camp, three thousand Tiger Benwei guards, lined up in a neat formation, were practicing under the command of Zhao Yun.

With each stab, they let out a cry in unison.

While the Tiger Benwei was practicing, a group of cavalry was marching along the street towards their barracks.

The cavalry was not very numerous, and each soldier had two large red feathers stuck in his helmet.

Those who are familiar with the Luoyang Army can see at a glance that this cavalry is the palace guards guarding the palace.

Since Lu Bu's rebellion, the vigilance of the Luoyang palace has been strengthened, and the number of guards has surged from four or five hundred in the past to more than one thousand.

The group of guards marching along the streets was not very numerous, about fifty people.

However, this team of guards is definitely the elite of the guards in the Luoyang Palace, not only the spirit of each of them is extremely prominent among the Luoyang Army, but the most important thing is that the two female generals of the Luoyang Army wearing leather armor are walking in front of this team.

In the Luoyang Army, if Guan Qing is counted, there are already three female generals. Although Wang Liu and Wang Zhen only assume the function of protecting Liu Wei on weekdays, the palace guards under their command are not much weaker than the combat power of the officers and soldiers of the three guards.

Liu Wei, who was dressed in golden armor, rode a snow-white war horse and walked slowly in front of Wang Liu and Wang Zhen.

On the way along the way, Liu Wei kept turning his head to look at both sides of the road.

Under Xu Shu's arrangement, both sides of the street have been cleared, and the hawkers sell their goods, and there is a unified planning area, and the pedestrians in this area are no less than where they set up their stalls earlier, and the livelihood of many hawkers has not been affected, but has also increased a lot of income.

As for the merchants who traveled on the road, there were special buildings in the city for business talks.

Unlike ordinary buildings, they have no guest rooms, but only a hall with a few low tables, and outside the hall, there is a very large courtyard where merchants can place their goods in the courtyard, and once the business is completed, they can be delivered on the spot.

Riding on horseback on the streets, looking at the scene of Luoyang City's neighborhoods that were quite different from the past, Liu Wei was still quite satisfied.

The purpose of tidying up the streets is not just to make the streets look good, but for Liu Wei, it is most important to facilitate the merchants to do business and let the hawkers have a way to make a living.

"Your Highness, ahead is the Tiger Benwei military camp!" Walking through several streets, Wang Liu, who was following Liu Bian, raised his hand and pointed forward, and said to Liu Bian: "This should be the time when the army is being trained. ”

"It's to choose the time to come here for training!" Nodding his head, Liu Wei clamped his legs the horse's belly, shook the reins, urged the war horse, and sped up some speed.

The outside world is turbulent, although there is no war in Luoyang at the moment, but Liu Wei knows that the more quiet the period, the more vigilant he must be.

No one can say for sure, but one day the war will befall the Luoyang army.

While Liu Wei was inspecting the military camps in Luoyang City and actively preparing for war, a team of five or six hundred people had already been recruited by Cao Cao into Yanzhou, and a team of five or six hundred people was lurking in the mountains and forests on the side of the road, staring at the road not far ahead without blinking.

Leading the team was a military general with a long scar lying across his left cheek.

This military general is about thirty years old, although his facial features are quite ordinary, but the scar makes him give people a shocking feeling.

"Captain, Cao Song is here!" With people, he was lying dormant on the side of the road, quietly looking at the path, a soldier ran to the general's side, raised his hand and pointed to the north side of the road, and whispered to the general: "There are more than 100 guards escorting Cao Song, and there is only one Cao army nearby!" ”

"How far is Xiahoudun from here?" After receiving the soldier's report, the general who led the army asked very vigilantly.

The one who led the troops to lurk on the side of the road was Zhang Min, the captain under the command of Mu Taoqian of Xuzhou.

Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei and drove Liu Bei out of the Qingzhou area, holding a grudge against Cao Cao, and when Liu Bei arrived in Xuzhou, he informed Tao Qian that Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was about to pass through Yanzhou and go to Xuchang.

Although Liu Bei did not bluntly say that he wanted to assassinate Cao Song, Tao Qian, in order to make friends with him, the so-called Han clan, still ordered Zhang Min to ambush in the middle of the road, so that Cao Cao, who is now in full swing, can also taste the pain of his skin.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Min still had a little awe of Cao Cao, but Tao Qian ordered him to come to intercept and kill Cao Song, but Zhang Min did not dare to disobey, so he had to lead the five hundred soldiers of his headquarters to set up an ambush on Cao Song's road after all.

Yanzhou, now under Cao Cao's rule, must do a clean job of intercepting and killing Cao Song, otherwise once he is entangled by the guards, he may be surrounded by Cao's army.

Considering this, after setting up an ambush, Zhang Min arranged archers in advance, planning to order Cao Song's guards to be shot as soon as Cao Song entered the range of the bow and arrows, in order to achieve a quick victory.

Looking forward in the direction of the soldier's finger, a team appeared in Zhang Min's sight.

That team was quite numerous, at least four or five hundred people.

Most of the people who marched with the procession were women and servants, and there were only a few hundred guards who were really escorted by stubbornness.

"Pass the order and shoot the guard!" Looking at the team that was marching along the road to his side in a hurry, Zhang Min whispered to the soldiers who reported the news: "No one is allowed to attack without an order from this general!" ”

"No!" With a fist in response, the soldier turned around and ran as fast as he could.

The team on the road was getting closer and closer, and in the bushes on both sides of the road, one by one the Xuzhou soldiers had already drawn their bows and arrows, aiming their arrows at the team that was advancing towards them.

Looking at the team that was slowly approaching, and seeing that the team escorting Cao Song had entered the range of bows and arrows, Zhang Min raised an arm, and when he looked at the team on the road, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Shoot the arrows!" When the team marched to the front of the ambush area, Zhang Min suddenly pressed his arm down and gave a loud order to release the arrows.

had already been prepared, and the five hundred Xuzhou soldiers who were just waiting for his order let go of their hands that were pulling the bowstring tightly with Zhang Min's snort.

There was a burst of bowstrings, and arrows flew towards the completely defenseless Cao Song guards.

The Xuzhou army aimed at the guards wearing armor and carrying short spears to escort Cao Song and his party.

When the arrows flew into Cao Song's guards, dozens of guards were hit by arrows, turned over and fell from their horses.

Since he had entered Cao Cao's rule, Cao Song was almost unprepared for possible ambushes along the way, and the people in the marching team were also very close to each other.

The arrows fell into Cao Song's guards, and those arrows that shot at the guards knocked the guards to the ground in pieces, and some of the arrows that did not hit the guards also pierced into the bodies of the maids and servants on the side.

"Protect the Captain!" The first arrow of the Xuzhou army was fired, and the officer escorting Cao Song immediately understood that they had encountered an ambush, and hurriedly drew his long sword and shouted.

The rest of the guards were about to line up to meet the enemy, but the maids and servants who were stunned by the arrows screamed and hugged their heads, knocking the array that the guards had just set up into pieces.

Several arrows flew out in a row, and the people in the team on the road were already shot over.

The most casualties are the defenders who bear the responsibility of protection.

Although they were all well-trained soldiers, they were disrupted by the chaotic handmaidens and servants, and they were scattered before they could be formed, and they had to fight on their own, bearing the harvest of their lives from the arrows.

"Kill! Not a single one to stay! The soldiers cast several arrows in succession, knowing that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, Zhang Min stood up suddenly, drew the long sword at his waist, and shouted to the soldiers who followed him here.

Five hundred Xuzhou soldiers, after Zhang Min's order, rushed out and rushed towards the team that was already in chaos on the road.