Chapter 191: King Hongnong's Eastern Crusade
In Anyi City, the city gate was wide open, and a group of soldiers wearing big red armor lined up on both sides of the street, blocking the people on the street behind them, and an army also wearing big red armor drove out of the military camp in the city and walked towards the open city gate.
Walking in the front was Liu Wei in golden armor, Zhao Yun and Dian Wei rode war horses, clustered on his left and right flanks slightly behind, while Yang Feng and Hu Cai fell behind, supervising the ranks of the army.
The vanguard led by Zhou Cang had already opened Anyi City an hour ago, and now it was the main force of Liu Weijun's Eastern Expedition who was about to leave the city.
Xu Shu led the officials and generals who stayed in Anyi into two columns, standing at the gate of the city to send the army out of the city.
As soon as he led the army out of the city gate, Liu Wei saw Xu Shu standing on the side and bowing down.
"Strategist." Riding a horse to Xu Shu, Liu Wei looked down at Xu Shu standing under the horse, and said to him: "This king will go on this expedition, at least two or three months, or more than a year, and the labor division in Hedong has bothered!" ”
"Your Majesty can't follow the army, please cherish it Your Highness!" Standing beside Liu Bian's horse with his fists in his fist, Xu Shu said to Liu Bian: "The situation in Yanzhou and Bohai is complicated, and all the powerful have intervened. Although Cao Mengde in the south is loyal to the Han, this person is a hero, so he has to guard against it! At present, the strength of our army is not enough to compete with it. Your Royal Highness should not be nostalgic for Yanzhou, the goal is achieved, and you will return as soon as possible! ”
"This king knows!" Liu Wei nodded, clasped his fists and arched at Xu Shu and said, "Take care, take care of the military advisor, farewell!" ”
Xu Shu raised his head and looked at Liu Wei with his fists clenched. Liu Wei shook the reins, and was about to use his legs to ride the horse forward to the belly of the horse, when Cai Yan's voice suddenly came from inside the city gate: "Your Highness, slow down, the concubine is here to see you off!" ”
Hearing Cai Yan's voice, Liu Wei turned his head and looked at the city gate.
I saw Cai Yan holding Yaoqin in his arms, accompanied by two maids holding incense candles and straw mats in their hands, and ran out of the city gate full of officers and soldiers.
The two maidens were followed by two soldiers carrying a low table.
Running to Liu Bian's horse, Cai Yan looked up at Liu Bian on horseback, and said to him: "Your Highness's expedition, the concubine has nothing to send, only to stroke a song, farewell to His Highness, and hope that His Highness will triumph as soon as possible!" ”
Looking down at Cai Yan, who was standing under the horse and was delicate and red from running fast, Liu Wei nodded and said to her: "Zhao Ji has a heart, this king will definitely not forget Zhao Ji's affection!" ”
Two soldiers carrying a low table placed it on the side, and the maid holding the straw mat laid a straw mat behind the low table, and the straw mat was laid, and another maid also set up incense and candles on the table.
Holding Yaoqin in his arms, Cai Yan bowed slightly to Liu Wei, walked to the low table, put Yaoqin on the table, and gently uncovered the silk wrapped around the body.
lit the incense candle and bowed to Yaoqin, Cai Yan raised his hand and stroked the strings.
Slender fingers plucked the strings, and a stirring and heroic melody wafted outside the city gates. Different from the soft melody that Cai Yan played in the past, the piece she was playing was full of a strong sense of solemnity, and listening to the song, Liu Wei inexplicably rose a sense of pride in his heart.
Riding on horseback, looking at Cai Yan who lowered his head and stroked Yaoqin, Liu Wei shook off the reins, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, and rode the horse towards the east.
An army of more than 10,000 people followed behind Liu Wei and slowly advanced towards the east, Cai Yan, who was caressing Yaoqin, did not look up at Liu Wei, but focused on plucking the strings with ten slender jade fingers. As she played the tune, two crystal tears were already sliding down her cheeks.
Since Liu Wei occupied Hedong, it has only been two or three months, and the Hedong area has changed greatly.
Liu Wei reduced the taxes of merchants and merchants, and adopted a strategy of rewarding the people who worked hard and engaged in handicrafts, and the productivity of the entire Hedong was greatly improved, and the life of the people was much better than in the past.
The people in Anyi City learned of Liu Wei's expedition and spontaneously came to see him off, so the streets were crowded with crowds on both sides. When the army was all out of the city gate, the people who saw them off also crowded through the human wall composed of soldiers in front of them, and poured out of the city gate one after another, looking at the back of the army gradually moving away, and many people's eyes showed a heavy reluctance.
Among the people who saw them off, Deng Zhan, who was dressed in moon-white dark clothes and carried a long sword behind him, also watched the back of the army go away.
The army had already traveled far away, and Xu Shu, officials, and generals escorted the grief-stricken Cai Yan back to the city, and the people who saw him off also returned to the city one after another.
Deng Zhan stood outside the city gate, looking at the direction of the army's journey, and after a long time, he walked quickly towards the east.
At noon on the second day when Liu Wei led his army out of the city, the news reached Chang'an.
Knowing that Liu Wei really led the army to the east, Dong Zhuo hurriedly summoned Jia Xu to the study to discuss matters.
forced the Han family to move the capital, in the process of moving the capital, Dong Zhuo plundered, both civilians and scholars in Luoyang City were persecuted by the rebels, and the scholars who were not very disgusted with Dong Zhuo were now eager to kill him and hurry up.
Knowing that the people and the scholars hated him, Dong Zhuo didn't dare to be careless, and kept Lu Bu by his side all day long as a guard, and the relationship with Lu Bu was much closer than before.
Kneeling in the study, with Lu Bu in armor standing behind him, Dong Zhuo looked at Jia Xu, who was sitting three or five steps away from him, and said to Jia Xu: "Jia Zhonglang expected it to be good, King Hongnong really set up his troops early yesterday morning and went to Yanzhou to kill the Yellow Turban. The prime minister wants to order someone to intercept and kill halfway, I don't know who Zhonglang thinks, who to send to Fang is appropriate? ”
"It's best to wait for you!" Looking up at Lu Bu, who was standing behind Dong Zhuo, Jia Xu said to Dong Zhuo: "Wen Hou Yongguan three armies, if you take on this great task, you will definitely be able to kill King Hongnong." ”
Turning his head to look at Lu Bu who was standing behind him, Dong Zhuo shook his head and said, "Fengxian, my son must stay in Chang'an, and the prime minister still has important things to appoint......
"If Wen Hou doesn't go, Hu Zhen and Xu Rong can be generals." After bowing his head and muttering for a moment, Jia Xu said to Dong Zhuo: "It's just that Hua Xiong died in the Tiger Prison, and there is no pioneer under Hu Zhen......"
"What does Zhonglang think of Li Meng?" Without waiting for Jia Xu to finish speaking, Dong Zhuo said to him: "Li Meng is excellent in martial arts, and he is thoughtful, and he thinks that he can be a pioneer general of Hu Zhen." ”
"Xiangguo can order Hu Zhen to lead the army to intercept and kill King Hongnong in Hanoi, Li Meng's ability should be competent as a vanguard!" Glancing at Lu Bu, who was standing behind Dong Zhuo with an expressionless face, Jia Xu lowered his head and pondered for a moment before saying to Dong Zhuo: "In addition to this road of soldiers and horses, Xiangguo also needs to give an order to order Zhang Ji, who is in the area of Chenliu and Yingchuan, to wave his troops westward and join forces with Hu Zhen, so that he has a few chances of winning!" ”
"Someone!" Twisting his chin with one hand, Dong Zhuo groaned for a moment, and then shouted outside the house.
A pro-soldier walked into the study, clasped his hands into fists, and stood at the door.
Picking up a pen from the table, dipping it in ink on the inkstone, Dong Zhuo quickly wrote a few lines on the two silk silks, handed them to Lu Bu on the side, and said to the pro-soldier: "You immediately convey the order of the prime minister, order Hu Zhen to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses in Hanoi to intercept and kill King Hongnong, and send someone to inform Zhang Ji, who is in the area of Chenliu and Yingchuan, that he should immediately rush to Hanoi to reinforce Hu Zhen, there must be no mistake!" ”
"No!" The soldiers responded, walked quickly to Lu Bu, took the two silk silks with words written on them from Lu Bu's hands, and took a few steps backwards before turning around and striding out of the room.
The news of Liu Bian's army not only reached Chang'an, but the princes everywhere received the same news.
Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Gongsun Zan of Hebei had a bad relationship, although Gongsun Zan had been defeated, but the attack of both sides was not completely over, and neither side had time to lead troops to reinforce Liu Dai. And Liu Dai, who is in Yanzhou, is by no means easy at this time.
In order to make friends with Liu Dai, Yuan Shao left his wife in Yanzhou as a hostage, and Gongsun Zhan, who was fighting against Yuan Shao, learned of the situation and ordered someone to ask Liu Dai for Yuan Shao's wife.
Liu Dai didn't dare to make a decision, and only after thinking again and again did he reject Gongsun Zhan at Cheng Yu's suggestion, which offended Fang Haoqiang.
But for him, it's not really worth dwelling on. What gave him the most headache was that now that the Yellow Turban Army had entered the boundary of Yanzhou, Liu Wei had already led the army eastward to help him exterminate the Yellow Turbans.
Earlier, he raided Qiao Mao's military camp and killed Qiao Mao's collection department, although Qiao Mao was the Dongjun Taishou under the Yanzhou Assassin History Department, but as an assassin who killed court officials, he also risked the world's condemnation.
Qingzhou Yellow Turbans went west, passing through Yanzhou, and the first team to come to help suppress the Yellow Turbans was Liu Wei, which really made Liu Dai feel worried.
In Yanzhou City under the rule of Dongjun, in the main hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Liu Dai put his hands behind his back, and walked back and forth in the hall more than ten times.
"You are waiting to give Ben Thorn History an idea, this time King Hongnong is coming, and Yanzhou is in turmoil, how should I deal with it?" At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the troubled times just started, and the princes around the country were still somewhat afraid of the imperial court, especially this Liu Dai was a member of the Han family, and when he heard that Liu Wei led the army to help suppress the Yellow Turban, he was even more panicked, and after walking back and forth like ants on a hot pot for more than ten laps, he roared to everyone in the hall with anxiety.
Sitting in the hall, all of them were Yanzhou civil and military officials, seeing that Liu Dai was angry, everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, except for Wang Yu, who frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, Wang Yu stood up, hugged his fists and said to Liu Dai: "Qi Yu Assassination History, although the Qingzhou Yellow Turban is known as a million, there are only tens of thousands of people who can fight, and the rest are all old and weak women and children. Sun Guan and Guan Hai are brave generals, but the two of them look like each other, and Chang Fan is capricious and cannot conspire. This time, the Qingzhou army seems to be powerful, but in fact it is not strong. The topography of Dongping is high in the north and low in the south, high in the east and low in the west. If the Yellow Turban thieves want to advance to the west of Yanzhou, they must leave the mountains and go to the flat land, my Yanzhou army infantry elite is good at flat combat, and the assassin only needs to line up in Dongping to meet the enemy, and he should be able to defeat the Yellow Turban thieves in one fell swoop! ”
After listening to Wang Yu's analysis, Liu Dai put his hands behind his back and paced back and forth for a few steps before nodding heavily and saying to Wang Yu: "Don't drive what you say is exactly what you want." Urgently order the elite of Yanzhou, march into Dongping, and block the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in Dongping! ”
"Ming Gong decides, and the teacher must be successful!" Liu Dai made a decision, and all the civil and military people in the hall clasped their fists together and congratulated.
At this time, Liu Wei also led the army to march on the border of Hedong.
In the troubled times, most of the people elsewhere were starving and hungry, but in Hedong, after Liu Wei was stationed, although the first year's harvest had not yet been ushered in, the people's lives were much more stable.
Wherever the army went, the people of the labor army spontaneously lined up to greet each other, which made Liu Wei's army somewhat delayed the trip.
"How long will it take to leave the Hedong Territory!" The sun was skewed, and when the army stopped camping, Liu Wei looked to the east and asked Zhao Yun, who was following behind.
"Back to Your Highness!" Zhao Yun clenched his fists and arched at Liu Wei, raised his hand to the east, and said to him: "Our army has already passed the east wall, and the mountain in front of it is the king's house. In less than a day, you can reach Keiguan. After leaving the Kei Pass, it is the boundary of the river! ”