The fire burned to the sky, and the morning light reflected the surface of the river in a sparkling gold.

The water village on the north bank of the Huai River sounded one after another war drums.

Knock knock!

Knock knock knock!

In the dry villages on both sides of the water village, a group of soldiers wearing leather armor, hanging bows and crossbows, and carrying round shields on their backs, gathered in the school yard for the final inspection.

"Tighten your belt, don't let the repeater fall!"

"The leggings should also be tightened, and they should be loosened when fighting, and if you stumble, your life will be gone!"

The lieutenant named Fang Tianling walked in the middle of the subordinate parts with the head of his sword, and loudly told every soldier, and from time to time he would also tighten his belt and leggings for the soldiers who had only fought twice in a hurry, or take the opponent's crossbow to check it.

He is a subordinate general under Zhang Liao, and like Cao Zhen, he was the chief catcher and guard general of Chendu County, since the first southern hunt of the Central Plains by the Son of Heaven, they were captured to the north with the 80,000 people of Chendu County, and he and Cao Xin were filled into the army to serve, from a pawn after several battles, promoted to the current captain.

Most of them have settled down in Zhangzhou, and occasionally take their families to cross the Hunhe River to the south bank to see their former hometowns.

Fang Tianling and Cao Zhen followed the Bingzhou army to be stationed in Gyeongju first, and then Luyang, the two had already married and had children, and their small lives were not bad.

At least it's a lot stronger than it was back then.

Dominate the world, the six countries will be one, and your own life will be better.

He thought.

Immediately, Fang Tianling stepped forward, turned around, and shouted at the soldiers under his command: "Get out of the camp and get on the boat!" ”

The two thousand people under his command responded with a loud shout, shouted in unison, and quickly ran out of the school field with Fang Tianling, at this moment, the other battalions in the school field also kept in line and ran one after another, like streams spreading out of the camp.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

"It's on board! Hurry! ”

A group of soldiers stretched through the ferry, and the state sergeants ran towards the ferry with shields and crossbows on their backs, stepping on the planks and burrowing into the cargo hold on the ground floor.

Guan Yu rode a horse, his eyes closed, Zhang Liao on the side had a burning gaze, he looked at the torrent rushing out of the various battalions, gathered over, and sank into the cabin.

"Back then, Yun Chang and Liao couldn't see the unification of the world, but at this moment, you and I are in this world, fulfilling our long-cherished wishes, I don't know how I feel now?"

"It's worth the trip!"

The soldiers of the Yizhou Army, who were busy with thousands of troops entering the boat, raised the sails, Guan Yu turned over and dismounted, and walked to the ferry with Zhang Liao and walked up to the ship's building.

"It would be nice to be able to come back to Huaxia all over again." He whispered.

The flagships stretched to the left and right, the large ships erected defensive baffles, the sails raised on the masts bulged, the small holes under the cabins, and the dense oars on both sides stirred the water.

"Offshore—"

The general of the Yizhou Army, who commanded the big ship, shouted loudly, and Zhang Liao's cloak, which was standing on the ship's floor, was hunting and flying, and he turned his head to look to the east, where the soldiers waved flags and shouted the same words on the warships.

"The Yizhou army trained by Yun Chang is actually stronger than the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou back then, right?"

"You can fight on land and water."

Retracting his gaze from the sparkling water over there, Guan Yu pressed the guardrail with one hand and said casually with a smile, but judging from his smile, he had already affirmed what Zhang Liao asked.

Guan Yu took a deep breath and patted the fence.

"Let's go to war!"

As he spoke, the hull of the boat shook slightly, and the two big sticks at the stern of the boat slid along the river to the middle of the river, and the soldiers on the boat tower shouted again and waved their flags.

"Cast the oars!"

On both sides of the huge hull, twenty long oars began to swing in unison, like a centipede on both sides, and rowed a circle of ripples into the water, and in a moment, the hull pushed up the waves of white flowers to divide the sides of the ship.

More than 30 warships gradually sailed away from the ferry, marching in unison to the middle of the Huai River, and between the big ships, there were dozens of ships, on which stood five soldiers, armed with swords, shields, bows and arrows, closely following.

Five miles away, the strongest naval army in the world, the naval army of the Wu State also sailed away from the Shuizhai ferry at this time, such as the dog's teeth staggered, and greeted the naval army of the Xia State under the escort of the warship and other small and medium-sized warships.

The two armies will soon engage in a fierce confrontation on the river.

……

In the third year of Kaiyuan, August 25.

Luyang, far away in the Central Plains, showed a brief chaos with a piece of news.

At this time, the sun had not yet risen, and in the blue sky, there were footsteps hurried from the imperial city, and in a moment, in the whispered words, the warm yellow lights of the various palace rooms were lit up, and then one by one they were extended.

When the palace maids, eunuchs, and even the guards heard the news that came suddenly, they showed shocked and frightened expressions, and then the sound of discussion buzzed.

In the harem, no one spoke, the guards and eunuchs bowed their heads one by one, Xu Chu guarded the door of the dormitory, and Dian Wei put on iron armor and came from the side room next to him.

"Why do they all have such expressions, what's wrong?" Dian Wei's huge figure stood in front of the emperor's bedroom, and to others, it was an indescribable sense of oppression.

"The envoy team to the Yue Kingdom is missing!"

Xu Chu lowered his voice and said softly, "The news has been delivered to the room, and Your Majesty has not yet given any orders." ”

Dian Wei frowned, looked at the closed door on the side, and then turned his face back, his thick hair like steel needles stretched: "If it weren't for Zhao Yun and Pang De leading two thousand soldiers and horses, how could it be ......?"

He was about to continue, when the door creaked open.

Su Chen came out of the room expressionlessly, but without a word, he put his hands behind his back, and went straight to the front palace past the eunuch who bowed his head.

In the old days, they would say casually: "Get up." "At the moment, there is not half a word, and these eunuchs and palace maids in the palace have basically heard some news and know that the Son of Heaven is now angry.

"Immediately call all the generals who stayed in Luyang, as well as Pei Min from the Embroidery Division!"

Su Chen took a big stride, his steps were fast, and when he was about to reach the middle palace, he opened his mouth, and Wu Zixun, who had just rushed over, heard the royal order, and didn't have time to catch his breath, so he turned around and ran out.

When I came to the main hall of the front palace, as soon as I sat down on the dragon chair, the prime minister's mansion in the imperial city, Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu were the first to come over.

The two rode in a carriage to the square outside the main hall, and when they came down, they saw the eunuchs in a hurry, as well as the Lingqi who kept leaving, and the men of the embroidery department.

When they entered the main hall, Pei Min and Zheng He were already standing in front of the imperial staircase, talking to Su Chen above.

"Your Majesty, what's going on?"

"The prime minister and the captain came just in time." Su Chen beckoned them to stand closer, and then said, "Before dawn, a post house in Huizhou sent a message that the team from the Yue Kingdom did not arrive on time. ”

"Could it be that there is a torrential rain over there and you are delayed on the way?" Zhuge Liang frowned.

"It was a sunny day in those days, not to mention that there were Zhao Yun and Pang De escorts, and Wang Situ was not a wine bag and a rice bag. Qin Hui has just arrived, and there is no force to cling to or bewitch. ”

Su Chen tried his best to restrain the worries in his heart, according to common sense, there could be no large-scale bandits in Huizhou, let alone facing Zhao Yun, Pang De, and two thousand strong soldiers.

Rebels?

That's even more unlikely!

The families that have the strength to fund the rebellion have long been uprooted, not to mention that since the two years of the Great Rule, most of the people's food and clothing have been solved, and the government military system has also been rolled out in various states.

The family alone is enough to drink a pot of rebellion.

"Your Majesty, you might as well wait."

Tai Lieutenant Jia Xu's mind was spinning rapidly, and there was too little news sent at the moment, and he couldn't judge anything from just a few words, but he was sure that something had happened to the team.

According to his character towards Zhao Yun and Pang De, it is impossible for such a thing to be delayed, and even if he encounters a strong enemy, it is not difficult to rely on the soldiers or protect Meng Zhaoyi to break through.

"I'm just waiting now!"

Since the founding of the country, even if Su Chen has been assassinated a few times, he has never taken it to heart, but his concubines and the generals he values suddenly disappeared, and he didn't even see Wang Lang and Qin Hui, which made him feel a little bottomless.

What people fear most is the unknown.

On the way from the harem, he even thought of the 'true man' mentioned in the letter left by Zhang Jiao.

"Your Majesty!"

At this time, a group of fierce generals such as Xiang Yu, Lu Bu, Huo Quzhi, Li Xuanba, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chigong, who stayed in Luyang, rushed to the palace one by one with armor and troops when they heard the summons and the words revealed by the summons.

Ma Chao brought his sister Ma Yunlu over, the woman didn't cry on her face, obviously believing in her husband's ability, but the look in her eyes was still mixed with worry.

"Your Majesty, how did the envoys disappear?"

Su Chen pursed his lips and shook his head, Zheng He also refused the tea he brought, and casually put it aside from the dragon case, "I believe in the martial arts of Pang De and Zhao Yun, it is impossible for anyone to defeat them quietly, and I don't believe that someone in Huizhou dares to rebel and detain them." ”

At present, there is no more news about the matter, and the generals will gather in the temple, and there is no noisy nonsense.

In this way, more than an hour passed, everyone speculated and chatted, and finally waited for the second hundred miles to expedite, and the eunuch who received the bamboo tube did not dare to slack off, and ran into the hall quickly with the hem of the robe, and handed it to Zheng He, who opened it while walking, took out the paper inside, and presented it to Su Chen with both hands.

Everyone below instantly saw that Su Chen's face sank.

"Someone attacked Zhao Yun and them."

He handed the letter down for everyone to circulate, and the words continued: "Wounded soldiers in one place, Qin Hui, Wang Lang, and my Zhaoyi are nowhere to be found. ”

"Poisoned?" Jia Xu was the first to read it, and he frowned, "Actually burning poisonous things...... If this is the case, General Zhao and they are defeated, then it is reasonable. ”

"Another bunch of villains."

After reading the contents of the letter, Lu Bu clenched his fists, and his knuckles were clenched.

"Is there any news about my husband on it?"

Ma Yunlu hurriedly stepped forward, looked at the above content with Ma Chao, and saw the back, as a female general, she gritted her teeth, and only found Pang De above, who was now resting in the post house, and Meng Huo, the commander of the Iron Spear Yijie Army, was already there to take care of the wounded soldiers at this time.

"The poisonous smoke used by the other party does not seem to be lethal."

Zhuge Liang quickly found a key place in the only information, "If it is highly poisonous, ordinary soldiers would have died of poison, but they were only poisoned and fainted, the other party's purpose is very clear, arresting Qin Hui, Wang Lang and Meng Zhaoyi without killing them, not only premeditated, but also very big." ”

The white clouds outside the hall are long, a good morning, but they were destroyed by such news, and now the second news makes everyone feel angry at the same time.

"This is clearly aimed at Your Majesty, or the generals."

Su Chen closed his eyes, "Commander Pei, you immediately bring the people from the Embroidery Division over to investigate, I want to know the news of General Zhao and Wang Lang as soon as possible." ”

Pei Min pursed his lips, arched his hand heavily, turned around and walked out of the main hall.

"In addition, the will of the Emperor Huizhou counties and counties set up cards along the way, and announced that all those who are not accents of the Central Plains and the North will be arrested, and if there is resistance, they will be killed on the spot!"

Su Chen's gaze was indifferent, and he swept over the generals present.

"No matter what the other party's purpose is, I don't want to see anyone alive. In addition, there is no need to stop the war on the Gyeongju side, Zhou Yu on the Linzhou side, let them kill Meng Kang along the coast! ”

The morning breeze blew pleasantly into the main hall, and Su Chen got up from the dragon chair and smashed his fist on the dragon case.

"Chuan Di Renjie!"

(End of chapter)