Lu Yi said goodbye to Liu Bei, and early the next morning, he took Nangong Yan, Xu Shu, Xu Sheng and a thousand surviving Lujiang soldiers to the south.

They stayed in Gwangneung County for a while.

Lu Yi met Tao Qian's 1,000 Danyang County elites here.

Indeed, as Tao Qian said, this thousand Danyang elites are completely different from ordinary soldiers.

Everybody's tall.

Moreover, there is a unified light armor and weapons.

Tao Qian's eldest son, Tao Shang, explained to this thousand Danyang elites that Lu Yi was Tao Qian's designated commander.

Lu Yi took out the tiger talisman.

After that, the pottery merchant asked Lu Yi to take this thousand elites and his younger brother to march secretly together, and first send Tao Qian's coffin to Danyang for burial, and after the burial, he would let the thousand Danyang elites enter the nest and meet with Lu Yi.

To be honest, Lu Yi was a little reluctant.

He is now the commander of this thousand Danyang elites.

This has been taken away by the potter, so he is an empty commander?

However, he couldn't stop it, so he could only agree.

The reason is simple.

This thousand Danyang elites actually went directly with the potter!

Completely ignore the tiger talisman in Lu Yi's hand!

Seeing the coffin of a thousand Danyang elites escorting Tao Qian disappear from sight, Lu Yi let out a long sigh of depression.

Seeing this, Nangong Yan comforted: "Forget it, if it's gone, it's gone." This thousand Danyang elites, in the final analysis, are still given to you by Tao Qian. Now, in the hands of his two sons, it can be regarded as the return of the goods to their original owners. ”

Lu Yiqiang laughed.

What else can I do if I don't forget it?

He remembered the various records about the Danyang soldiers he had read before the crossing.

After Cao Cao was annihilated by Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong's entire army, he went to Danyang to recruit four or five thousand soldiers and horses, preparing to make a comeback.

As a result, halfway through, these four or five thousand Danyang soldiers ran out!

In the original history, the thousands of Danyang soldiers obtained by Liu Bei from Tao Qian did not disappear during Cao Cao's second expedition to Xuzhou, but existed during the confrontation between Liu Bei and Lu Bu.

As a result, these thousands of Danyang soldiers opened the back door for Lu Bu when Liu Bei led his troops to Huaiyin to fight against Yuan Shu!

Of course, the world has changed a bit.

The thousands of Danyang soldiers that Tao Qian gave to Liu Bei seemed to be gone when Cao Cao's generals banned the attack on the east of Tancheng.

Anyway, when Liu Bei fled back to Tancheng with Cao Bao from the east of Tancheng, there were almost no soldiers under him.

I don't know if all the Danyang soldiers that Tao Qian gave him were killed in battle, or they fled?

Anyway, none of them saw it back.

From these historical events, it can be seen that the Danyang soldiers are very difficult to manage.

Probably, only Tao Qian, a Xuzhou Mu from Danyang County, can control it.

Now that I think about it, I am not from Danyang County, so it is better if they don't follow.

Thinking about this, Lu Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the elite of Danyang is good, but if it can't be controlled, it is a time bomb with endless harm.

Lu Yi continued to go south with Nangong Yan, Xu Shu, Xu Sheng and a thousand Lujiang soldiers.

Originally, Lu Yi was going to bypass Shu County and quietly return to Juchao.

But he didn't expect that when he passed through Danyang County and entered the territory of Lujiang, he heard the expected, but somewhat unexpected news from the mouths of the people-

Lujiang guards Lu Kang too much, it's gone!

In the original history, Lujiang was besieged by Sun Ce, Lu Kang supported it for two years, ran out of ammunition and food, and finally died of illness, and Sun Ce broke the city.

And this world, Lu Kang is gone now!

At the beginning of this year, shortly after Lu Yi went north with 3,000 Lujiang reinforcements to aid Xuzhou, Yuan Shu borrowed grain from Lujiang on the grounds that he also wanted to assist Xuzhou against Cao Cao.

There is a deviation from the original history.

In the original history, Yuan Shu was going to go out to occupy Liu Bei, who occupied Xuzhou, and asked for grain from Lujiang.

However, although the reasons were different, the result was the same: Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, refused to borrow grain.

Yuan Shu ordered Sun Ce, who had returned from mourning on behalf of Sun, to lead an army to attack Lujiang.

When Sun Ce attacked Lujiang, he barely encountered resistance!

Fifteen counties under the rule of Lujiang, except for Shu County, all looked down on the wind!

In these counties, except for a few counties such as Juchao, which had experienced severe drought and banditry, were too poor and had no defense at all, the other counties, those officials and families, completely gave up resistance.

Listening to the rumors of the common people, it was Sun Ce who assured the officials and family officials of these counties that he and Zhou Yu, the youngest son of the Zhou family, were good friends. As long as they did not resist and surrendered to Yuan Shu, he would not invade.

Sun Ce soon laid siege to Shu County.

The battle was fierce, but it was tragic.

Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, when facing Sun Ce's attack, the entire Shu County could not recruit any soldiers and horses! Can't requisition any grain and grass!

He led the resistance to Sun Ce's siege of the city, only his own cronies, and the Lu family who migrated from Wu County last year, a total of less than 2,000 people!

Lu Kang and these less than 2,000 people persisted in the confrontation for half a month.

Less than 10 percent of those died in battle, and the vast majority starved to death.

Sun Ce faced Lu Kang's troops, but he couldn't break the city, and he was a little angry.

After half a month of continuous siege, Sun Ce finally got what he wanted.

After the breach, he carried out a bloody massacre of the city.

Almost all the small families and ordinary people were killed.

Lu Kang was also beheaded by Sun Ce.

In the end, it was Zhou Yi, the head of the Zhou family, who saw that Sun Ce was crazy and wanted to do something to the middle family and the original officials of Shu County, Zhou Yi stood up and stopped Sun Ce's follow-up killing action.

However, even so, those medium-sized families were all ordered by Sun Ce to hand over half of their family property, and the family patriarch was also escorted to Shouchun by Sun Ce and the Lu family, waiting for Yuan Shu's disposal.

Nangong Yan looked at Lu Yi and said, "We are going to Shouchun." ”

"There are still living clansmen in the Lu family, you must save them."

"Otherwise, when all the people of the Lu family die, the Lu family will completely cease to exist."

Lu Yi nodded.

The reason why he has always used the identity of "Lu Yi" is because the Lu family is a big family in Wu County.

Even if he is a member of the side tribe, he is also a person with a clan, which will make it more convenient for him to survive in this troubled world.

Otherwise, a person who has no clan identity will not have any avenue to rise in this troubled era!

Naturally, now that the Lu family is in danger of extermination, he must rush over.

Otherwise, it is too difficult to give up the identity of "Lu Yi" and start again!

But there is no second Lu Kang who will give him such a chance to be promoted.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi immediately changed his route.

On the one hand, he led the people of Lujiang towards Shouchun.

On the other hand, he was going to write a letter to Yuan Shu as the head of the nest, informing Yuan Shu that he was going to go this time, in addition to bringing 1,000 Lujiang soldiers to Yuan Shu, that is, asking Yuan Shu not to kill the remaining clansmen of the Lu family.

Nangong Yan stood beside him, watching him bite his fingers and write letters on the cloth with blood.

Seeing him write "Juchao Chief", Nangong Yan suddenly said: "Add one after Juchao Chang, the current head of the Lu family." ”

Lu Yi looked at Nangong Yan suspiciously.

When I met Tao Qian for the first time before, Nangong Yan said this kind of thing!

Lu Yi said: "I'm just a member of the Lu family's side tribe. ”

Nangong Yan sighed and said, "Lu Taishou has actually asked you to take over the burden of the family patriarch, but it was inconvenient at the time, so I didn't tell you." ”

Pointing to himself, Nangong Yan said: "Remember the last time we saw his old man, his old man asked me to follow you in the future?" ”

Lu Yi nodded.

Nangong Yan said: "My Nangong family and the Lu family have an agreement since ancient times, after the Nangong family patriarch reaches the age of twelve, he must choose one to go to the Lu family patriarch to learn Wen Taowu strategy. ”

"And my Nangong family, currently my father, the head of the family, only has three descendants."

"And of these three bloodlines, only I have left the district, and I am by your side."

"Understood?"

Lu Yi looked at Nangong Yan in a daze.

He really didn't think about this!

He doesn't know either!

After all, he is not really a member of the Lu family, and he is completely unclear about these secret rules.

However, it doesn't matter anymore.

Lu Kang is dead!

If you don't serve as the head of the family, who will do it?

Moreover, the Lu family is now experiencing a crisis of extinction, and only himself, Lu Ji and Lu Xun are there.

Lu Ji and Lu Xun are still children, and it is impossible for them to stand up.

Again, as the head of the Lu family, this time is a crisis, but it is also an opportunity.

As long as you can save these clansmen, when you return to Wu County in the future, you will have much more room to operate!

It's not just the people of the Lu family who can be dispatched.

Even the people of the Nangong family can also communicate.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi snorted, and on the letter, the identity of "head of the Lu family" was filled in after "head of the nest".

After writing the letter, Lu Yu asked Xu Sheng to take two soldiers to send the letter to Shouchun.

And he took the others to catch up behind.

Half a month later, Lu Yi and his entourage rushed to Shouchun.

showed the seal letter of the head of the nest to the guards of the Shouchun City Gate, and asked Xu Shu and Nangong Yan to take a thousand Lujiang soldiers to be stationed outside the city, while Lu Yi himself rushed to the Shouchun Mansion under the leadership of the city gate guards, ready to wait for Yuan Shu's reception.