Chapter 91: The Unlucky Cheng Yuanzhi
The governor of Youzhou during this period was named Liu Yan.
Speaking of Liu Yan, we have to say that during the Han Dynasty, in addition to the aristocratic families, there was another force besides the emperor, and that force was called the royal family.
The royal family is naturally owned by the Old Liu family, but their own people belong to their own people. In the era when the Han Dynasty was eligible to inherit the throne with the blood of the Old Liu family, it has to be said that the interests of the royal family are not the same as the interests of the emperor. In other words, maybe one day a certain emperor dies and a bunch of royal families next to him are laughing there.
However, although that is the case, on some key issues that may shake the rule of the Liu family, the interests of the royal family are still consistent with the interests of the emperor, such as the current Yellow Turbans.
Therefore, yellow turbans are everywhere. Although all the aristocratic families are watching Liu Hong's jokes, the Liu family can't sit still.
They all felt that Liu Hong was a bit big this time, so big that one might be able to do anything about the Liu family. So in fact, these so-called royal families have actually scolded Liu Hong a lot in private.
But no matter how much they scolded, they still had to help Liu Hong clean up this mess.
For example, Liu Yan, the current governor of Youzhou, had to secretly scold Liu Hong after the Yellow Turban incident, but he still started to issue a list of documents to recruit rebels without saying a word - if he wanted to steal the world of the Liu family, no matter who he was, he would kill him first.
I have to say that Liu Yan was very lucky. During this period, there were really many fierce people in Youzhou.
Although the future general Gongsun Zan of the White Horse is now in Youbeiping to cut down the Wuhuan people, he ignored Liu Yan's Bangwen Gongsun Zan - how could he be as happy as killing his own people in the civil war?
However, there are more than Gongsun Zan in Youzhou now.
Not to mention other places, there is one in Zhuo County, who is also a classmate of Gongsun Zan.
Needless to say, this fierce man is either someone else, or our Uncle Liu.
Although the question marks were made first when Uncle Liu was, our Uncle had a good reputation. After seeing Liu Yan's article, he lacked generals and Zhang Zhang to join the army, and his men and women. Two other wealthy merchants Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang came to send military funds and horses, and finally gave him the best iron to build the weapons.
So, when the emperor brought Guan Zhang's response to Liu Yan, he had already raised a wave of quite arguing people.
As mentioned before, when it comes to things like someone who wants to steal the Liu family’s world, the interests of all the royal families are consistent.
Therefore, when Liu Yan knew that a royal family surnamed Liu brought troops to surrender, he was very happy. Then, when talking about seniority, Liu Yan found that Liu Bei had some connection with him. According to seniority, Liu Bei was still his nephew.
Liu Yan was even happier now. Although the emperor seemed a little unreliable now, the people of our Liu family were still very powerful. Look at the fact that the article was published, and the people of the Liu family brought their own troops to join us.
And it happened that at this moment, the news that Cheng Yuanzhi had brought 50,000 Yellow Turbans to invade Youzhou was also sent to Liu Yan.
Liu Bei, who had just joined Liu Yan, needed to show his feelings, immediately said that this matter was left to me.
I have to say that the Liu family is still generous to their own people without saying anything else. Although Liu Yan didn’t know how capable Liu Bei was, since Liu Bei had already spoken, Liu Yan waved his hand and directly allocated Liu Bei three thousand men - three thousand Youyun Jingqin.
Even if Youzhou does not lack horses, this does not mean that there are many cavalry in Youzhou, especially elite cavalry. Just like Bingzhou and Liangzhou, there are many cavalry in these two places now, but there are almost ten thousand people. Therefore, these three thousand Youyun Jingqins can be said to be mostly the elite cavalry under Liu Yan.
Moreover, not only did he transfer such a talented cavalry to Liu Bei, Liu Yan was even ready to not fight at all. He also threw Zou Jing, the only capable general under his command, to Liu Bei, just because he planned to do so if Liu Bei didn't understand military affairs, and Zou Jing could help clean up the mess.
Of course, it was not actually that Liu Yan was so generous. It was just that Liu Yan himself planned to stop staying in Youzhou after the Yellow Turban incident was over, and he could not take the Youyun Jingqi. In the idea that it would be better for others to be cheaper than for their own family, Liu Yan then allocated three thousand Youyun Jingqi to Liu Bei in one breath.
By the way, Cheng Yuanzhi is also unlucky.
He is a master at the peak of the realm of True Qi Transformation. As long as he does not encounter a super master who breaks through to the realm of Gang Qi release, basically no one can defeat him.
The problem is that during this period, characters like Hua Xiong and Qu Yi were only at the peak of the true qi transforming into Gang. So, even if you look at the world, how many super experts can there be in the realm of Gang Qi release?
You should know that according to experience, this kind of super expert can count it by his fingers no matter which era he was placed in.
Therefore, when Cheng Yuanzhi was ordered by Zhang Jiao to lead 50,000 troops to attack Youzhou, he was actually full of confidence, because as far as he knew, the governor of Youzhou Liu Yan was just a mediocre person, and there were no generals worth noting in Youzhou. Although the Youyun Jingqi is very strong, then he must have a strong general to lead, right?
Besides, he has an army of 50,000, and the number of Youyun Jingqi is there. Even if Youyun Jingqi is very strong, it is impossible to defeat his 50,000 army.
What happened next seemed to confirm Cheng Yuanzhi's idea. He led an army of 50,000 and could be said to have smooth sailing to Zhuojun. Although he encountered some resistance on the way, to be honest, it basically never posed a real threat to Cheng Yuanzhi.
Then, when Cheng Yuanzhi led his troops to Zhuo County, he heard the scout coming to report that he was stopped by a cavalry on the way ahead.
There are quite a few cavalrymen, almost more than 3,000.
After hearing the report, Cheng Yuanzhi had no intention of taking action himself. He immediately sent Deng Mao, the commander of Qu in the Yellow Turban, who was in the realm of True Qi Transformation Gang, to lead his troops to drive away the cavalry, and he himself planned to camp on the spot.
Deng Mao was not surprised by this. After all, as the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, it was naturally impossible for Cheng Yuanzhi to take action in everything himself. Therefore, in many cases, he was the one who came forward, and his strength in the realm of True Qi Transformation Gang is completely enough to deal with most situations. After all, even the so-called powerful generals in this era are mostly at this level.
So, this time Cheng Yuanzhi sent him to lead his troops to expel the cavalry in front of him, so he naturally led a soldier out.
Chapter completed!