Although it has already entered mid-autumn, the sun at noon still has some summer power.
Zeyi and his team of twenty-three men were slowly walking south along the dusty road.
Zeyi was actually as tired and tired as his soldiers, but he couldn't show it. He was just a small team leader, and he was still a team leader with less than 100 people. His mission was to patrol the Yingchuan area to ensure that the surrounding area
The food transportation channel coming from here will not be disturbed.
Zeyi was originally just a sergeant with only ten people under his command. He did not know much writing and did not know much arithmetic. He thought that he was almost at the end and would not be promoted. But things are unpredictable, especially during wars.
when.
The Zeji team participated in the attack on the Jiangdong Army during the Battle of Qingxu, and fought on the front line from the moment Cao Cao moved south. In two or three battles with the Jiangdong Army, Cao Jun completely defeated the Jiangdong Army in Xuzhou.
The offensive can be regarded as a staged victory, but the result of this victory does not mean that Cao Jun will be unscathed.
It seems that the battle losses of Zeyi's team exceeded half.
One team has five soldiers and one team has two soldiers. As for the team that Zexi was in, after the Qingxu battle, the team leader who commanded the team was killed. The other two commanders died of injuries. The other two are still recovering from their injuries. The remaining
It was Zeyi himself, so he naturally became the leader of the fake team and took over the remaining soldiers in the team.
Additional soldiers have not arrived yet.
After all, the supplementary soldiers in a formation like Zeji are different from the ordinary Yingchuan soldiers.
So Zeyi's team was assigned to the area north of Yingchuan, and was temporarily responsible for patrolling the grain transportation channel. After all, this was a relatively easy way, and it was also considered a task given by superior officers to a team like Zeyi who had suffered more losses.
A type of psychotherapy in the Han Dynasty.
The road they are responsible for is actually the area north of Yangcheng. They set off every morning and come back at night. They repair it in the camp one day apart and then repeat.
There are only some veterans left in the team.
The young and reckless one ran out of luck early and died on the battlefield.
Suddenly, Zeyi heard the sound of a series of rapid horse hooves in the distance, and then he looked up and saw the smoke in the distance. Fortunately, it seemed that there were not many people coming to ride. He immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse in order to
To cope with possible emergencies. Soon the sound of horse hooves was approaching. Zeyi squinted his eyes and put up a tent with his hands. He saw that there were only two knights coming, one behind the other. They were wearing casual clothes, but there was an eye-catching sign hanging on the horse's forehead.
of copper bundles.
"A son of aristocratic family..." Zeji muttered in a low voice, "I don't know which family he is from..."
Bronze is hard currency, so generally speaking, ordinary horses will not be equipped with higher-end saddles, let alone additional decorations on the horse's head and neck.
Zeyi stretched out his right arm and waved it several times to signal the visitor to stop. He had the right to inspect any person or transport team passing by this road, except for the military intelligence horse.
The knight obediently pulled the reins, and the horse stopped accurately five steps away from Zeyi. Zeyi could even feel the hot breath coming from the horse.
"Show me your crime!"
Zeyi shouted loudly.
The rider in front turned his head slightly, and the rider behind him dismounted, walked up to Zeyi, took out a copy of the certificate from his arms, and handed it to Zeyi.
According to the evidence, this was an official from Yingyang, Yingchuan.
"Yingyang?" Zeji was not familiar with the ground of Yingchuan, so he didn't know how far Yingyang was from Yangcheng. But judging from the inspection, it was a formal document and there was nothing wrong with it.
Not every soldier can know the map of China, or have a relatively overall concept at every turn. For example, in TV movies, a squad leader can know astronomy and geography...
Therefore, Zeyi naturally found no problem and returned the pass to Lai Qi.
Lai Qi took the document, but did not immediately shake the reins and leave. He looked down at Zeji on the horse, and suddenly asked: "Qingzhou soldiers?"
Although Zeyi felt a little surprised, he still answered unambiguously: "Why do you ask this?"
"Sure enough, I guessed right, haha."
The man pointed at Zeji's neck, and Zeji understood immediately.
Qingzhou soldiers have some characteristics.
One is that although he no longer wears the yellow scarf, he still wears a scarf around his neck. Of course, this may not be certain, but it is true that only Qingzhou soldiers wear scarves and Taoist statues of heavenly masters at the same time.
"What do you want?" Zeji asked again.
"Nothing...hehe..."
Lai Jia shook the reins, and the horse neighed and ran towards the north.
The smoke raised by the horse's hooves was scattered, and some of it fell on Ze's gray-brown leather armor. When the horse went away, Ze's inexplicable patted the dirt on his armor and put his helmet back on.
He turned around and motioned for the entire team to continue setting off.
The queue continues to move forward...
Turned through the woods.
When Zeyi realized that he was in a dangerous situation from the slightly strange knight incident before, it was already too late.
First, he noticed some unnatural lights shining in the woods on one side of the road. Out of a soldier's intuition, he instinctively smelled an ominous smell.
"Stop moving forward! Be alert!"
Zeyi gave the order instinctively.
But being alert does not immediately give them super defensive capabilities...
Zeyi soon heard some movement from the woods on one side. He turned around subconsciously and saw a group of figures appearing in the woods without knowing when, and they were holding some crossbows!
The crossbow arrows glowed coldly and dangerously under the sun, as if they were mocking Ze Xi and others in front of them.
"not good……"
Before Zeji could finish his words, the crossbow arrows roared out!
Ze's formation was immediately shattered by this sudden attack, and several soldiers were shot to the ground before they could react, causing blood to splash everywhere.
Because they were patrolling inside Yingchuan, basically they didn't carry any large shields.
Before Zeji and others could react, the second wave of bows and arrows were shot out!
Zeyi wanted to dodge, but was shot through the chest by a powerful crossbow. He fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.
After a while, Zeji's team was wiped out.
"Hmph..."
A man walked out of the woods, with a sarcastic sneer on his face, "Qingzhou soldiers..."
Zeyi had not yet completely breathed out, he collapsed on the ground and clutched his chest, gasping, "You...who are you..."
"Haha..." The visitor walked up to Zeyi and raised his sword, "Guess!"
He raised the knife and dropped it.
Zeji's head rolled down, like a fleshy ball stained with blood.
Rolling gurglingly...
……(｀へ)……
Large clouds were floating in the sky, like large pieces of marshmallows.
But what happens underneath these marshmallows is not so sweet.
If a regime or a country has a large population base, then the life and death of a few people, dozens of people, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people will not be considered an extraordinary event for this regime or this country.
big things
But at a critical moment, the lives and deaths of a few people may have far-reaching consequences.
The fighting began to become intense and crazy after nightfall.
Crazy shouts from the village, accompanied by shaking like humans and ghosts, then spread to the distant valley. Although the men in the village tried their best to fight, but in the face of the brutal gangsters
In front of them, these ordinary people were unable to resist at all, and then they entered a one-sided situation. Without the protection of these men, the old, weak, women and children were facing hell.
At first, the men could form a line of defense in the village to keep out the bandits who suddenly attacked. However, soon after, bandits climbing in from the other direction caused chaos in the line of defense, which eventually led to
The entire defense line collapsed.
Flames rose, air currents surged, shadows swayed, and cries and screams echoed between heaven and earth.
The gangsters were grinning ferociously and shouting wantonly, and their accents were incompatible with the local Yingchuan area, just like the voices of evil spirits.
These bandits are more like thieves than bandits.
Because these people have armor, weapons, organization, and division of labor. All of this shows that these are not ordinary thieves.
Yingchuan has not experienced anything like this for a long time.
It’s not that these people in Yingchuan don’t know how cruel and terrifying the outside world is, but they have lived in an environment maintained by Cao Cao and Xun Yu and have been comfortable for such a long time that they have forgotten that in this world
, there is blood, there is death, and there are things more terrifying than death...
In fact, if someone calmed down and observed at this time, they might find that the armors and shirts of these thieves with "Qingzhou" accents were originally stained with blood, and many of them were damaged.
.This kind of situation is often simple only in defeated troops.
But no matter from which perspective, Yingchuan is unlikely to be defeated...
The "Qingzhou" soldiers raged for most of the night. Near dawn, they set a fire and fled the village.
……(σ｀д′)σ……
It was not until the evening of the next day that Li Pan received the news that the "Qingzhou soldiers" had attacked the village. His first reaction was to widen his eyes and open his mouth, and then he didn't speak until his saliva was about to fall out.
After reacting, he let out a weird sigh.
Because Cui Yan recommended Cao Cao as prime minister, the relationship between the Jizhou gentry and Cao Cao has become easier than before, and several people who are close to Cui Yan have also gained some support. Of course, it cannot be in the vicinity of Jizhou
, but in Mi County in the Heluo region.
The Heluo Sili area is naturally divided now.
In the Luoyang area, the Yang family of Hongnong still belonged to the hussar general Fei Qian on the surface, but in fact it was just that. It was probably the same as Tao Qian's intention of placing Liu Bei in Xiaopei. Therefore, even though the Yang family worked hard,
However, due to his strength, he cannot regain overall control over Sili.
Mi County is located northeast of Yangcheng.
The Hanoi area naturally belongs to Jizhou. As for the counties near Chenliu, such as Mi County, they were originally supposed to be under the jurisdiction of Sili, but in fact they also became under the jurisdiction of Chenliu.
Although the relationship is quite confusing, after all, the land around Mi County is pretty good, and there are people cultivating and farming it, so it's relatively good.
Since Li Pan took office, things have been generally stable, but he didn't expect that the first big thing he encountered would be such a piece of news that puzzled him!
Qingzhou soldiers plundered a farming village west of Mi County!
After Li Pan heard the news, he did not immediately go to comfort the casualties or condolences about the situation, but was considering other issues.
Why did the Qingzhou soldiers come to the vicinity of Mi County?
What does "Qingzhou Soldier" mean?
This is not just three words...
As far as Li Pan knows, when Cao Cao surrendered to the Qingzhou soldiers, he agreed to a lot of conditions. Of course, these are all rumors. No one knows exactly what day Cao Cao arrived at the Qingzhou soldiers camp with a few guards.
what happened.
But one thing that is certain is that since when, Cao Cao's army began to set up various sacrificial wines, including military advisors' sacrificial wine, doctor's sacrificial wine...
Well, of course, it's not that Cao Cao created the position of offering wine sacrifices, but it was just that there were relatively few or even no establishments in the past, and after Cao Cao gathered the Qingzhou soldiers, there were more of them. This has to make people think of it.
Judging from these clues, the importance of the Qingzhou Army to Cao Cao is self-evident.
But how could Qingzhou soldiers like this go to the countryside of Yingchuan to massacre and plunder villages?
What's even more serious is that something like this happened during the current period...
"My lord...should we report this matter...or..." the county magistrate on the side asked.
"Hiss..." Li Pan frowned, "It's hard to handle..."
"Your Majesty, this matter...if we do nothing like this, I'm afraid..."
Li Pan clasped his hands behind his back and walked around the hall twice, "Report! But we can't do it..."
"What does the county honor mean?"
Li Pan was silent for a while, "Didn't I hear yesterday that a censor was in Yangcheng to inspect grain and grass?"
"Master Yushi?"
"Yes!" Li Pan smiled slightly, as if he felt that the ball had been kicked away by himself, with a sense of relief, "Isn't the censor the right to supervise all officials and clean up the rules and regulations? Such violations
Shouldn't it be reported to the imperial censor for breaking the law and correcting improper matters? Haha, go quickly, go quickly! Don't let anyone say that we waited for delay and neglected..."
……(*鈥)……
The ball reached Xi Lu's feet.
Xi Lu stared at the messenger in front of him, and he had the urge to eat the messenger alive!
If the messenger is really swallowed alive, this matter can be eliminated. I believe Xi Liu will scream and add some soy sauce, vinegar or something, and then just dip it in and swallow it!
Xi thought clearly that killing the messenger would not have any effect on the entire problem, so in the end he waved his hand and told this annoying messenger to get out.
According to the process, there is nothing wrong.
Are you a royal censor? Things like inspections and surveys are naturally within the scope of the censor's responsibilities. And he is still outside "patrolling and inspecting" justifiably!
But the problem is that Xi Lu, the imperial censor, is not really a complete person.
The official title of Yushi Dafu was set for the Qin Dynasty. He was the deputy of the prime minister. He was the chief of Yushi and had the responsibility of supervising all officials.
Isn’t that cool?
But the problem is that Xi Wu can't get cocky now.
If Cao Cao had not become the prime minister before, then Xi Lu, the imperial censor, would have been just the same, just pretending. But now that Cao Cao was the prime minister, Xi Lu, the censor, was immediately embarrassed.
Is it possible that Xi Lu really wanted to become the prime minister's deputy and then supervise the officials for Cao Cao? This is what Xi Lu dreamed of, but the question is, can Prime Minister Cao be willing?
At least Xi Liu acted relatively close to the emperor before, but now as soon as the prime minister came on stage, he hurried over and knelt down to lick him. Although Xi Liu really wanted to do this in his heart, he still had to worry about the scholar's face.
This is called "conforming to the general trend of the world"!
How can you call it kneeling and licking?
It's so unpleasant to hear.
At the same time, Xi Liu also needed to take care of Emperor Liu Xie's emotions...
You have to be half-promising and half-accepting, and you have to be willing to welcome and reject a few times.
Therefore, Xi Li expressed his intention to share the emperor's worries and monitor the autumn harvest and gifts. He left the political whirlpool and wandered around, acting as a winger. On the one hand, he would not lose the opportunity to attack, and on the other hand, he would not be like a forward center.
It's so eye-catching, maybe it will be beaten randomly...
As a result, he never expected that the ball would come to his feet.
How to kick this kick?
Xi Lu suddenly remembered the news he heard two days ago that a group of Qingzhou soldiers had disappeared...
Could it be...
Xi Lu took a breath of cold air.
Jizhou and Yuzhou are both quagmire, and what Xi Lu wants to do most is to get out of the mire without being stained, and be his own white lotus.
Anyway, one heart is dedicated to Your Majesty, and one heart is dedicated to the Prime Minister. A white lotus blooms on it, and a rotten leaf presses the black mud.
So Xi Wu made up his mind not to let himself be contaminated by these causes and effects.
This matter is a big trouble. You must not get into it. If you don't kick it well, you will be covered in mud! You must kick this Qingzhou big ball well!
But the question is, where are fellow Taoists?
Xi Lu walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, like a donkey pulling an invisible millstone.
Suddenly, Xi Su stopped and his eyes lit up.
"Come here! Go and invite Confucius and... No, no! Prepare your carriage and horses, I am going to pay a visit to Confucius and He!"
Xi Lu ordered and walked out.
He found the perfect receiver!
Kong Qian!
Kong Rong's younger brother is known as a modest gentleman with integrity and flawless white jade!
This thing, no, when the ball comes to Kong Qian's feet, he will kick it even if he doesn't kick it!
Otherwise, Kong Qian’s reputation will be completely ruined...
Isn't this the best choice?
Coupled with the past events between Kong Rong and Cao Cao, hehe, Kong Qian must be very eager to cause some trouble for Prime Minister Cao.
