Liu Bei, who had just successfully defeated the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou, was about to follow the Polu Colonel Zou Jing south to fight in Qingzhou. Sun Jian, who had received the imperial order and started recruiting troops in the Huaisi area to prepare to march west to support Zhu Xi, and Cao Cao, the trusted cavalry captain who stayed in Luoyang and was on standby.
.The three founders of the Three Kingdoms have all begun to emerge in this troubled times, and the curtain of this era has finally been completely opened.
However, these have nothing to do with Li Shushi for the time being. He is now on his way south to do private work.
When he passed through Chengshi County of Jiyin County, Li Shushi was very interested in taking the opportunity to take Li Dian under his command. Unfortunately, the other party was obviously well prepared for Li Shushi's arrival. Whether it was the closed county gate or the city wall.
The gleaming ironware reflects the light of the sun, or the method of fortifying walls and clearing fields similar to Dong'a, all show that the master is ready.
In this regard, Li Shushi could only hold his nose and admit it. After all, if there is no 4:1 loss ratio between the offensive and defensive sides in a siege battle, and it is not necessary to attack, then just like what the Soldier Sage said,
It's better to forget about siege and other things.
What makes Li Shushi even more depressed is that it seems that the Chengshi War provided an excellent tactical instruction course for most of the prefects, county magistrates and powerful people, so most of the self-aware leaders chose to close their doors and keep to themselves.
, although this significantly improved Li Shushi's marching speed, the march with no one coming to send equipment or experience made everyone feel extremely boring.
Even if there are one or two unscrupulous guys who plan to serve the Han Dynasty, it is a pity that they are not enough to face the grown-up Zhao Yun and others, let alone their cavalry chief Lu Bu. Others will be captured alive when they go to war.
If you ask for money, he will kill you.
In this way, Li Shushi and his party passed through Jiyin County and came to Liang State. Exiting Jiyin County meant that Li Shushi's troops left the Yanzhou Governor's Department and entered the sphere of influence of the Yuzhou Governor's Department. Of course,
Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, was still blocked by Bo Cai in Guancheng of Yangguan and counting the stars. It was basically impossible for him to come over to drink tea, chat and sing songs with Li Shushi.
The most important vassal king in the Liang Kingdom was Liang Wang Liu Mi. Although this boy's ability was not very good, his ambition was not inferior to others. He wanted to learn from his current idol, and the feudal kingdom was in Liang.
Chen Wang Liu Chong, a relative of Chen State next to the country, also organized an army to defend the country and even competed with the Yellow Turban Army.
Unfortunately, unlike Liu Mi, who has always been well-dressed and well-fed, Chen Wang Liu Chong has been fond of martial arts since he was a child, and is especially good at horseback riding and archery. According to rumors, he is always on target, and he has also summed up a unique theory. So Liu Mi wants to gather like Liu Chong.
It is simply impossible to raise an army of nearly 100,000 people. Apart from anything else, what qualifications and reputation does a vassal king who can only eat, drink and have fun have to make so many people believe that he can bring them enough security?
What about a brighter future?
Therefore, Liang Wangfu and Liang Guoguo joined forces to finally catch the prince who wanted to die.
Of course, Li Shushi and those war madmen felt regretful after receiving the news. However, because of this incompetent Liang Wang, Li Shushi, the king of Chen who was said to have a high level of military power, also checked through Taiping Tao believers all over the country. The result
Of course, this surprised Li Shushi and others, and they finally unanimously decided to take a detour, including Guan Hai, who was the most loyal to Taiping Road.
100,000. The number of regular troops alone definitely exceeds the size of 30,000. Moreover, these regular troops are mainly archers. Although most of them were transferred after the imperial court issued an order for county guards to recruit troops to guard against thieves.
However, due to the influence of Liu Chong, these people's bow and arrow skills are much better than those in other areas.
And what annoys Li Shushi the most is that this number is only from the early stages of the Yellow Turban rebellion. In other words, these 100,000 enemies are just a team formed spontaneously by local people to defend their homeland.
Although this kind of single-arms unit can be easily broken through by the opponent through various strategies and the speed of cavalry in a field battle, if it is used to defend a city, it will be a big headache. In addition, some hunters who are good at bow and arrow skills
Due to the harassment of the Three Kingdoms version of the special operations squad, I am afraid that not many armies are willing to consume precious troops and food in Chen State.
As a result, there was such a relatively peaceful land in this turbulent Central Plains, so people from all around came to join them one after another, and the originally single army began to diversify. By now, the Chen State had a tendency to become a behemoth.
And this is the reason why Liu Chong will never take the step of seizing the country. Otherwise, once he leads the troops to fight, Han Emperor Liu Hong will definitely negotiate a peace with Zhang Jiao in private, and then use the whole country's efforts to make this powerful person stronger.
The state of Chen was wiped from the territory of the Han Dynasty.
So whether it is the Yellow Turban Army in Runan or the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan, facing the increasingly prosperous area of Chen State, they can only drool and stare. But if you ask those leaders to go to Chen State to look for trouble, Liu Chong will definitely tell you what
It’s called protecting the land and the people.
Then, Li Shushi's next itinerary was very clear, that is, far away from the main battlefield of Yuzhou, in the eastern area of Yingchuan, there was a feudal state at the westernmost end of Yuzhou - Peiguo.
Speaking of Peiguo, we must first mention Pei County, a famous "tourist attraction" in Peiguo.
Yes, that was the location of Xiaopei City, where both Liu Bei and Lu Bu later stayed. It was probably the city that had the biggest gap between the description in the novel and the reality. I guess the only one that could be compared to it was the one that Luo Guanzhong
The Bishui Pass and Hulao Pass were forcibly separated, and Xingyang was transported to nowhere by Luo Guanzhong using the Kuafu summoning technique.
Apart from anything else, wouldn't Peixian, as the hometown of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, be given special attention? Even the Eastern Han Dynasty, whose blood relationship could no longer be accurately verified, also carried out a relatively large-scale campaign here in order to express its inheritance relationship with the Western Han Dynasty.
Restoration project.
Even in the original history, after the originally huge Pei State was invaded by Qiao County, Pei County once again became the center of the new Pei State. However, the only problem with Pei State is that it is too close to Surabaya, so
The Yellow River, which was often breached, overflowed along the Sishui River and was submerged, so the ruler had to move the seat of Pei State to the safer Xiang County in the south.
Therefore, the size of the city in Peixian County is definitely not small, but because it is often visited by the Yellow River, coupled with the turmoil in various places at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Pei State was once harmed by the nephew of the great eunuch Wang Fu, so there was no time to repair it.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Tao Qian, an elder who appears in a positive image in the novel. As a dignified Xuzhou governor and later Xuzhou Mu, he placed Liu Bei in Peixian County, Yuzhou without any pressure.
This shows that this Tao Ci
Shi Ke is really not a benevolent gentleman as said in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Not to mention that during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the governor incited the bandits to become emperor, secretly supported the bandits to rob the rich and powerful people in the state who refused to obey him, etc.
wait.
So I can't blame Cao Cao for pointing the finger at Tao Qian as soon as he heard that his father was killed. This is not only because Tao Qian is Yuan Shu's ally, but also because Tao Qian's previous criminal record is too numerous to mention. So don't talk about that Zhang
?Or Tao Qian's subordinates? Even if Zhang? is just a group of bandits under Tao Qian's rule, it is estimated that Cao Cao will still suspect Tao Qian.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Li Shushi. Although the current Prime Minister of Pei State is Chen?, one of the important figures who supported Tao Qian as Xuzhou Mu, but that will at least have to wait until Dong Zhuo's chaos. The current Han Dynasty
It is still a formidable behemoth, so Chen? It can be said that he is running the state affairs honestly in Xiang County of Pei State.
Li Shushi's real target was Qiao County, Cao Cao's hometown.
Qiao County is now Haozhou, the hometown of Cao Cao in the Wei Dynasty, the seat of Yuzhou, and the birthplace of the core clan of Cao Wei. It is said that the Cao family and the Xiahou family in Qiao County have been friends for generations, and even Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was
Descendants of the Xiahou family.
In fact, this possibility is basically unreliable. First of all, the rise of the Cao family in Qiao County was very short, and it only started with Cao Cao's great-grandfather Cao Jie. Then, relying on the good reputation of Cao Jie and his youngest son Cao Teng, the current situation
The Cao family's subsequent prosperity was due to their excellent insight.
As for the Xiahou family, they are not so much friends with the Cao family for generations, but rather a local power attached to the Cao family. Anyway, the so-called direct lineage of Xiahou Ying was almost eliminated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The laws of the Han Dynasty at that time had special preferential treatment for those who were officials. One of them was that the land under their names could be exempted from taxes. In this way, some families in the same town would attach their own land under the names of officials. Basically, it belonged to the officials.
The powerful Xiahou family in the local area has a close relationship with the Cao family, whose descendants have served as officials since Cao Teng.
However, his family had a big business, and Cao Ren's thousands of rangers were active in the Huaisi area, so Li Shushi naturally had no interest in finding a way to attack himself. His target was a fierce general who was active in the surrounding areas of Qiao County -
The tiger fool Xu Chu.
In fact, one of the targets of the bad gang when they went south was Qiao County, because there are two fierce men here with a military potential of 98, and one of them is our lovely Xu Chu children's shoes.
"Hey, tell me yourself. Compared to a traitor like you, how do you think our Yellow Turban Army is more righteous?"
Looking at Xu Chu who looked unhappy, and then looking at Xu Jiawu who was surrounded by everyone, Li Shushi casually said these words that made Xu Chu very dissatisfied.
"You...don't underestimate me...Although, although I am just a thief now...but I am a thief with principles...I have a fundamental connection with those guys who only know how to burn, kill, loot and cause harm.
It’s different. And my goal is not to be a simple thief. My wish is to become an excellent righteous thief.”
Xu Chu, who was still stumbling when speaking, suddenly shone brightly when he talked about his ideals, which made Li Shushi couldn't help but throw a flying knife.
"Ah! It's just such a small wish. I thought a person like you would say 'I want to be the number one hero in the Han Dynasty'."
"I...that...that unrealistic dream...although I have thought about that kind of dream...but...I still feel that it is better to be more down-to-earth."
Looking at Xu Chu who was squirming and scratching his head, Li Shushi wondered whether this guy was the same as Dian Wei.
