This city is located south of Luoyang, north of Jingzhou, west of Yuzhou, and most importantly, east of Hangu Pass.
The 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry assigned by Zhu Jun to Sun Jian, under the command of Yang Xiu, marched eastward completely undisguisedly. During this period, they only changed their flags several times. All the troops encountered along the way, such as Tang, Li, Liu, etc., The soldiers and scouts let them go as if they hadn't seen them, and finally arrived at this city, which is very close to Luoyang, without passing through Hangu Pass.
A group of sergeants had no objections to Yang Xiu's command. Obviously, the name of the Hongnong Yang family was well known to them, but the Yang family themselves had no intention of stopping or sending anyone to protect their direct nephew from participating in the adventure. What he meant was a little strange.
However, when Sun Jian looked at the "Yang" flag flying on the wall of the new city, he felt that he understood Yang's thoughts a little bit - what danger could there be if the child was still playing in his own yard?
"The officials in this city are all incompetent. Every day they dream of being transferred to Luoyang by the family elders. They are quite obsessed with political affairs. Although my uncle Yang Xian is only the county magistrate, he has complete control over it. It is a matter of local government and soldiers, but even so, if a large army enters the city, they will still be alert, so General Sun will leave his men and horses to camp a little outside the city, and come with me into the city to meet the clan uncle. "It's not far from the city. At this time, Yang Xiu gave direct instructions without any courtesy.
"Wait?" Since Cheng Pu and Huang Gai had already sneaked into Luoyang to prepare for the attack, and Zu Mao was preparing to evacuate, Sun Jian was only around Zhou Tai and that one at this time, so even if he had doubts, he had no one else to ask: " Even if we don’t enter the city, it will cost a lot of money for these 10,000 troops to eat horse chews. Over time, it will eventually attract the attention of the city, right?”
"..." Yang Xiu stopped and turned to look at Sun Jian with an incomprehensible expression.
"Is this a strange question?" Sun Jian asked with a puzzled expression.
"The question itself is normal, but it proves another thing," Yang Xiudao: "It proves that when I came to you a few days ago and asked to 'set off immediately', you agreed without hesitation, not because you already knew There will definitely be chaos in Luoyang within five days."
"Will there be chaos in Luoyang within five days?" Sun Jian asked again subconsciously.
"If you don't know this, then why did you obey my orders without hesitation?" Yang Xiu asked back.
"Because Rong... cough," Sun Jian coughed and changed his words: "Because someone said that I am not smart enough, so it is best to listen to smart people in my actions."
"Aren't you afraid of being deceived by 'smart people'?"
"Would you lie to us?"
"..."
After another pause for a moment, Yang Xiu gave up on continuing to ask questions and directly began to explain why he said "Luoyang will be in chaos within five days."
"The effect of those previous rumors has reached its limit, because they are still just rumors in general, without substantial development. Although the various forces are at war with each other, they are also guarding against their own people not to accidentally be the first to do it. "The "handle" of the public criticism came," Yang Xiudao said: "At this moment, Cao Mengde rushed to Yanzhou and poured oil into the hot cauldron."
"Hmm..." Although Sun Jian wanted to ask how he could influence Yanzhou even though it was far away from Luoyang, he gave up the idea after thinking about it for a while.
Yang Xiu continued: "General Sun also said before that Xing Zang had already been seen through when you came from Xuzhou. Therefore, Cao Qingzhou's move is clearly to create opportunities for you, but I can't figure out what his purpose is."
"Perhaps he also wants to 'clear the emperor's side'?" Sun Jian guessed.
"Why would he care about Luoyang's 'Junzi' when he already has a princess? He probably thinks 'it won't be me who suffers anyway'," Yang Xiu snorted: "This kind of person wants to fish in troubled waters, but...
His behavior of not deciding which one to touch just makes people want to expose him on the spot.”
"Oh...I see..." Although Sun Jian still didn't understand, he understood that Cao Cao planned to have a hand in this matter.
"That's all, let me tell you the next plan directly." Yang Xiu shook his head: "You follow me into the city and put on a set of clothes and armor of my Yang family generals. Those soldiers only need to continue to use the Yang family's banner.
When the time comes, just attack directly in the direction of Luoyang."
"Okay." Sun Jian greeted Zhou Tai and ordered his army to carry out Yang Xiu's order.
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Inside Luoyang City.
"Ha... It seems that those guys fighting for power don't really want chaos in the city." Cheng Pu, pretending to be a rich man, opened the carriage curtain and looked outside, and found that although most of the pedestrians on the street had melancholy expressions,
But there was no sign of panic.
After all, no matter how the upper class fights for power, the people at the bottom still have to make a living. Even if the manager is changed, it is just a question of how much tax to pay and to whom. It is in line with the saying that when the sky falls, there will be a high one.
Hold on.
"Master, all the cheap inns are full." Huang Gai, pretending to be a coachman, said loudly in front of the carriage.
"Hmph! Sir, do I seem to be short of money? Find me something expensive! The more expensive the better!" Cheng Pu swung his whip in front of him, but since he was not likely to fight at any time, the whip did not strike.
Medium yellow lid.
"Okay~" Huang Gai shouted in amusement: "For the small ones, let's start looking from the lowest to the highest price~"
"Shut up!" "Pah!" Cheng Pu slapped him again, and this time he was hit.
Judging from the faint laughter coming from passers-by around him, this performance was quite successful.
"Someone is staring at us, three waves." "As expected, continue."
When the carriage turned around, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu exchanged a few words briefly.
In fact, the fact that the cheap inns in Luoyang market are full is very suspicious. In order not to be looked down upon, those businessmen or officials who come to Luoyang for business will at least live in mid-range or above places, and will stay in cheap hotels.
In addition to the rangers who were short of money, the only people in the inn were poor people who came to Luoyang to visit relatives, servants of the middle-class rich who were out on business, and - spies.
According to Yang Xiu, the forces in Luoyang City are now overflowing to the point where "one feather cannot be added". No matter who appears in Luoyang, they will be targeted by more than one family. Although they will not do anything, this kind of tarsus will be targeted.
The feeling of bone maggots is still very unpleasant.
However, this also proves that once the pot of oil "boils", it cannot be easily calmed down again.
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Xuzhou, boat on the water.
When Zhou Yi handed over the Xiapi Seal, Tao Qian did not stop him. It can even be said that he happily agreed to his move to hand over the power to Xiapi.
As an officialdom in Xuzhou that had been cleaned up by Zhu Jun, Tao Qian could be said to be the only one in the family, and because Zhu Jun's "King of Diligence" behavior seemed to him to be akin to death, he now began to regard himself as the governor.
After that, Zhou Yi took himself, Sun Jian's family, the Qiao family and the Zhuge family to go south together. As a good friend of the whole family, he decided to go to Fuchun first to visit the old man of the Sun family.
Gulu, Gulu.
"Huh, this craftsmanship is really rough."
On the ferry, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Jin were pushing Qiao Xuan, who was sitting in a wheelchair, for a walk together. The old man's hands and feet were awkward on each side. Although he was blaming his faults, he could not hide the smile lines on his face.
Further away, Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, wearing goose yellow and bright red dresses respectively, also followed behind. However, compared to Da Qiao, who was really worried about his grandfather, Xiao Qiao's eyes wandered towards Zhou Yu from time to time.
Behind the two of them was Sun Ce, who was staring at Da Qiao.
This group of children thought they were doing it very secretly, but their actions were clearly seen by the parents around them. However, the parents who had intended to get close to each other did not reveal this.
"Ah...ah..." At this time, there was a high guardrail on the second floor of the building. Sun Ce's younger brother, a short-handed, short-legged child with yellow hair and green eyes, Sun Quan, was lying on the railing. Looking down weakly, he sighed in a childish voice: "Why on earth am I so precocious? There is no benefit in understanding this kind of thing in advance."
"What do you understand?" Sun Shangxiang, who had two pigtails on one side and a bright red coat, tilted her head and asked - obviously, she couldn't understand either.
"Marriage, fate." Sun Quan said solemnly, word by word.
"Ah?" Sun Shangxiang looked even more confused.
Guerra, Guerra.
Zhuge Liang, the second son of Zhuge Gui and the younger brother of Zhuge Jin, who was the same age as Sun Quan, happened to hear the conversation between the two brothers and sister, so he said:
"If you are precocious, you will find ways to use it."
"That's easy to say, I won't give you a chance at all..." Sun Quan turned around and was suddenly startled: "What is that in your hand?"
I saw a child who was about the same height as me, had a watermelon hijab, and was wearing a small scribe's robe, spinning several cylindrical wooden blocks with overlapping red and black patterns in his hands.
"[Eight Formations of Stone Soldiers]," Zhuge Liang picked up a cylinder and turned it around. "Because the one my brother arranged was too cumbersome, I plan to make one that is easy to carry. It is already about 40% effective."
"You are really showing your precocious wisdom..." Sun Quan was speechless for a moment.
"What is that? Can it be eaten?" Sun Shangxiang demonstrated what "not being precocious" means.
"Since I have met the future heir of the Sun family here, I have told you in advance," Zhuge Liang said: "I do not agree with your father and your brother's ideas. I will find a way to repay you for your care in the next few years, but in the future
I won’t give you advice like that brother of mine.”
"Hahaha..." Sun Quan's "premature wisdom" suddenly increased a lot at this moment: "Since you have said this for the sake of it, then I will say it bluntly - you will never do this when you really grow up.
If I can speak it, I have written it down, and I will recite it every time I see you in the future."
Zhuge Liang was silent for a moment and found that what he said was completely correct, so he spoke again: "Then, repay twice."
