There is a large military camp in Wuhu County, Danyang County, Yangzhou. On the left is a solid barracks and built by local stones. You can vaguely see the word "Wu" on the raised flag.

On the right is a simple shed. The rain in the east of the river is drizzling. A group of "generals" wearing armored clothes but depressed expressions are gathering in a shed to discuss.

"Although the King of Wu talked to Danyang Haoyou for our thieves and appointed us as marquises, I was still uneasy."

The person who spoke was called "Guotianli". Guotian is a duplicate surname. His father Guotianyi rebelled in the fourth year of Tianfeng in Xinchao. It was earlier than the Red Eyebrow Green Forest, and his troops reached more than 10,000 people. After his father's death, a group of thieves in Jiangdong were taken over by a subordinate named "Wangzhou Gong". When he was at his greatest power, he controlled Danyang and half of Kuaiji, and ran rampant on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, claiming to be 100,000.

But after entering the Xia Dynasty this year, under the attack of King Liu Xiu of Wu, the thief of Jiang was defeated repeatedly due to the attack of more than 10,000 troops.

At first, Liu Xiu marched into Danyang, and the thieves were less powerful than him, so they went to siege, but Feng Yijian defended himself. The thieves thought that the general was stupid, and they just had to cut off his food route...

Unexpectedly, the person who robbed the grain met Liu Xiu himself and the heroic armed forces from Kuaiji and Linhuai, and they were defeated. At that time, they wanted to surrender. When a friendly army arrived, the thief Wangzhou Duke personally organized a battle, but was still defeated by Liu Xiu. Wangzhou Duke died in battle. Most of the remaining fled in dispersed and fled, each entering the mountains, forests, lakes, and the rest were surrounded and chose to surrender.

But Guatian Li still distrusts the King of Wu and his subordinates, so he summoned several surrendered thieves to discuss. Some wanted to escape, while others were discouraged and had to wait for death. Guatian Li felt that it would be better to fight harder!

"Didn't the King of Wu ask us to lead our troops to their camps?" Someone objected. They were quite impressed by the King of Wu's use of troops. I heard that this man had defeated 300,000 new troops in Kunyang. Now he has seen the power, so why should he be an enemy of him again?

Guatian Li thought it was not the case: "This is a trick to get. The King of Wu said he would invite us to a banquet on the day. He wanted to catch all the commanders of the quota so that we could divide our troops to his captain."

"In my opinion, I still have to go back!"

At this time, someone hurried in and said, "The King of Wu is here to the camp!"

Guatian Li was shocked. Is Liu Xiu unable to wait to start early?

"How many people did he bring? How many thousand, ten thousand?"

"I only brought three or five guards and came in with light cavalry."

"What!"

The plums in the melon field were stunned at first and then were overjoyed.

"If we take Liu Xiu down, wouldn't we betray him and regain his freedom?"

So he asked the thieves to return to their camps and prepared to take action after Liu Xiu came in.

Guatian Li's camp was behind, and he just waited left and right, and rushed out after the signal from his peers. Unexpectedly, he didn't respond for a long time. Just as he was strange, Liu Xiu had already arrived in his camp!

It turned out that the light cavalry was in charge of Chen from the marching department. Not only Liu Xiu came, but the thieves from several camps followed him before, but they all smiled and had no intention of killing. They also shook their heads at the melon field plum.

Liu Xiu was not afraid at all, but talked and laughed with them.

Gua Tianli didn't understand the situation, so she let go of the hilt of the sword in her hand and went up and down to bow: "The sinner Gua Tianli, pay homage to the King of Wu!"

Seeing that he was young, Liu Xiu asked, "Is it the son of Guanning Shangnan?"

This is the title of Guatian Li's father. His father led his men to rebel for several years. After Wang Mang was recruited, he was attacked by Lujiang Grand Priest Li Xian and died of illness before he could agree on the conditions for surrender. Afterwards, Wang Mang actually gave him a title of title, hoping to continue to coax the Southeast thief to surrender, but no one bought it again.

When the new dynasty collapsed and Li Xian was dominating the Jianghuai River, he sent people to recruit people, but the Jiang thieves refused to rely on him. Now it was a disadvantage for Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu only sighed: "General Guatian has made great contributions to the anti-Xinxin and has been in the southeast. I and his brother Bosheng have the ambition to rise up after hearing about the deeds of General Guatian. Now that Xinmang has been destroyed, the Han Dynasty has been revived, he should be re-named and posthumous. He should be posthumously named as a marquis!"

"And the "Position Law" says that short-term failure is called "Sad"; some people know that they are young and called "Sad"; most of them are used for those who die young and who die young. Wang Mang's posthumous title is sinister, according to my opinion..."

As a student of the eleventh year, Liu Xiu thought of a posthumous posthumous title: "Zhuang!"

"General Guatian defeated the enemy with strong ambitions, and was powerful and powerful, and was magnificent! It's a pity that his martial arts failed."

"The general died before he could see the destruction of Xinmang. Li Xian, who indirectly killed General Guatian, was still willing to fight between Jianghuai. I am willing to kill this thief with the young general so that General Guatian will be able to rest in peace!"

These words made Li Xiao's heart disappear. After that, Liu Xiu asked him to walk with him. Liu Xiu walked in front and was polite when he met a ragged thief in Jiang. He also promised that they would have new clothes to wear soon.

Gua Tianli followed behind, staring at Liu Xiu's back, and had many opportunities to draw his sword and poke the man over, but he still couldn't do it in the end.

It was not until Liu Xiu left the camp after inspecting the entire camp that everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to talk about Liu Xiu's experience in inspecting the camp. They all said that the King of Wu treated him very politely.

They admire Liu Xiu even more: "The King of Wu is like putting his heart in his stomach. How could we not cast our loyalty to death?"

"This little favor makes you fool you with pretending to behave?"

Guatian Li sneered in his heart and said to himself: "I won't kill him today because he respects my father, that's it. Well, Liu Xiu is not only good at making false statements, but also good at fighting. I might as well use him to defeat Li Xian. It's not too late to rebel after avenging his father's revenge!"

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"The king's move is really too risky!"

Liu Xiu returned from the prisoner camp. Deng Yu and Feng Yi were waiting anxiously outside, and were worried about him.

"If there is any recurrence, the king will be in danger!"

Liu Xiu only laughed: "In the battles between Shicheng and Wuhu, all the courage was lost. My family was in my hands. How could I make a rash rebellion? I just entered the camp to calm people's hearts. The thieves of the river are good at fighting in the mountains, forests, waters and lakes. If they can help me, what's the point of Jianghuai?"

Although Liu Xiu has taken half of Yangzhou at present, he mostly relied on coaxing and deceiving him. When his identity was exposed and his reputation was about to collapse, his old friends in Nanyang actually persuaded Gengshi to give him the title of "King of Wu".

This is like a pillow when he was sleepy. Liu Xiu can now be legitimately in charge of the four counties of Linhuai, Kuaiji, Guangling and Danyang with the title of King.

As for Emperor Gengshi's request to stop his troops and go to Wancheng, Liu Xiu pretended that he had not heard of it and refused to surrender the southeast before he could pacify.

He now feels that he is not good at relying on the powerful people in various places. What is really reliable is the subordinates who suffer with him. The powerful soldiers are only equivalent to "borrowing", and the real power still depends on recruitment. These thieves are ready-made soldiers.

After all, the thoughtfulness of the thieves at least stabilized the thieves. They observed slowly in the future. Those who were reliable were absorbed into the shogunate, and those who were unreliable were replaced, and their subordinates were allocated to the direct line.

It has been six months since I came to the southeast. After taking Danyang County and starting to recruit Danyang soldiers, the situation outside has also changed tremendously. For Liu Xiu, opportunities and challenges coexist.

The so-called opportunity is that the Gengshi regime in Nanyang was attacked by the Red Eyebrows. According to the letter sent by Li Tong, Runan had been lost. Li Tong suggested that Liu Xiu lead his troops back to serve the king and then take over Nanyang with the victory.

But Liu Xiu didn't have the intention.

"First, if you return to Nanyang, the Jiangdong that was finally captured, Linhuai will be discarded. The local heroes will inevitably have abnormal movements, either surrendering to Liu Yong or Li Xian."

Liu Xiu also knew that his foundation was not solid, and Jiang Donghaoyou's support for him was just a temporary solution.

"Secondly, we are thousands of miles away from Nanyang. There are red eyebrows on the land of Peijun. King Liang is also heading south, so we cannot fight with him. We can only go back to Yuzhang by water and then go north through Jiangxia. Although Jiangxia still surrenders to Liu Xuan, Yuzhang has been attacked by Huainan King Li Xian, and there is a fierce battle."

"Third, even if the tired soldiers return to Nanyang, they may not be able to defeat the Red Eyebrow..."

Liu Xiu knew about Red Eyebrow's combat power. After he seized Linhuai, he ordered Fu Jun to go north to Pengcheng to test, but Linhuai's powerful armed forces were called "The Three Old Masters of Red Eyebrows to be defeated in the face of An. The King of Wu is not yet capable of fighting against Red Eyebrows.

"Fourth, even if you defeat Chimei by chance, you still have to fight with Lulin Qu Shuai to gain the authority of Wancheng."

After completing these four years, a year and a half has passed. Liu Xiu did not believe that the fifth reunion in the north would have no action at all. Liu Xiu's mood was quite complicated about the fifth reunion. Although he had family grudges, what was even more devastating was the national grudge. The King of Wei had the intention to sweep the world, and Liu Xiu wanted to revive his own great man, so he was naturally a mortal enemy!

Instead of pursuing the unreliable Nanyang, it is better to gain a foothold in Jiangdong. This place is great. The famine at the turn of spring and summer has not been affected. It is just because there are few wars in the south and people eat rice. Some places can cook twice a year! Even if there is no food, the Sichuan, Ze, and forests are enough to fill their hungry stomachs. No wonder Tai Shigong said that there is no family of money in the south of the Jianghuai River, and there are no people who are frozen and hungry.

This is the biggest advantage in troubled times.

Liu Xiu had already pacified Danyang, and comforted the prefectures and counties. Wherever he went to the county, he met officials, three elders, officials, and his subordinates, and to the assistants, and established good relations with them, just like the affairs of the provincial governors. At the same time, he eliminated Wang Mang's harsh government and restored the official title of Han, winning the support of local tyrants in various counties, making them believe that in the troubled times, only the King of Wu could protect everyone's interests.

At the same time, Liu Xiu's eyes also looked outside, taking Linhuai, Ding Guangling, going down to Kuaiji, occupying Danyang, and unifying Jiangdong. He had completed the first four steps of Deng Yu's advice, and then what?

Deng Yu and Feng Yi both thought: "Let King Liang fight with Pengcheng Red Eyebrow in Huaibei, it is not advisable to go north too early. The king should take advantage of the time when all forces have no time to look south and defeat Li Xian in Huainan! To achieve the momentum of full Yang!"

But Li Xian now also controls several counties, and his subordinates have differences on where to start.

"Last month Li Xian sent troops to capture Yuzhang County, it would be better to send Danyang troops to separate Penglize, recover Yuzhang, and resume contacts with Nanyang."

Although Deng Yu was wise, he was born in the Deng family in Nanyang. He was sure that Gengshi would be defeated by Chimei. If he could resume communication early, even if he did not go back to serve the king and rescue the enemy, he would at least get a share of the inheritance of the Gengshi regime...

Feng Yi thought it was not the case: "Yuzhang is vast and far away. Once you fight there, you will not be able to decide the outcome until half a year. According to my opinion, it is better to cross the river from Danyang, attack Lujiang County, and directly attack Li Xian's capital!"

Liu Xiu looked at the rough map, but had his own ideas.

"Now Li Xian claims to be a 100,000 army. Even if he has a false number, Huainan will be rich at least 60,000 to 70,000."

"Although I am a member of four counties, I have captured the thieves in the river, but there are still more than 30,000."

Since the enemy is large and we are few, we have to do some dirty work when fighting. Liu Xiu fought for the army, at least he was a horse. At the beginning of his business, it was common for him to go into battle in person. He calmly commanded:

"Zhonghua led three thousand people to the waterway and attacked Pengze, making the move that I wanted to seize Yuzhang."

"In early July, Gongsun (Feng Yi) led his troops to set up flags in Danyang, which made Li Xian frightened and sent heavy troops on the north bank."

Liu Xiu's hand was pointed at Jiujiang County!

"Yu brought elite troops to attack Hefei!"

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At the same time, in the northern Hedong County, Di Wulun heard that Cen Peng sent a post cavalry to report that the green forest and red eyebrows were fired, so he immediately returned to Anyi City. He issued several edicts along the way, ordering him to go to Hebei, and the five thousand people from Zhang Zong, the Hedong Army who supported Geng Chun, changed directions and headed to Maojin Ferry (Pinglu County, Shanxi).

At the same time, the fifth reunion called out the Hedong prefect Dou Rong to meet him.

"Mr. Zhou, the plan cannot keep up with the changes." Di Wulun shook his head and smiled bitterly, but this time it was different from the past wisdom and tricks, and even luck could not be stopped.

"Since the Green Forest is fighting with the Red Eyebrow, the main force is transferred to the south and has no time to take care of the north, then I have to fight a 'fake Yu and destroy Guo'!"

The fifth reunification refers to a key battle for the expansion of Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, Jin State was the Fen River line in Hedong today, Yu State was the Maojin Ferry Crossing, and Guo State was the main body in Hongnong County on the south bank of the Yellow River.

"I have ordered General Zheng Tong of Hengye to go out to Tongguan to seize Hongnong City; and Zhang Zong, the Marquis of Yangquan, went to Kujin, took Shanxian and attacked eastward."

"This place is located in the inner penguin center, outside the outer embark on Heluo, walking on the ridge and dahua Mountain, carrying the river and elbowing Hangu. Before the end of July, all the west of Xinhangu Pass will be taken into my hands!"

Wu Lun said to Dou Rong: "Although Zheng and Zhang are brave generals, the battle is long and narrow, and the supply is not easy. The rear still has to be handed over to Xiao He, such a talent like Zhou Gong, to coordinate and encourage him!"

Dou Rong came out according to the imperial edict, but on the way south, he looked at Zhongtiao Mountain, which stretched across the sky, but couldn't help but sigh:

"Born in a chaotic world, I met a wise ruler. Since I don't have to worry about the survival of the clan, how can a real man fail to make achievements and become a marquis and generals? Even though he has been wondering, compared to Xiao He, I would rather be Cao Shen, who is both civil and military!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is at 23:00.
Chapter completed!