Peixian County, also known as Xiaopei, is the place where dragons flourished by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Pei, in the "Jiuzhou Jing", is interpreted as a place of abundance and wealth. Since Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, it has been known as the place where dragons fly since ancient times.
Legend has it that Peixian County, about sixty miles away from Pengcheng, Xuzhou, is the northwest gateway of Xuzhou, connected with Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou. In order to consolidate his own strength, Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian deployed heavy troops in Peixian County and hoarded grain and grass for emergencies.
need.
Long Fei was dressed as a farmer and entered through the city gate carrying a load of firewood. This place is indeed a treasure. The streets are crowded with people, small merchants and hawkers are standing next to each other, and there are a variety of stores with a dazzling array of merchants coming and going from north to south.
During this transfer, carriages and horses pulling various goods went in and out of the city gate. According to the spies, there were 5,000 troops stationed in Peixian County, 3,000 outside the city and 1,000 inside the city. In addition, the county magistrate also recruited 1,000 government troops.
Coordinated defense. Soldiers can be seen coming and going everywhere on the street.
After finding a sunny place, Long Fei put down his load of firewood and shouted feebly, "Sell firewood." When the sun reached noon, Dian Wei, Chen, and Xu Chu came to Long Fei one after another. Long Fei asked: "Can you come?
together?"
Chen Dao nodded: "Everyone has come in! We are preparing as instructed!"
"Very good!" Long Fei said: "According to the plan, Xu Chu will lead his people to occupy the west gate, Chen Dao will lead his people to occupy the granary and weapons workshop, Dian Wei will follow me! Everything will follow my signal!"
He picked up the load of firewood again and shouted as he walked. After walking around a few alleys, he saw the gate of the county government. Five or six strong men had already gathered here. When they saw Long Fei and Dian Wei approaching, they nodded slightly at them.
Long Fei put down his burden and looked at the county government. My dear, it's really a big place. There are eight soldiers standing guard at the door of the large government office. The red door is tightly closed, and two young men are sitting on the steps at the door.
Bask in the sun.
Long Fei waved, and a strong man came over quickly. Long Fei asked: "Is there any movement?"
The man shook his head: "No! Still in the house!"
"Okay! Leave two people here and gather the rest at the back door!"
The back door of the county house is an alley, where servants and people delivering things go. The tall walls on both sides make the alley look like a line of sky. Two servants with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks are at the back door, drinking tea and chatting.
, the arrival of Long Fei and Dian Wei obviously attracted the attention of these two people. A guy slowly stood up and shouted over here: "Hey! What are you doing?"
"My lord, we are delivering firewood to the county government. We were told to deliver it to the back door. Where is the back door?" Long Fei hurriedly put on a smile.
"The firewood delivery guy!" The man looked at Long Fei up and down, and then at Dian Wei beside him: "What do you do?"
"I'm the food delivery guy!"
"It's so fucking weird today, why are they all crowded together! Where are the old Sun and Old Liu from before?" The boy cursed, and as he was about to search Dian Wei's vegetable basket, another one said loudly: "
Don't move, this is the rule here, if you want to enter the county government, you will search everyone!" As he spoke, he came to search Long Fei's load of firewood.
Long Fei winked at Dian Wei, and the two of them took action at the same time. Dian Wei grabbed the boy's arm and brought it to his arms, covering his neck with his backhand, and moved his other hand out hard. With a bang, the boy fell limp.
He fell to the ground. Long Fei didn't have the strength of Dian Wei, so he struck harder. Just when the kid lowered his head, he suddenly raised his leg and hit the kid's chin with his knee. He was caught off guard and was hit.
He stood upright and before he could stand up, his neck felt cold. He covered his neck with his hands and spoke out.
Long Fei waved back and ordered two of them casually: "Clean up here and wait for response!" He pushed open the door to the backyard and walked inside with his load of firewood. After all, it was the county magistrate's residence, although
There is no big courtyard with three entrances and three exits, but it is almost the same. The front is the office, the middle is the family's residence, and the kitchen and other facilities are immediately behind.
Seeing that there was no one in the yard, Long Fei threw down his load of firewood and headed towards the front yard with a dagger in his hand. Following a servant delivering tea, Long Fei successfully found the county magistrate's study. The magistrate was writing inside
What? The servant pushed the door in, put down the tea, and then backed out gently. Long Fei waited for the servant to go away, then pushed the door open and walked in. The magistrate did not raise his head and said, "What else is there?"
Long Fei didn't speak. Only then did the county magistrate realize that there was a problem. He quickly looked up and saw a strange man sitting opposite him, looking at him with a sinister smile. There were several screams and several screams in the yard.
The servants and soldiers were knocked down by Dian Wei, who drove all the servants and family members together, locked them in a small room next to them, put people under guard, and then entered the magistrate's study covered in blood.
"what happened?"
Dian Wei smiled: "There is a guy who is disobedient and asked me to tear him apart!"
"Who are you? Did you know that this is a capital crime?" Although the county magistrate was frightened in his heart, he appeared calm.
Long Fei smiled: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to borrow something!" He turned to Dian Wei and said, "Send the signal and act immediately!" With one "two kicks" that Long Fei knew he had done, he was thrown into the sky.
.Not long ago, the war horse of Pei County Guardsman appeared outside the gate of the county government. As soon as the guard entered the door, he laughed loudly: "What kind of treasure did you get? You gave it to me. This is a rare good thing in the world, sir! Where is your lord?"
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Someone brought the guard into the magistrate's study. Before he could stand still, Dian Wei punched the guard in the face hard. The guard fell on the spot, holding his nose and screaming loudly. Dian Wei was like
He threw the guard in front of the county magistrate like a chicken: "You are right, boss, hurry up and gather all the officials in the county, big and small!"
County magistrates, county lieutenants, treasurers, deputy generals, staff generals, etc., and even the small officials with swords and pens were all summoned. At this time, outside the county government, a large group of soldiers wearing Xuzhou military uniforms were rushing to the granary and weapons workshop to guard the
The general received the card and sent away all the personnel guarding the granary and treasury. In addition, the soldiers defending the west gate suddenly discovered that there was dust flying outside the city, and a group of bandits with various weapons in their hands suddenly rushed towards this direction.
"Squeak...!" The city gate was opened unexpectedly, and the captain guarding the city shouted something bad. Xu Chu raised his knife and chopped him to the ground. Dozens of guards struggled to open the gate.
Pull, the heavy gate is too heavy. At this time, the soldiers patrolling in the city had learned the news and swarmed in. Xu Chu yelled: "Get out of my way!"
Xu Chu stepped firmly on his horse, exerted his strength with both arms, and used all the muscles in his body. He pulled half of the door leaf hard, and heard a bang. The thick city gate was even pulled down by Xu Chu, and he threw it back.
Xuzhou soldiers fled for their lives. The other one was not a problem. He cut the rope of the suspension bridge with his sword, and Guan Hai led his men to rush in. Such a big thing happened in Peixian County, but the county magistrate and the guard did not care. Someone came to the door.
Report, even a punch or a kick is light.
The hawkers on the street did not bother to close their stalls and scurried around. Every house closed its doors and windows. Guan Hai ordered loudly: "See, if you see a yellow circle on your door, you don't need to be polite when you enter. Don't offend other people! Motorcade, follow me!"
Chen Daozheng led more than a hundred people to protect the granary desperately. Although everyone was brave, they could not withstand the large number of people. When it was about to be overwhelmed, Guan Hai and his people arrived. Guan Hai's spear rushed and killed the Xuzhou soldiers.
After they dispersed, they ordered people to transport the food and grass.
The Xuzhou soldiers had no command, some risked their lives and were quickly wiped out; some stayed at the camp, and some hesitated for no reason. Long Fei stretched out and looked up at the Peixian officials who were hung from the beams.
, smiled and said: "If the city is so easily defeated by me, why do you have the nerve to meet Tao Qian and Dian Wei and send them on their way!"
The fire burned for three days and three nights. All the houses of the county government and some surrounding officials were burned down, and countless people died. They were first robbed and looted, and then burned by the fire. All the good things accumulated by generations of people were lost in one day.
The common people did not dare to save, for fear of being retaliated by the bandits, and they were unwilling to save these officials. In the past, the arrogant people knelt in front of the fire without caring about their own image, and cried like a mess.
After Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian learned about it, he fainted on the spot. Peixian County was looted, which meant that his northwest barrier was gone. He immediately mobilized his troops and vowed to completely wipe out Guan Hai, the remnant of the Yellow Turbans. Chen Gui hurriedly dissuaded him: "
Mr. Zhou Mu, please calm down. Although Peixian is a barrier to Pengcheng, it is too forward and difficult to defend without a talented person. Even if Guan Hai doesn't attack, someone will attack!"
"Is this the end of the matter?" Tao Qian still didn't calm down: "Send an order to Pi Zang Ba to raise an army!"
"My lord, you must not do this!" Chen Deng, the captain of Diannong School, said hurriedly: "Zang Ba is very ambitious and has already refused to obey the rules when he monopolizes Xiapi. If he takes over Pei County, won't he not even look down on you?"
"Then let this matter go?"
Chen Gui shook his head: "No, we can send people to join forces with Cao Cao, Kong Rong, and Yuan Shu to destroy them together. Then Guan Hai will be defeated! It will be difficult for my family alone."
"Master Chen, are you going to give Xuzhou to others?" Mi Zhu suddenly interjected: "Cao Cao is a tiger and a wolf, Yuan Shu is a barking dog, and Kong Rong has a reputation for virtue but does not live up to his reputation. These three people are all eyeing Xuzhou, and they all want to swallow it up.
, if any party takes Pei County, our Xuzhou will never have peace!"
"What does Mi Zhizhong mean?" Tao Qian agreed with Mi Zhu's words and hoped that Mi Zhu would have countermeasures.
Mi Zhu bowed to the end: "Liu Xuande is a descendant of the royal family. He is crowned the world with his benevolence and righteousness. In the past, he made great achievements in wiping out the Yellow Turbans. He also followed Gongsun Zan to Luoyang to challenge Dong. I heard that Kong Rong was in great distress when Beihai was attacked by Guan Hai and sent troops to rescue. Why don't you send Liu Xuande to the rescue?"
Invite him and let him garrison in Pei County. On the one hand, he will have a place to live and be grateful to you. On the other hand, he will have two generals, Guan and Zhang, who are equal to ten thousand enemies. He can be compared to Cao Cao and Kong Rong!"
"I have heard of Liu Bei!" Tao Qian pondered for a long time: "I just don't know where he is now. Besides, I have no contact with him. Is he willing to help me?"
"Liu Bei and his two brothers are in Beihai. With your approval, Zhu is willing to go and persuade Liu Bei to come to Xuzhou."
Tao Qian looked at the people in the audience, and they were all silent. He was not sure whether Liu Bei's arrival was a good thing or a bad thing, or whether it was like taking in Zang Ba back then. But he couldn't care less about it now. He had to resolve the crisis in Pei County first.
.Immediately ordered Mi Zhu to go to Beihai with gifts to invite Liu Bei to Xuzhou.