In addition to He Yan's troops and horses, he also brought with him Liu Ye, who had worked in Lujiang County.
Liu Ye acted like a normal person throughout the whole process, and it was particularly interesting to watch He Yan busy in the procession: "Isn't Marquis Shen still a little nervous?"
"Prefect Liu! You must be called by rank in the army!"
He Yan's voice was particularly loud, but he definitely refused to admit that it was because of a guilty conscience.
After all, organizing three to five hundred people to go on a spring outing might cause trouble, let alone a thousand soldiers?
Liu Ye looked like he had seen through the truth: "Yes, yes, Lieutenant He, is this all right?"
However, Liu Ye still advised: "Captain He, you have done a very good job. I have checked everything for you. The logistics, scouting, and marching routes are all arranged. There is no need to be so anxious."
"real?"
"real!"
After all, it was the first time for He Yan to get on the sedan chair, and she didn't know what to do to meet the standard.
Whether it's fast or slow, whether it's deep or shallow, whether it's intense or dull, you can't learn these things no matter how many tutorials you watch. You need to slowly figure out a style that suits you, so that you can do it skillfully.
"It's really good. It's better to relax a little. As a general, you can't always act like a warrior, otherwise the soldiers under your command will be broken like a bowstring."
Liu Ye patiently imparted his experience to He Yan: "Didn't you notice that when we gathered this morning, these soldiers were slower than usual? This is because they were too stretched the past few days and were already tired.
If this continues, these soldiers who are waiting on the front lines will be tortured to death without waiting."
He Yan then sorted out the small details of the past few days in his mind, and found that he was indeed a little too nervous, which made the soldiers unhappy as well.
"Relax, Lieutenant He. According to your plan, it's not certain that there will be a fight in Lujiang. Why do you need to make such a gesture?"
The reason why Cao Cao only gave He Yan a thousand men was to train He Yan.
If these one thousand people really fought with princes like Li Shu and Sun Quan who led tens of thousands of troops, they would probably not be enough to fill their teeth.
In this trip, the main thing is to be smart.
With Liu Ye's comfort, He Yan gradually relaxed: "That's true."
His heart was no longer beating violently, and his eye sockets were no longer congested, which made He Yan look further south: "I don't know what is going on with the Lujiang war."
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Lujiang County.
Wan County.
Sheriff's Mansion.
The owner of this house, Li Shu, was originally from a local wealthy family. In addition to his bravery in battle, he was taken under Sun Ce's command and worshiped as the prefect of Lujiang.
Among the six counties in Yangzhou, only Lujiang County and Jiujiang County are north of the Yangtze River. Sun Ce was able to hand over Lujiang County, which can be called the northern barrier, to Li Shu and ask him to guard it, which shows Li Shu's ability and his loyalty to Sun Ce.
Well, it's just loyalty to Sun Ce.
As soon as Sun Ce died, Li Shu's heart was in turmoil and he repeatedly refused Sun Quan's edicts.
Naturally, Sun Quan could not tolerate a general with a foreign surname like Li Shu who had a large number of troops occupying his northern gateway, so he decided to use the crusade against Li Shu as a battle to establish his power.
In order to fight a beautiful battle, Sun Quan spent almost all of his brother Sun Ce's wealth. In addition to Taishi Ci, the captain of Jianchang who guarded the east and west lines of the Yangtze River, famous generals such as Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Zhou Tai all came out.
, led an army of 50,000 and marched northward, hoping to revitalize the Sun family's reputation.
Li Shu saw that Sun Quan was approaching fiercely, so he naturally called his father to Xuchang, hoping that Cao Cao could send troops to save him.
But after waiting and waiting, he saw that Sun Quan was almost approaching Wan County, but there was no sign of Cao Cao's reinforcements. This made Li Shu begin to doubt Cao Cao's credibility.
"Could it be that Cao Cao still holds a grudge against Yan Xiang's death?"
Li Shu knew that he had indeed offended Cao Cao because of this incident, so he stopped taking chances and began to prepare for war.
"The leader of the Sun family is nominally Sun Quan, but judging from the layout of the camp and the means of attack, it seems that Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin are in command."
Li Shu reminded his generals: "Zhou Gongjin is originally from Shu County, Lujiang, and is very familiar with the terrain in the Lujiang area. Moreover, his civil and military plans are the hero of ten thousand people, so we must not underestimate the enemy!"
In fact, Li Shu did not need to remind him that his generals also knew what a difficult opponent Zhou Yu was.
Everyone lives in Jiangdong, so they are not very familiar with Sun Ce's family history.
If Sun Ce's contribution to unifying Jiangdong in his weak years was ten stones, then Zhou Yu would definitely take away four of them.
If such a person rebelled against the Sun family and took over Sun Ce's territory, no one would be surprised at all. But they never expected that Zhou Yu would be the most supportive of Sun Quan. This was also the most surprising thing for those who were enemies of Sun Quan.
I was frightened first.
"Prefect, can we really defeat Zhou Yu?"
Hearing the questions from his generals, Li Shu glared angrily: "If you can't win, you have to fight! If you can't win, you have to fight! At this point, are you still thinking about a third way?"
Now Sun Quan has made it clear that he wants to use Li Shu to establish his authority. Unless Li Shu surrenders unconditionally and hands over his military power, Sun Quan will not retreat.
But if Li Shu was willing to hand over military power, he and Sun Quan would not have developed into the life-and-death situation they are now in.
"Everyone defend the city well! If we can defeat Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, we may have a chance to imitate Sun Bofu and unify Jiangdong, cut off the three Wu lands, and become a vassal of our own!"
Li Shu's words were undoubtedly quite tempting, but they still misjudged how determined Sun Quan was to attack Lujiang County this time.
For Sun Quan.
Yu Gong, by defeating Li Shu and taking Lujiang County, he defended the northern border of Jiangdong and prevented his hinterland from being directly exposed to the eyes of the Central Plains forces.
Personally, the current situation is very unfriendly to Sun Quan.
Sun Ce's old tribe, the Sun clan, the Jiangdong family, and the Shanyue bandits... In addition to having no external troubles, Sun Quan has gathered all the troubles that a force may encounter. If he cannot win over Li Shu and establish his authority, then what awaits Sun Quan will be this
The foundation completely collapsed.
so.
For Sun Quan, the war with Li Shu is the real "battle to establish a career." He must not lose this battle!
Fortunately, Zhou Yu was indeed a master in using his troops. Even Li Shu, who fought bravely, could not take advantage of Zhou Yu. Instead, he was beaten and defeated, and now he has retreated to Wan County.
In addition, the grain and grass in Jiangdong were prepared by Sun Ce in order to go north to attack Xuchang. The logistics aspect can only be described as "audacious". To defeat Li Shu who only occupied Wan County was like using a dragon-slaying knife to chop ants.
——No panic at all.
According to the strategy formulated by Zhou Yu, it is to surround.
Li Shu, who had surrounded Wan County, had run out of ammunition and food, so the entire Lujiang County could naturally get it easily.
until--
"There are more than a thousand soldiers approaching from the north? There is also the flag of [剽姚] among them?"
In Sun's camp, a tall, handsome young general suddenly heard this piece of information, and his eyebrows tangled together unconsciously.
Next to the general stood a young man with a big mouth.
After hearing this information, the young man also made an expression similar to that of the general: "Gong Jin, could it be that Cao Cao has sent troops?"
These two people were Zhou Yu and Sun Quan.
When he heard that the Han army was approaching from the north, Sun Quan's first reaction was that Cao Cao, who had just defeated Yuan Shao, was eyeing Jiangdong!
But what Zhou Yu paid attention to was not Cao Cao, but the flag.
"[剽姚]? Could it be him?"
The Battle of Guandu has a bearing on the overall situation of the world. Now several months have passed, enough for people far away in Jiangdong to find out the complete story of the Battle of Guandu.
Among them, although Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Xu You and others stood out, in the end they were all eclipsed by one person.
"Plagiar Yao Xiaowei, today's Shenhou - He Yan!"
When Zhou Yu first heard about what He Yan had done, he sighed: "There are such strange people in the world."
After getting to know He Yan's deeds more and more later, Zhou Yu's sighs about He Yan became more complicated.
"Such young heroes are nothing more than Bo Fu in this world."
In fact, Zhou Yu himself is not very old. He just celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday not long ago, so he can definitely be considered a young man.
Just comparing with He Yan, Zhou Yu felt that he was too old...
Shaking his head to get rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind, Zhou Yu asked the scout again and again: "Can you see clearly, is the word written on the flag really [剽姚]?"
"Return to the Central Guards, you read that right!"
"And the other flag has the word [He] written on it, it's unmistakable!"
【what】
【彽姚】
It is unmistakable that the man who came to Lujiang was none other than the Han Dynasty Shenhou He Yan, who made a splash in the Battle of Guandu last year and was known as the reincarnation of Huo Qiaoqi.
"But...what is he here for?"
There are actually not many generals who lead troops at the age of thirteen or fourteen, but there are not many generals who lead the army alone at the age of thirteen or fourteen and come to intervene in a large-scale war involving tens of thousands of people in Lujiang.
Sun Quan also knew at this time that the person coming was He Yan, but this made him even more distressed.
"He Yan is not only a lieutenant who copied Yao and Marquis Shen, but he is also Cao Cao's adopted son!"
"Cao Cao sent him here with Cao Cao's own attitude. It would be fine if he supports us, but if he supports Li Shu..."
Sun Quan's supposedly immature forehead already had deep splayed lines due to frequent frowning, and the splayed eyebrows were now deeply revealed again, and the charge exposed Sun Quan's anxious heart.
He Yan is not scary.
Even though He Yan stole the show in the Battle of Guandu, he was still not terrible.
Sun Quan was able to take charge of Jiangdong at this age. His temperament has long been mature, and his judgment of the overall situation is far beyond ordinary people.
What he was really worried about was Cao Cao who defeated Yuan Shao.
If Cao Cao had his sights set on Jiangdong's territory and chose to send troops southward at this time, then given Sun Quan's predicament, he would never be able to resist Cao Cao and would have no choice but to be killed.
At this moment, Sun Quan, who was already suffering from internal troubles, thought that external troubles were coming one after another, and he couldn't help but become desperate.
"Lord, don't worry, He Yan probably didn't come for us."
Because Sun Quan did not inherit the title of "Marquis of Wu" from Sun Ce, he is still a general who suppresses captives and is also the prefect of Kuaiji. Therefore, most of his generals, officials and scholars also greet Sun Quan with the courtesy of a general. Only Zhou Yu serves Sun Quan with the courtesy of a lord.
This was one of the reasons why Sun Quan later respected Zhou Yu.
"If Cao Cao really planned to plot Jiangdong, no matter how powerful he was, he should have sent long-famous clan generals like Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan to lead tens of thousands of troops southward, instead of just He Yan leading more than a thousand troops."
"What's more, although Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, he himself has also reached the point where he is running out of fuel. There will definitely not be a large-scale war this year."
Although Zhou Yu was in Jiangdong, his analysis of the general trend of the world was extremely accurate, and he directly pointed out Cao Cao's current situation.
When Sun Quan heard what Zhou Yu said, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Since they are not here to deal with us, then they must be here to deal with Li Shu?"
According to Sun Quan's idea, Li Shu killed Yan Xiang, the governor of Yangzhou sent by Cao Cao. Now it is completely reasonable and reasonable for Cao Cao to send He Yan to conquer.
"It doesn't look like that either."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu vetoed Sun Quan again.
"Li Shu is strong in Jianghuai. It is impossible for Cao Cao not to know Li Shu's military strength. Those more than a thousand soldiers are of no use at all."
Sun Quan also became strange now: "If you don't help us or Li Shu, is it possible that the famous Lieutenant Yao just came to watch the show?"
Going to the theater?
Of course it's impossible. Zhou Yu doesn't believe that He Yan and Cao Cao can be so boring...
etc!
Going to the theater?
Zhou Yu suddenly reacted and stared at Wan County not far away: "I know what He Yan is here for!"
Sun Quan quickly asked: "What to do?"
"What He Yan cares about is not whether we win or Li Shu wins!"
"What he cares about...is Lujiang County!"
Zhou Yu gritted his teeth: "I hope Li Shu will be smarter! Don't let He Yan eat him! Otherwise, Lujiang County... will really change hands!"
Before Sun Quan could react, another scout came forward to report: "General, the Central Guard Army, the army with the banner just now has approached Wan County and is stationed outside Wan County!"
Hearing the scout's words, Zhou Yu couldn't sit still at all. A feeling of "being plucked" anger rose from the bottom of his heart, and his ears gradually became brighter.
"Prepare to attack the city!"
When Sun Quan heard that Zhou Yu actually wanted to attack the city, he quickly dissuaded him and said: "The soldiers attacked the city day and night yesterday. If we continue to attack the city now, will it cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers?"
"I don't care about that anymore!"
Zhou Yu shook his head: "And the purpose of attacking the city now is not to capture Wan County, but to remind Li Shu of something!"
"What's up?"
"Be careful with He Yan!"
Just when Zhou Yu was eagerly planning to attack the city, He Yan and Liu Ye also left their tribe and came to Wan County.
After He Yan came in, he looked at Wan County and found that the city was full of ruins. Even the people were driven out of the city by Li Shu. These are enough to prove how difficult Li Shu fought this battle.
"Hardship? Hardship is good!"
"If it's not hard, how can I give him hope?"
"How can I gain his trust if I don't give him hope?"
"How can Brother Ziyang become the prefect of Lujiang without gaining his trust?"
He Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the hurried figure: "Here he comes!"
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