Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2496: Qingzhou ball

Chapter 2496 Qingzhou Ball

Yingchuan.

Although it has entered mid-autumn, the sun at noon still has some summer power.

Ze Hong led a team of 23 people under his command and was slowly heading south along the dusty road.

Ze Hong was actually as tired as the soldiers under him, but he couldn't show it. He was just a small team leader, and he was still not enough. His task is to patrol the Yingchuan area to ensure that the grain transportation channels from the surrounding areas will not be disturbed.

Ze Hong was originally just a superintendent, and there were ten people under him. He didn't know much writing, and he didn't know much about arithmetic. He thought that he was almost at the end, and he couldn't get promoted. But things change, especially when wars happen.

During the Battle of Qingxu, the Zezhen Squad participated in the attack on the Jiangdong Army, and fought on the front line since Cao Cao went south. In two or three battles with the Jiangdong Army, Cao Jun completely defeated the Jiangdong Army in Xuzhou The offensive can be regarded as a phased victory, but the result of this victory does not mean that Cao Jun will be unscathed.

It's like the battle damage of Ze Hong's team, more than half.

One team is five, and one is two. As for Ze Hong's team, after the Qingxu battle, the commanding team was killed, the other two died after being wounded, and the other two were still recovering from their injuries. The rest was Ze Hong himself, so it was natural Some of them became false team leaders and took over the remnants of the team.

The additional pawns have not arrived yet.

After all, the supplementary soldiers in a formation like Zehong are not the same as ordinary Yingchuan soldiers.

So the Zehong team was assigned to the north of Yingchuan, and was temporarily responsible for patrolling the grain transportation channel. After all, this is a relatively easy way, and it can also be regarded as a kind of psychological treatment in the Han Dynasty given by superior officers to a team with more losses like Zezhen.

The road they are in charge of is actually the area north of Yangcheng. They set off every morning, then come back at night, and repair it in the camp every other day, and then repeat.

There are some veterans left in the team.

Young and reckless, they ran out of luck early and died on the battlefield.

Suddenly, Ze Hong heard a series of hurried hooves coming from a distance, and immediately he looked up and saw the smoke in the distance. Fortunately, it seems that there are not many people who come to ride. He immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse in order to deal with possible emergencies. Soon the sound of horseshoes approached, and Ze Xing squinted his eyes and put his hands on the awning, and saw that there were only two knights, one in front and one behind, wearing casual clothes, but a striking copper bundle was hung on the horse's forehead.

『Son of a family…』Ze Jin muttered in a low voice,「I don’t know which family it belongs to…」

Bronze ware is a hard currency, so generally speaking, ordinary rough horses will not be equipped with more advanced saddles, let alone additional clothing around the neck of the horse's head.

Ze Rong straightened his right arm and waved it a few times, signaling for the person coming to stop. He has the right to inspect any people and convoys passing by this road except for the military express horses.

The knight pulled the reins obediently, and the horse stopped precisely five steps away from Ze Hong. Ze Hong could even feel the heat from the horse.

『Show me your past! 』

Ze Hong shouted loudly.

The rider in front turned his head slightly, while the rider behind got off his horse, walked up to Ze Hong, took out a pass from his arms, and handed it to Ze Hong.

According to the passage, this is an official from Yingyang, Yingchuan.

『Yingyang? 』Ze Hong is not familiar with the surface of Yingchuan, so he doesn't know how far Yingyang is from Yangcheng. But judging from the process, this is a formal document and there is nothing wrong with it.

Not any soldier can know the map of Huaxia, or have a relatively overall concept at every turn. Like in a TV movie, a small captain can know astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom...

Therefore, Zezhen naturally didn't find any problems, and returned the fault to Laiqi.

Laiqi took the document, but didn't shake the rein and leave immediately. Immediately, he looked down at Ze Chen condescendingly, and suddenly asked, "Qingzhou soldier?" 』

Ze Rong felt a little surprised, but still replied unambiguously: "Why do you ask this?" 』

『Sure enough, I didn’t guess wrong, haha. 』

The man pointed to Ze Hong's neck, and Ze Hong immediately understood.

Qingzhou soldiers have some characteristics.

One is that although the yellow scarf is no longer worn, a scarf will still be worn around the neck. Of course, it may not be possible to be sure based on this, but it is true that only Qingzhou soldiers are wearing scarves and Taoist celestial master portraits.

"What do you want? ’Ze Jin asked again.

「It’s nothing...hehe...」

Come and shake the reins, the horse neighed, and galloped north.

The smoke and dust raised by the horse's hooves scattered freely, and some of them fell on Ze Xi's gray-brown leather armor. When the horses had gone away, the inexplicable Ze Xing patted the dirt on the armor and put the helmet back on.

He turned around and motioned for the whole team to go on.

The queue moves on...

Turned through the woods.

When Zezhen realized that he was in a dangerous situation from the slightly strange knight incident before, it was too late.

First of all, he noticed some unnatural lights shining in the woods on one side of the road. Out of the intuition of a soldier, he instinctively smelled an ominous smell.

『Stop moving forward! alert! 』

Ze Hong instinctively gave the order.

But alertness does not immediately give them super defensive capabilities...

Ze Hong soon heard some movement from the woods on one side, and he subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a group of figures appearing in the woods at some point, holding some crossbows in their hands!

Under the sun, the crossbow arrows glowed with a cold and dangerous light, as if they were laughing at Ze Jin and the others in front of them.

"not good…"

Before Ze Hong had time to finish speaking, the crossbow arrows roared out!

Ze Hong's formation was immediately broken up by the sudden attack, and several soldiers were shot to the ground before they could react, causing blood to splatter everywhere.

Because they were patrolling inside Yingchuan, they basically didn't carry any large shields.

Before Ze Hong and the others could react, the second wave of bows and arrows came out!

Ze Hong wanted to dodge, but was shot through the chest by a crossbow, and just fell on his back with his eyes wide open.

A moment later, the entire army of Zehong's team was wiped out.

『Hmph…』

A man walked out of the woods, with a mocking sneer on his face, "Qingzhou soldiers..."

Ze Hong hadn’t completely died yet, and collapsed on the ground, clutching his chest and panting, “Who are you…”

『Hehe…』The visitor walked up to Ze Rong, raised his saber, and said, 『Guess! 』

Hands up and down.

Zezhen's head rolled down like a **** ball of flesh.

Rolling around...

…（｀へ）…

Clouds are floating in the sky in large swaths, like chunks of cotton candy.

But what happened under these marshmallows is not so sweet.

If a regime and a country have a large population base, then the life and death of a few people, or dozens of people, or hundreds of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, is not a very important thing for this regime and this country. big thing

But at a critical moment, perhaps the life and death of a few people may have a far-reaching impact.

The fighting became intense and frantic after nightfall.

Crazy shouts from the village, accompanied by shaking like ghosts, spread to the valley in the distance. Although the men in the village tried their best to fight, these ordinary people could not resist in the face of the ferocious bandits, and then they entered a one-sided situation. Without the protection of these men, the old and weak Women and children are facing hell.

In the beginning, the men in the village could form a line of defense to keep out the bandits who suddenly attacked, but soon after, the bandits who climbed in from another direction caused chaos in the line of defense, eventually leading to The collapse of the entire defense line.

The flames rose, the air flow surged, the shadows shook, and the sound of howling and screaming echoed between the heaven and the earth.

Those gangsters grinned grinningly and yelled recklessly, with an accent that didn't fit in Yingchuan's local area, like the voice of evil spirits.

These bandits are not so much bandits and bandits as bandits.

Because these people have armor, weapons, organization, and division of labor. All of these show that these people are not ordinary thieves.

Yingchuan hasn't experienced such a thing for too long.

It's not that these Yingchuan people don't know how cruel and terrifying the outside world is, but that they live in the environment maintained by Cao Cao and Xun Yu, and have been at ease for a long time, so that they forget that there is nothing in this world. , and blood, and death, and things even scarier than death...

In fact, if someone calms down and observes at this time, they may find that the armor and battle robes of these bandit soldiers with the accent of "Qingzhou" were originally stained with blood, and many of them were damaged. . This kind of situation is often only common in rout soldiers.

But no matter from that perspective, Yingchuan is unlikely to be defeated...

The "Qingzhou" soldiers raged for most of the night. When it was approaching dawn, they set a fire and fled the village.

…(σ｀д′)σ…

Li Pan did not receive the news that the "Qingzhou soldiers" had attacked the village until the evening of the second day. His first reaction was to widen his eyes and open his mouth, and then he didn't react until the saliva was about to fall out, and let out a very strange sigh.

Because Cui Yan recommended Cao Cao as prime minister, the relationship between the gentry in Jizhou and Cao Cao eased a little compared to before, and the few people who were closer to Cui Yan also got some real vacancies. Of course, it can't be near Jizhou, but in Mi County in the Heluo area.

The Heluo Sili area is now naturally torn apart.

The Yang family of Hongnong in the Luoyang area still belonged to Feiqian, the general of the hussars, but in fact that was the case, which was about the same as Tao Qian's placement of Liu Bei in Xiaopei, so even though the Yang family worked hard, It may be limited by strength and cannot restore the overall control over Sili.

Mi County is in the northeast of Yangcheng.

The Hanoi area naturally belonged to Jizhou. As for the counties near Chenliu, such as Mi County, they should have been under the jurisdiction of Siliu, but in fact they were also under the jurisdiction of Chenliu.

Although the relationship is rather chaotic, after all, the fields around Mi County are not bad, and there are people who cultivate the land, which is relatively good.

Since Li Pan took office, he has generally been fairly stable, but he never expected that the first major event he encountered would be such a piece of news that puzzled him!

Qingzhou soldiers looted a Tuntian village west of Mi County!

After Li Pan heard the news, he was not the first to appease the casualties and condolences, but was thinking about other issues.

Why did Qingzhou soldiers come to the surrounding areas of Mi County?

What does "Qingzhou Bing" mean?

This is not just three words...

As far as Li Pan knows, when Cao Cao surrendered the Qingzhou soldiers, he agreed to many conditions. Of course, these are all rumors, and no one knows exactly what happened when Cao Cao brought three or two guards to the Qingzhou Army Camp on that day.

But what is certain is that since when, Cao Cao’s army began to set up various sacrificial wines, military division sacrificial wine, doctor’s sacrificial wine...

Well, of course, it doesn’t mean that the position of sacrificial wine was first created by Cao Cao. It’s just that there were relatively few or even no establishments for a while before. However, after Cao Cao recruited Qingzhou soldiers, there were more of them. This has to be reminiscent.

Judging from these clues, the importance of the Qingzhou Army to Cao Cao is self-evident.

But such Qingzhou soldiers, how could they run into the countryside of Yingchuan to slaughter villages?

What's more serious is that in the current link, something like this happened...

『The county lord...this matter...shall we report it or...』 asked the county magistrate beside him.

『Hiss…』 Li Pan frowned, 「It’s hard to handle…」

『Xianzun, this matter... If we do nothing like this, I’m afraid...』

Li Pan walked around the hall twice with his hands behind his back, "Report! But we can’t report…”

『What does the county honor mean? 』

Li Pan was silent for a while, "Didn't you hear that there was a royal doctor inspecting grain and grass in Yangcheng yesterday?" 』

『Censor doctor? 』

"right! ”Li Pan smiled slightly, as if he felt that the ball had been kicked away by him, with a kind of relief, “Isn’t the doctor Yushi the right to supervise all officials and clean up gangs and disciplines? Shouldn't such violations of laws and regulations and improper rectification be reported to Doctor Yushi? Hehe, hurry up, hurry up! Don't let people say that I wait for delays and negligence...』

…(*dish`)…

The ball reached Xi Xi's feet.

Xi Xi stared at the messenger in front of him, feeling the urge to eat the messenger alive!

If he really swallowed the messenger raw, it would be able to make this matter go away. I believe that Chi Chi will definitely yell and add a little soy sauce and vinegar, and then just dip it in and swallow it!

Xi Xi knew that killing the courier would not do anything to the overall problem, so he finally waved his hand and told the courier he hated to go away.

According to the process, there is nothing wrong.

Are you a doctor censor? Things like investigation and research are naturally within the scope of the doctor censor. And now he is still justifiably "surveying the wind" outside!

But the problem is that Xi Xi, the imperial historian, is not real or a complete body.

Doctor Yushi is the official name set up by the Qin Dynasty. He is the deputy of the prime minister.

Isn’t it a dick?

But the problem is that Xi Ji can't get up now.

If Cao Cao hadn’t been prime minister before, then Xi Xi, the imperial censor, was the same thing, and he could just pretend, but now that Cao Cao is the prime minister, Xi Xi, the censor, immediately became embarrassed.

Could it be that Xi Ji really ran to be the prime minister's deputy, and then went to supervise the officials for Cao Cao? This is what Xi Xi dreamed of, but the question is, can Prime Minister Cao be willing?

At least Xi Ji used to be close to the emperor, but now when the prime minister came to power, he hurried over to kneel and lick him.

This is called "following the general trend of the world"!

How can it be called kneeling and licking?

It's ugly.

At the same time, Xi Xi also needs to take care of the mood of the emperor Liu Xie...

How many times you have to push and give, and refuse a few times if you want to welcome.

Therefore, Xi Ji said that he would share the worries of the emperor, monitor the situation of the autumn harvest and autumn gifts, leave the political vortex, wander around, and act as a winger. On the one hand, he will not lose the opportunity to attack, and on the other hand, he is not like a forward center. It's so eye-catching, maybe it will be hammered randomly...

As a result, he never expected that the ball still came to his feet.

How to kick this kick?

Xi Ji suddenly remembered the news that a group of soldiers from Qingzhou disappeared two days ago...

Could it be...

Xi Xi took a breath.

Jizhou and Yuzhou are full of quagmire. What Xixi wants to do most is to have both ways, get out of the mud without being stained, and be his own white lotus.

Anyway, one is loyal to His Majesty, one is sincere to the prime minister, one white lotus blooms on it, and one rotten leaf presses the black mud.

So Xi Xi made up his mind not to allow himself to be contaminated by these causes and effects.

This matter is a big trouble. I must not get stuck in it. If I don’t kick it well, I will be covered in mud! Be sure to kick this big Qingzhou ball well!

But the question is, where are fellow daoists?

With hands behind their backs, Xi Xi walked around the hall round after round, like a donkey pulling an invisible millstone.

Suddenly, Xi Ji stopped, his eyes sparkling.

『Come on! Go ask Confucius and... no, no! Prepare chariots and horses, some people are going to visit Confucius and He! 』

While giving orders, Xi Ji walked out.

He found a most suitable catcher!

Kong Qian!

Kong Rong's younger brother, known as an upright, innocent, and innocent gentleman!

This matter, no, the ball reaches Kong Qian's feet, even if he doesn't kick it, he will kick it!

Otherwise, Kong Qian’s reputation would be ruined...

Isn't this the best candidate?

In addition to the old affairs between Kong Rong and Cao Cao, hehe, Kong Qian must definitely want to find some trouble with Prime Minister Cao.