Chapter 14 Jinfan

The next morning, just dawn, Cao Chong took Zhou Buyi and the Mi sisters onto the carriage. His famous wuwan horse was full of saddles and stirrups, and was led by a tiger soldier next to the carriage so that he could get on the carriage at any time.

"Are all the civilians full? Is anyone doing tricks again?" Cao Chong asked while tidying up his clothes.

"The young master ordered that there was a man who was not full and beat the Ten Army sticks in charge of the affairs. How could anyone dare to disobey his orders?" Zhou Buyi smiled, "Each person had two big bowls, and each person gave two cakes. Anyway, he was relying on the Han River, so he was not afraid of having no water to drink."

Cao Chong stopped, frowned, and looked at Zhou Buyi dissatisfiedly: "What do I say to you? The epidemic is now prevalent, and those northerners are not used to the water and soil of Jingzhou, so how can they still drink raw water? Someone on the road is sick. Zhou Yuanzhi pushed the car into the army?"

Mi Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "Young Master, don't worry. Mr. Zhou has already asked someone to bring some firewood and sent someone to the front for the post pavilion along the way to prepare. Besides, it is very convenient to pick up some firewood along the way. It is very convenient to boil some hot water. You can't bring the hot water from Xiangyang."

"Well, this is almost the same." Cao Chong laughed, and felt that he was a little too hasty. He patted the carriage and shouted to Xu Yi next to the car: "Zhengli, let's go." Xu Yi responded, and at the command, more than 400 civilians who came from Yecheng shouted in unison, squeaking and pushing two hundred small cars. This was Liu Cong's modified car, which was more labor-saving and easier to control than the original car. One person pulled in front and one person pushed in back, and one car was equipped with a hundred sets of winter clothes. In addition, the civilians knew that it was the food specially taken care of by Mr. Cang Shu, and they were all energetic and full of energy. They had been walking on the road for nine days and had been used to the weight for a long time, and they ran quite fast.

Cao Chong looked at the convoy that was moving forward quickly, and then looked at the troops of Huang Zhong and Wei Yan who were guarding both sides. Seeing that the soldiers were in good spirits, he felt relieved and had a further understanding of Huang Zhong and Wei Yan's abilities. Then he turned around with satisfaction and said to Zhou Buyi: "Yuan Zhi, it's no problem to catch up with General Fenwei Feng Zhongfan (Feng Kai) today."

Zhou Buyi nodded and smiled: "It seems that the two big bowls of millet rice are worth it, and they all look more energetic than yesterday."

"The people just want to have enough food?" Cao Chong sighed, "If this wish becomes a luxury, all officials should be killed. No matter how much you read this saint's classic, it will be in vain. Don't the saint say it? You have enough food and soldiers and you have no food to eat, so what else can you do?"

Zhou Buyi heard that he was slandering the saints again, and was a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't find any reason to refute it. Thinking about it, the common people were actually very easy to satisfy. They could still eat after paying the tax, and they would not starve to death, and they would be satisfied. They would not say anything if they were hard or tired. However, this requirement was often not satisfied, which made the Yellow Turbans unable to kill and suppress the Yellow Turban in the late Zhongping period, and the Han Dynasty was in a turbulent state.

Seeing that Zhou Buyi was so rare that he did not refute, Cao Chong smiled secretly, and did not want to force him too much, so he changed the subject and asked, "Is there any news on the east side? Gongda, Mr. Zichu and his masters came up with the idea to work, right?"

"It is reported that Xuzhou Governor Zang Xuangao (Zang Ba) led the Qing Xushui army from Huaiyin and had already entered the river from Guangling. Pingdong General Chen Yuanlong (Chen Deng) entered Liyang from Dongcheng and was about to launch an attack on Danyang County. General Li Mancheng (Li Dian) attacked Lujiang from Hefei. The prefect of Runan Nan Li Wenda (Li Tong) had already defeated Zhixian and was attacking Xiyang. The army was progressing smoothly, especially Li Mancheng along the way. Because the prefect of Yuzhou Sun Ben passively avoided the war, he had already broken through the Yangtze River defense line."

Cao Chong took the battle report handed over by Zhou Buyi and looked at it a few times, and smiled and said, "It seems that it is worth sending Liu Yin to confer a general of Sun Boyang (Sun Ben). He was seized by Li Mancheng. He was afraid that Sun Quan would be angry and that Li Mancheng would really occupy Lujiang County. I am afraid that his life would be difficult. Unfortunately, Li Mancheng had too few soldiers in his hands and could only restrain him. If he had more soldiers in his hands, there would be no need to be too many. As long as there were ten thousand people, Sun Quan could not afford to take advantage of it."

"Yeah." Zhou Buyi responded with a smile and handed over a battle report: "That's right, Chen Yuanlong suddenly appeared in Liyang, which scared Danyang Prefect Sun Jing very much, but he didn't have many soldiers in his hand, so he could only restrain him. At present, the Prime Minister's goal has been achieved. Sun Quan transferred Sun Ben to the central army, replaced the general Dong Xi to defend Lujiang, and the Wuwei Chief Sun Huan guarded Jingkou and other places. I'm afraid Chen Pingdong would not have many opportunities."

"Yes, it depends on how the fight is here. First, it depends on whether we can successfully capture Lukou." Cao Chong suddenly remembered something, sat up and asked, "Who is the land front army over Jiangling?" He only paid attention to Liu Ba that day, and did not remember the subsequent arrangements.

"General Hengye Xu Gongming."

Cao Chong nodded and shook his head again: "Although Xu Gongming is good at fighting and very cautious, he is not familiar with the terrain of Jiangling, so he may not be able to be able to handle it."

"Young Master, don't worry. Hua Ziyu took the map to Jiangling. It should be no big problem with him with Xu Hengye."

Cao Chong was still a little worried, but he could only be worried. He shook his head and said, "I hope this will make a great relationship with our army. I hope he won't miss this time." Cao Chong was a little puzzled by Cao Cao's arrangement to go to Jiangling, but unfortunately Liu Ba came a little late. If Liu Ba went, there would be no problem. He was too familiar with the terrain there. Hua Xin was a man with a demeanor, and he was even worse for military affairs.

"Where is Liu Bei?" Cao Chong no longer thought about this question. It was useless to think about it. He just hoped that Hua Xin would live up to his expectations this time. The heart he let down by Liu Ba raised it up a little, so he simply changed the topic.

"Liu Bei is in Fankou, and Guan Yu has 10,000 naval troops stationed in Hanyang, Xiakou, and Zhang Fei led 4,000 infantry guarding Lushan." Zhou Buyi smiled and closed the battle report in his hand: "As the young master said, although Liu Qi's Jiangxia army was still in his hands, it was taken over by Chen Dao, Liu Bei's subordinate. Chen Dao is from Runan and is very familiar with the situation in Runan. I am afraid that after this battle, Liu Qi will become barely."

Cao Chong smiled bitterly. He said that Liu Bei would undermine Liu Qi, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. It seems that Liu Bei is really anxious.

"No, aren't there still three thousand Liu Pan's people?" Cao Chong remembered the three thousand people Huang Zhong said that they were taken away by Liu Pan. It is said that they have strong combat power. I wonder if Li Tong can deal with it.

"Liu Pan's courage is probably not the opponent of Li Runan (Li Tong)." Zhou Buyi smiled disdainfully and said, "Young Master, don't worry."

"So, I'm worried about Liu Qi's life." Cao Chong also smiled, "I promised Liu Zhongyu to save him."

Zhou Buyi also smiled: "Would you like to send a message to Li Runan and ask his subordinates to show mercy and not kill Liu Qi?"

Cao Chong was amused by him. There was no way to hold back on the battlefield. Zhou Buyi would joke. He laughed twice and said, "It's a pity that there are no soldiers this time, otherwise he would really want to capture Liu Bei and kill him. If he didn't catch him last time, he almost bitten him. It's such a pity."

As he was talking, Mi Dashuang behind him screamed and shook his body. Cao Chong turned his head and looked at her. Seeing that her face turned pale, he looked at him nervously, and couldn't help but smile: "What's wrong with you? Have you never heard of murder?"

"No...no, I suddenly thrust my legs just now." Mi Dashuangqiang smiled.

"It's not a cramp, right?" Cao Chong sat up quickly, pulled her legs and looked at them. He found that there was nothing wrong. He suspected that something was hurting. He touched her legs under her legs and then drank some cheaper on her thighs. Mi Dashuang's face turned red and he dodged, "It's okay, it's okay."

Seeing that she was fine, Cao Chong smiled twice and said to Mi Xiaoshuang: "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"No, I'm very good." Mi Xiaoshuang smiled and hid behind Mi Dashuang.

Cao Chong had a quarrel with them for a while, then turned around and said to Zhou Buyi who was smiling and said, "What are you looking at? Don't look at it if you don't know what to do, don't listen to it if you don't know what to do?" Zhou Buyi blushed when he said it, and was angry that he used the words of the saint, and turned his head to ignore him.

"Is Zhou Yu's navy going to Fankou?" Cao Chong stopped smiling.

"It should be almost done." Zhou Buyi replied in a muffled voice.

Just as Cao Chong and Zhou Buyi were watching the general trend in the car, Liu Bei sat at Fankou Wharf and looked at the river from time to time. Zhuge Liang sent someone to say that Zhou Yu's navy was coming soon, and he came to pick it up today. There was no way. He only had more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands, and 10,000 of them were under Liu Qi's name. There was only about 16,700 people directly under him, and Zhou Yu brought 30,000 elite soldiers alone.

However, there were only 50,000 soldiers in total, and Liu Qi took 5,000 or 6,000 to defend the northern Runan prefect Li Tong. The strength was still very different. Can he beat Cao Cao? He had more than 200,000. Alas, this battle was difficult to fight. The more Liu Bei thought about it, he became more pessimistic, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Here, come." A soldier standing on a high place and looking out shouted.

"Are you here?" Liu Bei stood up and asked loudly.

"It's really here, there are so many ships." The soldier didn't know whether it was Liu Bei asking him, but he thought it was a young general. While looking east, he shouted happily: "There are so many ships."

Liu Bei was a little unhappy. You just knew that it was a ship. If it was a ship, it must be from Jiangdong? I also heard that the governor of Xuzhou Zang Ba brought Qing Xu Shuijun into the river. What if it was them? Wouldn't that be miserable? But speaking of this, Zang Ba hasn't seen each other for many years and his friendship was pretty good back then.

"Is it the ship from Jiangdong? Could it be the Qingxu Shuijun?" Liu Bei raised his voice and shouted.

The soldier then realized that it was the lord calling him. He was so scared that he ran over and bowed and said, "Go back to the lord, it is indeed a ship from Jiangdong. Although there is no flag, it can be seen from the sail that the sail is very beautiful and shining, like the brocade sail of General Gan Xingba."

"Gan Xingba's Jinfan? Are you sure?" Liu Bei frowned, raised his hand to cover the dazzling sunshine and looked east, but saw nothing. He couldn't help but sigh again. He was less than fifty years old, and his eyes were not good.

"Yes, the villain turned out to be the subordinate of General Gan Xingba, and he was most familiar with this sail." The soldier said excitedly without seeing Liu Bei's somewhat depressed eyes.
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