One kick to the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 385: Swapping Prisoners
The weather in mid-May is already very hot.The wheat in the fields has matured. Walking on the official road, there are lively and busy scenes everywhere on both sides.Farmers are busy harvesting wheat.

Although Shangdang County experienced a war this year, the enemy did not invade Shangdang County itself, so it had no impact on agricultural production.

Qin Yi led an army of 2000 people, starting from Changzi County and heading south.In addition to Qin Yi, the accompanying generals include Zhao Yun, Lu Jun and Hua Xiong.Of course, as Qin Yi's personal military commander, Pei Ji was naturally indispensable.

Qin Yi went to Luoyang this time to exchange prisoners with Lu Bu.Last year, when he came to Bingzhou, he borrowed a thousand soldiers and horses from Sun Jian, led by the school captain Lu Jun.After several battles, only more than 700 of these thousand soldiers and horses were left.

Qin Yi made an agreement with Sun Jian to borrow these thousand soldiers and horses for one year.Now, although it has not been a year, Qin Yi already suspects that Sun Jian has died in battle. Based on the previous historical events, he thinks that Sun Ce may want to return to Jiangdong.Therefore, he mobilized Lu Jun's troops and accompanied him to Luoyang.If Sun Ce needs it, he will let this army return to the army.

Of course, Qin Yi added another 1000 men to this army.The soldiers recruited are all locals of Shangdang County.Qin Yi selected some people from various troops who had no relatives locally and were willing to go to Jiangdong.Qin Yi gave these people generous rewards as encouragement.

Qin Yi's troops stayed overnight at dawn and marched for five consecutive days before arriving at the north bank of the Yellow River.At this time, it was still within the boundaries of Hanoi County.

Qin Yi borrowed a road from Hanoi County's Prime Minister Wang Xu to go south. Although Wang Xu agreed to borrow the road, he did not show up in person.Probably, he was still angry about Qin Yi changing defenses with Cao Ren without saying hello, and even Cao Ren later led his troops to withdraw from Shuinang Pass.

Upon arriving at the bank of the Yellow River, Qin Yi ordered the camp to be set up, and then sent a messenger across the Yellow River to Luoyang to deliver a message to Lu Bu.

In the letter, Qin Yi asked Lu Bu to take Sun Ce, Huang Gai, Han Dang and a number of his followers to the south bank of the Yellow River.

On the third day after the messenger was dispatched, Lu Bu came to meet Qin Yi.

The way they met was very special, they met in the Yellow River.The two sat in a small boat each, with only one entourage, and met on the river.

"Qin Yi, you really keep your word." After seeing Qin Yi, Lu Bu was still as proud as ever.

Qin Yi smiled slightly: "General Lu really took great pains for your two generals. There is one thing that Qin doesn't understand, and I hope General Lu will not hesitate to enlighten me."

"what do you wish to ask?"

"Qin would like to know how Sun Bofu and others were detained by you?"

Lu Bu looked proud and said, "You must not know yet, but Sun Jian is dead. Sun Ce and others want to go to Bingzhou to find you..."

"Wait!" Although Qin Yi had expected it, he was still a little surprised to hear Lu Bu tell the news that Sun Jian was dead. "Do you know how Sun Wentai died?"

"According to the news that Lv has learned, he was shot to death by Jingzhou Army Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu when he was fighting with Liu Biao's army."

When Qin Yi heard this, he sighed in his heart: Sun Jian still has not changed his original destiny in history!

"Then how did you know that Sun Ce and others wanted to go north to Bingzhou to find Qin?" Qin Yi asked again.

Lu Bu said: "This incident is purely coincidental. Sun Ce and others brought only about two hundred people and entered the territory of Luoyang disguised as a caravan. It happened that Lu was out of the city for inspection that day and met this caravan by chance. Although Lu He didn’t know Sun Ce, but he knew Huang Gai and Han Dang, so he detained them.”

Qin Yi thought about it. Last year, Sun Jian and Cao Cao led their troops to pursue Lu Bu. Outside Tongguan, the two armies faced each other in formation. At that time, Huang Gai, Han Dang and others were in the army. Presumably Lu Bu remembered it at that time. The appearance of Huang Gai and Han Dang lived.

"Then, are Sun Bofu and the others alright?" Qin Yi asked.

Lu Bu smiled coldly: "Lu Mou is not a villain, how can he treat Sun Ce and others badly? Don't worry, Lu Mou just put them under house arrest, and they didn't suffer."

After finishing speaking, Lu Bu turned to Qin Yi: "Are the two generals Cao and Hao Meng under a certain command all right?"

Qin Yi also sneered, and said: "There are rules in Qin's army that prisoners are not allowed to be abused. If the soldiers are like this, Qin will naturally not break this rule. After Cao and Hao Meng were captured, Qin first Order the doctors to heal their wounds, and then treat them like guests. General Lu, when you see them, you will definitely find that they have gained a lot of weight."

"That's good!" Lu Bu nodded, "Qin Yi, tell me, how should we exchange?"

"It's not easy. You release Sun Ce's soldiers first, and then we are still here, exchanging Cao Xing, Hao Meng, Sun Ce, Huang Gai, and Han Dang at the same time."

Lu Bu pondered for a moment, then said: "Alright, I will do as you say."

Afterwards, the two separated and went back to the shore.

After waiting for a while, several larger passenger ships came over from the south bank.After docking, soldiers came off the ship one after another.

Qin Yi ordered Lu Jun to bring people forward to meet the soldiers.At the same time, it was also for Lu Jun to identify the identities of these soldiers.Although Lu Jun didn't know these people, he could tell whether they were Sun Ce's followers from the accent.

After a while, Lu Jun led a bearded officer over.Lu Jun nodded towards Qin Yi, implying that the identities of Qin Yi's soldiers were real.

The officer raised his fist towards Qin Yi and said, "This is Wei Xu, the colonel under General Lu. I have met Lord Qin."

"Oh, Lieutenant Wei." Qin Yi returned the greeting with fists clasped.

"Your Majesty, Sun Ce's entourage has been sent to you, can you let me meet Cao and Hao Meng first?" Wei Xu asked.

"Of course!" Qin Yi nodded, then waved to Pei Ji who was standing beside him.

Pei Ji immediately ordered people to bring Cao Xing and Hao Meng over.The two men met with Wei Xu and exchanged a few simple greetings.Wei Xu then said to Qin Yi: "Then this so-and-so will go back to the south bank and take Sun Ce, Huang Gai, and Han Dang to the middle of the river. Lord Qin also please send someone to send these two colleagues back."

"Lieutenant Wei, please go ahead!"

Wei Xu immediately boarded the ship and left.

Presuming that Wei Xu had returned to the other side, Qin Yi asked Zhao Yun and Hua Xiong to escort Cao Xing and Wei Xu onto a small boat. He also boarded the boat and rowed towards the river again.

The boat rowed to the middle of the Yellow River, dropped anchor and stopped.After waiting for a while, I saw a small boat rowing from the opposite side.There were four people standing in the boat, but they were Wei Xu, Sun Ce, Han Dang, and Huang Gai.

Seeing that Wei Xu was the only one, Qin Yi couldn't help feeling a little ashamed: I was too careful, Lu Bu only sent Wei Xu to contact him, but there were three people on my side.In comparison, I fell into the bottom line.

The boat had just approached, and before it stopped, a young man standing at the bow shouted at Qin Yi: "Master!"

"Bo Fu!" Qin Yi responded quickly.

(End of this chapter)