The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Tai Shici sighed.

"Let's not talk about that, since Ziyi is going to Liaodong, why don't we go along the way?"

"Is this suitable?"

Tai Shici didn't refuse, but was a little surprised, and immediately looked at Liu Zheng.

He really wanted to work with Liu Zheng, because through previous contact, the two generals under Liu Zheng were both very good in strength, and Tai Shi was very kind, and he could tell at a glance the strength of Gan Ning and Zhou Tai. Very strong, although his age is not much different from him, but his strength is definitely above him.

Tai Shici, who is in his early 20s, has not yet honed his martial arts skills. Although he has good hands and first-class archery skills, he has become stronger in history after several years of avoiding disasters in Liaodong. Today, he is really Without Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, these water thieves who have been on the verge of life and death all year round are powerful.

"It's suitable, there's nothing inappropriate, you and I met once, it's also a fate, and we went to Liaodong on the way together, there is more or less a help."

"Then I won't delay, thank you, Mr. Liu."

"Hey, what's my name, Mr. Liu? I'm a stranger. My name is Liu Zheng. If you think you don't mind it, just call me Big Brother Liu."

"Liu Zheng."

When Tai Shici heard Liu Zheng reveal his name, he murmured the name a few times, and suddenly felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

After all, he was just a civil servant, not a military general in a county. It was only natural that he had never led troops out to fight the Yellow Turban Army, and he hadn't paid too much attention to Liu Zheng.

"It's getting late, we have to go to Liaodong tomorrow, let's rest earlier."

Liu Zheng looked at the moonlight outside, it was already slanting to the west, and it was estimated that it would be dawn in a few hours, so Liu Zheng couldn't continue bothering Tai Shici.

Tai Shici was tired all night, but he also felt a little sleepy. He was also excited to think that he could go to Liaodong with Liu Zheng and his group tomorrow. He led Liu Zheng and others to the guest room, and after saying goodbye, he hurried back to sleep up.

Liu Zheng was also sleepy. He was tired after running around for days and killed hundreds of horse thieves. He wanted to rest at this time.

After ordering a few soldiers to stand guard in turn, they fell asleep.

Chapter 387 Going to Liaodong

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Liu Zheng was awakened by the noise outside.

It wasn't the noise coming from Tai Shici's mansion, but the entire Huang County was full of noise. After all, what happened last night was too unbelievable for the people in Huang County. In addition, many people's houses were destroyed, and it was naturally impossible to do the rebuilding at night.

Only during the day can we continue to rebuild.

In addition, it is now December. If it were in previous years, the north would have been covered with heavy snow. Fortunately, the snow has not yet fallen in the past few days. If these people do not repair their houses during these few days, they may wait for the heavy snow to come. , will freeze to death outside.

After Liu Zheng woke up, it happened that Tai Shici was also woken up by the noise outside, and came to find Liu Zheng. In fact, Tai Shici still wanted to help the people in these neighborhoods, but he is now a person who is going to take refuge in Liaodong after all. , continue to stay at home, if someone sees it, report it to the governor.

It was somewhat not a good situation, so I held back, and after saying goodbye to my mother, Tai Shici asked to leave.

Liu Zheng also stayed here for a day and was about to leave, so he planned to leave with Tai Shici.

Coming out of Huang County, there was no obstacle. When the magistrate of Huang County was attacked by horse thieves last night, he was so scared that he rolled up and fled overnight. He has not returned yet.

Although Liu Zheng was curious about who this timid county magistrate was, he didn't have the heart to take care of these things now, because he and Tai Shici encountered trouble when traveling.

"Brother Liu, it's a long way to go to Liaodong. If we follow the official road, we will inevitably encounter trouble, and even if we have horses, it will take a long time to get there. We need to prepare some food. Some dry food Such things, so as not to be hungry when there are no stores on the way.”

Because he had planned to go to Liaodong a long time ago, Tai Shici had already made preparations and told Liu Zheng in advance what he needed to prepare.

But Liu Zheng did smile lightly, he didn't need to prepare these things at all, he still had a few large ships by the sea, and he had already prepared some food and clothing for him when he was in Jiaozhou, and when he docked in Xuzhou later, he also prepared some Fresh water and food were replenished.

Not to mention half a month, even if it is three months, it can be done if you save a little.

"Brother Ziyi, don't bother. We don't even need war horses. Come with me. I'll take you to Liaodong by water."

"What, take the waterway?"

Tai Shici was taken aback.

In fact, Tai Shici can be regarded as a person who grew up by the water. Although Huang County is not directly adjacent to the sea, it is not far from the coast. I searched all around the coast, but I still didn't have the guts to let them go to sea.

After all, it is not easy to build a large ship that can go to sea all the time. For hundreds of years, when Xu Fu was sailing to the east, he had built large ships.

But those are the big ships built by Emperor Shihuang's all-powerful efforts, so that they can go to the deep sea. Ordinary ships, once they reach the surface of the sea, are afraid that a storm will come and they will fall apart.

So although many areas are offshore at this time, there are really very few explorations of the ocean.

Even people like Tai Shici, who live by the sea all year round, don't know that from Qingzhou, they can go directly to Liaodong by sea.

Liu Zheng didn't believe Tai Shici when he saw Tai Shici, but he didn't show any surprise. Anyway, among the people he met, no one believed him when he said that he would use a boat to go to Youzhou.

But later they were all convinced, because after seeing it with their own eyes, they were sure that it was true.

Liu Zheng took Tai Shici and ran in the opposite direction all the way, but now that they had horses, they were much faster. It only took half a day to return from Huang County to the fishing village where the boat stopped.

Seeing Liu Zheng's fleet here, Tai Shici was surprised at Liu Zheng's strength, and when he knew that Liu Zheng still had thousands of people here, some began to doubt Liu Zheng's identity.

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period, those who were able to command thousands of soldiers and horses were high officials, let alone a Donglai prefect, I am afraid that only Qingzhou Prefecture had thousands of soldiers and horses.

There are not so many people under the command of a normal prefect. Even if the prefects everywhere expanded their armaments and recruited manpower, many times even if there are so many soldiers, they still need to be deployed. If they stay in the county, they will not be easily mobilized. .

And Liu Zheng actually owns a fleet here, not to mention thousands of elite soldiers and horses, but when Tai Shici saw that these navy troops were all in neat imperial uniforms, he didn't think too much about it.

After all, most of the soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng used imperial uniforms, because after he occupied Jiaozhou, he found a lot of imperial uniforms from Jiaozhou's treasury, and he didn't change them. sent to his subordinates.

Although he wanted to change the more obvious equipment, but firstly, he didn't have enough time to do this, and secondly, he didn't have the money.

"Brother Liu, can you really reach Liaodong by walking the sea?"

"What are you doing lying to you? We are from Xuzhou, and we have come here from Xuzhou. Do you still doubt that you can't get to Youzhou from here?"

"Okay then, I believe it!"

"Don't talk about it, just get on the boat. According to my estimation, we will be able to reach Youzhou in less than three days."

Liu Zheng urged Tai Shici to go up, and he himself was not idle. He asked Jiang Qin to send a thousand sailors to use a warship to transport the hundreds of war horses obtained here first, and wait until they were on board. Go ahead and go in the direction of Youzhou.

In fact, it has already arrived here, not far from Youzhou, along the coast of Qingzhou, and soon entered Bohai Bay.

In fact, if you continue to walk along the coast at this time, you will go to Bohai County, Beiping County and other places, and then continue along the coastline to reach Liaoxi County, and then Liaodong County.

Of course, Liu Zheng can also directly cross the coastline and pass through the Bohai Sea, so that he can reach Liaodong County faster.

But Liu Zheng was here for the first time after all, and he was not familiar with the sea area, so he didn't dare to take risks easily, so he could only fight steadily and seek steady progress.

According to the original plan, on the third day, he finally surpassed Beiping County and reached Liaoxi County.

The reason why he didn't move on and went to Liaodong was because Liu Zheng came here only to buy horses, not necessarily to Liaodong, and if he bought horses, there were more in Liaoxi.

Chapter 388 Yangle County

"Here we are, we plan to dock here, go down to investigate the situation first, and then make plans."

Liu Zheng and Tai Shici said something, and wanted Tai Shici to stay with him in Liaoxi County for the time being.

Tai Shici originally wanted to go to Liaodong, because Liaodong is far away from Qingzhou, but since Liu Zheng didn't intend to go directly to Liaodong, then he didn't force it, and stayed with Liu Zheng in Liaoxi for the time being.

"Okay, no problem, by the way, Brother Liu, I don't know what you are doing here?"

"Well, it's not really a big deal, I'm just here to buy horses."

"Buy a horse?"

Tai Shici was a little surprised by Liu Zheng's answer. He thought that Liu Zheng led so many people to Youzhou with such a big fanfare, to quell the rebellion in Youzhou.

After all, Tai Shici has also heard something about Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in Youzhou uniting the Karasuma people to unrest. For such a major event, the imperial court will definitely send people to quell the civil strife, and Liu Zheng has so many navy troops, and it is the imperial court's uniform , Tai Shici would naturally think of this.

"I want to form an army. There are no horses in the south, so I have to come to the north to buy them."

Liu Zheng didn't care whether Tai Shici knew his identity or not. Since he had already arrived in western Liaoning, and Liu Zheng really wanted to win Tai Shici over, since he wanted to win over Tai Shici, Tai Shici would know his identity sooner or later. It would be better to tell the truth.

"I don't know much about buying horses. It seems that the imperial court has a horse farm in Beiping County. Many other merchants go to the Xianbei tribe and people there to buy them, and then sell them to us big men."

Tai Shici was not constrained by Liu Zheng's identity, but was more interested in Liu Zheng's matter of buying a horse, and immediately began to meditate.

"I heard that there are people from Karasuma and the former prefect of Zhongshan who are rebelling in Youzhou recently, so we log in from Liaoxi, and then inquire about the situation here. If possible, we will also go to the Xianbei tribe. See if we can buy some horses."

After getting off the boat, Liu Zheng didn't let all his men get off, but only had a few hundred people selected, because Liu Zheng only had hundreds of horses here.

I selected some people who could ride horses, and followed Liu Zheng, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and others to Liaoxi County to investigate the situation.

Liaoxi County is located next to Beiping County, and beyond that, it is the Liaodong Dependent State, and the Liaodong Dependent State is not Liaodong County.

The Liaodong vassal state is the place where the imperial court settled the Karasuma people. These Karasuma people are located between the territory of the Han court and the Xianbei people.Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and others were able to join forces with the Karasuma people to attack the Han court so easily precisely because they often entered and left the territory of the Xianbei people and had some connections with the Xianbei people.

Compared with Liaodong County, which is farther away and geographically remote, Liaoxi County actually has no sense of existence. Here, the land is vast and sparsely populated. Because it is close to the Liaodong vassal state, it is often looted by Karasuma people, so it is concentrated in only a few counties. , except for some populations, most of the places are uninhabited.

Liu Zheng's men and horses galloped across the land. After more than half an hour passed, they didn't see any villages, and they couldn't even find a single person to ask for directions.

It was still Liu Zheng who was smart enough to follow the trails left by the horseshoes on the road and chase them all the way. Finally, after an hour, he saw a small county town.

Liu Zheng didn't let all his people enter the city, but asked Zhou Tai to lead his troops to wait in a remote place outside the city. He himself only brought Gan Ning and Tai Shici into the city to inquire about news.

This is a small county called Yangle County, not as big as Huang County, but from the surrounding walls, it can be seen that the defense measures here are much stricter than Huang County, with various horse-repelling guns, barriers to prevent war horses, and fences , has everything that one expects to find. If you want to come here, you should also be violated by the Karasuma people all the year round.

Because it has snowed in the past few days, the surrounding area is a vast expanse of whiteness, or it is a gray-yellow wasteland, the vegetation has withered, leaving a bunch of lonely scenes.

The gate of the county seat was slightly opened, but not fully opened. There were several soldiers on duty at the gate. At the same time, there was a watchtower on the tower above. Some people were looking around at all times.

The three of Liu Zheng rode here and stopped to pay the tax for entering the city before they could go together.

Riding a horse in this place is not uncommon. Perhaps when you were in Jiaozhou, if you wanted to see a horse in the city, you could only enjoy it if you were rich. But in the north, the price of horses is not high, and even many ordinary people It is possible to get them all. Sometimes, there are some wild horses in the wild. If you have the ability to tame them, you can have them.

After entering the city, Liu Zheng walked around in this desolate small city for a while, first observed the situation in Yangle County, and finally found a place that looked like an inn, and walked in.

This Yangle County is indeed just a small county, so small that its population is estimated to be in the thousands.

And because it was winter, there were no people on the street, and the wind was biting outside, so they were all burning fires inside to keep warm.

Liu Zheng looked around and saw that there were few people coming and going, so he knew that the economy of this place would not develop. After all, internal and external troubles make it difficult to develop. Even if there are occasional merchants passing by, they dare not stay for a long time.

In the inn, Liu Zheng and three people came in, and the waiter inside was more enthusiastic, and hurried over to greet Liu Zheng.

"Hey, some guests, please come inside."

Liu Zheng found a table at random, and when he saw no one was there, he walked over by himself.

"Xiaoer, serve a pot of tea and warm some wine. If you have anything to eat, feel free to serve it."

"okay."

Xiao Er bowed his head and took the order to go down. Liu Zheng looked around and saw that there were not many people even in this inn.

Apart from the people at Liu Zheng's table, there were only two people at the other table.

Not long after, Xiao Er brought up what Liu Zheng wanted. Taking this opportunity, Liu Zheng asked Xiao Er.

"Xiaoer, has this Yangle County been so deserted all this time? Why is there no one on the street?"

At this time, the little girl was also happy to chat with people like Liu Zheng, because there was not much business in the store at this time, and when Liu Zheng asked, he also answered with a smile.

"Hey, guest officer, you may not be from the local area. You don't know the situation here. Our small county has a small population, so naturally it is deserted. But this year, there are indeed fewer people."

"The reason for this, if you think about it, you also know that the Karasuma people in Liaodong have come to commit crimes again recently. The merchants who have been here in the past have not dared to come here this year. Coupled with the advantage of the frosty twelfth lunar month, this is At the coldest time, there are fewer tourist merchants, and it is normal to be deserted.”

Chapter 389 Inquiries

The Xiaoer's words were a little bit of a sigh, and I thought it was also lamenting the difficulty of this world.

In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, there are no traveling merchants, and the Karasuma people are making trouble again. This land in the west of Liaoning is naturally deserted. The appearance of Liu Zheng and his group is very strange.

Hearing Xiao Er's explanation, Liu Zheng also understood, no wonder the gates of this Yangle County are all ajar, and in a day's time, there are not many people going in and out of the gate.

"That's right, by the way, why did the Karasuma people suddenly come to make trouble at this time?"

Seeing that Xiao Er was able to chat with him, Liu Zheng talked too much, and began to ask Xiao Er more things.

"When you look at the guest officer, you are not a native of Youzhou, you should be from another place."

Xiao Er didn't answer Liu Zheng's words, but smiled at Liu Zheng and told the fact that Liu Zheng was a foreigner.

Liu Zheng was a little embarrassed, and smiled awkwardly. Although what they said could be heard, Liu Zheng was a foreigner, but obviously Xiaoer affirmed Liu Zheng's identity from the sentence Liu Zheng asked just now. Outsiders have this idea.

"How do you know we are not from Youzhou?"

"It goes without saying that not only do I know that you are foreigners, I also know that this is your first time in Youzhou, Liaoxi County."

Liu Zheng was a little curious when he heard the little girl saw that they were foreigners, but the other party even knew he was here for the first time, which surprised him a little, and his face immediately showed a little bit of curiosity. With a look of surprise, before Xiao Er could speak, he continued to ask Xiao Er.

"Second brother, how did you find out? I'm curious."

"Haha, it's actually not difficult. In fact, if you come to Youzhou often, you definitely won't choose to come at this time. After all, this time is when Youzhou is the coldest. It's freezing outside. It's not suitable for traveling."