The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

But now, Liu Zheng has transferred all the soldiers and horses from Poyang and Yuzhang to Huainan. In Poyang and Yuzhang, there are only a few thousand newly recruited county soldiers left, and there are no generals to guard them. It is more difficult.

In addition, Xu You, Lu Jun and others are still in Yuzhang and Poyang, Liu Zheng can't give up on them, Huainan can not, but Yuzhang and Poyang are the most important.

Immediately, Liu Zheng made a decision to go back to Poyang to clean up Wang Lang and Zhou Xin, and then attack Huainan County after the matter of Danyang County was settled.

Since Liu Zheng wanted to return to Poyang, and Yuan Shu originally wanted to attack Shouchun and take back what he had lost, but if Liu Zheng couldn't go, Yuan Shu naturally couldn't go either.

After all, although Zhang Miao and Cao Cao left, there were still more than [-] soldiers of Zhang Chao in Shouchun, but Yuan Shu now only had a few thousand remnants who escaped from Shouchun. On the side of the city, it is naturally even more impossible.

He can only return to Runan and reorganize his troops, maybe he still has the power to fight.

Although the fight for Huainan failed this time, Yuan Shu did not blame Liu Zheng, but put the reason on Cao Cao and Zhang Miao.

After all, if it weren't for these two people, he would have proclaimed himself emperor in Huainan by now.

At this point, Yuan Shu thanked Liu Zheng again, and then the two parted ways in the camp. Yuan Shu returned to Runan to rest for a while, while Liu Zheng rushed back to Poyang to prepare for Zhou Xin and Wang Lang's attack.

He didn't need to worry too much. Although Wang Lang and Zhou Xin had already marched towards Poyang, before Liu Zheng came to Huainan, he had already sent Xu You to Yan Baihu's side. Thinking about it, Yan Baihu would not stop help yourself.

But when Liu Zheng led his soldiers and horses to leave Huainan and the army returned to Poyang, they heard a bad news.

Zhou Xin and Wang Lang, soldiers and horses all the way unimpeded, directly connected to the three cities of Poyang, and approached Poyang County.

Yan Baihu did not send a single soldier to stop him, but took the opportunity to send troops from Kuaiji County, and went directly south to attack most of the Kuaiji County that originally belonged to Liu Zheng.

Within three days, Liu Zheng's thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in Kuaiji were directly smashed and headed towards Jiaozhou.

When this news reached Liu Zheng's ears, Liu Zheng was furious!

Chapter 469 A Quick Response

"Yan Baihu!"

Liu Zheng gritted his teeth and popped out a few words.

He never imagined that it was Yan Baihu who betrayed him first.

Although Yan Baihu is not his own subordinate, Liu Zheng has helped Yan Baihu a lot, from Yan Baihu's lack of money at the beginning, to his being besieged by Liu Yao, to Liu Zheng and Yan Baihu's attack on Kuaiji County, defeating Liu You have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Here, without Liu Zheng's participation, it would be impossible for Yan Baihu to develop so fast, and the main reason why Liu Zheng is willing to join forces with Yan Baihu is that he thinks that Yan Baihu is not bad, at least he can treat him well. value.

But all of these, in Yan Baihu's view, are indeed mutual use.

It's like Liu Zheng used Yan Baihu to contain Liu Yao, and even let Yan Baihu deal with Wang Lang and Zhou Xin later.

And Yan Baihu is just using Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng's strength is strong enough, Yan Baihu uses Liu Zheng to deal with Liu Yao, and then profit from it, quickly improve his own strength, and then develop in just two years. He became a small prince of Wu County and Kuaiji County.

Originally, this kind of alliance can still continue, after all, it is beneficial to both parties, but why did Yan Baihu suddenly regret it at this time?

This matter started a few days ago when Liu Zheng sent Xu You to Wu County to lobby Yan Baihu.

Under Liu Zheng's order, Xu You went to Wu Jun in secret, trying to win over Yan Baihu, and let Yan Baihu attack Wang Lang from behind when Zhou Xin and Wang Lang sent troops to deal with Liu Zheng, so that the tension between Zhou Xin and Wang Lang could be temporarily relieved. pressure.

Xu You also followed Liu Zheng's intentions, and brought these words to Yan Baihu intact, and told Yan Baihu that if Yan Baihu could restrain Zhou Xin and Wang Lang, Liu Zheng would be very grateful.

But who is Yan Baihu, the leader of the four water thieves, with great ambitions, at this time, he also received an important message.

That is, Yangzhou Mu Liu Yao is dead.

After being killed by Yuan Shu and Liu Yao's death, Yangzhou immediately became a land of no man. Yan Baihu naturally knew that Liu Zheng wanted to get involved.

In addition, Yan Baihu clearly knows Liu Zheng's strength. If most of Yangzhou's territory is occupied by Liu Zheng, then Yan Baihu will become a prisoner in Liu Zheng's vast territory. Slowly annexed.

Therefore, after realizing that Liu Yao is dead and there is no need for him to form an alliance with Liu Zheng, in Yan Baihu's heart, the desire to rebel against Liu Zheng and strengthen himself has already begun.

Just never found the opportunity.

And what Xu You came over to talk to him just gave Yan Baihu a chance. Yan Baihu knew that Liu Zheng sent troops north to Huainan.

Yan Baihu thought that Liu Zheng was dealing with Yuan Shu, so he didn't think much, and sent someone to contact Wang Lang and Zhou Xin directly.

He already knew Wang Lang and Zhou Xin. When Wang Lang was the prefect of Kuaiji, Yan Baihu was from the noble family of Wu County and had some friendship with Wang Lang. Yan Baihu took the initiative to show his friendship, and then agreed with Wang Lang to deal with Liu Zheng.

From north to south, Yan Baihu restrained some of the soldiers and horses stationed in Kuaiji County Liu Zheng before, while Wang Lang and Zhou Xin went directly to Poyang to regain the lost territory.

Wang Lang and Zhou Xin had long wanted to send troops to deal with Liu Zheng, especially after knowing that Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai and Cao Cao were leading an army to deal with Yuan Shu in Huainan, they were even more eager to move.

Now that Yan Baihu told them about Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, Wang Lang and Zhou Xin's minds were naturally quickened.

The two sides hit it off immediately, and the day after Liu Zheng's army left, Wang Lang and Yan Baihu started a secret operation.

Zhou Xin led [-] soldiers to Poyang, while Yan Baihu led his own [-] soldiers to Kuaiji County.

Because almost all the soldiers and horses in Poyang were dispatched by Liu Zheng to deal with Cao Cao and Liu Dai, so there was no one left in Poyang. Zhou Xin and Wang Lang's army easily entered Poyang County, and then all the way After attacking the city and conquering the territory, it took only a few days to reach Poyang County.

And Yan Baihu is even more formidable, because Liu Zheng did not have many troops stationed in Kuaiji County, and only a few thousand newly recruited county soldiers under him. The army of Gan Ning's headquarters stationed in Nanhai County is relatively close to Kuaiji County.

Yan Baihu is also familiar with Liu Zheng's men because he is allied with them, so he often comes here to drink with Liu Zheng's men.

As a result, after Yan Baihu came over this time, he turned his face directly and started killing in the barracks.Let Liu Zheng have thousands of soldiers in the county and lose them all like this.

When the news came back, most of the Kuaiji fell into the hands of Yan Baihu.

Fortunately, Yan Baihu captured Kuaiji County, and when he wanted to go further, he was suppressed by the army of Ganning Headquarters stationed in Nanhai County.

The two sides stalemate at the junction of Nanhai County and Kuaiji County.

Yan Baihu's 2 soldiers were against Gan Ning's [-] troops. Although Yan Baihu had a larger number, Gan Ning's [-] elite men were not bad. After a tragic fight between the two sides, Gan Ning won Victory, beheading Yan Baihu more than [-] people, forcing Yan Baihu to retreat to Kuaiji County.

Of course, this news has not yet reached Liu Zheng's ears. Now Liu Zheng only knows that Yan Baihu has rebelled, and Wang Lang and Zhou Xin are leading troops to besiege Poyang.

Liu Zheng led his 3000 troops and quickly rushed to Poyang.

On the third day, I returned to the vicinity of Poyang City.

At this time, Poyang County had already been breached by Zhou Xin's troops. Zhou Xin and Wang Lang's army entered Poyang County, and it seemed that they had received the news. At this time, Zhou Xin and Wang Lang stayed behind closed doors.

Extremely angry, Liu Zheng, who was extremely angry, walked out of his army formation. ,

"Who is Zhou Xin! How dare you come out!"

Liu Zheng raised his voice and yelled at Poyang County.

The Zhou character flag was fluttering on the tower, swaying in the wind, there was a moment of silence, and someone responded from the tower.

"I'm Zhou Xin, but the villain Liu Zheng is in front of me?"

"Boy Zhou Xin, sneak attack on my Poyang County while I'm not prepared. It's extremely hateful. Hurry up and get out of the city and die!"

"Hahaha, wait for the rebels, everyone will be punished if they get it, say that Poyang County is yours, it belongs to the imperial court, and I am just taking it back on behalf of the imperial court."

Zhou Xin was a little high-spirited at this time. He knew that Liu Zheng was powerful. After all, Liu Zheng's name and news had been passed on to him countless times.

But now he was able to take down Poyang and humiliate Liu Zheng severely, not to mention making him happy.

4 Chapter Seventy

"I beat it down, it's mine!"

Liu Zheng responded coldly to Zhou Xin.

"Haha, what a joke, the traitor, you are still so rampant when you are about to die, let's see how long you can be so arrogant when Lord Liu Dai's army comes to kill you!"

At this time, Zhou Xin, Wang Lang and others didn't know what happened in Huainan, so naturally they didn't know that Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai was dead, and Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others' soldiers and horses had already returned to Yanzhou.

They thought that when Liu Zheng returned to Poyang, he only knew about their attack and turned back to rescue them. They didn't know what happened in Huainan at all.

Liu Zheng smiled coldly again when he heard Zhou Xin's words.

I don't know whether to say Zhou Xin is arrogant or ignorant.

"Liu Dai's army?"

"I don't think you can wait."

Liu Zheng responded casually to Zhou Xin, causing Zhou Xin's expression to change slightly.

"What do you mean by that?"

"What do you mean? Don't you understand? Liu Dai is dead, and the [-] army under his command has been completely annihilated. What happened in Huainan has not been reported yet. It's normal if you don't know. You bastards, dare to Attack me when I support Huainan, just wait for my revenge!"

Liu Zheng said something viciously to Zhou Xin, and Zhou Xin was surprised by Liu Zheng's words, and his expression changed drastically.

However, as a prefect and a general, he was not easily deceived by Liu Zheng. Even if the words of Liu Zheng's family were true, he would not believe it.

So after Liu Zheng finished speaking, he immediately mocked Liu Zheng loudly.

"Hahaha, Liu Zheng, you really know how to joke. Master Liu Dai surrounded Huainan County with 8 troops, how could he be defeated so quickly, and there are also Cao Cao and Zhang Miao's 3 troops, [-], your subordinates But with [-] to [-] thousand people, you are just dreaming if you want to defeat Lord Liu Dai!"

Zhou Xin said it out loud because he wanted to stabilize the morale of the army.He was really worried that what Liu Zheng said just now would cause some bad rumors among his soldiers.

After all, his men and horses are now besieged by Liu Zheng's army in Poyang County. Zhou Xin knows Liu Zheng's strength and dare not go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng. The purpose is to wait for the reinforcements from Huainan to kill him.

As soon as the reinforcements arrive, Zhou Xin and Wang Lang will be able to deal with Liu Zheng.Otherwise, they really don't have the courage in their hearts to fight Liu Zheng with their little manpower.

In fact, they didn't expect Liu Zheng to come back so quickly. They thought they could take advantage of Liu Zheng's absence and recover Poyang and Yuzhang in one fell swoop, and then lead troops to Huainan to intercept Liu Zheng's attack. The back road, so Liu Zheng can't escape.

But things backfired. They had just sent troops to Poyang when Liu Zheng came back and killed them, which caught them off guard.

"Who told you that I must be the one who killed Liu Dai, and why do I have to make you believe what I said? Whether you believe it or not, you are all dead!"

"If you are sensible, go out of the city and surrender now, and I may still save your life. Otherwise, when I break the city and capture you alive, it will not be so easy for you to die!"

Liu Zheng threatened Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin wasn't frightened too much, he had some backbone to be able to get to his level, so he immediately stood on the tower and started scolding Liu Zheng.

"Hahaha, Liu Zheng, stop farting here. If you have the ability, you can come into the city. If I, Zhou Xin, frown, I'm worthless! If you don't have the ability, then stop farting in this city."

Zhou Xin didn't listen to Liu Zheng's continuation at all. After saying this, he immediately stepped back from the battlement and disappeared before Liu Zheng's eyes.

He was also worried that if he continued to chat with Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng's eloquent mouth would make his soldiers lose their minds, and it would be even more unfavorable for them to fight Liu Zheng.

Just after Zhou Xin took a few steps back from the battlements, Wang Lang came up behind him with a displeased expression.

"Zhou Xin, do you think what Liu Zheng said is true?"

Wang Lang also couldn't figure out what Liu Zheng said, but he didn't completely disbelieve what Liu Zheng said. If it was something groundless, Liu Zheng wouldn't say it so confidently.

But to convince Wang Lang, what Liu Zheng said made him feel that it was impossible. After all, how could Liu Dai's tens of thousands of troops be defeated in a few days? Wang Lang couldn't believe it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. of.

"I don't believe what Liu Zheng said at all. I guess he deliberately lied to us and wanted us to surrender. Didn't you find that he used this trick to defeat Yuzhang and Poyang?"

Zhou Xin said that Liu Zheng took Yuzhang to induce surrender, while Poyang took advantage of Pan Lin's defection, neither of which broke through the city openly and entered the city.

Wang Lang had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but seeing that Zhou Xin was so calm, he couldn't say anything more.

After all, Wang Lang has no official position now, and the commanding power of the soldiers and horses is in the hands of Zhou Xin. Zhou Xin is the prefect of Danyang, and he is just a prefect of Kuaiji County with little status.

Zhou Xin retreated from the tower, ready to face Liu Zheng.

But after he went down, for a long time, he found that Liu Zheng's men had not come to attack the city.

This actually made Zhou Xin change from being nervous at the beginning to a little calm, and he couldn't help but despise Liu Zheng a little more in his heart.

He thought Liu Zheng was so powerful, but he was also a timid and cowardly person, not even daring to fight a city.

But what he didn't know was that Liu Zheng never thought of attacking Poyang City. Liu Zheng withdrew his troops from Poyang County directly after Zhou Xin retreated from the tower.

He led 9000 soldiers and horses to station in Poyang County, and directly divided the troops here. Huang Zhong led his own [-] soldiers and horses and Zu Lang's navy [-] people who rushed over from the river to form two soldiers and horses. Stationed in Poyang County, besieging Zhou Xin.

Then Liu Zheng himself led the remaining [-] soldiers and horses, bypassed Poyang County, and killed Danyang County.

Danyang County originally had only [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, but now they are all dispatched by the prefect Zhou Xin to attack Poyang. Most of the personnel are in Poyang. Now Danyang County is empty.

Liu Zheng first led his troops to take down Danyang County, then gathered them in Poyang, and then slowly played with Zhou Xin.

The most important thing is that Liu Zheng can directly take down Danyang County, and then capture Zhou Xin's family, and use it to blackmail Zhou Xin to see if he can open the city gate.

Chapter 471 The Zhou Family Brothers

Zhou Xin didn't know the plan in Liu Zheng's mind yet, and was still waiting here in Poyang for Liu Zheng to attack the city.

But Liu Zheng was killed from Poyang to Danyang County in just two days.

It is Zhou Xin's younger brother Zhou Ang who is in charge of guarding Danyang.

Zhou Xin is a total of three brothers, and he is the oldest. Zhou Xin in history traveled to the capital when he was young, and worshiped Taifu Chen Fan as his teacher.Later, he was requisitioned by Taiwei Gongfu, promoted to Gaodi, and moved to Danyang Taishou.

When Cao Cao and Chen Liu raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo, Zhou Xin sent more than [-] elite soldiers to help Cao Cao.When Yuan Shu was in Huainan, Zhou Xin refused to associate with him because he didn't like his behavior.Yuan Shu hated Zhou Xin because of this, and privately appointed Wu Jing as the prefect of Danyang, and sent Wu Jing to attack Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin didn't want to harm the people, so he disbanded the army, returned to his hometown in Kuaiji, and attached himself to Wang Lang's men.