Chapter 284: The Lou Cang War is about to begin

In Lou Cang City, there is a solemn and solemn atmosphere.

On the surface, every household still has a normal life. What should be done and what should be done seems to be orderly.

Then if you look closely, you will find that many shops are empty.

In the past, the noisy and lively inns and restaurants were now deserted.

The simple wine shop on the roadside outside the city is no longer open. Only the unique wine cover of the building warehouse is hanging at the door, dancing with the spring breeze.

Chu Xiang is here!

Those bandits who harm people and do not allow people to live a stable life are coming!

Just overnight, the Xiang family, a noble family of Chu, raised an army in Kuaiji and had already fought over the river, spread throughout the streets and alleys of Lou Cang.

Although there are factors that make people chat after dinner, it is not ruled out that people with ulterior motives intentionally do it.

However, the reaction of Lou Cang people disappointed some people. They did not show any signs of panic and looked particularly calm.

"I'm so panicked. I think that when 100,000 rebels attacked Lou Cang, we were killed so blood that they ran away in a panic? Oh my god, why can't we let us live a peaceful life? If the thieves want to fight, let them come. When Liu Junhou was not here, the 100,000 thieves could fight ran away with their heads; now that Liu Junhou is back, even if 200,000 thieves come, he will never come back."

The people of Lou Cang seem particularly confident, and their words are full of awesomeness.

No wonder, after a baptism half a year ago, the people of Lou Cang were very confident in Lou Cang's city defense. In addition, there were countless powerful generals and thousands of elite soldiers in the city. The food and supplies were particularly abundant. More than 20 large warehouses were filled with weapons, armor and arrows.

Back then, our lord and lord could defeat hundreds of thousands of Huns with eight hundred people.

Why can’t we Lou Cang people do what Fuping people can do? Besides, everything we have now is thanks to the Lord.

In the decisive battle in Henan, Liu Kan led his troops to fight against Fuping and killed King Hu, and is now well-known in Loucang.

At the beginning, it was only a small-scale transmission; but later, the transmission became more and more mysterious. Tens of thousands of Hun soldiers turned into hundreds of thousands of Hun soldiers. Zuo Xianwang became the Great Chanyu. In the story, Liu Kan could summon wind and rain, sprinkle beans to become soldiers, and was almost a god.

This naturally requires the promotion of Liu Kan's aides.

In Shusun Tong's words: No matter whether it is mysterious or not, we only need to make the people of Lou Cang firmly believe in it, so why bother to care about anything else?

So under the control of Shusun Tong, Lou Cang produced a brand new art form.

In densely populated areas such as the Inn, people were sent to spread the story of Liu Kan's deeds in Henan Province by telling stories. Speaking of which, this should be the earliest storytelling art that appeared... In addition to the exaggerated whitewashings of Shusun Tong and Jia Shao, the people of Lou Cang regard Liu Kan as a god. Originally, Liu Kan had a legend of white dragons coming to the world in his early years, and now it is natural that people cannot doubt it when they are connected.

So, on the surface, everything is peaceful.

But in fact, all the young and strong buildings were transferred into the military camp and stationed in the already deserted Liujiatianzhuang for training.

The elderly, weak, sick and disabled who stayed at home were not idle either.

According to the tasks assigned by the Lou Cangfu Office, those who should prepare bandages should prepare bandages, and those who should make stretchers should make stretchers. Those who know how to cook medicines are gathered together and prepare drugs such as Jinchuang Medicine and Mafei San according to the prescriptions provided by the government.

In short, Lou Cang City is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and is ready to face the challenge.

The big flags fluttering in the wind are clamoring in the air.

Liu Kan, wearing armor, climbed up to the city tower, looked into the distance for a moment, suddenly looked back and asked, "How many days have you been away from Xiaozhu and Lao Ren?"

Ji Bu whispered: "It's been ten days!"

"Then, they will be afraid that it will be the last two days. I hope they can gain a foothold so that our space to maneuver will be even greater."

Ji Bu smiled, "Junhou just don't worry. Mr. Shi Zhi seems careless, but in fact he has a very delicate mind. When he goes to Pengcheng, there are eight thousand troops sent by Juye, which is enough to gain a foothold. As for Pei County, I heard from Mr. Cao that Junhou's reputation is very good."

"Ji Bu, have you learned to play with your horse, too?"

Ji Bu shook his head seriously, "It's not Ji Bu's flattery, but it's because of the far-sightedness of the king. I was worried that Peng Yue would not be willing to divide the troops, but I didn't expect that he would agree so happily. His move was enough to relieve our pressure by half."

Liu Kan smiled but said nothing.

In fact, when Liu Kan agreed with Zhou City, the person who stayed in Pei County was Wu Chen, who had joined him in quelling the Santian Rebellion, and had a bold plan in his mind. Speaking of which, Liu Kan always felt a little strange since he returned to Lou Cang. When he protected Ying Guo and crossed the river north, he asked Wu Chen, the county magistrate of Ge County, to go to Lou Cang to notify his family and ask them to prepare.

But unexpectedly, there was no news after Wu Chen abandoned his post in various counties and left.

What he didn't expect was that Wu Chen actually appeared in Pei County and was still under Liu Bang's command, serving as a very important staff member.

This is simply God helping Liu Kan to seize Pei County!

Therefore, Liu Kan quickly contacted Wu Chen... He started his career in Pei County. Although he had been away for many years, the benefits he brought to Pei County are enough to make many people remember. Over the years, although Liu Kan has not gone back much, he has always been in contact with Pei County. Previously, when Ren Ao joined Lou Cang, Liu Kan's contact with Pei County turned to the darkness.

It turns out that this works very well.

After contacting Wu Chen without knowing it, Liu Kan realized that after he and Wu Chen broke up in Ge County, he passed through Donghai County and were about to go to Lou Cang, he accidentally met Liu Fei and others who were wandering around at that time. He was also attracted by Liu Fei and brought by him.

During this period, Wu Chen wanted to escape several times, but failed.

Liu Fei also showed great sincerity and forgived Wu Chen again and again.

Seeing that there was no hope of escaping, Wu Chen had to calm down and follow Liu Fei to act. He showed enough ability in the subsequent actions. This also made Liu Fei trust him more, and his status among the bandits increased rapidly, and later became Liu Fei's think tank.

The third leader is second only to Liu Fei and Zhu Jujian.

Wu Chen explained Liu Bang's situation one by one through Liu Kan's messenger in Pei County.

Especially Zhu Jujian, Wu Chen wrote a letter to tell Liu Kan: This person was the assassin who failed to assassin in Qinting and Gai Nie's apprentice.

This surprised Liu Kan a lot.

Zhu Jujian firmly sits at the throne of the number one general in Liu Bang's camp, and even Fan Kuai is two points inferior. Now, Liu Bang has about 10,000 people. Among them, Liu Fei brought the most powerful men, all of whom are thriving in battles, with very powerful attack power.

At the end of last year, Liu Bang sent Zhou Bo to conquer Pengcheng.

Xiahou Ying was also guarding Liu County, while he was in charge of Pei County, maintaining pressure on Xue County.

Fan Kuai, Lu Wan, Liu Fei and Zhu Jujian were guarding Pei County with Liu Bang, and their strength was not too weak. Especially after following Zhang Liang's plan and ambushing Sima Lan, Liu Bang has become the largest force in Sishui County and must be resolved as soon as possible.

Liu Bang?

To be honest, Liu Kan never took it to heart.

However, having him in Sishui County is always a huge hidden danger. Liu Kan also wanted to knock out Liu Bang's strength many times, but the time was not ripe before, and his fear of Zhang Liang made Liu Kan slow to take action. Now, Zhang Liang is not in Pei County, and it is said that he went to Yingchuan County... This also gave Liu Kan an opportunity. If he didn't take action, he would miss the opportunity.

Show goodwill to Ning Lingjun and inform Sima Yi of the situation.

Then Liu Kan waited for the good news...

But I never thought that at this time, the Xiang family sent troops! At the critical moment when Zhang Chu and Qin army were fighting fiercely, the Xiang family quietly crossed the river.

This indeed caught Liu Kan off guard.

Liu Kan has always been staring at the battlefield in Shandong, and accidentally ignored the movements of Kuaiji County, Jiangnan. How could he have thought that Yin Tong, the governor of Kuaiji County, would lead the wolf into the house, and he would have the intention of subdueing the uncle and nephew of the Xiang family, so that Xiang Ji could enter Wu County without any obstacles?

It was not that Yin Tong was not unprepared, but he really ignored the prestige of the Xiang family's uncle and nephew in the south.

Xiang Ji launched a massacre in the county magistrate's office, killing Yin Tong and all the so-called masters around him; Long Jia Cao Ju, Xiang Zhuang and Yu Ziqi quickly controlled the gate of Wu County, forming a situation of closing the door and beating dogs. After Xiang Ji killed Yin Tong, Xiang Liang immediately went to the military camp outside Wu County. Most of the Qin army in Wu County were composed of Chu people and Gu Yue people, so Xiang Liang easily controlled the military power.

After that, Xiang Liang quickly contacted Wu Rui from Fan County and successfully took over Wu Rui's troops.

Wu Rui had no intention of conquering the world and just wanted to keep one side safe.

The rafters that stood out were rotten first, and when Xiang Liang came forward, Wu Rui was naturally happy and relaxed. Besides, the prestige of the Xiang family is indeed higher than that of Wu Rui.

At the end of last year, a native of Yingchuan, Li Shiqi suddenly visited Xiang Liang.

Xiang Liang immediately prepared his troops and crossed the river to the north.

His main army and Wu Rui passed through the Huai River from Shouchun, intending to seize the troops from Chen Sheng.

At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth flow of Huai and Han roads, Xiang Liang ordered Xiang Ji to lead 8,000 soldiers from the headquarters to cross the river from Liyang, and then directly seize Tangyi and Guangling, and the troops advanced to Huai and Han, and occupied Sihong. Then he quickly joined Xiang Liang's main force, seized the Chu territory again, and advanced into Guanzhong.

Although Xiang Ji caught Liu Kan off guard, he was still expected.

The King of Western Chu was not a person who was willing to be at peace with himself. Otherwise, how could he conflict with Liu Kan and others on Zhuji Mountain?

Eight thousand soldiers?

Liu Kan is familiar with it.

However, it is impossible to come to Lou Cang to get a bargain with just eight thousand soldiers. But what Liu Kan never expected was that just when he was about to arrange how to confront Xiang Yu again, another bad news came from the south.

From Lou Cang to the south, crossing the Huai River, there is a large area of ​​hilly areas.

But in this hilly area, there is a county town named Dongyang. In Dongyang City, there is a former Dongyang Lingshi (Qin official name) named Chen Ying. Chen Ying is an authentic Chu native, and he is also quite famous in the Huai and Han areas. He has a very good reputation and is a wise man.

In Liu Kan's memory, Chen Ying was not a very loud figure in history.

At least, Liu Kan can't remember such a person.

However, when he first arrived at Lou Cang, Xiangqiang once mentioned such a person to him to build the canal in Lou Cang area. Liu Kan also sent someone to invite him, but Chen Ying was an official at the time, and was a filial son and unwilling to leave Dongyang.

Later, Liu Kan sent someone to invite him several times, but Chen Ying politely refused.

After the Lou Cang stabilized, Liu Kan began to run around and rarely stayed in Lou Cang. The matter of asking Chen Ying was put on hold.

Over time, even Liu Kan forgot that there is such a person in Dongyang.

Now, it is precisely such a person who caused quite a lot of trouble for Liu Kan. After Xiang Yu crossed the river and occupied Guangling, the Chu people in the Huai-Han region were immediately ready to respond to the call of the Xiang family. In just a few days, tens of thousands of people gathered.

But just gathering together is not enough, they need a suitable leader.

So these Chu people found Chen Ying...

Chen Ying was also quite moved.

However, he had the habit of asking his mother in advance, so he reported this to his mother and wanted to hear what her mother's opinions were.
To be continued...