After reading the news, Yuan Tan and Ju Su looked at each other, laughing and crying.

The news is very simple. A few days ago, Sun Yi, the younger brother of King Sun Ce of Wu, appeared in Chenliu. I heard that he was going to meet the bride, but this was just an excuse. The real meaning was never that simple. In addition to fifty knights, Sun Yi had two other followers: one was Zhu Ran and the other was Lu Yi, who were both Sun Ce's close servants. Lu Yi stayed in Junyi City to assist Lu Dai in guarding the city.

The closest servants were the generals that Sun Ce focused on training. The ready-made examples include Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, Que Yi, and Xun Yan entering Yingchuan. The first setback came from these two young people. These two people appeared in Yanzhou, so naturally they would not be as simple as accompanying Sun Yi to welcome the bride. Sun Ce was strengthening the Sui River defense line, and might even be preparing to launch an attack on the eastern front to force Yuan Tan to return to help. Under this premise, the wedding also had the intention of forcing Cao Ang to make a choice.

This news confirms Ju Su's analysis and also reminds them from another perspective: what they think of, Sun Ce will think of, and react more quickly. When fighting with such an opponent, there is little possibility of strategic opportunism, and the only thing they can fight for is strength. Before waiting for the fighter to appear, the most important thing is that you cannot make mistakes.

Yuan Tan's Junyi strategy died before he made a decision. It was obvious that Sun Ce would not give up Junyi. After the land agreement, more reinforcements would rush to Junyi to ensure that Junyi would not change hands. Those who know the current affairs were heroes. Yuan Tan gave up his unscrupulous fantasy and headed straight to Luoyang. At the same time, he sent a letter to Tian Feng, asking him to strengthen his vigilance, especially to strengthen the defense of Pingyuan County to prevent Xu Kun and Shen You from launching an attack.

Yuan Tan's advance was very smooth, and he encountered no obstacles. He drove straight into Luoyang.

Lu Su is not in Luoyang. Since Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, Luoyang has become an empty city. Although Zhu Jun and Sun Jian's first troops cleaned up the ruins of Luoyang City and only cleaned up some of the streets, Luoyang City still had no way to live, let alone garrison troops. Lu Su followed Sun Jian's old rules and was stationed in Huanqiu in the south of the city. When he learned that Yuan Tan was approaching, he simply gave up Huanqiu and retreated to Yique Pass.

Yuan Tanbing took Luoyang without any blood, but he couldn't be happy.

Luoyang was abandoned, and except for some military farms, there were almost no people living there. Every grain of food consumed by the army had to be transported from Hanoi. From the time he crossed the Yellow River, every step he took, the supply line increased by one point and the consumption increased by one point.

It is May now, and there are at least three months left for the autumn harvest. In these three months, how much food will the 30,000 infantry and cavalry need to consume and how many people need to be transported? For Hanoi, this is a great burden, enough to make the Hanoi family hurt and consume the enthusiasm of the Hanoi family.

What's even more troublesome is that the light attack on Luoyang caused the soldiers under his command to underestimate the enemy. Many people think that Lu Su is just a false reputation and vulnerable, and strongly demands to continue to advance, attack Yique Pass, and approach Nanyang. However, as long as you think about it calmly, you will know how unrealistic it is to attack Yique Pass. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack Yique Pass or a trivial matter. Dong Yue from Hangu Pass is a trouble that cannot be ignored.

Once Dong Yue led the Xiliang cavalry to raid, Yuan Tan was not sure how many of these 30,000 infantry and cavalry could retreat alive.

Faced with this situation, Ju Su had no choice but to suggest that Yuan Tan be temporarily stationed in Huanqiu, report the victory to Chang'an, and ask the court to transfer Jia Xu and Dong Yue to help, and Hongnong County will provide food and grass to reduce the logistics burden.

Wushan.

In the night, a carriage was galloping on the official road, and more than a dozen knights protected the carriage, widened their eyes, pricked up their ears, and listened to the surrounding wind and wind. They were not fast and were ready to dismount and fight at any time.

The mountains were full of shadows and the moon was bright, and their faces were unstable. Sweat flowed down their cheeks, soaking their collars and soaking their battle robes. It was summer, and they felt hot with their shirtlessness, but they were still wearing iron armor and battle robes. They were already wet, but no one dared to untie them.

They didn't know when an arrow would shoot from the roadside, killing their lives.

They took Yuan Tan's letter of victory to Chang'an from Luoyang, nine hundred and fifty miles, and the most dangerous part was the section of Wushan. They chose to go on a journey in the middle of the night, hoping that the ambush would be trapped and find a place to take a nap so that they had a chance to slip over.

"Ao" the knights who were exploring the road ahead issued a warning, and obstacles were found in the center of the official road. The knights immediately became nervous, tied their mounts, pulled out their weapons, and protected them beside the carriage. The two knights stepped forward to check and prepared to move away the trunk blocking the middle of the road.

"Swoosh! Swoosh!" More than ten feathered arrows shot out from the darkness. The knight who had just lifted the tree trunk had no time to react and fell to the ground without any reaction. Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of arrows roared from all directions. The knight guarding the carriage was shot so hard that he could not stop his head. The war horse was even more miserable. He was shot into a hedgehog and fell to the ground with a sad neigh.

When the rain of arrows stopped, there were no more people standing next to the carriage.

One hand trembled and opened the car door. A Confucian scholar came out of the car and raised his hands high.

With the sound of horse hooves, a tall and majestic horse walked out of the darkness. A man on the horse was wearing a helmet and armor, holding a rein in one hand and carrying a spear in the other, slowly came to the carriage. He came to the carriage and stared at the Confucian scholar for a while.

"Come on the name."

"So Wu Zhang Wen."

“Where to go?”

"Chang'an."

"What are you doing?"

"report a success."

The knight on the horse snorted: "Where is the certificate of victory? Take it to me to see."

The Confucian scholar did not dare to be negligent, so he took out a brocade box and carefully handed it to the knight. The knight took it, looked at it with the torch beside the carriage, smiled, and shook the spear in his hand, like a poisonous tongue, which suddenly made the Confucian scholar feel cold.

"You..." The two injured knights fell beside the carriage furious and jumped up. Before they could stand up, the knight held a spear in one hand and stabbed them twice in a row, killing them one by one.

"The mantis arm blocks the chariot, overestimates one's own ability." The knight snorted contemptuously, circled around the carriage, and killed all the knights, then drove back. A hundred steps away, a luxurious carriage parked. The knight came to the carriage, turned over and dismounted, and handed over the brocade box.

"Sir, this should be."

"Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Gan's face showed, he smiled at the knight, and reached out to take the brocade box. "Ziwen, do you think it's meaningless to intercept the envoy?"

The knight smacked his lips and didn't say anything. Jiang Gan said again: "I think it's a pity. If you are asked to command a cavalry and attack Luoyang and take Yuan Tan's head, it's easy to get in the wrong hands. But you don't have to worry. Jia Mu is on the way to come. When he arrives, you should be able to go to war."

The knight smiled and kicked the war horse lightly, heading forward. The carriage started and drove towards the town of Machi County. Jiang Gan closed the window and coughed. Dong Qing, who was sitting beside him, lit up the oil lamp hanging on the wall of the car, illuminating Jiang Gan's tired face. Jiang Gan checked the sealing mud on the brocade box, and hit hard, pulled open the silk rope, opened the brocade box, took out the certificate of victory inside and read it, hummed disdainfully, and threw it on the table.

"This should be almost done." Jiang Gan closed his eyes and felt relieved.

Dong Qing picked up the document of the war and read it, and his eyebrows raised lightly. "With this document, will Mr. Wenhe agree to send troops?"

Jiang Gan didn't say anything. Yuan Tan sent troops, and the Hanoi family almost ate and ate a pot of slurry and returned home in a glance. Now Yuan Tan is looking forward to Shu, and wants to get involved in Hedong. Hongnong, Jia Xu should not be able to sit still, so he rushed from Taiyuan.

But it is hard to say. He actually couldn't guess what Jia Xu thought. He was just doing his best.

Jiang Gan opened his arms, hugged Dong Qing in his arms, held a glass of iced wine with his other hand, and tasted it. "Qing'er, do you think Zhang Xiu is here to protect me, or to monitor me?"

Dong Qing glanced at Jiang Gan. "You have deceived him so much that you can't find Bei, but you still care what he is here for? Even if you are here to monitor you, you are now protecting you. I think Mr. Wenhe is so anxious to come, he is probably worried that he will be cheated by you."

"What did I lie to him?" Jiang Gan said with a smile: "He is not you."

Dong Qing immediately raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "You are finally willing to tell the truth, and you have been lying to me."

"You don't understand, women are just going to cheat. This is what our King Wu said." Jiang Gan was not in a hurry at all. He took another sip of wine, put his mouth in front of Dong Qing, moved the wine into Dong Qing's mouth, and kissed her with the flow. Then he said with unsatisfactory words: "We must not only cheat, but also cheat for the rest of our lives."

The cool wine entered his stomach, and red clouds appeared on Dong Qing's face. "Who is riding a horse, and what king has any ministers." Then he said: "You King of Wu has married so many wives, do you want to marry so many?"

"I don't have that ability." Jiang Gan shook his head repeatedly. "I just need you."

"Liar." Dong Qing snorted, pretending to be disdainful. "What are your King of Wu capable of even be inferior to you?"

"The King of Wu is a talented person. I can't tell you that. I can only get two at most, but you don't know." Jiang Gan's hands became irregular. The weather was hot and he was in the car. Dong Qing was dressed very cool. Jiang Gan went straight to the vital point and started to do it. Dong Qing was a little nervous. It would be fine if there were all his servants next to the car, but there were cavalry led by Zhang Xiu. If it was heard, it would be a bit embarrassing. She grabbed Jiang Gan's hand hard and prevented him from doing anything randomly. She could be curious.

"Is there really someone who can do it nine times?"

"Do you want to try it?" Jiang Gan let go of his hand, leaned against the brocade mat, and said with a smile.

Dong Qing glared at Jiang Gan fiercely, his face darkened, he turned his head and refused to pay attention to Jiang Gan. Jiang Gan disagreed and reached out to hug Dong Qing's slender waist. "Look at you, I said I would marry you, why don't you believe it?"

"Is there anyone who gave his wife to someone? You just refuse to marry me."

"I didn't say I'd give you to the King of Wu. I just said that if you want to experience the divine power of the King of Wu personally, I don't mind. Qing'er, why are you just like those ordinary people who stick to these common people? This is not you. Life is a hundred years, and you should be happy in time, so how can you stay here? Men and women are equal, I will take a concubine in the future, and you can also have a lover occasionally."

Dong Qing couldn't help laughing and spat: "Shameless man, a gentle and scum! No wonder you can do something like intercepting the envoy. Alas...ah...no! No! Stop! Don't...stop!"
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