Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 45

The county-level household Cao is in charge of households, sacrifices, marriages, farming and mulberry, corvee, roads, etc., and is a very important functional department.

Hucao's chief is Ji, the deputy chief is Shi, and there are more than a dozen subordinate officials. Although Lantian works for Hucao, he is also a subordinate official.

In the Three Kingdoms era, Lan Tian was a civil servant in the first-level functional department of the city. At first, he was full of enthusiasm and prepared to do a big job, but he found that his ideas were completely different.

Hu Cao's colleagues, including Hu Cao, all worshiped Lantian as a bodhisattva, and almost did not arrange anything for him.

Before Lan Tian took office, outsiders knew his background clearly.

General Liu's brother-in-law, who was born in a small farming family, enjoys the security and wealth through nepotism.

Although Lan Tian is new to the workplace, he also has a thorough understanding of the interpersonal relationships here through chatting and bragging.

Most of these colleagues are closely related to the Chen family in Xiapi and the Mi family in Donghai. It is almost impossible to find a small official from grassroots. Lantian has seen the control of local tyrants and aristocratic families.

The Chen family in Xiapi helped in the trapping and killing of Che Zhou, and Mi Zhu devoted all his family resources to help Liu Bei conquer the country. They are naturally the ones enjoying the benefits now.

Lan Tian finally understood that Liu Bei didn't want to go to Jingzhou, because it was not something he could do if he wanted to.

After thinking about all this, Lan Tian didn't worry anymore, he went to work every day, and read and wrote when he was bored.

Seeing that this guy is knowledgeable and interesting, Hu Cao also talked a lot with Guan Yu.

Lan Tian's main energy is still cultivating new varieties. In addition to digging the soil and farming in the backyard, he often develops some new dishes to share with Gan Qian. Mi Zhen is always envious of this sister-brother friendship.

Soon, Mi Zhu persuaded Donghai Changba to rebel against Cao, and nearby counties followed suit and joined Liu Bei.

Liu Bei's power was slightly stronger, his army strength reached tens of thousands, and his confidence became stronger.

Cao Cao was shocked when he learned that Liu Bei had attacked Xuzhou, but at this time the main force of Cao's army had marched northward to Liyang. Except for the general Xiahoudun guarding Xudu, there was no one available to attack Xuzhou. Zhong led the army to attack Liu Bei.

Cao Cao was serving as Sikong at this time, and Liu Dai was his confidant, but he had never led an army alone, so he was very excited about the crusade against Liu Bei.

Zhonglang general Wang Zhong is a supporter of the wind. When Li Jue and Guo Si rebelled in Chang'an, and there were years of famines, the people exchanged children for food. Wang Zhong also cannibalized people because of hunger. At this time, he is also eager to try as a lieutenant general.

The two didn't pay attention to Liu Bei, the left general, at all. They thought that Liu Bei followed Cao Cao to destroy Lu Bu and took advantage of it, so they were full of confidence in taking back Xuzhou.

They all competed to be the pioneers and wanted to take the first place. Under the circumstances of not giving in to each other, they could only make a decision by drawing lots in the end.

It's a pity that God's will tricks people in the end, and when the copper coin was thrown, it was inexplicably hung on a dead branch by the roadside.

Wang Zhong wanted to throw the copper coins again, but Liu Dai said: "It is God's will that we march at the same time, why not divide the troops into two groups and surround Xiaopei?"

So the two soldiers divided into two groups, the two armies were separated by thirty li, and marched towards Xiaopei at the same time, but there were no people along the way.

After finally meeting a living person, he turned out to be a blind person who was blind. The person said: "General Liu sent someone to tell that Cao Jun came to slaughter Xuzhou again, and there is a general who eats people in the army. You can hear it." Fear flees"

Wang Zhong was so angry that he blew his beard. He was too ashamed to tell about this past, so he cut down the blind man with a sword and moved on.

It was dusk at this time, and the soldiers were tired from marching all day, so Wang Zhong had to set up camp and bury pots to cook food.

The fleeing people filled the well in the village before they left. Wang Zhong could only ask someone to dig the well temporarily to fetch water for cooking. It was impossible to capture Xiaopei at night. He sent scouts to pass on information to Liu Dai, but the other party's experience was also different. Not much.

The army camped out in the wild to guard against looting the village, but nothing happened at night.

At dawn, Wang Zhong received an arrow letter from Liu Dai asking for help, saying that Liu Bei led the army to rob the camp, and asked him to send troops to attack him, and he won the first victory today.

Wang Zhong was overjoyed when he read the book. He left the infantry to guard the luggage, and led the cavalry to help Liu Dai at high speed.

The cavalry met a young horse halfway, and the two armies were waiting to fight, only to find that the opposite was Liu Dai's cavalry, and the two sides took out their arrow books to realize the trick, so they joined forces and went to Liu Dai's camp.

When the cavalry of the two groups arrived, the camp and the luggage had been destroyed. Not long after, the remnants of Wang Zhong's camp also came to report that because Liu Bei's army suddenly came to rob the camp, the food, grass and luggage were burned, and the officers and soldiers guarding the camp broke up and scattered.

Where can we fight if we lose food, grass and supplies?Liu Dai and Wang Zhong had no choice but to lead their troops back to Xudu, but were almost captured when they encountered Liu Bei's ambush on the way.

After that Liu Bei laughed and said: "It seems like you and other rats, even a hundred people come here, all of them are like this; Cao thief came, it is still unknown."

Where did Liu Dai and Wang Zhong dare to respond, they could only twitch their horsewhips and run away, with only a hundred or so of them left.

Liu Bei was so proud of his victory that he asked Guan Yu to report the battle report to Lan Tian, ​​and said that Yuan Cao's battle was about to begin, and he planned to go west to Yuzhou to meet Yuan Shao.

After hearing this, Lan Tian advised Guan Yu, "Cao Cao is treacherous and resourceful. He will definitely use suspicious soldiers to contain Yuan Shao first. After cutting off the threat, he will fight a decisive battle. Brother-in-law must not let down his vigilance."

"Ziyu's words are very kind, so I'll write a book and send it to my elder brother." Guan Yu said.

After Liu Bei received Guan Yu's letter, he said to Mi Zhu: "Lan Ziyu is too cautious, not to mention my threat from Xuzhou. There is still Zhang Xiu in the south of Xudu. Attacking Xudu will surely save the Son of Heaven from danger."

Mi Zhu nodded and said, "Lan Ziyu is also showing good intentions, my lord still needs to recruit troops and buy horses to actively prepare for the battle."

"I'll save this, you and Zang Xuan are very familiar? Can you tell him to surrender again?" Liu Bei asked.

Mi Zhu shook his head and said, "Although this man was a cavalry captain at the time of Lord Tao, he has always been alone because he has a large army in his hands. It is not easy to surrender this man."

When the two were talking about Zang Ba, he had already entered Qingzhou under Cao Cao's order to prevent Yuan Shao's army from attacking from the east.

In September, Cao Cao left General General Jin, stationed troops on the south bank of the Yellow River to monitor the north, and divided his troops at Guandu in the north of Xudu, and then returned to Xudu to prepare to face Yuan Shao.

At this time, Liu Dai and Wang Zhong were defeated and had returned to Xudu. They knelt in the prime minister's mansion and waited for Cao Cao's punishment.

Cao Cao was in Liyang at the time, and he didn't think carefully about dispatching troops. He thought it was his own fault in employing people, so he only cut off the official positions of the two of them.

Cao Cao was furious when he heard Liu Bei's wild words, and he was eager to lead his army east to Xuzhou.

All the generals persuaded: "It is Yuan Shao who is now competing with the lord for the world. Now that the army from Hebei is suppressing the border, the lord is going to attack Liu Bei. If Yuan Shao takes advantage of the situation and attacks, what should I do?"

Because the generals dissuaded him, Cao Cao had no choice but to give up.

In the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an, the Yidai imperial edict happened, and Cao Cao executed Dong Cheng, Prince Fu, Zhongji, etc., all of them were barbarians.

Liu Bei, who was an accomplice in Yidaizhao, surfaced, and the eastward expedition to Xuzhou was put on the agenda again.

(End of this chapter)