The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chen Dao was not stupid. As soon as he saw this scene, he realized that this young man must have a high status.

He knew that the people in front of him were soldiers under Liu Zheng's command. The first time he saw this young man, Chen Dao immediately realized that the young man in front of him was probably Liu Zheng.

While Chen Dao was still surprised and puzzled, the young man in front of him had already spoken.

"You are Chen Dao?"

Liu Zheng looked Chen Dao up and down. This Chen Dao was only about 20 years old. He was not tall, but he was handsome. His every move seemed to have been practiced for several years.

"I'm here, Chen Dao, I've met all my lords."

At this time, Chen Dao took courage and glanced at the people present.

He saluted Liu Zheng, Zhou Yu and others calmly.

Don't consider yourself a prisoner at all.

"Chen Dao, where are you from?"

Liu Zheng didn't just offer a solicitation when he came, but asked Chen Dao calmly. The questions he asked were nothing more than where he was from, how many people were there in the family, and how old he was.

"People from Xiarunan."

"From Runan? No wonder it's here."

"I heard from your subordinates that your martial arts skills are good. Do you have any idea to join our army?"

Chen Dao is different from Kuai Liang.

After all, Kuai Liang is the patriarch of a big family, so he cannot easily change his position. After all, his decision is not about his own life, but about the fate of the whole family.

If Kuai Liang took refuge with Liu Zheng at this time, then tomorrow, their Kuai family, who may have thousands of people in Luoyang, will be beheaded by Liu Biao.

Therefore, for the sake of the Kuai family, Kuai Liang will not easily join Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng naturally understood this, so he didn't make it difficult for Kuai Liang. He would only wait until he captured Luoyang. interest.

As for Chen Dao, an individual like this, without a powerful family behind him, and without a prominent status, he is just a soldier, and it doesn't matter where he serves as a soldier.

Hearing Liu Zheng's intention to solicit at this time, he was actually a little excited.

"My lord, Chen is willing!"

Chen Dao immediately knelt down and expressed his feelings.

"Very good. I see that you are good at martial arts. For the time being, you will be the head of the village under Zhou Yu's account."

Liu Zheng did not give Chen Dao a high military position, but only gave him the position of a small village chief. After all, he was a demoted general, and his own status was not high. It would not be a good thing to easily give Chen Dao a high official position.

On the contrary, it is easy to make the old people under Liu Zheng unhappy.

After recruiting Chen Dao, Liu Zheng also showed a happy expression on his face.

Although he didn't get Kuai Liang, he got Chen Dao. This trip to Runan was not completely fruitless.

In fact, his surprise attack on Runan mainly wanted to suppress Jingzhou by occupying the territory of Yuzhou.

Now that Runan City has been captured, it is necessary to make persistent efforts to capture the entire Yuzhou in one go.

On the one hand, let Chen Wang Liu Chong lead his troops to capture Yingchuan at this time.

At the same time, Liu Zheng led Sun Jian and Zhou Yu's troops to kill Nanyang.

As long as Nanyang County is occupied, it can directly threaten Nanjun where Liu Biao is located.

When the time comes to unite with the people in Yangzhou, Liu Zheng will be able to join forces to launch the encirclement and suppression of Xiangyang.

In less than half a month, Liu Biao's army was severely defeated, and Nanjun was captured in one fell swoop, and the entire Jingzhou fell into Liu Zheng's hands.

Of course, it is not so easy for Liu Zheng to completely control Jiangxia and Nanjun.

From Nanyang to Nanjun, this is still Liu Biao's territory.

And because the news that Liu Zheng attacked Runan has spread.

At this time, Nanyang already knew that Liu Zheng led the army to Yuzhou.

While Liu Zheng was rushing to Nanyang, Nanyang was also sending people to Xiangyang to tell Liu Biao the news.

Nanyang County.

This is a land of dragon prosperity.

Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu restored the Han Dynasty, and his hometown Nanyang County was upgraded to Nandu, leading 37 counties, making it the largest county in the world and honored as the emperor's township.

The population here once became the largest in the Han Dynasty.

However, this place became a strange place during the Three Kingdoms period.

It is simply a hot potato, whoever takes it will be unlucky.

Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, was the first to be in Nanyang.

When he was fighting the Yellow Turban Army, he became cold.

Later, it was Zhang Mancheng, the envoy of the Yellow Turban Army, who got Nanyang.

Zhang Mancheng is also cold.

After Zhang Mancheng's death, Nanyang County returned to the imperial court. The imperial court sent a prefect Zhang Zi to go there, but Zhang Zi was killed by Sun Jian.

Later, this Nanyang was taken by Yuan Shu.

As a result, Yuan Shu didn't stay in Nanyang for a long time. He was ambitious and retired from the stage of history not long after he proclaimed himself emperor.

Nanyang was once again occupied by Liu Biao.

Liu Biao also failed to die well, and died not long after, leaving a mess.

Nanyang stayed in Liu Bei's hands for a while.

But Liu Bei failed to sit firmly in Nanyang, and was finally obtained by Cao Cao.

This hot potato was under Cao Cao's control, so no more moths emerged.

However, now it has finally fallen into Liu Zheng's hands.

Under the crazy attack of the [-] army led by Liu Zheng, it took only two days to take down Nanyang City.

After taking down Nanyang, Liu Zheng didn't stay in Nanyang too much, and directly led his soldiers and horses to rush towards Xiangyang's position.

Xiangyang has already responded.

Xiangyang City.

As early as two days ago, Nanyang had spread the news that Liu Zheng led people into Yuzhou to Liu Biao's ears in advance.

After Liu Biao heard the news, he was shocked and furious.

The reason why he was shocked was because he never expected that Liu Zheng would make a dangerous move, using the strategy of attacking east and west, stationing tens of thousands of troops in Jiangxia on the one hand, and leading an army to surprise Yuzhou on the other hand, so they didn't expect it.

And he was furious because since Liu Zheng was able to bring people to Yuzhou, he must have taken a lot of people from Jiangxia.

However, after Jiang Xia's soldiers and horses withdrew a lot, there has been no movement these days.

"Damn it, what on earth is this guy Ding Yuan doing? It's been so many days, Jiangxia's war has not made any progress, and now Liu Zheng has brought people to fight in Yuzhou!"

"The Runan and Nanyang regions that we took back from Yuan Shu with great difficulty are now all taken by Liu Zheng again. It's a big loss!"

In the government office, Liu Biao shouted loudly at the staff below, venting his anger.

Liu Biao, who had lost most of Jingzhou, was in a bad mood, but now he was able to rely on the counties of Yuzhou to supplement his strength, but now he disappeared all of a sudden.

7 Chapter Ninety

Liu Biao has become a territory with only one county left. He is a majestic state shepherd, but now he can only be in charge of one county. One can imagine how aggrieved he is.

Aggrieved aside, a few days ago, he dispatched his eldest son Liu Qi to lead an army of [-] in Xiangyang City to support Jiang Xia.

Even so, the battle on Jiang Xia's side is not over yet.

If Jiang Xia still can't handle it, now that Liu Zheng is going to come to Xiangyang, Liu Biao is already a little scared.

He hastily dispatched to find Liu Qi and Ding Yuan, hoping to get Ding Yuan's men back to aid Xiangyang.

If Xiangyang is gone, then they will be surrounded, not to mention Liu Biao, Ding Yuan, Liu Qi and others will all be surrounded, and then they will all be killed.

After Liu Biao's angry words and scolding, several staff members below were also terrified.

Kuai Yue, Zhang Yun, Cai Zhong and others were all standing at the bottom at this moment, not daring to speak.

Kuai Yue didn't speak until Liu Biao had finished cursing.

"My lord, my brother has already been defeated in Runan. He desperately brought us the news. We must react before Liu Zheng's army reaches Xiangyang."

Kuai Liang is Kuai Yue's elder brother, and Kuai Yue is worried about Kuai Liang's life, but at this time his own Xiangyang is in danger, so he has no time to worry about Kuai Liang.

"Uncle, we have to prepare to defend Xiangyang now. Liu Zheng's troops have already reached Nanyang, and we are not far from Xiangyang. My cousin took away 3 troops from Xiangyang, and now we only have 2 left in Xiangyang." people."

Zhang Yun also immediately panicked. They must not have panicked when Liu Biao was still capable, but now that the enemy army was about to approach the city, their staff and subordinates also became terrified.

Of course, it was Cai Zhong who hadn't spoken all this time.

It's not that Cai Zhong is afraid to speak, but he is complaining in his heart.

He never expected that Liu Zheng would be able to fight back to Xiangyang City, and that Liu Zheng would become emperor.

Had he known this earlier, Cai Zhong would not have broken with Cai Yao no matter what.

It's good now, although he has been appreciated by Liu Biao and has successfully controlled all the properties of the Cai family in Xiangyang.

But in the same way, he completely offended Liu Zheng, so much so that now Liu Zheng hit Xiangyang again, making Cai Zhong very nervous.

Even if Liu Biao and others were defeated, they might not be killed by Liu Zheng, but he, Cai Zhong, could not escape bad luck.

At this time, Cai Zhong was worrying about his own life, so he didn't have the heart to think about other things.

Liu Biao looked at the few people present with a gloomy expression.

"Of course we have to withdraw. After all, the geographical location of Xiangyang City is important, and there is absolutely no room for loss!"

"I have sent people to send messages to Ding Yuan and Liu Qi, and they rushed back to help Xiangyang. I think there should be enough time!"

On the one hand, Liu Biao quickly sent someone to send a message to Ding Yuan, Liu Qi and others to ask them to return to Xiangyang. On the other hand, he continued to mobilize the current defenders in Xiangyang City, and began to garrison and strengthen the security to prevent the enemy from attacking at any time.

It didn't take long for Liu Biao to send out rescuers to Jiangling in Dingyuan.

Ding Yuan is having a bad time these days.

Since being blocked by Huang Zhong's troops on Huarong Road, Ding Yuan's cavalry suffered heavy losses.

Although some people escaped from the battlefield, allowing him to keep a few thousand cavalry under his command, the troops under his command suffered heavy losses and were no longer able to compete with Liu Zheng's troops.

Afterwards, Ding Yuan once again organized a group of troops to support Hanyang City, but was blocked by Huang Zhong's men on the way. After fighting Huang Zhong's men again, he still failed to gain any advantage. I can stay behind closed doors in Jiangling and stick to it for the time being.

Without Ding Yuan's support, the battle situation in Hanyang City is also not optimistic.

Liu Zheng sent Zu Lang, Gan Ning, and some of Huang Zhong's troops to station here. An army of nearly 4 people has been fighting with Zhang Liao's troops near Hanyang City.

The two sides have played against each other a lot, but there is no such advantage.

Although Zhang Liao and Liu Qi have the upper hand in terms of military strength and have Hanyang City as their backing, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning have many generals under their command, and their purpose is not to directly attack the city, so they don't need to take the initiative to attack, just need to attack the city. Just do defense, wait for the people in the city, and take the initiative to trouble them.

In this way, offense and defense are actually opposite.

With an army of 5, blocking Zhang Liao and Liu Qi's [-] horses is nothing.

Gangneung City.

Jiangling is also a historical city.

The city of Jiangling was formerly known as Ying, the capital of Chu State. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 34 generations of emperors successively established their capitals here, which lasted 515 years.Since the Han Dynasty, Jiangling City has existed as the seat of Jingzhou for a long time, so Jiangling is often called "Jingzhou".

The ruling center of the Central Plains Dynasty has always been between Henan and Shaanxi. Jiangling controls Bashu in the west and Xianghan in the north.Most of the regimes that have established their capitals in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have established their capitals here. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Five Dynasties, a total of ten regimes have established their capitals.

Among them, Chu is a big and powerful country. Both the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties owned half of the rivers in southern China. Therefore, Jiangling has a high status as the ancient capital, second only to the "seven ancient capitals", and is the famous capital of Jingchu.

When Liu Biao was able to sit in Jingzhou, Jiangling was still the seat of Jingzhou, but later Liu Zheng's people were nearby, and Jiangling was only across the river from Liu Zheng's site. In addition, there were Kuai family and Cai family in Xiangyang area. Waiting for others, finally Liu Biao moved the administrative office of Jingzhou to Xiangyang.

The most powerful thing about the city of Jiangling is that it is surrounded by water on three sides, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It only needs to defend one city wall.

Historically, Guan Yu, who guarded Jingzhou, was in Jiangling City. He made Jiangling City easy to defend and difficult to attack, and built an auxiliary city.

Let this auxiliary city connect with Jiangling City, making it an even more difficult military town to attack.

Of course, although the current Jiangling City has not become indestructible, it is still an important city and is not easy to attack. This is why Huang Zhong's troops chose to garrison here temporarily instead of directly attacking Ding Yuan's troops.