Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 386
The border of Wei County, which seems to be a loosely defended checkpoint, is actually tight on the inside and loose on the outside.

Foreigners who enter Jizhou are usually not searched too strictly, but those who leave Jizhou must be strictly checked regardless of their status.

Except for the checkpoints, there are Jizhou soldiers ambushing in almost all the mountain trails. Once they encounter pedestrians who want to avoid the checkpoints, they will be arrested immediately.

This is the tenth day that Sima Lang and the others have deployed their defenses here.

In ten days, they caught desperadoes, tax-dodging traders, and even spies from other states and counties, but none of these people were the purpose of their trip.

After Cheng Gongying revealed Liu Yu's whereabouts that day, Yuan Shao immediately ordered the checkpoints on the border of Wei County to tighten their defenses. It is certain that no suspicious person left the country at that time.

Immediately afterwards, four search teams headed by Sima Lang, Gao Lan, Cheng Gongying, and brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang entered Wei County.

In order not to startle the snake and attract Liu Yu's attention, Sima Lang and the others formulated a secret search plan. Under the command and cooperation of several people, a team of nearly 7000 people went back and forth to find Wei Jun from the inside out, but they didn't find it. Liu Yu's whereabouts.

It stands to reason that if Liu Yu was in Wei County, it would be impossible to escape the search.

Unless he didn't choose to leave Wei County.

The days of searching were not fruitless, and a nursing home of the Han family was found.

After some interrogation, this person truthfully explained the Han family's plan to offer Dong Baijin to Yuan Shao as their daughter-in-law, but was attacked by thieves in Fenglin Mountain, and Lu met the third young master of the Zhen family.

Sima Lang sent someone to investigate the relationship between Liu Yu and Dong Bai, and he was confident that Liu Yu came to Jizhou not to ally with Gongsun Zan, but to rescue Dong Bai.

After all, to form an alliance with Youzhou, you only need to send one of your subordinates, and you don't need to take any risks yourself. Therefore, it may be just a coincidence to kill Wen Chou and save Gongsun Zan.

Sima Lang was very thoughtful, and his guess was almost indistinguishable.

And this Han family nursing home also said that at that time, the Han family and the Zhen family met to go to Guangzong City together. When they were robbed by bandits, the carriages of the Han family and the Zhen family escaped. I don't know.

Sima Lang and Gao Lan came from Guangzong City. If the Han family entered the city, they would definitely contact Yuan Shao. After all, the Han family wanted to curry favor with Yuan Shao.

The Han family's carriage did not enter the city, so Liu Yu naturally would not stay in the city.

It's just that Guangzong doesn't have the shadow of the Han family, so where can they go?
The clues were broken, and after discussing with Gao Lan, Sima Lang decided to increase the scope of the search.

At this time, the news of Zhang Nan's killing reached here.

Originally, Zhang Nan's killing did not attract their attention, but when they heard that the Zhen family was involved, Sima Lang and Gao Lan immediately noticed something.

"The Han family and the Zhen family are traveling all the way, will they also plan to give Liu Yu's woman to the second world lord as a concubine?"

Because Zhen's family is in Wuji County, which is very close to Hejian, and Han's family traveled with Zhen's carriage all the way.

Gao Lan boldly speculated: "If this is the case, then Liu Yu probably went to Zhongshan County!"

Sima Lang nodded.

"I see the same thing as General Gao!"

Of Yuan Shao's three sons, the eldest son Yuan Tan is in Qingzhou, and the third son Yuan Shang is in Yecheng, Weijun. If the Han family's target for marrying them is these two, they shouldn't go all the way north to Guangzong City.

"In addition, when did the bandits have such a great ability to kill the generals in the army, maybe that General Zhang Nan was killed by Liu Yu just like General Wen Chou!"

The more the two analyzed, the more they felt that Liu Yu was extremely likely to be in Zhongshan County, and they had plans to expand the scope of the search.

So they consulted with the Lu brothers, and decided to keep [-] soldiers to continue the secret search on the border of Wei County.

The remaining 5000 people were all taken to Zhen's family in Wuji County to investigate.

Both Yuan Xi and Sima Lang aimed at the Zhen family at the same time, and once the troops from these two sides found Zhending County, Liu Yu's whereabouts would definitely be exposed.

The danger was approaching gradually, but Liu Yu still had to deal with the Heishan bandits outside the city, so he couldn't evacuate Zhending County for a while.

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Tan Ma came to report that there was a group of black bandits outside the city, about a thousand people.

Liu Yu sent Tian Yu and Qian Zhao to send out troops to encircle and suppress them, but the gang of bandits were very cunning and scattered as soon as they saw officers and soldiers.

When the officers and soldiers returned to the city, they assembled again, no more and no less still standing ten miles away from the city.

"This gang of thieves seems to have a plan!"

Liu Yu stood on the city wall and looked at it for a while, feeling a slight feeling that a storm was coming.

"Why not set up an ambush and wipe out the bandits when they return again!"

Zhao Yun proposed a plan, Liu Yu nodded slightly, but did not give an order.

One thousand black bandits are not a threat to Zhending County today. The bandits on the other side should understand this, but why are they so provocative?

Liu Yu guessed that this group of people was probably just bait, and the real threat should still be hidden in the dark.

"Zilong don't worry, wait for the scouts he sent to come back before deciding on a plan."

In order to understand the purpose of this group of bandits, Liu Yu increased the range of horse scouting from fifty miles to 150 miles.

Back in the city, Zhen Yan came to see him.

"Brother Yan looks anxious and panicked, is something wrong?"

"I'm here for my little sister's business."

Zhen Yan said worriedly: "Yesterday, I heard from General Qianzhao that Yuan Xi had plans to encircle and suppress Anxiang County. I am really worried about my little sister's safety, so I ask the Regent for permission to take my little sister Luoer over."

"It turned out to be this matter. Don't worry, brother Yanshi. I sent Zhao Pan to inform Zhang Xiu yesterday evening. I believe that Luoer will be able to arrive at the real decision as soon as tomorrow."

Hearing that Liu Yu had already made arrangements, Zhen Yan was relieved at that time.

He secretly said in his heart, "It turns out that the Prince Regent has always pretended to be my little sister in his heart."

Before coming here, he had discussed with his youngest son Zhen Yan about his younger sister's marriage. After all, the Zhen family was going to move south, and they had used their savings for many years to support Liu Yu in forming an army behind the enemy.

Now they only hope that the younger sister Zhen Luo can settle down quickly so that they can feel at ease.

Especially the matter of Zhao Yu made the brothers of the Zhen family feel very anxious. You must know that Zhen Luo met Liu Yu earlier than Zhao Yu, but Zhao Yun became the eldest brother-in-law of the regent one step earlier than their brothers.

So Zhen Yan felt that it would not be too late to decide on the status in Luoyang, if he could get the business done first, so as not to cause complications.

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Early the next morning Zhang Xiu brought people to Zhending County.

This team is composed of the Yellow Turban Yukou from Fenglin Mountain and the bandits from Anxiang County, with a total of a thousand people.

Under the training of Zhang Xiu and Xu He, these people gradually lost their banditry nature. Of course, the main reason was that these bandits had changed into Jizhou military uniforms.

In addition, Liu Yu's recruiting treatment for them is much better than staying in the barren mountains and ridges as grassroots bandits. In order to keep this hard-won new job, everyone from the top thief to the bottom cherishes it very much.

(End of this chapter)