The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 302: Purgatory on Earth
Yuan Shu was filled with the desire to survive, imagining the future of arriving in the north, with Zhang Xun leading the army, Chen Ji as the deputy general, including son Yuan Yao, son-in-law Huang Yi, Yuan Si, Yuan Yin, Yang Hong, Xu Gong, Xu Yu and others There are also small families who all set off, and basically emptied Shouchun's money and food, leaving the people in the whole place to leave.

On the day of departure, there were not only five people including Wang Qing, Feng Tai, Wei He, Teng Jian, and Teng Kan. Wang Qing brought Duan Sanniang, sworn brother Wenren Shichong, brother-in-law Duan Er, younger brother-in-law Duan Wu, and Wang Qing's father Wang Dang. Worried about this son, Liu Yijing and Shangguanyi were hired at a high price.

Zhang Xun, Wang Qing and others commanded the troops in front, and Chen Ji, Duan Er, Duan Wu and others pressed the grain and grass behind. The [-] army plus the grain transport convoy, Yuan Shu and the official family, hundreds of beauties in the harem, and Over the past few years, Yuan Shu has looted more than a hundred vehicles, such as people's fat, treasures, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and they are approaching the north in a mighty manner.

Yuan Shu made such a big move without concealing it, and was clearly seen by the Jin Yiwei who had been ambushing outside Shouchun City all year round, and quickly reported it to the nearest Zhang Liao and Lu Heng in Jiangdong.

Zhang Liao garrisoned Hefei (changed defense with Zhu Huan years ago after taking Lujiang). After receiving the news from Jinyiwei, he personally led his troops northward and directly captured Shouchun, which had no soldiers garrisoned.

What caught Zhang Liao's eyes was not a Yangzhou government office with a population of tens of thousands, but bones exposed in the wild, and not complete bones, but all brackets, mostly thigh bones, four limbs, etc., and all the people were dressed in tatters and skinny , sallow and thin, many people lack arms and legs, and the originally empty eyes slowly appeared.

These people were so hungry that they cut off their hands and feet to eat. There were almost no children and no old people in Shouchun. Those who survived were all young and strong and a small number of women, let alone livestock and even trees. It has no bark or roots, and individual aristocratic and powerful families saw Zhang Liao's army and opened the gate of the mansion that had not been opened for two years.

Wang Qing's Wang family and Duan Sanniang's Duan family are such tyrannical and powerful. With the support of Fan Quan, Wang Dang and Duan Taigong, as well as Shu Shao, met the new ruler's guard Zhang Liao.

This old man Wang Dang is very smooth, and he has won the essence of the Eastern Han officialdom style. He offered money to honor Zhang Liao and others, but was rejected by Zhang Liao. Lu Heng's Jiangdong system is very different from the Eastern Han bureaucratic system. silver.

After Zhang Liao discovered the gates of each house, he used all kinds of miscellaneous objects to cover them up. It was obviously a defensive measure to defend the mansion. There were many private soldiers and servants standing there. Although they were also very thin, they were much thinner than ordinary people. Much better, at least it looks like a person, not a ghost.

The doors of some businesses are open, and the inside is dilapidated, with no human figure, only burnt black and black marks, which are the result of blood that has not been treated for many years.

Different from this purgatory on earth, it was Yuan Shu's palace, which was still so magnificent. The walls of the light palace were several feet taller than Xudu's palace. When Yuan Shu left, he was not willing to set fire to the palace.

He dreamed that one day, after Yuan Shao unified the world, he could reward him with this place, and he would be satisfied, but it was such a huge contrast that deeply stabbed everyone's heart.

It's not that the people in Shouchun didn't think that Yuan Shu would burn down the palace after leaving, but they had no strength, and they couldn't even push the palace door open. This is the reality.

Even Zhang Liao, who was used to seeing death, clenched his fists when he saw Shouchun like this, wishing he could send his troops north to chase Yuan Shu.

But Zhang Liao couldn't do this, and immediately sent someone to explain to Yan Xiang, Liu Fu and others that there was a need for food, a large amount of food, and the management of civil officials.

In this way, when Zhang Liao was stationed in Shouchun, he was once served as a civil servant and was swallowed up by a sea of ​​government affairs. Thanks to the help of Shu Shao, he found out the clues, and it was not until Liu Fu, Yan Xiang and others arrived that Zhang Liao was rescued.

From then on, the entire Jiujiang County, not the whole of Yangzhou, except Xiacai and Ping'a in the north of the Huaihe River, were all under Lu Heng's rule. As for Xiacai and Ping'a, there was no need for Lu Heng to worry.

That’s right, it’s Yuan Shu. As I said earlier, starting from Shouchun to go north to Yuan Shao’s place, you have to go through the whole of Xuzhou, but before you reach Xuzhou, in Zhongli, Xiquyang, Yicheng and other places north of Shouchun, it was Zhang Liao who went to Luzhou. The territory after Heng was ruled by Lu Heng.

Yuan Shu didn't dare to provoke Lu Heng. He was afraid that the Huainan defenders would attack Yuan Shu with a large army. He decided to go to the advanced Yuzhou and then transfer to Xuzhou. Going north through Pengcheng and around Taishan County, you can reach Qingzhou.

Taking such a route, the biggest enemy is the Taishan army, not Cao Cao's elite left in Xuzhou. As soon as Yuan Shu arrives in Pengcheng, Yuan Shao will send his eldest son Yuan Tan to meet him near Jibei Kingdom. Once he arrives, he will be safe.

This is also a major reason why Wang Qing, Teng Jian, Teng Jian and others are willing to escort them. Instead of confronting the regular army of powerful princes like Lu Heng and Cao Cao, they will make gestures with the Taishan Army. The Taishan Army is Zang Ba's Taishan group. Thieves, everyone has a certain degree of confidence in their combat power.

However, they had no information, but they didn't know that the Taishan army had already taken refuge in Cao Cao. Going in this direction would actually offend Cao Cao, which they never expected.

When Jin Yiwei traveled thousands of miles from Shouchun to Moling on a fast horse, he only saw Gu Yong but not Lu Heng. What is the reason?
Because of Wang Chong's report on the war horses and the need to use sea transportation, Lu Heng put sea ships and navigation on the agenda. First, he asked his cousin Zhu Tao about his current navigation skills in detail.

The port for building ships is not in Moling, but in Wu County, so Lu Heng and Zhu Tao went to Wu County once, and learned from Zhu Tao that since Lu Heng took out the sharp-bottomed boat and used it on the building boat.

The sinking rate of sailing ships after going out to sea is greatly reduced, and the survival rate is greatly increased compared with the previous one. At the same time, they sailed northward many times to Liaodong and other places, and gradually grasped the climate conditions of the eastern sea, that is, the East China Sea, and the triangle proposed by Lu Heng. The combination of sails has gradually built a new type of seagoing ship with four sails as the main and three sails as the auxiliary.

This kind of sea ship is very huge, and it can hold hundreds of people and a hundred war horses at a time. The war horses have been transported by this new type of sea ship in recent times. Zhu Tao is still very sure about the east and north seas.

But for the climate in the south, especially the sea area near Jiaozhou as you go south, I can’t guarantee it because you haven’t been there. If the climate, wind direction, etc. are the same as the east sea (that is, the East China Sea) or there is not much difference, then open to the south. There is no problem with the nautical line of the sea, especially the nautical line of coastal navigation.

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