The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 238 Volume Well, you rat from Jiangdong!

"You ask me what my intention is?"

There was no sign of panic on Li Ru's face.

"I admit that I have ulterior motives."

As soon as these words were spoken, Yuan Shu's expression when he looked at Li Ru became a little strange.

"I was forced by Dong Zhuo to poison the King of Hongnong, and then I was abandoned by him and fell into Hebei... After arriving in Hebei, I was used by Zhong Yao and Yuan Shao drove me out of the north."

"Now I am neither human nor ghost, I have no face or reputation to live in this world!"

"Thanks to General Zuo's shelter, I now have a place to stay! Now, for General Zuo's sake and for my own sake, General Zuo must defeat Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao!"

"Master Yan, I would like to ask you, you have been trying to dissuade General Zuo from fighting with the imperial court for Jingzhou. Are you on General Zuo's side, or on Dong Zhuo's side?"

……

Yan Xiang was speechless.

It's not impossible to refute.

But he didn't know that there were such shameless people in the world!
Yuan Shu also changed his attitude at this moment and stared at Yan Xiang with some suspicion.

"General Zuo!"

After all, Yan Xiang couldn't bear to see Yuan Shu being isolated and helpless in the future, so he wanted to dissuade him.

"Okay, I'm tired."

But Yuan Shu had lost his patience and made a move to leave.

"General Zuo!"

Yan Xiang called out again, but Yuan Shu never turned back and ignored him.

Seeing Yuan Shu leaving, Li Ru also came to Yan Xiang, smiling and trying to pat him on the shoulder.

But Yan Xiang dodged directly and looked at Li Ru with vigilance in his eyes.

"Who do you belong to? Dong Zhuo? Or Yuan Shao?"

Li Ru responded sincerely: "Neither."

"Ah."

Yan Xiang raised his finger and pointed at the tip of Li Ru's nose: "Villain! I will never let you destroy General Zuo's foundation!"

"Ugh."

Li Ru sighed lightly, but he was not worried at all.

"Master Yan, I don't understand why you are so hostile to me... I just want to tell you that General Zuo is on my side no matter what. Do you know why?"

Yan Xiang hesitated, but couldn't help wondering: "Why?"

"because--"

Li Ru's voice was drawn out, and his expression was playful.

"If you receive orders from Heaven, you will live forever!"

Just eight short words, yet they seem to be full of fatal charm.

"I will help General Zuo to move towards this result, but you always want General Zuo to be a Han minister, like Liu Biao, a ruler who protects the Han Dynasty... How do you think you can beat me?"

"Li Ru!"

Yan Xiang stepped forward and grabbed Li Ru's sleeve, his expression ferocious: "With your intelligence, you must know that every inch General Zuo moves forward to that position is actually an inch closer to death!"

"Even Yuan Shao didn't dare to directly declare himself emperor, let alone General Zuo who was now defeated by Cao Cao!"

"You are plotting to murder General Zuo's life!"

Li Ru took Yan Xiang's hand, shook his head gently, and just asked one question -

"Master Yan, if I, Li Ru, were not around, wouldn't General Zuo covet that position?"

Yan Xiang was startled.

Slowly put down Yan Xiang's hand.

This time, Yan Xiang finally had no strength left.

"I won't talk about the past with Master Yan. I still have to go to Jiangdong to bring Sun Ce's mother and relatives to Shouchun."

"Master Yan should also coordinate the food, fodder and military equipment for Sun Ce's attack on Jiangxia as soon as possible. Everyone should do their job, and this will benefit everyone."

Yan Xiang stared blankly at Li Ru's departing back, then looked up at the Shouchun Palace which was comparable to an imperial palace, and finally he sighed.

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The river is rippling and the sun is shining. The water on the bank is like a whisper. The mountains are green and misty.

"Where is the front?"

Liu Bei was on the boat and asked Gan Ning who was beside him.

"That's Baidi City, formerly known as Ziyang City!"

Gan Ning, wearing a short coat, bird feathers in his hair, and bells on his body, introduced himself to Liu Bei in a loud voice: "I... I have lived here for a while, so I have some understanding of this place."

A few days ago, Liu Bei led his troops to suddenly attack Ba County, causing chaos in the city.

Liu Bei explained to the commander of Ba County that he was going to rescue Jingzhou. After Shen Mi, Lou Fa and Gan Ning discussed it, they finally agreed to surrender to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei handed over Shen Mi, Lou Fa and others to Wu Yi's jurisdiction, while he asked Gan Ning, who was well versed in hydrology, to immediately requisition ships and head to Jingzhou.

Gan Ning was somewhat arrogant and did not have much respect for Liu Bei.

But after Zhang Fei beat Gan Ning up, Gan Ning lost his arrogance and began to follow Liu Bei wholeheartedly.

"Baidi City..."

Liu Bei looked at the majestic Baidi City, and his mind suddenly wavered.

"Xingba, why is this place called Baidi City?"

Each of the five elements has an emperor, namely the White Emperor, the Green Emperor, the Red Emperor, the Yan Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor.

But Baidi still had some taboos in the Han Dynasty.

Because in the past, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang killed the white snake with a sword, which actually meant killing the son of Baidi to start the rebellion. Now that Baidi City was built here, Liu Bei naturally couldn't help asking.

"This city was built by Gongsun Shu in the past!"

Gan Ning is a local after all, so he knows about these things.

"In the past, white mist rose from the Baihe Ancient Well in the city, just like a white dragon, so Gongsun Shu thought he was the White Emperor and named this place Baidi City!"

When Liu Bei heard that it was built by Gongsun Shu, who once competed with Emperor Shizu Liu Xiu for the world, he hated this place even more.

"Gongsun Shu once falsely claimed to be the emperor in Shu. He is a traitor to the Han Dynasty! How dare you call yourself the White Emperor here?"

Liu Bei immediately stopped the boat and ordered his men to scrape off the three big characters on the gate of Baidi City.

"I will write a letter to the emperor, asking for this place to be renamed Ziyang again!"

Strangely enough, after Liu Bei scraped off the name of "Baidi", he felt inexplicably relieved and no longer felt the depression he had at the beginning.

The resignation of the Emperor Baidi among the colorful clouds,
Thousands of miles of Jiangling to return in a day.

After leaving Baidi City, Liu Bei went downstream smoothly and soon arrived in Zigui.

Zigui County Magistrate Li Yan had heard that Liu Bei was leading his army from Yizhou, so he went to receive him personally.

At the banquet, Liu Bei saw that Li Yan was quite talented and also wanted to attract talented people, so he asked Li Yan if he was willing to follow him and serve in the army.

Li Yan was very happy!

The current situation in Jingzhou is unclear, and Li Yan is already extremely confused.

Now that Liu Bei has extended an olive branch to him, how could Li Yan not quickly attach himself to him?

"Uncle, this is a hydrological map of the Zigui, Yiling, and Jiangling areas."

Li Yan was also very sensible and quickly showed Liu Bei the map he had specially drawn.

When Liu Bei got the map, the first thing he looked at was "Yiling", which the emperor had mentioned countless times.

"hiss--"

"here……"

Liu Bei had been through many battles and could see at a glance how dangerous Yiling was.

Narrow! Blocked! It's hard for the army to move out!

For 700 miles along the Three Gorges, the two banks are connected by mountains, with almost no gaps. The mountains are piled up one on top of the other, hiding the sky and blocking the sun. Unless it is midnight, the sun and the moon cannot be seen!

This place is not like the Central Plains of Hebei, where there are plains around the river. Instead, there are only high rocks!

Moreover, it is summer now, and Liu Bei can already clearly feel the scorching heat in southern Jing.

If it was really as the emperor predicted, and he had to station troops in Yiling, Liu Bei might really have set up camp in the dense forest on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

There is nothing wrong with camping like this.

But with the emperor's solemn reminder, Liu Bei thought about it and wondered why he could not set up camp in Yiling.

Now, when Liu Bei saw the map handed over by Li Yan and the dense forest marked on it, he took a deep breath.

"If we use fire as an attack, all the troops here will be wiped out!"

Fortunately, Liu Bei was certain that he could not stay here.

His mission was to go to Jiangling, join forces with Wen Pin, and then march south to capture Jingnan.

No matter how you look at it, he shouldn't have led his troops to Yiling...

……

That night, a scout brought military intelligence:

"Is Uncle Liu here? I am Fu Tong, a lieutenant under General Wen Pin!"

The young general introduced himself and entered the tent to ask to see Liu Bei.

"Uncle Emperor!"

Fu Tong had a handsome appearance and was efficient in doing things. He directly informed Liu Bei of the news that Wen Pin was going to bring.

It turned out that a few days ago, Liu Biao sent Liu Pan and Huang Zhong to Jiangxia to replace Huang Zu in defense.

Huang Zu heard that Liu Biao wanted to take his military power, although he did not resist, he kept shirking it. He also blocked the army of Liu Pan and Huang Zhong outside the city and did not allow them to enter Xiling, the capital of Jiangxia County.

This situation happened to be noticed by Sun Ce, who coveted Jiangxia, so Sun Ce ordered his general Taishi Ci to accompany Huang Zu's soldiers to attack the camps of Liu Pan and Huang Zhong.

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong were already extremely angry at being blocked outside the city by Huang Zu. Now seeing that Huang Zu even dared to send troops to attack the camp, they thought that Huang Zu had rebellious intentions and immediately began to attack Xiling.

When the two armies were fighting fiercely, Sun Ce suddenly led his troops to attack, took advantage of the chaos to capture Jiangxia, and killed Huang Zu. Liu Pan and Huang Zhong had to gather the remaining troops and retreat to Jiangling.

Afterwards, Sun Ce led his troops towards Changsha with great momentum.

Because his father Sun Jian had served as the governor of Changsha, there were many old officials in Changsha. In particular, Gong Cao Huan Jie missed Sun Jian's kindness and persuaded Zhang Xian to surrender to Sun Ce and fight against Liu Biao together with Sun Ce.

Zhang Xian was already alone and it was difficult for him to do anything, and thinking of Yuan Shu behind Sun Ce, he finally agreed to this matter. This allowed Sun Ce to quickly pacify Jiangxia and the four counties of Jingnan in just one month and set his sights on Jiangling!
……

Liu Bei frowned as he heard this.

He remembered that the emperor had said in a letter that he had formed an alliance with Yuan Shu.

But they had just become allies and now they turned around and attacked Jingzhou. What did this mean?
"Jiangdong rat!"

Even though Liu Bei was broad-minded, he still cursed like this.

Liu Bei then asked Fu Tong, "I wonder what General Wen Pin wants to do by sending me this letter all of a sudden?"

Fu Tong: "According to scouts, Sun Ce's general Zhou Yu is heading down the Yangtze River. It seems that he is trying to cut off the connection between Shu and Jingzhou so that he can focus on advancing to Jingzhou."

"Therefore, General Wen Pin has sent Generals Zhang Nan and Feng Xi to help the emperor's uncle, hoping that the emperor's uncle can stop Zhou Yu's army!"

It turned out to be the case.

Liu Bei nodded: "I wonder where Zhou Yu is now? Where can I stop him?"

Fu Tong clasped his hands together——

"Zhou Yu is sailing against the current, but at an extremely fast speed!"

"Right now, Zhou Yu has probably already rushed to Yiling, and is only a hundred miles away from the Emperor's uncle!"

　I don't know how to draw pictures, so I bought a set of Three Kingdoms maps. I will take photos and post them as Easter egg chapters for your convenience~
　　
　
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