The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

E County...

Wen Pin, who had been besieged for a month, saw Zhu Ran finally retreat and wanted to lead his troops to pursue him.

But Zhuge Liang personally stopped him: "The soldiers in E County are now cut off from the outside world and their morale is low. How can you let them go deep into the enemy's territory to pursue them?"

"What the general needs to do now is to get these soldiers in touch with their families and friends as soon as possible, so as to boost their morale! Defeat the armies of Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang."

"They didn't even evacuate Jingzhou?"

Wen Pin couldn't help but feel delighted when he thought that a full 20,000 Wu troops were trapped in Jingzhou by Zhuge Liang.

Just as Zhuge Liang and Wen Pin were talking, there was a sudden scream -

"Alive!! It's alive!!!"

What's alive?
Zhuge Liang turned his head to look, but before he could see the other person's face clearly, the other person knelt down in front of Zhuge Liang and said, "I have seen your statue in Kongming City before! Are you the Zhuge Kongming who founded the Annan Protectorate?"

Rich Lady Li...

Wen Pin had forgotten that this Kushan merchant was always following him.

After only spending a month with the soldiers, Mrs. Li could speak Chinese fluently. One could not help but admit that Mrs. Li had his own special qualities to be able to do business with the Han people.

Zhuge Liang saw that it was a merchant from Kushan... Although the other party's reaction made Zhuge Liang, who was always low-key, a little embarrassed, Zhuge Liang still helped him up: "It's just that I followed the emperor's order to expand the territory for the Han Dynasty. The local people were so kind that they erected a statue for me in the Annan Protectorate. You can just call me "Kong Ming"."

A living Zhuge Liang! A living Kong Ming!

Mrs. Li never dreamed that she would be able to see the living person in the statue of Annan Protectorate in her lifetime!
At the same time, this period of detention by accident also allowed Mrs. Li to come into contact with more information about the Han Dynasty.

Only now did he realize that Shi Xie had not lied to him, and neither had Shi Wu, when they were in Jiaozhou.

In the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou is really just a remote and poor place!
It was this sudden attack from Jiangdong that made Mrs. Li a little confused: "The Han Dynasty is so powerful, why did Sun Quan dare to rebel against the Han Dynasty?"

Further south is Linyi and Jiangdong.

Mrs. Li always felt that the leaders of these places had problems with their brains...

The Han is so powerful, how dare they do that?

So Mrs. Li studied history in depth, learning what had happened in the Han Dynasty during this period, and she has become a half-know-it-all in the Han Dynasty.

When he learned that the Han Dynasty was in ruins and in ruins before, and that it was only after the former Grand Tutor Dong Zhuo restored order and welcomed the current emperor that the country became brand new, he was also extremely shocked.

"How could a country that has declined to this extent be able to rise from the ashes?"

"And it's not just this time... this kind of thing happened two hundred years ago?"

"..."

The more Mrs. Li understood the Han Dynasty, the more she admired it, and the more fascinated she became with the superiority of Han civilization.

Rich Lady Li was even so crazy that she translated all the decrees of the Han court since the current emperor came to power into the Kushan language and memorized them by heart.

Jian'an Law.

Imperial examination system.

Equal-field system.

The system of fubing.

……

Mrs. Li knows everything by heart.

As a result, Mrs. Li is now crazy about the core of the Han Empire - Chang'an and the emperor. She hopes to meet the emperor as soon as possible and express her feelings to him.

Zhuge Liang kept comforting him: "Don't worry! The war in Jingzhou has come to an end. After I deal with the last things, I will send someone to accompany you to Chang'an to meet the emperor."

Not only did Mrs. Li meet Zhuge Liang, she even got his guarantee...

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

When her emotions reached a new level, Mrs. Li suddenly burst into tears for no apparent reason!
Wen Pin and the others looked at Zhuge Liang with strange eyes, but Zhuge Liang just sighed: "I'm used to it."

In the Nanzhong and Annan Protectorate areas, Zhuge Liang's reputation was even more exaggerated, so he was basically accustomed to this kind of performance.

"The most urgent task is still the two divisions of Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang."

Zhuge Liang looked at Guan Ping, Kou Feng, Huang Quan, and Lu Xun——

"General Guan will stay in Jiangxia, and General Wenpin will deal with these soldiers first. I ask you to lead the troops to Xiakou and Gong'an."

"They are already trapped in a jar, their escape route cut off. It is best to attack their hearts!"

"Here!"

Guan Ping and Kou Feng led their troops to Xiakou.

The Xiakou River was shrouded in fog and the situation could not be seen clearly.

As soon as the Han army's ships approached, they were forced back by arrows from the enemy.

Guan Ping had no choice but to stand at the bow and shout: "Pan Zhang! Now that Zhu Ran has retreated, your retreat is cut off. Why do you still want to resist?"

"If you lead your troops to surrender now, I promise not to harm your life!"

Guan Ping shouted several times, and finally a boat appeared in Xiakou Harbor heading towards the Han army.

Strangely, no matter how the Han soldiers shouted, the ship did not respond at all, but just drifted with the waves and kept getting closer.

They had no choice but to step forward to stop them, and then they realized that there was not even a single person on the boat!

Not only was there no human presence, but as soon as we approached the ship, we smelled a sickening odor of blood.

Guan Ping's men were all veterans under Guan Yu. They had fought all the way from Youzhou to the Central Plains, and from the Central Plains to Shu. They were all ruthless killers, but when they smelled the bloody smell, they were still unable to open their eyes. The brave soldiers searched the ship, but found nothing unusual, so they opened the cabin.

"vomit!"

Even these old soldiers couldn't help but vomit on the spot.

A whole cabin full of corpses!
And judging from their clothes, these are not soldiers, but ordinary people around Xiakou.

"brute!"

One soldier then remembered: "Pan Zhang's reputation for brutality has long been known!"

"Not to mention in Jingzhou, even in Jiangdong, he would often raid some wealthy families, steal their property, and destroy their bodies. It's really outrageous!"

……

Guan Ping and Kou Feng both looked gloomy.

They looked at each other and said, "Kill?"

"kill!"

Kou Feng stayed on the boat and kept beating the drum to attract the attention of Pan Zhang's army.

Guan Ping took advantage of the cover of heavy fog to land on the south side of Xiakou, and pursued Pan Zhang to his camp with great force.

When he saw Pan Zhang, Guan Ping didn't even wait for the other party to say anything. He rode up on his horse and engaged in a battle with him. After just a few rounds, he killed him!
A lot of property was found in Pan Zhang's camp. Guan Ping and Kou Feng jointly wrote a letter requesting to find the relatives of the people who died in Xiakou and share the property with them.

After Zhuge Liang learned what had happened, he felt heartbroken and sighed, so he agreed to the matter and let the two make their own decision.

Compared with the stubborn resistance of Pan Zhang of Xiakou, Xu Sheng of Gong'an was undoubtedly more worried when facing Huang Quan and Lu Xun.

On several occasions, Lu Xun personally took a small boat to Xu Sheng's camp, explained the situation of the war in Jingzhou to him with emotion and reason.

"Now that Zhu Ran has retreated, Jiangdong will not be able to send troops to support him no matter what."

In fact, after learning that Xiling had changed hands again, Xu Sheng knew that he was left alone.

The army's food and supplies had been cut off. Xu Sheng had been able to hold out for so long, but now he was running out of ammunition and food.

Faced with Huang Quan's call for surrender, although Xu Sheng was unwilling to surrender to the enemy, every time he looked back and saw the soldiers behind him, he still couldn't bear to do it.

"If I surrender to the imperial court, I hope that the imperial court will punish me for treason and not implicate the soldiers behind me."

"Your Majesty has never killed any prisoners!"

Huang Quan's words made Xu Sheng put aside his worries, so he took off his armor, knelt in front of the camp gate, held up the seal, and asked for surrender to Huang Quan.

In this way, Jingzhou finally put an end to the war.

Zhuge Liang, stationed in Jingzhou, immediately restored Jingzhou's shipping, allowing ships to transport goods and ensuring trade along the Shu-Jingzhou-Central Plains line, in order to restore Jingzhou's economy as soon as possible.

He ordered people to escort Li Fupo and others to Chang'an. Li Fupo was reluctant to leave and said, "Will Kong Ming not go with me?"

After spending these days together, Mrs. Li has been completely conquered by Zhuge Liang. She even wants to sleep with him. How could she bear to leave him?

"Jingzhou has not yet recovered, and I don't know what the current situation is with Jiaozhou and Shi Xie and Shi Wu whom you met. I need to stay here and solve all these problems myself."

Zhuge Liang explained:

"And the emperor also wants me to stay in Jingzhou to manufacture weapons and prepare for the future attack on Jiangdong."

ordnance?

Mrs. Li has also been influenced by the Lunheng school of thought recently.

He couldn't help but ask excitedly, "Could it be a weapon like the Zhuge Crossbow or the Thunderbolt Chariot?"

"Um……"

Zhuge Liang thought about it and felt that letting Li Fupo go and have a look would also be beneficial for the Han Dynasty to deter the Kushan Empire in the future, so he led Li Fupo to a port and pointed at a warship: "This is it."

Mrs. Li looked at it from left to right and admitted that the ship was indeed good, but she did not find it amazing.

With warships of this specification, even if the Kushan ships were inferior, they were not much worse. So Mrs. Li didn't understand why these were the weapons relied on by Zhuge Liang and the legendary emperor of the Han Dynasty.

"Alright!"

Zhuge Liang covered his ears, but Mrs. Li just stood there blankly, not knowing what Zhuge Liang was going to do.

"boom!"

A loud bang!
Pale white smoke rose from the deck of the battleship, and then a cannonball whizzed out from the hull and hit the river two hundred steps away!
"This this……"

After a brief tinnitus, Mrs. Li’s jaw was almost dislocated.

“This is artillery.”

……

Mrs. Li stared at the warship blankly.

Are the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire really in the same world?

If such warships and weapons were to reach Kushan...

hiss!
Mrs. Li took a deep breath!
At the same time, alarm bells kept ringing in his heart.

Whenever!
No matter what happens!

He must stop the Kushans and must not be an enemy of the Han Dynasty!
This empire, which is both new and terrifying every time you move forward towards Chang'an, is definitely not something the Kushans are qualified to challenge! (End of this chapter)