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Chapter 687 Wei Yan Captures Niu Jin

Nanyang is referred to as "Wan" for short, also known as Nandu, and Wandu. It is located in the Nanyang Basin, the largest basin in the east of China.

Since Liu Xiu started his army, Wancheng has become more prosperous. It is the southern capital, a big city second only to Luoyang, the capital. The Yellow Turbans captured Wancheng many times, but gave up.

After Yuan Shu became the prefect of Nanyang, he focused on strengthening the defense of Wancheng, mobilized a lot of food and grass, and set up a general here.

Nanyang can be said to have food, soldiers and iron, so Yuan Shu was able to dominate Huainan.

Yuan Shu moved the Southern Emperor to Shouchun and left Zhang Xun to guard Nanyang, which is enough to prove Zhang Xun's loyalty and ability.

Zhang Xun is a descendant of Zhang Heng, the son of the famous hermit Zhang Bozu.

Zhang Bozu was Zhang Ji's mentor, and he was a hermit with Deng Zilong of the Nanyang Deng family.

Zhang Ji took refuge in Liu Bei, and part of the Zhang clan left with Zhang Ji's rise. Most of the clan members worked under Zhang Xun's command and firmly held the control of Nanyang.

After Zhang Xun was released, there was a voice in Wancheng: Zhang Xun had secretly voted for Liu Bei, and this time he came back to offer Wancheng to Liu Bei.

Especially the Deng family in Nanyang, they only need to say that Zhang Xun is a traitor.

The Deng family in Nanyang is a descendant of Deng Chen, the great general of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Deng Chen is Liu Xiu's brother-in-law, and he is not included in the 28 generals of Yuntai, but he is a relative of the emperor, and the head of the Deng family has always been easy to exercise power.

Although the current head of the family, Deng Zilong, is not an official, he single-handedly promoted He Jin to the position of General. Unexpectedly, He Jin's stupidity caused chaos in the world.

Deng Zilong died in a fit of anger, and his descendants had no great talents, so they could only rely on local snakes to maintain Deng's authority.

Regardless of the rumors, Zhang Xun just wanted to defend the city, and continuously conscripted food, grass and soldiers, which made the gentry in Wancheng miserable. In addition, Bowang, Zhixian, and Xi'e around Wancheng were all owned by the Jin army, and the hearts of the people were even more chaotic. .

Huang Zhong only besieged but did not attack. Many gentry had secretly communicated, willing to dedicate the city, among which the Deng family of Nanyang was the most active.

Liu Bei's general trend has been achieved, and Yuan Shu pretended to be emperor, but it was just yesterday, and failure will happen sooner or later. Zhang Xun is willing to be buried with Yuan Shu, but he is not willing.

Shouchun, Yuan Shu received Zhang Xun's urgent report, his face was ashen, it has only been a long time, not more than half a month.

Zhang Liao had just left the Great Wall, Liu Bei's army had just reached Hedong, Zhang Fei had just left Chaoge, Zang Hong hadn't left Dongjun, and Nanyang was gone.

"Trash! It's all trash!"

Yuan Shu was so angry that he wanted to kill people. Zhang Xun lost Nanyang as soon as his dispatch order arrived in Runan, and Qiao Rui would only stick to it. Doesn't he know the truth that if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it?

"Your Majesty calm down, what is the most urgent thing to do? Do you want to send reinforcements? Do you want to contact the Jin army again?"

Seeing Yuan Shu angry, Yan Xiang persuaded him.

Yuan Shu didn't know that this was caused by himself, otherwise everyone guarded each county, or were they allies?

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu hated Zhang Xun even more, you said that you just have nothing to do to train soldiers, why go to Wuguan, this is causing a hornet's nest!

Yuan Shu forgot, Zhang Xun repeatedly asked him to return Wuguan to Liu Bei, so as to deepen the alliance between the two sides.

"What do you all say?"

Yuan Shu said angrily.

Everyone knew that Yuan Shu was in a fit of anger, so they kept silent.

Seeing that no one spoke, Yuan Shu became even angrier: "Aren't you usually good at talking? You want someone to attack the Jin army, but now? Why don't you say it? Okay, okay, don't say anything, right! Yang Hong, tell me , I remember attacking the Jin army, you were the loudest."

Yang Hong couldn't help crying secretly when he heard the words, he shouted to attack the Jin army, didn't Yuan Shu want such a speech?

I didn't expect to get burned today, but Yuan Shu and all the officials looked at him, so Yang Hong had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "The war is invincible, why not, why not seek peace?"

Yang Hong's tone was not firm, it's just that he couldn't figure out Yuan Shu's thoughts now.

"Begging for peace?"

To ask for peace is to bow to Liu Bei, and to make Yuan Shu bow is undoubtedly to slap him in the face. Yuan Shu's face suddenly became gloomy, and Yang Hong was so frightened that three souls lost two souls.

Yan Xiang said: "Your Majesty, what Yang Sikong said is true. Now that the King of Jin is going all out to take Hebei, if he wants to be distracted, someone has to restrain Cao Cao. Is there anyone more suitable than the lord now? As long as the King of Jin still uses the lord , this is not a summation."

"All right!"

Yuan Shu had no choice but to agree with Yan Xiang's opinion and sent people to Chang'an to negotiate.

"Who wants to go to Chang'an."

"The minister is willing to go."

Yang Hong finally saw Yuan Shu's weakness, and while thanking Yan Xiang for his help, he made up his mind to contact the Jin army more, so as to plan for the future.

"okay!"

Yuan Shu looked at Yang Hong. Although he was dissatisfied, he didn't have a better candidate.

Yuan Shu immediately threw out another sentence: "If the Jin army can make peace, Cao Cao will never allow it to occupy the Chen country again. Where is Ji Ling?"

"The minister is here."

Because Ji Ling was given to Yuan Shu by Liu Bei, although Ji Ling did not contact Liu Bei again, Yuan Shu has always been in conflict with him, especially after the war with Liu Bei, now that the two armies are negotiating peace, this general can no longer be idle, and immediately said: "Order Er to lead an army of [-] troops to the country of Chen to help Qiao Rui."

"Here!"

Although Ji Ling had no expression on his face, he was relieved in his heart. After all, he had been treated favorably by the lord all the time, and it didn't feel good to leave anyone alone.

Yang Hong went straight to Chang'an without mentioning it, but a major incident happened in Yingchuan. As soon as the guards of Runan left the city of Runan, Runan was occupied by the Yellow Turban generals Liu Pi and Gong Du.

The connection between Yingchuan and Huainan was cut off, and Yuan Shu's governor of Yuzhou, Jin Shang (former governor of Yanzhou), led an army to attack from Yingchuan, but was beheaded by the Yellow Turban.

For a time, Yuzhou had no owner, and all the gentry in Yingchuan elected Yin Zhenghun from Henan as the governor of Yuzhou. Zheng Hun immediately sent Yu to ban him from entering Yingchuan.

After Yuan Shu got the news, he almost vomited blood in anger.

In just over half a month, he lost Nanyang, Runan, Yingchuan and other elite places, especially Runan, which was his hometown. Yuan Shu immediately led his army to enter Runan, and Ji Ling, who was sent to support Qiaorui, was transferred back and returned Head towards Runan.

The battle in Nanyang was almost peaceful, but everyone knew that Nanyang would be owned by the Jin army.

For this reason, Liu Biao urgently ordered Cai Mao to attack Xinye, otherwise there would be nothing wrong with Liu Biao in Nanyang?At the same time, Liu Biao sent Zhang Yun to lead the army to Xinye, and the navy went down the river.

Of course Cai Hao knew the urgency of the matter, so he blindly attacked Xinye regardless of the casualties.

After hesitating again and again, Niu Jin finally abandoned Yuyang and led his army to Xinye.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the city, they encountered a group of Han troops, and it was Shen Yi, Niu Jin's defeated general. The two fought dozens of times, and Shen Yi retreated in defeat.

Niu Jin continued to move forward, met Meng Da in an ambush, the two armies fought, and then Shen Yi killed him from behind, Niu Jin was flanked by Shen Yi and Niu Jin, and the army was in chaos.

Niu Jin had no choice but to lead his troops to break out of the siege. Shen Yi and Meng Da watched Niu Jin leave, and commanded his subordinates to surrender Niu Jin's troops.

Seeing that it was impossible to go to Xinye, Niu Jin had to retreat to Yuyang temporarily.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to call for the gate, an arrow shot down from the top of the city wall. Fortunately, Niu Jin escaped the hidden arrow because of his skillful martial arts skills. When he looked up again, he saw a banner with the word Liu character hanging on the top of the wall. .

Niu Jin was furious, and couldn't help yelling: "Where are you bastards, how dare you attack your grandfather's city."

Just as Niu Jin was scolding vigorously, the gate of the city creaked open, and a young general rushed out, seeing the young general's majesty, Niu Jin shouted: "Who is coming?"

"The one who takes Er's head is Yiyang Weiyan!"

Niu Jin was furious when he heard the words, and went straight to Wei Yan.

The two fought dozens of rounds, and Niu Jin missed and was captured.

The three of Lei Bo didn't see the reinforcements for a long time, so they abandoned the city and fled without knowing where they were. Since then, Xinye has been owned by Liu Biao.

Liu Bei and Liu Biao divided Nanyang with Feishui as the north-south boundary and Bishui as the east-west boundary.

Liu Biao divided Xinye, Caiyang, Huyang, Xiangxiang, Fuyang, Pingshi, Zhangling and other counties into Xinye County to resist the Jin army that might go south.

(End of this chapter)