Chapter 2: Catching turtles in a jar

To be on the safe side, Yong Kai chose to avoid Guo Jia's territory when he went to Jingzhou from below Ba County, and then turned northeast to Xuchang. Although the journey was long, his life was more guaranteed.

The autumn is cool, and Yong Kai is sitting in the carriage and is in high spirits. He hugged his beautiful wife and concubines and sang and recited poems sometimes. He is simply carried away.

As he was about to enter Jingzhou, his carriage stopped on the mountain road in the wilderness, and the entourage guarding him ran to his car in a panic and shouted in panic: "No! There is an army ahead!"

His smile froze and his face suddenly turned pale. Yong Kai pushed away his wife and concubine, lifted the curtain and walked out. Looking at the army slowly coming from afar, it looked like there were only a thousand people.

Yong Kai's expression changed. This place was the junction between Jingzhou and Yizhou, and no one could predict which side of the army was from.

"Back, look back."

Yong Kai's words were out of tune and ordered.

But just now they turned the front of the car, but saw nearly a thousand troops surrounded them in the back.

With a blood-colored face, Yong Kai stood in front of the carriage tremblingly, as if waiting for the verdict of fate.

His entourage was only a few hundred, and he had no courage to resist in the face of the two thousand troops.

Fighting bandits and blocking thieves, these guards can still deal with it, but if they face regular troops, they will never be able to fight back.

Seeing these soldiers in the army eyeing each other, even their expressions and eyes were filled with a momentum of devouring people's hearts. When they looked at their fully armed appearance, it was definitely not the configuration of ordinary troops.

The expressionless general rode his horse and surrounded Yong Kai's army and separated the road. The general came to Yong Kai and did not look at the guards who knelt on their feet and surrendered their weapons.

"Who are you? Whose surname?"

Gao Shun asked lightly as he rode on the horse.

When Yong Kai heard such a question, his mind quickly began to think about how to deal with it and how to answer it.

"The villain's surname is Zhang Le, and he is a commoner in Yongchang County. Recently, the war is in chaos. The villain takes his family and wants to go to Jingzhou's relatives."

Gao Shun had never seen Yong Kai, and he didn't know that the person in front of him was the initiator of the southern rebellion. However, Gao Shun could see whether Yong Kai's words were true or false.

Can ordinary people have hundreds of guards?

Can ordinary people wear so noble?

Gao Shun did not make any statement. He rode his horse to the convoy and opened the curtain with his sword. Seeing the four women huddled together timidly, Gao Shun put the curtain down and turned around and glanced at Yong Kai with a playful look.

Can ordinary people marry so many wives and concubines?

He continued to ride a horse to the back. There were three carts of goods behind the carriage. Gao Shun used his sword to split the lock lock on the box.

Yong Kai looked at Gao Shun's movements and smiled violently, but cold sweat kept falling down his cheeks.

Dangdang

The lock was split open by Gao Shun. When he opened the box, he saw that the light reflected under the sun was extremely dazzling.

Gao Shun turned his head and looked at Yong Kai, saying, "It seems that he must be a well-known figure in Yongchang County."

How could an unknown person have a box of gold, silver and jewelry silently? There are also silk and satin with exquisite handmade materials.

Yong Kai came to Gao Shunma with cold sweat, and said in a low voice with a hint of charm: "The villain is a businessman in Yongchang, and these are all accumulated by his ancestors and the villain over the past ten years."

Speaking of this, Yong Kai lowered his voice and said to Gao Shun: "If the general does not dislike it, it is better to leave this carriage to the general and reward the general's brothers."

Gao Shun waved his sword gently, and the sword tip pressed on Yong Kai's shoulder, which scared Yong Kai so much that he was silent and never dared to say another word.

Slowly moved the sword, Yong Kai was pushed aside by Gao Shun.

When he arrived at the carriage behind, Gao Shun opened the box as usual. The two boxes behind him were also precious treasures such as gold, silver, jewelry, silk, and satin.

Turning his horse's head, Gao Shun looked down at Yong Kai, and said lightly: "I'll have a hard time going to Chengdu."

"General, General, I just went to Jingzhou to join my relatives. I didn't commit any trouble. Please let the general open a website. Otherwise, don't you give all these belongings to the general, which is a villain's wish."

When Yong Kai heard the word Chengdu, he knew that the other party must be Guo Jia's subordinate.

He must never go to Chengdu, as he will definitely be dead if he goes there.

The general in front of him didn't know him, but at least Qin Mi had dealt with him head-on.

Money, money, body and other things can be exchanged for a lifetime, which is better than losing both people, money and money.

Gao Shun is just doing business, and the other party conceals his identity, and Gao Shun does not think about the other party’s important person.

After returning to Chengdu, Guo Jia not only sent troops to support Zhang Yan, but also sent Gao Shun to lead the camp to set up defense lines along the border east of Yizhou.

Meng Huo, the Southern Barbarians, Gao Ding of King Yue, and Yong Kai are all unnamed clowns in Guo Jia's eyes.

In history, Zhuge Liang's conquest of the Southern Barbarians was easy. Guo Jia is much better than Shu Han in history. If Zhuge Liang was able to capture Meng Huo and release it, it would not be possible to rely solely on strategies and without the army as capital. Zhuge Liang could still capture it. Can he capture it?

Two hundred thousand people could break through the blink of an eye, and after the defeat of the army, many of the wealthy families in the seven southern counties would definitely flee their families. Guo Jia sent Gao Shun to set up barriers on their way to escape.

Guo Jia doesn't care whether a person dies or lives.

All money and food have to be kept.

It destroyed Guo Jia's plan to go out to the Kanto to sweep the Central Plains. Guo Jia didn't have to think deeply and knew that just one Meng Huo was not enough to incite the seven counties to rebel together, and there were essential figures of local tyrants.

The war was defeated, and the common people died. For those rich families themselves, they were nothing more than missing some private soldiers who were used to fill their pockets, and they wanted to escape to other places to continue enjoying it? How could Guo Jia make them do what they wish?

If you flee west or south, Guo Jia doesn't care. Those places are wilderness. If you want to suffer, please give in. But if you want to go to Jingzhou and Yangzhou, then you can pass Gaoshun's level first.

He would rather give up all his property than go to Chengdu. Yong Kai was simply asking for help. Gao Shun, who originally planned to send a few people to escort Yong Kai, decided to send more people.

"No need to say much, please go to Chengdu."

At Gao Shun's order, soldiers from the camp came up to tie Yong Kai up and tied up Yong Kai. Yong Kai, who was about to cry without tears, kept begging for mercy, but he still couldn't escape the fate of being escorted to Chengdu.

Originally, Gao Shun did not intend to tie people to Chengdu, but Yong Kai's behavior was too suspicious, which forced Gao Shun to treat it carefully.

During this turbulent period, Guo Jia was too lazy to think about whether he would wrongly accuse the good people. Anyway, all the wealthy families who were about to escape were taken to Chengdu first. After the battle was stopped, the matter was revealed. Who was involved in the rebellion of the seven counties? Guo Jia would investigate slowly. If someone was innocent, it would not be too late to let him go.

The army north of Lushui retreated thirty miles to set up camp and set up camp, and Meng Huo led a hundred thousand troops across the river.

The King of Yuejunyi Gao Ding, who was behind him, did not lead the army to follow him.

Now that Gao Ding, who also has 100,000 troops, took over the 50,000 private soldiers left by Yong Kai, not only did not go north to combine with Meng Huo's two swords, but instead withdrew his troops.

Meng Huo sent people to question Gao Ding, but Gao Ding was rejected in the future and still withdrew its troops and retreated toward the southwest of Yuejun County.

After the news reached Zhang Yan's camp, several generals and Pang Tong were deeply surprised.

"Military advisor, will there be fraud?"

Wu Yi asked Pang Tong.

Pang Tong sneered and teased: "Is General Wu still upset about the battle to throw away the Jiange Road?"

His face showed a bit of embarrassment. Wu Yi would never forget his life when he guarded the Jiange for Liu Yan. He had to think about the troubles of the enemy for a long time, for fear of any conspiracy.

This is a good thing. Thinking too much when encountering things is better than thinking about it.

Pang Tong continued: "It seems that there are all ambitious people in the world. King Yi Gao must have boundaries with his lord from north to south and rule. At present, I don't know if Meng Huo will withdraw his troops."

Xu Chu was indifferent to his mood, and the 200,000 enemy troops were only 100,000 in a blink of an eye. He said in a muffled voice: "These southern barbarians are really annoying."

"Oh, why bother Zhongkang? The king of Yi Gao must not dare to come and beat the lord, but the lord may not spare his life. If I expected it, after defeating the Southern Barbarians, the lord will definitely order us to march southward and conquer the seven counties."

Yan Yan said lightly with a smile on her white beard.

Yan Yan was indeed not wrong about this. Since Guo Jia was blocked from the Eastern Expedition, the first thing he had to do was to pacify the seven southern counties of Yizhou after returning to Chengdu.

Meng got Zhigao Ding withdrew his troops and intended to dominate the seven southern counties. In comparison, Meng Huo hated Han officials even more. Perhaps in his opinion, the King of Yi Gao Ding was his own family. They were all marginal ethnic groups ruled by the Han Dynasty. They fought and made trouble with their own families. When they closed the door, outsiders could not control them. However, since they had already launched the road to attack Chengdu, they could not give up halfway.

After getting angry in the camp, Meng Huo resolutely ordered the entire army to go north.

In terms of military strength, he has 100,000, which has already given him confidence to invade Chengdu.

The Southern Barbarian Elephant opened the way, and Meng Huo rode his head and led his army away from all directions.

Just as Meng Huo led his army northward, between the mountains far away from the west of Lushui, there was a group of troops of no less than a thousand people crossing mountains and ridges, coming from the north and heading south.

Perhaps it was a coincidence that in the mountains east of Lushui, there was a group of hundreds of people heading towards the north. The leader turned out to be a woman. After disguising herself, the woman wearing Han costumes could not hide her foreign style.

The group of people circled from the mountain road to Jiangyang County, then turned to Shu County where Chengdu was located. After entering Shu County, the team of hundreds of people broke up and broke into pieces, and entered quietly from the city gates on all sides of Chengdu.

After entering the city, the group gathered together and sent people to find out where the Neizhou Patriarch in Chengdu lived.

I thought their actions were airtight and had the effect of hiding the world, but I didn't know that as early as when they entered Chengdu in batches, they had been targeted in the dark.

After listening to his subordinates' report, Xiao Ren said: "Follow them and see if anyone in the city provides cover or provides assistance. Don't alert the snake until the last moment. If there are their inner supporters in the city, I will catch them all."
Chapter completed!