Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

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"General, why don't we go out of the city to attack Zhang Fei while Zhang Fei is drunk? If we can burn the food, grass and supplies, his army will be in chaos. I am willing to go out of the city to pursue it." Li Yi volunteered.

Yan Yan stroked his white beard hesitantly and said: "Zhang Fei is not an unknown person. I suspect that such behavior is deceitful. There are not many defenders in Jiangzhou. If he falls into the trap, he will be in danger..."

General Zhao Pi added after hearing this: "Old General, Zhang Fei is a famous reckless man. Although he is invincible in the world in front of the battle, he has nothing to do with strategy and tactics. I think it is quite true."

Li Yi often complained to Liu Zhang, and now Yizhou was facing an invasion, and he was very passive in the previous water battle, Yan Yan didn't dare to reuse him.

Seeing that Yan Yan was still hesitating, Li Yi did not bring up the issue of troops, but instead talked about the situation in Yizhou, "Now if Zhang Fei is allowed to enter Shu, Liu Bei's reinforcements will reach more than 3 people. If Jingzhou continues to increase troops , What is the point of us defending Jiangzhou? I heard that Liu Bei defeated the five armies of Liu Gui, Leng Bao, Zhang Ren, Deng Xian, and Wu Yi in Fucheng, and now he is preparing to counterattack Mianzhu..."

The two lieutenant generals Zhao and He echoed in unison: "Old general, Lieutenant General Li is right. Why don't you take this opportunity to defeat Zhang Fei, so as to relieve the pressure on the Lord."

"The last general is willing to lead the army." Li Yi saw that the time had come to invite Ying Ying again.

Yan Yan frowned and said to himself: "Although Zhang Fei is drunk, his soldiers are not drunk. He will suffer from it if he sends too few troops. It seems that as many guards in the city as possible should be mobilized, except for the navy. .”

"Then let's go here?" Li Yi asked.

Yan Yan shook his head and said: "The navy is subordinate to Lieutenant General Li, and you are still to guard Jiangzhou. The old man leads the army to pursue it himself, and General He also stays behind to defend."

"Wei." Li Yi and the others said in unison.

Not long after Yan Yan led the army out of the city, Li Yi stood on the city wall with a slit in his eyes. Since the old man is so wary of himself, I wish you never to return.

Immediately after Yan Yan left the city, he dispatched multiple spies to monitor every move of Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses.

Zhang Fei's brigade marched along the official road in the direction of the Dianjiang River. The left side was the swift river and the right side was shaded by green willows. The catkins were blown all over the sky by the breeze.

Before the sun set to the west, Yan Yan had already caught up with Zhang Fei's rear team through a rapid march. At this time, the grain and grass army was resting in the mountain depression, guarded by only two hundred cavalry.

Yan Yan decisively ordered the cavalry to attack. As long as the food and supplies can be destroyed, Zhang Fei's [-]-strong army will lose supplies. Apart from starving to death, they can only rob counties and towns. The distance between them is very long, even if you want to rob, you have to go hungry for a few days, so there is not much combat power left.

When the shouts sounded, the broken cavalry quickly formed a formation, and a general in the middle with a leopard head, eye ring, swallow jaw and tiger beard was Zhang Fei, the coach of this team.

As soon as the Jiangzhou army arrived in front of him, Zhang Fei raised a loud shout, and countless banners were raised behind the col, and his ambushed soldiers and horses rushed down.

Yan Yan's Jiangzhou soldiers originally wanted to bully the grain and grass team, but in the end not only the two hundred cavalry could not stop the charge, but also the ambushes all over the mountains and plains behind were no less than their own.

The school lieutenants in Jiangzhou were dumbfounded. The news the scouts detected was totally false. Zhang Fei's main force didn't go far at all. The grain and grass team was used as bait for fishing.

Before several generals could react, Zhang Fei had already led the cavalry to the front. The Zhangba Snake Spear frantically pierced through the crowd like a string of candied haws. Finally, Yan Yan recognized Zhang Fei.

Although the armor and horses were not the same as before, the black face was so recognizable that he didn't look like he was drunk at all.

Yan Yan saw Zhang Fei, and Zhang Fei also saw the white-bearded veteran, and he shouted excitedly: "Old Yan Yan, come and fight with me for three hundred rounds."

At this time, the Jingzhou soldiers had already suppressed the Jiangzhou soldiers, and the Jingzhou soldiers were superior in terms of combat effectiveness and the total number of troops. Yan Yan heard that he was still in the mood to fight, so he turned his horse and ordered an emergency withdrawal to Jiangzhou.

Some battle damage is better than annihilation of the whole army. After returning to the city, they will not come out again.

Yan Yan led the army to flee in front, and Zhang Fei's army was hiding behind. At this time, the cavalry and infantry were killing each other, and Zhang Fei followed Yan Yan closely.

The sun slanted west until dusk, from dusk to night.

In the end, there were only thirty riders left by Yan Yan's side, and they came to the city of Jiangzhou in a hurry in the dark.

"Open the gate."

Chapter 284 Dilemma, No Choice

Yan Yan ordered people to shake the torch and call open the city gate to the guards on the city.

A man protruded from the city tower. He put his hand above his lips and answered in a loud voice, "Where are the villains coming to earn money in Jiangzhou? Don't retreat your bow and arrow to serve."

General Zhao Pi was stunned when he heard that, he shouted angrily: "Which battalion are you a soldier? You are blind, this is General Yan, the prefect, and you have not opened the city gate quickly."

"Don't lie to me, everyone. General Yan led [-] soldiers out of the city. You don't even reach [-], and you still say that you are not Zhang Fei's spies?" The man in the city sneered.

"I am the prefect Yan Yan, generals Li and He are on it?" Yan Yan took two steps forward, and the attendant shook the torch in his face.

"It's dark and hard to tell, you'd better enter the city tomorrow morning." The city guard directly refused.

Yan Yan was so angry that his white beard rose, and his followers were about to comfort him, only to see that Zhang Fei's pursuers were only a few hundred meters away. Although there were only more than a hundred torches, it was also a nightmare for thirty remnant cavalry.

"Old General, what should we do?" General Zhao Pi panicked.

Yan Yan frowned and said, "There should be Lieutenant General Li's navy on the tower. They don't know how to defend the city, so they can only capture Zhang Fei first..."

Zhao Pei will remind: "That's Zhang Fei..."

Yan Yan smiled wryly: "Now I am in a dilemma, I have no other choice."

At this time Zhang Fei arrived, and he raised his snake spear and laughed wildly: "Old Yan Yan, let's see where you can go."

"Zhang Fei, let's see the old man's saber skills." Yan Yan shouted angrily, raised the big saber with his legs between the horse's belly, and greeted him.

"Good job." Zhang Fei became excited.

At night, the sky is covered with thick clouds, and the ground is only lit by the light of hundreds of torches from both sides. The night battle is a test of the general's ability.

Yan Yan rubbed the long copper knife on the ground and splashed sparks. Zhang Fei, who was running, knew that he had some tricks. If he didn't use some powerful moves, he might not be able to subdue this veteran.

The moment the two approached, Yan Yan used the power of the horse to run, and took advantage of the situation to raise the knife and slash forward in the wind.

Zhang Fei was unhurried, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. He raised the Zhangba Snake Spear with both hands, and directly blocked the direction of the knife.

There was a crisp sound, and the long copper knife slashed on the handle of the snake spear, making a piercing cry.

In the face of Yan Yan's slashing, fast horses or agility, it saves the most effort to dodge, and even allows the opponent to slash through the air, resulting in a short period of weightlessness. Hard carry.

Two forces interact with each other, and the one with the weaker force is easy to lose control, just like two magnets of the same sex, if you grab one of them and get close to the other, it will push the other far away.

Yan Yan was like a magnet being pushed away, and the copper knife was shocked by Zhang Fei's berserk force and he dropped it directly.

At the moment of panic, Yan Yan felt severe pain in his left shoulder. Zhang Fei pressed his hand on his shoulder like a rake. Yan Yan was picked up like a chicken, and finally fell heavily on the horse's back. After such a confrontation, he was captured alive.

Yan Yan lost his mobility and was ashamed. Zhao Pijiang and the others were so frightened that they forgot to run away when they were stunned.

Seeing that the situation was over, Zhao Pi also got off his horse and waited for the trial.

When Yan Yan and the others were bound their hands, the flames from the north lit up the sky like burning clouds. Zhang Fei's army ended the battle and is now approaching Jiangzhou.

"Our army is invincible. If you don't obey the will of the people and surrender, how dare you fight me? What do you have to say now?" Zhang Fei asked proudly.

"Hmph, you have violated the border for no reason. I am inferior to others and have nothing to say. As long as Jiangzhou does not fall, you are all lonely ghosts." Yan Yan replied coldly.

Zhang Fei said meaningfully: "You are already a prisoner, why don't you call the city gate open? I can spare you."

"Hmph, there are only beheaded generals in Jiangzhou, and no generals who surrendered." Although Yan Yan was embarrassed, he still did not lose his integrity.

Although Zhang Fei's face was angry, he had some admiration for the white-haired veteran in his heart. At this time, Xi Su and others came to join him.

Xi Su reported that Hegu wiped out [-] enemies just now, and the rest surrendered or fled.

Yan Yan heard it clearly from the side, and her haughty face gradually turned dark, all of which did not escape Zhang Fei's eyes.

"General Xi, call to open the city gate," Zhang Fei ordered.

"Wei." Xi Su clasped his fists and glanced at Yan Yan after speaking.

Yan Yan snorted coldly: "It turns out that you, a villain who betrayed the master, were the cause of trouble, but Jiangzhou City is full of loyal people, and it is wishful thinking to open the city gate."

Xi Su laughed: "A good bird chooses a tree to live in. Liu Zhang and his son have managed Yizhou for [-] years. Have the people lived a good life? Isn't it because bandits and bandits are full of public grievances? Let's see me enter Jiangzhou like this."

Yan Yan turned his head and said nothing, but his jaw almost dropped after a while, the city gate that he couldn't open was called open by Xi Su.

Xi Su is not from Berkshire, and the generals of Jiangzhou City have no contact with him, so how could such a strange thing happen.

When Zhang Fei entered the Jiangzhou Prefect's Mansion, Li Yi talked to him about the difficulties at that time, which reflected Yan Yan's caution on the side, and Zhang Fei even had the idea of ​​taking down the veteran.

"Yan Yan is stubborn and I want to kill him, what does General Li think?" Zhang Fei asked intentionally.

Li Yi quickly said: "Although I have a rift with the old general, he is very famous in Yizhou. You might as well treat him well, it will be of great benefit to the general's subsequent march."

"Good." Zhang Fei nodded.

At this time, under Li Yi's persuasion, General Zhao Pi and others had already surrendered. Zhang Fei personally untied Yan Yan from the rope, and served wine with everyone to suppress the crowd.

Yan Yan has lived a long time, although he is loyal but not stupid, he knows that Zhang Fei has committed no crimes along the way, and now he is respectful to himself as a corporal, and the knot in his heart is slowly untied.

Yan Yan asked himself that his martial arts were not weak in Yizhou, and only after fighting Zhang Fei did he realize that there is a sky beyond the sky.

At the banquet, Yan Yan asked curiously: "I have a question, General Zhang, please answer it."

"Oh? Please tell me, old general."

"The general drank for a long time outside the city today. Could it be that the wine jar is full of water? Otherwise, why are you so sober?"

Zhang Fei laughed loudly: "How can my old Zhang drink water? To be honest, I have anti-alcohol pills. If you take them in advance, you can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk."

Not only Yan Yan's eyes widened, but Li Yi and other surrendered generals were also very surprised. There are still things in this world who can't get drunk for a thousand cups?

Seeing this, Zhang Fei stroked his beard and said, "The anti-alcoholic pill was developed by the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing. There are too many interesting things in Jingzhou, and you will gradually know about it in the future."

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he took out a small paper bag from his arms, which was the hangover pill he carried with him.

"Don't say that I am stingy, you can try the feeling of not getting drunk after a thousand cups." Zhang Fei pointed to the hangover pill and smiled knowingly.

Yan Yan was soon impressed by Zhang Fei's boldness, and Yan Yan's cooperation with Brazil was very smooth.

When starting from Jiangzhou, Zhang Fei sent Li Yi back to Quanling to report the letter as agreed. After the east gate of Yizhou was captured, the follow-up supplies from Lantian and the Yangtze River newspaper can now enter Sichuan one after another.

Chapter 285 Good things are in Fanbang

In June of the 18th year of Jian'an, Lantian and Gao Shun were patrolling outside Quanling City. The scorching sun hung high above the nine-day sky, the fields were golden, and the heavy ears of rice bent the branches.

"It looks like another bumper year. The official warehouses that were emptied at the beginning of this year should be filled within two seasons." Gao Shun said, stroking his beard.

Lan Tian nodded with satisfaction: "The composting skills of the common people are becoming more and more familiar. In addition to the use of pesticides last year, the number of seedlings dying of disease has been greatly reduced. The grain production should soon reach the limit. If you want to increase production, you can only work hard on grain seeds."

"When will you be able to breed the hybrid rice that Mr. said once?" Gao Shun asked curiously.

"It's easier said than done..." Lan Tian smiled wryly and shook his head.

Later generations spent decades with the power of the whole country. The discovery of male sterile plants was accidental, and they might not be found in their entire lives. Lantian only wanted to breed two-line hybrid rice. It also consumes a lot of manpower, which is an extremely difficult road.

In fact, at the stage when seeds are not advanced enough, agricultural fertilizer is the most effective means to increase production, but Lan Tian's professional knowledge does not match. Apart from using simple green manure, organic manure, manure, etc., he is powerless to use industrially refined fertilizers.

In this era, there are fewer people and more land. As long as there are no wars and natural disasters, the existing technical means can already feed the people.

Gao Shun saw that Lantian was a little melancholy, and asked immediately, "Is it a problem of land and climate? My husband once said that Jiaozhou is the most suitable for growing rice. Can't we just take Jiaozhou later?"

"The climate in Jiaozhou is warm and suitable, which is somewhat effective in cultivating improved rice varieties, but this kind of thing is like going against the sky. In addition to hard work, a little bit of luck is required to succeed."

"Anyway, I trust sir."

Gao Shun has been with Lan Tian for more than ten years, and has witnessed so many novelties and impossibilities. He even suspects that his husband is comparable to the ancient sage, and no one can understand it, so he has unlimited trust in Lan Tian.

Looking at Gao Shun's serious expression, Lan Tian smiled slightly and said, "Actually, there is an ancient rice species in the south of Jiaozhou. The ear length of this rice is as long as the awn grain. , it only takes more than fifty days from planting to harvesting..."

Gao Shun was dumbfounded when he heard this. He has been involved in supervising rice planting for several years. The rice yield of one season is the highest every year, and it takes about 150 days. Now the two crops of rice with slightly lower yields also need [-] days to mature.In contrast to the two, the ancient rice species mentioned in Lantiankou, in addition to the advantages of drought tolerance and indiscriminate cultivation, the growth cycle of more than [-] days is simply invincible.

"This... can this be called divine rice? Where is the rice seed? Ask Usdin and the others to get some?" Gao Shun asked excitedly.

Lan Tian shook his head, "This rice is located in Funan Kingdom, south of Jiaozhou, which is already outside the territory of the Han Dynasty. It is even more barbaric than Jiaozhou, and Ustin can't speak the language. Let's find a way in the future..."

Lan Tian's words were poured over like a pot of cold water. Gao Shun hadn't even figured out the territory of the Han Dynasty, so he felt a pity when he heard that it was a foreign product.

"It's a pity that such a good thing grows in Fanbang..." Gao Shun sighed.

"Actually, there are a lot of good things outside the region. Let's send people to look for them slowly in the future." Lan Tianxin said that what is Champa rice? Sweet potatoes and potatoes produced in the Americas are high-yielding fetishes. Unfortunately, with the current sailing power, we can't make it through. .

Gao Shun sighed: "A place with a gentleman is really a blessing to the people of the Li people."

The two rode horses and walked slowly. At this time, the sun rose to the middle of the sky and the scorching sun was hot. Lan Tian thought that it would be great if he could eat watermelon. Unfortunately, this food is not in the recipe of the Han Dynasty. Can only imagine in the mind.

"What are you thinking, sir?" Gao Shun asked as he walked.

"I'm thinking about the West... There are many good things in the Western Regions. It has been hundreds of years since Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions as an envoy. In the future, after the reunification of the mountains and rivers, I have to send someone to go there..." Lan Tian shook his head and laughed.

"If there is a day, I would like to serve my husband." Gao Shun said excitedly.

"When the world is settled down in the future, Boping will still enjoy the beauty of the world, and leave the mission to the Western Regions to Yuan'er, Ji'er and the others..."

"Alright, I'll ask Gao Ling to lead the horse for them."

Lan Tian smiled wryly and didn't answer. Gao Shun was good at everything, but he was too principled. I don't know how many generations this master-servant friendship will last. On the other hand, Gan Ning should be more open-minded and free-spirited. They also chatted happily.

Gan Ning's free and easy benefited from Lingling's good political environment. There were not many noblemen who held important positions under Lantian.

The two returned to the prefect's mansion, and Men Gang told them that Gan Ning brought someone to see him.

After hearing this, Lan Tian and Gao Shun looked at each other. After Gan Ning returned to Lingling, except for supervising the construction of the transport ship, he spent the rest of his time in the medical hall asking for advice on Wu Qin Xi.

"Didn't Xingba piss me off? Let's go in and see who he brought here." Lan Tian jokingly said.