The situation in Yangzhou is actually not peaceful, mainly because the prestige of the imperial court is sinking day by day.

In the recent period, Yangzhou Mu Liu Xuan suffered Liu Zheng's attack, resulting in the loss of troops and a great drop in strength, after fleeing from Huiji County to Shouchun County, he has been cultivating and recuperating, in a vain attempt to restore his strength.

And because of this, Yuan Shu found an opportunity to take advantage of.

Last autumn, after the collapse of the alliance of the princes of the Ten Towns organized by Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao led people to occupy Jizhou, and the strength was bigger, and Yuan Shu, although he occupied Nanyang, he was unwilling and wanted to continue to expand his territory, but there was no territory around him that he could invade.

Runan, the hometown of his Yuan family, has long been in the hands of the Yuan family, Jingzhou on the left, there is Liu Biao, the strength is very strong, Yuan Shu has no strength to compete with Liu Biao, and on the right, there are Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others attacking each other, and it is not his turn to Yuan Shu.

After thinking about it, Yuan Shu could only put his eyes on Yangzhou, which was the closest to him in Lujiang County.

Nanyang Runan area, not far from the Lujiang River, if Yuan Shu can annex the Lujiang River, then his territory will expand rapidly, and can also open up the border of the three counties, and there can be a connection between each other, and the strength will inevitably increase.

But Lujiang a few years ago, was occupied by Lu Kang, the Taishou, Lu Kang, although he was a literati, but also has some ability, in the early years, Lujiang had a group of water thieves in Lujiang uprising, gathered more than 100,000 people, affected several surrounding counties, at that time it was Lu Kang, in such a difficult environment, took office as the Lujiang Taishou, and then rewarded and punished clearly, trained soldiers and horses, and defeated these water thieves in a short period of time. Calmed down the unrest.

When Liu Xie succeeded to the throne, the world's Taishou assassin Shi had two hearts for the imperial court, but Lu Kang, a guy, risked his life and sent an envoy to the imperial court.

It can be seen that Lu Kang is a loyal and patriotic person, but Yuan Shu doesn't care about this, he wants to get Lujiang, so he doesn't directly send soldiers and horses to attack Lujiang, but sends people to find Lu Kang for grain and grass.

and when he opened his mouth, he asked for 30,000 stone of grain and grass.

This is the harvest of the entire Lujiang County in a year. Taishou Lu Kang naturally would not agree.

What's more, even if Lu Kang had so much food, he wouldn't give it to Yuan Shu, what kind of person is Yuan Shu, who just participated in Yuan Shao's anti-court alliance, as if he was regarded as a thief by Lu Kang.

How could Lu Kang give the grain and grass to Yuan Shu like this, so he quickly rejected Yuan Shu's request.

This refusal gave Yuan Shu an excuse to attack Lujiang.

Yuan Shu had a crush on Lujiang, and the reason why he didn't fight directly was that he didn't have an excuse, but now he has an excuse, although this excuse is just an excuse that others don't look down on at all.

But Yuan Shu himself is satisfied, last month, Yuan Shu with his own army, surrounded Lujiang County, directly defeated several small counties in Lujiang, and the troops reached Lujiang County.

There were no soldiers and horses in Lujiang County, especially after being transferred by Liu Miao to take away thousands of soldiers and horses, there were only 4,000 defenders in the entire Lujiang River, where could they stop Yuan Shu's attack.

Although Lu Kang has actively recruited manpower to deal with Yuan Shu's attack, the gap in strength is still difficult to settle in a short period of time, so in this way, in order to block Yuan Shu, Lu Kang sent his eldest son Lu Jun to Yichun, wanting Lu Jun to bring people over to support.

After all, Yuzhang County and Lujiang County are also close to each other, not far, if Lu Jun walks faster, he will be able to reach Lujiang in two or three days.

Although Lu Kang also knew that Lu Jun himself did not have many men and horses to support, if he could have a thousand, if he had more manpower, there would be a little more possibility of dealing with Yuan Shu.

At the same time, he also sent people to find Liu Xuan, hoping that Liu Xuan could send people to support.

"Brother Xian, that's the matter, my father told me to let you send someone over to support as soon as possible, otherwise Yuan Shu's men and horses will soon hit Lujiang, and I don't know how long Lord Fu Father can hold out."

Lu Jun's face was a little anxious, he was ordered to come to Lu Jun for help this time, and he was also very worried in his heart.

"Cousin, it's not that I don't want to help my uncle, but I, the county seat of Yichun, have only three or five hundred county soldiers, even if you count those township warriors, they are only more than a thousand people, can they really resist Yuan Shu's attack?"

Lu Jun was a little embarrassed, but he did not refuse Lu Jun.

"At this time, you can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, no matter what, gather more strength, and be more sure, isn't it?"

"Okay, since you've said this, cousin, where else do I have anything to say, you stay here for a while, I'll go and sort out the people, and set off immediately to Lujiang."

Lu Jun still attaches great importance to his uncle Lu Kang, he lost his father at an early age, and it was Lu Kang's uncle who helped him and made him the current Yichun County Commander, if there is no Lu Kang, there will be no Lu Jun now.

But just as Lu Jun got up and was about to gather people, a servant came outside the door and shouted at Lu Jun.

"Master, there are a few people outside who ask to see you, saying that they are your old friends."

"Old friends?"

Lu Jun frowned slightly, thought for a while, but couldn't remember any old friends he had, so he immediately spoke.

"Let them in."

Lu Jun paused, not in a hurry to gather people, but planned to wait for these guests to come over to meet him.

Not long after, Liu Zheng walked in with a group of people.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lu Jun and immediately spoke.

"Brother Lu, long time no see."

Liu Zheng looked at Lu Jun, Lu Jun is still the same person he saw two years ago, there are not many changes, the only difference is that he has some blood and energy from Liu Zheng when he saw him two years ago, and he seems to be much more energetic.

Two years ago, Lu Jun suffered from a hidden disease, and he died within a few years in history, but now he is still alive and well, thanks to Liu Zheng who took Zhang Zhongjing to see him at the beginning.

Lu Jun was wondering who was the guest who wanted to see him, and when he saw that it was Liu Zheng, he was stunned for a moment, and then his face was surprised and happy.

"Brother Liu, Yuan Zhou is you!"

Although Liu Zheng's identity is a thief in the imperial court, as far as Lu Jun is concerned, they have a good relationship in private, and Lu Jun does not reject Liu Zheng's identity as an anti-thief, so he is not too embarrassed at the moment, but enthusiastically makes a gesture of the master and lets Liu Zheng and others come in.

Liu Zheng walked into the house, saw Lu Jun in the house, and frowned.

"Who is this?"

Liu Zheng took the initiative to rush to Lu Jun to show goodwill.