Chapter Forty-Eight: Escorting the North

Riding alone to chase the wind, through the entire Guangping County, Yanbei arrived at Pingxiang City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The last time he had crossed this road was when the Overseer's army was in high spirits as it headed south, and he had traveled south in a chariot, his bosom full of the burden of a majestic man. And after leaving March and re-walking this road, his mood and feelings are completely different.

Every tree in the field of vision, every post station, those from the pavilion to the li, from the li to the township, from the township to the county, from the county to the county...... Everyone is a common man under Yan Erlang, and every inch of land that the horse's hooves have stepped on is his Yan Erlang's territory!

In the past, everything was looking at others, and there were no waves in my heart.

And now, even the birds in the forest on both sides of the official road that were disturbed by the sound of galloping horses were extremely lively in Yan Bei's eyes.

Like another world.

In the city of Pingxiang, Yanbei saw Gao Lan with a dejected face in prison, and the beard that had not been corrected for months connected the whole young face together, although the jailer received Yanbei's special order, although the steamed buns and sauce were not a delicacy, but they could always eat two or three meat soups in a decade, which was not a disadvantage.

Seeing Yanbei again, Gao Ran was very surprised.

He thought that when he saw the light of day again, it would be the moment when the rebels were broken by the Han army, and he was vindicated.

"What are you going to do?"

Yanbei was dusty all the way, and he didn't even enter the county office to wash the robe on his body, at this time, the hem of the clothes was full of earth, looking at Gao Ran, who was full of vicissitudes, Yan Bei smiled and said to the jailer on the side: "Open the prison door." ”

The jailer hesitated a little, these days Gao looked at the majesty of the bloody battle in the city that day has already spread in people's hearts, everyone knows that being imprisoned in the cage is not as simple as a defeated army, it is really a fierce general who is not born in the world, and only in terms of bravery, he is afraid of the Yan army, but no one can stop it.

"Open the prison door...... Captain Yan isn't afraid that I will kill you? ”

Despite the vicissitudes of life, Gao Ran clenched his fists quietly, knelt on the straw in the prison, his arms were chained, and his eyes looked at Yanbei with blazing eyes.

"What are you going to do with me, do you want to be a puppet?" Yan Bei turned his head and glared at the jailer, ordered him to open the door, and then looked at Gao Ran...... When people in Youzhou mention bravery, no one thinks of Gongsun Zhan, and at this moment, Yanbei looked at Gao Ran's gaze as if he had seen a piece of gold cake ten years ago, "If you want to exterminate the rebels and return to Qingping in Erzhou, you shouldn't kill me." ”

What is Gao Ran's bravery, Yanbei doesn't know yet. But what he can be sure of is if there is such a warrior around him to help him...... At least not inferior to Gongsun Chan!

Gao ran for a moment, so that he did not make the slightest movement when the jailer cautiously opened the door.

He was thinking, thinking about what Yanbei's purpose was in finding himself.

"Maybe you still don't know the situation in Jizhou, Yan will tell you about it, Jizhou is not chaotic now...... Let's talk about the court first, the assassin Wang Fen conspired to abolish the emperor, and the matter was revealed to have gone east to the plain at this time, and the thousands of people he had raised were also dispersed, and he didn't want to quell the rebellion at all. Yanbei sat opposite Gao Ran by himself, spread his hands and said: "On the rebel side, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Wuhuan to the south, and Zhongshan, Changshan, Leping, Zhao Guo, Guangping, Julu, Anping, and Hejian all fell...... Zhang Ju is in Yuyang, and Zhang Chuntun is fat. ”

Gao Ran's eyelids jumped slightly, almost half of Jizhou was captured by the rebels, and after Yanbei finished speaking, he hurriedly said: "This is impossible!" How could the imperial court be indifferent to the Jizhou rebellion! ”

"The imperial court sent troops to let the Huns in Bingzhou send a large army to quell the rebellion through Hedong Hanoi to Jizhou, but there was an accident in the middle...... In recent years, there have been frequent rebellions, and the imperial court first let the Huns fight the Qiang Rebellion in the northwest, and then sent them to fight the Jizhou rebels, plus the Yellow Turban in the early years. Yanbei pressed his thumb and index finger together, made a three-character gesture, and said: "The Huns are afraid that the Han Dynasty will not stop leviing and killing, and Yu Fuluo, the king of Zuoxian who went out to quell the rebellion, stayed in the east of the river to report to the court and did not leave." ”

Yan Bei looked at Gao Ran, who was speechless, and paused before continuing: "Right now, the imperial court can't help Jizhou, if you want Zhang Ju Zhang Chun's rebellion to fail, I need you to help me, be Yan's personal guard, and go with me to Feiru." ”

Gao Ran was stunned for a while, not knowing what Yanbei wanted to do, but he saw that Yanbei had already grown up, turned around and went out.

Yan Bei walked out, only then turned his head to him and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, haven't you been in the cell enough?" Come with me. ”

This Yanbei is a little different from Gao Lan's imagination.

"Why?"

"What, why?"

"You have so many people to drive, why do you want to be a prisoner at a higher level and be a guard? Since you are the leader of the rebels, why do you want Jizhou Qingping? ”

Yan Bei smiled, "I asked you for help, because I wanted to go to the tiger's den in Longtan, and I couldn't help me if I wasn't a brave person...... I want to return to Handan from Feiru alive, and naturally I need your courage. As for the rebellion...... The difference between you and me is nothing more than that when the rebellion occurred, you were a Sima in Pingxiang, while Yan was a military marquis in Zhongshan, and whether there was a rebellion or not was not something that could be decided by a small person. ”

"What's more, even if it's a rebellion, my Han people are fighting to death on the land of my Han family, it doesn't matter, it's not natural to follow who to be a soldier and be paid? Can you let the Wuhuan people mess around in my land? No way! ”

Gao Ran stood up, smiled when he heard the words, and said, "I remember that you have a Gongsun Duwei in Youzhou, and the same argument is made when it comes to frontier alien races such as Wuhuan and Xianbei. ”

"Yo, do you also know that our Youzhou fierce general Gongsun Bogui?" Yan bei laughed happily as he walked, and the smile was naturally not that Gao Ran knew Gongsun Zhan, but that he spoke in a tone that no longer wanted to be a mortal enemy, this was a good start, for him. "Gongsun Chan is different from me, at least Gongsun Duwei will not support the rebellion as blatantly as I do."

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In Pingxiang Chengxian Guansi, Gao Ran, who had been imprisoned for a long time, and Yanbei, who had been in prison for a long time, rested for a day, washed away the wind and dust, dressed neatly in armor, and set off with two people and four horses.

Starting from Pingxiang, go to Feiru.

"The farther north you go, the more the Wuhuan people do, and the more depressed the county becomes...... Captain Yan, you're worried. Gao Ran strangled the mount and turned over and dismounted, they were going to camp in the wilderness tonight, fortunately it was only a few days, the dry food they brought was enough, Gao Ran tied the mount and took some firewood to start the fire, knelt on the ground and said to Yanbei who was washing the horses on the side: "If this continues, Jizhou, which has only regained from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, is afraid that it will be plundered by the Wuhuan people." ”

"Without three or five years, it will be difficult for Jizhou to really recuperate, but a Jizhou is nothing." Yan Bei didn't look back, he also knew Gao Ran's forced eyes, brushed twice, threw the wooden brush into the bucket, turned around and sat down by the fire, and said: "It's only a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan people finish the disaster in Jizhou, have you thought about it, if there is no oil and water on the land of Jizhou, will they leave?" ”

Gao Ran bowed his head, Yan Bei was right!

After Jizhou is over, the Wuhuan people can lead the army south again and attack Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou...... At that time, the big man will be half of the scourge.

Plus the Qiang in the west, the Shanyue and the barbarians in the south.

Isn't there only one left in the big man?

Gao Ran stirred the bonfire silently, there was something he couldn't understand, and after a while, he decided to look up and ask Yan Bei, and said, "Since you don't plan to continue to rebel, shouldn't you lead the army north to attack Zhang Chun?" Why do you want to go north alone, do you want to admonish Zhang Chun? If you lead the troops north, defeat Zhang Chun and recover the entire Jizhou court, not to mention that you are a general, at least there will be no guilt. ”

"Guilt? Why should I blame myself? Yan Bei sneered from his nostrils, tore open the naan cake in his hand and put it in his mouth and said, "I don't plan to let my brothers work for Zhang Chun anymore, but I don't plan to work for the imperial court either...... What kind of state pastor has been changed in the imperial court, and the authority of a state is in charge, rather than going to the imperial court, it is better to defect to a state pastor, with the military strength of my Yan someone, it can be reused, so that the responsibility for life and death will not depend on those people in the court who have never seen it to quell the rebellion. As for why should I go to Phitro? ”

"My family has three brothers, Yan is the second, my brother died in a military accident a few years ago, only I and my third brother depend on each other, before leaving Zhongshan, I don't know whether the south is life or death, so I left him in Zhen's." Yan Bei had no expression on his face when he mentioned Yan Dong, only the blue fist showed his anger, "Zhang Chun took my brother out of the Zhongshan Zhen clan some time ago in order to contain Yan...... This time, I'm going to Feiru to bring him out. ”

It was only at this time that Gao Ran finally understood why Yanbei was so persistent in going to Feiru, but he had no better comfort for this. What's more, he didn't care, he just asked: "You said that you plan to defect to a state pastor, who are you going to defect to?" ”

"State pastor Liu Yu, when he was the assassin of Youzhou in the past, it was the best time for us Youzhou people...... When this absurd rebellion is over, I will lead my men to join him, Governor Liu Yu. ”

From Yan Bei's point of view, he has many choices in the way out in the future, whether it is to carry out the rebellion to the end or to submit to the imperial court, it may not be better than leading the army to defect to Liu Yu...... also has the reputation of the Han army, and it is far better to defect to Liu Yu than to regain allegiance to the imperial court.

"When?"

"I don't know, maybe soon, maybe for a long time...... It depends on the situation in the future. Yan Bei was full, put away the remaining dry cakes and meat soup, and said to Gao Ran: "There are tens of thousands of brothers behind me, no matter what I do, I have to think about them." ”

Gao Ran nodded lightly, and said to Yan Bei righteously: "Only this time, Gao will escort you to Feiru, and then escort you out alive...... After that, until you defect to Liu Zhoumu, Gao will not serve you in the slightest, and Gao hopes you will know this. ”

Yan Bei nodded and chuckled, waved his hand to show that he didn't care about it, tightened the robe under the armor, leaned against the trunk and closed his eyes.

"You see the first half of the night, and the second half of the night call me."

Gao Ran didn't speak, just turned over the campfire with a stick.

There was silence all around, in fact, all this was still something to look forward to for Gao Ran.

The appearance of Yanbei seems to be like a major surprise, rampage in this era.

Gao Ran is eager to see what kind of things this speculator can do in this era.