Song Jiang tore open the letter, hurriedly skimmed through it, and sneered: "Sure enough, it is Liu Wei's letter of surrender, although he said it sincerely, but how did he know that Ran Min was a madman who didn't know the times?" ”

Wu shook the feather fan with his hand and sighed: "Alas...... It's a pity that Ran Tianwang has a lot of ability, as the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, but it's a pity that Ran Tianwang doesn't know the times. Last winter, Liu Xie repeatedly sent envoys to solicit him, and you and I persuaded him to lead his troops to break through from Bingzhou, cross the Yellow River, and go to Luoyang to defect, but the king of heaven wanted to defend the land in the north. Now there are Xiongnu and Xianbei in the north to attack, and Cao Cao in the south is pressed by heavy troops, and the building is about to fall, even if Han Xin is reincarnated, it is also a lack of skills to return to the sky! ”

Zhu Tong finished disposing of the corpse and said with a blank face: "Brother Gongming, where should we go now?" ”

Song Jiang sat upright behind the table, stroked his beard and said: "Temujin led 70,000 Xiongnu iron cavalry to sweep through Daijun and Shanggu, while Murong Ke and Murong Chui led 30,000 Xianbei cavalry to echo in the Yuyang area, Ran Min only led 50,000 or 60,000 rabble, delusional mantis arm as a car, but I am afraid that it will be a dead end in the end." ”

"Why don't we run away now, take advantage of Cao Cao's lack of reaction, and break through from Bingzhou to Luoyang?" Zhu Tong stroked his beard and asked.

Wu shook the feather fan in his hand slowly, frowned, and said, "Wait a little longer, make some articles on Liu Wei's letter, maybe you can bring Ran Min with you." ”

Song Jiang was unhappy, and the meaning was self-evident, if I brought Ran Min with me, I Song would be inferior again!

When I took a sip of tea, my already dark face became even more blue: "Brighten it." It's not that the elder brother has no room for people, the last time Luoyang sent a messenger over, he was shown to the public by Ran Minxiao. Claiming to rather die than surrender. You and my brother persuaded him a few words, and almost ate the military stick, who dares to persuade him to submit to the court now? ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, you listen to my analysis, this time and that time, at that time, the Xiongnu and Xianbei had not yet come to attack, and now Ran Tianwang is already embattled." There is simply no second way to go other than to choose a force to submit. Besides, if Ran Min refuses to submit. How many centaurs can we take? At most, it's the fifteen thousand people in Zhuo County, right? ”

Seeing that Song Jiang didn't speak, Wu Yong continued to analyze: "Besides, our army still has to pass through the merger of Xiahoudun and Guo Ziyi, how many people can we have left after crossing the Yellow River?" If there are only three or five thousand people left, the Liu Association will give you the position of Jiuqing? Even if Liu Xie keeps his promise. Could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang, Yang Jian, Yang Su, and Liu Ji will agree? ”

"When we passed Dai County. How about persuading Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu to defect to Luoyang together? Although Song Jiang felt that Wu Yong's analysis was reasonable, he was still a little unwilling to be pressed by Ran Min, and tried to put forward his own suggestions.

Wu waved his feather fan lightly and said, "Forget it, that Jia Xu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, this person is the best at self-preservation." He first followed Dong Zhuo, and caused chaos in the world with a strategy of sealing the king, and later Dong Zhuo, Li Ru, Li Dao and others all died. But Jia Xu is alone. This time, Ran Min led Han to capture the tiger and Guan Hai to the north to fight against the Huns, but Jia Xu found a reason to go to Daixian to assist Zhang Xiu. It can be seen that he also knows that Ran Min will definitely be defeated......"

"Wouldn't that be better? We can just convince him to go to Luoyang and return to the Western Han Dynasty. With 15,000 people from Dai County joining, we are more confident of breaking through from Bingzhou. Song Jiang stroked his beard, feeling that this was a good opportunity to persuade Jia Xu to surrender.

Wu Yong shook his head like a rattle: "Even if Jia Xu surrenders to Cao Cao, or even surrenders to Temujin, it is impossible for him to go to Luoyang, and he will not go to Jinling. ”

Song Jiang pondered for a moment, felt that Wu Yong's analysis was reasonable, and said with a regretful face: "In this case, how about I persuade Zhang Xiu's master and apprentice to lead his troops to join the Western Han Dynasty?" Jia Xu loves to go wherever he wants! ”

"Zhang Xiu escaped from the Western Han Dynasty, and he has a good relationship with Jia Xu, Jia Xu will not go to Luoyang, presumably Zhang Xiu will not go, we persuade him to go to Luoyang without a doubt to seek skin with the tiger." Wu shook the feather fan and unceremoniously shattered Song Jiang's dream.

Song Jiang looked depressed: "Since this doesn't work, then it won't work, let's just break up!" ”

"That's why I said that we must bring Ran Tianwang, only if Ran Tianwang agrees to defect to the Western Han Dynasty, and he opens the way, Han Baohu, Guan Hai, Pei Yuanshao and others will follow, and we can hope to break through and cross the Yellow River from Bingzhou." Wu used all his lips and tongue to thoroughly analyze the situation for Song Jiang.

Song Jiang pondered and pondered the same reason, since leaving Ran Min is not a fart himself, then it is better to continue to send people under the fence, it is better to die than to live, "If Ran Min refuses to vote for Liu Xie, what if he has to vote for Liu Wei?" ”

Wu shook the letter in his hand with a sly smile: "Let's make some articles on this, I guarantee that King Ran will never think anything wrong about Liu Wei again." ”

Wu Yong did what he said, immediately picked up his pen and ink, and wrote a sternly worded letter in Liu Bian's tone: Reprimanding Ran Min for gathering the remnants of the Yellow Turban to attack the government and cut the land for himself, which is really a great rebellion. The deadline is to lead his troops to surrender within one month, otherwise he will send Li Jing to lead his army across the Yellow River to assist Cao Cao in clearing the rebels and exterminating the Ran and Min tribes.

After repairing the book, Wu Yong carved a fake according to the seal on the letter, and finally stamped the Huanghuang seal on the forged letter. Although it looks a little rough, Ran Min has never seen the emperor's seal in his life, and he can't see a flaw when he thinks about it. What's more, the messenger's credentials and warrants are all there, and the envelope is also from the Jinling Paper Mill, Wu Yong is confident that he can definitely deceive Ran Min.

Wu Yong put the letter into the envelope, glued it carefully, and said to Song Jiang with a sly smile: "Hehe...... With this letter, does Brother Gongming think that Ran Tianwang will still have the idea of defecting to Liu Wei? ”

"Haha...... Brightening is really a smart star! Song Jianghan laughed and gave Wu Yong a thumbs up.

Wu Yong put the forged letters and the vouchers and orders of the Eastern Han envoys into his arms, and said to Song Jiang and Zhu Tong: "Without further ado, I will quickly go to the area of Zhulu and Shanggu to find Ran Tianwang, persuade him to give up the decision to defend to the death, and lead his troops from Dai County to the south, cross the Yellow River and go to Luoyang to join Liu Xie." Brother Gongming and Brother Zhu Tong packed up the grain and grass, waited for my news, and were ready to abandon Fan Yang at any time to join the men and horses of King Ran and go south together. ”

Wu Yong said to leave, carrying forged letters, and left Zhuo County with dozens of entourages, all the way north to find Ran Min.

In the evening when Wu Yong left, the scout spied on the urgent information and hurriedly reported to Song Jiang: "Qi Song Taishou, the big thing is not good, Cao Jun has killed him, and he has now arrived in the area of Puyin and Tang County, and there are still three hundred miles away from our Zhuo County." ”

It turned out that Cao Cao heard that the Xiongnu and Xianbei had formed an alliance, and advanced to Youzhou step by step, lest the Hu people invade the territory, so he sent Cao Bin, Cao Wenzhao, Shan Xiongxin, Wenpin and other generals to lead troops to garrison the border fortress to prevent the Hun army from entering and looting, and did not prepare to attack Ran Min.

Because Cao Cao discussed with his staff and believed that if the north and south attacked Ran Min, he would definitely take the opportunity to destroy Ran Min. But after destroying Ran Min, the Cao army will undoubtedly have a head-on conflict with the Xiongnu and Xianbei coalition forces, and the war casualties will definitely be far greater than the battle with Ran Min. Rather than this, it is better to let Ran Min go, let him carry the Xiongnu and Xianbei in the front, and take the opportunity to recuperate in the back, enhance his strength, and wait for Ran Min and the Hu people to fight and lose both sides, and then sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

But Song Jiang didn't care about this, and when he heard that Cao's army was approaching, he immediately ordered all the grain to be loaded and transferred to Dai County. Before leaving, he dragged nearly 50,000 men, women, and children from Zhuoxian County out of the city, and set off a fire to turn Zhuoxian County into ashes.

"Only in this way can we cut off Ran Min's back road and let him follow me to Luoyang!" Song Jiang made excuses for what he had done in his heart.

It was a different tone for the old and weak women and children in Zhuo County, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Fathers and fellow villagers, there are Hu dogs in the north, and they kill people like hemp. There is a Cao thief in the south, who is ruthless, and has already made an oath that he will kill a chicken and dog after taking Zhuo County, how can I, Song Jiang, bear to watch Sang Zimeng suffer? So I'm going to take you to Luoyang, although the old folks are with peace of mind, I, Song Jiang, am not afraid of dragging, and I am willing to spill blood for you! ”

Regardless of whether the people of Zhuo County want to or not, they have been carried out of the city by the team led by Song Jiang, and their hometown has been reduced to ashes, so they can only helplessly follow Song Jiang to Dai County. The Yellow Turban Army has always been good at coercing the people, and the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou once coerced millions of people, not to mention the 40,000 or 50,000 people in Zhuo County.

Zhu Tong frowned and asked, "Brother Gongming, the most important thing for me to go to Luoyang is the speed of the soldiers, why do you slow down with the people?" ”

Song Jiang whispered: "At the critical moment, let the people make obstacles in the back to block the pursuit of the Hun cavalry, and our army took advantage of the situation to escape." ”

Although Zhu Tong felt that Song Jiang's use of innocent people as cannon fodder was a bit despicable, he couldn't think of a better way, so he could only act according to the plan, and Song Jiang led a rabble of 15,000 people, escorted grain, and coerced tens of thousands of people in Zhuo County.

Just when the Song River was burning Zhuo County, Wu traveled more than 400 miles to find Ran Min's camp.

The majority of this contingent of the Montenegrin Army and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans were peasants, poorly equipped, lacking horses, and poorly qualified and poorly trained. There were 50,000 people when he followed Ran Min to the north to block the Xiongnu, but after several battles with the Xiongnu iron cavalry, more than 10,000 people were lost, and there were less than 40,000 left.

After reading the letter presented by Wu Yong, Ran Min couldn't help gritting his teeth and angrily, and scolded angrily: "Liu Wei'er deceives people too much, if he doesn't have no way to live, who wants to be a thief?" In the past few years, I, Ran Min, have repeatedly fought against Hu Dog in Biansai, not to mention the hard work, is my Ran Min useless? ”

Wu used his hand to admonish: "The king of heaven listens to me, Youzhou is the land of four wars, Cao Cao is eyeing him in the south, and the Xiongnu and Xianbei are extremely vicious in the north. None of us can afford to provoke it, since Liu Wei can't tolerate the king of heaven, let's go to Luoyang to join Liu Xie, sooner or later there will be a comeback, a blood today's shame! (To be continued......)