Zhang Yan, Tai Shici, Zhang Hong and others had just landed on the shore, and they saw more than ten horsemen coming in the distance, the first one was wearing a wide robe, the hair was tied on the top of his head and a crown, his face was thin, his complexion was dark yellow, his eye sockets were deep, and there was a green beard hanging on his chin.

These more than ten horsemen glanced at Zhang Yan and the others who were landing, and a faint smile appeared on the face of the person who led them, and with an order, they led people to gallop down from the high post.

Zhang Yan had just set foot on the ground in Jiangdong, and he was not familiar with the life here, and he didn't know whether these more than ten horsemen were friends or foes. So, Zhang Yan asked Tai Shici to lead the army to intercept and be ready for battle at any time.

Tai Shi Ci led more than 20 spearmen, blocked the main road, unanimate the spears to the outside, waited for the battle, and shouted and asked: "Who is coming, report the name!" ”

Seeing this, the first person hurriedly stopped, and asked loudly: "I am a don't drive under the Yangzhou Assassin History, my surname is Xue Mingli, and I have come to meet Zhang Yuanjun!" ”

After Tai Shici heard this, he returned to Zhang Yan's side, hugged his fists and said, "Lord Qiqi, it's Liu Xuan's subordinates!" ”

"Let him come!" Zhang Yan said.

"Whoa!"

Tai Shi Ci responded, turned around and shouted at Xue Li: "Lord Xue, my lord is invited!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the more than twenty spearmen who were blocking the outside immediately withdrew a road, and Xue Li turned over and dismounted, letting his subordinates stay where they were, and walked straight towards the shore.

Zhang Yan sat on a rock on the shore and saw Xue Li walking towards him, and looked at him carefully, without waiting for Xue Li to speak. He asked, "I heard." Lord Xue is from Pengcheng, Xuzhou? ”

Xue Li nodded. Said: "Returning to Zhang Envoyjun's words, he is not only a person from Pengcheng in Xuzhou, but also served as the minister of Pengcheng. ”

"No wonder your name sounds so familiar, it's actually my ex!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

Xue Li was stunned for a moment and asked, "What?" Zhang Zhijun also served as Peng Chengxiang? ”

"Well, just after Cao Cao's first invasion of Xuzhou."

Xue Li said in surprise: "This is really a coincidence, I left Pengcheng half a month before Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou. ”

"When I took over the helm of Peng Chengxiang, I once heard the little official mention Lord Xue. said that Lord Xue didn't know why, but he left Pengcheng suddenly...... If Lord Xue hadn't left Pengcheng at the beginning, maybe we'd see each other again. ”

Xue Li said: "Don't mention the past, it's hard to say." The reason why I left Pengcheng was also forced by Tao Yuanjun, and I really had no choice but to leave. ”

"Forced by Tao Envoy?" Zhang Yan asked curiously.

As soon as Xue Li mentioned this matter, he was angry, so he told Zhang Yan the ins and outs of the matter.

Speaking of which. There is no contradiction between Xue Li and Tao Qian, in the final analysis. It was also caused by the power struggle between the Han Dynasty and the county.

The Han Dynasty divided the country into thirteen supervision districts, namely one Sili (central government) and twelve prefectures. The division is subordinate to the school lieutenant, and his position is extremely prominent, and he is responsible for supervising the hundred officials of the imperial court other than the three dukes and the offenders in the county of Jingshi. Each state has a person who is responsible for supervising local politics, accepting cases, and evaluating officials.

The functions and powers of the assassin also have clear provisions, that is, "the six articles of the edict are Chazhou", and the six articles are: 1. "The strong sect is arrogant and right, the farm house exceeds the system, the strong bully the weak, and the many tyrannical widows", that is, restricting the local clans from annexing land and opposing their rampant townships. 2. "Two thousand stones do not obey the edict, abide by the old codes, double the public and ask for private affairs, keep the edict and keep profits, invade the fishing people, and gather for traitors." That is, to crack down on the illegal acts of high-ranking local officials who abuse their power for personal gain. 3. "Two thousand stones are not sympathetic to suspicion of prison, the wind has killed people, anger is punished, joy is lewd reward, annoyance and cruelty and slaughter Li Yuan, for the people's disease, landslides and rocks, and false rumors." "That is, to crack down on unfair law enforcement by senior local officials.

Fourth, "the 2,000 stone election office is uneven, the Ah is attached to love, and the virtuous pet plays", that is, to crack down on local high-ranking officials who favor themselves when inspecting scholars. Fifth, the children of 2,000 stones took advantage of their glory and asked to be appointed as prisoners" to crack down on the lawlessness of the children of high-ranking local officials. Sixth, "2,000 stone violates the public and subordinates, attaches to the powerful and strong, bribes the passage of goods, and cuts off government decrees" to crack down on the collusion between local high-ranking officials and local clans. The explicit provisions on the functions and powers of the assassin can not only provide a basis for the exercise of power by the assassin, but also prevent the assassin from abusing his power to interfere with the normal administrative affairs of the locality.

Initially, the power of the assassin history was limited to these, but with the increasing development later, to the eighteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (42 years), the assassin began to have a fixed place of governance, and the official could be sent to do it on his behalf, and even the Yu Lu also improved a lot, not only that, but the imperial court also often sent the assassin to lead the troops to fight, and the story of the assassin did not have to go through the three public appointments to test the officials, and the Taishou, the prime minister, and the county order were quite jealous of it, and even had to dissolve the seal and abandon the official because of the fear of the assassination history.

In the fifth year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty (188 years), Liu Yan said that the Quartet was troublesome, the reason was that the power of the assassin was light, so he changed some of the senior assassins to pastors, and the assassin envoy was actually the chief of the military and political affairs of a state, and the superior of the Taishou, and the two-level system of prefectures and counties was formed.

When Xue Li was the prime minister of Pengcheng, Tao Qian was only a state assassin, what Xue Li wanted to do in Pengcheng, logically speaking, he didn't have to think about Tao Qian's confession, he could make his own decisions, because Tao Qian was not his boss. But Tao Qian had to intervene in everything, Xue Li was extremely dissatisfied with Tao Qian's behavior, so he went to the court and impeached Tao Qian.

However, Tao Qian had already planted eyeliner beside Xue Li, and after learning of this situation, Tao Qian asked Xue Li to be locked up.

As the minister of state, Xue Li was surrounded by Tao Qian's people, and even his actions were restricted, and in extreme depression, Xue Li finally decided to resign. However, Xue Li was afraid of being persecuted by Tao Qian, so his family moved to Moling in Yangzhou. Later, Liu Miao went to Yangzhou and heard about Xue Li's name, so he hired him as a driver.

At first, Xue Li was reluctant to go out, but Corporal Liu Xian Lixian patronized several times, and Xue Li was afraid of face, so he was willing to agree to go out and take up the position of other driver.

After Xue Li took up the post of Farewell, he used his previous personal experience to suggest to Liu Miao that he must not interfere too much in the counties under his rule, otherwise it would backfire.

Liu Miao just listened to Xue Li's suggestion, so except for the county of Danyang, where he was located, he disobeyed the rest of the counties, so that the Yangzhou government decree was not passed, and the counties governed each other.

However, in the Danyang County governed by Liu Xuan, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and he was also deeply loved by the people, but his behavior as a assassin and not interfering in the affairs of other counties made the talents in Wu Yue think that it was a manifestation of incompetence.

After Zhang Yan and Xue Li talked, it was also like a cross at first sight, after all, Xue Li is from Pengcheng, and Zhang Yan is also from Pengcheng, the two of them are fellow villagers, so they naturally have a different kind of nostalgia in their hearts.

For Zhang Yan, Xue Li is talented, but he is too pedantic, only abiding by etiquette, but he doesn't know how to be flexible.

Xue Li came to the shore this time, in fact, he was ordered to come to meet Zhang Yan, after all the 5,000 soldiers and horses landed, Zhang Yan took them and followed Xue Li to Dantu to rest for a while, and then rushed directly from Dantu to Moling.

After arriving at Dantu, Xue Li invited Zhang Yan and others to a banquet, and Zhang Yan introduced Tai Shici and Zhang Hong to Xue Li, and everyone was very happy.

After three rounds of drinking, when everyone was happy, suddenly one of Xue Li's relatives ran to Xue Li's side in a panic, and whispered a few words in his ear.

After Xue Li heard this, his complexion suddenly changed greatly, his brows were even tighter, and his eyes were full of horror.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan hurriedly asked, "Lord Xue, what's wrong?" Is there an update on the battle situation in Moling? ”

Xue Li shook his head, and then said, "Sun Ce is still resting his soldiers and horses, but Moling is safe and sound. But ......"

"But what?"

Xue Li said with a sad face: "Wu County is strong and strict with the White Tiger, with more than 10,000 troops, and dominates one side. Now, while Liu Yuanjun led the army to resist Sun Ce in Moling, Yan Baihu actually led his soldiers and horses from Wucheng to the county seat of Wu County and killed the Taishou of Wu County. Immediately afterwards, Yan Baihu set out from Wu County again, wanting to attack Qu'a, and now he has arrived in Piling County, less than 100 miles away from Qu'a. In order to resist Sun Ce, Liu Yuanjun took almost all the soldiers and horses, and there were less than 1,000 defenders in Qu'a City, Yan Baihu is attacking now, what should I do......"

After hearing this, Zhang Yan secretly thought: "When I first arrived in Jiangdong, I encountered this incident, and it was really an eventful place. ”

"Master Xue, don't be afraid, with me here, Qu A can't lose it."

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yan said to Tai Shici: "Immediately order all the soldiers and horses, and rush to Qu'a in the starry night!" ”

"Whoa!"

Subsequently, Xue Li withdrew the banquet and took people with him to Qu'a with Zhang Yan, Zhang Hong, Tai Shici and others.

Dantu is not too far from Qu'a, only eighty miles away, plus it is a rapid march, and Xue Li leads the way, so it saves a lot of trouble along the way.

At dawn, Zhang Yan and the others had already arrived in Qu'a City, Xue Li asked people to open the city gate, took Zhang Yan and others into the city, and temporarily placed them in the military camp to rest, while Xue Li sent scouts to inquire about Yan Baihu's situation.

At midnight, the scouts came back to tell that Yan Baihu's army had just set off from Piling, a hundred miles away, and was expected to arrive tomorrow.

So, Zhang Yan ordered the army to rest and recuperate, and he rode a horse and went out of the city with Tai Shici, Xue Li, Zhang Hong and others to inspect the surrounding geographical environment.

The terrain of Qu'a is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, there are low hills and plains, mainly plains, and the east and south are the Taihu Lake Plain, this area is full of lakes, rivers criss-cross, dense as spider webs, and there are countless low-lying places, among which there are many swamps.

After inspecting the local geography, Zhang Yan and the others returned to the city and began to formulate a combat jihua.

According to the strength of both the enemy and us, Zhang Yan and Zhang Hong planned an ambush for Jihua, and prepared to keep the enemy out and prevent Yan Baihu's army from approaching Qu'a City.

The plan was decided, Zhang Yan and the others began to rest, and in the evening, everyone was rested, and then they began to deploy, with soldiers and horses, and ambushed Yan Baihu in the place where Yan Baihu must pass early, just waiting for Yan Baihu to lead the army to arrive. (To be continued......)