Chapter 63 Prince of Linyi

Sun Shao was relieved. Although there was an error, the error was not big. Finally, it was still in Nan County. He immediately ordered to escort the merchant ship to Lin Yiguo from Yuehai, and he took people north to Lu Rong. He sent Ao Lei to take several pirates from the South China Sea to inquire about the situation. It was not until dawn the next day that Ao Lei came back with injuries on his body.

It is said that there are really Linyi people in Nan County. They were extremely fierce. Most of the villages along the way were washed with blood, and there was almost no life. They walked more than 20 miles and found a military camp near Lu Rong. There were about 500 people. When they were about to sneak in, they were found by the barbarians patrol outside the camp. Thanks to Ao Lei's bravery, those The pirates were also people who licked the blood on the head of the knife, and then killed the barbarian soldiers and retreated.

"Is Lin Yi really invaded?" Sun Shao and Yu Fan were both a little surprised. Originally, they thought it was just a trick for Li Jing to increase pressure on Sun Shao and Bu Qian. Nine times out of ten, they lied about the military situation, but they didn't expect that the reality was different from what they expected.

"General, it's nothing. Linyi is a very small country, which is equivalent to a county in the south at best. How many soldiers can there be? I don't think it's possible to rule out that they and Li Jing colluded with each other. Seeing that Sun Shao's face was ugly, Yu quickly comforted, "We have nearly 10,000 people now. Isn't it easy for them to rush to kill them?"

"Exactly, the general doesn't need to worry. Please sit down and let me, Cui Qian, kill him and directly suppress this group of robbers." Cui Qian stroked the knife and said slowly with a gloomy face, "That old man has touched my men before. I don't want to deal with him for a day or two. It's just the right time to exchange his head for credit."

"Who is District Lian?"

"District connection?" Cui Qian looked at Sun Shao with some surprise: "That old man is the king of Linyi. Lin Yiguo was originally not a country. It was Xianglin County of my Han Dynasty. The district was the meritorious Cao of Xianglin County. Later, he killed Xianglin Chang and called himself king.

Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, and thought that Cui Qian, the king of pirates, was not covered, and directly called the king of Linyi the old man.

"This old man is similar to Shi Xie, but he is much more arrogant than Shi Xie. The Shi Xie brothers have been rampant in Jiaozhou for 30 years, but they don't dare to be king. The old man was very bold. During the Zhongping Rebellion, he raised his flag to be the king by himself. The barbarians nearby were ignorant and thought that he was from the court, and they all convinced him.

Cui Qian was a little indignant. Obviously, he felt that the old man was not as strong as him, but he became the king, which was really a little uncomfortable. Sun Shao felt a little funny. The happiness of the Taoist was really compared. Cui Qian was not convinced by Su's thick legs now, but he had no choice but to vent his anger on such a guy.

In that case, it will help you. Sun Shao immediately ordered Cui Qian to take the headquarters as the striker and kill the more than 500 people first. Cui Qian was overjoyed and took Cui Wu ashore and hurried away.

Qu Chu sat in the camp with an unhappy face and sneered at the messenger sent by Li Jing, the governor of the South. He is the eldest son of the district company, and he is the prince of Linyi. This time, he led more than 500 people to South County to help Li Jing build momentum. However, he acted too well, and a small man slaughtered several villages along the way. After Li Jing knew it, he was furious and sent someone to scold him, and asked him to immediately withdraw from the South County, otherwise he would be severely punished. Qu Chu originally felt a little embarrassed. After all, he overdid it first, but he grew up under the praise of everyone from birth. He was the noble prince of Linyi. In addition to following some rules in front of Brahmins, how could he be scolded like this? What's wrong with the big man? The big man was in chaos, and they were too busy to take care of themselves. They didn't have time to take care of this little thing in Nanjun. Besides, in his mind, there was no specific concept of the Han at all. He only knew that although Nanjun was a county, he could not do anything about Linyi. He subconsciously thought that the Han was probably similar to Nanjun.

"The governor ordered you to withdraw from the South County after three days, otherwise..."

After the messenger's words were not finished, Qu Chu suddenly pulled out his knife and rushed to his neck with a knife. The sharp pain made him hold all the words behind him in his throat. He looked at the gloomy Guo Chu with a ferocious smile. In any case, he could not believe his eyes. He looked at the decorated handle of the knife, stretched out his trembling finger to Chu, and his mouth Zhang spit out a stream of blood and vomited all over.

Qu Chu was furious. He cut down with a long knife and cut the messenger's neck. The messenger covered his neck, stepped back a few steps, and fell on his back with a plop. Qu Chu sneered, wiped his blood stains on the messenger's twitched body, and shouted, "Send someone to send his head to Li Jing, and limit him three days to hand over to Nanjun. Otherwise, don't blame me for killing into the city, and the chickens and dogs won't stay."

The messenger's entourage was trembling and dared not say more. He turned around and hurried out.

"Prince, this...isn't it good?" The general staff of the army turned pale and his thin lips trembled. "Once Lord Taishou is angry and leads troops to attack our Linyi Kingdom, we will have the disaster of national subjugation."

"What are you afraid of?" Qu Chu was strong and shouted, "If he has this strength, why should he borrow troops from us?"

Qu Liang secretly complained to himself. Qu Chu didn't know the importance, but he knew how powerful it was. Lin Yiguo seems to be very powerful, but after all, in the past, it was only a county in the south - although it was a relatively large county in the south. The reason why Li Jing did not attack Lin Yi was not that he did not have the strength, but that Lin Yiguo's reading ability was not in his hands. He did not need to stir up the crowd. For the sake of Lin Yiguo, he recruited the whole county's husbands to make the whole territory uneasy, and even in order to live in peace, he had been giving gifts to Li Jing. Li Jing turned a blind eye. Eye, now that District Chu has killed his messenger, can he let them go?

"Prince, let's retreat. Once Lord Taishou gets angry, he has more than 2,000 people in his hands. We are not opponents at all. Qu Liang carefully advised, "Return to Lin Yi and send someone to explain it again. Maybe this matter can pass."

"More than 2,000 people?" Qu Chu panicked as soon as he heard it. Lin Yiguo is known as a strong soldier. In fact, there are less than 2,000 soldiers. Now he has only 500 people under him. If he is against 2,000 people, he is not sure to retreat completely.

"Of course, there are now four counties in Nan County, with more than 80,000 people. If all of them are mobilized, it can reach 4,000 to 5,000 people, which is not something we can deal with at all." Seeing that District Chu was afraid, Qu Liang quickly added a fire, hoping to persuade Qu Chu to go back. Qu Chu was a little hesitant. This time he wanted to make contributions. He was scared back when he just saw some benefits. What else will he do in the future? He hesitated for a moment: "Does Li Jing have any elephant soldiers?"

Qu Liang shook his head.

"Then don't be afraid." Half of Qu Chu comforted Qu Liang, and half comforted himself. We have elephant soldiers. Even if Li Jing has 2,000 people, he may not be able to do anything to us. Wait, when I defeat him, occupy the south, and open up the territory for the State of Linyi, you will also make credit.

Qu Liang advised, but Qu Chu did not listen and insisted on fighting with Li Jing before leaving. Finally, Qu Chu took half a step. He said, "Don't be in a hurry to retreat now. Let's take a look at Li Jing's attitude." If Li Jing sends troops, they will retreat. If Li Jing does not send troops, but just sends people to ask, then they will send someone to explain, infer that the messenger's attitude is not good, and fool the matter.

Although Qu Liang doesn't know what happened in Jiaozhou, since Li Jing wants to borrow troops, he must be in a dilemma. At this time, Li Jing may not turn against each other because several villages were robbed by them. Qu Chu's method is not a proper way. It should be right now.

Qu Chu waited all night in tonely. As soon as he got up at dawn, Qu Liang came in a hurry, and his face was quite bad. Qu Chuxin tightened, stood up, subconsciously clenched the knife, and asked in a hoarse voice:

"How's it going?"

"There was a team of soldiers from the patrol last night who didn't come back. I sent someone to check and found that they were killed two miles outside the camp."

"Who did it? Is it Li Jing's person? Qu Chu's heart was pounding, and his teeth trembled a little. He regrets it now. Maybe he will listen to Qu Liang at the beginning. It's better to leave early. Li Jing was really angry. He came over with 2,000 people, and he was a elephant soldier and couldn't stand it.

"No." Qu Liang shook his head and wondered, "I doubt if it's a revenge villager."

"The villagers who avenged?" Qu Chu breathed a sigh of relief. If it's a villager, there's nothing to be afraid of.

"Well, the place where these people were killed was not in the north, but in the south, not far from the village yesterday. I wonder if Qing Zhuang, who went out to catch fish, came back and found that what we did caught up to revenge. Qu Liang said with a wry smile, "I have arranged someone to inquire. I guess there will be news at noon."

"That's bullshit. Look at your nervousness." Qu Chu looked at Qu Liang contemptuously and sat down again.

"I'm not a nervous villager. I'm nervous about whether there will be people from Funan in that village." Qu Liang explained, "Among the dead, I found that two skulls were smashed to death, which is very similar to the knee strike commonly used by warriors in Funan."

"Warriors of Funan Kingdom?" Qu Chu was also a little uneasy. Lin Yiguo is a vassal state of Funan. His father's district even respects Funan. If he provokes the warriors of Funan, it will probably be more terrible than offends Li Jing. Why did they appear in the south?

Qu Liang even shook his head, but he couldn't figure it out.

At noon, the scouts sent by Qu Liang returned to the camp. They all ran sweating profusely and looked frightened. They looked as if they had been greatly frightened. Qu Chu and Qu Liang took a look and immediately raised their hearts to their throats.

"At sea... There are a lot of... a lot of boats on the sea."

"At sea?" Qu Chu and Qu Liang looked at each other and were completely confused. If you are from Funan, you should come from the mountains in the west. How can you come from the sea? Only merchant ships pass by a large number of people passing by the sea. However, if it is a merchant ship, why are the scouts so nervous? They should be surprised.

"Yes...war...warship."

"Battleship?" Qu Chu jumped up and said anxiously, "How many are there? Whose warship is it?

"A lot, a lot, I don't know whose ship it is."

Qu Chu was furious and kicked the scouts over. With a good conscience, he quickly pulled the scouts aside and asked in detail. The scout calmed down, and then he told the situation he had inquired about. Hundreds of warships came to the sea, all of which were large ships. There were not only rare battleships in Linyi, but also warships larger than battleships, which were as big as the palace where the king lived.

Qu Liang understood as soon as he heard that it was a building ship, which was only for Jiaozhou sailors.

"Jiazhou sailor? How could they suddenly appear in the south of us? Chu Chu was shocked.

Qu Liang also can't figure it out. Generally speaking, if Jiaozhou sailors come, they should also come from the north, and they should not appear behind them quietly. There is no way out of the sea. With so many ships passing near the sea, it is impossible to hide from the eyes of scouts.

I didn't wait for them to figure it out, and the second bad news came. More than 2,000 people got off the ship and were running this way. It was obviously malicious. Before Chu could recover from shock, there was a worse news: it was Cui Qian, the king of pirates in Zhu Ya, who came, and looking at the banner, Cui Qian himself should have come.

Is Cui Qian himself here? Give me so much face? Qu Liang was shocked. Without saying anything, he immediately urged Qu Chu to order the camp to escape. If he still has a little intention to try in the face of Li Jing, the southern governor, then he doesn't even have the courage to fight against Cui Qian. Qu Chu is not. Although he often heard that Cui Qian is the king of pirates in the South China Sea, he always feels that no matter how powerful the pirates are, how can he be compared with the elite of his Linyi Kingdom? He immediately ordered to leave the camp to fight against the famous king of pirates.

When Cui Qian and Cui Wu arrived, they saw 500 barbarian soldiers. Looking at the "elite" of Lin Yiguo holding wooden shields, Cui Wu almost laughed out loud. Damn, it, it's right to ask for a fight this time. This group of barbarians is simply the credit for sending it to the door. If you don't take it for nothing. Without saying a word, he was about to order a charge with a knife, but he was grabbed by Cui Qian.

"What are you doing?" Cui Wu got rid of Cui Qian impatiently.

"There are elephant soldiers." Cui Qian pouted and motioned to see his barbarian army. Cui Wu looked carefully, but saw that there were two elephants behind the barbarian army. There was a frame on the back of the elephant. There were several soldiers in the frame, some holding spears, some holding bows and arrows, and eager to try.

"Hmm--" Cui Wu took a cold breath, and his old face turned a little red. He had not fought for a long time, and even forgot the basic principles of watching the enemy's expected array. He had never fought with the elephant soldier, but he had heard of the power of the elephant soldier. He said that the charge could not be resisted at all, and most of the arrows and spears used by the people on the elephant's back were poisoned. Once they were hit by the arrow, they were basically dead.

"What should I do?"

"What can I do about this?" Cui Qian sneered: "There is an elephant soldier in the battle, which shows that the head of these 500 people is a big man of Lin Yiguo. If he can take him and give it to General Fubo as a meeting gift, maybe he can change to a middle man to do it."

"But... how to deal with them?"

"Isn't this simple?" Cui Qian curled his lips and said, "They use the simplest bamboo bow or wooden bow, with a range of up to 80 steps, and a accurate range of about 50 or 60 steps. We use all standard bows with a range of 80 steps and a maximum of 100 steps. This 20-step distance is enough to win." He whispered a few words in Cui Wu's ear, and Cui Wu then ran along the way with more than 200 people.

"Sure enough, it's a pirate. As soon as I saw my elephant soldier, he ran away." Sitting on the elephant's back, Chu curled his lips proudly and ordered to charge. When the barbarians first saw Cui Qian and others, they were still a little timid, but before they fought, they saw Cui Wu leading hundreds of people to run away, and Cui Qian led the others to stand still. They had no intention of attacking at all, and they were bold again. Encouraged by the sound of drums, Cui Qian and others rushed to Cui Qian and others who were waiting in place.

"Rush arrows, block layer by layer!" Cui Qian gave the order without panic. More than 100 archers stepped forward, pulled away the bows and arrows in their hands, shot the first batch of arrows at the running barbarians, and fired three rounds of arrows one after another. Regardless of the hit rate, they turned around and ran away.

The sparse long arrows flew to the barbarians. The barbarians shouted strangely and raised the wooden shields in their hands. The long arrows were nailed to the wooden shields, making a "dudul" sound. There were also some long arrows that hit the exposed bodies of the barbarians. More than a dozen barbarians screamed and fell to the ground, but these did not cause panic among other barbarians. They saw that The people opposite began to run away, and they were more excited. Regardless of the formation, they chased after them.

Cui Qian pulled away the two stone bows in his hand, and the long arrows roared out, shooting a barbarian who shouted the loudest. Then another arrow pierced the thigh of a barbarian who rushed to the front, and then turned around and retreated.

"Is that a reminder sign?" Qu Chu saw Cui Qian with bright armor on the elephant's back, and also saw the effect of his two arrows, one death and one injury. He patted the railing angrily and shouted, "Chase, catch him."

Qu Liang also relaxed. Although Cui Qian's name wants to be, he is a pirate after all. These people under Qu Chu have some former county soldiers in Linyi County. Although the formation is also chaotic, they are much better than pirates after all. Pirates are stronger than officers and soldiers, but now Cui Qian is defeated at a touch. It can be seen that they are indeed scared by elephant soldiers. Maybe they can really make a great contribution this time.

"Chase!" Qu Liang echoed Qu Chu's order and ordered the royal hand to control the elephant and start chasing. The sound of drums inspired the elites of Lin Yiguo to pursue forward. Intentionally or unintentionally, they forgot that Cui Qian was a big pirate in the South China Sea in front of them, and regarded them as a group of ordinary pirates who were worse than them.

In the mind of Qu Chu, there is even some contempt, the king of the South China Sea, that's all.

Cui Qian took his men to fight and retreat. Every more than 100 steps, a group of archers will shoot a hundred and 10 arrows, then turn around and run, directly through the companions who have made a blocking formation, and run beyond the next 100 steps to prepare. After several rotations, the casualties of the barbarians have increased to 70 or 80, while only a dozen of Cui Qian's men were injured.

As for the elephant soldiers who follow, so far, they have not had a chance to play except to run behind. Cui Qian was always 150 steps away and did not give Qu Chu a chance to play. Qu Chu was furious. He ordered the soldiers in front of him to get out of the way and urged the elephant to rush to the front. Be sure to show Cui Qian a little.

Two elephants roared, opened four thick elephant legs, passed through the messy array, and rushed to Cui Qian first. Cui Qian looked at it, raised his hand and shot an arrow at Qu Chu on the elephant's back. He turned around and ran away. While running, he shouted. The pirates shot a round of arrows and ran away with them. How embarrassed he looked.

The long arrow roared and went straight to the chest of Qu Chu. The two guards raised their shields and stood in front of Qu Chu. The long arrow "pounced" through the first shield and shot the guard. Looking at the guard who turned over and fell off his back, he shouted angrily. He angrily ordered the royal hand to speed up and did not stop catching up with Cui Qian.

The elephant quickly rushed to several soldiers who could not run with arrows. Under their heavy trampling, the soldiers were trampled on the spot and screams. These screams made Gu Chu more excited. He stared at Cui Qian's background, who was running ahead, and his voice trembled. He shouted, "Chasing, chasing, stepping on the death!"

(to be continued)