"I honor the heroes who died in the past battles! I honor the gods who suffered so much! I honor the conscience of the world! I, Sun Jian, swear that I will wipe out all the barbarians outside the Great Wall and bless the prosperity of our tens of millions of Han people!" Jianye City's most recent

On the sacrificial platform in the center, Sun Jian, who was wearing black and red armor, raised three sticks of incense high above his head and bowed devoutly three times to the Hero's Spirit Monument in front of him.

Following his actions, fifty civil and military generals including Wen Du, Sun Ce, and Tai Shi Ci, who were one level lower, also kowtowed three times.

Under the stands, the people gathered around three floors inside and three outside. Nearly ten thousand people were watching the expedition ceremony. Miraculously, no one made any random noise to destroy the solemn atmosphere.

After prostrating, he inserted three sticks of incense into the incense burner in front of him. Sun Jian pulled out his bright sword, pointed it high into the sky and said: "Attack the whole army!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ten drummers next to him beat the drums at the same time, and the ten trumpeters held their breath and played the hymn of the expedition.

Following the direction in which everyone was stepping down, the onlookers took the initiative to make way. When everyone arrived, warm applause and cheers rang out. On the entire street from the rooftop to the gate of Jianye City, people on both sides

They were all filled with people who came to see him off, and there were many acquaintances among them, such as Sun Jian’s two wives and concubines standing on the left; Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao holding a child respectively; among the crowd on the right was Lu Suxinna

His concubine, even though she was too short, still tried her best to wave to him...

He saw many acquaintances and saw his friends greeting each other. Wen Du searched around for a long time, but he couldn't see Cai Yan. Although he didn't show it on his face, he was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart...

But when he came to the gate of the city, with a casual glance, Cai Yan, wearing a light blue skirt and standing like a goddess in the crowd, suddenly appeared in front of Wen Du holding Wen Xi.

With her arrival, Wen Du's melancholy disappeared. Like a big boy who finally waited for a princess, he waved enthusiastically towards Cai Yan without caring about other people's eyes.

"Sister-in-law is even more beautiful than she was a few years ago."

Lu Su's provocative words reached his ears, but the silly Wen Du ignored him because he couldn't keep his eyes off Cai Yan.

"Zibu, after I leave the customs, I will have to worry about things here." At the front of the team, Sun Jian was leaving an explanation to Zhang Zhao.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best to complete the errands you asked me to do. I also ask my lord and all the soldiers to be more careful."

After a brief chat, Sun Jian led Wen Du and the others and continued to move forward. Generals Ling Cao and Jiang Qin, who had been waiting outside, saw the coming people, activated their horses, and walked towards them with the army ready to go...

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"Lord, all soldiers are ready, please give the order!"

"Well, let's go!"

"No!" After Sun Jian nodded, Jiang Qin shouted to the army: "The rear army becomes the front army! Follow the lord and set off!"

Hundreds of thousands of troops changed direction and followed Sun Jian and the generals. Every step they took made the earth shake. Amid the enthusiastic noises of the people in the city behind them, they began a new journey...

In the past, we had to walk tens of thousands of miles from Yangzhou to Yizhou, and we had to take detours when encountering difficult places, which was a waste of time. But it is different now. It costs a lot of money, a lot of time, manpower, and material resources to build it.

The routes exist to save trouble.

Personnel and war horses boarded the warships one after another. A rough estimate is that at least 50,000 large and small ships set sail together, passing Jingzhou and arriving at Yizhou...

Let us see that after Sun Jian led the army to sail for a day, the homing pigeons flying from the south finally arrived in the hands of Zhang Yang in Bingzhou, Cao Cao in Taishan and others. Zhang Yang immediately ordered Sui Gu to take the remaining 100,000 troops and go north with food, grass and baggage.

Guan went to support Lu Bu; Cao Cao took the large army he had raised for a long time and headed west to destroy the Huns; Xiliang's Ma Teng and Han Sui mobilized all the troops stationed in various places to form 60,000 Xiliang cavalry.

There are 30,000 cavalry phalanxes and more than 100,000 civilians acting as logistics personnel to help escort supplies...

As for Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao, Sun Jian naturally had no intention of letting them rest. He gave each of them an army of 150,000 troops, allowing Gongsun Zan to cross Liaodong to conquer Goguryeo and the Peninsula, and Yuan Shao to leave the Lulong border fortress to attack Xianbei in the north of Youzhou.

, Qiang, Wuhuan and other people living together with Hu people.

As for Liu Yu, Sun Jian did not intend to let him attack, because his character was too gentle, and he could only fight back and not chase the barbarian army that came to attack. If he were to take the initiative to attack the old, young, women and children among the barbarians,

He definitely couldn't do it, so Sun Jian didn't intend to embarrass him. As long as the Liu family stopped causing trouble, he would just let them go...

"Can we finally advance?" A few days after the attack order was issued, Lu Bu stood on the steps of the commander's tent and looked at the carriages and horses entering the camp. Lu Bu's hands were clenched into fists, making crisp sounds.

The few days of waiting had already made him impatient. If Zhang Yang had not waited for Sun Jian to speak and refused to allocate food and grass to him, he believed that by this time he would have put the head of Xianbei Khan on Langjuxu Mountain.

"Wen Hou!" Sui Gu, who had come to command the army, ran to Lu Bu and reported: "I have sent a total of one million stones of grain and grass this time, which can feed our army for three months. My lord has said that in Wen

You must reply to him when you conquer an area, and he will bring craftsmen to build defense measures."

"I understand. Can the new army fight?"

"If they are a little tired, I would suggest letting them rest for a few hours first."

Considering that the journey was long and the journey was tiring, Lu Bu had no intention of forcing the march, so he asked the soldiers of each battalion to rest first and waited until the afternoon before setting off to camp...

Starting from Shoujiang City, we traveled north for more than a hundred miles, and after picking up some scattered small tribes that were not threatening, we finally saw a place similar to a city near the Sunit Right Banner in later generations.

Why is it similar? Because the structure of the city wall is too crude. The soil is mixed with bricks, and from time to time there are a few wooden stakes in it. It is really different from the copper and iron walls in the Central Plains.

"Zhang Liao!" After staring at the city wall for a while, Lu Bu ordered the general Zhang Liao next to him: "Go and call for formation."

"Promise!" After receiving the order, Zhang Liao took the yellow dragon hook sickle, rode the newly tamed Dayuan horse and led a hundred guards forward quickly, ran to the city gate, and shouted to the top of the city tower: "You are waiting.

Hu people, listen up! I am Han general Zhang Liao! Let your generals come out and fight me to the death! If you don’t dare, then quickly open the city gate and surrender! Otherwise our army will raze the entire city to the ground!"

Although the barbarians standing guard above could not understand Chinese, they could tell that Zhang Liao was definitely not here to give them gifts. After chatting in the language of his group, one of them hurried away, probably to shout.

My boss is here.

After a moment, three generals wearing the attire of superiors appeared on the city tower. They looked at Zhang Liao below and the army cheering him behind, and they were jabbering a lot, and there was no shortage of pointing fingers at them...

Zhang Liao was also confused. He could vaguely hear their conversation, but he couldn't understand a word. He was so embarrassed that he could only keep turning around and "asking for help" from Lu Bu and others.

"Okay, it seems that the people on the other side didn't understand what we meant at all..." Li Jue, who was staying behind, complained at the right time, turned around and asked the people behind him: "Do any of you know how to speak nonsense?

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After a moment of silence, Li Jue also gave up the idea of ​​finding a translator.

"Hey! What a trouble!" Lu Bu couldn't wait for the team to go any further and spat. He drove the red rabbit horse and ran to Zhang Liao's side in the blink of an eye. He inserted Fang Tian's painted halberd into the ground, set up the dragon's tongue bow and was about to release the arrow.

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When the three people above saw this scene, they hurriedly waved their hands, shook their heads, and bowed. The one in the middle suddenly shouted: "Please wait a moment!"

Although the accent is so distorted that it sounds like grandma's, you can at least understand that he is speaking Chinese.

Lu Bu was a little surprised when he heard the shouting. He slowly lowered his dragon tongue bow and asked, "Can you speak Chinese?"

"I know a little bit..." The man smiled and waved anxiously to the people around him. As a soldier left, the door under his feet slowly opened.

Compared to the Central Plains, which has already innovated the technology of gear-linked switches and retractable iron gates, their side still lags behind by requiring manual door opening.

Lu Bu and Zhang Liao stared at the door intently until the man who could speak Chinese came to them. They followed the Chinese etiquette and leaned down and said, "Two generals, please don't get me wrong. We have no intention of going against you."

idea."

Enduring his heavily accented Chinese, Lu Bu asked, "Who taught you Chinese?"

"Back to Jiangjun, I learned the language by myself. Since I had the honor to visit your land three years ago, I have fallen in love with your Han food, culture and clothing. But your language is really difficult to learn.

I have been studying for three years, but I still can't speak fluently as written in the book." As if to prove that he was not lying, the man also showed off his Hanfu and bun, which were basically all loose hair next to him.

Compared with the Hu people living here, he does feel a bit Han Chinese.

"Then do you know why I came here?"

"It can be seen that the general, with so many troops, must be here to conquer us, right?"

"You are quite smart." Lu Bu nodded slightly appreciatively, confirming the other person's vision. "Then what do you mean? Active surrender? Passive surrender? Or watch me kill everyone in the city?

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Feeling Lu Bu's fierce murderous intent, the man quickly knelt down to him and said: "I am willing to surrender, and I also ask the general to show mercy and not to kill indiscriminately!"
Chapter completed!