Donglai County, Lu Township, Fengpingli.
In a simple military camp, young Ju Peng was reading Liu Yu's reply aloud, and many powerful military commanders beside him were listening carefully.
Liu Yu stated in the letter that he followed Liu Bogen to raise the army because he saw that the Jin Dynasty was incapable of governing the country and causing countless harm to the people. Now that swarms of bandits and barbarians are rising in the world, greater chaos is about to come. What he did was not for his own sake. The purpose of causing trouble is to lead the children to make a difference. At a small level, it is to protect the country and the people, and at a large level, it is to maintain the avenue of Ji Han's old country.
"... The Jin Dynasty will overthrow soon, and the general fish swims in the boiling cauldron, and the swallow's nest is on the flying curtain. I am confused... .”
Before Ju Peng finished reading, he was interrupted by an angry shout.
"Shu Zi, you are extremely arrogant!"
Chun Yuxian felt as if he had been greatly insulted when he heard that a remnant of the Tianshi Dao rebels dared to talk nonsense about the overthrow of the imperial court.
At the same time, other powerful leaders also echoed and scolded Liu Yu for being an ignorant child and daring to act rashly, which would surely lead to his own destruction.
Seeing such a raging public sentiment, Ju Peng stopped reading the remaining sentences in the reply. Anyway, the effect he wanted had been achieved.
To be honest, when Ju Penggang saw Liu Yu's reply letter asking for surrender, he was also shocked by the content of the letter.
In the letter, Liu Yu not only called Sima Yi, Sima Zhao and Sima Yan by their first names, but also bluntly said that the current emperor Sima Zhong is a fool. He also said that the world is now in danger of being harmed by the Eight Kings, and it is only a matter of time before the Jin Dynasty collapses.
When Ju Peng saw these shocking contents, he felt a faint approval in his heart.
Unlike the powerful people from the countryside of Donglai County around him, Ju Peng once studied in Luoyang. His father Ju Xian was still working as a bus commander in Luoyang and had access to a large amount of the latest and most complete information about the world situation.
Through correspondence with his father, Ju Peng knew that the central court was now very weak. There were not many imperial guards left, and foreigners, refugees, and thieves from all over the country were swarming. The central court was unable to suppress it and could only rely on The governors and governors of various places handled their own affairs, so after learning the news of Liu Bogen's defeat in Linzi, Ju Peng took the lead in contacting the powerful to expel the Donglai Army on his own.
After recapturing Ye County, Ju Peng led his army to capture Dangli and Luxiang, and was jointly elected as the leader of the alliance by the powerful powers of the three places, preparing to join forces to capture Yin County and Huang County, which were still occupied by the rebels.
Unexpectedly, nearly 10,000 people had just gathered and heard the news that Liu Yu, the remnant of the Donglai rebel army, had led an army.
After learning that Liu Yu, the most powerful general in the Donglai army, was leading the army in person, several powerful men already looked cowardly and thought about quitting, because everyone was brave enough to pinch the soft persimmons in Yinhuang and Huangdi. But he became timid towards the notorious Liu Yu.
Fortunately, the Chunyu and Gao families, the most powerful among these powerful families, supported Ju Peng in his fight against Liu Yu.
Even so, Ju Peng was still worried about the long nights and dreamy dreams. He thought that the heroes had just joined forces and their morale was at its peak. The thieves had fled all the way back from Linzi. The soldiers and horses must be exhausted. It must be the best time to fight the thieves, so he wrote He wrote a letter of challenge in handwriting, saying that in order to prevent the war from being protracted and harming innocent people, he would schedule a battle with Liu Yue to determine the outcome.
Unexpectedly, in the letter brought back by the envoy, Liu Yu not only agreed to the battle with Ju Peng, but also wrote an extremely arrogant letter persuading him to surrender.
These powerful men in the three regions of Donglai had previously stood aside from Liu Bogen's rebellion, thinking that there must be a large army from the imperial court to deal with these rebels. Unexpectedly, Liu Bogen actually conquered Linzi and occupied most of Qingzhou.
After finally waiting for the Youzhou Iron Cavalry to kill Liu Bogen, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry returned to Hebei without clearing up the remnants. When Ju Peng contacted and raised troops, these powerful people realized that the imperial court no longer had the troops to expel the rebels, and they could only rely on themselves.
With the help of the respected old Master Chun Yuxian, Ju Peng quickly unified the strategy with the powerful men present and decided to wait for work and give these hateful traitors the final blow.
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Contrary to the terrain of Shu, which is high in the middle and low in the middle, the terrain of Qilu is high in the middle and low in the middle.
The heart of Qilu is the Taishan Mountains, and to the east of the Taishan Mountains are mountains with a radius of hundreds of miles.
In Dongguan County, south of Qingzhou, Tailai Mountain.
In a simple mountain stronghold, Wang Mi with a murderous look on his face was holding a sharp blade in his hand, and a row of prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs were kneeling in front of him.
Wang Mi had just pulled out the blade from a fresh corpse.
"Tell me, tell me quickly, where is the food treasure in this village hidden?"
Wang Mi put the bleeding blade against the next prisoner's neck.
These people are all bandits in the Tailai Mountains. Although there are hundreds of bandits in this village, the biggest "business" these bandits have ever done is to ambush a caravan of fifty people. Usually, they even have to do it themselves. Farming and growing vegetables, he lived a typical bandit life of the Western Jin Dynasty, half farmer and half bandit.
After Wang Mi escaped from the Linzi battlefield, he led nearly a thousand people to flee south. After entering Yanzhou, he was ambushed twice by local powerful soldiers, and suffered heavy losses.
Wang Mi had no choice but to lead the remaining few hundred people to continue running, wandering all the way into the vast mountains. This poor ravine was sparsely populated and lacked supplies. The stranded rebels soon fell into famine. At this time, they accidentally discovered This village is hidden in the mountains.
Under the attack of a group of ferocious rebels, the village was quickly breached, and Wang Mi and the others soon discovered that this village was not a simple village, but a den of bandits. They found some plundered people in the village. A woman will know just by asking.
But Wang Mi's men only found a small amount of food and treasures, and most of the food and treasures should have been hidden.
Unexpectedly, all the bandits in the village were very tough. No one was willing to reveal the location of the treasure in the village. They all swore not to hide it.
Wang Mi, who was already filled with murderous intentions, had killed three people in a row, but no one was willing to confess.
Just when he was about to kill the fourth one, the bandit with the knife on his neck burst out crying, and a stream of urine came out from between his legs.
The onlookers burst into laughter.
This bandit who peed his pants cried and begged.
"Grandpas, please forgive me. There is really no treasure to hide in this village. We are all farmers in Dongguan counties. We really couldn't survive because of the high taxes, so we fled into the mountains and became thieves. The common people have already Now that we are so poor, what else can we rob? We usually have to plant land and vegetables to survive."
Seeing that the bandit's condition didn't look like he was faking it, Wang Mi stopped killing him.
This was the first time Wang Mi had seen such a pitiful bandit.
