Lu Dai, a native of Guangling and Hailing, came to surrender on his own initiative.
Because the journey from Ping'an County to Lujiang County was too long, Lu Su suggested that Yuan Yao take the opportunity to recruit strong men and talents along the way to strengthen his momentum.
Along the way, hundreds of refugees were recruited who were willing to go to Yuzhang to open up wasteland, but few scholars came to vote.
Just when he was about to leave Guangling County and reach Jiujiang County, Lu Dai finally caught up with Yuan Yao's large army.
It turned out that Lu Dai first heard that Yuan Yao had surrendered Zheng Bao and Xu Qian and quelled the banditry in Lujiang; then he attacked and defeated Chen Yu for hundreds of miles. At that time, everyone in Huainan was known and he had a lot of reputation.
Then I heard that Yuan Yao wanted to go to Jiangbiao and was looking for talented people.
Lu Dai was frustrated in his official career and originally planned to leave Guangling to pursue another career. As soon as he found out that Yuan Yao was still in Guangling County, he immediately came to join him.
At this time, Lu Dai, who was outside Yuan Yaojun's temporary camp, waiting for Yuan Yao to receive him, couldn't help but feel uneasy.
He was born into a family of local eunuchs. He is already thirty-five years old this year, but the largest official position he has ever held was as a junior official in a county. He has never been in charge and is not known to anyone.
I came to see Yuan Yao today with a glimmer of hope, hoping that Yuan Yao could meet him and give him a chance to get ahead!
When he thought about his wife mocking him for daydreaming before he set off, Yuan Yao was born in the Yuan family of Runan, the fourth and third generation of the Grand Duke. How many scholars and heroes around him could think highly of you, a humble scholar from a family that was promoted to a minor official?
Lu Dai couldn't help but feel pain in his heart. If Yuan Yao didn't even give him a chance to meet her, as his wife said, he wouldn't even have the face to go home.
"Where is Duke Dinggong? Where is Duke Lu Dinggong?"
Suddenly, a tall young man ran out of the camp. He was dressed in fine clothes, but his shoes seemed to be on backwards.
Yuan Yao held Lu Dai's greeting card in his hand and greeted him eagerly.
But I was cursing in my heart, who careless thing didn't clean up the rocks when setting up camp, so I ran out and almost broke my thumb.
It’s really hard to pretend that this is a perfect match!
"That's right!"
Lu Dai hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Young Master's son of a daughter cannot sit down in the hall, why do you treat Dai like this!"
"Dong Gong is older than me, and he comes from afar to join him. How can I act like a master?"
Yuan Yao grabbed Lu Dai's arm and helped him into the camp.
After entering the main tent, he helped Lu Dai onto the main seat and sat with him.
After Yuan Yao's operation, he naturally achieved the effect he wanted to flatter Lu Dai.
Lu Dai has lived for thirty-four years, and has never been treated with such courtesy and attention by anyone.
Therefore, before sitting down with Yuan Yao and chatting for a few words, Lu Dai took the initiative to express his intention to surrender again, hoping that Yuan Yao could give him a chance to serve under his account and prove his talents.
"Although Dai is a humble official, he thinks he is capable of both civil and military service. He just wants to get a position under the young master and have a chance to prove himself!"
Although Lu Dai was not as outstanding as Jiang Biao's twelve tiger ministers, he was still a good general. In the end, he lived to be ninety-six years old and became the chief commander of the army.
Moreover, Lu Dai was also an expert at pacifying the Shanyue Zong commander in the south. This time he went to Yuzhang, and he had a place for him.
"Currently there are more than a thousand Houjun under my command without a leader. I hope Duke Ding will not despise these people because they are old and weak, and temporarily act as Sima of the Houjun for me!"
After Yuan Yao said this, he felt a little guilty, fearing that Lu Dai would not like being the captain of the reserve logistics team.
The main reason is that Yuan Yao currently has too few talents and is not very confident mentally.
The three thousand old and weak Yuan Yao were not disbanded in the end. Many of them are homeless and can only become refugees as long as they are deported.
Lu Su couldn't bear it, so he asked Yuan Yao to organize these people into the rear army, responsible for transporting baggage and protecting the family members who accompanied the army.
After receiving Yuan Yao's appointment, Lu Dai exclaimed in his heart that he had finally met his master!
The military commander's rank is six hundred stones, and in terms of official rank alone, he is comparable to the head and magistrate of a county.
And the highest he had ever been was a county official with a rank of two hundred stones. It seemed that he made the right choice to vote for Yuan Yao!
And the most important thing is that as soon as he joined Yuan Yao's account, Yuan Yao directly appointed him to a military position such as Army Sima.
Thinking that he was a newcomer, Yuan Yao could at most give himself a deputy position with the word "fake", such as Fake Marquis or Fake Sima, and he had to have a probation period first.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Yao would reuse him all of a sudden!
This is an honor he has never imagined in most of his life!
Lu Dai immediately left the seat, retreated to the lower position, and truly bowed to Yuan Yao.
"Half of my life has been wasted, and I only regret that I have no ambition!"
"I don't want to say that today I have the young master to welcome me and also have the young master to entrust me with important responsibilities. How dare I not repay him with death?"
Of course Lu Dai didn’t know that he actually lived to be ninety-six years old!
In this era where the average life expectancy does not exceed fifty years, Lu Dai thinks that he has lived for most of his life. He naturally did not expect that now is the beginning of the second third of his life.
The extremely excited Lu Dai ignored Yuan Yao's reminder that he was commanding an "old and weak" rear army.
In this way, Yuan Yao unexpectedly won his first famous military general from the Three Kingdoms since time travel.
Thinking that he had Lu Su and Liu Fu in literature and Lu Dai and Zheng Bao in military affairs, Yuan Yao finally felt that his name of "young master" was worthy of his name.
Yuan Yao was also secretly happy in his heart. If there were more unappreciated talents like Lu Dai, there would be no need for him to worry about having no one available to him.
But before he could be happy for a few days, a military report came, which instantly woke Yuan Yao up like a basin of cold water.
According to the Liyang military report, Sun Ce used Xu Kun's mother, Mrs. Sun, to make a small raft out of reeds. When Liu Yao's navy was not paying attention, he sent Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to sneak across the river with their elite troops.
Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai lived up to Sun Ce's order and successfully attacked Niuzhu Liangzhai on the east bank of the Yangtze River (the lower reaches of the Yangtze River flows from south to north, hence the name Jiangdong). Liu Yao's army was greatly disturbed by a fire.
Zhang Ying, Fan Neng and Yu Mi watched helplessly as Niuzhu Liangzhai was attacked on the west bank of the Yangtze River. In panic, they were about to lead their troops back to the east of the Yangtze River.
Unexpectedly, Sun Ce led his army to attack at this time, and Zhang Ying and others were defeated. Fortunately, there was a naval force to respond, and even Niu Zhu did not dare to return and fled elsewhere.
Who knew that Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai only burned part of the grain and grass to show off their momentum, and the Niuzhu grain village was basically still in the hands of Liu Yaojun.
Sun Ce seized the opportunity of Liu Yao's navy to retreat and led his troops across the river decisively. Niuzhu Grain Village was directly captured by Sun Ce, and countless grain, grass and ordnance were seized.
After learning the truth, Zhang Ying and others were furious and turned around to attack Niu Zhu. How could Sun Ce be afraid of them now that he had gained a firm foothold? It was another great victory, and Liu Yao's army suffered countless defeats.
With Sun Ce's brilliant record of winning consecutive battles and defeating Liu Yao's main force, Yuan Yao's record of quelling the Lujiang bandits' sneak attack on Chen Yu became bleak by the way.
As a result, Yuan Yao, who had not been famous for a few days, was immediately completely overshadowed by Sun Ce, and he was in the limelight for a while!
Yuan Yao was shocked and angry now.
What was shocking was that he knew that after Sun Ce crossed the river, he would sweep across the east of the Yangtze River in a short time. If he wanted to compete with Sun Ce for the land south of the Yangtze River, he would have to speed up!
He was angry that Sun Ce had stolen the limelight and attention. As a result, almost no one came to join him in the next few days.
Not only did no one come to defect, but there were also undecided people in the army. Seeing that Sun Ce had successfully crossed the river and established a foothold in the east of the river, they chose to leave the camp and flee!
The hometown of Wu and Yue in Jiangdong, a land of plenty! Yuzhang? A place where prisoners are exiled, is that where people go?
Fortunately, Zheng Bao discovered it in time and suppressed the deserters on the spot, which had a deterrent effect.
After meeting with his left-behind relative Liu Fu, Yuan Yao immediately announced his departure for Yuzhang County!
So he organized three thousand armored men, added a thousand old and weak rear camps, and more than seven thousand military dependents, and marched to Xunyang Ferry in a mighty manner.
