In June, the malaria that swept through the green forest soon spread to the Wang Army.

Even though the military officers were horrified to execute all the old and weak who surrendered from the Green Forest Mountain without distinction, even if the army hurriedly retreated a hundred miles and returned to the Han River to avoid the epidemic, they still failed to escape the pursuit of malaria.

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The river and Han River were surging, and the shore was filled with humid and hot fog. Malaria was raging with the hot weather and rain after autumn. Yan You worked hard to overcome the confrontation with the green forest, but fell down as a whole due to the invasion of the disease.

In just over a month, the wastelands on the Han River were almost too late to be buried. Many litters were affected and sometimes they could only burn their robes. In some abandoned military camps, there were countless soldiers lying waiting for death and rotten corpses.

Even General Yan You, the general of Nayan, did not believe in evil during the epidemic and insisted on patroling the camp, and he was unwell when he came back.

After all, the epidemic is not divided into high or low. Whether you are a general or a soldier, if you are not careful, you will fall in the face of malaria.

However, the care and medicine that the general received after he fell down was difficult for ordinary people to reach. Yan You survived the disease of alternating cold and heat, and after the slap, he passed the dangerous period, but he seemed to have lost a lot of weight, lying on the couch, lying on the couch and living with a little porridge every day.

But after he recovered, he still asked someone to help him up and insisted on convening military discussions to discuss countermeasures.

"I hope the general will be well-off!"

Dou Rong, Cen Peng, Ren Guang and other military officers bowed to the old general in the tent and advised him not to hold on.

Yan You sighed and said, "I made an oath in front of His Majesty to pacify Green Forest within the year. Seeing that the great victory is imminent, I do not want to encounter a major epidemic. Now the remaining Green Forest troops are taking advantage of our army to escape the epidemic. Yan You cannot refuse to blame him. How dare you lie down and stay motionless again?"

"Even if the whole army is sick and lying down, only I am left, this battle will still be fought!"

He was anxious and asked someone to spread the map. After several camps were moved, the location of the official army was Yicheng County (Yicheng, Hubei) beside the Han River. This malaria was too terrible. The army lost at least tens of thousands of soldiers in one month, either dead or sick, and lost combat effectiveness. The remaining people were also depressed, and even the scout information was much slower.

So it was not until a few days ago that Yan You learned that the Green Forest did not go south together, but divided into two groups, one south and one north!

"There are more than 10,000 soldiers from the Green Forest thieves, called Xiajiang soldiers, went out of Yundu, passed Zhangshan, and next..."

Cen Peng, who was promoted by Yan You, was selected as a captain in the army by Yan You, said: "The thieves wanted to conquer Jingling like last year, and then flee into Yunmeng to join forces with Jiangxia thieves, or go west to defeat Huarong County, collude with the thieves in Nanjun to attack Jiangling."

Yan You believed that it should be the latter, because there were so many bandits and they could not find too much food when they entered Yunmengze, so they would continue to attack the county town.

He coughed and ordered, "Jingling, Huarong and other counties, Jingchu, Jianghan, boats and cars gathered, and the water and land were bound to clash. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was Ying, the suburb of Chu, which was the gateway of Jiangling. With this, it can control the enemy from Jiangxia. If there is any loss, Jiangling will be in danger! There is no loss."

Yan You pointed out the name of the captain Cen Peng: "Junran, you are in the camp, and the front troops who have not been infected with the epidemic have gone south to pursue the Green Forest. The soldiers of the Nanjun will also be dispatched to help you. Be sure to stop the thieves in Xiajiang!"

"The river water net of Nanjun is scattered and scattered, so you can see the thief attacking him when he is halfway through!"

"No!" Cen Peng took the order, but the head Bo Renguang went out to see him off, but he pulled Cen Peng, who was ready to do a big fight, said: "Junran, you and I are fellow townsmen in the front team. They were appreciated by General Yan. Initially, because they were exposed to the fifth uncle, General Yan's master and disciple who had the kindness of our knowledge, should be repayed."

"That's right." Cen Peng, who was honest, thought so, but Ren Guang advised him: "But the situation is not good now. Nanjun, Jiangxia is in trouble, and the people are living in poverty. This is what you and I have seen with our own eyes. I heard that the Green Forest thieves were already severely damaged by malaria, but after leaving the mountain, there were endless people joining, but the number of officials fighting is getting fewer and fewer. Even if you can intercept those people for a while, can you still turn the trend?"

Cen Peng was not very happy: "What does Boqing mean?"

Ren Guangchang said: "I just hope that you can consider yourself and your clan more. Don't work too hard in everything. This court is not worthy of our life."

"Boqing's kindness, Cen Peng is grateful for it." Cen Peng said, "I have been a small county magistrate for the past ten years. I have been a small county magistrate, and I am not favored by others. Fortunately, I was appreciated and promoted by Yan Gong and asked me to be a school magistrate. Now I have entrusted an important task to lead a single army."

"Even if Duke Yan vomits blood even if he is seriously ill, he must be loyal to the affairs of the king. How dare I, Cen Peng, be disloyal to Duke Yan's entrusted?"

After saying that, he bowed to Ren Guang and left with great strides.

In the camp, Yan You actually cared more about another green forest thief Xinshi soldiers heading north.

"Because our troops guarded Jianghan, the green forest could only circle around the big circle and attack Sui County in the north, and wanted to enter Nanyang."

Yan You's eyes wandered on the map: "The mountain stream here is dangerous, connecting to the Murder's barrier in the east and blocking the Wonder's Rao in the north, which is actually a key place. If the green forest thieves take Sui County and exit the Murder's three passes in the east, they can join Yingru, and go to Wancheng to the north to threaten the Central Plains. Zuo Zhuan says: The country in the east of Han is the great one. King Wu of Chu ruled over the Central Plains, first surrendered to Sui, Tang, and all the Hanyang girls were destroyed, so they must not succeed."

Although he could command calmly, he could never go to the expedition with the army, so he only ordered the generals who went north.

"Duke Zhou!"

Dou Rong, who had been silently chanting in his heart, was shocked and went out to bow.

Yan You handed him the tiger talisman: "The north is heavy than the south. You should take the 4,000 troops from the headquarters to the north, join the former team's doctor Zhen Fu, and destroy the soldiers of the Lulin Xinshi City together!"

Dou Rong didn't want to go, so he cried and said with a sad face, "The officials of the lower ranks do not know the military, and they are afraid that they will not be able to bear the heavy responsibility. They will let down the general's high expectations."

Yan You said, "Duke Zhou is still so humble. You don't know the soldiers yet, but who knows the soldiers? In the letters of the fifth Boyu and I have many praises for your bravery and talent in the northern border areas. But I think Duke Zhou is very strict in governing his army, and he can still separate camps and guard when the epidemic comes. Therefore, there are many survivors, and I can rely on you only the only ones I can rely on!"

He also instructed Dou Rong meaningfully: "There are so many powerful surnames in Nanyang. What I am most worried about is that they will assist Green Forest. After Duke Zhou went north, he would send more people to promote the massacre of the Green Forest thieves in Jiangxia, and especially talk about the deeds of the people who attacked the fort for food and destroyed the surnames."

"Abide by the general's order!"

Dou Rong had no choice but to agree and secretly cursed the colleague who was trying hard to brag about in front of the emperor and Yan You: "Fifth Relationship, the fifth Relationship, what kind of grudge do I have with you?"

However, Yan You, after arranging all this, felt a chill in his body. His illness had not yet recovered. At this time, he seemed to have overdrawn his whole body's strength, and he could only lie down helplessly and take care of it.

He has done his best in the military power level, but the specific result depends on how Cen Peng and Dou Rong fight, it can only depend on God's will.

Only when he was full of powerlessness, Yan Boshi couldn't help but think: "How great would it be if Boyu was here to help me? Once we gain the trust of Your Majesty and delegate power, perhaps we can really save Tianqing!"

...

At the end of August, the Li Tong brothers in front of the county, were also paying attention to the movements of the Green Forest Army.

The eyes and ears of the largest surname in Nanyang were spread all over the county. The chariots in the name of business traveled from north to south, which were more frequent and faster than those of the official post cavalry. Li Tong asked his cousin Li Yi to report whenever he had something to do.

At night, when Li Tong was unable to fall asleep, Li Yi suddenly knocked on Li Tong's defense and said that there was an urgent matter to be reported.

"Could it be that Sui County fell and the green forest went north?"

There are already many poor tenants around Sui County. They have been drought for several consecutive years and have had a difficult life. Now they are passing by the riots and joining the Green Forest Army. Their numbers are increasing. With the disturbances of Nanyang, the powerful people are also beginning to worry about the future.

If it is placed in a peaceful world, or any normal dynasty, they will definitely assist the government in destroying these poor ghosts, but this Daxin... is already shaky and treats the nobles and the right people. Last year, they took the opportunity to blackmail the Nanyang surnames to send military rations, which aroused public anger, and the military discipline of the Wang Shi is hard to describe.

Should I continue to believe that the king can protect them, get lost together when we head north in the green forest, or rely on myself? This is what Li Tong hesitated.

Li Yi said: "The green forest siege is weak, and Sui County is still struggling to support the support. I have received some new news tonight."

"Do you know the Liao family in Pinglin?"

Li Tong thought for a long time before he remembered that he was a small powerful man in Pinglin Township, Sui County. He had a land of only 10,000 acres and only a few hundred. He was in a remote village. Li Tong was not happy to meet such a small family when he wanted to visit their brothers.

But such a young powerful man did a big thing.

Li Yi said: "The head of the Liao family, Liao Zhan, raised an army and gathered more than a thousand people to respond to the Green Forest Army, calling himself the "Pinglin Soldier" and called him General, and now he has joined the Green Forest Army!"

This is indeed a key news. In this way, Green Forest is still welcoming to the powerful armed forces that actively join them. It is a good idea to protect the clan industry from being damaged by the bandits by responding to Green Forest.

The former team county is dissatisfied with Xinfu and is ready to join the Liao family when they go north at Green Forest at any time.

Li Tong immediately asked, "What's the matter with Liu Bosheng Chongling?"

Caiyang County is near Sui County. Once the green forest breaks through Sui, Chongling will be the first to be affected. If the Li family in Wancheng still has time to consider it, then the Liu family in Chongling will be in trouble.

Li Yi also stared at the other side: "Although it is difficult for my family to enter Caiyang, according to news last month, when Lulin arrived in Nanyang, Liu Bosheng gathered thousands of followers in the name of protecting the village, and the local county magistrate actually let it go."

Nonsense, the county magistrate probably still expects the Liu family to protect him!

Li Tong fell into deep thoughts, and after a while, he told Li Yi an old story: "My father wrote a letter from Chang'an a few months ago, and mentioned a prophecy."

Li Tong's father, Li Shou, was a tall man like him, and Zong Qingshi, the Zuo Master of the Chang'an Zuo National Master. As the national master fell out of favor, it became increasingly difficult to get along, but he could also contact some rumors and inform his son.

"The prophecies and divination mentioned by my father are related to an acquaintance of us."

"who?"

"The Fifth Relationship."

"So it's this little boy Cao." Hearing this name, Li Yi spat on the ground. The fifth difficult guy, who had a hard time extorting his family last year, was forced to send dozens of skilled iron workers.

Li Tong: "The Fifth Reunification quelled Wei Cheng's rebellion and captured Li Yan. Li Yan conspired with the guests to rebel against the new Han Dynasty and wrote some prophecies and divinations, including two of which I care the most."

"The first sentence is 'Jingchu should rise, Li'!"

Li Yi's eyes lit up, wouldn't that be...

"There is another sentence, Liu should revive, Li will be the assistant!"

Li Tong smiled and said, "In my opinion, the prophecy and divination are not the Li of Zhao Wei, but the Li of Nanyang!"

"Now that all directions are disturbed, the new house will be destroyed, and the Han Dynasty will be even more prosperous. Looking at the Liu clan of Nanyang, only Liu Bosheng, the only one who loves the crowd, can do great things with him!"

Li Yi suddenly changed his fear: "But Liu Bosheng, he has a grudge with my family."

"Brother, your brother-in-law died at the hands of Liu Bosheng's guest. Have you forgotten it?"

Li Yi thought that Li Tong asked him to send someone to secretly monitor Chongling to guard against his enemies, but he never expected that Li Tong had plans to join forces.

"If you don't fight against your brothers, you don't fight against your army. If you have a different country, how can you 'assist' his family? Even if you want to make an appointment, there are many members of the Liu clan in Nanyang. Even if you want to do something, there are many branches in Chongling Liu. Why bother to identify Liu Bosheng?"

"Because of his fame."

Li Tong: "Of course, the revenge of the same surname cannot be ignored, but since the same mother and brother are of different surnames, it is far less important than the interests of the clan."

"Let me ask you, if Liu Bosheng followed the example of the Liao family in Pinglin and raised his troops to respond to Green Forest, how many people could he pull up?"

Li Yi calculated: "Liu Bosheng is a famous hero in the county. The Liu family in Chongling is also large in size and has many guests. Liu Bosheng has always had great ambitions and has been in charge for more than ten years. In addition, the young and strong party in Caiyang County, in a short period of time, it is no problem to raise five or six thousand troops, and even seven or eight thousand can reach seven or eight thousand!"

"In addition, Liu Yan and the Yin clan of Xinye and Deng clan have had contacts and marriages with the Fan clan of Huyang. If these three families respond to the Liu clan, they can bring together seven or eight thousand people."

The Li family raised their arms and shouted, which was almost the same. If the Li family was the strongest in Bai Daozhu's surname, then the Chongling Liu family, under the painstaking management of the Liu Yan brothers, had to go from a middle-class tyrant to the strongest in the underworld. The strength of this clan is not outstanding, but what is the most important thing these days? Fame!

The gentleman in Nanyang will not rebel because of Li's appeal, but can hold his troops behind his right hand and attack and kill officials because of Liu Bosheng's words.

This is why Li Tong took a fancy to Liu Bosheng in Chongling. Only when they work together can Nanyang overturn the banner overnight, and only when the powerful men in Nanyang work together can they ensure their own interests in the cracks between the king's army and the green forest.

"Liu Bosheng has always been clear about his grudges. He killed me and my brother, but I did not pursue it. He owed my family a favor. This friendship can be just a condition for bargaining afterwards!"

In the future, whether it is the five cauldron food or the five cauldron cooking, Li Tong has decided in this fight: "Send someone to Chongling immediately..."
To be continued...