Chapter 841: Liangzhou women are both capable and beautiful! [1]

In the front courtyard of the Zhen clan's manor, Duan Yu held Zhen Jiang's hand, followed by guards.

"Wait!"

A call suddenly came from behind the two.

Duan Yu stopped and looked back in confusion.

And Zhen Jiang, hearing the familiar voice, immediately began searching for the familiar figure in the garden.

Zhen Tuo, wearing a purple robe with a pink gauze coat over it, lifted her skirt and, accompanied by two maids, was running toward Duan Yu.

"Your sister?"

Looking at the girl who looked somewhat similar to Zhen Jiang, Duan Yu turned his head to ask Zhen Jiang.

Zhen Jiang nodded with a smile: "Her name is Zhen Tuo."

Zhen Tuo, who had run up to Duan Yu and Zhen Jiang, held her chest with one hand, her slightly raised chest heaving as she panted for breath.

Her curious eyes kept looking at Duan Yu.

There was no sign of timidity at all.

Duan Yu had noticed earlier outside the city that this little girl seemed to be very bold.

In that kind of situation earlier, she was the only one who dared to speak up for Zhen Jiang.

This personality was actually quite good.

"Brother-in-law, are you taking my sister to Liangzhou?" Zhen Tuo asked Duan Yu after catching her breath.

Duan Yu laughed instantly; this "brother-in-law" was called quite smoothly.

So he nodded and replied: "Yes, I am taking your sister to Liangzhou. She will live there from now on."

Zhen Jiang stepped forward and stroked Zhen Tuo's hair dotingly.

Zhen Tuo raised her chin, looking at Zhen Jiang with big, pleading eyes: "Sister, I want to go to Liangzhou too. I don't want to stay at home anymore."

"They... they are all bad people. I don't want to stay at home, I want to go to Liangzhou with you."

Zhen Tuo's sudden request caught both Duan Yu and Zhen Jiang off guard.

Go to Liangzhou?

This little girl wants to go to Liangzhou too?

Duan Yu looked at Zhen Tuo in a daze.

How is this, buy one get one free?

While Duan Yu was still in a daze, Zhen Tuo had already grabbed Zhen Jiang's arm and started shaking it, begging: "Is it okay, Sister? I want to go to Liangzhou too."

"Little Sister, don't make trouble. Liangzhou is thousands of miles away, too far from Jizhou. If you go, it will be very troublesome if you want to come back."

"Besides, Liangzhou is bitter and cold, unlike Jizhou. You are grown up, you still have to marry, how can you go to Liangzhou? Be good and don't make trouble."

Zhen Tuo pouted her pink lips.

"Why not? Sister can go to Liangzhou, so can I. Once I go, I won't come back," Zhen Tuo said, shaking her head: "I don't want to stay at home and listen to them."

"If I want to marry, I want to marry a great hero like Brother-in-law."

"If no one wants me, I'll marry Brother-in-law."

Zhen Tuo stood before Zhen Jiang with her hands on her hips: "Sister, please, is it okay? Just take me, is it okay?"

Zhen Jiang, being pestered, clearly couldn't convince Zhen Tuo, so she looked at Duan Yu for help.

Duan Yu shrugged his shoulders.

What could he do about this kind of thing?

But it wasn't that bitter and cold.

And it wasn't very difficult to return to Jizhou from Liangzhou. Now there were merchant caravans sent from Jinyang to Jizhou every month; at worst, when Zhen Tuo had enough, he would just send her back.

"Since she wants to go, then let her go. Jia Dong leads merchant caravans back and forth every month; it's not that hard to make a trip."

"And you are new to Liangzhou, you need someone to talk to," Duan Yu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law is the best!"

Before Zhen Jiang could say anything, Zhen Tuo was already cheering happily.

Time flowed, and in the blink of an eye, it was July.

Four months had passed since the commoners wrapped their heads in yellow turbans and started the chaos under heaven in March.

For the Great Han Dynasty, these four months were undoubtedly four months of both shock and hardship.

Youzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou—the eight provinces under heaven were in chaos.

In the four hundred years of the Great Han, there had been no such chaos since the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

It couldn't help but make people think of the chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty, after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted that phrase: "Are kings and nobles born with high status?"

And after the imperial court sent out five major armies to quell the rebellion, the war situation fluctuated even more.

From the initial defeat of Zhu Jun by Bo Cai, to Huangfu Song being trapped in Changshe, the war situation fell into a passive state.

Then, after Duan Yu traveled from Liangzhou to the battlefield, he achieved the first victory, reversed the war situation in Yuzhou, and temporarily resolved the crisis in Yanzhou.

However, what followed was the earth-shattering change in Jizhou.

No one expected that Lu Zhi, who had been winning all along, would lose his entire army of fifty thousand in Jizhou despite holding heavy troops.

They were burned to ashes in Guangzong City by a fire that seemed to want to topple the precarious Great Han building.

Ten days of fire in Guangzong City.

It almost burned through the backbone of the Great Han.

Although Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song won consecutive victories in Wancheng and the Jingzhou area, as if they had realized it belatedly, and defeated three main forces of the Huang Jin army, the situation in Jizhou took a sharp turn for the worse.

Hearing that Lu Zhi had died in battle, the Luoyang imperial court was even more panicked for a time.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Duan Yu sent a reassurance to Luoyang.

The heads of the two people who called themselves the General of the Earth, Zhang Bao, and the General of the People, Zhang Liang.

And the Son of Heaven, Liu Hong, in the Luoyang Imperial Palace, was overjoyed after seeing the heads of Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang.

He issued an imperial decree overnight, appointing Duan Yu as the General of the Guards, and ordered Duan Yu to lead the military affairs of suppressing the Huang Jin rebels in Jizhou.

At the same time, Liu Hong also issued a decree to pardon Dong Zhuo's previous crimes and keep him in Luoyang for use.

But the situation did not develop in a good direction.

Due to Lu Zhi's death and the destruction of the fifty thousand-strong army, Jizhou only had Duan Yu's force of less than fifteen thousand.

Although the Liangzhou troops were good at fighting, Jizhou was the base camp of the Huang Jin rebels, and the imperial court really couldn't send any extra troops.

At the end of June, Duan Yu submitted a memorial to the imperial court from Jizhou, requesting reinforcements.

At the same time, the leader of the Taiping Dao, Zhang Jiao, recruited Huang Jin from all over the world in Xiaquyang.

In an instant, the number of Huang Jin soldiers in Xiaquyang surged.

Over a hundred thousand Huang Jin from Youzhou marched south from Youzhou to respond to Zhang Jiao, and the number of Huang Jin soldiers in Xiaquyang surged to nearly five hundred thousand.

Upon hearing this news, Luoyang was shaken again.

Although Duan Yu was good at fighting, everyone knew how fifteen thousand could defeat five hundred thousand.

So the imperial court ordered Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun to quickly resolve the southern war and then lead their troops north.

However, the bad news did not stop there. ===== CHAPTER 843 =====