Chapter 174 - Expedition to the North

As the states began to step up the crackdown on the yellow turbans, all of a sudden, good news was frequent.

Taking advantage of the Yellow Turban guerrilla general Bu Ji sitting in Yanzhou to go to Qingxu to support Guan Hai, Cao Cao and others took the opportunity to attack the Yellow Turban who stayed in Yanzhou, so that Bu Ji's back road was cut off, and he was finally defeated by Sun Jian and his group.

Half a month later, the originally rampant Qingxu Yellow Turban, under the joint efforts of the officials and troops of the two places and the Jiangdong forces who came to support, first defeated the Yellow Turban forces in Xuzhou, and then besieged the remnants of the Yellow Turban near the Beihai Sea in Qingzhou, and finally defeated it, and the thief leader Guan Hai fled.

Three months later, Zhang Yan, the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Montenegro, in order to share the pressure of the Jizhou base camp, led an army of 300,000 to attack Bohai County, and the Han general Gongsun Zan led an army of 50,000 to the rescue. Because the Yellow Turbans were all born in Xiannong and lacked combat experience, they were jointly defeated by Gongsun Chan and the officers and troops of Bohai County, and retreated to Montenegro to recuperate, and Gongsun Chan was also taken by Zhang Yan's strong army, and he did not dare to pursue and suppress in order to preserve his strength, and the two sides formed a confrontation.

At this time, Liu Bei, Long Xiangtian and others had already followed Zhu Jun north, and after the round with Huangfu Song, they were ready to continue to march north to join Lu Zhi and attack the Yellow Turban base camp in Jizhou.

At first, the main forces of the Yellow Turban Army were scattered in Julu, Changshe, Jingbei and other places, and they fought separately, attacking cities and cities, burning official mansions, and achieving great victories. However, the Yellow Turban Army fought on its own and lacked combat experience, so that the conquest army of the Great Han Xiuxian League was able to concentrate its forces to defeat each one. Now, the Yellow Turban forces are concentrated in Jizhou, and the eldest disciple of the great virtuous and good teacher, **** Yi, led the Yellow Turban Army to confront Lu Zhi for several months, and Lu Zhi could not take it.

Another three months passed, the officials and troops who were in a good situation suddenly changed their intentions, and the Han army stationed in Weicheng mutinied, took the initiative to contact Zhang Yan to coordinate the battle, defeated Gongsun Zhan, and even broke through Yecheng in one fell swoop, killed Yecheng Taishou, Zhang Yan's army was shocked, and the surrounding princes did not dare to come to suppress.

In March, Zhang Yan led his army to capture Changshan and fought a fierce battle with Yuan Shao's army, and it is rumored that Yuan Shao personally fought with Zhang Yan.

Liu Bei and others understood the situation and felt that Zhang Yan was a great threat, and if they did not eliminate Zhang Yan's Yellow Turban forces, the conquest army would not be able to attack the Yellow Turban base camp in Jizhou with peace of mind, so they decided to change their itinerary and prepare to go to Changshan to help the officials and troops there, so Liu Bei informed Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song of their thoughts, and the two readily agreed to let them go.

Tai Shici, who heard the news, also expressed his willingness to go with them. Tai Shi Ci, who left Liu Bei and them, followed Huang Fu Song's East Route Army, thinking that they could show their ambitions, but they didn't expect that the army was attacked by the Yellow Turban guerrilla general Bu Ji, and Bu Ji's strength was not weak, and Guan Hai joined forces, Tai Shi Ci was not the opponent of the two of them, and later Bu Ji's lair in Yanzhou was ended, Bu Ji hurriedly turned back to Yanzhou, Tai Shi Ci thought that the opportunity had come, but unexpectedly, the Jiangdong Sun clan intervened at this time, and defeated Bo Cai before Tai Shi Ci, so Tai Shi Ci was busy for so long, and he didn't get any credit。

Thinking that the Yellow Turban of Jizhou is now in dispute with the conquest army, if you go to Jizhou, it should be difficult to obtain military merits, so it is better to continue to follow Liu Bei and them, go to meet Zhang Yan for a while, and see if you can get some military merits.

Seeing that Tai Shi Ci was willing to go, Liu Bei was naturally very happy, so together with Tai Shi Ci, together with Guan Zhang and Long Xiangtian, the five of them began to go to Changshan.

Due to the war, it took half a month for the five of them to come to the Changshan realm, and on the way, Long Xiangtian suddenly thought: Zhao Yun is a person from Changshan, I don't know if I will see him anywhere?

The battle against the Yellow Turban in Changshan was Yuan Shao of the Yuan clan, and Long Xiangtian knew that he was also a strong man, although in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" In the end, Yuan Shao was defeated by Cao Cao, but his strength is indeed much stronger than Cao Cao, and the same is true in this world, the Yuan family is a wealthy family of Xianhan, Yuan Shao's uncle Yuan Kui, the head of the Yuan family, the third prince of the fourth generation, has served the alliance leader of the Han Xiuxian League for four generations, and the three generations are all ranked in the third duke, and the family is very powerful, and Cao Cao's father is an ordinary court official, Yuan Ying Zhenjun, although there is some power, how can he compare with Yuan Shao.

Long Xiangtian wanted to see what kind of character this Yuan Shao was, so that Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh when he mentioned him, Long Xiangtian felt that Yuan Shao in this world may not be as pustuated as in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there must be something outstanding that made Cao Cao jealous of him.

The five people came to the camp of the Changshan official army and informed them of their intentions, but they did not see Yuan Shao and were put in the camp.

"How can this be reasonable, we all said that we came from the side of the conquest army to help, and there are also the handwritten letters of Gongwei Zhenjun and Yizhen Zhenjun, they don't need us to forget it, and they still ignore us, put us in this camp, and restrict our freedom of entry and exit!" Tai Shici said angrily.

Long Xiangtian also said: "That's it, the Yuan clan is so pompous, they don't even take the expeditionary army of the Great Han Immortal Cultivation Alliance in their eyes. ”

Liu Bei smiled: "They can't trust us either, thinking that we were sent by the Great Han Immortal Cultivation Alliance to spy on us." ”

"Big brother, we all listen to you, what should we do?" Zhang Fei asked Liu Bei.

"Bear with me for a few more days, I believe that with our skills, we will definitely be used when the time comes. Liu Bei thought for a while and said.

A few days later.

On this day, the camp was very lively, and when Liu Bei and others came out of the camp to take a look, they found that there were two generals fighting on the battlefield not far away.

Everyone wondered why these officers and soldiers were so excited, and when they asked, they learned that the two people fighting on the battlefield were their commander Yuan Shao and the leader of the Yellow Turbans, Zhang Yan.

Everyone looked at the battlefield, only to see a person, twenty or thirty years old, a pair of tiger eyes, with a short beard, although he is still young, but also heroic, only to see that he is holding a peculiar shape of the red flame sword, a luxurious gold armor, there are all kinds of jewelry, jade decoration, it seems that this person is very rich, at a glance it is the son of a famous family, everyone expected that this person is Yuan Shao undoubtedly.

And the other person, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a long face and a thick beard, wearing a yellow scarf, wearing a yellow scarf hexagram armor, holding a whirlwind spear, is very flexible, everyone expected this person to be Zhang Yan.

Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan fought together, the two fought inseparably, Yuan Shao's big knife can release the fire of the plain, and Zhang Yan's gun can launch a whirlwind attack, both of which are divine blades. The martial arts of the two are also extraordinary, Yuan Shao's knife is fierce and calm, and the knife is accompanied by raging flames, just like Bocai's flame gun, a knife splits, the earth and stone crack, and the flames fly. And Zhang Yan walked dexterously all the way, jumping up and down, very flexible, with the wind divine soldier, it was like a fish in water, poked once, it was like a small whirlwind, the impact of Yuan Shao's flames was scattered, not a small power, so that Yuan Shao had to deal with it carefully.

Yuan and Zhang fought for dozens of rounds without winning or losing, everyone looked at it for a while, and Liu Bei suddenly asked Long Xiangtian: "Xiangtian, what do you think of the strength of the two of them?"

Liu Bei knew that Long Xiangtian had the ability to probe the specific realm of others, so he asked. So Long Xiangtian used Cangming's ability to investigate Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan's divine sense, and this move was imperceptible to Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan.

Long Xiangtian said: "Yuan Shao's realm is in the middle stage of the Jiedan, and Zhang Yan's is in the middle realm of the late Jiedan, I feel that the strength of Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan is comparable, and they are not much weaker than Bocai." ”

Liu Bei and the others were surprised by this, they didn't expect Long Xiangtian to comment like this, everyone knows how strong Bo Cai's strength is, even Guan Yu reluctantly defeated him, if these two people are not much weaker than Bo Cai, doesn't it mean that they both have the same level as Guan Yu? Although Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan fought fiercely, they didn't show any powerful tricks, I don't know how Long Xiangtian judged it.

At this time, Zhang Fei suddenly said: "Xiangtian, you see, that Zhang Yan's body is very dexterous, and there is a feeling of déjà vu, yes, it's similar to your phantom swimming body!"

Long Xiangtian was taken aback, and hurriedly looked carefully, and found that Zhang Yan's body method was indeed a phantom swimming step, although there were some differences, but it was a difference in understanding, the phantom swimming body step was both a body method and a footwork, looking at Zhang Yan's running posture and footwork, Long Xiangtian would not be mistaken, and Cangming also compared it, and the result confirmed that this was the phantom swimming body.

Long Xiangtian was taken aback, wondering how Zhang Yan could phantom swim in the body, this phantom tour was created by Nanhua, and he had personally taught it to Long Xiangtian, and Zhang Yan had never been to the fairyland in the clouds, how could this method be? Long Xiangtian thought about it carefully and felt that there was only one possibility, that is, Master Nanhua loaded the phantom tour into the "Taiping Technique", so that Zhang Jiao learned it, and then passed it on to this Zhang Yan.

Long Xiangtian couldn't help but think: Then you can be sure, the great sage and good teacher is indeed Zhang Jiao, and Zhang Jiao is a disciple of Master Nanhua, another junior disciple of his own, otherwise how could Zhang Yan phantom swim, but why is Zhang Yan the only one who can, and the other disciples of Zhang Jiao who see it will not, this is a bit unreasonable, it will not be that the disciple accepted by Master Nanhua is Zhang Yan!

Without waiting for Long Xiangtian to think about it, Yuan and Zhang had already begun to make extreme moves.

Yuan Shao jumped in the air, the big knife slashed down, and the real fire on the knife soared, turning into a flaming unicorn, which quickly attacked Zhang Yan below. Zhang Yan was not to be outdone, the spear swirled, the gale howled, and a rotating wind dragon was born on the gun, facing the flaming unicorn.

"Fire Lin Sky Slash!"

"Lan Feng Po!"

On one side is the flaming unicorn, on the other side is the wind attack tornado, the extreme move is opposite, resulting in a violent explosion, the flames of the explosion make the figures of the two of them be engulfed in, and after the storm calms down, the two of them appear, and their strong strength makes them unharmed.

"Such a powerful martial art, the power is comparable to the third brother's Spirit Snake Drill and my Divine Wind Slash!" Liu Bei praised.

Seeing that the two of them were about to make another move, Liu Bei and the others were in the barracks suddenly issued a signal to Mingjin to withdraw their troops, which surprised everyone.

"What's the matter, they are fighting equally, and Yuan Shao has not fallen into a disadvantage, why should Yuan Shao stop the war at this time?" Tai Shici said suspiciously.

"Isn't Yuan Shao the most powerful here, how could anyone order him not to fight?" Long Xiangtian said.

I saw that Yuan Shao was very unhappy when he heard the message of Mingjin's withdrawal of troops, but finally gave up the fight with Zhang Yan and returned to the barracks.

At this time, two strategists dressed in robes came to Yuan Shao's side, and Yuan Shao said in an unhappy tone: "My son has not done his best! Why did you ask me to stop the battle and withdraw my troops?"

One of them said: "Don't blame the young master, the lord has instructed us to take care of your safety carefully, this battlefield has no eyes, if we hurt the young master in the slightest, we can't afford it!"

"Hmph, who can hurt me, I have the armor of a divine soldier, who can hurt me, with him Zhang Yan? Although he is an opponent, how can he hurt me!" Yuan Shao said disdainfully.

The other said: "Zhengnan is also concerned about the safety of the young master, so he came out to plan Mingjin to withdraw the troops, the young master is now the commander-in-chief, his own safety is more important than anything else, and the battlefield fight will be handed over to his subordinates, but you can't be rash!"

Listening to the words of the two of them, Yuan Shao was still very unhappy, and said angrily: "No need to say any more, trial matching, Feng Ji, I respect you as my uncle's disciple, Yuanying Zhenjun, this son will not care about you, if there is a next time, you don't have to follow me anymore!"

After speaking, Yuan Shao walked into the coach's tent by himself, leaving only the judge and Feng Ji sighing.